MooPig Trend Spotter :: "Who has all the Money?"

Watch and Think
youtube capture by Pat Darnell | Nov 13, 2013 | Bryan TX

http://youtu.be/QPKKQnijnsM

TRANSCRIPT
0:00there's a chart SR recently that I can't get out of my head
0:03Harvard Business professor and economist ass more than 5,000 Americans
0:08how they thought well was distributed in the United States
0:12this is what they said they thought it was dividing the country into five rough
0:15group at the top bottom
0:17and middle 3 20 percent group they asked people
0:21how they thought the wealth in this country was divided NES them
0:25what they thought was the ideal distribution and ninety-two percent
0:29that at least nine outta 10 a.m. said it should be more like this
0:33in other words more equitable than they think it is
0:37now that fact is telling admittedly the notion that most Americans know that the
0:41system is
0:42already skewed unfairly to what's most interesting to me
0:46is the reality compared to our perception the ideal
0:50is as far removed from our perception is reality
0:54as the actual distribution is from what we think
0:57exists in this country so ignore the ideal for a moment
1:01here's what we think it is again and here
1:04is the actual distributional shockingly skewed
1:08not only to the bottom 20 percent and the next 20 percent
1:12the bottom forty percent of Americans barely have
1:16any the wealth I mean it's hard even see them on the chart
1:20but the top one percent has more of the country's wealth
1:24then nine out of 10 Americans believe the entire top 20 percent should have
1:29mind-blowing but let's look at it another way because
1:33I find this chart kinda difficult to wrap my head around instead let's reduce
1:37the 311 million Americans to
1:40just a representative 100 people make it simple
1:44here they are teachers coaches firefighters construction workers
1:49engineers doctors lawyers some investment bankers the CEO
1:53may be a celebrity culture now let's line him up according to their wealth
1:57poorest people on the left wealthiest on the right just a steady row folks based
2:02on their net worth
2:03color coding like we did before based on which 20 percent quintile they volunteer
2:09now let's reduce the total wealth the United States
2:12which was roughly fifty four trillion dollars in 2009
2:16to this symbolic pi love cash and let's distributed
2:21among our 100 Americans well appear socialism
2:25all the wealth of the country distributed equally we all know that
2:28will work
2:29we need to encourage people to work can work hard to achieve that goal American
2:33Dream and keep our country moving forward
2:36so hears that night deal
2:39we asked everyone about something like this occur
2:42this isn't to bed we've got some incentive as the wealthiest folks are
2:46now about
2:4710 to 20 times better off in the poorest Americans
2:51but hey even the poor folks aren't actually poor
2:54since the poverty line is stated almost entirely off the chart
2:58we have a super healthy middle-class with a smooth transition into wealth
3:03and yes Republicans and Democrats alike chose this curve nine out of 10 people
3:09ninety-two percent said this was a nice ideal distribution of America's wealth
3:14the let's move on this is what people think
3:18America's wealth distribution actually looks like not as equitable clearly
3:23but for me even this still looks pretty great
3:26yes the poorest 20 to 30 percent are starting to suffer quite a lot compared
3:31to the ideal
3:33in the middle class is certainly struggling more than they were
3:36while the rich in wealthier making roughly a hundred times that of the
3:40poorest Americans
3:41in about ten times that if the still healthy middle-class
3:44sadly this isn't even close to the reality
3:48here is the actual distribution of wealth in America
3:52the poorest Americans don't even register
3:56they're down to pocket change and the middle class
4:00is barely distinguishable from the poor in fact
4:03even the rich between the top 10 in 20 percentile
4:07are worse off only the top 10 percent or better off
4:10and how much better off so much better off the top
4:14to 25 percent were actually of the chart
4:17at this scale and the top one percent
4:20this can were his stack of money stretch is ten times higher than we can show
4:27here's his stack of cash re stacked all by itself
4:31this is the top one percent we've been hearing so much about
4:34so much green in his pockets that I have to give him a whole new column his own
4:39because he won't fit on my chart 1 percent of America has
4:43forty percent of all the nation's wealth
4:46the bottom eighty percent 8 out of every 10 people
4:50work a Dr these 100 only has
4:53seven-percent between them in this
4:56only gotten worse in the last twenty to thirty years
4:59while the richest 1 percent take home almost a quarter
5:03the national income today in 1976
5:06they took home only nine percent meaning their share of income has nearly tripled
5:10in the last thirty years
5:13the top one percent own half the country stocks bonds and mutual funds
5:18the bottom 50 percent of Americans only
5:21half a percent these investments which means
5:25P aren't investing they're just scraping by I'm sure many of these wealthy people
5:29have worked very hard for their money
5:31but do you really believe that the CEO was working
5:34380 times harder his average
5:38employees not as lowest-paid employees not the janitor
5:42but the average earner in his company the average worker needs to work more
5:46than a month
5:47turn with the CEO makes in one our
5:51we certainly don't have to go all the way to socialism to find something that
5:55is fair
5:56for hard-working Americans we don't even have to achieve what most of us consider
6:00might be
6:01ideal all we need to do is wake up
6:04in reliance that the reality in this country
6:08is not it all what we think it is
6:11gone

MooPig's Report from the Middle :: "Network of Global Corporate Control"

PLOS ONE: The Network of Global Corporate Control: "We present the first investigation of the architecture of the international ownership network, along with the computation of the control held by each global player. We find that transnational corporations form a giant bow-tie structure and that a large portion of control flows to a small tightly-knit core of financial institutions. This core can be seen as an economic “super-entity” that raises new important issues both for researchers and policy makers."

" ... A common intuition among scholars and in the media sees the global economy as being dominated by a handful of powerful transnational corporations (TNCs). However, this has not been confirmed or rejected with explicit numbers. A quantitative investigation is not a trivial task because firms may exert control over other firms via a web of direct and indirect ownership relations which extends over many countries. Therefore, a complex network analysis [1] is needed in order to uncover the structure of control and its implications. Recently, economic networks have attracted growing attention [2], e.g., networks of trade [3], products [4], credit [5], [6], stock prices [7] and boards of directors [8], [9]. This literature has also analyzed ownership networks [10], [11], but has neglected the structure of control at a global level.

" ... The TNC [transnational corporations] network has a bow-tie structure [21] (see Figure 2 A ...). Its peculiarity is that the strongly connected component, or core, is very small compared to the other sections of the bow-tie, and that the out-section is significantly larger than the in-section and the tubes and tendrils (Figure 2 B ...). The core is also very densely connected, with members having, on average, ties to 20 other members (Figure 2 C, D). As a result, about 3/4 of the ownership of firms in the core remains in the hands of firms of the core itself. In other words, this is a tightly-knit group of corporations that cumulatively hold the majority share of each other.

'via Blog this'

"... The top holders within the core can thus be thought of as an economic “super-entity” in the global network of corporations. A relevant additional fact at this point is that of the core are financial intermediaries. Figure 2 D shows a small subset of well-known financial players and their links, providing an idea of the level of entanglement of the entire core.

" ... Thus, in the hypothesis that the structure of the ownership network is a good proxy for that of the financial network, this implies that the global financial network is also very intricate. Recent works have shown that when a financial network is very densely connected it is prone to systemic risk [16], [24]. Indeed, while in good times the network is seemingly robust, in bad times firms go into distress simultaneously. This knife-edge property [25], [26] was witnessed during the recent financial turmoil.

CONCLUSION
It turns out that "global players" are all sitting on each other's Board of Directors, and have inside knowledge of operations. It is interesting to see that they all react simultaneously when a "crisis" occurs, and it causes a "knife edge" financial environment -- such as three hundred years of boom bust cycles. Throughout our financial history the "global players" of the "super entity" must after all prefer "financial entanglement of the entire core."

Much like a social structure of betters at horse racing tracks, three out of four are distressed losers, and winners restart the betting cycle with old money. And they all go along with those odds, knowing that they may be one in four next time. But few believe they "never will" win, whether that is wishful thinking or human nature, it seems to be the structure in all financial groups large or small.

That concludes our Report from the Middle where we can't seem to hold on to our money, but the women are strong, the men are good-looking and all the children are above average.


___________________Reference
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0025995
1. Barabási A, Albert R (1999) Emergence of scaling in random networks. Science 286: 509. doi: 10.1126/science.286.5439.509.
CrossRef PubMed/NCBI Google Scholar
2. Schweitzer F, Fagiolo G, Sornette D, Vega-Redondo F, Vespignani A, et al. (2009) Economic networks: The new challenges. Science 325: 422–425.
CrossRef PubMed/NCBI Google Scholar
3. Fagiolo G, Reyes J, Schiavo S (2009) World-trade web: Topological properties, dynamics, and evolution. Phys Rev E 79: 36115. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.036115.
CrossRef PubMed/NCBI Google Scholar
4. Hidalgo C, Hausmann R (2009) The building blocks of economic complexity. Proc Natl Acad Sci 106: 10570. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0900943106.
CrossRef PubMed/NCBI Google Scholar
5. Boss M, Elsinger H, Summer M, Thurner S (2004) Network topology of the interbank market. Quant Financ 4: 677–684. doi: 10.1080/14697680400020325.
CrossRef PubMed/NCBI Google Scholar
6. Iori G, De Masi G, Precup O, Gabbi G, Caldarelli G (2008) A network analysis of the Italian overnight money market. J Econ Dyn Control 32: 259–278. doi: 10.1016/j.jedc.2007.01.032.
CrossRef PubMed/NCBI Google Scholar
7. Bonanno G, Caldarelli G, Lillo F, Mantegna RN (2003) Topology of correlation-based minimal spanning trees in real and model markets. Phys Rev E 68: 046130. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.68.046130.
CrossRef PubMed/NCBI Google Scholar
8. Strogatz S (2001) Exploring complex networks. Nature 410: 268–276. doi: 10.1038/35065725.
CrossRef PubMed/NCBI Google Scholar
9. Battiston S, Catanzaro M (2004) Statistical properties of corporate board and director networks. Eur Phys J B 38: 345–352. doi: 10.1140/epjb/e2004-00127-8.
CrossRef PubMed/NCBI Google Scholar
10. Kogut B, Walker G (2001) The small world of germany and the durability of national networks. Amer Sociol Rev 66: 317–335. doi: 10.2307/3088882.
CrossRef PubMed/NCBI Google Scholar
11. Glattfelder JB, Battiston S (2009) Backbone of complex networks of corporations: The flow of control. Phys Rev E 80: doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.036104.
CrossRef PubMed/NCBI Google Scholar
12. Granovetter M (1995) Ind. Corp. Change, Oxford University Press, chapter Coase Revisited: Business Groups in the Modern Economy.
13. O'Brien D, Salop S (1999) Competitive Effects of Partial Ownership: Financial Interest and Corporate Control. Antitrust Law J 67: 559.
CrossRef PubMed/NCBI Google Scholar
14. Gilo D, Moshe Y, Spiegel Y (2006) Partial cross ownership and tacit collusion. RAND J Econ 37: 81–99. doi: 10.1111/j.1756-2171.2006.tb00005.x.
CrossRef PubMed/NCBI Google Scholar
15. Allen F, Gale D (2000) Financial contagion. J Polit Econ 108: 1–33.
CrossRef PubMed/NCBI Google Scholar
16. Stiglitz JE (2010) Risk and global economic architecture: Why full financial integration may be undesirable. Working Paper 15718, NBER. URL http://www.nber.org/papers/w15718.
17. Brioschi F, Buzzacchi L, Colombo M (1989) Risk capital financing and the separation of ownership and control in business groups. J Bank Financ 13: 747–772. doi: 10.1016/0378-4266(89)90040-X.
CrossRef PubMed/NCBI Google Scholar
18. Baldone S, Brioschi F, Paleari S (1998) Ownership Measures Among Firms Connected by Cross-Shareholdings and a Further Analogy with Input-Output Theory. 4th JAFEE International Conference on Investment and Derivatives.
CrossRef PubMed/NCBI Google Scholar
19. Dietzenbacher E, Temurshoev U (2008) Ownership relations in the presence of cross-shareholding. J Econ 95: 189–212. doi: 10.1007/s00712-008-0018-y.
CrossRef PubMed/NCBI Google Scholar
20. Williamson O (1975) Markets and hierarchies, analysis and antitrust implications: a study in the economics of internal organization. Free Press, New York.
21. Broder A, Kumar R, Maghoul F, Raghavan P, Rajagopalan S, et al. (2000) Graph structure in the Web. Comput Netw 33: 309–320.
CrossRef PubMed/NCBI Google Scholar
22. Atkinson A, Bourguignon F (2000) Handbook of income distribution. Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/s1574-0056(00)80003-2.
CrossRef PubMed/NCBI Google Scholar
23. Santos J, Rumble A (2006) The American keiretsu and universal banks: Investing, voting and sitting on nonfinancials' corporate boards. J Finan Econ 80: 419–454. doi: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2005.03.011.
CrossRef PubMed/NCBI Google Scholar
24. Battiston S, Delli Gatti D, Gallegati M, Greenwald B, Stiglitz J (2009) Liaisons dangereuses: Increasing connectivity, risk sharing and systemic risk. Working Paper 15611, NBER.
25. Alesandri P, Haldane A (2009) Banking on the state. Speech given at the Bank of England. Available at http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publicati​ons/speeches/2009/speech409.pdf.
26. May R, Levin S, Sugihara G (2008) Ecology for bankers. Nature 451: 893–895. doi: 10.1038/451893a.
CrossRef PubMed/NCBI Google Scholar
27. La Porta R, de Silanes FL, Shleifer A (1999) Corporate ownership around the world. J Finance 54: 471–517. doi: 10.1111/0022-1082.00115.
CrossRef PubMed/NCBI Google Scholar
28. Colizza V, Flammini A, Serrano M, Vespignani A (2006) Detecting rich-club ordering in complex networks. Nat Phy 2: 110–115. doi: 10.1038/nphys209.
CrossRef PubMed/NCBI Google Scholar
29. Garlaschelli D, Capocci A, Caldarelli G (2007) Self-organized network evolution coupled to extremal dynamics. Nat Phys 3: 813–817. doi: 10.1038/nphys729.
CrossRef PubMed/NCBI Google Schola

MooPig Financial Trends Department :: "Money Laundering and Fraud"

Indictment, arrest of virtual currency founder targets alleged “financial hub of the cybercrime world.”
Aired out by Pat Darnell | May 28, 2013 | Bryan TX

[Picture LINK]

When we say we are going to do a series of money related posts, we think we are onto something of a trend. Because we all know that MooPig is a financial trendsetter, and therefore a trend-spotter. HA! We attempted to meddle through the muddle of financial stuff HERE. We thought to interfere in and busy ourselves unduly with something that is not usually our concern.

This report in USAToday is the kind of report that makes me want to get on the phone with old friends. This kind of report makes me want to hide in a cave like a wounded cougar, and lick my wounds. This kind of report makes me want to gather my little family together in a safe and cozy room. It is the kind of report that makes me stifle myself.

Alleged $6 billion money-laundering network busted: "Detailing what federal authorities termed the largest international money-laundering case in history, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said the suspects and company were indicted for allegedly facilitating 55 million transactions that concealed the proceeds of credit card fraud, identity theft, computer hacking, child pornography, narcotics trafficking and other crimes."

'via Blog this'

So, let's see, it turns out the major cyber-crimes involve:

• credit card fraud
• identity theft
• computer hacking
• child pornography
• narcotics trafficking
• all the above in money laundering

Nope ... none of those key activities come up on a search of MooPig Wisdom. But, that is where the money goes to be "recirculated." And, there were 1-million signed up with Liberty Reserve. It does prove that if you want to know where's the money, you will have to wade through some pretty debased information, photos, videos, and acid trips to find out.

Original story:

" ... The papers cited Costa Rican prosecutor José Pablo González saying that Budovsky, a Costa Rican citizen of Ukrainian origin, has been under investigation since 2011 for money laundering using Liberty Reserve, a company he created in Costa Rica. “Local investigations began after a request from a prosecutor’s office in New York,” Tico Times reporter L. Arias wrote. “On Friday, San José prosecutors conducted raids in Budovsky’s house and offices in Escazá, Santa Ana, southwest of San José, and in the province of Heredia, north of the capital. Budovsky’s businesses in Costa Rica apparently were financed by using money from child pornography websites and drug trafficking. (25.May.2013. krebsonsecurity. LINK)... ”

CONCLUSION
If you own a Jet-Ski, a helicopter, or a tank, then you are at the top of the money chain.

__________________________Reference
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/05/28/ny-indictment-filed-money-laundering-case/2366237/?csp=fbfanpage
http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-new-fed-thought-for-too-big-to-fail.html
http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2012/11/moopig-financial-tricky-business.html
http://www.cbo.gov/publication/43656
http://blogs.mcclatchydc.com/washington/2012/10/cbo-reports-federal-deficit-dipped-to-11-trillion-in-fiscal-2012.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/06/1141002/-More-Good-News-CBO-Reports-Deficit-is-down-another-200-Million
http://www.ctj.org/taxjusticedigest/archive/federal_tax_issues/federal_budget/
http://www.fedupusa.org/2012/10/08/
http://www.fedupusa.org/2012/10/the-worlds-largest-money-laundering-machine-the-federal-reserve/
http://www.ctj.org/taxjusticedigest/archive/federal_tax_issues/federal_budget/
https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/money-laundering/laundrycycle.html

MooPig's Home Schooling Department :: "Tips for Avoiding Student Debt ..."

Retrieved by Pat Darnell | 3.27.2012 | Bryan TX

[Picture LINK]
Tips for Avoiding Student Debt | Coupons and Deals Blog - Coupon Mountain:

• Take General Education classes at a community college.
• Save some cash for extra expenses.
• Explore all scholarship opportunities.
• Make sure you received the most financial aid possible from your school.
• Know what you're getting into.

Read Article HERE ::

Sound advice? We don't know. but we have learned that courses online are as good as general education courses at your big ass universities. You'll see.

'via Blog this'

_____________________Reference
http://www.couponmountain.com/blog/10911/tips-for-avoiding-student-debt
http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2012/02/moopigs-home-schooling-department.html

Anyone Wishing to Date My Daughter

---

APPLICATION FOR PERMISSION TO DATE MY DAUGHTER

NOTE: This application will be incomplete and rejected unless accompanied by a complete financial statement,
job history, lineage, and current medical report from your doctor.

NAME_____________________________________ DATE OF BIRTH_____________

HEIGHT___________ WEIGHT____________ IQ__________ GPA_____________

SOCIAL SECURITY #_________________ DRIVERS LICENSE #________________

BOY SCOUT RANK AND BADGES__________________________________________

HOME ADDRESS_______________________ CITY/STATE___________ ZIP______

Do you have parents? ___Yes ___No
Is one male and the other female? ___Yes ___No
If No, explain: _____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________

Number of years they have been married ______________________________

If less than your age, explain
____________________________________________ ________________________

____________________________________________________________________


ACCESSORIES SECTION:

A. Do you own or have access to a van? __Yes __No

B. A truck with oversized tires? __Yes __No

C. A waterbed? __Yes __No

D. A pickup with a mattress in the back? __Yes __No

E. A tattoo? __Yes __No

F. Do you have an earring, nose ring, __Yes __No
pierced tongue, pierced cheek or a belly button ring?

(IF YOU ANSWERED 'YES' TO ANY OF THE ABOVE, DISCONTINUE APPLICATION
AND LEAVE PREMISES IMMEDIATELY. I SUGGEST RUNNING.)

ESSAY SECTION:
In 50 words or less, what does 'LATE' mean to you?

______________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________

In 50 words or less, what does 'DON'T TOUCH MY DAUGHTER' mean to you?

__________________________________________________________ ____

______________________________________________________________

In 50 words or less, what does 'ABSTINENCE' mean to you?

______________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________

REFERENCES SECTION:

Church you attend ___________________________________________________

How often you attend ________________________________________________

When would be the best time to interview your:

father? _____________

mother? _____________

pastor? _____________

SHORT-ANSWER SECTION:

Answer by filling in the blank. Please answer freely, all answers
are confidential.

A: If I were shot, the last place I would want to be shot would be:

______________________________________________________________

B: If I were beaten, the last bone I would want broken is my:

______________________________________________________________

C: A woman's place is in the:

______________________________________________________________

D: The one thing I hope this application does not ask me about is:

______________________________________________________________

E. What do you want to do IF you grow up? ___________________________

______________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________

F. When I meet a girl, the thing I always notice about her first is:

_________________________________ _____________________________

F. What is the current going rate of a hotel room? __________________

I SWEAR THAT ALL INFORMATION SUPPLIED ABOVE IS TRUE AND CORRECT TO
THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE UNDER PENALTY OF DEATH, DISMEMBERMENT,
NATIVE AMERICAN ANTI TORTURE, CRUCIFIXION, ELECTROCUTION, CHINESE
WATER TORTURE, RED HOT POKERS, AND HILLARY CLINTON KISS TORTURE.


_________________________________________________________
Applicant's Signature (that means sign your name, moron!)


_______________________________ ________________________________
Mother's Signature Father's Signature

_______________________________ ________________________________
Pastor/Priest/Rabbi State Representative/Congressman

Thank you for your interest, and it had better be genuine and non-sexual.
Please allow four to six years for processing.

You will be contacted in writing if you are approved. Please do not try to call or write (since you probably can't, and it would cause you injury).
If your application is rejected, you will be notified by two gentleman wearing white ties carrying violin cases. (you might watch your back)

To prepare yourself, start studying Daddy's Rules for Dating (below).

Parents' Rules for Dating
Your parents' rules for your boyfriend (or for you if you're a guy) :

Rule One:
If you pull into my driveway and honk you'd better be delivering a package, because you're sure not picking anything up.

Rule Two:
You do not touch my daughter in front of me. You may glance at her, so long as you do not peer at anything below her neck. If you cannot keep your eyes or hands off of my daughter's body, I will remove them..

Rule Three:
I am aware that it is considered fashionable for boys of your age to wear their trousers so loosely that they appear to be falling off their hips. Please don't take this as an insult, but you and all of your friends are complete idiots. Still, I want to be fair and open minded about this issue, so I propose this compromise: You may come to the door with your underwear showing and your pants ten sizes too big, and I will not object. However, in order to ensure that your clothes do not, in fact come off during the course of your date with my daughter, I will take my electric nail gun and fasten your trousers securely in place to your waist.

Rule Four:
I'm sure you've been told that in today's world, sex without utilizing a 'Barrier method' of some kind can kill you. Let me elaborate, when it comes to sex, I am the barrier, and I will kill you.

Rule Five:
It is usually understood that in order for us to get to know each other, we should talk about sports, politics, and other issues of the day. Please do not do this. The only information I require from you is an indication of when you expect to have my daughter safely back at my house, and the only word I need from you on this subject is: 'early.'

Rule Six:
I have no doubt you are a popular fellow, with many opportunities to date other girls. This is fine with me as long as it is okay with my daughter. Otherwise, once you have gone out with my little girl, you will continue to date no one but her until she is finished with you. If you make her cry, I will make you cry.

Rule Seven:
As you stand in my front hallway, waiting for my daughter to appear, and more than an hour goes by, do not sigh and fidget. If you want to be on time for the movie, you should not be dating. My daughter is putting on her makeup, a process than can take longer than painting the Golden Gate Bridge . Instead of just standing there, why don't you do something useful, like changing the oil in my car?

Rule Eight:
The following places are not appropriate for a date with my daughter: Places where there are beds, sofas, or anything softer than a wooden stool. Places where there is darkness. Places where there is dancing, holding hands, or happiness. Places where the ambient temperature is warm enough to induce my daughter to wear shorts, tank tops, midriff T-shirts, or anything other than overalls, a sweater, and a goose down parka - zipped up to her throat. Movies with a strong romantic or sexual themes are to be avoided; movies which feature chain saws are okay. Hockey games are okay. Old folks homes are better.

Rule Nine:
Do not lie to me. I may appear to be a potbellied, balding, middle-aged, dimwitted has-been. But on issues relating to my daughter, I am the all-knowing, merciless god of your universe. If I ask you where you are going and with whom, you have one chance to tell me the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I have a shotgun, a shovel, and five acres behind the house. Do not trifle with me.

Rule Ten:
Be afraid. Be very afraid. It takes very little for me to mistake the sound of your car in the driveway for a chopper coming in over a rice paddy near Hanoi . When my Agent Orange starts acting up, the voices in my head frequently tell me to clean the guns as I wait for you to bring my daughter home. As soon as you pull into the driveway you should exit the car with both hands in plain sight. Speak the perimeter password, announce in a clear voice that you have brought my daughter home safely and early, then return to your car - there is no need for you to come inside. The camouflaged face at the window is mine.

Sincerely - Mom & Dad