On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:42:20 -0400, "Glenn Ashmore"
wrote:

I hope you are being fecitious. The way the bill reads NWS or any other
Federal agency personal with weather data is specifically and totally
muzzeled. No statements or sharing weather information of any kind to
anybody any time unless Accuweather can't do it. (Not won't but can't.)

The commercial services are into mass marketing their product and are not
going to provide a service if they can't make a profit and marine weather is
not a profit maker. Say goodby to WEFAX. Say goodby to VHF weather radio.
Say goodby to sea state and wind forcasts.

You guys better get off your asses and say something to your Senators or we
may be sailing blind or paying $50+ to get a weather forcast anytime you
sail outside the harbor.


Only the lowest permit themselves to conduct a newsgroup debate on the
basis of spelling and punctuation - but when the target is as
delicious and well-regarded as Glenn, why would that stop me? :-)

Fecitious? Glenn fecit.
Personal? Human relations is the PC term, these days...
Muzzeled? A happy mix, perhaps, of muscled and muzzled.
Goodby? A relative of Scooby.
Forcast? E-less in Gaza.....

I want some of the sauce that Glenn's using!

Brian Whatcott, Altus, OK