Vintage port

On the port thing--

Yes, there are many things not to like about Dubai Ports and the UAE. You can list things from 9/11 connections, the recognition of the Taliban, human trafficking, forced hormone treatments of homosexuals, boycotts of Israel, etc. etc.

Even with all that (and so much more unmentioned), we can miss a lot if we become absorbed in the "port security" angle. Let's face it--"port security" is practically an oxymoron (you saw On the Waterfront, right?) Containers are almost never inspected, and it honestly would be hard to imagine how security could be LESSENED from the status quo by having DP on site.

But what is really important here is that this is just more of the same--just more Bush corporate greed. Look at the connections:

First of all, we have the drunken, stupid, criminal embarrassing Bush...that would be NEIL Bush, whose latest pyramid sche---ooops, I mean "software venture", is heavily bankrolled from the UAE. And of course, Treasury Secretary John Snow has done HUGE business with the company in the past.

It also goes back to Shrub himself. Remember that he is the Texas "oil man" who couldn't find oil at Jiffy Lube. But yet he kept getting money for his failed ventures. And why? Well, he happened to be the son of the vice president, and by hard work, pluck and determination, gosh darn it, he became the son of the president! And guess who bankrolled part of his "oil" ventures? Why, look at the UAE.

It looks like the markers are being called in.