 promise to stop bringing up the right wing counterpoints and making you sob in your tofu.
For example, you'll never have to see my write things like "the native North American indian culture failed to achieve civilizational milestones invented by other cultures 5,000 years prior. At the time of their defeat, they were literally still in the stone age, using knap flint tools used by our forebears while mastodons still roamed the earth. In short, their backwards culture never accomplished anything of note, and it was good that they were moved out of the way to make room for a country that advanced the limits of human understanding."
Aaron: I think Stoneleigh predicted a run-up this summer, and that happened. So if you were out or short, why are you blaming her? She predicted a fall in the fall, and there's still more than three months of time left on that call. If it makes you feel any better, I missed the run up, too. But I'm not complaining; my intention was to preserve capital to protect my family and play things safe. So I made no bet at all. More often than not gambling is a bad idea, and that's what the market is now.
TAE Right Winger
The stimulus is working.
It's not as good as it gets until the vast majority believe it's not as good as it'll get?
Ric,
From your post yesterday:
Whatever it is that differentiates people from "animals" is something else entirely.
Never met a bad puppy dog nor a bad baby and I doubt that Mark Twain did either. I have met a few bad dogs and bad people, could it be something they ate?
-creosote-
You basically gave the main reason I think TSHTF Christmas, give or take a month.
Once there is no Santa Claus, all who depend on Santa Claus to "be good" won't be anymore.
(And I'm not talking about just the kids.)
Just before Labor Day, 5 black guys took an Apple Store for a $100K smash and grab in 30 seconds -- with a security guard and tape in force.
Think that over when people realize they won't have a Christmas.
I mean, think: The only reason TS has not already HTF is because of lies, obfuscation, pumping, rigging the markets, etc.
Audit the Fed? Bye-bye US Dollar the moment you do.
Stop bailing out the banks?? Bye-bye to all the banks.
Shall I go on?
TAE Right Winger
Thanks for reminding us that Right Winger is a synonym for ignorant blow hard.
So the "Native North Americans" didn't smelt ore into metal. That's the sum total of "civilization" for you?
How about:
urban settlements
agriculture
irrigation
long distance trade
animal husbandry
writing (certainly if you include the Maya - "North America" is a white man's term anyway)
ceramics
math (again Maya at least)
astronomy (Maya for sure)
complex government
medicine
religion
mining
sculpture
ecology
shall I continue....
take a few archaeology of the Americas courses before you feel the need to opine on the primitive nature of the injuns next time would ya...
Oh yeah... with the lowland Maya in mind... their entire, wonderfully brutal and complex civilization quite literally vanished in little more than a generation or two... one of many world civilizations with a several hundred year or even thousand year + run that simply went poof! No man's civilization looks very impressive when buried under ten feet of dirt. Ours won't either...
Cheers
Injun Joe
.....
Paul Simon
An American Tune
"Maya in mind..."
Dec 21st of 2012 is the end of the long count of the Mayan calendar which started 5,125 years ago and coincides with the first time in approximately 26,000 years that the Sun will rise to conjunct the intersection of the Milky Way (eye, heart, center) and the ecliptic plane. According to the ancient Maya, this date will mark the end of one world as we know it and the beginning of another.
Tic-tic-tic............
To clear up a few responses from yesterday.
Toddman..thanx for the link.Peramculture is one of the few things I MAKE time for.
Thankyou "good person" and greenpa.Your words are better flavored than mine,and they carry the message I tried to convey...as it appears poorly...
Aesthete & Ahimsa
I believe you are over intellectualizing a simple fact of human history,in a thousand lands and ten thousand peoples...Whenever a "new"group enters a "new" land,there will be tension,hatred,old scores settled...the same thing that has kept the Balkans at odds with itself for the last thousand years...years and centuries of ethnic strife and bloodshed that makes our history look tame by comparison.You seem to feel that I believe this is "right".You are mistaken.But every ethic group that has come to these shores has faced the same strife,discrimination,hatred...and has,in time,risen above it.In time,the color of skin,or your accent,or your religion...
wont matter.
It matters not at all to me...But to accuse,or imply I am rightwing nutjob,armed to the teeth waiting for the revolution is unfair and intellectually dishonest.I have expressed my true feelings in this forum.If they dont fit into your Idea of a "nice person"fine,we wont have tea...but please keep you comments to the subject,and not speculation as to how you "think"..."I" think...as your conjecture is completely wrong,and give a false impression of "me" to the rest of this forum
snuffy
But don't worry be happy
Cause when you worry
Your face will frown
And that will bring everybody down
So don't worry, be happy (now).....
There is this little song Ben wrote
He hope you learn it note for note
Like good little children
Don't worry, be happy
Listen to what Ben
Ilargi:
If we mail cash to the donation address, is that a safe enough address. Or would you really prefer checks?
Re.:la-la land
Here is one of my favorite

jal
I’m going to have a hard time disliking TAE Right Winger. Anyone who promises not to make me cry in my tofu…lol In fact, I respect a good insult more than most I suppose-- even when I’m on the receiving end.
But back to Ilargi’s intro. I never bought into the scenario of another fall collapse. And not because I think I&S analysis is ultimately wrong or the fundamentals have somehow changed. If there is one thing that Stoneleigh has hammered home, it has been that human nature--herding behavior-- dictates, as well as reflects, much of what transpires in the markets. And humans, just like the ‘nature; they embody, are rarely symmetrical.
Look at any shape in nature, rarely does one find perfect symmetry, right down to the cracks in the cement sidewalk. The collapse again in the fall predictions just feel too balanced and repetitive. I suspect that if the predictions of collapse are as traumatic as I&S claim they will be, the trauma will arrive in the most asymmetrical form imaginable, defying prognosticators and optimists alike.
There will be no collapse in fall, or even a big fall in the fall--that’s my prediction.
Aesthete
12:36
The address is safe.
To all you others
Sometimes it's better to let words be sparse
100 years ago museums would display their entire collections, so no painting got the attention it deserved.
Sounds like the final bear is capitulating.
Snuffy,
Just to clear the air. I do not think you’re a ‘nut job.’ In fact, your post yesterday was beautiful on so many levels--“powerful” is how I termed it.
Probably I’m going to heed Ilargi’s advice and scoot on out of here. I see no reason to call for minimalism in a forum such as this. I’ll find another listserv to aggravate and annoy.
Adios,
Aesthete
"Got my bag, got my reservation"
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - The Canadian government sent body bags to some remote Indian reserves as it prepared for the winter flu season, sending a jarring message at odds with its promise that it's ready for the H1N1 flu.
Uh-Oh
TAE Right Winger:
You might do well to note that puebloes that are thousands of years old are still standing. Some are still inhabited. Stone buildings constructed by the Inca are constructed so as to be resistant to earthquakes.
Not only that, but Ben Franklin borrowed some of the Iroquois' concepts of government, which then were incorporated into the present structure of the US government.
To say that the Native American culture was simplistic is simply wrong. It had its faults, but it definitely was much more sustainable than what we have now.
There have been some salutary affects, but they are only transitory. As we can see the pace of job losses has slowed and will slow over the next year in anticipation of elections. About 80% of the stimulus package hits before