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A record 62 cargo ships are waiting to dock at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

California’s traffic jams are legendary, but this is one for the books.

A record 62 cargo ships are waiting to dock at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and are stuck floating off the coast amid a serious supply chain crunch that could mean fewer toys under the Christmas tree this year.

The problem reflects a combination of growing cargo volumes, a labor shortage and COVID-related safety measures that slow the handling of each ship. About one-third of all imports into the U.S. pass through the ports each year.

The Port of Long Beach has broken monthly records for how much cargo has passed through for 12 of the last 13 months, with 32 percent more cargo processed this year than in 2020, according to the trade publication Supply Chain Dive. Backups at the port as cargo ships wait for berths have been common all year, and have only grown as the peak fall shipping season arrived.

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    • Interesting reply.

      In the political sense, Napoleon did pass away young. Look how long the current reign of the Sovereign of England, Great Britain, the Common Wealth, Australia, and Canada has lasted. 

       Napoleon died at a then ripe 51 years. Politically, his siezure of French government ranged from 1799 to 1815. A scant sixteen years for an empire, I'd say. And in that decade and a half, he was deposed, and made a brief comeback only to be rejected the last time. Napoleon is prolific in managing two bites of the apple. Still, this is not a rip-roaring success to me. Alexanders ambitions clearly outstripped his actual ability to follow them to conclusion. No Macedonian "One-World". But the Worlds conditions did not actively create the mandate for the charismatics to act. Their will did. They defined the process by their persuasive intentions in seizing passively-existing opportunity. None of the efforts were without risk, therefore the success or lack of it did not define them as leaders, or all lost causes then must be leaderless. (?)

      Charismatics definitonally inspire and direct their movements by the mandate virtue of personal popularity (Julius Ceasar being the classic example). They are aggressive opportunists! My point is that like a whizzing fireworks rocket, they quickly ascend with great attention, but then after briefly achieving their brilliant apex, typically fizzle out and fall. Of course Wilson and FDR used charisma to effect accelerated change, with some unfortunate accompanying outcomes. They were unabashed Progressives! But yes, Trumans nuclear actions were based in pragmatism of waging war with a sincerely zealous adversary. The US Marine Corp after Iwo Jima, would tell you that, in a respect-gained experience with the Japanese enemy.

      As for election outcomes being virtuous or corrupted by fraud schemes, whether they actually were or not, honestly does not signify to the Constitutional expectation that they were and are to be, in their functional purpose. It means something to us, the citizenry, who expects them to be, to insist they be so with our participation.

    • Laurel, I did too, mlopez is simply one of the leftist puppets trying to dishearten "We the People."

       

    • Yep,. .   when one can't find the words to battle the truth,  try to baffle with Bull_hit. . . .  Just like the Democrats, Blame others for what you yourself are guilty of. .  Just ask Hillaey !

       

    • America is a "Republic",  with a Democratic style of governance.  And you are right, there appears to be no pupose . . .

       

  • Privately, I am thrilled that foreign made goods that killed off Amerian jobs cannot make it to shore. 

    Optimistically, I hope the self evidence of buying produced American goods by Americans isn't an extravegance, but a necessity if you want a sovereign country to live in.

    Pragmatically, we are not in a place where we should and would be with a second term Donald Trump, to begin rebuildng our manufacturing base.

    This sucks and is being done by plan, to us.

  • Where and when I grew up, "Rapist, Child Molesters/Abusers, Peeping Toms and Theives" were taken care of by the Newborn old Families. If kids showed up at school with bruises, the male teachers and coaches would visit the home and the bruising stopped. Kids played outside, everywhere, Sun-up to Sun down and doors were never locked. Vandalism, truancy and excess fighting would bring One to Reform School. People felt it their "Civic Duty" to drive sometimes 30+ miles in the rain to Vote. To attend every "Parent Teacher Association" meeting, and Scheduled Report Card Conference. Children who failed to pass their "Tests" were Held Back a Grade until they Passed their Exams. "Birth Control" was if a Boy got a Girl Pregnant, They Got Married! No exceptions. Both quit Scholl. He got a Job and They raised Baby! Fear! Best Birth Control! Get a Traffic Ticket, Pay the Fine and/or "Go To Jail!" Fix/Repair/Tune/Paint your own Cars. Work Odd Jobs beginning around age 11. Ride your Bike to the Saturday Matinee Five Miles, spend a Quarter for a Movie/Serial, Three Cartoons, Popcorn and a  Soda. Everyone had BB Guns and Slingshot and Camped without adults in the woods away from the homes on Summer Nights. Boys fought, blackened each others eyes and no Parents ever went to Court. Bullies were tamed by Groups of other Kids. No Kids ever received Psychological Counseling. Corporeal Punishment was Authorized and Condoned by the Schools and Parents. At this time, this area was the "World's Largest Lumber Shipping Port." Now all these many decades later, it is all but a Ghost Town due to Governmental Intrusions in Timber, Commercial Fishing, Schools, Social Parenting Processes, Catch and Release Criminal Prosecution, Lowering of Education Standards, Removal of Corporeal Punishment at both Home and Schools, Raising of Age at which Children can earn extra monies. Basically the same cancerous effect that overcame All of America.

    Lynn Bryant DeSpain

     

    • Moral decadence planned for and implemented by the 'Socialist International' and its agents... Nikita Khrushchev, in the Mid-Fifties, while speaking in the UN clearly said to my parents.. we will bury you from within, without firing a shot, your children's, children, will be communist.  It appears that Nikita knew what he was talking about.

      Here is another famous quote from Nikita Khrushchev that clearly applies today:

      "You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won't have to fight you. We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands."

      Nikita knew where America's soft underbelly lay and he focused on corrupting our culture and stripping the US of its primary source of wealth... its heavy and light industry.

    • Yeah, we grew up together. When's our Reunion?

    • If we have over 10 people we will not be able to meet for a reunion indoors...  250 or more are prohibited by executive order and in all events, one must maintain 6 feet separation... I gues we could meet at the local football stadium if we wear masks and don't become so disoriented that we drift closer than 6 ft.  No handshaking, hugging, singing, dancing is problematic due to separation problems, and forget a food bar... bring your own food and drink... no sharing. Let's see I must have forgotten something... Oh, vaccine passports are required.  Just kidding... 

    • In your previous post you stated and I as well in my research find: Presidential Executive Orders are not Laws, and they only apply to the Federal Government and current active Contractors!

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