My wife and I were talking last night about how very weird it was that the Obama had decided to bring out that new “seal” to display in front of him during the campaign. It was so MUCH like the Presidential seal that we both felt that it was being a little bit “presumptuous” to be using it. We were both really surprised that the people in his campaign came up with that seal, and even more surprised that Obama agreed to use it! It seems like the newscasters could not let go of talking about the seal, either. I think it was quite a snafu in what seems to be an otherwise well managed campaign!
If you don’t put your life jacket on before you get on the boat, rationalizing that you’ll grab it when you need it, by the time you realize you need one, it could be too late to grab it! I think that everyone who applies to register their boat should be required to take and pass a Boating Education course.
When we lived in New England, we lived on a large lake and we enjoyed taking our boat out for a spin whenever we had a chance. Unfortunately, at least once a year we would read in the local newspaper that someone had drowned in the area due to excessive alcohol consumption which resulted in reckless boating. The law does not require everyone to wear a life jacket, simply that there are enough on the boat for each one. I think that is fairly useless; everyone should be wearing their life jacket - they should put it on before they get in the boat and take it off only after they have gotten off of the boat.
