free trade, or coerced trade, or whatever

So President Bush wants more trade with the middle east. Let's see if we buy more oil, they buy more weapons. That helps both the oil industry and the defense industry.

In other news, I'm figuring out things to buy with the windfall I'll get from the dividend interest and capital gains tax cuts. I wonder how many people won't be able to get food stamps because of the extra income this will provide.

I bet those returning astronauts were glad they were riding in a Russian capsule. After all, our programming error made the Mars lander into many little bits, the Russian programming error simply made for a wild ride. Maybe both countries should farm all their programming out to India, that seems to be the trend among American companies right now.