[startover22]

Happy Thanksgiving Magatory...

[Chery]

For instance, here is our mobil module simulater/playboy club/rec room where we do most of our highly top secret stuff. Sorry, I can't show you the inside. Top Secret!

https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/attach...1&d=1195717092

Harmless on the outside... danger on the inside! Just my kind of place!

Happy Turkey Dat!

[startover22]

Happy day to you too sweet Chery... Hugs, off for now!

[Chery]

I got to go too, going to eat with my grandson.

Will catch you and Myth when I get back.

Oh, Mag, CBW, Angel, and all,, you too - enjoy the day!

[J_9]

Oh, the smells of Turkey Day. One of my favorite smells. Good thing Magpie is off to the sun, we don't have to deal with his gastrointestinal disorders on such and odoriforous day!!

[magprob]

And a happy Holiday to you all. I made my world famous baked beans last night plus an extra dish for just me. I ate too many last night and they have quarantined me. Man, I'm fartin like a mule!
We called off the launch. I forgot about that pecan pie.

[startover22]

LMAO, Mag... goodness sweet...

[J_9]

Oh, Magpie, I can smell it from here!!

You got enough gas to launch you to the sun!

Now get outside!!

**gag, cough, sputter... DIE**

[Clough]

Whew! I'm gettin' out of here! :D

[magprob]

Do you ever wonder where all the farts go? They go up into the atmosphere, and they form the fart zone. It's right above the ozone layer, and that's why we have to protect the ozone layer!

[J_9]

So is this the major cause of global warming?

[startover22]

I wonder if they go straight to your brain sweet... that's what I wonder...

[magprob]

Been known to turn people into vegetables. Similar to a long catatonic transe.

[magprob]

In the News: Signs That the Economic Egg Is Cracking

Just the interest on the U.S. government's burgeoning $9 trillion debt will soon be more than the taxpayers can afford to pay. When that happens, the economy will collapse unless the monetary system is radically overhauled. Articles are appearing daily in the news that bring the looming economic crisis into sharper focus and strengthen the case for monetary reform. Foreign central banks are increasingly abandoning the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency, while the impending implosion of the housing bubble threatens to bring down the whole money system, national and international. As the riskier mortgages go into foreclosure, the institutional investors owning them as mortgage-backed securities will be left holding the bag; and these institutional investors are largely the pension funds on which the retirements of workers depend. To keep up appearances, the "Plunge Protection Team" has been authorized by presidential order to use U.S. taxpayer money to manipulate markets to make them appear healthier than they are, and lately it has been working overtime. But official assurances of a "soft landing" are mere window dressing, aimed at preventing another worldwide depression as home buyers and stock market investors stampede for the exits.

[J_9]

Scuse me, I got to go get sick. The spinning Spam has my head in a whirl!

[magprob]

"The great Oz as spoken! Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! I am the great and powerful Wizard of Oz!"

In refreshing contrast to the impenetrable writings of economists, the classic fairytale The Wizard of Oz has delighted young and old for over a century. It was first published by L. Frank Baum as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900. In 1939, it was made into a hit Hollywood movie starring Judy Garland, and later it was made into the popular stage play The Wiz. Few of the millions who have enjoyed this charming tale have suspected that its imagery was drawn from that most obscure and tedious of subjects, banking and finance. Fewer still have suspected that the real-life folk heroes who inspired its plot may have had the answer to the financial crisis facing the country today!

The economic allusions in Baum's tale were first observed in 1964 by a schoolteacher named Henry Littlefield, who called the story "a parable on Populism," referring to the People's Party movement challenging the banking monopoly in the late nineteenth century.1 Other analysts later picked up the theme. Economist Hugh Rockoff, writing in the Journal of Political Economy in 1990, called the story a "monetary allegory."2 Professor Tim Ziaukas, writing in 1998, stated:

"The Wizard of Oz".. . Was written at a time when American society was consumed by the debate over the "financial question," that is, the creation and circulation of money.. . The characters of "The Wizard of Oz" represented those deeply involved in the debate: the Scarecrow as the farmers, the Tin Woodman as the industrial workers, the Lion as silver advocate William Jennings Bryan and Dorothy as the archetypal American girl.3
The Germans established the national fairytale tradition with Grimm's Fairy Tales, a collection of popular folklore gathered by the Brothers Grimm specifically to reflect German populist traditions and national values.4 Baum's tale did the same thing for the American populist (or people's) tradition. The Wizard of Oz has been called "the first truly American fairytale."5 It was all about people power, manifesting your dreams, finding what you wanted in your own backyard. According to Littlefield, the march of Dorothy and her friends to the Emerald City to petition the Wizard of Oz for help was patterned after the 1894 march from Ohio to Washington of an "Industrial Army" led by Jacob Coxey, urging Congress to return to the Greenback system initiated by Abraham Lincoln. The march of Coxey's Army on Washington began a long tradition of people taking to the streets in peaceful protest when there seemed no other way to voice their appeals. As Lawrence Goodwin, author of The Populist Moment, described the nineteenth century movement to change the money system:

[T]here was once a time in history when people acted.. . [F]armers were trapped in debt. They were the most oppressed of Americans, they experimented with cooperative purchasing and marketing, they tried to find their own way out of the strangle hold of debt to merchants, but none of this could work if they couldn't get capital. So they had to turn to politics, and they had to organize themselves into a party.. . [T]he populists didn't just organize a political party, they made a movement. They had picnics and parties and newsletters and classes and courses, and they taught themselves, and they taught each other, and they became a group of people with a sense of purpose, a group of people with courage, a group of people with dignity.6
Like the Populists, Dorothy and her troop discovered that they had the power to solve their own problems and achieve their own dreams. The Scarecrow in search of a brain, the Tin Man in search of a heart, the Lion in search of courage actually had what they wanted all along. When the Wizard's false magic proved powerless, the Wicked Witch was vanquished by a defenseless young girl and her little dog. When the Wizard disappeared in his hot air balloon, the unlettered Scarecrow took over as leader of Oz.

The Wizard of Oz came to embody the American dream and the American national spirit. In the United States, the land of abundance, all you had to do was to realize your potential and manifest it. That was one of the tale's morals, but it also contained a darker one, a message for which its imagery has become a familiar metaphor: that there are invisible puppeteers pulling the strings of the puppets we see on the stage, in a show that is largely illusion.

Web of Debt - Chapter 1

[J_9]

That is my favorite movie of all time. I won't let you ruin it for me...

(in my loudest singing voice)

Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby

Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true

Some day I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemondrops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?
Some day I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemondrops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?

If happy little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow
Why, oh why can't I?

[magprob]

You ain't heard that song till you hear "IZ" do it. The BIIIG Coconut!

[J_9]

Oh, yeah I've heard it!!

YouTube - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Somewhere Over The Rainbow Lyrics

I do actually think maybe that I might like it too!

[magprob]

Yea! I hoped so! I have all his CDs. I love him.