My goodness. You ARE young.

Those folks think they ARE doing something–they are shutting up the “opposition”. I’ve quit posting on liberal blogs. I got too many viruses aimed at me too many times after posting for it to be a coincidence. Fortunately, I’ve gots pretty good protection.

You may want to check out my posting “What is a Liberal” in the archives.

Haven’t opened your e-mail yet. I’ll be out of touch for 3-4 days next week. If you don’t hear from me, it just means you haven’t heard from me YET.

always,
tony

It is sad that in this day and age people feel the need to spread hate. Surely they could be doing something more positive and contributing in their own way to this world, like you are with this blog. Some people need to wake up and smell the roses. I sent you an email.

Hell, I don’t mind making mine public. I get so much hate mail now that one or two more don’t make no never mind.

always,
tony

tdemaio@prodigy.net

if that don’t work, try shouting at me.

Thanks

Other folks got off from work at 5, did some happy hour and then went home to the family, supper and TV.

I went home from my office job, ate supper and then worked a coin collection for resale, or was in the garage rebuilding a car, or setting up for a weekend gun show. Or loading ammo or repairing whatever needed fixing around the house.

No macaroni and cheese at my house, thank you, unless somebody just plain wanted it. But no “have to” about it.

I figured that the equivalent of two jobs for twenty years beat the heck out of one job for forty years with a gold watch and a kick in the butt at the end. So, at age 45 I told the world to go suck toads and I’d go off and do my own thing, thank you very much.

Bureaucrats? Yeah, I know more about them than most, but a heckuva lot of it is from observation, not interaction. I’d rather treat smallpox victims…

youse sed:

Seems to me that one fallacy in the corn-storage story is the idea that 5% of time spent in supervising the storage would necessarily result in a 5% reduction in the amount produced. 5% of an eight-hour work day is twenty-four minutes, which isn’t all that onerous as an add-on workload

no no no no no. you don’t unnerstad

The figures these folks that want “the power” put out are not scientifically correct–they are politically correct and seek to sway opinion in favor of the project. Look at history–social security, medicare, obamacare, fannie mae, stimulus, etc.

Clearly, instead of letting Sleeze’s farm go fallow, the other farmers could have pitched in and planted and reaped the crop–thus maintaining constant production but with fewer total hours worked.

It is oft attributed to Machiavelli the saying, “The end justifies the means.” What he REALLY said was, “Keep your eyes on your goal.”

In THIS case, the goal was to become a bureaucrat. Say anything, do anything, but reach the goal.

Given the present policies of government regarding spending and “printing” (digitizing) money, I see no way for silver and gold prices to go except up. While I have no idea how far up, “up” beats “down”. “The trend is your friend”, and Obama/Bernanke/Geithner–and the Congress as a whole (hole?)–have the trend going quite well for the next year or two.

IMO, we’re already in a stagflation condition. Since I agree with John Williams’ shadowstats.com’s views of inflation and unemployment, I see it all as quite obvious. I don’t need CNBC or pMSNBC to natter sweetly into my shell-pink ear. Daily headlines about the economy–albeit sometimes necessary to read between the lines–and a trip to almost any store will suffice.

Seems to me that one fallacy in the corn-storage story is the idea that 5% of time spent in supervising the storage would necessarily result in a 5% reduction in the amount produced. 5% of an eight-hour work day is twenty-four minutes, which isn’t all that onerous as an add-on workload. I’ve done a helluva lot more than that, for years and years…

Heck, I’d probably wind up owning the valley.

Ken, your best chance is to search thrift stores, yard sales, Craig’s List, and e-Bay looking for those who don’t know what they have or don’t keep up with prices. Coins and ingots from dealers are a terrible choice! You tend to be charged a 15-20% premium. I bought virtually all my silver off e-Bay and spent endless hours glued to the screen. It was well worth it. One good ploy is to go on-line as late as you can and have the machine sort by least time left. Occasionally you’ll get lucky and something will come up which no one else has bid on or with a low bid. Most these days will give you a reasonable approximation of weight. Remember that Troy = Avordupois plus 9%, although an easier way to think of that is that AV – 10% = Troy. Make yourself a chart to convert ounces to dollars. It helps a lot to learn the weight of standard patterns, but as a VERY rough gauge figure a little less than an ounce a piece if there are several serving spoons and forks. Don’t buy demitasse spoons. If you can keep your price under spot, or even near it, you’ll do well. Better, you are storing current value, artistic value, and sometimes even historic value. If the world ever recovers, sets of Rose Point, Royal Danish (very heavy, hard to find a bargain), King Cedric, Sir Richard, and so forth will be worth MORE as eating utensils than they are for their weight in silver. Hope that helps. Linda

Ken, your best chance is to search thrift stores, yard sales, Craig’s List, and e-Bay looking for those who don’t know what they have or don’t keep up with prices. Coins and ingots from dealers are a terrible choice! You tend to be charged a 15-20% premium. I bought virtually all my silver off e-Bay and spent endless hours glued to the screen. It was well worth it. One good ploy is to go on-line as late as you can and have the machine sort by least time left. Occasionally you’ll get lucky and something will come up which no one else has bid on or with a low bid. Most these days will give you a reasonable approximation of weight. Remember that Troy = Avordupois plus 9%, although an easier way to think of that is that AV – 10% = Troy. Make yourself a chart to convert ounces to dollars. It helps a lot to learn the weight of standard patterns, but as a VERY rough gauge figure a little less than an ounce a piece if there are several serving spoons and forks. Don’t buy demitasse spoons. If you can keep your price under spot, or even near it, you’ll do well. Better, you are storing current value, artistic value, and sometimes even historic value. If the world ever recovers, sets of Rose Point, Royal Danish (very heavy, hard to find a bargain), King Cedric, Sir Richard, and so forth will be worth MORE