I got some exciting news for all you Great Depression enthusiasts.

The Great Depression 2.0 just began a few minutes ago. Today, 10/6/2008, at 12:45 Noon, I announced the official beginning of Depression 2.0.

I will be sending out notification to the media outlets, as well, so they can pounce on the Great News!

The Dow dropped below 10,000 for the first time, since 2004. It will drop down to around 8,000 points over the next 3 years and then begin the slow rebound to 10,000 within 12-18 years. This is if it follows the pattern of thre First Great Depression.

What does this mean for you?  Well, you can enjoy the great Chicken Noodle soup at many of America's soup kitchens, opening soon in a city near you.

You can also resort to dumpster diving; grabbing today's freshly peeled potato peels. But hurry. They go fast!

Expect many more bank failures, including your own bank. Expect your insurance company to fail, as well.  Forget the run on the bank, as your currency is now worthless. Yes, officially 7 minutes ago. You will get to pay $1,000 for a loaf of bread, and yes; forget bottled water, except that from your toilet bowl.

If you have not yet signed up on LinkToMeet.com to join our barter network; you better hurry. We have set a cap at 200 million members this year. But, don't sweat. We will raise our quotas to accept more members in January 2009. Our barter network will allow you to swap for goods and services; you know; a chicken for a pound of beef; milk for green peas. If all you can do is fix computers, then you are definately SOL. You better hurry up and watch past episodes of Survivor on CBS.com.

Well, enjoy the rest of Black Monday, as I got to go do some dumpster diving myself.

Oh. Thank President Bush and the Republicans for your financial collapse!

I recently researched the claims about Reunion.com being a scam and found some real interesting information.

The crux of the problem lies around the subtle way they get your email contacts list. You think you are registering on their site with your username and password, but actually are entering your username and password for your email provider. How does this happen? Most people use the same username and password on all accounts, including bank accounts. 

Do not use the same username. Let's say your username is tomthumb. Use thombthumbgmail, or thombtumbreunion. Then, you will not fall into the trap,  except for gmail. I have not verified the gmail claim, that they can grab all you contacts from gmail, without you logging in with a correct password.

The other major complaint is the devious way of presenting the $5 a month plan, but charge for 3 years. I immediately spotted that there had to be a catch, so I checked it out.

Here is what appears below next to the asterisk:

*One non-refundable payment of $60 for 1 year or $36 for 3 months. All memberships will be automatically renewed to the same term until you cancel. If you cancel, you'll enjoy premium benefits until the end of your then-current subscription term; your subscription will not be renewed after that term expires. $1 of each credit card charge goes to the Red Cross and is reflected as a separate charge on your statement.

Notice, it clearly states that it will auto-renew, after each plan period ends. However, a smart person can cancel immediately and enjoy their plan until expired. Don't worry, they will notify you to renew. So, I have to say that the claims are both clearly unfounded and that Reunion.com IS NOT a scam.

I read all the blogs (I will post links below). THey all cry about the same thing. However, in all transactions, it is, and has always been, buyer beware!

You cannot ask stupidly and expect a business to bail you out later. I have made many of the same mistakes, then later finding the renewals biting me in the ass. That was my stupidity; no one elses. I did not pay attention to the fine print.

However, that being said. You should not join services that auto-renew.

At LinkToMeet.com, you are reminded when your paid service is about to expire. It will not auto-renew, unless you specifically go and change it in your account profile.

This is why you should join LinkToMeet.com and pay for their $8 per month service. It covers:

• Dating
• Meeting up with Classmates
• FREE timeshare swap (This alone more than covers your membership)
• Less email activity (Founders hate tons of email in their inbox)

However, like all sites, similar to LinkedIn, ZoomInfo, and others, when you add your contacts, they will be notified, so they can update their profiles.

So, you get a very valuable resource, which you will need, sooner or later, for a small price or FREE. Everyone needs to understand that there is NO FREE LUNCH!

I have seen this greed on eBay, resulting in buyers getting scammed. This is because they truly believe they can get free, or next to free, stuff. Well, I feel ZERO sympath for those idiots, who are LOOKING FOR A DEAL! Neither should you.

This is why the government is turning its head on most of the complaints because they are classifying these complainers as cry-babies.

So stop complaining and pay more attention to the details, next time you enroll on a site and pull out your credit card, or worse, yet, your checking account information.

HerculesMall.com today removed an auction of Palin's soiled panties, put up for sale by a John McCain.

These panties were soiled and bore the signature of John McCain, US Presidential hopeful.

They smelled a little like Palin's cologne, with a scent of John McCain's signature cologne.

Does this mean McCain and Palin are having an affair?

Post your comments and any evidence .

I strongly recommend you DO NOT piss off your hair stylist, guys.

If you do, your haircut may look something like this the photo below:

Good Luck finding a job on http://BetterJobTomorrow.com

PHOENIX – Days of heavy rains around the Grand Canyon caused an earthen dam to fail Sunday and created flooding that forced helicopters to pluck hundreds of residents and campers from the gorge. No injuries were immediately reported.

The failure of the Redlands Dam caused some flooding in Supai, a village on a canyon floor where about 400 members of the Havasupai tribe live, said Grand Canyon National Park spokeswoman Maureen Oltrogge. The current floods and potential for more required the evacuations, she said.

Oh, Yes? He Said. She said. Get what? It must have been those rodents again! Yes. Rodents love to burough into dams. Damn those rodents!

Why not spend a little cash and buy some rodent poison on www.HerculesMall.com? A little dab will do ya!

So much for the singles dance group having a dance on the dam.

Visit http://www.linktomeet.com/groupdetail.aspx/167182 to find out where the singles dances are in the Phoenix Arizona area.

BEIJING – Chinese customs officials confiscated more than 300 Bibles on Sunday from four American Christians who arrived in a southwestern city with plans to distribute them, the group's leader said. It appears that China is selling them on www.HerculesMall.com.

 This looks like a strategy by China to help defray the high costs of the Beijing Olympics. Add to that the profits from the Big Fat Greek Chicken laying eggs on top og the Olympics stadium and China is off to a great start!

I don't know why the Greeks in Athens did not confiscate luggage and sell it on eBay to defray security costs.

Those of you that remember the Big Chicken in Marietta, Georgia, outside of Atlanta, can now rest assured that we have located your bird.

China, in its infinite wisdom, created a stadium, in the shape of a nest. Naturally, the disoriented and oversized chicken, needed a place to lay its eggs.

So, long behold, the big chicken found a new home; on top of the "Nest" in Beijing.

So, those of you heading to China for the Olympics, now can add feather allergies to the already nasty smog. So, go ahead any buy your allergy remedies on HerculesMall.com.

I just hope the bird does not crap on the Greek flag.  You can call the chicken, "My Big Fat Greek Chicken".

Today, 7/13/2008, on CNN Money, I read an article called:

The $5 trillion mess

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were created by Congress to help more Americans buy homes. Now their shaky condition threatens the entire housing market.

Scary, is what I say.

This means that from 2008 until about 2012, getting a mortgage for a home you wish to purchase will be at best difficult and expensive, as the article clearly points out.

Worst case, the entire US Banking system will collapse and we will have 20% or higher unemployment and food lines everywhere. The Great Depresssion of 2008.

Of course, there is a viabl solution for the smart American or non-American, as well.

Use Check101.com's barter program and guaranteed lifetime employment guarantee program launching in October 2008. I hope it launches in time.

The way it works is you join Check101.com as a Gold member for arounf $30 per month. You immediatley get a $50K credit line that you can use to purchase goods and services from other members.

To qualify for the lifetime guarantee program, you must attend Tom Psillas's Millionaire Boot Camp program that costs $9500.00 cash one-time payment, or $2,500 down in cash, plus around $100 per month cash. If you miss a payment, the lifetime employment guarantee is void. You must also refer 50 contacts each month to the program, which can be anyone you know.

The lifetime program is expensive, but is worth it, if you are concerned about the future. According to Tamion CEO, Tom Psillas, 90% of the jobs would be at Tamion, hence the guarantee and boot camp training requirement.

The boot camp program is also somewhat difficult to be approved for. Tamion does not want deadbeats in its programs. Tom says, "We need people with a can do attitude that can be the best in anything they do".

Check101.com, a Tamion division, plans to offer barter mortgages, administer lease-purchase programs, people leasing, and of course, normal batering, at a very reduced cost to spur activity. Merchants will be required to accept barter for 20% of their credit card volume at minimum, even if no customer opted for only barter. This will make the credit lines available to bater buying members.  However, to qualify, buyers may have to quit claim their homes or assign other assets as collateral. Stay tuned for more information, as it becomes available.

Also, in conjuction with above, Tamion is soon launching SeedBucks.com, a peer-to-peer loan site, similar to Prosper.com, but mainly for business loans.  Tamion SeedBucks.com loans will require a fee up front before applying for loans greater than $1,000.

So, if you want to find out about the Lifetime Employment guarantee programs, register at http://www.linktomeet.com so you will be notified when the program is launched. Also register for all other programs, as well. Once the other sites launch, you will be invited to participate. Your login user id is used on all Tamion sites.

Burrowing muskrats did enough damage to weaken the levee and send Missouri residents running from a flood. Sheriff's deputies warned people in Lincoln County yelling, "Get out, the levee broke!" as they went door-to-door. Officials Friday said the big rodents were looking for food or making dens and dug into the levee, weakening it enough that nature took care of the rest.

Those nasty mukrats will cause many families downstream to seek debt consolidation, or even bankruptcy attornies.

Who knows? If the flood wipes out entire neighborhoods, you better ask if there is flood insurance riders on your auto insurance.

NASA is at it again with their Ice theory.

They claim they dug up ice on Mars. I say it is white alien crap. Who is right?

To me, it looks like a stowaway Astronaut got scared and took a crap in the hole dug up by the Pheonix probe. See his shadow?

Of course, because it is really cold on Mars Ploar Cap, it froze instantly, thus the ice theory.

I don't think I want that ice in my drink. So much for the Ice on Mars theory, right?

Can I interest anyone in some cheap Real Estate on Mars, or have real estate prices crapped out there too?

Tell us what you think.  Then, sign up as a Gold member on LinkToMeet.com, so we can become a $1 Billion company, like LinkedIn.com.

Oh! Looks like someone dropped their piggybank in that hole.