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07-14-2008, 07:46 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Consult with your own advisor or representative. My thoughts should not be construed as investment advice. Past performance is no guarantee of future results (love that one).......:)
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07-14-2008, 07:47 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Great way to fuel the self-fulfilling prophecy.
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"Hey, for every ten dollars, that's another hour that I have to be in the work place. That's an hour of my life. And my life is a very finite thing. I have only 'x' number of hours left before I'm dead. So how do I want to use these hours of my life? Do I want to use them just spending it on more crap and more stuff, or do I want to start getting a handle on it and using my life more intelligently?" -- Joe Dominguez (1938 - 1997)
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07-14-2008, 08:01 AM
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I don't see how this London Times article is different than what you are reading in American media outlets, depending on what you read.
Have you seen CNBC lately?
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07-14-2008, 08:04 AM
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If the rest of the world interprets our news the same way they interpret how we make hamburgers........I can see there might be a problem.
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07-14-2008, 02:04 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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Hey Martha, I'm a foreigner....sooooooo, can I take a hammer to the US? All kidding aside, even though I am from Argentina I feel and love the US a lot more then my country and I wouldn't trade the economic dealings of this country with that of mine. Now my mom is a different story as she is much more ingrained with the Argentine mentality. Being that she has $600,000 in bank CDs, she called me frantically yesterday and said...."little girl(she still calls this even though I'm 41), should I go close out some of my accounts tommorrow?" I replied, "mom, all your accounts are in FDIC banks and the money is distributed in different banks so as to be under the $100,000.)...I manage all her money so I make sure she never goes over the insurance amount. Any how, the conversation continued as she said almost hysterically, ".....butttttt, you remember what happened in Argentina with the banks closing down and people loosing all their savings in 2001?"...."yes mom, I do" ...I went on to say..."what will you do with the money anyways?" And as any good Argentinian she replied..."we could stuff a matter with it".
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07-14-2008, 08:44 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by newporttony
My wife's family is from Paris. I've spent the past 15 years defending our country. It's getting tiring.
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I am running into more anti-american sentiment abroad. If the complaintant is civil and objective I try to discuss it objectively. If they are radicals, I respond with "Man your talking to the right guy, I personally ordered the troops into Iraq" or "Dude, your right and after all the Americans are gone, the Chinese (Iranians, Radical Muslims, take your pic) will certainly honor and respect you and the world will be a perfect place..."
It usually shuts them up
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07-14-2008, 08:48 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lancelot
I am running into more anti-american sentiment abroad. If the complaintant is civil and objective I try to discuss it objectively. If they are radicals, I respond with "Man your talking to the right guy, I personally ordered the troops into Iraq" or "Dude, your right and after all the Americans are gone, the Chinese (Iranians, Radical Muslims, take your pic) will certainly honor and respect you and the world will be a perfect place..."
It usually shuts them up
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Thanks for the support. Unfortunately my french in-laws live in the US (and have for 50 years) so I need to deal with the anti-Americanism here in America.
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07-14-2008, 08:56 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by newporttony
Thanks for the support. Unfortunately my french in-laws live in the US (and have for 50 years) so I need to deal with the anti-Americanism here in America.
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Ah, trapped in the belly of the beast. Poor folks
FWIW, the lines at US embassies are longer than ever (locals applying for visas, etc.) For such a pack of blood thirsty savages, we're still pretty popular
Lance out
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