Bobster2001

This is the most insane ruling I have ever heard of. If the Supreme Court can't figure out that this would totally cripple the US economy, then they need to go home. Imagine home sales. What would our country look like if no one could sell their home? I can guarantee that many, many items built in to every home in America was made oversees. Dimmer switches, plumbing fixtures, carpeting, flooring, etc. So this ruling would mean no more Real Estate? This is absurd. Bob

At a bris.

I think it might be a translation problem. Maybe it was the money from the Honor Box candy dispenser in Maliki's office and it is really 600,000,000,000 dinar, or $87.42.

Wow. Don't know where this is going to go, but I had to give you the first plus just for the immense and obvious size of your gonads! And let the fun begin! Bob

LOL! Now that's funny! Almost read right over it then thought better. Good one Maserati.

Roadrunner, I knew I liked you! You replied the above while I was writing the following so you beat me to the punch. Mine is just a bit longer but since I put so much time in it I'm going to post it anyway. Quote from Kosman "However, in your yard, they can look into what you are doing with no warrant needed because it can be viewed without intrusion, plain view. They may be in a building that is higher and see what is going on if you have a fence around your yard but it is still outside the wall of your house and in plain view, no expectation of privacy." This is your argument, that what is in my yard behind a fence should have no expectation of privacy because if, from a different angle, it can be plainly seen then it is free for all on watching. Question: why is it called a privacy fence? Is it not because those of us who choose to use it expect to have “privacy.” Using your logic we should not complain if the government installs cameras in the sidewalks to look for possible drug deals going on. I know that my wife wears dresses in order to shield others from looking at her “private parts” but since, “from another angle” one can view the underside of her dress, we should not expect any privacy here either. Is that what you are saying? Just trying to be clear. Then the next natural step in this erosion is OK by you too I guess. Public bathroom stalls. I mean, if someone can see you relieving your bowls by simply looking over the top of the adjacent stall thereby “viewing from a different angle,” then this is open for anyone including our government to install cameras as everyone knows that all sorts of criminal activities occur there from drug deals to illegal sexual encounters of all kinds. Perhaps your solution is that we now go to the expense of placing large canvas shields over our yards if we expect any real privacy. I'm sure that would not cost much, although it will probably have a deleterious result to my grass and garden with the reduced light. I know my wife would lose her place of sunbathing with this new found shade. She has already stated that she will have to stop sunbathing in the nude if she finds local law enforcement is flying around town specifically monitoring our backyard. What are you saying we should give up: Our late night rendezvous in the hot tube are definitely now out. No skinny dipping in the pool. Gee, I don't know, just the feeling that there is someplace on this entire planet that I can go outside and feel is really mine to relax, unwind, and not feel like I am being watched. Are you saying that this is not to be included in what our founding fathers had in mind when they fought for our freedom? I think it is becoming clearer and clearer that the temperature of the pot of water we “frogs” here in America are in is nearing the boiling point but since it has slowly been rising for so many years now, most are so comfortable with the warm feeling of our big brother “protecting” us for our own good that we will not stand up and do anything about it. In conclusion, one of the member here at Dinarvets.com ends all his posts with this great quote: "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke, Philosopher, Politician (1729-1797) To me, that says it all. If we continue to allow the encroachment of an ever more invasive government, and say or do nothing about it, than we deserve the lack of freedom we will one day have which is to say, no freedom at all. Oh wait, that member who always ends with that quote is you Kosman!

"The agenda also includes the second reading of bills to seize and confiscate of movable and immovable property belonging to the senior officials of the former regime ". The last line is interesting. Sounds like Saddam and his cronies must have had some RV's of their own back in the day. Or more likely Mobile Homes. Maybe that's how they keep in hiding for so long! Bobster

If you listen to the audio at about 8:24 he says that you have to make a lot of "propaganda" in order to delete the three zeros. He does correct himself immediately and say, "advertisements," but the slip was already out. I think all the articles lately about the removal may have in deed been part of a government plan to keep everyone in the dark about how and when the change to Iraqi dinar is coming. That said, he does very clearly say that they have already decided what they are going to do and that they are going to do something about the three zeros very soon. So, one way or another it looks like there may be an end to the merry-go-round we are all sharing. Go RV!

Where is here? Which source. Are you buying in Iraq at local bank? Maybe more importantly "when" did you buy at 540 to 740? Yesterday? 2003?

Calm before the storm.

Very good thought. I am in OK and oil has always been a big part of our economy and therefore many of my best clients are in the oil community. I have always ask these kind of questions as to why we don't exploit our own resources more as many are NOT hard to get or extremely dangerous for the environment. (Like natural gas which is becoming a bigger and bigger thing here. OK has huge formations and so we are creating a growing infrastructure to get easy access to locals like soon coming pumps at more and more gas stations till it is as common as Diesel.) Anyway, in conversations with oil related clients, most of whom actually own their own company, they don't seem any more educated than the average person as to the whys of governments slowness to relieve our dependance on foreign oil. Of course it probably has to do with the fact that they don't care as they are already making money hand over fist in most cases as it is. " If it ain't broke, don't ask Uncle Sam to have it fixed." Letting those hostile toward us use up their resourced first all the while knowing we have a flush hand, and keeping a lid on just how strong that hand is, is always a great strategy in business and makes more sense than any I have heard of. It will take many years to be fully realized but it would not be the first time a loooong term foreign strategy has been formalized by a world power.

Another appreciative fan from Oklahoma. Here is some digital money to pay my part for the flowers. 0010110011100011110001010. (This is in dinar not US so be sure to add that info to the binary to money translator or it may not work.) Bobster

Very funny! For those who have no idea what Scooby Doo is referring too, here is the link. http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2971

I was unaware that BOK was still selling dinar. Do you know which branches and if I need to prepay to order?

Amazing post. It is just a bit more complicated as hame55 pointed out but from an understanding of fractional banking the overall concept is sound. IMO this is why US has been giving away Trillions to various entities world wide apparently placing US in greater and greater debt but with the knowledge of what was on the horizon with Iraqi RV being there ace-in-the-hole to re-capitalize the world banking system from the bottom up. My only thought is, and it is not one I like to think about, is what may happen stateside if the US dollar is replaced as world reserve currency somewhere in this plan to stabilize the shaky system that is even now rumbling. It is one gargantuan house of cards that most every nation in the world has been participating in since it's creation in the early 30's with the seminal planting of the Federal Reserve and the creation of the US dollar. Most all other fiat money supplies are directly placed upon that foundation and if it begins to crack apart no amount of bailouts, cash infusions, market manipulations, in the minds of fiat money creators can stop the cataclysm that could ensue. They will lose control of the "Frankenstein Monster" they created and the world economies and that have benefited all these years could collapse overnight leaving all of us looking out through the rubble and most asking WTF just happened.

Awesome. Love humor on the site. Like sugar, helps the "medicine" go down.

Couldn't agree more. This should be place for adults who can speak rationally, thoughtfully, debate-fully, and not show how childish they are by throwing a tantrum every time someone says something they don't agree with.

This is the best plan I have heard. It has something for everyone.

OK, these are mostly PG and I have so many I put them in categories to make them more accessible. For country girls Nice tooth Cousin Betty Sue! Can I take you for a ride on my Big Green Tractor? For metropolitan girls May I buy you a house? Hi, I make more money than you can spend. You know what? Your eyes are the same color as my Porsche. For medical students You’ve got 206 bones in your body. Want one more? For the philosophical Are you as beautiful on the inside as you are on the outside? For the literary Excuse me, but did you happen to find my Nobel Peace Prize? Are you going to kiss me or do I have to lie to my diary? For the self confident Well, here I am. What were your other two wishes? Hi, I just wanted to give you the satisfaction of turning me down; go ahead say no. What has 142 teeth and holds back the incredible hulk? My zipper. Did you hear the latest health report? You need to up your daily intake of vitamin me. Are you religious? Good, because I'm the answer to your prayers. For the metaphysical Well, I AM telepathic, and I can tell that you love me. Right? (NO!) Damn, I always get "love" and "lust" mixed up. Excuse me, but weren't we blissfully married in a past life? Humor/ice breakers Are you Ingrid, my contact? The bird has eaten the bagel. Do you mind if I hang out here until its safe back where I farted. Be unique and different, say yes. HEY!!!! Wanna go half on a baby? If your left leg is Thanksgiving, and your right leg is Christmas, how about we spend some time between the holidays!!! When you see someone in the freezer section of a grocery store It’s dangerous for you to be here you know. Her: Why You: Because you could melt all this stuff. (One of my favorite lines from My Blue Heaven as said by Steve Martin.) And of course, as many forget, there are those for the girls too! Hi. I suffer from amnesia. Do I come here often? Do you believe in love at first sight, or should I walk by again? I have an owie on my lip; will you kiss it and make it better? Are my panties showing? Answer: "No." You: "Would you like them to? "What else do you like for breakfast? I already have eggs."

OK THAT is funny!

Love your posts. You are obviously a very special person. 1. You love to laugh. Love your joke threads, wish you would have at least one new one a week. In fact, that is what you should do. Start a new Monday joke thread and invite anyone to add another favorite joke. This will give someplace for some of us to go when we are tired of hearing all the bashers mean spirited comments to "cool our heals" before we are tempted to respond in like manner. Laughter is a much better release of tension than just adding more venom to a thread and using hate filled words to put a negative person in their place. I have been tempted to do this many times especially when I can tell that the person who is being bashed was honestly asking a simple question or stating their opinion: not trying to stir up a mini tempest of flying sticks and stones. But before I post my hostile words which I intend to come between the battered poster and the bully, I am reminded of an old proverb "Like one who grabs a dog's ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own" 2. You love to think.(and get others to do the same) This is again obvious from so many post and statuses, (statuses...is that a word?.) The authors you quote, which shows your love of reading...a dead give away that someone is a thinker by the way!...are never some simple quote or undeveloped thought but rather those that call to the reader to something deeper. You are hoping to get people to think, no more that that, to reason for themselves some of the questions of life like "what do you really want in life?", or "is there anything out there?", or of course the ultimate "why am I here?" 3. You love people Your entries about cooking, drinking, entertaining, all say one thing: you love people and living life with them. This is so cool and unfortunately not a common enough trait in our society anymore. In Europe this is much more the norm because they wisely understand that people are the most valuable thing in the universe not stuff. Why spend all your life only working and trying to make money just to buy more stuff when you have friends and family who want to spend time with you here and now. 4. You love to teach This one goes great with number 2 as you actually have something worth teaching. Having a love for life and a depth of knowledge that goes beyond what was taught the average American in our vacuous school system is great. Wanting to share and get others out of the "Matrix" and into a real life of their own is amazing. Even your taking the time to instruct computer illiterate posters how to do simple things like how to post a video shows the fact that you are hardwired to patiently guide people without judging their current lack of knowledge. Well, enough. Look forward to seeing your insightful posts in the future.

It means that when the dinar has more value, locals will not need a 5,000 dinar bill to buy a loaf of bread. They will instead need a newly printed 5 dinar bill. (Prices listed are not to be taken literally but only for illustration purposes.) Many locals are walking around with large 25,000 bills and such to pay for everyday items and stacks of bills for larger purchases. Once RV happens this will no longer be required but will be much more like our currency system here in the States where having anything larger than a Benjamin ($100) is a rare occurrence.

I don't want it to happen. I don't think it will RV above 3$. It won't happen in 2011. It won't happen in January. It won't happen on a Monday. Did I miss anything?