tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post114136117928770072..comments2024-01-22T18:22:29.391-08:00Comments on hedera's corner: Dooby Dooby Dubaihederahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01696592301686568456noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post-1141961754574901602006-03-09T19:35:00.000-08:002006-03-09T19:35:00.000-08:00Glad to hear you've made such a good recovery and ...Glad to hear you've made such a good recovery and are back at work. My daughter, Alyson was a soccer player in high school and after a kick to the knee, the patella kept wanting to leave home and wander around. That pretty much ended her career and made necessary several operations involving long screws and formal realignment of the knee. The screws are now working their way back out, so some day soon, she'll need to take care of that. If it ain't one thing it's another. But you know all about that, don't you?<BR/><BR/>Sorry to here that Oakland is taking in the freight and sorrier still to hear that Long Beach (my home town) in now voted most likely... Charlotte, where I now live, has become a banking center of sorts, a major transportation hub in the Mid-Atlantic region and being 4 hours from the ocean, a port. So, I'm sure we're on the radar as well. Let's both keep practiced in the duck and cover drill.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post-1141622154108019212006-03-05T21:15:00.000-08:002006-03-05T21:15:00.000-08:00By the way, you may not know that cargo ships no l...By the way, you may not know that cargo ships no longer dock at the port of San Francisco; it hasn't had cargo operations since, I think, the 60's - didn't want to put in container handling. Oakland is the cargo port now; they say the container cranes at port of Oakland were George Lucas' inspiration for the Imperial Walkers in "The Empire Strikes Back."<BR/><BR/>Since Oakland is where I live, I'm still not happy about the prospect of somebody running a hot one in, but I actually think Long Beach is the likeliest West Coast target...hederahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01696592301686568456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post-1141618946991812492006-03-05T20:22:00.000-08:002006-03-05T20:22:00.000-08:00Cooper, I was flattered this morning to read, in t...Cooper, I was flattered this morning to read, in the <A HREF="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/03/05/EDGU9GJ2EC1.DTL" REL="nofollow"><I>S.F. Chronicle</I></A> Sunday op ed, an article by Robert Reich saying approximately what I said in my post. Great minds think alike?<BR/><BR/>Yes, I went back to work on Feb. 24 and so far am doing well, walking without a cane, slowly building my weight training routine back up. The knee is stiff sometimes, but on the whole is doing fine; I walked over to the bank yesterday to deposit my last state disability check, a round trip of about a mile and a half.hederahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01696592301686568456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post-1141604913065098772006-03-05T16:28:00.000-08:002006-03-05T16:28:00.000-08:00hedera, I especially agree with your next to the l...hedera, I especially agree with your next to the last paragraph. This is where the trouble will come from - weapons, crated and labeled as ball bearings, loaded onto ships in a foreign port, bound for the USA. If a nuclear devise were to be the weapon of choice and positioned on the deck of a ship entering the port of New York or San Franciso (sorry), it could be detonated before even being close to going through customs inspection. We need control in the foreign ports that we don't have now. Having DP World in charge of the terminal operations is a problem, but not the biggest hole in the dike.<BR/><BR/>BTW, are you back at work? How's the new knee doing?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com