nothing says you can't be doing all kinds of productive and unproductive things, all at the same time frame
Yeah I forgot, your generation was raised on multitasking. I don't have the concentration of a gnat. Sometimes it takes me 20 minutes to re-edit a two line post.
While as a general rule I don't ever click on most videos, and basically never anything by the more obvious trolls, like tallanvor/uolj/pigmiller, or trollodore, or basso, I think they actually know this and sometimes try to cut corners; which can be. . . . amusing.
woah. right now, I'm in class, parsing through an economics blog, streaming a NHL game, and posting. i think this generation is going to be the one that will create a whole bunch of half-finished s**t, but hey--- when it's all done, and spoken for, hopefully it all works out.
It is still fairly unclear as to what the protestors hope to accomplish? Are they protesting the rich people? How is that going to change anything? DD
and you're smart robbie, and in general a really cool dude, and you know about economics. But, I'm still taking Stiglitz over you to head the Chair of Economic Advisers. sorry man. I'm sure there are a lot of individuals who can learn concepts without needing a degree, but a degree is just a nice systematic way of integrating everything. In terms of topics like math, economics, science etc., I do feel like you need that organized structure to fully understand everything. Now, you can fully understand everything and organize things yourself, but that's hella hard. Kudos to you if you do it. However, I have a feeling most people don't---especially vis a vis Congress members.
I'm 58. I am from the post hippie/Freak generation. A misanthropic humanist. I don't like much about the people that have populated the planet up to now but I'm beginning to have high hopes. But right now I am at home again with a Meniere's, inner ear thing so I'm not feeling too bright. I have a BSLA and since it was a second time around and a 4 year design curriculum , I audited the Masters in Real Estate Finance program. I knew I didn't want to be the Banker I just wanted to work with them to do large scale Land Planning. I type 13 words a minutw with an avera ge of 13 mistakes. When I first got sick and couldn't work, it was the start of the dot com boom. I could sit home and be sick and make more money than I could working. That was then. Now I recreationally work for Callaway. I remember when Robbie was taking his series 7. Anyways, some of you guys really impress me. It's like being drunk, can you tell?
I agree it would be nice to have more talented, open minded, independent thinkers in politics, but I've accepted that will never be reality. Secondly, we have many guys with amazing backgrounds in economics at the Fed who have made many destructive economic decisions. Our government at the upper levels simply isn't that nimble and is filled with unoriginal thinkers who are constantly running for election. I don't have the solutions to everything, but it would be nice if we could actually have term limits.
Some protesters who know what they are doing: By GLENDA ANDERSON THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Published: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 7:05 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 7:05 p.m. mar1juana advocates on Tuesday gathered outside a San Francisco fundraiser for President Obama to protest a federal crackdown on medical mar1juana dispensaries and cooperatives, including a raid on a Mendocino County growing operation. They joined people protesting war and a proposed oil pipeline to the Gulf of Mexico, according to news reports. The National Organization for the Reform of mar1juana Laws has denounced the Department of Justice crackdown as a “bankrupt and cynical attack” on state and local medical cannabis laws. The organization's California director, Dale Gieringer, said federal agents have targeted legitimate medicinal pot providers, like Northstone Organics, located north of Ukiah in Redwood Valley. Northstone Organics had obtained a permit from the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office to grow 99 plants but the permit provided no protection from federal drug enforcement agents, who confiscated the plants two weeks ago. mar1juana remains illegal under federal law. Northstone was among the first to sign up for Mendocino County's novel program and founder Matt Cohen is considered a model of compliance with medicinal mar1juana regulations. Mendocino County Supervisor John McCowen is among his supporters. “It is outrageous that Matthew Cohen has been raided by the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration. Matthew Cohen was the first medical mar1juana advocate in Mendocino County to call for regulation of the cultivation and dispensing of medical mar1juana to prevent black market diversion,” he said in a letter of support. Prior to Tuesday's protest, mar1juana advocates announced they would be mounting a ballot initiative effort aimed at instituting state regulations for medical mar1juana dispensaries.
I feel like you've got to use those guys, bring them in and say you broke it you own it, you got rich, now fix it. But Obama has to be the moral authority and understand the implications of proposed legislation. Lesbian Wall Street protester who was pepper-sprayed starts romance with the male medic who treated her Last updated at 7:51 PM, 26 Oct 2011 An Occupy Wall Street protester who was pepper-sprayed by police has started a romance with the demonstrator who helped treat her. Robert Grodt, 24, a volunteer medic, rushed to help Kaylee Dedrick, 24, after she was temporarily blinded by the spray on September 24. Miss Dedrick, who calls herself gay on social networking sites, has now reportedly found romance with the male fellow protester.
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Lol I don't even remember my series 7. Man that seems like forever ago. Almost 8 years now... Sucks to hear you have Meniere's. My mom has tinnitus and she had to move to a hearing aids about a year ago. Chronic ailments suck.
I love this (hyper-liberal) theme. What did they want Obama to do? "I'm sorry, I'm canceling (absolutely necessary in the reality of modern politics) fundraiser to go... um... take a BART train over to Oakland... and... I'm not sure... stand in front of the protestors and repel the ... law enforcement officials with my... cufflinks ... I am that badass." Seriously, what do the beardy weirdies want from him? Pretend that fundraising doesn't happen? Attend a street protest? It just makes no sense. Yes, the juxtaposition is ironic and cute, except that it's just logic. Bottom line: yes, what you are protesting actually exists at the present point in time. Good job!
Got a new treatment starting tomorrow. I should be out playing free golf at all the country clubs in town in no time so it doesn't really suck to be me. Except when they are sticking that needle through my ear drum. That's gonna suck. 1976 Marathon Man...watch it for Halloween
FWIW a lot of the people who broke the system didn't get rich off of breaking it and are still held in somewhat high regard. Spoiler Oh the lezzies aren't gonna like her for that. I remember one time I messed around with a lesbian and she wanted to keep me on the down low because her lesbian friends would look at her different if they knew she messed around with guys lol.
That F***ker can't get a $50 honorarium from the City Of Industry Chamber of Commerce anymore. He's the new picture under 'Persona non grata' in Funk and Wagnalls. He didn't make the first cut for the new season of Apprentice. Jim Cramer won't take his calls. He offered a visiting proffessorship to the U of H Downtown, they said Uh, no thanks, who was this again?
They are protesting big banks that made campaign contributions to Washington, and gets bailed out by the tax payer's money when they gamble and lose. The problem is, it's actually not the banks' fault, it is the system that this country operates under that is flawed. Both financial and political. The banks had to be bailed out not because of the money they sent to Washington, they were bailed out because the FDIC does not have enough to insure merely one big bank failure, and the country would have been in ruin, a result of a flawed financial system. Reason the protesters are against "capitalism" is because it takes money to buy votes. But instead of protesting on Wall st to stop banks from doing it, they should be protesting the process of campaign contributions, a flawed political system. At the end of the day, this isn't some new issue that just popped up. People have simply reached a boiling point because enough of them are out of work. Some people are actually protesting so that THEY can get bailed out instead. Which would cause as many problems as it solves, just like bailing out the banks.
