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Good morning, Fran. You are the early bird this morning! I saw that CNN headline yesterday about today's Swiss vote (which is SUPER important)...something like: "Swiss to vote on cheaper labor"...and I thought they had been paid off by the SVP (the Nationalist, hard-right, anti-immigrant party...among other things). It is not about cheap labor, its about the right of movement of EU members and the Swiss, (and even more about the Swiss aligning to the EU more, though not about joining).

Also, yesterday was gorgeous here, and got to see the Swiss juvenile (age 8-12) baseball championship yesterday, between Wittenbach Vikings and the Thur Hunters, won by the Vikings 5-2. Great game...and fun for an American to see the Swiss picking up baseball as a sport. Then went and saw the Cirque d'Soleil in Zurich, ("Dralion") which was styled after the chinese acrobatic show...lots of fun!

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia

by whataboutbob on Sun Sep 25th, 2005 at 03:40:12 AM EST
Sounds like you had a great day yesterday. The Cirque d'Soleil is supposed to be very beautiful, it is on my to-do list for one of these days. I didn't know there was a Swiss juvenile baseball championship, must have been fun.

Well, we will soon see how the vote goes. I voted yes, but very half-heartedly, but voting no would have felt the same way. I have been even considering handing in an empty ballot, to show that I am not happy with both solution but still am doing my civic duties, as far as I know they are also counted but not published.

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Sep 25th, 2005 at 03:52:41 AM EST
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