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bgamall4 says

Robbie Parker would have had to shed real tears with no hyperventilation, and with no comment on the card, or script he was supposed to read. If Robbie could undo that, and if there was one fucking tear in the entire day of the massacre, I would reconsider. But there was not one recorded tear.

And everybody knows it.

Are you a good public speaker? How about Obama? Clinton? ....? How many very skilled public speakers use autocue or notes? What do you think you'd do if faced by the world's press soon after the death of your child? Try a bit of ad-libbing or prepare what you were going to say? Now think long and hard about those two choices and be honest about your reply.

FunTime says

Your ideas suggest a biological formula for grief. So what you want is some medical evidence. That would really bring scientific evidence to your cause.

Unfortunately for Gary, actual research about the type of responses that can occur has been posted up on here several times and, surprise, surprise, disproves what he is claiming (though he of course simply ignores it).

sbh says

RentingForHalfTheCost says

Just closed out all my short positions and am 100% long.

Best sell signal I've seen in months.

RentingForHalfTheCost says

Who is the real jackass?

I nominate you.

Sure you would. Big surprise there troll.

FYI on the concept mentioned in a previous post that most wealthy people inherit their money....

Per Cato institute study in 2011, 80% of US millionaires are self made and did not in fact inherit the money. Slide the scale up to over 100 million and I do not know if that would still hold true or not.

bgamall4 says

Bigsby says

Are you a good public speaker? How about Obama? Clinton? ....? How many very skilled public speakers use autocue or notes? What do you think you'd do if faced by the world's press soon after the death of your child? Try a bit of ad-libbing or prepare what you were going to say? Now think long and hard about those two choices and be honest about your reply.

It was prepared for him, numb nuts.

Sure, sure, and your proof of that is... And why does an actor need to read from notes? Presumably he's one of those actors incapable of memorizing his lines.

bgamall4 says

You don't think God will take his revenge out on his enemies like you Bigsby?

Christ's Sacrifice Once for All

…12but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, 13waiting from that time onward UNTIL HIS ENEMIES BE MADE A FOOTSTOOL FOR HIS FEET.

That is Hebrews 10:13 and last time I checked that was a New Testament book.

Ooohhh, I'm scared. God thinks I'm his enemy! Presumably as Snap once sang, 'I've Got the Power.'

Let me guess, your God loves those individuals who believe that everything is a zionist conspiracy, who accuse parents of murdered children of being liars and actors, and who say that people who disagree with such tinfoil beliefs will be struck by fire from heaven and/or damned to hell. Quite the God that one.

I'm not going to read another demented rant.
I asked you, what is the angle to hoax this tragedy?

If it were about tighter gun legislation, then you would think a government that was powerful enough to pull this off, would have no problem imposing the votes to complete the mission. Or all of the planning and effort that this episode would have taken, would have all been for naught.

I mean work on a more realistic conspiracy theory.

Like that was not Bin Laden who was shot in the face, dumped in the ocean and Obama ordered all photos destroyed. See that's easy, with all lose ends tied up nicely.

It's even easy to believe that we did not fly to the moon, unless you believe, that Richard Nixon(a known liar) was the only President with the wherewithal to do so. At least that's a useful hoax. And one I don't put too much thought into either way.
It's sorta like a kid that lies and tells their parents that they cleaned the room. When in fact, they cleaned much later than that. The end result was the same.

Can we go to the moon today? Perhaps, but I don't think we could do it with the equivalent of a 0086 computer, and space capsule that has less metal than the body on a VW Bug, and about the same size too.

So you don't want to take people's advice to seek help. Do you not feel yourself getting worse? I don't recall you telling everyone who disagreed with you before that they were swine and had to watch for fire from heaven whilst driving to work. Do you think that is normal behaviour? Do you think your views are normal? Why do those who disagree with YOUR views deserve punishment from your imaginary God? Think about what you are saying and doing because I am actually getting worried for you.

bgamall4 says

You support the NWO, and God hates the NWO. He already scrambled the languages at the Tower of Babel because mankind wanted one world government.

You are getting scarey weird. You don't own guns do you?

CaptainShuddup says

Can we go to the moon today? Perhaps, but I don't think we could do it with the equivalent of a 0086 computer, and space capsule that has less metal than the body on a VW Bug, and about the same size too.

Do you understand the feedback and control math that allows the precision of computation/machine control? If not, I recommend learning that first before you write any more on the subject. The kind of computation required was a challenge for computers and scientists at the point of first going into space and much of it was probably still being done on paper, but today undergrad electrical engineering students learn how those kinds of mathematics and machines work in their first few years.

Conspiracy theorists who don't demonstrate even a basic knowledge of their subject are not convincing. I'm not a rocket scientist either so don't listen to me. Just please do some research before sharing ideas that might deceive people into believing ideas that are upsetting and potentially a false witness.

dodgerfanjohn says

Per Cato institute study in 2011, 80% of US millionaires are self made and did not in fact inherit the money. Slide the scale up to over 100 million and I do not know if that would still hold true or not.

The idea might come from looking at the Forbes richest people list or similar. When I look at those, I definitely get the idea that most inherited their money, but, as you say, if you get down to people with a million or more net worth most probably are self-made. Of course, that's a laughably small amount of money to people who have the most.

If remote planetary touch down and lift off were possible even with today's technology, then you would think we would be bringing back samples from mars. And we would be gingerly landing space crafts on Mars rather than encapsulating them in a padded goodball and hoping for the best.

Besides my biggest problem I have, is Nixon was the only President to do this.

If it weren't for Nixon I don't think we would have made it to the moon, until the Space Shuttle went in service, or about Reagan's time.

But I don't think we would have had the Space shuttle by then.
I think we said we went to the moon so we wouldn't have to go to the moon. Then that way were able to use the Space program to boost our spying and communication capabilities. Satellite technology was where it was at. There's no eph'n way at the height of the Cold War, could the US government gotten money or support from the voters, to create the complex system that has now fallen under the hands of the NSA under Obama's stewardship.

We were too weary of Big brother, not just the Big Red Big brother, but our Government watching our every move from a mile in the sky was an even more scary prospect.

At that time, the Moon offered us nothing but rocks and bragging rights. There were no pie in the sky lofty ideas of harvesting ice from the polar caps, and use that to create hydrogen fuel to propel us to the Stars.

In fact the only reason people in the 80's were even supportive of the space program, because we honestly believed it was about space exploration and not terrestrial snooping. We honestly thought that Beepers, Cell phones, and Geo satellite imagery were just incidental from the space program, and not the space program.

Is it coincidental as the next generation of Space vehicles are being created, the Government is shutting down and scrapping most of those lofty pie in the sky ideas of planetary conquests goals, and have relegated that fools errand to adventure seeker billionaires? While at the same time have beefed up the the amount efforts in digital snooping, and satellite technologies?

Well, I didn't mean to make space travel sound easy. It's still very difficult.

I find this subject very exciting, but, then again, I also find it exciting that humans once moved to the various continents. I'm guessing you think I'm just a pawn of government propaganda. Man is that a big conspiracy! How do they keep all those people quiet? Do they drug people when the become government employees? I think some of you aren't going far enough with your conspiracies. If you really argued to make them work they'd get really cool! Think 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' cool.

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/newsroom/pressreleases/20140123a.html

bgamall4 says

There is a link to Bloomberg

Do you recognize when you write "there is a link to Bloomberg" and then provide a link to some other website? A "link to Bloomberg" will have "Bloomberg.com" in it. Careful out there on the internets people. You'll get had!

bgamall4 says

Maybe you are having too much fun.

Almost certainly.

edvard2 says

Nothing ever changed. The way things had been there was the way it had always
been and if anything ever changed people generally took notice. I remember that
everyone was unquestionably conservative and always voted Republican no matter
what. I was raised this way. I was never given reasons why, but only that I
should ALWAYS vote Republican, which I did right up into my 20's.

I can relate to your story, although mine wasn't in the south, but the midwest. Watching the movie that I linked below kind of sums it up too:

The Village (2004 film) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Village_(2004_film)

The occupants of a small Pennsylvania village in 1897 live in fear of nameless creatures in the surrounding woods. They have constructed a large barrier of oil lanterns and watch towers that are constantly manned to keep watch for "Those We Don't Speak Of." It is explained that the villagers have a long-standing truce with the monsters; the villagers do not go into their woods, and the creatures do not enter their village.

CaptainShuddup says

I'm still waiting for that Obama moment that future presidents will recount in future presidential speeches, so far I haven't seen it.

That will marvel at how much patience he has exhibited when surrounded by a nation of idiots, and the jingoistic corporate yellow journalism that "informs" their collective primitive brains.

Unless we default on the debt, we will never restore the confidence of foreign investors who remember how fairly we treated them in 2006 with AAA MBS securities.

bgamall4 says

This is for Bigsby when I told him about the statues, Gog and Magog in the empire that stretches to the 4 corners of the earth, the British Empire. The 1000 years has passed, the time between the end of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the British Empire. The deception of the nations is that the NWO is good. It is not, it is BAD, EVIL:

7When the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison, 8and will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together for the war; the number of them is like the sand of the seashore. 9And they came up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, and fire came down from heaven and devoured them.…

You didn't tell me anything about them. I clearly explained to you why what you were saying was, of course, complete nonsense. Why don't you just go back and reread that thread?

And get some help whilst you're at it.

Using this clip in this way was funny for about a week five years ago.

bgamall4 says

Bigsby says

You didn't tell me anything about them. I clearly explained to you why what you were saying was, of course, complete nonsense. Why don't you just go back and reread that thread?

If the Bible does not scare you, when written for your damned empire, only the judgement day will put fear into your heart.

Of course the bible doesn't scare me. Why should a book written by people who had little more knowledge about the world than cavemen decades after the supposed fantastical events took place scare me? I bet you scare your neighbours though.

And why is the purpose of your God to scare people? That must be very reassuring.

What comes after apathy?

bgamall4 says

Bigsby says

Of course the bible doesn't scare me. Why should a book written by people who had little more knowledge about the world than cavemen decades after the supposed fantastical events took place scare me?

You are so toast.

Thanks. That's very Christian of you. Or at least your version of it.

Forgive me... I should stop reading Zero hedge.

rooemoore says

Using this clip in this way was funny for about a week five years ago.

This wasn't funny, it shows how even if Hitler were to say those things, he would sound like the smartest guy in the room. And that's scary, that even Hitler can be made to seem to show even one degree + more on the Give-O-Fuckmeter, than Congress or Obama.

"Stocks are up, who the fuck cares, you can't afford toilet paper to wipe your ass." -Funny Hitler

No truer words spoken.

Was that via email or did you get a phone call?

I was more into Public Enemy.

It doesn't matter what I say you will not hear me...

bgamall4 says

So that means the USA will not default on her debt? Tell me how that is bad?

17.3 trillion dollars and counting just how can it not go bad?

bgamall4 says

So that means the USA will not default on her debt? Tell me how that is bad?

Since you are so chipper, can I borrow some money in your name too? So you can pay that back later too. I will also spend the borrowed money to buy stuff that you want to buy, bidding prices up before you buy.

bgamall4 says

It hasn't so far, but the problem of the gap between rich and everyone else could put the debt in jeopardy.

Who do you think pays for the lobbists that channel how the borrowed money gets spent? Towards whom do you think they direct the money flow? Government spending is the leading cause of wealth disparity.

If you order your Taco Bell Cannibal Tacos with Dorito Shells value meal "small" size, is it made with a midget?

bgamall4 says

What is weird about it? God scrambled the languages because people united against him in a one world government.

You have now entered the twilight zone. Do not attempt to adjust your set.

sbh says

Is this the best you can come up with? Yawn

Dude, I am only 14 years old. It has been a blast messing with you guys. Most of my material comes from listing to my parent talk about buying a home in SFBA for the past 10 years. I see their confusion and witnessed first had how realtors have treated them over the years. We bought a house finally in 2006 only to lose it in 2010. My parents have more self esteem than most and once they couldn't make the payment cause my Dad lost his job, we went to renting. They could have swatted for years, but they grew up better than most of the idiots around here. It seems like the SFBA is made up of people with little integrity and I see the same on these boards. A bunch of ambulance chasers trying to make money off the hardships of others. If I was king, I'd beat them with their own arms.

mmmarvel says

The are consequences for every decision and not chosing is a decision within and of itself.

Your response doesn't even make any sense in the context of my original post you quoted there. I'm not even vaguely kinda sorta arguing against individual responsibility!

The awful truth is in a busted economy you can work your butt off and go nowhere. And a busted economy is what we have now and have had for quite a while really. Luck will play a greater role than most any amount of hard work you could possibly do in a busted economy. Certainly more than you're willing to admit I bet.

That is why those charts showing productivity increasing while wages stagnate are so important. Proof positive that working harder and "taking responsibility" are anything but economic cure alls:

That is a national average BTW. There is nowhere to move to in the US that allows you to avoid the reality that chart shows.

mmmarvel says

Is it that they got involved in drugs or alcohol?

I love how you insinuate all the people who've been beat down economically or are underemployed in low paying crap jobs are somehow at fault or just watch TV all day or drunk/high or too stupid to figure out somehow they should go to college and get a degree.

Its like you're totally in denial of the recession/non-recovery that has persisted since 2008 and its effects on society and just want to blame the victim due to their supposed moral failings.
mmmarvel says

Unless you are handicap in some way.

You can be totally mentally and physically fit and still end up poor if your economy is busted. Much if not most of the world's population is mentally and physically fit but still poor as all hell because they live in 3rd World hell hole countries.

And in the US the middle class just keeps on shrinking, just like it has for the last few decades, and more and more people end up poor or in poverty. Trends like that have nothing to do with any sort of supposed moral failings and they cannot be corrected with hard work or any sort of individual responsibility.

dublin hillz says

These advantages have always been around

Its not that they've been around forever, its that they're just about the only way to get ahead or even just a decent job at all now days.

We're halfway there to becoming one of those societies that practices blatant nepotism already.

bgamall4 says

spydah_hh says

bgamall4 says

So that means the USA will not default on her debt? Tell me how that is bad?

17.3 trillion dollars and counting just how can it not go bad?

It hasn't so far, but the problem of the gap between rich and everyone else could put the debt in jeopardy.

The gap between rich and poor is contributed by that 17.3 trillion. However, it will go bad not so much because of the gap of the rich and poor but because of bad policies made by the government.

You didn't answer my questions. Are you embarrassed by your beliefs?

1. Do you think that is why people speak different languages?
2. Do you think the earth is 6000 years old or thereabouts?
3. Do you think Noah built a boat and put all the world's animals on it?

bgamall4 says

And the bank to the central banks is called the tower of Basel.

Dun, Dun, duhhhhhhh. It's a tower. In Basel. What that has to do with your biblical splutterings is anyone's guess, or are you perhaps laughably conflating Babel and Basel?

Did Noah build a boat that held all the world's animals?

bgamall4 says

Astronomers have observed that about every 30 years a star dies and explodes into a supernova (ICR September, 1998). So there should be hundreds of millions of supernovas. In fact, there are far less than hundreds of millions of supernovas. I say there were more supernovas in the beginning.

Putting aside that bit of utterly garbled reasoning, you actually think the earth is 6000 years old. Oh, dear.

You didn't answer the first question.

bgamall4 says

You can't argue the supernova phenomenon. There simply aren't enough of them to prove an old earth.

You'll have to elaborate on that particular train of thought. I can't wait.

You still haven't answered question one.