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citruscoffee  ·  3476 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "Your war drum ain't/louder than this breath"

Wow, that's amazing.

It's rare you read poetry that is that intense and should I say, unambiguous.

citruscoffee  ·  3476 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: HSBC fears world recession with no lifeboats left

Hey that's nice to know, anyways, I do plan to pass by and check out the site. The concept behind it looks interesting.

I just wasn't sure how the site operates, and whether my access to it had already been proscribed. Like I said, I've never owned a Facebook or Twitter account, and I don't exactly know how they work, let alone this website, and I just stopped by at this site because I had read a recommendation of it elsewhere and because it appeared conceptual, interesting, and different.

It's all good to know.

Thanks, and take care.

citruscoffee  ·  3476 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: HSBC fears world recession with no lifeboats left

Hey there, I'm not really sure how this site works, I've never had a Facebook or Twitter account, and I don't even own a television, as I think it's bad and I prefer to read books. This site is quite confusing to use at first. Can I still use the site like everyone else or have I already been banned, ostracized, excommunicated? What is the status of my account?

I wrote a post pointing to a new blog which had a space in the address, something that turned it into a broken link. Quite a few people seemed to have been irked by that, and by the joke that I copied there. I chose that entry because it was silly, and not very literate like some of the other stories in the blog.

I can see your post have a lot to do with finance? There is a funny, bizarre story on the blog which involves advanced financial concepts and products.

It is called "Did you know that Germans now offer racism discounts?"

http://theabsurdification.blogspot.ca/2015/05/did-you-know-that-germans-now-offer.html?m=1

There is also another story there that is called "Is it racist to notice that Michael Jordan is black?

http://theabsurdification.blogspot.ca/2015/05/is-it-racist-to-notice-that-michael.html?m=1

Can you read both stories till the end which will only take a few minutes and let me know what you think of them. They are much more reflective of the site's content and quality.

I can't believe how pompous, pretentious, elitist, and puerile some of the anointed moderators of the site are.

That they would make all sorts of judgements because they found a broken link, or employ the disgusting language they used in a tag they appended, language that they presumably employ regularly elsewhere on the site, all of this only serves to highlight their vulgarity, their artifice, their conceit.

If only this site was not there to feed their vanity, what would these people do, what would become of them?

I never read the bio of any American presidents, but I did read the collected writings of Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson, probably America's two most eloquent presidents. There is a famous poem Lincoln is said to have written to a mother who had lost 5 of her sons as soldiers in the Civil War, if I remember correctly.

Most have not read it, so I will copy it here:

"Dear Madam,

I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,

A. Lincoln"

citruscoffee  ·  3476 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: HSBC fears world recession with no lifeboats left

Hey definitely you can check that out here, that author always writes about that. I read finance-related news constantly so I have read some of his articles in the past. The whitewashing I was referring to was of China's foreign policy not its credit binge. Take care.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/china-business/10123507/Fitch-says-China-credit-bubble-unprecedented-in-modern-world-history.html

citruscoffee  ·  3477 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: HSBC fears world recession with no lifeboats left

That guy sucks, I will not read that article, but I've read several of his articles on China, especially its level of credit expansion since 2008 or so. He supported the decision of the British govt. to join the new Chinese bank and his whitewashing of what China does and his hysterical attacks on the U.S. when writing on that issue show how creepy and appalling he is.