Ed Huntress wrote:
"John R. Carroll" wrote in message
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On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 16:21:01 -0800, "Steve B"
wrote:

Las Vegas, Nevada. Federal Building. A Social Security
recipient, upset about a cut in benefits came into the building
with a shotgun under his coat. Before it was all over, a
security guard was dead, a U.S. Marshall was wounded, and the
perp was dead.

Lots of people with no hope living on subsistence levels who
might be dead in six months are going to be wanting to fight
the beast. Especially when they get the letter telling them
that their benefits have been reduced or cancelled.

It's the next thing to receive a PC label. Just to insure that
it doesn't have a derogatory meaning, and therefore the people
involved don't feel bad
about themselves.

Steve

RIP - The dead SO was a retired Las Vegas Metropolitan Police
Sergeant, 66 years old, who had given of himself his whole
career.

Take a hard look in the mirror, nitwit. You've become every bit
the crackpot as gardner, gummer, and editor. And what happened
to your new years resolutions? 4 days into the year and you're
starting off-topic threads and advertising your inability to
think. Congratulations, and I hope you enjoy stewing in your wet
dreams of societal collapse, and in your frustration as the
years pass with none of your fantasies coming true. It's going
to be fun to watch you idiots keep announcing "it's starting"
over and over again every time a crime takes place.

Wayne

There must be a way to make some good money off of these doomsday
cranks. They're gullible, they're paranoid, they're
proselytizers...there's got to be some money in it besides selling
them primers and brass. d8-)

Start making and selling POG's cast from wheel weights Ed.
You can market them as stealth supplies for bullet molds and you'll
be both
rich and famous.
LOL

--
John R. Carroll

Hmm. There's a germ of an idea there, John. Some kind of violent
defense...claymores disguised as antique field
telephones...something.

Anyway, it's keeping the gun stores busy for now, and it's giving a
little shot, if you'll excuse the pun, to the economy.

A really clever soul would start a trading exchange in derivative
products.
You could just skip the underlying asset part and go right to
"HOOAH!" without any regulation or oversight at all. The ratings
agencies and SEC wouldn't know whether to **** or go blind!
"HoT lEaD- bid 5000 @ 40/ offered 40000 @ 60"

Isn't that what they already did? g

Once upon a time there was a sub-prime mortgage, so no.
Almost though.


BTW, I'm almost finished with Krugman's _The Return of Depression
Economics and the Crisis of 2008_. It's a good, fairly quick read.

Yeah, Krugman is really beating the drum for another round of spending right
now.
He's probably right. I don't see that consumers have any real gas in the
tank and there isn't any reason for business to invest when capacity
utilization is at 60%.

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John R. Carroll