Comments on: A Short Break

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:49:52 +0000

The UK made them small at some point to really confuse blind people or save money or something, but back when we still had foreign visitors, before TSA was created to harass people, they were a good sized coin.

We need to do something to differentiate our dollar coins from our quarters, because they are nearly the same size.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:21:25 +0000

Hmmm. I can’t see it clearly… but it could be a 50p. The UK coin has a smaller diameter and is thinner than out 50c coin. I forget how many sides ours has though. *shrug* Our coin from the late 90’s had that head of the Queen and looked very similar. They keep changing the coin every few years or so. *sigh*

I’m willing to concede the point. 😉 LOL Ain’t I gracious? Heh… It’s 50/50 to me. LOL

Sorry… couldn’t resist. I’m having a slooow day and needed a chuckle. 😀

And yes, I suspect people would be happier to see either than a US minted coin right about now.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:17:19 +0000

It’s a British 50p, only 7 sides, Kryten, so it’s worth $1US, except people will be much happier to see it than $1US these days, Lady Min.

By: LadyMin

LadyMin — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:44:22 +0000

I agree, he’s cute! (And apparently not bullish on the US Dollar!)

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:22:57 +0000

BTW… The cute little fellow is holding an Aussie 50c coin. 😉 LOL

By: cookie jill

cookie jill — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:19:02 +0000

what a little cutie!

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:29:37 +0000

A minor point to consider is that there is no money available to buy the materials needed to build these weapons, so it is unlikely there will actually be any sales. When there is a liquidity and credit crisis business tends to come to a halt.

Hmm! Until you mentioned it, I hadn’t considered that! And you are right… They have only so far sold off inventory! The rest is a paper shuffle. LOL No wonder they can’t repair/replace the equipment being chewed up in Iraq/Afghanistan! And where is the outrage at that? Jeez!! *wrong*

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:59:44 +0000

Most of the stuff the brokerages, banks, and loan companies have been doing were once considered criminal fraud in this country for very good reasons. They need to start throwing some of these people in prison and confiscating their ill-gotten gains, rather than letting them just walk away.

The airlines are another monument to “deregulation”. There was a time when you could take a direct flight between most medium sized cities in the US. Now you have at least one, and usually two stops. It’s hard to talk about “competition” when there is only one viable airline left in a market.

I don’t imagine it occurs to any of these idiots that those weapons could just as easily be pointed at the US. No concept of history, no vision of the future – they only exist 24 hours at a time.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:42:21 +0000

Oh, I meant to post this one also. Thisis apparently how Bush has decided to solve the financial crisis and help out his MIC friends at the same time. :) U.S. pushing through dozens of foreign weapons deals I do love the list of countries that are now on the modern weapons systems shopping list! LOL To paraphrase *Short-term gain for long-term pain!* How much more proof does anyone need to see that the GOP are patently insane and just a bunch of criminals? They can add gunrunning to their long list of crimes now, not to mention selling state secrets to foreign nationals. Sad about Richard Wright BTW. I met him once. I'm a big fan of Pink Floyd. RIP

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:29:55 +0000

Yep! LOL I was reading a couple stories in IHT about all this. Amazing... or not. Global markets fall after Wall Street trauma Examing the ripple effect of the Lehman bankruptcy And this was interesting as it shows the real state of the economy! Not good. Airlines' cuts making cities no-fly zones (Speaking of the Bushmoron's no-fly zone coward buffer). :)