It’s Code Orange. We’re told not to worry but to keep an eye out for anything suspicious. So
\nwe interrupt our vacation to bring you this report from the land of New York City. An observant
\ncorrespondent writes:<\/P>
\n
“Nobody believes me, but every single time we drive into the city along the West Side
\nHighway beside the Hudson River, we always, always, always see a huge black barge-like object
\nhovering in the river, just off the shipping channel, about even with 96th Street.
“It
\nseems very odd indeed that there would always be such an object so near to the busy shipping
\nlanes. Barges and coastal steamers are always plying the river to and from the northern cities of
\nAlbany, Troy, and points in between. We first noticed this object after September 11,
\n2001.
“My theory, since first spotting it, is that it might contain guided missiles which
\ncould be sent aloft in the event an aircraft is detected headed for impact in the city. And if so, I
\nthink it’s a pretty good idea.”<\/P>
\n
This was my reply: <\/P>
\n
“A friend of mine sees that barge-like object from her window overlooking the
\nriver and always wondered herself what it might be. I told her to get a pair of binoculars and have
\na closer look. She says the thing occasionally moves away and then returns, which doesn’t mean
\nit’s NOT a missile launcher. But don’t you think the authorities would have to be
\nmore clandestine? Although it might make sense to isolate a missile launcher in the river,
\nit’s there for anyone to see from all the apartment buildings lining Riverside Drive and further
\ndown to midtown. I would imagine it would arouse curiosity and, if so, would have made the
\npapers by now.”<\/P>
\n
My correspondent did not reply to that reply, but sent another message:<\/P>
\n
“Now we’re getting somewhere. Here’s a note from a friend of my sister-in-law. The fellow
\nlives in Westport, Conn.: ‘Within days of 9\/11, there were two huge black unmarked barges right
\noff the beach in Westport. I was on my bicycle at the beach and stopped to talk to a cop, and he
\nconfirmed to his best guess that they were military. He being an ex-Marine. They were there only
\na few weeks. It could be what was brought to the NYC harbor. I hope it means that we are being
\nprotected.’ “<\/P>
\n
The gyre turns. We’re getting messages within messages. And this morning my correspondent
\nsent another message with a message within: <\/P>
\n
“Well, now it’s getting silly as people let their imagination run with the barge mystery. I seem
\nto have started a kind of barge blog:
‘Ok, here’s how it looks. Al Qaeda plants the
\nbarges in Connecticut. The Coast Guard, thinking it was put there by the CIA, tows them to NY.
\nNext, Mayor Bloomberg will have them hauled to Central Park as a monument to GB for
\nprotecting us. The Al Qaeda get out of the barge and blow up the GM Building. Fortunately, it is
\nSunday and no one is in the building except some 5th Avenue lawyers working on a secret merger
\nbetween Halliburton and the Saudi’s sponsored by Cheney. Cheney gets upset and starts an
\ninquiry. The Jews are blamed for the whole thing because they would not settle with Arafat and
\ngive up Israel.’ <\/P>
\n
“That’s just one example. Enough.”<\/P>
\n
The mystery remains unsolved, and we’re going back on vacation.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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