On Nov 21, 11:03 pm, help bot wrote:
On Nov 21, 9:45 pm, samsloan wrote:

That was under Communist rule and rent was usually cheap, like five
dollars a month.

You must mean /rupees/; the Commies used rupees,
/yuan/, and /pesos/, not /dollars/. Only fools would trust
a currency now backed by nothing more than empty
promises, instead of gold or silver. When I suggested
they adopt their own currency -- the /ruble/, after Barney
Rubble of Flintstones fame -- they looked at me like I
was /loonie/. /Mark/ my words, five dollars a month may
sound cheap now, but back then it was more than many
peons earned in a week.

The disadvantage was you had to wait for years on a waiting list. You
could not just pick out an apartment and move in.

You idiot! You were supposed to offer a bribe to
get closer to the top of the list. Do you really think
people can wait for years, living on the street through
the scorching Russian winters? That's the whole
point of such waiting lists; they are merely tools by
which the powerful suck money from the poor, who
don't really need it anyway, since so many of them
die from diseases and malnutrition.

The exact apartment where I stayed and played chess with Zsuzsanna and
her sisters, Sofia and Judit, in seen on the video, "My Brilliant
Brain - Make Me a Genius"

Well, not every experiment can be expected to
be a huge success on the very first try. Perhaps
another attempt could be made, this time using
a brain marked "normal"? I'll send I-gor to fetch
it.

-- help bot


'Only fools would trust
a currency now backed by nothing more than empty
promises, instead of gold or silver" spoken by Help
Bot, with a 10 US dollar bill in his pocket!

Help Bot,

The US dollar is not backed by gold or silver. Nor is the EURO.
Did you ever attend college and take a course in economics?

You have no idea how money is made, do you?

WE have a fiat currency, backed by nothing. Becasue of this
GOLD was OUTLAWED in the great depression.

Marcus Roberts

On Nov 21, 6:17 pm, "B. Lafferty" wrote:
I find it interesting the PR is representing both the USCF and Mr. Truong.
While Mr. Truong is a board member who would normally be represented by the
USCF's insurance carrier, in this instance the allegations of wrongdoing go
beyond the scope of his duties as a board member creating potential
liability for the USCF. I'm not at all certain PR can represent both of them
in this litigation. I would think this issue will be raised at some point in
the proceedings.

Judge Brian and Sam,

I just left MR. Brown a voice message, the attorney for both the USCF
and Paul Troung. I am preparing an ethical complaint if he continues
to represent Mr. Troung and the USCF. I will not allow this attorney
to continue to allow
Mr. Troung to contine making these death threats and represent the
USCF, while the USCF
has a claim against MR. Troung. This position is unethical, and I will
complain to the judge.

Thank you for pointing this out, Sam Sloan,

Marcus Roberts

I ask that the readers of this forum not bother or in any way harass
the attorney who is representing the USCF in this suit.

He is not our enemy and he could be our best friend.

Somebody needs to start telling the members of the Executive Board of
the USCF that they need to start obeying the law for a change. Perhaps
the attorney will do this. A little appreciated fact is that the USCF
does not have an attorney that they consult with on a regular basis.
When I was on the board, at every meeting I brought up the fact that
many of the things the board is doing are of questionable legality and
we need the advice of counsel. Every time, the board said that it did
not want to spend the money. In particular, I asked that counsel be
retained to determine our legal rights regarding the Crossville
Property. At one point, Joel Channing as VP of Finance said that he
would agree that the office seek the advice of counsel with a spending
limit of $500. (Five Hundred Dollars). However, a few minutes later
Mr. Channing changed his mind and decided that $500 was too much to
spend.

The lawyer now representing the USCF in Sloan vs. Truong is apparently
being paid by the insurance company with a $10,000 deductible. I am
hoping that once he finds out how unimaginably bad things really are
at the USCF, he will tell them to straighten out. Otherwise the USCF
and its members, meaning us, are ultimately responsible.

Sam Sloan