Unless they’re an incredibly bad shot.

Was he a Marine? Reminds me of a story during my “days” of a Marine gate guard that put a pistol to his head, pulled the trigger and blew his nose off.

you mean, like this?: http://clusty.com/search?input-form=clusty-simple&v%3Asources=webplus&query=Barry+Seal+Mena+Arkansas

I never said Anything about ‘direct flights from Columbia’..

or, like this?: http://clusty.com/search?input-form=clusty-simple&v%3Asources=webplus&query=San+Jose+Mercury+News+CIA+Drug+Trafficking

which, of course, has, even, less to do with ‘direct flights from Columbia’..

Mike,

do you me a favor, the next time you want to talk about ‘credibility’, come with a real counterpoint, or two, or ten, not some hackneyed ‘rule of thumb’ from Prole School..
ht tp://ww w.thefreedictionary.com/hackneyed

But, I think Reich’s description makes explicit what most of the populace doesn’t yet get and what El Erian doesn’t really make clear, i.e., that the borrowing/building/frivolous spending scheme is over, not coming back and that there will have to be a fundamental change in the economy. While we may be leaner and healthier in time, it may take years before our politicians and a majority of voters accept that we can’t revive the old model.

In the meantime, there will be plenty of reflation plans from the left and right. I consider the calls for tax cuts the same as those for stimulus plans, it’s just that the recipients are different.

MEH: you’re not doing your credibility here any good. Do you believe in the drug flights from Columbia directly into Arkansas during the 1990’s? There enough money from corrupt businessmen around that they don’t need the drug money.

down at the bottom of this link: http://www.trendsresearch.com/journal.html and

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/05/14/morale

I read the Reich piece…and I gather that he likens recovery to coming back to the exact same spot we were in, not a general uptick in wealth creation, gdp, etc. I think he’s just written this to be fiesty. If the whole thing prior to 2007 was primarily due to low interest rates and unsustainable borrowing, then we don’t need it.

Kind of like someone massively obese that undergoes a gastric bypass. The lard of excess debt is gone, and the patient may be smaller, but he/she has more energy and is much healthier and productive…

see: http://clusty.com/search?input-form=clusty-simple&v%3Asources=webplus&query=CIA+drug+running+funding+Presidential+Elections

a rich, and full, History, of such, to be seen encompassing, both, (D) + (R)-types..

see: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.”
Upton Sinclair
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Upton_Sinclair/

Rupert did you that solid, I was, merely, 2x-checking..

What Does Your Credit-Card Company Know About You?

“Boom, baby!” Santana shouted as he put down the phone. “It’s all about getting inside their heads and understanding what they need to hear,” he told me later. “It really feels great to know I’m helping people in pain.”

…..while you get your commission for taking the guy for an extra $2,000

How is this any different from a doctor going around and breaking people’s legs and then feeling good about giving them a shot and a cast?

Wow! This and the whole article was quite the stomach turning ordeal. You are our debt slaves but we are here to do you a favor and take one of the five chains off your body….ok we’ll take two off. That makes us friends and we are helping you. Like us and what we are doing in order to like yourself. Better yet love it!

I think the debt slavery industry has now crossed the line and become a cult. Cults often psychologically abuse, confuse and mislead people convincing them that they are doing good for them while taking their life savings and worldly goods away. How is the credit card industry any different from a cult now?

“Change you can believe in.” Well yeah, kind of like Willie’s “I fell your pain”.

Now all we need to do is learn how CIA drug smuggling gets funneled into presidential elections.

Most will find that off the wall. Guess again. Right MEH?