Though I imagine most of you have plans far more important than commenting here, this thread is for those who still want to connect with our community over this holiday weekend.
UPDATE: Zuzu says hi.
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$11K cash in acct last night. 🙂
$144,374.00 check in acct today 🙂 🙂 🙂
buying at the Bees tonight.
and $20.00 subs tomorrow.
Where is my $164. tax savings???
Merry Christmas to all – I hope your holidays are filled with friends and family. Let’s be sure that 2012 is the year that we rid of ourselves of this juvenile liberal agenda, and get back on the road to fiscal responsibility and free market capitalism, where everyone has the opportunity to succeed, and are not made victims by democrats because of who they are, or what color of skin they happen to have.
Amen!
A-aaa men
Merry CHRISTMAS,
Boise State rocks J.R.!!!! Great win last night but we should have been in a BCS game!
Cluster,
I think coach Peterson nailed it when he said a couple weeks ago that everyone is just really tired of the BCS system. One missed field goal in the TCU game as time expired was all that stood between the Broncos and an automatic BCS bid. And you’re right; they clobbered ASU, but 6-6 vs. 11-1? Give me a break.
Dollar Value Against the CPI – From 1776 to 1912 (136 years and remember the Federal Reserve came into being in 1913) the value of the USD relative to the CPI (Consumer Price Index) increased by 11%. The dollar got stronger. A wheel for a wagon in 1912 cost 11% less than it cost in 1776. Imagine that. Foreign to us in this day and age. Thomas Jefferson paid roughly the same for a loaf of bread as did Abraham Lincoln and as did J.P. Morgan; well as time rolled on they paid a little less. Imagine that.
Along Comes the Federal Reserve Bank – Their purpose was to stabilize prices, well they said that anyway. From 1913 to 2008 the value of the dollar decreased by 95%. A dollar could buy 95% fewer goods in 2008 than in 1913. Today you would need to pay 20 times more the same loaf of bread.
The Federal Reserve needs to be declared to be a scam similar to the ones the SEC, FTC, FBI, Justice department and the Attorney Generals prosecute daily. Their assets need to be confiscated. They need prison time. The debts to the Fed need to be null and void. The banks will then collapse so the USA could do what the USSR did and that was just grant the deeds to the occupants for their houses since Fannie and Freddy will be dead too. Heck you paid to keep this Fed monster going, you deserve something back.
The systematic inflation purposely created by the Federal Reserve silently robs the average American of their standard of living. The government began keeping official track of inflation in 1913, the year the Federal Reserve was created. The consumer price index (CPI) on January 1, 1914 was 10.0. The CPI on January 1, 2009 was 211.1. This means that a man’s suit that cost $10 in 1913 would cost $211 today, a 2,111 percent increase in 96 years. This is a 95 percent loss in purchasing power of the dollar.
The average American might just conclude that prices always go up, so what’s the big deal about inflation. This is where the Federal Reserve and politicians have pulled the wool over your eyes. The CPI was 30.9 in 1964. Today, it is 211.1. This means that prices have risen 683 percent since 1964. The only problem is that your wages have not risen at the same rate, even using the government manipulated CPI. Using a true CPI figure, average weekly earnings are 64 percent below what they were in 1964. This explains why a family of five could live well with one parent working in 1964, but even with both parents working and using debt in prodigious amounts, the average family does not live as well today.
The systematic inflation purposely created by the Federal Reserve silently robs the average American of their standard of living. The government began keeping official track of inflation in 1913, the year the Federal Reserve was created. The consumer price index (CPI) on January 1, 1914 was 10.0. The CPI on January 1, 2009 was 211.1. This means that a man’s suit that cost $10 in 1913 would cost $211 today, a 2,111 percent increase in 96 years. This is a 95 percent loss in purchasing power of the dollar.
The average American might just conclude that prices always go up, so what’s the big deal about inflation. This is where the Federal Reserve and politicians have pulled the wool over your eyes. The CPI was 30.9 in 1964. Today, it is 211.1. This means that prices have risen 683 percent since 1964. The only problem is that your wages have not risen at the same rate, even using the government manipulated CPI. Using a true CPI figure, average weekly earnings are 64 percent below what they were in 1964. This explains why a family of five could live well with one parent working in 1964, but even with both parents working and using debt in prodigious amounts, the average family does not live as well today.
Inflation is CREATED BY the Federal Reserve…print all that money and its worth less…and lesss…and lessss…every time.
This means that a man’s suit that cost $10 in 1913 would cost $211 today, a 2,111 percent increase in 96 years.
And not only that, it would be, like, totally out of style.
Looks like Perry bit the dust in Virginia. Mitt, Paul, and maybe Newt still on ballot.
Newt bit the dust in Virginia as well. Virginians now only have two choices. One that half the party or abouts find unacceptable and one that 90% of the party finds unacceptable.
Everyone have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all that venture here. Happy Holidays to those of you that choose that greeting instead. Happy Chanukah to our Jewish Friends. Happy Nothingness to any Atheists out there. Happy/Merry for those I missed.
I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas!! I hope you get lots of nice things under your tree!! Please remember the true reason for the season, that being the birth of mankind’s Savior, Jesus Christ, the greatest gift of all!!!
Want to wish everyone a Happy New Year, I hope the coming New Year brings you your heart’s desires!!!
God bless all!!!
I have a question for our resident liberals – if it is ok for unions to require photo ID to vote, why is not ok for photo ID to be required in more important elections?
http://biggovernment.com/mikeflynn/2011/12/13/union-disenfranchises-workers-in-contract-vote/
I am getting a special gift, and picking up my dogs from an emergency care clinic, where they have been since Wednesday. Bored, waiting in the car while I closed on part of my ranch, they dug through my overnight bag and came up with a nearly full bottle of Rimadyl, the pain and inflammation medicine for the older dog. I found the bottle with the top chewed off, and when I counted pills I found 18 missing. No way to know which dog ate how many, so off to emergency care they went, to go on a treatment protocol to flush kidneys and protect the digestive systems from the toxic overdose that might have occurred. But blood tests are good and we are past the danger point, so my Christmas gift is going to be having my buddies back with me.
God’s blessings on all and I hope your Christmas is full of spiritual joy as well as the trappings of the holiday.
we are “baby” sitting our sons 2 yo 90 lb boxer for a week, fun times…..LOL
meanwhile back in wright and Ochimpys AmeriKa
happy kwanzaa
Women trade punches over Air Jordans…
Pandemonium as shoppers race for shoes…
Cops pepper spray mob…
Brawl…
Gunfire…
They Can’t Wait, They Break Into The Mall…
SEASON’S BEATINGS!
More Christmas JEER from the left
Sticky Fingers: Billions of Dollars Worth of Merchandise Will Be Shoplifted This Christmas
Happy Holidays from Ed Schultz: Tea Party Republicans Are Like ‘Sewer Rats’
spook
interesting
http://blog.american.com/2011/12/the-7-most-illuminating-economic-charts-of-2011/
Fox News commentator calls Obama a ‘skinny, ghetto crackhead’ on air
Daily Mail UK ^ | Dec.23, 2011 | Meghan Keneally
I agree
shoot…oblunder will pay to get all these rino’s on the ballot…dilute the opposition and he can win with 1/3 of the popular vote
Newt can’t meet the very easy and simple ballot requirements in Virginia. This guy is a pathetic loser.
Moderator’s note: Bah, humbug, Kurt.
And Merry Christmas to you, too. Thank you so much for sharing what brings you joy this Christmas season.
Is it time to “troll” the ancient yuletide carol?
Why yes it is 🙂
Merry Christmas to all the posters on B4V! One of my favorite parts of Christmas is Charlie Brown Christmas and caroling.
And the angel said unto them, Fear not, for behold, I bring unto you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you this day is born in the City of Bethlehem, a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; you shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel, a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on Earth peace, good will toward men'”. That’s what Christmas is all about, Charlie brown
In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking, “Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage.” When King Herod heard this, he was frightened, and all Jerusalem with him; and calling together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Messiah was to be born. They told him, “In Bethlehem of Judea; for so it has been written by the prophet: ‘And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a ruler who is to shepherd my people Israel.'” Then Herod secretly called for the wise men and learned from them the exact time when the star had appeared. Then he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, “Go and search diligently for the child; and when you have found him, bring me word so that I may also go and pay him homage.” When they had heard the king, they set out; and there, ahead of them, went the star that they had seen at its rising, until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw that the star had stopped, they were overwhelmed with joy. On entering the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother; and they knelt down and paid him homage. Then, opening their treasure chests, they offered him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they left for their own country by another path.
Merry Christmas everyone.
“Today Christmas has become a commercial celebration, whose bright lights hide the mystery of God’s humility, which in turn calls us to humility and simplicity,”
A glorious, happy Christmas Morning everybody.
To all you people, Merry Christmas.
To Zuzu, arf, ruff, good dog.
NeoClown said, “waspstooge…”
Merry Christmas to you, too, Clown.
waspstooge
you seem to have mixed up with your “buddy” blowzo.
Me
Hey guess what, Neo….my goldfish laid eggs on the sides of the tank!!! I can’t believe it!!!
You reckon they’ll survive?
I woke up this morning, and there’s about 50 eggs stuck to the side of the glass and part of the filter tube!!!
we had four survive in our pond 2 years ago, they are still there.
Hey, that’s great, Neo!!
I think it’d be awesome if these little critters hatch out and make it through without gettin’ eaten!!! Be interesting to watch … it’s just fascinating looking at the eggs how they’re attached to the sides of the glass, and you can see the little white part inside of the eggs. What is that, the “yolk” they call it?
I’ve filled the pond with Goldfish, snacks for the turtle. They often lay eggs, mostly unfertilized so they end up more turtle-snack.
Once (and if) they grow larger than the turtle’s head they co-exist with the turtle. They grow to about 6″ and resemble Koi. A poor man’s Koi pond.
IIRC, the yolk is food for the infant, the embryo grows around the yolk. But high school biology was a long time ago.
On the farm we used to put goldfish in the stock tanks to clean up the algae, and they seemed to grow according to the size of the tank. Bigger pond—bigger fish.
Cool!!!
I know they are very messy fish … they poop a lot.