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"That One" = dead campaign, but even without it, this was a mauling. Obama slaughtered in this format, even though I was pissed at the way Brokaw didn't let more conversation happen. |
That was my fucking plan. Only mine was better. |
you know, and like how Palin is talking about how they were for regulation, and then saying its time for government to get out of the way... they have no idea what the fuck they are doing, and turning into an abstract oleo of conflcting ideas from various advisors |
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i only got through about 10 minutes of the debate last night before i thought to myself "please say something different" and then had to turn it off. they could at least come up with more finely tuned rebuttals, since they both now know what the others's arguments are. BORING |
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GReatest generation my ass. Tom Brokaw is a punk. |
... speaking of dogs, i just heard an engine start in the distance, then i realized it was my dog giving his most menacing deep-throated growl. then it went on for too long and i realized it was an engine. but my dog is still a bad ass. and will totally kick your dog's ass. or sniff your dog's ass. actually, last time we were at the beach my dog got into a little bit of trouble for licking the penis of a large german shepherd. |
seriously. you havent heard demons until chloe unleashes hers. they come out her mouth. although after eating some cat shit in the yard, they've been coming out her ass today smogging me out of the basement. |
"My fellow prisoners" McCain reaches out for the Alex Jones vote |
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This AIG joke of a bailout has me so gd mad I can't see straight!!! I'm foaming at the mouth,if the minute we give those smegma the money to bail them out while the CEO's who ran the company to the ground get their millions and the golden parachute,and they run out and spend Half A Million of OUR money on spa's and drinks,somethings wrong.So I did all the "right things" and we still might get fecked out of our pension and our savings.It's scarey cause we help the spawn alot and I want to keep doing that. |
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J, everyone tells me to sit tight and wait it out, but you, I might be dead in three years and that would be two before i hit 62 and there will not be a shred of anything left by then. I cannot afford to sit tight. My all knowing 27 yr old son told me last night i would be foolish to withdraw the rest of my mutual funds, saying that if I were going to fiddle with the sextant of my retirement, I should have withdrawn the funds last year. Well I did, and had I stuffed it under the f mattress, I would be 20% richer today than I am. Demand accountability. Vote all incumbents out. Impeach Bush. This whoile mess is just something to keep people in fear and distract from Bush's illegal dealings o the past eight years coming home to roost in the final weeks of his presidency. Don't be duped. Petition to impeach. Bush, Cheney and the Fed and FDIC and Treasury all should be imprisoned along with AIG and Wall St execs who stole from you and me. That is what it is: theft. I don't see them losing their houses and standing in line for gas. We will be lucky if we can keep the lights on for another five years. Darkness will descend and money will be worthless. Inflation rageing, even those with mioney will have NOTHING to buy because nothing will be imported and we don't make anything here in this country. And plastic requires oil. And there will be none. Watch Mel Gibson's Road Warrior for a taste of what will come. not that I am a gloom and doomer, just realistic. The system is broken. Take at least 20% into cash and hide it. Stockpile shampoo and detergent and toilet paper and everything you won't be able to make yourself. Be ready to barter for food, as most of us can't support ourself. And get a gun and some, lots, of ammo. Then call your friendly neighborhood therapist and confess that you think the whole fuckin thing is broken. My cat is silent except when she barks at the moon. |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt_TnQqkVyk Sorry about the profanity and spelling, I was in a huuurryyyeeee. |
the stock market is fickle. |
My broker is so against using a retirement account for real estate even though it is perfectly legal to do so. Why? Because she cannot take fees and commissions off my real estate holdings, whether they increase or decrease in value. So consequently brokers and investment advisors seldom recommend where real wealth can be had, safely. Tuesday of last week, a brand new never lived in two bed two bath condo on the beach in Ecuador in a safe, expatriate friendly 2000 person fishing village, complete with spa and boutique hotel,and inclusive 5000usd membership to the spa, tennis, and docks, went up in value 29.21348 percent....overnight on October 1. Even at its today value, nine days later, it is a marvelous place to park cash and have a chunk of paradise at the same time. I can't sleep, dine, or swim in my mutual funds, which are only losing value every day. BUT if I believed that the system would not deteriorate, that the market was sound, that the USof A would be here in five years, well, I'd be buying buying buying. But I do not think that any purchase of any stock or any fund has any merit whatsoever today, because the system is broken. In London, Bejiing, Wall Street, or Moscow for that matter. How to restore confidence in a crooked system??? Well, let it die. Let the fuckers jump. They've already made their millions off you and me. And I'm not angry at all. |
Wire me 5k, have another 25k ready in 60 days, and we can finance the rest at 8.5% for ten years. When the dust settles, you got your retirement funds in a retirement on the beach that has doubled or tripled in value in a place where gasoline is inconsequential and food is cheap and abundant, and where this sick old bastard can get 100% health covereage including dental by (mostly Expatriate American ) doctors for $65 monthly total and no copay or deductible, solely on presenting my passport and resident visa. LAN has a flight rt from Miami 475usd. Anyone up for a trip? I'm going there to get a tooth implanted this spring, saving 2000-3000$. |
the only problem with the south american retirement is that the whole area is at the precipice of appending each country name with SSR. every plan has its risks. i wouldn't buy securities now. if your money is in mutual funds today, i'd leave it there. if it isn't, i'd keep it out. with a few exceptions, i've been out of the market since 2005. |
invest in your body and your brain, so far they're the only thing you get to keep until you are dead. |
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I've been snooping around Costa Rica and Nicaragua for a long time, then found some Americans in Panama on a little island in the Pacific, and missed an opportunity there two three years ago. I like Ecuador because of the climate, relative political stability, language, and mountains, except for earthquakes and volcanoes. Cost of living and qulaity especially. If their president or legislator is found unworthy, dishonest, or misleading, they get rid of him or her. The indigneous population thrives on a subsistance level, but lack medical care and education which we as expats can give them. In return, there is low cost pure abundant food, reciprocal helpfulness, vital thanks, and honest appreciation of being human together regardless of social class or economic state. Even on my proposed meager social security, I can live there infinitely better quality of life than I can in some south florida retirement village. Which I wouldn't want any way. I would like to be able to stop working, or at least cut back, and stay put. But I don't think it is possible. I don't have much debt at all outside house and car, live frugally and still can afford sushi, grow some of my own food, have a son who can make cheese and wants a cow or goat to manage. But I want to be off grid, more independent than my little place in the woods can sustain. And it is not paid for, and not really defendable from urban refugees seeking asylum. brain or body, a little good architecture, some brass fittings, a good gun, a steady hand, strokes of moonlight through her hair................... I nearly drowned in 1979 in the market and stayed away (except for retirement investing) since. Were there the internet and day trading in October 1979, I would have hung myself for sure. 1979 was a bad year. 80 worse. Instead, I went to Ireland. My daughter died in Feb 79, my first born son in Oct 80. I went to Ireland, and drank Guinness. Stocks lost their allure, and I am lucky my dear wife brought me back from the brink of destruction even in the midst of her own despair. Hard times? Money has nothing to do with them. Life is good, and we really need none of it--it's all window dressing. You, me, Heather, Sarah, Spider, mark, Cat, patrick, Kazu, Sem, Dani, CZ, and J, Droop, and everybody I've missed...and all the rest...that's what's important. |
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_____, get yer gun |
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my aunt and uncle just sold their house in rural pennsylvania, shortly after they closed on a house in mexico. they are SO blowing this popsicle stand. |
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It's interesting you bring up the Amish, though. They are probably the best prepared to weather financial crises, these days. |
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And for semillama, I have seen them around somehwere in southern Illinois and Kentucky. and for there are Menonite in western Illinois. |
because they are the ones who have practice surviving without everything the not-meek have become accustomed to. |
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any fundamentalist of any sort that can't develop what James Fowler called a "universalizing faith" that is inclusive and tolerant of others' diverse and different way...does not so much scare him and me as push me away. Chew my can. Jesus was a but inclusive, doncha think? Burrio The Dancing Burro (show me state, donkey ass) thinks so. Told me so this morning over coffee. Denominizing a faith always excludes someone, whether mennonite or amish or jewish or luteran or nothing. jeez, I can't believe I am entertaining a diagloue with the Dr. Forgive me, forgive me, I will never do it again. Nate, you are correct, again, as always, right one, rock hard, electricity-less! Burrio and I agree with you, and likely Droop if he is around. Hey Droop? How bout them republicans? "abused the power of office..." gawd. |
We all should goten out a while ago, but Danielssss could not find a way to ship me and the Burrio without vacinnations, and I'm allergic to getting shot. And dr. it is BuddhistDRUIDDanielssss to be more precise. Just because you can't type in the King's English does not mean you can't refer Properly to , ah wtf. Old Danielssss might not have shared those leads above, but while he is out the goat will have his way. Heather are the trees colorful where you are? |
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so, the dr. saw a green family? what is this? |
well, if you want to be practical about it, yeah. but if you want to be spiritual about it, it's their reward for not being assholes. |
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"I notice a group, I believe it is family, but, the color is kind of light green or mint color," That was you. You wrote that. |
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every time i drive south on I-35 i past a large, hand-painted sign in the hills beside the highway that reads "christiansrepent.org". apparently they're dotted around texas. i found a picture of another one on this website. i just got home and finally went to the site: repentchristians.org. it's an anti-abortion video, but my computer won't play it - might not be up anymore, for all i know. at the bottom of the page is a link to the "new covenant mennonite fellowship" in austin, tx. aren't there a lot of mennonites in belize? or is that some other sect. i know it's something like that. |
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virus. The good news is I'm down to 266lb. |
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The diet is based on the CSIRO principles (http://www.csiro.au/science/TWD.html); which is more protein and veges, less carbs and for some reason it seems to agree with me; whereas in the past I have fallen off quickly. Its measurement week this week so that should be interesting :) |
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in the past few months i had just started to be able to make a serious dent in getting off the baby weight goddammitmotherfuckingshitfuckdammit. |
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Nate, I had no idea you were writing for the Daily Show! |
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