Woohoo!

[BlankTim]

Looks like I picked the wrong time to move away from home.
An article from the Yankton SD paper on a deal a Nebraska State Senator cooked up to "trade" good 'ole Nebraska corn for Cuban Tobacco.

http://www.yankton.net/stories/011206/news_20060112005.shtml

No way the feds would let anything come of a deal like this I'm sure, BUT if this goes through, ex-wife be dammed. I'm moving back home.

Nah, It's only 8 hours to Lincoln. I'll just go once a month. :sign:

 

[Mr Peat]

If that passes, which it won't but by some freak of nature, I know where I will be living at again for awhile. Being from Nebraska, I can see the crap storm already. :laugh:

 

[smokinbolt]

My grandparents still live in Lincoln. I hope it works.

 

[AVB]

Look at the date. Jan 12, 2006

 

[BlankTim]

D'oh! I totally missed that in my excitement

 

[grateful1]

If that passes, which it won't but by some freak of nature, I know where I will be living at again for awhile. Being from Nebraska, I can see the crap storm already. :laugh:

It be suprised if it doesn't pass. Gov't trade with Cuba has been going on for a few years. Mainly food itesm...tobacco...this will be interesting.

Linky
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excerpt:
After decades of barring food shipments to Cuba under the embargo, the 2000 Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act authorized the sale of agricultural products to the island. Since then annual food and agricultural product sales to Cuba have soared from a modest $4.3 million in 2001 to $350 million last year.

And there has been a steady stream of trade missions and business and fact-finding trips by U.S. executives and politicians. In a slide presentation to a Congressional delegation that visited in December, Alimport said the country had made contact with more than 4,000 companies from 45 states, signed deals with 162 firms and received 815 shipments from the United States since 2001.

Among the most active in forging ties has been Alabama Agricultural Commissioner Ron Sparks. ''Right after my election of 2002, I flew to Washington to sit down with the [Cuban] Interests Section,'' Sparks said, referring to the entity that takes the place of an embassy in the absence of diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States


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Nebraska still in the hunt for trade(2007):

Linky

 

[billytpage]

Wow, I'm starting to think Kansas might be in the middle of somewhere soon!

Billy