Ridgefield Debate

MLoney Earned Today: 0 Money Earned Total: 120
Yesterday I had a debate meet at ridgefield. As far I could tell, there was no crooked judges this time, but I won't know for sure until Thursday. The debate topic now is economic sanctions ought not be used to achieve foreign policy objectives. I debated my affirmative case (economic sanctions are bad) once, and my negative (economic sanctions are good) case three times. I'm glad, because I really like my affirmative case more than my negation case. I've also got a few new ideas for my neg. A lot of people have a definiton of Economic Sanctions that says it is the act of threat of stopping trade with a country. Also, a lot of the affirmative are saying how economic sanctions will hurt and destroy peoples lifes, and that they only work anywhere from 2 to 19% of the time. Now, with the definition they are providing where economic sanctions include the threat, then not only does it not harm people at all, but the amount of times it has worked would greatly increase because the times a country has threatened to use economic sanctions wouldn't have been counted.
I have also sold 5 of my cookbooks, and am hoping to sell a whole lot more. It only took one day, and now we are going to have to make more. This is a very good sign.
One more big thing. I'm going to be on one of the local news stations on monday. It is KOIN 6 and I will be on their program at about 4. I am very excited about this. Not only will it help me to get some sponsors, but, because it is broadcast all over Washington and Oregon, I will get alot more people to buy my cookbook then I would have originally.