Can we stop focusing on political penises long enough to look at the shrinking dollar?

[Elspeth]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2998048

[Elspeth]

1. OR

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2997600

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2997409

[Elspeth]

6. Hmm

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2993907

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2996205

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2997335

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2997219

[Elspeth]

9. Hmmm.. Housing market

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2997142

[Elspeth]

10. The mountain lion penis thread got 28 replies!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2995790

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Hubby bought a small amount of gold earlier this week

and its value has already increased $8. That tells me the dollar is shrinking FAST.

[DJ13]

3. Ummm, you said dollar

Thanks for the links.

:hi:

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Oh com'on if we did that then the MSM would fail in its job

to ahem give us bread and circuses (and wet willies)

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. Or a strike that is going to bring the US automaking industry to its knees

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2998084

[Elspeth]

7. Can you put up a link here?

Thanks!

[Elspeth]

8. Or Iraq

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2996525

[Buzz Clik]

11. My dollar always shrivels up when I shower.

[Elspeth]

12. Heh

:evilgrin:

[robinlynne]

13. If I ever start a rock group, i'm going to call it political penises!

I can't sing, or play an instrument, so dont' worry.

[Elspeth]

14. Everybody's a comedian

:evilgrin:

[Greyhound]

15. Not really, no. That involves thinking about how deep the hole we

were born into is and how difficult it will be to get out. If we were to really consider this issue, and I'm talking about the genpop of DU, not the 2 dozen of us that have been talking about this for years or decades, it would lead to thinking about a very large number of things that we are very comfortable ignoring.

That's the problem, the whole game is rigged and has been for generations. Once you start questioning, it leads to challenging cherished fantasies, which leads to realizations of inherent and unnecessary inequities, which forces admissions of a life lived in servitude to other's demands, which points out our relative helplessness, which makes us angry, and we can't have that.

It is just much easier to take the blue pill and pretend it can't happen here.

[Elspeth]

16. I agree with you actually

But you're saying that we're all willing to be distracted

[yorgatron]

17. the big money prostitutes used to be referred to as "$1000 a night hookers"

now it's $5500 an hour? :wtf:
don't tell ME that's not inflation.

[Javaman]

18. But if you look at it this way...

just 10 years ago that same prostitute would have cost you 500 bucks and the high dollar one would have run you 2750. Yet another reason to love Bill.

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

[Greyhound]

20. Not all, but most, and not willing but demanding. n/t

:kick:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

19. The dollar is dropping rapidly against the yen

At the beginning of this year, then yen had been about 110 to the dollar for a couple of months, after coming from about 115, where it had been for most of 2007.

During this month, it went to 103 and hung around there for a while. Within this week, it has gone to 100 plus a few decimal places per dollar.

If this trend continues, the dollar will be weaker against the yen than at any time since about 1991. The difference is that Japan has had very low inflation since then, so the situation is actually worse than it seems. :scared:

The only silver lining here is that most of my pay rates are figured in yen.