I wasn't particularly looking forward to the expedition today, a Zodiac ride on Bonne Bay, a smallish body of sea water of around 26 square miles, with people living around it, including the town of Woody Point, off which the Viking Octantis is moored. Newfoundland and Labrador form a province, initially called Newfoundland, but since 2001 known offficially by both names. Newfoundland is an island surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, and has 95% the population of the province.  Most of them are on the east side of the island where the capital of St. John's is located. The west side, though, is where we are moored.  The total population surrounding Bonne Bay is 2,765, a drop of 4% from 2016 The population of Woody Point is 244.  Peak was reached in 1966 of 341 people. The population of Canada was 20 million in 1966, but more than doubled to 41 million today. The population of this province was 493,396 in 1966, suffered the loss of the cod industry in 1992, but still increased...

Two more Trump matters.  To no one's surprise, Robert F. Kennedy was confirmed this morning as his Secretary of Health and Human Resources.  All Democrats and Republican Senator Mitch McConnell were the only no votes.  Will this become the worst cabinet in all of history?  In his first term,  Donald Trump already was selected as the worst president of the USA .   From  BCTV : The Trump cabinet is receiving a lot of attention lately-most of it bad. The details vary, but much of the unwelcome spotlight focuses on the quality of the cabinet – or lack thereof.  This is the cabinet Trump himself called “by far the highest IQ of any Cabinet ever assembled.”  Others, less kind perhaps, have branded it “the worst cabinet in American history.”  Individual cabinet members have been proclaimed, “dumb,” “stupid,” “illiterate,” “incompetent,” “moronic,” and panoply of other less than complimentary terms . Also, the  Washington Post  ag...