MONEY: FDIC “insurance” … means what?

Monday, July 14, 2008

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/
idUSWA000014120080714

http://tinyurl.com/5l2t7z

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“I have $360,000 in this bank, and I was misled by this bank,” said Robert Clark, a Glendale resident. “I gave the names of my mother, my sister and my brother on the account so I thought I would be insured. I don’t know what to do. I really don’t know what to do.”

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Old Wall Street saying: “I’m not so concerned about the return on my money as I am about the return of my money!”

Word to the wise!

And, in my eexperience, the clerk at the bank — regardless of level or office — may know less than you. It’s your money, be sure!

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LIBERTY: Don’t Vote! It just encourages them.

Monday, July 14, 2008

FROM AN IM:

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2:03 PMI assume you are not voting for Obama

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I’m probably not voting. It makes no difference!

>if you don’t vote, or vote for someone other than McCain, that could make Obama president
>remember Ross Perot, we never would have seen Clinton make it

I am tired. Tired of always having to choose the lesser of two evils. Tired of never “winning”. Tired of always seeing gooferment grow. Regardless of how or if I vote. So, I think I am just tired of voting. I don’t think that it makes a difference.

I tried the Ron Paul re-evol-ution but that didn’t work.

The country voted Bush into be “compassionate conservative”; where was the compassion — we’re less free than we were — and conservatism — the gooferment grew 60%! The country voted the D’s into office in 2006 to get us out of Iraq; we ain’t.

Now we have two choices — bad and worse. And you want me to pick the lesser of two evils?

Or, do we have to keep needling the blissfully unaware into thinking.

Or, do we just minimize our participation in their processes and questioning their legitimacy.

And, challenge every dime they spend?

Or free state project to new hampshire?

No, I think the reason that half the people don’t vote is thatthey are smarter than I am. They KNOW it’s a waste of time and just legitimizes the “blue light gang” to oppress us more!

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RANT: ‘sassy’ – the toy industry’s euphemism for sexy

Monday, July 14, 2008

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/main.jhtml?xml=/fashion/2007/01/28/stbarbie28.xml

http://tinyurl.com/67948g

Spoilt Bratz
12:01am GMT 28/01/2007

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What Bratz dolls are both contributing to and feeding on is a culture in which girls play at being ‘sassy’ – the toy industry’s euphemism for sexy – and discard traditional toys at a younger age.

Toy marketers now invoke a phenomenon called KGOY – kids getting older younger – and talk about it as though it were a fact of life over which they have no control, rather than one which they have largely created.

Scothon says, ‘Kids are exposed to more things at earlier ages. Their scope of reference is wider. Their exposure to media is greater.’ Larian tells me, ‘Little girls are much more sophisticated now than they used to be.’

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Sadly noted.

Maybe I’m just an old fart — I use the descriptor FOWG often — but I see little girls dressed like sluts.

Sorry, it’s neither cute nor attractive. But then, I’m a FOWG!

Parents should be ashamed at what they have allowed to happen.

Sigh!

imho,
a FOWG

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