Baggywrinkle

Enough drama queen posturing! Where's the beef?

This was a moonbat distraction from issues that real people are facing....back to basics:

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San Francisco Chronicle

Things changed about a year ago. People aren’t coming in for spare cash any more. This is financial life and death.

“This is the worst I have ever seen,” said managing partner Joseph Chait. He would know: His late father took over the business in 1965; his wife’s grandfather started working there in 1952. Chait has been there since 1971.

“We are seeing more people who, if they are not at the end of their rope, they are close to it. They are just trying to stave it off.”

Customers come through the door in a sad, daily procession. They are close to default on their mortgage, car payments or their kid’s tuition. They have made the wrenching decision to quite literally sell the family jewels.

Shemano said they tell stories about a piece of jewelry or silver, how it has been in the family for generations. With every telling, the imagined value tends to grow.

“You’ve got to pop bubbles sometimes,” Chait said. “They tell you, ‘I remember this silver tea set from when I was little.’ And you have to say, ‘Well, it’s worth $40.’ ”

At times there are tears - “about once a week or twice a month on average,” Chait said.

Other times reality is slow to sink in. Chait recalls a woman who wanted cash for her silver and gold Rolex watch. She needed the money, she said, to make her Lexus payment.

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If you really want to wring your hands over things you
have no control over how about North Korea and Iran
fielding a conventional explosive laced with cobalt-60 on
a rocket launched platform. Or how about a suitcase
conventional explosive laced with cobalt-60, carried by
a suicide bomber into the heart of your favorite city.
Easily attainable 50's technology with the ability to wipe
out life on the planet for 100,000 years.

Truly MAD (mutually assured destruction), This is the
weapons system portrayed in the classic book, "On the Beach."

Could it be that this is why the Japanese and Americans
have threatened to shoot down a communications satellite if launched by North Korea?

There now, commence wringing