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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.

bgamall4 says

Bigsby says

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

You still haven't answered question one.

Yes I have. I believe the Tower of Babel account. I don't need to elaborate on the fact that there aren't enough supernovae to prove an old earth.

And what exactly demonstrates that the earth is 6000 years old?

And you are seriously saying that you believe that people speak different languages because a small group of people built a tower a few thousand years ago?

I guess that's all pretty representative of the kind of 'proof' you require to convince yourself of your conspiracy theories.

All RED today except for Gold and Uranium. Just the way I predicted it would be. Get used to this pattern or die!

Thanks, AF. Now I need help understanding a "glute-free" diet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbacoa

You ever have Barbacoa? It's pretty popular here in San Antonio. Meat from a cows head. :-/

http://tejasbarbacoa.com/

bgamall4 says

In that I agree with you. Our national leaders will either capitulate to disaster or they will stop the speculation. They stopped the speculation in the 1930's and they can do it again if their backs are against the wall.

What?

bgamall4 says

With not enough supernovae, what demonstrates that the earth is 4.5 billion years old? That is an insurmountable fact.

How about an absolute mountain of testable predictions and empirical evidence? What do you have for your 6000 year argument? A book written by a handful of individuals thousands of years after the supposed creation event. Hmmm...

bgamall4 says

Who are you to argue against God?

Someone with science on my side. And arguing against God has nothing to do with it. You can believe in God and still understand that the bible was written by PEOPLE, scientifically clueless people, and that much of what was written was clearly and obviously made up.

bgamall4 says

It is a known fact that a couple of trillion dollars went missing at the
Pentagon, and that a Zionist was in charge of the books. Google it.

http://www.911myths.com/index.php/Missing_Trillions

It's a known fact that you are a misleading, deceiptful Christian. Does your God not care about lying?

bgamall4 says

Kind of makes Zionism look like the most stupid political movement on the face of the earth, doesn't it, Bugsy?

What does?

RentingForHalfTheCost says

All RED today except for Gold and Uranium. Just the way I predicted it would be. Get used to this pattern or die!

I just woke up, turned on the TV, and saw all green. Did you make the wrong bet and lose money again?

E-man says

RentingForHalfTheCost says

All RED today except for Gold and Uranium. Just the way I predicted it would be. Get used to this pattern or die!

I just woke up, turned on the TV, and saw all green. Did you make the wrong bet and lose money again?

RED baby. Maybe your TV needs adjustment. It happens on old picture tubes.

bgamall4 says

You can't argue the supernova phenomenon.

Actually you can, since it's a bunch of bullshit.

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/supernova/snrfab.html

bgamall4 says

Bigsby says

Do you believe everything in the bible

Inspired word of God. Paul said manstealing was a sin. He also had a Christian slave obey the law of the land. That does not mean Paul condoned slavery.

(Ephesians 6:5 NLT) Slaves, obey your earthly masters with deep respect and fear. Serve them sincerely as you would serve Christ.

(1 Timothy 6:1-2 NLT) Christians who are slaves should give their masters full respect so that the name of God and his teaching will not be shamed. If your master is a Christian, that is no excuse for being disrespectful. You should work all the harder because you are helping another believer by your efforts. Teach these truths, Timothy, and encourage everyone to obey them.

Clear condemnation right there. Or not.

Reality says

Boomers buying a median house in 1980 would have paid 15% interest that cost nearly 3x then median income. That's a much higher percentage of median income than the current 4% interest on a house that is nearly 4x median income. 15% mortgage on a $150k (3x median income) house would be like $2000/mo

The math is correct (probably about $1900/mo), but the median house in 1980 was probably more like $65-70K, not $150K.

dodgerfanjohn says

Per Cato institute study in 2011, 80% of US millionaires are self made and did not in fact inherit the money.

But doesn't "millionaires" including housing equity? Of course a large number of people with $1 million are self-made. Bump up the number to even $3-5 million, and you might have a different answer.