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stones are not caused by the Truckee. Why do you need to leave the blissful California escape vale? What will you do for a substitute San Francisco romance holiday?

Had any rain or snow around there lately?

I bet you don't ski, either. So you're not going to Vail or Aspen or even Park City, and not doing a rafting gig on the Salmon, either.

Logistics would take you to, say, Barstow, though.

Moving to Leipzig Germany to help run a new distribution center there for my company. Survived the recent round of layoffs and frankly right now the German gig is the most secure. Brand new building, of my own design, new clients with long-term(ish) contracts, and the fam is keen to go. Exciting and scary all at once.
 
Moving to Leipzig Germany to help run a new distribution center there for my company. Survived the recent round of layoffs and frankly right now the German gig is the most secure. Brand new building, of my own design, new clients with long-term(ish) contracts, and the fam is keen to go. Exciting and scary all at once.
Wow congrats bro sounds like fun. Enjoy it.
 
Wow congrats bro sounds like fun. Enjoy it.

Thanks!

One thing, with most of my family still in the states (2 kids, grandkid, parents, etc.), I am going to start paying a lot closer attention to the exchange rate with the Euro. I don't like where it is headed right now.
 
PKM'S has a sense of humor, and knows I love being razzed.

I've been thinking of using the phone number he gave me, just to see if he's current on his bills. . . .
he probably is the kind that sets the bills on autopay on subscription and never looked at the totals ever since.
 
he probably is the kind that sets the bills on autopay on subscription and never looked at the totals ever since.

could be.

however, as I understand it, he has a wife and some daughters.

Pretty much, I figure that for a different sort of reality. More like my own. . . .
 
Thanks!

One thing, with most of my family still in the states (2 kids, grandkid, parents, etc.), I am going to start paying a lot closer attention to the exchange rate with the Euro. I don't like where it is headed right now.

The dollar, contrary to all our common experience and wisdom, has been getting stronger. Not because of Obama the Fearless'es economic prowess. . . . . but because orders have gone out to preeminently debase other currencies like the Mark and Yen. . . . Central Bank operations. . . . . plus even more strident measures to lay out loads of freshly printed notes. Silver and Gold, far too insignificant in quantity to serve as serious stores of value, have also been manipulated markets.

You have nowhere to run, no where to hide.
 
I should probably adjourn my remarks to the LTE rather than drive this thread so far away from saying "hello" to the newbs.

I looked through the link, ad. I've gone through some similar lit from that period.

The thing that is great about America is that we did not have to conform to intellectual or ideological constraints, however manipulated we might have been by newspapermen, business interests, and such. The ordinary American was always his own man. With boots in the mud, and property he could call his own, life just doesn't look like a class war.


Fair enough. I had the same idea too. It's more tranquil in here, don't you think?


My oh my babe. Just like the Turkish poster Tarkanian, you keep adding new heavy merchandise to my vocab pannier. That (the one before this quote in the welcome thread) was a hard post to read and understand for me with a lot of dictionarial help -thank Goodness to internet. But it goes by the territory of having a nick like that I guess.

This LaRouche family you speak highly of. Why are you putting them in a spot of the Mormons you say you are rooted in? Do you think today's Mormon community is a lesser one to the one that had lived in the foundation times and were more idealistic in character? Also I figured that Larouche Jr is a Friends member. Do you have any connection to them ideally? Your remarks sometimes strike me as if you are an extremely bored materialist with a lot of critique to cast upon your environment while havin' fun with it, but I think you are pretty religious, but couldn't tell you believe in the Mormon religion or just a Christian scholar searching for his idealistic notions of belief and practice.

I also would like to say that those
Statist perps you speak of are the real ones that have the ability of ignoring the existence and functioning of the state and have their way with any aspect of it compared to Marxists, who seem to be a lot more addicted to discipline, a forced myth of a virtue that is probably as old as state itself.
 
The dollar, contrary to all our common experience and wisdom, has been getting stronger. Not because of Obama the Fearless'es economic prowess. . . . . but because orders have gone out to preeminently debase other currencies like the Mark and Yen. . . . Central Bank operations. . . . . plus even more strident measures to lay out loads of freshly printed notes. Silver and Gold, far too insignificant in quantity to serve as serious stores of value, have also been manipulated markets.

You have nowhere to run, no where to hide.

Yeah I just want to see the Euro up to about 1.5 for about 4 months, then it can hit parity for all I care. Love those front-loaded contracts if the timing is right.
 
Yeah I just want to see the Euro up to about 1.5 for about 4 months, then it can hit parity for all I care. Love those front-loaded contracts if the timing is right.

So my wife is planning to send me out to California this weekend, with a scheduled meeting in Reno. PM me with contact info and I'll use it.
 
Fair enough. I had the same idea too. It's more tranquil in here, don't you think?


My oh my babe. Just like the Turkish poster Tarkanian, you keep adding new heavy merchandise to my vocab pannier. That (the one before this quote in the welcome thread) was a hard post to read and understand for me with a lot of dictionarial help -thank Goodness to internet. But it goes by the territory of having a nick like that I guess.

This LaRouche family you speak highly of. Why are you putting them in a spot of the Mormons you say you are rooted in? Do you think today's Mormon community is a lesser one to the one that had lived in the foundation times and were more idealistic in character? Also I figured that Larouche Jr is a Friends member. Do you have any connection to them ideally? Your remarks sometimes strike me as if you are an extremely bored materialist with a lot of critique to cast upon your environment while havin' fun with it, but I think you are pretty religious, but couldn't tell you believe in the Mormon religion or just a Christian scholar searching for his idealistic notions of belief and practice.

I also would like to say that those
Statist perps you speak of are the real ones that have the ability of ignoring the existence and functioning of the state and have their way with any aspect of it compared to Marxists, who seem to be a lot more addicted to discipline, a forced myth of a virtue that is probably as old as state itself.

yah, I have wondered where you're from. I used to think you were LA solid liberal, like outta UCLA or USC or that liberal arts college in Clairmont like AP or something. . . . Then when you suggested I'd be surprised I put it to Shanghai. Lol.

youngsters going heavy on the books get snared by ideological/historical visions of an older generation of writers quite often. Kinda hard to have a toy and not play it hard. Ideas are like toys in our minds. We work with what we have, maybe too much.

Having a few cows to study has changed my whole world view.

A cow does not have ideology, or vested intellectual stakes in some theory or another of international politics. They sit in the sun, swat flies with their tails, get a big drink of water once or twice in a day, and eat everything in sight. What a life. They "own" nothing, but you have to have the means to enforce your way if you want to push them around.

More and more, the power-conscious among us envision world schema wherein we are their cattle. I just think we should reject all that nonsense, and somehow ease them on down the road by unseating them from government positions, and bankrupting their businesses by peaceful non-participation in their products. Lol. Can you imagine not using a car? Or raising your own tomatos in your front yard?

Well, at least we should reject the preachments of mainstream media retailers and state-run educational systems. And somewhere, get ourselves a spot in the sun, near some water we can call our own, and do a garden.
 
So, my daughters have called me out on the Roger Miller binge I've been on.

Obviously, he's a no-account drunk, a dissipated scoundrel, and an evil example for young folks, all rolled up in one big stogie you can smell a block away.

Actually, I was wondering about my fascination with his songs from since I was oh maybe ten years old.

So here it is. I had been planning to just hike outta my childhood problems someday, and he just made it sound fun and look possible.

Another song I like is in the movie "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?". The one about Big Rock Candy Mountain. I don't suppose many of you know where that is. It's at the end of the Central Utah railroad spur down by Antimony and Circleville.
 
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