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    Your comment #4 is cut off.
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    I doubt if a modern economy could exist without fiat money. The transaction amounts are much too great. When the Spanish introduced New World gold to Europe, there was a great inflation!
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    You might like to respond to the general idea of the topic of the 'interjections' in what ever way you choose. On to something else, the answers to which I no longer know. Are the special Treasuries the Social Security, Medicare, and other government trust funds, invested in, counted in the reported Public Debt? If they still exist, are the Special Treasuries that are/were issued to pre-refund municipal bonds counted? I've checked the Bureau of Public Debt site and found no answer.
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    Plague? Stroke? Berger's Disease? Ptosis?
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    The 'better' people have a tendency to inbreed and produce idiots (Dubya, for example). The polloi have a greater tendency to produce geniuses. So, it would be the other way around.
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    Here's how we can do it. Set up a corporation with a lot of great ideas. Get a sub-prime mortgage with a piggy back down payment. Belly up immediately and then buy it back from the bank for farthings on the guinea.
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    Well, how did it go? Get bushwhacked by any wild Indians?
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    All done!

    Gaius Octavius commented on The Augusta's blog entry in Casa di Livia

    Tattle Tale? BTW, good luck with it.
  9. Gaius Octavius
    You poor, poor thing! Remember, if you don't throw caca into the fan, it won't splatter on you. Pater Arcanae
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    Que? I like your 'Blackout'. Nice work.
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    Yup!
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    I'm stuck with my tapes and records of Frank Sinatra, Jacques Brel, Hank Williams and Nana Mouscouri. The rest is all musical (?) pyrotechnics to me.
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    In the southwest U.S., a number of plague victims are recorded each year. How does this occur?
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    If the Senate was so democratic, law abiding, and strong, why did it look to Pompey for salvation? Why didn't it look to one of its own - Cato, and gods forbid, the waffling Cicero? Remember: "The Law is an ass." Had people not broken the law in the U.S., we would still have slavery; women couldn't vote; and union members would still be machine gunned by the state and private armies. The Senate was the king; it broke the law. The common man was rabble. The state existed for the benifit of the 'good families". Elections in the 'democratic' assemblies? They were fixed by, and for the 'good men'.
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    Weren't the Vikings the first Europeans to use a magnetic compass?
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    That's a pic of what? Another weird babe.
  18. Gaius Octavius
    The Greenwood cemetary. A ferry boat ride. The Brooklyn Museum and the others. Lincoln Center. Fairway. The NYSE. The Empire State building. Rockefeller Center. Fifth Avenue. Tiffany. The Cloisters. Trinity Church and the grave yard. St. Patty's And, of course, there is ME! Bring lots of money!
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    Thank you Milton Friedman. One might ask: Why is the economy not producing more jobs? Why do we have a trade deficit? Why are we losing the high paying 'nuts and bolts' jobs? Why is there a 'sub prime' problem? Why is our national debt the highest it has ever been? Unionism is an integral part of capitalism. Do you belong to a union? Just to keep you from calling me a communist traitor, I have been a capitalist all my adult life, i.e, my wallet was on the hook every day and no one ever 'bailed' me out of my blunders. Thank you, Misters Volker and Greennspan.
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    Cyprus? Sicily? Boeotia?
  22. Gaius Octavius
    Perhaps the relaters of some speeches were delivering the sense of the speeches. If I am not mistaken, a lot of history was oral (the Illiad) in those days.
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    Perhaps a little light (or heat) might be shed on the subject if the questions: "Did the then Republic deserve to live?" and "Were the murders out for themselves or the Republic?", were addressed. BTW, did the conspirators act 'legally'?
  24. Gaius Octavius
    From the hand of Cicero?
  25. Gaius Octavius
    Verona? G-Man, what's all that twaddle about at the bottom of your pic?
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