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Perfect illustration of my point! And the 5-justice majority that decided the case was Kennedy, Roberts, Thomas, Scalia and Roberts, each of whom were appointed by Republican presidents. Of the 4-justice minority, only Justice Stevens was appointed by a Republican, that was President Gerald Ford, who was not an ideologue, back in 1975, when appointing moderates to the SCOTUS was a lot more commonplace. Regardless of how one feels about the Citizens United decision, I guarantee you, had there been one more justice on the court that had been appointed by a Democrat, the decision would have gone the other way. And yet everyone keeps on repeating the same tired, old cliche. Whatever; I've made my point, and I've backed them up with plenty of details. yah and as i said, after that nothing matters any more! Yeah vote all you want scream all you want....like that makes any changes! HA! We are F-U-C-K-E-D! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Look hate to say it but other than the war in iraq...yeah this falls right on baby bush's feet. Remember who was president when the companies got more rights than you? YEAH....don't spin shit with me. I'm not one of those spineless gutless jellocrats. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Amen brother! And the MOMENT the supreme court gave companies the same legal rights as citizens.....we fucked ourselves HARD! Now I hate to say it since it will start a shit storm but we really only don have one dumb ass to thank for this! Good old baby bush! And then our rudderless leader Obama failed to fix it quick and now...well kiss your future good bye! Really! I know you are not going to believe me since we as Americans are very optimistic but watch more and more people will no longer be hired full time. Expect a vast number of the population to be hired at 1099 contractors. The company exists for the in betterment of the company not the in betterment of its employees. As such they now wield more power than any political organization or party. Long and short of it we are FUCKED! So why give a rats ass about who gets elected. Neither party wants to change things and neither party has the ability to change things. And do you know what it takes to repeal a law once it's passed! I have a better chance of seeing Jesus bring pork chops to Mohameds BBQ than seeing companies rights reduced! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Look hate to say it but thanks to little baby bush as it stands companies have more control over you lives than ever before. Be it your health to your ability to find and maintain a job. As it stands now the top 100 of the fortune 500 companies have more liquidity than all of the EU it is estimated that on any given day the 500 have more liquidity than the US. And before you scream "well we will just take their money!" you can't and even if you could they could at a blink of an eye just shoot it from one country to the next. And job creation! HA HA! Oh you poor pathetic soul! You think 9-5 jobs will be around in the next 5-10 years! Odds are a good portion of the population will be 1099ed and be living paycheck to paycheck as independent contractors! Oh you wanted to retire? You wanted a savings? You wanted.....a quality of life! Well I'm sorry.....the company doesn't think you deserve one. Look sit around and kick the horse shit all you want and call each other names and spin like you have never spun before.....but don't be a dumb ass, things are not going to change. Pandoras box is now open, companies now have the same unalienable rights as any one of us and as such....they have the right to vote and shape the political landscape. And unlike you and I they for a lack of a better word have infinite funds to spend. So stop pushing your blood pressure up for no apparent reason, not like your health insurance would cover any of your major illnesses. Just know full well that the future is not in your hands. And thanks to little baby bush......it will never ever be back in your hands. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

A question for the old timers.....why were titties so much more perky then? Girls now seem to fall faster unless there is an upgrade? Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Actually, thats very close to what we do. Physicals, feed them, extra food ect. . . Standard procedure. Now the aircraft carrier thing. They would have to get them on the carrier first. But since it was the USS Ross that did the boarding and rescue, Im sure they are there. Hell no we make a huge fracking gesture! Rebuild their boat slap on some new american made motors give all the guys new clothes clean the thing up take lots of pictures tow it in to port at the back of a fully armed aircraft carrier with the banner reading "People of Persia, we respect you" In fine print under that "You camel fucking arab mullahs we are so going to fuck you the fuck up!"

Thanks a bunch guys! Maybe things this stupid should be a sticky? Where to buy rubber bands, where to buy packing tools and all the other little things? Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

http://www.freeweb.hu/playmate/html/7701.html God she is fraking hot as hell! No wonder i have this small addiction to good looking blond girls! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

WOW! That is all i can say WOW! http://favim.com/orig/201109/03/barney-stinson-himym-how-i-met-your-mother-legendary-milk-Favim.com-136618.jpg Oh and 1-1977 was a great month! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

And you know this because the degree you obtained in those two weeks you spent in China, right? It was my second time in China my first in Nam. My EMBA was 22 months nonstop with a thesis ending. I've been all over the world but never truly got an in depth view of China until this past trip. And I hate to tell you......they got us by the balls because we gave them our balls. Think for a second, you want to invest to make back lots of cash....where would you build a factory? Here in the US or in SEA? And seeing these mega factories.....and the thousands upon thousands people working like little ants producing products working for $5 a day sometimes. And engineers and QA guys working for not much more than $30k a year. You think you or any of us here in the US or the EU stand a chance? Math Science and Technology are universal, it's all about who will work with them to produce a product and charge the least for their talents. And don't think banking and finance jobs are any safer! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

They should make them wear shiny suits when they give them back Yeah like after 444 days. Ah...what if they ask for green cards after 300 days? I say send make a huge gesture with them standing on the bow of the aircraft carrier, fix up their boat, a full physical, a full belly, some new clothes and a big hug as they leave the ship. Then tell the Revolutionary Guard, "You assholes...we like the Persian people but you fucks we want to and will fuck up good!" Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

How many Chinese come to the US to get their degrees in math science and engineering. And how many go back home! I visited some very nice very well funded universities while in China who are sadly better than what we have here in the US. Soon US schools will become the "over flow" rather the prime choice! Have you ever been to China? If not take a visit. It's different. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Rubber bands...and other stuff... Every freaking year this time I ask someone posts and I forget to order and then rely on friends to hand me a bag of rubber bands. Where the heck do I order them from again! Sigh...i know search but IT guys have killed our ability to search on web pages...no clue why! Thanks! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Visiting China was like getting in a time machine and going back to the start of the industrial revolution in the US and Europe. Safety? What Safety! Pay? Just enough to shut people up! And the air quality was.....horrible! In my days there I never saw the sun. It was amazing how dirty the sky was. Would I live and work there? For the right money sure why not! But you better pay me well! It is a hellhole which is a great place to make a shit load of money if you are an investor! There is no way on gods green earth the US or EU will ever join China at the bottom of the barrel like that. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

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When I was there it was a mess. It was just a total mess. But it worked. At least in the city you could see the middle class folks walking around and getting dinner and shopping. Outside of the city...nope it's a mess! Nothing grows everything is dead and any and all water ways are filled with sludge! I asked one of the people who was guiding us through an woman's undergarment facility the question of how long do these migrant workers work here....and the answer he gave me was a little cold.....as long as they can. They no longer go back. They work until they can't work no more. The factory town just eats up any and all money they make. I never got a chance to go to the country side but from what I hear it's deserted for a lack of a better word. Old folks trying to plow fields and watching little kids who's parents are working. Bad for China, bad for the US middle class.......GREAT for any investor! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Why isn't this in the US news? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16447862 The US Navy has rescued 13 Iranian fishermen being held by pirates in the Arabian Sea, the Pentagon says. The 13 were rescued on Thursday after a distress call was received from an Iranian fishing vessel which had been boarded by pirates over a month ago. Fifteen suspected pirates were detained and are being held by the US Navy. The rescue comes days after Iranian officials warned the US to keep the carrier group involved in the operation out of the Gulf. ........................................................................... Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Shitty Shitty Shenzen ..... god what a POS town! Spent 5 days there. Did not see a single live bird in the sky! I was there in January and still the works still have nothing but all their investments came from the west. However within the city there was a "viable" middle class of professionals who though they only make in the low $30k's still can afford a "comfortable" life. And the various lectures and presentations my team viewed there was significant discussion regarding the notion that more profits can be had by diverting a good amount of the exports to the local markets, lowering the price of the good but making up the margin via economies of scale to meet investor expectations of continued double digit returns on their investments. 14 days in China and 7 in Nam....and it became evident, the gig is up. Over the next decade expect either the middle class to die off or some massive deflation to occur to make the US and EU's middle class viable. While you were there did you see the accounting houses? AMAZING! High rises of people just accountant...number crunching for the American and European firms! And the vast coding and troubleshooting facilities.... For the price of ONE US employee you can hire up to 5 Chinese. professionals. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Finding time and money....to skydive! Diffiuclt....wow....let me see....packing....not that hard really! I mean it's just some folds and what not stuffed into a lunch box. the flying thing is rather easy, look left go left look right go right. pull left go left pull right go right. and don't worry about pulling anything there is this thing called an AAD that will do all that work for you. And landings....sure they are hard to figure out....but you stick a few computers in your lid and tehy will beep and buzz and tell you what to do. Not hard at all!

1) reduce the corporate income tax rate from 35 to 25 percent and oh that's nice! permanently repeal the 0.9 percent tax on wages and the 3.8 percent tax on investment income of high-income individual taxpayers oh yeah.... So trickel on economics....didn't Regan try that and it went FUBAR? Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Southern_Man I would love to agree, but I was in China and Vietnam last year. I would say everyone in China had a minimum of one cell phone and one Ipod on their hand at any given time. The retail outlets were doing exceptional business and the number of new cars on the road was just amazing! With recent improvements in production methods with lean engineering and design you can sell lots and lots of products and though your margin per product sold is small your overall profit margin will be sufficient to selling few products at a high price and low cost to the middle class of the EU and the US. I recall walking the Apple Ipod assembly line...impressive.....and picking up hints as to how much the thing really costs...try $30 in material and labor costs. With cheap enough labor and cheap enough lean production....vast numbers of people suddenly qualify at a middle class market for you can now sell them a product at a low cost and still make good money. I don't know...the more I look at it the more I see the spiral just getting steeper and steeper. Why make anything in the US or the EU? Why hire anyone in the US or the EU? We have financed almost a decade and a half on credit and well credit has just ran out. And as an investor...why invest in the US or the EU? You can invest in a less regulated environment where human life and limb are not cared about and where workers live, work and die in factory towns much as they did in the US back in the "good old days". And we think a change in leadership is going to save us from the facts of life that are economics and finance? HA! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

guys cut out the spin, or provide an answer. So.....Does the US / EU middle class really matter anymore to the investor class? The more and more I think about it...the more and more I see the answer as being a solid NO. An investor can and will invest in SEA and even when the US and EU middle classes can no longer consume products made in SEA, due to ever increasing efficiencies the ever growing middle class in SEA will more than make up for the lost consumption of the middle class in the EU and US. The only way to really correct this is to either increase the working wage in SEA....not happening...or drastically cut the medium pay in the US and EU....deflation....not happening. Thoughts? Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Such a beautiful sermon about such a titaticular subject! If I ever hit the lotto and start my own religion, The Church of ShahDo. I as Grand Pope, GP for those in the know, nominate popsjumper as First Mullah of B(.)(.)BIES! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

It was a wild ass guess from the conversations I've had with my friends who work for Chase on Wall Street. They indicated a solid 20% growth if the investor had major investments in SEA production facilities. So......why are you....defending the 1%? If you are part of the top 1% great. If not why? The reason I ask is this, if I had a few million to throw down on investments...I assure you that i would not invest in the US and if I did I would make sure any and all jobs were moved overseas. Be it production or engineering. And before you get your panties in a twist about pushing high end tech jobs out of the US, ask yourself one important question. Is math science and engineering any different here than it is in China? If no then why should a US engineer get paid as much as a Chinese engineer who works for well under $30k a year. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

So who is ready for a 70% pay cut? Shit the country is ready to kill the rich becasue their homes lost 30%-40% of it's value while the investor class's value has shot up 30% - 40%! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!