Less Vetting Than a Cruise Line?

There's just too damn much news.  I try my level best to only opine on the news and events of the day, every other day, but DAMN!  There's just too much news these days!  Even with Google and Yahoo censoring some of it, there's still waaay too much to contemplate.  I continually have to pick and choose what to write about, oft leaving important stories wanting.  Laying in the dustbin of "old news."  

It pains me, fellow Patriots!  And up with it I shall no longer put (with apologies to Yoda).  So, I intend to write and publish whenever the spirit moves me to do so.  It may be every day, it might even be more often than that.  We shall have to wait and see, you and me.  But in the meantime, here's a little something upon which you might wish to chew:  

     -  Princess Cruise Lines owns and operates the very largest cruise ship in the world.

It's called the "Symphony of the Seas" (SoS) and it's indeed massive.  Massive like 20% bigger than our biggest aircraft carrier massive.

The "SoS" is a staggering 1,188 feet long and 215.5 feet wide.  Think laying the Empire State Building over on its side.  It's considerably taller than the Eiffel Tower and weighs an unbelievable 228,081 gross tons.  That's more than 200 feet longer and four times heavier than the Titanic!!!

Put another way, the SoS could not have crossed through the Panama Canal before they widened it in 2007!

The SoS has 16 decks and 1,158 cabins, and can entertain up to 6,680 guests on its Caribbean excursions.  That's more than the population Carrolton, Missouri.  Clearly, the SoS is the pinnacle of the cruising art.

It is so good that it can make you pay $80 a bottle for cheap wine and buy a portrait by some unknown artist named "Diego" for only $2,499 before even the second night out.

After investing more than $1.5 Billion Dollars in the SoS, the Board of Directors of Princess Cruise Lines appointed Rob Hempstead as its Captain.  He has more than 30 years' experience piloting cruise ships of ever larger size and  Princess deemed him the single most qualified person to shepherd this yuuuuge ship.  Big responsibility, big talent.

As a matter of fact, you can tell when the SoS is sailing because there's nobody left in downtown Manilla.

Imagine if America were to choose to emulate the Board of Directors of Princess Cruise Lines and appoint only the single most qualified person to run America.  If we did, you can bet your sweet ass that the scrawny geriatric puke we "elected" would be nowhere near the White House...