INTERESTING: A new blogger who I think will give you an interesting read

Monday, April 2, 2007

http://glcavalier.wordpress.com/

“Connecting the World One Beverage at a Time”
by Cavalier, G. Lane [EUN] [LKDN] [PLX] [TRKY]

Note: You’ll notice that I have him “tagged” with certain badges. I use that to remind myself of key facts. He’s an Execunet-ite, a LinkedIn-ite, a Plaxo-ite, and is a member in good stand of the Loyal Order of Turkeys. The prime (only) qualification of that group is having been in “transition” at least once.

I think he’ll have many good things to say and I’ll be reading his blog. What higher recommendation can I give you?

Disclaimer: Lane is the Head Cheerleader of my Chicago Fan Club. (Yeah, I know. How did I acquire so many networking contacts in Chicago? Beats me. Just seems like every time a newly minted turkey wanders in for my help, there’s a Chicago connection. They’re from Chicago. They’d like to be from Chicago. They want to move to Chicago. They can spell Chicago. I have no idea. But I have so many, I actually have an Outlook email Distribution List called “My Chicago Turkeys”. It makes it easy to communicate with them as a group.)

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MONEY: James Turk urges New Hampshire to remonetize gold and silver

Monday, April 2, 2007

http://bbs.freetalklive.com/index.php?topic=12824.0

James Turk urges New Hampshire to remonetize gold and silver

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GoldMoney founder James Turk, editor of the Freemarket Gold & Money Report and consultant to GATA, is among those urging the New Hampshire legislature to pass a bill allowing citizens to require state government to use gold and silver in payments to them. Turk’s recent testimony to a New Hampshire legislative committee was published in the FG&MR this week and has been reprinted at Jim Puplava’s Financial Sense Internet site here:

http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/turk/2007/0326.html

To claim “economic rent” from someone Else’s labor when applied to land, which is something no one can own outright, is in itself, to claim landlord status over raw nature. It is an attempt at coercive monopoly power that is at the root of statism.

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I am as much of a gold bug as anyone. BUT, it doesn’t describe how the idea will work.

Says’ Law tells us that bad money will drive good out of circulation. So paying the Gooferment in gold or silver will not put gold or silver in circulation. The legal tender laws are what is the problem. It dictates that everyone has to take the fiat currency.

Even if bullion coins start to circulate, they won’t circulate very far. Logically, if you have a fist full of FRBies (Federal Reserve Bank pieces of paper) and an equivalent bag of gold coins, then which will you spend first?

Under the theory that you have to have an answers or options.

My personal strategy is to move a percentage of my savings into bullion coins. You can’t eliminate your use of FRBies. You can’t not save. You can’t know when the collapse is going to come.

SO what you do is think like y2k. No debt, prepare for societal breakdown, develop “real” skills, and allocate a portion of your savings to gold bullion coins.

Read about the hyperinflation in post-ww1 germany, and the other fiscal disasters.

Good Luck,
fjohn
from behind the lines in the
peepuls republik of nu jerseee

 

 

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WRITING: BLOG2BOOK project – Interesting conclusion that I now agree whole heartedly

Monday, April 2, 2007

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/boukhonine8.html

Everybody Can Write One Good Book
by Sergei Boukhonine

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During out conversation, one lady shared a simple yet profound thought. In a nutshell, she said that most anyone can write one good book, or at least a few interesting and insightful articles. Most of us have quite a few interesting experiences under our belts.

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I think that that lady hit the ball right out of the park. Everybody can at least write an autobiography. And, in today’s inet, it can be found by anyone. And, like I found out with Lulu, you can actually have a real physical book cheaply.

Amazing.

I wonder what Gutenberg or Pi Sheng would have thought about it today.

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FUN: Italian math

Monday, April 2, 2007

An Italian man wants a job, but the foreman won’t hire him until he passes a little math test. “Here’s your first question,” the foreman said.

“Without using numbers, represent the number 9.”

“Without numbers?” the Italian says, “Datsa easy.” and he proceeds to draw three trees.

“What’s this?” the boss asks.

“Ave you got no brain? Tree and tree and tree makea nine,” says the Italian.

“Fair enough,” says the boss. “Here’s your second question. Use the same rules, but this time the number is 99.”

The Italian stares into space for a while, then picks up the picture that he has just drawn and makes a smudge on each tree. “Ere a you go.”

The boss scratches his head and says, “How on earth do you get that to represent 99 ?”

“Each of da trees isa dirty now. So, it’s dirty tree, and dirty tree, and dirty tree. Dat is 99.”

The boss is getting worried that he’s going to actually have to hi re this Italian, so he says, “All right, last question. Same rules again, but represent the number 100.”

The Italian stares into space some more, then he picks up the picture again and makes a little mark at the base of each tree and says, “Ere you go. One hundred.”
The boss looks at the attempt. “You must be nuts if you think that represents a hundred!”

 

 

 

 

 

(You’re going to love this one!!!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Italian leans forward and points to the marks at the base of each tree and says, “A little doga came along and crapa by eacha tree. So now you gota dirty tree and a turd, dirty tree and a turd, and dirty tree and a turd, datsa makea one hundred. So, when I’m a gonna start?”

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Courtsey of one of Frau’s High School buddies purportedly from Lucille Centonze, a US IBM-er

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JOBSEARCH: JIBBERJOBBER offers itself at a discount

Monday, April 2, 2007

http://www.jibberjobber.com/

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I like this service. Not at 500$, but at a 100$ it’s a bargain. Or, you can always be a monthly. Of all the ideas that I have seen pitched to those in transitions, this certainly is one of the best. I can tell you that this is not some type of scams aimed at separating the newly out of work from their savings.It surely won’t get you a job, but it will force you to be disciplined about your activities.

Can you duplicate it on your own? Maybe. Can you do without it? Sure Can you exploit it to you benefit for 100$? Absolutely.

Disclaimer: I’ve been one of Jason’s “critical testers” for a few months now in response to a mutual friend asking me to “kick the tires”. As Jason will attest and as I have blogged here, I kicked pretty hard! Some of the features, he put in in response to my “suggestions”. Some, he ignored. All I can tell you is I like it, the wheel don’t fall off when you use it, and you can get your data out of it if you change your mind.

If a new transitioning turkey, or one of those complacent “I gotta job” people, asked for a list of things they could spend money on to aid in their current or future job search, this would be one of three things on that list.

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