AdamSmith

Regrettably I lack the price of entry. Ain't cheap to play at that level, and it's pay-to-play.

About what you'd expect. How it starts out... ...what it looks like by the time it gets to me:

P.S. Thanks also, MsGuy, for the general pointer to that web site/org, Circle of Blue.

Or, as that article says in a sidebar about the challenges facing the Nicaragua canal project... Lastly, marine environmental organizations warn that a sea-level canal would enable poisonous Pacific sea snakes to migrate into the Caribbean, threatening the region’s beach-based recreation and tourism industry.

Didn't you watch the video?! hito threw open his petticoats and saved the both of them.

Thank you! The most amazing bit to me was this: Contractors here and in the United States say that the expansion project also can be seen as a global model of astute construction management. The opening of the expanded canal is expected to cost under $US 6 billion, just 10 percent more than the original $US 5.25 billion price tag. Its commercial opening, now projected to occur in the spring of 2016, comes a year later than anticipated. In contrast, the construction of the $US 3 billion Olmsted Locks and Dam on the Ohio River, the largest inland navigation project in the United States, is more than $US 2 billion over budget and decades late in opening. Part of my consulting biz relates to the giant engineering/construction firms, and these cost and schedule overruns are just astoundingly small for a project of this scale.

That could work too.

I meant to compare our electorate today with our electorate back when, say, it willingly listened to Lincoln debate Douglas all afternoon. Not sure what brought in your comparison between us and other nations/nationalities?

Glancing at online coverage of her Senate confirmation hearing, saw one great tweet quoted: Joanne @sabzbrach Follow I don't know much about Loretta Lynch but it's a pleasure to see her dominate all these old white guys. 10:58 AM - 28 Jan 2015 http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2015/jan/28/loretta-lynch-republican-senate-confirmation-attorney-general

A reason to join Future Farmers of America!

Thinnin' on it, this says as much about today's electorate as it does about today's politicians. Just like, without the demand side, there would not be drug trade or sex work.

Sarah Palin channels her inner slam poet The Washington Post Sarah Palin, slam poet. Dim the lights and maybe light a candle on stage at the Iowa Freedom Summit, and Palin's rambling speech begins to make more sense. This was poetry, not politics, ya dig? It's what can happen when your teleprompter breaks and when any old word will do. Check these stanzas that we're gonna just call, "The Ballad of 2016": Things must change for our government. Look at it. It isnt too big to fail. Its too big to succeed! It's too big to succeed. So we can afford no retreads or nothing will change with the same people And same policies that got us into the status quo. Another Latin word. Status quo. And it stands for, Man, the middle-class, everyday Americans are really gettin taken for a ride. That's status quo. And GOP leaders, by the way, y'know, The man can only ride ya when your back is bent. So strengthen it. Then the man can't ride ya. America won't be taken for a ride. Because so much is at stake and We can't afford politicians playing games like nothing more is at stake than. Oh. Maybe just the next standing of theirs. In the next election. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/01/27/sarah-palin-channels-her-inner-slam-poet/?tid=pm_politics_pop

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/hillary-clinton-2016-elections-114586.html?ml=po

Daily Show: Sarah Palin's Iowa Speech Was Actual Goddamn Gibberish ...at some point, as Jon Stewart put it, "her subjects stopping talking to her verbs." Some samples: - "Our government, it isn't too big to fail. It's too big to succeed. It's too big to succeeds, so we can afford no retreads. Or the same people and the same policies that got us into the status quo — another Latin word, status quo, and it stands for, 'Man, middle-class every-day Americans are really gettin' taken for a ride." - "And GOP leaders, by the way — the Man can only ride ya when your back is bent. So strengthen it! Then the man can't ride ya. America won't be taken for a ride, because so much is at stake, and we can't afford politicians playing games like nothing more is at stake than, oh, myabe just the next standing of theirs in the next election." - "What will they do to stop causing our pain and start feeling it again? Well, in other words, um, is Hillary a new Democrat or an old one? Now, the press asks, the press asks, 'Can anyone stop Hillary?' Again, this is to forego a conclusion, right? It's to scare us off, to convince us that — a pantsuit can crush patriots." The cause of all this, er, spirited improvisation was an evident teleprompter malfunction mid-speech. Understandable, sure, but you'd think a woman who's delivered so many folksy-aphorism-laden stump speeches might have one or two memorized by now? Especially for an audience like the Freedom Summit's, where all they really wanted was to hear the President called "lawless," the government referred to as "Big Government" and "those fat-cats in Washington," and small-town Americans hailed as heroes. See? Even I can do it.

On Saturday evening following Palin's speech, the DNC issued a short statement responding to her speech. "Thank you!" DNC Communications Director Mo Elleithee said in the statement. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/sarah-palin-iowa-speech-dnc

Could you substitute Lee from Transylvania?

"He was a hard man to dislike, but worth the effort." Simon R. Green, Tales from the Nightside

Apparently her TelePrompter broke. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/sarah-palin-dishes-bizarre-improvised-rant-iowa-article-1.2091124

Sarah Palin bemuses Republicans with rambling speech and talk of 2016 run The former governor of Alaska delivered a meandering and often bizarre speech to key Republicans that left many doubting her political viability Iowa Republicans voiced scepticism on Monday over Sarah Palin's claim to be contemplating a campaign for president in 2016, amid criticism of her unusual speech to a conservative rally in the state... ...Nicolle Wallace, the former aide to George W Bush who struggled to control Palin while charged with overseeing her for the presidential campaign of Senator John McCain in 2008, said the speech had given the public a true picture of the former governor. "This is who she is," Wallace told MSNBC on Monday morning. "This, to me, is evidence that she has finally shed every last one of those 'annoying' handlers." Neutral observers with experience of covering her were also left bemused. "I don't say this lightly," said Scott Conroy, the co-author of a book about Palin's involvement in the 2008 presidential campaign. "This is the strangest speech I've ever seen Sarah Palin deliver." http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/26/sarah-palin-republicans-rambling-speech-2016-run

Lost WHAT?