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Originally Posted By: BuickGN
The government is wasting money everywhere yet they cut most of the diplomats' cell phone minutes to next to nothing so they can't call home anymore. Got to love where they choose to save money. Sorry, I know off topic a little.
Skype or the other online talk/chat alternatives are free.
The government is wasting money everywhere yet they cut most of the diplomats' cell phone minutes to next to nothing so they can't call home anymore. Got to love where they choose to save money. Sorry, I know off topic a little.
Skype or the other online talk/chat alternatives are free.
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Email is free. Unless you're on a mission where either mori/Crown Vic-man/the ?th St. sniper are involved, there's little need for real time exchange.
This one sounds good - actually quite legitimate, for 15 minutes of thought!
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=76485
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=76485
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Originally Posted By: Gary Allan
Email is free. Unless you're on a mission where either mori/Crown Vic-man/the ?th St. sniper are involved, there's little need for real time exchange.
riiiiight.
Im currently in CA in the desert (29 palms) for a power systems challenge.
Ive been out for three weeks. I am not allowed to have a camera on my work laptop because of security. Wait... I cant have wireless on my laptop either.
So don't call my wife and have limited time/access to even email?
Oh thats right... I should have my own cell phone (I do, and BTW, we are only allowed to use the gov't cell/blackberry/laptop for official busienes), and carry two laptops through airport security (which I do). And they do check and certify cellphone bills. Oh wait, someone will complain if I have a government cell phone and use it for personal reasons, and someone will also complain if they hire someone to check the bills... Cant win either way. I suppose the Government should be back in the stone age... or maybe not exist.
Great... thanks for making assumptions for what is allowed and then not even finding the necessity of exchange with my wife... great. thanks.
Last I checked this was the 21st century, not 1859 travel cross country and be gone for years... and I DO have to provide all my own stuff for personal contact, should I desire to make contact.
JMH
Email is free. Unless you're on a mission where either mori/Crown Vic-man/the ?th St. sniper are involved, there's little need for real time exchange.
riiiiight.
Im currently in CA in the desert (29 palms) for a power systems challenge.
Ive been out for three weeks. I am not allowed to have a camera on my work laptop because of security. Wait... I cant have wireless on my laptop either.
So don't call my wife and have limited time/access to even email?
Oh thats right... I should have my own cell phone (I do, and BTW, we are only allowed to use the gov't cell/blackberry/laptop for official busienes), and carry two laptops through airport security (which I do). And they do check and certify cellphone bills. Oh wait, someone will complain if I have a government cell phone and use it for personal reasons, and someone will also complain if they hire someone to check the bills... Cant win either way. I suppose the Government should be back in the stone age... or maybe not exist.
Great... thanks for making assumptions for what is allowed and then not even finding the necessity of exchange with my wife... great. thanks.
Last I checked this was the 21st century, not 1859 travel cross country and be gone for years... and I DO have to provide all my own stuff for personal contact, should I desire to make contact.
JMH
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Originally Posted By: Gary Allan
Hmmm..
Send in the clones.
Much like The Clone War, the Imperial Senate is debating granting special powers ...the republic perceives that they're threatened ..their very way of life is at risk, and the money cloners are ready to put more money in the pipeline to fight the great evil that's about to destroy the Republic
Secret decoder ring required.
I think we have a: WINNER!!!!
Hmmm..
Send in the clones.
Much like The Clone War, the Imperial Senate is debating granting special powers ...the republic perceives that they're threatened ..their very way of life is at risk, and the money cloners are ready to put more money in the pipeline to fight the great evil that's about to destroy the Republic
Secret decoder ring required.
I think we have a: WINNER!!!!
Quote:
It seems the age of
greed is finally catching up. It's
not just greed. It's greed based on
callousness, individualism and crass
materialism. College graduates head
to Wall Street in their mid-20s and
swear or are determined to become
millionaires within the next decade.
When one sets this arbitrary,
mindless, egregious, materialistic
wealth deadline, there is likely the
tendency, to lie, manipulate and pervert justice, fairness and
equity--to get reach quick by all
means and at all costs. And, the
stock market is the best place to
reach this kind of "Midas" ambition.
Every generation has always desired
to be rich and successful. It's a
natural instinct. But, it's taken a
diffferent, irrational, egregious
dimension. Most of the block-buster
movies are reality-based extolling
the lives of hucksters who enriched
themselves with unscrupulous,
extra-legal, unlawful means. The
movie "Wall Street" cited by the
"View" glamourized greed, sleaze and
manipultation of the junk bond kind
in the 80s. "Barbarians at the Gate,"
"Bonfire of the Vanities", "Weapons
of Mass Distraction", and more, are
just examples of such Hollywood
block-buster movies that truly
portrayed our current world based on
the lack of scruples shown in current
Wall Street financial psychosis and
fiscal degeneration. It's broad,
multicultural and de-genderized.
Flash cars, jewelries, posh lifestyles, penthouse accommodations,
expensive dinners, yatches, lavish
parties, costly weddings, costly
divorce, infidelity and consequent,
wasteful litigation lead to all these
roguish forces of financial
adventurism. It's not necessarily to
save money, invest scrupulously.
These hucksters spend just as much
and as quickly as they make the money. They have no concerns and
feelings about other people's money.
It's about the mindset, culture and
psychological environment. It's about
conscience, which a lot of people
don't have any more. It's about
reputation many people no longer
value. It's about so-called religion
people only practice on their knees
when they remember to pray, not carry
in their hearts at all times. All
these waves of counter-cultural
dysfunctionalism have contributed
to people preoccupied with criminal
propensities in the process of getting rich and making money.
Getting rich the honest way is hard.
Reading business stories about how
some thriving, multimilion-dollar
businesses rose from ordinary garages
to skyscrapper offices, global
presence and umltinational operations
show how difficult it is. Almost
all these huge, corporate business
conglomerates that collapsed have
been in opertation for almost, at least a century, or more than that.
They began before the age of automobiles, telephones, electricity,
computers, Internet and modern forces
of globalization. But, they thrived.
Because, greed and egregious Ponzi
schemes were not part of the business
operations. They lent out money wisely. They invested on viable
business projects. They undertook
calculated risks. They expanded
gradually with little or no room for
financial implosion. But, since the
mantle of leadership, decision and responsibilities started shifting
to children of Baby Boomers, we are seeing the result and priorities of
a generation groomed in a different
environment.
Patience is archaic. Rationalism is
dumb. Ethics is uncool. Godliness is
"unprofitable". Honor has little
value. Trust is ancient history.
People who follow these etiquettes of
a civil, religious society are
increasingly finding it hard to get
accommodated in a system that indulges crass extravagance, egregious materialism and get-rich-quick adventurism. It's a malaise.
Igonikon Jack, USA
It seems the age of
greed is finally catching up. It's
not just greed. It's greed based on
callousness, individualism and crass
materialism. College graduates head
to Wall Street in their mid-20s and
swear or are determined to become
millionaires within the next decade.
When one sets this arbitrary,
mindless, egregious, materialistic
wealth deadline, there is likely the
tendency, to lie, manipulate and pervert justice, fairness and
equity--to get reach quick by all
means and at all costs. And, the
stock market is the best place to
reach this kind of "Midas" ambition.
Every generation has always desired
to be rich and successful. It's a
natural instinct. But, it's taken a
diffferent, irrational, egregious
dimension. Most of the block-buster
movies are reality-based extolling
the lives of hucksters who enriched
themselves with unscrupulous,
extra-legal, unlawful means. The
movie "Wall Street" cited by the
"View" glamourized greed, sleaze and
manipultation of the junk bond kind
in the 80s. "Barbarians at the Gate,"
"Bonfire of the Vanities", "Weapons
of Mass Distraction", and more, are
just examples of such Hollywood
block-buster movies that truly
portrayed our current world based on
the lack of scruples shown in current
Wall Street financial psychosis and
fiscal degeneration. It's broad,
multicultural and de-genderized.
Flash cars, jewelries, posh lifestyles, penthouse accommodations,
expensive dinners, yatches, lavish
parties, costly weddings, costly
divorce, infidelity and consequent,
wasteful litigation lead to all these
roguish forces of financial
adventurism. It's not necessarily to
save money, invest scrupulously.
These hucksters spend just as much
and as quickly as they make the money. They have no concerns and
feelings about other people's money.
It's about the mindset, culture and
psychological environment. It's about
conscience, which a lot of people
don't have any more. It's about
reputation many people no longer
value. It's about so-called religion
people only practice on their knees
when they remember to pray, not carry
in their hearts at all times. All
these waves of counter-cultural
dysfunctionalism have contributed
to people preoccupied with criminal
propensities in the process of getting rich and making money.
Getting rich the honest way is hard.
Reading business stories about how
some thriving, multimilion-dollar
businesses rose from ordinary garages
to skyscrapper offices, global
presence and umltinational operations
show how difficult it is. Almost
all these huge, corporate business
conglomerates that collapsed have
been in opertation for almost, at least a century, or more than that.
They began before the age of automobiles, telephones, electricity,
computers, Internet and modern forces
of globalization. But, they thrived.
Because, greed and egregious Ponzi
schemes were not part of the business
operations. They lent out money wisely. They invested on viable
business projects. They undertook
calculated risks. They expanded
gradually with little or no room for
financial implosion. But, since the
mantle of leadership, decision and responsibilities started shifting
to children of Baby Boomers, we are seeing the result and priorities of
a generation groomed in a different
environment.
Patience is archaic. Rationalism is
dumb. Ethics is uncool. Godliness is
"unprofitable". Honor has little
value. Trust is ancient history.
People who follow these etiquettes of
a civil, religious society are
increasingly finding it hard to get
accommodated in a system that indulges crass extravagance, egregious materialism and get-rich-quick adventurism. It's a malaise.
Igonikon Jack, USA
No talk of the emergency pork barrel act?
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/art...FNM,FRE,XLF,SPY
This excrement has me seriously PO'd. No hearings, no alternatives. "The greatest crisis in decades" and they have to laden the legislation with pork to get it passed...
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/art...FNM,FRE,XLF,SPY
This excrement has me seriously PO'd. No hearings, no alternatives. "The greatest crisis in decades" and they have to laden the legislation with pork to get it passed...
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Sure. I'm sure you've either used or heard the expression "Hey- ah ...err ..while you're there"
I'm starting to think it's pure bee ess. They keep saying oh small businesses can't make payroll bla bla bla. They reported on the news about a guy who has a construction company in Oregon and his bank welcomed a loan for new equipment - they said business was slow!
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I'm starting to think it's pure bee ess.
Why did you ever have any doubt
What makes you think anything has changed from the blind eye'd, muted mouth, deaf ear'd crowd that danced along the whole time this thing was festering?
You expect the remedy to be "earnest and truthful" and some "let's get this back on track!!"?? To what? So they can do more of the same???
I'm starting to think it's pure bee ess.
Why did you ever have any doubt
You expect the remedy to be "earnest and truthful" and some "let's get this back on track!!"?? To what? So they can do more of the same???
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081001/ap_on_bi_ge/meltdown_bill_grows
These [censored] just don't get it. I want someone to pass a bill that says all of these sell outs must become ditch diggers.
These [censored] just don't get it. I want someone to pass a bill that says all of these sell outs must become ditch diggers.
I think we are experiencing the largest bamboozle EVER in history. I'm so sick of it, I'm tuning out. Let's just start our own economy, we can call it........Canada!
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This will just mean that the regions of the globe that have no teeth (we pulled them) will have to dig just a little deeper to maintain the very blanket of protection that we (what's is this "we" thing, pilgrim
) provide. Who are they to question how we provide it?
Hey, it's either me ...or them three
Hey, it's either me ...or them three
Originally Posted By: Gary Allan
Sure. I'm sure you've either used or heard the expression "Hey- ah ...err ..while you're there"
Agree there.
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I think we are experiencing the largest bamboozle EVER in history.
And again.
Sure. I'm sure you've either used or heard the expression "Hey- ah ...err ..while you're there"
Agree there.
Quote:
I think we are experiencing the largest bamboozle EVER in history.
And again.
I support the 192 mill for rum producers!
Actually, based on the calculations, they will need 2.7 trillion to put a dent in the situation. Of course this is based on the way fiscal policy is run so the amount necessary may be a lot higher. As long as oil stays high, and gas is expensive this could easily exceed 3 trillion. Nobody wants to talk about getting the oil prices in check so the sky is the limit.
Oil has been coming down some so hopefully that continues.
You need to be positioning yourself to buy while the carnage is at its worst.
Oil has been coming down some so hopefully that continues.
You need to be positioning yourself to buy while the carnage is at its worst.
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Originally Posted By: Amkeer
I am off to get some ice cream.
And I scream.
I am off to get some ice cream.
And I scream.
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