![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/DSC0168-300x199.jpg\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
I\u2019m bored up to my eyebrows with Doc Falsies and his ilk, and the squabbles going on in Congress. Cut their salaries in half, tell them they have to get polio shots or something \u2013 oh! and how about inferring that the Plague (which one?) is going to be next?? Hey, if puglosi really retires, will the House of Reps stop acting like a bunch of little kids?<\/p>\n
As we move along, mostly ignoring the governmental mandates and creating our own, we should be aware of the ridiculous fustercluck going on that is keeping goods off store shelves right now. It is not people hoarding stuff that is emptying store shelves. There is no cargo to replace stuff on its way.<\/p>\n
According to this NR article, \u00a0https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/line-of-ships-waiting-at-la-long-beach-at-all-time-high\/<\/a><\/p>\n Per the article:\u00a0 FreightWaves also notes that the total amount of cargo waiting offshore is 815,958 TEU (20-foot equivalent units<\/a>). That\u2019s more than the combined amount of imports for Los Angeles and Long Beach for the entire month of November, the story says.<\/p>\n As of Friday, the story says there were also nine ships waiting at Oakland, four waiting at Seattle\/Tacoma, five waiting at Houston, two waiting at Savannah, six waiting at Charleston, four waiting at Virginia, and eleven waiting at New York\/New Jersey. That\u2019s a total of 146 container ships waiting for berths at major U.S. ports.<\/p>\n On December 22<\/a>, President Biden tried to take a victory lap on supply chains. With this many ships waiting offshore, he should not have done so. It\u2019s troubling that the number of ships is reaching a record-high at this time of year. \u2013 article<\/p>\n Yeah, he can brag all he wants to but his perception of reality is badly out of whack. Here\u2019s the reason for that.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a reason for concerns about this overload at docking points: one container ship had been doing zigzag patterns way offshore in rough Pacific waters, while waiting for an opportunity to come into port. Caught in heavy seas many leagues offshore, a considerable portion of its container cargo went overboard to the Pacific floor and is down there with Davy Jones, providing amusement to the fish in the vicinity.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.kuow.org\/stories\/burned-out-cargo-ship-makes-it-to-port-105-of-its-shipping-containers-don-t<\/a><\/p>\n From the article: Before the ship lost its containers, satellite tracking data reveals it had been zigzagging slowly in a holding pattern for about 20 hours on the open Pacific. Heavy seas from a major storm tilted the 850-foot vessel 35 degrees and sent containers tumbling from their tall stacks.<\/p>\n