I expected more volatility today, seems almost to quiet.

Didn't see your post before I posted.

I have noticed the C-130 jumboliners flying over the house daily at about noon.  These are flying north and could be coming from McChord AFB.  They don't have military markings on them. 

I've also noticed low flying helicopters  at night flying south.  The only thing I can say about these are that they are about the size of a big sikorsky. 30 passenger? 

Just odd movements in the sky is all.

I can go one better (or worse).  Offered to my stepson (1st ever steady job, but only 30 hrs per week @ $8/hr - still lives at home so no significant housing expenses except help with utilities) a $2400 loan to be repaid @ $200 per month for a year to make a low but cash offer on a $3000 or best offer used car he was looking at.  (alright - my real motive is that I'm tired of driving him home from work at 11).  He turned me down.  The local bank (where his avg daily checking balance is probably under $100) agreed to loan him $5000 for 5 years on another 6 year old car instead. No need to have anyone co-sign.

A five year loan on a six year-old car to someone with no credit history, a spotty (at best) work history, and no assets except the car, which is instantly worth 30% less than the debt attached to it.

Insane on his part and the bank's. 

Just bought a rhodium 1 oz bar last thursday for 1300 :) www.goldeneaglecoin.com

RHODIUM is really not worth bothering about.  Hell, there isn't a one day chart for Rhodium on Kitco.  Sometimes you may only see a few dozen trades for the damn metal...LOL. 

Here is one of my charts from the article I will have posted here on Turd's blog this weekend:

This is not one of the better charts, but it shows that with all that supposed HUGE SHALE GAS PRODUCTION from the BARNETT SHALE FIELD in Texas, overall NAT GAS Production in Texas has fallen since 2008.

The GREAT SHALE GAS & OIL MIRACLE will become more of a fraud.  I will discuss this in detail and how this will impact gold and silver.

of some way out of the money calls on DEC SI.  50.00$  just might be a reality.

Dammit man, the play is SILVER!

And with that, Jager earns a spot on my ignore list.  Kudos. 

Short Stack has a slightly longer leash, as he actually has something to say most of the time.  If the hate speech continues, he will be gone as well.

Remember folks, the ignore button is like a miniature ban.  Once everyone ignores you, it is the same as a regular ban.

Obama administration approves first 29 work permits for young illegal immigrants

While some remain wary about coming forward, 82,000 young illegal immigrants sought work permits from the Obama administration in the past month, and a small group of 29 people learned their applications were approved in recent days.

Soon, Mayra Gomez could join them. She and her husband, a private and mechanic in the U.S. Army Reserve, received a letter at their East Palo Alto home on Monday from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services telling Gomez to come to the agency's San Francisco office to get her fingerprints taken.

Once a sign of a looming deportation, this fingerprint check was a message to Gomez she had one final step before she can get a work permit.

"I'm thinking about it all the time," said the 23-year-old UC Berkeley graduate, whose family brought her across the border from Mexico when she was a child.

Gomez declined a well-paying job offer this summer because she has no legal right to work, but that could change soon. More than just a job, however, Gomez said she is looking forward to living without the constant fear she could be torn apart from her U.S. citizen husband and their 1-year-old son.

Demographers estimate more than 1.2 million young illegal immigrants, and about 350,000 in California, could immediately qualify for the Obama administration's two-year work permits and protection from deportation, but nationwide only 82,361 had applied in the first month since the Obama administration began accepting applications on Aug. 15.

Officials said it will take an average of four to six months before applicants get an answer. For Gomez and some others in the Bay Area, however, the notice is coming sooner. She applied on Aug. 28 and has her fingerprint appointment in two weeks.

The federal government said Friday it has now scheduled 63,717 such "biometric" appointments at immigration offices around the country, and 1,660 cases have gone through the background check and imminently await a decision. Twenty-nine cases have already been approved.

"By approving some cases quickly, it alleviates some of the fears of other applicants," said Mark Silverman of the San Francisco-based Immigrant Legal Resource Center.

An immigration lawyer in the Bay Area since 1983, Silverman said he was pleasantly surprised that so many people have already applied but knows more will come out of the shadows once they see signs that the promised relief actually works.

"The same thing happened during the amnesty program of '87 and '88," Silverman said. "After people saw their friends and neighbors were getting their applications approved, that encouraged more people to apply."

The immigration agency recently emailed San Francisco resident Sarah Souza informing her it received her application and was routing it to a Southern California processing center. Never before was Souza so delighted to get a form letter.  <Rest of the Article>

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The Rule of Law..... doesn't exist!  Obummer decided to ignore the law and issue a decree that the laws passed and signed by the Representatives of the People are no longer valid..... and now he is handing out work permits.  This is just awesome... not!

Actually, while I don't think it's ever a good idea to take out a car loan, taking it from the bank is probably a better idea than borrowing from friends or family.  Lots of relationships have been ruined over the years by such a situation, I consider going to my family for money as a last desperate resort after all else has failed.

Thankfully, I haven't been in that position since I landed a full-time permanent position in the late 90's, but I'd move heaven and earth to find a way other than borrowing from family. 

I loaned my brother money several years ago, but I made it clear to him that it was a gift, not a loan.  He was free to pay me back, but I expected nothing in return.  I won't loan money to friends or family, but I'm perfectly happy to give it to them if they are 1) in need and 2) are reasonably responsible people.

He never paid me back, by the way, but I didn't care.  Because it wasn't a "loan".  It was a gift, and our relationship is intact.

Stupid is....As stupid does.

Your tax dollars pay me for my information. Too bad you've stopped your ears up to get any value from what has been taken from you.