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Touching sentiment, but they didn't need the Patriot Act to monitor what you are saying and doing ... The Patriot Act merely rubs it in your face that they are doing that.
The truth sometimes hurtz, bitcheeeeeeeeeeezzz.
What does David Brooks think about this ?
/snark
BTW: If Donald Trump runs for the Republican nomination, he is going to win. Despite Brooks & Co.
The Donald would be the only candidate with all the basic requirements. Intelligence, accomplishment, speaking ability, underlying hypocrisy.
Yeah, I was lovin' it when he said he made his billions honestly. His extensive experience with Bankrupcy Law for housing and casinos is nessecary for what the next president will be doing. He just needs to find or retain a tax cheat like Timmy to round out the ticket.
Bling!
Exactamundo, amigo.
Trump? He's got OUTSTANDING hair. Even in this corrupt day & age, that still counts for something.
We need to ban anyone who is orange, or who has used botox from public office.
A comb forward with a swirl looks outstanding to you? I just get mine buzzed now. Game over.
His extensive experience with Bankrupcy Law...
I know a few contractors that went broke because of that douchebag.
+1
Easy to make millions as a developer when you don't pay the trades that build your cheap, trashy, mirrored buildings.
Of course, cheap, trashy and bankrupt kinda captures the American style these days, right?
They should learn to plant C4 during construction as 'insurance'.
Oh and please thank Phineas for his most excellent 'cooking'.
And a wicked rug/thatch thing going on. That much said, I find the man rather evil on basic principles. In another incarnation, I had the occasion to listen to his presentation (after that of his then wife, Ivana, to whom he had just given the Plaza Hotel, where our meeting was held) to our trade group. I have never heard a more belittling, self-centered, withering destruction of another human being--Ivana--in public. She had no idea that this was to take place. It was simply without precedent in a public setting at that point, and the Donald made sure that there were ample PR guys there, in addition to our own. It was a disgusting performance. I was quite surprised that the public media did not cover it, and that our own group did not contest the fees for the meeting.
He divorced her shortly after this performance. But this is not a guy anybody would want to hold a trigger on anything. He may sound convincing from time to time--even sociopaths can--but I would never trust him with anything.
I have never seen nor met the man but the airs he gives on television would lead me to believe what you said is true. He seems a spiteful, opportunistic and selfish child and he certainly should never be trusted with the presidency.
Worse, I can see him cutting down his wife in a big public way- maybe because she refused to have sex with him or something. Petty, petty petty.
Is this all we have, America? For real?
That this is even a matter of public debate makes me want to spew chum.
Shortly after the Plaza incident the cover of the NY POST was Marla Maples claiming "The Best Sex I've Ever Had".
Trump's a scumbag douche of the highest order.
I heard Trump say this (or the gist of it) the other day on some TV show on CNN International:
"We've got some of the smartest people in the world at our banks on Wall Street, and they can help put people back to work".
Goodness.
The man has about as parochial view of the world as can be. Have him draw a map of the world, indeed the Universe, and New York City would occupy 90% of the land surface, Trump properties 75% of that, and the US overall 95% of the planet. His vision doesn't even stretch as far as his comb-over.
For reasonable people all this should be enough to disqualify him. For the general electorate, who needs a simpler reason to vote against someone, we can hope that they will take exception to his hair, marital record, or the fact that his mug looks as if he's sniffing some bad cheese.
Donald Trump one of the guys funding Rahm Emmaneul in Chicago that scumbag Donald Trump...
http://americangrandjury.org/hollywood-helps-rahm-haul-in-106m
The Donald is an arrogant AH, he's taken the panties off many a dumb banker, he is aware of all the bullshit paper masquerading as investments, so yeah, he's Presidential material.
very well done, good pace of presenting info, hope you put out more videos
Weak presentation, although flashy. And no ideas, just whining.
The Don is a walking fat Cartoon character out of the 20's. He cracks me up, but could never be my president.
Why not? You parade around like the first president. ( oh and his entourage) 1,5,10,20,50,and last but not least 100. I like Trump.
The problem now is that many of the sheeple have become incapable of life in a real meritocracy.
The PTB pretend to be saving the sheep from their own stupidity, by selling them into debt slavery.
It's a high tech form of a historically familiar pattern.
And will end just as badly as always for the PTB.
The problem is that we have a social system with a primary objective of fucking over the other guy to get paid.
And every single institution reinforces this.
Capitailism at it's best.
The right calls this "free market principles".
No, capitalism is merely people paying other people to work for them.
Or are you being sarcastic?
And the first priority of a 'free market' (i.e., individuals and institutions who have already stolen Capital from somewhere) is to form a government, so it can steal a lot MORE Capital under cover of law.
Always has been. Always will be.
Because nobody chooses to become a wage slave.
It sounds like you're describing every socialist government that ever existed.
Except I'm talking about the last 500 years global genocide at the hands of White Capital.
fuck off.
how did the population grow to 7B with all this "white" genocide?
Or did you mean the genocide of refrigeration, electric power, and modern medicine that the awful white man hatefully oppresses natives with the world over?
Welcome to our new reality. Taxed to death by city, county, state and Federal governments AND then the final screw job to take what little is left over, INFLATION.
I bet it is Bigger Dickus who is flagging everyone.
bigger dickus is a penniless partially scitzo ass face that lives to 'try to torment...wtf else you gunna do in a SSI funded board and care home?
And the asset inflation..."wealth effect" is all an illusion too, because when you go to cash it, it will have deflated. Everyone thinks they will know when to jump off the ponzi, but only 1% actually will. Makes for good sleeping for the duped prior to the real crash.
Looks to me that the one junk punk is about again.
We're docile little animals, aren't we.
Hello everyone!
I am new to this blog though I have been reading it for a few years. I never felt particularly competent to post anything, so I have remained on the sidelines. Having hung out here for awhile, I have enjoyed the interesting array of mindsets, wit, and sarcasm as everyone must also, unless they are into sado-masochism. As one approaching his elder years, one thing that immediately caught my eye was the expression “bitchez”, which seems to be a variant Ebonics spelling. This may be common usage among the younger folks today, but I have been in a mode where I do not have cause or opportunity to interact much with youth today. If I post I will try to keep it short in the beginning, so as not to consume anyone's attention span for any longer than the post may be worth. I think this video is very representative of my generation. With that, my first post, is”
Revolution, Bitchez!
Bitchez, bitchez!
Though, as I understand it, only first post has 'bitchez' rights.
I violate that rule quite often, but, as it took two years to get permanently banned from MW, I feel I'm due.
LOL. Nice. Welcome.
shhh ... dude ... actually your first post was:
Just helpin' you to get the lay of the land ;-)
- Ned
Spoken like a silver spoon fed baby boomer. What was it like to ride the country into the ditch? You got yours though, right?
Give him a break: he's Algore's kid. How would you feel?
Yes... because every other generation throughout history have been blameless... especially yours.
60. lot of us arent that young. Bravo. make your voice heard.
I had to go renew my license and plate today, plus a few parking fines that I incurred because, in my anti-social madness, I parked in front the house for too long on my superwide suburban street. Afterwards, I had to sit down because my vagina hurt. Government fees, and the cash grab of parking fines. OK, yes, the fines are my fault, but I feel I should be able to park in front of my goddamned house when it isn't snowing.
LMAO at how no one is touching this one. Me included.
Vahoo?
It's not your house, you are renting it from the bank, and the land it sits on from the government. Hence mortgage payments [house rent] and property taxes [land rent]. Don't pay either one and see who shows up with guns. So don't park in front of their house again, amigo.
And therin lies the simple truth of our society. You can't have freedom without private property.
...and an armed society is a polite society.
Oh, those pop-pop-pops I hear every night are people being 'polite'.
Moron.
What are you complaining about? When I deal with government, it is my ass that hurts. I was just contemplating having to pay a stamp tax on my dog today.
You got off easy.
"but I feel I should be able to" == entitlement.
I have a two-car tandem garage in which my wife and I park our cars every night.
My next door neighbor has the same garage, but he has his filled with crap...and so insists on parking his two SUVS and two cars (for two adults in the household) along the street in front of his house, in his driveway, in front of his driveway, and in front of my house.
We have similar rules about parking for more than 3 days in the same spot, so I always laugh when I see the idiots 'rotating' their fleet to avoid the ticket and have more than once considered hurling a cinder block through their windshields when the alarms go off in the cars they aren't using while they're out driving the other ones.
Yes, the tiny fascism of local revenue generation is a bitch, but it's people like my dumbass neighbor that they're targeting, not you.
+1000. You know you are in America where the garages are filled with worthless junk and expensive cars are left out in the weather. I had the same type of neighbor you have. It was a glorious day indeed when that garage went up in flames...
Before 1935 the VAST majority of Americans were dirt poor, worked long hours for less than subsistence wages and were subject to horrible workplace hazards. Child labor was legal. Striking union workers and their families were shot by corporate-employed militia. A significant percent of WW draftees were ineligible because of malnutrition related health problems. That was the “free market” before FDR.
In those days the Government was slaughtering farm animals, and destroying crops to try to prop up agricultural prices.
Cheap food was destroyed, by government intervention in the free market.
(See current housing market)
Intrusive Government and it's apologists would do well to reevaluate their veiw of history.
I'm not denying that government intervention is often misguided. What I am saying is that the free market never really existed and the past romanticized in this video elides the horrible conditions endured by the majority of the populace because they were subject to unregulated and exploitive corporations.
Most of the kids on this site have never had dirt on their hands. You're talking to the wall.
Yeah, cuz today's regulated corporations NEVER exploit. What an idiot. You learned well at the government youth indoctrination prison camps.
Capitalism exists to exploit. It's natural. So it's equally natural that Capital would call into being the Corporate Form.
Such a legal fiction was quite useful for genociding the Injuns and stealing Africans.
Not accepting your premise, but to play along: can you falsify this statement? <<name your -ism here>> exists to exploit.
Socialism? National Socialism? Facism? Communism? Militarism? Anarchism? ...
- Ned
Watch a liberals head explode ask them to falsify global warming.. works every time..
ROTFL!!!!
But I do wish we could get past calling them "liberals"...because they are definitely not liberal.
Just my pet peeve though...carry on ;-)
I'll make the popcorn first. My experience though is the retort: 'no, no, it is scientific consensus.'
- Ned
"Global warming" is just another excuse of biosphere-destroying capitalists to get us to buy expensive light-bulbs and lithium-batter using cars.
It's all about the fucking money. Lots of people are getting paid to bloviate about 'Climate Change' - academics, PR flaks, bought-off politicians, etc.
This is NOT to say that White Capital hasn't utterly destroyed our biosphere over the last few hundred years. It has.
It's just that carbon isn't the problem. Capitalism is.
Yep, hotbed of capitalists there, you betcha'
- Ned
Carbon deposits are black. That is so racist.
Fight the Man. Don't let him keep the carbon down.
But CO2 is an invisible gas. How's that workin'?
It is soul gas. Of course the Man is trying to eliminate it.
Our world today is ruled by Capital, and it has been for 500 years. I'm not into philosophizing about words that mean different things to different people.
I'm interested in examining the world I inhabit, and I find blaming problems caused by Capital on everything but Capital (lazy workers, corrupt governments, mean corporations) is evasive.
The problem is staring you in the face. And ENHANCING the exploitative power of Capital is a stupid way to fix our problems.
Tiresome.
"Genociding the injuns".....fine I'll give you that. But the Africans? You sure they weren't sold into it? Oh, right I forgot, that shit doesn't go on anymore. Right?
Fuck off with your hatred.
Who were the buyers? For what purpose were they bought?
To give them Christianity?
smallpox did in the injuns.
Africans were not stolen, they were sold by the same type of slave traders that exist in africa today.
Go douche or something; you stink
Uh Andrew 'Sharp Knife' Jackson did his fair share of wiping out what was left of the first nations too. He and his 'men' 'did' a lot of women and kids..apparently their skins make for nice livery. And their body parts were prized by him as trophies. But you're absolutely right, infected blankets did most of the trick once the brits caught on...At least AJ had togo out and earn his genocidal run, hey?
If the free market never really existed, why are you laying the blame for those atrocities at the door of 'the free market'?
White Capital gets the blame, big dogg.
I junked you. Because of your hate.
The power elite and greed are to blame.
DOGG.
I'm all about the love, my man.
But if evasive language makes you feel better, I guess that's your call. I bet they bump James Brown at BIS get-togethers!
^^^^^^^^^^ another victim of revisionist diversity mindfuck
thank GOD for white capital. I like airplanes and the transistor.
Go eat mudcakes and fuck off with your river blindness and intestinal parasites
Go rob some museums and rape some slaves.
go flush some "whelps outta their dens" and make bridles from their skin.
I agree we live in luxury nowadays compared to then.
Have we ever seen a truly free market? We may have caught a glimpse at times but not recently.
Perhaps we should set up a "free market zone" where those who want to try their luck can go.
Then again... weren't we already meant to have one??
So the living standards of the rest of the world hasn't improved since 1935? All improvements in quality of life in America since 1935 can be directly traced to FDR's policies? Didn't all of the technological improvements come from private individuals? Even the ones the government invented were funded by taxes from private individuals. If you want to see the standard of living when the government is in control, take a look at life in Cuba now or the USSR in the past.
Wasn't quality of life better in 1935 than it was in 1835? FDR and his socialist policies didn't exist, so what gives?
And so returning, courtesy of ODummer.
You might want to go over:
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=amity+shlaes&sortby=17&...
and
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=roth&sortby=17&sts=t&tn....
Then do a little look at the calendar. 'cuz we know that, well, I'll let ol' Joe tell you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP3cOQDD8co
Guess what, a significant percentage of WWII draftees were more than 4F. Michelle has been bringing out this weak-assed commentary. What I don't get is how so many can be a) obese and b) undernourished.
... pssst, don't let anyone know, but FDR started after the '32 elections.
- Ned
As taught by progressives in school. Did you even watch the video?
It was soooo bad, yet everyone was fleeing Europe to come here. Something doesn't add up, Nash
Well, easy to get things that do not add up when you make them not to.
Everyone was fleeing? Nope. Quite a number was pushed out of Europe. They were simply no longer welcomed in Europe and had to move elsewhere.
There is where it cant add up.
Who was pushed out besides the Jews? Why did they go to America instead of Russia or China?
Quite a lot of people, quite a lot of people. Europe was already engaged in waste economy on a large scale, which left that part of the world with a too much of people that was poured on some other parts of the world in order to avoid domestic unrest.
They did not only go to the US. They went to many other places in the world. They went to South America. They went to Canada. They went to Africa and they went to Asia.
At the beginning of the 19th, the pc of immigrated people peaked at the world scale.
So the living standards of the rest of the world hasn't improved since 1935? All improvements in quality of life in America since 1935 can be directly traced to FDR's policies?
Wasn't quality of life better in 1935 than it was in 1635? FDR and his socialist policies didn't exist, so what gives?
Pardon @ belrev
Pardon @ belrev
I feel better now.
Next month: 8.9% unemployment and 44.1 million on food stamps.
Recovery, baby!
Hello old friend
JPM has a solid revenue stream. Old news link, but investigative minds should review. Follow the money.
J.P. Morgan Helps Deliver Early Food Stamps Benefits to 250,000 Recipients in Storm-Ravaged Kentucky
New News Link
J.P. Morgan Apologizes for Military Foreclosures
Yes, very solid due to graft. Nice to CU, whomever you may be. A farting pig would be excellent.
JPMorgan , a fat finger in every pie
One of my mentors has a nice article.
Mervyn King: From Bagehot to Basel, and Back Again
The developed world has stopped thinking and feeling. Comfortable, lazy, content, distracted by easy entertainment and toys, easy food and clothes, lack of fear of life. Fat lazy rabbits are the easy to catch and skin. Brainwashed by a concentrated and captured media, freedoms taken inch by inch by inch through one trick or another..... then one day they find the people controling the whole system have become their masters.
Countries with limited freedoms treasure the smallest as it were the large. Egypt replaces a dictator with a military regeim. Doesn't seem that great, but to them it is an improvement, one little extra freedom, one little bit of extra power shown in the people.
The developed world had all the freedoms necessary to keep themsleves free...but they let the tools rust in the shed...and it started a long time ago.
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Very interesting take on the world. Would it be revised if offing Libs were legal?
See, you mistake civility for complacency. It is just our sorrow that spawned Libs.
mynhair:
RAH had something about not making it legal, but a misdemeanor like 'discharging a firearm within the city limits.'
- Ned
[Ed. Found it!
http://books.google.com/books?id=Ku8VdZasey0C&pg=PT311&lpg=PT311&dq=%22r...
- Ned]
*fuck*, I should have taken the BLUE pill!
blue = .25 mg Xanax
red=pink =.10mg Xanax
I quarter the blues, and halve the pinks.
Makes trading AVL smoother.
You should try one of those white Bowtie's = 2.0 mg
weeeehaaaw. Real PantyDroppers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alprazolam
I may have the decimal in the wrong place........
far be it for me to read labels...might say Moochelle approved.
date rape much? Because those are 9hr layflat pills
Well...im glad i didnt go to College! :S
+2 bernanks
'Course you missed out on how to crash....never mind.
It's great! Exactly!
They left out purchase Ag, Au, & plenty of Pb.
You forgot RedDot's secret formula, Pb is useless without it.
(Primers are easy to regenerate, Iodine works.)
Thanks for the 'tip'
;)
Experience a 30% mis-fire rate, though. But when the box of CCI is empty...
Bonk the dimple with a nailset, and I'm not too particular, could be the problem.
Zippo QC.
Great vid. We exist in a new Dark Ages.
Feudalism, Serf Bitches.
And the hell of it is, their tax rates were lower.
OT but an epic from Michael Lewis
http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/03/michael-lewis-irelan...
Seed of an idea here.
Come to America. Our borders are wide open.
Just tell them your name is Pedro O'shaunessy, and you're set.
Anybody catch that naked guy in the video? At 1:25
Apparently you did. Is this a hobby of yours?
Being observant is a good thing. Being an asshole is not.
Sorry to have offended your sensitivity. Please elucidate on the earth shattering wisdom you found in spotting a naked man at that time point. I'm truly on the edge of my seat.
dupped again? This site goobermint controlled? Just was trying to get the semi-colon out. See below.
It's called 'streaking'. You should try it sometime, and report back how long it took to get out of jail.
You must work for the SEC. Having PORN withdraws..
Is this a tranny problem? Try Midas.
(They still in business?)
Lighten up, dudes:
http://www.myspace.com/video/vid/5154026
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djg0j_ye28A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whXeb7Ohfkk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1GjyrQiSRs
by
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM7LR46zrQU
Louis H. Sullivan
Louis Sullivan: The Struggle for America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfl0yB9OpMw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH1U8QcEwxM&NR=1
Brilliant colors, check.
They still, in Egypt, live in a fukking desert. Nothing grows there!
Same to Haiti, same to Indosnoozia, same to all Libs hot-spots.
Send them fukking U-Hauls, fer (Charlie) cristsakes.
Send them U-Hauls, to do what? come live with you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN7ehccspao
You funny. Rusty, but funny.
thanks for the short link. I h8 Google, but was surprised this cit was still out there.
Kill yourself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo
O cit, 2 funney!
Satan spawn!
I bow down to the brown skid mark on the shorts!
Egypt was the largest grain exporter in the world during the Roman Empire. It all went to Rome. Now they are the largest grain importer in the world. WTF? Over.
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8=] No..Pan....no silver spoon. I can't claim to have had a particularly hard life either though. 35 years in a shit hole heavy metal manufacturing environment, non union, no $$, much unpaid overtime. Reconstructive lower limb surgery in late fifties. While on disability insurance I received a letter out of the blue from corporate stating per company policy I had been administratively terminated. When my recovery was complete and I ended the insurance claim, the company said I had quit! And I...what about this letter? Unemployment claim was skewered by this and the later claim to the state unemployment office that I was unable to work. There is no question that big business and state unemployment offices work hand in hand to deny benefits. With some congressional help (who says we don't have representatives) I received benefits. 8=] Thank you all.
Frugal living throughout life, gave me a recently paid off small (1950's) house in a nice neighborhood and no debt with the exception of a monumental, in my view, parent plus loan. Death or flight is the only way out of a student loan today, as many of you know. I expect to win on this one! The company pension was morphed and evaporated away to a pittance of it's former glory. I had saved about 200 thou in my 401k when the end came. This should last me for quite a while at my current level of expenditure. I have cut all extravagances like cell phone and cable tv and bought a wood stove. By standards today, maybe I did have a silver spoon, because youth today is totally screwed, no question about that. I never rose high enough on the socio-economic scale to get my hands on the controls to run the economy into the ground, but if I did I think perhaps the first thing I would do is give myself a bonus before hitting earth. It's the American way, eh? So fuck you Pan and the baby boomers!
You are a part of the problem, and Uncle Ben has a solution to liberate you of that last vestige of your wealth on Uncle's timeline rather than your own.
Hmmm...I don't think many people with a bachelor's would trade the 4.2% UE they have for the 9.4% UE of high-school grads (BLS numbers even...) ....especially for 4 more years of near minimum wage employment just so I didn't have to "learn math and stuff".
I don't qualify for any of it, so burn! baby! burn!
2 Baches and a M.
Shoot, one Bach is in Math.....nevermind....
That's IT! Get everyone a Batchelors (BA so much easier) and UE 'problem' solved!
In a sense, yes.
There are plenty of jobs available for people with degrees (even BAs) going unfilled right now while construction workers grow angry about using SNAP to feed their kids because we don't need more houses during a bust.
I have a great deal of sympathy; my father was an apprentice carpenter when I was born and I believe those guys are highly-skilled despite lack of recognition on a piece of paper. A well-made cabinet with nice dovetail joints and drawers that slide smooth is a thing of pure beauty.
I spent a summer in retail when I was a teen and saw how tenuous the positions of the adults I worked with really were. It was great inspiration to do something else (computer-aided drafting, in my case) so I wouldn't end up like them.
Is it fair that the banksters blew a bubble that popped? No, but you can curse the darkness...or light a candle.
what about the fed destroying any real rate of return on our fiat currency by keeping interest rates at zero?
Wadda bout it? You got money in a 'Financial Institution', and why?
In 50 words, preferably less.
I like my AMT card; could take 2 yrs to empty my acct. Get good deals from those hookers.
Hell, they are paying me 2% to give them wet signatures!
Boo-fukking-Ya! Suffer, serfs.
Guess you'll just have to work like the commoners.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnKUUBKLygE
"Life According to the Goobermint"
Cya in the TSA line - not.
I'm supposed to give a cit about you 'unedicated' morons? Think again.
And play AVL with your food stamps 'SNAP' cards.
Vote for morons, you get morons.
Funny, how that works.
CAPITALISM? EPIC FAIL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8RsO1iKNAE
What Capitalism?
Crony-Capitalism, epic fail!
The absolute worst form of capitalism. Dictators seem to like it.
The English are such wankers. It's no surprise that they have been in decline for the last 250 years or so.
I was wondering how the Fed govvies would get $$ to the munis on the downlow.
downlow... too funny, it will be, and is, upfront and in your face!
Fukking CA.......not enough wildfires there, the hole still exists.