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Even after all this …not one of them admits the problem WAS the FED. Excuse me Ron Paul did. Nowhere does anyone mention this..not a wimper..
Screw Paulson….What are tenters going to come up with for a plan…..we better get at it cause there is hardly any time left on the clock.
Food ..clothing…shelter ..heat….barter,guns ammo,communication….I would rather go down fighting with another tenter at my side than anyone else in the world. Love ya all …think ..prepare

We live in interesting days.

Thanks for that updated version of the old fable.
Good for grins on a day when they are hard to find.

It hits the bullseye right on when it says “This will no doubt end in the bankruptcy of the Treasury and destruction of the Dollar” and “the treasury is now mathematically bankrupt”.

Statements like that are so much more important to interested members of the public than the drivel that tlaga used to feed us on Gold Forum when he forecast “an overnight revolution” in which people’s representatives in the U.S. of A. would bring about a return to a bimetallic standard.  I posted to tlaga several times that I thought that was U.S.-centric navel-gazing. 

I think Midas has the correct touch, in the message you posted at 21:18.  I think what will happen is an international cessation of buying U. S. treasuries and the U.S. treasury will be bankrupt, if it is not already.  Cheers, on not a very cheeful subject.  Equiz.

TRADITIONAL VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, bui lding his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE STORY:
Be responsible for yourself!

*****MODERN VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.

CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, a nd everybody cries when they sing, “It’s Not Easy Being Green.” Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome.” Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake.

Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the E EOC drafts the Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer! The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.

Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients. The ant loses the case.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around him because he doesn’t maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Pay attention to how you vote !!

Compliments of the Peter Boyles radio show
KHOW 650 AM Denver, CO

Wie gehts? What is this “POO” you are talking about in your post?

I embraced your idea a month and a year ago.

Loaded up on pms in the last 6 weeks

A load of solar cells in shipment now to power a fridge and freezer and ceiling fans.

Already got the solar hot water

Wood heat is in my genes

currently converting all fiat to tangible assetswithin reason

Ain’t got much but working hard to not lose it all.

Close to the neighbors here, a different approach than yours, planning to take care and share which hopefully leads to less stress overall in the neighborhood.

Also shopping for new fridge and washing machine

spend now before the crash

(in ment speak)

tomorrow.

I don’t know that a “mini ice age” and the melting of the Arctic ice pack can be happening simultaneously, maybe different time frames?  Anyway I guess we are going to find out.  

If the gulfstream moves South I wouldn’t be envying the folks at high latitudes in Europe.  Maybe we should be buying more warm blankets friend. 

PS  When composing a post if you hit “enter” after your tiny url then it becomes a live link.

nope turned my speaker up not hard of hearing yet 5 days wamu.

I think he said next 5 weeks not 5 days. for wamu, evertheless watch out wamu customers.

on most of my PMs over the next couple of days, cuz, when the 700Billion is approved, Gold will have a very bad few days, the fools will flood into financials, industrials, and the PMs will be left in the dust…..for a while….

Imagine how much damage a small discrete chunk of  $700B could do to the gold market…

Just my useless humble opinion…

THANKS EVERYONE FOR KEEPING ME UP TO DATE

WHEN TIMES GET TOUGHT THE TENT PULLS TOGETHER…AND SPREADS THE WORD

JESUS IS COMING SEPT 30TH

I just saw an hour of television that I have appreciated more than any recent hour of TV viewing.  In the hour I just saw, there was Larry King, combining his own intellect and interviewing skills plus being fed questions and interviewing angles by the earpiece connecting him to presumably the best producers CNN can feed into his earpiece, pitted against President Ahmadinejad of Iran, who as far as I could tell had no earpiece assistance during the one-hour interview.

Given the seeming mismatch here between interviewer and interviewee, I thought the hour was a very even match.  Regardless of what one may think of some of the things that Pres. Ahmadinejad has said in the past, I was very impressed with the way he responded to this CNN interview.    Equiz.