Jane Taber

Has BCE sold CTV yet?
If they haven't, I'm gonna dump BCE - all 202 shares
(i bot 190 and they threw in another 12 cause they
couldn't sell them to anyone else)

Have CTV on in the background and all I can hear is Jane Taber screaming about something.

You know how I like to include a pertinent photo with my posts ... well, I googled "Jane Taber Image" and found this! (click on photo to enlarge)





Honest, I'm not kidding.

Quotes About Gold

If you don't trust gold, do you trust the logic of taking a beautiful pine tree, worth about $4,000 - $5,000, cutting it up, turning it into pulp and then paper, putting some ink on it and then calling it one billion dollars?
~Kenneth J. Gerbino

There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence.
~Charles De Gaulle

Every individual is a potential gold buyer, although he may not need the gold. It may be added to the store of personal wealth, and passed from generation to generation as an object of family wealth. There is no other economic good as marketable as gold.
~Hans F. Sennholz

Gold will be around, gold will be money when the dollar and the euro and the yuan and the ringgitt are mere memories.
~Richard Russell

Bullion doesn't pay interest or dividends, nor does it grow or expand by itself. That's the price you pay for tranquillity.
~Pierre Lassonde

Gold is not necessary. I have no interest in gold. We'll build a solid state, without an ounce of gold behind it. Anyone who sells above the set prices, let him be marched off to a concentration. That's the bastion of money.
~Adolf Hitler

There are about three hundred economists in the world who are against gold, and they think that gold is a barbarous relic - and they might be right. Unfortunately, there are three billion inhabitants of the world who believe in gold.
~Janos Fekete

Hot Dogs

The Man Who Sold Hot Dogs

There was once a man who lived by the side of the road and sold hot dogs.
He was hard of hearing so he had no radio.
He had trouble with his eyes, so he read no newspapers.
But he sold very good hot dogs.
He put up signs on the highway telling how good they were.
He stood on the side of the road and cried out: "BUY A HOT DOG, MISTER?"
And people bought.
He increased his meat and bun orders.
He bought a bigger stove to take care of his trade.
He finally got his son home from college to help him out.
But then something happened.
His son said, "FATHER, haven't you been listening to the radio?
Haven't you been reading the newspapers?
There's a big recession.
The current business situation is terrible."

Whereupon the father thought, "Well, my son's been well educated, he reads the papers, and listens to the radio, so he ought to know".

So the father cut down on his meat and bun orders, took down his advertising signs, no longer bothered to stand by the side of the road to sell his hot dogs.
And his hot dog sales fell almost overnight.

"You're right, son," the father said.
"We certainly are in the middle of a great recession."