We are Doomed! DOOOOOMMED I say!
My favorite strip club was one run by a former evangelical minister. Nice place. He treated the girls well and patrons were not fleeced.
Needless to say eventually the locals closed it as a moral embarrassment. Of course other joints closer to the town center were immune. He probably was too honest to bribe the politicians.
Needless to say eventually the locals closed it as a moral embarrassment. Of course other joints closer to the town center were immune. He probably was too honest to bribe the politicians.
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.
Good that he has something to fall back on.MSimon wrote:My favorite strip club was one run by a former evangelical minister. Nice place. He treated the girls well and patrons were not fleeced.
Needless to say eventually the locals closed it as a moral embarrassment. Of course other joints closer to the town center were immune. He probably was too honest to bribe the politicians.
His sermons must have been a treat!
They Ain't Making Jews Like Jesus Any More by Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jew Boys.Skipjack wrote:So she paid him for his "services"?Jesus treated a whore in a temple once.
He must have been really good then ;)
Plastic Jesus
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.
“I don’t want to agree with him, because if he’s right, we’ve basically got to go to the mountains with a gun and some soup cans, because it’s all over.”
http://www.cnbc.com/id/38088826
http://www.cnbc.com/id/38088826
I think a better theory fits the facts:Diogenes wrote:“I don’t want to agree with him, because if he’s right, we’ve basically got to go to the mountains with a gun and some soup cans, because it’s all over.”
http://www.cnbc.com/id/38088826
http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/200 ... cline.html
and:
http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/200 ... ssing.html
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.
The alternative explanation is that on the upward part of the wave government extractions are bearable. On the downward swing they are untenable.hanelyp wrote:Re: Kondratieff Wave theory,
The last 3 major crunches in western markets, including the current one, were all induced by government malpractice. So if there's something to that theory, it relates to how long it takes to forget the lessons of the last crunch.
http://www.atr.org/sixmonths.html?content=5171
Maybe unbearable is more like it.
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.
Since this is the forum where we previously discussed the influence of Religion on civilization, I thought people might be interested in seeing this James Burke Video from his series "Connections." It tends to bolster my argument that the Christian religion has been a positive influence on the advancement of Western civilization.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORY-mXXgJg4
edit: Also, a bit of commentary on why Rome fell, unbeknownst at the time to James Burke, also applicable to us. U.S.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORY-mXXgJg4
edit: Also, a bit of commentary on why Rome fell, unbeknownst at the time to James Burke, also applicable to us. U.S.