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"O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine! To fold a world in the embrace of God!"
With a looming dockworkers' strike that would force it to shutter its two container terminals, the Port of Houston Authority says it is working with Customs and Border Protection to arrange extended work hours in the days leading up to Dec. 30 so businesses can clear out cargo.
That day is when dockworkers represented by the International Longshoreman's Association could stop moving cargo carried in containers if union leadership and management do not reach a deal on a master contract covering 14,500 dockworkers at 14 East and Gulf Coast ports from Texas to Maine.
Prolonged strikes can have a significant economic impact as they disrupt the supply chain at all levels, although the Port Authority said it could not calculate the precise impact of a strike until after it occurs.
According to the National Retail Federation, a 10-day strike at West Coast ports in 2002 had a $1 billion per day economic impact.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________Signs are accumulating that re-election has aggravated an already serious ego problem for Barack Obama. His eulogy for Senator Daniel Inouye yesterday shocked even some people favorably inclined toward the president, for its focus not on the departed, but on Barack Obama himself. Emily Yoffe of Slate - far from a conservative outlet -- wrote with disgust:
Someone needs to tell Barack Obama-it must get particularly confusing this time of year-that his own birth is not Year One, the date around which all other events are understood. His much-noted, self-referential tic was on cringe-worthy display Friday when the president gave his eulogy for the late Sen. Daniel Inouye, who served in Congress for half a century representing Obama's birth state of Hawaii. (snip)
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/12/grotesque_obama_eulogy_for_sen_inouye.html#ixzz2FuAJ1q9z
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A global activist group is targeting two large hotel chains because they give discounts to members of the National Rifle Association.http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/22/Protestors-Target-Hotels-That-Give-Discounts-To-NRA-Members
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