Just kidding. I thought I would stop by to say hello to my old friends and maybe get flamed by some of the new guys.
I trust everyone is healthy and happy here. Things are good with me.
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- Mon Mar 21, 2022 3:05 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: PP is Totally Obsolete!!!
- Replies: 62
- Views: 24971
- Wed Aug 07, 2019 11:49 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Will Trump be Re-elected?
- Replies: 648
- Views: 355981
Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?
Love you guys.
Just left the Prada “store” in Valentine, Texas.
Next stop: Carlsbad Caverns.
Just left the Prada “store” in Valentine, Texas.
Next stop: Carlsbad Caverns.
- Tue Aug 06, 2019 11:20 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Will Trump be Re-elected?
- Replies: 648
- Views: 355981
Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?
My, except for the spam that got through it's getting pretty boring around here. Hey now, although there are some interesting people here, the forum is principally for education, not your entertainment. You want thrills, then turn on Hee Haw. Hee Haw baffled and frightened me a little as a child. I...
- Fri Aug 26, 2016 9:20 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Pizza Drones
- Replies: 20
- Views: 16665
Re: Pizza Drones
First the bit about the Indians using the whole cigarette, now this.Kriegsspiel wrote:That's what you get when you take pizza delivery to its logical conclusion.
I am in awe.
- Fri Aug 26, 2016 9:08 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: 13% time to cash out?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 11709
Re: 13% time to cash out?
No, it is not time to cash out.
If you must do something, rebalance.
If you must do something, rebalance.
- Fri Aug 26, 2016 8:52 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Twenty One Pilots
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11004
Re: Twenty-One Pilots
Possibly their best song, but you gotta wear your thinking cap when you listen to it:
"Car Radio": https://youtu.be/92XVwY54h5k
"Car Radio": https://youtu.be/92XVwY54h5k
- Fri Aug 26, 2016 8:45 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Twenty One Pilots
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11004
Re: Twenty-One Pilots
This one will probably hurt Mountaineer's ears, but I think it rocks.
"Fairly Local": https://youtu.be/HDI9inno86U
"Fairly Local": https://youtu.be/HDI9inno86U
- Fri Aug 26, 2016 8:40 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Twenty One Pilots
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11004
Re: Twenty-One Pilots
Whether you realize it or not, you know this song.
"Stressed Out": https://youtu.be/pXRviuL6vMY (590 million views!!!)
"Stressed Out": https://youtu.be/pXRviuL6vMY (590 million views!!!)
- Fri Aug 26, 2016 8:27 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Twenty One Pilots
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11004
Re: Twenty-One Pilots
Freaking awesome song with many layers of meaning...
"Ride": https://youtu.be/Pw-0pbY9JeU
Song from the Suicide Squad movie credits:
"Heathens": https://youtu.be/UprcpdwuwCg
"Ride": https://youtu.be/Pw-0pbY9JeU
Song from the Suicide Squad movie credits:
"Heathens": https://youtu.be/UprcpdwuwCg
- Fri Aug 26, 2016 8:08 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Twenty One Pilots
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11004
Re: Twenty-One Pilots
I had not heard of them. Listened to the 4 songs. Hometown is not bad. The others would give me a migraine ;) I'm old! ... Mountaineer If you need to get your chill on, check these out: "Screen": https://youtu.be/1I_XfiTRN2E "March to the Sea": https://youtu.be/PjcuW3Rtz68?list=...
- Fri Aug 26, 2016 6:37 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Twenty One Pilots
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11004
Re: Twenty-One Pilots
Yes, me as well and just recently started listening to them more frequently. First heard on Live 105, Bay Area. Funniest thing ever...Livey, a 105 year old English woman who is their "mascot" was asked to announce the band on the radio this morning. That's great. They're coming to town in...
- Fri Aug 26, 2016 5:11 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Twenty One Pilots
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11004
Twenty One Pilots
Any other Twenty One Pilots fans here? I think that their following is primarily teenage girls, but they got their hooks in me recently and I find their music fascinating and hard to stop listening to. One of the interesting things about their work is the range of their sound. They seemingly touch e...
- Thu Aug 25, 2016 5:37 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Pizza Drones
- Replies: 20
- Views: 16665
Re: Pizza Drones
This is the kind of thing you see in futuristic science fiction movies but it looks like the future has come to New Zealand. Craig, have you tried this yet? No that's not near me yet, thankfully! I'm not sure if this will work in the U.S.A. Given the way we've been using drone technology in the mid...
- Thu Aug 25, 2016 5:29 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: PPers Thoughts on 'The Sovereign Individual'
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11278
Re: PPers Thoughts on 'The Sovereign Individual'
You've got to get the money out of the game as well as the career political hacks. If government is unable to take wealth from its citizens, it will have less money to operate on. It will be forced to shrink due to less funds. This shrinking means that it has less control of things. Lobbyists are t...
- Thu Aug 25, 2016 5:18 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Overregulated Close to Home
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6602
Re: Overregulated Close to Home
What I witnessed during this three-week period of time was a testament to what people can, and will, do if the forces of government will just leave them alone. The trouble with the "forces of government" is that it's defining characteristic is not leaving people alone. Telling people what...
- Thu Aug 25, 2016 5:03 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: PPers Thoughts on 'The Sovereign Individual'
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11278
Re: PPers Thoughts on 'The Sovereign Individual'
We're not rolling back to minarchy, nevermind to anarchy, until there are term limits. So I stronlgy suggest focusing on that. We must kill being a politician as a valid career choice. All the talk in the world is not going to change anything until that problem is eradicated. And then there are the...
- Wed Aug 24, 2016 9:08 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Overregulated Close to Home
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6602
Re: Overregulated Close to Home
Another one that makes me crazy are the notices that you get (at least one every couple of weeks) from your bank, your insurance company, your credit card company, your utility companies, etc., the purpose of which is to disclose something to you. The disclosure is always buried in three pages of l...
- Wed Aug 24, 2016 7:24 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Overregulated Close to Home
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6602
Re: Overregulated Close to Home
Over on the Hate thread, Medium Tex wrote: This may sound heretical, but apart from Obamacare, we could have done a lot worse over the last eight years than we have done with Obama (though I think the Republicans deserve credit as well for keeping Obama on a short leash). To which I responded: Wow,...
- Wed Aug 24, 2016 7:08 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: PPers Thoughts on 'The Sovereign Individual'
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11278
Re: PPers Thoughts on 'The Sovereign Individual'
Remember, though, LOTS of people don't like the pressure of independence and are comforted by having someone around to tell them what to do. A lot of people DO have that preference. But in the future, that may be a yes/no choice for individuals to opt in and out of instead of a forced default chose...
- Wed Aug 24, 2016 6:53 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Long bonds, at these rates?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 14592
Re: Long bonds, at these rates?
Long bond rates matter not. What matters is volatility, hmm?
Rebalance when rates rise
Harvest the gains when they fall
Been doing it since 2008
And I'm having a ball
Rebalance when rates rise
Harvest the gains when they fall
Been doing it since 2008
And I'm having a ball
- Wed Aug 24, 2016 6:45 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: PPers Thoughts on 'The Sovereign Individual'
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11278
Re: PPers Thoughts on 'The Sovereign Individual'
I don't believe I've read the book, but anyway I am familiar with the proposition. I used to believe that the internet and peer to peer communications would free us. Now I'm not so sure it won't enslave us. We are beholden to electronic communications, and governments are for the most part able to ...
- Wed Aug 24, 2016 6:40 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: PPers Thoughts on 'The Sovereign Individual'
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11278
Re: PPers Thoughts on 'The Sovereign Individual'
When I was in college, I sat in on a talk given by Davidson in 1991. He's an interesting guy. Sort of a "things are about to get a lot worse" kind of person, but people eat that stuff up. He has apparently had the same writing partner for years and I hadn't thought about him for a long tim...
- Wed Aug 24, 2016 6:34 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Strongtowns.org Antifragile series
- Replies: 77
- Views: 33450
Re: Strongtowns.org Antifragile series
I doubt if anyone cares, but this is the street I grew up on and that is the elementary school I went to at the end of the street in the distance. Driveway in the foreground on the right led to my crib. http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/streetview?size=640x640&pano=ayFlG4toC4NE4ZmQBfEgrQ&h...
- Tue Aug 23, 2016 7:32 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: IBT financial journalist has clearly never heard of the HBPP...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3220
Re: IBT financial journalist has clearly never heard of the HBPP...
With regard to the Russian revolution...literally, the only part of it that survived was gold stored outside the country. Everything else, zero or confiscated. And you had to be smart enough to know when to leave, rich enough to have enough gold outside the country to survive on and connected enoug...
- Tue Aug 23, 2016 2:36 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The Olympics
- Replies: 57
- Views: 25550
Re: The Olympics
Why are Hillary and Obama allowed to continuously lie ad nauseum with no consequences while Lochte's life is basically ruined by simply exagerrating an obvious robbery at gunpoint that was actually perpetrated upon him? Powerful people display their power through things like telling gratuitous lies...