Decades of insightful policy protect Americans from socialistic infrastructure investments

America leads world in no less than three categories.

(Of course, parallel developments in Canada mean that, for example, there's one overpass on Courtland I hate passing under and part of the tour of Montreal I got from my aunt was "bridges it is best to avoid going under.")

Today's discovery

As time goes by, more of the recent past is documented online. Take, for example, something my grandfather did during the Great War:

The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Quartermaster Second Class Philip J. Strahan, United States Navy, for extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty while serving on a steamer used in experimental mine sweeping on the North Sea barrage. In a gale and heavy sea, the main topmast broke in two, the upper part dropping down and whipping around. Quartermaster Second Class Strahan jumped into the rigging, and at great danger to himself, cut the part adrift.

Either the site misspelled his name or the spelling changed slightly in the last century because his descendents on that side of the family spell it Strachan, not Strahan. I know it is him because I have the medal and the letter explaining why he got it upstairs (the site I link to above leaves off the part where he kept his captain from going overboard or that due to a too-close encounter with a mine they were detonating, most of the caulking in the ship had been blown out and they were taking on water).

Question

Can Rob Ford be appointed interim mayor to replace himself?

Alien Worlds: The Keeper of Eight pt 1 and The Keeper of Eight pt 2

The Keeper of Eight pt 1

The Keeper of Eight pt 2

Tragedy strikes when yet another scientist dies tragically, this time because aliens stole the hydrogen plasma he was working on. Research Director Dr. Maura Cassidy is also on hand; she is found safe inside a sealed container with no means of ingress large enough to not involve toothpasteifying any human passing through it, which is a bit of a puzzler.

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