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  1. Gaius Paulinus Maximus

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    Mostly just working with my hands, some are from me being stupid. One time I tried to divide a somewhat frozen pound of ground beef into two 1/2 pound pieces in order to avoid thawing the whole thing. Well, I was slowly forcing a large kitchen knife through it when the whole thing slipped away from me and I chopped the knife into the end of my left middle finger, down to the bone. I have a thin, straight line through my fingerprint where the epidermal ridges no longer line up. I can't say that it didn't hurt.

     

    I don't have any on my face, but I've had my nose broken. :ph34r:

  5. M. Porcius Cato

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    Absolutely.

     

    "Bankers own the earth; take it away from them but leave them with the power to create credit, and, with a flick of the pen, they will create enough money to buy it all back again. Take this power away from them and all great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for then this world would be a happier and better world to live in. But if you want to be slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let the bankers control money and control credit."

    Josiah Stamp

     

    "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."

    Thomas Jefferson

     

    "A great industrial nation is controlled by it's system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the world--no longer a government of free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men."

    Woodrow Wilson

     

    "In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. ... This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard."

    Alan Greenspan

     

    I would never advocate a fiat monetary system, because it will always be used for its capability to extract wealth and control. Why do you think the system was implemented right before the first World War? Why do you think the dollar is dropping against other currencies? What do you think is happening in the Middle East? We are trying to prop up the dollar with the commodity of oil, because the dollar is becoming worthless. If the dollar becomes worthless, then what happens?

  6. M. Porcius Cato

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    Fiat money...

    I doubt if a modern economy could exist without fiat money.

    You are absolutely right, and that is the THE problem. Actually, I should say modern war-driven economies.

    The transaction amounts are much too great.

    If a nation has a fixed currency standard and a certain amount of wealth, then all other amounts are relative to that... until you want to force a debt based monetary system in order to sped more money than is available.

    When the Spanish introduced New World gold to Europe, there was a great inflation!

    Of course. The supply of the actual commodity which has intrinsic value had increased. Paper money has no intrinsic value, whoever controls the supply has the ability to do what the Spanish did, but all that is involved is the allocation of credit, WITH INTEREST. The only limit they have is the point at which they have sucked out all the value that the original gold currency contained.

  13. docoflove1974

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    Heheh, mine prefers electronic cords over foliage - guitar cables, headphones, power cords, speaker wires... the more expensive, the more irresistible. Sometimes it sneaks into my computer room and when I see it run out like a guilty little snake, my heart skips a beat and I can just imagine that it has ruined my graphics tablet or something. Once it used a small stack of 80 year old books as a launching pad, half the books flew off the end of the table and snapped their thin hardcovers. I'm still bitter about that.

  16. docoflove1974

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    I love olives, especially Kalamata. Cucumber, feta, and Kalamatas are soooo good together. Ohhhh man, I'm really hungry now.

     

    My cat really likes to smell stuff with out eating it. If I go out to eat, when I get back it will practically fight its way to my face to try and smell my breath. :) Sometimes I catch it sniffing something intently, and when it looks up it's mouth is gaping open like a dunce and I can see all of its tiny little Chicklet teeth.

     

    Anyways, what is it about olives? I don't know, the taste is like nothing else and it really hits a certain savory spot.

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