For me it will be oranges - big juicy oranges with the kind of peels that come off in one piece -(that's what |I'll miss the most). But I'm prepared to b... moreFor me it will be oranges - big juicy oranges with the kind of peels that come off in one piece -(that's what |I'll miss the most). But I'm prepared to bite the bullet and eat black berries to help win the Trade war. Cheers and happy weekend!
I am interested in the news this morning that around the world there is anger and disgust about Trumps plan to impose tariffs on imports... Personally, and hold the front page... moreI am interested in the news this morning that around the world there is anger and disgust about Trumps plan to impose tariffs on imports... Personally, and hold the front page here, I actually agree that any and every country should protect and support their own businesses and therefore their own jobs and populace.. I am a Brexiter remember so for me it wasn't about immigration. My purpose isn't to discuss that, just the trade implications.. .So Canada is miffed, and France is, and the Brits are making grumbling noises etc.. and some of them are threatening retaliation... which they are saying could spark the beginnings of a trade war; i.e. where countries start imposing heavy tariffs on goods imported from America to their country....I talk to a lot of Americans and I have noted that some of them express quite frequently that America doesn't need the rest of the world and they tend to be quite dismissive about it,feeling America is the best and they are utterly superior.. I guess we can a... less
Bebe Rebozo, a self-made Florida millionaire who met Richard M. Nixon in 1950 and became his longtime friend, died on Friday night at Baptist Hospital in Miami. He was 85 years old... moreBebe Rebozo, a self-made Florida millionaire who met Richard M. Nixon in 1950 and became his longtime friend, died on Friday night at Baptist Hospital in Miami. He was 85 years old, born two months before Nixon, the man who became the 37th President of the United States.
The Rebozo-Nixon relationship flourished on a shared history of hard-scrabble beginnings in the Depression -- one man's in Florida, the other's in California -- and innate reserve. Over more than four decades, through Nixon's triumphs and disasters -- Mr. Rebozo remained the quiet, loyal friend, never questioning and never judging Nixon's actions.
In 1960, Mr. Rebozo was the only outsider in Nixon's suite at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles where Nixon learned he had lost the Presidential election to John F. Kennedy.
Mr. Rebozo later paid a price for his friendship: years of intrusive examinations of his private and professional life by Senate and Federal investigators of the Watergate affair that led to Nixon's resignation in disgrace, a mic... less
