Comments on: Hello, mom?

By: Stevie W

Stevie W — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:56:43 +0000

That broker, who likely makes $200 K+ a year …if he HASN’T already paid for a house and/or have $1 million+ invested …..is a fool.

By: hel

hel — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:55:33 +0000

‘poor schmuck’? There’s a reason why ‘banker’ sounds like ‘wanker’ poor the rest of us who are getting shafted by the global eco crisis… the £ will be worth nothing in 6 months!

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:09:24 +0000

It is the money invested into the companies for shares of their profits. As those stocks fall, so too does the money invested. Thus a lot of capital was lost.

By: Seth

Seth — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:44:10 +0000

Well, I know that stock value has been impacted, and this will impact anyone near retirement age, but what I guess I mean is, why? There is no physical reason for this downturn, no shortage of anything real. It’s all in our heads, and if an economic system can let the collective imagination of a very few of it’s participants ruin things for the rest of us, it isn’t a very good system

By: Kelto

Kelto — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:11:16 +0000

Cheney kills.

By: XCX

XCX — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:01:08 +0000

Uhm, I read the article and I don’t see a problem. If you have a system that is designed to remove folks based on a computer program errors will happen. It is up to every single one of us to insure our right to vote. If you find yourself unable to vote in the primaries, you should still have plenty of time to fix it by Nov 4th.

Worried, contact your voter registration folks and make sure you are on the rolls!

By: XCX

XCX — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:57:59 +0000

I have lost over 50k if you look at beginning of the year to now, but I’m not worried. The shares are still there and it will recover in time (which I have). The folks that really should be crying right now are the ones that were planning on pulling the money out of their 401Ks and IRAs in the next year or so, they will feel the pinch.

By: Corporal Punishment

Corporal Punishment — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:36:11 +0000

Traders make an in-depth study of a company. They read all the reports, check their books, check for outstanding litigation, mergers/acquisitions in the works, etc. Then they act out of fear or hope.

I’m glad I spent all my money on women and booze.

Think about it. Think how stupid the average person is. Then realize that half the population is dumber than that

By: Corporal Punishment

Corporal Punishment — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:35:27 +0000

Traders make an in-depth study of a company.
They read all the reports, check their books, check for outstanding litigation, mergers/acquisitions in the works, etc.
Then they act out of fear or hope.

I’m glad I spent all my money on women and booze.

Think about it.
Think how stupid the average person is.
Then realize that half the population is dumber than that

By: James

James — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:53:01 +0000

Ah @#$%! I agree with Seth

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:49:27 +0000

Clear Gold…

Swimming pools, movie stars…

By: lowly grunt

lowly grunt — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:43:54 +0000

Hey great!
Cut the Cheese and get a tax cut!
I’ll be rolling in it!
Money, that is.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:40:59 +0000

Why wait when she can start one? Not like it wasn’t going happen anyway. She is rather pleasant to talk to so I don’t mind.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:39:29 +0000

Acid sizzles.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:37:31 +0000

Excellent. I love to give. And take…

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:36:11 +0000

All out but I do have Brain Draino?

By: Seth

Seth — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:31:37 +0000

You are an evil, evil man. I can has brain bleach now?

By: wundawomun

wundawomun — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:28:06 +0000

ROFL! Of course!

By: Seth

Seth — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:25:13 +0000

Most of America’s industry? Where are you getting that? I’ve heard that America’s manufacturing sector has fluctuated between 15-20%, historically, and that it’s at about 16% now. Maybe I’m wrong about that?

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:18:47 +0000

That would be funny, if only it was funny. If you get my drift.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:46:09 +0000

*puts you into a comfy bed and tucks you in with a kiss on the forehead* There, enjoy the coma.

By: Guinny

Guinny — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:25:59 +0000

…thank you for your consideration.

*falls into lust-induced coma*

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:22:24 +0000

Good, then I will try not to mention floggers, growling in the ear, and wax play while I’m at it. I wouldn’t want to strain any of your preparations.

By: Guinny

Guinny — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:17:16 +0000

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes
You would’ve probably sent me into a lust-induced coma had you mentioned it yesterday. Now, I come prepared. Somewhat.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:02:31 +0000

*here

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:56:29 +0000

What? Force, rope, biting, outfits, sexual rp, hair tugging, spanking, a couple other things, those are yours too? Wow, and hear I thought telling you about how I used the Dragonfly sleeve rope method last night while she was dressed as a school girl wouldn’t be teasing.

And thanks love. I aim to please and please and please.

By: Guinny

Guinny — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:47:29 +0000

Would you please stop that? You’re playing into every single one of my kinks and I don’t have an evil man to act them out with

Your girl is so lucky!

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:44:12 +0000

I love it when my girl plays innocent. Then I have to use “force” like the disgustingly evil man I am. She is all smiles today.

By: Guinny

Guinny — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:39:53 +0000

Just be glad I didn’t innocently type ‘cherry pie’. Because the danger was very real.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:38:17 +0000

I would prefer chocolate cream pie or pecan pie as my humility/coming home pie.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:37:24 +0000

Oh yes they do and lots of it. Hot, dirty, naughty sex… With costumes, props, and rope. On camera. I have a subscription to their site.

By: Guinny

Guinny — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:35:53 +0000

It would be a tax CUT because you send air back into the atmosphere.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:34:19 +0000

But but but… I like breathing… Would there be a burp tax?

By: Mekkis

Mekkis — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:11:08 +0000

No argument over people pretending real estate & money were more valuable than they really were, but here’s why people are worried:

“Did factories disappear?” you ask. Actually, yes. Most of America’s industry has been moved to third world nations where companies can work people 16 hours a day for 25¢ an hour with no bathroom or lunch breaks. That capital infrastructure still exists, just not in places that are immediately accessible by the U.S. We’ve been importing the majority of our consumer goods for a long, long time now. Since oil is getting so expensive, and our dollar is devaluing faster than a snowflake melts in a blast furnace, it’s going to get quite expensive for us to continue importing our goods; and since our manufacturing infrastructure has been offshored — we’re shortly going to be in “quite a dilly of a pickle”, to use the Depression-era phrase.

Is there another dust bowl? Not here in the United States, but the Great Depression was a global event. In the original depression, the dust bowl affected the U.S. mid-west. It might interest you to know that today, there’s currently a dust bowl plaguing Africa. Furthermore, although the original dust bowl destroyed the food-making capacity of the mid-west, this was only one of a series of factors that reduced the global food supply. There were other states and places in the world that that had crops destroyed by a series of extreme weather weather events (i.e., record freezes and record droughts) just before and just after the market crash of ‘29. This leading to a world-wide food shortage. We’re having the same thing occurring today — extreme weather events destroying entire sections of the global food economy. Don’t you remember all that on the news prior to the market crash about the “world food shortage”?

Sorry to have to shit in your punchbowl, Seth, but there it is. Things are looking pretty grim. If you study the Great Depression, you’ll find a lot of factors that are being echoed today.

By: cobrajoe

cobrajoe — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:10:03 +0000

All the rich people are losing money, and all the poor people who bought houses they couldn’t afford are having problems paying for them.

Poor schmucks, I don’t play the markets, and I rent an apartment.

By: cobrajoe

cobrajoe — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:08:28 +0000

Fire burns.

By: Seth

Seth — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:19:25 +0000

Well, this is what gets me. That was never real money, it was a bunch of people pretending something was more valuable than it really was. All this ‘value’ lost in the markets, what was it, exactly? Did factories disappear? Is there another dust bowl? Has anything real been lost? No. Do people not need houses, food, & clothes anymore? Funny, they still do. Are there still enough people and machines to make enough for everyone? Yes, there still are. So, what’s the problem again?

By: ema

ema — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:02:37 +0000

Shhhh, they’ll start taxing us on it!!

By: James

James — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:48:44 +0000

That’s an idea

By: CBinNH

CBinNH — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:28:25 +0000

*shudders* Moms and Dads don’t have sex!

By: Siava

Siava — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:44:15 +0000

Fabulous caption!

By: yen

yen — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:20:50 +0000

Are you still talking metaphorically? Or has America actually started to use oxygen as a form of currency?

By: Guinny

Guinny — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:19:23 +0000

Poor baby. I hope Mom will take him back under her wing and bake pumpkin pie for him.

By: Kelto

Kelto — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:05:33 +0000

Paper cuts >.<

By: Kelto

Kelto — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:02:32 +0000

no, but he will be….

By: Schmoe

Schmoe — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:40:44 +0000

Yes, but it’s still in New York so the rent is $27,000.50/wk. utilities not included.

By: PiMan

PiMan — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:23:03 +0000

You could have waited until there was a relevant thread. Probably tomorrow morning.

By: Charlie Foxtrot

Charlie Foxtrot — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:05:14 +0000

Why are your suits on the floor next to the hotub…OMG…AHHHHHH!

By: Bluenote

Bluenote — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:56:18 +0000

Dynamite caption Lol!

By: herb

herb — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:52:07 +0000

Ewwww… have you two been having *sex* in my room?! Mom! Dad!