OT - Beer

Peter Cole said:

Tom Sherman said:

The Federal Reserve and other similar banks were created to take
control of the economy from the elected representatives of the people
(or other political leadership) and put in the hands of a few hundred
fantastically wealthy people.

Actually, The Federal Reserve* was created to solve the problem of bank
runs ("panics"😉. Hence, Friedman's expressed bewilderment over why they
didn't act to do so in the Great Depression.

That may be the official explanation.

Some of the elites made out very well during the Great Depression,
buying assets for pennies on the dollar.

This pattern has been repeated with IMF/World Bank engineered financial
crises, when the assets in a country are devalued, bought by foreign
investors, and THEN the imposed "austerity" measures that led to the
economic depression are lifted.

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*"Progressive Democrats instead favored a reserve system owned and
operated by the government and out of control of the "money trust",
ending Wall Street's control of American currency supply. Conservative
Democrats fought for a privately owned, yet decentralized, reserve
system, which would still be free of Wall Street's control. The Federal
Reserve Act passed Congress in late 1913 on a mostly partisan basis,
with most Democrats in support and most Republicans against it."

http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/aier_on_conspiracy_04.html

There is no contradiction between what is reported there and what the
real agenda of those lobbying Congress behind the scenes was.

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful

On Mar 4, 8:37 pm, Tom Sherman <[email hidden]>

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A while back I read about a barley wine on this group.  It inspired me
to try a couple, and I was hooked.  New favorite fireside beverage.
So, I only thought it fair/fitting that I mention my newest discovery
here.  Weyerbacher Blithering Idiot.  I enjoyed it on tap over the
weekend at the Pepperland Cafe in Berwick, ME.  Great place, if you're
even in the area go there.  Seriously.  Anyway, they had 2 barley
wines on tap, Blithering Idiot and Sierra Nevada Bigfoot.  I've had
the bigfoot, and I like it, but I decided to try something new.  I'm
so glad I did.  Not as malty/hoppy as the Bigfoot, but oh so good.
Anyway, figured I'd throw it out there in case one of you comes across
it and wonders.  It's got a firm recommendation from my camp.  Oh, and
at 11% go easy, lest you become a blithering idiot.

Does barley wine qualify as beer?

I will have to give the recommended beverages a try.

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful

Its in the beer section around here.

On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 16:18:47 -0600, "Edward Dolan" <[email hidden]>
trolled yet again:

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Even you must be bored with your lame trolling by now.

Perhaps you can make up another personality that's more interesting.

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:13:14 -0500, "Edward Dolan" <[email hidden]>

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"still just me" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 16:18:47 -0600, "Edward Dolan" <[email hidden]>
trolled yet again:

ALL TOP POSTERS ARE IDIOTS

Very clear - it explains why you just top posted.

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Nice try, but even your trolling has become lame.

=x= "Has become?" When has it ever not been?
<_Jym_>

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Since Iraq needs a government, and it's too much trouble to impeach
Bush & Cheney, I suggest that we "donate" them to Iraq. No deposit, no
return.

....when he got voted in...I sat back and couldn't believe the
democracy of the world, US...actually let someone in office who had
the least votes. It was unbelievable in my eyes and a sad day for our
history as the last 8 years have verified. I thought back to all the
votes in 3rd world countries where we clambered about stuffing the
ballot boxes and all the scandals and just shook my head.
as the saying goes.
Save a tree...get rid of a bush.

Send Hillary there's nothing scarier than that Liberal bimbet

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...when he got voted in...I sat back and couldn't believe the
democracy of the world, US...actually let someone in office who had
the least votes. It was unbelievable in my eyes and a sad day for our
history as the last 8 years have verified. I thought back to all the
votes in 3rd world countries where we clambered about stuffing the
ballot boxes and all the scandals and just shook my head.
as the saying goes.
Save a tree...get rid of a bush.

Not exactly a student of Constitutional Law are you? You might want to
study Article II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution.

You will really enjoy watching the Democrats select a Presidential
candidate. In all likelihood, Obama will get to the Democratic Convention
with the popular vote. The politically elite Democrats (Superdelegates) are
likely to give the nomination to Hillary.

the Moderator said:

[...]
You will really enjoy watching the Democrats select a Presidential
candidate. In all likelihood, Obama will get to the Democratic Convention
with the popular vote.[...]

Despite all the Republicans crossing over to vote for $Hillary.

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The politically elite Democrats (Superdelegates) are
likely to give the nomination to Hillary.

Are they closet McCain supporters?

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful

"Tom Sherman" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

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the Moderator said:

[...]
You will really enjoy watching the Democrats select a Presidential
candidate. In all likelihood, Obama will get to the Democratic
Convention with the popular vote.[...]

Despite all the Republicans crossing over to vote for $Hillary.

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The politically elite Democrats (Superdelegates) are likely to give the
nomination to Hillary.

Are they closet McCain supporters?

They are classic power brokers. They don't have faith in the populace
making the correct decisions. They want to appoint a candidate of their own
choosing.

In sci.environment said:

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Send Hillary there's nothing scarier than that Liberal bimbet

Except your spellchecker.

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"Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened
against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me
without a cause.
For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.
Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread
also out of their desolate places.
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his
labor.
Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favor
his fatherless children.
Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name
be blotted out.
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the
sin of his mother be blotted out.
Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of
them from the earth.
Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and
needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing,
so let it be far from him.
As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come
into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle
wherewith he is girded continually.
Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that
speak evil against my soul.
But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is
good, deliver thou me.
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the
locust.
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shook their
heads.
Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
that they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.
Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed;
but let thy servant rejoice.
Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame; and let them cover themselves with
their own confusion, as with a mantle.
I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the
multitude.
For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that
condemn his soul." -- Psalm 109