To: Ilaine who wrote (12459 ) 12/22/2007 5:40:16 PM From: TobagoJack Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217567 hello cb ilaine, one year is up, uneventful to the comatose but exciting to all others, and as you had scheduled, we can now revisit our discussion I had said 'the moment of sharp and bleeding crisis is nearly upon us' a year ago, to which you responded 'Huh' ; meaning at the time that you did not get it, did not suspect the direness coming our way, or had full faith and placed complete credit on the wisdom of the wastrel professor BurnAndKaput and still believed in the wonders of maestro Greensputin. Not very surprising, for you had that same touching faith in all of the advisors surrounding Bush the junior, very junior, and just about worshipped the man himself. OK, enough for the preamble.<<I assume by "nearly upon us" you mean less than a year, so we'll revisit this in a year>> ... and so we do.<<I further assume that by "sharp and bleeding crisis" you don't mean "the stock market fluctuated". Well, good luck with that.>> ... as events turned out, I am up 28+% YTD and by sharp and bleeding edge, I of course did not mean just and only 'stocks fluctuated'; I meant Message 24155325 and that we are edging into a financial crisis and monetary dire straits, with no out of the one way traffic, and all officialdom intervention, especially when by the likes you are likely to vote for, will make the travel worse, meaning more dire, and as bad as fatal. The best you can hope for, unless you change your ways, is severe inflation of everything you need, and debilitating deflation of everything you have. Remember, for where we will travel through, metaphysically speaking, physical gold is for optimists, and canned food for the rest. Chugs, TJ