Our Conure at 26 mos., "whats up", okay, thank you! :)
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This was more than 3 years ago. Its been estimated that there may be as many as 20m illegals here. Who knows they're all here illegally so how can any number be accurate?
http://article.wn.com/view/2010/07/07/Illegal_Immigration_a_113_Billion_a_Year_Drain_on_US_Taxpaye_y/
PR Newswire2010-07-07
FAIR Releases First-of-its-Kind Comprehensive Study of Federal, State and Local Costs of Illegal Immigration , July 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new study released today by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) estimates that illegal immigration now costs federal and local taxpayers $113 billion a year. The report, The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on U.S. Taxpayers, is the most comprehensive analysis of how much the estimated 13 million illegal aliens and their U.S.-born children cost federal, state and local governments....
Things aren't going to get better imo, there's to many cracks in our system, and for the last 50 years the politicians with hammer and chisel have been breaking up the flood gate, its just a matter of time before something huge collapses, and the government we all hoped for truly breaks down. It may be to late for any real changes and reforms that are needed. Its obivious that the ones they need to make aren't going to happen. Its all about votes. What they need to learn is how best to serve, and to uphold the laws they passed to safeguard this country while they are in elected office. If they can't at the very least do this they need to be held accountable.
I just said the politicians bend the laws to suit them, and the Supreme court being what it is today can be more than accommodative. Its like having a friend in all the right places.
To bad, but this is what this nation is turning into, it glamorizes corruption, thugs, and gangs.
I didn't say he got it illegally. I will say again, so many of the rules in which these corporations operate is nothing more than legal corruption which is sponsored by the system our government has bought into by Wall Street, and Corporations. Can't imagine why?
Many of our corporations today are abroad and doing business in communist led countries, and one example, GE whose all over the world pays no corporate tax. Think you can get away without paying payroll or property tax?
I give a shit less what Gates has created, or if someone would be willing to give him a trillion dollars for msft, all the power to him, no one could dispute that it was his to sell, and if the money paid to him was clean who would care if he was paid 10 trillion. But the money he gets is "not" money generated by Msft, "again its shareholder dollars", and the shareholders don't get proxies in the mail to vote on it.
Is there something I'm missing here?. Any private non trading company pays its employee's by check, and the owners can only pay themselves what the business can truly support, why should a publicly trading company be any different?, and why should Gates or anyone within his company, and I'm only using Msft as an example get rewarded in billion(s) selling stock into the market?.
Its obvious thats it not a problem for bankers who publicly trade, or Goldman, or even Aig who sold all those CDS policies???.
The lot of them were getting tens of millions just for being an insider, and paid in stock, and options.
Just for laughs, sad yet true:
ONE
Recently, when I went to McDonald's I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets. I asked for a half dozen nuggets.
'We don't have half dozen nuggets,' said the teenager at the counter.
'You don't?' I replied.
'We only have six, nine, or twelve,' was the reply.
'So I can't order a half dozen nuggets, but I can order six?'
'That's right.'
So I shook my head and ordered six McNuggets.
(Unbelievable but sadly true...)
TWO
I was checking out at the local Walmart with just a few items
and the lady behind me put her things on the belt close to mine. I picked up one of those 'dividers' that they keep by the cash register
and placed it between our things so they wouldn't get mixed.
After the girl had scanned all of my items, she picked up the 'divider', looking it all over for the bar code
so she could scan it.
Not finding the bar code, she said to me, 'Do you know how much this is?'
I said to her 'I've changed my mind; I don't think I'll buy that today.'
She said 'OK,' and I paid her for the things and left.
She had no clue to what had just happened.
THREE
A woman at work was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly.
When I inquired as to what she was doing, she said she was shopping on the Internet and they kept asking for a credit card number, so she was using the ATM 'thingy.'
(keep shuddering!!)
FOUR
I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her car.
'Do you need some help?' I asked.
She replied, 'I knew I should have replaced the battery to this remote door unlocker. Now I can't get into my car. Do you think they (pointing to a distant convenience store) would have a battery to fit this?'
'Hmmm, I don't know. Do you have an alarm, too?' I asked.
'No, just this remote thingy,' she answered, handing it and the car keys to me. As I took the key and manually unlocked the door, I replied, 'Why don't you drive over there and check about the batteries. It's a long walk....'
PLEASE just lay down before you hurt yourself !!!
FIVE
Several years ago, we had an Intern who was none too swift. One day
she was typing and turned to a secretary and said, 'I'm almost out of typing paper. What do I do?' 'Just use paper from the photocopier', the secretary told her. With that, the intern took her last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five 'blank' copies.
Brunette, by the way!!
SIX
A mother calls 911 very worried asking the dispatcher if she needs to take her kid to the emergency room, the kid had eaten ants.
The dispatcher tells her to give the kid some Benadryl and he should be fine, the mother says, 'I just gave him some ant killer......'
Dispatcher: 'Rush him in to emergency!'
Life is tough.
It's even tougher if you're
stupid!!!!
War is a scam... made up by profitieering bastids who don't give flying F*CK if your sons, or daughters are blown up, shot or dismembered. Just selfish, greedy little slimeballs bent on twisting & extracting every last drop of their evil designs for profit. NO WAR should be started that isn't provoked on American soil with a direct threat to America.
Well said!
Just think what the last 50 years could have done if all that manpower, lives, time, and tax payer dollars our government has wasted, and all the in fighting that goes on so as to sponsor the lobbyist, rich, industrialist, financiers, and factions they choose do their bidding for, for money, contributions, gifts, promises, and votes, as opposed to doing the right things and had focused more on strengthening our nation, and all its people equally. 911 should have never happened, but given what has been going on for decades, and with the CIA, and the FBI, and The Dept of Immigration has no idea what individuals are in this country or how they may have entered should have come as no surprise. We did get and ear full of Monica Lewinsky though, we all know about that dress of hers, they should have been on some Soap as opposed to serving in govt.
The Taliban should have paid dearly, and could have but didn't. We'll never get Bin Laden, and chances are he is living it up in any one of his families palaces in Saudi Arabia, and if he were our government would do nothing about it. After 9 years we should close the book on it. Whats was gained in Iraq?, maybe more the gain will be for Iran?, it certainly gained alot for all the corporations, and companies that were awarded govt contracts. To little to late, and the cost has been thousands more of American lives, and little to show for little has changed. The lies that were told about Vietnam, and the reasoning for flooding that country with American troops was no different than the lies told about WMD. 9 years later and the real WMD were IEDs.
One nation, one people, under God???????????. All of this can be challenged, its all lies. Even the premise of all this was formed on genocide.
Our leaders should lead by example, with honor, and integrity, but most don't. Andrew Jackson set a fine example for blatantly opposing the Supreme Court ruling regarding the Cherokee, and even up to the time when Anita Hill testified against Clarence Thomas, the same laws that we all have to live under didn't apply to the members of Congress. The Supreme Court did nothing about it. The politicians to a larger degree are self serving and do what they want, and the Supreme Court today hears whatever cases they want, and it helps if a person knows someone who knows someone who can bend a few ears. Its a mockery of the way things are suppose to work. They can bend the laws the same way they can have they can bend ears.
Interesting perspective. I always thought there was more, much more. If the main driving force behind being honest, or raising a family, or building a home, or having the desire to be creative, or having the gift for art, or possessing the abiilities find cures for diseases is money, then the path the person is following is misguided. If a person is ambitious in their constructive pursuits that make them happy, the money will usually follow.
Don't you think that this is possibly whats wrong with our politicians, they're in it mainly for the money, and the power, and the office they can sell so they satisfy the lobbyist for "money?". Its done wonders for our nation, and perhaps why we are in the deepest recession since the Great Depression?.
Are you telling me that Bill Gates could not have had success or experienced substantial wealth if he were paid from the earnings the company generates?.
Gates is also a big time lobbyist for outsourcing, and insourcing, and the culprit behind American jobs either getting lost, or unfulfilled. Do you support this?. Many Americans have found themselves on the losing end when it came to their job. China, India, and countries who have people who will work for 1/20 these companies need to pay for American labor have moved abroad. Companies that were built, and grew into mega corporations because Americans believed what you do, invested in them and went to work for them with the hope of expansion of jobs getting created, had no idea that one day it may mean the loss of jobs in this country and perhaps their own.
Gates is only one of a multitude, but unlike the kind of money he rakes in, """"" but doesn't earn it""""". Gates is an extreme wealthy individual just for owning Msft, or rather owning the controlling shares, and would also be exceptionally wealthy if he were paid $1m or $2m a year from the companies earnings, thats how people who aren't insiders are paid, regular employee's. He and others like him, like Larry Ellis could have become billionaires by selling. There is no risk for him to be paid in stock, and stock options, or the insiders, but there surely is for you, or for me, and anyone else who owns a 401k, or saving for retirement thru some other means, and has exposure to the market. If he and his insider pals believe in Msft, and want to grow a portfolio it should be no different for them, the open market is available.
He's doing as good as hedgefund mgr, 25 last year raked in over a billion. The money doesn't fall out of the sky, someone losses it, and that someone is just average working day people who realize they will need something more than social security in their retirement age. Which may turn into 80 years old if the politicians have their way, and if they live so long. Granpa, and granma hitting the streets at this age is a pretty sad state of affairs.
You mentioned Gates plans to give 90% of it away when he dies?. Philanthropy was something that was created for those who have obtained wealth by dishonest means, and its a great diversion tactic, but it doesn't change anything. The money that Gates has raked in is from shareholders, and everyday investors, money that's not his nor ever has been his to give away. Its nothing more than legal corruption.
One great concept are businesses that are employee owned, everyone plays a role in how well the company does, thats one great incentive for making money, and more of it.
I was just looking at this today. I think my numbers add up just from scanning. I may be short or over, but close, and the year hasn't ended. This in part has been eroding the markets, a big part, and this is just one man, and one company from the thousands. This on top of everything else that has gone on, and goes on. Not one has found a cure for cancer, or founded the fountain of youth, but they all believe they are deserving of this kind of money. A top neuro surgeon earns approx 3 million a year, a commercial pilot may not even earn $50k, a fireman the same, and a policeman. The US president earns $400k, and look at all he has to deal with daily. But these guys are just to important and the world couldn't live without them.
Here's on solution for change:
In just this last year 2010 Gates alone has raked in over One Billion dollars from those who chose to buy this stock, and this doesn't include his other insiders. This is how he and they obtain their wealth, why Gates is one the richest men in the world today. Not from the money the company, or he earned.
This is the root of the problem for publicly traded companies. Getting paid with stock and stock options is the vehicles used in stealing investment dollars. The people who do the real work for companies like this are those who stand on their feet all day long having punched a time clock. Their pay is determined by the companies earnings, and from these earnings they are paid, unlike the insiders, who like they should have their pay determined by the shareholders, and receive that pay from the companies earnings in the form of weekly check that is cut by the companies payroll department.
Controlling stock shares should from the beginning remain restricted till the sale of the company, and or if the company merges and stock shares are exchanged. If this is the case these to should remain restricted until a owner/partner decides to sell out with their holdings.
If these people want to own additional stock which is not restricted they should have to buy theses on the open market like everyone else.
Obama with the Congress may not be able to put caps on what these people earn, but this legislation could be created into a Bill and passed into law. It would then fall into the lap of the SEC to enforce this with oversight.
Its this very activity that breaks down any integrity in the market, this and these 504D filings and S-8 filings, among others. If there is to be any real financial reform it begins here, and from here they could build to curb so much of the legal corruption our government created and sponsors.
Feb 16, 2010 GATES WILLIAM H III
Director 3,000,000 Direct Automatic Sale at $28.25 per share. $84,750,000 Feb 12, 2010 GATES WILLIAM H III
Director 2,000,000 Direct Automatic Sale at $27.81 per share. $55,620,000 Feb 11, 2010 GATES WILLIAM H III
Director 2,000,000 Direct Automatic Sale at $28.09 per share. $56,180,000 Feb 10, 2010 GATES WILLIAM H III
Director 2,000,000 Direct Automatic Sale at $28.02 per share. $56,040,000 Feb 9, 2010 GATES WILLIAM H III
Director 2,000,000 Direct Automatic Sale at $28.09 per share. $56,180,000 Feb 8, 2010 GATES WILLIAM H III
Director 2,000,000 Direct Automatic Sale at $27.88 per share. $55,760,000 Feb 5, 2010 GATES WILLIAM H III
Director 2,000,000 Direct Automatic Sale at $27.96 per share. $55,920,000 Feb 4, 2010 GATES WILLIAM H III
Director 2,000,000 Direct Automatic Sale at $28.06 per share. $56,120,000 Feb 3, 2010 GATES WILLIAM H III
Director 3,000,000 Direct Automatic Sale at $28.55 per share. $85,650,000
May 3, 2010 GATES WILLIAM H III
Director 2,000,000 Direct Automatic Sale at $30.84 per share. $61,680,000 Apr 30, 2010 GATES WILLIAM H III
Director 1,000,000 Direct Automatic Sale at $30.74 per share. $30,740,000 Apr 29, 2010 GATES WILLIAM H III
Director 2,000,000 Direct Automatic Sale at $30.99 per share. $61,980,000 Apr 28, 2010 GATES WILLIAM H III
Director 2,000,000 Direct Automatic Sale at $30.87 per share. $61,740,000
May 14, 2010 GATES WILLIAM H III
Director 1,000,000 Direct Automatic Sale at $28.84 per share. $28,840,000 May 13, 2010 GATES WILLIAM H III
Director 1,000,000 Direct Automatic Sale at $29.55 per share. $29,550,000 May 12, 2010 GATES WILLIAM H III
Director 3,000,000 Direct Automatic Sale at $29.37 per share. $88,110,000 May 11, 2010 GATES WILLIAM H III
Director 1,000,000 Direct Automatic Sale at $29.13 per share. $29,130,000 May 10, 2010 GATES WILLIAM H III
Director 2,000,000 Direct Automatic Sale at $28.97 per share. $57,940,000
May 7, 2010 GATES WILLIAM H III
Director 777,000 Direct Sale at $28.07 per share. $21,810,390 May 7, 2010 GATES WILLIAM H III
Director 223,000 Direct Automatic Sale at $28.77 per share. $6,415,710 May 6, 2010 GATES WILLIAM H III
Director 1,500,000 Direct Sale at $29.67 per share. $44,505,000 May 6, 2010 GATES WILLIAM H III
Director 500,000 Direct Automatic Sale at $28.82 per share. $14,410,000 May 5, 2010 GATES WILLIAM H III
Director 1,000,000 Direct Automatic Sale at $29.89 per share. $29,890,000 May 4, 2010 GATES WILLIAM H III
Director 1,000,000 Direct Automatic Sale at $30.07 per share. $30,070,000
Aug 24, 2010 GATES WILLIAM H III
Director 1,000,000 Direct Automatic Sale at $24.15 per share. $24,150,000 Aug 23, 2010 GATES WILLIAM H III
Director 2,000,000 Direct Automatic Sale at $24.39 per share. $48,780,000 Aug 20, 2010 GATES WILLIAM H III
Director 2,000,000 Direct Automatic Sale at $24.28 per share. $48,560,000 Aug 19, 2010 GATES WILLIAM H III
Director 1,000,000 Direct Automatic Sale at $24.48 per share. $24,480,000
Yep!,,,,,,,,,,,,they all got something out of that deal.
Bush got us into Iraq, and it was his Treasury Secretary that secured the Tarp money for "all his friends", like Mickey Rourke in the movie playing a drunk, and buying drinks for "all his friends". We can't blame Obama for that, and it was the House, and Senate who signed on to it. But your right, and the politicians in both parties set fine examples for the young. Why our nation is so lawless. We keep hearing about the terror from abroad............whats this suppose to do cause paranoia?. Maybe it works on some?.......I believe our greater problems are right here at home. Gangs in particular, and our border problem.
The problem I also see is that the challengers to the incumbants seem to be smoking the same stuff, phonies. All we need are the good guys, and good women with good common sense, but we may be way to far down the road, or river for even them to make a difference. If the politicians don't get it together soon things will probably only get worse, and more out of control.
To much power, and money, and payoffs get in the way for them to do the right things..........
A look at some of America's history from over a hundred years almost.
Remember JFK's famous words?.............
"Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask, what can you do for your country?"........
Look at the state of our country today.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_did_the_US_get_involved_in_World_War_1
Sad., and another dark period of America's history, and it involved 3 of America's great legends.
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snprelief4.htm
http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/resources/casdeath_pop.html
http://www.blurtit.com/q331774.html
http://www3.niu.edu/~td0raf1/history261/trading%20with%20the%20enemy.htm
http://www.threeworldwars.com/world-war-2/ww2.htm
When the German air force ran short of fuel, this was generously supplied from the great refinery belonging to the Standard Oil Company situated on the island of Aruba via Spanish tankers. This occurred during the war itself, yet these tankers were not sunk by American submarines.
Even with the purchases of oil from non-German sources, the major supplier of oil was still the cartel. The I.G. Farben-Standard Oil cooperation for production of synthetic oil from coal gave the I.G. Farben cartel a monopoly of German gasoline production during World War II. Just under one half of German high octane gasoline in 1945 was produced directly by I.G. Farben, and most of the balance by its affiliated companies.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_did_the_US_get_involved_in_the_war_of_vietnam
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_did_france_invade_vietnam
http://tourmekongdelta.com/travel-guide-detail/vietnam/vietnam-history/19th-century-and-french-colonization
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070128152314AAEUVNa
Sorry, I had to look up the guys name. I kinda remembered it, but this was something to listen to. For years people had been complaining to the SEC from Ihub, and there had been many conversations regarding its lack of oversight. Everyone's suspicions were rectified having heard the testimony.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a_UBDG13Gld0&refer=home
It just so happened that it involved the biggest ponzi scheme of the century, and that it went on for decades, and right under their noses. The OTC market is made up of Berman's, and who perpetuates fraud every single day of the trading week, and not one of these companies have had the SEC or FBI walk in on their business to go over their books, to look to see if there is an existing company thats more than a business model, or their accounts to see where the money is going, or what its being used for?. Billions of investor dollars have been lost in these fraudulent companies over the years. One company who is a BB can file S-8's indefinitely, and some have for years, and are still operating in the red. 504's, non registered securities, and so called companies which are nothing more than a trading symbol are allowed to rake in millions without accountability.
Any person acknowledges that something is really wrong with this picture.
This is the backdoor from the alley where all the crooks congregate to scam. Aig was the Bookie for playing the odds without the capital to cover the bets it made with all the Wall Street Junkies, Goldman Sachs/Hedgies etc., which cost the taxpayers $850B in Tarp. But whose watching?. The kind of money that gets lost to these crooks should be enough to get someones attention, and in a big way.
To make a long story short, I have, and so have many others regarding Berman. I guess you're familiar with the story of the securities investigator who submitted in writing the lurid details of the fraud Madoff was committing over several years that went ignored. We all heard their excuses before a Congressional Committee, or the lack thereof, or family ties, or why the refusal to answer due to their on-going investigation?. $65B later. Well----------no less has been submitted to them and other agencies regarding this fraud, and like Madoff enriching himself, family, and others at the expense of others, its more than obvious what he's been doing and has conspired to do, and they were sent alot of legal documentation of the parties involved.
It takes money alright, lots of it, and the know to get his appeal heard in such a timely fashion. Not all appeals are heard, but if your one of the wall street crowd who stole a hundred + million, and wore a white collar while committing insider trading - well................and a high profiled case, and know a few people it helps huh?.
Looks the trap is set and the cheese is .09
Dead in the water or algae
http://ih.advfn.com/p.php?pid=squote&symbol=RINDD
Guess Skilling will be toasting his attorney soon. No doubt he has millions stashed somewhere, how could he not?. He knew that it would all implode soon after he left he had to leave some on the table just in case............and I guess we are also expected to believe that Madoff went thru $30 + billion, and his net worth was only into the millions when he was busted.
Supreme Court - Recent Decisions
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/06/supreme-court-sides-with-ex-enron-exec-skilling-limits-fraud-law/1
http://www.law360.com/articles/184050
http://www.usatoday.com/topics/more+stories/People/Business,+Science+and+Technology+Figures/Jeffrey+Skilling/1
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-28/enron-s-skilling-should-get-bail-during-appellate-review-lawyer-says.html
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-1394Reissue.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London
One of the good ole boys appeal was heard. He may be out on the street having only served 1/6 of his sentence. Madoffs attorney should be able to find some loophole for him as well, sighting his age and health if it changes. Wouldn't suprise me. If he was released just maybe they would find the loot he stashed. Lindsey Lohan hardly did her "90" days :)
2 sets of laws. One for them and one for the rest of us.
Supreme Court - Recent Decisions
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/06/supreme-court-sides-with-ex-enron-exec-skilling-limits-fraud-law/1
http://www.law360.com/articles/184050
http://www.usatoday.com/topics/more+stories/People/Business,+Science+and+Technology+Figures/Jeffrey+Skilling/1
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-28/enron-s-skilling-should-get-bail-during-appellate-review-lawyer-says.html
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-1394Reissue.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London
How Multinational Corporations Avoid Paying Their Taxes
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15704.htm
Here's a little article that I ran across this morning. Something to think about at tax time.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15704.htm
Yep!! business as usual, the trap is set. Its a totally worthless company which generates no revenue with a degenerate ceo. It is however one big piggy bank for Berman. His MM has a little for himself as well. These hired MM's are the vehicles used to pull off their corruption who not only does their bidding but their own as well.
This sounds about as crazy as shooting a missile at the moon in search for water. Are they planning on bottling it?:)
Maybe its not water they're looking for, maybe the search is for gold?. How much money was spent on this nutty project?
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2009/04/dangerous-new-global-warming-law.html At the White House, the new science advisor to the President is proposing an utterly crazed scheme to shoot “pollution” into the Earth’s atmosphere to reflect back the Sun’s rays to stave off global warming.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,337710,00.html
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/06/04/gore-invests-carbon-credit-company-will-media-care
Gore’s Circle of Business
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22663
http://www.generationim.com/about/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/business/worldbusiness/11iht-gore.4.10942634.html?_r=1
The sustainable investment firm run by Al Gore, the former U.S. vice-president, is about to be closed to new investors, having raised close to its $5 billion target.
Generation is an independent, private, owner-managed partnership with offices in London, New York and Sydney. The firm was co-founded in 2004 by Al Gore and David Blood.
A cap and trade tax is the additional cost that is incurred by businesses and consumers as a result of the implementation of a policy known as cap and trade. Cap and trade is a system enacted by the government that is designed to reduce the emissions of pollutants, especially greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere. The basic premise of cap and trade is that the government sets a limit, or “cap,” on the amount of pollutants that may be released.
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-cap-and-trade-tax.htm
Companies are then given an allotment of credits, commonly known as carbon credits, for the amount of pollutants they would be allowed to emit. Some nations that have implemented cap and trade programs provide for an auction where companies bid on and purchase their carbon credits. Over time, the government would lower the amount of pollutants that could be released into the atmosphere, creating a steady reduction in the amount of carbon dioxide and other pollutants that are produced and released into the air.
The “trade” portion of cap and trade comes into play when companies produce more or less carbon dioxide than they were allotted. Companies that produce more pollution that their allotment may trade or purchase credits from companies that produce less pollution than they are allowed. The desired result of cap and trade is that companies that produce a lot of pollution will be motivated to reduce the amount of pollutants that they release into the air, in an effort to avoid continually having to purchase additional carbon credits.
The controversy that surrounds cap and trade is that companies who must purchase additional credits will, in all likelihood, pass on the additional cost of purchasing credits to consumers. Companies that are likely to be affected the most by the cap and trade tax are utility companies and major manufacturing companies that utilize large amounts of fossil fuels. Therefore cap and trade may result in higher prices for goods and services, such as utilities. This increased cost of doing business and the passing on of these costs to consumers as a result of government policy, is the reason that cap and trade is often referred to as the cap and trade tax, even though in many instances it is not technically called a tax.
You can bet on one thing. The MM controlling this is in position to take on all newcomers. Isn't it odd how fast this ran up after the r/s, and the small volume that proceeded. Its nothing more than a mouse trap to get the unwary's money. Another group that should be monitored heavily.
The blantant fraud which is obvious to all of us our regulatory agencies sponsor. The SEC warns against them, but gives them the license to steal. Kinda like a credit card company issuing credit cards in other peoples names to an individual known to have been involved in identity theft.........allowing this kind of activity in any market is beyond comprehension. If the government agencies choose to nothing even today considering all thats occurred over the last several years, they never will. Since their elite officers did little more than spend their hours looking at porn sites they should be shut down. Today that money paid them should get recouped, they should be fined, and jail imo.
CHANGE????
Its okay if your errand is only to the store, and back.:). How much for the charge?. Some people can easily put more than this on just to and from work..............I think we should return to horses and dirt roads, this by far would be more environmentally friendly, and it would also eliminate car jacking, and the want for those circus wheels less he or she knows ya they wouldn't get very far. Maybe no farther than under their hoofs.
Maybe we should all be wearing guns to like they did back then?.
Today I guess would be 50 caliber. It would take strength to be fast on the draw.:)
HOUSTON, Oct 06, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Russell Industries, Inc. (Pink Sheets: RIND), announces that its Board of Directors has approved a 1 for 1,000 reverse stock split for its common stock only. The board and management having a majority voting block felt that taking this action at this time is in the company's best interest. The effective date is open of business October 7, 2010. Fractional Shares will be rounded up and shares are payable upon surrender of old certificates to the Company's Transfer Agent, Pacific Stock Transfer, Company. The new symbol on this date will be RINDD. Please note the "D" will be removed 20 after business days and will revert back to RIND.
About Russell Industries
Berman is the BOD, and be reminded that this is "Bermans Company".
As he so eloquently stated, and anyone who puts money into this pos is only in for the ride. Anyone who likes alot of bull, this is the one to get on, a Texas Longshot with the horns and all.
IMO,Rick Berman is just a low life common thief..
Its a fact!!!, not an opinion. Remember AUMC?. It didn't take long for it to bottom. This one remains on the bottom, and always will. R/S' mean nothing as you pointed out except for his hope that people will jump in. 10B shares at .0001 = $1,000,000, and that this bums goal. This so called company is nothing more than a shell filled with the bullshit from Texas. The SEC branch in his location is as worthless as this companies certs.
The volume is indicative of whats going on.
Berman should quit this a become a drug dealer, he has the morals of one. He and his wife should be able to cut a gram into as many pieces as they cut these certs, for all we know he is one.
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Junk Bonds, The Dot Com era, Then the Realestate Boom with packaged CDO's and CDS's which were sold in the Over The Counter Market. The untold trillion''''''' of dollar market known as derivatives, more than all the money from all the countries worldwide combined. We all know the players, now there's the "Green Scheme" and there's more to follow this.
Consipracy or Fact?. When we look at the evidence we would be hard pressed to believe this stuff is all made up.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/01/the-global-cooling-myth/
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090319054638AAMIjS9
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123655590609066021.html
http://www.chicagoclimatex.com/
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/9629
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Conservation_Bank
The Croc Boss
Guys like this and a moat that stretches across our southern border may be the ticket. :)
http://natgeotv.com/uk/crocodile-ganglands/about
2 things the government have always been about, empowering those who control the wealth which in turn enriches and empowers the politicians to keep their offices so they can give them nearly everything they want.
The real people who are in the service of this country who have had the dreams of this becoming a great nation through their hard work, and or military service are sacrificed time and again believing that the elected officials are striving for the kind of America that in reality doesn't exist. Whatever was hoped for following the Great Depression, WW2, and Eisenhower was lost due to stupidity and their greed.
Great Britian today is a shell of its former self. A country whose government was and is corrupt and who followed these same very paths are now reaping what its sowed.
We've all know that a family(home), or country divided will fall.
Politicians who are bent on following these kind of ideas and rules they play by and make as they go will have an evitable end.
We don't have to look far to see it, or acknowledge this in some form on the other. We have grown into a lawless nation getting eaten from its inside out.
The democrats blame the republicans, and vice versa, and both are guilty, as "sin!". The rich don't care, its all about money, and how much more they can obtain, and how best to protect it. The national debt is something they see as a real threat to their wealth, the care less about the country, not so for the average American. The biggest question of all is how will they American people go about the task of gaining the kind of legal control which forces those elected in the service of government big and small to do the right thing by its people, and the country they serve?
I like most have heard the same ole rhetoric, same bullshit out of politicians for decades, look where we are at, what we have all witnessed. They now want to wish it away like it never happened. All in the face of our service men and women fighting in foreign lands to protect them and their country. Its been going on for decades.
Thanks for the input tod, when I'm more awake I would like to read more on this. Vascular dementia is aggressive, and when its done its work it leaves only the shell of the person, coma and death, and this comes quickly, unlike Alzheimer's death can be years or decades away after its affliction, even worse imo. I watched a rather healthy person who had a brilliant mind succumb to vascular dementia brought on by many-mini brain strokes that can happen without detection creating holes in the brain somewhat like swiss cheese. This stuff is scary. I hope a care someday is found for these awful things. A person can be otherwise be healthy, but if the brain is either effected or stops working with memory loss other vitals and organs may or will shut down.
Apache Helicopters desroying insurgents
Break Time:
Hollings was kinda like a Pat Buchanan in many ways, always good for a laugh. Can't say I agree with all his views, but he gave a heck of an argument in opositon of GATT, and he was right. This guy had such a southern drawl, real deep south, at times it was hard to understand what he was saying. :). But again I never researched him. I just listened to his reasons of why he, and we should oppose GATT on the floor viewing Cspan, and his hope was to get the support he needed to defeat it. First came NAFTA then this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hollings
Curious?.......my motherlaw who is a devout democrat likes him. She believes he's level headed, and extremely bright. I don't know enough about him, but again he's another wanting a long career, and this should be enough to not give it alot of thought. So many new politicians that want of come on board share alot of the same attributes, and this to could be in part why the people keep voting for and help reelect the ones they already are familiar with, for worse, or worser.
I'm not right or left, and my hope has been that she could look beyond who represents what party. This seems to be a good part of the problem, each party is like a club that lacks independent thinking. It sure makes their jobs easier by just going along with the crowd and jumping on the ban wagon.
There was one good ole career politician that I found to be interesting who opposed GATT, and fought hard against it, but to no avail........... former Sen.Hollings.
The Muslim Brotherhood
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11203623?cid=dlvr.it
I believe that was Phil Graham. I couldn't stand the guy. Glad he's gone with a few others.
I do agree that these lifers need a shot in the foot. The only way is to press for term limits. I can't help but believe that some of these elections are fixed. How is it possible that the people keep voting in the same people they oppose on so many issues?.
The Congress fixed term limits on the President, but yet they can run indefinitely, and if they can get big business in their corner its money in the bank, and in some, if not all cases their own. If they can lock in 30 or so years they will get million dollar pensions on top of what they can rake in during the same time period, and from all kinds of sources. Then there's all the perks. They just have voted themselves in another pay increase for such an outstanding job they've done for the country, and the American people for handing out bailouts for parties, and covering their buddies of wall street and their gambling debts like those of Goldman Sachs in addition to earmarks like those to a Rum Company in Puerto Rico, or the bridge for Microsoft. Its never ending. This country has lost its manufacturing jobs due to all their concessions, but they still want careers that span into 40 and 50 years which allows them to be their own bosses, and to show up when they choose?. If we had a system that worked for this country they would have enacted term limits for themselves for the same exact reasons. This is after all where the power is really at.
Joe Biden took the remainder of his campaign contributions which amounted to $2m + and paid family members who supposedly helped him/worked for him when he ran for the president. He did this after he was selected by Obama. $2m ----------------!!. Guess there was no kickbacks here?
Money that should have been turned over to the democratic committee after he lost his bid. No one has held him accountable. That in itself should raise suspicion about both parties. Its an incentive to run if they are already knee deep in corruption serving in Congress.
What do you think about Lindsey Graham?.