tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903483516951946644.post3096191820603478038..comments2023-09-22T04:41:12.751-07:00Comments on Wapella.com: How to win a Pulitzer Prize: Contact: Vic RiddleJBPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17015371340244747070noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903483516951946644.post-67811750922790286142009-09-17T21:01:39.123-07:002009-09-17T21:01:39.123-07:00If you google Irish Sunscreen it takes you here.If you google Irish Sunscreen it takes you here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903483516951946644.post-89021322364036828912008-07-18T18:59:00.000-07:002008-07-18T18:59:00.000-07:00As I was leaving a public house today I was invite...As I was leaving a public house today I was invited to the Roscommon County fair. Adverse as I am to public gatherings, I obliged my host, as he was showing his prize bullock. He assured me that the competition was very equitable, even "fair" and that he had no advantage on the other participants. <BR/><BR/>The weather at the event was fair, neither too warm nor too cool. I convinced my host that American baseball was worth watching. We soon saw many balls hit in fair territory. <BR/><BR/>I asked if he would buy a condo at Cabrini Green. He declined. <BR/><BR/>All were treated with equity. Some have earned more equity than others. They had earned it. <BR/><BR/>P. PearseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903483516951946644.post-87171855128992528212008-07-18T12:52:00.000-07:002008-07-18T12:52:00.000-07:00The right ownership society would be more cost ef...The right ownership society would be more cost effective in the long run. Just eliminate the Bush friends scams and schemes. (guess who gave bush the most in campaign contributions? BANKS! ..Remember the first law he signed?)<BR/><BR/>Who said anything about redistribution of wealth?<BR/><BR/>Let them buy their apartments at low or 0% interest and see what happens.<BR/><BR/>Dimes and all that.<BR/><BR/>You probably think what most credit card companies do is fair. If you do, you have no proper sense of fairness.<BR/><BR/>To people who say, <BR/>"The world is not fair."<BR/>You should say, <BR/>"It is if I have anything to do with it."<BR/><BR/>GET IT?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903483516951946644.post-26064089141971608562008-07-18T08:28:00.000-07:002008-07-18T08:28:00.000-07:00I do care: I get to pay for the mess. When did fa...I do care: I get to pay for the mess. When did fair ever have anything to do with the way the world works?<BR/><BR/>Attempts at redistribution of wealth, in particular through a dictatorship of the proletariat, have failed miserably. <BR/><BR/>Ronald ReaganAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903483516951946644.post-49902871472950670752008-07-17T16:31:00.000-07:002008-07-17T16:31:00.000-07:00BEP,An ownership society would prosper. Unfortuna...BEP,<BR/><BR/>An ownership society would prosper. Unfortunately George W. Bushes version of it involved letting banks rip off people buying houses and getting student loans.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Maybe you are the folks who just don't care.<BR/><BR/>Get it!<BR/><BR/>You don't care if things are fair.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903483516951946644.post-90974420284619502952008-07-17T16:14:00.000-07:002008-07-17T16:14:00.000-07:00What is weird about a children's fable?It makes a ...What is weird about a children's fable?<BR/><BR/>It makes a good point here.<BR/><BR/>Pretend like you understand the monetary system so you don't seem stupid.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903483516951946644.post-52955058844562761692008-07-17T15:44:00.000-07:002008-07-17T15:44:00.000-07:00Yes, the fiat currency discussion must end. On to...Yes, the fiat currency discussion must end. <BR/><BR/>On to Larry Storch and F-Troop please, and his relationship to our current governor.<BR/><BR/>No discussion of fiats there please.<BR/><BR/>JBPJBPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17015371340244747070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903483516951946644.post-45881231644662928632008-07-17T15:13:00.000-07:002008-07-17T15:13:00.000-07:00Re deals on housing: we have that in the form of C...Re deals on housing: we have that in the form of Countrywide and other sub primes. Don't you get it: some folks don't care. <BR/><BR/>Go the library and get a history book. You will learn that the US has had a number of panics, scares, recessions, et al over our history. <BR/><BR/>Wait, libraries are probably havens of propaganda. <BR/><BR/>I'm with you EEP, some of this is disturbing.<BR/><BR/>As the literary conference wound up today we didn't have any luck with the parasailing. The poor chap powering the bike got very tyred. I was unable to get an lift.<BR/><BR/>As I read an article in the NY Times about Jewish folks with tattoos not going to heaven I noticed several young ladies with "tramp stamps". I counseled them on being able to be buried in a Jewish cemetery. They all assured me that they were not of the Hebrew faith. I then offered them my Irish sunscreen, with a little wallpaper paste added. <BR/><BR/>We will reconvene here on the "Emerald Coast" next year. The water, while a beautiful shade of green, is not near as verdant as the shores of the fair isle. <BR/><BR/>Literarily yours, <BR/><BR/>BEPAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903483516951946644.post-6856139395813498582008-07-17T14:57:00.000-07:002008-07-17T14:57:00.000-07:00This is getting weird.....it was non-entertaining ...This is getting weird.....it was non-entertaining some time ago...but now it's just getting scary.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903483516951946644.post-73562653123270466612008-07-17T14:33:00.000-07:002008-07-17T14:33:00.000-07:00An emperor who cares too much about clothes hires ...An emperor who cares too much about clothes hires two swindlers who promise him the finest suit of clothes from the most beautiful cloth. This cloth, they tell him, is invisible to anyone who was either stupid or unfit for his position. The Emperor cannot see the (non-existent) cloth, but pretends that he can for fear of appearing stupid; his ministers do the same. When the swindlers report that the suit is finished, they dress him in mime. The Emperor then goes on a procession through the capital to show off his new "clothes". During the course of the procession, a small child cries out, "But he has nothing on!" The crowd realizes the child is telling the truth. The Emperor, however, holds his head high and continues the procession.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903483516951946644.post-5094201781619419462008-07-17T14:24:00.000-07:002008-07-17T14:24:00.000-07:00The most important thing to realize here is that t...The most important thing to realize here is that the money can and must be used to pay taxes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903483516951946644.post-58048365210540296472008-07-17T14:22:00.000-07:002008-07-17T14:22:00.000-07:00THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHESTHE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHESAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903483516951946644.post-18626754450838868082008-07-17T14:07:00.000-07:002008-07-17T14:07:00.000-07:00People loaning the money to the government get the...People loaning the money to the government get the interest paid by check or more likely bank notation.<BR/><BR/>It is not out of thin air. The interest money is fungible, can be traded, exchanged for goods etc.<BR/><BR/>JBPJBPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17015371340244747070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903483516951946644.post-40348519385318801192008-07-17T14:02:00.000-07:002008-07-17T14:02:00.000-07:00If the people who are loaning the government money...If the people who are loaning the government money are getting the money out of thin air, why does it matter?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903483516951946644.post-27596361106451637832008-07-17T13:50:00.000-07:002008-07-17T13:50:00.000-07:00Who is going to tell the Emperor he has no clothes...Who is going to tell the Emperor he has no clothes?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903483516951946644.post-52286192509013112132008-07-17T13:49:00.001-07:002008-07-17T13:49:00.001-07:00The federal reserve has always been some kind of o...The federal reserve has always been some kind of one world government conspiracy. Maybe a communist one world government conspiracy.<BR/><BR/>One way to have honest public officials would be to give them the death penalty when they stray from the path of a high set of ethical standards.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903483516951946644.post-1379669932469114212008-07-17T13:49:00.000-07:002008-07-17T13:49:00.000-07:00Have foreign banks started to ask us to pay our de...Have foreign banks started to ask us to pay our debt in gold instead of dollars?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903483516951946644.post-72507587963083197652008-07-17T13:42:00.000-07:002008-07-17T13:42:00.000-07:00Because no one will loan the government money if t...Because no one will loan the government money if they do not pay interest.<BR/><BR/>Too easy, next.<BR/><BR/>JBPJBPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17015371340244747070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903483516951946644.post-57063415980103246152008-07-17T13:38:00.000-07:002008-07-17T13:38:00.000-07:00As far as the Gov't debt is concerned, why do we n...As far as the Gov't debt is concerned, why do we need to pay interest to private companies? Why should their be profit in that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903483516951946644.post-46553499142655991892008-07-17T13:30:00.000-07:002008-07-17T13:30:00.000-07:00Nah, My business partner has pneumonia and I don't...Nah, <BR/><BR/>My business partner has pneumonia and I don't want to be around him. <BR/><BR/>Many more discussion on fiat currency occur when there a pneumoniods involved.<BR/><BR/>JBPJBPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17015371340244747070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903483516951946644.post-39912468854400859052008-07-17T13:27:00.000-07:002008-07-17T13:27:00.000-07:00Everyone knows a ball is real.I bet all this talk ...Everyone knows a ball is real.<BR/><BR/>I bet all this talk ends with the beginning of the 2nd half of the baseball season.<BR/><BR/>This string is what happens when you guys don't have your ball to watch.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903483516951946644.post-5379509145179906252008-07-17T13:18:00.000-07:002008-07-17T13:18:00.000-07:00Then go start your own bank and run it with a high...Then go start your own bank and run it with a high set of ethical standards.<BR/><BR/>It is not that hard to start one. And as you claim "Banking is simple".<BR/><BR/>What stops you? <BR/><BR/>JBPJBPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17015371340244747070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903483516951946644.post-87879298956594821842008-07-17T13:08:00.000-07:002008-07-17T13:08:00.000-07:00Just because you answer with some sort of smoke sc...Just because you answer with some sort of smoke screen logic doesn't mean you have answered anything.<BR/><BR/>Unlike your housing project, which is complicated by millions of actual real things, (nails, bricks, pipes, etc.) Banking is simple, you just make money out of thin air. There would be very little to actually do.<BR/><BR/>The easiest way to make those housing projects valuable assets is to have owners living in them and not renters. Give them low or 0% loans have them own their apartment and see what happens. Renters won't drop a dime on a drug dealer. Owners will drop a dime on a drug dealer! More likely a Hammer!<BR/><BR/>Look in your neighborhood at the yard and general upkeep difference between rented homes and owner occupied homes. You really notice this difference when the house is next door to your own.<BR/><BR/>Your free market B.S. would be great, but anybody with half a brain knows we don't have free markets. Never will.<BR/><BR/>Stupid people do not deserve to be taken advantage of.<BR/><BR/>You either believe it is O.K. to take advantage of people, or you believe it is Wrong to take advantage of people. <BR/>No grey areas.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903483516951946644.post-50273080836128528162008-07-17T12:26:00.001-07:002008-07-17T12:26:00.001-07:00The money is paid out by the government to investo...The money is paid out by the government to investors. If you own a T-Bill, you are getting some of that interest.<BR/><BR/>Lincoln had a lot of Whig ideas involving government ownership of enterprise that were fine in theory, but didn't work out very well in practice.<BR/><BR/>I can look about 2 blocks from my house to a government sponsored housing project that is a mess. Loses money, doesn't get maintained, has unhappy residents and unhappy neighbors...along with political appointees in managerial positions. <BR/><BR/>I would rather bank with a company that has a greater degree of independence from the government than a housing project.<BR/><BR/>JBPJBPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17015371340244747070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903483516951946644.post-76897041687120767512008-07-17T12:26:00.000-07:002008-07-17T12:26:00.000-07:00Why not make the entity that we pay interest to so...Why not make the entity that we pay interest to some sort of noble cause?<BR/><BR/>Help lots of people with the profits instead of only a few.<BR/><BR/>I'm with Abe also. Prove why his idea is wrong.<BR/>I don't think you can.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com