Greetings From FreedomFest

Admiral Akgbar - thanks for taking one of these off my hands and I am very sorry to hear about your kayak mishap!

I'm now going to put in a shameless plug.  If anyone else here is interested in a 2011 Kilo Libertad (just over 32 troy ozs of .999 silver), I have two more available.  Still sealed in the air-tite holders and in mint brilliant uncirculated condition.  These can be a little difficult to find from time to time as only 1700 or so were minted and all were apparently sent to Europe and had to migrate back to the US via other channels.    Get in touch with me if you are interested.  You'll find my price to be extremely reasonable with only a tiny premium attached for collector's value.  Otherwise, up they go on Ebay.  Only selling to  continue to fund our new family business.  Thanks!

is someone I admire greatly. I had a front row seat to see him speak at a rally about 1 1/2 years ago. He obviously takes his oath seriously. It's hard to believe he is from NJ & was once a Superior Court Judge here! We need more like him.

Of course you are. And it's selfish. And we should all immediately ascribe the worst of motives to your choice.

The flip side to the 'oddity' of you doing your own work, is another oddity. In the worst parts of my city, you'll find large gatherings on the corners. They're there all the time...'suffering the indignities of unemployment' and contributing to the economy by sipping on taxpayer supplied 40s. Often, you will see a hardworking immigrant worker delicately working his way around them (because they wouldn't dream of moving the fk out of the way - and god help him if he 'disses' them) to get the trimming done at the commercial property where they loiter and harass passers-by.

It's a vile system that enables this. And as much as it sucks to pay for it, the people truly destroyed by it are it's 'beneficiaries'. Sad...

In response to IRunBartertown and Col Angus:  I like Craigslist too, but the premiums charged there are horrendous at times as there are a lot of dealers trying to pass themselves off as private sellers.  I had rolls of 90% I tried to sell off on CL at very reasonable prices a couple of months ago, and couldn't get one qualified response.  I did get a couple from questionable people, but they didn't respond when I said I wouldn't meet in a Walmart parking lot at 11 p.m....  Anyway, I have bought and sold a little silver on CL in the distant past and I always had a slim fit t-shirt on that allows them to see the bulge on my right hip.  We are allowed to open carry here in Georgia but I don't like to freak people out.

Try your local auction houses.  Plenty of them sell 90% silver, and I've landed it at or below spot on several occasions, especially on common date coins.  Just be careful to include the auction premium in your calculations, and make sure you know your state sales tax regulations regarding the sale of US currency so you don't get charged sales tax by the newbie cashier.  I've found it's worthwhile to drive to the auction houses out in the boonies since fewer "country folk" are interested in buying silver instead of farm equipment and collectible John Deere salt and pepper shakers.

Glad to see you too.  It was just one of those turns in life that required a great deal of emotion, and the family just pulled into its shell and sorted things out.  But emerging into the sunlight.

And speaking of picking fruit, I didn't realize (I am strangely naive) that Canada also imported migrants to pick fruit.  My son has a friend who has a farm, and they house Mexicans during picking season.  Turns out they have terrible pot with them.  Reminds me of the 70's.

Yes, Colonel Angus!   And good old marijuana should be legal - I can (and have) received remarkable narcotics from my doctors (no need for details - but let me just say entrapped nerve) - but to apply for a marijuana licence from the government requires filling in multiple forms with all sorts of information, and is essentially an invitation to get busted.  Name one other prescription that the government has to know you are getting.  It is absurd.  However, a weed I can grow in my backyard does not enrich insurance companies nor large pharmaceutical companies, so I am meant to pop a Nucynta, rather than smoke a joint that will be far more effective and much easier to control the dosing.  Not that this is anything I care about or anything - just speaking hypothetically.

good to see you back posting  i hope all is well.  main street topics seem to be a little more off metals/economy lately.  hat tip for you!  you need to get back on the list!! 

First,  my thanks to Dagney and ClinkinKy for backing me up on that "Jesus is a Muslim" thing.   I posted that last night and promptly went to bed early and did not see the response from you guys nor the one from Treefrog till this morning.

And to you Treefrog, I don't know where you get such absurd info but my dictionary states:

Muslim:  n.  A follower of Islam.   (not, as you imply, a servant of God).

Islam is the religion created by one Mohammed,  a charismatic leader who was well learned in many religions of the Mid East region, including Judaism, Christianity, and several pagan religions.   To bind his followers together, he created a make-believe religion which unfortunately still exists today.

The name Allah comes from the pagan worship of the "moon-god" which is now  non-existent because those people who worshipped the moon were wiped out by Arabic tribes many centuries ago.

But that's okay.   Just keep ranting.   We could all use a good laugh now and then.

"but I know in my heart that it's days are numbered for me."

What I'll really miss is how you periodically issue vague insults to the community (semi-conflict averse or just passive aggressive?) as a whole. Especially when you bring it out of forums to 'walk in' and remind everyone how many people you have on your ignore list. I'll also miss the endearing way in which those who agree with you are assets to the community, but anyone who agrees with something you don't believe, clearly came here together as part of a secret plot. Because surely they have no right to find and communicate with like-minded folk in a public forum.

It's not anger, but I'll be damned if you're not right! Letting your thoughts go DOES feel good!

I don't dislike you, but that characteristic is unfortunate. Would you walk into a party and announce "this party is full of dicks and I'm going to ignore most of you", and then proceed to where your friends are to chat? or just go and chat with your friends?

Well, hopefully you keep your Miners thread running along!    

Lurker there.  :D

Greetings all!  Been reading this fine blog for many moons & finally registered 'cause the following puzzles me & not sure if it's been addressed:

*Could* the reason why silver stays above 26 involve fundamentals on physical silver?  Specifically, is the E.E. concerned that were silver's USD pricing to break 26, that foreign entities (in China, Russia, India, et al.) would take as much away from the West as possible?  Are there massive purchase limits down there already that the banks know of?

Are Blythe & Company constraining silver's drop just enough to shake out longs while not depleting physical (if so, they're cornering themselves....)?

I count six separate tests of something in the 26 range since January 2011...

Any informed response would be greatly appreciated.

Best,

Dan

Excellent discussion you two. Keep it up. Imho this is what makes TFMR a great site. Philosophical & educational discussion with a metals bent. Liking it very muchly.

"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies"

Fred Nietzsche

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Tip of the Hat to Eric O re:  his post about anger. 

I'd like to emphasize the fear component.  When fear reaches a high level, people convert fear-thoughts and fear-energy into anger.  They get angry because it is so uncomfortable to live in fear; downright torturous.  And the fear mongering from radio, TV, newsprint, and advertising is the Big Brother of our lives.  The goal seems to be All People Be Fearful of Something All the Time!  

Eric O -- as you shy away from the energy suckers, I hope you'll stay in touch with the miners.  I really appreciate what I've learned in that forum, although Claude is a fear-monger; making me shake in my boots!  

I just saw a truck going down my street filled with grass and hedge clippings.  Spread out across the back of the filled truck bed was a Mexican, presumably in place to hold down all the clippings and prevent them from blowing out of the truck.  My neighbor looked as it passed and said "what a waste, somebody throwing away a perfectly good Mexican."  

(actually, I think Lenin would have had everyone that couldn't carry a shovel or a rifle shot)

​Not only would but did, or pretty close! Stalin continued the good work and had plenty of those with shovels or rifles shot or goulaged as well!

Lenin and Stalin would also gladly have shot all Western liberals, promoting welfare society, Lenin called them "rotten" and not true socialists/communists.

Actually, whatever the modern Western welfare society is, it is NOT socialism, at least not as practiced in the USSR and other socialist countries behind the iron curtain. The slogans of that socialism (not to confuse with communism, which never arrived) was "From everybody by their abilities, to everybody by their labour" and "Who doesn't work, doesn't eat".

The slogan of (aimed for, but never achieved) communism was supposed to be "From everyone by their abilities, to everyone by their needs". Again, nothing about doing nothing and receiving welfare.