Wrong! We didn't nationalize banks, insurance companies, and prokerage hosues we more coropratized them! The Federal Reserve has the control of those entities. The Federal Reserve is a PRIAVTE COMMERCIAL entity - it is NOT, I repeat NOT part of the federal government. This by itself is unconstitutional! If you don't beleive me reserach it for yourself. And guess what BOTH McCain and Obama BOTH voted for the bailout bill that gave the Federal Reserve the power of a FOURTH branch of government! Read the bailout bill and see what kind of unlimited power the Federal Reserve just got!
I don't get to many Telemarketing calls since I put my number(s) on the DNC. But when I do I love to F@#$ with them. Two of my favorite are:
1) Start breathing heavily into the phone, ask the caller (male or female) what color underwear they are wearing. (Continue to breath heavily). Ask them to touch themselves. (Continue to breath heavily) If they haven't hung up by then, continue to breath heavily and make more very suggestive comments until they do. But make THEM hang up.
2) Politelty start to listen to the caller, then clamly say "Honey, put down the gun." say to the caller "Uh-huh". Then a little more alarmingly say "Hone, PLEASE put the gun down." say to the caller "Uh-huh". Then say "Honey, PLEASE hand me the gun." say to the caller "Uh-huh". Then in a very alarmed voice say "HONEY, NOOOOOO!", drop the phone handset, then immdiately hang it up. That should scare the cr@p out of a telemarketer.
We are ALL Suspected Terrorists. The color of your skin or last name doesn't matter one bit! Everyone no matter your color of skin are all treated like terrorists. I refuse to fly anymore because of that kind of treatment and my skin is WHITE and I'm a U.S. Military Vetern. F@#$ the TSA, F@#$ Homeland Security, F@#$ the airlines!
We did this with an 68020 Amiga 2000 back in the early ninties. We bought an eeprom board and burned the whole Amiga OS (all 6 880K floppies and the rom image) to eeprom then plugged the board into the rom slot. The Amiga came up within milliseconds with the Workbench screen. Of course if you tried to do this with windows you would need 100 gigbytes of memory to do it...
"No joke but I'm planning to write in Ron Paul. I don't like either of the major party candidates."
I'm going to write in Ron Paul too. Obama is nothing but a socialist and McCain is a nationalistic facist like Bush.
BOTH voted (along with most of congress) to pass the bailout bill that %70 of americans OPPOSED! This shows that NEITHER are listening to the "will of the people". Neither of the candidates have grasp on reality. They are BOTH firmly in the hands of the globalists.
I would strongly URGE everyone to vote for a third party - any third party -. You WILL NOT be throwing away your vote like some boneheads will try and tell you. Just remember during the Jefersonian era the Republican party WAS the thrid party (the Democratic and Whig parties were the top two). So Voting for a third party CAN make a difference. You just have to be pissed off enough at our current parties and government to want to take a stand and not be a sheeple like most of America.
I knew these problems existed as early as 1993 - 1995. The consulting company I worked for brought lots of H1-B's from India (becuse they could pay them 1/3 - 1/2 what they paid us) and 90% of them didn't know a darn thing. They all had forged resumes, had lied about degrees, etc... They would get to a cleint site and sit and stare at a screen they aks thousands of questions on how to do the job they wre hired for.
What they also won't tell you is most - not all - but most people in india have TWO birthday's. Their REAL one and the one they put on all documents (the lie birthday). They use this so they can try to get into school earlier and use it for other ways to "sneak ahead". I know for a fact this goes on from having worked with many people from India. One gal slipped one day and mentioned about her "real" birthday and when I caught her on it I made her explain why she had TWO birthdays. That is how I found out about it.
Granted I have worked with a few that really did know their head from their @$$. But precentage wise I would say only 1 in 1000 really know their head from their @$$.
What is the big F'ing deal? The government looks at everyones email, listens to our phone converstations (illigally I might add) but it's not ok for the average citizen to do the same thing? I don't see law enforcement running out to charge the NSA with a crime. I actually condone what he did! I see it has a "here's a big middle finger to you".
The crime should be a possible future VP using an unsecure, non-government email account to do government buisness - and using a VERY unsecure password at that. It shows how easy it is to get at the informaiton in those emails. It also shows what a complete and utter DULT she is. People would trust this women as a VP and a possible President if McOld dropped dead? That's another crime in itself - a crime of pure supidity of people.
They should be rewarding this kid for showing this country what a bonehead McCain picked for a VP.
Um, they do this kinfd of $h!t all the time. See my reply to this post and read the Patriot Act and FISA amendments bill your self and see. They authorized law enforcment to do warentless searches and seizures. That violates the 4th amendment does it not? Yet here we are they passed BOTH these bastardizations of the Constitution and they didn't do it via an amendment...
Um... You and many others must not have read the Patriot Act OR the new FISA bill. Your 4th Amendment rights are GONE! They took them away! So what they did yes being against the 4th Amendment (if we still had it) is wrong, but with the Patriot Act and the new FISA bill they can do whatever the hell they want in regards to search and seizeures and we can't do $h!t about it.
Check out the response of a couple of Democrats when i started this thread.
The funny thing about some of those idiot morons that posted in that thread is they have no frigging clue about the history of American Political parties! The Republican party WAS a THIRD party! The original two political parties in the U.S. were the Democratic and Whig parties Now that there are bone in the ear people who think ONLY the Democrat and Republican parties are the only legitimate parties they think third parties ruin it for the two major parties. I'm sorry to say but LOOK at history you knobs! Why do you think the Whig party FAILED to the Republican party? People got tired of their Bull$h!t! Well' We as Americans are sick and tired of the Democrat and Republicans - they are one in the same - power grabbing, corporate whores who don't give a $h!t about their "constiuants" at all any more. So why the hell should we vote for them!
Everyone I meet and talk to I'm telling them the TRUTH about what is going on. I even ask them to go reserach it for themselves if they don't believe me. I'm flat out telling people vote for ANY third party - just don't vote Democrat OR Republican - not just for president but for ALL offices! If that fails we should go back to what our founding fathers did to get out of a bad government!
A few simple words in an arcane regulation may be a major cause of the current financial "crisis." Removing this regulation would be simpler and cheaper than the proposed bailout.
Financial Accounting Standard 157 is a regulation imposed on businesses by the quasi-private Financial Accounting Standards Board (FAS). This rule is also incorporated into the regulations of the IRS and is further enforced by the SEC and the FDIC. FAS 157 requires businesses to mark down assets to the lowest price for which similar assets have been sold in the market.
It's important to understand that a security may be sold at a low price for many reasons. The firm selling the security may simply need to generate cash, and be willing to take a loss for that purpose. A security may also be sold for a low price because one or more of the mortgages behind that security is in arrears or default. But once a security is sold for a low price, something startling happens . ..
All other firms are forced to pretend that their mortgage backed securities are also worth that low price, even if none of the mortgages backing their securities are in arrears or default! This leads to a chain of catastrophic consequences . ..
Company balance sheets suddenly become unbalanced. Credit rating firms downgrade the companies that suffer this fate, resulting in margin calls, higher interest rates, and falling stock prices. Firms that were having no trouble paying their bills suddenly find themselves on the verge of bankruptcy.
This has happened repeatedly over the past few months. In the absence of "mark-to-market" it's possible that no firms would have gone bankrupt, or clamored for government funding.
Treasury Secretary Paulson and Fed Chairman Bernanke have both been asked about the "mark-to-market" problem. They have responded with jargon and gibberish. We suspect that it would be highly embarrassing for government officials to admit that a federal regulation has led to so much heartache for so many people.
House Banking Chairman Barney Frank continually claims that the current problems were caused by deregulation. He, like most politicians, have powerful incentives to always exempt the government from blame. And many CEOs have powerful incentives to remain silent about such things in order to retain access to government favors. The fact is . ..
Were the politicians to come clean about this they might find their careers hanging from metaphorical lamp-posts. And so they will not come clean, but will instead hide behind jargon and gibberish and blame everyone but themselves.
Worse still, they will use their own failures to grant themselves more power.
Now, here is something truly stunning . . . The current bailout plan could have unintended consequences as a result of the mark-to-market regulation. The plan is designed to purchase securities at the lowest possible price, using various tools, including reverse auctions. But think about what this means. Under mark-to-market all holders of similar securities will then be forced to mark down their securities to that lowest possible price, potentially driving many more firms toward bankruptcy, and into the arms of the federal bailout. http://www.o
I know most people here WILL NOT want to hear this - but you had better start understanding this for this countries sake!
Both the House and Senate has SOLD US OUT! They BOTH passed this bailout bill - which IS bad for America! (see Ref: 2) How about all the PORK they "slid" into this thing that they haven't told us about (see Ref: 1)! We can't trust McCain, nor Obama to lead this country - they both have said they will stop the pork - but yet they both voted for a bill with LOTS of pork in it! Heck we can't even trust ANY of our Representatives or Senators! They just bent us over the provebrial barrel. Where are they going to get the money to pay for this thing? China isn't going to lend us anymore money! (See ref:3). Folks this country is BANKRUPT! The sooner we wake up and realize this the sooner we can get this country back together again.
"Deduction of state and local sales taxes: The measure allows citizens who do not pay state income taxes to deduct the amount of sales tax they pay over a year from their federal income tax for two additional years. States that benefit include Texas, Nevada, Florida, Washington and Wyoming. The measure would cost taxpayers $3.3 billion." -- So now they don't pay ANY tax to their state! How will the state survive? Now the states will be dependant on FEDERAL money! Not the way our founding fathers set up this country!
"A refund of excise taxes to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands for rum: A $13.50 per gallon excise tax is placed on rum imported into the United States. The measure extends to December 31, 2009, a refund of $13.25 per gallon tax back to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, which are both U.S. territories. The refund has been in place since the early '90s. The measure would cost taxpayers $192 million." -- Great MORE big Tax cuts!
"Provisions related to film and television productions: In order to keep movie production in the U.S., production companies would be allowed to deduct the cost of producing the films from their taxes. Rep. Diane Watson, D-California, has been one of the program's biggest supporters. The measure would cost taxpayers $478 million over 10 years." -- Hollywood is TAX FREE! More for BIG Corporations!
VW has a COOL system. They have small solar panels that have suction cups on them. Them stick them to the inside of the windshield of the cars and they have a plug that plugs into the vehicle to keep the battery charge while they are on the boat comming over the ocean to the U.S.. A guy I know has three of them that we used at a Boy Scout campout to charge a marine battery. Then used the battery to power lights at night. You could use the same idea with electric or hybrid cars. Just have a some solar pannels that stick to the inside of the windows and charge the battery(ies). Granted in the winter and/or when it's cloudy this wouldn't work so well, but it would be great for the southwest area of the country and California and florida where they get LOTS of sunshine.
"People are forced to work and often don't have the luxury of telling the boss to stuff it."
One nice thing I liked about the military is I could tell a Colonel to go to hell. All I had to do is say "Sir, with all respect for your rank - fuck you!" and that was it. The "Sir, with all respect for your rank" gave the due respect for his rank. the "fuck you!" was directed at him peronsally. So there wasn't much they could do as far as inssupordination etc... I made it over 9 years active duty before I got out. Never one article 15, never one punishment. You just had to know how to tell people off. You can't do anything like this in the business world. Most management are fucking pricks and they know it, and know they can do whatever they want and you can't do shit except put up with their crap or leave. They don't care wither way.
When you get kids that get completely frustrated and get treated like this. And they see they get screwed by the legal system what the heck do you think they will do... Your average teenager nowadays feels the country is screwed and they can't get a break. They turn to violance to vent their frustrations. Some could say they are just exercising their 2nd amendment rights. I AM NOT promoting school shootings or teenage violance, just throwing in some thoughts from their side, from having one teenager and soon to have another. My first one got very violate verbally and sometimes physically. I blame society for saying it's wrong to spank your kids ("It's abusive" - bull$h!t!). Sometiems you need to beat your kids butt to get them to listen.
This is old news not new. The military (Air Force) was testing pulse lasers back in the 1980's. They mounted them inside the back of a C-130 aircraft. They could only get about 5 - 6 shots before the battery packs would be drained. As soon as they had their first sucessful tests, suddenly the Air Force said they were shutting down their development because they said the pulse lasers tended to blind the enemy. Hmmm contradictory to this story on the vision thing.... But this is fact not fiction, they had these things in the 1980's.. This is first hand knowledge....
And McSame will probably drop dead at the podium! Then what... Two TOTALLY unqualified presidentail candidates won't be. and Two TOTALLY unqulified VP's would be in charge. Nice! Oh just press the "button" and get the whole darn theing voer with! I'm waiting for the Aliens to come take us all away!
I have read all that. But what he DOES with the constitution TRUMPS what he spent "teaching". If he was so willing to throw away our 4th Amendemnt rights - that tells me he has NO RESPECT for what he "supposedly" was teaching. That alone tossed out ALL of his credibility - period.
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Wrong! We didn't nationalize banks, insurance companies, and prokerage hosues we more coropratized them! The Federal Reserve has the control of those entities. The Federal Reserve is a PRIAVTE COMMERCIAL entity - it is NOT, I repeat NOT part of the federal government. This by itself is unconstitutional! If you don't beleive me reserach it for yourself. And guess what BOTH McCain and Obama BOTH voted for the bailout bill that gave the Federal Reserve the power of a FOURTH branch of government! Read the bailout bill and see what kind of unlimited power the Federal Reserve just got!
EMP
All we need is someone to come up with a portable EMP device.
Alex Jones reported on this 2 days ago. I had already read about this and added this informtion to my "The U.S. is working towards Martial Law" knowledge library.
I don't get to many Telemarketing calls since I put my number(s) on the DNC. But when I do I love to F@#$ with them. Two of my favorite are:
1) Start breathing heavily into the phone, ask the caller (male or female) what color underwear they are wearing. (Continue to breath heavily). Ask them to touch themselves. (Continue to breath heavily) If they haven't hung up by then, continue to breath heavily and make more very suggestive comments until they do. But make THEM hang up.
2) Politelty start to listen to the caller, then clamly say "Honey, put down the gun." say to the caller "Uh-huh". Then a little more alarmingly say "Hone, PLEASE put the gun down." say to the caller "Uh-huh". Then say "Honey, PLEASE hand me the gun." say to the caller "Uh-huh". Then in a very alarmed voice say "HONEY, NOOOOOO!", drop the phone handset, then immdiately hang it up. That should scare the cr@p out of a telemarketer.
We are ALL Suspected Terrorists. The color of your skin or last name doesn't matter one bit! Everyone no matter your color of skin are all treated like terrorists. I refuse to fly anymore because of that kind of treatment and my skin is WHITE and I'm a U.S. Military Vetern. F@#$ the TSA, F@#$ Homeland Security, F@#$ the airlines!
They are corporations and as of the 1800's corporations got the same rights as human persons. So right now Bush cuold give pardons to them technically I believe.
There is a propsed Constitutional Amendment to revoke this power grab.
What joke!
We did this with an 68020 Amiga 2000 back in the early ninties. We bought an eeprom board and burned the whole Amiga OS (all 6 880K floppies and the rom image) to eeprom then plugged the board into the rom slot. The Amiga came up within milliseconds with the Workbench screen. Of course if you tried to do this with windows you would need 100 gigbytes of memory to do it...
Ok, next original idea from Microsoft please....
"No joke but I'm planning to write in Ron Paul. I don't like either of the major party candidates."
I'm going to write in Ron Paul too. Obama is nothing but a socialist and McCain is a nationalistic facist like Bush.
BOTH voted (along with most of congress) to pass the bailout bill that %70 of americans OPPOSED! This shows that NEITHER are listening to the "will of the people". Neither of the candidates have grasp on reality. They are BOTH firmly in the hands of the globalists.
I would strongly URGE everyone to vote for a third party - any third party -. You WILL NOT be throwing away your vote like some boneheads will try and tell you. Just remember during the Jefersonian era the Republican party WAS the thrid party (the Democratic and Whig parties were the top two). So Voting for a third party CAN make a difference. You just have to be pissed off enough at our current parties and government to want to take a stand and not be a sheeple like most of America.
I knew these problems existed as early as 1993 - 1995. The consulting company I worked for brought lots of H1-B's from India (becuse they could pay them 1/3 - 1/2 what they paid us) and 90% of them didn't know a darn thing. They all had forged resumes, had lied about degrees, etc... They would get to a cleint site and sit and stare at a screen they aks thousands of questions on how to do the job they wre hired for.
What they also won't tell you is most - not all - but most people in india have TWO birthday's. Their REAL one and the one they put on all documents (the lie birthday). They use this so they can try to get into school earlier and use it for other ways to "sneak ahead". I know for a fact this goes on from having worked with many people from India. One gal slipped one day and mentioned about her "real" birthday and when I caught her on it I made her explain why she had TWO birthdays. That is how I found out about it.
Granted I have worked with a few that really did know their head from their @$$. But precentage wise I would say only 1 in 1000 really know their head from their @$$.
What is the big F'ing deal? The government looks at everyones email, listens to our phone converstations (illigally I might add) but it's not ok for the average citizen to do the same thing? I don't see law enforcement running out to charge the NSA with a crime. I actually condone what he did! I see it has a "here's a big middle finger to you".
The crime should be a possible future VP using an unsecure, non-government email account to do government buisness - and using a VERY unsecure password at that. It shows how easy it is to get at the informaiton in those emails. It also shows what a complete and utter DULT she is. People would trust this women as a VP and a possible President if McOld dropped dead? That's another crime in itself - a crime of pure supidity of people.
They should be rewarding this kid for showing this country what a bonehead McCain picked for a VP.
Um, they do this kinfd of $h!t all the time. See my reply to this post and read the Patriot Act and FISA amendments bill your self and see. They authorized law enforcment to do warentless searches and seizures. That violates the 4th amendment does it not? Yet here we are they passed BOTH these bastardizations of the Constitution and they didn't do it via an amendment...
Read the Patriot Act and the FISA bill for your self and see:
Patriot Act:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_PATRIOT_Act
http://epic.org/privacy/terrorism/hr3162.html
http://www.rense.com/general34/takeover.htm
FISA bill:
http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fisa/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FISA_Amendments_Act_of_2008
http://www.politico.com/static/PPM104_080619_fisapromise.htm
Um... You and many others must not have read the Patriot Act OR the new FISA bill. Your 4th Amendment rights are GONE! They took them away! So what they did yes being against the 4th Amendment (if we still had it) is wrong, but with the Patriot Act and the new FISA bill they can do whatever the hell they want in regards to search and seizeures and we can't do $h!t about it.
I'm voting third party (Nader).
Check out the response of a couple of Democrats when i started this thread.
The funny thing about some of those idiot morons that posted in that thread is they have no frigging clue about the history of American Political parties! The Republican party WAS a THIRD party! The original two political parties in the U.S. were the Democratic and Whig parties Now that there are bone in the ear people who think ONLY the Democrat and Republican parties are the only legitimate parties they think third parties ruin it for the two major parties. I'm sorry to say but LOOK at history you knobs! Why do you think the Whig party FAILED to the Republican party? People got tired of their Bull$h!t! Well' We as Americans are sick and tired of the Democrat and Republicans - they are one in the same - power grabbing, corporate whores who don't give a $h!t about their "constiuants" at all any more. So why the hell should we vote for them!
Everyone I meet and talk to I'm telling them the TRUTH about what is going on. I even ask them to go reserach it for themselves if they don't believe me. I'm flat out telling people vote for ANY third party - just don't vote Democrat OR Republican - not just for president but for ALL offices! If that fails we should go back to what our founding fathers did to get out of a bad government!
A few simple words in an arcane regulation may be a major cause of the current financial "crisis." Removing this regulation would be simpler and cheaper than the proposed bailout.
Financial Accounting Standard 157 is a regulation imposed on businesses by the quasi-private Financial Accounting Standards Board (FAS). This rule is also incorporated into the regulations of the IRS and is further enforced by the SEC and the FDIC. FAS 157 requires businesses to mark down assets to the lowest price for which similar
assets have been sold in the market.
The jargon term for this regulation is "mark-to-market." Mark-to-market forces good securities to be valued at the same price as bad securities.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122186515562158671.html
It's important to understand that a security may be sold at a low price for many reasons. The firm selling the security may simply need to generate cash, and be willing to take a loss for that purpose. A security may also be sold for a low price because one or more of the mortgages behind that security is in arrears or default. But once a security is sold for a low price, something startling happens . . .
All other firms are forced to pretend that their mortgage backed securities are also worth that low price, even if none of the mortgages backing their securities are in arrears or default! This leads to a chain of catastrophic consequences . . .
Company balance sheets suddenly become unbalanced. Credit rating firms downgrade the companies that suffer this fate, resulting in margin calls, higher interest rates, and falling stock prices. Firms that were having no trouble paying their bills suddenly find themselves on the verge of bankruptcy.
This has happened repeatedly over the past few months. In the absence of "mark-to-market" it's possible that no firms would have gone bankrupt, or clamored for government funding.
Treasury Secretary Paulson and Fed Chairman Bernanke have both been asked about the "mark-to-market" problem. They have responded with jargon and gibberish. We suspect that it would be highly embarrassing for government officials to admit that a federal regulation has led to so much heartache for so many people.
House Banking Chairman Barney Frank continually claims that the current problems were caused by deregulation. He, like most politicians, have powerful incentives to always exempt the government from blame. And many CEOs have powerful incentives to remain silent about such things in order to retain access to government favors. The fact is . . .
This entire problem has been caused by government money and government regulations, from the creation of the housing bubble to the bursting of that bubble, to the current plan for a bailout.
http://www.openmarket.org/2008/09/20/700-billion-for-disastrous-financial-system-bailout/#disqus_thread
Were the politicians to come clean about this they might find their careers hanging from metaphorical lamp-posts. And so they will not come clean, but will instead hide behind jargon and gibberish and blame everyone but themselves.
Worse still, they will use their own failures to grant themselves more power.
Now, here is something truly stunning . . . The current bailout plan could have unintended consequences as a result of the mark-to-market regulation. The plan is designed to purchase securities at the lowest possible price, using various tools, including reverse auctions. But
think about what this means. Under mark-to-market all holders of similar securities will then be forced to mark down their securities to that lowest possible price, potentially driving many more firms toward bankruptcy, and into the arms of the federal bailout.
http://www.o
I know most people here WILL NOT want to hear this - but you had better start understanding this for this countries sake!
Both the House and Senate has SOLD US OUT! They BOTH passed this bailout bill - which IS bad for America! (see Ref: 2) How about all the PORK they "slid" into this thing that they haven't told us about (see Ref: 1)! We can't trust McCain, nor Obama to lead this country - they both have said they will stop the pork - but yet they both voted for a bill with LOTS of pork in it! Heck we can't even trust ANY of our Representatives or Senators! They just bent us over the provebrial barrel. Where are they going to get the money to pay for this thing? China isn't going to lend us anymore money! (See ref:3). Folks this country is BANKRUPT! The sooner we wake up and realize this the sooner we can get this country back together again.
Ref: 1
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Spoonful of pork may help bitter economic pill go down
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/02/bailout.pork/index.html
"Deduction of state and local sales taxes: The measure allows citizens who do not pay state income taxes to deduct the amount of sales tax they pay over a year from their federal income tax for two additional years. States that benefit include Texas, Nevada, Florida, Washington and Wyoming. The measure would cost taxpayers $3.3 billion."
-- So now they don't pay ANY tax to their state! How will the state survive? Now the states will be dependant on FEDERAL money! Not the way our founding fathers set up this country!
"A refund of excise taxes to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands for rum: A $13.50 per gallon excise tax is placed on rum imported into the United States. The measure extends to December 31, 2009, a refund of $13.25 per gallon tax back to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, which are both U.S. territories. The refund has been in place since the early '90s. The measure would cost taxpayers $192 million."
-- Great MORE big Tax cuts!
Ref: 2
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Revamped economic bailout passes House
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/03/house.bailout/index.html
"Provisions related to film and television productions: In order to keep movie production in the U.S., production companies would be allowed to deduct the cost of producing the films from their taxes. Rep. Diane Watson, D-California, has been one of the program's biggest supporters. The measure would cost taxpayers $478 million over 10 years."
-- Hollywood is TAX FREE! More for BIG Corporations!
$700B bailout passes - President Bush poised to quickly sign historic $700 billion plan into law.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/03/house.bailout/index.html
Ref: 3
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China banks told to halt lending to US banks-SCMP
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSPEK16693720080925
VW has a COOL system. They have small solar panels that have suction cups on them. Them stick them to the inside of the windshield of the cars and they have a plug that plugs into the vehicle to keep the battery charge while they are on the boat comming over the ocean to the U.S.. A guy I know has three of them that we used at a Boy Scout campout to charge a marine battery. Then used the battery to power lights at night. You could use the same idea with electric or hybrid cars. Just have a some solar pannels that stick to the inside of the windows and charge the battery(ies). Granted in the winter and/or when it's cloudy this wouldn't work so well, but it would be great for the southwest area of the country and California and florida where they get LOTS of sunshine.
But you still have a PIG!
Great - Windows 7 - (It's Vista with a new look - we just changed the name!)
"People are forced to work and often don't have the luxury of telling the boss to stuff it."
One nice thing I liked about the military is I could tell a Colonel to go to hell. All I had to do is say "Sir, with all respect for your rank - fuck you!" and that was it. The "Sir, with all respect for your rank" gave the due respect for his rank. the "fuck you!" was directed at him peronsally. So there wasn't much they could do as far as inssupordination etc... I made it over 9 years active duty before I got out. Never one article 15, never one punishment. You just had to know how to tell people off. You can't do anything like this in the business world. Most management are fucking pricks and they know it, and know they can do whatever they want and you can't do shit except put up with their crap or leave. They don't care wither way.
When you get kids that get completely frustrated and get treated like this. And they see they get screwed by the legal system what the heck do you think they will do... Your average teenager nowadays feels the country is screwed and they can't get a break. They turn to violance to vent their frustrations. Some could say they are just exercising their 2nd amendment rights. I AM NOT promoting school shootings or teenage violance, just throwing in some thoughts from their side, from having one teenager and soon to have another. My first one got very violate verbally and sometimes physically. I blame society for saying it's wrong to spank your kids ("It's abusive" - bull$h!t!). Sometiems you need to beat your kids butt to get them to listen.
This is old news not new. The military (Air Force) was testing pulse lasers back in the 1980's. They mounted them inside the back of a C-130 aircraft. They could only get about 5 - 6 shots before the battery packs would be drained. As soon as they had their first sucessful tests, suddenly the Air Force said they were shutting down their development because they said the pulse lasers tended to blind the enemy. Hmmm contradictory to this story on the vision thing.... But this is fact not fiction, they had these things in the 1980's.. This is first hand knowledge....
And McSame will probably drop dead at the podium! Then what... Two TOTALLY unqualified presidentail candidates won't be. and Two TOTALLY unqulified VP's would be in charge. Nice! Oh just press the "button" and get the whole darn theing voer with! I'm waiting for the Aliens to come take us all away!
Umm unless your name is Geroge W. Bush. Then you legislate by issuing Executive Orders!
"Sue E.T. for blowing up our planet?"
No, we will do that fine on our own thank you...
I have read all that. But what he DOES with the constitution TRUMPS what he spent "teaching". If he was so willing to throw away our 4th Amendemnt rights - that tells me he has NO RESPECT for what he "supposedly" was teaching. That alone tossed out ALL of his credibility - period.