tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post1324069743374209764..comments2024-03-29T03:31:54.220-06:00Comments on The Michael Bane Blog: Weekly Dose of ParanoiaMichael Banehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-35558647409782892512009-07-28T18:52:03.630-06:002009-07-28T18:52:03.630-06:00Oh, yeah, if you didn't know already a Rep or ...Oh, yeah, if you didn't know already a Rep or Senator supposedly makes $174,000 a year. Me as a single guy without any kids, I would be happy if I could bring in just a third of that every year.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-18179892029518626992009-07-28T18:49:38.245-06:002009-07-28T18:49:38.245-06:00I will be surprised if we are not all standing in ...I will be surprised if we are not all standing in soup lines a year from today.<br /><br />On a different note...I actually was browsing another internet forum today where one anonymous poster pitted 545 people against 300 million. Those 545 people are the Reps, the Senators, the Prez, and the SCOTUS justices.<br /><br />It's because of those 545 people the other 300 million are suffering soAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-62836111585432798762009-07-28T07:27:59.598-06:002009-07-28T07:27:59.598-06:00If I may, a bit on risk management,something I kno...If I may, a bit on risk management,something I know pretty well.<br /><br />All risk management is simply a series of balancing acts, a series of outcomes weighed against the actions necessary to either achieve or avert those outcomes. That's the basic philosophy behind THE BEST DEFENSE...by structuring your life a certain way, you are less likely the be hanging with stupid people in stupid Michael Banehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-19909530756140952512009-07-27T08:38:47.791-06:002009-07-27T08:38:47.791-06:00"Maybe the students who’ve wasted a huge amou..."Maybe the students who’ve wasted a huge amount of time and money in gender studies and sociology will get angry as they figure out they’re not going to have jobs when they graduate..."<br /><br />So what are they gonna do--hit me with their purse?!<br /><br />No, the real problem will come when white, middle-class suburbanites--accustomed to student loan guarantees, home loan subsidiesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-1526226726544892322009-07-26T20:36:19.149-06:002009-07-26T20:36:19.149-06:00I understand why the importance for you to see it ...I understand why the importance for you to see it is necessary to prepare. He sees you as another person who believes life is more like the Cosby show. If you prepare by growing food, storing supplies for natural disasters that frequent your area of the country, then you are less likely to be that person who later, when in desperate need, are pounding on his door demanding he share his goods and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-77556755731230194182009-07-26T12:07:26.490-06:002009-07-26T12:07:26.490-06:00Well spoken Lawrence, well spoken indeed.Well spoken Lawrence, well spoken indeed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-36524106000892594072009-07-26T10:10:32.534-06:002009-07-26T10:10:32.534-06:00Dave,
You need to do deeper research, The radicali...Dave,<br />You need to do deeper research, The radicalization of the Colonial population began about 10 years before the Revolution and there were just as many Colonists (If not more) fighting for the British as against, In fact it was a revolution of the middle class, The very rich and the very poor generally sided with the Crown.<br /><br />"Again, not a classic domestic revolt or civil Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-8180564176473548502009-07-26T09:23:31.307-06:002009-07-26T09:23:31.307-06:00"Watts and the Chicago riots were considerabl...<i>"Watts and the Chicago riots were considerably more than "pissy college students"</i><br /><br />Yeah, Tom, I know. That's why I said "or urban nihilists." <br /><br /><i>"As for your comment that "Americans don't revolt" that overlooks the 2 most significant wars in American history"</i><br /><br />The American Revolution was less a Dave S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05940509831649020252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-86980861040937492009-07-26T06:49:24.771-06:002009-07-26T06:49:24.771-06:00MB,
Do you believe everything you read?
NJ_Larry...MB,<br /><br />Do you believe everything you read?<br /><br />NJ_Larry nailed it as usual.<br /><br />MB,<br /><br />If you really believe all this paranoid garbage why haven't you quit your job, moved out into the middle of nowhere, and live away from civilization with Sweety until you check out?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-36098874247837857082009-07-26T02:46:57.318-06:002009-07-26T02:46:57.318-06:00You know what I remember? I remember all the piss...You know what I remember? I remember all the pissy flower power hippie spoiled children rioting. <br /><br />You know what else I remember? Kent State, the point in time where the riots started going away. It was no longer just good clean fun...one of their own got "hurt" and it was no longer fun and games, something to jaw about.<br /><br />I don't remember the working AmericansRastusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-68272583751545232202009-07-25T22:19:13.311-06:002009-07-25T22:19:13.311-06:00Watts and the Chicago riots were considerably more...Watts and the Chicago riots were considerably more than "pissy college students"<br /> As for your comment that "Americans don't revolt" that overlooks the 2 most significant wars in American history, there's a reason the first one is remembered as "THE Revolution", what was the birth of the Confederacy if not a revolution against Federal interference in Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-76860622974656984012009-07-25T21:04:47.792-06:002009-07-25T21:04:47.792-06:00Tom knows full well that yes it was a bunch of pis...Tom knows full well that yes it was a bunch of pissy college students doing most of the rioting in the late 60s - led by International Communist agitators taking advantage of the societal distress over Viet Nam. IIRC correctly, the economy was doing well at that time.<br /><br />The welfare hoards will riot when the checks stop, but mostly they will s#$@ their own neighborhoods as they always do.Geoff aka Pathfindernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-18973496777413346332009-07-25T20:22:37.655-06:002009-07-25T20:22:37.655-06:00"American cities and campuses were plagued by..."American cities and campuses were plagued by riots that peaked in the "long hot summer" of 68."<br /><br />I said "Americans don't riot." What percentage of Americans were rioting in '68? The exceptions prove the rule.<br /><br />We're talking about widespread general anarchy, not pissy college students or urban nihilists.<br /><br />"I believe thatDave S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05940509831649020252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-71717134707799210052009-07-25T19:21:13.720-06:002009-07-25T19:21:13.720-06:00Dave, Were stoned stoned through the 60's, or ...Dave, Were stoned stoned through the 60's, or just not born yet ?<br />American cities and campuses were plagued by riots that peaked in the "long hot summer" of 68.<br /><br />Larry, I happen to agree with him and consider any one who doesn't to be foolishly optimistic.<br />One thing I do not agree with is that the only ones resorting to violence will be the welfare hordes Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-30680540973639930402009-07-25T19:10:20.816-06:002009-07-25T19:10:20.816-06:00MB don't worry, hopeless paranoia can be treat...MB don't worry, hopeless paranoia can be treated :) As for the rioting ... "If a place like Iceland, as placid and homogeneous as any in the world, can blow up, then any place can. And probably will."<br /><br />Ok, so I google the infamous Iceland riots, and guess what I find? There was "a" demonstration back in January of this year. Yes people showed up. But ya know, nj_larrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-86433828805893584302009-07-25T18:56:45.149-06:002009-07-25T18:56:45.149-06:00"Read the whole thing, and feel free to send ..."Read the whole thing, and feel free to send me a note explaining that I am hopelessly paranoid."<br /><br />Well, few predicted this recession, or its severity. So why put faith in confident predictions of how it will get inconceivably worse? All I remember reading for the last ten years or so was how we had a "new economy" and the business cycle was a thing of the past. So Dave S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05940509831649020252noreply@blogger.com