Posted on 07/21/2013 11:06:14 AM PDT by iontheball
20 Fire trucks is not a sign of a massive fire. That is about the size of a Box Alarm, and perhaps a task force.
This is a lovely fact-free freeper thread.
Executive Order 6102 is an Executive Order signed on April 5, 1933, by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates within the continental United States". The order criminalized the possession of monetary gold by any individual, partnership, association or corporation.
The order was rationalized on the grounds that hard times had caused "hoarding" of gold, stalling economic growth and making the depression worse.[1] The New York Times, on April 6, 1933 p. 16, wrote under the headline "Hoarding of Gold", "The Executive Order issued by the President yesterday amplifies and particularizes his earlier warnings against hoarding. On March 6, taking advantage of a wartime statute that had not been repealed, he issued Presidential Proclamation 2039 that forbade the hoarding 'of gold or silver coin or bullion or currency,' under penalty of $10,000 and/or up to five to ten years imprisonment."[2]
FDR had the authority to regulate possession of gold because gold WAS MONEY back then. When Nixon took the US off the gold standard and Reagan allowed gold ownership, the US gov basically declared gold is no longer money. Today to seize gold is like seizing private property. Gov has less grounds to do that vs 1933.
LOL!
Certificates of ownership of GLD “stock”!
Somebody stole the gold then set afire to cover up evidence!
German accent: Commence operation Grand Slam!!!!
They had to dub Gert Frobe’s voice because his accent was so thick.
(Dad is a retired Fireman, I am allowed to joke)
Are those really NYFD fire trucks?
I don’t think this is a good sign. I guess we’ll have to wait for the wizards at the police department to tell us that there are no indications of it being “terrorist related”. LOL! Man. As Tonto would say, this country is in heap big trouble.
Be on the lookout for 30 or so dump trucks
I do not often agree with you sir, but today you are 100% on the money!!
“No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die.”
Dr. Evil: All right guard, begin the unnecessarily slow-moving dipping mechanism.
[guard starts dipping mechanism]
Dr. Evil: Close the tank!
Scott Evil: Wait, aren’t you even going to watch them? They could get away!
Dr. Evil: No no no, I’m going to leave them alone and not actually witness them dying, I’m just gonna assume it all went to plan. What?
Scott Evil: I have a gun, in my room, you give me five seconds, I’ll get it, I’ll come back down here, BOOM, I’ll blow their brains out!
Dr. Evil: Scott, you just don’t get it, do ya? You don’t.
Donald Sutherland's best work. No matter what he's played since I've never been able to see past his character in Kelly's Heroes.
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