The markets are tanking. I've converted all of my assets into rupees. I'm investing everything in Persian couch throws. Buy, buy, sell, sell, beef tallow, hummus
Bernanke says relax!
Retirement to a mountain retreat? Pristine, virgin forest air? Get back to work, slave. Not for you, drone. Hail mammon! All this honey is for me and Astarte.
brandon [email] said at 1:22 PM 01-22-2008: That's unfortunate, you'll probably be assigned to the sugar-mines. The new master's of the international economy have arrived. They hunger.
brandon [email] said at 12:13 PM 01-26-2008: Chinese is for the masters. You would do well to keep quiet in their presence. It's said we sound like obsese dogs yipping when we speak our filthy dog-tongue around them.
kiche [email] said at 10:34 PM 09-29-2008: i like my job just fine. i'm not sure if it'll be around by the end of the year, though. i think we are screwed even if we listen to bernanke and pass the bush bailout plan of giving all of our remaining money to america's most incompetent and overcompensated ceos.
neilbert said at 7:40 PM 09-30-2008: "The Bush Bailout plan." Well, I would call it, "Our entire government and country is so fucking corrupt it's sickening, bailout plan."
Please, don't try to pin this collapse on Bush, that's too fucking easy. Everyone's got their hands in this mess.
You mean to tell me that NOT ONE FUCKING PERSON in the government didn't see this crash coming?
After I found out that there were 2,300 earmarks attached to the bailout bill, I have pretty much given up on the entire federal government. It's so blatantly obvious that it does not matter who is elected president for the next four years, as whomever that poor sap is, is going to have to dig themselves out of this hole. If Obama was smart, he'd duck out and let Hillary run, and then come back in four years and sweep the elections. McSame needs to just fucking give it up. He can't find Spain or Venezuela on a map.
Once again, please do NOT take my statements as support for the republicans and Bush/McSame. I feel that both sides are so corrupt that I think this country has less than 15 years left before it just collapses on it's own corruption.
anthony [email] said at 7:55 AM 09-30-2008: It is my hope each head is starting to prepare survival kits for themselves and their loved ones. It would also be pertinent to know how to use a firearm. I for one will field strip and perform much needed maintenance on my own soon. I've always wanted to wear a bandoleer.
anthony [email] said at 3:45 PM 09-30-2008: I live really close to the NRA headquarters and have gone shooting in MD with Josh and a few others. It's awesome. There are trap fields around here!
anthony [email] said at 11:54 AM 09-30-2008: For many years I was heavily invested ,primarily, in Titties, but then decided to diversify into Beer. Recently however, due to increased personal liquidity, I have moved capital from Beer into areas where investment in Beer provides a conflict of interest, and am seeing increasing gains. Unfortunately, Titties is a very volatile market, with spikes every month, and I have found that it's return is on par with the Fed, which I'm OK with.
brianbibbly [email] said at 11:57 AM 09-30-2008: That's a sound strategy. My investment in Titties a very slow rate of return, but, the return, when realized, is often satisfying. The percentage gain increases as my investment in Beer increases as well.
brandon [email] said at 12:35 PM 09-30-2008: I've been depositing all of my liquidity into indexed cervical accounts. They have a rate of return that's less than a year, and you should see the way they swell in value.
anthony [email] said at 2:09 PM 09-30-2008: I would go so far as to say that all of my long term investments in Titties has repeatedly had severe diminishing returns after an initial high rate of growth. Unfortunately, my investing partner who usually makes substantial deposits insists on continued procurements.
To be fair most of the earmarks came through in HR 3997, the HEROES act. All the same, this act would have given the Secretary of the Treasury and his underlings an eerie amount of power and leeway regarding public money. Which, hell, kind of violates the separation of powers.
Speaking of HEROES, I wish Hiro Nakamura would allow me to travel back in time to the first senator or representative who got the great fucking idea to start naming bills and acts with cutesy acronyms and horseshit titles e.g. Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism. I'd take Diderot's advice, and hopefully get to feel up the cheerleader: Feel up the Cheerleader, Save the Language.
/hey she's legal
milky [email] said at 9:38 PM 09-30-2008: Guys, for what it's worth, the new bill in the Senate has something that means a lot for me. The legislation includes a "Mental Health Parity" provision, which would require health insurance companies to cover mental illness at parity with physical illness.
For once in my life, I'll be treated normally by insurance companies and may actually be able to save money and put it into the bank instead of doctors and big pharma.
I need this for the first part of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This gives me the right to pursue life, a normal life.
