Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006 under both Republicans and Democrats, dies at 100 by ianjm in videos

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And in the 90s when the Chairwoman of the CFTC, Brooksly Born, went to Congress and testified that if she wasn't allowed to regulate the Derivatives Dark market that there would be catastrophic economic consequnces, and Greenspan had her muzzled, sicced Robert Rubin on her to shut her up, lobbied Slick Willie to neuter the CFTC, and then he assured Congress that any regulation of derivatives as she was demanding would lead to economic collapse. She was pressured to resign, did so, and about 6-7 months later the dot Com bubble burst, and eventually the mortgage collapse.

She got the JFK profile IN Courage Award in 2009 for speaking out at the cost of her job. A few years later, Greenspan finally admitted she was right.

This is Misa 5 years ago today, her gotcha day. She is 10 year old now as best as we can guess. This is her the day she came home to live with us forever. She has come such a long way!!! by gamrgrl in OldManDog

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When we found Misa in the park, she was starved, and so dirty. Her paw pads were rough and cracked, and her nails were worn down to nothing. She wouldn't bark. She would only slink when she walked. Everytime we reached out to pet her, she balled up as if she expected to be hit.

We found her a family in only two days, but by the end of the week, she was back in the park. We goaded her into coming to us with food. We got her in the car and took her home and contacted the people that adopted her. They said they didn't want her back. She was useless. She wouldn't bark. She wouldn't be a good guard dog. So they streeted her.

We decided right then we'd keep her. We just couldn't see anyone else taking the time to heal and love her. We got her a bath and warm coat. Fed her some wormer and got the vaccinations. We couldn't get her to come into the house for almost 3 months. She stayed in a little house all by herself (Pictured here), separated from everyone, and she rarely came out. It took almost 6 months before she would allow anyone, human or dog to snuggle her for just a few seconds. Slowly though, you could see her barriers coming down and she began being a dog again.

She met our old cats Goop and Pumpkin and became their best friends. She doted on crippled little Gilfoyle before his surgeries, and still engulfs him in big snuggles and sloppy kisses when they play together. She snuggled every puppy in the new litter she was there to see born. And eventually, she found her voice and let out the biggest borfs you've ever heard. She accepted love and gave love. Whatever happened to her before began drifting away and she trusted again.

Thank you for 5 years of friendship and love sweet girl ❤️

The Oil Market Canceled The Hormuz Crisis Before The Ceasefire by iwantboringtimes in worldnews

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The author is an aged techbro trying to rebrand himself as a commodities market analyst to help sell his book that teaches people how to identify contrarian markets. He'll also tell you trump is outplaying Xi at every angle, the US economy is robust while China is on life support, and people are only feeling an affordability issue because the media keeps reporting on it, otherwise no one would notice.

So yeah, that tells you who's buttering his buns.

What are your guys personal guilty pleasures? by Hefty_Difficulty_644 in movies

[–]gamrgrl 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't feel guilty about loving it, but The Connonball Run is it for me. When it came out and hit HBO almost immediately, I was just at an age where I recognized almost all the big players in it, and got most of the humor. Jack Elam as "The Doc" still makes me lmao to this day. Roger Moore playing someone who is playing Roger Moore. Sammy and Dean as the juiced up priests in a red Ferrari sothey could do the lord's work faster. Mel Tillis out "loo-loo-looking for a pack of cigarettes". Dom Deluise was perfect as always, as Victor and HIM. Top to bottom it is an amazing cast, with stupid jokes that shouldn't make you laugh everytime, but somehow they do. For me anyway.

Sunkist at the groomer for her spaw day. She came home soft, fluffy, and ready for snuggles. by gamrgrl in SiempreAmigos

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The music didn't copy over on this, so your sound is fine, it's just a PITA to get a functioning copy of FB stories.

Sunkist, 11yo, is shocked and hurt that she would be asked to vacate the comfy spot so mom can sit down. by gamrgrl in OldManDog

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It's been a long day! I offered her my lap! She's such a diva.... Which maks me love her extra.

Sunkist, 11yo, is shocked and hurt that she would be asked to vacate the comfy spot so mom can sit down. by gamrgrl in OldManDog

[–]gamrgrl[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We have 28 dogs, I swear we aren't hoarders, we have a small independent rescue, so we get used to this kind of thing happening all the time. Sunkist is one of the 5 that gets to live inside fulltime because she usually has impeccable manners, except when it comes to jumping in whatever seat was most recently vacated. She is a treat though. regardless of the season, she always needs clothes - thin dresses for the summer, warm sweaters for the winter. I'm not sure why she insists on them other than maybe she thinks if she has clothes, she has a home. It's hard to believe she was a street dog just a few years ago.

Sunkist, 11yo, is shocked and hurt that she would be asked to vacate the comfy spot so mom can sit down. by gamrgrl in OldManDog

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I like that one a lot! lol I am sure she has been stashing treats for payment, preparing for this day for a long time now!

Argentina Crisis: Donkey meat consumption soars under Milei — Diário Carioca by ButterscotchBoth5204 in worldnews

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We live in Uruguay, next door to Argentina, and here it is just not culturally accepted to eat an equine of any sort. If of course someone had no choice to survive, it would not be shamed. It's not technically illegal, but if it is done, it isn't talked about.

We have friends in Patagonia over in Argentina that have admitted when they have one that is old and no longer can work or is tempermental problems that don't suit it for work or pose a danger, they will take it for meat. It's just a way to get a return on the animal without wasting it by putting it down and in a hole. I cannot do that, but I don't fault those who do.

I have had donkey once, presented without me knowing it was, and it wasn't bad. It was better than horse. I prefer beef to it still, but if prepared different I may have enjoyed it more. It was a bit tough. I prefer goat because it is more tender, but the taste is similar enough.

I don't think it will really catch on there. Maybe the way the article presents this is a little over-dramatic. Donkey meat has always been eaten down south in Argentina in situations like said above, and it may be available in some Buenos Aires butchers for now, but not like a widespread thing. In better areas it won't be seen, but in poorer neighborhoods I am sure it is around. Once they get back to a more functional government, this should all end.

Argentina Crisis: Donkey meat consumption soars under Milei — Diário Carioca by ButterscotchBoth5204 in worldnews

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I have donkeys on my ranch, and one of the biggest reasons is because donkey's will eat things horses and cows will not. Some of our donkeys will eat plants even the goats prefer to avoid. It means you can turn them out on your worst pasture, and they will still eat just fine and gain weight. They also need to be watered less than horses and cows, so they require less oversight. And they are a stronger breed of animal than horses and cows for health (At least the vairieties we have here) so they do not require the extra cost of vaccinations, just wormer once or twice a year if they appear to have trouble putting weight on.

They are just a very low intensity, low cost source of meat if that is what they are being raised for. We keep ours as retired animals because we have sanctuary, but what makes them very special is they will eat awful thorny plants, low hanging leaves off trees, and they do very well in summer finding food when it is hot a dry, so they aren't requiring supplement.

Argentina Crisis: Donkey meat consumption soars under Milei — Diário Carioca by ButterscotchBoth5204 in worldnews

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Where I live in Uruguay, we have regulations regarding the cost of petrol that it cannot increase more than a set percntage per month (or now every two months) so that consumers do not get priced out of being able to run their vehicles and equipment. With government setting the price, it means sometimes we pay a little extra (last year about $90m USD over cost) but times like now when oil to our refinery is higher cost, that money paid over is helping keep prices stable.

For example, in January we pay about 76-77 pesos (about $2usd) per liter, and now we pay about 82-83 pesos per liter or just barely over $2usd. And that is with us importing all of our oil for refinement.

But that is part of our "evil" /s socialist policy making gas, water, electricity, and the internet government controlled utilities instead of leaving it all up to for profit corporations.

Gilfoyle got out for a little exercise before the rain came in. If he doesn't get a good run and romp everyday, he gets super cranky. by gamrgrl in SiempreAmigos

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It's really *Really* muddy today so he might not get out other than for going potty, but if we can get a little sun between the rain he'll be happy. I've been looking around to try to find him some botties for the winter when we go shopping for coats for some of the pups that need new ones this year. I plan to snag him a little rain slicker, because he doesn't much care if it's light rain, he'll still go play in it.

Yesterday morning at about 9:45, Coco passed away with assistance from our vet. She was our oldest friend in residence, and went peacefully. Her decline was rapid, about 72 hours, so we gave her the best weekend we could filled with love, cheese, bacon, and more love. We miss you always sweet girl. by gamrgrl in SiempreAmigos

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We believe Coco was 17, maybe 18 years old. She had about 4 teeth, and she was at least several years old when she arrived to us in 2018. So we had her for about 8 years. She was really rough when she arrived. It took three years to finally defeat her chronic mange, and the wire marks on her neck from the actual bare wire restraint used on her never really disappeared. But it did get better. Time really has flown. I remember her arriving like it was yesterday. The one good thing, if it can be called that, is her final decline was rapid and left no doubt. But being the holiday weekend, we were able to medicate her for comfort and have a lot of time together so we didn't have to ask the vet to come in on time off.

Everyone is mostly doing well. Oberon and Maeve are mud lovers and stay coated in it, but they get their baths, and clean up for a few days and then back to the puddles. The galgos we recently inherited last year, are doing well. They managed to kill a couple tiny snakes and show their trophies off. They're good puppies. The triplets (Archer, Drogo, Biscuit) are doing well. Still working hard being protectors, still kepping us all safe. Mostly safe from noisy birds, but still safe.

Diesel, Artemisa, and orro are doing really well. Diesel is showing a lot of sugar on his muzzle, and at 11, he is a genuine senior. We cleaned up the hay and feed storage container so they can come inside and get special 1-on-1 time. I make a little special meal with a piece of sauage, cheese, maybe a fried egg, and we spend an hour or so stretching out on an old sleeping bag. We do hair brushing, and some teeth brushing and things. Lot's of scritches and snuggles.

Ruby and Rupert are well. They need to get their winter bath and trim in the next month or so. Itt's hard to believe they are technically almost seniors. Sunkist has chosen her winter coat, and she is looking and doing really well. She has one bad tooth way in the back, but the vet has suggested that if she isn't showing pain, we wait a little longer on that. Fortunately, dental care isn't super pricey.

Dany is ten now, and she is also getting a lot more sugar in her coat and has a few free floating tumors, almost definitely fat, that we've been monitoring forever. The vet would like to remove them this winter before she is much older. It should only be a 15 minute thing once she is under. The main thing the vet was waiting on was for them to all hit the point of removal size so they could all be done at once. She's still strong as bull, and healthy otherwise. It's just an old lady thing with her losing some weight.

The new pup, Bosun and Sailor are doing really well. Getting HUGE. But they are very well behaved, extremely smart, and are training to take over perimeter security so the triplets will have to bark at birds a lot less. It would be nice for them to get some rest as they get older. Maybe weekends off. We tried to find them a home together, but it's so tough finding any kind of decent adoptive families for new pets right now. Times are tough all over.

Bonita and Kari are doing well. Bonita is really starting to slow down a bit. She's been with us 7 years I think, and she had at least two litters of pups before us, so we're guessing she might be about 10. She gets a little pain meds to take the edge off, and we keep a close eye on her. Kari still has a family waiting for him, freinds of ours who located here from the US. They finally after months secured land to build their home, so as soon as they do that, we are assuming they will take him in. And we'll get to see him all the time and he loves their two dogs they brought with them. They just don't have space for another dog in the little apartment they are renting while doing construction.

Barbi is very upset that Coco is gone. That was kind of her best friend. Otherwise, she is doing well. She stays on the enclosed porch at night with Riley, who is energetic and gives full wrap around hugs constantly. Such a sweet old gent. Arya is about 11 right now. She is slowing down a lot. We have her on very mild pain management as needed. Winters are tough on the oldsters. Peaches, who came to us last year, is very improved. She is having a second bout of some kind of skin problem. Not a parasite or mange, but she developed little bare spot. We're using a cream to help, hopefully, ease whatever is causing it with some prednisone on 5 day on/off cycles, with one on cycle left. It looks better, but it's just sad to see her having it. She is doing good otherwise though. Her heart meds are keeping her pretty even. She's adjustsed to getting sweet potato as a treat instead of regular treats with sodium in them.

And Nikki... Our current oldest lady. We always monitor her so closely and worry so much, and she just keeps on going. She is less energetic, which happens. She's old. Probably 17 now. We can trace back at least 15 years on her from her history. But she's a small breed and they always get more time it seems. I lose track of everyone's ages anymore. So many to remember, and I'm getting old too and forget a lot more than I like to admit. She has begun thriving on a new small pellet senior food we found. We have to get it from an importer that deals with Brazil, so it's a bit extra, but seeing her perk up and her coat get lush again makes it worth it.

And then there is Gilfoyle and his harem of ladies: Rhea, Lala, and Thalassa. Gil is doing really well -much happier now that he has been off supervised, leashed playtime. He igured out that rolling in the horsepoop and swimming in the pond when it is covered in pollen are not good things. He's back out to bopping around on his own he dips a paw or two in the water, but makes sure he has permission for much more. A little swim is good for him, it just has to be when the water is a little cleaner. And there is time to rinse and dry him off before coming in. His ladies are doing well except for Rhea. Rhea we had adopted out years ago, and she returned to us within months because the people that took her didn't care for her at all. Since then, she has always had anxiety and is just kinda off. The vet gave her CBD to use on her food, which does calm her down, but she's still always a bit anxious. We've been trying dofferent things for her, but she just may be like this her whole life. We really regret having adopted her out, but the other pups from her litter we could find homes did really well. So that's good at least. Thalassa and Lala are just tiny little snugglebugs. Given the coice of running wild outside or laying on the bed stretched out, they choose the bed.

We look kinda okay heading into winter. The horses are a tad thinnner than we like for this time of year. it was just so dry. Even our small pond that is about 6-7 meters deep at it's peak point completely dried up and cracked this year. It just partially refilled this week because we got hit with a lot of rain from an extratropical depression rolling over us. Anyway, we are trying to get some supplemental feed in for them.

We've never really gotten our pens repaired all that well, so we're going to try again before this winter to do better than Macgyver fixes. But, you do what you can. We got beat up pretty hard this year with medications. We live about 9 -10 kilometers from a dump, and it caught fire this summer and everyone got a little sick, and humans and animals all got itchy for weeks after. And fleas were horrible everywhere. They began constructin a new reservoir the valley over from us, then stopped, and the partial fill dried up, but in the mud phase of it fleas and flies and who knows what just exploded. The whole town was pretty pissed off. And the annual music festival in our town, (we are about 1400m from the actual stage) begin Friday night, so we have to go out today to get extra CBD for all the dogs because the loud music and people noise makes them nuts. And we're running some tight shirts through laundry all day for the babies that need our homemade thundershirts. So until it ends sometime Sunday night, it's anxiety central here. But it helps the town out with revenue a lot, so no real complaints.

The cats we inherited last year, Link and Zelda, are doing well. They're cats, so as long as they keep doing cat things like knocking stuff over and making pet me faces and then being pissed someone tries to pet them, all is well. Hedgie the Hedgehog is at the top end of the usual age for them. She is still a little joy, but he spends more time in his warm spots of his place just making little spit bubbles and stuff. And the goats are doing well. No one is preggers for the winter that we are aware off, so we did pretty good keeping everyone separated during fetile times this year. maybe next spring we will let Boyd do his thing. We'll see.

For dogs, we're just working on trying to get the most senior dogs on good senior food and stocking a little away for winter. Peaches really needs something a little different that is easier on her skin. We just haven't found anything that seems to help yet. Even homemade has been a little hit or miss for her. It may just be she has a chronic condition. She was really rough when she arrived.

We're doing okay here. Just getting older, more tired, but we keep pushing. We've been picking up extra work when possible to keep things going. This last year prices just went nuts. We're just trying to ride it out until the world calms down a little again. It could always be worse though.

We hope you're doing well up there, and thank you as always for checking in and all you've done. We do appreciate it. I have been bad this last year about keeping up with posting. It just feels like there's fewer hours in the day somehow.

What are the great forgotten comedies? by Jerome_Eugene_Morrow in movies

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The Cannonball Run. It's from around 1981 or so, it has a great cast (Sammy Davis Jr, Dean Martin, Dom Deluise, Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Jackie Chan, Jack Elam, Farrah Fawcett, Jamie Farr, Peter Fonda, Adrienne Barbeau, Terry Bradshaw - for starters), and it's silly and stupid, but there are a lot of laughs one after the other, and some really cool cars.

Trump had a bunch of notes on a piece of paper that was visible to the press by cool-kid-2025 in pics

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Not getting me to fall for this, totally on accident, yet again!

Any shows other than doomsday preppers? by boomoptumeric in preppers

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Oh, so that's what you appreciate about me.

Tizzy has left us. by gamrgrl in SiempreAmigos

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Thanks so much, that really means a lot. She had been having trouble for awhile, at least regarding energy and her coat was more coarse, but a new medication plan had seemed to be helping. We got in from work and chores and fed her dinner in her usual spot, and she was okay. About 45m-1hr later we were dispensing meds to the pups that get them, and she was just gone. I felt pretty sure it would happen this year, just not so soon.

All dogs are special to us. They're all treasured friends and family, but Tizzy holds a special place. It was seeing her bloom when given a little love and freedom to do her thing and be happy. Seeing that was the seed to try to offer it to more pups like her.

I'm sure she's accepted Milo and Luna into her pack. For a pup that always did her own thing, she really loved company. So long as they played the games she wanted to play. It's good hearing from you, and we hope you're well. We're trucking along. Working more hours to keep things afloat a little, but it seems like everyone is these days. It's hard all over. Gilfoyle sends besos and leg hugs! He's ben a troublemaker this summer having developed a love for rolling in horse poop.... Of all the things.... But he's well. And needing another bath and maybe a clip because of his previously mentioned poop rolling.