Posts by GrimJack

Aia is not even able to define his terms - most of his rants are pretty much 'ditto-head' mouthings from Rush and/or BillieO.

Do you really believe that allowing you to keep more of what you make somehow it's going to eliminate policemen on the street or teachers in the classroom? This question shows that he unable comprehend my statement - No tax cut has put a police officer on the beat; no tax cut has put a teacher in the classroom.

Black Thursday - go ahead, glance through the list of law firms and their lay-offs - when you get bored take this jump and, finally, watch this - how much would you pay?

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=that-burger-youre-eating-is-mostly-corn

See - if you had added a quick note to this link stating a position, this would have been a good post!

Do you understand the point of your link? If the feed-lots just fed grass to the cattle for the 24 hours before slaughter, 90% of the E. coli poisoning would be eliminated from the (beef) food supply. The rest of the poisoning could be eliminated if all the food handlers washed their hands after they wiped their butts.

Yeah,yeah - we know about McCain and his claim.
The question is this:
drink the Neon-Geek Mixed Drink ahihihihihihi... you can do it at home.. just add mixed-drink w/ whiskey.. no need to go to Cool River Cafe . That is just babble unless you can explain it.

And what is that Ahihihihihihi crap (other than being your name)?

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Why did you make this post?
Do you understand your own .sig?

due to bad publicity and public outcry that jet was cancelled.

I hope Obama makes those bankers pay back every penny or put them in prison for the remainder of their miserable lives.

Now they are leasing them.

Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf: $850,000
Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit: $1
Morgan Stanely CEO John Mack: $800,000
State Street Corp. CEO Ronald Logue: $1 million
Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis: $1.5 million
Bank of New York CEO Robert Kelly: $1 miillion
JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon: $1 million
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankenfein: $600,000

The Huffington Post reports that bailed-out financial firms Morgan Stanley and Citigroup’s Smith Barney — which will soon merge — plan to reward their financial advisers with “very generous” cash bonuses. During an internal conference call last week, advisers were warned not to call the awards bonuses because it would cause a PR headache:

“There will be a retention award. Please do not call it a bonus,” said James Gorman, co-president of Morgan Stanley. “It is not a bonus. It is an award. And it recognizes the importance of keeping our team in place as we go through this integration.”

Gorman said that the payments would be “based on performance numbers from 2008 instead of 2009,” which “virtually guarantees an increase in the size of the awards.” On the call, Gorman said that the advisers should be “clapping” at the “very generous and thoughtful” announcement. Listen to the audio …

Try here.

No, you can't. There is no way that you can get a loan under the described conditions. Do not hesitate to ask for a short term loan - the laughter will possibly help you understand that you are in trouble and need help. Cut up all your credit cards; every single one of them. If you continue to use them, it is fraud - you do not have the ability to pay your current debts, let alone any new debt you take on.

>Very few Americans like socialism.
Ha! for not liking it, they are embracing it very well. Furthermore, I doubt few could tell what it is.

You do not know what it is - unless you can define it.

>But what else can we do?
Stop supporting and believing in the rhetoric of those that foment socialism.

What socialism? You keep screaming 'socialism'; well - put up or shut up. Define socialism and point to the socialism that you are talking about.

> I haven't heard of a single alternative and positive proposal.
Allow me to doubt that. What is bad is bad, whether there's a different solution or not. (Biting into your assumption)
Remember the urgency with which this all thing started? The doom was so imminent at the door. Big money was approved in unprecedented haste to bail out banks. Suddenly, the purpose of that money started to shift...

Yeah! that was the lap-dog of the right, W, that shoveled Billions out the door to bankers with no requirement for accountability.

Now there's another rush and the gloom and doom is upon ourselves. Stimulus is the "buzz" word everywhere and what started with some few doze billions of dollars, it is now, well above a trillion...

No it isn't - pay attention. One dollar is closer to one hundred fifty billion dollars than eight hundred billion is to one trillion.

Stop supporting those that foment and preach socialism as an alternative. It is not.

Again, …

He doe snot make sense very often but maybe he is just a cow orker

<sorry, those are old jokes from alt.folklore.urban - these 2 'in-jokes' are used as shibboleths <which in itself is a sibboleth>>

Oowh! I just got all tingling of excitement inside, hearing of such achievement already.
Here, a little bit more of the promised change.
Gotta love the title: The Rapacity of Odacity

I am glad you got all tingling about the town meeting - a completely open town meeting where anyone who got a fcfs ticket got in. When is the last time that happened? At least 8 years ago. Bush needed paid shills in the house to ask soft ball questions.

I think that the guy who kicked over the 'bot will get a knock on his door in 50 years. Here is step 2.

Get those young whippersnappers off my lawn - Grumpy Old Man

Aia, just about every use of the word 'socialism' when replaced with the phrase 'free market' pretty much describes how we got into the hole we are in now. The Cheney-Bush Recession Compared with 8 Predecessors

Lesson of the day ---> use only the natural way of healing. Never over-indulge on something. Old folks way of treating sickness is better than the modern ones - unsure if genuine or not. For health guru's advise - seek Ernährung way.

Yeah - right! Let's bleed people, grind up 'dragon' bones, drink fluids of tigers and bears, - there is no 'best' medicine but there is 'worst' medicine. For my way of thinking, 'do no harm' is probably the best medicine.
Homeopathy is probably the best example of this - give a healthy person increasing doses of a substance until they get sick, the symptoms they show is the illness that substance will cure but only after you dump a teaspoon of the substance into Lake Huron during a storm, come back the next day and bottle the water (ie. the substance can cure the illness only if there is none of the substance left in the dilution - a 10-1 dilution done 10 times).

I think it's McCain the Older!

I just can't resist:

You creepy conservatives give us 8 years of sh*t with Bush; you complain because we talked trash about Bush and didn't give him a chance; now you talk trash about our president.
Let's quote VP Cheney on the economy:
We did worry about [the economy], to some extent.

Let's count the blessings of the conservative free market:
Enron
Peanut Corp. of America
Bernie Madoff
Senator 'wide stance'
Rep. Foley
8 years of partisan politics - now whining about the lack of bipartisanship because no one wants another 8 years of tax-cut based negative economy
Alberto "I am a victim" Gonzales
Let's not forget Jack Abramoff - he is still dragging down Repube/conservatives - Fraser Verrusio is just the most recent; so far he seems to have tainted most of the Republican party.
You guys got so much to be proud of.

Go to the forum where you posted - then go to the bottom of the page and contact the moderator/administrator. Tell them your story and they will help.

Kind of glad I have no idea what was going through his head! But it is almost creepy.

I just ran across this - not knowing who would be interested, I am linking here. Let me know if I picked the correct forum, thanks. It is open source and looks interesting.

Vegan pure?

There is an update - the FBI are looking at the guy who was busted for trying to extort millions from manufacturer

US soldiers heading to Iraq on commercial airliners had their knives confiscated due to ‘security regulations’ but were allowed to keep their firearms. (thanks Happy geek - only petty theft)

So AD - did you bite the heads off live chickens?

Inflation happens! Why do you think Judas was paid in silver? (hint - 75 years earlier a king from Timbuktu came through on tour and gave away so much gold that everyone had gold so gold had no value). Many years later, Spain stole so much gold from the new world that, again, gold lost its value and England ruled with its silver standard.
<digression> 2 bits, 4 bits, 6 bits, a dollar - Spain had a coin that could make change - it was minted in such a way that it could be broken into 'pieces of eight'</digression>

If you look at your coins, you will see that they all have a raised edge and some have both raised edges and slots (like the American quarter <2-bits>) - this was how Newton (yeah, the scientist who 'discovered' gravity) was able to protect British coinage from 'shavers'. Prior to this, everyone who got a coin, shaved just a little from the coin and soon no one knew how much each coins was worth.

but I digress

Inflation happens when 'money' is inserted into the economy without concomitant 'work'

I am prematurely post-traumatic.

I only eat vegetables but I let the cows process them for me.

Pot roast, potatos and carrots - gotta love those one pot meals - and Black Butt Porter (family joke - eh, Bette!)

In Memorium George:
Why can you say:
pricked my finger
but can't say
finger my p....

There is a tiny frog called the glass frog - you can see all of its innards - this is especially weird when it has just eaten.

I hear the crematorium is giving discounts for burn victims.

If you really believe that the US is heading towards hyperinflation then you should try to understand what it is and how to get it.

1. The general population prefers to keep its wealth in non-monetary assets or in a relatively stable foreign currency. Amounts of local currency held are immediately invested to maintain purchasing power.
2. The general population regards monetary amounts not in terms of the local currency but in terms of a relatively stable foreign currency. Prices may be quoted in that foreign currency.
3. Sales and purchases on credit take place at prices that compensate for the expected loss of purchasing power during the credit period, even if the period is short.
4. Interest rates, wages and prices are linked to a price index and the cumulative inflation rate over three years approaches, or exceeds, 100%.

How many of these factors do you see?
There are (at least) 2 models of hyperinflation:

The confidence model - some event or series of events cause doubt that the government issuing the currency will remain solvent;
the monetary model - a positive feedback cycle of increasing the money supply and businesses marking up prices to factor in expected decay of currency's value.

Think about it. When you have 'hyperinflation', credit cards will melt away quickly, since the money at the beginning of the month is only worth half at the end of the month, nobody will issue credit!

I understand that in some African country, inflation was so bad that the government would issue special stamps to the local banks. The banks would take a bank note, lets say a 50 Dollar bill of their currency, and stamp the new value of 50 million Dollars right on it. Makes your head spin.

Sounds like an inflationary idea! Soon everyone had the stamp so no one was broke.

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

- Albert Einstein

I kind of wish Al did not say this, it is trivial - if everything is a miracle, then nothing is.

OMG! It has come to the point that I don't give any of MS' programs blanket permission to pass ZoneAlarm - I would rather be bothered each time than to let them start taking over my system (any more than it already has). But I am paranoid(ish).

Einstein is outrageously intelligent, I wonder how he did this theory alone or rather I would say, "how did he formulated this theory?"

For someone who has less knowledge about the theory, it is really very difficult to agree with this time travel thing. As a matter of fact, Einstein's mind evolved too much and its very hard to catch up with it.

As for me, I was still amazed and believed in him. The evolution of science and technology only depends upon the evolution of the human mind. As for now, all of the people out here has not able to let their mind evolved in to something the same as what Einstein did to himself.

You do not have a clue. You do not know what you are talking about; you do not listen to people who do have a clue; you make up stuff to support your ideas that have no relation to reality.

Go back to school; finish high school; go to college; get a job at the post office. Maybe after a few years you might know enough to hold a conversation on this topic.

I would eat that - mmm, sandwhiches, nice stout or porter,

OMG! Where do you buy yours? I heard that they have pretty limited circulation? Well, Duh! Same area as me!

My secret is that I eat a trench out of the middle of the tub and then go back for the liquid honey, hmmmm

Currently, I am drinking a Bourbon & Coke while eating p-nuts

Hey Dude - why don't you go there and wave to us?

So is this a fair beginning?

>>most people do not have a use for bills larger than a $50.
$100 bills are common at the Wal-Mart store I work in. I've not seen a bill larger than that.

I should have mentioned that was a personal comment - not official.

I just found this pic posted in my 'reputation' - thanks for the link - it took me to this which lead me to this and that had this quote

But it is also a shocking indictment of the UK Government's complete inability to properly tackle the problem of winter deaths amongst older people. In the last decade we have lost 260,000 pensioners during the winter months and the response from Whitehall has been a deafening silence.

. This link was on the same page.

I really have to get something done today, I gotta stop here or it will be mid-night and Leslie really expects me to start cleaning the house for the SB party on Sunday (we're having a bunch of lesbian's over to watch the commercials and since I am the only one w/o a job - guess who gets to be the wife this weekend, sigh!)

I put off looking at this because I did not think there would be much of interest for me - I guess I am more easily amused than I used to be. Vmanes is probably correct the cost is about $.05 - not much relative to the value of a $100 bill but a significant fraction of a $1 bill - we should actually stop producing dollar bills and use dollar coins. The bill only lasts about 19 months and then has to be destroyed - much of wear and tear is probably in vending machines and this is where a coin would shine. Coins cost way more to make but they do not die natural deaths - they do not wear out.

The largest US bill every printed was the $100,000 bill and was only used by banks (even JP Morgan could not get his hands on one), the other 'big' bills were 500, 1,000, 5,000, and 10,000 (my dad was a banker and when his bank had its 50th anniversary, they had a $10,000 bill to display - my dad let me hold it!!!!!!). They stopped producing the above bills in 1946 and then took them out of service in 1969 because it was then possible to transfer money between banks electronically - most people do not have a use for bills larger than a $50.

The $100,000 bill was a gold certificate.

Drinking coffee and eating the last of my Honey Greek Gods Yogurt - like ice cream but not frozen.

I am not from France

We realize that you do not come from France; France is a nation of people who understand that 'Le Pétomane' was a stage act not an attempt at political commentary (in case I was too subtle, I am implying you are farting in the wind).

Or possibly at least one of the participants locked(up)

A freezer and refrigerator in the bathroom - the ramifications are cascading <*><*><*><*><*> stop the thoughts, oh gawd-please stop the thoughts

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Alphonso Jackson has decided to honor himself with giant photo exhibitions in two of the lobbies at HUD’s headquarters. The images are each “about 2 feet by 3 feet” and many feature Jackson with President Bush. A picture of the display from the Washington Post (print version):

The Washington Post’s Al Kamen reports that last week, outgoing Interior Secretary Dick Kempthorne gave a farewell address to employees. However, it ends up it was little more than an homage to himself: “about 600 slides, each picturing the distinguished secretary, many of them taken at a national park.”
One “longtime employee” groaned, “Slide after slide after slide. It was special. That’s all I should say.”

I am sorry but these are not bureaucrats - they are worse, they are political appointees. "Another person pointed out to me that after Rice’s arrival in 2005 the tone of official State Department publications changed; they began to praise and glorify Rice. “No prior secretary,” said the twenty-year veteran, “did anything like this.”

The Department of Homeland Security recently sent out an entire book honoring former Secretary Michael Chertoff’s “Select Speeches” from 2005-2008.. Can anyone remember any thing from any of his speeches?