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Walter Starcke: What am I missing? First, I fully understand your point of view. It's your facts that are a mystery. Your statement that Goldman repaid "pennies on the dollar", for example. It fully repaid every dime of the TARP funds plus 23% in the form of dividends and repurchased...

Walter Starcke: What am I missing? Actually, Goldman paid dividends and repurchased their warrants at very handsome rates. In another era the feds would have been guilty of usurious conduct. I would support any federal funds under these conditions....repaid in months at a 23% annualized...

Swatcher, we're all anonymous here. I would ask that you take me at my word when I tell you that I was an elected officer at one of the largest companies in America for the last 10 years of a 36 year career. I was also on the Board and executive committee of a very large health system and I now...

Which multi-national corporations do you have in mind? Goldman, Citibank, GM? Corporations are limp-wristed entities run by numbers-obsessed frightened little accountants. And what do you mean that the welfare of its people is not the focus anymore. Our "entitlements" budget is enormous, and...

I was quite skeptical well before the show aired. 10 minutes in my skepticism was confirmed, in capital letters. Fortunately. I always feel free to exercise the alternative David noted was available and I tuned out after 15 minutes. I've had my monthly quota of gibberish listening to the crap...

My reaction was certainly not based on the "look" of his website. It's based on the content. Presumably, most websites are designed to be a "best foot forward" marketing and information tool. It is a very good insight into what the author purports to represent. And Mr. Starcke, based on his...

Sorry to read this. All the best in your job search.

Really!? I perused his website and I can't even imagine how two hours will be enough to flesh out "the answer to everything" (my candidate for the single most pompous tagline in the history of branding). I'm no psychic but this one smells like it's either going to be a complete bloodbath or a...

IrishSeeker and ScottishDoug, I don't KNOW, of course, but if I were to speculate about why Ireland and Scotland don't have cattle mutilations it would have something to do with circumstances unique to the areas of the US which do. (We actually have cattle here in New Jersey and I've never heard...

Thanks; it does help. It does, however, beg an obvious question. Have you decided to now take a higher profile? From everything I've read and heard, this "field" is hardly lucrative; you're as likely as not to lose money pursuing it. So I could certainly understand your hesitation. But, given...

Isn't there a difference between someone who's role is as substantive, "backroom" expert and someone who's role is to (1) investigate and (2) share the results of such investigations? Christopher has apparently written several books about the San Luis Valley and been reasonably public on a very...

Is it just me...or did Christopher pretty much develop out of thin air? Has he been remarkably low key and under-the-radar for the last decade or so? Is he just "surfacing" now? Has he been a speaker at any conferences of consequence? There's such a dearth of capable, interesting personalities...

I don't get that comment at all! The amount of claims related on the Paracast and virtually every other paranormal forum of any medium which qualify as less-than-rational is countless. What is "rational" about claims that aliens have visited us, mostly undetected and unprovable, for decades, if...

I have listened to the relevant Paratopia podcast and read through his entire thread. I will also celebrate my 35th wedding anniversary this fall (married young!). Those are my only qualifications for commenting on this. Nancy Birnes' comments were neither shrill nor hysterical. She was a wife...

That is often true. What is disconcerting, and VERY ironic, here is that the very nature of these forums is to invite in people who share a wondering and, theoretically, open-minded approach to natural and, maybe, even supernatural events. If there is any forum which should have at least a...

Room for another opinion? I think the show has gotten better, is remarkably consistent and intelligent. I think there are occasional lapses, as there are in every aspect of life. However, I also think these forums have turned frighteningly to the worse; they are often dominated by a handful...

I don't get it! Why is the OPINION expressed by Magician2009 less entitled to respect and consideration than the OPINION of Gulliver. On the one hand Magician2009 simply states a well-known fact...magicians practiced in the "art" of cold/hot readings appear, in every aspect, to duplicate the...

I'm married so I have no absolutely no experience with accepting (as opposed to making) apologies. It certainly isn't necessary in this case, but thank you anyway.

Simple is this: 1.) Ask David. If, in the unlikely event he approves of having funds (most likely taxable income) solicited on his behalf, 2.) send him a check (but watch out for gift tax implications if you get too charitable!). Any proposal better have a good legal review first, since some...

Would you mind clarifying?