Lars
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I'm on facebook....so is OGSF
At your age, that's just sad.
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If any of you swine should hear the rapping of little hooves up on top of the outhouse roof tonight, don't let the little ones look….
Have a Merry Pengmass!!!
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Of course, these little wet-dreams about Obama and Moore getting shoe-bombed overlook the fact that the Iraqi press (if not general population) have no axe to grind with either of those two gentlemen.
Not to mention the fact that they won't go to Iraq.
We'll have to wait and see if any Afghanis have been practicing up.
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The rifle stuffed up his kiester is a nice touch.
Well done.
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Of course we'll only have comparable figures in 2023. Anyway, killing innocent people is not some kind of high score contest. Either you are a murderous bastard with no regard for civilian lives or you aren't. Saying anything else is just to wash the blood off your hands.
You'll never make "Genocidal Maniac of the 21st Century" with that attitude, mister.
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I think we figured it here a while back as about 50' date='000 over his entire reign.[/quote']
Far, far higher than that.
You can add in the results of the first Gulf War also.
And the current second Gulf War too if you'd like to lay the responsibilty at Saddam's feet for being too stupid to step down.
Bet the villa on the French Riviera was looking pretty good the day they led him to the rope.
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Lets see; one child named Adolf Hitler vs millions below minimum sustinance level. One is a tragedy, one in a million blib in the statistics.
Eh, let them eat cake.
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Er, crows aren't raptors.
Whatcha done there, old boy, is mix up your Passeriformes with your Accipitriformes.
Or somfink.
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Eh, his new sig has a typo too.
But then, a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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I hope they went with vanilla.
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The old rule was own your age in bonds. It's not complicated.
But of course, you don't make much money as a financial adviser going with that, no fees.
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Oh, that won't do at all! To meet the gods for a drink one must have a burning kayak, drifting silently down the river with the faint smell of barbequed Gnome on the air, and the odd fizz and pop as various containers of alcohol light up.. and we would all stand and remember as the vessel drifts from our view and ponder on what might happen when yer mortal remains enters traffic in the St Lawrence Seaway.
Oh Bravo.
But why are we putting perfectly good alcohol on the boat?
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What was that 485k house worth, say, 5 years ago ? Over here a house bought 13 years ago for ~330k is now worth up to and over 2 million (depending on location and condition of course).
Depends on where you bought it.
This is about the best I could do around here. Found a nice one on the lake that went for $375,000 five years ago, sold in 2006 for $792,000, and is now in foreclosure for $499,000.
You should snap it up, it's only losing $6,500 a month on the asking price.
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So the Democratic nong quoted in the above article wants to provide for the current retiree - the one who has just lost 60% of their capital worth (if they've been sensible and worked and saved that is) and has a very, very limited opportunity to rebuild.
Er, -40% of their worth. If they put it all in something like a S&P 500 Index. And if they had it all in stocks as retirees, they're retards.
If they put it all in a Bond Index like they should have, they're up 4.76%.
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Umm, a $485,000 house.
Which a quick jog over to Bankrate's little calculator shows your payment (30 yr mortgage at 6%) would be $2907.82 a month, not including property taxes and insurance, which, around here, would run you about another $800 a month.
I really don't think a couple making less than $50,000 a year can afford to be blowing $45,000 on housing. They might want to do something else too. Like eat, for instance.
Oh hell, I forgot to add PMI. Been so long since I had to pay it..they're bottom up!
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Not at all. The last thing we need is the government getting involved.
In a capitalist system, you're free to make as much as you can. But you are also supposed to be free to fail.
Currently, we're not letting the free market be free.
Fun response letter from one of the Big 3's suppliers to the President of GM currently making the rounds. Tell me which part of it you disagree with.
Dear Employee,Next week, Congress and the current Administration will determine whether
to provide immediate support to the domestic auto industry to help it
through one of the most difficult economic times in our nation's history.
Your elected officials must hear from all of us now on why this support is
critical to our continuing the progress we began prior to the global
financial crisis......................As an employee, you have a lot at
stake and continue to be one of our most effective and passionate voices.
I know GM can count on you to have your voice heard.
Thank you for your urgent action and ongoing support.
Troy Clarke
President
General Motors North America
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From Gregory Knox,
In response to your request to call legislators and ask for a bailout for
the United States automakers please consider the following, and please
also pass this onto Troy Clark, the president of General Motors North
America for me.
You are both infected with the same entitlement mentality that has bred
like cancerous germs in UAW halls for the last countless decades, and
whose plague is now sweeping the nation, awaiting our new "messiah" to
wave his magical wand and make all our problems go away, while at the same
time allowing our once great nation to keep "living the dream".
The dream is over!
The dream that we can ignore the consumer for years while management
myopically focuses on its personal rewards packages at the same time that
our factories have been filled with the worlds most overpaid, arrogant,
ignorant and laziest entitlement minded "laborers" without paying the
price for these atrocities, and that still the masses will line up to buy
our products
Don't tell me I'm wrong. Don't accuse me of not knowing of what I speak.
I have called on Ford,GM ,Chrysler,TRW,Delphi,Kelsey Hayes, American Axle
and countless other automotive OEM's and Tier ones for 3 decades now
throughout the Midwest and what I've seen over the years in these union
shops can only be described as disgusting.
Mr Clark, the president of General Motors, states:
There is widespread sentiment in this country, our government and
especially in the media that the current crisis is completely the result
of bad management. It is not.
You're right, it's not JUST management, ¦how about the electricians who
walk around the plants like lords in feudal times, making people wait on
them for countless hours while they drag ass ¦so they can come in on the
weekend and make double and triple time for a job they easily could have
done within their normal 40 hour week.
How about the line workers who threaten newbies with all kinds of scare
tactics for putting out too many parts on a shift and for being too
productive (mustn't expose the lazy bums who have been getting overpaid
for decades for their horrific underproduction, must we?!?) Do you really
not know about this stuff?!?
How about this great sentiment abridged from Mr. Clarke's sad plea:
over the last few years we have closed the quality and efficiency gaps
with our competitors.
What the hell has Detroit been doing for the last 40 years?!?
Did we really JUST wake up to the gaps in quality and efficiency between
us and them?
The K car vs. the Accord?
The Pinto vs. the Civic?!?
Do I need to go on?
We are living through the inevitable outcome of the actions of the United
States auto industry for decades.
Time to pay for your sins, Detroit.
I attended an economic summit last week where a brilliant economist, Alan
Beaulieu surprised the crowd when he said he would not have given the
banks a penny of "bailout money". Yes, he said, this would cause short
term problems, but despite what people like George Bush and Troy Clark
would have us believe, the sun would in fact rise the next day and
something else would happen where there had been greedy and sloppy banks,
new efficient ones would pop up. That is how a free market system works.
It does work if we would let it work.
But for some reason we are now deciding that the rest of the world is
right and that capitalism doesn't work that we need the government to step
in and "save us". Save us, hell! We're nationalizing and unfortunately too
many of this once fine nations citizens don't even have a clue that this
is what's really happening but they sure can tell you the stats on their
favorite sports teams. Yeah, THAT'S important!
Does it occur to ANYONE that the "competition" has been producing
vehicles, EXTREMELY PROFITABLY, for decades now in this country?...
How can that be???
Let's see:
Fuel efficient...
Listening to customers...
Investing in the proper tooling and automation for the long haul...
Not being too complacent or arrogant to listen to Dr W Edwards Deming 4
decades ago...
Ever increased productivity through quality, lean and six sigma plans...
Treating vendors like strategic partners, rather than like "the enemy"...
Efficient front and back offices....
Non union environment!
Again, I could go on and on, but I really wouldn't be telling anyone
anything they really don't already know in their hearts.
I have six children, so I am not unfamiliar with the concept of wanting
someone to bail you out of a mess that you have gotten yourself into. My
children do this on a weekly, if not daily basis, as I did at their age. I
do for them what my parents did for me (one of their greatest gifts, by
the way), I make them stand on their own two feet and accept the
consequences of their actions and work them through.
Radical concept, huh?
Am I there for them in the wings? Of course, but only until such time as
they need to be fully on their own as adults.
I don't want to oversimplify a complex situation, but there certainly are
unmistakable parallels here between the proper role of parenting and
government.
Detroit and the United States need to pay for their sins.
Bad news people, it's coming whether we like it or not.
The newly elected Messiah really doesn't have a magic wand big enough to
"make it all go away" I laughed as I heard Obama "reeling it back in"
almost immediately after the vote count was tallied. We might not do it in
a year or in four. Where was that kind of talk when he was RUNNING for the
office?
Stop trying to put off the inevitable.
That house in Florida really isn't worth $750,000.
People who jump across a border really don't deserve free health care
benefits.
That job driving that forklift for the big 3 really isn't worth $85,000 a
year.
We really shouldn't allow Wal-Mart to stock their shelves with products
acquired from a country that unfairly manipulates their currency and has
the most atrocious human rights infractions on the face of the globe.
That couple whose combined income is less than $50,000 really shouldn't
be living in that $485,000 home!
Let the market correct itself people. It will. Yes it will be painful,
but it's gonna be painful either way, and the bright side of my proposal
is that on the other side of it is a nation that appreciates what is has
and doesn't live beyond its means. Gets back to basics, and redevelops the
work ethic that made it the greatest nation in the history of the world
and probably turns back to God.
Sorry don't cut my head off, I'm just the messenger sharing with you the
"bad news".
Gregory J Knox
President
Knox Machinery, Inc.
Franklin, Ohio 45005
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Oh, they'll be getting some of it back. The lawsuits are already starting to fly.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122930077610905377.html?mod=special_page_campaign2008_mostpop
Unless, of course, they were direct investors and had the minimum $1 million to plop down. In which case, we're supposed to hate them anyway.
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Er, 401k's are not a "failed experiment"
It's just that Congress wants the money.
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“As far as the failure of last night, it solely lies on UAW,” Coburn told CNSNews.com. “All we asked was, ‘Just give us a date at which you will have competitive wage rates. We will put it in and that’s what you will have to meet.’ They would not move. They would not renegotiate their contract with GM as far as wage rates.”
In short, they demand to continue to be overpaid.
Seems they'd rather take a chance with the unemployment line. Not very smart, if you ask me. Heck, by the time that date came around, the UAW (and the economy) could probably have been in a better position to demand concessions.
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Bugger, we missed the day's record of -18F by 4 degrees. And now it's going to warm up enough to snow. Where's the fun in that?
Oh well, only a couple of days till winter starts. Maybe we'll see some real weather then, instead of this poofy Ohio stuff.
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Heh.We're hearing that the smart money KNEW Bernie had to be cheating, because the returns he was generating were impossibly good. Many Wall Streeters suspected the wrong rigged game, though: They thought it was insider trading, not a Ponzi scheme. And here's the best part: That's why they invested with him.One Madoff investor, himself a legend, told me that Madoff's performance "just doesn't make sense. The numbers can't be straight." Another sophisticated Madoff investor actually went through trade confirms in order to reverse-engineer the strategy and said, "it doesn't add up."
So why did these smart and skeptical investors keep investing? They, like many Madoff investors, assumed Madoff was somehow illegally trading on information from his market-making business for their benefit. They didn't consider the possibility that he was clean on that score but running a good old-fashioned Ponzi scheme.
Waste no tears.
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Well, I was supposed to go up to dalem's and play Sword of Rome with the rest of the Minnesota Miscreants yesterday, but we had a small blizzard blow in. Currently, it's -6F, windchill of -27F, winds gusting to 25 mph and still snowing.
Then later night, it gets downright cold.
Why am I telling you this? Because, since I can’t make it to the party to see Seanachai, it means I have to drink up a case of Chimay Grande Reserve Trappist Ale and Hacker-Pschorr Oktoberfest-Marzen, all by myself.
Oh darn.
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How romantic. I'm sure that will greatly enhance her sense of herself as a woman.
Ah, so you're saying I should have gone with my first choice, the gift certificate for breast augmentation.
Winning hearts and... manhoods?
in General Discussion Forum
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Original story.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/25/AR2008122500931.html?hpid=topnews
Seems plausible, although as you say Bigduke, a bit sensationalist, which is no doubt why they published it. Americans love sex too.
Your concerns about the conservatism of the elders are addressed on page two, btw.
And yes, it does say "According to the retired operative who was there..."