World Tranquility for another Week

[Goose]

Other items I just read about the Noble Prize......There were 205 nominees for 2009. All nominees had to be submitted by Feb 1, 2009. B O took office Jan 20th, 2009, so in 11 days, B O brought peace to the world!! (Gag!)

[scottishmoney]

Maybe BO's real name is Nicolae Carpathia.

[Paint Your Wagon]

Tu quoque Brutus

[Paint Your Wagon]

Can the terminator please pick up courtesy phone nr 9

Budget red after 10 weeks

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ahpLpu9sKLyY

[Paint Your Wagon]

Ah lazy and inefficient syndicated germans making problems for the new iron laydi Merkel

Spain the UK and Belgium do not agree that the inefficient german Opel factories should get the best treatment if these countries are requested billions to aid Merkel

I say let Merkel pay for all of it since they are going to close 3 sites out of germany anyway

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cb96ec9e-b4ff-11de-8b17-00144feab49a.html

[Templar]

Tu quoque Brutus

     PLEASE TRANSLATE--MY LATIN IS ROUGH--WHAT IS "QUOQUE" PLEASE
                   
                THANK YOU VERY MUCH--THE TEMPLAR!

[TwoShadows]

This was not an earned award for B.O. as much as it was a final slap in the face to George Bush by the world. Sorry but B.O. has done nothing and probably won't! Just a new personality that really likes to talk who, quite honestly, is in charge of nothing. He is the new fall guy and doesn't know it yet. Nothing like taking over a sinking ship to take the blame in the end!!! As I have said before, "Brace yourself we have not seen anything yet." The filthy rich are not done sucking the wealth out of the world. It all goes beyond conspiracy!!! The ultimate control is about to be played out over the next few years and all the little sheep are going to be crying when they let the wolf into the barn!!! Sold down the river by all our own governments!

[Paint Your Wagon]

Tu quoque Brutus

     PLEASE TRANSLATE--MY LATIN IS ROUGH--WHAT IS "QUOQUE" PLEASE
                   
                THANK YOU VERY MUCH--THE TEMPLAR!

I do not even know my spelling is right but it is one of two most famous quotations
When Caesar was stabbed to death in the Roman Senate one of the stabbers was Brutus
( his adopted son ? ) Dying he said Tu quoque Brutus which means You too Brutus
 ( stabbing me after all I did for you )

The other is Alea jacta est . The die is cast . Said by Caesar when he crossed the river Rubicon which was forbidden to cross by Roman legions . No way back after crossing
the Rubicon
Death or Glory

I like best the address when Caesar is dead
Romans fellow countrymen; lent me your ear ; we have come to bury Caesar ; not to praise him 

[Paint Your Wagon]

This was not an earned award for B.O. as much as it was a final slap in the face to George Bush by the world. Sorry but B.O. has done nothing and probably won't! Just a new personality that really likes to talk who, quite honestly, is in charge of nothing. He is the new fall guy and doesn't know it yet. Nothing like taking over a sinking ship to take the blame in the end!!! As I have said before, "Brace yourself we have not seen anything yet." The filthy rich are not done sucking the wealth out of the world. It all goes beyond conspiracy!!! The ultimate control is about to be played out over the next few years and all the little sheep are going to be crying when they let the wolf into the barn!!! Sold down the river by all our own governments!

There is a german proverb which like all proverbs is difficult to tranlate
The most stupid calfs select their own butcher 

But remember all those illuminate will need serfs ; because money without serfs means nothing . You can only be lord if the others are serfs

[longnine009]

Can the terminator please pick up courtesy phone nr 9

Budget red after 10 weeks

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ahpLpu9sKLyY

Poor Arnold. He sure has come a long way from this:


To this:


Don't worry Arnold  the baboon in the fed will buy your wallpaper, because you don't look as bad in this  photo  as was originally forecast. You know, your eye brows aren't as bad as Andy Roony's yet.

What did Arnold think was going to happen when Kalifornia has a slavery tax code? I think it's on page 1 of High School Econ.   The productive leave the state or go into the underground economy. But the  sucking worm engine stays tethered to the system.



"There are three kinds of men in this world
my friend, those who can count and those
who can't count."

[Templar]

WHEN CAESAR WAS STABBED TO DEATH --HIS STATEMENT WAS "ET TU BRUTE"--ROUGHLY MEANING "AND YOU BRUTUS?

  I JUST DID NOT RECOGNIZE QUOQUE---THANK YOU FOR CLEARING THINGS UP--I KNOW HISTORY IS FULL OF FAMOUS QUOTES THAT MOST OF US MISTRANSLATE---THIS YEAR  BEING LINCOLN'S 200TH BIRTHDAY ---JOHN WILKES BOOTH--HIS KILLER--YELLED AS HE JUMPED ON THE STAGE "SIC SEMPER TYRANNUS"--LOOSELY--"THUS ALWAYS TO TYRANTS"--THIS QUOTE HAS BEEN TRANSLATED MANY DIFFERENT WAYS DEPENDING ON WHO IS TALKING!

                                 SEMPER FIDELIS---THE TEMPLAR

[Pocketcoins]

                                 SEMPER FIDELIS

Seems like I've seen this  quote some where before.     

[Paint Your Wagon]

WHEN CAESAR WAS STABBED TO DEATH --HIS STATEMENT WAS "ET TU BRUTE"--ROUGHLY MEANING "AND YOU BRUTUS?

  I JUST DID NOT RECOGNIZE QUOQUE---THANK YOU FOR CLEARING THINGS UP--I KNOW HISTORY IS FULL OF FAMOUS QUOTES THAT MOST OF US MISTRANSLATE---THIS YEAR  BEING LINCOLN'S 200TH BIRTHDAY ---JOHN WILKES BOOTH--HIS KILLER--YELLED AS HE JUMPED ON THE STAGE "SIC SEMPER TYRANNUS"--LOOSELY--"THUS ALWAYS TO TYRANTS"--THIS QUOTE HAS BEEN TRANSLATED MANY DIFFERENT WAYS DEPENDING ON WHO IS TALKING
                                 SEMPER FIDELIS---THE TEMPLAR

Very strange . Your quote is from Sheakspeare and disputed
I only find the original quote in Italian
It says YOU TOO MY SON

Tu quoque Brute fili mi

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque_Brute_fili_mi

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/et_tu,_Brute#Phrase

[Paint Your Wagon]

Of course the winner rewrites history
Some say Ceasar said nothing ; others say he meant Brutus was the next to be assasinated

 

the Roman historian Suetonius, who reports that others have claimed Caesar's last words were the Greek phrase "καὶ σὺ τέκνον;"[2] (transliterated as "Kai su, teknon?": "You too, my child?" in English or "Tu quoque, Brute, fili mi" 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Et_tu,_Brute%3F

[Paint Your Wagon]

Ah yes
The top 0.1% now own 6% of everything
A long way to go without being assasinated palls

http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/

[Templar]

  PYW--I AM EXTREMELY IMPRESSED BY YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITY TO LOCATE INFORMATION--YOU ARE RIGHT ABOUT THE QUOTE BY CAESAR--I BELEIVE IT TO BE FROM SHAKESPEARE--I CANNOT FIND MY HIGH SCHOOL LATIN BOOKS --OUR SECOND YEAR WE TRANSLATED CAESAR--BUT THAT WAS QUITE SOME TIME AGO--I WOULD SURELY LIKE TO SIT AND HAVE A DRINK WITH YOU SOMETIME AS MY LOVE OF HISTORY AND TRIVIA WOULD FUEL A GREAT CONVERSATION--YOU PROBABLY KNOW WHO SAID THIS---HISTORY WAS WRITTEN BY PEOPLE WHO WERE NEVER THERE!

                 MY HELMET IS OFF TO YOU AND I AM NEVER OFFENDED BY BEING CORRECTED

                        YOUR SERVANT--THE TEMPLAR

[Paint Your Wagon]

  PYW--I AM EXTREMELY IMPRESSED BY YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITY TO LOCATE INFORMATION--YOU ARE RIGHT ABOUT THE QUOTE BY CAESAR--I BELEIVE IT TO BE FROM SHAKESPEARE--I CANNOT FIND MY HIGH SCHOOL LATIN BOOKS --OUR SECOND YEAR WE TRANSLATED CAESAR--BUT THAT WAS QUITE SOME TIME AGO--I WOULD SURELY LIKE TO SIT AND HAVE A DRINK WITH YOU SOMETIME AS MY LOVE OF HISTORY AND TRIVIA WOULD FUEL A GREAT CONVERSATION--YOU PROBABLY KNOW WHO SAID THIS---HISTORY WAS WRITTEN BY PEOPLE WHO WERE NEVER THERE!

                 MY HELMET IS OFF TO YOU AND I AM NEVER OFFENDED BY BEING CORRECTED

                        YOUR SERVANT--THE TEMPLAR

Templar
I had a matematics and modern language focussed education till age 18 ( I speak 5 languages and understand a few more )
And then 5 years of Louvain university more matematics and chemistry were they even tried to force philology and deontology down my throat
After that I had 3 years of Master of Business Administration with psychology and investment as major and minor
The only latin language I know is from my flemish language classes : because those latin sayings are considered classics .

On the other hand when I still worked for Monsanto I had realised a big project and I got like 5 americans all specialised that tried to understand what I was saying
one chemist; one mechanical ; one electrical ; one pneumatical ; one computerizing ;
I doubt they really understood more then their tiny specialisation part each of them

All my live I have been paid really to resolve problems and find solutions
The system of specialist is doomed to fail miserably
Last week I visited a stomatologist ( 11 years of education ) He wanted to take bone from my wifes hips and fill gaps in the jaw with it . I told him no way we would risk a total anastasia . He was totally lost
He said he could only implant between position 14 and 24 ( that is the upper 8 front teeths positions )
I asked him what kind of supperstructure with what kind of biting capability that would give . He did not know He said a dentologist had to determine that ; but the dentologist had counted on all the bone being there on all the positions . So I send a german language email to the Suisse factory selling the implants and supperstructures for teeths . Friday they phoned me and said they would have a solution and
proposal by monday . Now I got of course a pissed of stomatologist and a pissed of dentologist , as if I care .

To resume . There are several people I would like to have a drink with . And you are one of them

[TwoShadows]

In this world today it is truly hard to find a REAL man or woman. A true friend and a gentleman or lady with no agenda! I suppose its because most of them are here in our castle. The Knights and Knightesses who walk our halls know exactly why we are here! Need I say any more? Someday, if finances permit it, I know exactly how many new states and nations I would visit to have that drink and to shake a noble hand!

[Nighthawk]

Terry, you can shake Joe's hand and mine if you would just come out to the MSNS convention on Thanksgiving weekend here in Michigan. It would be such a pleasure to meet with a fellow knight under such circumstances. What do you think? 

[TwoShadows]

I can only think of 4 problems right now. Number 1 its Thanksgiving, Number 2 would be my wife and family because its Thanksgiving and Number 3 Its whitetail deer season in Indiana and my best laid plans of ending my season on Nov. 14 and 15th may not pan out and last but not least Number 4 would be the weather. I will have to keep my eyes open and see what may transpire in the next few weeks. Thats the best I can do right now!

[Templar]

AFTER THE BIG FEAST---REST ON FRIDAY --THEN DRIVE UP TO THE COIN SHOW ON SATURDAY--WEATHER PERMITTING A BRAVE KNIGHT COULD TOUGH IT OUT--DON"T RULE IT OUT--ITS WEEKS AWAY-

                     YOUR SERVANT--THE TURKEY TEMPLAR

[Paint Your Wagon]

If this is true that Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan were willing to pay 1250$ instead of delivering an ounce of gold and that they were refused because the contracts calls for real gold to be delivered ; then gold is going to double before the end of 2010 imho

http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/kirby/2009/1009.html

[scottishmoney]

Well now it is time for the big political diversion from the financial f-up, gays in the military and gay marriage are back in the fore again.  Now BO has to pander to his constituents for what is 'really important'.

[longnine009]

If this is true that Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan were willing to pay 1250$ instead of delivering an ounce of gold and that they were refused because the contracts calls for real gold to be delivered ; then gold is going to double before the end of 2010 imho

http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/kirby/2009/1009.html

Baboon manager has detected  JP Morgan Chase.  Would you like Baboon Wizard to send their traders some TARPit  bonuses?

[longnine009]

Well now it is time for the big political diversion from the financial f-up, gays in the military and gay marriage are back in the fore again.  Now BO has to pander to his constituents for what is 'really important'.

Well that's different from bush. Not that he knew anything about the military. When he wasn't AWOL ( Deserter after 30 days) he was leaning on a pool cue in officer club. But this is really really big. You see that's proof that BO isn't just continuing bushy's policy of selling us out to the global plantation colonel. Let's give him another prize for that one.  

They don't change their playbooks very much do they?  In the 80's and 90's bush sr set us up for the NAFTA screw job.  Then Carla Hills ( U.S. Trade Representative and hold over lump from the ford administration) came flouncing out from somewhere to gush about how NAFTA will be "good for America and good for Americans."  And then the "liberal democrat" clinton signed it into "law."

[TwoShadows]

So just exactly where is this coin show going to be held. May have to do a little map reading and planning! Been a while since I spent in time in Michigan. Actually it was back in the early 90's. Took my wife up to Mackinaw (spelling?) I would at least like to take the time to see if it is feasable to come up.

[Templar]

  THE COIN SHOW IS JUST WEST OF DETROIT IN DEARBORN AT THE MARRIOT HOTEL--MAP QUEST CAN HELP YOU
         DON'T KNOW THE ROOM COSTS BUT THERE ARE OTHER HOTELS AROUND---AS IT GETS CLOSER AND YOU GET MORE SURE YOU ARE COMING WE CAN GET YOU BETTER INSTRUCTIONS--MAYBE A PHONE CALL WOULD HELP AT THE TIME

        THINK IT OVER--THE TEMPLAR

[scottishmoney]

I might go if I am not parking my carcass back in Ukraine then.  The Marriott is right across from Fairlane Mall, where I have been known to deposit my Mistress with a credit card(she hardly spends anything, gawd bless her).

[Paint Your Wagon]

The official gold stats for nations
(not that I believe them since that gold is probably mostly leased out never to be seen back)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_gold_reserves#Officially_reported_gold_reserves

[scottishmoney]

The official gold stats for nations
(not that I believe them since that gold is probably mostly leased out never to be seen back)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_gold_reserves#Officially_reported_gold_reserves

Conjecture has it that China and Russia own more than they are reporting, and I wouldn't doubt it.

[Templar]

I HOPE YOU CAN MAKE IT TO THE COIN SHOW--IT WOULD REALLY BE ENJOYALBE TO MEET A COUPLE OF KNIGHTS IN PERSON
              WILL KEEP PEOPLE INFORMED OF DATES AND TIMES

                              YOUR SERVANT--THE TEMPLAR

[TwoShadows]

I see gold slipped a little on the market yesterday because no one in politics had anything bad to say about the economy? Guess they are running out of lies? Maybe they were busy mixing a new batch of paint as someone's reality needs a new coat?

[scottishmoney]

Actually the talking heads in the government were saying yesterday the economy is getting better.  Meanwhile here in Michigan public schools have lost a sizable chunk of per pupil funding and will likely initiate huge layoffs.  They laid off 104 state troopers, but kept the all important DEQ Fisheries manager.  Nice to know the fishies are happy but we are not safe.

BTW gold was over $1060 a bit this morning before settling into the $1058 range.

[scottishmoney]

The yacking efferheads in the government can squeal all they want that the economy is getting better, meanwhile gold marches on into new highs with $1065 on jobs and weak earnings reports.

[Templar]

YESTERDAY WAS A FEDERAL HOLIDAY--THAT'S PROBABLY WHY NOTHING HAPPENED----MAYBE WE NEED MORE FEDERAL HOLIDAYS---MAYBE WITHOUT PAY FOR THE GOVERNMENTAL LEADERS?

            I WAS GOING TO SAY WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER--BUT WE HAVE A CITY IN MICHIGAN NAMED HELL AND IT DOES FREEZE OVER--SO I NEED ANOTHER PHRASE

                   YOUR SERVANT--THE TEMPLAR

[Paint Your Wagon]

The yacking efferheads in the government can squeal all they want that the economy is getting better, meanwhile gold marches on into new highs with $1065 on jobs and weak earnings reports.

I still expect a backtest of 1000 or 1020 before we move higher
So I am not buying more miners yet
On the other hand since a lot of people think this is IT they are selling gold below spot and I am buying
Mostly 2009 australian coins on a german coinforum

[longnine009]

I see gold slipped a little on the market yesterday because no one in politics had anything bad to say about the economy? Guess they are running out of lies? Maybe they were busy mixing a new batch of paint as someone's reality needs a new coat?

It would appear that that is exactly what they were doing.  Caking up more lipstick on the  transvestite.

*******************************************************
From the Daily Reckoning 10/13/09:
http://dailyreckoning.com/the-biggest-bust-will-follow-the-biggest-bubble/
"Now, here’s a confusing little item. Yesterday’s news tells us that consumer spending as a percentage of the entire economy has edged up to 71%. Now wait just one cotton-pickin’ minute. How could consumer spending be going up?"

"Hold on, cupcake. It’s not going up. It’s going down. It’s just that the other components of the economy are going down even more."
*****************************************************

[Paint Your Wagon]

To anybody intrested

I think gold is going to make a dollar high today or this week and have a fallback next week to
1020 or 1000 $

I will be (trying ) selling trading shares and buyback next week or thereafter

I read a report another Dutch bank became a State owned rescued bank and that the US stands at 98 failed
banks on last saturdays count

[longnine009]

If we have a Red October some are saying gold will decline some and the dollar and trasheries will go up as people panic and volunteer to run into the slaughter house instead of being led in by the ram and his spinny tunes. The idea of people running into the arms of the exact garbage that caused it all in the first place is so funny it has to be true.

I seem to remember something similar to that in the 1987 crash. Silver was rallying slightly  but then declined after the crash.  I don't remember what happened with gold. BTW, ASE's  have hit an all time high in sales this year and there's still a few months left in the year. Not to mention the U.S Mint most likely could have sold even more if that had capacity. And some ambition.

[TwoShadows]

Kind of ironic that the small neighborhood banks that truly remained banks are still solvent and operating efficiently are still in business and making a nice profit while the greed of the big boys sank them like the Titanic! The sad part is somewhere somebody has all that money in their pocket. No matter what happens the banks holdings and the investments just doesn't disappear. One thing is certain INVESTMENTS are a gamble. I see Time magazine FINALLY is recommending that folks get OUT of 401K's. I have been preaching that since about 2000 and people just won't listen. It was nothing more than a way for corportations and big business to QUIT paying for pensions and retirement funds. Guess who lost on that one? I still see fools jumping on that bandwagon every day and quite frankly its like they don't watch the news or read a newspaper. I tried just last week to talk a young man into buying gold or silver and I could not make him understand?
Like the old saying goes; "A fool and his money are soon parted."


Another huge rip-off in the world today is telecommunications. If Verizon truly does have 80 million customers why is it still averaging a $100 bucks a month for a cell phone? The signals for everything are already in the air in most places? These greed infested companies survive off of the addictions they have financed through advertising and the younger generations are spending millions to constantly say NOTHING on their technological toys! Again, I just don't understand the addiction!

[longnine009]

Kind of ironic that the small neighborhood banks that truly remained banks are still solvent and operating efficiently are still in business and making a nice profit while the greed of the big boys sank them like the Titanic! The sad part is somewhere somebody has all that money in their pocket.

And this crime against Nature of propping up the weak and stupid is hurting the strong banks who should be allowed to get stronger by taking the assets of the dumb at market prices. Mark my words it's a disaster to play games with "Natural Selection."  There will be hell to pay for these bail outs and it hasn't even begun.

No matter what happens the banks holdings and the investments just doesn't disappear. One thing is certain INVESTMENTS are a gamble. I see Time magazine FINALLY is recommending that folks get OUT of 401K's. I have been preaching that since about 2000 and people just won't listen. It was nothing more than a way for corportations and big business to QUIT paying for pensions and retirement funds. Guess who lost on that one? I still see fools jumping on that bandwagon every day and quite frankly its like they don't watch the news or read a newspaper. I tried just last week to talk a young man into buying gold or silver and I could not make him understand?
Like the old saying goes; "A fool and his money are soon parted."

It's not only a way for Korporate Amerika to quit paying pensions. The whole scheme finances the pensions of the Top Pigs who downsize a company to drive  shares  up.  Then the pig faces who fired everyone strike their opitions for millions and put it in an off shore bank. There's a bird that does this (The CEO bird?). It lays it's eggs in another birds nest and then the  other dumb ass bird will sit on them until they hatch. The best slaves in the world are the ones who don't even know they are slaves.

Another huge rip-off in the world today is telecommunications. If Verizon truly does have 80 million customers why is it still averaging a $100 bucks a month for a cell phone? The signals for everything are already in the air in most places? These greed infested companies survive off of the addictions they have financed through advertising and the younger generations are spending millions to constantly say NOTHING on their technological toys! Again, I just don't understand the addiction!

Ha! They're best slaves of all---Manchurian  Candidates whose nervous systems will be rewired to the frequency of cell phones. Then the Nazi  can just turn off  dissenters.  

[scottishmoney]

Cellphones are much cheaper in Ukraine and everybody has them.  They are much more reliable than landlines, and you don't have to wait years for the phone company to connect you up like with landlines in the USSR days.

My USA phone cost much more and it cost much more to send SMS messages which I have to with Ukraine all time.

[scottishmoney]

Kind of ironic that the small neighborhood banks that truly remained banks are still solvent and operating efficiently are still in business and making a nice profit while the greed of the big boys sank them like the Titanic!

The bank my grandfather had his money in back in the 1920s still is very much around, their only expansion was a very small branch in a neighbouring town - very small town bank, only loans in the community and still soldiers on all these years later:



Actually I am thinking of putting a CD deposit there sometime.

[Nighthawk]

Nice note!!! 

[Templar]

MAY I DITTO NIGHTHAWK--BEAUTIFUL NOTE---MAY I SHARE AN OLDER NOTE OF MINE?

           YOUR SERVANT---THE TEMPLAR

[Paint Your Wagon]

A reference to the dot com and housing mania

a contract to purchase one single tulip bulb in 1637: 160 bushels of wheat, 320 bushels of rye, 4 oxen, 8 pigs, 12 sheep, 126 gallons of wine, 1000 gallons of beer, 4000 pounds of butter, 1,000 pounds of cheese and some furniture, clothing and silver tossed in as a sweetener. Of course, such silliness couldn’t happen in our time.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/166481-extraordinary-popular-delusions-and-the-madness-of-crowds?source=email

[scottishmoney]

MAY I DITTO NIGHTHAWK--BEAUTIFUL NOTE---MAY I SHARE AN OLDER NOTE OF MINE?

           YOUR SERVANT---THE TEMPLAR

Looks like it got short snortered at some point, any writing on the back?

[scottishmoney]

A reference to the dot com and housing mania

a contract to purchase one single tulip bulb in 1637: 160 bushels of wheat, 320 bushels of rye, 4 oxen, 8 pigs, 12 sheep, 126 gallons of wine, 1000 gallons of beer, 4000 pounds of butter, 1,000 pounds of cheese and some furniture, clothing and silver tossed in as a sweetener. Of course, such silliness couldn’t happen in our time.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/166481-extraordinary-popular-delusions-and-the-madness-of-crowds?source=email

The tulip mania in Holland was of a much greater disproportion than practically any other manic behaviour including the South Sea Bubble.

[Templar]

THE RUBBER TREE COULD NOT BE EXPORTED IN ANY FORM FROM BRAZIL AT ONE TIME--SOME SEEDS WERE EVENTUALLY SMUGGLED OUT TO ASIA AND THAT KILLED SOME WEATHY PLANTATION OWNERS--MANY IN BRAZIL CAME FROM THE SOUTH AFTER THE CIVIL WAR AND MADE MILLIONS FOR A WHILE--SOME OF THE DESCENDANTS STILL LIVE THERE

        YOUR SERVANT---THE TEMPLAR
         ALSO ATTACHED IS THE BACK OF THAT NOTE

[Paint Your Wagon]

Signs of the time ; they start to sell gold at Harrods
albeit in 12.5 kilo bars  A reinforced shopping bag will be necessary 

Mehdi Bakhordar, managing director of Produits Artistiques Metaux Precieux, said Harrods was the only location in London where investors could buy a 27.5 pound (12.5 kg) gold bar "off the shelf."

[scottishmoney]

Who in the hell goes into Harrods and walks out with  a 12.5 Kilogramme bar?  Even a Kilogramme bar is substantial pricewise.

[longnine009]

A reference to the dot com and housing mania

a contract to purchase one single tulip bulb in 1637: 160 bushels of wheat, 320 bushels of rye, 4 oxen, 8 pigs, 12 sheep, 126 gallons of wine, 1000 gallons of beer, 4000 pounds of butter, 1,000 pounds of cheese and some furniture, clothing and silver tossed in as a sweetener. Of course, such silliness couldn’t happen in our time.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/166481-extraordinary-popular-delusions-and-the-madness-of-crowds?source=email

A merchant sailor passing a shop in Holland stepped in an told the owner that his ship was carrying cargo for the shop owner which made him so happy he gave the sailor a plate of red herring. The sailor figured he'd  go back to the dock with his "breakfast"  but before leaving he snitched what he thought was an onion laying a table. It seemed rather out of place among silks and linens. The onion belonged on his plate with the red herring.  

The onion turned out to be a  Semper Augustus bulb worth 1200-2000 florins depending on which account you read.  Or approx 3-10 years pay for the average Hollander.

After seeing the bulb missing, and putting two and two together the shop owner ran down to the docks to find the sailor sitting on a coiled rope with pieces of Semper Augustus bulb sticking to his face. Hehehehe--only a Squid can do something like this. I'm surprised he didn't look up and say: "got beer."

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a wonderful book. Barnes and Nobles was selling them for song back in 90's.

[longnine009]

The new "mission accomplished."


2008 YES WE CAN!


2009 Yes, we're cautiously optimistic.

[scottishmoney]

I am afraid the next optimistic portrait of Mr. Obama will have him pointing his middle digit to the camera.

[Templar]

  AMERICA'S ROADS USED TO BE "PAVED WITH GOLD"--NOW THAT MAY BE TRUE IN OZ BUT THE ROADS IN AMERICA ARE MOSTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND FULL OF "ROAD APPLES"---I SURE DON'T KNOW HOW THINGS GOT SO SCREWED UP---BUT I DON'T THINK WE CAN BLAME THE IMMIGRANTS AS OUR WHOLE COUNTRY IS MADE UP OF IMMIGRANTS--EVEN THE NATIVE AMERICANS CAME FROM ASIA?

          OH WELL "GOD PLEASE BLESS AMERICA"  THE TEMPLAR

[scottishmoney]

Templar, maybe your roads are better, but ours are barely paved, well they were paved long ago and now they have more in common with bomb craters than an actual road.  Just ask my poor tires and suspension on my cars.

[longnine009]

I am afraid the next optimistic portrait of Mr. Obama will have him pointing his middle digit to the camera.

He may see the same thing coming back to him from the people who think they put him in office.  Too much taxpayer money  is going to treasonous criminals on wallstreet instead of beer  bums in the back yard.

The solution to BO's economic dilemma is breathtakingly simple--I'm sure there must be someone trying to get this information to him:   Let the garbage companies fail. Let strong companies buy their assets at market. The strong companies will get stronger and the economy will improve.  Then for a year or two, (during the election campaign) lets pretend we have   justice "for all"  in this  country by putting financial criminals in prison, if not dangling from telephones poles.  

[TwoShadows]

We don't have a judicial system any longer and have not had one for quite some time. It was taken over by the legal system which operates on a monetary system similar to what we call Wall Street. If you have the money you are above the law so I would cast my vote to return to some old fashioned justice! Been a while since we had a good mob hanging!!! This would save millions of taxpayer dollars if the do-gooders and rights activists were sent packing and common sense once again ruled the land!

[Paint Your Wagon]

What is needed is judge Roy Bean
why not agree defeat like in Vietnam and pack the bags and move out

The timing of Barack Obama’s much-awaited decision on how many new troops to send to Afghanistan has been thrown into further doubt amid mounting global speculation that Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, may face a second round election run-off.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/94a3e314-ba7b-11de-9dd7-00144feab49a.html

[Paint Your Wagon]

France Telecom
25th suicide since feb 2008
CEO refuses to demission

Attaboy
Sack them by the thousand and if they commit suicide you only have to pay like 70% to the widow instead of full social security
One day they may hopefully use the guillotine on you

ref in flemish unfortunately
http://www.tijd.be/nieuws/ondernemingen_media_telecom/France_Telecom-topman_weigert_te_vertrekken.8247123-435.art

[Paint Your Wagon]

Bwahaha
Harverd university pays half a billion cause they do know shit about investment

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aHou7iMlBMN8

[Paint Your Wagon]

BAC reports a billion dollar loss
Is that a lot these days ?

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/263220e0-ba43-11de-9dd7-00144feab49a.html

[longnine009]

We don't have a judicial system any longer and have not had one for quite some time. It was taken over by the legal system which operates on a monetary system similar to what we call Wall Street. If you have the money you are above the law so I would cast my vote to return to some old fashioned justice! Been a while since we had a good mob hanging!!! This would save millions of taxpayer dollars if the do-gooders and rights activists were sent packing and common sense once again ruled the land!

It would be a fitting end to this joke they call democracy. Democracy was invented by the aristocrats to turn  mob rule against the mobs. It was a brilliant idea--let mob "A" tie up time resources and politicians to steal from  mob "B." Let Mob "B" use time resources and politicians to defend against Mob "A." Four years later let them  "throw out the bums" and put new bums in, call it something snazzy like "morning in America" or "the new frontier"  and simply reverse the order of offense and defense.  

If you do it right the mobs won't have any time or energy to be waxing the grooves in the guillotine. Unless of course they run out of "resources" to steal from each other. IMO,  this  is already the case. It just hasn't burned through the Prozac fog yet.  Perhaps Monday--the 22nd  anniversary of the 1987 crash will be the big burn through day?  

Roll out the guillotines and grease 'em up with Old Yeast & Stuff beer.

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"Democracy is the theory that the common
people know what they want, and deserve to
get it good and hard."

H.L Mencken

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[Templar]

IT MIGHT BE THE ANSWER TO REPEAT OFFENDERS AND OVERCROWDING IN OUR JAILS---ONE THING I DON'T UNDERSTAND IS WHY WE DON'T CASTRATE CONVICTED SEX OFFENDERS---AND PLEASE DON'T GIVE ME THE CRUEL AND INHUMANE  ROUTINE----THEY CAN ALWAYS GET A JOB SINGING IN THE POPE'S CHOIR!

                 ENOUGH IS ENOUGH---TEMPLAR

[longnine009]

France Telecom
25th suicide since feb 2008
CEO refuses to demission

Attaboy
Sack them by the thousand and if they commit suicide you only have to pay like 70% to the widow instead of full social security
One day they may hopefully use the guillotine on you

ref in flemish unfortunately
http://www.tijd.be/nieuws/ondernemingen_media_telecom/France_Telecom-topman_weigert_te_vertrekken.8247123-435.art

They were probably vampires anyway so they're not dead. 

[longnine009]

THEY CAN ALWAYS GET A JOB SINGING IN THE POPE'S CHOIR!

                 ENOUGH IS ENOUGH---TEMPLAR

That would be the first place to look for sex offenders.

[Nighthawk]

LOL! 

[Paint Your Wagon]

IT MIGHT BE THE ANSWER TO REPEAT OFFENDERS AND OVERCROWDING IN OUR JAILS---ONE THING I DON'T UNDERSTAND IS WHY WE DON'T CASTRATE CONVICTED SEX OFFENDERS---AND PLEASE DON'T GIVE ME THE CRUEL AND INHUMANE  ROUTINE----THEY CAN ALWAYS GET A JOB SINGING IN THE POPE'S CHOIR!

                 ENOUGH IS ENOUGH---TEMPLAR

I read somewhere that repeated offenders can get free from a lifelong sentence if they agree to a lobotomy .
They should however like in the Hannibal Procter film serve the forebrain fried over a fresh tossed salad as a free extra .

[Paint Your Wagon]

The Belgian jails are overcrowded
( an ex minister is publishing a book fully denied by 6 of the 7 political parties ; that more then half our prisoners are illigal immigrants speaking french in the best case )
This is probably why dutch speaking holland just rented out a complete prison to belgium for like 10 years . The prisoners will howerver be treated
horribly ( that is the same as the dutch prisoners ) Imagine the torture of dutch food
It would be like an american that never ever got a Mc Donalds hamburger again 

[Templar]

WITH WINTER COMING ON AND UNEMPLOYMENT SO HIGH--SOME AMERICANS WILL TURN TO CRIME TO TRY AND GET TIME IN JAIL--ITS WARM--THREE MEALS A DAY--MEET NEW/OLD FRIENDS---LEARN NEW SKILLS--READ LAW BOOKS SO THEY CAN SUE THE STATE LATTER AND SETTLE OUT OF COURT---THE PHRASE "CRIME DOESN'T PAY" APPLIES ONLY TO THE HONEST AND REAL STUPID PEOPLE--AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY--1900--I BELIEVE THERE WERE ABOUT 20 CRIMES PUNISHABLE BY DEATH----BUT WE ARE MORE CIVILIZED NOW???

               JUST AN OBSERVATION--THE TEMPLAR

[Paint Your Wagon]

The do gooders know no bounderies

China still executes "bad" people

[Nighthawk]

WITH WINTER COMING ON AND UNEMPLOYMENT SO HIGH--SOME AMERICANS WILL TURN TO CRIME TO TRY AND GET TIME IN JAIL--ITS WARM--THREE MEALS A DAY--MEET NEW/OLD FRIENDS---LEARN NEW SKILLS--READ LAW BOOKS SO THEY CAN SUE THE STATE LATTER AND SETTLE OUT OF COURT---THE PHRASE "CRIME DOESN'T PAY" APPLIES ONLY TO THE HONEST AND REAL STUPID PEOPLE--AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY--1900--I BELIEVE THERE WERE ABOUT 20 CRIMES PUNISHABLE BY DEATH----BUT WE ARE MORE CIVILIZED NOW???

               JUST AN OBSERVATION--THE TEMPLAR

I had a lady friend tell me this morning at church that she had been mugged the other day over in DH while she was bringing home a very sick niece from the hospital. After she got the girl inside the house, she went back out to her car to get some things, and some guy pushed her into the car and took her purse off her arm, badly bruising her arm in the process. The crook got away with her purse and everything in it. Cops could not locate him. Somebody ever tries that on me is gonna be one sorry bastard!!! 

[Paint Your Wagon]

http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2009/10/regional-currency-sucre-for-central-and.html

Alba to make SUCRE ( that is french for sugar  they are going to pay in sugar  )

[Paint Your Wagon]

Those GM dudes surely know how to TALK

A long article to say GM choose Magna as a partner when they learned only Magna gets billions of euro from Germany
And everybody knows this is illigal competitions under EC rules . So now they are trying to find a solution ; but with
the UK and Spain and Belgium against Germany that may take some cowdealing

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703816204574481272272971490.html

[Paint Your Wagon]

WITH WINTER COMING ON AND UNEMPLOYMENT SO HIGH--SOME AMERICANS WILL TURN TO CRIME TO TRY AND GET TIME IN JAIL--ITS WARM--THREE MEALS A DAY--MEET NEW/OLD FRIENDS---LEARN NEW SKILLS--READ LAW BOOKS SO THEY CAN SUE THE STATE LATTER AND SETTLE OUT OF COURT---THE PHRASE "CRIME DOESN'T PAY" APPLIES ONLY TO THE HONEST AND REAL STUPID PEOPLE--AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY--1900--I BELIEVE THERE WERE ABOUT 20 CRIMES PUNISHABLE BY DEATH----BUT WE ARE MORE CIVILIZED NOW???

               JUST AN OBSERVATION--THE TEMPLAR

I had a lady friend tell me this morning at church that she had been mugged the other day over in DH while she was bringing home a very sick niece from the hospital. After she got the girl inside the house, she went back out to her car to get some things, and some guy pushed her into the car and took her purse off her arm, badly bruising her arm in the process. The crook got away with her purse and everything in it. Cops could not locate him. Somebody ever tries that on me is gonna be one sorry bastard!!! 

A seventy plus retired nurse doing voluntary work 5 days a week in the univ hospital got her skull cracked for 15 euro
when during winter dark she left the hospital . She was a friend of my mother and luckely it was an hairline crack without
lifetrhreatening consequences . She did not even see the evildoer .

[Templar]

ANY CRIME AGAINST THE ELDERLY SHOULD ADD AN AUTOMATIC 10 YEARS TO THE SENTENCE!
               THE TEMPLAR

[longnine009]

Time to play pass the buck.
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http://tinyurl.com/baboon-world

"The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a blistering report on how profit motives had undermined the integrity of ratings at Moody's and its main competitors, Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor's , in July 2008 , but the full extent of Moody's internal strife never has been publicly revealed."
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Funny, I don't recall the SEC issuing a  "blistering report" on themselves or their 10 year trip to the break room.

[longnine009]

PYW my little experiment of switching from trac ll razors to a safety razor has been an enormous success. It didn't start out that way since I totally forgot how use one. They made us use trac ll's in boot camp and I just kept on using them all these years and getting ripped.

I bought 100 blades through Amazon for $16 and now I got it down to where I can get 13 shaves on each blade if I reverse  the blade when I'm done and if I keep rotating the razor as I shave. That's pretty close to the same number I got from  trac ll's  @ $14 for 10  

Oh yeah, you can't press as hard or go as fast with a safety razor as with a Trac ll. I found that out the first day after my face looked like it met up with  Freddy Krueger. But I'm very happy with it. I spit on Trac ll's and the thieves that sell them.


 Freddy, there's a huge, fat, over weight belt where you can sharpen those  blades in the DC. In fact it's called the beltway. Give it go pal.

[Paint Your Wagon]

I am very allergical ; so dry shaving is out
I have used all my life the very old fashioned Wilkinson blades ( teflon coated steel ) in a 40 year old safety holder
When I haven't slept well I cut my chin

I get 14 days out of one blade by rotating like you do . Also the trick is to clean them under streaming water and only very slightly wipe them so as not to disturb the teflon coating . I use shaving foam which lasts me ages and milky aftershave to prevent rash .

[Templar]

GROW A BEARD--IT ADDS 10 MINUTES TO YOUR DAY--KEEPS YOU WARN WHEN THE WIND BLOWS AND CATCHES SOUP BEFORE IT HITS THE SHIRT

         YOUR SERVANT---THE TEMPLAR

[Paint Your Wagon]

Merkel is not happy
She had to offer the 4.5 billion state aid to ALL companies and not only to Magna
This is the first step to comply with EC rules

[longnine009]

She looks risen from the dead just like my computer. I couldn't get this thing to boot for three days and then all of a sudden it just started up this morning. If you see me suddenly disappear from this thread it's not for lack of Interest. On the contrary, it's all just starting to get  interesting.

I've been listening to talk radio for the last few days. Seems they're all in huff over Ron Bloom's  (the  Czar of Manufacturing, whatever that's suppose to be. Hamburger flipping I guess) Mao quote. "Look look! he quoting a communist!" And they're all in a tizzy about BO's demand that 25 welfare scumbags take a pay cut. "Look, look! He's dictating how much CEO's can make." Followed by dire warnings that pay caps will cause "top talent" to leave.  Really! They said that "top talent." They're not even as good as baboons. But I guess that's just another point for people to pick at.

IMO, as long a people keep following BO's bouncing ball they won't be able to see what's really happening. This country and the world are being taken over not by communists or socialists but korporate fascists. Not that it really matters whether mao shoots you in the head or hitler. What matters is the world can stop these pukes in their tracks. But not if they aren't even looking in the right direction.

Maybe after Nature slaps down the Baboon twins for playing with natural selection, I'll be able to get another computer for $29.95? Otherwise I'm kind a burned out on this Internet thingy. If it wasn't for KOTCT and this thread I'd be Long Gone longnine.  BTW, I think there was an error dealer once called   Long Gone Davenport.  

[Paint Your Wagon]

I knew a magician once who was called Davenport

Bank nr 100 , bankrupt this year in the US , is now a number in the rearview mirror

I was pissed off most of this week because a member of the american master race she could not understand
that a Flemish gave her the finger
They wanted to hire me for 8 days at 250$ a day and after I spend half a day updating my CV she asked for 9 years of references and then she wanted to talk to me about both . She wanted a specialist in Environment, Safety, Health and Quality. After spending a day for free allready
I said NO which most americans do not understand so I repeated NO NO NO I do not need the stinking money and I do not need the stinking stress nor agravation of being a slave at that price. Afterwards I got a plea for reconsideration from the intermediary of course who was getting 1250$ a day for selling me and doing nothing else . Whence I am pissed off because I allready bought 2000 $ of goldcoins 

Well never mind ; she can allways take two or three people at 150 a day  and they will probably carry her satchel . Last time with my first company the whole lot wanted a trip to Paris and everything arranged.
Which I did since it was not my money and company time .

[Templar]

 
  PYW--I MUST ADMIT THAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND ALL OF WHAT YOU ARE SAYING--MAYBE IT IS JUST A CULTURAL THING--BUT I HAVE TO ADMIRE YOUR KEEN ABILITY TO RECOGNIZE FERTILIZER NO MATTER HOW IT IS PACKAGED---YOU MUST BE A PRODIGIOUS READER AND THAT I TRUELY ADMIRE--I AM SO CONFUSED AT THE SHEER CRAP THAT THE POLITICIANS AND CORPORATE GIANTS PASS OFF AS THINGS TO HELP THE ECONOMY--IN AMERICA--SOME PEOPLE ARE BUYING AMMUNITION BY THE CASES--NOT BOXES---AND THAT DOESN'T INCLUDE THE HUNTERS---NOV.15TH --DEER SEASON OPENS IN MICHIGAN FOR FIREARMS---ABOUT 700,000 WILL TAKE PART--AND THAT IS JUST IN ONE OF 50 STATES----THIS ISN'T MY FATHER'S COUNTRY!

                   THE TEMPLAR

[Paint Your Wagon]

The English used to make cans labeled bullshit repellant
( they had rose perfume inside  )

Those were the high days of London and Carnaby street and Speakers Corner etc

The pecking order with consultants is Certifiers of 9001 and 14001 first ( 1000 to 1200 euro a day plus all expenses )
First grade consultants 700 to 1000 a  day
Mediators 600 -800 euro a day
Independant workers with their own incorperation 66% of the gross take ( mostly 66 % of 900-1000 )
Independant workers with a firm that does all the government tax and social security reporting like me 500 euro gross

So my  "firm"  gets 1000 euro of which they pay 500 to the "temp" firm who pays me 220 euro plus travel expenses net having deducted like 100 euro for their "contribution"  paying taxes and social security and providing the government docs

Now in a "normal" audit I would be the Lead Auditor ; undisputed boss and final say , but at the mercy of the client asking stupid questions before and after which of course is non paid time . My non paid "service time" hovered around 20% but with a 3 hours lunch every day I did not mind .

In this case there is an american lead auditor of an international firm hiring a medium qual servicer who asked his brother witch is a bottomfeeder 6 persons company to be the headhunter who "found" me . So two "paid providers" in between
The american lead auditor is paying top dollars to the first in the feeding line expecting me with ten times her qualifications to roll over and sit when she commands so . I allready spend a day for free up front assembling CV and Qualifications which normally never are questiond in Belgium and then was asked to "discuss my CV and qualifications " with this third rate internal auditor ( I have 9 years international full time experience and am government recognised as legal expert on environmental matters for 3 jurisdictions )

I smell 15 minute fast food lunches and lots of make work paperwork after hours unpaid
So they can forget it cause not enough of the money reaches me to roll over and work 50% extra for free reporting and probably entertaining the american auditor for 8 days ; including scheduling a trip to Paris for the weekend . I have been there and done that for a fulltime mgr salary .
After my refusal my contact started including sweeteners like travel money and offered paying for my lost day that confirmed that the two intermidiate companies had in mind to screw me in the first place and were getting desperate losing all that "free" money . Once I say NO then I never reconsider unless they double the price and spell out in full the requirements so nothing goes for free .

[longnine009]

Bank nr 100 , bankrupt this year in the US , is now a number in the rearview mirror

If krapitalists were any more  clue-less they'd be  gazelles skipping into a Lions' Pride-- "Hey dudes, how about a free lunch."

There's more and more talk about regional currencies to replace the dollar. Anyone who thinks the world can't live without our wallpaper is going to be both surprised and surprisingly broke.

I said NO which most americans do not understand so I repeated NO NO NO  

Too many syllables.  

[Paint Your Wagon]

According to the flemish time newspaper BO declared a national state of emergency on saturday
with as an excuse that there are 1000 dead of the mex flu

Shoot anybody who complains about giving million dollar bonusses to bankers since it is against national security
Shoot anybody who refuses dollars since it is against national security

BO and the islanders known as Brittishers are going to be surprised what Germany-France can do without him ( the rest of the Euro community are just slave followers )

I think it may be time to change the title of this thread in world tranquility for another day
Sinclair has like 25 days untill final disaster on his count down

[longnine009]

According to the flemish time newspaper BO declared a national state of emergency on saturday
with as an excuse that there are 1000 dead of the mex flu

What's BO's  "emergency,"  Biotecs not hitting their ROI projections?

You see what happens when I get back on the Internet. Now I could have listened to the  Limbaugh on drama queen  radio after that report came out. It is sooo cool to sit there and  watch rabies froth seeping through the radio speakers.  

I got this email below from a fellow Knight the other day.  Pretty sad when Internet jokes make more sense than corporate "top talent." And the people who make up the jokes never ask for a $200 million dollar bonus either:

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Kind of funny, but true.

Subject: Fwd: Fw: Stimulus Payment

Sometime this year, we taxpayers may again receive an Economic Stimulus
payment.  This is a very exciting new program.  I will explain it using
a "Q and A" format:

Q. What is an Economic Stimulus payment?
A.  It is money that the federal government will send to taxpayers.

Q.  Where will the government get this money?
A.  From taxpayers.

Q.  So the government is giving me back my own money?
A.  Only a smidgen.

Q.  What is the purpose of this payment?
A.  The plan is that you will use the money to purchase a
high-definition TV set, thus stimulating the economy.

Q.  But isn't that stimulating the economy of China ?
A.  Shut up.

Below is some helpful advice on how to best help the US economy by
spending your stimulus check wisely:

*      If you spend the stimulus money at Wal-Mart, the money will go
to China .
*      If you spend it on gasoline, your money will go to the Arabs.
*      If you purchase a computer, it will go to India .
*      If you purchase fruit and vegetables, it will go to Mexico ,
Honduras and Guatemala .
*      If you buy a car, it will go to Japan .
*      If you purchase useless stuff, it will go to Taiwan .
*      If you pay your credit cards off, or buy stock, it will go to
management bonuses and they will hide it offshore.

Instead, keep the money in America by:

1      spending it at yard sales, or
2      going to ball games, or
3      spending it on prostitutes, or
4      beer, or
5      tattoos.

(These are the only American businesses still operating in the US .)

I'm going to go to a ball game with a tattooed prostitute that I met at
a yard sale and we're going to drink beer all day!  
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[TwoShadows]

Does she have a sister? I want to go too!!!

[longnine009]

Sound more like a description of my computer. Even the crabs have herpes.  Where'd  I put that can of  Black Flag

[Paint Your Wagon]

It has been a very bad weekend

President Obama declares H1N1 flu a national emergency
By Michael D. Shear and Rob Stein
Saturday, October 24, 2009; 12:58 PM

[Paint Your Wagon]

You better burry that silver in a lead pipe under a steel plate 3 feet deep
Brittish cousins showing how it has to be done

Secret court seizes £3.2bn from elderly… and even forces furious families to pay to access own bank account
By JASON LEWIS, MAIL ON SUNDAY WHITEHALL EDITOR
Last updated at 5:14 PM on 25th October 2009

A secret court is seizing the assets of thousands of elderly and mentally impaired people and turning control of their lives over to the State – against the wishes of their relatives.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1222764/Secret-court-seizes-3-2bn-elderly-mentally-impaired.html#ixzz0Uznp72R6

[Paint Your Wagon]

300 pages of unsold houses say it all

Detroit house auction flops for urban wasteland
Sun Oct 25, 2009 4:07pm EDT
By Kevin Krolicki

DETROIT (Reuters) – In a crowded ballroom next to a bankrupt casino, what remains of the Detroit property market was being picked over by speculators and mostly discarded.

After five hours of calling out a drumbeat of "no bid" for properties listed in an auction book as thick as a city phone directory, the energy of the county auctioneer began to flag.

"OK," he said. "We only have 300 more pages to go."

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE59O17F20091025?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=11604&sp=true

[Paint Your Wagon]

Bank 107 gone belly up
Now the most seem to be in FL ( Fine Life state )

Bank Closing Information
October 23, 2009

These links contain useful information for the customers and vendors of these closed banks.

First Dupage Bank, Westmont, IL
Riverview Community Bank, Otsego, MN
Bank of Elmwood, Racine, WI
Hillcrest Bank Florida, Naples, FL
Flagship National Bank, Bradenton, FL
American United Bank, Lawrenceville, GA
Partners Bank, Naples, FL

http://www.fdic.gov/

[longnine009]

It has been a very bad weekend

President Obama declares H1N1 flu a national emergency
By Michael D. Shear and Rob Stein
Saturday, October 24, 2009; 12:58 PM

And a bad weekend for Merck. Profits down 28% for the 3rd quarter.  Maybe they're having a "national emergency too" ?

[longnine009]

300 pages of unsold houses say it all

Detroit house auction flops for urban wasteland
Sun Oct 25, 2009 4:07pm EDT
By Kevin Krolicki

DETROIT (Reuters) – In a crowded ballroom next to a bankrupt casino, what remains of the Detroit property market was being picked over by speculators and mostly discarded.

After five hours of calling out a drumbeat of "no bid" for properties listed in an auction book as thick as a city phone directory, the energy of the county auctioneer began to flag.

"OK," he said. "We only have 300 more pages to go."

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE59O17F20091025?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=11604&sp=true

Detroit is going to be an interesting dilemma for BO. Option #1 If he bails them out in any way there will be about 10,000 other cities with their hands out. I'm beginning to see why the  sea hag from San Francisco had so much interest in saving GM. That nexus stuff worked so well for Kalifornia for collecting sales taxes, why not for collecting a bail out?--We have established a nexus with Detroit by helping GM, give us money.

Option #2  BO  and Michigan do nothing to save Detroit, and it is left to it's own devices. It will become a 100% black market  city with no rules, no regulations, no government lumps driving around bothering people-- unless they have a fetish for getting their eyes dotted with a 9mm.  Lots of chaos, anarchy and feudal wars. It would be like a third world street bazaar where vendors have to sell things that people actually need and want rather than things that the  Pork Rind Czar says is mandatory to buy.

Wait just one second here...[scratch head]. Isn't this what a free market would look like if it was really free? We can't have that in Amerika.  By God, do know what could even happen? People might get together and buy abandoned buildings from the city. They might start running their own factories and competing with china. This is going down hill fast now.  Doesn't anyone remember how the Italians found hidden shoe factories back in the 80's. The little bastards were producing shoes without any government supervision and without filling out the proper pile of papers.

It could even get worse. People might pool their own money and just issue themselves stock certificates without getting them blessed first by a golden sach-bag.  Oh that's it!!!!   Option #3 Send in the Guard and declare martial law.

[Templar]

DETROIT HAS HAD A SECOND SOURSE OF INCOME FOR MANY YEARS---FOOD STAMPS ARE BOUGHT FOR ABOUT 1/2 FACE--AND THEN YOU COULD USE THE MONEY TO BUY LOTTERY TICKETS--SMOKES--AND BOOZE--BUS TICKETS AND TRANSFERS ARE USED AS MONEY---TWO OR MORE FAMILIES LIVE IN ONE HOUSE BUT EACH FAMILY GETS RENT AND SUPPLEMENTERY AID--IT GOES ON AND ON--SOME PEOPLE USE TO REGISTER IN OHIO AND MICHGAN AND COLLECT AID FROM BOTH STATES--BUT COMPUTERS HAVE CUT INTO THAT SOMEWHAT---IT is A JOKE AT BEST---AND THE BARTERING SYSTEM IS ALIVE AND WELL--THUS NO TAXES COLLECTED FOR THE GOVERNMENTS--IT IS UNIQUE TO SAY THE LEAST!

          YOUR SERVANT(CAN I GET YOU SOMETHING)---THE TEMPLAR

[longnine009]

I see hobo lover in your sig line. Do you collect hobo nickels?

[longnine009]

DETROIT HAS HAD A SECOND SOURSE OF INCOME FOR MANY YEARS---FOOD STAMPS ARE BOUGHT FOR ABOUT 1/2 FACE--AND THEN YOU COULD USE THE MONEY TO BUY LOTTERY TICKETS--SMOKES--AND BOOZE--BUS TICKETS AND TRANSFERS ARE USED AS MONEY---TWO OR MORE FAMILIES LIVE IN ONE HOUSE BUT EACH FAMILY GETS RENT AND SUPPLEMENTERY AID--IT GOES ON AND ON--SOME PEOPLE USE TO REGISTER IN OHIO AND MICHGAN AND COLLECT AID FROM BOTH STATES--BUT COMPUTERS HAVE CUT INTO THAT SOMEWHAT---IT is A JOKE AT BEST---AND THE BARTERING SYSTEM IS ALIVE AND WELL--THUS NO TAXES COLLECTED FOR THE GOVERNMENTS--IT IS UNIQUE TO SAY THE LEAST!

          YOUR SERVANT(CAN I GET YOU SOMETHING)---THE TEMPLAR

ummm, barter and beer, I like it already. What about boot-leg cigs? And armor support? 

[Paint Your Wagon]

The final dollar correction is at last happening driving the price of gold down
This week probably is my buying op 

Free markets are so fucked up
This year our cherry harvest was tremendous and nearly all cherries rotted on the trees
Polish illigal labour could have them brought to the market benefitting the end user the polish
and the farmer But not the government
So I did not buy cherries at 7 dollars a pound ( cherries probably came from france where they don't care
all that much as long as their suburbs are not burned down )

Oh by the by ; continental europe went to wintertime yesterday