What Graham plays with when he's not playing a Guild

[taabru45]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5uejI-c3cs&NR=1
:lol: :lol: :lol: Steffan

 

[Graham]

Looks like fun. :mrgreen:

Say how much is diesel fuel on the company card anyway? :shock:

 

[capnjuan]

Looks like fun. :mrgreen: Say how much is diesel fuel on the company card anyway? :shock:

Thanks to the Tar Sands in your back yard, ought to be pretty inexpensive, no? Has the global economic bowel movement killed off those $50/hr burger flipper jobs?

 

[Graham]

Looks like fun. :mrgreen: Say how much is diesel fuel on the company card anyway? :shock:

Thanks to the Tar Sands in your back yard, ought to be pretty inexpensive, no? Has the global economic bowel movement killed off those $50/hr burger flipper jobs?

We export almost all of our oil to the US then I think we buy it back after you refine it.

So we pay more than you do. :shock:

Seems like a good plan..... :roll:

 

[john_kidder]

Has the global economic bowel movement killed off those $50/hr burger flipper jobs?

In a word, yes. Reduced activities in the bitumen-boiling business in the tar sands, massive reductions in future projets, Alberta government in deficit for the first time in about thirty years, thousands of '"imported" workers going home.

Hang on to your hats, folks, this one's just beginning (he says cheerfully).

 

[capnjuan]

Has the global economic bowel movement killed off those $50/hr burger flipper jobs?

In a word, yes. Reduced activities in the bitumen-boiling business in the tar sands, massive reductions in future projets, Alberta government in deficit for the first time in about thirty years, thousands of '"imported" workers going home. Hang on to your hats, folks, this one's just beginning (he says cheerfully).

Dang ... no wonder my Guest Work Permit application hasn't come back yet. Sud de la bordeur, we are in JS Mill Paradox Mode; we individually need to conserve cash but are told the economy depends on us spending cash or whatever we can borrow. Since no loans are being made and lines of equity are frozen, the US recovery depends on spending the money we don't have and can't borrow. It must be the 'Invisible Hand'.

 

[taabru45]

we individually need to conserve cash but are told the economy depends on us spending cash or whatever we can borrow. Since no loans are being made and lines of equity are frozen, the US recovery depends on spending the money we don't have and can't borrow. It must be the 'Invisible Hand'.[/quote]

A lot like Grucho's remark when asked to join a 'Country Club' He said "I wouldn't have anything to do with a club that would have me as a member." :wink: Steffan

The official Govt term for the above situation is B.O.H.I.C.A.........bohica means....bend over, here it comes again. :lol: Steffan

 

[capnjuan]

A lot like Grucho's remark when asked to join a 'Country Club' He said "I wouldn't have anything to do with a club that would have me as a member." The official Govt term for the above situation is B.O.H.I.C.A.........bohica means....bend over, here it comes again. :lol: Steffan

... BOHICA ... so ... that's a tribe of hosed Canuckis ... ? the last of whom would be the Last of the BOHICANs?

 

[john_kidder]

Sud de la bordeur, we are in JS Mill Paradox Mode; we individually need to conserve cash but are told the economy depends on us spending cash or whatever we can borrow. Since no loans are being made and lines of equity are frozen, the US recovery depends on spending the money we don't have and can't borrow. It must be the 'Invisible Hand'.

Need to keep this discussion to the neutral "science" of economics so that we don't veer into the dreaded political realm (although of course Mill, Adam Smith, Ricardo and the other early folks all called themselves students of "political economy").

So, keeping that in mind, does it not seem astonishing that governments around the world, of whatever political stripe - the Communists in China, totalitarians in Singapore, monarchists in Thailand, Social Democrats in Germany, "Labour" in England, "Conservatives" in Canada, etc. - all are committed to using the same tools to "cure" the recession? A recession arguably caused by overheated consumer credit markets fueled by excess liquidity in financial markets will be "cured" by freeing up liquidity and additional consumer credit; a global environmental problem which is arguably linked to excessive consumption of various renewable and non-renewable resources will be "mitigated" by encouraging more consumption, etc.?

When I ask anyone under 40 about this, they just think it's absurd on its face. Someone on this board uses Einstein's famous definition:

• Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Gladiators used to salute the Emperor with "Morturi te salutant" - "those who are about to die salute you" The geezers who are still running things are, it seems to me, saying to future generations "Morituri te excretant".

 

[taabru45]

A lot like Grucho's remark when asked to join a 'Country Club' He said "I wouldn't have anything to do with a club that would have me as a member." The official Govt term for the above situation is B.O.H.I.C.A.........bohica means....bend over, here it comes again. :lol: Steffan

... BOHICA ... so ... that's a tribe of hosed Canuckis ... ? the last of whom would be the Last of the BOHICANs?

CJ.......thats hysterical :lol: :lol: :lol: Steffan
John....thats profound :shock: Steffan

 

[capnjuan]

A lot like Grucho's remark when asked to join a 'Country Club' He said "I wouldn't have anything to do with a club that would have me as a member." The official Govt term for the above situation is B.O.H.I.C.A.........bohica means....bend over, here it comes again. :lol: Steffan

... BOHICA ... so ... that's a tribe of hosed Canuckis ... ? the last of whom would be the Last of the BOHICANs?

CJ.......thats hysterical :lol: :lol: :lol: Steffan John....thats profound :shock: Steffan

Thanks Steffan ... I once stayed in a Holiday Inn Express :wink: J

 

[JerryR]

Its a self perpetuating downward spiral - folks aren't spending because they're worried about their jobs, so businesses aren't selling because people aren't buying so get rid of staff - so folks aren't spending because they're worried about their jobs etc etc etc :mrgreen:

 

[capnjuan]

Need to keep this discussion to the neutral "science" of economics ... Agreed ... A recession arguably caused by overheated consumer credit markets fueled by excess liquidity in financial markets... Yes, that would do it; not enough real money so it was borrowed against future earnings on credit cards or out of home equity. A consumer economy requires people to consume ... to have 'growth', the rate of increased consumption has to be fueled by something other than earnings. .... will be "cured" by freeing up liquidity and additional consumer credit; a global environmental problem which is arguably linked to excessive consumption ... Yes; paradoxically, the Hair of the Dog ...

No good choices; mortgage the future or ... don't. As the late George Allen, coach of the Washington Foreskins once said: "The future is now".

 

[Scratch]

180 degree veer:

Pretty sure it's a Taylor

 

[cjd-player]

I was just about to ask what name you gave it. :lol:

 

[capnjuan]

Is he playing it leftie or is that L/R pic reversal ?

 

[cjd-player]

Hey capn
The door is the same in both shots.

Graham is ambidexterous on a broom stick.

He's very talented. :wink:

Remember, he got his picture in a magazine and all.

 

[capnjuan]

Remember, he got his picture in a magazine and all.

Dang ... I forgot he was the famous one among us ... he probably went and bought up all the copies!

 

[danerectal]

Pretty sure it's a Taylor

Looks more like a National. :mrgreen:

 

[kitniyatran]

Hey capn
The door is the same in both shots.

Graham is ambidexterous on a broom stick.

He's very talented. :wink:

Remember, he got his picture in a magazine and all.

So, Graham's Bi-sticks,you-all!