tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post4245445129066988369..comments2023-10-30T09:23:42.803-05:00Comments on Some Assembly Required: SAr #13094Charles Kingsley Michaelson, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04364694465614330540noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-53439264474619155482013-04-04T12:10:01.786-05:002013-04-04T12:10:01.786-05:00What Goes Around- The markets no longer care about...What Goes Around- The markets no longer care about things like corporate fundamentals or macroeconmics. The only thing that matters any longer is how much freshly printed money the Fed will dump into them and how many 401(k) mutual funds will be left holding the bag when they stop. HShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00297340044154436927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-59580266306607982972013-04-04T10:52:02.728-05:002013-04-04T10:52:02.728-05:00legislators in north carolina are living in a drea...legislators in north carolina are living in a dream (nightmare) and clearly are historically illiterate<br /><br />the 14th amendment to the constitution extended protection of the rights in the first ten amendments ( the bill of rights) to the states whenever and where ever such rights pertain to life liberty an the pursuit of happiness.<br /><br />clearly north carolinas intention to deprive its citizens of the protections afforded by the first amendment is bigotry and is unconstitutional<br /><br />mock turtleAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-89469898314680682672013-04-04T10:09:04.554-05:002013-04-04T10:09:04.554-05:00Exxon's cynicism gives the 'Peak Oil Produ...Exxon's cynicism gives the 'Peak Oil Production' theory the boost it needed. By dumping 'oil liquids' in with conventional oil, the industry and its acolytes have used those amounts to declare peak oil dead (http://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-04-04/the-death-of-peak-oil), yet by insisting that these derivative products and their source are not, in fact, oil, Exxon proves that the theory is in fact dead, but for the inconvenient reason that it is no longer a theory, but a FACT.Robertlowrey.blogspot.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14929839643254994477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-13076847688438287512013-04-04T09:16:03.363-05:002013-04-04T09:16:03.363-05:00mistah charley - again you improve - the "hal...mistah charley - again you improve - the "half" made no sense when I'd already said "all". Fixed that one.<br /><br />The last three lines say better what I was trying to say yesterday in the post about gold being a faith-based currency. Charles Kingsley Michaelson, IIIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04364694465614330540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-69963107169132122512013-04-04T08:25:17.658-05:002013-04-04T08:25:17.658-05:00CKM, you state " What Cyprus makes clear is t...CKM, you state " What Cyprus makes clear is that<b> there is not enough money in the world to bail out all the banks that need bailing out - even if they steal half of all the depositor's money.</b>"<br /><br />Here is one of life's persistent questions for me - if what you state is so - "there is not enough money" - <b>why couldn't there be enough money, very easily</b>? In the days when money consisted of gold or silver coins, it was clear that money obeyed the laws of physics and conservation of mass/energy. But money isn't metal, any more. It's not even printed paper. It's arrangements of electrons, and electrons are very easily and cheaply rearranged. The relationship between these arrangements of electrons and the physical world is intermediated by PSYCHOSOCIAL, not physical, facts. Money is worth something because you can trade it for products or services that other people have control of. Money stops being worth something when people stop accepting it. Money is created and destroyed by social and political processes, not physical ones.mistah charley, ph.d.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-32881500830488984222013-04-04T07:55:20.789-05:002013-04-04T07:55:20.789-05:00About "diluted bitumen" and feathers - P...About "diluted bitumen" and feathers - President Abraham Lincoln was once asked to describe what it was like to be President of the United States during the Civil War. Lincoln’s answer cited the story of a man who was tarred and feathered, then ridden out of town on a rail. When asked how he liked the experience, the man replied, “If it weren’t for the honor of the thing, I’d rather have walked.” <br /><br />He was joking, of course - to some extent.mistah charley, ph.d.noreply@blogger.com