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So give up caviar: it’s not brain sturgery!

By Guy Faulconbridge
Mon Sep 24, 9:05 AM ET

The rich may have to take black caviar off the menu to let sturgeon stocks recover, Russia’s first Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Friday.

Ivanov, widely regarded as a leading contender to succeed President Vladimir Putin in 2008, said he could do without caviar if sturgeon fishing was banned.

“If we banned catches for a period of time then I would certainly survive,” Ivanov told an investment conference in Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi, RIA news agency reported.

Ivanov, 54, said black and red caviar, and crab meat was not an essential part of an everyday diet and he could do without his caviar “ration” for five to seven years.

“We would repair our national wealth in this time after we so rapaciously annihilated it,” Ivanov said.

Most of the world’s sturgeon spawn in the rivers that flow into the Caspian Sea. Their unfertilized eggs — caviar — are sold by Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Russia.

Overfishing, poaching, pollution and poor management have cut sturgeon stocks in the Caspian. Experts say beluga is on the verge of extinction after fish numbers fell by 90 percent over the past 20 years.

High prices for caviar have made the sturgeon a target for criminal groups who control poaching gangs and illegal caviar sales in Russia and abroad.

Beluga caviar, a symbol of ostentatious dining and luxury, costs about $1,400 a kg in Moscow markets but sells for 3,700 pounds ($7,400) a kg in London.

Russian agriculture officials have pressed Putin to declare a state monopoly on the export of black caviar from Russia and to restrict its sale inside Russia to licensed outlets.

Greenspan (the former Federal Reserve chief) is in favor of money that slowly inflates and worries about the danger of it then getting out of control and throwing us back into the Carter era of double digit inflation.
Here are his quotes below, picked out of an article on AOL:

He also predicts interest rates will reach double digits in the coming years in order to thwart inflation.
A self-described “libertarian Republican,” Greenspan takes his own party to task for forsaking conservative principles that favor small government.

“My biggest frustration remained the president’s unwillingness to wield his veto against out-of-control spending,” Greenspan wrote.
“The Republicans in Congress lost their way,” Greenspan wrote. “They swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.”
Looking toward the U.S. economic future, Greenspan predicts that the Fed will have to force interest rates into double digits in order to keep inflation down.
The ex-Fed chief writes that he regrets the loss of fiscal discipline under Bush.

“`Deficits don’t matter,’ to my chagrin, became part of Republicans’ rhetoric.”

Greenspan long has argued that persistent budget deficits pose a danger to the economy over the long run.

http://money.aol.com/news/articles/ar/_a/greenspan-bashes-bush-over-spending/20070915222409990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001

What we really need is money that won’t inflate. We had it for 130 years and can have it again. Only the government benefits from inflation. We shouldn’t put up with it any longer. The Fed can give us non-inflating money any time it wants to, in spite of what they may say. We need more honest government, and a non-inflating dollar.
Inflation creates poor people. That’s wrong. Please think about this.

Grimgold

Subject: I dare you to f-ing print this

You are still in denial that Hilary is not even a Democrat.

Clearly, one of us is crazy.

Hint: Bill wasn’t either. He sold out everything that “liberalism” stood for.

Is that why he was heavily booed on Jon Stewart last night? (sarcasm)

He sold out the main ingredient that actually separated Democrats from Republicans,
just to get elected. His greed was classic GOP.

Could you be less specific?

And now you think his shrill wife is going to save the country?

Since the country is going off a cliff, I’d like a new direction.

Her health plan really provides nothing. Kucinich’s is much better and more reasonable.
And his is much more thoroughly researched.

I hear the Tooth Fairy has a good plan, too – maybe we should elect him…

Hilary has just hoisted herself on her own petards,
adding to her very weird program she proposed as First Wench in 1992
Richard Halfmann.

Karl Rove says, “Tell Richard we appreciate the help.”

Bart,

The first point of my email was that we’re currently in the primary race,
NOT the general election. You chose not to respond to that point at all
so I thank you for your tacit admission (a la Colbert…)

Bart says: The season we’re in changes nothing.
Attacking Hillary with “That wench is evil” helps them when it counts.

As to Hillary leading in the race, it looks like you’re using a circular argument.
I suggested that the basis you offer for your support is that, according to polls,
she’s 20 points ahead. That information is obtained from a mainstream media
that lives to serve the neo-con agenda, though, so how do you know?

Bart says: She’s 20 points ahead in almost every national poll.
If we take “the whore press” too far, we never landed on the moon.
I’m saying the whore press can’t be trusted – completely.

You replied:

>I don’t think she’ll win because I was told that by somebody.
>I believe in science, math and logic.
>She’s ahead by 20 points…”

(more…)

If Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize, will he run for president?

http://www.slate.com/id/2174590/

This article sums up what I have been saying for over a year and a half, Al Gore is the person the Democrats need as their contender for the presidency in 2008. Hillary and Obama and John may be capable politicians, but right now Al has the experience, intelligence and star power to run over anyone the GOP could possible throw at him.

BartCop.com Volume 2043 – Sac & Fox.

In Today’s Tequila Treehouse…

	Bush’s Thug Nation
	Bush to Kids: ‘Drop Dead’
	GOP says thanks?
	The Right’s falsies
	Stevens caught in sting
	Out of America
	Country music deserts W
	Let’s Dump Harry Reid
	Hayden starts TV season

    As many of Scribe’s gentle readers know, Scribe has a time machine. What they may not know is that this machine, dubbed the U.S.S. Peabody was fitted with an alternate universe door opening, and jamming, device.  The jamming comes in handy when there’s leakage, like when the “Yummy, Yummy We All Got Love in Our Teletubbie Tummies” universe almost leaked into our own.

     Recently Scribe just came back from one such trip and proceeded to write this cautionary, yet true in the satirical sense, tale. He had gone back to warn the president about terrorists, terrorism and what was about to happen not too far in the future.

   Now when a time line changes we don’t wink out of existence; though we may snooze a little. No, an alternate universe is created with an alternate timeline…

     Scribe is crying in anguish. How can he type the words? Was Junior RIGHT? (more…)