tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post4734859843848634532..comments2024-03-28T03:47:46.544-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Greece in the next decade will need 252 billion euros ($351 billion) to stay afloat.Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-16297912265282152812011-10-24T23:48:50.486-04:002011-10-24T23:48:50.486-04:00Obama's plan strikes me as an attempt to force...Obama's plan strikes me as an attempt to force the banks to pass some of the stimulus money along to the homeowners.<br /><br />The Banks (and, Republicans) don't like it. <i>Shockah</i>!Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-75351596823489444222011-10-24T22:14:06.668-04:002011-10-24T22:14:06.668-04:00Jalil meanwhile confirmed that after 42 years of K...<i>Jalil meanwhile confirmed that after 42 years of Khadafy's rule, discussions were underway to form the nation's interim government in a matter of weeks.<br /><br />"Yes we have begun talks," Jalil confirmed. "And this matter will not take a month but will be finished within two weeks."<br /><br />During Sunday's ceremony of liberation, Jalil promised that the new Libya's legislation would uphold Islamic Shariah law. "Any law that violates Shariah is null and void legally," he told the crowd of tens of thousands.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-50113035678559550452011-10-24T21:31:41.399-04:002011-10-24T21:31:41.399-04:00House Dems: Obama's response to mortgage crisi...<a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/house/189367-house-democrats-hammer-new-obama-housing-plan-as-insufficient" rel="nofollow">House Dems: Obama's response to mortgage crisis is insufficient</a><br /><br />"Cardoza was quick to praise certain elements of the FHFA's new strategy, particularly the elimination of new property appraisals in cases where Freddie or Fannie have a “reliable” automated valuation model."<br /><br />Yes, indeed! That reliability worked out so well the last time. We have learned nothing.allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15605114251615293411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-49242190612215865482011-10-24T21:19:26.429-04:002011-10-24T21:19:26.429-04:00"I the long run we are all dead": so sai..."I the long run we are all dead": so said Keynes sardonically. What he failed to mention was that we can also simultaneously have depressions, recessions, plague, pestilence and war.<br /><br /><br />Re: Iraq<br /><br />I must stand corrected. It was my long held and published view that the US would have "boots on the ground" in Iraq for decades. I did not reckon on an Islamic president.allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15605114251615293411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-78102178463775189262011-10-24T21:00:05.258-04:002011-10-24T21:00:05.258-04:0012. Annoy Mouse:
Maineman – California has a sign...<b>12. Annoy Mouse:</b><br /><br /><i>Maineman – California has a significant illegal immigrant birth in anchor babies. The libs here are taxing and breeding themselves out of existence.</i><br /><br />And when those anchor babies grow up they and the families they anchor are all good pro-life Roman Catholics, and the bishops are now telling them they can't vote pro-choice and approach the Blessed Sacrament.<br /><br /><b>18. Morton Doodslag:</b><br /><br /><i>shit holes like North Korea, Iran, and Pakistan, can ALL produce WMD despite their seemingly faltering systems.</i><br /><br />Ever notice that it's the beta males that always end up strapping on the suicide belts, never the alpha Mullahs and sheet?<br />Kim Jong Il saw Qaddafi's double tap (the second tap was 9mm, the first one was a Predator-delivered Hellfire) and you won't see him come out of his cave for the next three months. That's why MAD still works.<br /><br /><b>20. Josh:</b> <i>The scale of the boost we – and the world, and that gets back to us again – get from fracking *should* be just incredible. Even Obambus will come around on that in the next six months, I suspect.</i><br /><br />All these states running red ink which are now cut off from the Federal teat due to a renewed focus on controlling the debt will just look at North Dakota and see that they're fracking and they're in the black. Human nature will take it's course. Libs love to spend money, not slash budgets.<br /><br /><b>29. Morton Doodslag</b> <i>This is one reason Obama’s bowing to the Saudi King was such a heinous breach of protocol – it reinforced the absolute worst possible inferences Muslims could make about America and the “infidel” West.</i><br /><br />Barack Obama bowing to Emperors and Kings bows only for himself, not for me. This is a Republic, every man and woman is on the same level. So if Obama wants to do the equivalent of removing himself to the back of the bus, he can knock himself out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-64386150173502632552011-10-24T20:32:49.689-04:002011-10-24T20:32:49.689-04:00Better them than us!!!Better them than us!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-59843146737294153492011-10-24T19:57:12.187-04:002011-10-24T19:57:12.187-04:00The Federal Housing Finance Agency announced on Mo...<i>The Federal Housing Finance Agency announced on Monday morning new rules that will allow many more “underwater” homeowners – who owe more than their properties are worth – to refinance at today’s ultra-low rates.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Officials hope that by reducing monthly payments, more homeowners will avoid foreclosure, and free up more cash to spend on the economy.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-68128227022915321622011-10-24T19:53:57.198-04:002011-10-24T19:53:57.198-04:00The 40-year-old man who arrived at the Omaha headq...<i>The 40-year-old man who arrived at the Omaha headquarters of Godfather’s Pizza to become its fourth president in as many years had never visited Nebraska and knew little about pizza.<br /><br />...<br /><br />From his first day, Cain gave regular and rousing speeches — peppered with adages that he has revived on the campaign trail — urging everyone at the company to think big and share in his vision of making Godfather’s the No. 1 pizza chain in the world. “If you truly do dream of being a part of that achievement, your creative energies will be unleashed and unstoppable,” he said in a speech to employees and franchisees the month after he arrived.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Despite the changes at Godfather’s, Pillsbury never showered it with resources, and even Cain, he later recalled, suspected that the chain’s days were numbered at its parent company. In March 1988, the company announced its intention to sell Godfather’s as part of a broader restructuring effort amid rumors that the parent company itself was vulnerable to a hostile takeover.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-49997362784764020982011-10-24T19:37:16.659-04:002011-10-24T19:37:16.659-04:00A decision on whether to extradite him is expected...<i>A decision on whether to extradite him is expected in the next few weeks. Speaking to journalists after Monday's Frontline Club appearance, Assange put his chances of being extradited without the possibility of appeal at "30 percent."<br /><br />Also looming in the background is a U.S. grand jury investigation into WikiLeaks' disclosures. Earlier this month a small California-based Internet provider became the second company to confirm it was fighting a court order demanding customer account information as part of the American WikiLeaks inquiry.<br /><br />WikiLeaks' suspected source, U.S. Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning, remains in custody at Fort Leavenworth prison in Kansas.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1514862680325956322011-10-24T19:25:42.912-04:002011-10-24T19:25:42.912-04:00The question on many minds:
Will the Arab uprisin...The question on many minds:<br /><br />Will the Arab uprising lay the groundwork for the next big Sunni/Shia civil war?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-90339583903791735282011-10-24T18:57:09.054-04:002011-10-24T18:57:09.054-04:00Remember well, anon, that Saul Alinsky credited th...Remember well, anon, that Saul Alinsky credited the Dioceses of Chi-town as being the cornerstone of his success as a community organizer.<br /><br /><i><br />In a Politico.com story about Barack Obama’s friendly meeting with the Pope, reporter Josh Gerstein featured information that made it clear that the President’s Catholic connection goes back to his days as a community organizer and that Obama’s associates understand and appreciate this fact.<br /><br />Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough was quoted as saying that:<br /><b> Obama’s work as an organizer on the South Side of Chicago “was funded partly” by the “Catholic Church campaign for human development…” </b><br />He was referring to the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), an annual collection authorized by the U.S. Catholic Bishops which is advertised as a charity to “break the vicious cycle of poverty” but in reality has funded left-wing political organizations such as ACORN to the tune of millions of dollars.<br /><br />McDonough , a former Senior Fellow at the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress (CAP), was the moderator of a May 10, 2006, CAP event on:<br /> <b>“How Catholic Progressives View the Role of Faith in Governance.”</b><br /><br />Conservative Catholics concerned about this problem have documented that millions of dollars of Catholic money over the last four decades has gone into Saul Alinsky-style networks which pursue their own brand of socialist direct action. CCHD itself acknowledges funding ACORN projects with grants totaling more than $7.3 million during the last 10 years.</i>desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-32955329867544923092011-10-24T18:41:05.912-04:002011-10-24T18:41:05.912-04:00This will fuel "the mother of all conspiracy ...This will fuel "the mother of all conspiracy theories."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/10/24/vatican-calls-for-new-world-economic-order/?test=latestnews" rel="nofollow">Vatican Calls for New World Economic Order</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-7859991640715843912011-10-24T17:49:16.628-04:002011-10-24T17:49:16.628-04:00I might not have even brought it up, but for the C...I might not have even brought it up, but for the CBS piece describing how the White House was going to start acting unilaterally.<br /><br />What better, I thought, than to provide a link to a well reasoned piece on the subject of legal routes available to the President, to provide monetary stimulus to the economy, without any further Congressional assent required.<br /><br />Not unbiased, but reasonably well reasoned.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-15334456935267720042011-10-24T16:38:06.901-04:002011-10-24T16:38:06.901-04:00.
"...bizaare..."
A bizarre spelling o....<br /><br />"...bizaare..."<br /><br />A bizarre spelling of bizarre.<br /><br />"...assertations..."<br /><br />A new word or a bizarre spelling of assertions?<br /><br />Who knows?<br /><br />I'm on a free-association roll today.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-40857410762733767262011-10-24T16:30:42.755-04:002011-10-24T16:30:42.755-04:00.
The President has the legal authority, he shoul....<br /><br /><i>The President has the legal authority, he should utilize it.</i><br /><br />We've gone through this before. Your author cites a couple other authors that oppose the minting of trillion dollar coins and says they have to be discounted because of what they didn't write. Yet his has to be discounted for things he did write. Some of the assumptions and assertations he makes are bizaare.<br /><br />As I said, we have argued this subject before and evidently positions haven't changed. No sense starting it up again.<br /><br />However perhaps there was too much hyperbole in my post when I implied the proponents of the coins were 'lunatics'.<br /><br />:)<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-44966586183991385192011-10-24T16:06:22.188-04:002011-10-24T16:06:22.188-04:00That's what a fiat currency is, Q.
A license ...That's what a fiat currency is, Q.<br /><br />A license to print money.<br /><br />Who wields that license, a matter of Law.<br /><br />The President has the legal authority, he should utilize it.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-40067916979493736242011-10-24T16:00:34.167-04:002011-10-24T16:00:34.167-04:00.
Rufus Realty:
The Best Deals on Lunar Landscap....<br /><br /><i>Rufus Realty:<br /><br />The Best Deals on Lunar Landscape.</i><br /><br /><br />I see a massive lawsuit coming from Francis Williams on infringement.<br /><br />Now a franchise? Maybe.<br /><br />I hear he is already expanding his franchises to some guys in Nigeria.<br /><br />However, why would anyone want to own a piece of the moon when they can have an entire star. Plus have it registered in the Library of Congress?<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-52018696571226248492011-10-24T15:45:49.825-04:002011-10-24T15:45:49.825-04:00.
They're welcome to it. Not a drop of water,....<br /><br /><i>They're welcome to it. Not a drop of water, regolith's packed tighter'n a nun's girdle, cain't grow a dadburned thing there.</i><br /><br />Sounds like the perfect place for a new financial center.<br /><br />Or for those who like to mint 'money for nothing'.<br /><br />And the chicks are free.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-45231311799798465362011-10-24T15:42:19.930-04:002011-10-24T15:42:19.930-04:00That is the single most clarifying moment to anyon...That is the single most clarifying moment to anyone that has ever had cancer. It is afterall, company policy that we all die. Somehow cancer makes it real and escaping from its clutch is exhilarating to say the least. <br /><br />No one fights cancer, you either escape or succumb.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-72953131028656018432011-10-24T15:38:24.181-04:002011-10-24T15:38:24.181-04:00Biographer: Mortality motivated Jobs
Man is born a...<i>Biographer: Mortality motivated Jobs<br />Man is born alone and dies alone, Steve Jobs told his biographer. "Does anything else really matter?"</i><br /><br />Doesn't mortality motivate everyone?Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-88656246889015725272011-10-24T14:50:09.303-04:002011-10-24T14:50:09.303-04:00Gotta check on that domain name.
I think we'...Gotta check on that domain name.<br /><br /><br />I think we're gonna be rich.<br /><br />Rich, I tells ye.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-53676425251227562272011-10-24T14:49:04.373-04:002011-10-24T14:49:04.373-04:00Rufus Realty:
The Best Deals on Lunar Landscape.
...Rufus Realty:<br /><br />The Best Deals on Lunar Landscape.<br /><br />5% Down, EZ Terms.<br /><br /><br />:)Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-20593972959259938602011-10-24T14:46:47.707-04:002011-10-24T14:46:47.707-04:00Hell, I'll be happy to sell them any parts the...Hell, I'll be happy to sell them any parts they don't already own. :)Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-10346156477288836622011-10-24T14:40:34.506-04:002011-10-24T14:40:34.506-04:00China could own the Moon by 2026, U.S. space entre...<i>China could own the Moon by 2026, U.S. space entrepreneur warns</i><br /><br />They're welcome to it. Not a drop of water, regolith's packed tighter'n a nun's girdle, cain't grow a dadburned thing there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-31790835211229228852011-10-24T14:14:12.159-04:002011-10-24T14:14:12.159-04:00.
On November 9, the next GOP debate will be comi....<br /><br />On November 9, the next GOP debate will be coming to the hood. It will be held at Oakland University a few miles away.<br /><br />Unfortunately, it will be sponsored by CNBC and Larry Kudlow will play a prominant role.<br /><br />The presence of the faux economist a major reason I will avoid the event.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.com