Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 19 February 2006

Various big media television networks ^ | 19 February 2006 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Evan Bayh, D-Ind.; former Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Chertoff; Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., and Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va.; basketball player Shaquille O'Neal.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Chertoff; British ambassador to the United States David Manning, German ambassador to the U.S. Wolfgang Ischinger and French ambassador to the U.S. Jean-David Levitte; retired Army Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, formerly in charge of Iraqi army training.

[Txsleuth]

You are doing a wonderful job....and I so appreciate the preview thread on Saturday...

I even bookmarked that thread today...because there was so much that I didn't have time to read.

Good going!! I also like the new ideas you are thinking about.

[Darth Republican]

Just keep shipping Algore around and let him keep making speeches, he's the gift that keeps on giving

[slapshot]

As an aside:

I picked up "Year of the Rat" from the Library this weekend. Reading it will just dredge up all the Chicom/Clintonista connections. One prominent feature is the approval of Cosco (NOT COSTCO) the maratime logistic arm of the PLA to operate out of Long Beach, CA.

What causes me to do the heimlich maneuver is the simplicification of the Dubai port story. Hillarita and her hubby allowed the PLA a foothold on the CONUS. When oh when will someone have the cojones to challenge this and ask her where she was when this was going down????

[maica]

Just parking this page here for now --
some info on the Port of Baltimore


P&O Ports in Baltimore, Maryland

The Port of Baltimore, on the north end of the Chesapeake Bay, is one of the largest operations in the company portfolio. P&O Ports has a contract with the Maryland Port Administration to operate Seagirt Marine Terminal and Dundalk Marine Terminal in Baltimore. These contracts were awarded through a competitive public bid process open to all qualified terminal operating companies.

Effective November 1, 2001, P&O Ports was appointed to operate the Seagirt Marine Terminal for a six-year term with an option to extend for an additional six years. P&O Ports provides customers with full service terminal and stevedoring operations as the contract operator for Maryland International Terminals. Effective March 2005, P&O Ports signed a multi-year contract to operate at Dundalk Marine Terminal.

In addition to the above contracts, P&O Ports contracts directly with steamship lines and cargo interests, providing services at all Marine Terminals in the harbor.

P&O Ports' annual cargo volumes in the Port of Baltimore are as follows: 450,000 TEU's [containers]; 350,000 vehicles; and over 575,000 tons of RoRo [roll-on/roll-off] & project cargoes.

P&O Ports Baltimore offers Maintenance and Repair services of containers and chassis at the Seagirt and Dundalk Marine Terminals. P&O Ports maintain a mobile fleet that can travel between both terminals and offer roadability services as well as major repairs.


Seagirt Marine Terminal
Dundalk Marine Terminal
Automobile Operation
North Locust Point Marine Terminal




Seagirt Marine Terminal

Seagirt Marine Terminal is the Port's largest pure container facility that is operated by P&O Ports with Evergreen, CSAV and Mediterranean Shipping Company as its main customers. A flex-time agreement between the ILA and the Steamship Trade Association of Baltimore calls for staggered lunch hours by the clerks at Seagirt (as well as at Baltimore's other terminals), allowing cargo to be processed continuously all day.

Seagirt features the latest in cargo-handling equipment and systems. The computerized gate complex serves as the nerve center for the 275-acre (112 ha) container terminal. The terminal operating system uses software from Navis, the leader in container terminal management systems.

Seagirt features seven 100-foot gauge (30.5m), post-Panamax cranes which are among the most productive in the industry, averaging 35 containers an hour. Three of the cranes feature the latest dual-hoist systems, which lift two containers simultaneously to expedite the loading and discharge of the vessel. Currently handling 425,000 TEU's a year, Seagirt's practical yard layout places the storage area directly behind the berths, further increasing the productivity of the vessel loading and discharge operations.




Dundalk Marine Terminal

Dundalk Marine Terminal is located adjacent to Seagirt, and major customers include Atlantic Container Line (ACL), Hapag Lloyd, National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (NSCSA), Nordana, Lykes and Wallenius Wilhelmsen Line. With 13 berths, 10 container and two gantry cranes and direct rail access, the 570-acre (230 ha) terminal remains the Port of Baltimore's largest and most versatile general cargo facility. Dundalk's direct rail access also allows unit trains to routinely deliver dozens of units of farm and/or construction equipment to the terminal at once. Dundalk's size makes it ideal for handling large break bulk and project cargoes.




RoRo and Automobile Operation

P&O Ports provides RoRo stevedoring services in a number of Baltimore terminals including the Fairfield Marine Terminals (Masonville, Chesapeake, and Atlantic).




North Locust Point Marine Terminal

North Locust Point remains a flexible facility capable of handling a variety of cargoes. The terminal has ample storage capacity with 25 acres of outside space. It can easily accommodate the storage requirements for breakbulk and project cargoes.

While North Locust Point has changed many times throughout its proud history, there remains one constant – its ability to meet the varied needs of the port’s customers.



Containers
Breakbulk
Bulk
- Steel
- Forest Products
Automobiles
- RoRo
Military
Cruise Vessels

[Txsleuth]

Hopefully, whoever runs against her in 2008..

I wouldn't look to any GOP candidate in New York to actually give her a hard time in her Senate race.

[Phsstpok]

Look out Rush! A cross between Michael Savage and Jesus --- now that's a winner, right!?

Well... it is a very... striking... image, shall we say. (quick, where's the net?)

(grinning, ducking and running for cover)

[Graymatter]

Great post. Thank you!

[writer33]

Years ago, smoking the pot was sometimes breathing to me.

Oh, now you're an addicted trouble maker. Great. Just great!

:)

[Phsstpok]

In keeping with my reply to Peach about contacting media and politicians, Mike Gallagher's web site has an Email Mike link

Send this info to him.

And here's Lindsey Graham's web site contact page

Beat him about the head and shoulders liberally with this info.

[Morgan in Denver]

For what it's worth, I include Sean Hannity and his going into Ohio and other battle-ground states for a pep-raly venue that helped get out the vote and stimulate our side to vote. Rush too, for that matter, for his talking about these states on his program.

Morgan

[Bahbah]

This is just great, Phsstpok. I have already emailed Gallagher and I will call Graham's office tomorrow. Wonderful idea.

[Morgan in Denver]

Add me to the list of people saying thank you.

[rodguy911]

Hannity is by far not the most popular talk show host on FR but with 13 million listeners on radio and another 5 on tv, we need him bad. Maybe he can figure out that the same old guests do get tiring and he really should go to Iraq as a major conservative media representative.

[Cboldt]

The worldwide transfer of goods cannot be examined like a bunch of suitcases after they get where they are going.

See Container Security Initiative, and Megaports Initiative.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1581698/posts?page=80#80

[Morgan in Denver]

Just so you know, I think I love you. (I've informed my wife and she understands as long as I keep it long distance and never act it out.)

Your posts of information and links are great and much appreciated. Your pregame show is also great even though I don't usually have the time to look at it all or read all the things you list. Just fantastic.

Morgan

[eeevil conservative]

Watching Graham on FNS right now...

man- he ticks me off...

when asked if Congress can be trusted seeing this (confidential info about fighting the WOT) information... he says "Yes.....we know the NYT leaks hurt us.......Constitution says we get to see it (paraphrasing there) .......either way we (America) is stronger (with Congress seeing the info) than without (seeing the info)..

the whole time he is referring to the Constitution as the reason for them to get to see the info....

WHAT A MORON!

Hey Lame Brain Graham... if we are going to call on the Constitution- then let's call on it....what is it called when your friends aid the enemy in a time of war? Why are your friends in office instead of a barred cell?

He wouldn't know about the Constitution if it bit his nuts!

/rant off

[Morgan in Denver]

OldFriend, this is great! Once again, the so-called main stream media will be making fools out of themselves. I can see it now, oh yeah... seen that... it's unimportant and this is overkill. Typical of the MSM and another reason they are failing in the USA.

[OldFriend]

Spencer is going to give her heiney a good case of agita.

[Phsstpok]

Sorry to say, but it looks like a lot of closet racism is leaking on through some of the right-wing response to this story. People are going of in classic knee-jerk fashion, rather than educate themselves about the facts of this deal. I only hope that we can rely on the Dems to overreach again, and save the Republican party from stepping in it.

I understand your sentiment, but I've been struck, having only this thread to go by (I've been fairly single minded today), that the "right-wing " (as represented by us) is being very mature and reasonable about this, pointing out the very racist implications of some of the knee jerk responses, particularly from people like Hillary, that well known right-wing responder, dontcha know?

It's not the "right-wing" that is reacting inappropriately to this.  It's the left and the squishy middle.

[Cboldt]

Similar to your Baltimore ports info ... here are links to the Philly and Miami data:

Google cache - P&O Ports in Philadelphia, PA & Camden, NJ
Google cache - Eller-ITO Stevedoring Company

I quit looking because it's all going to be more of the same, similar, just different locations. The bigger ports are NY, Newark, Philly, Baltimore, Miami, Tampa (signing up with P&O later this week) and New Orleans. P&O also operates Vancouver.

I think this is a non-story from a security angle. Just more insider ball by world players.