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I once used a dollar bill for toilet paper.
The damn thing didn’t work for shit.
I bet a c-note isn’t any better.
........in an alternate universe, far removed in time and place, when Yellen was anoited, silver and gold prices rose.
Columbus discovered his wife wasn't aboard his ship.
what gets old is anti american governance, traitors within
destroy a republic, comedians, not so much. they lift the
veil from those traitors.
George Carlin's anti-American profanity is kinda funny at first but it gets real old after a couple of times.
Anti-American profanity.
As a street proficient New Yorker (Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan) living overseas now for 20 years, I can construct a very strong argument that American culture is all about profanity as far as the rest of the world is concerned. And educational pedigree has absolutely nothing to do with it.
And Carlin's famous seven words are Sunday school chatter compared to what you get nowadays...Sherman
"George Carlin's anti-American profanity ..."
Why must we always blame the messenger?
low brow link dropping dead ahead,
seriously.
The Kinks - "Apeman"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HmaAPaP-h0
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It’s always been about corporate espionage: it makes us all less secure…
Posted on October 15, 2013 by maxkeiser
http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/10/its-always-been-about-corporate-espiona...
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The revolution will be composted: adventures in radical gardening
Gardening isn't all about pottering among the petunias: Ruth Jamieson on the rebel gardeners who are using plants to say something political
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gardening-blog/2012/jan/20/radic...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT9FfECB8A8
BBC's Surviving Progress (2011) HDTV
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12 OCTOBER 2013
Moyers: Wendell Berry On Peaceful Resistance To the Savaging of Life By Reckess Greed
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2013/10/moyers-wendell-berry-on...
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The Band - The Last Waltz (full album)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i-m_yaFh2k
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one stop, everything the high brows need to know
yesterday, hand delivered today from 30-60 years ago.
the whole high brow thing is about focused ignorance
in defense of crooked ideology and retention of proceeds
from fraud, manipulation of tangential smoke and
mirror pedagogy. actually , there is a lot more but i have
already abused our host's patience, apologies and thanks
for the greater tolerance!
could Zero Hedge stop quoting George Carlin? He's only funny with the "edgy and pseudo-intellectual" crowd and should not be mentioned in articles if Zero Hedge wants to ever be taken seriously.
Also drop the whole fight club shtick that's annoying me as well.
Holy bat scrotum, we annoyed you!
5 days 20 hours. That's longer than your dick.
Maybe you should go someplace else real serious Doctor High Brow.
Zero Hedge is for the rest of us fringe low brows.
May I suggest: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com
Remember to wear your PhD boxers with the opening over your flaming asshole so Krugman gets easy access.
And later, after he's done, go fuck yourself.
2/10
That's the George Carlin style right there. You may think you are edgy but all I hear is profanity.
Your dagnab profanity detector is set too motherfuckin' low, asswipe!
Rational fucking democracy is a euphemism for pretentious schmuck. Let's move on ;-)
Read it again slowly Mr 5 days.
WB7 and ZH I no take you serious!!!
Don't you want to be friends with Larry King and Henry Kissinger?
I had a dog named Dr K. You should have seen him with the glasses.
Great poster! I like it.
WB... Loved that video but I am lost on this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9OO0S5w2k
I did not see any ZH hats there.
What can be done?
The Carlin problem is laid out as well as can be done in education by John Taylor Gatto. (please try his stuff. Much is out there free of charge.)
As for the property problem in a capitalist way to fix it, try Henry George.
William, I desire not at all to distract from your particularly twisted yet delightful art. But WTF was that ginormous aircraft you depicted earlier today? Sorry for not asking earlier, but I am GMT-5, and was in a swampful of alligators at the time. It struck me as being of 1930's-40's German in origin, but I've never seen that beast before. Please pardon my ingnorance.
Google search: Huge Aircraft. Lo and Behold about 10 images in, you'll find something called a Russian Flying Fortress.
You sir are welcome.
Kalinin K-7, and thank you in arrears! That thing couldn't have flown across Lake Superior. It sure looks intimidating though, doesn't it?
The Kalinin K-7 followed a series of sucessful elliptical winged air transports of Konstantin Alekseyevich Kalinin, the most popular and important being the 20 meter span K-5. The K-7 was originally conceived as a passenger plane carring 120 passengers inside the wing, but Kalinin could only get the Kremlin's permission to build it as a heavy bomber. Six tractor engines and one pusher, 2,000 gallons of fuel, minimum crew of 11, maximum bomb load of 32,000 pounds, completed summer of 1933. Resonance at certain engine speeds caused lots of vibration/flutter in tail booms, so they welded on extra steel angle sections. You might already be guessing this would not end well. On its ninth flight, sudden vibration broke the right tail boom and it went straight in and burned; pilot, 13 crew and one passenger died, 5 crew survived. This put a blight on twin boom designs in Russia, and Stalin was not too pleased with Kalinin, who 'disappeared'. Aircraft of the Soviet Union, Bill Gunston
I thought it was a Flying Squidtress...
I can't tell you how much having you on ZH means to me. I have and love the "Little Feat" album "Waiting for Columbus" , but the Carlin rant is by far the best - besides your depiction of Helicopter Ben as Columbus - and my kids got to see his last tele-recorded performance in our hometown of Santa Rosa, CA. He was the best comedian we've ever had and I miss him.
I miss Carlin very much as well, but he lives on.
The Bernak looking up to the Prophet Carlin - "Who are you?"
Carlin decends from heaven.
"I AM FUCK - FUCK OF THE MOUNTAIN!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnDUqof1KoM
Feel free to use the motif WB7, thanks as always.
A Mountain of Debt in the background?
Banzaiageddon!
WB7 as Michael Angelo!
Well, I sure had tons of fun with the roofing bullshit last week so why not have some more fun this week? This epidsode of "How To Fuck Yourself" started almost a month ago when I went to check on a YMCA in No Hope, MN who had submitted an RFP to us.(I think that link will work) Basically get rid of all of this concrete where the old Y sign stood, and install two more zone to the irrigation system.(irrigation is where I enter the picture) I went there and looked at how the system was set up and it was a Hunter SRC 9 zone clock with 8 zones used and whoever the asshole was who installed it used 9 strand wire.(the white is the common) That means there are no extra wires to work with because they were cheap fuckers. Then I looked outside and saw a 16 foot wide concrete sidewalk where I would have to run wire.
I called my business partner and told him that we should should bid this thing sky high to make we DO NOT get this job. He's the roofing guy and I am the turf an irrigation guy and he was like why? "It's a nightmare", I said. He replied, "Well, it is close to the shop though.". I stated, "I do not give a fuck if the thing is in your living room; this is a nightmare. Bid sky high becasue there is way more busllhit here than you think." We did bid high. Way high. I would not be writing this if we were not awarded the contract. We were three time higher in price than the lowest bid but we got it. Are you fucking kidding me? I asked why we got it and my business partner said that they figured the low bids would do a bad job.
Well, I guess we are doing the job so we got loaded up this morning, four trucks with two towing trailers(our skidsteer loader on one trailer). I guess I never really realized how busy a YMCA actually is. I had never been to one before the initial visit but it was not that busy at the time. This morning that YMCA was packed. We finally found a place to unload and I was digging around through my irrigation crap getting some thing s ready and here rolls up a whole car load of Obama's cousins.
"Hey, you. I gotta ax you somthin. Where is 2409 something Drive?" Moosechell Obama asked. Hell, I barely knew where I was so I had no idea. I noticed that every one else in the car was on a not white cell phone. I suggested that she go into the YMCA and ask. Moosechell asked if I was sure if did not know where the workforce center was. Ahh, now it made sense. That's where you get the free shit from the state. In retrospect, I probably should have told that she needs to drive west 1000 miles and then take a right Albuquerque.
This is where it gets worse for WB7 because I would like to buy another print from him. We usually hire white guys and one of them is making too much money in my estimation and he is in salary even. You would hope...no, forget it. So I am measuring out the irrigation footage we need to install so I know what materials to buy and I noticed the skidsteer down. What is going over there I wondered? I had to go look of course. The idiots had run over a piece of rebar, repeatedly, and totally flattened two tires and tore them up to the point of FUBAR. I had to facepalm myself. I screamed at them, "Shut'er down! NOW!" "What the fuck is the matter with you idiots?!!" Well, now you might as well replace all four of the tires and those tires are not cheap. Then they left the skidsteer running for some reason after it was obvious it was not going to move. Drool streams of anger started to roll down my lower lip. So now that you guys fucked the tires and you will burn all the diesel out too? Those are city boys for you and you all know I am a country boy.
At this point we were pretty much shut down so I go back the shop and here one of the younger white guys is there. I said that it sounds like we are done for today. I like to keep good relations with our guys even if they fuck up. Good grief, I am not perfect either and have made mistakes. So he gets to talking with me and he says to me..... get ready for it ZH WB7 Fans......... "I think we should be paid more."
I do not make this shit up.
Hmmm, maybe you should have offered some work to Moosechell and her posse? That would have gone over real well with the upwardly mobile colleagues.
I always admire people who manage others. I would lose it over something like that, and then they would own my company. But hey, look at the bright side. You could be a roofer.
Hey, its hard work screwing up equipmetn and shutting down the day's job. You think that kinda talent can be found on any street corner? Cough it up Bro.
LOL
who luvs ya baby?
We already pay two dollars per hour over market. I have not taken a paycheck since July. I have some very specific high quality tools for what I do that have taken me many years to accumulate. Tools you won't be able to find at Home Cheapo. The crew knows not to touch them and they know I am anal about it. I let a couple of the guys use a couple of tools two weeks ago under my supervision and they were like "HOLY SHIT THAT'S AWESOME!!!". Yeah, I know.
There is a fine line between becoming "corporate" and being realistic. The guys see me out there with them and know that I will help. I have to help or my family will starve. I think these guys drive by all of the guys they see leaning on shovels that are "working" for the highway departments and think that this is how small business works. It is not.
Re: Things you won't be able to find at Home Cheapo. So, man up (since you haven't had a paycheck since July) and go to Harbor Freight- let 'em use those tools for awhile. Otherwise, fire the whole fkn crew and don't bid on jobs you can't do, yourself.
Brother, I own (an admittedly small) CNC machine shop. You think your skid-steer is sensitive? Think again. You gotta train, then watch and then train some more. They are the WII/X-BOX generation. They have no concept of how shit really works.
I dunno if you have children, but either way, you're not done raising kids.
"So, man up (since you haven't had a paycheck since July)"
I still have some gold and silver laying around. How many WB7 prints do you have? Me, only one so far. I have been in this since 2006 and was a golf course superintendent before that. Before that I was an idiot who went to University and ended up with a BS in Horticulture.
No thanks on Harbor Freight. I might as well pick up a fucking rock off the ground.LOL
Kids? Yeah, I have them. Why? Do you want our two year old male?LOL
CNC operators are always in demand. That's pretty cool that you have that skill.
I use Swiss and German made tools on my pruning operations and I will not prune brushpiles. I actually do ask myself, If I make this cut, what will the tree look like 30 years from now? Most people do not think about things like that.
I guess I need to start taking some pictures of the things I see. The only problem is I do not think most folks would even understand or even appreciate it. It is an art. You sort of have to be fucked in the head to visualize some things. The trees tell me a story. I look at them and I respect them. When I am done and people come out of their or call us exclaiming how nice the tree looks that makes it worth it. You got your money's worth.
Why would anybody prune a brushpile? I am just north of the atl, and we burn that shit. You gotta get over your phobia of cheap tools. You hire cheap people (at $2 over rate) you gotta expect they don't know ratshit from dogshit. You might as well hire the "at rate" folks, you ain't gaining anything for your measly $2. You wanna make some money? Recruit people for $18/hr minimum. Yeah, they're prolly smarter than you, and will eventually put you in the brushpile. You pays your money, you takes your choice.
LOL acetinker. I am starting to like you. The expensive tools are the ones I use and I maintain them as well. I would gladly pay $18 an hour if I could find anyone who was worth it. They just do not seem to exist. I really need another irrigation technician and that's like 40K a year. Ain't happening because they do not exist either and I know EVERYONE in the business in MN. I have been around this game on all sides for many years now. That's why I get to wear a ZH hat if I want to. It's Fight Club if I ever saw it.
A "Brushpile" is my term for a tree that is too far gone because that is what it is eventually going turn into.
Back atcha' Manipuflation! I just hired a young fella yesterday, part-time. It wasn't because of his qualifications- he doesn't have any. It's because it was the third time he came by in as many (working) days, asking if I needed help. The kid seems to actually want to learn the trade. He already has a full-time job at one of my customers', who makes seat cushions for.... Home Cheapo!
The point is, I know where you're comin' from on the "qualified" bit. Very few exist, and many who claim to be, aren't. This kid's gonna cost me money for some period of time, he'll prolly even wreck some shit.
Your biz is quite different than mine, but people are pretty much the same wherever you go, whatever you do. Anyway, this is how I develop personnel, maybe it can work for you.
You would think some of these young bucks would see the opportunities and show some initiative. I am sure that there will be a much more keen appreciation of your tools and even more so, your skill, in the near future.
Thank you Sir. It's has taken me more than a decade to accumulate the correct tools to do a job properly. I refuse to do a shitty job and you need good tools to be able to do that. This is why our bids always come in high. I do not want to be the low bidder and I never am. You get what you pay for.
I think there might be a chance that a few of them young guys might get it. We shall see.
Amen on the tools. My only coveted possessions are my guns and tools. I buy my tools at the flea market, pre-china american steel. I see my friends buy the cheap tools, and I know they don't use them for anything. Home Crapo only sells show tools.
I enjoyed your semi stream of concious writing on a mundane job.
I am in that sort of thing too, except in steel mold making. The slobs can ruin an 800.00 tool with their daydreams. I supply tools far better than most of my competition, but the machine tools push 450k on the high end. Only one other than me has any clue on diagnosing and repairing them. Whatever I know was learned at my own expense., although I know it was some public skool teacher in Obama's universe that really did it for me.
Thank You Sir. I really am a pretty easy going guy. I did not bitch at the guys too much for fucking up today. It is mundane but it is real. It is what happened for a small business today. You have to accept those things because shit happens. I was just as dirty as those guys and they respect me for that fact. We are a very small business and we give the four guys some employment. Sometimes I sit there covered in mud and wonder what you guys on ZH would say if you even saw me.
This is a tough call my friend but I have always wanted to work for my myself. I have stated that numerous times on ZH.
Obama's universe? Can't we just give assholes like that to some other galaxy? I know, I am way out in space again.
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire/pr2003001a/
There has to be some space for the idiots....
I had this issue in one of my businesses. Create a bonus pool, and tie tool loses to the pool. Rework too. Post it big and loud everywhere, and remind them of how much they get, or loose. Shame the violators, and watch how fast they snap up. They might be the Xbox generation, so you need to show them the score.
I never tire of this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTdiq61-VOQ&list=FLSIcLl4SLNDiPv4Mcm9xu0g...
or this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDXtHsz2q6Q&list=FLSIcLl4SLNDiPv4Mcm9xu0g...
Let's see the special paper, the speial inks, the anti-counterfeiting devices, the wages of the people who run the machines and stuff, paying for shipping.......By George it cost more to print US money than what the money's worth.
WB I try to play this video of Carlin several times a year, just to hear someone speaking the TRUTH. Carlin was not so honest during his HIPPY DIPPY WEATHERMAN years as he helped construct the counter culture that has ruined this country.
"Christopho" is spinning in his grave right now. Just imagine if he had had to deal with an insurance underwriter like Ben in his day?
Probably would have never discovered the New World because his banks wouldn't be able to fund his trip with too rapidly depreciating money system.
Another great one.
Thanks
Columbus was bound for trouble sailing with the "Little Girl" (Nina), the "Pint" (Pinta), and the "Holy Mary" (Santa Maria). Not a good combination for a sailor on a long voyage.