How is President Trump doing? With a one being worst and a ten the best.
Total Voters: 36
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Feel free to drop him a card or note. Since he is just laying around in his hammock, might as well send him some reading material. I think he is getting a little bored watching the TV Soap Operas. 🙂
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I don’t think that what Churchill did was right. Collective punishment for an incident? That’s what the Nazi’s did in France and elsewhere.
Not to say it can’t be effective.
I’m more for just staying out of other country’s business. If the British hadn’t been in India and Afghanistan then no one would have been shooting at Churchill and his men … if we weren’t in Afghanistan, Iraq etc …
a common thread in posts 10:03, 9:10 ,9:25 and it was …dealing with Socialists,communists and Democrats had lots of similarities ,but it was Churchill that dident engage in endless negotiations for years like the Crystellex problem that got to the solution quick and effective . A Churchill like responce to the S.Africans theft and Democrats suggestive beheadings and real shootings would be most effective.  So as I see it,Trump and his Attorney General need to stop “re-cuesing themselves from decision making
and act more Churchillian.
and how long did that romantic illusion last?
to give me a moment of hope that we might just win this battle for our Country before the streets are torn apart in gunfire and killing, inspired by the persistent hatred that pervades our society today. Egged on by those in power that wish to see this escalate into a new ‘norm’ in America and pushed in the media.
The Swamp’s best weapon is to fire up the hatred between political parties and American’s citizens. Hate is thier most powerful weapon.
There is a simple answer if a few ‘good men’ dare take on the task. A strong Justice Dept that will begin prosecuting those who have deceived and broken laws already on the books. If DOJ looked as hard into the Clintonista Cabal, and its illegal activities, as hard as they chase the Trump/Russian/Collusion story, some folks would be headed to prison and the restoration of our Country on a path to healing. Now that is probably a true romantic illusion, I admit. But the alternative is a nightmare that none of us wish to have.
Do not take my sense of hope for weakness. I have seen enough of ‘war’ to last a lifetime and in the current situation of our country it can easily be avoided, or at least mostly so, if more folks would support the ideals and efforts of Trump to Drain The Swamp. Some would rather chose the path of hate to destroy. So far, that team is ahead on the scoreboard.
I noticed Ted Nugent announced yesterday that he would walk back his own brand of hostility towards the Dems and Media. I took his announcement not as a sign of weakness, nor surrending his strong ideals of American Values. But he did at times go a little overboard with this guts and blood speeches. I admire him greatly for his effort to drop the BS, and hope some on the other side will have the brains and courage to do the same.
Instead of listening to those promoting all the ‘resistence’, which has translated into bloody violence, perhaps they all need to take a deep breath, step away from the TV, and think through where all this is headed. It is very disturbing to me that CNN and Maddow on NBC are seeing greatly increased ratings for their shows promoting the hatred and violence. America is at the crossroads, at least as far as our children and grandchildren are concerned.
Technocracy was a quasi-religion movement from about 80 years ago . The concepts persist .. that there is an intellectual elite who can best rule the world .
Somehow I got on the mailing list for an organization seeking to expose those elitist concepts and this came in today – apparently these interactive AI ‘bots’ are communicating back and forth to each other in a code that only they understand :
[Very scary if you remember ‘HAL’ from the movie ‘A Space Odyssey – 2001’ and the sequel ‘2010’ , in one of which the space station interactive computer tries to eliminate the irrational humans .]
sounds like a solution for the Republicans and the Trumpsters !
I am sure the call boistered his spirits , even if demanding physically .
You are a good man .
Just spoke with Admiral Wanka for a few minutes. Called him earlier this morning and he told me he would have to get back to me that he was fighting a bunch of alligators this morning. Well, he called back and said he had beaten the alligators back this morning.
I said, ” Alligators? I knew Floridagold had something to do with it!” Wanka laughed and said even if it was not Floridagold’s fault, he was getting the blame for it. His sense of humor and fighting spirit is alive and well. Not sure his body is cooperating as much. Said its been four months since he has been able to get out of bed and that in itself was getting a little old.
Wanka said to feel free to post about our conversation. I said, ” No problem, we talk about ya all the time!” Another laugh, but more raspier, and some coughing. Â Told him he was in our thoughts and prayers and to keep hanging tough. He said he was trying.
Phone call only lasted a few minutes before he had to cut it short due to not being able to breath. I had called to give him a word of encouragement and let him know we were thinking of him. I think it was me that got the lift, the encouraging word, expressed by his strong will and to hear he is staying with the fight of his life. He is as tough as any ole Pirate from the stories of old. And then some.
I know he once had a fine boat and enjoyed fishing with the best of em. I hope he recovers enough to get out on the water with a fishing pole in hand again. That is my hope and prayer.
and how long did that romantic illusion last?  An incentive for a more longer lasting solution is needed …as this battle has just begun ..
Oh well, worth a try, but no cigar today. For some crazed reason I still think the PM’s will do a little pop by days end, but Rules Is Rules, and one of my rules is “Dont Ride A Losing Trade’. Live to fight another day.
So far the green in the miners is off setting this morning’s trade so hanging on a little longer. Profits? What the hell is a profit? You mean I’m supposed to make a profit doing this?? Â My CPA wouldnt know what to do with profits, and I already have ten years of past losses to write off.
🙂
Sucking it up and busting a gut, one day at a time. GRRRRRrrrrr ! Â LOL
Too bad, I could have used that reward money. 🙂
I don’t know about the pm’s. The scum is all over the metals and the shares despite the USD being down 0.4%.
So, in my infinite wisdom, I can only surmise that the USD is going to mount a comeback OR it will be another day where correlations don’t matter at all.
I want you to be right and bank some profits, just doesn’t seem like the scum is going to let these things off the mat.
I’ve been thinking a long time now, the bone heads running things, aka TPTB, use bashing silver to hurt or hold Gold back.
Gold is obviously a lot harder to control, since its global and where all the really big money parks itself. Silver is more like Copper, and they can easily manipulate them. Like they always do.
re Your: “I’m sure the prison  guards are planning a ‘Welcome Home’ party for the two cop killers.”
Just maybe….??
Maybe we get a small pop in the phiz yet.
Lost our chance at that Reward money. They caught the two banditos in Tenn last night. And like Alex predicted, after firing a few shots at police during a 12 mile road chase, they surrendered like the cowards they were. Georgia is seeking extradition ASAP. I’m sure the prison  guards are planning a ‘Welcome Home’ party for the two cop killers.
USD at the lows of the day – same with gold and silver.
AMZN screaming higher after buying Whole Foods which of course is also screaming higher.
Sure glad I didn’t buy AMZN 15 years ago.
Some years ago I read one of Winston Churchill’s books about his time as a young officer on the Pakistan (India at the time) Afghanistan border before the turn of the century. He said that when they were on patrol and got fired on that they’d head over to the nearest village and burn it down. After a while no one fired at them anymore. Different times!
Good luck. USD is sliding a little but that correlation is always suspect.
I’d think if you’re right, the JNUG will turn higher first.
Dont like going long on a Friday, but think the dollar may drop today, and that the PM’s have been oversold.
Worth a try, and finger on the trigger if the trade goes south on me. Hoping the miners can lend some support to my WAG.
Someday we’ll be the “wackee.” err “wacker.” 🙂
Whatever/Whoever it is they clearly lack any empathy.
Looks like another day of whack-a-mole
These days I’m leaning more to the “Lizard Theories.”
Our involvement there is a true tragedy. We should have gone in and bombed the hell out of our enemies and been gone in a week. Now it’s gonna be a festering sore ….. forever.
If you want an interesting story, then read about the British involvement there in the early 1800’s and the retreat from Kabul.
South Africa just hiked black ownership rules, miners getting crushed
Mining companies operating in South Africa, including Anglo American (LON:AAL) and Sibanye Gold (JSE:SGL) (NYSE:SBGL), saw their stock collapse Thursday after the country’s goverment increased the minimum black ownership requirement for local mines and set a 12-month deadline for them to comply with the new rules.
Under the revised version of the country’s Mining Charter, companies now have to raise their black-owned stakes to 30%, from the previous 26%, to ensure more proceeds from the country’s natural resources flow to the black majority, Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane said, FT.com reported.
Sibanye, South Africa’s largest gold producer, dropped 7.4% at 1:00PM in Johannesburg and it was 2.65% down in New York at 10:00AM ET, while AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE:AU) was 2.80% in New York at 10:04AM.
South Africa just hiked black ownership rules, miners getting crushed
Bottomless pit indeed. I think I read this week that Trump turned over control of troops in Afghanistan to the Pentagon. No doubt we will be in a perpetual war against terrorism forever.
I really wonder sometimes what influences the thinking of those at the top of the pyramid.
It can’t be human can it?