What happened to all of the doom and gloom economic threads?

[Beco]

Richard, come out of the closet. you are the one who talks about all things penis. clearly, you love to snuggle up to some man.

just admit it, there is nothing wrong with you being gay. time for you to own it!

he does that a lot, constant gay references when attacking Vettman and others, he probably doesnt even realize it.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

he does that a lot, he probably doesnt even realize it.

I'm not sure which is more troubling. the fact that Richard hasn't come to terms with his love for all things penis or the fact that people like Richard want more free hand outs?

how did American's get to be so lazy? we use to have American Pride, now we just want things handed to us.

hopefully Richard will read this and take a moment. then maybe he can come out and help me understand! Richard, when did you give up on life and walk into the closet?

 

[NeverEndingMe]

I was talking about veteman...

You know him... biblical.

here is the kicker. So Vet is loyal to his friends. guess that is something you democrats/socialist don't know about, understand, nor do you have any honor.

Richard, you are showing you are lower than pond scum.

you, Robbdownsouth are becoming pieces of human waste. grow up

 

[richard_daily]

he does that a lot, constant gay references when attacking Vettman and others, he probably doesnt even realize it.

I only point out what they are, is the exact same thing as what they hate.

Calling me gay doesn't offend me. I'm comfortable with myself, and around people who were born gay.

veteman and koalabear are insecure in their sexuality, and the fact that they are partnered up on here and come to each others' rescue is kind of cute to be honest.

Now if they could just be open about their mutual love and admiration for each other, they could live a less miserable existence.

 

[koalabear]

I only point out what they are, is the exact same thing as what they hate.

Calling me gay doesn't offend me. I'm comfortable with myself, and around people who were born gay.

veteman and koalabear are insecure in their sexuality, and the fact that they are partnered up on here and come to each others' rescue is kind of cute to be honest.

Now if they could just be open about their mutual love and admiration for each other, they could live a less miserable existence.

I don't hate you because you are a queer lil fag chihuahua, I hate you because you are stupid.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

I only point out what they are, is the exact same thing as what they hate.

Calling me gay doesn't offend me. I'm comfortable with myself, and around people who were born gay.

veteman and koalabear are insecure in their sexuality, and the fact that they are partnered up on here and come to each others' rescue is kind of cute to be honest.

Now if they could just be open about their mutual love and admiration for each other, they could live a less miserable existence.

you are exhausting. you and Robdownsouth brought up the whole gay thing, now you are pointing fingers?

grow up bitch boy

 

[RobDownSouth]

veteman and koalabear are insecure in their sexuality...

I don't hate you because you are a queer...

The defense rests.

 

[richard_daily]

The defense rests.

I find their Rush-addled brains to be amusing to watch.

 

[Beco]

veteman and koalabear are insecure in their sexuality, and the fact that they are partnered up on here and come to each others' rescue is kind of cute to be honest.

Wow, how unusual here on Lit....gangs supporting each other.

 

[unregistered]

 

[RobDownSouth]

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g79/jbravo688/51SgoCbVqLL.jpg


We know, we know Chihuahua, we know.

Has a day passed since you've been here that you HAVEN'T made a reference to shit/piss/asses/and-or other guys cocks?

Seriously. You know, there is a "fetish" board for that sort of stuff here.

 

[richard_daily]

Has a day passed since you've been here that you HAVEN'T made a reference to shit/piss/asses/and-or other guys cocks?

Seriously. You know, there is a "fetish" board for that sort of stuff here.

He chooses to soil (pun intended) the GB with his presence.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

He chooses to soil (pun intended) the GB with his presence.

and you choose to soil your pants, what's your point?

 

[garbage can]

I only point out what they are, is the exact same thing as what they hate.

Calling me gay doesn't offend me. I'm comfortable with myself, and around people who were born gay.

veteman and koalabear are insecure in their sexuality, and the fact that they are partnered up on here and come to each others' rescue is kind of cute to be honest.

Now if they could just be open about their mutual love and admiration for each other, they could live a less miserable existence.

*laughing*....Hey Daily, only you are stupid enough to believe half the shit you write.

 

[mercury14]

Has a day passed since you've been here that you HAVEN'T made a reference to shit/piss/asses/and-or other guys cocks?

Seriously. You know, there is a "fetish" board for that sort of stuff here.

Yes.

Some days he's limited himself to talking about other men's semen.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

Yes.

Some days he's limited himself to talking about other men's semen.

awesome, your hate for homosexuals only highlights your own homosexual needs

 

[mercury14]

*laughing*....Hey Daily, only you are stupid enough to believe half the shit you write.

Did you believe yourself when you wrote that Sandra Fluke's testified to get federal tax dollars for her contraception? Or were you just lying then?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Seven Rules of Bureaucracy

Rule #1: Maintain the problem at all costs! The problem is the basis of power, perks, privileges, and security.

Rule #2: Use crisis and perceived crisis to increase your power and control.

Rule 2a. Force 11th-hour decisions, threaten the loss of options and opportunities, and limit the opposition's opportunity to review and critique.

Rule #3: If there are not enough crises, manufacture them, even from nature, where none exist.

Rule #4: Control the flow and release of information while feigning openness.

Rule 4a: Deny, delay, obfuscate, spin, and lie.

Rule #5: Maximize public-relations exposure by creating a cover story that appeals to the universal need to help people.

Rule #6: Create vested support groups by distributing concentrated benefits and/or entitlements to these special interests, while distributing the costs broadly to one's political opponents.

Rule #7: Demonize the truth tellers who have the temerity to say, "The emperor has no clothes."

Rule 7a: Accuse the truth teller of one's own defects, deficiencies, crimes, and misdemeanors.

http://mises.org/daily/5955/The-Seven-Rules-of-Bureaucracy

The accompanying explanations are a great read; Corzine should look them over...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

You wonder why the price of oil is up?

You wonder why President Obama and his party are largely to blame?

It's the falling dollar, and it's going to continue to fall because politics trump economics thanks to Public Education.

The Sun Also Sets
By Mark Steyn
March 24, 2012 4:00 A.M.

I was in Australia earlier this month and there, as elsewhere on my recent travels, the consensus among the politicians I met (at least in private) was that Washington lacked the will for meaningful course correction, and that, therefore, the trick was to ensure that, when the behemoth goes over the cliff, you’re not dragged down with it. It is faintly surreal to be sitting in paneled offices lined by formal portraits listening to eminent persons who assume the collapse of the dominant global power is a fait accompli. “I don’t feel America is quite a First World country anymore,” a robustly pro-American Aussie told me, with a sigh of regret.

Well, what does some rinky-dink ’roo-infested didgeridoo mill on the other side of the planet know about anything? Fair enough. But Australia was the only major Western nation not to go into recession after 2008. And in the last decade the U.S. dollar has fallen by half against the Oz buck: That’s to say, in 2002, one greenback bought you a buck-ninety Down Under; now it buys you 95 cents. More of that a bit later.

I have now returned from Oz to the Emerald City, where everything is built with borrowed green. President Obama has run up more debt in three years than President Bush did in eight, and he plans to run up more still — from ten trillion in 2008 to fifteen and a half trillion now to 20 trillion and beyond. Onward and upward! The president doesn’t see this as a problem, nor do his party, and nor do at least fortysomething percent of the American people. The Democrats’ plan is to have no plan, and their budget is not to budget at all. “We don’t need to bring a budget,” said Harry Reid. Why tie yourself down? “We’re not coming before you to say we have a definitive solution,” the treasury secretary told House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan. “What we do know is we don’t like yours.”

Nor do some of Ryan’s fellow conservatives. Texas congressman Louie Gohmert, for whom I have a high regard, was among those representatives who appeared at the Heritage Foundation to express misgivings regarding the Ryan plan’s timidity. They’re not wrong on that: The alleged terrorizer of widows and orphans does not propose to balance the budget of the government of the United States until the year 2040. That would be 27 years after Congressman Ryan’s current term of office expires. Who knows what could throw a wrench in those numbers? Suppose Beijing decides to seize Taiwan. The U.S. is obligated to defend it militarily. But U.S. taxpayers would be funding both sides of the war — the home team, via the Pentagon budget, and the Chinese military, through the interest payments on the debt. (We’ll be bankrolling the entire People’s Liberation Army by some point this decade.) A Beijing–Taipei conflict would be, in budget terms, a U.S. civil war relocated to the Straits of Taiwan. Which is why plans for mid-century are of limited value. When the most notorious extreme callous budget-slasher of the age cannot foresee the government living within its means within the next three decades, you begin to appreciate why foreign observers doubt whether there’ll be a 2040, not for anything recognizable as “the United States.”

Yet it’s widely agreed that Ryan’s plan is about as far as you can push it while retaining minimal political viability. A second-term Obama would roar full throttle to the cliff edge, while a President Romney would be unlikely to do much more than ease off to third gear. At this point, it’s traditional for pundits to warn that if we don’t change course we’re going to wind up like Greece. Presumably they mean that, right now, our national debt, which crossed the Rubicon of 100 percent of GDP just before Christmas, is not as bad as that of Athens, although it’s worse than Britain, Canada, Australia, Sweden, Denmark, and every other European nation except Portugal, Ireland, and Italy. Or perhaps they mean that America’s current deficit-to-GDP ratio is not quite as bad as Greece’s, although it’s worse than that of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, and every other European nation except Ireland.

But these comparisons tend to understate the insolvency of America, failing as they do to take into account state and municipal debts and public pension liabilities. When Morgan Stanley ran those numbers in 2009, the debt-to-revenue ratio in Greece was 312 percent; in the United States it was 358 percent. If Greece has been knocking back the ouzo, we’re face down in the vat. Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute calculates that, if you take into account unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare versus their European equivalents, Greece owes 875 percent of GDP; the United States owes 911 percent — or getting on for twice as much as the second-most-insolvent Continental: France at 549 percent.

And if you’re thinking, Wow, all these percentages are making my head hurt, forget ’em: When you’re spending on the scale Washington does, what matters is the hard dollar numbers. Greece’s total debt is a few rinky-dink billions, a rounding error in the average Obama budget. Only America is spending trillions. The 2011 budget deficit, for example, is about the size of the entire Russian economy. By 2010, the Obama administration was issuing about a hundred billion dollars of treasury bonds every month — or, to put it another way, Washington is dependent on the bond markets being willing to absorb an increase of U.S. debt equivalent to the GDP of Canada or India — every year. And those numbers don’t take into account the huge levels of personal debt run up by Americans. College-debt alone is over a trillion dollars, or the equivalent of the entire South Korean economy — tied up just in one small boutique niche market of debt which barely exists in most other developed nations.

“We are headed for the most predictable economic crisis in history,” says Paul Ryan. And he’s right. But precisely because it’s so predictable the political class has already discounted it. Which is why a plan for pie now and spinach later, maybe even two decades later, is the only real menu on the table. There’s a famous exchange in Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises. Someone asks Mike Campbell, “How did you go bankrupt?” “Two ways,” he replies. “Gradually, then suddenly.” We’ve been going through the gradual phase so long, we’re kinda used to it. But it’s coming to an end, and what happens next will be the second way: sudden, and very bad.

By the way, that decline in the U.S./Australian exchange isn’t the only one. Ten years ago the U.S. dollar was worth 1.6 Canadian; now it’s at par. A decade ago, the dollar was worth over ten Swedish Kroner, now 6.7; 1.8 Singapore dollars, now 1.2. I get asked with distressing frequency by Americans where I would recommend fleeing to. The reality is, given the dollar’s decline over the last decade, that most Americans can no longer afford to flee to any place worth fleeing to. What’s left is the non-flee option: taking a stand here, stopping the spendaholism, closing federal agencies, privatizing departments, block-granting to the states — not in 2040, but now. “Suddenly” is about to show up.

See also: Off Budget Spending

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/mandatory_spending_by_a_broke_nation.html

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

btw, the Chinese Miracle bubble is showing signs of pop, pop, pop musak...

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/falling_yuan_latest_failure_of_obamas_trade_policy.html

 

[Saint Peter]

http://www.americanthinker.com

 

[Wat_Tyler]

http://www.americanweasel.com

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Why does Petey believe himself to be educated?

The tacit bond between teacher and student has now started to unravel. The covenant between the participants in the noble game of intellectual discourse must be predicated on the assumption of a possible mutual ideality, a striving to disengage the best self from the turmoil of appetitive claims and desires that obscure it. The teacher has to assume the role of committed intercessor, and the student needs to be willing to suspend an increasingly fashionable skepticism about the importance of humanistic scholarship and to struggle against the blandishments of a high-tech, instantaneous, digital milieu that will infallibly bankrupt him or her both materially and spiritually.

At the same time, many teachers have, by now, given up or become disablingly skeptical. Others teach not the curriculum but a politically correct travesty of what passes for genuine knowledge — Taqiyya for Kids, as Janet Tassel calls it in American Thinker, or Howard Zinn’s treasonably distorted history of the United States. A disturbing number of students have lapsed into a coma from which all too few seem likely to awaken. With a handful of redeeming exceptions, writers pander or traffic in technicalities. Like the students they once were, most readers wish to be stroked, not struck.

The decline of education, which means also the fading out of historical memory and the dimming of literate curiosity, has been the case for some considerable time now. The insistent question is: how does one go about trying to rescue a culture in the throes of custodial dissolution? Over the years I have regularly set my students (rather lenient) tests in general knowledge and particularly in Canadian history; I found myself unable in good conscience to award a single passing grade. And what is one to make, for example, of the fact that someone like Canada’s quondam minister of Defense, John McCallum, who holds degrees from several prestigious universities, had never heard of the disastrous raid on the beaches of Dieppe until the moment came to mark its 60th anniversary? In a letter sent by the Minister to the National Post claiming to have been misinterpreted, Mr. McCallum referred to the WW I victory at Vimy Ridge as having occurred at Vichy, capital of the Nazi puppet regime in occupied France during WW II. This is the same McCallum who also alluded to the threat of war between India and Afghanistan.

Then we have the fiasco of former Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin, who delivered a speech to the military base in Gagetown, New Brunswick, on April 14, 2004, in which he twice praised the Canadian effort in the 1944 invasion of Norway. One is also reminded of President Obama’s notorious gaffes — the Austrian language, the 57 (or 58) states, the identification of a new state called Eau Claire, Hawaii as part of Asia, the Muslim history of Cordoba set in the period of the Inquisition, etc. Clearly, the failure of both memory and knowledge has become epidemic. One recalls, too, in this connection the British company Umbro, which outfits the English national soccer team, that marketed the Zyklon running shoe, unaware until controversy erupted of the Zyklon B poison gas the Nazis used in the concentration camps. “We are sure that the name was not meant to cause offense,” explained an Umbro spokesman, whose own name is Nick Crook. No less disturbing is a student paper I read in which the writer claimed that “man descended from the trees around two hundred years ago and experienced the Enlightenment.” These are only a few examples, among the myriad bristling in my personal files culled from every walk and profession of life, of the intellectual eclipse that has overtaken us. The level of ignorance is stupefying and, I have come to believe, barring a miracle, verging on the irreparable.

When he is clearly not?

http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-decline-of-literate-thought/?singlepage=true

 

[Saint Peter]

Why does Petey believe himself to be educated?

When he is clearly not?

Does the intelligent man post his own thoughts, or copy and paste the thoughts of others?

Am I an artist if I run the painting through the copy machine?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Does the intelligent man post his own thoughts, or copy and paste the thoughts of others?

Am I an artist if I run the painting through the copy machine?

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=802444



If I c&p something, it is an attempt to either flesh out my own thoughts, to add a viewpoint, or just to find out who is knee-jerk stupid in their unwillingness to expand their horizons as I was when I was a so-called "Liberal Democrat."

It's okay, a little stepping outside of your comfort zone won't hurt you...