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10/12/12 11:41 AM

#15243 RE: EZ2 #15242

A BUNCHA Reasons NOT to-vote-for Mr. Zero...

-- Vastly premature awarding of Nobel Peace Prize to someone
who's done little else in his life/career but Win Elections.

-- Madonna's typically foul potty-mouthed/inchoate endorsement

-- Price of Gasoline!

-- Al Queda assassination of U.S. Libyan Ambassador, and subsequent cover-up/obfuscation

-- Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

-- Jobs, Jobs, STEVE Jobs's passing throws a monkey-wrench
into Silicon Valley's leftist stranglehold and influence.

-- Bridges and Roads -- still awaiting those SHOVELS!

-- The flopping, failed stimulus ("porkulus")

-- Rejection of Keystone Pipeline, DESPITE its meaning 1) Jobs,
2) Lower Energy Costs, 3) Reduced dependence on foreign oil

-- Dead Voters: They're not just in Chicago!

-- Gulf Oil Spill -- The perfect foil and device to trigger and enable
NObama's institution of his long-desired attempt to throttle
and kill American Offshore Drilling.

-- Windmills that sully and despoil the landscape vistas AND
that generate paltry, puny amounts of energy. It requires the
combined output of TWO THOUSAND WINDMILLS to = ONE modern-day,
SAFE Nuclear Power Plant. Windmills as a source and solution,
dare I say, are utterly Quixotic.

-- Cap and Trade: Talk with the blue-collar maintenance
workers, tradesmen, equipment operators, and Miners in WV,
Southeast Ohio, KY, Western PA.

-- TARP. Well intentioned but ill-conceived. Ultimately stupid.

-- START Treaty: Please. No.

-- Beyonce' and Jay-Z -- The couple the Obamas really, secretly
YEARN TO BE. His snarky hipness and her bulbous, globose derriere
are perfect reflections and distillations of the First Couple.

-- Healthcare/Obamacare -- A barely concealed Federal Government
takeover of 1/6 of the American Economy, and a denial/restriction
of Freedom-to-Choose.

-- Card Check -- EVERYBODY has SOME sort of I.D. So, quit the crap on this!

-- Arizona border: Still a porous sieve and a portal for
Third World dross and flotsam. YES, some are simply earnest
people seeking to better their lives; so please let's have them
DO IT LEGALLY. That's all we ask and expect. Our forebears had
to do it that way.

-- Global warming -- Haha ha ha ha hahaha

-- NASA: Obama's uncaring, callous lack of ANY interest
in Space Exploration and Space-Science is evidence of how TINY
his mind, his aspirations, and his Human Spirit truly are.
The neglect, downplaying, decline, and disintegration of
America's MANNED Space Programs in particular, is a disgrace.

-- ACORN -- Keep those hidden-camera, gotcha videos coming.

-- Billionaire George Soros: A toxic blight on the very
integrity and dignity of America's electoral system.

-- Electric cars -- Giddyup, GIDDYAPPp horsie!

-- Housing Market -- Lightning rod and focal point for the
decline of American Family wealth and assets.

-- Supreme Court appointments: Can you say sniveling,
leftist-elitist, social-justice-seeking, America-is-bad-and-wrong Socialists/Marxists?

-- Destruction of the Military -- Were these buffoons and clowns
in charge in the 1940's, we would have turned-tail and fled,
and we'd nowadays be speaking German in the East, Japanese in the West.

Arab Spring killed 50,000 -- A Grand Flowering of Enlightenment
and Light? Not very likely; more likely a Grand Flowering and
Display of profound misunderstanding and naivete'.

Women's Reproductive Choice and Birth Control Access --
Sandra Fluck just really, really wants it/needs it, but doesn't
have the personal integrity to ASK for it.

-- Zero Foreign Policy = Multiple Foreign Enemies

Education Department and the EPA: Dismantle and terminate
then BOTH during Romney's first Four Years.

-- Solendra: Give a man a fish, and he ain't gonna
go fishing. Give a man a BUSHEL of fish, and he'll sit on
his ass forever.

-- Eric Holder -- Corruption is just one of his crayons

-- Fast and Furious -- A stupid, dumb idea that, when approved
and implemented, proved itself to be stupid and dumb.

-- Entitlements: Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme. I got MINE,
and I couldn't care LESS about you. Runaway solipsism and
narcissism at its most vile.

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Mariner*

10/12/12 1:33 PM

#15249 RE: EZ2 #15242

This is a good thing, but, there are always ways around stuff and for that reason sanctions don't always work. It does show that there is a "United Front" against them and what they are attempting to do with their underground nuke program.
Maersk Line also holds government defense contracts for their MSC (Military Sealift Command) division that does all kinds of black ops operations like submarine hunters that do nothing but run and drag really long cables through the water listening for and tracking submarine transits points, locations ext.. and they really don't want to screw those contracts up, so they'll play ball and won't want to try and skirt around the blockade.

A growing number of Western companies, especially those in shipping and related businesses, are pulling out of trade with Iran due to the complexities of deals and tougher banking restrictions as the sanctions take hold - and out of fear of losing business elsewhere.

"Iran's commercial shipping sector has suffered a significant hit," said Anthony Skinner of risk analysts Maplecroft.

"Although U.S. and EU sanctions do not target food shipments, importers struggle to acquire letters of credit and transfer funds. I expect current sanctions and the further tightening EU sanctions to sour the appetite of the international commercial shipping sector further."

The United States and the EU have led the sanctions push, hoping to force Iran to halt its nuclear program which they suspect is aimed at making weapons. Tehran says the work is peaceful, but the trade measures are hurting shipping badly.

Data from maritime intelligence publisher IHS Fairplay showed the overall number of vessels calling at Iranian ports in the year to early October was 980. That figure for more than three quarters of this year compares with 2,740 ships for the whole of 2011 and 3,407 for 2010.

Of that total, the number of visits by container ships - which carry consumer goods ranging from foodstuffs and household items to clothing and toys - was 86 so far this year, compared with 273 for the whole of 2011 and 378 in 2010.

The world's top container firm Maersk Line said this week it had stopped port calls to Iran, citing the risk of damaging trade opportunities especially
in the United States.