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It's not a matter of how long

kgb999 — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:24:55 +0000

In reply to I also remember this headline

It's not a matter of how long they last so much as how brutally they pop ... and the underlying economic factors on which the good times were based.

No problem. It was probably

LarryH — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 04:25:59 +0000

In reply to Just tell me what to do about

No problem. It was probably the meth not the coffee.

I mean.... I MISS the

cmaukonen — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:55:04 +0000

In reply to Like sex with animals.

I mean.... I MISS the Morlocks.

I MISS Miss Brooks...oops wrong decade...never mind.

Just tell me what to do about

Flavius — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:52:13 +0000

In reply to Damn F. It's after 6 PM here

Just tell me what to do about the font and by god I'll do it. Can't afford to risk my holdings in Starbucks. Both shares.

Like sex with animals.

quinn esq — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:29:17 +0000

In reply to Damn F. It's after 6 PM here

Like sex with animals. Whatever happened to that? We don't ask much you know, just a few little things, here and there, to help make our humdrum lives worth living.

We don't ask much.

Or take sandwiches. How hard can it be to whip up a sandwich that juggles chainsaws and emits hydrogen sulphide should a stranger attempt to bite them? How hard?

Or moon rocks. That can do long division, generate energy from fusion, and hang out with Morlocks during the long nights.

I mean.... I MISS the Morlocks.

So many good times.

A fella comes home, after a hard day at the coal face, and just wants to be able to turn on the telly, take that 5 minutes while its warming up to make hisself a meal, and then... sit back, for a little entertainment, from the likes of Ed Sullivan.

Or his son, Andrew.

Nope. We don't ask much in this country.

That, and never to have to pay any fucking taxes for anything, at all, ever.

All payed for now with funny

cmaukonen — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:22:16 +0000

In reply to I also remember this headline

All payed for now with funny money.

I also remember this headline

artappraiser — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:19:28 +0000

In reply to And if I remember correctly

I also remember this headline from a decade later:

Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'
The Onion, January 17, 2001

How long do good economic times have to last before you don't call them a bubble anymore?

Seems sometimes people has expectations of something that never happened in the history of civilization. They had recessions in the 1950's and 1960's, ya know. You could have the most perfect miraculous economic system ever developed by mankind, with safety nets for all human folly, plus failed crops, floods, volcano eruptions and nuclear disasters, and then a big meteor would hit.

Isn’t this one of the reasons

Resistance — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:12:40 +0000

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Isn’t this one of the reasons why ROME had fallen?

The servants said to heck with you Senators and you of the aristocracy.

The new aristocracy saying "It’s not their fault you didn’t become part of that class; you had the freedom to achieve"

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Oh I suspect it won’t be too long before they’ll institute the draft again.

Forcing the servants to love their country of the privileged class.

“Now! You will bow to our demands; you will defend us “

Eugene Debs went to prison for speaking out against the arisocracy and the class of priviledge.

About how the servants will die to defend THEM..

When the ARU struck the Pullman Palace Car Company over pay cuts, President Grover Cleveland used the United States Army to break the strike. As a leader of the ARU, Debs was later imprisoned for failing to obey an injunction against the strike…. Noted for his oratory, it was a speech denouncing American participation in World War I that led to his second arrest in 1918. He was convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917 and sentenced to a term of 10 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs

The aristocracy has gotten theirs, now try and get yours; but don’t you dare speak up either

If the class of prviledge wants a defense program, let them pay for it.... besides the cost of their social responsibilies...........or cut defense.

What would be the tax liability imposed upon the rich to fund the defense program; that serves them more, than it does a servant class with not much to lose.

A ....what if they (the corporate class) through a war and the servants refused to serve.

Let the rich pay for their computer controlled defense systems, that eliminates the need for the Rich to come to the servant class, asking for our help to defend their way of life.

They want a high tech miltary, just in case, we said to heck with you Senators, you of the aristocracy. But they also want the peasants to pay for it.

Flave...that last one is a

cmaukonen — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:49:20 +0000

In reply to Sorry, the glass is half

Flave...that last one is a bitch for sure.

Damn F. It's after 6 PM here

LarryH — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:46:12 +0000

In reply to Sorry, the glass is half

Damn F. It's after 6 PM here on the coast. I'm on my fourth latte. That font could give me a stroke.

Oh and sadly your last line is the depleted uranium truth.