exactly MZ .... we ARE at the mercy of the people pulling the strings..... very frustrating for a lot of people but we have no control and no recourse.... we can just hope that someday the string pullers will break their strings and they will lose control also..... there is a huge day of reckoning coming for the $US ..... it keeps getting put off but can't put it off forever... in the meantime it grinds us down...... and the last note to portee ---- if you had a date with this woman with one eye and one leg, she must have been blind in the other eye..... a "one off " eh ????? what, she wouldn't go out for a second "date" ?????? if it weren't so bloody cold here I wouldn't be checking this board so much..... I would have a life ..... I am supposed to be in Mexico for the winter not in Canada.......