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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 09/21/2008 : 12:35:58
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Cites "bullshit!"
Update at eleven........
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Edited by - filthy on 09/21/2008 16:18:58
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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 Posted - 09/21/2008 : 13:35:06 [Permalink]
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| The new de facto leader of the Presidential race, Sen. John McCain, was unaware of the development until told about it by a reporter. When asked how he felt about Obama quitting, McCain replied: “Senator Obama would like to fool the American people that he is the quitter in this race. He's not. I already quit in 2005, well before Obama even thought of quitting. That's quitting you can believe in.” |
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 09/21/2008 : 13:59:58 [Permalink]
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Fuck; can't say I can blame him.
Although the fly tickets to Canada are a nice touch.
Indeed, maybe the best thing to do for the country at that point... ;p |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 09/21/2008 : 23:30:15 [Permalink]
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That's one of the funniest things I've ever read. And you gotta wonder if those thoughts are not somewhere in Barack's mind.
Then, again, when FDR took office, the economy was already on the skids. And I can't express how deeply my father still loves Roosevelt for giving direction and heart to people during the Depression. But let's hope things don't get as bad as back then, for us, or for the next President, even if it might give him an opportunity for lasting fame.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 09/22/2008 : 02:33:59 [Permalink]
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Mooner.....
My memories of the Great Depression reach back to about 1933 when I was five years old. Times were really tough. My dad was extremely fortunate to have a pretty good job in a pretty stable industry - the utility business - and we were better off than many folks. But even though we had considerably more income than most, my folks economized on everything. We didn't go hungry, but we weren't living very high on the hog during those Depression years, either. Good times didn't really come back until the advent of the Second World War, when the wartime economy produced good jobs and good pay for anyone who could work - even though 11 million men were under arms!
I personally think there is about a 50/50 chance that this recession will slide into a 21st century version of the Great Depression within a year or two. With the recent comeback of the Dow, I'm selling pretty heavily and hedging in gold at 7-8 (I think it will hit $1k/oz again soon, I intend to sell at about a 20% profit and expect it to go back down if the recession trend stablizes)
Cash or it's equivilant should be everybody's best friend for the immediate present. If there are no more market crashes in the next 3-6 months, I indend to get back into the market cautiously. |
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Obama quits presidential race!
