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73Zeppelin

Oakman wrote:

I don't know if you know this, but barium tastes better (not good, just better) if you drink it with one of those kiddy-straws that has cocoa powder inside. The doctor, of course, will think you are crazy.

In my case, polyethylene glycol with electrolytes sickly sweetened with aspartame. What goes in one end must come out the other... :rolleyes:

Oakman

73Zeppelin wrote:

What goes in one end must come out the other...

Making sure that happens is one of polyethylene glycol's most common uses X| . How is your wife handling this?

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pseudonym67

I'm sure if you ask Gordon nicely he'll print you some money up, he's doing it for our banks so whats a few extra 0's between friends.

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73Zeppelin

She's fine. We went through this in 2006.

Stan Shannon

73Zeppelin wrote:

The worst part of a colonoscopy (and I've been through 8 of them, to date) is the preparation. It is necessary to drink 4 and 1/2 litres of solution in 2 hours and refrain from food for over 12 hours (try it some time for fun ). The actual procedure itself takes only about 15-20 minutes - and you're sedated the whole time. Like I said, the worst part is the preparation and the anxiety of waiting for test results if they find anything.

I've been through it twice now. Had a small, pre-cancerous polyp removed last time. But, yes, the preparation is absolutely the worst part. I pretty much slept through the actual procedure.

Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

Stan Shannon

Well, thats where an over reliance on government gets you. We conservatives have been trying to warn the rest of you guys for decades now. But would anyone listen? Nooooooo.... Oh well, it should all come crashing down soon enough now. Too much momentum propelling us towards the cliff for any hope of turning back, so I suppose it really doesn't matter.

Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

Jorgen Sigvardsson

My fiancee's brother just went through this procedure. Turns out he has cancer. :( He's up for surgery this Wednesday. I hope he gets rid of it. He hasn't even turned 30!

Jorgen Sigvardsson

Conservative or not. If you've got buddies within the government, its policies matters little. Banks and governments are usually good buddies.

Oakman

Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:

Banks and governments are usually good buddies.

"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies." - Thomas Jefferson

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Jorgen Sigvardsson

Better be friends than foes.

Oakman

Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:

Better be friends than foes.

Yep. You get great rates on your mortgage that way.

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Jorgen Sigvardsson

And in return, your money will lose value. Preferably at a steady state of 2%/year. Amazing system... Why didn't I become a banker??

Oakman

Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:

Preferably at a steady state of 2%/year

But inflation will insure that your tax rate goes up every year :-D

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Stan Shannon

Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:

Banks and governments are usually good buddies.

ANother good reason to get rid of government I suppose.

Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

Stan Shannon

Oakman wrote:

"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies." - Thomas Jefferson

SO which should we be rid of? Banks or standing armies? "A wise and frugal government ... shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government." -- Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801 Notice, this is a comment made while actually in a policy making position, not some letter dashed off to one of his white trash buddies.

Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

Oakman

Sorry, Stanley, I 'm just not in the mood for a food fight - and you seem incapable of anything else. Guess it's time to zap you with Diego's script. Bye.

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Vikram A Punathambekar

A couple of points:

1

snapping up Merril Lynch at bargain-basement prices

I thought pretty much everybody was of the opinion that BOA paid too much for ML. ML was, in fact, happy that it had got such a 'good' deal.

2

due diligence

The deal was stitched together over a weekend, at the urging of the Fed. It would have been impossible for BOA to assess ML's books completely. I know they are required to, by law, but it simply wasn't possible in the available time.

3

for the first time since 1991, Bank of America lost money for the year

BOA lost money for Q4, not all of 2008.

Cheers, Vıkram.

I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every moment of it.

73Zeppelin

Detected early, chances of long-term survival are very high. It depends on the staging, histology, metastases or not... I hope everything goes well for him. When young (like he is and I am) this problem usually due to a genetic disorder (like a mutation in the APC tumour suppressor gene). It's been suggested that I undergo genetic testing, but I'm a little leary of privacy issues, etc...

Jorgen Sigvardsson

I'd rather be ruled by people I get to vote for/against. That's just me. :shrug:

-- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit

Oakman

Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

everybody was of the opinion that BOA paid too much for ML

You're right. I should've made it clear that Ken Lewis was saying he didn't.

Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

It would have been impossible for BOA to assess ML's books completely. I know they are required to, by law, but it simply wasn't possible in the available time.

Nor did they have to worry about it since we are around to give them any money they need.

Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

BOA lost money for Q4, not all of 2008.

Dead right. I was remembering rather than re-reading. They say your memory is the second thing to go. . .:confused: I forget what the first is.

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