Happiness is January 20th, 2013.

Blessed are the Forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.

No fruit cup for the TelePrompter

"Hell...is other people" Jean Paul Sartre.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind......

Hey look- you can see all the other threads from here....

Any other lizards getting the Amazon sidebar ad that's all 0bama books and DVDs?

Is Obama skidding or crashing?
By Penn Jillette

_{STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Penn Jillette: If you're on ice, turning into a skid can help avoid a crash
Jillette says such counterintuitive actions sometimes work
Jillette: Other times, we're better off following our intuition
He asks whether we can get out of a debt-driven crisis by taking on lots more debt}

President Obama is so damn smart. He just drips smart. He clearly understands stuff that we could never understand. He's trustworthy. If Obama were teaching fire-eating, we would all learn fast. If he told you that the burns would be minor and the fire would go out when you closed your mouth, you'd believe him. If I weren't twice his weight, I'd fall back with my eyes closed into his caring arms in one of those cheesy '70s church trust exercises. He could talk me into anything.

Obama tells us that we can spend our way out of debt. He tells us that even though the government had control over the banks and did nothing to stop the bad that's going on, if we give them more control over more other bank-like things, then they can make sure bad stuff doesn't happen ever again. He says we can get out of all those big wars President Bush caused by sending more troops into Afghanistan. And I don't know. I really don't know.

I trusted my Dad that turning into a skid would work. I trusted my carny mentor, Doc Swan, that closing my mouth around a burning torch would put it out. They were right. Maybe the United States borrowing more money than I could imagine in a billion years with a billion computers and a billion monkeys typing on them, will get us out of financial trouble. I really don't know. It's certainly true that many counterintuitive things are true, and when you have the guts to do something counterintuitive that works, it's really cool. It's a superpower under our yellow sun.

Read the whole thing.

(h/t Instapundit)

Anyone who mentions the word vaccine on this thread will be savaged by a mysteriously angry bunny.

You have been warned. GRR

re: #7 Fenway_Nation

Any other lizards getting the Amazon sidebar ad that's all 0bama books and DVDs?

Yep.

re: #7 Fenway_Nation

Its a tad ironic, but then again I've seen ads for a muslim dating service on the sidebars of prominent anti-jihad sites. One does what one has to do.

re: #9 Buster Bunny

Anyone who mentions the word vaccine on this thread will be savaged by a mysteriously angry bunny.

You have been warned. GRR

Knock,knock. Who's there? Ether Ether who? Ether bunny.
Knock, knock. Who's there? Stella Stella who? Stella nother ether bunny.
Knock, knock. Who's there? Justin Justin who? Justin other Ether Bunny.
Knock, knock. Who's there? Samoa Samoa who? Samoa Ether Bunnies.
Knock, knock. Who's there? Beryl Beryl who? Beryl of ether bunnies.
Knock, knock. Who's there? Dewey Dewey who? Dewey have to listen to any more ether bunny jokes?
Knock, knock. Who's there? Consumption. Consumption who? Consumption be done about all these ether bunnies?

re: #11 MrPaulRevere

Its a tad ironic, but then again I've seen ads for a muslim dating service on the sidebars of prominent anti-jihad sites. One does what one has to do.

Countering muslim hate with muslim love perhaps?

re: #11 MrPaulRevere

Its a tad ironic, but then again I've seen ads for a muslim dating service on the sidebars of prominent anti-jihad sites. One does what one has to do.

Everyone knows with muslim girls you get to fit more in the black sack to take home.

re: #13 gmsc

There ya go, think positive.

re: #11 MrPaulRevere

The ads are computer-matched based on key words on the site. Oops! Yes, it is quite ironic.

re: #10 gmsc

re: #11 MrPaulRevere

Of course, none of the offerings are full price. Compare that with the complete rack of DVDs of Hussein Dolt's innauguration for a mere $19.99 in Febuary.

re: #8 gmsc

Does this mean we could all be sideswiped?

re: #13 gmsc

Countering muslim hate with muslim love perhaps?

Yes .. but do the two forces cancel each other out? Or do they swap places? Do you end up with a timid non religious husband and a passionately homicidal religious nut wife?

re: #16 Taqiyyotomist

Email back at ya!

re: #12 Dustyvet

Knock,knock. Who's there? Ether Ether who? Ether bunny.
Knock, knock. Who's there? Stella Stella who? Stella nother ether bunny.
Knock, knock. Who's there? Justin Justin who? Justin other Ether Bunny.
Knock, knock. Who's there? Samoa Samoa who? Samoa Ether Bunnies.
Knock, knock. Who's there? Beryl Beryl who? Beryl of ether bunnies.
Knock, knock. Who's there? Dewey Dewey who? Dewey have to listen to any more ether bunny jokes?
Knock, knock. Who's there? Consumption. Consumption who? Consumption be done about all these ether bunnies?

Firs.... Aw, damnit!

re: #18 Macker

Does this mean we could all be sideswiped?

It means we're the wall.

re: #16 Taqiyyotomist

I was sure it was something along those lines, thanks for clarifying. Speaking strictly in terms of a cost benefit analysis, they are wasting their ad money however.

Heavenly Punishment

Billy Graham goes to heaven and is approached by St. Peter. They greet each other.

Billy recognizes a man with 2 somewhat ... er ... unattractive lizards on his neck.

He asks "Why does the Pope have 2 lizards around his neck?"

To which St. Peter replies "Well, the Pope had some unresolved sins, and he must wear the lizards until he gives up them up.

He nods, and then notices Howard Stern with 10 lizards around his neck and states "Ah, I get it. He had even more unresolved sins, and he must wear them for longer."

"Correct," replies St. Peter.

Finally he sees Bill Clinton, with only one lizard on his neck. Surprised to see the low number of lizards on Bill Clinton's neck he asks St. Peter about this.

St. Peter replies,"Well, we needed to punish this particular lizard."

re: #19 Buster Bunny

Yes .. but do the two forces cancel each other out? Or do they swap places? Do you end up with a timid non religious husband and a passionately homicidal religious nut wife?

Well, if encouraging more love doesn't work, perhaps we could try and vacci . . . er, uh . . . send them on on a vacation!

/Yeah! That's what I was going to say!

re: #4 MrPaulRevere

"Hell...is other people" Jean Paul Sartre.

This makes me sad. It's true and yet also false, for while other people can be hell, some people are the heights of Heaven. Because where there is Love, hell seems quite remote.

re: #20 Macker

Gotcha, and likewise!

re: #27 Sharmuta

This makes me sad. It's true and yet also false, for while other people can be hell, some people are the heights of Heaven. Because where there is Love, hell seems quite remote.

I think it largely depends on whether one in an introvert or an extrovert.

Here's a good definition, from Caring for Your Introvert:

Introverts are not necessarily shy. Shy people are anxious or frightened or self-excoriating in social settings; introverts generally are not. Introverts are also not misanthropic, though some of us do go along with Sartre as far as to say "Hell is other people at breakfast." Rather, introverts are people who find other people tiring.

Extroverts are energized by people, and wilt or fade when alone. They often seem bored by themselves, in both senses of the expression. Leave an extrovert alone for two minutes and he will reach for his cell phone. In contrast, after an hour or two of being socially "on," we introverts need to turn off and recharge. My own formula is roughly two hours alone for every hour of socializing. This isn't antisocial. It isn't a sign of depression. It does not call for medication. For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating. Our motto: "I'm okay, you're okay-in small doses."

re: #27 Sharmuta

Its a controversial statement to be sure, perhaps he was having a bad day. But the man did have a way with words.

re: #27 Sharmuta

Sartre was from Europe? Well, then. There ya go!
/white smoke

re: #9 Buster Bunny

Anyone who mentions the word vaccine on this thread will be savaged by a mysteriously angry bunny.

You have been warned. GRR

Can't. Freakin'. Wait.

VACCINE!

/wait, what kind of bunny?

re: #32 Slumbering Behemoth

Can't. Freakin'. Wait.

VACCINE!

/wait, what kind of bunny?

Thats terrible ! Bunny meets bunny and all of a sudden .. he thinks of birds and bees !

re: #32 Slumbering Behemoth

Can't. Freakin'. Wait.

VACCINE!

/wait, what kind of bunny?

Probably this bunny:

Happiness is.........
a warm puppy...?......
a warm gun....?......
loose shoes and a warm bathroom......?........

no........it's an option.

re: #35 IslandLibertarian

Happiness is.........
a warm puppy...?......
a warm gun....?......
loose shoes and a warm bathroom......?........

no........it's an option.

...it's own reward?

re: #36 gmsc

I thought that was virtue. Which I think is a highly overrated reward.

Happiness is Fruitcup.

re: #38 Sharmuta

Warm?

Two Rabbits are running from a group of foxes. They hide in a pile of hay, one rabbit says to the other one "ok we can run for it or we can stay here and out number them. And the other rabbit says, "were going to run for it you idiot I'm your brother.

another silicon graphics eulogy

re: #37 IslandLibertarian

I thought that was virtue. Which I think is a highly overrated reward.

I've heard it as both "Virtue" and "happiness".

The difference between American and French bunnies?
American bunnies go hippitty-hop.
French bunnies go lick-it-de-split.

"The secret to happiness is to make others believe they have caused it."

Or something like that. Not mine, but don't remember who said it.

A good pun is its own reword.

re: #45 gmsc

Bravo!

THIS NEEDS OUR SUPPORT: Barclays Bank sponsored the Dubai Tennis tournament which banned Israeli tennis star Shahar Pe'er. The Wall Street Journal and the Tennis TV channel pulled their sponsorships immeditately. Barclays refused. There is a petition that is being delivered to the Barclays AGM in London on the 23rd April.

Go to this site and sign on in support of Israel.

[Link: www.petitiononline.com...]

AND PASS IT ALONG TO YOU LISTS

re: #1 TheMatrix31

Happiness is January 20th, 2013.

President-elect Biden?

I kid! I kid!

Today in History, April 2nd:

re: #9 Buster Bunny

Anyone who mentions the word vaccine on this thread will be savaged by a mysteriously angry bunny.

You have been warned. GRR

you just had to inject that here, didn't you?

/white smoke

re: #46 IslandLibertarian

Bravo!

*TAKES BOW*

re: #50 redc1c4

Seems like nobody's immune...

Goodnight Lizards!

re: #53 Taqiyyotomist

Goodnight Lizards!

Good night, Takki . . . , er, Toqqi, er . . . T!

re: #52 Fenway_Nation

Seems like nobody's immune...

well, you take your best shot and see what happens....

re: #55 redc1c4

Why do you have to keep needling me?

re: #55 redc1c4

well, you take your best shot and see what happens....

speaking of which, i shoulod go check on the local raton population hapenings.....

re: #56 Fenway_Nation

Why do you have to keep needling me?

He's such a prick.

re: #56 Fenway_Nation

Why do you have to keep needling me?

i'm feeling parenteral.

re: #55 redc1c4

well, you take your best shot and see what happens....

re: #58 Sharmuta

He's such a prick.

but as least i'm not a dictator.

re: #61 redc1c4

but as least i'm not a dictator.

If you'd been a dictatorial prick .. heck .. you could have been in the Whitehouse .. its the only qualification you'd have needed.

re: #62 Buster Bunny

If you'd been a dictatorial prick .. heck .. you could have been in the Whitehouse .. its the only qualification you'd have needed.

If he'd been pricktatorial?

re: #63 gmsc

If he'd been pricktatorial?

Just a good community organiser. With no need for finance knowledge or the intricasies of social relationships. Just a load of hate, scaremongering and bravado. And heck .. you could save the world !

Capitalistic Results By Socialist Means?

"Workers of the world, unite!" used to be a rallying cry for employees to have safer and cleaner working conditions. Today, the updated version of this sentiment is for workers to have ever-expanding benefits and income even as the company for which they work falls into bankruptcy. Unions and workers want the benefits of capitalism, the only social system that raises the standard of living for everyone, along with the impossible guarantees of childhood fantasy.

Those who place hope in this are destined to be disappointed in their leaders. Our current leaders will deliver on their promises to further nationalize the private economy, if not complete the process begun in the years of FDR and LBJ. On the surface, and at first, this will mean workers getting everything they want.

But the well is going to run dry, and soon. When the political leaders are unable to do the impossible, i.e. provide the benefits of capitalism without capitalism itself, workers will be far worse off than they started. They will have lost the illusion of impossible guarantees--an illusion all along--but, along with it, they will have lost the source of private wealth that writes their paychecks and pays their insurance premiums. Keep in mind that other countries that went Marxist or socialist never had genuine, unhampered capitalism in the first place.

America once roared with free markets and the rising tide that lifted all economic boats. It was the greatest wealth producer in human history, to date. No more, under socialism. Bosses and business owners are certainly capable of being unfair. But who else is to take responsibility for making a profit, profits that must exist for paychecks to exist? A workplace without bosses and with unlimited gratification is pure fantasy. A workplace with no jobs will be reality at its most cruel.

Okay, just a little pin-prick. There'll be no more "ahhhhhhhhhhhh", but you may feel a little sick....

re: #66 TheMatrix31

Okay, just a little pin-prick. There'll be no more "ahhhhhhhhhhhh", but you may feel a little sick....

tell that to the furry little bastard i just gave a "pin-prick" to.....

re: #63 gmsc

Good one. I love neologisms. Noun: Prictator; verb Prictate.

re: #67 redc1c4

tell that to the furry little bastard i just gave a "pin-prick" to.....

LOL.

re: #67 redc1c4

tell that to the furry little bastard i just gave a "pin-prick" to.....

Are you calling him a hypdemic nerdle?

re: #70 gmsc

Are you calling him a hypdemic nerdle?

When you're feelin' low, hypodermic's where you go....

re: #70 gmsc

Are you calling him a hypdemic nerdle?

no: s/he when from being a Norwegian Rat to a Muerto Rat at about 1000 fps.

/circle of life......... %-)

re: #8 gmsc

So the question is... would you support moves to replace the $ as the reserve currency and (by some means) institute an internationally agreed reserve currency that would legally bind the participants (such as the US)?

re: #68 BatGuano

Good one. I love neologisms. Noun: Prictator; verb Prictate.

Same here. Ever read Roald Dahl's BFG? It's full of them. As is Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky:

re: #73 freetoken

So the question is... would you support moves to replace the $ as the reserve currency and (by some means) institute an internationally agreed reserve currency that would legally bind the participants (such as the US)?

i don't see an upside there for us, but i'm not an expert...... %-)

re: #7 Fenway_Nation

Any other lizards getting the Amazon sidebar ad that's all 0bama books and DVDs?

Mine has the DVD of The Brain from Planet Arous on it, too. "Coincidence? Read the book!" (obscure reference)

re: #73 freetoken

So the question is... would you support moves to replace the $ as the reserve currency and (by some means) institute an internationally agreed reserve currency that would legally bind the participants (such as the US)?

How about internationally agreeing on a gold-backed currency?

Twice the Love (from Big Fish):

How about we keep our American dollars and the rest or the world can ditch socialism?

re: #77 gmsc

How about internationally agreeing on a gold-backed currency?

and you're going to get all that gold where?

re: #78 gmsc

Incredible film.

The nightly Fenway market watch....owing to my preoccupation with shiny things, lets start with precious metals:

Gold- $922.3 an ounce (down .005%)
Silver- $12.98 an ounce (down .003%)
Platinum- $1137 an ounce (up .0017%)
Palladium- $218 an ounce (down .004%)
Rhodium- $1010 an ounce (down .015%)

re: #80 redc1c4

and you're going to get all that gold where?

He who has the Gold, makes the rules.

re: #80 redc1c4

and you're going to get all that gold where?

The fantasy land that Ron Paul and Peter Schiff live in where apparently theres enough gold for a post 19th century population to actually experience economic growth without an out of control deflationary spiral.

re: #81 astronmr20

Incredible film.

I just watched it again the other day, for the first time in a long while. I'd forgotten how good it was!

re: #75 redc1c4

i don't see an upside there for us, but i'm not an expert...... %-)

Charles has made it clear he does not want LGF to become a portal for doomer porn... which is good. However, I'm finding it increasingly difficult to think about the future without seeing some very real difficulties emerging (for everyone.)

The current G20 meeting is just one example of where image will likely take precedence over substance, and not see some difficult choices being made (thus my question on reserve currencies.)

As an American I know my life depends upon our trade with many other nations, and we do this favorably (for us) by being the dominant military and economic nation on Earth. That however is fading, especially compared to the days when I was a child (when no one outside the Soviet Bloc would even question the role of the $.)

Times are a changing... and I'm trying to figure out how I should change (I have some large decisions coming.)

re: #74 gmsc

That's funny. I haven't seen that but I have read Jabberwocky many times. I'll look into Roald Dahl's BFG

re: #85 gmsc

As many of us, I grew up as a boy hearing raucous stories of valor and adventure of the old heroes in my family. One of VERY few films that brings tears to my eyes.

re: #86 freetoken

Charles has made it clear he does not want LGF to become a portal for doomer porn... which is good. However, I'm finding it increasingly difficult to think about the future without seeing some very real difficulties emerging (for everyone.)

Does doomer porn have hot chicks that do everything while worrying about the fate of the world?

re: #82 Fenway_Nation

The nightly Fenway market watch....owing to my preoccupation with shiny things, lets start with precious metals:

Gold- $922.3 an ounce (down .005%)
Silver- $12.98 an ounce (down .003%)
Platinum- $1137 an ounce (up .0017%)
Palladium- $218 an ounce (down .004%)
Rhodium- $1010 an ounce (down .015%)

you should include copper, lead and brass in those

re: #83 Macker

He who has the Gold, makes the rules.

That chart only counts the gold owned by the respective countries. Not only is our own gold stored in Fort Knox, many other countries have their gold stored there, as well.

(For that matter, Fort Knox has often held priceless artifacts from other countries, including the Hungarian Crown Jewels!)

re: #91 gmsc

That chart only counts the gold owned by the respective countries. Not only is our own gold stored in Fort Knox, many other countries have their gold stored there, as well.

(For that matter, Fort Knox has often held priceless artifacts from other countries, including the Hungarian Crown Jewels!)

Is there a better indicator?

re: #82 Fenway_Nation

I have a "box of shiny things" under my bed. I don't have any of those though. It's mostly tin foil. I make hats. sad, really.

//channel on

The Un-fair Non-Maiden Voyage of the U.S.S. Schadenfreud,
(Savage Capital Ship-of-the-Product-Line)

It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought on U.S. soil. -- Admiral Chester Nimitz

It is the function of the product to help pound the enemy so far into the earth, their blood springs from U.S. wells. -- Blackpajamas

A special thanks to the blackpajamas team, and the companion cavalry, crossing the Granicus, conquering presumptive braggart foes, delivering on promised goods, and training deeper sights into competitor's territory, without relent!

To the 500 chiefs and forward deployed consumers of might, our product salutes you and your objectives!

To the opposition:

Do you know against what type of men you'll have to fight? We who dine on sharpened swords, and drink down blazing torches as our win. Then for dessert they bring us broken Cretan darts and splintered pike shafts. Our pillows are our shields and breastplates, and beside our feed lie bows and slings, We crown ourselves with catapult wreaths. --Mnesimachus

You witness but the contrail of the meteor, the burning free wheel of commerce, stoking the light of this century, passing you in nights long ago while you slept, crushing your product lines like Ixion's revolving retribution;

Even here, into the centre of repose, your shady visions come to domineer, insult, and blind, and stifle up my pomp. -- Fall! -- No, by technology's fluid strides!

Over the fiery frontier of our realms we shall advance a terrible right arm shall scare your infant thunderer, rebel mouths, and bid new vision claim thy throne.*

//channel off

re: #91 gmsc

That chart only counts the gold owned by the respective countries. Not only is our own gold stored in Fort Knox, many other countries have their gold stored there, as well.

(For that matter, Fort Knox has often held priceless artifacts from other countries, including the Hungarian Crown Jewels!)

For now. I'd like to see a fekking inventory list. I have come to believe very little from our government. My fiancee and I have converted a sizable amount of our savings to physical gold.

re: #86 freetoken

Would it be "doomer porn" if it's based on facts and reason?

Australia's All Ordinaries- up 2.69%
Shanghai Composite- up .72%
Mumbai Sensex- up 4.41%
Taiwan Weighted- up 3%
New Zealand NZSE50- up .64%
Seoul KOPSI composite- up 3.54%
Johannesburg JSE limited- up 2.84%
Singapore's STI- up 4.73%
Nikkei- up 4.4%
Tel Aviv TA100- up .02%

We had snow mixed in our rain today.

Did somebody cancel our summer?

re: #86 freetoken

Charles has made it clear he does not want LGF to become a portal for doomer porn... which is good. However, I'm finding it increasingly difficult to think about the future without seeing some very real difficulties emerging (for everyone.)

The current G20 meeting is just one example of where image will likely take precedence over substance, and not see some difficult choices being made (thus my question on reserve currencies.)

As an American I know my life depends upon our trade with many other nations, and we do this favorably (for us) by being the dominant military and economic nation on Earth. That however is fading, especially compared to the days when I was a child (when no one outside the Soviet Bloc would even question the role of the $.)

Times are a changing... and I'm trying to figure out how I should change (I have some large decisions coming.)

I'm not a doom-and-gloomer myself.

We will need to be prepared for high inflation, and we can see that coming a mile away at this point. We got through it before, and we'll get through it again. It does drive me crazy that we could see it coming before it happened, and nobody with the power to do so did anything to stop it.

BTW, QandO has an excellent post on why you should prepare for inflation.

re: #97 Fenway_Nation

Australia's All Ordinaries- up 2.69%
Shanghai Composite- up .72%
Mumbai Sensex- up 4.41%
Taiwan Weighted- up 3%
New Zealand NZSE50- up .64%
Seoul KOPSI composite- up 3.54%
Johannesburg JSE limited- up 2.84%
Singapore's STI- up 4.73%
Nikkei- up 4.4%
Tel Aviv TA100- up .02%

so they have all drunk from the same cup?

kool-ade!

OK, get your minds off all this nonsense and have a good laugh.

I watched that tonight, and about split my ribcage.

re: #86 freetoken

Charles has made it clear he does not want LGF to become a portal for doomer porn... which is good. However, I'm finding it increasingly difficult to think about the future without seeing some very real difficulties emerging (for everyone.)

There is a difference between being concerned about the future, preparing for contingencies, even the unlikely and being a fear-monger with wild claims that only create panic and don't help the situation.

There will be difficulties I'm sure. I'm developing my own personal plans to try to deal with the possibilities the best I can without going off into batshit-crazyville. What I'm not doing is walking up and down the street with a "The End is Near" sign and a tin-foil hat on screaming to anyone who will listen.

My point is legitimate discussion and concern is warranted and I don't believe that you will get the smackdown from Charles for doing so. Discussing it rationally with facts and reasonable conjecture based on those facts I would think would be encouraged.

Owning gold could stand one in good stead in the event of severe inflation. I think I will be buying some gold coins once I'm off this job.

I also hold shares in a couple of junior gold ventures.

re: #100 redc1c4

so they have all drunk from the same cup?

kool-ade!

I think you can account for those good numbers for nearly the same reason you can credit the good numbers from the NASDAQ and NYSE so far this week.

/Hussein Dolt isn't in any of those countries...

re: #98 Syrah

How are you dong on Conflict? I'm really enjoying it so far.

re: #77 gmsc

How about internationally agreeing on a gold-backed currency?

Well, I guess I too am one to wonder how in a world of 7 billion people the limited gold supplies held by governments could be of much use.

Again, if nations did not trade so much then perhaps that wouldn't be such an issue, but here in 2009 international trade is huge, and indeed one of the pillars of US foreign policy has been that the continued expansion of international trade is a keystone to bettering everybody's lives.

On a more personal note... I'm at an age now when I need to decide what to do with a small window of years before I reach my true "golden years". Is a third career worth it (to save a few more dollars in hopes that if say, I reach my 70's, I can be a bit more "financially secure" (whatever that means))?

re: #103 Alberta Oil Peon

Owning gold could stand one in good stead in the event of severe inflation. I think I will be buying some gold coins once I'm off this job.

I also hold shares in a couple of junior gold ventures.

Stay the hell away from Bre-X.

That shit literally scared me off of the Canadian Markets for a decade.

re: #103 Alberta Oil Peon

Owning gold could stand one in good stead in the event of severe inflation. I think I will be buying some gold coins once I'm off this job.

I also hold shares in a couple of junior gold ventures.

as long as no one around you owns guns, including the government, you're okay......

/unless, of course, they are physically violent.

re: #104 Fenway_Nation

I think you can account for those good numbers for nearly the same reason you can credit the good numbers from the NASDAQ and NYSE so far this week.

/Hussein Dolt isn't in any of those countries...

IOW, we still have a long way down to go......

re: #97 Fenway_Nation

Australia's All Ordinaries- up 2.69%
Shanghai Composite- up .72%
Mumbai Sensex- up 4.41%
Taiwan Weighted- up 3%
New Zealand NZSE50- up .64%
Seoul KOPSI composite- up 3.54%
Johannesburg JSE limited- up 2.84%
Singapore's STI- up 4.73%
Nikkei- up 4.4%
Tel Aviv TA100- up .02%

Yes.. the asian markets are taking off like a rocket tonight.

re: #106 freetoken

At my age, "financially secure" means my children are rich and still speaking to me. Otherwise, I am lewd, blued, screwed and tattood.

I was just going to see if Tiger Woods would adopt me. :p

re: #98 Syrah

We had snow mixed in our rain today.

Did somebody cancel our summer?

AlGore did.

re: #111 BatGuano

At my age, "financially secure" means my children are rich and still speaking to me. Otherwise, I am lewd, blued, screwed and tattood. I just wish I'd stayed in a Holiday Inn last night.

FTFY!

re: #99 gmsc

We will need to be prepared for high inflation, and we can see that coming a mile away at this point.

Yes, that is what I'm struggling with, the idea that we won't have just the usual amount of inflation (based on the last 30 years), but something much more serious, that essentially would diminish my retirement.

re: #114 redc1c4

Thanks. I needed that. :)

Eh. When has the world ever not been in crisis? When it comes right down to it, good times or bad-everybody dies. You can either spend your life living or bracing yourself for death.

re: #105 Sharmuta

I have hardly started.

There has been a lot of trauma and chaos in my life recently. It has made finding the time to read very difficult.

I am starting what amounts to a new job this week. I am still learning the ropes and feeling more like I am just in the way than value added. Things should settle down for me in the next week or two.

As for what little of the book that I have read, I am very impressed. Its a subject that has always fascinated me. I like delving into what is the genesis of a person's world view and this is the first book that addresses that head on.

How far into it are you?

Mornin Lizards.

The coffee shops were closed to I got me a coke slushie.....

Yup, nice and healthy at 4am :P

re: #117 Salem

Eh. When has the world ever not been in crisis? When it comes right down to it, good times or bad-everybody dies. You can either spend your life living or bracing yourself for death.

Eh, I'm a bunny. When i'm not eating everything .. shitting on everything or mating like crazy .. I got other things to worry about.

Predators scare me.

re: #119 Mithrax

Mornin Lizards.

The coffee shops were closed to I got me a coke slushie.....

Yup, nice and healthy at 4am :P

0100 here.... red wine, of course.

/Skoal!

re: #113 astronmr20

AlGore did.

The bastard!

I will have to send him my heating bill in protest.

re: #120 Buster Bunny

Eh, I'm a bunny. When i'm not eating everything .. shitting on everything or mating like crazy .. I got other things to worry about.

Predators scare me.

We kept rabbits when I was a kid. I used to help my dad slaughter them.

re: #120 Buster Bunny

Eh, I'm a bunny. When i'm not eating everything .. shitting on everything or mating like crazy .. I got other things to worry about.

Predators scare me.

Sssssssshhhhhhhhh!

Be very, very quiet.

red

re: #118 Syrah

I'm sorry things have been so hectic for you lately, but glad that they're settling down a bit. Hang in there.

As for the book- still in Ch. 2, but I'm intentionally taking it slow. I had a thought about creating a spinoff link for the book where you and I could compare some notes. We could comment for a week back and forth on that spinoff thread until it archives. What do you think about that idea- maybe starting it this weekend?

re: #115 freetoken

Yes, that is what I'm struggling with, the idea that we won't have just the usual amount of inflation (based on the last 30 years), but something much more serious, that essentially would diminish my retirement.

I posted some excellent thoughts from Coyote in my previous money tips post on preparing and dealing with inflation. Here's Part 1 and here's Part 2.

re: #117 Salem

Eh. When has the world ever not been in crisis?

In hindsight!

Happiness is being able to sleep and not experiencing excruciating tooth pain.

Since we are at least partialy on the subject of retirement and death: Macbeth

She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

re: #127 Gus 802

Happiness is being able to sleep and not experiencing excruciating tooth pain.

I was going through exactly that this time last year. After the root canal was over, it felt soooooo good!

re: #107 Fenway_Nation

Stay the hell away from Bre-X.

That shit literally scared me off of the Canadian Markets for a decade.

Believe it or not, in an alternate universe, it might have been me that took the swan dive from the helicopter in Indonesia. Back in the mid-'80s, I was an unemployed geologist in Calgary, doing odd jobs to keep body and soul together. I fixed the engine in a VW Rabbit for Sean Walsh, the son of Bre-X president David Walsh. He mentioned to me that his father was embarking on a big gold venture in Indonesia, and might be needing technical people. He actually drove me to his father's home, but the elder Walsh was off on a trip somewhere, so nothing ever came of it.

FWIW, having talked with people who were well-acquainted with David Walsh, it's my belief that he was not a party to the fraud. I think he honestly believed that he had finally found the Big One. Perhaps the eagerness to believe that kept him from exercising the due diligence he should have done.

One result of the whole fiasco is that the regulatory burden, and the hoops that one must jump through to start a junior mineral exploration company have hugely increased.

re: #119 Mithrax

Mornin Lizards.

The coffee shops were closed to I got me a coke slushie.....

Yup, nice and healthy at 4am :P

Life will end up killing you in the end. If you are going to do something unhealthy, do it decadently, or not at all. No half measures in virtue or sin. Full on, or not all.

Coke slushies are good.

re: #128 BatGuano

Since we are at least partialy on the subject of retirement and death: Macbeth

She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

I prefer a more optimistic outlook:

re: #126 gmsc

Yes, thank you....

Another issue is whether to leave California. Today the sales tax in my area went up to over 9%... Yes, I realize many lizards may say "leave", but California still has much to commend itself, and when most everyone you know lives in a particular region it makes it even more difficult.

re: #108 redc1c4

as long as no one around you owns guns, including the government, you're okay......

/unless, of course, they are physically violent.

They have to know you have gold. People who possess physical gold should be very circumspect.

BTW, our government has introduced legislation to dismantle the federal long-gun registry.

re: #125 Sharmuta

I'm sorry things have been so hectic for you lately, but glad that they're settling down a bit. Hang in there.

As for the book- still in Ch. 2, but I'm intentionally taking it slow. I had a thought about creating a spinoff link for the book where you and I could compare some notes. We could comment for a week back and forth on that spinoff thread until it archives. What do you think about that idea- maybe starting it this weekend?

I like it. A spinoff salon.

You set the terms and I will try to follow along.

I work on the weekends. The overnight thread might be the place to do it.

re: #129 gmsc

I was going through exactly that this time last year. After the root canal was over, it felt soooooo good!

Felt better after mine too. I need more work but couldn't afford it. Now it's on the opposite side of all things and it's driving me nuts -- the whole row. Haven't taken anything for it but I did try some ice.

re: #133 freetoken

Yes, thank you....

Another issue is whether to leave California. Today the sales tax in my area went up to over 9%... Yes, I realize many lizards may say "leave", but California still has much to commend itself, and when most everyone you know lives in a particular region it makes it even more difficult.

9 years ago, when I left California, everyone was asking me, "How can you even think of leaving California?"

Today, the same people asked me, "How did you know to leave California?"

re: #132 gmsc

neat video.

Interest rates on US Savings bonds are set to change at the end of the month.

Until April 30, the rate for the zero-coupon Series EE bond is 1.3%
Until April 30, the rate for the Variable-rate Series I bond is 5.64%

re: #137 gmsc

9 years ago, when I left California, everyone was asking me, "How can you even think of leaving California?"

Today, the same people asked me, "How did you know to leave California?"

were you a native?

re: #139 Fenway_Nation

Interest rates on US Savings bonds are set to change at the end of the month.

Until April 30, the rate for the zero-coupon Series EE bond is 1.3%
Until April 30, the rate for the Variable-rate Series I bond is 5.64%

and after that?

re: #138 freetoken

neat video.

Thanks.

The internet, despite all the high-tech trappings, seems to be drawing me towards an interest in classic poetry. I've even saved a few poems on YouTube!

re: #140 redc1c4

were you a native?

Nope – moved there with my family at age 6, left most of my family there at age 32.

re: #135 Syrah

Well- I was thinking since the spinoff is available for comments for 7 days, we could just post interesting points, comment back and forth on them, post other points and so on. Not so much a live back and forth, but rather like a message board. We can stick the spinoff in our favorites to access as we think of other things to comment upon during the week. How about we start Friday night- that gives us both a couple more days to get a little further into the book?

re: #133 freetoken

Yes, thank you....

Another issue is whether to leave California. Today the sales tax in my area went up to over 9%... Yes, I realize many lizards may say "leave", but California still has much to commend itself, and when most everyone you know lives in a particular region it makes it even more difficult.

When I left California, I just quit my job, packed up everything I owned, and moved to Seattle. I didn't know a soul here. I didn't have a job or even a place to stay lined up. All that I had was my fill of California and place on a map to head to.

It has worked out very well.

Washington is just as screwed up and crazy as California, but the rain keeps the kookiest of the nuts indoors and out of sight.

There is no frontier left to run to.

We will have to take our stand somewhere. Pick someplace pleasant.

re: #144 Sharmuta

Well- I was thinking since the spinoff is available for comments for 7 days, we could just post interesting points, comment back and forth on them, post other points and so on. Not so much a live back and forth, but rather like a message board. We can stick the spinoff in our favorites to access as we think of other things to comment upon during the week. How about we start Friday night- that gives us both a couple more days to get a little further into the book?

Sounds good.

Friday night then.

re: #146 Syrah

Awesome- I'm excited.

re: #147 Sharmuta

Awesome- I'm excited.

8-D

re: #141 redc1c4

and after that?

Not sure- but I have my own unscientific lithmus test for this. Sometimes the higher-end CD rates are a good indicator of what the upcoming savings-bond rates are.

In other words- not very good at this time. I purchased a few hundred in Savings bonds about a year ago before the rates fell to absolute crap.

[Also, at this time the current Series I bond has a built-in .7% interest rate while the rest of it varies every 6 months.]

re: #132 gmsc

I try. Sometimes personal experience leads to other paradigms. Upding for giving some hope. Kipling could be a little dark sometimes. I forgot what this is from but is was a poem of advice to young British soldiers (from memory):

When you find yourself wounded on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Roll to your rifle and blow out your brains,
And go to your Gawd like a soldier.

re: #148 Syrah

Maybe we'll start a trend and other book discussions threads will start popping up. Who knows?

re: #142 gmsc

I bookmarked that. Thank you for doing my work for me! You are more than just a math and magic guy, (although I consider math and magic the same). :)

re: #145 Syrah

When I left California, I just quit my job, packed up everything I owned, and moved to Seattle. I didn't know a soul here. I didn't have a job or even a place to stay lined up. All that I had was my fill of California and place on a map to head to.

It has worked out very well.

Washington is just as screwed up and crazy as California, but the rain keeps the kookiest of the nuts indoors and out of sight.

There is no frontier left to run to.

We will have to take our stand somewhere. Pick someplace pleasant.

then i'm staying right here..... Molon Labe!

re: #137 gmsc

Sold my house before the bubble popped, but a year or so early. In theory, I could have gotten more for it, but in practice I did very well, essentially living "rent free +" for my adult life in California (which has been most of my adult life.)

Syrah said:

When I left California, I just quit my job, packed up everything I owned, and moved

I had no problem doing that... when I was younger.

re: #150 BatGuano

I try. Sometimes personal experience leads to other paradigms. Upding for giving some hope. Kipling could be a little dark sometimes. I forgot what this is from but is was a poem of advice to young British soldiers (from memory):

When you find yourself wounded on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Roll to your rifle and blow out your brains,
And go to your Gawd like a soldier.

One of my favorite Kippling stories, and a very dark and grim one at that, is The Gate Of A Hundred Sorrows

It lies between the Copper-smith's Gully and the pipe-stem sellers' quarter, within a hundred yards, too, as the crow flies, of the Mosque of Wazir Khan. I don't mind telling any one this much, but I defy him to find the Gate, however well he may think he knows the City. You might even go through the very gully it stands in a hundred times, and be none the wiser. We used to call the gully, "the Gully of the Black Smoke," but its native name is altogether different of course. A loaded donkey couldn't pass between the walls; and, at one point, just before you reach the Gate, a bulged house-front makes people go along all sideways.

re: #150 BatGuano

I try. Sometimes personal experience leads to other paradigms. Upding for giving some hope. Kipling could be a little dark sometimes. I forgot what this is from but is was a poem of advice to young British soldiers (from memory):

When you find yourself wounded on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Roll to your rifle and blow out your brains,
And go to your Gawd like a soldier.

Halfway down the trail to Hell,
In a shady meadow green
Are the Souls of all dead troopers camped,
Near a good old-time canteen.
And this eternal resting place
Is known as Fiddlers' Green.

Marching past, straight through to Hell
The Infantry are seen.
Accompanied by the Engineers,
Artillery and Marines,
For none but the shades of Cavalrymen
Dismount at Fiddlers' Green.

Though some go curving down the trail
To seek a warmer scene.
No trooper ever gets to Hell
Ere he's emptied his canteen.
And so rides back to drink again
With friends at Fiddlers' Green.

And so when man and horse go down
Beneath a saber keen,
Or in a roaring charge of fierce melee
You stop a bullet clean,
And the hostiles come to get your scalp,
Just empty your canteen,
And put your pistol to your head
And go to Fiddlers' Green.

re: #149 Fenway_Nation

I'm probably going to move most of my 401k and RothIRA out of bonds (I moved into Bond funds at the beginning of 2008 knowing what was coming at the time.) Not sure what I'll do with the rest thats in money market funds though. Too high of inflation and those could be a disaster. I'm leery about jumping totally back into stocks and index funds because I don't really trust the little rallys we have been having arent just part of a see-saw that could last months or years.

Everyone is paying attention to the stock market. Generally a "bottom" happens when people give up and don't care anymore. In 2003 at the dot com crash bottom I barely heard a peep about the stock market in the MFMSM.

re: #155 Syrah

Bookmarked it. Kipling could consume ones life.

re: #157 ArchangelMichael

Persoanlly I'm waiting for a pullback in gold right now.

re: #159 Fenway_Nation

Persoanlly I'm waiting for a pullback in gold right now.

Me too. I have silver in my Roth IRA. I had some gold that I bought when it was down in the 700s and sold at 900ish and I'm waiting to get back into that. Under 820 is what I'm looking for. That might solve the money market fund problem of mine if it happens soon.

re: #103 Alberta Oil Peon

Owning gold could stand one in good stead in the event of severe inflation. I think I will be buying some gold coins once I'm off this job.

I also hold shares in a couple of junior gold ventures.

By the way.....where (or from whom) are you getting your gold, AOP?

re: #160 ArchangelMichael

Me too. I have silver in my Roth IRA. I had some gold that I bought when it was down in the 700s and sold at 900ish and I'm waiting to get back into that. Under 820 is what I'm looking for. That might solve the money market fund problem of mine if it happens soon.

That's a little optimistic, but I wouldn't mind seeing it (and taking advantage of it) myself.

re: #150 BatGuano

Kipling could be a little dark sometimes.

But you shouldn't stop being kippled!
;)
re: #152 BatGuano

I bookmarked that. Thank you for doing my work for me! You are more than just a math and magic guy, (although I consider math and magic the same). :)

Oh, I have what some would call eclectic and/or eccentric tastes. Have you seen some of my other playlists?

Speaking of math AND poetry, check out Cadaeic Cadenza.

It's a short story (about 4000 words) featuring classic poems that have been slightly re-written in a mysterious format. Here's the amazing explanation behind this incredible work.

re: #151 Sharmuta

Maybe we'll start a trend and other book discussions threads will start popping up. Who knows?

So many books, so little time.

We will have some fun.

Fenway shiny stuff update (i.e. my lazy ass hit the 'refresh' button):

Gold- $919 an ounce (down .009%)
Silver- $12.97 an ounce (down .004%)
Platinum- $1133 an ounce (down .0017%)
Palladium- $219 an ounce (unchanged)
Rhodium- $1010 an ounce (unchanged since last shiny stuff update- altho' Rhodium itself isn't that shiny)

Goodnight Lizards.

It has been a long day, from sunrise snowfall to evening rain and wind.

There is plenty of magic in the simple things that are all around us. Snowflakes, starfish, raindrops, moonlight and on and on.

Relish the moment, as many moments as you can.

We have but such a short time on this earth, it would be a shame to have missed the good parts in the hurry hurry of the every day.

re: #161 Fenway_Nation

By the way.....where (or from whom) are you getting your gold, AOP?

There is a big coin dealer in Calgary, called Albern Coins, that sells a lot of gold coinage. I might also look into buying some wafers, and I believe the Bank of Nova Scotia still deals in wafers.

re: #166 Syrah

Goodnight Lizards.

It has been a long day, from sunrise snowfall to evening rain and wind.

There is plenty of magic in the simple things that are all around us. Snowflakes, starfish, raindrops, moonlight and on and on.

Relish the moment, as many moments as you can.

We have but such a short time on this earth, it would be a shame to have missed the good parts in the hurry hurry of the every day.

Good night, Syrah!

I can't really do magic. I can only help you see it.

re: #166 Syrah

Good night, my friend.

re: #167 Alberta Oil Peon

Blue Canuck told me all about Scotiabank (Hockey Night in Canada sponsors to boot!). I was talking to them back in October on a toll-free number. They were very helpful, but told me I'd have to physically show up at a Scotiabank branch to purchase bullion- and since I'm quite a ways away from Canada right now......that's a little problematic.

re: #170 Fenway_Nation

Blue Canuck told me all about Scotiabank (Hockey Night in Canada sponsors to boot!). I was talking to them back in October on a toll-free number. They were very helpful, but told me I'd have to physically show up at a Scotiabank branch to purchase bullion- and since I'm quite a ways away from Canada right now......that's a little problematic.

I'm sure there must be some U.S.-based bullion dealers.

re: #171 Iron Fist

Heehee

re: #171 Iron Fist

Yeah, I invested some money today in brass and lead. I expect to make a killing with it sometime...

*chuckle!*

re: #163 gmsc

gmsc, you're amazing. I just bookmarked you're references. Now I am going to have to delete many of my other bookmarks of which I have many.
I did put a smiley face after my "math and magic" remark so I hope you know I wasn't trying to limit you breadth of knowledge. I am always a envious of how much you know. : )

Had to install some driver updates for my wireless adapter which would randomly crap out on me and I wouldn't be able to turn it back on or re-connect unless I restarted the whole system! Hopefully this was the solution.

Now if I could just get why my instant messaging client (Trillian Pro 3.1) crashes out randomly also...

re: #166 Syrah

Good night, Syrah.

re: #171 Iron Fist

Yeah, I invested some money today in brass and lead. I expect to make a killing with it sometime...

I'm putting my money in taxes – I know they're going up!

/brass taxes?

re: #172 Alberta Oil Peon

Yea...but seems like the markups are greater here. Ironically, they look like they're the highest on the bullion coins struck by the US Mint.

I'm putting my money in Fruitcup.

We put all our emergency funds into taxes also.

The Sermon I think this Mom will never forget....
this particular Sunday sermon...'Dear Lord,' the minister began, with arms extended toward heaven and a rapturous look on his upturned face. 'Without you, we are but dust...' He would have continued but at that moment a very obedient daughter who was listening leaned over to her mother and asked quite audibly in her shrill little four year
old girl voice, 'Mom, what is butt dust?'

re: #179 Fenway_Nation

Yea...but seems like the markups are greater here. Ironically, they look like they're the highest on the bullion coins struck by the US Mint.

You always pay a premium on bullion coins, because they go to a collector market. The markup is less on wafers and actual bullion, but it still exists.

My thought is that it would be nice to own enough gold in small pieces, that one would be able to live for a year on the proceeds of selling it, and it would be wealth that was sufficiently portable that you could stuff it in your pockets and bug out, if the world were falling in upon you.

re: #175 BatGuano

gmsc, you're amazing. I just bookmarked you're references. Now I am going to have to delete many of my other bookmarks of which I have many.
I did put a smiley face after my "math and magic" remark so I hope you know I wasn't trying to limit you breadth of knowledge. I am always a envious of how much you know. : )

One of my biggest problems is trying not to come across as a know-it-all.

I just love learning, and I try and keep the things handy that I've really found fun, enjoyable, and/or useful.

As you've seen, fun knowledge is something I revel in, and love to share!

Uh... Where iz mai Fruitcup?

Hmm . . . it looks like littleoldlady is probably getting some well-deserved rest.

Happy Thursday, Everyone!

Fruitcup is on the buffet ------------>

Help Yourself!

/Hope lol is okay.....

re: #187 Sharmuta

Happy Thursday, Everyone!

Fruitcup is on the buffet ------------>

Help Yourself!

/Hope lol is okay.....

Sharmuta to the rescue! Thank you!

Sending my best thoughts and hopes to littleoldlady.

re: #183 Alberta Oil Peon

You always pay a premium on bullion coins, because they go to a collector market. The markup is less on wafers and actual bullion, but it still exists.

Percentage-wise, it's worse with silver. Anywhere from 10% to 33% here.

But for some reason, the Gold Maple Leafs, Krugerrands or Philharmonics have less than a markup than the Liberty or Buffalo bullion coins...

Hmmm...blueberries, blue raspberries, blue stawberries, blue kiwi fruit, blue pineapple. What's happening here?

re: #189 Fenway_Nation

There's a coin called a Philharmonic?

re: #188 gmsc

Sharmuta to the rescue! Thank you!

Sending my best thoughts and hopes to littleoldlady.

Likewise!

re: #185 Sharmuta

Oh Noesre: #184 gmsc

I enjoy the hell out of what you know. My yspecialty is anything I have heard, seen or read. I am just not good at math. I am better than average, but not good.

This is the second morning this week the boards have been pretty quiet. Guess everyone is exhausted.

re: #194 Scorch

This is pretty normal. It doesn't pick up for a few hours yet.

re: #195 Sharmuta

This is pretty normal. It doesn't pick up for a few hours yet.

Ah, well guess I'll go do some paper work and check the irrigation crew. Have a good day all.

re: #193 BatGuano

Oh Noesre: #184 gmsc

I enjoy the hell out of what you know. My yspecialty is anything I have heard, seen or read. I am just not good at math. I am better than average, but not good.

Thanks!

re: #191 Alberta Oil Peon

There's a coin called a Philharmonic?

Yep. Not surprisingly, it's Austria's contribution to bullion coin production.

re: #198 Fenway_Nation

Yep. Not surprisingly, it's Austria's contribution to bullion coin production.

Interesting, Fenway. They might provide a useful way to get gold in sub-ounce units, I guess. If one is planning on using gold only as an investment, the size of the individual hunks is probably less important. But if we ever found ourselves in a real economic melt-down, I think it's a safe bet that coins of this type would soon have a "street-value" higher than their book value. So that maybe you could exchange that quarter-ounce coin for a car with a full tank of gas. ;>)

On the news tonight in Australia there was a story about Michelle Obamas breach of protocol in touching the Queen.

I know that former Prime Ministers of Australia John Howard and Paul Keating committed such a faux pas and were rebuked.

Does Michelle Obama get a free pass?

re: #200 Crux Australis

Yes.

re: #200 Crux Australis

On the news tonight in Australia there was a story about Michelle Obamas breach of protocol in touching the Queen.

I know that former Prime Ministers of Australia John Howard and Paul Keating committed such a faux pas and were rebuked.

Does Michelle Obama get a free pass?

Some sources said that Her Majesty put a comforting arm on Michelle first. In any case, I don't think there's much to be made of it. Michelle really doesn't have an elected or appointed position, so it's less of a protocol faux pas, (if it's one at all) than it would have been if Obama himself had done it.

re: #199 Alberta Oil Peon

I thought the Maple Leaf, Liberty and Krugerrand were also available in fractional/sub-ounce units, too....

re: #203 Fenway_Nation

I thought the Maple Leaf, Liberty and Krugerrand were also available in fractional/sub-ounce units, too....

You may well be right. I haven't really researched the market. I'm just now more or less able to think about having enough surplus cash to buy a little gold.

What do the Obamas know about decorum and protocol and chivalry?

At least Kevin Rudd had the decency to address the Queen appropriately.

re: #205 Crux Australis

Kevin Rudd is a gentleman.

re: #205 Crux Australis

What do the Obamas know about decorum and protocol and chivalry?

At least Kevin Rudd had the decency to address the Queen appropriately.

I can see it now: Michelle gives the Queen a high five, and the Queen responds with a fist-bump.

The gift that keeps on giving! Barry's iPod was even more awesome than you originally thought....

Confirmed: Queen’s iPod includes Obama’s speeches

Uploaded onto the iPod:

* Photos from the Queen's 2007 White House State Visit
* Photos from the Queen's 2007 Jamestown, Va., Visit
* Photos from the Queen's 2007 Richmond, Va., Visit
* Video from the Queen's 1957 Jamestown Visit
* Video from the Queen's 2007 Jamestown Visit
* Video from the Queen's 2007 Richmond Visit
* Photos from President Obama's Inauguration
* Audio of then-state senator Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and
* Audio of President Obama 2009 Inauguration Address

re: #208 Spiritualized

The gift that keeps on giving! Barry's iPod was even more awesome than you originally thought....

Confirmed: Queen’s iPod includes Obama’s speeches

I would toss it over London Bridge.

re: #208 Spiritualized

The gift that keeps on giving! Barry's iPod was even more awesome than you originally thought....

Confirmed: Queen’s iPod includes Obama’s speeches

Wow!

It's beginning to look like those people who have been claiming that Obama is a pathological narcissist aren't just singing Dixie.

re: #208 Spiritualized

The Queen always wanted an iPod but had too wait until The One gave it too her.

re: #204 Alberta Oil Peon

I've been looking at bullion for a little over a year now- but I haven't had any money to do anything about it until fairly recently. But for the most part, I'm sitting on my money and waiting/hoping for a pullback to October-December '08 prices in gold, silver and maybe even platinum.

re: #209 TheMatrix31

I would toss it over London Bridge.

I know a guy here in Vegas who brags that his arms are so strong, he could throw a rock from London Bridge and have it land in Arizona!

As it turns out, it's not all that difficult to do.
;)

I'm dozing off at the keyboard, so I'd better say good night to all!

re: #29 gmsc

Wow-that nails it completely.

re: #214 gmsc

I'm dozing off at the keyboard, so I'd better say good night to all!

Good night to you! By the way, was the fellow who brought London Bridge to Lake Havasu City Robert Paxton McCullogh?

re: #214 gmsc

Good night gmsc. I will soon follow.

re: #216 Alberta Oil Peon

Good night to you! By the way, was the fellow who brought London Bridge to Lake Havasu City Robert Paxton McCullogh?

Yep!

re: #216 Alberta Oil Peon

Indeed.

re: #219 BatGuano

Dammit! First again!

re: #218 gmsc

Yep!

I have one of his Paxton superchargers sitting on the shelf in my garage.

Here's a shockah (seriously)-Time now has an article up on Obama's Top 10 gaffes. I thought the MSM wasn't supposed to acknowledge those. Rahm must have forgot to put them on the talking points/ non talking points e-mail list.

Whooopsie!

Thanks, Sharmuta! :-)

re: #221 Alberta Oil Peon

Still in business although most racers are familiar with roots blower.

re: #223 littleoldlady

Whooopsie!

Thanks, Sharmuta! :-)

Good morning, littleoldlady! Glad to see you are OK.

re: #223 littleoldlady

Whooopsie!

Thanks, Sharmuta! :-)

Good morning lol. Never do that again!

re: #225 Alberta Oil Peon

Alberta Oil Peon! :-)

Sleep just more messed up than usual...

re: #224 BatGuano

Still in business although most racers are familiar with roots blower.

Paxton Products is now owned by the Granatelli brothers, AFAIK.

BatGuano! :-)

I think I've already used up my quota for the year. :-/

Well....nice seeing y'all. (Now that I screwed up my day.)

Good day, ALL!™

re: #229 littleoldlady

Dang right. you have responsibilities. Do not worry us like that. We always get counterfeit fruitcup.

re: #229 littleoldlady

We are all happy to see you!

Good night all. I had to wait for littleoldlady. Weet dreams.

re: #228 Alberta Oil Peon

Is Andy Granatelli still alive?

re: #234 BatGuano

Is Andy Granatelli still alive?

I do believe he is.

Have a good night. Catch you on the flip-flop.

They're showing the Ipod playlist on F&F. Don't get me wrong, I don't have much of a problem with the gift (as much as the DVDs), but don't they figure that if this is the Queen's favorite stuff, that she would already have access to it one way or another anyway? And don't they figure that she's what, 80 years old now? Is she really going to be walkin' around with an Ipod? LOL that's a funny mental image.

Morning Lizards.

re: #237 rightside

Morning rightside!

G'nite rightside- lizards! Looks like I'll be sleeping thru the European and precious metal markets and first few hours of the NYSE, AMEX and Nasdaq trading.

re: #238 Fenway_Nation

goodnight!

re: #238 Fenway_Nation

Morning rightside!

G'nite rightside- lizards! Looks like I'll be sleeping thru the European and precious metal markets and first few hours of the NYSE, AMEX and Nasdaq trading.

Good night, man.

Good morning, Rightside!

re: #236 TheMatrix31

They're showing the Ipod playlist on F&F. Don't get me wrong, I don't have much of a problem with the gift (as much as the DVDs), but don't they figure that if this is the Queen's favorite stuff, that she would already have access to it one way or another anyway? And don't they figure that she's what, 80 years old now? Is she really going to be walkin' around with an Ipod? LOL that's a funny mental image.

During WWII, she and her younger sister, Margaret, volunteered to work in a motor pool for the British Army, as vehicle mechanics. And she has been known to take a hand in the care and feeding of the Land Rovers on her country estates.

No moss on that lady.

re: #241 Alberta Oil Peon

During WWII, she and her younger sister, Margaret, volunteered to work in a motor pool for the British Army, as vehicle mechanics. And she has been known to take a hand in the care and feeding of the Land Rovers on her country estates.

No moss on that lady.

Not too shabby. They're more handy than I'll ever be!

re: #240 TheMatrix31

Morning Matrix.

Good morning, Lizards!

Good morning, Goddess!

re: #244 goddessoftheclassroom

Good morning, Lizards!

Good morning Goddess!

I still find it weird how so many people are waking up and I haven't even gone to bed yet!

{TheMatrix31}
{Alberta Oil Peon}
{rightside}
{RenwayNation}

re: #244 goddessoftheclassroom

{goddess}

So, how has Obama embarrassed us or screwed us this AM overseas?

Last update - 13:36 02/04/2009

13-year-old killed, 7-year-old wounded in West Bank terror attack

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Sure give em a State!

re: #249 Nevergiveup

If he's breathing, you can be sure it's a doozy!

re: #251 rightside

If he's breathing, you can be sure it's a doozy!

Ain't that the truth!

13:38 UN human rights chief says pushing U.S., Canada to drop Durban II concerns (Reuters)

Sure right wonderful. Love is breaking out all over?