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[Lucky9teen]

“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principles of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale”
~ Thomas Jefferson (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)

“There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.”

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” ~ Henry Ford (American industrialist and pioneer of the assembly-line production method, 1863-1947)

“I saw a bank that said "24 Hour Banking", but I don't have that much time” ~ Stephen Wright (American Actor and Writer, b.1955)

“The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in inequity and born in sin... But if you want to continue to be slaves of the bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let the bankers continue to create money and control credit .” ~ Josiah Charles Stamp (English Economist President of the Bank of England in the 1920's and the 2nd richest man in Great Britain, 1880-1941)

“Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.” ~ Thomas Jefferson (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)

“There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking” ~ Will Rogers (American entertainer, famous for his pithy and homespun humour, 1879-1935)

“In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less” ~ John Kenneth Galbraith

“The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.” ~ Philip K. Dick (American Writer, 1928-1982)

“John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.”

“It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country” ~ Adam Smith (Scottish philosopher and economist, 1723-1790)

“I am sure I will feel at home in the Bahamas. I've been involved in gambling in the Bahamas. I've been involved in gambling in Nevada and I've been involved in banking.” ~ Chic Hecht (American Ambassador (Bahamas), b.1928)

[fredhead]

IOTP

[Lucretia Borgia]

Note that there is only two seasons at Great Lakes. Winter........and the Fourth of July. I refer you back to the date of my enlistment. I used to live in southeastern Wisconsin. I remember those as being mild winters compared to say living up north now where a two week stretch of sub-zero temps is the norm.

[Pan_Yan]

I got on the plane at 5 am one fine November morning in Butte, Montana in 1988. There were a few feet of snow on the ground and lovely large flakes falling fairly rapidly. Six hours leter I walked out the doors of the airport into a humid blast furnace called Orlando.

Then they cut two feet of hair off of my head and things went downhill.

[Pan_Yan]

leter=later. I’ve got to work on spell check use.

[ErnBatavia]

Da folks up around Duluth refer to ‘down by da Cities’ as the banana belt.

[Mad Dawgg]

Mmmmmmm BACON!

[BenLurkin]

[Lucretia Borgia]

I guess that you can just call me Chiquita. I woke up this morning to a fresh layer of snow on the ground. It was a WTF moment. This past Monday, I grilled out and we ate dinner out on the deck. Only in Minnesota!!!!!!

[Bookwoman]

Oh no! Not a red shirt! You know what THAT means... if you go down on the planet you are doomed!

[Darksheare]

Product of a sick mind:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8LBpMuSTrQ

[Darksheare]

I bring pain!

[Monkey Face]

*yawn*

I can’t believe it took me this long to realize it is Friday and that you have worked hard to bring silliness into my world.

Thanks, Lucky!

*HUG*

[Monkey Face]

Your Money Personality is Tightwad

You don't spend money unless you absolutely have to.
And when you do spend, you try to go for the cheapest option possible.

You're not a penny pincher because you're poor. In fact, you may have the most cash of anyone you know.
You're a true saver. You feel safest when you can watch your bank account grow.

While more people should follow your lead, make sure you're not depriving yourself.
Spend enough money to take care of yourself in the short term, so you'll be healthy and happy for the long term.

What's Your Money Personality?

[sunny48]

It’s a spoof, but funny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxtgLzi-aK0&feature=player_embedded

[Gordon Greene]

Don't hate him because he gets all the hot chicks... You fish-eyed fool!!!

[Monkey Face]

I nearly froze my BUTTocks off the two years we were at Great Lakes: Ice storm. snow storm, ice storm, snow storm...the storm windows came off in June and went back on in September.

The only GOOD day was the one on which my son was born!

[Monkey Face]

(I can’t believe I went there...)

[The Chief]

YouTube - Extreme Sheep LED Art

[TornadoAlley3]

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[Thom Pain]

Where is everyone?