It's endless on Babblevision and Blabberg. Davos drivel. I wonder why the snow doesn't melt with all that hot air being pumped out ?
Yesterday the Chinese leader, Wen, and the Russian leader, Putin, lectured the US and criticised the western system. Uh ... those are the leaders of two corrupt gangocracies. That's like Al Capone lecturing Roosevelt on how to run a nation. Or Carlo Gambino lecturing John Kennedy. Sheesh. I suppose one should just politely ignore them, but "stuff it" comes more to mind.
The system of freedom and private property works superbly, but the tendency for excess accumulations of wealth and power by a few needs to be somehow properly directed - social pressure would be best - and their tendencies to create aristocracies stopped. And their raiding parties need to be squashed.
For example, what philanthropist funds artists or mathematicians or writers or philosophers to increase human knowledge ? Mostly they pay big $ to museums to buy old masters or build new wings. Nothing new is created. Davos is full of them - those wanting a big monument to themselves. A few do good things to increase human knowledge. But just a few.
For example, a program to teach young children foreign languages would be incredibly valuable. The young can learn languages so easily. But is that done ? No.
I again reproduce the quote from Thucydides that sparked my thinking on this matter - I first read it referenced in Erasmus' "Praise of Folly". The quote is from the famous oration of Pericles.
"We cultivate refinement without extravagance and knowledge without effeminacy; wealth we employ more for use than for show, and place the real disgrace of poverty not in owning to the fact but in declining the struggle against it."
Unfortunately, too much wealth has been used to buy estates in the Hamptons or invested in hedge fund speculations. And not enough has been productively invested or used to increase human knowledge. That is the real problem.
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A good day yesterday. Today is starting weak. The bears are sure to attack. Obama Fund and Fido Fund are fully invested now. Waiting.
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good article today in ft on Davos......what's the purpose ???
i don't mind rich guys partying..........heck i'd like to go those parties
but at Davos these guys are partying at the shareholders or taxpayers expense
who is paying for their hotel suites ?? their $400 bottles of wine ?? their private jets ?? none of these 'rich and powerful' pay for that stuff out of their own pocket
all the government officials there are not spending a dime of their own money
'hogs at the trough'
is becky quick an idiot ?? does she realize that these so-called visionaries were clueless about the credit crisis at Davos last year
"oh look.....there's Bono!! "
PS......cnbc better worry about their own shitty network..........have they seen a chart of GE ???
what do greg louganis and joe torre have in common ???
they both love animals.....especially ....uh....'jerbels'
joe torre a f'ng faggot
uhhhhh....Becky Quick is a graduate of Rutgers University....I assume that answers your question...
can someone send me some chill-pills
or any pills for that matter..........i need some drugs
Bman how do you keep your sharp-shooting skills in the new england winter??
indoor range ?? or you go out like the pioneers
Bman do you have FBI or DEA swat team-like skills ??
or you more of a volume guy......a drunk confederate soldier just shooting wildly
i'm very close to signin up for a 3-session beginners course in revolver skills
i think the course is like 200 bux........i think i'm gonna enjoy it........sounds addictive
I sure miss Mern...he would have nailed this Fed move.
RCL...hoochalachoochala "tanks-baaaab"
RCL.............thanks jim !!!!
back.
I've noticed the sharpshooting skills don't seem to drop off at all after a winter. When I was younger, I went out anyway in the snow & cold. Now I practice in my barn dry firing.
I'm OK with the police style stuff, but no expert.
I prefer the 500 yd. rifle shot or the heavy MG or close-in, the SMG.
Why accept their rules ?
revolver firing is great fun, Bud - go for it.
I put a dime size black dot on the wall in the barn and practice dry-firing at 50 ft.
I can practice my draw with rubber bullets in the barn, too.
loool...your funny as hell bunk
At the height of their power, banks and assorted financial companies attracted the country’s best and brightest. But the 6-figure entry-level salaries and liquid lunches drew another element as well: A personality type most commonly known as the douchebag. Social-climbing, preening, would-be playboys passing themselves off as big-time financial players generated Main Street backlash long before Bernie Madoff was indicted.
lmaooooooooooooo
draw ??? is that like in the westerns ??
outlaw josey wales style ?? alexander hamilton vs aaron burr ??
no his charcoal sketches.pppffttt
'douchebag'
lmaoooooooooooooooooooooooo
PS.........used in a sentence : Joe Torre is a douchebag.
Prowler the prefered 'douchebag'
whip
wearing his cowboy hat with chinstap and capgun holsters,,Bud...in his 12 yr ol voice say...then whaddya do Texas Pete?....ya know ur the fastest...whatchamacalit "draw?? this side of the Pecos
looooooooooooool
mommy would dress him up like calamity jane...nonono dirty nasty deadwood version...dorris day style..."get your big boy pants back on Sal, daddy will be home soon"
I sure miss Mern, hope he is having the time of his life.
Both the Clint Eastwood style and the Eliot Ness style.
It's dangerous to practice with with real bullets.
complete the following
Denny is to CNBC as Bud is to (......)?
Blue Oyster Bar?
Denny is to CNBC as Joe Torre is to the Village People
does that work??......doesn't matter......Torre is cock-sucking fag was my point
that guy...YMCA shower?
youre right..he must be gay..he has all those rings.....
looooooooooooooooool
spin why is it bothering you that i am attacking Torre...............what joe is doin is indefensable
if he had a problem with players.....why not say it then......now talkin behind their back like a bitch
he got paid 30plus million from the yankees.......and now for a couple more bucks he acting like a cry-baby fag
anyway you're a Yankee fan.........he's takin stuff out of the clubhouse.......surely you can't defend that
that's real funny frosty......hahahahaha
pffffffffffffffffft
is there even a need to count the ballots this week ???? i think the mvp was decided monday
the 'angry jon secada' was first on all ballots
Denny a Yankee fan as far as I know...
Im not..hes gone
all those years biting his lip...he had to... he didnt do it when he worked there..he managed ......thats why they call it manager ..ya take sides..ya get sulking babies....Id take him back in a heartbeat...he had me at hello......he had me at hello. Girardi..pfftttt
that's real scumbag reporting by Erin Burnett....she is taking Rush Limbaugh's statement completetly out of context....disgraceful...where's gaspo to set her straight?
yes..it was "I support the president..just not his policies"
did i lose an ally in my Yankee bashing ??? mfl layin low on the joe torre slams
i guess spinny sent him a 'private email' ........"come on bro......that's not right.......F bud.......we boyz"
oh well.......i go it alone .......i'm not scared........yankees suck!!!
nononononono.....
i thought Big Joe was better than what he has shown...but I'd rather bash the team, not some overrated hack manager....
ok cool
'overrated hack'.......that is the most accurate description of him ever..........so sick of the baseball media kissin his ass
PS.......congrats spin !!!......330 miilion on cc and texiera.......lmaoooooooooooooooo
take one of those greenies.....calm ya down...loooool(CC fastball to the head? $5000 a pitch?..priceless)
ps...the Mets would prolly would have tried to buy pitching too if they didnt give the pitching fund to madoff
geezzuz fellas if ur going to play put ur tiny brains together and at least have a battle plan
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
all that money....for what??? for who??? way to relate to the common man....
no championships in, what, 8 years?
it doesnt work son....
'pitchin fund to madoff'
lmaoooooooooooooooooooooooo
PS.....spin makin a late mvp charge .........but angry jon got it
1 New York Yankees $209,081,579
2 New York Mets $138,685,197
3 Detroit Tigers $138,683,978
4 Boston Red Sox $138,292,937
5 Chicago White Sox $121,152,667
6 Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim $119,216,333
7 Chicago Cubs $118,595,833
8 Los Angeles Dodgers $118,536,038
9 Seattle Mariners $117,993,982
10 Atlanta Braves $102,424,018
11 St. Louis Cardinals $100,624,450
12 Toronto Blue Jays $98,641,957
13 Philadelphia Phillies $98,269,881
14 Houston Astros $88,930,415
15 Milwaukee Brewers $81,004,167
16 Cleveland Indians $78,970,067
17 San Francisco Giants $76,904,500
18 Cincinnati Reds $74,277,695
19 San Diego Padres $73,677,617
20 Colorado Rockies $68,655,500
21 Texas Rangers $68,239,551
22 Baltimore Orioles $67,196,248
23 Arizona Diamondbacks $66,202,713
24 Minnesota Twins $62,182,767
25 Kansas City Royals $58,245,500
26 Washington Nationals $54,961,000
27 Pittsburgh Pirates $49,365,283
28 Oakland Athletics $47,967,126
29 Tampa Bay Rays $43,820,598
30 Florida Marlins $21,836,500
the Mets are second...second..8 years?......try 1986... talk about wasted money?.....pfftttt
"the Mets are second"
lmaooooooooooooo....210 mmm to 137mm....second a long ways away...its not even close....
build a farm system....do it the right way...like Omar Minaya...lmaoooooo
2 New York Mets $138,685,197
30 Florida Marlins $21,836,500
thats fair???..as along as we're talkin fair
lets play commie baseball...everybody pays the same no matter what...the best and the shit organizations....the same comrads
i never used the word "fair"....thats a word for weaklings...
I will use the word "stupid" however....
9 Seattle Mariners $117,993,982
Cost per win...MVP
I think so
looooooooooool Mel wrote a book too
did Dylan just sat..."a tougher master than the president???.....OH HELL NOOOOO..lol
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
that was great !! hilarious !!!
PS.....frosty why can't you ever say anything funny ?? i thought fags had a great sense of humor
weakings,,,pfftttt fu mike
lmaoooooooooooooo
lmaaooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Mern...where are you...he would know how to play the last day of the of the first month.
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