JMac

Obozo surpassed Chavez long ago, by Chavez's own account: Venezuela's socialist dictator Hugo Chavez nationalized most of Venezuela's key businesses in the past decade. As the US government prepared to take over GM, Chavez quipped on a radio broadcast, "Hey, Obama has just nationalized nothing more and nothing less than General Motors. Comrade Obama! Fidel, careful or we are going to end up to his right" (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5520GX20090603).

LOL msm, I'll only give you congratulations! Y'know what AA started, right? "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over & over but expecting different results." Admitting a problem is the biggest step! & from a fellow Tennessean at that - I'm proud of ya!

yep, me too. I love Sarah, but I believe she has a more important role as a holder of feet to the fire than filling national office. Libs can only condemn her, most republicans - particularly the RINOs - don't know what to do w/ her or anyone who agrees w/ her. We can SHOW both in November!

Reminds me of an old quote: "don't be so heavenly minded you're no earthly good." The dinar RV will help me to be "earthly good." It's gonna be so much FUN, & I can hardly wait ; )

Well, I guess that depends on how hard-headed we are! Thank God I can claim "spirit" talk in recent years, but in the early days it was audible, "Listen up, dearie!" speech.

Oh, absolutely! One thing God doesn't have is money. Why would He??? Everything belongs to Him (Psalms 50:10); we're the ones who use money as a medium of exchange. I'm amazed at the number of ppl here & on other sites who call themselves children of God, and better yet give evidence of that claim. Jesus said it's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven (Mt 19:24), but on the other hand it isn't possible to give what you don't have, either. LOL -- I know, I've tried ; ) There's nothing good or bad about money in itself (it's a TOOL), though the Bible says the LOVE of money is the root of all evil (I Timothy 6:10). It's when we turn money into an idol that we're sunk. When money is a tool, all's cool. But the bottom line is that it takes money to get stuff done. I'll give my obligatory tithe (pre-tax but probably in dinars) to my church b/c I believe the tithe belongs to the church (Malachi 3:10); I'm thankful my church supports various missions & missionaries around the world. What the church does w/ it is between the pastor & God; believers are obligated to the tithe. Gifts, however, provide the fun. There are so many ministries doing such great things throughout the world and in the US, showing God's love to many ppl in the form of food, medical care, orphanages, even shoes -- and telling them what they're receiving is a gift from God. I want to be a part of those responsible ministries and until RV I can't give more than the teeniest of amounts. Mongo's right: money is a powerful tool for satan. But it's a MORE powerful tool for God, and I for one can hardly wait to start using it!

Amen Rebeckie! I've listened to Gary Keesee say over & over again that God doesn't care how much we have, as long as "it" doesn't have us!

LOLOLOL ; ) shhhhh -- wouldn't want AARP to know there's a membership card that hasn't been torn up yet & sent to ASA for the ASA discount : )

did that 9/12/09. MSNBC & the rest of the "lamestream" reported there were a few thousand of us, but packed shoulder to shoulder we sure did stretch nearly all the way from the Capitol to the Washington Monument... Except for a few frustrated fiscal conservatives who actually spoke to us, "they" ignored us. Most of the slime of congress slithered out of town that day. The next "march" is to the POLLS. Let the slime look for work too, as ppl w/ true integrity serve in congress, and serve the ppl who elect them.

LOLOLOL, have you seen the trials done by Fortune(?) in the past? Get 10 CPAs to do one bogus return, get 10 different results. Same is true when calling IRS taxpayer lines: http://www.robertgreenecpa.com/index.php?page=ai5. Here's another wrinkle: one CPA is researching the possibility of regarding cashed-out dinar as the sale of a collectible. That's taxed @ 28% instead of the standard 35% (b4 HC & new added 3.9%) of short-term capital gains. Don't have an answer, but it's worth a question ; )

for practice!!! Besides -- it's not like yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theatre. Tough to get trampled in a crowd of ONE running from (or dancing around) a single computer ; )

Me? I'll cuss, scream & cry, then suck it up and have a chat w/ the budget to see if I might be able to buy more dinar b4 it flies. Then I'll reattach the keyboard handcuffs for another run of 18-hour workdays that will END as soon as this thing RVs! Post-RV I'll be spending my time giving God's Word more than only a passing glance; building a business I want to work; being way more active w/ my church; and having a LIFE. It'll happen when it happens, but I sure do hope & pray we'll all be celebrating SOON!!! ; )

Blessings to you, jm. He's there with and for you...

LOL, got that right! Not only will the resistant not be able to access healthcare on any level (unless we have a dr or NP friend!), neither will we have the choice of buying our own healthcare and staying far away from child-killing, euthanistic "health"care that will become the medical service in the US. Sounds like a great excuse for a cruise...

Several states attorneys general filed suits today; the challenge is in the works. Judges of integrity aren't as common as in the past, but we still have a few. Pray to God that at least SOME of these lawsuits will wind up in front of them!

geez... nobama blasts the insurance companies all the while being in bed w/ them -- have you watched their stock price spikes this week? -- and apparently big pharma is the next great harlot. I'm 57 & self-employed (just the computer & me, no others); I'm able to keep financial ends within shouting distance of each other, but I haven't had health insurance since a divorce in 1993. Well, that's not true -- I did have insurance for a single quarter in the mid-1990s but couldn't afford to continue it. I had a good physical in 2002 that cost more than $500. I discovered health fairs & that I could get full blood work & interpretation there for $80; since then health fairs have descended into purely marketing events. I discovered CVS' Minute Clinic, however, where I can get all the numbers run for $66 and the attention of an NP, which I much prefer over an MD any day. I also take a load of supplements daily -- CoQ10, fish oil, calcium, garlic, some herbs & a boatload of high-quality vitamins. God has graced me with wonderfully good health, and I know that's not the case for everyone. But I also credit much of my good health record to the supplements I take and keeping watch over "the numbers" -- like cholesterol, blood sugar, blood pressure, etc. and then taking action against those that try to creep up where they shouldn't be. If I could afford health insurance I'd have it. After the RV I expect to be able to afford it, but I can feel some Thoreau-esque civil disobedience brewing in me already. I have an idea I'll be paying the fine instead & saying "Make me." If the jerks rip supplements away from us I guess I'll be getting them illegally. Our govt needs to figger out that it's GOD who give us our freedoms.

LOL, prob true! But Google is nice & neutral...

I've lost money (all of it, to the point of living on faith for a l-o-n-g time); I've lost things (hurricane [uninsured], whole-house theft). Money's tight sometimes, but in the things department not only does it look like I've never lost anything, it also looks like I've never thrown anything away... We can always get more money, we can get more things. Neither matters in the long run, but we can never get more TIME. Though we'd like to twist off an arm or a head now & again, kids are God's best gifts to us. Kudos to you for investing in yours! Keep on keepin' on -- continual investment in our kids is the best investment there is.

& my advice is to relax as you check out Suze Orman (8 mo emergency fund, 0 debt, investment advice, estate planning); Dave Ramsey (get real, live debt-free, have money & don't let it have you); Clark Howard ("save more, spend less & don't let anybody rip you off"). All URLs are their names followed by .com and all general advice is absolutely free as well as being unencumbered. Suze Orman is on CNBC every Fri & Sat; Dave Ramsey has 'Financial Peace University" programs in churches everywhere, and Clark Howard is on good talk radio shows M-F (originates 1-3 pm Eastern at http://wsbradio.com/ [choose "listen live" as well as being on HLN 6 times every weekend. Clark Howard also offers 40 hrs/wk of free call-in advice w/ anything having to do w/ money. There's a lot of bad advice available, there's a lot of bad and costly advice available. There's a lot of clueless advice available, either for free or for a price. These guys have nothing to gain -- unless you want to buy Suze Orman's estate planning kit or join a Dave Ramsey group that costs about $100 for a workbook & an 8-week class.

LOL, that would be me! A single mom in TN, in 1999 I bought a lease return 1996 Nissan Pathfinder with 71k miles on it -- clearly not all that many city miles! -- then proceeded to chauffeur my youngest extreme-cheerleading daughter to competitions all over the Southeast and into Ohio to put another 40k miles on it in <2 years. I work at home, and there are weeks in my two busy seasons in a year that literally the only times I've driven it is to church on Sunday. My old trusty Pathfinder had >100k miles on it by 2001; it's taken me another 10 years to approach clicking off the 2nd 100k and I still have another 6k to go. That's about 8k mi/yr over the past decade, but only b/c I work at home and live in the middle of nowhere, where a "simple" trip to a grocery store is a 50 mile round trip. Yes, the "little old lady" cars do exist. I wouldn't think they're common, however, b/c us little old ladies like holding onto whatever great vehicles we're able to find! God help anybody who tries to separate me from that old Pathfinder that likes to imitate the Energizer bunny. It just runs... and runs... and runs...

Add: letting the poor depreciation-eater also waste a gazillion hours taking it back to the dealer to get the kinks worked out. I choose to let somebody ELSE cool their jets in the waiting room or lug a laptop around to try to get some work done while waiting for that spiffy, newly-depreciated new vehicle to be worked on. We all may make a boatload of $ when the dinar finally RVs, but in the final analysis money can't even be measured on the same scale as time. BTW -- I've found that "new car smell" can be purchased in a bottle at most drive-through car wash businesses. Sorry, car sellers and car leasers. Can't think of even one good reason to come see you when $ isn't an issue.

It'll be different -- not sad!!! I shore do hope we all be gettin' used to CHANGE soon! Change your current Friday ritual to remembering "when," as you seek out the next one to sweat out. LOL, REAL "hope and change." Won't THAT be different??? ; )

yes indeedy, karma! I was nearly halfway through it when I realized my eyes were bugging out; of course I had to laugh at myself even before laughing at the joke. The "which year" line was the best! LOL, got to either laugh or call a waaaaahhhhhambulance ; )

Ha! It's not even a question. Reminds me of an old church sign: "Give God what's right, not what's left." I'll take all of the blessing God has for me, so I can at least tithe - a minimum standard, BTW - on the full amount. To me the tithe is just a bill, although one that takes precedence over all others. The real joy comes in giving, which I see as everything above that minimum 10%.

It's not -- unless you have an overwhelming urge to pay twice for the same vehicle... I know leasing can make sense in some situations, but nothing beats buying & keeping. till it squats in the road keeping ; )