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What did the roulette wheel of revelotion say today?
Global collapse BITCHES!!
Can we get a schedule of the margin hikes so I know when the dip is coming? You know we will a pull back for a few minutes when the hike comes.
Maybe his toupee could.
For those who might be interested. News from friends throughout Latin America have been telling me that real estate prices have been surging for the past three years.
In Merida, Mexico prices have almost doubled.
Same is true in Montevideo, Uruguay from what I'm told.
Here's something along those lines. (all of 2 years too late)
http://www.propertywire.com/news/south-america/latin-america-property-growth-201004124035.html
Mexico has a lot of oil. And all the poor people went to America, so more money for spaniards.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n8oceMsbX8
WTF from China...
the hottie on the left kinda looks like an asian version of Max Keiser
Thanks for making me spill my coffee you magnificient bastard!
spill it for 13 minutes, WTF?
You can get the same noise by skinning a cat alive while playing a rap song.
How does one find a video like that in the first place? Not complaining I sent it out to a few friends.
You gotta check out the Rebecca Black's "Friday" - Brock's Dub
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzfQwXEqYaI
the amount of dislikes on her official video is hilarious.
or dragging one's fingers across a chalk board.
Best observation EVER
Native American Joe Pesci @ 1:52
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2_d6Hwvh5I
Sri Lankan James Earl Jones:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6ZUx3dilZw
Damn. I think that is a violation of the Geneva Convention. I rather be waterboarded that listen to that again.
So many different ways to break their economic plaything here, CDS, CDO , CDO squareds, buying mortgage shit shovelers, backdoor shorting of long clients, a bald MERS assumption of our notaries, lobbyist open staffing of reform writing "representatives" offices.
Anyways, its quite easy to fix.
Just repeal, undo, and unglue, ourselves, from both "Modernization" Acts created by Sen. Phil Gramm-TX, in 1999 and 2000. That's when all this new mischief started!!!
The Commodity Futures Modernization Act, and the Financial Services Modernization Act (aka Gramm-Leech-Bliley Act) of 1999. Allows for obscene derivative manipulation of energy markets (Enron Loophole). Will stop the absurd CDS 600 Trillion notional...Restore the Glass-Stegall...
I will keep posting this until it sinks in.
A Chinese Partridge Family.
Oh Jesus God, those poor fuckers.
Partridge Family, classic... lol
For a shirt time I lived next door to Danny B. That is one crazy dude. Though he did have some physical talent. Quite the martial arts expert. Several times I went over and he would teach me a few moves. Of couse it was hard to concentrate with the naked chick passed out on the couch all the time. Sometimes he would be real high in the middle of the night and climb the street light. One of those concrete post types and climb it in seconds and sit up on top of the light for hours... funny stuff.
Where's Reuben when ya really need him?
Good God! A double assault on the senses. My hearing and vision will never be the same. Thanks dude. Should have come with a warning.
I think I shit myself.
Holy JEEEZZE!! Ears burning, fillings melting...AAAaaaaAHHHHHH
Strangely, the women sound remarkably like my wife when she's pissed.
en boca cerrada no entran moscas
has anybody else noticed that when you buy pickles now the jar could hold like four more....they used to packed in there...now i looks like you bought a half a jar....thanks bernanke
pickle pokers ...
picklez bitchez
i'm low on eggs. figure i'll look for a deal and load up. week before easter, right? no deals. no 2-for1. just eggs and retail for anything. lucky's and spaceway, both. first time in my life. really.
pickled eggs, BiCHeZ
Mabey they're like Christmas trees, cheaper the day after?
Peter packed a pour pot of poked pickles
You know, I noticed this phenomenon last time I was at Longhorn Steakhouse. 1 - they give you about 1/3 of a loaf of that nice dark wheat bread, when they USED TO give you a whole loaf.
2 - the "dinner salad" came in bowls that were about 1/2 of what they used to be, all rim, no bowl. Not that they weren't throwing most of that away, but that's not the point.
it's everywhere...
Gawd forbid fat a$$ Americans lose some weight. Its about time portions get back to normal.
Chairsatan cares!
pickle poacher.
Jameson with pickle back
http://www.askmen.com/fine_living/drinks_400/409_drink-of-the-week-james...
Jameson is good...but not with dilaudids ;-)
at first I thought you said "prickles."
Seems like every piece on ZH is inflation related - so now that we've hammered the shit out of the "what", can we pleeeaaase move on to the "when" phase arguments.
Tomorrow.
Or the day after Tomorrow.
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=the+day+after+tomorrow+movie&qpvt=th...,
but AlGore said it was all a hoax. Who knew?
- Ned
it's difficult to predict when it will stop
REALIST NEWS – BREAKING NEWS – MONEX OUT OF SILVER EAGLES APRIL 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR1CPvJnRfM&feature=player_embedded#at=34
Looks like http://www.kitco.com is also out of silver eagles. They do have some maple leafs and other coins but no silver eagles.
https://online.kitco.com/bullion/completelist_USD.html
From George Ure and Clif High (Web Bot guys):
A chat earlier this week with Clif ofhttp://www.halfpasthuman.com, about the way things are lining up for silver here shortly, bears mentioning about here. You may remember in some of the predictive linguistics work, there was and expectation that we would be seeing a day when silver moves $5.
From George Ure and Clif High (Web Bot guys):
you have to be high to think those sources have relevance to anything
I wasted time reading Ure daily for over 2 years and guess what? All his predictions were false, every one of them.
Buy some of these instead.
"World's purest silver round"
http://www.royalsilver.com/retailstore/
The Story of Obama http://exopolitics.blogs.com/files/wayne-madsen-obama-all-in-the-company.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqxnm6t3QMw
Too many mutha uckas
Uckin' with my shi-
There's too many mutha uckas
Uckin' with my shi-
Uckin' with my shi-
Too many mutha uckas
Uckin' with my shi-
With my shi-
How many mutha uckas?
Too many to count
Mutha uckas
I pay my mutha uckin' rent fortnightly
Mutha uckas at the bank trying to play me
And I'm out for my account
'Cause out on A.P
On AP
Yeah, you know me
Mutha ucka charge a two buck transaction fee
Makes my payment short
My rent comes back to me
Minus a twenty-five dollar penalty
So you'll see me 'cause of your mutha uckin' fee
Read the words
On my ATM slip, it said
We're all mutha uckas
And we're uckin' with your shi-
Too many mutha uckas
Uckin' with my shi-
My transaction shi-!
There's too many mutha uckas
Uckin' with my shi-
My weekly statement shi-!
My weekly statement shi-!
Too many mutha uckas
Uckin' with my shi-
With my balance shi-!
How many mutha uckas?
Too many to count
Mutha uckas
The mutha ucka runs a racist uckin' grocery
The mutha ucka won't sell an apple to a Kiwi
The shi- fight's gonna get vicious and malicious
Cut the cra- ...
I need my red delicious
Tells me as a Kiwi that my money isn't valid
Gonna dice the mutha ucka like a mutha uckin' fruit salad
Then... ... Granny Smith... ...
...an avocado... ... b-... -a... ...
...a mango... ...
Then pop an apple in his ass, yeah!
Too many mutha uckas
Uckin' with my shi-
I'm gonna juice the mutha ucka
There's too many mutha uckas
Uckin' with my shi-
He's gonna wake up in a smoothie
Too many mutha uckas
Uckin' with my (beatboxing)
Everybody come on!
Too many mutha uckas uckin' with my shhhhh
Lyrics credit: whatthefolk.net
Listen to this song... lyrics are awesome... ZeroHedge Anthem...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JihDfdSBqyE
Make it go viral...
Another contender -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7LkDbnmsC0
When a deal goes down you have to get it for yourself ....
My vote - It's Easy
If cash is your problem, put it on plastic - cause tomorrow never comes, everything is free. It's Easy. Clapton and Cale.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kxk11D-mpY&feature=related
Second Place: Ride the River
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpU2KOFCRz8&feature=related
I always think of Aenima by Tool as the ZH anthem. One of my favorite songs. Angry and loud.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnk78TTj8to&feature=related
Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will.
I sure could use a vacation from this
Bullshit three ring circus sideshow of
Freaks
Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call LA
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time. Any fucking day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.
Fret for your figure and
Fret for your latte and
Fret for your hairpiece and
Fret for your lawsuit and
Fret for your prozac and
Fret for your pilot and
Fret for your contract and
Fret for your car.
It's a
Bullshit three ring circus sideshow of
Freaks
Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call LA
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time. Any fucking day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.
Some say a comet will fall from the sky.
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by faultlines that cannot sit still.
Followed by millions of dumbfounded dipshits.
Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will cuz
I sure could use a vacation from this
Silly shit, stupid shit...
One great big festering neon distraction,
I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied.
Learn to swim.
Mom's gonna fix it all soon.
Mom's comin' round to put it back the way it ought to be.
Learn to swim.
Fuck L Ron Hubbard and
Fuck all his clones.
Fuck all those gun-toting
Hip gangster wannabes.
Learn to swim.
Fuck retro anything.
Fuck your tattoos.
Fuck all you junkies and
Fuck your short memory.
Learn to swim.
Fuck smiley glad-hands
With hidden agendas.
Fuck these dysfunctional,
Insecure actresses.
Learn to swim.
Cuz I'm praying for rain
And I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way.
I wanna watch it all go down.
Mom please flush it all away.
I wanna watch it go right in and down.
I wanna watch it go right in.
Watch you flush it all away.
Time to bring it down again.
Don't just call me pessimist.
Try and read between the lines.
I can't imagine why you wouldn't
Welcome any change, my friend.
I wanna see it all come down.
suck it down.
flush it down.
How about Queen?
Is this the real life?
Is it just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Look up to the sky and see.
About sums it up
Funny, I'm sitting here with "Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums" going through my head.
Brother Maynard, FTW!
Okay I'll cast a nomination for ZH theme song:
http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/leonard-cohen-everybody-knows/649...
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died
i always think of Rage Against the Machine's "Evil Empire" as the soundtrack.
'Uprising' from Muse gets my vote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8KQmps-Sog
"Rise up and take the power back, it's time that
The fat cats had a heart attack, you know that
Their time is coming to an end, we have to
Unify and watch our flag ascend, so come on"
Sounds good to me.
Y'all take care now...
That wasn't half bad...it had a tune and you can drudge to it.
What do gay cows eat?
HHHaaaaaYYYaaaaayyyyy!!!!
Works better in person.
;-)
True fact: around 4-5% of all bulls are born homosexual.
Those bred for the bullfighting ring are summarily slaughtered, as they invariably prove worthless in the ring, unwilling to fight or challenge the torero.
Hard to bitch-slap with hooves.
Does anyone know any alternative to owning anything but SLV calls? Any other ETFs or things that tracks silver well? (Not looking for physical.)
http://www.six-swiss-exchange.com/funds/explorer_en.html#qs=&FundLongName=Silver&ProductLine_displayed_=Exchange%20Traded%20Funds&ProductLine=ET&IssuerLongNameCode_displayed_=&IssuerLongNameCode=&InvestmentStyleCode_displayed_=&InvestmentStyleCode=&TradingBaseCurrency_displayed_=&TradingBaseCurrency=&AssetClassCode_displayed_=Commodities&AssetClassCode=2&LegalStructureCountryCode_displayed_=Switzerland&LegalStructureCountryCode=CH&UnderlyingGeographicalCode_displayed_=&UnderlyingGeographicalCode=&UnderlyingProviderCode_displayed_=&UnderlyingProviderCode=&FundIndustrySectorCode_displayed_=Precious%20Metals&FundIndustrySectorCode=8&ReplicationMethodCode_displayed_=&ReplicationMethodCode=&srtBy=FundLongName&chunk=20&customColumns=TradingBaseCurrency%2CLastPrice%2CLastDelta%2COnMarketVolume&savedHash=true
My personal preferences when playing in the paper pond- especially since I prefer a different brand crap fiat when cashing out, but if you use a discount broker in the US, they might not be an option.
SIVR
My freind knows a guy that once killed a gopher with a stick.
i am printing as fast as i can in my big chief tablet.
Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.
ain't that the truth.
Thanks. You made my day.
I think I'll go home and see if I can find a gopher. If not, I know where there is some Schotch that I can kill. I won't use a stick.
My friend killed a pheasant with a polaski.
My wife's first cousin killed a Canadian goose with her windshield. Well, actually, it might have survived the impact, but being dragged back and forth by the windshield wiper finally did it in.
I inadvertently once killed a duck in the propeller of a Cessna 172 while (fortunately) coming in for a landing. Shit, what a mess! Could barely see through the windscreen and land the damned plane!
Just be happy it wasn't frozen.
Frozen ducks cannot fly. Crazy cat.
Had it been frozen, it most likely would not have been flying.
Frozen ducks are too heavy to fly...
I have also hit one, put a basketball sized dent in the left leading edge.
Scary shit.
Needless to say, in my case the prop had to be immediately replaced.
the European bailout fund, known as the EFSF, has had one bond issuance of 5 billion euros. that's it. we are so dumb that we created TARP, funded it, destroyed our currency, etc to save our banks and yet all we had to do was announce TARP, not fund it, bring in the IMF and hike rates....like our European friends.
"Japan nuclear radiation in Phoenix Arizona milk samples show radioactive Iodine contamination levels up to 1600% above EPA drinking water limits. To make matters worse those contamination levels of radiation do not even include Caesium or other radioactive isotopes which were not even reported in the Arizona tests."
Being a resident of the Valley of the Sun myself, I find it somewhat disturbing that there is evidently a MSM blackout of the Fukushima (literal) fallout levels in the Western U.S.
Here's a link:
http://tinyurl.com/3p9gxq3
North Phoenix here, the milk data is from nearly a month ago, too bad they didn't actually tell anyone to not drink the milk at the time.
I've been running a logging geiger counter, we've had a few pretty significant spikes in the past couple weeks. Suprisingly the EPA's RadNet monitor for Phoenix is actually working now and showing them (back around the 18-20th.) Some of the California monitors dropped offline when it was getting a little too, er, interesting.
i live in north-central Phoenix also; thanks for the link.
Time to cull the population.
The exponentiation function multiplied by ZERO.
Where is the outrage over Apple spying on its customers?
If people let this slide, TPTB will see it as an opportunity to intensify its control over the sad little sheeples.
I-phone as CIA surveillance tool....hmm, what this implies is that the Oligarchy is now organised at the individual level...Google maps and i-phones..."we're home and dry!"
Im very upset over this. Apple now knows im on the bowl pinching a hairy Liesman
Follow up: Im wiping my Ass as we speak
No you're not. The iPhone autocorrects Im to I'm.
And its to it's.
It's too helpful for its own good.
Oh, fuck APPL, only morons buy that iShyt anyway. The key is to track the iIdiots that by that iShyt, for later reference.
I'll have time to write you guys a whole novel...over easter week end!
Remember not to flush it....
Quiet weekend, so....
Silverbitches.
'Nuff said.
http://www.bullionvault.com/gold-price-chart.do
Kitco chart is frozen but if you look at the one above and select Silver as the metal you will see that Silver has leaped up over a dollar today even though the comex and LBMA are closed. Very strange
UPDATE on Vincent McCrudden - This is an injustice and I wish TD could post this with it's own thread. New development in the story:
There is an innocent man in jail for an email that he didn't send and JP Morgan wives are collecting $220 million of the TARP money? COME ON ! Where does it end?! Isn't ANYONE GOING TO DO ANYTHING?!
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-real-housewives-of-wall-street-look-whos-cashing-in-on-the-bailout-20110411
On Monday, April 25th, the day after Easter, at 11:00 am Vincent McCrudden goes to court.
...Because these corrupt financial regulators that are supposed to be overseeing theft and graft like this by JP Morgan have targeted him. They got the Justice Department to bring charges against him and he is being held in prison without bail, while big banks steal millions...and give it to their wives?
Come on... even you have to see how criminal this is.
Like Harry Markopolos before him, Vincent McCrudden blew the whistle on JP Morgan several years ago for manipulating the copper markets with Summitomo Bank. They paid a $48 million fine, which is less than they made on the illegal activity and the $48 million went toward bonuses for the financial regualtors...and nobody ever went to jail.
McCrudden is in jail without bail on an email that he didn't send.
On Monday the 25th the government will try to defend their position of why McCrudden was arrested and the IP address that they could connect him to.
Turns out the experts in Singapore that actually supply the Internet service and IP addresses have sent an Affidavit stating that they cannot connect the email to the defendant, because it was a "public IP address with no required sign on," which means anyone of thousands of people could have sent it.
And yet, because they have been able to get the Judge to reject his appeals for bail when he clearly should have been granted bail....
on Monday morning at 11:00 in Federal Court on Islip Long Island at the Senator Alfonse D'Amato Courthouse...family and friends will anxiously support McCrudden and hold their breath and pray that he will be granted bail.
...when in fact, based on the facts...the charge should be dropped, because the government cannot prove what it set out to prove based on the response of the ISP from Singapore.
Enjoy your holiday weekend with your family. Enjoy your Easter and Passover while McCrudden...an innocent man sits in jail for an email he didn't send... and for standing up to big banks and investment banks that continue to have a different set of rules with financial regulators that makes it "legal" for them to steal millions and billions.... and in this case give it to their wives...
Is it any wonder Americans are angry and disolusioned ?
See what Geraldo had to say about it: www.HelpVinMc.com
We hope to see you in court on Monday at 11:00. If you would like more information feel free to respond and we'll get back to you with details.
This is a big deal. It will be interesting to see what the Judge does...and how the Government manipulates its case...almost entirely on circumstantial evidence and speculation....and yet the Judge has allowed them to keep McCrudden in jail without bail anyway.
Wonder what will happen Monday.
good post thank you... I have seen the story before but have not read it...will do
My guess? On monday, the criminal justice system will once again live up to its name.
Prisons the world 'round are filled with political prisoners as innocence and criminality are words filled with legalese.
As far as angry Americans go, well, deep-down they realize that their "freedom" is granted in exchange for keeping quiet and maintaining the facade.
Something other than HomeCheapo is open Monday? Go figure.
Monday is another snooze for goobermint. Hangovers, and all.
wasn't mccrudden also interested in nine eleven truth
I think you meant Morgan Stanley wife but I feel ya.
I suggest something great to do/show: USA markets' track record of serial herd behavior
Inflation-adjusted asset price histories are VERY instructive, and the media know how, but show them nearly never.
HOMES, nyt 8/27/2006
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/08/26/weekinreview/27leon_graph2.html
DOW, wsj 3/30/1999
http://homepage.mac.com/ttsmyf/begun.pdf
Up to date here: “Real Homes, Real Dow” at
http://homepage.mac.com/ttsmyf/RHandRD.html
The USA status quo is keeping very-little-apparent these serial herd behaviors. Supporting the serial herd behavior characterization:
http://homepage.mac.com/ttsmyf/3warnsRD.html
Massive deception by omission ...
Ya odd action, I dont even know what to make of it other than there is zero liquidity.
Silver now at $47.65
Are eggs considered meat?
4/20 was 2 days ago dude.
Not if you're Catholic. Can't answer for vegetarians.
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"Nor was it admiration for a better man than me. I did admire him, but I didn't think he was a better man. Besides, I've executed better men than me with a small pistol."
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More »
Bummed, the 'more' does not give more, or better bouncing boobs.
http://www.apmex.com/Category/160/Silver_Eagles___Uncirculated_2011__Prior.aspx
Apmex has it sellin at 46.6 area, so I dont think the charts from today are right or it was sold back down in last few seconds of the day as the livegoldprice chart shows??
I can sell my Bullionvault silver for spot which is currently 47.65 and buy physical at APMEX at 46.6. This is like one of those stories you hear about when an ATM is broken and churns out free cash.
http://www.bullionvault.com/gold-price-chart.do (select metal-silver -top right)
YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF GODLESS HEATHENS!! GET TO CHURCH ITS GOOD FRIDAY!
GODLESS HEATHENS....I think I played bass for them.
Was that you...whoa Dude!
My Granddaddy played 3rd Bass for the House of David. He could sure thump it.
Oh blinding light, oh light that blinds, look out for me, I cannot see!
I find blackberries and blueberries in a pool of maple syrup to be truly wonderful.
Happy Easter weekend to everyone, whatever your race/religion/eoy SPX target :)
Love open threads. Can't wait to take it all in with a Jack & Coke + a bowl of Canadian tobacco late tonight.
Goodness, you do seem to make a regular point of going on about putting it away. Leading a lush life?
America is going the way of Rome. I just thought I'd compile a few reasons why:
1) Addiction to cheap, sometimes nigh-slave labor: Rome had its slaves, and a good chunk of the capital's actual citizens were basically wards of the state by the time everything came crashing down. In the U.S., we have farmed our jobs offshore, of course, but we rely on goods exported by countries that make their workers disappear if they complain. We "need" illegal immigrants because they "do the jobs that no one else does".
2) Rome debased her currency and churned out so much of it to the point that massive inflation set in.
3) Towards the end of her life, the people that once swore death before Kings had completely imperialized their system of government; the elites ignoring completely the rule of law -- the Roman leaders were the first progressives, in a sense, disregarding the horse and buggy rule of law and taking the position of "those who simply know better". I go back to illegal immigration again for another example of the rejection of the rule of law: consider the fact that a tax-paying citizen is subject to far more government scrutiny than someone whose first act on our soil is literally stepping over the law of the land. When ten thousand illegal immigrants protest in public, is it not surreal that the national guard doesn't step in and begin the deportations? So there might be violence. Is the alternative of shrugging off the law considered acceptable?
4) Massive social programs: your average day as a plebian in the second century started with you going to your sponsor for your daily handout(s). Rome heavily subsidized grain production. Look forward to America and federally-subsidized retirement, health care, disability, transportation, energy production, on and on and on.
5) Obsession with the stupid, the base, and the violent. Need I say more on this point?
6) A collapse of moral fortitude, a complete disregard for the "true Roman" way of doing things. A dissolution of the country's national identity and rich history and a rise of a class of people in it for their next handout. Did you know that 1/3 Americans can't identify the YEAR the 9/11 attacks took place?
7) Massive military action across multiple territories. A move from a volunteer citizen military to a political force all its own. I don't think this one has played out just yet, but Eisenhower's warning rings true in that we are hopelessly addicted to the MIC.
I'm rambling; this is a very incoherent statement and not my best, and I'm sure others have said it before. But we have to keep saying it, you know?
Do we have to keep saying it or do we need to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M11SvDtPBhA
You're essay is wrong. I won't list them but you really need to step away from PC history, lies are not a new way of doing business.
No argument on the lies point -- but on the areas where you think I'm factually wrong I'd love to hear your links or see your sources.
Just an amateur historian here; so in complete honesty I welcome correction if I have anything wrong.
"Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions and laughed delightedly at his licentiousness and thought it very superior of him to acquire vast amounts of gold illicitly. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome's, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.' Julius was always an ambitious villain, but he is only one man." - Marcus Cicero
For all you sporadic ZH posters, have you tried tranquilizers?
I find a couple o' benzo's with a meth chaser make me a spastic poster. Never tried being sporadic. I suppose a hefty valium dose with a vodka chaser might make me a stuporific poster...have to ponder that one for a few.
Very nice. You are legit, Misean. Sorry to hit you w/a bad comment a while back.
You were playing with my junk?!?!
Just partial to Xanax here, when the pig Market is open. Otherwise ethanol works better in me than my small engines.
Me 'n Miley are bonging the Savia. I see a Halo.
This song works for me. It is absent of malice, violence, anger, etc. But I like it just the same. Reminds me of something I once loved, sadly I've forgotten what that was.
The Secret Sun
awesome song...
try weed, it's awes0me
Need to come up with an Easter/Good Friday-themed drink.
Man don't tempt me...I could come up with some seriously offensive ideas...take the bloody mary for instance. Substitute tequila for vodka, and use an appropriate Hispanic male name...
mix ingredients, stir with a cross?
Yeah, that would about do it.
Bloody Sanchez?
that's a Bloody Maria. ;)
One that knocks you out on Friday to rise on Sunday?
Cadbury Egg-cream and Bailey's
I'll toot my own horn again...someone else noticed my question on FED PM PRICE MANIPULATION of Thomas Hoenig at the London School of Economics Lecture on 3/30/11
http://forensicstatistician.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/hi-ho-silver/
And below is an email I sent to my local congressman's office and a bunch of family and friends... I figure if I know I should say something... not just comment here to those in the know...
Subject: Yuan's It gonna happen?
I wonder if all the chatter about a Chinese Yuan revaluation over the weekend will be proven true...wonder if the massive trucker protest was a catalyst (along with the inflation they are protesting)?
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/china-inflation-and-wage-protests-spread-turn-violent
The Federal Reserve is Scheduled to have it's first press conference next week April 27th at 2:15 ET after the FOMC meeting. See link below for one take on what is to transpire:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/42701543
I disagree with Mishkin (on many things, he is the Napoleon Dynamite looking fellow some of you will recognize from Inside Job) that QE2 will be ended on June 30th (stimulus in one form or another will continue in my opinion).
Here is the top economist in Oregon (University of Oregon since 2002), Tim Duy's (worked in the Treasury and for the G7) Fed Watch blog that offers insight into the Fed and inflation risks along with other interesting tid bits. Peruse around and glean his opinions for yourself...
http://economistsview.typepad.com/timduy/
BTW it stinks that the dollar is declining in value as I am in London and $#^! ain't cheap here to begin with! Imagine going to New York (expensive already), then Imagine your money is worth half of what it was back home. Many of the Londoners I meet talk of how they love vacationing in New York City because it is so cheap! Current conversion of just jumped up to 1.6515 per http://netdania.com/Products/live-streaming-currency-exchange-rates/real-time-forex-charts/FinanceChart.aspx
A level that has not been seen since November of 2009 but who's counting anyway...again watch out if the DXY drops below 71... the last support on the chart for USD.Have a nice day! I sent them this before also...if they are your freinds and family think we/you should speak out and inform even at the risk of someone crumpling your tin foil hat... Subject: Listen LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW BELOW AT and read his the bio on who the interview is with JAMES TURK, who advises many large hedge funds.
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/Broadcast/Entries/2011/4/20_James_Turk.html
download the "mp3", by clicking on it (it says "click here"), that is available on the left hand side of the page from the link above... and listen to the interview...Dad do it too... this guy know his stuff. Been in market since 1969.. the key is take away is as the Europe news gets worse again (Greece/Portugal) the US Dollar is not acting as the safe haven it did in the earlier crisis ...but Silver and Gold is as confidence in the Dollar erodes especially after the recent S&P downgrade on US outlook and warning of possible downgrade from AAA.
See this: http://www.zerohedge.com/article/stunner-sp-revises-us-outlook-negative
The non partisan Congressional Budget Office issued this report in time with the S&P downgrade and was probably a major reason the downgrade occurred:
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/obamas-budget-increases-deficit-41-over-cbo-baseline-over-next-decade
The only way to fix things is huge cuts to SS/Medicare and DEFENSE (oh bummer we just passed new health care spending and have two wars waging and are now involved in Libya) spending, and real tax reform (read make it simple and transparent less offshore lobby/loophole BS ), and thus far nothing has been done by either party about these issues so this is bullish for gold and silver, and if huge drastic cuts are made in the above programs then and only then will it be bearish for gold and silver vs the US dollar. But there will be huge outcry from the public if this austerity hits and it will make them trust the government less because it shows you can not trust the governments promise to provide for you, so one could argue that that could be good for gold and silver too. Bottom line is the USD ( united states dollar ) is between a rock and a hard place.
the DYX has broke below 74 TODAY last seen in Nov. 2009 and is currently at 73.75 last support level is at 71 seen in mid 2008 just before the peak of the last credit crisis in the fall of 2008.
University of Texas took delivery of 1 BILLION in gold.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-15/texas-university-endowment-holds-almost-1-billion-in-gold-bars.html
Precious Metals(gold/silver) are about to go much higher and the Dollar is about to go lower. It is a bubble that is about to start moving exponentially as all bubbles do before they burst (like the Dot.com bubble). The bubble will burst when a new world reserve currency is put in place or at least one currency that is convertible or backed by gold/silver. In the 1970's you had the Deutsch Mark and Swiss Franc ("harder currencies") as safer havens from inflation but today gold and silver is the only thing since the dollar will eventually have to be reestablished at some point to some sort of non-dillutable standard in order to preserve some worth after they (FED) dilute enough to make the huge debts we are in worth much less.
It is still very cheap. Please do not brush me off I have spent 2 plus years learning about this... ask me questions instead. When we have to raise the debt ceiling in a month or so the Dollar will go down more... if the GOV do not do it the Dollar will collapse quickly=higher gold and silver. When QE2 ends on June 30th (600 Billion bond buying program=monetizing our debt=money printing) the economy will start to lag again = higher gold and silver. If the FED continues to buy bonds (extends QE2) then Gold and Silver will go up.
Here is a dumb video that explains what QE2 is all about so easy a caveman could understand it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTUY16CkS-k
And here is an article from the Financial Times (just as, if not more, respected as the Wall Street Journal) which I have a free membership too, you should sign up for the free membership too but anyways here is the basic explanation from the FT: http://lexicon.ft.com/Term?term=QE2
Most fund managers were wrong see this from Feb 1 2011: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704254304576116232308946552.html
The last article was in response to the Whitney prediction that has a nice summation here: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-01/whitney-municipal-bond-apocalypse-is-short-on-default-specifics.html
Oopsie Poopsie they were all wrong there is reason to panic evidenced by this 2 short months later: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-30/dimon-says-hundreds-of-municipalities-in-u-s-won-t-make-it-out-of-debt.html
You know what can not fail (not fall I know there is downside risk, but the upside is huge short term) is gold and silver it was been worth something and rising in value for thousands of years.
This article sums up the historic arguments for gold and silver: http://dailyreckoning.com/value-of-silver-vs-value-of-the-dollar/
I follow the raw data for myself here at:
http://netdania.com/Products/live-streaming-currency-exchange-rates/real-time-forex-charts/FinanceChart.aspx
just select "instruments" in above the upper left of the chart to change what the chart shows you... you can add volume by clicking on "view" and selecting show/hide volume the time frames across the top of he chart give you good perspective of the market (1 , 10 ,15, 30 refer to minute intervals which are represented in the blue/red bars as one unit of either 1, 5, 10 ect minutes) the same applies to 1hr, 2hr, 8hr. "D" refers to day "W" means one week (so each red or blue bar represents a whole days or weeks trading respectively) and 'M" means max data available.
Also http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/King_World_News.html is a great site with top people in the field that tellsometruth (I participate on zerohedge.com under tellsometruth)
Please take the time to respond and open up a dialogue on this I will answer any questions that you have.
And then there is this out this morning that shows no will to reign in current measures by the FED, I do not believe (and many others do not research it for yourselves) Ben Bernake (Fed chair Pres.) when he says he is "100% confident" (from 60 minutes interview) he can and will know when to stop stimulus measures in time to prevent destructive inflation to the Dollar. He has already lied about monetizing the debt, which is the half or the whole point of QE2... they want inflation, and have such large ego's that they think they can control everything.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-21/bernanke-bond-market-signals-no-change-with-obama-congress-cutting-deficit.html
NOW GUESS WHAT THE RESPONSE PERCENTAGE WAS...
I figure if I know I should say something
Don't worry about the responses. Keep speaking truth to whoever you care about. There are going to be a lot of very scared people soon in desperate need of guidence.
"Keep speaking truth to whoever"
Thanks for the response... I will
Long winded douche. You be talking to morons with a 15 second attention span.
Why don't you share with us, mynhair, what you believe in?
(Keep in mind I only have a 10 second attention span.)
Dip, be responsible. You need more?
Out here in the "real world", I gotta admit - I have had a problem with chewing Kodiak. I mean that shit tastes good, my lower jaw be damned.
But since you can't respond with anything other than dims/obummer, etc. (believe you me, I despise them, too) and since it's Friday night, I'm going to log off now.
Here's a gift for the rest of the real people at ZH. I say that considering 9-11 was an inside job, global population reduction is real, and that you are living in a Police State filled with extras from the movie "Idiocracy", this may be the true high-water mark of human existence:
http://guyism.com/celebrities/natalia-velez-pics-photos-video-besame.htm...
Best regards to all of you space monkeys, including you, mynhair.
Mishkin = Napolean Dynamite = Comedy Gold!
Everything else... well lets just say that "your" congressman didn't even get that far, but instead, had a staffer put you on the patriot/terrorist list.