tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post7681497372031838104..comments2023-10-09T05:28:35.705-07:00Comments on Creekside: Orange Alert! Orange Alert! now with shiny things!Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811694143714068436noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-57974059545738932812010-01-15T15:53:32.313-08:002010-01-15T15:53:32.313-08:00It's times like this i start to feel old. I...It's times like this i start to feel old. I'm pretty sure Dief the Chief said a 30% trade with the U.S. was an excessive dependency back in the 1950's. Of course, in those days we had a tariff wall and subsidies designed to keep east-west movement of freight competitive with the costs of the much shorter north-south routes : the only way to preserve an internal Canadian distribution system.<br />NAFTA just lets us bleed to death.opithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01621946866211400380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-43937058432619426612010-01-14T10:55:40.112-08:002010-01-14T10:55:40.112-08:00If the US is going to have our border as an on-aga...If the US is going to have our border as an on-again off-again thing perhaps it is time to look at the 2nd option for trade.<br /><br />See what the EU wants, maybe some more with Japan/China - we already are working on 'free trade' agreements with some S. American countries ... get serious about increasing trade with them.<br /><br />Wadda we do, 90% of our trade is with the US - that is unhealthy anyway.croghan27noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-16778298167496365052010-01-13T16:28:05.656-08:002010-01-13T16:28:05.656-08:00Those shiny things from Chertoff's company wit...Those shiny things from Chertoff's company with a $150,000 to $180,000 price tag preordered without knowing they will work...when hand held units the Chinese use cost $20,000?<br />I feel safer already.<br />Homeland (In)Security and graft are transnational in scope.opithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01621946866211400380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-90204335894832227052010-01-13T07:40:40.773-08:002010-01-13T07:40:40.773-08:00Shiny scanners won't find anal bombs either. ...Shiny scanners won't find <a href="http://www.straight.com/article-279538/vancouver/gwynne-dyer-common-sense-should-trump-symbolic-security-measures" rel="nofollow">anal bombs</a> either. It'll be interesting to see what happens with airport security the first time someone blows a hole (or tries to) in a plane with one of those.Borishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00952672409601421466noreply@blogger.com