Skip to comments.
No Ordinary Counterfeit [North Korean $100 Bills]
The New York Times ^
| July 23, 2006
| By STEPHEN MIHM
Posted on 07/23/2006 8:19:04 AM PDT by aculeus
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-80, 81-96 next last
To: Das Outsider
61
posted on
07/23/2006 9:30:26 AM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(Taglines for sale or rent. Good "one liners", 50 cents.)
To: The_Reader_David
I would remind all (FReepers) and sundry (administration members who lurk on FR) that counterfeiting another country's currency is an act of war. For your own personal declaration of war against North Korea, print the following images on your color copier and glue them back to back.
62
posted on
07/23/2006 9:31:37 AM PDT
by
Polybius
To: Cringing Negativism Network; Irish_Thatcherite; stephenjohnbanker
Then we distribute them say - in Venezuela or Iran, in such a way it looks like Kim is circulating them.
Hey, dass good idea! Maybe Kim do honeymoon in Bennizwayruh. Ees ezotic, fun, you know? Kim hab tok wit wife.
63
posted on
07/23/2006 9:33:28 AM PDT
by
Das Outsider
(The Kim Perspective, 7/28: Beavis and Butthead, Kofi Annan, and amazing animal tricks)
To: Polybius
That ain't even got a hard overlay. It should print perfectly.
64
posted on
07/23/2006 9:35:12 AM PDT
by
Dosa26
(p-q4)
To: Das Outsider
Kim and Hugo make a lovely couple...
65
posted on
07/23/2006 9:36:31 AM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|The IRA are actually terrorists, any questions?)
To: M-cubed
It's always amusing to note the Flag in the corner and ask the judge if this is a Military Tribunal, or a civilian Court...<<
That was on a King of the Hill episode where Dale and Hank were using crack for fish bait!
66
posted on
07/23/2006 9:36:56 AM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
(I'd rather be carrying a shotgun with Dick, than riding shotgun with a Kennedyl! *-0(:~{>)
To: NonValueAdded
67
posted on
07/23/2006 9:37:17 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(Only stupid people would vote for McCain, Warner, Hagle, Snowe, Graham, or any RINO)
To: The_Reader_David
I would remind all (FReepers) and sundry (administration members who lurk on FR) that counterfeiting another country's currency is an act of war. Only if you have a Preesident with balls to go after them.....and we don't!
68
posted on
07/23/2006 9:42:56 AM PDT
by
Bommer
To: aculeus
Seems to me that a suitable response to this would be to print about 100 trillion in NK currency, large bills and air drop them from 40k feet over the country.
69
posted on
07/23/2006 9:45:34 AM PDT
by
Malsua
To: Malsua
Drop them on top of the next TPD-2, as soon as it's set up on the pad.
(thump)
To: Restorer
Seems like a pretty small-time shipment to be a government operation. They could just as easily have shipped $3M or $300M. This shows the wisdom of keeping bank note denominations relatively small. The Europeans have a 500-euro note that is worth about $600, and therefore six times easier to smuggle than the same amount in Benjy's.
-ccm
71
posted on
07/23/2006 10:04:59 AM PDT
by
ccmay
(Too much Law; not enough Order)
To: festus
We wouldn't have this problem if we quit using imaginary money.......... Gold-backed notes are no more difficult to counterfeit than fiat money. Or are you saying we should all be carrying gold coins around?
72
posted on
07/23/2006 10:07:55 AM PDT
by
ccmay
(Too much Law; not enough Order)
To: The_Reader_David
heh, yea it is...some years ago I had a business partner who was with the Board of Economic Warfare in WW2....his job was to go around to farmers in the southern US and actually encourage and pay them to grow acres of kudzu vine...arguably the worst plant in the history of the world.....as it happens, kudzu plant fibers were the stuff from which Japanese currency was made and we printed gazillions of counterfeit Yen and airdropped them all throughout China and the Far East....I always thought that would still be an effective weapon of war under the right circumstances
73
posted on
07/23/2006 10:11:23 AM PDT
by
Armigerous
( Non permitte illegitimi te carborundum- "Don't let the bastards grind you down")
To: festus
"We wouldn't have this problem if we quit using imaginary money.........."
Be careful what you wish for, festus. It would be nice to go back on the gold standard, but that will never happen.
The next step will be a "cashless system" enacted under the promise that it will be for our own good. Our "money" will be nothing more than a number or "points" in a computer. One slip by some affirmative action employee and you're dead broke.
I prefer the "brass, copper, lead and powder" system myself.
To: aculeus
75
posted on
07/23/2006 10:38:02 AM PDT
by
VOA
To: M-cubed
*shrug* you and I have different ideas of what's amusing...
76
posted on
07/23/2006 11:22:36 AM PDT
by
null and void
(<----admits nothing, denies everything and makes counter accusations.)
To: aculeus
Be an innocent law abiding citizen,and inadvertantly pass one at the mall.The SS would ruin your day,if not your life!
77
posted on
07/23/2006 11:52:19 AM PDT
by
xarmydog
To: Armigerous
Yen and airdropped them all throughout China and the Far East....I always thought that would still be an effective weapon of war under the right circumstances<<
I just hope we haven't met the enemy ...and the enemy is US!
78
posted on
07/23/2006 11:54:34 AM PDT
by
M-cubed
(Why is "Greshams Law" a law?)
To: Iscool
gold would wear out our pockets faster..
79
posted on
07/23/2006 11:59:28 AM PDT
by
rahbert
To: panaxanax
80
posted on
07/23/2006 12:01:08 PM PDT
by
M-cubed
(Why is "Greshams Law" a law?)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-80, 81-96 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson