Connie Willis, the Doomsday Book. I am about 25% through the book. Great book so far. Some parallels are pretty spot on. And thankfully we live now vs. the 1300s! Considering it was written in 1992 and set in 2054, the only major item that feels strange is the lack of mobile phones. Everyone was st...

Guys, I only have a single symptom of TDS. The inability to get over his style and lack of "presidentialness" I have little issue with most of his policies, like I had little issue with most of Obama's. They are all hypocrites, regardless. We haven't become a nation without guns and where ...

I don't see many (any?) on television taking the middle road. To be clear, I think Trump has done a lot of things wrong in dealing with this virus, but if I know that a TV channel is always going to either kiss his ass or denigrate him 24/7, then why watch? People should be embarrassed for acting i...

Ahh, I knew the leveraged ones did, but didn’t know 1x ones did as well.

A lot of people outside government make a lot of sense. My question still is, these ideas work great on a blog on the internet. How do you translate that into the same action at a government level? For Denninger, whether it is CV, or debt, or actually anything, he's got his solutions. And berates e...

To all of you, what would you have had the government do? Seriously, give me something here that wouldn't have caused hysteria and panic regardless. Tell those with higher risk to stay at home, the rest go about their lives? Hell, 40% of the country is obese! How many have diabetes? There are so ma...

I just had a thought pop into my head, and haven't tried yet to determine if it would be beneficial or not. My actual %'s vs. target percentages are skewed like this, and I assume all are the same: --Bonds and gold are high --Stocks are low. --Let's leave cash out for now. Normally, if you were to r...

To all of you, what would you have had the government do? Seriously, give me something here that wouldn't have caused hysteria and panic regardless. Tell those with higher risk to stay at home, the rest go about their lives? Hell, 40% of the country is obese! How many have diabetes? There are so ma...

Excess:Poor choice of words sure.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llAG5V7x17A Peak population So being Devils advocate. You do not have a choice but to vaccinate your children? So are you telling me your going to be 1st in line for the New vaccine when it comes out? https://youtu.be/8elE7Ct1jWw 1)...

Bill Gates on How to Kill over 10 million excess people. Yes that is excess people..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AEMKudv5p0 So, We will Limit Your Travels and know where you go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A50TGg0FOjc&feature=youtu.be by the way Bill Gates funded the PIRBRIGHT insti...

ochotona wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 2:27 pm - Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov refused on Thursday US President DT's claims about a phone conversation between Russian President P. and Saudi Crown Prince MBS. "No. There was no such conversation".

Can't resist... release the transcript!

I can't even tell you how many back up the truck Leaps I have bought in the past, esp. on GLD and SLV. Can't lose. Really. Can't lose. Uh huh. I understand where you are coming from but I envision this for your situation: We hit your 1550, you buy Leaps when volatility is still high. Maybe 1-2 years...

I can't help myself and continue to read him, and even though I hate his style, the numbers keep on making sense. But, you just can't come out and say we don't need those ventilators. Those people have a 95% chance of dying anyway. Can you? Can the government possibly, in the next few weeks get to t...

Cortopassi, if you don't mind... Where is your wife from originally? Mine is from Shenyang, China (Liaoning Province). I am posting a bit more now but trying not to overdo it. The answer she would give you (with probably a dirty look) --- Chicago. Born here. So was her mother. Her father is from th...

At least I am getting a good chuckle here vs. stressing out about CV! barrett, I forgot about you! You aren't posting much anymore. Since it is public on Facebook anyway, I am proudly showing my family. https://i.imgur.com/uZEYxtY.jpg As for the chubby Italian guy, I was for most of my young life, a...

dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 7:29 pm You’re a nice looking fellow, btw. Not at all what I pictured.

Interestingly, I just realized I don't picture any of you, I only ascribe male or female in my mind, and who knows if you all are portraying that truly!

Mountaineer wrote: ↑Wed Apr 01, 2020 7:11 am
Great picture Mike. Perhaps it's the angle, but it appears your right shoulder is a bit lower than the left. Are you starting to lean right?

Well, I was at Notre Dame... While a lot of universities lean far left, ND seems pretty balanced and even very right on some issue like pro-life.

Pseudo-anonymity and not having to look a person in the face certainly enables a lot of this behaviour. I once read a book about online behaviour and I believe there's actually a name for this: online identity disassociation. We should all do a test. Who'd be willing to put a real picture of themse...

I am starting to think moda, Vinny and I are the only left leaning people on this forum anymore...

I'm sure a lot of you read Zero Hedge, Fox News and other sites where comments are allowed. If you think these types of comments are only found on conservative sites, you aren't paying attention. The internet is a wasteland riddled with toxic comments from anonymous trolls of all types. Agreed, but...

We may be wearing Mask as new Normal if this goes on much longer. Things certainly seem to be moving quickly in that direction: The CDC is said to be considering asking people to cover their face in public — but would reserve masks for medical workers https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-cdc...

I'm sure a lot of you read Zero Hedge, Fox News and other sites where comments are allowed. Here's a sampling of the first few comments on a ZH article where Chris Cuomo was verified to have the virus. I ask you all, if you knew the identities of these people and were in a position to hire them -- w...

What's up with the gold price lately?

Four reputable sites at the same time are showing $1610, $1629, $1636 and $1620

Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 9:10 am
If he did that, then CNN, MSNBC, etc., would say "He has no response to that, which means he agrees with it. Impeach!"

Sure, but that's pretty boring, forgettable news vs. things like "Trump lashes out at the governor of Michigan."

• 60% approve of President Trump’s response; 93% of Republicans and 29% of Democrats agree. Imagine what that number would be if he were able to drop the need to hit back. Simply be able to say things like "I'm not going to respond to that." I think his approval would be 80%+ easy. GWB wa...