Honestly, at this point I think everyone knows our economy is going to hell, they just want to get theirs while they can.

Given many franchisees and small business owners turned to CIT for financing, the drop in capital spending is not too surprising. However, I bet they can pick up used restaurant equipment for pennies on the dollar.

OT from last

During a Bloomberg interview yesterday, John Ryding quipped that the scariest possible costume this Halloween would be to dress up as the US Deficit. - Perhaps Uncle Sam with a large, dollar sign-shaped timebomb chained around his neck.

-A placard with a working version of the US debt clock should be added.

Eric Lewis, are you out there?? We're spoon feeding you, baby!

and a whole bunch of mystery meat from Mexico.

The recession is not over until the restaurant index crosses the halfway point.

lawyerliz: I saw a report in the NYT I think it was Sunday reporting with alarm the flight out of NY state due to taxes, etc. The article stated and no I'm not exaggerating that 250K have moved to FL.

So...hows business?

Naples is on the other side of the state, on the other end of
the Tamiami Trail. It's been a haven for the quiet rich for years.

I've been told that the number of closings at some re brokers has increased in South
Fla, but I'm not seeing it yet.

Stocks down, oil down, Au down. What's up?

TGT

Latest observations from St Louis Fed

......................october 12................................october19..............

M1 - .................$1667.6B.................................$1679.6B
M2 - .................$8331.5B.................................$8357.9B
MZM - ..............$9562.2B..................................$9559.7B

.................................october 7................................october 21...................

M1 multiplier - _________.882______________________.852

There is no free lunch

There is a lot of bad ones tho...I am eating one. More and more I am seeing smaller amounts. My tuna fish sub was, maybe 2/3 tuna spread thin

Angry Saver wrote 8:23 am

We need less Capitol spending.

less capital spending in some sectors

more capital spending in others

not all capital spending is created equal

Stocks down, oil down, Au down. What's up?

ABT

Stocks down, oil down, Au down. What's up?

It's a 2 "unexpectedlies" day from the looks of Bloomberg's headlines.

Thank you but I'd rather push around snow with my scooter than hurricane rubble. I'm an southern expat, they will have to throw me outta here in a box or something..that being said, I miss good food.

not good for the bulls..fund mgrs locking in today...next week should be interesting....

NYSE Problems Escalating As Selling Intensifies; Exchange Moving To Backup Servers | zero hedge

not good for the bulls

creditcriminalslove tarp,

Not good for the bullsh%tters either.

,rad nova,

I've eaten in plenty of sit-down restaurants all over Europe, and i'd say our current skimpy portions are similar to what an average meal has looked like there for some time now.

Over in Fastfoodville, there's a crazy emphasis on $5 meals right now, as if the quality of the food doesn't matter so much as the price?

Only Americans think normal portions are small. The rest of the world thinks we eat like .

Anonymous Bosch (profile) wrote on Fri, 10/30/2009 - 10:39 am

Another step down in the long slide of Happy Meal manufacturing?

Too far down the slide and name changes will have to occur:

2009: Happy Meal

Content Meal
Anxious Meal
Worry Meal
Angry Meal
etc.
I'm still waiting on the Suicidal Meal

Angry saver,

are u calling me out

I'm on your side...

My prediction

The sex this weekend for the GS traders will be fantastic.

Over in Fastfoodville, there's a crazy emphasis on $5 meals right now, as if the quality of the food doesn't matter so much as the price?

There's a large segment of the population for whom the "quality" of the (fast) food is a constant - barring roaches out of the fries. So... the only variable is the price. The manufacturers know this and count on it to goose sales when necessary.

JPY (yen) 90.6 to the dollar
however imho the futures of the yen and the dollar are toast

Dollar Set for Fourth Monthly Loss Against Euro on Risk Demand - Bloomberg.com

black dog (profile) wrote on Fri, 10/30/2009 - 10:55 am

The sex this weekend for the GS traders will be fantastic.

And that's just among the folks in the office!

For the most part, the current 20+ generation in Chicago spend their money on weekend pub crawls and brunches.

Recession sends boutique owners packing - Chicago Tribune

Chainsaw wrote:

the scariest possible costume this Halloween would be to dress up as the US Deficit.

I'm going as a bailed-out banker. Rent a stretch limo, have your driver pull up to the curb so you can offer the children usurious terms on a loan to buy some candy.

do we really have a country any more

want does it mean to fight and die for america

what are school kids pledging allegiance to exactly

seems to me multinational corporations trump citizenship

anybody who thinks massive illegal immigration was an accident and not a design is either woefully mis informed or a fool

---- from the WSJ

• OCTOBER 30, 2009

Chinese-Made Turbines to Fill U.S. Wind Farm

By REBECCA SMITH

A Chinese wind-turbine company, with financing help from Beijing, has struck a deal to be the exclusive supplier to one of the largest wind-farm developments in the U.S., a sign of how Chinese firms are aggressively capitalizing on America's clean-energy push.

The 36,000-acre development in West Texas would receive $1.5 billion in financing through Export-Import Bank of China. Shenyang Power Group, a five-month-old alliance, would supply the project with 240 of its 2.5-megawatt wind turbines, among the biggest made in the world.

Chinese-Made Turbines to Fill U.S. Wind Farm - WSJ.com

,rad Dawgma,

I weep for your daughter's lost future wages, and you said she was informed of her job loss via voicemail....

What did they say?

Hubby and I still go out to eat, although less now.
Upscale place had much more filler type foood on the plate,
My normal fast food place is using smaller burger chips etc.

And I agree, the portions here are much too big. We waste way too much food.

I used to be the fat person in the group.

Now I am well below average.

The amount of fatness visible at SeaWorld was amazing.
Brits look almost as fat as us.

josap wrote:

is it just lemmings headed for the cliff?

Perhaps it's CIT clients looking for liquidity. Or, it could be a kind of Lehman echo. People were surprised when Lehman was actually allowed to go bankrupt. It made others more afraid of risk.

creditcriminalslovetarp wrote:

NYSE Problems Escalating As Selling Intensifies; Exchange Moving To Backup Servers | zero hedge

Spock here, Captain: All zombie banks operating at full scammer capacity. Shield at 100%.

If broward is on, the Hadrian book gives some credence to the idea
of work being finite.

Most non slaves were not fully employed, and hadn't been for quite a
long time.

Slaves==machines and robots.

We need to think this through.

Brits look almost as fat as us. - LL

The ones who come to America for the chow do. The ones who stay home, not so much. And the rest of the "English-speaking peoples" are pretty slim compared to Americans. I have seen women in my county who are topping 400 pounds. I'm a size 12-14, and everybody-- even my doctor-- says "you're fine, you don't need to lose weight." WTF?

mock turtle - I think yo missed the snark in angry savers comment.

Small business BK has a new complexion according to this article snippet: Full article here: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE59I1FN20091019

I think this is perhaps important as I'm betting a lot of small business owners have their homes and other assets entangled. Otherwise it means risk models for lenders are really not up to the task, eh...not that they are lending.

By James B. Kelleher

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Recent bankruptcy filings by small U.S. businesses show a trend that could complicate lenders' efforts to identify at-risk borrowers, a new study reveals.

PayNet Inc, which provides analytic tools to the commercial credit industry, looked at 750 small business bankruptcy filers and found 50 percent were current with one or more of their lenders when they threw in the towel and sought protection from their creditors.

"Approximately half the lenders never saw it coming," PayNet President Bill Phelan said. "They were blindsided."

PayNet will officially release the study on Monday at the annual convention of the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association in San Diego.

The 750 companies PayNet studied collectively owed $58 million in loans, leases and lines of credit -- a tiny fraction of the 100,000 small businesses that PayNet said have filed for bankruptcy over the past year with an estimated $10 billion in obligations outstanding.

But the speed and silence with which so many of them went under marks a phenomenon that is deeply worrying to lenders, who historically have managed default risk by closely monitoring delinquencies.

In this downturn, however, some borrowers are refusing to telegraph their distress before they throw in the towel. "They pay and pay and pay," Phelan said, "and then they file for bankruptcy."

This is a first derivative chart, right?

....similarly:

Housing: Better, Not Good - Forbes.com

are u calling me out

creditcriminalslovetarp,

Of course not. It's an old joke:

Item #161 I Spend Most of my Money on Wine, Women, and Song Sticker

BFF put's me in a goof-around kind of mood. Go figure.

conspiracy theory redux...

404 Error, No such article | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

he was in process of suing GS and MS for naked shorting, corruption etc...

left airport boarding area because of ?

crazyv

my intent was to augment angry savers comment not dispute

as for the snark...i take snark +commentariat = hoocoodanode as law

Please tell me avocado green, shag carpet and disco's aren't going to make a comeback too.

That person was prolly from here.

,rad Dawgma,

I've seen a number of Starbux in giant bank buildings as well. What's the next retail step for these solid buildings constructed in a fashion to keep things safe?

I'm still waiting on the Suicidal Meal

I think that one's called the Big Mac ~

Starbux could possibly be the worst coffee EVER!

funny market moves today.

Well, you'll get that when the NYSE stops delivering quotes for a couple of hours.

follow-up: Aramco switching to Argus' indices
CME has licensed those indices
would not want to be holding an ETF composed of swaps on an illiquid financial contract when the time comes

Nanoo-Nanoo wrote:

Please tell me avocado green, shag carpet and disco's aren't going to make a comeback too.

A couple of our young mechanical engineers have recently grown "Harry Reems" moustaches. Just another data point-

Those of age will remember Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor, home of the troff.

I think there was 5 or 6 scoops of ice cream, and fudge and syrup, etc.

If you ate the whole thing they'd give you a ribbon...

Eric
That little thing? natch, all is well.
someone should set up a poll for which week the NYSE circuit breaker will trip, before it's too late ; )

Blues Brothers.

We need a sequel to put Chrysler back in business. Serioulsy, it would move more Chryslers than C4C.

Duke of Con Dao

the war in nicaragua was prompted by several motives

cold war thinking and opposition to all socialist regimes in the hemisphere
test out private "off the shelf" armies (as voiced by major general richard secord)
move drugs north to usa to fund covert us ops here and there

the porous boarders between mexico and usa were another way, besides gatt and nafta to force american labor to compete with lower wages around the world and thus force down labor costs

some job are not so easily exported to china...building houses harvesting agricultural produce

so mexican laborers were increasingly 'ecouraged to come north

the idea btw that they do work americans wont is, of course, a distortion

my father and my grand father picked fruit and built houses during the great depression

there are few if any jobs americans wont do for the right amount of money

or if they are hungry enough

soon we will see middle class white people who thought themselves "too good" to pick fruit, begging for a job like this or that

Chrysler is dead. It has been for a while. It only exists to collect payments for ex-specuflippingvestors

barfly wrote:

I'm still waiting on the Suicidal Meal
I think that one's called the Big Mac ~

Big Mac? Got vegetables. Yuck. You missed my reply above;
Double QPC (Calories 740Calories from Fat 378
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 65%
Saturated Fat 95%
Cholesterol 52%
Sodium 58%
Total Carbohydrates 13%

Choc Shake (Calories 1160Calories from Fat 243
% Daily Value
Total Fat 42%
Cholesterol 33%
Sodium 21%
Total Carbohydrates 68%

I figured out Starbux secret ingredient, they roast the beans with cigarette butts

Agree, Italy, Argentina, Costa Rica - very few fat people.

interesting close.

Yesterday's move was entirely predictable on the back of the GDP number- TPTB had to pump the market to keep the illusion going. Would have rained all over their parade for the market to have down on the number. But if they can't keep the illusion going for more than a day - that would be interesting. So much for the "waterloo" of the shorts

nova wrote:

Waterloo? Is this it?

i really didn't understand that comment. was he saying the bears would finally have their day?

/doubtful of that

There was an interesting observation- I think it was Freakanomics- that Starbucks having a store on every corner was a symptom of the weakness of the brand not the strength. The argument was that if your brand was really strong people should be willing to walk a couple of blocks to get your coffee.

,rad mock,

I do drive-by observations of the various flavors of AG, here in the Central Valley, and all the heavy lifting is being done by Hispanics. If I was their employer, and a WASP came along begging for the job of somebody that has worked for years and knew the ropes and had low expectations-which were met, and there was no reason to get rid of them, what aside from working for less than the Hispanics are making currently, would persuade the employer otherwise?

RockyR,

The way I read it was it was all over. It was good times for all.

rps wrote:

In Wicker Park, South Loop, Logan Square, the dives are "in."

Don't know much about Logan Square, but the "in" places in Wicker Park and South Loop are faux dives. (Like RJ Grunts, for example. It was a faux dive in the 70's.) Ethnic places are the only acceptable dives to the in crowd.

up 200 one day, down 160 the next. something is seriously wrong

I agree. With this level of intervention and HFT, we should be seeing 500 point moves, like the glory days of last fall.

Starbux hit on a brillant combination of roasting beans with cigarette butts. Caffeine + Nicotine = lifelong customers

crazyv wrote:

people should be willing to walk a couple of blocks to get your coffee.

We walk?!? No, we drive, to the drive through, then drive home.

have you tried it ? They did a blind test in many stores- many people couldn't tell the difference between it and their regular coffee. I actually thought it was not bad although I thought the in store was better. It is either a dumb move- downgrades their in store brand or alternatively it gives people a chance to buy an alternative Starbucks product at a much higher margin than the in store coffee. If you are going to lose that sale makes sense to have plan B.

Once in a while, just after I've pressed "Save" on a post, I glance through the thread again and wonder, what does CR think of all he's wrought?

Be honest, CR, how often do you shake your head when reading some of the crazy subjects we start going back and forth on?

If you consider the over one trillion dollars created out of thin air by the Fed in the last year, if you include the over one trillion of INCREASE in government deficit spending in the last year (TARP, TALF, govt stimulus,, bailouts, etc), and if finally if you substract the chump change bank bonus money in the last year, I think you will find that the personal savings rate not only did not increase, but declined into negative territory.

Jessica Simpson and buffalo wings. - n

Jess can't handle that rockabilly food either.

jessica simpson fat - Google Search

josap wrote:

We walk?!? No, we drive, to the drive through, then drive home.

same principle- in Malibu they had Starbucks opposite each other on PCH.

The Big Texan in Amarillo offers a similar deal. Finish a 72 oz. steak plus bread roll with butter, baked potato, ranch beans, shrimp cocktail, and salad in an hour and it's free. otherwise: $72.

Was there a couple of years ago on a cross country drive. No takers for the competition.

"Ginger" Ale without any ginger!

Grrrrr.

Anonymous Bosch wrote:

. 4.5 pounds of beef in one sitting. The mind boggles.

How about a 115lb 19-year-old girl eating a 96 ounce hamburger, with all the fixings, in under 3 hours?

http://www.cheese-burger.net/images/kate_stelnick_burger.jpg 

its just mid-day, they need another hit of high fructose corn syrup from someone.

When Starbucks frist opened I tried it, tasted muddy. I also bought the beans once, still muddy tasting.

Like my coffee, so I just stick with good beans I grind at home.

For your downtime doomtime viewing pleasure, Turner Classics has a bunch of Depression-era films playing now. Walter Huston shows up a lot.

The thing that amazes me is the co-relation between the Aussie and the Dow. Yesterday Aussie up about 2% dow up 2% today the exact opposite. Off the lows the appreciation in the aussie and the Dow has been almost the same. wonder when that breaks down.

pave.chichikov wrote: To me, burnt insulation flavor from electrical wiring.

That's the Carmel Macchiato specialty drink.

"Yea, but pavel, that's like eating an entire pot roast by yourself. These days the unobese person is the one that stands out."

It's a matter of life style. The human body can tolerate days of fasting, and then incorporate a large meal. It's our hunter-gatherer heritage. We live biologically and behaviorally unnatural lives.

I went for a hike in the woods this morning, then went shopping. I'd last eaten at 5:30 pm the day before. I finished a rather large breakfast just a while ago, at noon. I'm probably about 15 pounds underweight, by the charts.

Starbucks used to be good in the early days.
Then they took the roasting out of the stores, to standardize the taste to the trademark burnt offering now
Probably have to be from Seattle/Vancouver to remember old starbucks

dryfly wrote:

How long until 'white trash' qualifies as ethnic?

"White Trash" is just another ethnic slur against that Scots-Irish. Is it really necessary for this discussion?

"Off the lows the appreciation in the aussie and the Dow has been almost the same.wonder when that breaks down."

Just about the time when one notices it and tries to trade based on the correlation.

/not really snark

How do you spell "bulimic"?

Why toss when you can get a meth buzz for days and days... - y

SPG U.S. Portfolio Statistics(1)
---------------------------

As of As of
September 30, 2009 September 30, 2008
------------------ --------------
Occupancy
---------
Regional Malls(2) 91.4% 92.5%
Premium Outlet Centers® (3) 97.5% 98.8%

Comparable Sales per Sq. Ft.
----------------------------
Regional Malls(4) $438 $493
Premium Outlet Centers(3) $492 $515

Average Rent per Sq. Ft.
------------------------
Regional Malls(2) $40.05 $39.26
Premium Outlet Centers(3) $32.95 $27.12

(1) Statistics do not include the community/lifestyle center properties
or the Mills portfolio of assets.
(2) For mall stores.
(3) For all owned gross leasable area (GLA).
(4) For mall stores less than 10,000 square feet.

if comparable sales are down why would anyone pay more for rent? plus all the prime CRE available...more fishy stuff here..

Cinco-X wrote:

"White Trash" is just another ethnic slur against that Scots-Irish.

?? Snark or No Snark?

""White Trash" is just another ethnic slur against that Scots-Irish. Is it really necessary for this discussion? "

I've known plenty of white trash that definitely weren't Scottish or Irish.

dryfly wrote:

When my daughter was swimming I swear she could do that and chase it down with desert.

Obviously I don't swim enough, or my 3 days of swimming per week in a ^cough^ something body isn't as ramped up as it should be...

CalculatedRisk (profile) wrote (in reply to...) on Fri, 10/30/2009 - 9:24 am

... But even with the extension of the tax credit, I do expect prices to start falling again ...

best wishes
Except in SoCa and OC , where expect 16% appreciation in 2010, UCLA report says so.

During a Bloomberg interview yesterday, John Ryding quipped that the scariest possible costume this Halloween would be to dress up as the US Deficit. - Perhaps Uncle Sam with a large, dollar sign-shaped timebomb chained around his neck.

I'm from the government and I'm here to save Main Street.

Cinco-X wrote:

"White Trash" is just another ethnic slur against that Scots-Irish. Is it really necessary for this discussion?

Ummmm no. More than scot-irish included...

JD-

Is it the "zoo" you are referring to at Farells?

BTW SBUX was a decent cup of coffee (if not pricey) when it first started sprouting up everywhere but once they added food (not just muffins or cookies) it was over.

Ciao
MS

dryfly wrote:

"White Trash" is just another ethnic slur against that Scots-Irish. Is it really necessary for this discussion?

Ummmm no. More than scot-irish included...

Only because folks don't realize where the terms originate. Sen. Jim Webbs book explains it, though not in any great depth.

dryfly wrote:

Ummmm no. More than scot-irish included...

Yeah, if "white trash" is suppose to be for just people of Scot-Irish descent, I missed that memo completely. Stop hogging the lexicon, you grubber!
.
Also, how long do you have to live in American 'til you can drop that "descent" part? Technically, I'm Brit-German, but since my peeps have been over here for 350 years, I kinda gave up on the hyphenation...
.
Edit: Can't do math

dryfly wrote:

How long until 'white trash' qualifies as ethnic?

That was the 70's, early 80's, restaurant-wise. Once Reagan was entrenched, white trash dives were unacceptable to the in crowd. Even Clinton couldn't swing it back. It'll take 50 years or the end of TBTF before white trash is acceptable again.

some investor guy wrote:

There is no free lunch
Sometimes the first answer is the best answer. There is no free lunch when you attempt to spend your way out of recession because the upper 1% get more lunch and the rest get less lunch except for more net debt if they are able and willing to choose that option.

To think that one group of Americans that came from afar with white skin are the only true holders of the trash, is like reverse chauvinism, of sorts.

yagij wrote:

Yeah, if "white trash" is suppose to be for just people of Scot-Irish descent, I missed that memo completely. Stop hogging the lexicon, you grubber!

See Sen. Jim Webbs book which explains it, though not in any great depth.

That's a chilling pic, noob.

Anecdote time; CR-Bill ruefully shakes his head; what have I wrought?

In 1970 I lived in Italy. My uncle would throw banquets when the company reached certain milestones in sales; 100 milliom Lira, and so forth. One evening at an endless banquet of course after course after course, near 1AM, with everyone stuffed to the gills, he bet us none of us could eat any more.

Two of us youngsters took him up on the bet. The other fellow's name was Massimo. My uncle asked the kitchen to cook up a couple of Delmonico steaks. 20oz. each. I finished mine first.

Ne. Ver. A. Gain.
I spent the entire night sleeping on my back. It hurt too much to roll over.

Redneck originally applied to the wave of Scottish and Irish immigrants
I am very skeptical that white trash is connected

EvilHenryPaulson wrote:

I am very skeptical that white trash is connected

But a senator from VA says it is so so accepted it, eh?

Cinco-X wrote:

against that Scots-Irish

?! Huh. I thought it was just Merican slang. I didn't know it orginated from England.

yagij wrote:

Edit: Can't do math

There's 3 kinds of people in this world. Those that can count and those that can't-

"Trailer Trash" is inclusive. A rainbow word for your vocabulary

Cinco-X wrote:

There's 3 kinds of people in this world. Those that can count and those that can't-

There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who know binary and those who don't.

the Times: The federal stimulus program has saved or created 650,000 jobs through aid to states, infrastructure projects and federal contracts, the Obama administration claimed Friday morning, adding that officials believe they are on track to meet their goal of 3.5 million jobs over two years.
....http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/31/us/31stimulus.html?hp

white trash origins. 1850s southern USA, used for all poor white people, WHITE TRASH
it's not connected to redneck, or scottish/irish

Restaurants would be just fine and dandy if only TPTB had saved Lehman.

OT:
Dip buyers getting smacked around by today.

-250 market is reflecting...yesterday was the best bull trap in a while...

rent less consessions is Economic rent when doing projections.

a food called buffalo wings

says it all

Anonymous Bosch wrote:

I spent the entire night sleeping on my back. It hurt too much to roll over.

You should have sued.

Now we can't even throw half-decent companies parties without worrying about the liability. I'm pretty sure I was a part of the last truly epic 14-hour Christmas drinking binge a our office a few years ago. Parties in more recent years have been far more...tame.

Instead of defining one's heritage in such a downer way, why not read about the finest Scots-Irish explorer this country ever saw...

"Westering Man" about Joseph Walker.

Just testing my login.

ResistanceIsFeudal wrote:

But I strongly suspect J6P will be eating it soon.

Won't J6P just lose his interest?

NOTaREALmerican wrote:

Cracker I've never heard used except in the southeast.

I've heard it in inner cities too - from blacks describing 'my people'. Pretty sure that's a southern transplant thing though...

shill wrote:

Never in all my years of economics have I seen such un-obliterated BS.

You mean the main event, or here?

[Maria B. takes nighstand cowboy out of closet and rolls it into the garage. Turns on a chainsaw and begins dismembering it]

** breathes a sigh of relief as ky stock was getting very low **

Deleted due to missing the [Discard] button

yagij (profile) wrote (in reply to...) on Fri, 10/30/2009 - 11:53 am

Won't J6P just lose his interest?

Hard to get interest when you have no savings. And there's no need to save when there is no future to look forward to.

Hello all, been keeping a low profile this week, lots of work to do...anyone catch the Foxnews.com story last night on the Great Depression. Thought it was really weird considering all the hype this week on the end to the recession...and then wham...Elmo is out trick or treating early today...this feels weird...be watching what happens closer to closing time...

called me white trash...always found my way to basket..

hmmm. I guess white trash can jump.

Duke of Con Dao wrote:

350 years you? anyone in the the DAR

Both sides. At least 1 on each side that I know.

Webb is a complex man who dreams at night of hurting people and tells his wife that it was just gas. Then he secretly chuckles, strokes the barrel of his issue .45 under the pillow and says softly "Going to get me some."

Fun day for me. I don't own any equities, but I do own some CIT bonds.

me, DAR elligable. Don't need to go there.

from upthread

" But I strongly suspect J6P will be eating it soon. "

"Won't J6P just lose his interest? "

yep cause he lost his principal

Worldwide thermonuclear (not war) extravaganza! It's all good!

nova can probably corroborate this, at one time there were 3 Starbux on 3 corners of the same intersection in Alexandria VA.

sportsfan wrote:

I never realized there were upper-class Southerners of all races in the 1830s.

Yes, there were non-slaves and non-former British landowners in the south

yagij (profile) wrote (in reply to...) on Fri, 10/30/2009 - 11:55 am

Then why by the apathetic meal and how would he pay for it?

Why not, and who cares? Apathy is like that.

ResistanceIsFeudal wrote:

Why not, and who cares? Apathy is like that.

I guess I do, but I don't buy Apathy Meals...

yagij wrote:

He can tell us which discolored beans are edible and which ones aren't too!

None of the discoloured beans are edible. It's a crime against nature, and should be grounds divorce (if prepared by a spouse) or child abuse (if served by a parent).

Let's show some humanity for once, people.

CNBC headline: Dow pares losses after 250 point drop. Vix up 20%. That's the story, dumb bitches.

Cracker I've never heard used except in the southeast.

I've heard it in inner cities too - from blacks describing 'my people'. Pretty sure that's a southern transplant thing though...

The term "cracker" comes from the white settlers of northern FLA and southern GA who used whips to drive their teams of oxen or mules pulling their worldly goods in wagons - the "crack" of their whips. This from the late Archie Carr (world sea turtle expert) who was himself a cracker (native to north FLA).

reflationistas getting washed up on the rocky shores...

Ha! I played b'ball in jail. You crackers.

blueridge wrote:

The term "cracker" comes from the white settlers of northern FLA and southern GA who used whips to drive their teams of oxen or mules pulling their worldly goods in wagons - the "crack" of their whips.

Next time I'm called a "cracka" down outside the court house, I'll remember to keep this nugget in mind and spread the joys to the hecklers that I'm not driving my team of oxen to move my worldly goods.

Cracker = Showing ass. As in in you were "showing ass in the diner Jimmy. You stupid cracker. Pull up them pants boy."

token bull wrote:

reflationistas getting washed up on the rocky shores...

For some reason, I get the impression that--if anything--we're patting ourselves on the back for accurately predicting that the Titanic was going to hit the iceberg, from the comfort of our white lounge chairs on the deck of the Lusitania.

And someone just launched a torpedo.

Nobody in virginia says 'cracker' or 'white trash'. Mostly 'redneck' along with the occasional 'woodchuck'.

It'll take 50 years or the end of TBTF before white trash is acceptable again. - CK

IIRC, the census data shows 30% of the American population marrying outside their ethnic group. (And that doesn't count relationships that produce sprogs w/o benefit of paperwork.). So if that trend continues, in a couple of generations the majority of the population will be mixed race. Which will kill the Klan, hopefully. Come to think of it, home DNA test kits will probably kill the Klan, because in the South the 'Jefferson problem' cuts both ways. So folks like Tiger Woods, Obama, Halle Berry, etc. are likely the wave of the future.

The term "cracker" comes from the white settlers of northern FLA and southern GA who used whips to drive their teams of oxen or mules pulling their worldly goods in wagons - the "crack" of their whips.

I learn so much from this blog,...I wonder how much of it is true.

Blue water news:

" October 30, 2009

Chinese naval missile frigates FFG-525 Maanshan and FFG-526 Wenzhou will relieve the FFG-529 Zhoushan and FFG-530 Xuzhou in the Gulf of Aden to protect merchant vessels from pirates, Xinhua reported Oct. 30. Supply ship Qiandaohu will remain on duty in the region. China's fourth flotilla in the region since the end of 2008 will have a crew of more than 700 that includes a special forces unit and two helicopters. Pirates are holding a Chinese ship for ransom."

black dog wrote:

Nobody in virginia says 'cracker' or 'white trash'. Mostly 'redneck' along with the occasional 'woodchuck'.

In southern Ontario, Canada, rural folks of that persuasion are redneck, and urban/suburban are white trash.

Dryfly, Actually, I just made it up.

What will Monday be like after a 2% down Friday, I can't help wonder!

black dog wrote:

with the occasional 'woodchuck'.

Ok, now you've insulted MY people. Woodchucks are similar to

SNAFU wrote:

What will Monday be like after a 2% down Friday

I'd bet a 4% up faceripping