THE PUTZMAN 14

sorry, i can't help you. it is beyond your pay grade. \

it was your parents responsibility to explain civil behavior to you, for example, young boys that hurt animals are generally precursers to an abusive adult, who given the power and the chance will have people tortured to satisfy some inner need to hurt others, and will have people murdered for the same psycotic reason.

there are no drugs that will cure this psycosis. they need to be in a supervised structer, and watched
continually.

A few more than Vince Foster died Rick.

zrx1200

are you suggesting clinton had a hand in vince foster's suicide?

Ric,[-( k No i think he was implying Clinton had a hand in Fosters Murder...

I was watching TV today and apparently TRow Price has macroeconomics it all figured out. I'll be parking my money there.

DrafterX 12

i'll bry you didn't even buy that his mother was white, or that he graduated high school and even went to colleg.

nobody can pull the wool over your eyes. e

We have a political board now. Feel free to take full advantage of it.

98.2% of preteanagers are challenged phonetically.

So, Rick, what does that say about you? The guy who degrades just about every woman politician?

Sorry, I forgot - that's above your "paygrade."

FYI, Rick, just about every civilization has done something that, by your "modern" standards, that is appalling.

The Romans slaughtered entire tribes, and kept slaves. The were a "civilization."

The ancient Israelites wiped out entire cities that didn't convert.

The Muslims both past and present slaughter Christians and Jews.

The Soviets and Chinese communists (your buddies and idols) slaughtered tens of millions of people. They too are a "civilization."

The Western Europeans are highly anti-Semetic, and they too are a "civilization."

Even in the US, American liberals are highly anti-Semetic, racist, and believe in government sanctioned theft. They are part of a modern-day "civilization."

So, maybe you need to clarify these "rules" for us, Rick. Just so we're all on the same page here.

putzboy #31

as i recall the crusades were the christians on a mission to destroy muslims.

when did the soviets and chinese become my buddies and idols.

see you male up **** and then then tell me i am wrong because of it.

you have a fertile imagination full of weeds.

something you might know. what is the powder in an envelope that comes with the cut flowers i buy at the markets.

herfidore #28

LOL

Which started when the Muslims were slaughtering Christians in Muslim-occupied territory (about 100 years after Islam's occupation of the Holy Land). It was in a response to the foundation of the Fez, whose red hats were dipped in Christian blood, and the order by Caliph al—Matawakkil and Caliph Harun al—Rashid that Christian houses of prayer are to be destroyed. This also led to the destruction of the Church of Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem. Then there were the anti-Christian riots in Jerusalem in 966, the destruction of Church of the Resurrection in 937, and the invasion of Spain, Sicily, and Sardinia by Muslims in the 10th century.

Only in 1099 did the Christians decide to go on the Crusades.

History obviously isn't your strong suit, is it Rick?



Around 1952.



Rick, I don't have to make up anything to let you know you're wrong. All you have to do is type, and the rest just sorta happens.



Yes, coming from a failed insurance salesman, I'm sure you're an "expert" on being "imaginative."



The major brand name on that is called Floralife, though there are several other manufacturers of that substance since its first introduction.

We started providing Floralife for customers some time in the late 1980s, though the best way to extend the life of your cut flowers is to cut the bottom part of the stems with a sharp knife on a 45-degree angle, just before you put them in water. It also helps if you periodically clean the vases you put your cut flowers in with bleach, as many organisms that will shorten the life of your cut flowers will survive and hibernate cleanings using soap and hot water.

Many bacteria, when exposed to harsh conditions, will form "spores", which can resist prolonged exposure to cold, soap, and even hot water (though boiling water is very effective). Bleach, however, kills just about everything it touches.

Use a knife to cut the stems, and not a scissors, as the scissors wil pinch the capillary tubes used to feed the flowers water and nutrients.

Thankfully, we're not repeating all the mistakes of 1937. But Congress and the Obama administration are flirting dangerously with one of them by failing to extend the expiring low tax rates for all Americans. What's worse, we're close to repeating the mother of all policy errors, the one made not in 1937 but in 1930—the one that started the Great Depression. We're on track to resurrect the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act.

Last week the House passed the Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act. It's an amendment that gives dangerous new protectionist powers to the notorious Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, the proximate cause of the global Great Depression, which after all these years is still on the books. Democrats—all but five of whom voted in favor of the bill last week—would do well to remember that in 1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt ran as a free-trader, pledging to lower Smoot-Hawley's tariff walls. The 99 Republicans who voted aye should know that Herbert Hoover's name lives in infamy for erecting them. Instead, Wednesday's vote was a bipartisan move to build those walls higher using currencies as the bricks and mortar.

The bill, if passed by the Senate and signed by the president, would mandate that the Department of Commerce take a foreign country's currency interventions into account in determining whether its trading practices are unfair. In the case of China—the target at which this bill is aimed—Commerce would determine that the amount by which the yuan is allegedly undervalued. The number being thrown around now by supporters of the bill, such as the AFL-CIO and the United Auto Workers, is as much as 40%. The cost basis of Chinese-made goods exported to the U.S. would then be adjusted upward by that amount to determine whether they are being sold below cost, an unfair trade practice known as "dumping." Not a single Chinese export good could survive such a test—virtually the entire volume of China's exports to the U.S. suddenly would become subject to countervailing duties.

Surely China would retaliate. That makes the bill a nuclear threat of mutual assured economic destruction. If carried out, it would crush trade between China and the United States, which are huge export markets for each other.

Suppose China blinks and revalues the yuan to avert the nuclear threat. Even if this creates some American jobs, which is doubtful, it would do so by making all Chinese goods more expensive in the U.S.—an immediate inflationary tax on American consumers.

At the same time, it would make goods priced in dollars cheaper for China to import, supposedly a boon to U.S. exports. But an unintended consequence is that it will make China an even more voracious competitor for oil. That's because oil is priced in dollars, so a revaluation would make it cheaper in yuan terms. Remember, during the period from 2005 to 2008 when the yuan was revalued under similar political pressures from the U.S., the price of oil rose, not coincidentally, to $147 per barrel from $60. That could happen again—and it would be another inflationary tax on U.S. consumers.

WSJ