Memorable Quotes

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
- John Barrymore

I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
- Beryl Pfizer

After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, 'No hablo ingles.'
- Ronnie Shakes

 

"It's time for the human race to enter the solar system."
-George W. Bush

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
-George W. Bush

 

That silly old shrub is a bit behind the times.... As far as I can recall, both Voyager 1 & 2 have left this little solar system and heading who knows where....... but then he never was a bright boy nor interested in the truth where it was not in his interest...

 

On other forums I've heard people hold up the Shrub's MBA from a good if stodgy school, and his having been a fighter pilot in the Reserves (aka Territorials) as evidence of his overweening intelligence. I've learned to gently smile and say nothing.


"The Lost Sea was the first book I wrote in English... it made me discover, for the first time, the joy of writing in this language, which is a musician's joy rather than a poet's or a painter's. It is like a superb Renaissance-built cello of amazing warmth and range...." Jan de Hartog, introduction to The Call Of the Sea omnibus.

 

From this distance, the shrub is sadly lacking in any merit, except a future potential as fertilizer. Geographic incompetence, random acts of stupidity, Ahhhhhh who cares.... - I don't now...

 

I sure appreciate hearing perspectives from outside the US. When our news stories included the latest happenings from "Reality TV" shows and American Idol, I stopped listening altogether.

And if MeanzBeanz posts any more of those eye-opening links, I'll NEVER get outdoors! Thanks, man. It feels better having an idea HOW I'm being screwed, rather than knowing something's happening, but having no idea exactly what it is.

 

Hey Tinhorn,

Try this site http://www.financialsense.com/index.html its a great resource and they do a weekly radio show that's not high brow, great for people who want to get up to speed on what is really happening in and around the US. I have followed Jim's site since 911 and I have to say hes has been close to the money since the beginning. He manages money and if you live in the US I reckon you could do a lot worse than him for advice. My 2c... I tried to put some cash with him but he can't take it from OS.

That one should keep you busy for a while...

This was the first series I read from Jim...

http://www.financialsense.com/series2/perspectives2.html

If you read it keep in mind when it was written and what the world looked like then... the man has vision.

PS... When you hear the term "The Perfect Financial Storm" on bubble vision, Jim's the man that coined the phrase in 2000.

 

If you read the Storm series and like it the next to tackle is the "Power Shift Series"

http://www.financialsense.com/series3/main.html

 

Thank you Heinz. A very good read... Sorry only tokens for the present....

 

Wow. That'll take me weeks!

I found this snippet tonight on that site:

Seems there would be different forces at play in a precious metals meltdown than in our real estate meltdown. Is the (90%) silver dollar I have hidden in my sock drawer really worth fourteen bucks? Could silver actually lose most of its value, or should I bury my silver dollar under even more socks?

 

tin, - - one must wait the advice of our "silverback sage", but my guess would be to watch carefully and sell on the high and buy it back a little later after the crash and many become desperate to cash in to meet other needs....

 

See, I have a bit of trouble determining the peaks and valleys. My previous investment in precious metals was buying gold at 825. In the early 80s.

 

Silver is still cheap, should go well over the next few years, natural gas is also a good play. Real-estate will not make sense again for a while, even if we don't see a nominal price correction we will see a real price correction, even here in Oz. That simply means that there will be much safer places for money to be, I know that's a bugger of a concept for baby boomers that have seen nothing but real estate price rises during their lives here in Oz but the cycles driving this are bigger than them.... bloody ard to believe ay? Jeeze I just committed treason for my generation, all the relies will be around to lynch me soon.... the silly buggers own plenty of it but they can't tell you why it goes up in value but are quick to tell you why it won't go down

I'm no sage M, you know that and so do I so don't take the P !... I just listen to smart people... I gotta collect on a bet this Christmas, in 2003 I was telling a relly that Templeton had predicted that some of the US Real-estate would be selling at 10% of its current value after the bubble burst. He said he was an f... idiot, I said I'd back him as the argument was very plausible. Templeton was right, there's a surprise, an eighty year old billionaire with his own research department and a long history of good performance knows more than a middle manager in retail.... well blow me down.

Some of the scuttle around now has a strong possibility of the USD heading into an accelerated decline sooner rather than later (FSO News Hour has a good appraisal). Could be a shortish affair if other currency crack ups are anything to go by. I'd be owning anything but the USD... Everbank deposit, gold, silver, oil, beanz anything real with non debt based market. This really could get very ugly... I hope not but some peeps are very gloomy about it.

 

Your a bit earlier in the piece this time... if I said where I think gold is going you'd send me a straight jacket... People are saying +1K is a pipe dream.... they are going be spitting chips before this is over.

 

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
- Malcolm Forbes

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
- Hansell B. Duckett

It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
- Henry Allen