it's only a matter of time before they make me put a red crescent on my sea monster floaty when I go to the beach. It is worse than we thought...
Posted on 03/10/2006 7:37:43 AM PST by Solson
It's called sarcasm
With Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi in charge, we don't have much to worry about. Now if the Democrats ever go back to their roots.....that could be another story.
So not suprised, ping.
I saw this yesterday; not sure what it means:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1593184/posts?page=1867#1867
LOL!
So an American Business lobbied the American Government.
So what??? There's nothing un-American about that!!!
"No right [should] be stipulated for aliens to hold real property within these States, this being utterly inadmissible by their several laws and policy."
--Thomas Jefferson: Commercial Treaties Instructions, 1784.
Dunno. Kreitzer...the attorney for Eller is part of the law firm of Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod
This will turn out to be one of the most successful Political propaganda ploys in history.
Dude, get a grip on yourself. It’s a business deal that fell apart amid some bad public relations. It’s not the end of civilization.
taking over at least the US Senate not only possible but probable.
Yikes. Nobody bases their vote on the success or failure of a port management business deal. You're way too emotionally invested in this.
so you won't mind if an American company lobbies in order to support NAFTA, as well as beneficial outsourcing deals to Mexico and India, right?
Agreed and I would like to add that they are very hateful bunch of people and they do not know how unpleasant and despicable they look to the majority of voters.
That's somewhat naive.
Go back to DU.
I don't like Schumer or anything he stands for but I don't think he is on the take. He is probably one of the more honest politicians out there.
If this fiasco shows noting else it reveals that people are obviously still obsessed with terrorism. Even if the polls don't reflect it.
This will be used in the 2006, 2008 campaigns....no doubt about it. And it all could have been avoided if someone had realized the seriousness of the issue as it relates to the WOT in the beginning.
If that isn't enough, this can be used by the terrorists as propaganda by showing the extreme fear and bigotry of the so called majority of Americans.
This was a major disaster.
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The Wall Street Journal’s Neil King and Greg Hitt report this morning that the hysteria surrounding the proposed takeover of five U.S. ports by Dubai Ports World has its origins in a lawsuit.
Eller & Co., a small stevedoring firm (the Law Blog enjoys that word so much we would like to write it again — stevedoring) based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is engaged in a legal dispute with its partner at the Port of Miami, Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation, the company that Dubai Ports World wants to acquire.
Eller has reportedly filed lawsuits in both the U.K. and the U.S. against P&O, and yesterday in London, a judge delayed approving the takeover of P&O by Dubai Ports because of Eller’s lawsuit.
Representing Eller in the lawsuits is Michael Kreitzer of Miami’s Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod. Kreitzer has also helped Eller’s lobbying effort in Washington. The story suggests that Eller was largely responsible for stirring the pot within Congress, which gave the P&O-Dubai Ports deal little attention until Eller started briefing its members.
Another attorney in Connecticut who helped Eller’s lobbying effort, Alan Neigher of Westport, Conn., told the WSJ: “We thought the purchase of P&O was a very bad idea. It endangered our operations in Miami. It raised enormous questions about port security — and still does.”
But it appears that although the national security concerns over the deal have been weaved into Eller’s legal strategy, the crux of its dispute with P&O is a contractual one having nothing to do with the Dubai deal. A 52-page complaint filed against P&O on February 17 seeks “to rectify egregious breaches of fiduciary duty, self-dealing and concealment of material facts” on P&O’s part.
P&O declined comment to the WSJ.
Companies who outsource production to Mexico and India are no longer "American".
They are "transnational" and their lobbyists should be registered as foreign agents.
it's only a matter of time before they make me put a red crescent on my sea monster floaty when I go to the beach. It is worse than we thought...
" I must disagree. I think that is a little dramatic. The most successful ploy in history???? This is a port deal, nothing more, nothing less. Won't even be remembered by most people in 2 months."
Get your head out of the sand.
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