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1. about 6 years ago on Stone Soup Classics

   I see you are a Mafalda fan. Where I can get their comics online?

2. about 6 years ago on Baldo

   Flowers

3. about 6 years ago on Baldo

   You can make tea with the bougainvillea, it has worked for me for coughing some people use it as a garnished in salads.

4. about 6 years ago on Birdbrains

   Truly they are “huevos rancheros”

5. about 6 years ago on Baldo

   The correct spelling is hierbabuena (spearmint) in Mexico City the tea for cold is Manzanilla (chamomile) and in Michoacán is Bugambilia (Bougainvillea or paper flower) but the remedy across Hispanoamérica is Caldo de gallina, (farm chicken soup)

6. about 6 years ago on Stuart Carlson

   Unfortunately also tariffs do that. One of the things just few journalist brings up (both sides) is the fact that during the NAFTA negotiations most Mexicans opposed it, they argued that the Mexican industry was so destroyed (by tariffs) that they would never could stay competitive with US industry, same thinking was shared by farmers. Most regular, no immigrant Mexicans (I know, shocking, but not all Mexicans want to emigrate to the US) saw NAFTA as another imperialistic way to get 150 millions new customers for US goods in exchange of nothing. Keep in mind the profit made for a Ford that’s is made in Mexico, doesn’t stay in Mexico, that money gets back to Ford Company Bank, other example are US oil companies, they get cheap oils from Mexico and sell refined gasoline back to Mexico with the profits staying in the US.Economy is a beast that likes to be free, I do agree that it has to be kept in control and, in my humble opinion, based on different policies applied around the world, the government has to establish the rules, but it can’t be controlled with tariffs still, again I agree that shouldn’t let it roam free and unchecked with free trade. Economy doesn’t obey political thoughts is free and like water, finds its way around things. Yes, almost nobody would like to work in a factory for Shenzhen wages, but actually how many High Schoolers are dreaming to work in the line for a factory for 30 years. They want to be managers, designers, they want to be the boss, also the everyday items would increase in price drastically, now days, a set of knifes that you can get in any popular superstore chain would cost between $30 to maybe $200 dollars with a profit sometimes (for the wherehose of course sometimes of 50 to 100%, A USA made set of knifes cost $1,200 with a profit of 20 to 30% for the owner of the factory, so in order to level things we will have to budget for $1,200 Set of knives.

7. about 6 years ago on Stuart Carlson

   There was a country that had a stable economy, a strong middle class, then a demagoge president came over and said, let put tariffs to protect the national industry. Let us make our country a great one. That was Luis Echeverrya in Mexico’s 1960’s after the tariffs were imposed Mexican industry went down the drain, nobody wanted to work behind a machine for 8 straight hours they wanted to be supervisors or managers, after some years the mafias were born, corruption was widespread, and the Mexican economy, after 40 years of stability went down the drain and still is there. This is just one example, there are many historically around the world, in the long run tariffs create more damage than good to the global economy and we need to keep in mind that we live in the very same only planet.

8. about 6 years ago on Wizard of Id

   But ”I like a healthy breeze on me privates” (Brave)

9. about 6 years ago on Stone Soup

   In my case, I always have enjoyed when she asks questions, I found is the perfect opportunity to talk about something she is interested, I learned from her, her point of view, and she from mine.I always have been in the mood to answer questions, even after a terrible exhausting day, since she was able to talk. Now she is in her late teens; even also they can google the answer, we discuss the results and have fun finding which answers are biased, which ones are false and which ones have good sources.