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Wednesday   April 18   2001

I'm showing Ralph how blogs work. He needs to do his own!

11:22 AM - link

I'm with computer again. Eight days ago my trusty old Pentium came down with Advanced Dementia. It's memory went somewhere. Somewhere I know not. Since I am a freelance web designer this was of great concern. Maria came to the rescue with a loaner for a few days and Ralph Mundell finished building an already ordered computer early so that my life could resume. We get by with a little help from our friends.

It's been two days of loading software and recovering the data of the old hard drives. I'm finally back to normal except that normal is a whole lot faster now. I've gone from a 100Mhz Pentium to a 1.1Ghz Athlon. Whoo boy! Rock 'n roll!

Most everything is in it's place and I'm ready for TestingTesting tonight. It will be David Ossman of Firesign Theater fame reading his new poetry.

12:47 PM - link

Sovereign Corporations
California banned a methanol-based gasoline additive, MTBE, after the EPA reported potential cancer risks and at least 10,000 groundwater sites were found polluted by the substance. Methanex of Vancouver, British Columbia, the world's largest methanol producer, filed a $970 million claim against the United States. If the NAFTA panel rules for the company, many similar complaints are expected, since at least ten other states followed California's lead. The federal government would have to pay the awards. California State Senator Sheila Kuehl and others have asked the US Trade Representative to explain how this squares with a state's sovereign right to protect health and the environment.

The bushies (corporate america) are busy reducing the size of government. Are they doing this to get government off the backs of the people? How altruistic. Not! They are doing it to get government off the backs of the corporations. To replace rule of the people with rule of the shareholder. Government of the corporation, by the corporation, for the corporation.

Goodby health. Goodby environment.

Thanks to wood s lot

11:08 AM - link