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LDW comments on Everything You Wanted To Know About Islam

dwmte7....that third alternative sounds like a fairly accurate description of most muslim countries (i.e., shitholes........SHITHOLEISTAN)......which explains why those camel humpers worship a visa to an infidel country more than they worship the cheap porn of their KKKoran.

LDW comments on Obama vs. McCain

The Dems are shooting themselves in the foot. This is nothing new, as the Reps have done it before too. For ideological reasons, the Reps in 1964 chose an unelectable candidate in Barry Goldwater. The Dems did the same in 1972 with George McGovern. The fallout was easy to predict. In each case, the more moderate components of the Reps in 1964, and the Dems in 1972 held their noses and voted for the other party's candidate. I suspect that McCain will benefit the same way this year. The exit polls in Pennsylvania suggest that many Dems (about 25%) who voted for Clinton will vote for McCain if Obama becomes the nominee. Race aside, may perceive his politics to be way too leftist and elitist. There will be a backlash. And his connection with Jeremiah Wright will come back to haunt him, as will this canard that he would take the oath of office on the KKKoran rather than the bible. McCain's achille's heel is his support for the fiasco in Iraq. Beating the crap militarily out of those mental eastern morons has never been the issue. That was done and Saddam was captured. Of course, Saddam should never have been attacked to begin with because he had nothing to do with 9/11, but that's a whole other debate. However, as soon as Saddam was captured, all coaltion forces should have been withdrawn, as the mission was accomplished. Occupation has become a quagmire. Our soldiers are trained to fight and beat the shit out of the enemy, not to be occupiers. None of the candidates will come to terms (except perhaps Hillary in a very peripheral way....see below) with what that shitmess in the mental east is all about. It's called a "war on terror". Terrorism is merely a tactic, just as blitzkrieg was a tactic of Hitler's. It would be like calling WW2 a war against blitzkrieg rather than a war against the Nazis. This war is against Islamofascism, but because of a largely gutless and poltiically correct media and the influence and power of mideast petro dollars, our military has not been given the green light to beat the crap out of them. Hillary has acknowledged that if Iran attacks anybody in the gulf region with nukes, that she as President would authorize an overwhelming response by US strategic forces. On that point alone, she has more cajones than the other 2 candidates put togther, but then it is unlikely she will even get the nomination. My point is...if we our going to use our soldiers against those mental east lowlifes, we should give our soldiers the green light to do the soldier's job they are trained for, which is to beat the living crap out of the enemy. Otherwise, they should be brought home. Those mental east morons (sunnis and shias) should be left to kill each other, which they seem to be doing pretty well. I don't see any candidate with that clarity of thought. Trying to use our boys as occupation forces to improve the lives of those mental east morons is like using our boys to train a chimpanzee to fly an F16. In Afghanistan and the mental east, we could build the world's most modern infrastructure, but it would crumble to nothing once they are left alone with it. That is not idle speculation. It can be seen everywhere in Europe where muslims have congregated in large numbers. Everywhere that has happened, they have, within a single generation, turned first world European (like Malmo and the suburbs of Paris) cities into third world shitholes.

LDW comments on Obama vs. McCain

Yes...and not so long ago both Clinton and Obama both held comfortable leads over McCain, and now the polls suggest that he is in a dead heat with both of them....and the campaign between the parties hasn't really even started. But the Dems have a dilemma. Obama is leading (just barely) in delegate count and popular vote over Clinton, but much of his lead is based on smaller states that the Republicans usually win in the presidential race in any case. Clinton trails Obama (just barely), but her votes and delegate count are in the big states, many of which the Dems usually win in presidential elections, and which states must be won by the Dems if they are going to take the White House. So who is more electable? It seems that they are chewing each other up, and McCain is benefitting.

LDW comments on El turismo sexual en Cartagena sigue en auge

I remember a thread in here quite some time ago in which it was mentioned that there would be weekly flights from the UAE to Cartagena. If those flights are happening, one need not be a genious to figure out what those camel humpers are coming over for.

LDW comments on Pros and Cons of Moving to the UK

Every time I have been to the UK, the weather has been so crappy that I say to myself: "No wonder the Brits left home and built an empire elsewhere in the world!!. They had to find a place with liveable weather!!". Having said that, there are other issues. What chances are there of building up a sizeable net worth in Colombia? Some can do it if they are accomplished currency, stock, and bond traders. I suppose there are other (legal) means as well. Colombia seems to be the better place once you have some sort of nest egg built up, and it need not be a huge amount. What I find most distasteful about the UK, and many other parts of Europe, is how many cities in their countries have become shitholes thanks to generous welfare benefits paid to islamic immigrants, who sponge off their adopted countries and make so many parts of some cities there unliveable.

LDW comments on Peanut butter

Kat1.... You can always edit your stuff. I am always making errors when I type.....so I edit.

LDW comments on Anybody watch the 60 minutes interview with Al Gore???

Lesley didn't ask greenboy Al about his own annual power bill? What a surprise!!!

LDW comments on What's so akbar about allah?

And.....as always, there is no debate on whether Wilders' film errs in any way. There are only insults and threats, which of course are the hallmarks for those who cannot defend their position in a civilized way. If Wilders is wrong, it would be easy for Muslims and their dhimmi poltically correct apologists to use islamic scripture to make a documentary to refute his points, but they don't. Threats and insults are the way of islam. Just read the KKKoran. In my mind, the threats against Wilders simply prove that the things he says in his film are true, which, of course, they are. BTW......where are our resident dhimmis and cultural relativists in PBH? I seem to recall that some consider islam to be benign. Can they not refute what Wilders says?

LDW comments on What's so akbar about allah?

Here is a video that I came across on Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuXSnR30oMM Islam is scary and disgusting stuff.

LDW comments on What's so akbar about allah?

A more accurate translation of "fitna" would be "disbelief".

LDW comments on What's so akbar about allah?

There's nothing akbar about allah. Allah supposedly created the world in 6 days, but in 60 years has not been able to help a billion muslims defeat a few million Israeli Jews. I reckon allah is scared of Jews. Really, muslims worship their prophet more than they worship their pimp god allah, because they react more violently to negative comments about their prophet than they do to negative comments about their celestial pimp allah guy. The craven cowardly poltical correctness of Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, and much of the rest of our politically correct western body politic, is sickening. Their basic message is this: "Only muslims have the right to be offended. Their holy books can equate us infidel unbelievers to shit, pigs, and monkeys, and we must remain silent. We are not allowed to dislike anything of theirs. We are not allowed to say that we don't like it. We are not allowed to say why we don't like it. We must be good, silent, obedient, and politically correct dhimmi kufars..............IT IS FORBIDDEN FOR US TO BE OFFENDED BY WHAT THEIR HOLY BOOKS (KKKoran and hadith) SAY ABOUT US" I have an answer to all that poltically correct claptrap. Islamic teachings do advocate violence, rape, and murder. Allah is a bastard.

LDW comments on Texas Oil Maverick Turns Bearish

On the other hand, for natural gas....commercials are net long..... meaning that large buyers of natural gas are hedging their positions. Safest way for small investors to play this is to buy a call option......but even that is risky. The specualtor should be prepared to lose. He (she) should not be betting his last few dollars. Here is the link for natural gas. http://www.nowandfutures.com/images/cot/NG.png

LDW comments on Texas Oil Maverick Turns Bearish

Commitment of traders report is interesting. Commercials are going short, which means producers are hedging their positions... Safest way for small investors to play this is to buy a put option......but even that is risky. The specualtor should be prepared to lose. He (she) should not be betting his last few dollars. Here is the link. http://www.nowandfutures.com/images/cot/CL.png

LDW comments on Pizza here sucks--Colombia has become too expensive!

Travelling through Valle del Cauca, I ran into a little pizza joint in Bolivar. The owners spent several years in Europe, including Italy. What can I say?...well...........it was edible. The fresh pineapple on that thing made it edible. Nothing to wax lyrical about mind you, but.....ok.

LDW comments on How about some beautiful music...post whatever you please

Best group ever............ABBA........"youtube" them Best individual song ever.......AMERICAN PIE by Don McLean.....You can "youtube" that one too.

LDW comments on Bush: Iraq war was worth it "JACKASS! What Planet Is He On?!"

Fidel is no angel either. But here we have an American embargo on Cuba, when at the same time we Americans (most notably the Bush family) are doing business big time with Sodomy Arabia. Now ask yourself.....notwithstanding whatever imperfections we may choose to attribute to Fidel, which country's regime commits the more egregious violations of human rights? Would that be Cuba? Or would that be Sodomy Arabia? The answer to that is a no brainer. We will never find perfection in this world, but we should at least be making some more rational judgments as to who constitutes the greater evil.

LDW comments on White religious leaders really hate America

Gawd.....what a dog's breakfast this whole thing is. I will be able to cast an absentee ballot in November, and as things stand right now, it is a matter of choosing one of the 3 still left that offends me the LEAST. Right now, that would be Hillary. If she does not get the nomination, then I will probably have nobody to vote for.

LDW comments on Bush: Iraq war was worth it "JACKASS! What Planet Is He On?!"

Yes MT.... Thank you for the stats on women there. I was well aware of the deteriorated situation for women since Saddam's ouster there, and your stats pretty much confirm what was my understanding of the situation before Saddam was taken out. Women and non Muslims definitely had it better under Saddam than they do now. To be sure, Saddam was no angel, but it seems pretty clear that he was the least of the evils in the region. His ouster was definitely not worth the life of a single American or Allied soldier, to say nothing of the billions of American tax dollars and the debauched US dollar that has been the financial cost. Saddam was the most secular one of the bunch in that region, and Bush's adventure has actually been a quantum setback to any hope that more regimes in that region might be able to secularize. As I have said before, it is easy to see what a big mistake even the first Gulf War was. We should have let Saddam roll into Sodomy Arabia and take over that fucking place too. He would have been an improvement to the theocratic clusterfuck that shithole Sodomy Arabia is.

LDW comments on White religious leaders really hate America

So John Hagee's shit smells bad..... Does that make Reverend Wright's shit smell good? Shit is shit is shit.

LDW comments on Weather Channel Founder: Sue Al Gore for Fraud

I know one thing for sure. Al Gore's annual power bill makes him a bigger producer of CO2 than I am.

LDW comments on Obama's pastor says "God Damn America".

National Review: (not Obama supporters). Spending 20 years at Trinity United Church of Christ under the leadership of Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. doesn’t tell us everything we need to know about Barack Obama — but it may well tell us enough. And here is Obama supporter Gerald Possner, writing at the Huffington Post: If the parishioners of Trinity United Church were not buzzing about Reverend Wright's post 9/11 comments, then it could only seem to be because those comments were not out of character with what he preached from the pulpit many times before. In that case, I have to wonder if it is really possible for the Obamas to have been parishioners there -- by 9/11 they were there more than a decade -- and not to have known very clearly how radical Wright's views were. If, on the other hand, parishioners were shocked by Wright's vitriol only days after more than 3,000 Americans had been killed by terrorists, they would have talked about it incessantly. Barack -- a sitting Illinois State Senator -- would have been one of the first to hear about it. Can't you imagine the call or conversation? "Barack, you aren't going to believe what Reverend Wright said yesterday at the church. You should be ready with a comment if someone from the press calls you up." But Barack now claims he never heard about any of this until after he began his run for the presidency, in February, 20007. And even if Barack is correct -- and I desperately want to believe him -- then it still does not explain why, when he learned in 2007 of Wright's fringe comments about 9/11 and other subjects, the campaign did not then disassociate itself from the Reverend. Wright was not removed from the campaign's Spiritual Advisory Committee until two days ago, and it appears likely that nothing would have been done had this story not broken nationally. Come on, Barack. I'm backing you because you are not 'one of them.' You have inspired me and millions of others because you are not a typical politician. You tell it like it is, don't fudge the facts, and don't dodge and weave with clever words to avoid uncomfortable truths. Tell it straight. Was Reverend Wright so radical that his post 9/11 comments did not cause a stir at the Church, and you never learned about them until 2007, nearly 6 years later? Why, when you did learn about them, did you not ask Revered Wright to step down from his role in your campaign? Give us the plain truth. You won't lose us by being brutally honest. You only risk shaking our faith in you if you seem like so many other politicians that crowd the field.

LDW comments on Gold drops $60 to $942!!!

I remember 1979/80 when people were lining up around city blocks to buy gold at $700 per ounce. Then the price of gold cratered. I remember Nelson Bunker Hunt tried to corner the silver market in 1980 at $50 per ounce. Then the price of silver cratered. More of us (me included) should follow Sir John Templeton's advice. He described himself as an "accommodator". When people are anxiously buying, he "accommodates" them by selling. When people are anxiously selling, he "accommodates" them by buying.

LDW comments on Bush: Iraq war was worth it "JACKASS! What Planet Is He On?!"

Well.....I don't dance with joy when those mental east low lifes kill each other. But I certainly do not complain about it either. After all, both sunnis and shias hate our guts too. But as long as they hate each other more than they hate us, I am OK with that.

LDW comments on CREDIT CRISIS HITS WALL STREET / WSJ, March 18, 2008

Maybe it was Neil Bush. I can't remember, but it would not surprise me.

LDW comments on Obama's pastor says "God Damn America".

I have not seen anything in any revised poll numbers that would suggest that his support is waning. Perhaps it is too early to judge. It will be interesting to see how the Pennsylvania primary will unfold. I think Hillary was already favored to win that one anyway (she has dominated most of the bigger states). It will be interesting to see if Obama's remarks will result in a more one-sided win for Hillary there. My guess is that Hillary will remain silent about Obama's connection to his preacher, because Hillary has enough dirty linen of her own going back to some questionable financial transactions (involving cattle futures) during Bill's days as Arkansas governor. Furthermore, she is most likely hoping that the press will do her dirty work for her. It is true that Obama cannot control what other people say, but he nevertheless chose to remain close personally with somebody who has preached hatred, somebody that he has acknowledged to have played an important role in his life by having brought him to Christianity. I do not find it at all plausible that Obama knew nothing about those controversial statements. Those two men have been too close personally for too long a time for Obama not to have known. There have been press reports about this before the story broke. I have been receiving emails personally from Obama opponents (mostly from Jews that I know who live in Israel, but who are also American citizens) since last year that have talked about Pastor Wright's anti-semitism. So Pastor's Wright's reputation has been known for some time by those who have taken the trouble to find out. I think Obama is lying, which explains, in my mind, his very half-hearted attempt to distance himself from Pastor Wright's remarks, inasmuch as he would not distance himself from Pastor Wright himself. Obama was "not there" during those controversial sermons? Deep down, Obama must be wondering whether there was someone else at one of those sermons who might speak up to indicate that Obama was actually there. What excuse will he plead then? Bad memory?

LDW comments on Bush: Iraq war was worth it "JACKASS! What Planet Is He On?!"

Those sunni and shia arab camel humpers hate each other with an unrivaled passion. By comparison, the Red Sox and Yankees are queer for each other.

LDW comments on Bush: Iraq war was worth it "JACKASS! What Planet Is He On?!"

There is at least one bright side to the whole mess. Sunnis and shias are killing each other. The more they fight amongst themselves, the less they are inclined to mess with us. Mind you, Saddam gave us that in the Iran-Iraq war that he started back in 1981. That was not really a war defined by Iran/Iraq national boundaries, as much as it was a sunni-shia war. It's kinda cool when they go at each other's throats. The sunnis and shias hate each other more than they hate the infidels.

LDW comments on CREDIT CRISIS HITS WALL STREET / WSJ, March 18, 2008

Most partners in all the accounting firms mentioned are highly competent people. But that's the trouble with a professional partnerhip. All it takes is for one (or very few) of them to shit the bed in a big way, and it can bring the whole partnership down with them. Many years ago there was a reputable mid-sized accounting firm (Laventhal and Horvath) that was taken down from the Savings & Loan clusterfuck of the late 70's and early 80's. It's not that the entire firm screwed up. It's because the partners were jointly and severally liable, which means one (or a very few) partner(s) could (and did) bring down the entire partnership. Now the big accounting and law firms are organized into limited liability partnerships (LLPs). The idea there is to restrict civil action related to a particular client to the relevant engagement partner only, and not to the entire partnership. Whether or not that is working I cannot say. Arthur Andersen still came tumbling down. They evaporated almost overnight. Anyhow, I think it is fairly common practice amongst partners of such firms to put important family assets into the names of their spouses (or into IBC's...International Business Corporations based either in the Bahamas or the Cayman Islands) so that successful plaintiffs in civil actions cannot get their hands on them. Professional liability insurance is supposed to protect them from that kind of stuff, but I suppose that such insurance is not enough some times.

LDW comments on CREDIT CRISIS HITS WALL STREET / WSJ, March 18, 2008

I have to think that there are some partners at Deloitte & Touche who are not sleeping well these days. Deloitte Touche were the auditors of Bear Stearns, and that audit has recently switched over to Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC). Remember how Enron brought down Arthur Andersen? This Bear Stearns situation looks to be even bigger. Will this bring Deloitte & Touche down next? If it does, that would only leave 3 major accounting firms in the audit game (KMPG, PWC, and Ernst & Young). Before mergers and meltdowns, there were 8 major accounting firms at one point. This would all be very sad, as most people at Deloitte & Touche are highly competent professional people, as were most of the people at Arthur Andersen. Sad how a screw up by one sector of the firm could have brought the whole thing tumbling down.

LDW comments on Fed acts to protect financial system; Where Does This Come To An End?"

Yes.....I am in my 60's. Having been in business for myself for so many years, the process of getting retired has been rather complicated. It is not like just quitting a wage-paying employer. I met my Colombian wife (who is a year older than I am) in Canada after she had already been in Canada for 4 years. We have been together for more than 30 years, and we have 3 grown children, all of whom are thoroughly Canadian in their outlook and in their goals. Their presence here in Canada makes it very unlikely that we will retire in Colombia full time. I would very much like to spend the winters in Armenia and Valle del Cauca................as long as I can continue to exchange my dollar denominated pension down there. My conversational Spanish is quite fluent, so I could handle extended periods down there. Canadian winters I would not miss. I have had a life time of them.

LDW comments on Fed acts to protect financial system; Where Does This Come To An End?"

The result of the Fed's actions over the last number of years, plus disastrous fiscal management at the Federal level, has been to debauch the currency. Canada went through a long period of that syndrome beginning with Trudeau and not ending until Chretien had Paul Martin as a finance minister. The effects of such a situation in the US economy is, and will be, much more far reaching because of its much larger size. In the long run, no economy can do well unless the operative currency represents some reasonable store of value. Without that, the insurance and financial services sector, both of which businesses large and small need, will cease to be effective. Without a stable currency, the effects on businesses are endless: (1) Receivables carried on books for longer periods of time can really hurt a business, even if they are eventually collected. (2) Long-term loan lenders are repaid at a value less than what they loaned at. (3) Insurance coverage for property, plant, and equipment can become ineffective. .....to name a few. I suppose my own actions are, in part at least, a reaction to government policy. I am divesting myself of my business interests (I am at the age where I should be doing that anyhow), although I am finding that the process of getting out of business is in many ways more stressful and time consuming than getting into it or being involved in it on a going concern basis. I use a program called Trade Station, with which I am trading things like bonds, currencies, and day trading stocks like RIMM, and AA. My activities described in the previous paragraph preclude me from doing that full time right now, but when I do it, I make more money than I do from anything else. I must freely admit that those trading activities do not add to the wealth of my society. When I win or lose, it is merely a redistribution of wealth. I am not creating wealth as I was when I was in business. I am just playing a zero sum game and (for the most part) winning at it. In a perverse sort of way, the asinine management of government is helping me do that trading.

LDW comments on Dollar Bears / WSJ, March 18, 2008

The powers that be are faced with a basic choice: (1) Defend the value of the dollar by raising interest rates and restraining the governemnt fiscal mess, which would cause recession/depression almost overnight. (2) Try to keep the economy going by lowering interest rates, printing money to fend off fiscal disaster at the federal level. In other words, inflate our way out of the mess. It seems they are doing the latter. In either case, wealth is lost. But the latter gives enough people the illusion that things have not fallen entirely apart, so they keep chugging along. In the long run, no economy can do well unless the operative currency represents a reasonable store of value. Without that, the banking and insurance components of the economy, both of which are necessary to the business community, will become ineffective.

LDW comments on Fed acts to protect financial system; Where Does This Come To An End?"

Hmmmm,,,,,,,,,,I guess that says it all. I have had a busy day. I didn't have time to look into it all in much detail. I wonder what kind of bonuses were handed out to bear Stearns senior management last year. Better to let them swim in their own shit. I have been in business for myself for many years (which keeps me pretty busy most days). I have had my ups and my downs, but nobody ever bailed out my ass when I had difficulty.

LDW comments on Dollars tough to sell on streets of Amsterdam

Chinese economy is a house of cards: (1) The have to keep accepting dollars for their goods or their manufacturing economy will come to a crashing halt. (2) They are committing demographic hari kari. They have a birth control policy that limits each family to one child. Guess what: they abort most of the girl fetuses because too many of them want boys. Result: they have millions of marriageable age Chinese men for whom there are very few women. When the older generation starts to die off, the Chinese population will implode. The men may start boinking each other in the arse to get their rocks off, but that ain't gonna produce any kids.

LDW comments on Allies of Terrorism

yes Robert Jorge....... Bingo.

LDW comments on Dollars tough to sell on streets of Amsterdam

Maybe we should quit driving and start riding pedal bikes. I think I will move to Calarca in Quindio and get a horse.

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Dodger Dogs...... That guy was running a casino too. Looks to me like he probably owed money to the wrong people. Which reminds me....I always give a little chuckle when I hear stories here from people who want to "retire" in Latin America and then, as they put it, run a little business. I know a Canadian guy who went to Panama with his Canadian wife and kids with exactly that idea. This was a guy who had always carried a lunch box to work for a wage job (nothing derogatory intended by that), and he couldn't even speak Spanish. So....leave a country whose language you speak, but where you have never experienced the rigors of running your own business, and then expect to go to a country whose language and/or customs you don't know and expect to run a business??? Hmmmmm..................Something wrong with that picture. Moral of the story........ Retirement there may be OK, but stay below the radar screen.

LDW comments on Fed acts to protect financial system; Where Does This Come To An End?"

Did I miss something? I didn't see anything about a government bailout having happened. I did see a report about Bear Stearns being gobbled up at a fire sale price (about $2 per share), and about some British investor losing about $1.1 billion of his personal net worth in the meltdown of the stock's value. I have also seen a report about some other angry shareholders. If my information is correct, then I would suggest that the market is imposing its discipline, on the shareholders at least. I would also bet that there are some external auditors who are sweating bullets over this one. However, there is no doubt that there are some CEO's out there who have received some pretty swanky bonuses for some pretty miserable results.....like at Merrill Lynch. The same has happened with some of Canada's larger banks. On the other hand, people who screw up in government seem to have a rosier reward at the end too. Trudeau bankrupted Canada, and his reward was an even bigger pension for himself. Looks to me like some elements in Corporate America and Canada have a few things in common with those in government.

LDW comments on Dollars tough to sell on streets of Amsterdam

Big difference between this coming depression and the one of the 1930's. In the 1930's, the dollar was king everywhere, inside and outside the United States. This time we have a depression denominated in a currency others will not want.

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Dodger Dogs...... I have heard about those agencies.....I have seen them on Youtube. What happened to to the one you are talking about? What were they doing that pissed the wrong people off? Note......I am not, and never have been, a potential client of theirs.

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Most of us have heard about this limpieza social before. It was going on in Cali for some time. It is ugly, but no matter how much we disapprove, I doubt that outsiders like most of us are will make much of a difference one way or the other. None of us as individuals can change the world, as a whole, although our individual behavior can have some effect on our immediate surroundings. Best thing for outsiders? Don't patronize the putaderos. It seems that some Colombians don't like foreigners' use of putas, so........don't contribute to the problem. Beyond that, let the Colombian police deal with it. That is there job. I am an old guy. I just want my fresh coffee, fresh oranges and pineapple, and my 18 holes of golf.

LDW comments on Fed acts to protect financial system; Where Does This Come To An End?"

There is still a lot of uncertainty out there. My guess is that there is more blood letting to come.

LDW comments on Peanut butter

I love peanut butter, but it makes me fart like hell. Peanut butter is not known through much of the world. I believe the peanut is indigenous to North America. I know a German guy who came to this country in 1953. He spoke no English when he arrived. The German word for butter is the same as English. When on the train he asked for what he thought was butter, and it turned out to be brown, he first thought somebody had shat in it or that it had gone bad, until he tasted it.

LDW comments on Fed acts to protect financial system; Where Does This Come To An End?"

Fed's action is kinda like closing the barn door after the horse has already left. I do not recall the Fed ever taking any sort of action like this on a weekend. I remember Nixon abandonning the Bretton Woods Fixed Exchange Rate system on a weekend (in 1971), but I do not recall the Fed doing something like they did yesterday when world financial markets are closed. Hedge fund traders love markets like this. Some individuals are doing very well too. I know one individual trader who has been averaging more than $10,000 per day shorting index futures. I am not quite that adventurous, but I am sitting on the sidelnes with cash waiting for an opportunity to buy some Canadian bank stocks. They are still cratering, so I am not buying yet.

LDW comments on President Barack Hussein Obama

I think Spanish is the official language in Florida. Last time I was in the Miami airport, I went to buy some food, and the attendant's English was so weak that it was more convenient for me to speak Spanish with her.

LDW comments on Are You Tiring of Your User Name?

Who the hell is dwr? I don't remember seeing that one....or dw either.

LDW comments on President Barack Hussein Obama

Lcacique.....quote......"And how can we continue to let such a threat to to our language and our way of life happen in our own backyard?" Are you referring to the Spanish language in the United States? hehehehe Well...yeah...you are right. Not much of value comes from here. Bell did invent the telephone here, and Banting discovered insulin, and there are a few others. But you are essentially right. Political correctness and multiculturalism has esentially made our people and body politic a bunch of gutless wankers. Actually, the people who are least inclined that way in this country are the French in Quebec. In Canada they attempt to brainwash us into thinking we have the best of three worlds here: (1) French culture (2) American technology (3) British Government What we have really is: (1) American culture (2) British technology (3) French Government

LDW comments on Are You Tiring of Your User Name?

I have thought about changing my user name, but I reckon my writing style, my cynicism about all things political and religious, and my wish to spend retirement playing golf in Armenia would give me away instantly.

LDW comments on President Barack Hussein Obama

Lcacique.............You and I do not always see eye to eye........but you are bang on on that one. I could not agree with your more. As I have said elsewhere in this forum......Europeans left to their own devices have been shitting in their own bed ad infinitum. Look the the European civil wars of the last century: (1) World War 1 was a slaughterhouse and a stalemate until outsiders (the United States primarily) came in and finished the fucking thing for them. There were also many troops from India, South Africa, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, who for the most part were there because of their colonial ties to the UK, but nevertheless could be classified as outsiders. (2) World War 2 was also finished by outsiders who initially wanted no part of that fracas. The Soviet Union wanted no part of it, but had to participate because Hitler attacked them. The United States stayed out of it until late 1941, and Roosevelt would not even have had the political mandate to participate in it after Pearl Harbor if Hitler had not been so fucking stupid to declare war first (4 days after Pearl Harbor.....Roosevelt's speech of December 8 did not mention a single word about Germany). The last 2 powers to enter the war were the ones whose inputs to the conflict were most essential to end it. (3) American economic power saved western Europe after WW2 (aka the Marshall Plan). American military power (aka the American taxpayer) saved Europe from being overrun by communism during the Cold War. So what have Europeans done before and since the Berlin wall came down?: (1) They have committed demographic hari kari. They have aborted and birth-controlled themselves to the point where their birth rate is below replacement level. They are doing a better job of doing in their own population than any muslim invader has ever done to any land the Arabs have invaded throughout their history of conquest. (2) They have opened their doors wide to a population whose basic outlook on life is fundamentally hostile to a secular way of life, which population breeds like bacteria. The muslims don't even need modern weapons to achieve their goals. They just need to keep breeding. In short, Europe has willingly imported the seeds of the next European civil war. The only question in my mind is whether an old fogey like me will live long enough to see it happen. (1) 5 million muslims in France. Even the Nazis did not have that many occupation troops in France. (2) 2 million muslims in the UK. If Hitler had successfully forced the English Channel, even the Nazis would not have had that many ocuupation troops there. (3) How many millions of Turkish muslims in Germany? I bet lots of Germans would prefer to have the Jews back. (4) Muslims representing 80% of the convicted rapists in Scandinavia. I guess the Swedes realize that a smug professional neutrality is not so profitable in this case. So....the question is.......do the Europeans expect Canadian, American, and Russian boys to come in from the outside and launder their shit-infested bed linen again??

LDW comments on President Barack Hussein Obama

There are ethnic enclaves throughout North America....and in also in places like Buenos Aires for that matter. The varying extent to which these groups assimiliate is a matter for debate. But what is unique about islamic immigration is that it is against the teaching of their religion to assimiliate. It is a fundamental tenet of their religion (it's in the KKKoran in verse 9:29) that non believers are to be subservient to them, and that non believers must feel subjected and be humiliated by them. That is all spelled out in black and white in their holy book. So it is no accident that we see little or no assimiliation in Europe by islamics, but our poltically correct media, of course, always blames the new host country. Europeans must feel that what they thought were merely their houseguests have actually taken possession of their homes................which reminds me: Pym Fortun (spelling??) was a Dutch politician who was murdered for uttering such sentiments.