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Time Out for O/T – Vol. 15

Since becoming a Planeteer, my most influential news aggregate person is Chernynkaya. Before that my money was on Julian Assange and WikLeaks.
I have no idea what other people are doing for news.
I can’t seem to find any genuine news on the airwaves.

» Posted By foxisms On May 3, 2011 @ 8:52 pm

Put that thing away, Adonai!
There’s company.

» Posted By foxisms On May 3, 2011 @ 8:43 pm

HH, when you get that down, could you explain it to me? Please?
I shared a past life with a couple who raised goats. And one of them knew the jobberwocky by heart and could repeat it like a thespian when the candles were lit and the night was black.
Unfortunately his wife had to flee the room by the second stanza.
I must have heard this this over a dozen times in that setting…and I still don’t get it aside from the darkness surrounding the candles.

» Posted By foxisms On May 3, 2011 @ 8:37 pm

Adonai, maybe a ten minute song gets the ‘negatory’ on air time in today’s ClearChannel world…but “no one gets stoned anymore…” is a gross overestimate. 🙂

» Posted By foxisms On May 3, 2011 @ 8:35 pm

Wow, FC!!
Beautiful!
And subtle as a brick.
(But we need that from time to time… coming from DH.)
Thanx!

» Posted By foxisms On May 3, 2011 @ 3:29 pm

So can we bring everyone home now?

» Posted By foxisms On May 1, 2011 @ 9:19 pm

Around my neighborhood, e’cat people setting off fireworks is so common, one would think it’s just another way to say “see you tomorrow!” or “we had asparagus for dinner!” or “the cat just yammied on the rug!…Yippie!”
We Yanks got a thing for those fireworks. And it’s a mighty fine industry, too!

» Posted By foxisms On May 1, 2011 @ 9:16 pm

I’d say ‘Not’, bito.
And nor does it make sense to promote free speech by shutting it down and a limiting it to only those things one may wish to see and hear, any more than perhaps what the Iranian Govt is being accused of doing. All governments have delimiters on their internet activity. Shall we shut them all down in the name of free speech?
Anon appears to be becoming a tool of this government.
Now, whether that’s the case or not, who knows?
But to me it certainly would apear that way.
“And if it walks like a duck…”, well, then.

» Posted By foxisms On April 30, 2011 @ 11:39 am

Adlib…one has to give credit where credit is due.
Infesting the blogs is a herculean assignment for such a large sector of the American public who have yet to master reading and writing.
(Not that I’m so much more advanced in that area. But I know better than to support initiatives that are designed near entirely against my well being.)

» Posted By foxisms On April 29, 2011 @ 11:19 am

audadvnc, that’s doubly unfortunate.
One, that you have no compensation readustment to keep up with the price increases in gas and food…and two that you do not have even the satisfaction of asking how more profits for the company can put it in such a hole that it cannot afford to reciprocate with the very people who made those profits possible; even as a form of tokenism.
What am I thinking? For a moment there I was imagining that we lived in a society where everyone was equal and free to ask questions of their masters, er… owners, er… overlords…oh, my bad…”employers”.
I hope you and all of us can tough it out through these times. And mean times they are and will be.

» Posted By foxisms On April 29, 2011 @ 9:58 am

WOW!
You took me out with that one, wts.
What a playground you have!
Enviable!

» Posted By foxisms On April 29, 2011 @ 8:28 am

fc, I’m afraid that blow has been struck many times already.
Now, it’s just a matter of gravity and inertia.

» Posted By foxisms On April 29, 2011 @ 8:21 am

Yeah, Kes…that’s exactly my point about research. I am certainly no more “right” about this than you are. Unless someone is going to dedicate a life time to research anything. And then it’s still going to be open to interpretation. And there will always be a loose thread somewhere.
Which is why I prefer a gentle conversation with a mutual respect for the other person’s opinion for the provocation of the thought that it provides.
I don’t think anyone here is seeking the “All Knowing” crown or trying to make anyone believe anything they haven’t come to find holds at least a grain of truth in themselves. And there’s no fanning at PPOV…so…
After reading your findings it made me look a little harder at my own and I found even newer stuff.
So I sincerely appreciate exchanges like this!
Thanks.

» Posted By foxisms On April 28, 2011 @ 8:46 pm

I know you know what the wise man knows, KT.
As a matter of balance, weakness can become strength and strength can become a weakness.
Or too much yin becomes yang.
And too much yang becomes yin.
🙂

» Posted By foxisms On April 28, 2011 @ 8:08 pm

Kes, with all respect, I beg to differ.
the Gold Confiscation act of April 5, 1933, states:

Section 2. All persons are hereby required to deliver on or before May 1, 1933, to a Federal Reserve bank or a branch or agency thereof or to any member bank of the Federal Reserve System all gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates now owned by them or coming into their ownership on or before April 28, 1933, except the following:
“article(b)Gold coin and gold certificates in an amount not exceeding in the aggregate $100.00 [not $1000] belonging to any one person;…”

And while “door to door searches” (specifically) may very well be now considered myth or urban legend, possession was known by the government from bank and insurance records as was directly stated in the act as presented. And said gold was simply taken as prescribed it would be by the President in that same Gold Confiscation Act.
Knowing what we do of current acts of brutality of police and government “agents” for things as minor as traffic violations and unruly questioning of authority, is there any reasonable cause to suspect that the same sort of overbearing behavior was not a common practice in dealing with people reluctant to part with their gold in return for paper money?
I’m sure resistance was present, especially by those who found out that while being given script for approximately $20.67 dollars per ounce, the Federal reserve raised the price of gold to $35.00 and those script dollars were devalued almost immediately…making the “buy out” worth considerably less than equitable for those people who were supposedly given equal compensation for handing over their life savings in gold.

» Posted By foxisms On April 28, 2011 @ 7:47 pm

Both you and your counter part are correct, KT.
The world (as we know it) is ending.
When gas reaches about $9.00 a gallon, that world will have ended for a lot of people.

» Posted By foxisms On April 28, 2011 @ 5:12 pm

Adonai…”When there’s a win the team gets the credit. When there’s a loss the coach gets the blame.”
And when the most that many people remember about Mr. Gore’s campaign is that (in fact or otherwise) “he tried to take credit for inventing the internet”…the crowds in the stand have to be held accountable.
With you all the way. Someone wasn’t listening to the calls coming in from the sideline! Maybe the helmet wireless wasn’t working on one or both ends.

» Posted By foxisms On April 28, 2011 @ 2:26 pm

I can’t play the market, but I like to watch it.
In the last three months, while ways are sought by our legislators to further reduce what little economic security may be available to the poor, the elderly and the infirmed…and while the circle jerk continues over the Ryan plan. [Sorry for the crude depiction, but sometimes only the most base vernacular best expresses whatever it is that is taking place in Washington]…while considerations are being made to even short sheet our veterans and yet more liberties are afforded the profitability and citizenship of corporations milking America — the stock market has been having quite the healthy run.
Does this have much of an effect on bread and butter Americans? Not really. Even those with surviving 401K plans that involve the market don’t generally have enough tied up in in to get rich…but certainly just enough to become poor if the market should take a sudden and nasty down turn.
No…I think it’s safe to assume that the very same people who have the most to gain from turning America into the corporatocracy it has become, from CEOs to legislators are the very people who are planning larger vacations, purchasing larger homes and cars and contacting their tax attorneys to help inspire them and cheer them on to make the best of every loop hole and weasel clause available so that they can pay even less in percentage of their “income” than the person working a 40 hour per week job at minimum wage. Because after all…capital gains are taxed way less percentage-wise than that little guys income. And then it only gets taxed if it’s considered a “gain”. By the time April 15 becomes April 16 and the losses and gains are all sorted out, Hell, a person could end up owing nothing on hundreds of thousands of dollars if a person running the market knows how to play it. Meanwhile, Mr. McDonald’s fry maker, has no choice and no option but to suck down the 28% income tax hit, because, after all…his whole $17K per year salary is all gain. Isn’t it?
It’s nice to see that America is in economic recovery for somebody.
Warms the heart. Which would be wonderful if it could be felt through the breaking of it.

» Posted By foxisms On April 28, 2011 @ 2:17 pm

😀
Not unless s/he breaks into your kitchen to cook it, jkk.

» Posted By foxisms On April 28, 2011 @ 1:43 pm

Nope.
But rather than spending time in the legislature to decrease things like Medicare, increase the age of retirement and basically farm and drain the bread and butter American, more legislation could be supported to explore these other, more efficient means of providing affordable energies and create new industry and employment in America and ultimately benefit the planet itself.
Continuing to not do so and ignore these more effective measures to shore up the nation and it’s economy is (imo) having our representation in practical terms admit that their loyalties are truly misplaced and have been sold to the highest bidder, making them blind to the more noble and higher causes and needs of the country and positions they have been elected to.

» Posted By foxisms On April 28, 2011 @ 1:14 pm

I wouldn’t be so bold as to assume which sources you may or may not find reliable, bito…so rather than give you a lot of reading that you may deem a waste of time on my account, the 1933 gold confiscation order (or confiscation act) is the phrase to seek out in your favorite search engine.
It is, after all an article of American history and well documented and fortunately not a theory or speculation warranting much debate.
The information on doors actually being kicked in is a little more obscure but still available…again, if you find any particular site worthy of your credibility.
In fact just the wording of the order, and the resultant court rulings in favor of this government in precedents passed against those people who tried to seek justice on the matter, and newspaper clipping from that time can bear out the use of such practices.
Were that I had time (or was so inclined) to provide research and indisputable researched evidence for my every utterance, I would do so.
But I come and comment here because there’s an invitation to, well, comment.
So of course to some degree (like everyone else here) I opine and state things the way I perceive them and conclude them to be based on my personal research in my attempt to be conversational.
Wish I could give you more sometimes. But sheer academic thesis can get incredibly dry to produce or to read for many.
“I are one.”

» Posted By foxisms On April 28, 2011 @ 12:49 pm

As you well know, Bito…and too many American forget, we could open every available off shore regulation today and not see relief at the pumps for an estimated 10 years.
I propose instead we simply make good on the promise of weaning ourselves from our dependency on petroleum and petroleum products (from here and abroad) in favor of new technologies and projects involving energy regeneration.
Of course some would have us believe that our current economic situation prohibits us from doing this, but 10 years is 10 years no matter how you slice it.
And tidal wave generators, cars that more closely match or exceed Europe’s MPG, increasing production on bio-fuels on substances that are not food to begin with, wind generators and even distribution of solar energy based on geosynchronous satellite relay would create both industries and employment.
But we can’t afford any more to just have leadership talk about it and Congress, influenced by oil corporate interests dismiss it all prior to allowing America to give it an in depth examination.

» Posted By foxisms On April 28, 2011 @ 12:32 pm

This could all be worse and has been in our short illustrious history.
Imagine being the recipient of FDR’s 1933 Gold Confiscation Act.
American citizens were actually having their doors broken down so government agents could relieve them of their gold coin and bullion.
This too was primarily a Main st issue given that I seriously doubt that J.P. Morgan or any of the Rockefeller clan had to relinquish a nugget.
We’ll get over and around this nonsense too. But the reversal and recovery of the just desserts of the common person in America will come at a snail’s pace, while the corporatocracy takes advantage of the distractions and whittles away further at the diminishing rights and equality afforded the bread and butter American to the betterment of the caviar and truffle American.
Such were the errors of Rome.

» Posted By foxisms On April 28, 2011 @ 12:18 pm

This is at the very least unfortunate and progress inhibitive.
While the legislators can propose and vote on idiotic and compassionless bills, this idiocy can be reversed in the coming election(s) making it all an effort in futility for those elected who insist on endorsing it.
The very real problem is the short term hardship that will befall those Americans effected by it and the very long term political stagnation that will be experienced by this country with the newly elected representatives making the attempt to reverse the serfdom being imposed on the people currently.
As such, we as a nation basically move nowhere forward in this never ending game of chutes and ladders that we mistakenly call government… for even more wasted years.

» Posted By foxisms On April 28, 2011 @ 9:42 am

FOX (False Objects X-ing) News
MSNBC (More Senseless Nattering Bickering & Caterwauling) News

If neither of these MSM sources (and others) had have made this a point of national interest to begin with, for the sake of audience share, the insanity never would have taken hold and been dragged out for over 3 years. It was too stupid and other worldly to be afforded any credibility in the first place.
Even in it’s resolution it’s embarrassing to watch “news” turned into a scene akin to listening to Mom and Dad fight over the family budget at the dinner table.
Why adults feel they can’t just excuse themselves from the table…I will never understand.
We are being manipulated on a grand scale and few care to recognize it for what it is.

» Posted By foxisms On April 28, 2011 @ 9:21 am

😀
You should be in marketing, bit!
Do I appear even for a minute to be objective enough about the Fed to take this on?
…but who knows what sort of evil seed you may have planted, here?

» Posted By foxisms On April 27, 2011 @ 1:26 pm

Mice and vermin are like that, too.
Is it possible there’s a connection, we’ve been missing?

» Posted By foxisms On April 27, 2011 @ 1:24 pm

Seriously, bito. I think the short answer is that there are so many people with so little money left over in their pockets at the end of the month, that even a “small rise in inflation” feels like the brink of destitution on Main St.
While the corporations are raking in huge profits and too the gov may very well be in good shape regardless of the headlines, people on Main are wondering how close they are to the very real possibility of bread lines.

» Posted By foxisms On April 27, 2011 @ 12:59 pm

I agree Adonai…that’s a good idea in most cases.
Unless your kids carry on that klutzy, non-coordination chromosome from their father, like mine do.
You’d have a basketball team of Jerry Lewis characters bumping into each other for the course of every game.
Short season though. No need to worry about the championships. Not a Chance!

» Posted By foxisms On April 27, 2011 @ 12:50 pm

Pocket…I can see that plastered on the side of a down town city bus or on a bill board, already!
“Suck it citizens!”
And people would be lining up just to find out where they can sign up and and find out what’s in it for them.
🙂

» Posted By foxisms On April 27, 2011 @ 12:45 pm