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The crash is coming!!!
Re: The crash is coming!!!
by MattSavinar » Wed 25 Apr 2007, 21:08:17
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrairieMule', 'I') feel it too, and luckily so do my parents as well. I figure in 3.5 years I'll be by todays standards a 40yr old ranch hand living in Oklahoma. Better to be a poor old okie fat off of brangus beef than poor yuppie caught on a sinking ship with a big hat but no cattle.
or an old okie fat off poor yuppies. . .
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Re: The crash is coming!!!
by MattSavinar » Wed 25 Apr 2007, 21:12:07
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('killJOY', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')aybe some rich dude will let me into his compound in exchange for my skills
Ha! "Skills"! That's what the "rich dude" will want, all right. "Skills."
I do like the idea that my students are my "kids." Though, today, I showed "End of Suburbia" to the class, and many of them simply whispered and giggled through the movie or looked bored. I've had it with 'em! The ones that get it become obvious once I get their papers. Then I need do nothing more.
I got to thinking today: I'm actually looking forward to this. It IS a challenge. There's something about Bakhtiari's gracious doomerism (I can't think of a better term for it) that actually inspires me to THINK continually about what to do without sinking into a wimpering funk.
You need to show them something about the war and basically tell them "you all are going to be getting sent off to die for oil so you better listen up, this is probably the only warning you're going to get."
Crude Awakening MIGHT be a bit better. If you can't do the above ask them what they want to do with their life? Then explain how without oil that dream is bupkis. No myspace, no IPOD, no football, no nothing . . .
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Re: The crash is coming!!!
by Baldwin » Wed 25 Apr 2007, 21:16:47
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 't')he current gold bull has been going for about 6 years, leaving 8-14 years before gold tops and the most shit has hit the fan..... causing gold to start losing its luster from that point onward.
Unless the American dollar falls on its ass. Then the term cold hard cash will gain new meaning.
Only a city man would carry a bag of iron instead of a bag of rice.
-Ling Tan, from the movie Dragon Seed, 1944 (more wisdom from Turner Classic Movies)
-Ling Tan, from the movie Dragon Seed, 1944 (more wisdom from Turner Classic Movies)
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