How do you feel about chain mail ?
Posted on 02/01/2011 1:25:36 PM PST by Vendome
A physics teacher in high school once told the students that while one grasshopper on the railroad tracks wouldn't slow a train very much, a billion of them would. With that thought in mind, read the following, obviously written by a good American.
Good idea .... one light bulb at a time ....
But Florida sugar farmers thought ....
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There’s the problem ... now the jobs are in Mexico and the Florida EPA has shut down the sugar plantations (paid a LOT of money to them for the land too...) ,, now we have no income from the farming , and no related jobs and we have instigated the movement of thousands (or more) jobs out of the country..
Vendome,
Completely off topic but in Los Angeles, there’s a Vendome St. Nothing unusual about that, but this street is somewhat famous because located on this street, about 1/8 of a mile south of Sunset Blvd., are the famous “Music Box Steps”, which were depicted in a 1932 Laurel and Hardy film, where they attempt to lug a giant crate, containing a piano, up a long flight of stairs.
The stairs and the house to the right of the stairs are still there. I happened to be there a few days ago, and climbed the 134 steps to the top.
The exact address is 923-937 Vendome St.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWm0nXJYLmk
>> Let’s get with the program. Help our fellow Americans keep their jobs and create more jobs here in the U.S.A.
Does that include supporting the Socialists, Leftists, Liberals, and RINOs that hate your guts and the Constitution?
Still a good idea.
There must have also been a sale on large fonts.
They were out of season and when I combined them with coupons....
What a deal!
“I Passed this on”
Anytime you see this, don’t
I knew there was a Vendome Street in LA and a friend had said something about a movie. (I wasn’t listening to him as he is a huge Hollywood buff and never shuts up about the place. great person to know for getting into parties though. He knows everyone).
I took my handle from Place Vendome, Paris, France. There you will find Cartier, Bulgari, The Ritz and the Intercontinental Hotel. Love all those places.
Right in the middle is a spire made from cannons captured by Napolean and a statue of himself upon it.
Yea, I remember when Wal-Mart opened; one of Sam’s goals was to ‘sell American.’ Now, however, they seem to be the Chnese Trade Mission, He (Old Sam) must be spinning in his grave.
I too look for “Made in USA,” but it is harder and harder to find.
They colorized it!
I know. Ain’t it great?
No, years ago I saw it growing in St. Lucia and Martinique.
At the end of the 17th century, other European nations succeeded in establishing cocoa production in regions conducive to its cultivation throughout the Caribbean and South America: Curacao (Holland), Jamaica (Great Britain), Martinique and St Lucia, the Dominican Republic (known as Hispaniola in the 17th century), Brazil (Portugal), Guyana and Grenada (France).
During the 19th century, increasing demand for cocoa led to its introduction in Africa, including Principe, Sao Tome, Fernando Po, Nigeria and Ghana. Between 1925 and 1939, African production expanded to Cameroon, concurrent with its colonization.
Trinitario cocoa was also introduced to Sri Lanka (Ceylan) for the first time in 1834, then reintroduced in 1880. Subsequently, Cocoa was planted in Singapore, the Fijian and Samoan Islands, Tanzania, Madagascar and Java.
2 things:
1) When someone says they can verify something because they say they did it, it is not verification. It is possible that everything at Lowes is Chinese and everything at Ace is made in America in John Madden’s guestroom. But it is not verified.
2) If you are trying to come off as factual, why would you say you were in a store “for some reason?” Whats wrong with saying you were there for a hammer? Or just saying you were there?
Like to shout, do you?
It is funny that if you expand out the ramifications of protecting an industry, you find that the industry will eventually be killed.
All the farmers loved ethanol, because the price of corn was inflated to re-reach the equilibrium (more demand, same supply, higher price). Great for them short term. But, with higher US corn prices, companies using corn syrup will go elsewhere, like South America. Then, you have high prices and low demand, which is a terrible combination. Also, with the higher prices, poultry and cow farmers would either have to raise their price to the end customer, or switch to grass or other feeds, which will hurt corn growers.
I think, from what Ive seen, that if you want to protect a sector of the market, you better be ready to protect the entire economy. Having free trade while forcing import tarrifs on certain sectors will lead those sectors away from the country.
As Rush Limbaugh pointed out, how much protectionism would be required to ensure that the United States still has a ‘buggy whip’ industry?
If it is cheaper to grow sugar in Cuba and Haiti than Florida, Florida needs to suck it up and get out of the sugar business, not get taxpayer money to grow insanely expensive sugar that you force US candy companies to buy, until they move out of the USA.
Nope. Not into chain letters.
How do you feel about chain mail ?
Can't argue with chain mail; much more flexible than coats of armor.
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