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To: Rarebird who wrote (74462)	8/4/2001 10:50:43 AM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116752

<<The Gold Bugs here are very tragic and Dark. >> Two US Carriers Now In Persian Gulf By Jamie McIntyre CNN Military Affairs Correspondent 8-2-1 rense.com

To: Rarebird who wrote (74462)	8/4/2001 11:36:43 AM
From: Timetobuy	Respond to of 116752

No problem. I don't follow gold. I just got to your post from the "cool posts". I wondered what stock was worth shorting now. I think most will be in trading ranges and can make someone following the ranges alot of money. But housing? I don't see how it's going to hold up. Silicon Valley is seeing drops in prices. Colorado has decade high time on the market for resales. Builders are offering incentives. Permits are down. Construction spending is down and it's not because weather is bad. Copper prices are down. What part of this looks good? What kind of jobs are all those immigrants that are fueling this building craze getting? Construction jobs?

To: Rarebird who wrote (74462)	8/4/2001 11:49:59 AM
From: IngotWeTrust	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 116752

Only ONE of the many things "tragic & dark about you as a goldbug on this thread" is this: Your failure to act like a gentleman and [supposedly a self-proclaimed] scholar by apologizing for your intended condescension and offensive, assumptive attack on me, last week. If your stating false assumptions about me publically as fact are "comedic and light producing for the goldbugs on this thread" then you need to revisit your Shakespearian's definition of and employment of tragedy in its most scholastic sense. Tragic my foot! Employment of gold in one's portfolio management is no more "tragic and dark" than the use of a twig-tool by a curious ape-baby to poke a lizard on the verdant, rain-forest floor. Perhaps more care should be used in your continuing assignations of others as you are quite literally revealing the tragic-Shakespearian fatal flaw and dark side of yourself to your detriment. You have, infact, repeatedly demonstrated such ugliness, aggressive and ferocity of posting behavior of recent weeks, one wonders if you have experienced some real-life tragedy, perhaps in life, love, or "temporal pursuit of happiness-God Forbid you seek happiness according to your earlier derisive posting to moi" that has turned you into such a Thread-bared Ass. Cover your drunken nakedness, Abram...you're embarrassing yourself. gold_tutor

To: Rarebird who wrote (74462)	8/4/2001 12:09:13 PM
From: re3	Respond to of 116752

<<<The Gold Bugs here are very tragic and Dark rotflmao !

To: Rarebird who wrote (74462)	8/6/2001 3:57:52 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116752

<<The Gold Bugs here are very tragic and Dark. >> Mass Quarantines Likely If America Faced Bioterrorism Attack FoxNews.com 8-4-1 CHICAGO - In an America that guards its civil liberties, police can't just shut down cities, make mass arrests and quarantine thousands of people. Or can they? Current and former federal officials said Friday that if there is a terrorist attack with biological weapons, private rights would quickly be swamped by the need to protect the public. State borders could close, vaccines could be rationed or commandeered, the Army could even take over cities within weeks of a deadly attack, an American Bar Association panel predicted. "To an extent, people are going to do what needs to be done and worry about the legal niceties later," said Suzanne Spaulding, a former top lawyer for the CIA and the Senate Intelligence Committee. The ABA panel, part of the annual meeting of the 400,000-lawyer organization, played out an imaginary terrorist campaign to infect Americans with the plague - from the first tips by an FBI informant in New Mexico to closure of the Minnesota borders and riots in Cincinnati. Along the way came word that a rogue Russian scientist and the Iraqi military were involved. Eventually, the FBI, CIA, National Centers for Disease Control, the White House, Pentagon and governors of several states were also involved - each with broader power than many people probably know they have, participants said. Under the hypothetical scenario, law enforcement could do little when a would-be terrorist shows up at a Santa Fe emergency room with a case of the plague. The investigation intensified, and the FBI got much broader authority, when several people died of the plague after attending a concert in Minneapolis. Political pressure intensified, with a demand from 20 senators of the opposite political party from the president that the White House declare a national state of emergency. Then came word that the terrorists planned another attack during a street festival in Cincinnati. Under this scenario, the FBI could go to a special court for permission to investigate foreigners, but could not begin stopping everyone in downtown Cincinnati who resembles a tipster's description of a suspected terrorist, said Eugene Bowman, deputy general counsel for the FBI. Nor could the FBI order the downtown area cordoned off and every building searched, Bowman said. Agents would need warrants based on better specifics than those offered in the hypothetical terrorist attack. But local police could do what the FBI cannot, so long as it was based on the need to protect public health, said Terry O'Brien, legal consultant to a national notification network tracking infections diseases. "The idea is to prevent the epidemic," not to catch and punish a wrongdoer, O'Brien said. The president could declare martial law and federalize state National Guards, said Michael Wermuth, head of a group advising the government on how well it is preparing for nuclear, chemical or biological terrorism. The attorney general and the defense secretary could also invoke a federal law that lets them call in soldiers to keep order if police or other law enforcement cannot, Wermuth said. "The military can be engaged directly in arrests, search and seizure and intelligence collection for law enforcement purposes," Wermuth said. "There's very raw authority to use the military to do any number of things that (look) like law enforcement, or to assist public health authorities by (enforcing) quarantines." The government would also have the legal power to force people to be immunized, although as a practical matter it is probably impossible, O'Brien said. "What are you going to do, go into somebody's home and tie them up?" On the other hand, the government could take control of vaccine supplies, even if it meant overriding state governors bent on hoarding their in-state stockpiles, the panelists said. The hypothetical exercise ended short of the president declaring nationwide martial law, and without the arrest or trial of the terrorists. foxnews.com

To: Rarebird who wrote (74462)	8/10/2001 3:38:24 PM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116752

<<The Gold Bugs here are very tragic and Dark. >> OT Man In Black By: John R. Cash, © 1971 House of Cash, Inc. Recorded February 16, 1971 Number 3 - Country Charts; Number 58 - Pop Charts -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, you wonder why I always dress in black, Why you never see bright colors on my back, And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone. Well, there's a reason for the things that I have on. I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times. I wear the black for those who never read, Or listened to the words that Jesus said, About the road to happiness through love and charity, Why, you'd think He's talking straight to you and me. Well, we're doin' mighty fine, I do suppose, In our streak of lightnin' cars and fancy clothes, But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back, Up front there ought 'a be a Man In Black. I wear it for the sick and lonely old, For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold, I wear the black in mournin' for the lives that could have been, Each week we lose a hundred fine young men. And, I wear it for the thousands who have died, Believen' that the Lord was on their side, I wear it for another hundred thousand who have died, Believen' that we all were on their side. Well, there's things that never will be right I know, And things need changin' everywhere you go, But 'til we start to make a move to make a few things right, You'll never see me wear a suit of white. Ah, I'd love to wear a rainbow every day, And tell the world that everything's OK, But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back, 'Till things are brighter, I'm the Man In Black. toptown.com