[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.)

[BigSkyFreeper]

I spent all day Saturday and all day Sunday three weeks ago researching the DPW port deal, looking at it from every possible angle, and what really struck me as plainly obvious was how much the political angle was being played up in the media.

I spent the remainder of that weekend educating myself about ports, management of ports, security, and all parties involved.