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• I am not sure what the appeal being trapped in a giant hotel adrift at sea is but as these things get bigger, why not just stay at home?   While I love the sea, these aren't ocean liners, they are floating amusement parks that dump a lot of pollution and garbage into the ocean.  Not only that but Canada has even laxer rules than other countries.
• The New York Yankees' value increased to US$1.306 billion over the past year, according to the annual estimates by Forbes magazine, a rise of nine per cent over the past year. The New York Mets were second at $824 million and the Boston Red Sox third at $816 million, the magazine said Wednesday. After that, there was a big gap to the Los Angeles Dodgers ($694 million) and the Chicago Cubs ($642 million). The Toronto Blue Jays came in 22nd at $352 million, with $160 million in revenue.
• What's a couple trillion dollars between friends?  It appears the Pentagon has some accounting issues.  Of course they have only been trying to fix things since 1958.  The hope is by 2016 things will be auditable.
• This just about sums up tonights debate: Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the health care and mortgage crises, the overall state of the economy and dozens of other pressing issues had to wait for their few moments in the sun as Obama was pressed to explain his recent "bitter" gaffe and relationship with Rev. Wright (seemingly a dead issue) and not wearing a flag pin while Clinton had to answer again for her Bosnia trip exaggerations.