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VIKING CRUISE LINE IS NOW #1

  Is Donald Trump losing total control of Republicans?  The answer is, absolutely.  A couple of days ago,  Republican Rep Lauren Boebert completely defied President Donald Trump .  She refused to take her name off the Epstein discharge petition.  In the past, she did anything he asked. U.S. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), and Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) joined Boebert as the only Republicans signing the petition, which needed 218 signatures to force a vote . All signs show that this vote will occur on Tuesday. An even more surprising rebellion came from Republican Rep. Marjorie Green : Rep.  Marjorie Taylor Greene said  the battle over   the release of the Epstein files   has sent President Donald Trump “over the edge” and accused him of putting her life in danger after he publicly withdrew his support for the Georgia Congresswoman.   Greene,   standard-bearer of the MAGA movement   and   formerly...

OMGA 5: The RMS Queen Mary 2

Today, our cruise on the Queen Mary 2 from Southampton to New York City, actually, Brooklyn.  A few things about Cunard. Has been sailing for 184 years.   Founded by Sir Samuel  Cunard  to provide transatlantic service in 1840 with the Britannia He was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1787.  His father fled the American Revolution because he was a Loyalist to the British Crown. By 1900, Cunard advertised their ships as floating palaces, and shared design features similar to The Ritz. Lusitania and Mauretania had revolutionary steam engines, where the first ship to shore by Marconi wireless transmission was made on them. The Lusitania was sunk by a German-U-boat killing 1195 people in 1915, leading to the U.S. joining World War I. When the Titanic sank in 1912, Cunard's Carpathia arrived to rescue the survivors. In the late 20's/30's, Cunard got loan guarantees from the British government, merged with its rival White Star Line and launched the Queen Mary and ...