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LOL - I remember that well!
I think in years to come, "Got QBID?" will come to mean, "do you have an STD?"
o/t Hey Rich! Thanks for the shout out. Been keeping a pretty low profile of late. Not much trading = not losing much $$$> not making much either, LOL
Any word on how the harvest looks for 2007?
aLMI - Looks like they are restating financials, and cancelled a teleconference...
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=23521708
ALMI - yikes!
ALMI Bid: 0.86 Ask: 0.92 Last: 0.90 ($): -0.74 Vol: 3,456,529
Thanks! Are tomatoes still in season.... '; )
Go sit on a pizza!!!
LOL - so true. You are killing me!!
Have a great weekend!
LOL - the ol' selective memory strikes again.
ROFL _ Yikes!
LOL!!! Bring on the GOP soaps and pass the popcorn.
Those are classic - but I believe New Rules belong to Bill Maher.
http://www.hbo.com/billmaher/new_rules/
Yep, very disappointed with our little gem. Unfortunately, my portfolio is littered with disappoint at the moment. Normally I would be picking up some shares at this price - but with the anticipated dilution...I'll wait.
GLTA
CME - wow.
CME Bid: 614.32 Ask: 614.91 Last: 614.67 up($): 27.32 Vol: 929,900
I want those shares I sold a year or so ago back!!!
Checkbook Imperialism: The Blackwater Fiasco
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070918_checkbook_imperialism_the_blackwater_fiasco/
Posted on Sep 18, 2007
By Robert Scheer
Please, please, I tell myself, leave Orwell out of it. Find some other, fresher way to explain why "Operation Iraqi Freedom" is dependent upon killer mercenaries. Or why the "democratically elected government" of "liberated" Iraq does not explicitly have the legal power to expel Blackwater USA from its land or hold any of the 50,000 private contractor troops that the U.S. government has brought to Iraq accountable for their deadly actions.
Were there even the faintest trace of Iraqi independence rising from the ashes of this failed American imperialist venture, Blackwater would have to fold its tents and go, if only in the interest of keeping up appearances. After all, the Iraqi Interior Ministry claimed that the Blackwater thugs guarding a U.S. State Department convoy through the streets of Baghdad fired "randomly at citizens" in a crowded square on Sunday, killing 11 people and wounding 13 others. So the Iraqi government has ordered Blackwater to leave the country after what a government spokesman called a "flagrant assault ... on Iraqi citizens."
But who told those Iraqi officials that they have the power to control anything regarding the 182,000 privately contracted personnel working for the U.S. in Iraq? Don't they know about Order 17, which former American proconsul Paul Bremer put in place to grant contractors, including his own Blackwater bodyguards, immunity from Iraqi prosecution? Nothing has changed since the supposed transfer of power from the Coalition Provisional Authority, which Bremer once headed, to the Iraqi government holed up in the Green Zone and guarded by Blackwater and other "private" soldiers.
They are "private" in the same fictional sense that our uniformed military is a "volunteer" force, since both are lured by the dollars offered by the same paymaster, the U.S. government. Contractors earn substantially more, despite $20,000 to $150,000 signing bonuses and an all-time-high average annual cost of $100,000 per person for the uniformed military. All of this was designed by the neocon hawks in the Pentagon to pursue their dreams of empire while avoiding a conscripted army, which would have millions howling in the street by now in protest.
Instead, we have checkbook imperialism. The U.S. government purchases whatever army it needs, which has led to the dependence upon private contract firms like Blackwater USA, with its $300-million-plus contract to protect U.S. State Department personnel in Iraq. That is why the latest Blackwater incident, which Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki branded a "crime," is so difficult to deal with. Iraqis are clearly demanding to rid their country of Blackwater and other contractors, and on Tuesday the Iraqi government said it would be scrutinizing the status of all private security firms working in the country.
But the White House hopes the outrage will once again blow over. As the Associated Press reported on Monday: "The U.S. clearly hoped the Iraqis would be satisfied with an investigation, a finding of responsibility and compensation to the victim's families—and not insist on expelling a company that the Americans cannot operate here without." Or, as Ambassador Ryan Crocker testified to the U.S. Senate last week: "There is simply no way at all that the State Department Bureau of Diplomatic Security could ever have enough full-time personnel to staff the security function in Iraq. There is no alternative except through contracts."
Consider the irony of that last statement—that the U.S. experiment in building democracy in Iraq is dependent upon the same garrisons of foreign mercenaries that drove the founders of our own country to launch the American Revolution. As George Washington warned in his farewell address, once the American government enters into these "foreign entanglements," we lose the Republic, because public accountability is sacrificed to the necessities of war for empire.
Despite the fact that Blackwater USA gets almost all of its revenue from the U.S. government—much of it in no-bid contracts aided, no doubt, by the lavish contributions to the Republican Party made by company founder Erik Prince and his billionaire parents—its operations remain largely beyond public scrutiny. Blackwater and others in this international security racket operate as independent states of their own, subject neither to the rules of Iraq nor the ones that the U.S. government applies to its own uniformed forces. "We are not simply a 'private security company,' " Blackwater boasts on its corporate website. "We are a professional military, law enforcement, security, peacekeeping, and stability operations firm. ... We have become the most responsive, cost-effective means of affecting the strategic balance in support of security and peace, and freedom and democracy everywhere."
Yeah, so who elected you guys to run the world?
o/t Is it just me, or does Maliska Hargitray (Law and Order SVU) look like she could be Margaret Brennan's sister (CNBC)?
Hey Katie - thanks for the reply and update. Have a great time at the concert.
They probably won't do this David Lee Roth song from a solo album, but its one of my fav's
and it's
Damn Good!
LOL! Yep, ol' rabble rouser Ralph! : )
LOL! Men begin as grapes, and it's up to women to
stomp the shit out of them until they turn into something acceptable enough to have dinner with.
And after a few "dinners" they drain us dry and throw us in the recycle bin? ; )
Damn those Democrats - it's all their fault!
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=23116788
o/t OK OK -but what's his handicap? My bichon frise's need a fourth. ; )
He is quickly losing credibility...if he ever had any. Plus, what's up with the Marti Feldman buggy eyes? He must have had some work done? ; )
Jeff, so sorry for your loss. Your posts about your mom were humorous and touching - thanks for sharing the experience with us. May you find peace/rest/comfort knowing that you did such a wonderful job making her final days on this earth as comfortable and pleasant as possible.
Best to you, David and your family.
(((Hugs))) bro!
Just added the board to my favs and grabbed my first shares at .15. ONly got 5K, but its a start. Planning on adding more as funds become available (ala dumping other POS's ) : )
GLTA
LOL - sounds yummy. What do you serve with that - Sour cream, cheese and chives as a topping, or just mustard and relish? ; )
LOL - speaking of hotdogs - in case you missed it:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=22936741
OMGGGG!!! Priceless.
fwiw - wasn't home last Friday, so postman left me a note that a little package was waiting for me. 7,859 shares in cert form. haven't read the entire thingy yet, but looks like it will cost me $250 to return to TDA and have them dump them for me???
Haven't checked the board in a long time - what's every body doing - waiting for it to climb back to a buck or more? ; )
We are just off 52 wk lows (.08).
Take care bro! Hope all is much better soon.
Aloha
LOL - well said bro.
LOL - Cool. Maybe he was channeling Joan or just had a bad day? j/k
I remember he was funny/clever on Hollywood Squares.
LOL - mom was pretty open minded. She would have eventually been OK IF they were!
Thanks for the info -oh, and I was pretty sure Paul Linde was gay. did you know him socially, or through business?
Paul Lynde was gay???????? LOL - just kidding...but Randolph Scott and Cary Grant. My dear departed mother must be turning over in her grave. She had a crush on Randolph Scott as a young woman. : ) How about Gary Cooper? Another crush of my mom's. BTW, after high school she used to work as a housekeeper for John Wayne.
ROFL - Brilliant!!!
Totally agree. The GOP, IMO should be afraid, be very afraid! LOL
If Hillary gets the nod from the DEM's, she will probably get my vote well. However, if I had the power, I would take some DNA from Obama, Kucinich, and Ron Paul and create an "uber" candidate that would legalize herb, and partake from time to time. LOL
No choice but to mellow out here as well. Picked up a bunch more between .0009 and .0011 over the past week.
I have a lot of money (for me at least) tied up in WRNW and NVMG. These 10th of a cent u/t's really jump start the ol' portfolio.
Returning to .01 and above - things will get really $exciting$
GLTY
as Shaggy sang, "It wasn't me"....lol
Flippers who picked up shares at .0009 and .001 are cashing in? don't blame 'em. If I had been playing this correctly, I wouldn't be down 50% for low these many months.
Ridiculous reason to back out, but agree that it made little sense at this "juncture" for him to throw his hat in the ring to begin with. He's got a couple of great gigs, a trophy wife - why mess that up by adding the stress of being the leader of the free world to his plate? LOL
Speaking of Hillary - heard this one?
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?Message_id=22533978&txt2find=snow
LOL - Excellent!
LOL -OK - will do. Not much choice for some time now.
GLTA
1/3 believe? Coincides with the message in Carlos Mencia's, "Dee Dee Dee" song. Time to "lower the standards" yet again. LOL