i have flash adobe shut down all my ad blocking etc but it won’t come up. can you link another medium? tia wj

Does anybody think its ok to erode the PUBLICS Privacy  and have an expectation of keeping the Privacy of Public officials intact ?

I see no inconsistancy of the Law here !

Are we to be subject to Public airport Groping and yet Putin and Berlesconi can grope in privacy ?

What goes around comes around !   Turnabout is Fair play !

Hillary has no more right to private conversations than I do when she violates the Law . I follow Constitutional Law .So should she !

A Diplomat that gets caught suggesting something illegal like stealing another Diplomats Credit Card and Banking files has no more right to protection from disclosure than a private citizen who violates another citizens Privacy in  the same way.

Either we have the Rule of Law or we don’t !

Its CLASS warfare !  in this country the Rulers rule with the Consent of the Governed.

TGLDX depends on purchase date. I’ve owned it since 17.56 almost 8 years now. For awhile a rocket ride, then crash in ‘08, now screaming again. I had my doubts at times. But a very happy investor to date and a believer in the fund (even with the 12b fees). Other than my MNEAF since .52, , he has creamed my pitiful investing attempts.

This short clip from “OCEANS” is quite close to what I saw.  Maybe they were feeding and not mating.  The behavior lasted for hours and seemed more aggressive.

www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1902221593/

Subject: I’m 63 and I’m Tired — a great read!

According to Snopes, this has been correctly attributed….”I’m 63 and I’m Tired ” , A VERY PROFOUND READING!

 Robert A. Hall is the actor who plays the coroner on CSI if you watch that show.  He also is a Marine Vietnam War veteran.

This should be required reading for every man, woman and child in the United States of America .

 
“I’m 63 and I’m Tired”
by Robert A. Hall



I’m 63.  Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I’ve worked hard since I was 18.   Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven’t called in sick in seven or eight years.   I make a good salary, but I didn’t inherit my  job or my income, and I worked to get where I am.  Given the  economy, there’s no retirement in sight, and I’m tired.  Very tired.


I’m tired of being told that I have to “spread the wealth” to people who don’t have my work ethic.  I’m tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it.


I’m tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to “keep people in their homes.”   Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I’m willing to help.   But if they bought Mc Mansions at three times the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the left-wing Congress-critters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them with their own money.


I’m tired of being told how  bad America is by left-wing millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood Entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities America offers.  In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States will have the economy of   Zimbabwe , the freedom of the press of China  the crime and violence of Mexico , the tolerance for Christian people of Iran , and the freedom of speech of Venezuela .


I’m tired of being told that Islam is a “Religion of Peace,” when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family “honor”; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because  they aren’t “believers”; of Muslims burning schools for girls;  of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for “adultery”;  of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur’an and Shari’a law tells them to. 


I’m tired of being told  that “race doesn’t matter” in the post-racial world of Obama,  when it’s all that matters in affirmative action jobs, lower college admission and graduation standards for minorities  (harming them the most), government contract set-asides,  tolerance for the ghetto culture of violence and fatherless  children that hurts minorities more than anyone, and in the appointment of U.S. Senators from Illinois. 


I think it’s very cool that we have a black president and that a black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.  I just wish the black president was Condi Rice, or someone who believes more in freedom and the individual and less arrogantly of an all-knowing government.


I’m tired of a news media that thinks Bush’s fundraising and inaugural expenses were obscene, but thinks that Obama’s, at triple the cost, were wonderful; that thinks Bush exercising daily was a waste of  presidential time, but Obama exercising is a great example for the public to control weight and stress; that picked over every line of Bush’s military records, but never demanded that Kerry release his; that slammed Palin, with two years as governor, for being too inexperienced for VP, but touted Obama with three years as senator as potentially the best president ever.  Wonder why people are dropping their subscriptions or switching to Fox News?  Get a clue.  I didn’t vote for Bush in 2000, but the media and Kerry drove me to his camp in 2004.


I’m tired of being told  that out of “tolerance for other cultures” we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and mandrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in America , while no American group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia to teach love and tolerance.


I’m tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate.  My wife and I live in a two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our jobs. We also own a three-bedroom condo where our daughter and granddaughter live.  Our carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore’s, and if you’re greener than Gore, you’re green enough. 


I’m tired of being told  that drug addicts have a disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do.  Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off?  I don’t think Gay people choose to be Gay, but I #@*# sure think druggies chose to  take drugs. And I’m tired of harassment from cool people treating me like a freak when I tell them I never tried marijuana.


I’m tired of illegal aliens being called “undocumented workers,” especially the ones who aren’t working, but are living on welfare or crime.  What’s next?   Calling drug dealers, “Undocumented Pharmacists”?   And, no, I’m not against Hispanics.  Most of them are Catholic, and it’s been a few hundred years since Catholics wanted to kill me for my religion.  I’m willing to fast track for citizenship any Hispanic person, who can speak English, doesn’t have a criminal record  and who is self-supporting without family on welfare, or who serves honorably for three years in our military…. Those are the citizens we need.


I’m tired of latte liberals and journalists, who would never wear the uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their entitlement-handicapped kids near a recruiting station, trashing our military.  They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make split-second  decisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth better people than themselves.  Do bad things happen in war?  You bet.  Do our troops sometimes misbehave?  Sure.  Does this compare with the atrocities that were the policy of our enemies for the last fifty years and still are?  Not even close.  So here’s the deal.  I’ll let myself be subjected to all the humiliation and abuse that was heaped on terrorists at Abu Ghraib or Gitmo, and the critics can let themselves be subject to captivity by the Muslims, who tortured and beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or the Muslims who tortured and murdered Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins in Lebanon, or the Muslims who ran the blood-spattered Al Qaeda torture rooms our troops found in Iraq, or the Muslims who cut off the heads of schoolgirls in Indonesia, because the  girls were Christian.  Then we’ll compare notes.  British and American soldiers are the only troops in history that civilians came to for help and handouts, instead of hiding from in fear. 


I’m tired of people telling me that their party has a corner on virtue and the other party has a corner on corruption.  Read the papers; bums are bipartisan.   And I’m tired of people telling me we need  bipartisanship.  I live in Illinois , where the ” Illinois  Combine” of Democrats has worked to loot the public for years.   Not to mention the tax cheats in Obama’s cabinet. 


I’m tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was getting caught.  I’m tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor.


Speaking of poor, I’m tired of hearing people with air-conditioned homes, color TVs and two cars called poor.  The majority of Americans didn’t have that in  1970, but we didn’t know we were “poor.”  The poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition of poor to keep the dollars flowing.


I’m real tired of people who  don’t take responsibility for their lives and actions.  I’m tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination or big-whatever for their problems.


Yes, I’m #@*% tired.  But I’m also glad to be 63.  Because, mostly, I’m not going to have to see the world these people are making.  I’m just sorry for my granddaughter.


Robert  A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam veteran who served five terms in the Massachusetts State Senate.

There is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends it on!

This is your chance to make a difference. 

 No misprint 1.957 million block went out at the close, either real good news or we’ll have some selling in the a.m. I missed the final tick so I can’t tell if it was up or down. The plot thickens.

NEW YORK – As U.S. officials struggle to control damage from the secret cables, Russia is planning to block a similar dump about the Kremlin. And they will be ruthless, Philip Shenon reports.

American intelligence and law-enforcement agencies, outraged by their inability to stop WikiLeaks and its release this week of hundreds of thousands of sensitive U.S. diplomatic cables, are convinced that the whistleblowing website is about to come up against an adversary that will stop at nothing to shut it down: the Russian government.

National-security officials say that the National Security Agency, the U.S. government’s eavesdropping agency, has already picked up tell-tale electronic evidence that WikiLeaks is under close surveillance by the Russian FSB, that country’s domestic spy network, out of fear in Moscow that WikiLeaks is prepared to release damaging personal information about Kremlin leaders.  Article

1. his performance there is    up 494 % since Oct 08  just slightly over two years  !  From $17.20 to$85  .
2. I bought in when No one wanted Gold and will sell out when Everyone wants it .    I expect that to occur in about three to Four years  2014-2015 according to my calculations.  My self managed portfolio performance comes close to that ,but to think I could have done as well without all that work and study of the History of Gold .I could have left it up to John H. and went Scuba Diving   !  hehe    Thanks to him for a GREAT Performance…..

when i was young with pimples. or whale of a tail tails….take your pick! [gg]
seriously they are majestic creatures and many times running on surface they would almost like dolphins pace the boat and these were north atlantic sperm whales of considerable size. the joke of the day was we shot out a fish [torpiedo] and the whale passed out cigars! once while i was on watch on the bridge on one across the pond run to patrol area we encountered a migrating herd or colony of orka [killer whale] that were running in pods of 8-10 with 4 or so pods wide perhaps 75 yards in separation and stretching from north horizon to south horizon as far as the eye could see. no one even the seasond lifers never seen anything like it. we had crew from below decks coming up on the bridge to see the sight. a rare one indeed. we were running surface east and cut right thru the migration that didn’t mind us of course cause they were on a mission from god. a rare treat for a young adventerous sailor and it forever imprinted itself on my mind like it was last week.
hey irish hows that for some whale of tales? wj

Is it a misprint or did 1.95 MM shares of UXG trade at 6.56 just after the close?

Brrrmystr @ 17:30 pm  re: Whales

Did you see the film Oceans?  Some spectacular scenes, even if they had an agenda.

Of course nothing beats live and in person.

Theres nothing I like better than free beer , but couldn’t we condense the decades and beer into one decade Four beers a day would be about right.

I bought some silver the day before yesterday. Six weeks to wait for delivery.

guy calls ‘em:

My response to those who say gold doesn’t pay interest is: “You’re a pathetic market loser, a failure who can’t buy weakness in the ultimate wealth, and the popsicle stick foundation of your credit-issuing clown act is: usury. What a joke. Go back to your photocopiers, toilet paper rolls, and your freedom-destruction fan club. You’re a price-chasing bustout. Scram.” Don’t let price-chasing cowards and freedom-robbers push you around. Those who push on Gold find Gold can push back “only” a billion times harder than all the paper credit issued in the world combined. Never forget that reality. Do not disrespect Gold or you will pay a major financial penalty.

11. Likewise, if you are buying Uranium now at “Gold $400” pricing levels, you want to think carefully before donning the hamburger flipping uniform the banksters are offering you.

MINERA Andes up 15.31%,   VG GOLD up 21.43% ,UXG   up 9.5 %  ,  LEXAM  up 2o.81 %

In what is becoming a very sad development, the more money (pardon, monetary base) Bernanke prints, the more silver coins Americans buy. According to the US Mint, November sales of silver just hit 4.16 million ounces or coins, an all time record, since the introduction of the coin in 1986, and that does not even include the last day of the month. The number is roughly a 30% increase to the 3.15 million one-ounce Eagles sold in October, and well above the previous 2010 record of 3.6 million sold in May. So far in 2010, the mint has sold 32.8 million ounces of silver, higher than the previous full year record of 29 million coins set in 2009. Article

Whales, you want to see whales?  so did I.

I lived in Hawaii a quarter century and would spot the “blows” out in the water about a half mile, every winter season.  But that was the extent of it, never up close.  Then last year we went back to Maui in January.  We stay at our place on the beach in Kapalua.  My husband ALWAYS takes early morning dips in the ocean, before the sun comes up……I always kid him that that is the time the sharks feed, but he doesn’t care…..

So this 2nd day of our visit, he comes running back home and shouting for me to get down to the beach pronto.  It was 5:30AM.  Naturally I thought someone had been attacked by a shark and I jumped out of bed and ran to the beach………………… and there it was……. my jaw dropped. 30 to 40 whales about 30 yards off “our beach”.  They were   swimming and diving in tight circles of about 8 - 10 whales each.  Their behavior was vicious and fast.  I guess this is how whales mate.  An unbelievable sight as one after another breaches out of the water and falls back making a huge splash.  Another really big one started swimming on the surface with one of his fins upright out of the water…. Those fins are really LONG. I would have loved to have had a look under the water.

Anyway the whales remained for over 2 hours and at one point I turned around and too my complete shock I saw roughly 300 people standing still and silently watching this spectacle.  No one was saying a word.  Most had there mouths open in awe.

In my entire lifetime, I have never witnessed such a spectacle. I hope you get the chance to see this.

As Jeremy Clarkson (Top Gear) said, “every day I read six newspapers and the Guardian”.

Great move today.

even with the late beat down.This stock is fast becoming the new stud on the farm(at least on my PF).

Cui bono …… to whose benefit is this really?  The Daily Bell ponders this.

WikiLeaks: Clever PsyOps?

WikiLeaks to Take on Private Sector?

I just bought 11k shares of caj, if it goes to 3.7m I will buy you a beer (once a day for the next 4 decades if we live that long) …g…

otherwise I am resigned to the cardboard box.

Does any one have any opinion good or bad about this one?

I have read a fair bit about it but can’t understand why it hasnt done well with the news release it has had.

I think all the other posters are onto something and the true source of these documents isn’t coming from a source we’d expect. smells fishy at best

No I meant leaks from within Putins regime, not what the US thinks of him and so far what has been said is spot on, he is a menace.