Stacy Summary: A toast to all the commenters on the site. Old and new. Thank you so much for visiting the site with your conversation, headlines, links and debates. I am especially grateful for the wide diversity of opinion we have here as too many sites end up with groupthink where there is little challenge or debate. So here’s to the most frequent contributors and commenters – @Youri Carma, @frances snoot, @Danny, @Mother Earth, @Mike/Liverpool, @Bonn, @Mep, @Phil/Germany, @david, @Ptah, @Mongo, @ronron, @Dedo, @buddhabob, @ Mini US, @Fibon11235, @aleix1979, @Joe, @SG, @Richard@lattitude30N, @Crumpet Muncher, @California Doctor, @Veritas, @The Man from Glad, @Apocalypto, @harry_w, @turbulence, @marietta, @Breasal, @advocate001, @Schralper, @Vega Man, @Rastaman, @Daniel S, @The Underfundedmentalist, @TJ, @William of the North, @Giusseppe Bagodonutti, @maxkeiser, @naomi, @Speirsy, @ES, @mike, @Gordo, @HookedonKoolaid, @norcalkid, @FranSix, @Mr Unemployed, @Mr. Holipsism, @warburg sidney, @Ah.Nix, @OP, @Fred’s Family, @jon, @Blink, @Marc Authier, @Chalcedonite, @Boinky, @Max Power, @13BlackCats, @T, @Michael Le Couteur MSCD, ret’d, @paganrongs, @zmoore, @Frank Hope, @Teresa Ortega, @WL, @Palantíri, @BondiBhoy, @Photoception, @henk, @AM, @Jim ODonnell, @Will, @Omega, @Hullaballoo, @Rian Orr, @ItalicBold, @gb, @Catfish Rushdie, @Bill Stewart, @epha, @dan valley, @Supergeek, @Scott from Oregon, @Tofu Charlie and to all those who I forgot to list (sorry!), are new or less frequent contributors, a toast to another year of the Great Depression 2 down, may there be only a few more to go . . .
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@frances – EXACTLY; age has to go before beauty imo . . .
@ Underfundedmentalist – How about DOW bottoming out at 2010 in 2010?
Weeell, well, Lookie here, Ma!
What’ya doin’ messin with Steller’s laptop, Pa? That don’t seem right no how.
I ain’t a’messin; I’m a’lookin. And she’s airy gone an writ’ us up here fur sure, dang-nab her. She’s got Cleetus and Buster and Pastor Bud like’s to meet all them Yankees and Limeys as well. And I think theyz mostly furin.
Well, she sure done learn’t her fiddlin’ ways at that airy college. Likes to set her down a notch and get her head from outter them clouds. What’z she done writ?
Lordy. Ma I ain’t gonny tellz ya, ya’d think she’z a damn-Yankee already. She’s made fun of Pastor Bud and even the Lord’s annointed: Ron Paul! She a’sayin gold ain’t lasty, and I think she’z even gone and sassed O’Reilly!
Well, take care Pa she don’t find out we’z been messin’ with her prized possession. Why she has to peg away fur hours tippy-typin’ that-a-way take a fool-ta-guess. I’m wonderin’ if’n we don’t need to set her out to workin’ for them new folksies done moved here from Miamee. They’z got a nice’nuff house to keep clean, and Steller’s just the girl ta do it!
Yes’sum. That’s the ideedee, Ma. We ain’t a gonna let this next DECADE in the door with them lies she’s a spoonin! I’m losin’ my tol-er-a-shun fur no-sence!
MA! PA!
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Ya both quiet nuff now, but I done heared ya yammerin’ loud nuff to wake up Bounteeful frum her afternoon beauty sleep! I ain’t a cleanin’ fur pay and I ain’t a’gonna stop writin’ not fur ya’ll nor no-body! And ya so dang-burn sure’o yurselves ain’t never stepped outside yur own skin fur less than ten minutes to shimmy over to other folk’sies wayz of knowing. I declare: It’s a Happy New Year if’n we can all learn to LISTEN to each other’n not slam the book shut fur the words is even put to paper!
Stella, now don’t ya go red on yur Ma and Me. We means well. Let’s light-off them fiar-crackees over’to BillyBob’s! And say Happy New Year’s to them furiners ya been messin’ with in yur free-from-paid-work time!
Well, Happy New Year, Ya’ll.
@snoot – it’s only because beauty has it so much easier than age . . .
@mep
How ’bout
‘Throw Ben in the pen in 2010′
The Major Change in 2010 (2012)
wepollock
31. Dezember 2009
We are constantly talking about the USD getting weaker in an index comprised of mostly Euro and Yen. These currencies move every second. What we don’t talk about with currencies are those trading partners that are pegged in some way. The two major world players with a PEG are Saudi Arabia and China. We should expect a major change to occur between 2010 and 2012. If the USD would get weaker it would be against those two currencies, not the floating currencies. This will prove out to be the next major area of world instability. This also plays into the Fannie and Freddie bailouts; to keep the status quo of the China Peg Stable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmcSZxmF4fQ&feature=sub
Stacey I keep thinking you look like you could do with a decent dose of sunshine and fresh air. Get Max to pay for a care free 3 week holiday somewhere with white sand and palm trees. You deserve it after all for all your hard work and lets face it handling someone as dynamic as Max must be a major stressor.
Really enjoy the videos you guys make.
anyone know where i can find the current price for a kg of silver in GBP ?
Cheers
@ frances,
Indeed, but before both comes language.
A Return to Language + Beauty & Ideas – A Bit of Fry of Laurie (S1:E2 & S2:E6). (The funniest sketches of the C20th imho)
Rien comme un bon Veuve Clicquot ou un Pommeroy, A lot of golden and silver bubbles for 2010. Bubbles increase the alcool punch. 2010 will the year of the END of the FED. Might as well do a little of Nostradamus for the end of the year. Super blue moon on december 31st 2009. Don’t know what it means.
Bonne année grand nez. Toi aussi grandes dents.
@stacy, max and all
Cheers! and Happy New Year!
btw, ^ that’s partly a parody and partly an exposition of this: John Searle & Bryan Magee on The Philosophy of Language, & Wittgenstein.
FRANKLYHOPING: YOU HAVE A GREAT NEW YEAR, Mr. Frank, Hope.
I think beauty is truth, right? Stacey: if so then it is inherently beautiful and negligent of care or desire or age.
HarryW:
Happy New Year to the thinker.
Mep: Nice ideas of canning! I’m going to make guava jam this year.
Phil/Germany: Give Lilly an extra catnip toast for me!
Happy New Year to Stacy and Max from the West.
If I drank alcoholic beverages, I would be lifting a glass of locally produced (Lake County, California) wine or “champagne.”
Fed Judge Gives Blackwater Huge New Year’s Gift, Dismisses All Charges In Iraq Massacre
Cowboy justice!
On canning and other survival skills… I guess I am lucky that my grandparents raised me (I am around Max’s age). They lived through the Great Depression #1 and taught me all sorts of useful skills: gardening, canning, use of shop tools and firearms, and the ethic of repairing rather than replacing.
Hey Folks.
Happy New Year
It is 1/1/2010 already here and all went well.
I hope you all have a great 2010 and keep in touch on this fantastic site. Thanks to Max and Stacy for their great work and all you folk commenting and adding to the fun.
Cheers.
Happy New Year everyone!!!!
Happy new year Max and the Team
Happy New Year to ALL !
Hope to see all you great posters and characters posting again through the whole of next year.
And a special thanks to Max for the great work.
( finally 1:00 am in Germany , not too cold and large snow flakes falling, quite beautiful )
Happy Holidays dimwits,..oops I mean most honorable intellectuals,…..hmmm! : )
HAPPY NEW YEAR Y’ALL!!!
Max & Stacey,
Thank you for your commentary and adding humor to complex information, which allows us to ingest it and assimilate most of it.
It sure beats all those COPROPHOGIST’S out there.(This should be the word of the year!)
Happy New Years Everyone!!
Hey S&M,
Happy New Year
Great work on the site this year !!!!
And thanks for providing a place to kill time before the other shoe drops…
Happy New Year everyone!!
I think 2010 going to be very interesting.
Unfortunately in a bad way.
@all – especially @Max and @Stacy –
Happy New Year…
may the new year bring peace, tidings, and prosperity.
Good sign. Nostradamus is real bullish for 2010. Must be le champagne ?
http://www.financialarmageddon.com/2009/12/astrologers-agree-with-wall-street-strategists-things-are-looking-up.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+financialarmageddon+%28Financial+Armageddon%29
Jupiter in real good position for a nice fantastic year. 2009 was a superb year for the mafia at Goldman Sachs.
At least, for the new year’s celebration with or without economic problems, everybody deserves good music and dance.
Boney M’s Brown girl in the ring. enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1So7q6IfJ4&feature=related
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I think I had the most number of 1sts on the comment board this year!!!!
Russia Today has now green lit the “Keiser Report” for 2 X’s a week to air Tuesdays and Thursdays.
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When it comes to the number of active transmitters, frequencies and programming hours — Radio Moscow was never displaced from its place of supremacy over the airwaves.
– Note that the Ministry of Communications had control over all of the USSRs external broadcasting assets from 1939-Present.
– The USSR did not have the kind of fuel crisis that made the West totally redo its broadcasting into the USSR after the 1st OPEC shock.
Some aspects of this tradition seem to have carried over to the wussier and prisser satliite television technology era.
It is a shame an audio only version of your program is not running on “The Voice of Russia”…
Well, it’s now New Year in Bongcouver…
As I type this, Many Large Explosives are being set off for fun…
Unless there’s someone in Alaska or Hawaii, I’m probably the last one to write this…
Have an un-sad Fuckin 2010…
I wonder if Marmite is flammable?
Wishing you both a very happy and prosperous new year. Fireworks were fantastic… even when we lit one upside down.
Real potent stuff. Don’t drink too much. You will need to stay sober for the rest of the year. These mega bears are always short on solutions. Happy new year but don’t celebrate too long and live one day at a time.
http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/1793-Where-We-Are,-Where-Were-Heading-2010.html
This in thought to Max and Stacey’s concern about the planet’s state: is this a crisis of economics or nature? Are we being reigned in for a new paradigm or a new planet?
Keep Silence
Passing
Sawdust strewn to muffle
As a scarf mutes sound
Issues forth a sign
Less a sigh
Breathed heavily
Let it pass
Held tightly, infantile grasp
Herald of dawn
Lithe step-song of morning
Life to relinquish
Time’s softening impulse
Passing now
Clouds envelope
Contain the gaze
Of a marble countenance
Cold and light at once
Upon the earth
Shadow of the moon
Harbinger of life’s loss
Darkness and light
Held by heaven and hell
As time holds
The soft rain-dew
Upon the grass
@BLINK NOW asking “… anyone know where i can find the current price for a kg of silver in GBP ?…” One way is to go from here
http://www.cash.ch/boerse/kursinfo/fullquote/Silber-Fixings/274706/176/1
to here
http://www.cash.ch/boerse/jsp/boerse/devisen_zinsen/devisenrechner/devisenrechner.jsf
the average price of 1 kg of Silver at the average cross rate was 336 and a few pips UK £ at the close on 31 Dec 09. Just in case: during trading hours the quotes “Geld” = bid, buy and “Brief” = ask, sell. The rest is self explanatory, I assume. se&o
Silver lining to you for y ten past eight
@all – Happy New Year
I wish for everyone here that 2010 may be their best year yet, and that it may foster hope and joy in all of our hearts and minds, for a sustainable future, for ourselves and our children!
Thanks to Stacy and Max for being such cheerful and amusing luminaries, and for dedicating themselves to a difficult and risky endeavor.
Cheers! …et merde à la puissance treize!
@Stacey&Max
Thank you guys for being so creative and pleasant with your coverage! It’s great to see you getting picked up by RT now as well. Who knows – when this bear market hits its next wave down, you and Max might get a show on, dare I say, main stream news?? You certainly deserve it!
Have a great new year.
D
A champagne-y cheers to you all!
@Max, Stacy, and Team, Cheers! This year could see the last of the bubbles.