|
Post by graybeard on Mar 30, 2012 21:42:46 GMT -6
Jonathan Turley on Dobermann said the package is written so it can't be split apart. It will stand or go down whole.
It's time for Medicare part E, the health banksters be damned.
GB
|
|
|
Post by graybeard on Mar 30, 2012 21:31:20 GMT -6
Van Jones said on Realtime tonight that while the US gave Solyndra a couple of $Billion in loans and subsidies, the ChiComs have given $30 Billion in grants to their solar panel makers to kill our industry. Meanwhile, the Repubs, and some on this Forum blame Obama. Where are you allegiances? Better to torpedo Obama than to take revenge on the ChiComs?
GB
|
|
|
Post by graybeard on Mar 30, 2012 21:25:39 GMT -6
Healthcare has been a perk to for large companies to keep preferred employees from jumping jobs. It worked on me. Medicare part E would get employers out of the healthcare burden, and require them to come up with other ways to foster employee loyalty. You know, like better pension plans.
GB
|
|
|
Post by graybeard on Mar 26, 2012 15:04:33 GMT -6
"Bloomberg writes that to offset weak U.S. demand, refiners exported 439,000 barrels a day more than were imported the year before. In 2010, daily imports averaged 269,000 barrels, according to the Petroleum Supply Monthly report."
Is this misleading, or what? Why are they comparing imports from one year to exports of the next year?
|
|
|
Post by graybeard on Mar 26, 2012 6:47:06 GMT -6
Mine was a miniscule part of the $155 Million grossed by the new movie this past weekend. I was dragged there by my wife, who is into the second book of the trilogy.
It is set in post-rebellion America, where most people are living like in 1933, while the 1% live in splendor in the Rockies. Wife says they are in Denver; I say Salt Lake City.
I can see the movie's appeal to the young in this country, who see only a darker future. After all the ads and previews, it seemed like an awfully long movie to me. My advice: wait until there are cheap seats.
GB
|
|
|
Post by graybeard on Mar 24, 2012 20:57:18 GMT -6
A serious crime was committed by the Sanford police not doing a full investigation.
|
|
|
Post by graybeard on Mar 24, 2012 20:51:38 GMT -6
The Secret Service, FBI, etc., have historically been loaded with Mormons.
|
|
|
Post by graybeard on Mar 24, 2012 19:44:19 GMT -6
Putting pieces together:
It is said that Romney pays more homage to the Mormon leaders than leading Catholics do to the Vatican.
NSA is building a giant database facility in Utah.
GB
|
|
|
Post by graybeard on Mar 24, 2012 10:03:05 GMT -6
I saw that wholesale gas prices in Calif peaked in late Feb, yet the retail price continued to climb for a month.
Do you suppose Obama threatening to reduce oil company tax dodges triggered a revenge action from them?
GB
|
|
|
Post by graybeard on Mar 24, 2012 9:37:07 GMT -6
Saw on Blomberg yesterday that 55% of trades last year were High Freq Trades, up from 26% in 2006.
|
|
|
Post by graybeard on Mar 24, 2012 6:35:19 GMT -6
Wasn't the $700 Billion TARP of 2008 a bigger giveaway?
|
|
|
Post by graybeard on Mar 22, 2012 23:31:00 GMT -6
I plan to start taking aspirin daily, beginning four days before my heart attack.
|
|
|
Post by graybeard on Mar 22, 2012 23:25:34 GMT -6
Obamacare is to health insurance companies what Bu$h's Medicare Part D is to big Pharma. May their crotches be infested with 1000 insecticide resistant fleas.
GB
|
|
|
Post by graybeard on Mar 22, 2012 23:19:32 GMT -6
The FDA and others are already under control of the Fascists. I saw a big story on tv news this morning about some guy unknowingly importing fake Avastin, a cancer drug. They're gonna' hang him. The news made it sound like all FDA approved drugs are made in the US.
What the hell did the govt do about Baxter importing tainted Heparin that sickened and killed hundreds or thousands? I saw no FDA action at all.
GB
|
|
|
Post by graybeard on Mar 16, 2012 20:47:28 GMT -6
Saw banner on Bloomberg tv today that wholesale gas prices peaked in Calif in late Feb, yet the retail price continues to rise. I think we've hit the peak.
|
|
|
Post by graybeard on Mar 16, 2012 20:44:57 GMT -6
Matt is great.
|
|
|
Post by graybeard on Mar 16, 2012 11:12:12 GMT -6
We taxpayers would be better off putting CONgress critters on a pension that prevents them from any other post-service income.
|
|
|
Post by graybeard on Mar 15, 2012 23:06:41 GMT -6
Hey, how else can you get a bargain, and kill off a Chinaman at the same time?
|
|
|
Post by graybeard on Mar 15, 2012 23:04:13 GMT -6
Carney flatly denied this report. Oil dropped $2 on the news, and then bounced back after the denial. Is this a speculative bubble? Nah, move along. The embargoes on Iran are a real factor, however.
Dobermann keeps playing the tapes of O'Lielly and others at Faux News saying in the last crunch in 2008 that the Prez had no control over it.
GB
|
|
|
Post by graybeard on Mar 15, 2012 4:41:18 GMT -6
Yeh, sure; they're gonna' import US made goods when they have a nearly free labor pool just across the DMZ. Maybe we can grow more cabbage to export for their kimshee.
|
|
|
Post by graybeard on Mar 14, 2012 12:10:04 GMT -6
That's why nobody wants to fix illegal immigration: unlimited cheap labor. Citizenship by birth provides the future cheap labor pool.
|
|
|
Post by graybeard on Mar 14, 2012 12:06:51 GMT -6
"And if all students decided to stop paying on $1 trillion in debt, it would be a huge catastrophe for banks."
No, I bet it would be a huge catastrophe for taxpayers while the Socialist Banksters get bailed out again.
GB
|
|
|
Post by graybeard on Mar 14, 2012 6:28:53 GMT -6
Couldn't happen to nicer people.
|
|
|
Post by graybeard on Mar 12, 2012 9:12:52 GMT -6
It has been shown that abortion rates vary with the economy. It's a tragedy to bear an unwanted child. I think crime rates 15-20 years later reflect that.
Clinton said it well: "Abortions should be safe, legal, and rare."
|
|
|
Post by graybeard on Mar 12, 2012 9:03:22 GMT -6
If gas is so cheap, and supplying the majority of our juice why haven't SC Edison prices fallen a lot? From a peak of maybe $.35/kwh, Tier 5 is now $.31, and that may be seasonal.
I'll buy solar when the payback gets short enough.
|
|
|
Post by graybeard on Mar 11, 2012 15:19:55 GMT -6
Does anybody know the average interest rate on these loans?
|
|
|
Post by graybeard on Mar 11, 2012 8:34:26 GMT -6
Romney said he wants a bigger defense budget. Cancel Romney.
I hate when people forward the link to the "5th generation fighter." The F-35 is another $Trillion welfare program for the MIS, Military-Industry-Security complex. We already don't have an enemy worthy of the F-22 that's been out ten years and I don't believe it's fired a shot in anger. At $350 Million each, it's too valuable to deploy for use in Libya or Syria. That was a $Trillion program, too.
Cut the MIS budgets.
GB
|
|
|
Post by graybeard on Mar 8, 2012 19:04:26 GMT -6
This book will soon be released as a documentary: www.OCForum.orgHuffpost booke review: There has been nothing more cowardly in my lifetime than the American government's dysfunctional response to the economic imperialism of China. The Chinese have shown a unique political sophistication in co-opting the elites of big corporate America with crony business deals; and politically pacifying Congress with a willingness to fund their deficit spending. But with the common man's concern rising, two accomplished academics, Peter Navarro and Greg Autry, have just published Death By China, a muckraker's call to confront the dangers of America's dance with the Chinese dragon in the 21st century. The first chapter of the book is a grim expose on the dangers of Chinese food exports. The reader is taken for a stroll down the modern aisles of America's supermarkets, where Chinese imports increasingly dominate display shelves. Perhaps some nice seafood grown in the raging chemical stew of the Yangtze's river would be an attractive offering for your family tonight. Don't worry about the fish and shrimp dying from the world's most bacteria-infested waters; the Chinese simply pour massive amounts of banned antibiotics in the water to prevent that nasty discoloration of diseases. The same quality control mentality often holds for China's market share dominance in such staples as white meat chicken, apple juice, garlic, canned pears, honey and a myriad of other basic foods. Feeling a little woozy after considering how much mercury and other poisons you have already accumulated in your body from eating these imported treats, you learn that Chinese communist drug makers now produce 70% of the world's penicillin, 50% of its aspirin, and 33% of its Tylenol you may have ingested. The Dragon's drug makers have also captured much of the world market in antibiotics, enzymes, primary amino acids, and vitamins. China has even cornered the world market for vitamin C -- with 90% of market share. Oh, by the way, China now plays a dominant role in the production of vitamins A, B12, and E, besides many of the raw ingredients that go into multivitamins. As the authors report: These statistics should disturb all of us for one simple reason: Far too much of what China is flooding our grocery stores and drug emporia with is pure poison. That's why Chinese foods and drugs always rank #1 of those flagged down at the border or recalled by both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Food Safety Authority. Having captured the reader with sufficient "yuck factor," the book moves on to illuminate the Dragon's art of using "Weapons of Job Destruction" to eviscerate manufacturing employment here in the United States... Remainder at www.huffingtonpost.com/chriss-street/book-review-death-by-chin_b_882644.htmlGB
|
|
|
Post by graybeard on Mar 4, 2012 1:15:35 GMT -6
Excellent.
|
|
|
Post by graybeard on Mar 2, 2012 9:24:25 GMT -6
Using immigrants as unpaid help is in the mold of Apple/FoxCON.
|
|