Archive for January 11th, 2005
Blogging Tips and Advice
Excellent advice for bloggers both beginning and less so from Joe Carter over at the Evangelical Outpost. The series is ongoing and up to six parts. Highly recommended for those interested in starting or improving a blog.
The Farcical Land of King County
With “Governor-elect” Gregoire scheduled to be sworn in tomorrow, you’d think King County would be taking extra special measures to appear above board. But you’d be wrong.
Three days after King County election officials explained most of a controversial discrepancy between the number of ballots cast and voters known to have voted, the gap has grown again. After whittling the discrepancy from 3,539 votes to 1,217 last week, officials yesterday said they had made a mistake. The number of votes now unaccounted for is “somewhere around 1,800,” county Elections Superintendent Bill Huennekens said yesterday.
Yet voters in Washington State are still expected to have confidence in the outcome of the election? Apparently so:
Huennekens said the larger number of unaccounted-for votes should not shake people’s confidence in the outcome of an election that he said was still “99.9x” percent accurate.
Maybe, but that’s a problem when the outcome is decided by 0.0000459% of the votes.
USS San Francisco Back Home
The USS San Francisco has reached her home port in Guam.
The Los Angeles-class submarine USS San Francisco (SSN 711) arrived safely in Guam Monday afternoon Guam time (all following dates Guam time) following a Friday grounding accident at sea, approximately 350 nautical miles south of Guam. Machinist Mate 2nd Class Joseph Allen Ashley, 24, of Akron, Ohio, died Sunday from injuries suffered during the accident. Twenty-three other Sailors were treated by medical teams dispatched out to the submarine for a range of injuries including broken bones, lacerations, bruises and a back injury. The submarine had a crew of 137 at the time of the incident.
Still no word on what might have happened to cause a submarine to ground 350 miles from the nearest land, but one imagines the grounding actually took place on the seabed – the alternative is a collision of some sort. More info about the Navy’s attack subs here.
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