Excuse me! We've all missed the boat on the port deal. But maybe I'm the only one who thinks it's curious that the next day after the deal was announced there was a new person appointed to be director of US Marine Port Security, who was previously a director of the Dubai conglomerate that is trying to consumate this deal.

Let me see if I can find a link to this story which I saw on Lou Dobbs, noted conservative CNN news reporter, this evening.

I think this story still has legs, although it may just be the usual commercial windfall for Bush Administration friends and family.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble