Container Ships from China

SHIP FROM CHINA - The Emma Maersk


What a ship....no wonder 'Made in China' is displacing North American goods big time with this floating continent transporting goods across the Pacific in 4 days no less!!!





This is how Wal-Mart gets all it's stuff from China . Get a load of this ship!
15,000 containers and a 207' beam! And look at the crew-size: 13 people for a ship longer than a US aircraft carrier which has a crew of 5,000 men and officers.
Think it's big enough? Notice that 207' beam means it cannot fit through the Panama or Suez Canals . It is strictly transpacific. Check out the cruise speed: 31 knots means the goods arrive 4 days before the typical container ship (18-20 knots) on a China-to-California run. So this behemoth is hugely competitive when carrying perishable goods.

This ship was built in five sections. The sections floated together and then welded. The command bridge is higher than a 10-story building and has 11 cargo crane rigs that can operate simultaneously.




Additional info:

Country of origin - Denmark

Length - 1,302 ft

Width - 207 ft

Net cargo - 123,200 tons

Engine - 14 in-line cylinders diesel engine (110,000 BHP)

Cruise Speed - 31 knots

Cargo capacity - 15,000 TEU (1 TEU = 20 ft3)

Crew - 13 people

First Trip - Sept. 08, 2006

Construction cost - US $145,000,000+

Silicone painting applied to the ship bottom reduces water resistance and saves 317,000 gallons of diesel per year

Editorial Comment! A recent documentary in late March on the History Channel, noted that most all of these containers are shipped back to China , EMPTY yep you heard it right. We send nothing back on most of these ships. What does that tell you about the current Financial State of this country?

First Politician

An archeological team, digging in Washington DC , has uncovered 10,000 year old bones and fossil remains of what is believed to be the first Politician.

Classic Sayings

'If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.' -Mark Twain

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.... But then I repeat myself. -Mark Twain

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. -Winston Churchill

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on t he support of Paul. -George Bernard Shaw

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. -G. Gordon Liddy

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. -James Bovard

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. -Douglas Casey

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. -P.J. O'Rourke

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. -Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. -Ronald Reagan (1986)

I don't make jokes... I just watch the government and report the facts. -Will Rogers

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! - P.J. O'Rourke

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. -Voltaire (1764)

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you! -Pericles (430 B.C.)

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. -Mark Twain (1866 )

Talk is cheap. except when Congress does it. -Unknown

The government is like a baby's alimentary canal: a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. -Ronald Reagan

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. -Winston Churchill

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. -Mark Twain

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. -Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress. -Mark Twain

What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. -Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. -Thomas Jefferson

My Wife Made Me Put This Up

Quote for the day:

'Whatever you give a woman, she's going to multiply.
       
If you give her a house, she'll give you a home.
       
If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal.
       
If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart.
    
She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her.'
       
So - if you give her crap, you will receive more shit than any one human being can handle.

Christian in a Marathon

After that last one mocking Christians, let's see just how stupid they are.

A Letter to the Red States

Got this in the email today. Lib's...

responses in the text, in RED


Dear Red States:


We've decided we're leaving PACK YOUR BAGS, WE ARE TIRED OF YOUR WHINING, AMERICA BASHING, SPINELESS, EFFETE ATTITUDE. We intend to form our own country HAVE YOU LOOKED AT THE MAP BY COUNTY?, and we're taking the other Blue States with us.

In case you aren't aware, that includes Hawaii LETS SEE, THE ONE WITH A REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR?, Oregon ASSISTED SUICIDE AND HAVEN FOR 60'S TERRORISTS?, Washington OH, WHERE ALL THE HOMELESS AND PETA PEOPLE LIVE, Minnesota HOME OF THE NOT FUNNY, TAX CHEATING, PORNOGRAPHER, AL FRANKEN? AND GARRISON KEELOR?, Wisconsin ISN'T THAT WHERE THE HEFF & BILL MAHR LIVE?, Michigan OH YEAH, THAT BANKRUPT STATE?, Illinois LET'S SEE, CHICAGO, WILLIAM AYERS, REV. WRIGHT AND THE OBAMMUNISTS? and all the Northeast SUPER IMPOSE THAT WITH WELFARE AND VIOLENCE DEMOGRAPHICS (NOT DEMOCRATS, WELL...). We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California I COULDN'T AGREE MORE.

To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches FINE, WE GET ALL THE OFFSHORE OIL RIGS THERE TOO! TRY SWIMMING IN YOUR OWN FECES AND MEDICAL WASTE. AS A MATTER OF FACT TRY GETTING A BEACH SPOT AFTER ALL THE HOMELESS HAVE SQUATTED YOU OUT (SEE SANTA MONICA). You get Sara Palin and Ralph Reed OH, YOU MEAN CHRISTIANS? THAT MEANS YOU GET SHARPTON, SINGER, AYERS, AND KENNEDY ALONG WITH EVERY OTHER SECULARIST - SOCIALIST. THAT ALWAYS WORKS.

We get the Statue of Liberty IT WAS FROM FRANCE, IRONIC EH?. You get the world's largest ball of twine ALONG WTIH THE MOST PRODUCTIVE LAND AND PEOPLE WHO THINK ITS OKAY FOR SOMETHING BESIDES LINDSAY LOHAN CHUCKING DOWN JACK DANIELS BY THE GALLON -- OH, I FORGOT, WE OWN KENTUCKY. We get Intel, Apple and Microsoft AND WE GET AMD, ACER, MSI, LINUX. YOU HAVE DELL-SUCKERS. You get WalMart YOU GET COST MORE. We get Harvard, WHERE BILL BUCKLEY FAMOUSLY SAID, "I'D RATHER BE GOVERNED BY THE FIRST 300 NAMES IN THE BOSTON PHONE BOOK THAN BY THE HARVARD ALUMNI" KEEP IT. You get Liberty University DON'T FORGET CLAIRMONT, PEPPERDINE, BYU, AND HUNDREDS OF OTHER INSTITUTIONS THAT DO AS GOOD OR BETTER. We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs AND AFTER YOU HAVE TAXED THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS OUT OF THEM, WE'LL HAVE THEM. You get Alabama YOU GET RHODE ISLAND. We get two-thirds of the tax revenue (BURDEN), you get to make the red states pay their fair share YOU ALSO GET 8/10'S OF THE REDISTRIBUTION BURDEN. RED STATES ARE ALSO WELFARE STATES. WITH OBAMA YOU WILL ALSO LOOSE ALL INCENTIVE TO INVEST WITH CAPITOL GAINS TAXES GOING THROUGH THE ROOF.

Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower SINCE GAYS CAN'T MARRY IN THE FIRST PLACE than the Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families (BACHELORS AND WELL...). You get a bunch of single moms COLLECTING ALIMONY FROM ALL YOUR GAY BACHELORS.

Please be aware that Nuevo California LIKE THE SPANISH LINGO. GET USED TO IT will be pro-choice MURDERED YOUR OWN CONSTITUENCY and anti-war FRANCE COULD KICK YOUR BUTTS, and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once UM, ABOUT 70% OF THOSE TROOPS WOULD MOVE TO THE RED STATES AND MOST OF THEM ARE FROM THERE TO BEGIN WITH. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals WHO WOULD GLADLY, AND DO. V.S. YOUR CODE PINK WHINERS? THEY COULDN'T DEFEND A STARBUCKS. They have kids they're apparently willing to send to their deaths for no purpose, and they don't care if you don't show pictures of their children's caskets coming home THAT'S JUST PLAIN ASSENINE. REMEMBER WHAT YOU DID IN SOMOLIA. We do wish you success in Iraq , and hope that the WMDs turn up READ THE FULL REPORT, THEY DID, but we're not willing to spend our resources in Bush's Quagmire OR THE FACT THAT WE HAVE NOT HAD ANOTHER TERRORIST ATTACK ON AMERICAN SOIL SINCE 911, AND INDEED FOILED THOUSANDS. THANKS FOR THE HELP.

With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent of the country's fresh water OH, LIKE THE COLORADO RIVER THAT FEEDS CALIPORNIA?, more than 90 percent of the pineapple and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation's fresh fruit, 95 percent of America's quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners), 90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry YOU MEAN CALL CENTERS. THE BUBBLE BURST UNDER CLINTON AND MOST TECH WENT OFFSHORE. WHAT YOU HAVE CAN EASILY BE REPLACED, most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal SORRY, THAT'S IN UTAH, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools, plus Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT ALL TOTALLY DEPENDENT ON GOVERNMENT CASH.

With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88 percent of all obese Americans YEAH, CRACK DOES TEND TO MAKE YOU SKINNY.(and their projected health care costs), 92 percent of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of the tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia THIS DISPARAGING THE SOUTH IS ONLY RECENT. BACK WHEN THEY WERE DEMOCRATS YOU GUYS WERE ALL FOR SEGREGATION, TURNED A BLIND EYE TO LYNCHINGS, AND BOB JONES WAS ONE OF YOUR BIGGEST SUPPORTERS (I LIVED IN GREENVILLE FOR A WHILE) THE REPUBLICANS DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH HIS DAMN SCHOOL. WHY THROW RUSH IN WITH THAT BUNCH? I DO AGREE THAT TELEVANGELISTS ARE COMITTING PRIESTCRAFT, BUT SO IS ALGORE.

We get Hollywood, Broadway, Big Sur SORRY, YOU'LL HAVE TO FIGHT US FOR THAT, AND SINCE WE HAVE ALL THE GUNS..., The Great Lakes and Yosemite, thank you.

Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale IT'S A FISH, MORON, AND THE STORY IS AN ALLEGORY. MANY BIBLE STORIES ARE ALLEGORICAL., 62 percent believe life is sacred unless we're discussing the death penalty or gun laws HAVE YOU ANY IDEA WHAT SOMEONE HAS TO DO -- COMMIT TO DO -- TO QUALIFY FOR THE DEATH PENALTY? WHAT DID YOU CHILDREN DO? WHO IS TWISTED ON THAT POINT. AND GUN LAWS, WHAT HAS THAT TO DO WITH LIFE BEING SACRED? I'LL TELL YOU: MY LIFE IS SACRED; MY FAMILY DEPENDS ON ME AND I WILL PROTECT THEM. IF SOME SCUMBAG SHOWS IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE THAT HE INTENDS TO TAKE MY LIFE OR HARM MY FAMILY, HIS LIFE HAS JUST BECOME FORFEIT. PERIOD. FURTHER, YOU CALL ME CRAZY FOR BELIEVING IN THE BIBLE AND YOU FALL FOR IDIOTS LIKE MARX, MAO, AND OBAMA? WHO'S THE DUNCE? THE PRINCIPLES TAUGHT IN THE BIBLE WORK. NOT SO MUCH THE SECULARISTS.,
44 percent say that evolution is only a theory UH, YEAH, LIKE DARWIN SAID, 53 percent that Saddam was involved in 9/11 AND YOU SAY BUSH WAS INVOLVED. WHO WOULD YOU BELIEVE, A MANIAC DICTATOR WHO MURDERS HIS OWN PEOPLE BY THE HUNDRED OF THOUSANDS AND PAID $27,000 TO EVERY FAMILY WHOSE CHILD STRAPPED A BOMB TO THEMSELVES AND MURDERED INNOCENT PEOPLE? OR THE FACT THAT HE SPENT TEN YEARS FLOUTING UN RESOLUTIONS AND INSPECTORS, WHILE TOSSING DISSIDENTS INTO PLASTIC SHREDDERS OR DRILLING HOLES INTO THEM. HIS INVOLVEMENT WAS TACIT. MOST HISTORIANS WILL AGREE THAT HE NEEDED TO BE TOPPLED. and 61 percent of you crazy bastards believe you are people with higher morals then we lefties KILLING YOUR OWN OFFSPRING DOES TEND TO FOOL US INTO THINKING SO. VERSES THE LEFT THAT BELIEVES THAT GLOBAL WARMING IS MAN CAUSED EVEN WHEN EVERY PLANET IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM IS WARMING. THEM ARE SOME FEROCIOUS COW FARTS, DUDE.

By the way, we're taking the good pot, too NOW YOU'RE GETTING TO YOUR POINT. You can have that dirt weed they grow in Mexico SORRY, WON'T BE NEEDING IT.



Peace out, Blue States OR, AT LEAST ENJOY WHAT PEACE YOU CAN. YOU'D BE SURPRISED WHAT COMES ALONG WHEN YOU HAVE YOUR PANTS AROUND YOUR ANKLES. PERHAPS YOU DO KNOW...

Just needs to be colorized and aired in NY

Wow. The writers of Leave it to Beaver would be shot today.
Kind of hard not to laugh...

That's the kind of message we need

What kind of parent would allow their 12 year old daughter out with that?
Then again, have you been to your local Jr. High lately?

Palin Hung in Effigy

Didn't Hitler's Brown Shirts do a lot of that with them pesky Jews?
Why isn't Oberman frothing at the mouth over that one?
Click on photo to read what Michelle Malkin has to say about this.

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