Lucky Larry

It's funny how people think their enemy's would fight them face to face, spray to spray; meanwhile the bankers laugh. Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (CFMA) AKA get the herd to think they can get something for nothing while the Banks get everything. trade futures baby, OTC derivatives: it's all based on very solid mathematical formulas--right.

Kevin, teach your children to lie and to do it very well. In the end they will have more friends and better paying jobs. The old, 'don't lie', is the biggest BS in our culture. Also teach them all the bad words that will be used against them. I'm sure you can remember telling the truth as a child only to get in trouble. I told a neighbor they were overweight. We don't want honesty because it hurts our feelings. It also hurts us in the wallet.

if your not living on the edge your taking up too much space-Jim Opdyke

I told a potential enemy once that I loved them; it floored them. People in pain, for whatever reason, lash out and you just happen to be the person to lash. Language like I hate or you always or you never are just autonomic language , meaningless time fluff. People use language like tp; they wipe their asses with it and then throw it at you--does it stick? Why let it? Our culture is completely psychotic. It demands conformity while telling you your' special, uniquely you. Unless your outside the bell curve it's mostly a lie.

Terror including bombing of peaceful crowds is a tactic that has been used throughout time, including today by judeo-christians. You should consider reading some history. There were multiple parties using explosives in, say, France that killed civilians from '40-45. Clearly there's no means by which one can differentiate the various actors based on the ends they were pursuing if they all used explosive weaponry to achieve them. I fail to see how your answer addresses the fact that all culture/religions have used terror in the recent past, which points to your singling out Muslims as thinly veiled islamophobia. I clearly see how your "Hey - other people use explosives in ways that have killed people" demonstrates a massive incapacity to make elementary distinctions between physically equivalent acts. Let's suppose that there had been a plot by a cell of Ted Kacynski's disciples to fly airplanes into the WTC, the Pentagon, and Congress and in each and every case radical Islamists had fought their way into the cockpits and managed to get their hands on the flight controls at the last moment with the intention of steering the planes away from buildings holding thousands of civilians that they inadvertently flew the planes into. There would be no physical difference between this scenario and what actually happened on 9/11. But anyone - other than a relativist progressive - could clearly ascertain a massive moral difference between the actions of the radical Islamists that flew the planes into the buildings with the intention of slaughering as many civilians as possible, and the fictional Islamists who tried to steer the planes away from the buildings in an effort to spare as many civilians as possible. In virtually every conflict, the warring parties have recourse to the same weapons and make use of very similar tactics, but if one group is employing the said weapons and tactics with the intention of constructing a totalitarian slave-state that they can use as a launching pad for a global genocide campaign, and the other is using the same tactics to secure a liberal democratic order then it's quite possible to make moral distinctions between them. Do you find it impossible to pick sides in the US civil war? Even if your claim were true that all cultures and religions had employed violence and terror to further their aims in the recent past, it would still be possible to make moral distinctions between them based on the frequency, depravity, and magnitude of such actions and the ends which they were attempting to secure with them. Your other claims about "Judeo Christian" armies employing various tactics is another example of an incapacity to make elementary distinctions. An army fielded by a secular, democratic republic in which the majority of the citizens happen to be Christian and which hasn't been fielded to advance any particular religious enterprise is something entirely different from a group composed exclusively of of religious zealots that uses violent tactics in accordance with or in an effort to advance a particular religious end. God Bless Amirical.

even if you're living in an autonomous collective, if your name is "mustafa" there's a good chance you'll ending up calling the shots by weeks end MUST'AFA DONE IT NOW!

That's absolutely untrue in recent history, say the last 30 years or so. The thing that shocks everyone about terrorism is that a small number of people with unsophisticated weaponry can have a big impact that our billions and billions of dollars worth of high tech military widgetry cannot stop. It's called gasoline.

Thanks, thats dope; looks like a classic moderate climb w/o 5k', 5 mile approach. Gets me excited to know that there is stuff out there that I might still be able to do without having to crush myself.

Seems some of the media is playing the radical Muslim card to slow down support of overthrowing the current regime. They say: look at what happened to Iran, be careful of what you wish for. They have shown some interviews with Christen supporters of Mr Mubarak who are afraid of a possible Muslim extremist regime should he be replaced. It sounds like a good stage for another American intervention.

wikiedia Straw dogs were used as ceremonial objects in ancient China. Chapter 5 of the Tao Te Ching begins with the lines "Heaven and Earth are heartless / treating creatures like straw dogs". Su Ch'e comments "Heaven and Earth are not partial. They do not kill living things out of cruelty or give them birth out of kindness. We do the same when we make straw dogs to use in sacrifices. We dress them up and put them on the altar, but not because we love them. And when the ceremony is over, we throw them into the street, but not because we hate them."[1]

Do we need gun control, maybe. Go to a gun show and buy all the guns you want, no background check. Take all these guns to Mexico to fight drug wars. Do we need: "Congress must keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people by taking two critical steps: 1) Get all the names of people who should be prohibited from buying guns into the background check system. 2) Require a background check for every gun sale in America." Has this argument been covered in another thread?

Great photos and TR. Here's some info regarding wind. Wind can interfere with nighttime radiative freezing. In calm weather, radiative heat loss from the snow surface cools the thin layer of air just above the snow surface, and this contributes to freezing. Wind disturbs this process by carrying this cool layer away from the surface and circulating in warmer air.

It's interesting how Face Book is utilized as a political protest forum by other countries while Americans frown on such use here. Could it be that Americans are just a little paranoid of it being used against them in their government jobs, or place of work? Wikipedia: In August 2010, the American labor force comprised 154.1 million people. With 21.2 million people, government is the leading field of employment. The largest private employment sector is health care and social assistance, with 16.4 million people. There are all types of discrimination and harassment going on in the work place; I've heard it's very hard to prove. And yet the internet is supposedly used to screen a huge number [ numbers needed here ] of job applicants .

I disagree. Take Bush for example. He personally fucked up the US by being a bully. Lots of power. Obama could be more forceful. Bush was a puppet just like Obama. Now Cheney...

Continued economic growth was based on the premise of a fair system of checks and balances. We know who got the checks. Now they have to figure out who is going to be stiffed for the negative balance. When has the economic model ever been fair? The nature of it is built on greed and hence laissez faire will never work. The Philosophical Dictionary Voltaire Selected and Translated by H.I. Woolf New York: Knopf, 1924 Scanned by the Hanover College Department of History in 1995. Proofread and pages added by Jonathan Perry, March 2001. Bankruptcy [my comments in brackets] Few bankruptcies were known in France before the sixteenth century. The great reason is that there were no bankers. Lombards, Jews lent on security [not needed with credit cards] at ten per cent: trade was conducted in cash [not anymore]. Exchange, remittances to foreign countries were a secret unknown to all judges. It is not that many people were not ruined[certainly not bankers]; but that was not called bankruptcy; one said discomfiture; this word is sweeter to the ear. One used the word rupture as did the Boulonnais; but rupture does not sound so well. The bankruptcies came to us from Italy, bancorotto, bancarotta, gambarotta e la giustizia non impicar. Every merchant had his bench (banco) in the place of exchange; and when he had conducted his business badly, declared himself fallito, and abandoned his property to his creditors with the proviso that he retained a good part of it for himself, he free and reputed a very upright man. There was nothing to be said to him, his bench was broken, banco rotto, banca rotta; he could even, in certain towns, keep all his property and baulk his creditors, provided he seated himself bare-bottomed on a stone in the presence of all the merchants[never saw goldman sacks doing this]. This was a mild derivation of the old Roman proverb-solvere aut in aere aut in cute, to pay either with one's money or one's skin [loan sharking]. But this custom no longer exists [unless it's the mob]; creditors have preferred their money to a bankrupt's hinder parts. In England and in some other countries, one declares oneself bankrupt in the gazettes. The partners and creditors gather together by virtue of this announcement which is read in the coffee-houses, and they come to an arrangement as best they can. As among the bankruptcies there are frequently fraudulent cases [bankers], it has been necessary to punish them [with more money]. If they are taken to court [they haven't been] they are everywhere regarded as theft, and the guilty are condemned to ignominious penalties [bigger profits]. It is not true that in France the death penalty was decreed against bankrupts without distinction. Simple failures involved no penalty; fraudulent bankrupts suffered the penalty of death in the states of Orleans, under Charles IX., and in the states of Blois in 1576, but these edicts, renewed by Henry IV., were merely comminatory. It is too difficult to prove that a man has dishonoured himself on purpose, and has voluntarily ceded all his goods to his creditors in order to cheat them. When there has been a doubt, one has been content with putting the unfortunate man in the pillory, or with sending him to the galleys, although ordinarily a banker makes a poor convict [still free: not warrants issued] . Bankrupts were very favourably treated in the last year of Louis XIV.'s reign, and during the Regency. The sad state to which the interior of the kingdom was reduced, the multitude of merchants who could not or would not pay, the quantity of unsold or unsellable effects, the fear of interrupting all commerce [sound familiar?], obliged the government in 1715, 1716, 1718, 1721, 1722, and 1726 to suspend all proceedings against all those who were in a state of insolvency [todays bankers]. The discussions of these actions were referred to the judge-consuls; this is a jurisdiction of merchants very expert in these cases, and better constituted for going into these commercial details than the parliaments which have always been more occupied with the laws of the kingdom than with finance. As the state was at that time going bankrupt, it would have been too hard to punish the poor middle-class bankrupts. Since then we have had eminent men, fraudulent bankrupts, but they have not been punished [current history]. Hanover Historical Texts Project Return to Hanover College Department of History Please send comments to: luttmer@hanover.edu

Well now I just got a call from the bureau of labor asking me about how they handled REI's automatic denial of my CoBRA health plan application two years ago. I really spaced out about the CoBRA thing or I would have already posted it. Funny how the mind just blacks it out. I think the bureau's rating survey thing kinda sucked because it was like most surveys-- ambiguous wording; however,I felt the bureau's people deserved high marks and they got REI to reverse their initial denial of my CoBRA rights. And the survey only allowed me to make one comment; so I made one about how REI's automatic denial of my CoBRA plan sucked. After more than a couple calls, forms, letters and months I finally got the Cobra. However, the discount/month rate had already elapsed, six months I think, and I would now have to pay for those months and start paying the new higher monthly rate. I really wanted to pay up just to force REI to pay into the Cobra plan but I did not. Money talks and bullshit walks. And REI's lawyers got to keep the money. I pursued the issue through the system because I felt an automatic denial by REI was outlandish. I should have asked the bureau of labor if there is a legitimate reason of denial. Am I still angry. No, because I had forgotten about it until the bureau of labor called me. But I can imagine someone that was really really sick being denied CoBRA getting upset.

I didn't even know I was until I got a speeding ticket recently.

Fair enough Ivan. I guess I am starting to feel better after being infirmed the last three weeks. Come backs, dare I say it yet, are a slug at 55; me back, me ankle, me knee, oh my dog.

Can you base the intelligence of a so-called LEADER on his ability to deliver a speech? Why do all presidents have some hack writer cobble it together? Because it's all smoke, lies and deceit. If they actually wrote it themselves some truth might just slip out by accident. Insert seal barking and clapping during the pauses in the so-called speech. Thieves, thugs, lies, lobbyist, goons, scams, bankers, schemes. Republic of USA: It is a constitutional[stolen] republic and representative[stolen] democracy.

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Wikipedia My spray in[brackets] Health The United States life expectancy of 77.8 years at birth[151] is a year shorter than the overall figure in Western Europe, and three to four years lower than that of Norway, Switzerland, and Canada.[152] Over the past two decades, the country's rank in life expectancy has dropped from 11th to 42nd in the world.[uninsured] The infant mortality rate of 6.37 per thousand likewise places the United States 42nd out of 221 countries, behind all of Western Europe.[] Approximately one-third of the adult population is obese and an additional third is overweight;[McFood] the obesity rate, the highest in the industrialized world, has more than doubled in the last quarter-century.[i consider it a disease of dispair] Obesity-related type 2 diabetes is considered epidemic by health care professionals. The U.S. health care system far outspends any other nation's, measured in both per capita spending and percentage of GDP.[Hollywood face lifts, Sport injuries, worn out geezers like me wanting another shot at it] The World Health Organization ranked the U.S. health care system in 2000 as first in responsiveness, but 37th in overall performance[overworked zombies]. The United States is a leader in medical innovation[robotic surgery]. In 2004, the nonindustrial sector spent three times as much as Europe per capita on biomedical research[go ask Alice, I think she'll know]. Unlike in all other developed countries, health care coverage in the United States is not universal[can't fix stupid]. In 2004, private insurance paid for 36% of personal health expenditures, private out-of-pocket payments covered 15%, and federal, state, and local governments paid for 44%.[good thing were not a social society into socialism(sic,sic)] In 2005, 46.6 million Americans, 15.9% of the population, were uninsured[they deserve it], 5.4 million more than in 2001. The main cause of this rise is the drop in the number of Americans with employer-sponsored health insurance.[read unemployed;@ $500 plus/head/month its a bargain for those working@$10/hr] The subject of uninsured and under insured Americans is a major political issue.[just say no, no we can't afford it; just scrape them off the streets, their socialists] A 2009 study estimated that lack of insurance is associated with nearly 45,000 deaths a year.[probably due to gun shot wounds] In 2006, Massachusetts became the first state to mandate universal health insurance.[obviously they don't believe in the Republic of USA] Federal legislation passed in early 2010 will create a near-universal health insurance system around the country by 2014.[near-universal,very very doubtful] The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. One common modern definition of a republic is a state without a monarch.[3][4] The word "republic" is derived from the Latin phrase res publica, which can be translated as "a public affair". [obviously, health isn't a public affair. More of a commie corporate one.]

...wuz it old growth Poison Oak as seen here running up the Fir Tree? I think some of that Beacon Rock poison oak tried to kill Jeff. I didn't have the heart to tell him that all of the PO he'd ripped out had grown back a few months later on Lay Lady Lay crack. That stuff is malevolent. Haul the Man JO up there in a insulated body bag if you want it done right...'they just don't listen'

Thats the best news I have heard in awhile.

It is the nations official policy as the appointment of Immelt shows Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2011/01/volcker-immelt.html#ixzz1BimJLNsF The nice thing about Official national champions is the quid pro quo would obligate them to keep technology and jobs within the nation; GE is fucking their future shipping tech to China. Good on you Hugh. I suspected GE had their fingers into a conglomerate of stuff; first time I heard about banking but that shouldn't have surprised me, thats where some of the biggest scams and profits are happening. It's interesting that GE doesn't point at their financial arm for all the profit. After all the marginalized folks with 24 credit cards get shut down........? Too small to survive. It's funny how they keep telling us that the USA is getting more jobs while giving companies the green light[money?] to go to China.

A former Haitian dictator plans to remain in his Caribbean homeland even though authorities want him to leave the crisis-staggered country, one of Jean- Claude Duvalier's lawyers said Wednesday. I guess nobody else wants him around either or why would he want to stay?