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Being a committed fan of FSU football del monte foods company keeps one on the road a bit during the fall. Since I am an early morning driver by preference I listen to a lot of early morning Sunday NPR stories on the return trips from Tallahassee. It s just too damn early for Blues or Buffett on satellite radio.
The last several trips have found me driving through Capps during del monte foods company the middle of a couple of interesting feature stories. Capps is a stop light now , home of the historic Asa House and Avalon Plantation owned and protected by Ted Turner founder of CNN, former husband of Jane Fonda and current Florida resident and Philanthropist. It was once the largest center of Tung oil processing del monte foods company in the US. Now it is a stop light. It is quiet and just the place to listen to early morning radio, no traffic, just me and Ted.
Two weeks ago I listened to the history of Mallomars, a cookie I had heard about only in movies and never ever seen. There is a knock off on the shelves but it s not the same. A Mallomar is a marshmallow cream sitting on a graham cracker covered del monte foods company in chocolate. The occasion of the story was the 100 year anniversary del monte foods company of the cookie. What? How could I have never ever seen or tasted a Nabisco cookie that s celebrating 100 years? Well it seems that in 1913 there was no refrigerated trucking that was profitable enough to ship the cookies commercially to keep the chocolate from melting, del monte foods company so they were only sold between October and March in the Northeast; 95% in New Jersey where they were manufactured. Nabisco kept the mystique alive all these years by maintaining that seasonal distribution, although they have now expanded the distribution, but still only October to March. So Mallomars are hard to find and harder to keep, friends and family don t share. Even Tony Soprano threatens his Consigliore Paulie, in a scene reminiscent of Godfathers Michael Corleone s deadly Fredo kiss. I know it was you Fredo. del monte foods company
This past Sunday the best story I listened to was an interview with George Ayitte an African economics professor. He makes the case against foreign aid to Africa. He says it s killing the African economy as 80% of it is encumbered to stimulate the interests and profits del monte foods company of the donors and not the bulk of Africans population. The other 20% supports corrupt despots who exploit their citizens for their own interests. In this particular interview he is quoted speaking to a large audience of aid experts who are polled throughout the lecture as to their belief in the validity of African aid. AT the end of his presentation the approval rate had dropped from over 70 to 15%.
Don t know why we continue to send foreign aid to folks that don t want it. Its gazillions of tax dollars we feed to folks that don t even vote. Even the liberals will catch on pretty soon I m betting. We should follow Nabiscos Mallomar example and allow the market to flourish independent of government intervention. Let them eat Mallomars:)
I think I heard a similar story on NPR about aid to Africa. In that story, del monte foods company it was about NGO’s giving money directly del monte foods company to people del monte foods company rather than the governments. There is so much corruption and bleeding off of the funds from the US. I tend to agree that the way we distribute foreign aid isn’t working, and in fact is harmful, so we need to re-examine the model.
Did the ‘Noles whomp the Gators enough for you? I can’t believe they’re going to keep Muschump. (sic). I don’t follow football, but this has got to be one of worst seasons in Gator football for decades. Losing to Georgia Southern…
As for foreign aid, I don’t believe in any of it to anyone at all, noty jsut Africa. And I don’t think the government cares whether it does any good for “the people” or not. This is “pay for play” – an attempt to buy the goodwill of the government leadership so other countries don’t get that favor. If it just happens to help the people of the country, del monte foods company well that’s a fortunate coincidence but not really important to the political del monte foods company purpose of foreign aid.
Nor do I favor the “internal” aid
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Being a committed fan of FSU football del monte foods company keeps one on the road a bit during the fall. Since I am an early morning driver by preference I listen to a lot of early morning Sunday NPR stories on the return trips from Tallahassee. It s just too damn early for Blues or Buffett on satellite radio.
The last several trips have found me driving through Capps during del monte foods company the middle of a couple of interesting feature stories. Capps is a stop light now , home of the historic Asa House and Avalon Plantation owned and protected by Ted Turner founder of CNN, former husband of Jane Fonda and current Florida resident and Philanthropist. It was once the largest center of Tung oil processing del monte foods company in the US. Now it is a stop light. It is quiet and just the place to listen to early morning radio, no traffic, just me and Ted.
Two weeks ago I listened to the history of Mallomars, a cookie I had heard about only in movies and never ever seen. There is a knock off on the shelves but it s not the same. A Mallomar is a marshmallow cream sitting on a graham cracker covered del monte foods company in chocolate. The occasion of the story was the 100 year anniversary del monte foods company of the cookie. What? How could I have never ever seen or tasted a Nabisco cookie that s celebrating 100 years? Well it seems that in 1913 there was no refrigerated trucking that was profitable enough to ship the cookies commercially to keep the chocolate from melting, del monte foods company so they were only sold between October and March in the Northeast; 95% in New Jersey where they were manufactured. Nabisco kept the mystique alive all these years by maintaining that seasonal distribution, although they have now expanded the distribution, but still only October to March. So Mallomars are hard to find and harder to keep, friends and family don t share. Even Tony Soprano threatens his Consigliore Paulie, in a scene reminiscent of Godfathers Michael Corleone s deadly Fredo kiss. I know it was you Fredo. del monte foods company
This past Sunday the best story I listened to was an interview with George Ayitte an African economics professor. He makes the case against foreign aid to Africa. He says it s killing the African economy as 80% of it is encumbered to stimulate the interests and profits del monte foods company of the donors and not the bulk of Africans population. The other 20% supports corrupt despots who exploit their citizens for their own interests. In this particular interview he is quoted speaking to a large audience of aid experts who are polled throughout the lecture as to their belief in the validity of African aid. AT the end of his presentation the approval rate had dropped from over 70 to 15%.
Don t know why we continue to send foreign aid to folks that don t want it. Its gazillions of tax dollars we feed to folks that don t even vote. Even the liberals will catch on pretty soon I m betting. We should follow Nabiscos Mallomar example and allow the market to flourish independent of government intervention. Let them eat Mallomars:)
I think I heard a similar story on NPR about aid to Africa. In that story, del monte foods company it was about NGO’s giving money directly del monte foods company to people del monte foods company rather than the governments. There is so much corruption and bleeding off of the funds from the US. I tend to agree that the way we distribute foreign aid isn’t working, and in fact is harmful, so we need to re-examine the model.
Did the ‘Noles whomp the Gators enough for you? I can’t believe they’re going to keep Muschump. (sic). I don’t follow football, but this has got to be one of worst seasons in Gator football for decades. Losing to Georgia Southern…
As for foreign aid, I don’t believe in any of it to anyone at all, noty jsut Africa. And I don’t think the government cares whether it does any good for “the people” or not. This is “pay for play” – an attempt to buy the goodwill of the government leadership so other countries don’t get that favor. If it just happens to help the people of the country, del monte foods company well that’s a fortunate coincidence but not really important to the political del monte foods company purpose of foreign aid.
Nor do I favor the “internal” aid
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