NAFTA 2

Are you aware of the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas?

I think it is a very bad thing. I think NAFTA was one of the worst things to happen to our nation and continent ever.

Here's some anti-business propaganda:
http://www.globalexchange.org/ftaa/topten.html


Did you know that under NAFTA, you can be sued by a foreign company for damages, if you do anything that costs it money? Liek, if it is dumping toxic waste on some nearby land, and you stop them, they can sue you to compensate them for the loss of the land? Or if you convince your government that their products are harmful and get them banned when scientific evidence is less than conclusive, they can sue you for loss of revenue?

HBD

Happy birthday kricker!

I hope you've got something nice planned.

Mondale/Wellstone

Before the funeral, Mondale had an eight point lead. He lost by two, I think. Apparently the tackiness of the funeral turned the voters against the Democrats. There are different ways of looking at this. You could say that propriety is important to Minnesotans. You could also say that issues are unimportant to Minnesotans. I think it was more a matter of the funeral being the excuse that conservatives used to justify their voting against popular opinion.

fridge

Sometimes people joke about finding things in their refrigerators, that they can't identify. Sometimes they're not joking. I've never had that problem, aside from not having much in my fridge in the first place, I don't let things hang around. I eat it or throw it away when it becomes cleat that I won't be eating it.

Tonight, I found something that I couldn't identify. They were inside the butter compartment. (I don't keep butter in there so I never look.) My first impression was that they were two shriveled seed pods, from the garden. My second thought was that they were some kind of fruit or vegetable. My third guess was a mummy's toes. They were very shriveled and extremely hard. I don't eat fruit, which explains why it would have been left, but that also means I wouldn't have bought it in the first place.

The world may never know.

breakin' my mind

One day last winter, the gas station/mini mart across the street put "53 days until spring" on their sign, and changed the number every day. We had a very warm winter. A few days after the message was changed to "spring is here!" it turned really cold.

Tonight, the sign reads, "only 48 shopping days till Christmas."

Why on earth would the mini mart be telling us that? Ooh, I'd better stock up on candy bars!