My Dream...or Our Mutual National Nightmare?

I had a dream last night. Well, actually more of a nightmare.

In my dream I awoke in the darkness of my bedroom to disturbing noises coming from downstairs. I crept from my bed, grabbed my shotgun, and went downstairs. In my Living Room I discovered two men filling their sacks with my possessions, in between shamefully abusing the females of my family. Of course, I brandished my gun and demanded they cease their depredations at once!

They wisely obeyed my command, and turned to face me. "We both apologize. As we are plainly stealing from you and taking liberties with your womenfolk, it is only fair that you be allowed to freely choose which of us shall become your official thief and rapist for the next few years!"

We all know that nightmares and delusions often have a peculiar logic all their own, quite different from that of our waking state. So, their odd proposition didn't seem particularly unusual to me in my altered dreaming state. I sat down, rested my shotgun on my lap, and prepared to listen intently and impartially to their speeches.

The first thief stood before me and presented his case."If you select me to be your official robber and family violater for the next four years, I shall steal slightly less from you than my honorable opponent, and will sincerely apologize to your wives and daughters after I've shamefully abused them. Further, I swear that my ill-gotten gains at your expense will be shared with only a small group of my friends and allies!" Finished, the first intruder bowed and retreated to the rear of the room, graciously allowing his associate to present his case in turn.

"It is true," number two began. "I will steal more from you than my opponent. I may also permit myself more outrageous liberties with your wife and daughters. However, I do so solely because I have many more friends than my opponent, and my needs are therefore much greater than his!"

The second trespasser now likewise finished, assumed a place next to his comrade. Both men wore self-satisfied smirks upon their crooked faces.

I thoughtfully considered their impassioned pleas for a brief time, trying to decide between the lesser of the two evils with which I was plainly faced. As I mulled over my important choice, some measure of waking logic began to arise to the surface of my dream-addled brain. Uneasy questions sprang into my improving consciousness. Are these truly my only two alternatives? Must a free-man voluntarily relinquish the honor of his family, as well as the sacrifices of legions of his forefathers who died in defense of liberty before him? Finally, need he quietly and without complaint, surrender his hard-earned property to one of these two brigands as an inevitability?

I considered for a few moments more the risks of my newly-formed decision, before rising to my feet and delivering fatal shots to them both.

Even now as I write these words, I am secure in the belief that the Abyss welcomed their black souls with a much greater enthusiasm than I ever could have mustered.

 Rick Pyle

Making the Right Silver Coin Buying Choice!

The US government is now irrevocably on the path to deflation followed by inflation and eventually hyperinflation. In all cases in the last few hundred years, countries facing hyperinflation have fallen back on gold and silver coins as islands of stability in a chaotic sea of worthless paper fiat money. However, with a confusing variety of silver coins and rounds available and limited funds with which to purchase them, we need to look at the core determining factor in the American people. The Idiot Factor.

The average American is just not the brightest bulb in the world's lamps. Their limited intellects can grasp new knowledge only very slowly. Ask any marketing guy why commercials aren't more sophisticated and he'll tell you the same thing P.T. Barnum famously uttered, "No one ever lost money in the US by underestimating American intelligence".

With all this in mind, let's envision the aftermath of a US Dollar collapse. History tells us that Argentina, Yugoslavia, Weimar Germany, Iceland and many other countries quickly began to use old silver and gold coins very quickly. Immediately below please find my version of an effective sign advertising a merchants acceptance of US 90% silver coins:

US Silver Coins Accepted at this Store!

All US dimes, quarters, halves, and silver dollars dated 1964 & prior

and

US Mint Silver Eagles all years gladly accepted

Pretty easy to understand sign, wouldn't you agree? Unfortunately, other silver and gold being collected right now will only serve to confuse trading partners and possibly lead to violent misunderstandings. Let's check out my somewhat tongue-in-cheek sign below as a comparison:

Silver Coins Accepted at this store!

 

All US dimes, quarters, halves, silver dollars dated 1964 & prior

and

US Mint Silver Eagles all years gladly accepted

and and

Kennedy halves dated1965-1970 (but nothing after) unless your talking about some proof coins issued that do have some silver - but not all do.

and and and

War Nickels dated 1942-1945. But the 1942 ones have to have a large mint mark on the reverse above Monticello or forget it!

and and and and

Some older Canadian coins have silver, but we don't have a clue which ones - so who knows?

and and and and and

There are these things called silver rounds. They're minted by a large number of private companies and there are hundreds of versions with a wide variety of images on the obverse/reverse. I even saw ones once with Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny on them! The guys from Pawn Stars have one for sale with the Old Man's picture on it. They all usually claim to have one pure ounce of silver, but what if they're lying? So your guess is as good as ours as to what they're worth...if anything!

and and and and and and

There are Chinese Panda silver coins too! They are minted by China and are very pretty. Unfortunately, numerous Chinese counterfeiters have made excellent copies that only an expert can readily identify...so don't bring them here! Oh, and don't get me started on Mexican coinage! How are my employees supposed to read Spanish writing when they have a hard enough time understanding English! Please, it makes my poor gringo head spin!

Now tell me honestly. Which sign do you believe will be more effective? Your answer should dictate your silver buying choices.

Rick



Silver Halves I Have Loved!

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely...

William Shakespeare

I am not a poet by nature. I'm infintely more practical and inclined towards unemotional analysis than the scribbling of romantic couplings.  When birthdays and anniversaries roll around, you'll inevitably find me in the drugstore isle reading through the Hallmark cards for a suitably saccharin-sweet missive. However, please don't dismiss me out of hand as just another emotionally distant male automoton. I can indeed be persuaded to gush like a ruptured dam on certain select topics - 90% silver halves being one such example.

Yes, my shameful secret is finally out in the open for everyone including my poor suffering wife to view. Julia Roberts' chick flicks may leave me cold and bored, but a roll of 90% silver 1964 dated kennedy halves can make me swoon like a school girl. A TV news story about long lost lovers finally reunited will draw no sighs from my lips, but a handful of Franklin halves will cause my pulse to quicken and my face to blush worse than a shy boy receiving his first smooch from the girl next door.

Like many such examples, I believe my abnormal psyche formed during my pre-teen childhood years in the  late 60's. I would gather my hoard of 90% and 40% silver Kennedy halves with my Franklins and stack them compulsively in my bedroom all alone. The coins shone with an unearthly gleam, reflecting the suns rays during the day and the moon rays by night. I would always keep my silver coins separate from the nickel/copper dimes and quarters, though I was never sure at that time the precise motives for the segregation. I guess I just thought it would be a heinous crime to mix my dignified lady silver coins with the gutter snipe, cheaply painted, streetwalker-like nickel/copper abominations.    

Today as an adult I undertand the history of gold and silver as cornerstones of human commerce over the last 6000 years. I'm likewise much too informed about the runaway debt, inflation, and certain economic ruination coming our way due to the proliferation of fiat money in the US and around the globe. However, none of that knowledge is really necessary to comprehend the reason for my love note to my silvery paramours. As a matter of fact, all that is truly required to remove the government blinders from your eyes is to hold a 90% silver half in your hand. Feel the firm, stolid weight of the beautiful coin. Anyone following my instructions will understand my sentiment when I say this is the coin you'd be proud to take home to meet your parents. This is the lifemate that you'd be honored to call wife or husband.

Next, lay your hands on the new copper/nickel slugs that pass for dimes, quarters, or even halves today. Notice the world of difference? Of course you do! The coins of today are lies. They're nothing more than two bit working girls or unfaithful girlfriends from the wrong side of the tracks. Just turn your back on them for a minute, and you'll find them cheapening themselves with the first inflation and hyperinflation boy-toy that pops up. Even their silvery coating looks false and overdone - like a 45 year old cougar wearing pancake makeup in hopes of tempting some drunk sailor into a back alley for a quick, sordid tryst.

One day everyone in the world will have the blinders removed from their eyes and discover that their honorable wives and daughters (90% silver coins) have been replaced by low imitations that have stolen their wealth and left them bereft and penniless for some South American pool boy.

Rick Pyle

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Pop down to the Old Gold Souk in Deira, part of the modern city of Dubai and the hottest selling item is a 1kg bar of silver these days.

Karachi Jewellers told ArabianMoney yesterday they are selling 600 to 700 of these $1,300 bars each month with a 4.1 per cent profit margin.

More profitable than gold

‘It is far more profitable to trade silver than gold where the margin is much smaller,’ said director Ejaz Ilyas in a video to be broadcast on this website tomorrow.
‘We get a lot of passing tourists who buy 1kg silver bars. I was born in Dubai and spent most of my professional life in London but business is better here now. Even a modest shop in this souk does well.’

Not far from the Old Gold Souk is the ultra-modern terminus for cruise liners. Almost a million passengers visited Dubai last year and many find their way to the famous Dubai gold souks where gold and silver are sold untaxed. The only country in Europe not to charge tax on silver is Estonia. Cruise ships also call in there too.

In the Old Gold Souk the customers come from all over the world. Chinese and Russian buyers are prominent though Arab buyers from the Gulf Cooperation Council countries are probably still the biggest spenders. This is the month of the famous Dubai Shopping Festival so the gold souks are particularly busy.

Mr Ilyas said he thought the price of silver would be $58-60 by September, a spectacular gain on the price of $32 an ounce on the day of our visit. His reasoning is that the shift from paper money to real assets will benefit silver more than gold.

‘Metal prices are always volatile,’ he cautioned. ‘However, you can see where people are putting their money now.’

Eurozone money printing

There is also a school of thought in the souk that reckons the outcome of the eurozone crisis will be more money printing by the ECB whatever happens to Greece, and that this will propel dollar-denominated silver and gold to much higher prices.

Of course there is always the liklihood of a short-term set back for silver in a big market sell-off. However, the shiniest of metals is off to a good start with the price up 13 per cent since the New Year, comfortably outperforming any other investment class.

Rick

Is the WWF Saving the Polar Bear or Themselves?

Have you seen the recent commercials the World Wildlife Fund WWF has on TV soliciting money to "Save the Polar Bears"? After seeing the commercial for the twentieth time last night, I started thinking and decided to send the WWF a question.

See below my email to them:

I recently saw a commercial you're running to solicit donations to save the polar bear and by extention their habitat.I like polar bears as much as the next person, so my question is quite simple. Precisely how much money do you need to stop the polar caps from melting and thereby save the white bear?

I'm understandably curious about your financial plans as I'm unaware of any technology that is currently available to a non-profit like the WWF that could effectively stop and reverse the current natural or possibly man-made climatic change. With millions of dollars of donations you could probably gather some bears and put them in zoos or other controlled enclosures, but it wasn't my impression that your plans were following along these realistic and achievable lines.

Unfortunately, the polar bear is a specialist adapted to a very unstable environment and dependent on a single source of food. It needs the ice to hang around most of the year so that it can hunt fat seals. No ice means no seals for lunch, and that means starving and dead bears. Unless you can stop the melting ice, you can't save the wild polar bear. No amount of donated money can change this simple equation. As a result, our best scientific estimates place the bear's probable extinction within 100 years.

In fact, I have every reason to believe that the WWF will most likely outlive the polar bear. Perhaps your donation efforts are really all about insuring the survival of your organization, and not the arctic bear?

Rick

Snitch for American Freedom?

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever."
O'Brien to Winston, 1984

If you've traveled by air, visited Walmart, or bought a cup of coffee from Starbucks, then you've surely heard the new slogan of American Fascism, "If you see something, say something." That's how the Dept of Homeland Security is asking Americans to spy on one another and report any "suspicious behavior" so we can all be safe...under the government's boot heel!

I was thinking of a name the DHS could use for this program. What do you think of, "Get-Stop-Oh". The thought being that you Get something to report, thereby Stop(ping) an otherwise Oh (boy) moment.

I suppose we could just abbreviate the slogan as "Gestapo", making it easier to remember. Oh wait...is that name already taken?

Rick

America Needs Ron Paul!

America needs

Ron Paul! 

Ron Paul has had
consistent policy positions from the start.
The other candidates simply say what the voters want to hear. Ron Paul warned us about the housing bubble,
the debt crisis, the collapse of the US dollar, the high unemployment 
and
recessions; basically, the entire collapse of our economy.
He is the only
candidate who can get us out of our mess.






Ron Paul is a man
who defends the constitution, civil liberties, peace and prosperity. Paul has the wisdom, foresight, honesty and
integrity to be president.






Ron Paul simply
puts
America First!





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