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To: TobagoJack who wrote (25856)	11/29/2007 11:25:25 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217564

Republican Mitt Romney: when undocumented workers were discovered at his Belmont home last year, the Guatemalan illegal immigrants who landscaped his lawn said that the former Massachusetts governor would occasionally greet them with a friendly "Buenos dias." Also, one of Romney's sons is fluent in Spanish, and Romney's campaign has a Spanish-language website and has aired a Spanish-language ad. Attempting to fend off accusations that he had hired illegal immigrants as gardeners, Mitt Romney argued during Wednesday's Republican debate that homeowners shouldn't be expected to check the papers of workers with "funny accents." LOL!!!! Meanwhile in Boston a Brazilian Illegal set up an English class to teach other illegals: He teaches in Portunhol, a mix of Portugues and Espanhol, so that he has a clientele of Brazilians and Hispnics too) Buenos senor! Vamos a cortar la grama de su jardim. Good Morning sir, We came to cut the grass of your garden. Tienes documentos? Su acentos san chitosos. Do you have documents? Your accents are funny. Si. Somos de Texas. Pero Tenemos documentos, certamente. Esta en la casa. Yes. We are from texas. Sure we've got documents. They are at home. Quanto custa? How much? Senor, el precio ahora es 50% mas alto. Sir, we increased theprice by 50%. Porque? Why? Ahora nosotros soms fluntes e tenemos los documentos -a la casa- perfectos. Now we are fluent and all our paper -at home- are OK.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (25856)	11/29/2007 11:27:52 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 217564

TJ, we are in agreement there. Which is frightening. As you have said, all will lose, some will lose all. A few will fluke their way through - which will be luck, and maybe even gain, as in a war, somebody might dodge a dozen bullets, a fusillade of bombs, find abandoned "biscuits" in a burrow by a body, make it back to Blighty and consider war a jolly good thing. The rest of humanity will think, on surveying Hiroshima, Tokyo, Nanking, London, Rotterdam, Dresden and graveyards from horizon to horizon and many names who have simply disappeared, that there was a net-net loss. Financial Armageddon, even without the bodies, doesn't leave a lot of net-net gains. Losing least is a very good thing. Heading for home and the hills is a normal thing to do when push comes to shove, the going gets tough, cover is required and safety is desirable. Saddam headed [as I had guessed] to the banks of his childhood Tigris and that's exactly where he was found. Foreigners become evil-doers and it is tempting to confiscate their assets [for the public good of course]. Nationalists become jingoistic, patriots become xenophobic, marching in rows and singing fervid songs seems a lot better than the alternatives. But even home looks dodgy. In NZ, there is debt stacked on hope, with political confiscation and bludging the prevailing psychology, even in good times. Another financial institution went down the gurgler in NZ yesterday. They are dropping like flies and the going hasn't even got tough. I wish to head for the hills, but am unsure where they are. The US$ is a partial place at the moment, but with my plans for its demise, it seems silly to set too much store by that. QCOM seems steady enough but is still subject to electorate MADness and political prognosis. As in 1999, the balloon was obviously going to be deflated. It is now well into deflation mode. We are now mid Y2K equivalent in the Biotelecosmictechdot.com bust. The top is in and the question is how low we can go. As then, my guess is that we don't go into a cascading implosion into a financial relativity theory black hole with an event horizon outside all. There has been 2 years of market clearing already. The US$ is already well-pummelled. But as then, it's more a case of fingers crossed than sanguine optimism. I was surprised how low things did go after Y2K. I might be surprised again. Mqurice

To: TobagoJack who wrote (25856)	11/29/2007 11:28:53 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 217564

Replying to ElM < I bet 1/2 of the Moslems of this world wouldn't believe the BS their government force feed them. Same if lots of Americans would be visiting Persepolis, Caspian Sea and Esfahan..> That's for sure! When I first went to the USA, I was very pleasantly surprised to meet actual Americans in their villages. They were not as seen on tv or as tourists. Same for people around the world. The most dour place I ever saw was just inland from northern Albania - totally unsmiling, sullen people. That was 1974, decades before carnage in civil war. Now I can see that they were ready for it. Also in 1974, the faces in South Africa were NOT happy. It was not a cheerful place. Negro faces were angry faces. It was a good thing that they have avoided carnage [though crime is now horrendous]. As in Rhodesia, the game is not over with the change to melanin-rich rule. In China, the population is repressed, but cheerful. Even the surly-looking police are just doing a job and can crack a grin. Not so much the vicious brutes in Tienanmen Square though - they would kill for fun. The transition to Little Emperor rule will be "interesting". Wait a couple of decades. But I'm not sure it's force-feeding in Moslem places. In NZ, they swallow it whole and like it. They insist that the government adopt the nonsense. I expect in Islam it's the same. Politicians who don't say the drivel will be in trouble. In the USA, they'd better be clutching a Bible. In Islamic places, they'd better clutch a Koran. Mqurice