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Post by acidohm on Jan 13, 2016 16:57:15 GMT
All the stock fraud and manipulation of the 1920's is why the US created REG T Rule and the SEC Act of 1933. It has actually worked really well. SO, why has the world trusted China, its bogus economic data, its phony earnings reports, etc.? People are finding out it was half smoke and mirrors. Sounds eerily familiar
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Post by missouriboy on Jan 14, 2016 14:38:27 GMT
This article looks vaguely familiar ... and I'm not sure if it was posted before. However, it is rather well done ... and if the old phrase, "know thine enemy", is still relevant (and I think it is), then a review (or re-read) may be enlightening. “We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women,” Adnani, the spokesman, promised in one of his periodic valentines to the West. “If we do not reach that time, then our children and grandchildren will reach it, and they will sell your sons as slaves at the slave market.”www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isis-really-wants/384980/I think it safe to state that these people or any relatives (in the theological sense) cannot possibly be compatible with our culture, our law or our documents (as stated in our Declaration, Constitution and Bill of Rights). That theological sense may be very broad when it comes to Sharia, which some have labeled as the "operating documents" of "the Beast".
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Post by flearider on Jan 14, 2016 21:07:39 GMT
and yet there allowed to thrive in the uk .. the shits gonna hit the fan soon ...
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Post by duwayne on Jan 16, 2016 17:19:17 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Jan 16, 2016 19:56:56 GMT
and yet there allowed to thrive in the uk .. the shits gonna hit the fan soon ... At 2.7 million, or 5% of England's population (Wikipedia), the nursery seems well established??? We have about the same number, but it's only 0.8% of our population. Seems that England's political correctness is not working much better than ours. The politicians are well indoctrinated in the 'everything is acceptable' concept. Spain has only a third of your numbers ... but perhaps they have a longer cultural memory as the 'Reconquista' only ended 500 years ago ... and it took 800 years to accomplish. The 1400 year culture war has not ended ... it merely took a break as the Ottoman Empire collapsed. As an American, I believe in multi-cultural assimilation. But you cannot assimilate that which will not be assimilated. It's like trying to digest a block of lead ... if you manage to do it, it will kill you.
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Post by nonentropic on Jan 16, 2016 22:56:48 GMT
Do you drown if you swim?
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Post by sigurdur on Jan 16, 2016 23:40:32 GMT
Do you drown if you swim? Only if you are swimming 200' deep.
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Post by missouriboy on Jan 17, 2016 2:11:24 GMT
Do you drown if you swim? If you choose the wrong time and place. Virgil is often credited with "Fortune favors the bold". I might append ... But not the stupid! (mentally challenged in our PC world) Another Virgil favorite: “They can because they think they can.” or, as appended ... If no one opposes them!
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Post by sigurdur on Jan 18, 2016 17:47:19 GMT
I don't agree with Bernie Sanders on his CO2 fixation. In a sense, it weakens his Wall Street crony capitalism push. The current CO2 related EPA rules are the largest war on the poor that I have ever observed. When the likes of Musk starts a car company and increases his Net Worth because he "sells" carbon credits to GM or Ford etc is ludicrous. Money doesn't just appear out of thin air. Only reason his Nevada company (Solar City) was working was because his clients robbed folks who couldn't afford to put up solar panels.
But, all in all, no one is perfect.
Our of the whole bunch at this point, Bernie is actually the one talking with the most sense.
Anyone who thinks health care isn't a National issue has their head in a very dark area.
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Post by missouriboy on Jan 18, 2016 20:53:32 GMT
As for me ... I wouldn't trust Hillary with a bag of peanuts in a dark closet. Bernie seems like an affable, reasonably ? honest dogooder ... but world history is full of reasonably honest stupidity with no ability to learn history lessons. I come from a long line of working class democrats ... but after the last eight years I made a pledge to never ever ever ever vote for another democrat again. Still trying to decide which are the most dangerous ... those that will take as much of the farm as possible and give it away to their lazy, greedy cohorts ... or those that will divide up the whole farm and sell it off as 'derivatives' and distribute the proceeds to their lazy, greedy cohorts. Matches and gasoline .. or ... gasoline and matches. Tough choice. We've lost the middle.
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Post by sigurdur on Jan 18, 2016 21:51:36 GMT
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Post by magellan on Jan 18, 2016 23:02:46 GMT
Robert Reich Some thoughts on tonight’s Democratic debate: www.facebook.com/RBReich/post/11375415729251041. Once again I was struck by the intelligence and public spiritedness of all of the Democratic candidates relative to what we’ve heard from the Republican hopefuls. Any Democratic candidate on that stage tonight would make a far superior president to Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, or any of the other blowhards and xenophobes now seeking the Republican nomination. 2. I wasn’t surprised but was disappointed that Hillary Clinton went into such a fierce attack against Bernie Sanders. His traditional position on guns is understandable given the rural state he represents in the Senate, and he’s modified it considerably as a presidential candidate who will be representing all of America. I thought her attack on his health care plan misleading, given that American families and businesses will save far more from it in lower health costs than any additional taxes they’ll be paying. Nor is it fair to characterize it as a threat to the Affordable Care Act because Bernie's plan simply takes that Act to the next logical step. Finally, I thought it inappropriate for her to attack Bernie for his differences with President Obama; they are principled differences on specific policies, which hardly makes him “hostile” to the President. 3. Hillary presented herself as an experienced politician who is prepared to assume the presidency, while Bernie presented himself as the leader of a political revolution. Both characterizations seem fair. If you assume Washington is not changeable and that the vicious cycle of wealth and power dominating our politics and economics is unalterable, Hillary's experience is relevant; she will make a first-class president for the system we now have. But if you believe Washington must be changed, and that system can be altered for the benefit of the many and not the few, Bernie’s leadership is more relevant; he is heading up a political movement. What did you think? And what are your views about tonight’s debate? What do I think? Well I liked the last two sentences the best...It was Marx arguing with Lenin about who will bring down the USA faster than Obama.
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Post by missouriboy on Jan 19, 2016 3:51:20 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Jan 19, 2016 4:16:00 GMT
Yep
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Post by missouriboy on Jan 19, 2016 4:40:07 GMT
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