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Hmmmm - - - - I keep thinking about the phrase, "Activate the VISA Card". Hmmmmm (more thinking) - - - If the National Guard is activated, that means that the National Guard is there, it exist but activating the Guard puts them into "active use", "making use of them" etc. I tend to agree with this post I found. -----------> I don't see that this article means anything except what it states. 1. VISA card is already there in use, just not very many of them. 2. Use of a VISA card will stop the need to carry around large bags of money. Keep in mind the Dinar is almost worthless and it takes a LOT of Dinar just to buy something worth a USA dollar. What do economist have to do with control of anything? Read the definition of an "economist"! I would like to add to this, who or what is a specialist that is calling for the economist to active the VISA card?

That is dated March 2. Hmmmmm and nothing else was said about this until now? So much for intel.

NO and NO

IF this means any thing, here is how my brain reads into what she may have meant (and I hope I am wrong). “something about new money or something she wasnt quite sure” - - - If it really is NEW money, then the dinars that we have are worthless and will never be worth a single penny. Out with the old dinar and in with the new dinar . . . . It will not be the first time it has ever happened. It has happened in may countries through out history. I do hope this is not the case.

ALERT > > > > > > > > Chinese hackers hacked into BOA. Last week they got Morgan Stanley. No one knows what info the hackers got. All they know is that M Stanley got hacked. Close out your BOA account asap and open one with a small local bank. BEWARE and BE SAFE!!!!!!!!

Men can always talk big when the wife isn't around. (shhhhhhh......don't tell my wife I said that)

He must have gotten a call for Okie.

Why is it that all the rumors come from newbies. Ok everyone, grab your pitch fork and torches. It's time to go after the newbie. Everyone chant together, "Kill the newbie creature. Kill the newbie creature".

Hmmmmmmm......sounds like TK. Doesn't he use that word a LOT?

This reads like some one had waaaaaaay tooooooooo much caffine.

'Never borrow from the future. If you worry about what may happen tomorrow and it doesn't happen, you have worried in vain. Even if it does happen, you have to worry twice.'

I'll see your 2 people in Dubai @ $310. . . . . . . and raise you 3 people in Jordan @ $3.87.

Hmmmmmm . . . . This sounds like "male bovine biosolids".

More email BS

You need to look at the time of the messages. If you do that, then you can read it in the order of events. . . . Sheesh!!!

It could RV at any thing below a dollar now and then go up pass a dollar by end of 2011.

This sounds like a rerun. This isn't the first time I heard this rumor. There have been soooooooo many rumors made up that it is getting hard to have an original rumor.

*sniff, *sniff . . . . . . Something smells here . . . . . . *sniff, *sniff . . . . . Yep, it smells a little like BS.

You are right RickNick123 on the calculations. You saved me the trouble of posting the right calculations. Some people jumped to $5 instead of 5 times (BIG difference).

The Iraqi National List is a coalition of Iraqi political parties who ran in the December 2005 Iraqi elections and got 8.0% of the vote and 25 out of 275 seats. It sounds like a very short list and nothing like the Grand Old Party.

I don't see that this mean anything. It all sounds like double talk. 1. What is "the Iraqi List"? 2. "signed an agreement to form a partnership" . . What the heck! They didn't form a partnership, just signed an agreement to form a partnership....in some distance future 3. "Kurds are close to a deal" . . . . nothing done, just "close" . . . . that means nothing 4. "The USA is working with Allawi and the PRO American Kurds to bring them together" . . . . Again this mean nothing, as nothing has been done or accomplished 5. "talking with Biden"...... ha ha ha.... oh yeah, that mean a lot

It sounds like you are going to be held for ransom.

It was a text message. I didn't say I got it in one message. She sent it in 4 messages. I posted them all together. Because I thought people would read some thing into it that was not said. If they did that, that would be the rumor part, because all she and I know is exactly what happened. Maybe I should have posted it some place else. Sorry if it being posted in the rumors offended anyone. I guess political correctness applies every where.

First let me give you a little back ground. A Co-worker and I have invested in the dinar. We discuss the rumors that are cirulating on various sites (water cooler talk). Some we hope are true, some we hope are not true and others we laugh and make fun of. Today my co-worker went to her bank (Bank of America, Springfield MO.) on her lunch break. The following is a text message she sent me after she left the bank. This is 100% true and the only rumor part of it is what you read into it. Here is the text message she sent me exactly as I received it on my cell phone. Hey I truly can start a rumor! I went to Bank of America at lunch to close out my safe deposit box. The “lobby station” teller – you know the ones who can do more than just normal transactions, was studying an instruction manual. Guess its name! “Instructions for Foreign Currency Exchange”. I asked her if she was just brushing up on the procedure or if this was something new to her. She said she was told to re-familiarize herself with the process. Really – I’m not making this up! Kinda makes you wonder why now?

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10275/1092236-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml BAGHDAD -- Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq appeared almost assured of a second term in office on Friday after securing the support of an anti-American Shiite Islamic movement whose return to political power could profoundly complicate relations with the United States. The deal came as a breakthrough after nearly seven months of bare-knuckle back-room bargaining that followed the country's election on March 7. It came with political costs, uncertainty and risks, splintering a broad Shiite alliance and threatening to raise tensions with Sunnis who largely supported a secular Shiite leader, Ayad Allawi. As a result, it could still take weeks or longer for Mr. Maliki to secure re-election and form a new government, even as public frustration and extremist violence continue to mount. But Mr. Maliki spoke late Friday night with certainty that the long contest of wills was finally over. "We are confident that with the cooperation and efforts of honorable and faithful Iraqis, we will, God willing, be able to overcome the difficulties, challenges and problems and complete the construction of the institutions of state of a free, democratic Iraq," Mr. Maliki said in televised remarks. He owes his new support to the extraordinary political resurrection of Moktada al-Sadr, the self-exiled cleric whose fighters once battled in the streets of Baghdad, Basra and other cities with Iraqi and American troops. Until days ago he fiercely opposed Mr. Maliki's re-election. Mr. Maliki's success reflected his tenacity -- tinged with authoritarianism -- to retain power, despite widespread opposition to his leadership. It also showed his willingness to disregard -- for political expediency -- American concerns about the return of Mr. Sadr's followers to the center of political power. A dour, uncharismatic leader, Mr. Maliki has persisted in arguing that only he can prevent a descent into the sectarian carnage that consumed Iraq when he took office in 2006, even if that means allying with a movement blamed for much of the violence. While Obama administration officials insisted over months of quiet diplomacy that they preferred no candidate, only a broadly inclusive government, they made it clear that they did not favor a government that included the Sadrists, who are closely allied with Iran and oppose the presence of American troops. This week, a senior American military commander in Baghdad blamed Shiite extremist groups, including one affiliated with Mr. Sadr, for a spike in rocket attacks on the capital's Green Zone. In Washington, officials were noticeably cool to news of the agreement between Mr. Maliki and Mr. Sadr, in no small part because it signaled an ascendant Iranian influence in Iraq. "An Iraqi government that owes its existence to the Sadrists and lacks strong support from Allawi would necessarily be one that leans in Tehran's direction, something Washington can little afford at the moment," Daniel P. Serwer, a vice president at the United States Institute of Peace, said in an e-mail. Mr. Maliki, who is 60, now has the backing of at least 148 lawmakers in the new 325-member Parliament to form a government, just short of a majority. The Kurds, with 57 seats among several parties, indicated Friday that they, too, would support his re-election, though only with concessions on territorial, economic and political issues. "Now he has a great possibility to become prime minister again," said a prominent Kurdish lawmaker, Mahmoud Othman. That would give Mr. Maliki a solid majority, though he must still cobble together a governing coalition among various parties jockeying for control of important positions and ministries, especially those overseeing oil and the security forces. "What happened now is the best for Iraqis," said a leader of Mr. Maliki's party, Ali al-Adeeb. He called for a swift session of Parliament to elect Mr. Maliki and pledged to continue talks to include other factions, especially Mr. Allawi's, which includes almost all of the newly elected Sunni lawmakers. Mr. Maliki echoed that in his statement. Mr. Allawi's bloc vowed to oppose the nomination, but despite winning slightly more seats than Mr. Maliki did, 91 to 89, he and his supporters did not appear to have enough votes to do so. It was not immediately clear when the new Parliament, known as the Council of Representatives, would meet again. It has convened only once, for 18 minutes, despite constitutional deadlines that have passed unheeded. By law, the members must first elect a president, who then authorizes the leading bloc to form a government coalition. Mr. Maliki's nomination underscored the ever-shifting alliances of power here. The Sadrists at first backed Adel Abdul Mahdi, one of two vice presidents who is a leader of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, which was part of a broader Shiite alliance that joined Mr. Maliki's bloc after the election, only to disagree on who should be prime minister. That party's leaders boycotted the nominating session on Friday and met later with Mr. Allawi. A party member, Ali Shubar, said it would oppose Mr. Maliki because "we won't vote for another failed government." The outcome of the struggle over the next prime minister showed the ebbing of the power of a party that once dominated Shiite politics after Saddam Hussein's toppling. The Sadrists proved to be more effective and disciplined campaigners, with strong grass-roots support among Iraq's Shiites. Having embraced politics, they are now poised to wield influence they have not had since they withdrew from the previous government in 2006. The Sadrist leaders present on Friday did not explain their drastic and sudden swing toward Mr. Maliki. But in a statement two days ago, issued from Iran, where he is studying theology, Mr. Sadr sounded the pragmatic note of a seasoned politician. He cited a saying of his father, Ayatollah Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr, a revered Shiite leader who was killed in 1999 under Mr. Hussein's regime. "Politics has no heart," Mr. Sadr said, in response to a letter from a follower. "Be informed, politics is giving and taking." One of the main issues facing Iraq in the coming year is what, if any, American military presence will continue after a deadline in December 2011 for withdrawing the remaining 50,000 American troops here. Diplomats and military commanders here have already signaled an interest in maintaining a close security relationship with Iraq as it rebuilds its armed services and solidifies its fragile democratic institutions. While many Iraqi political and military leaders have expressed support for that, the Sadrists remain opposed to what they call "a foreign occupation." This article originally appeared in The New York Times. Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10275/1092236-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml#ixzz11EG5q8E3