Random News And Notes

We open this Sunday edition of RNN with another shipping related story. Friday I brought you the news of a container ship running aground in Norway. Today, we talk about a container ship capsizing off India.

The MSC owned, Liberian flagged Elsa 3 capsized and sank while enroute to Cochin India. Reports indicate that rapid flooding in one of the cargo holds on the 621ft long ship caused the incident.

The Indian Coast Guard has rescued the crew and no serious injuries have been reported.

In the wake of a series of relatively high profile leaks out of the Pentagon, SecDef Pete Hegseth is introducing new rules for the press. Among other restrictions, the credentialing process has gotten stricter and reporters are now limited in where they can go in the building. These changes are in addition to the ones implemented earlier this year that removed some networks ‘permanent’ workspaces.

Needless to say, the establishment press is up in arms about this. And they should be, the source of much of their leaks has just dried up.

It’s been 5 years since an unemployed drug addict died of an overdose of fentanyl while resisting arrest in Minneapolis.

5 years. I still do not understand how or why this career criminal and drug addict became the symbol for the left. He had at least 9 convictions ranging from simple drug possession to assault and armed robbery.

The death of this individual led to a summer of death and destruction across our country and, frankly, across the world.

A California fisherman caught a big trout. A very big trout. Steve Jones, 72, caught his 37.5-inch brown trout while fishing Shaver Lake. The fish weighed 24.48 pounds on two separate scales. It missed the California record by mere ounces.

To make matters more exciting, Jones caught the near-record on light tackle. He managed to boat the fish with 6lb test line.

Your editor fishes for trout fairly regularly – Upstate NY has some of the best trout fisheries in the country and possibly the world – and his biggest brown weighed a measly 8lbs, 5oz. On the ultralight rig I was using, 4lb test line and what is called a ‘noodle rod’ – a long, mine is 8’6″, whippy rod – it felt like I’d hooked Moby Dick. The fact that Jones managed to land that nearly 25 pound monster using a light action down-rigger rod makes the whole thing more impressive.