[BigSkyFreeper]

I think Rush was the first guy off the block with a reference to the WSJ October article

I know, I e-mailed him the link.

[muawiyah]

That was good of you. I knew I was readig some craziness if you could buy 6 major US seaports for a billion dollars.

Just doesn't happen. Wondered why I wasn't notified of the bid because I could have gotten banks to back me for $1,000,000,001 on something like that.

(I almost bid on a surplus AMTRAK locomotive years back. Didn't 'cause I only had $10 spare at the moment, but found out later that if I had bid, I'd have won. There was no reserve and no one placed a bid. Now what would I have done with a locomotive? The demurrage would have killed me Fur Shur.)