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Gee when I was in High School it took 3 consecutive down quarters to be a recession. But, we have not had 2 yet. Only one then an up quarter. We shall see. I know one thing, the doom and gloom jockies will be really upset if we don't have one. If the Osama Obama bunch gets in there will be a...

Yea, progress my hind leg!!! Many people have just got to be plain slimey and lazy. I remember my old Polish and Italian grandmothers would go outside most every morning and sweep the front porch, the side walk in front of the house and the STREET in front of thier house. The neighbor hood...

Just more socialism. Anyone who thinks that Bush or Reagan or anyone since the 1930's is a conservative come speak to me. I have some ocean front property to sell you, cheap, in New Mexico!!! Our government has been trying to "nationalize" our entire economy for as long as I can remember. They...

Gee Beemer, I am 57, I must be dead by now!!! I just joke about the nuns. Most of them were really great people. I only got "the ruler" when I needed it, which was often!!! LOL I was a real heller back then!! One of the best "mouse releasers" in the school. Those were good times and we learned...

Yepper, born and raised in the area. As to PC, I am anything but. I still call a spade a horse or what ever I want to. In Standard American English ( 'Merican) which the language we speak here, a "Native American" is a person born in the United States. Oh well, that is what I am. Sorry. I just...

The polocies of Jennifer (Wicked Witch of the North) Granholm have all but destroyed our state. But, she is a Democrate, who once lived in California and was born and raised in Canada. I rest my case. Layoutshoooter

I think you might have it wrong Phil. The benevolent government has been bailing out everybody that does stupid stuff with thier money. Buy a house you can't afford? Bail them out. Invest in Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac? Losing money? Poor baby, bail them out. I can see them paying of everyone who...

Besides, what we are really talking about is money. Money is nothing more than green wrinkled papar with no real value backed by nothing or anybody. You can't take it with you. My goal in life is to go out EXACTLY as I came in. Naked with nothing. In fact, if I owe a whole bunch of money at the...

If I lose it all OVM, I will be "a knockin" on your door. You could use the shooting lessons anyway!!! Not sure how good it is there. Plenty of game for sure, but lacking in water, therefor, fish. Maybe enough for a small population of "communers" Layoutshooter

Yep, we can get through this mess if we want too. I am afraid that many want the economy to fail and are working to insure it does. There are SOOOOOOOOOO many new opportunities right now it is un-real. The ONLY thing that can stop a new boom is the government getting in the way. What oppotunity...

Beware the dark cloud people as well, ever here of a self-fullfilling prediction? I remember when I hire on with the Feds in '76 and had to take a 50% pay cut just to find a job that I would not be laid off from every two weeks. Our pay was terrible then. I was a GS 5 making under 10K per year...

They don't "jive" because it is an election year. The press, wanting Osama Obama to win, will blow everything bad out perportion. Facts are no relevant. Most my age, 57, can remember when time were way worse than they are now. My first house loan, '81, was a bargin (VA rate) 15 1/2%. We had just...

The house was not far from that White Castle!!! Which might explain my often un-controllable cravings for them!!!!!!!!! Layoutshooter

Greg, I can't find the address on the internet. The Booth Memorial Hospitals/Maternity Homes were a nation wide "chain" run by the Salvation Army. They were also homes for un-wed mothers. (not my case) It was the closet hospital to the "mine". I lived my first 4 years on Dora Street in...

Booth Memorial Hospital. Tended to be used by us "po folks" I am the son of a miner. My dad worked at the Salt Mine in Detroit. When my dad said "it's back to the salt mines" on Monday, he was not kidding!!!! He mined coal in PA before the war. I am not sure when they closed the hospital. It...

Gee, my first name is Joseph, what does that make me? Let's see, a native American, born in Downtown Detroit. (they closed the hospital after I was born, no way to improve on me I guess) I was born into to the "Wop-A-lock" tribe.(Italian and Polish) My father was the "Chief" of our "Clan"...

The Depression might have ended much sooner than it did had it not been for some of the "fixes" that were put into place. Taxes were WAY too high and needed to be dropped to spur new business. The Libs tend to forget, or not care, that it is business that provides most of our jobs. They produce...

Both parties are equally involed in "kissing the Saudi Butt"!!! That is why when I hear Osama Obama or McCain talk about "change" I have a hard time deciding if I should laugh or vomit. The ONLY way you could have real "change" in this country is to abandon socialism and return to a free market...

That may or may not be true. I do think that it might be a bit more complicated than that. That is giving them a lot of credit for brains, I don't think they are as smart as they think they are. I feel that there are many internal and external influences that shape our economy. Our normal...

We agree on that one OVM. I went to Catholic school thru the 9th grade. I learned many things there. Nuns have no feet and six sets of eyes. They float silently around the class room with 360 degree vison and can "pounce" on an offending student from any point in the room in milli-seconds...