Capitol Rotunda Oath for Donald Trump - Trump47

BBC News: Reports that the 47th President, Donald Trump will be inaugurated in the Capital Rotunda, due to the expected Cold weather on the day.

Lets Get Real:

The Donald will not be happy, he likes big crowds, the Inaugural will follow the format of Reagan's Inaugural in 1985.  Lets hope Trump47 is half as good as Reagan, the Gipper was a great President,  specially in the 2nd term, ending the Cold War in 1986, there was Iran - Contra, nobody went to jail or was impeached, as Lady Thatcher said in 2004, won the Cold  war without firing a shot, this lead to Russia leaving Afghanistan and lead to the downfall of the USSR. We shall see what happens with Trump.

Titanic Sub Update Part 2 - The Titanic Story

BBC News - Live Blog: Reports in its 6.16pm post the following, " More sounds heard in search area....Capt Frederick says it is his understanding the Canadian P-3 aircraft heard some noises today as well...it is very tough to discern what the noises are.  "

Lets Get Real:

The Titan has about 20 hours of oxygen left, the noises could be from the Titanic itself its rusty down there and it is being eaten by deep sea creatures.  It is estimated that the air on the Titan will run out at 9.00am UK time ( Updated from Sky News - 12.08pm, ) of course one hopes for the best and that the crew and passengers are alive and well.  That is the hope, after 9am ( 12.08pm ) tomorrow the clock will start to look at how long it is a rescue mission and then a recovery mission to to get the Titan up and those that might have perished.  Of course keeping hope, but the Titan sub might never be found, it might take years, there will be other dives on the Titanic, they might find it, then what!! One prays for the passengers and crew of the sub and their families, but one has to be real.  

Titanic Sub Update - The Titanic Story

Sky News - Live Blog: Reports in its 6pm post the following, " 

US Coast Guard: 'Search efforts not yielded any results' as around '40hrs' of oxygen left  "

Lets Get Real:

One still has hope that the Titan will be found with the passengers and crew safe.  The tone of the coverage has moved to the more realistic, they sub has only 41 hours of air left, and finding it will be down to luck, also how do they bring it up, what I DO NOT want to hear from the Americans is the term unified command, it shows that the Americans want to someone else to get the blame if this turns in to a tragedy.  One has to say it, it does not look good, and what point to the various ships just give up, if the passengers and crew run out of air, do the ships stay, its costs to have the ships out there, does the UN ban any more trips, in less for science or to pick up the artefacts still out there, does the UN have that authority is a open question, and who would enforce it.   This blog hopes for the best, but one must always tell truth in this blog, it looks like you can add 5 more to the Titanic death ledger.  

The Death of Lady Thatcher and the News - Thatcher Era 4

BBC News - Live Coverage: Read the different reactions to the news of the death of Lady Thatcher during the day, on this BBC Live feed.

Lets Get Real:

It was interesting watching the coverage on the BBC and Sky, on the whole they followed the same pattern, a PM that changed the UK from the 1970s, from curbing the Unions, her tough economic medicine, the War in the Falklands, her three election wins, then the start of the decline, the Poll tax and unrest with the Conservative Party.  On the whole fair, then we come to the BAD POINTS, both BBC and Sky showed ex miners that were happy that Lady Thatcher had died, it was shocking to this blogger of the reports he saw the Reporters did not come back on on these VILE people, no mention that their President had not called the vote, the fact that miners used violence against the Police and tried to prevent fellow miners going back to work.   This blogger would have taken them on, how such rubbish was allowed on air with no counter probing was shocking,  the miners thought they were dealing with Ted Heath, they had not learned from the Falklands, that was their error, they deserved their defeat, no pity at all from this blogger!  Lady Thatcher will be seen as a great historical figure, those small minded miners will be forgotten, yesterday men and women who could or would not change, economics is never fair, they tried it USSR and it failed.  Lady Thatcher crushed the left wing elite opposition, it had to be destroyed, once and for all, we are Great Britain not France.