I love the little bits of trivia in these posts. Imagine going to school with the step-daughter of Napoleon! If only these ghosts could talk.

Karl, from the news reports I hear, I think you are among a majority of Americans, these days. Funny. For decades, financial experts and commentators wailed that Americans spent too much -- saved too little. Now they're wailing that we are spending too little. They need to make up their alleged minds. Jeri

I understand monsanto and the farm bureau have many joint adventures mostly the funding from monsanto to the bureaus for either scholarships or research type scholarships, For me what I interpet ( which I hope is wrong) is Monsanto in effect is getting the bureau to sort say yeah we are 100% supportive of what monsanto is all about. It just gets confusing when the corp world and politics seem to be more a revolving door. But thank you for speaking about Martha and giving me some insight, should be more interesting now!

I wasn't able to attend due to working on the rose show, but I'll see if I can shake loose any info.