"London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., which had been running the six ports, was bought last week by the government-owned DPW."
So that's the new strategy, making it sound like a done deal. The acquisition is NOT a done deal.
I have to agree with them. If it looks like a duck, it probably is. Blood is thicker than money or something along those lines.
Good.
Soooooo.....let me get this straight.....shipments will come through the Chinese-owned Panama Canal to a port run by the Arabs and then (after the Trans Texas Corridor gets built) travel up Spanish-built highways to Walmart stores where illegal aliens will buy the products?
Bush just needs to reverse this and get it behind him. It ain't gonna go.
For Lurch Chertoff to go on the airways over the weekend and defend this debacle is, to use the word of Newt Gingrich, incomprehensible. Clearly his job is too much for him, and he needs to step aside, and resign. Especially when the previous HLC Ridge is basically saying the same thing. Bush needs to be better served by his staff. Chertoff has failed in this regard. It would be political fodder for the dems but, holy cow, this is plain stupid. Bush should clean house before the fall elections, maybe leave Rumsfeld, because the muslims hate him, but realize he will kill them.
3 days and counting now, and this Administration has still not bailed on endorsing the deal. Are they certifiably insane?
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I never thought I would be agreeing with people like Chuck Schumer, but he and many other Democrats are absolutely correct on this call.
This deal stinks.
The "threaten"? Why don't they just do it?
Why, that's exactly how our immigration and border "security" policies are run!
We have seen Islamists chopping off people*s heads, raping women and girls, murdering Christians, slashing throats, cutting THEIR OWN CHILDREN*S heads during Ashura, and killing THEIR OWN PEOPLE while rioting over some stupid cartoons! We KNOW it*s violence, but Bush doesn*t, so we have to question his judgment on allowing that very religion to control our ports. In fact, I don*t think ANY foreign country should control our ports!!!
Whatever, it's not a good time to be shorting Reynolds Aluminium. Lord knows how much tinfoil "deals" like this sell.
Ivan Eland makes sense out of it: Dubai Ports World: Commercial Racial Profiling
Check this out...
Pixie Grismore
Mary Beth Grismore, 26 years old, was strangled May 3, 1978 in Ohio. Her body was found in the trunk of a car. Mary Beth was known by her friends as Pixie for her sunny disposition. Patrick Ralston came under suspicion after he admitted to having a romantic affair with Pixie. Both Pixie and Ralston were married to someone else at the time, but decided to have a farewell get together and end their relationship. This meeting took place at the Holiday Inn in Cloverdale, Indiana on February 16, 1978.
In an effort to get the FBI looking in another direction, Ralston stunned the FBI with a story that Pixie had told Ralston she had met with Sen. Birch Bayh in a bar at an Indianapolis motel, they partied and Pixie slept with the senator. The FBI confirmed that B.E. Bayh of the U.S. Senate did indeed stay at the Indianapolis Airport Holiday Inn on the date given by Ralston. At this time of Pixie's tryst with Sen. Birch Bayh, his wife, Marvella, was dying of cancer.
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"Even though then-Sen. Bayh headed the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and was in charge of the oversight committee that supposedly supervises the CIA, NSA and, oh yeah, the FBI, all their investigation couldn't catch the killer -- or killers. But at least the investigators kept Pat Ralston's romantic connection to the victim, and especially her association with former Sen. Bayh, as a closely held secret."
Sen. Birch Bayh subsequently became the Governor of Indiana and boss of any of Indiana's state police agencies that might have investigated Pixie's murder. The Bayh political dynasty continued when his son, Evan, was elected as Governor of Indiana for two terms (1989-1997). While Governor, Evan Bayh appointed one of the witnesses in the case, P.A. Mack, known as his father's "fixer-upper" as a trustee at Indiana University and Patrick Ralston as head of Indiana's Department of Natural Resources in 1989.
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The grisly saga of Pixie Grismore
Was her murder 20 years ago covered up by politics?
Editor's note: This story is excerpted from the November issue of Dispatches magazine, the monthly sister publication of WorldNetDaily. Annual subscriptions to Dispatches are $36 and individual copies of the November issue are available for $3 at WorldNetDaily's secure online storefront.
By H.J. Halterman
© 1998 WorldNetDaily.com
Two years ago, on a Windy City evening in the month of August 1996, Indiana's then-Governor Evan Bayh appeared before the delegates gathered in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention to deliver the keynote speech that would finalize the nomination and re-election of William Jefferson Clinton to the presidency of the United States. It was a high point in Bayh's political career, a steppingstone, perhaps, to greater things, and it was surely an event in his life which would have brought special pride to his mother -- had she lived to her son's special evening.
His father, former Sen. Birch Bayh, had survived to share that moment in history with his son, and he must have carried enough parents' real pride to make up for his late wife's absence.
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Well, that's surprising. A bipartisan discussion on what to do. I guess the Dems are thinking of bringing some ideas to the table this time ...now that the problem is in their front yard.
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?flok=FF-APO-1333&idq=/ff/story /0001%2F20060221%2F0451509104.htm&sc=1333&floc=NW_1-T
WASHINGTON (AP) - Two Republican governors are threatening legal action to block an Arab company from taking over operations in major U.S. ports and some GOP lawmakers say the deal should be closely examined.
New York Gov. George Pataki and Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich on Monday voiced doubts about the acquisition of a British company that has been running six U.S. ports by Dubai Ports World, a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates.
Good for them! May have a second look at Pataki for President.
This has probley already been mentioned but here it is again then.
To deny this deal the Democrats must use "Racial Profilng", this company and country have not been implicated in any terrorist activity, only that they share the same religion and race as the terrorists.
And of course had Bush rejected this deal the Democrats would be on the other side of this issue right now.