Took Delta from Honolulu to Seattle.  First time I've been on this airline for decades.  Why?  Because it was so much cheaper and quicker in business class compared to Alaska, Hawaiian or United.  While business or first class international allows you into their lounge to await departure, this does not apply to domestic flights.   Views of Diamond Head and a Hawaiian Airlines plane behind us as we are taxiing to the Reef Runway. Taking-off. Business class environment, service, food and drinks were excellent. Watched a 2025 Taiwanese film: A composite of all the things that can go wrong on two trains going in opposite directions, with a dozen backstories and a lot of flashbacks. Good visual effects, Confusing. Too many relationships and side stories to appreciate No score on Rotten Tomatoes. The audio-visual system was superior, with access  to the following live channels. Airline also gave a lot of data as we crossed the Pacific. Sunset just before our...

It was only a matter of time when  Donald Trump clamped down on California , the state he most hates. That ICE issue with immigrants is only a secondary matter.  He was waiting for any kind of protest to show this Democratic state who is the real boss. What he did in activating the National Guard and calling in the Marines without the involvement of Governor Gavin Newsom has happened in the past. Trump is out to embarrass Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to tarnish their image. Most fearfully, he is merely testing out how he can refine his quest to become dictator. Can't the courts check him?  They have no enforcement capability.  Trump controls the Department Defense, Department of Justice and the National Guard. Even Time magazine agrees with me. Oh well, the worse is yet to come.  On this nostalgic Tuesday, I reach back to Chapter 6 of my book,  SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for Planet Earth , titled,  Blackout:  Six Hours to Seattle.   I summar...

But first, was there any movement on Ukraine-Russia peace talks?  Well, there is this  guitar duo .  Have you seen  Zelensky, Putin and Trump entertaining  as three tenors?  Watch  We Run the World . Four of my favorite cities are Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco and Honolulu. We are here in Vancouver, and this stop has been mostly wet.  But I've been here around a half a dozen times, and, aside from rain and cold, this city has much to offer. Our previous trip in October of last year began in Seattle, where we caught the Norwegian Encore for a 39-day cruise through the Panama Canal to Southampton, UK.  I've also been here at least 6 time, the first for the Seattle World Expo in 1962. The Encore's first stop was in San Francisco.  The San Francisco Bay area is my second home. Graduated from Stanford University. Worked at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View on the Search Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Spent two summers at the ...