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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
11/23/09

In reply to A Plan to Get All the Money America Needs to Pay Back, With Only Minimal Loss of Life
The plebes are falling for it... commodity bubble is growing. Faster than you can say "executive order 6102" your shiny metals will be reduced to toxic waste. (or something like that)

Invest in toilet paper and freeze dried coffee.
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freedc
11/23/09

In reply to A Plan to Get All the Money America Needs to Pay Back, With Only Minimal Loss of Life
You can't collect insurance on a suicide, the insurance companies won't pay out and if they even suspect it, you'll be in court trying to get the policy money.

Sorry to ruin your plan. Instead of killing ourselves, maybe we should just rob some other countries? ;)
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MyrtleWilloughby
11/23/09

@freedc: Oh man. I was holding out for Death of a Salesman 2: Nappa hijinx at the Loeman Winery.
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Atilla the Bun
11/23/09

@freedc: Not that I'm recommending this as a life plan, but some life-insurance policies do allow recovery even if cases of suicide but that coverage usually doesn't kick in for a term of a number of years (usually two) after purchase of the policy.

I just hope Fluffy in the picture consulted with his lawyers before assuming his benefits are vested in the case of suicide.
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freedc
11/23/09

@Atilla the Bun: Interesting. But bad public policy, no? And probably a lot more murders made to look like suicides if you can get the $.

The cat is so cute even if so inappropriate.
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krismry
11/23/09

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I know you were just kidding around, but a nice servicey gentle reminder would be to note that no more than 25 percent of your investments ought to be in metals. As for the rest of the advice on this page, it sounds perfectly sensible. Especially the part about the seven hundred billion dollar life policy. That was the best part.
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Rozelle’s Bagman
11/23/09

@krismry: Off by a decimal place, but ok.
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livinlvis
11/23/09

@Rozelle’s Bagman: do you mean invest 2.5% in metals?
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MyrtleWilloughby
11/23/09

@livinlvis: I Rozelle meant to invest 250% in metals. Just listen to "FreeMoney from the Government" in one ear, "Cash4Gold" in the other, and reap the rich rewards.
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krismry
11/23/09

@Rozelle’s Bagman: arithmetic was never my strong suit, obviously, but 250 percent sounds about right, especially if you are using OPM! Other people's works great.

#tips
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Rozelle’s Bagman
11/23/09

@MyrtleWilloughby: It's a floor wax and a dessert topping.
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CaptainFantastic
09/10/09

In reply to Coyotes Are Coming For Your Treasure
Can someone use the above photo to make a coyote picture maker, like the squirrel one?
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God
09/09/09

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I hope you kids successfully put coyotes on the endangered species list and then insert the word 'coyote' in the names of various suburban middle school soccer teams.
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Poppymann
09/09/09

In reply to Coyotes Are Coming For Your Treasure
Coyotes, shmoyotes. Wait until you walk out front and see a Bobcat and her four cubs playing in the yard next door like it's some kind of four-legged Kindercare. F*ck Marlon Perkins, I'm gettin' the shotgun.
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miss_msry
09/09/09

@Poppymann:

Nooooo! Bobcatz can haz fun, too.
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LUV_TRUK
09/09/09

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Moving to the exurbs and complaining about coyotes is like moving to Billyburg and complaining about the hipsters.

Basically, it means you're a coyote. Wait, what?
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Smitros
09/09/09

@LUV_TRUK:
But coyotes might be able to solve the hipster overpopulation program. You could be on to something.
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A Message To Rudy
09/09/09

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Love that photo: A coyote walked into downtown Chicago and climbed into that drink case at a Quiznos. Hey...remember me?...wildlife? Yeah, I used to live here.
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
09/09/09

@Ken Green: the photo is breathtaking. I'm biased, however. I have a little orphan part-coyote or coy dog (quite sure) from Mexico. He's beautiful and hilarious.
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Aidan_
09/09/09

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Man, there's coyote problems all over. Even in Massachusetts. My brother is regularly chased down by packs of coyotes on his walk home from Ocean Spray.
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Coyote
09/09/09

@Aidan_: They're just trying to be friendly.

I wonder if that photo is real or shopped. Because if it's real... that skinny guy really doesn't need Sobe Lean.
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Atilla the Bun
09/09/09

In reply to Coyotes Are Coming For Your Treasure
Is the fact that Coyotes eat pets in California such a new thing? I thought that had been an issue for years.

Here Dallas, we have bobcats eating pets in some of the more northern 'burbs. I hate the urban sprawl up here so bad that caused the bobcat vs. pet situation in the first place that I'm kind of rooting for the bobcats.
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
09/09/09

@Atilla the Bun: yep, it's old news. You have to keep small pets indoors or in outdoor, protected runs--get creative. If you have pets they are a huge investment, no matter what anyone tells you. But the greater the sprawl the closer humans will get to long-established habitats for lions, coyotes, deer, and bear.There is also research that shows the more you chase or hunt coyotes, the more they breed. It's how they keep propagating. If there's a threat, their DNA finds an equilibrium, I guess.Be vigilant and hopefully all can coexist. I've seen plenty of coyotes and generally they are shy and cagey. They want nothing to do with you. On the other hand there are areas that I know very well where I would be less inclined to bring my toddler friends, or an unleashed lapdog.It's up to us to be good stewards. We have our big brains and we can take all the steps necessary to avoid encounters. Lions scare me a lot more. We have them all over CA. But their habitats are being terribly encroached on. Each lion has his own hunting territory and it's big. They die off if they don't have enough room. You can encounter them when you least expect it, too. There are areas in the mountains where I wouldn't go without my dogs--both are big-- a big stick and a posse of people. Never alone.
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kneetoe
09/09/09

@Banjo-Sea Kitten: "their DNA finds an equilibrium." Wait wait, I'm still chewing that one. Are you a secret Lamarckian?

But it's true what you say: provide the habitat, and the critters will breed to fill it. And few critters follow that rule like the coyote, which has expanded it's range in the face of extensive (not to mention expensive) extermination programs. And one major secret to their success: the demise of that top dog, the wolf, a group of species much more susceptible to exterpation by humans.
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
09/09/09

@kneetoe: I don't think I'm a Lamarckian, but I will read up! Looks like he's not part of the "in crowd" anymore.

Quick and dirty, 9th graf down:

[www.predatorconservation.org]
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
09/09/09

@kneetoe: and why are you a pinko commenter for God's sakes?

Someone fix this, stat!
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hamburgerhotdog
09/09/09

@Atilla the Bun: I'm rooting for the predators. We killed them all off, then complain about the crap that replaces them (geese, deer, etc...) when we tore everything down and built crappy tract housing in the suburbs. Anything that means less lapdogs I can get behind.
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kneetoe
09/09/09

@Banjo-Sea Kitten: Yes, I've gone pink, speaking of not part of the "in crowd." I seemed to have worn out my welcome and am weaning myself from comments. But thanks for the support.
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
09/09/09

@kneetoe: don't even get me started on the wolf. Huge ramifications.
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kneetoe
09/09/09

@Banjo-Sea Kitten: I'm with you. I wrote my master's thesis on endangered species policy in the American West. Nothing sadder than the wolf, although I have hopes, even with the states taking over contol, of a healthy but small population out there.

Thanks for the nice note, much appreciated. I'm saying so here b/c I can't respond to it. Best, k
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BookishLookish
09/09/09

In reply to Coyotes Are Coming For Your Treasure
Needs more Roadrunner.
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Smitros
09/09/09

@BookishLookish:
And Acme products.
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skahammer
09/09/09

@Smitros: Unfortunately, Acme went Chapter 11 after eBay opened up its "Anvils" marketplace.
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kneetoe
09/09/09

@BookishLookish: Thanks, BL, now that theme song will be in my head for a week.
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Smitros
09/09/09

@kneetoe:
When it catches you, you're through.
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BookishLookish
09/10/09

@kneetoe: You're welcome.
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TechLackey
09/09/09

In reply to Coyotes Are Coming For Your Treasure
I have noticed a lot more bears in the suburbs, but that's mainly because they're being priced out of WeHo.
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Lymed
09/09/09

In reply to Coyotes Are Coming For Your Treasure
What if you have a coyote as a pet?
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Coyote
09/09/09

@Lymed: You blog about it. At one point The Daily Coyote could kill you with an overdose of cute.

You also make sure you live far away from people, most of whom would shoot it on sight.
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
09/09/09

@Coyote: The book is poorly written, but I enjoy the blog and I like the story.

The boyfriend is a coyote killer. Not loving that dude. Charlie was orphaned by his gun.

[www.dailycoyote.net]
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La Mareada
06/18/09

In reply to Escape From the USA
These articles in the East Coast media romanticizing Oregon never mention that the state was the worst place for jobs for the past 10-15 years. Portland had a tech bump in the late 90s, but not much job expansion in the 2000s compared to Seattle, Boise, or SLC. The hipsters in Portland will never admit how much parent subsidies supplement their retail/restaurant wages and they just won't stop coming. The Coast, Bend, and Ashland had a construction boom building McMansions for California retirees. The rest of the state is borderline Appalachia.(Okay not all of it, Salem and Eugene are nice, just no jobs)
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HiredGoons
06/18/09

@La Mareada: I've been to that Goonies rock.
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BookishLookish
06/18/09

In reply to Escape From the USA
Fuck that, fireworks over the Hudson? Who's coming to chez BL for cocktails, bbq and homegrown (if this incessant rain does not kill 'em)?
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HiredGoons
06/18/09

@BookishLookish: I would, but I'm afraid my spinach dip would steal your virtue.
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