Random News and Notes
By now you should be aware of the group of Afrikaaner asylum seekers that arrived in the US the other day. They were granted asylum based on their treatment at the hands of the ANC dominated South African government. Well, the ANC and therefore the government issued a response:
The bracketed paragraph reads thus:
What the instigators of this falsehood seek is not safety, but impunity from transformation. They flee not from persecution, but from justice, equality, and accountability for historic privilege.
I dunno about you, but that shit right there would scare me if I were a white in South Africa.
The Minneapolis judge that was arrested for helping an illegal try to escape ICE has been indicated by a federal grand jury on charges of concealing a person from arrest and obstruction of proceedings. Hannah Dugan faces up to 6 years in prison and a $350,000 fine if convicted on all charges. FAFO
This is a little background on what inspired yesterday’s piece about the R-14. On 28 April the containership Maersk Sana suffered an engine room explosion while outbound from Newark to Singapore. Three crew members were injured, one seriously. The badly injured sailor was evaced to the US and is is stable condition.
Sana was 250 NM east of Bermuda when she lost main propulsion. The tug hired by Maersk is coming from Europe and there is no ETA as of this writing. Sana has been drifting with only auxiliary power for 16 days now.
No comment.
NIn a sports note, Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred just cleared the way for dozens of former baseball players to enter the Hall of Fame. Manfred just made the decision that when any player on the permanently ineligible list – usually guys who bet on the game or were involved on fixing scores – dies, the ban ends. That means guys like Pete Rose – arguably one of the best baseball players of all time – and Shoeless Joe Jackson are now eligible for the Hall.
