Thursday, July 24, 2014

A guy walks into a bar

From The New Yorker magazine

So a guy walks into a bar one day and he can’t believe his eyes. There, in the corner, there’s this one-foot-tall man, in a little tuxedo, playing a tiny grand piano.

So the guy asks the bartender, “Where’d he come from?”

And the bartender’s, like, “There’s a genie in the men’s room who grants wishes.”

So the guy runs into the men’s room and, sure enough, there’s this genie. And the genie’s, like, “Your wish is my command.” So the guy’s, like, “O.K., I wish for world peace.” And there’s this big cloud of smoke—and then the room fills up with geese.

So the guy walks out of the men’s room and he’s, like, “Hey, bartender, I think your genie might be hard of hearing.”

And the bartender’s, like, “No kidding. You think I wished for a twelve-inch pianist?”......read on

Ron Paul Redux

A classic interview with Ron Paul. Possibly the greatest tragedy to befall the US in the last 10 years was preventing Dr Paul becoming President.

From whygoldandsilver   uploaded on Aug 16, 2011

Keiser Report: Goldfish Cryptocurrency

From RT

Published on Jul 22, 2014

In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert remember George W. Bush in 2008 saying Wall Street got drunk, needs to sober up and stop playing with fancy financial instruments as today those 'fancy financial instruments' go downmarket with subprime loans on used automobiles. In the second half, Max interviews Jan Skoyles, CEO of the Real Asset Company, about bitcoin, silver and gold and the new service of offering gold on the blockchain!

Quote of the Week

In the real world the smartest people are those who make mistakes and learn from them. In school the smartest people don’t make mistakes ~ Robert Kiyosaki