Bat of Darkness

Forgive me for saying so...but it's PAST the time for praying. It's time to do something about it.

Beginning to think that the U.S. is Babylon these days.

Ummm...you might want to hold off on opening any accounts that will cost you $$ to keep functional over time. Seems like lots of others have gotten into a spot of bother over that type of anticipation.

DinarDiva, I wish I could say that such folks are confined to Houston and Dallas...but we live near one of those Burger stops along I-45, and we experienced SERIOUS shock when we moved here twenty years ago. The people here blatantly take advantage of every giveaway program they can, and fully expect the cooperation of everyone around them in concealing the truth and collecting fraudulently. If you hire them for a job, they work long enough to qualify for the next six months of benefits...then they just don't show up one day. Don't call. It's enough for their employer to fire them, although they can't tell the government such a thing. When the benefits run out, they look for work again, and usually get hired back on right where they were fired from. I know a 23-year old, two kids from a man she never married, working full-time with a family organization, and paying an attorney to get her on disability...because she is "crazy". She will tell you that flat out, like talking about the PTA cookie bake. 23 years old. If the government programs aren't enough, they will be more than happy to work for a company about three months, then slip and fall. Spend the next few years riding around in their pickup drinking booze from a thermal cup. Ah yes, life in the country!

This is why Facebook is so important...and why Facebook wriggled their rules and settings around until everyone's Facebook pages are readily accessible to all kinds of parasites. It's kind of like the fact that your credit file doesn't belong to you, the companies that control it, own it, and you can't stop them from selling that information to the highest bidder. Except for about three months when you suffer from identify theft. They are intentionally exposing you to crime, fraud, and various other evils for monetary gain.

Hmmm...guess you're right. I tend to look at the graphs as a separate entity. They kinda take on a hearbeat after awhile. Been looking at this entirely too long...

It seems that after Shabibi was shut out, the value...as tracked by various Forex sites...contracted into a range from about 1140 to 1163 in daily fluctuations. Prior to October of 2012, and now again since about the first of March...those values are bouncing through a range between 1135 and 1163. I'm probably just grasping at straws here - but I wonder if this subtle signal doesn't mean that Shabibi is worming his way back into the CBI now that Turki is gone. Am I crazy?

Hot news, indeed Yota! This is something else Maliki would never have put up with on his own. Bold move! :)src="http://dinarvets.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif">

Don't know who negged you, Al...but I evened you out. Thanks for bringing this article. Maybe Maliki should load up on the first camel going west, because things are starting to warm up. Got to say this is the most encouraging news!

Pretty much all the government has to do is say that it is drugs, and the American people will turn a blind eye.

Is there anybody left on this board that does NOT believe that "wife in the know" is none other than SteveI's wife? I wanna meet those people!

I am reminded that the coach of the Iraqi team recently quit, citing non-payment of his contracted salary as the reason for leaving. I suppose Maliki intends to take over coaching the Iraqi soccer team, as well?

Sounds like they are taking on a complicated accounting responsibility (selling US$), and this guy is warning that it will be done in spite of the normal yearly audit. I would think a year-end audit is just normal housekeeping, nothing exciting. Audits cause lots of drama in the US every year...how about if your boss chunked an enormous project in your lap while you were struggling to make the numbers all add up to the penny? Particularly when you have the whole "money-laundering" problem hanging over your head? Enormous pucker factor! What's up with the emoticons?

I see merchandising is alive and well in Iraq! Kind of surprised that they celebrate Christmas...but whatev.

I never could get one of those union jobs...didn't know the right people. Was once associated with a guy who WAS in the union, and he never wanted to work. Got a half day's pay just for showing up, sitting around, then leaving for the topless bar. That's all he wanted out of life. But if the day dawned that he wanted to work for some reason...the union hall sent him out on all those cushy jobs I wasn't good enough for. I'm afraid I'll always consider this when I think about unions.