Lifestyles of the filthy rich and infamous

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Re: Lifestyles of the filthy rich and infamous

Postby Maddy » Sat Jan 30, 2010 11:01 am

Thank you for that "meanwhile" BPH! That "meanwhile" is why I get sick seeing those houses.

MEANWHILE!

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Re: Lifestyles of the filthy rich and infamous

Postby brainpanhandler » Sat Jan 30, 2010 11:19 am

Blue wrote:
How about Nicholas Cage who has his own island?

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I'd be lying if I didn't admit I envy anyone who owns their own island. I mean who wouldn't want to own their own frickin' island? Of course, an island like Cage's will be underwater in the not too distant future. John Donne as it turns out was pretty prescient on that score. I think I'd put a big fuckin' bell on my island, just to remind me.

John Donne wrote:Meditation XVII

from Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions

Nunc lento sonitu dicunt, morieris.
Now this bell tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die.

Perchance he for whom this bell tolls1 may be so ill as that he knows not it tolls for him; and perchance I may think myself so much better than I am, as that they who are about me and see my state may have caused it to toll for me, and I know not that2. The church is catholic, universal, so are all her3 actions; all that she does belongs to all. When she baptizes a child, that action concerns me; for that child is thereby connected to that head which is my head too4, and ingrafted into the body whereof I am a member. And when she buries a man, that action concerns me: all mankind is of one author5 and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language6; and every chapter must be so translated. God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice7; but God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves8 again for that library where every book shall lie open to one another9. As therefore the bell that rings a sermon calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come, so this bell calls us all; but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness. There was a contention10 as far as a suit (in which piety and dignity, religion and estimation, were mingled) which of the religious orders should ring to prayers first in the morning; and it was determined that they should ring first that rose earliest. If we understand aright the dignity of this bell that tolls for our evening prayer, we would be glad to make it ours by rising early11, in that application, that it might be ours as well as his whose indeed it is. The bell doth toll for him that thinks it doth; and though it intermit12 again, yet from that minute that that occasion wrought upon him, he is united to God. Who casts not up his eye to the sun when it rises? but who takes off his eye from a comet when that breaks out? Who bends not his ear to any bell which upon any occasion rings? but who can remove it from that bell which is passing a piece of himself out of this world? No man is an island13, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if promontory14 were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee15. Neither can we call this a begging of misery or a borrowing of misery16, as though we are not miserable enough of ourselves but must fetch in more from the next house, in taking upon us the misery of our neighbors17. Truly it were an excusable covetousness if we did; for affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it, and made fit for God by that affliction. If a man carry treasure in bullion18, or in a wedge of gold, and have none coined into current moneys, his treasure will not defray19 him as he travels. Tribulation is treasure in the nature of it, but it is not current money in the use of it, except we get nearer and nearer our home, heaven, by it. Another man may be sick too, and sick to death, and this affliction may lie in his bowels as gold in a mine and be of no use to him; but this bell that tells me of his affliction digs out and applies that gold to me, if by this consideration of another's dangers I take mine own into contemplation and so secure myself by making my recourse to my God, who is our only security20.
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Re: Lifestyles of the filthy rich and infamous

Postby Maddy » Sat Jan 30, 2010 11:44 am

And thank you for John Donne, whom I'd never heard of before, and whom now I must find more of!
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Re: Lifestyles of the filthy rich and infamous

Postby norton ash » Sat Jan 30, 2010 12:50 pm

Maddy... try the play-movie "Wit" with Emma Thompson. It's tremendous... she plays a Donne-expert professor facing down cancer and chemotherapy. This would be a fine place to put a toe in Donne's ocean, and Emma's your guide to the metaphysical "wit" that galvanizes his poetry. It's a sad and beautiful film.

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Re: Lifestyles of the filthy rich and infamous

Postby Nordic » Sat Jan 30, 2010 12:53 pm

Where's Robin Hood when you need him?
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Re: Lifestyles of the filthy rich and infamous

Postby Maddy » Sat Jan 30, 2010 1:04 pm

I'll look into that, Norton! Thank you! I'm not much one for movies, really - I prefer reading! I hope to find some of his books, to read and possibly add to my collection.
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Re: Lifestyles of the filthy rich and infamous

Postby Stephen Morgan » Sat Jan 30, 2010 1:12 pm

Nordic wrote:
barracuda wrote:None of them, just like none of us, will be altogether safe in this country without the help of a private army if the bad, bad goes down.


Yeah, even helicopters gotta land somewhere. They don't go that far on one tank of fuel unless they're the really big-ass long-range military choppers.


Only got to get you to the yacht or the jet.
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible. -- Lawrence of Arabia
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Re: Lifestyles of the filthy rich and infamous

Postby tron » Sat Jan 30, 2010 1:22 pm

Stephen Morgan wrote:
Nordic wrote:
barracuda wrote:None of them, just like none of us, will be altogether safe in this country without the help of a private army if the bad, bad goes down.


Yeah, even helicopters gotta land somewhere. They don't go that far on one tank of fuel unless they're the really big-ass long-range military choppers.


Only got to get you to the yacht or the jet.


or the launch pad to the dark side of the moon?
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Re: Lifestyles of the filthy rich and infamous

Postby sunny » Sat Jan 30, 2010 1:24 pm

Stephen Morgan wrote:
Nordic wrote:
barracuda wrote:None of them, just like none of us, will be altogether safe in this country without the help of a private army if the bad, bad goes down.


Yeah, even helicopters gotta land somewhere. They don't go that far on one tank of fuel unless they're the really big-ass long-range military choppers.


Only got to get you to the yacht or the jet.


There will be starving, angry peasants wherever they go.

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Only to be found in fiction.

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Re: Lifestyles of the filthy rich and infamous

Postby 23 » Sat Jan 30, 2010 1:27 pm

I have a friend who believes that the direst of economic circumstances is just around the corner.

He gave up the home that he grew up in as a child, and got his wife and himself an RV.

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To give him some degree of mobility, as different regions of the country deteriorate like dominoes.

Hmm!
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Re: Lifestyles of the filthy rich and infamous

Postby Maddy » Sat Jan 30, 2010 1:28 pm

That's what I'm doing. Its not a bad idea.
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Re: Lifestyles of the filthy rich and infamous

Postby General Disarray » Sat Jan 30, 2010 5:11 pm

I think about having to live in my trailer all the time, if we lose the house.
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Re: Lifestyles of the filthy rich and infamous

Postby brainpanhandler » Sun Jan 31, 2010 10:28 am

Glenn Beck's house is the first one I've encountered with this:

Location: (hidden - privacy request)

If you try to click on the maps you get a message, "map location hidden for privacy concerns". Not so with Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity, or anybody else here so far. Just Glenn Beck.

This link is provided though for those that just have to know about Glenn Beck's secret lair:

More Info: http://www.celebritydetective.com

And a commenter, the only commenter, supplies this link as well.

tlp333 @ 2009-12-17 21:22:55
http://www.shelterpop.com/2009/12/17/gl ... t-he-need/

Comments were apparently shut down after that.

Poor guy. He just loves his country so much and all people wanna do is pick on him.

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Re: Lifestyles of the filthy rich and infamous

Postby Stephen Morgan » Mon Feb 01, 2010 10:14 am

tron wrote:
Stephen Morgan wrote:
Nordic wrote:
barracuda wrote:None of them, just like none of us, will be altogether safe in this country without the help of a private army if the bad, bad goes down.


Yeah, even helicopters gotta land somewhere. They don't go that far on one tank of fuel unless they're the really big-ass long-range military choppers.


Only got to get you to the yacht or the jet.


or the launch pad to the dark side of the moon?


Or the nuclear bunker. The MoD sold a bunch of em off a few years back. Not very nice, though. Damp. Brutalist.
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Re: Lifestyles of the filthy rich and infamous

Postby Stephen Morgan » Mon Feb 01, 2010 10:20 am

sunny wrote:There will be starving, angry peasants wherever they go.


Not if they're all dead. Or on the ocean waves, I suppose.

Nordic wrote:Where's Robin Hood when you need him?


Only to be found in fiction.


Too many florence nightingales
Not enough robin hoods
Too many halos not enough heroes
Coming up with the goods
So you though you’d like to change the world
Decided to stage a jumble sale
For the poor, for the poor

It’s a waste of time if you know what they mean
Try shaking a box in front of the queen
’cause her purse is fat and bursting at the seams
It’s a waste of time if you know what they mean

Too many hands in too many pockets
Not enough hands on hearts
Too many ready to call it a day
Before the day starts

So you thought you’d like to see them healed
Got blue peter to stage an appeal
For the poor, for the poor

It’s a waste of time if you know what they mean
Try shaking a box in front of the queen
’cause her purse is fat and bursting at the seams
It’s a waste of time if you know what they mean

Flag day, flag day, flag day
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