Halloween Security Alert, San Diego 10/31/07

[Jim Nickerson]

http://gloomberg.new.commie/urgent

San Diego, 12:01AM 10/31/07

An all points BOLO for a character, Spookster, has been issued by the FBI, DEA, NSC and President George W. Bush for apprehension and detention of this man.

He was recently reportedly seen in the Kurdish enclave of El Cajon attempting to solicit funds for support of the Turkish Army. When last seen he was pulling a cart with a barrel of oil and wearing a backpack assumed to be filled with gold bullion and headed for central San Diego.

It is believed that he is likely to show up at any place selling produce and attempting to exchange either oil or bullion for all pumpkins that he can buy. In some circles he is known as something like a financial Gorilla, and it is rumored his current focus is to corner the pumpkin markets.

Do not, repeat DO NOT attempt to engage this man in dialogue regarding peak oil, gold, or social issues. He IS ARMED with innumerable metaphors and is to be considered extremely dangerous. If by mistake one engages him in dialogue on any the aforementioned issues, expect to be soundly trounced.

He is believed likely to be masquerading as Hugo Chaves and may appear to be babbling in something other than Spanish. It would likely be Italian that to the untrained ear comes across as babble.

If spotted, notify the San Diego Zoo Loose Animal Squad, which is on alert with elephant gun tranquilizer darts. If captured, the "Gorilla" is expect to be caged indefinitely with the Zoo's greyback Ape "King Kong" who is known to be lonely and bisexual. Hopefully Spookster will be captured and confined for life with Kong.

[Guest]

Re: Halloween Security Alert, San Diego 10/31/07

Ahh, ferchrissakes Jim -

Thanks for the backhanded compliments (my favorite kind) but this post will die an orphan.

I irritate a lot of people because I make noise about things that don't have anything to do with 401K's, SIV's, investment performance or dry portfolio management theory, and blow by blow gory (and in the final analysis supremely boring by sheer repetition) details of the housing market implosion replete with morality tales.

All the people who claim dramatically, and in high moral dudgeon that we are in a fascist society never had a taste of the real thing. Their feeling of suffering under a repressive system is effete and soft, because they most often never have been near anything remotely as ugly as the real thing. Even Tet, who's very convincing in his harsh and unsentimental descriptions I bet has not lived in the real thing.

I met a Russian engineer at my local gym a few weeks ago. He was a petroleum engineer. He started telling about life on a drilling rig in Siberia. He was the only "free"guy there, because he was an engineer. ALL the other crew were prisoners shipped in from labor camps, and this was in, I think 1997. He told me one hair raising story after another about blood sucking insects and worms in the Siberian wilderness, that if a man got one on his back or leg, these suckers bury a head inside which then crawls right up to the brain and infects it and they just plain die in about six months.

The forced labor guys were sent out to work on rigs all day. If one of them got bit by one of these critters, they'd pull him out of the line, give him a piece of leather to bite, and numerous swigs of cheap vodka, and then one of his kind hearted pals would take a bucknife to the insect bite and cut a two inch hole into him to take the whole thing out, or he'd die.

There was no first aid clinic for inmates. After cutting a hamburger sized chunk out of the poor bastard they'd pour spirits into it to disinfect it. That was "the medecine" from your buddies if you got a wrong kind of insect bite. I hear Alaska in the summer time is a slightly smilar experience.

Kind of a wasted effort, as my Russian engineer friend said a lot of these drill rig slave labor guys didn't last more than a year or two. I asked him if this was the whole truth and the way he looked at me made me embarassed for asking.

We talked about San Diego, and life in Southern California. I said I dreamed of getting the hell out, and we both agreed that there are lots of places in the world where you live life on a razor's edge. Look at the wrong person the wrong way, and you are toast.

I read people here who feel put out and beleaguered about hardship this and crooked FED that, about wartime atrocity this and Congressional corruption that - all of this stuff sounds tame to a place on this earth that is so remote and ravenous that the bugs can literally eat you.

At night this engineer said he would take gasoline and BURN a five foot circle around where he was putting down his sleeping bag, and ALL of these guys would sleep with every scrap of their clothes on because in the Siberian outback if you had an inch of exposed flesh in the summer months a bug would latch on and consume you by sun-up.

I look at all the morbid fascination iTulipers have with examining every minutiae of the markets and then they expect the world to follow the US swan dive wherever it goes - and I marvel how far they are away from concieving the plight of these poor godforsaken bastards stuck in Siberian oil drilling camps.

Meanwhile people here posture and kibbitz, and indulge conceits as to the significance of whether the massive printing of currency will change one iota of the lives of godforsaken bastards from Iraq to Siberia, to Nepalese monks under China, to some starving villagers in the Andes.

Go figure. Sometimes iTulip's engrossed discussions on the minutiae of finance seem like an ingrown toenail.

Sorry - I just had to say it. Is this off-topic enough for you Fred?

[FRED]

Re: Halloween Security Alert, San Diego 10/31/07

Ahh, ferchrissakes Jim -

Thanks for the backhanded compliments (my favorite kind) but this post will die an orphan.

I irritate a lot of people because I make noise about things that don't have anything to do with 401K's, SIV's, investment performance or dry portfolio management theory, and blow by blow gory (and in the final analysis supremely boring by sheer repetition) details of the housing market implosion replete with morality tales.

All the people who claim dramatically, and in high moral dudgeon that we are in a fascist society never had a taste of the real thing. Their feeling of suffering under a repressive system is effete and soft, because they most often never have been near anything remotely as ugly as the real thing. Even Tet, who's very convincing in his harsh and unsentimental descriptions I bet has not lived in the real thing.

I met a Russian engineer at my local gym a few weeks ago. He was a petroleum engineer. He started telling about life on a drilling rig in Siberia. He was the only "free"guy there, because he was an engineer. ALL the other crew were prisoners shipped in from labor camps, and this was in, I think 1997. He told me one hair raising story after another about blood sucking insects and worms in the Siberian wilderness, that if a man got one on his back or leg, these suckers bury a head inside which then crawls right up to the brain and infects it and they just plain die in about six months.

The forced labor guys were sent out to work on rigs all day. If one of them got bit by one of these critters, they'd pull him out of the line, give him a piece of leather to bite, and numerous swigs of cheap vodka, and then one of his kind hearted pals would take a bucknife to the insect bite and cut a two inch hole into him to take the whole thing out, or he'd die.

There was no first aid clinic for inmates. After cutting a hamburger sized chunk out of the poor bastard they'd pour spirits into it to disinfect it. That was "the medecine" from your buddies if you got a wrong kind of insect bite. I hear Alaska in the summer time is a slightly smilar experience.

Kind of a wasted effort, as my Russian engineer friend said a lot of these drill rig slave labor guys didn't last more than a year or two. I asked him if this was the whole truth and the way he looked at me made me embarassed for asking.

We talked about San Diego, and life in Southern California. I said I dreamed of getting the hell out, and we both agreed that there are lots of places in the world where you live life on a razor's edge. Look at the wrong person the wrong way, and you are toast.

I read people here who feel put out and beleaguered about hardship this and crooked FED that, about wartime atrocity this and Congressional corruption that - all of this stuff sounds tame to a place on this earth that is so remote and ravenous that the bugs can literally eat you.

At night this engineer said he would take gasoline and BURN a five foot circle around where he was putting down his sleeping bag, and ALL of these guys would sleep with every scrap of their clothes on because in the Siberian outback if you had an inch of exposed flesh in the summer months a bug would latch on and consume you by sun-up.

I look at all the morbid fascination iTulipers have with examining every minutiae of the markets and then they expect the world to follow the US swan dive wherever it goes - and I marvel how far they are away from concieving the plight of these poor godforsaken bastards stuck in Siberian oil drilling camps.

Meanwhile people here posture and kibbitz, and indulge conceits as to the significance of whether the massive printing of currency will change one iota of the lives of godforsaken bastards from Iraq to Siberia, to Nepalese monks under China, to some starving villagers in the Andes.

Go figure. Sometimes iTulip's engrossed discussions on the minutiae of finance seem like an ingrown toenail.

Sorry - I just had to say it. Is this off-topic enough for you Fred?

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Re: Halloween Security Alert, San Diego 10/31/07

fred, i'd like to request that lukester's sobriquet be changed from "gorilla" to "guerrilla."

[FRED]

Re: Halloween Security Alert, San Diego 10/31/07

fred, i'd like to request that lukester's sobriquet be changed from "gorilla" to "guerrilla."

Done. Good idea.

[Tet]

Re: Halloween Security Alert, San Diego 10/31/07

http://gloomberg.new.commie/urgent

It is believed that he is likely to show up at any place selling produce and attempting to exchange either oil or bullion for all pumpkins that he can buy. In some circles he is known as something like a financial Gorilla, and it is rumored his current focus is to corner the pumpkin markets.

Careful, pumpkin hording can drive you to your wits end if you purchase
at the top. I understand the amount of commercial puts on Pumpkin futures is at an all time high.

[image]http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/7605/gunshotwoundpumpkinsd1.gif[/image]

LMAO, the link is cracking me up, http://gloomberg.new.commie/urgent
Perfect.

[Tet]

Re: Halloween Security Alert, San Diego 10/31/07

Sorry screwed up and didn't insert my picture correctly.

[Andreuccio]

Re: Halloween Security Alert, San Diego 10/31/07

It would likely be Italian that to the untrained ear comes across as babble.

Even to the highly trained ear Italian often comes across as babble.

Fun post, Jim.

[Andreuccio]

Re: Halloween Security Alert, San Diego 10/31/07

All the people who claim dramatically, and in high moral dudgeon that we are in a fascist society never had a taste of the real thing.

My worry isn't that we're in a fascist society now. We clearly aren't, and as you say, things here are pretty good compared to most other places.

But I fear they may be putting the pieces into place to turn us into a fascist society. I believe we need to stay vigilant.

[Guest]

Re: Halloween Security Alert, San Diego 10/31/07

Tet -

No it was me that screwed up - I meant to put the Saturday Night Special into the other ear, but got the ear and the angle all wrong, so it only did a partial lobotomy. Cheap-ass gun. My Southern California cultural headache is now at migraine levels.

So now I'm one of the "un-dead" ( but at least now I get to go to SD Chargers games at Qualcomm Stadium and look normal ).

I was always a little dyslexic that way. Seriously - when I was a kid I wrote backwards, in mirror handwriting.

And that dribble down the chin? That's just "pumpkinhead drool", OK? It's a common side-effect of the surgery.

Sorry screwed up and didn't insert my picture correctly.

[Guest]

Re: Halloween Security Alert, San Diego 10/31/07

Couple more un-dead SD Chargers fans (post-game).



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[c1ue]

Re: Halloween Security Alert, San Diego 10/31/07

I met a Russian engineer at my local gym a few weeks ago. He was a petroleum engineer. He started telling about life on a drilling rig in Siberia. He was the only "free"guy there, because he was an engineer. ALL the other crew were prisoners shipped in from labor camps, and this was in, I think 1997.

The term is 'zek'.

Remember it for when you visit Russia ;)

Just kidding! Seriously, zek = political prisoner.

Another item of trivia - told to me direct from my buds in the MVD:

Gulag Archipelago is now an incorrect term. Since the labor camps are now all in Kamchatka, it should now be Kulag.

In Soviet days there was a governmental agency - gosudarstvenye - hence 'g', but now it is a regional authority.

Then again, think what happens to the 2M+ people in prisons when the US economic collapse starts getting REALLY bad.

We might have 'tulag' (Texas), 'aulag' (Arizona), etc etc.

[Guest]

Re: Halloween Security Alert, San Diego 10/31/07

C1ue wrote -

<< Then again, think what happens to the 2M+ people in prisons when the US economic collapse starts getting REALLY bad. >>

This is 100% true, and bears all the promise of being a total nightmare and manifestation of hell on earth. This will be the single ugliest point of the future US as our fiscal viability disintegrates.

The day the detention of the US's vast population of incarcerated devolves wholesale to private commercially run corporations due to US manifest bankruptcy, we'll have crossed another significant milestone. Not too far off now, apparently.

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Re: Halloween Security Alert, San Diego 10/31/07

[Andreuccio]

Re: Halloween Security Alert, San Diego 10/31/07

C1ue wrote -

<< Then again, think what happens to the 2M+ people in prisons when the US economic collapse starts getting REALLY bad. >>

This is 100% true, and bears all the promise of being a total nightmare and manifestation of hell on earth. This will be the single ugliest point of the future US as our fiscal viability disintegrates.

The day the detention of the US's vast population of incarcerated devolves wholesale to private commercially run corporations due to US manifest bankruptcy, we'll have crossed another significant milestone. Not too far off now, apparently.

Already taking place in some states:

One of the hottest stock market plays of the 1990s was the investment in hotels without doorknobs: privately operated prisons. And the hottest of the hot was a Florida-based outfit, Wackenhut Corporation, which promised states it would warehouse our human refuse at bargain prices. In 1999, I thought it worth a closer look. That year, New Mexico rancher Ralph Garcia, his business ruined by drought, sought to make ends meet by signing on as a guard at Wackenhut’s prison at Santa Rosa, New Mexico, run under contract to the state. For $7.95 an hour, Garcia watched over medium-security inmates. Among the "medium security" prisoners were multiple murderers, members of a homicidal neo- Nazi cult and the Mexican Mafia gang. Although he had yet to complete his short training course, Garcia was left alone in a cell block with sixty unlocked prisoners.
On August 31, 1999, they took the opportunity to run amok, stabbing an inmate, then Garcia, several times. Why was Garcia left alone among the convicts? Let’s begin with Wackenhut’s cutrate Jails "R" Us method of keeping costs down. They routinely packed two prisoners into each cell. They posted just one guard to cover an entire "pod," or block of cells. This reverses the ratio in government prisons—two guards per block, one prisoner per cell. Of course, the state’s own prisons are not as "efficient" (read "cheap") as the private firm’s. But then, the state hadn’t lost a guard in seventeen years—where Wackenhut hadn’t yet operated seventeen months.

from http://www.raven1.net/humisery.html