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43229.....I hear ya, wolavka....When we moved away with the dust and wasteful spending of King County in our rear view mirrors, it was a relief to escape the  subsidation of the growing homeless class who were out spraying their "tags" along the I-5 Freeway overpasses...I'm not pleased with aiding those who lived on our taxpayer dollars and showed no desire to try to rejoin the employment rolls...Annual taxes on our $800K valued home had climbed to near $7800 or some 10% per the appraisal....We got lucky and bought a home up here near the Kanajian border that, IF it were in King Co. would have listed for over a million and not the $600K we paid...best of all, our property taxes for 2015 here were $3700. a year....We recently got a new appraisal valuation that will put next year's taxes right back up into that $7500./year level....I keep looking around and wondering "Whatinhell have they been spending the taxpayer's dollars on?  Where are the infrastructure re-do's or highway improvements, and, why is my water bill now $250"...Yeah, YOU were right...we're all fecked!

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Which way to turn ?  As Jimmy B. put it ..........
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Guess I'll head somewhat east, maybe.....

This posting system is so "Fecked!"  The post that was attached with that last photo was explaining how very special our local Dungeness Crab is -- it's superceeded lobster and King Crab in my opinion...pair it with a very favorable Rhone Burgandy like this Chateauneuf  du Pape and some herbed Focassia bread and it completes another very tense week in the metals!

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This 20+/- year old Chris Rock routine was pre-woke and acceptable at least to his mostly Black
audiences who understood exactly what he was saying:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zIcK8SKWn8
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.  and it still holds today....doubt it ?  Just turn on your nightly news to see....

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Very weird, but today I received -- in an Amazon bag -- this cute get-well card, but it was still sealed in the outer plastic bag and, when I opened it, NO SIGNATURE INSIDE!  Anyway, Thank You if you were the sender!

31791...yeah...that's right, but the restaurant was  there with an observation deck on the the floor below...wonderful, classy dining with the soft piano music drifting across the many white-linened tables....

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/former-signature-room-restaurant-space-to-transform-into-multistory-observation-deck/3765826/

Shame to see it closed, but I got to enjoy it on several occassions...

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Being in the coin business for nearly 45 years, too, I've been fortunate to have enjoyed some of the finer restaurants around this whirld (sorry, wolavka, never made it to the White Rabbit)...the Palm in NYC,  the 95th in Chicago, Top of the Mark in San Fran, Shula's in Miami and Tucson, half-a-dozen in Texas and Colorado and. of course, Vegas, along with local favorites in Tokyo and Hong Kong and Munich....some great memories of wonderful dining, many accompanied by that Chateau beverage....I daresay your travels probably outdid mine, but all in all those places and memories will suffice as I head toward the final hurdle in the days ahead....hopefully, not too soon!

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WINES?....Some 45+ years ago a good ol' boy customer stopped in to chat (he was mostly a Copper trader) and handed me a Rhone Valley Cabernet, which I found out was running $70.+ a bottle in those days, but was a wonderfully deep and fruity taste nicer than anything I'd tried -- I loved it, but at the price then, my income stream allowed for a bottle every 3 months or so....Well, kapex informed me recently that COSTCO of all places has this wonderful beverage, Chateauneuf du 'Pape, offered at $19.95?! What? ...must be some knock-off or clone I figured, but I gave it a try....wow!  It was like stepping back in time 45+ years as the taste, the smell, the smoothness as it slid down one's throat were identical to that long-before-version...I bought 6 bottles on my next visit....thankew, kapex for the head's up!

https://costcowineblog.com/2023-kirkland-signature-chateauneuf-du-pape/

IF you're a fan of Rhone Burgandy give this a try....

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41742...sheesh!  pacifiers?  no wonder this country is in such a mess, knee-deep in pussies who can't face reaity without a "crutch"....uf coors, adult beverages are excluded from that criteria, right?  Bartender!

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41485....heh-heh, well, RACK, the only pain I've experienced was my lower back due to spending a fitful night in one of those damnable hospital beds that have moveable mattress rollers that supposedly help by keeping the patient in changing positions, increasing the circulation, etc.  The bed I was in felt like there was no padding 'tween those roller things and the thin mattress I was trying to sleep on....so, instead of being of any help to me, it left me with a
sore lower back and hip areas....But. NO, no pain as such related directly to the surgical spots....and, NO, I was not prescribed any kind of pain medicines which I don't want to take anyway esp. oxy and related drugs.

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 Can I getta "Amen" to ROAN's earlier post ?

"PB1  DEAD is not an operative word you should be using.  We are all getting closer. 2 years ago I was still a warrior, now i need hip replacement and carpal tunnel surgery. We need to count every day as another miracle. EOM...."

Yup....I feel as though I dodged a bullet five days ago myself, so to be given some additional time, for me, has been a bit of a miracle...

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41430 --- Thanks, Aurator ,,,hope to see you posting a bit more as the spirit moves you....

41431....probably would have been just as effective...the guy who shaved both sides in my genitals area was pretty rough with that little shaver....ouch!

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Yup, PB 1 - I remember and - was it you or Hambone? - who, back in March prognosticated this "summer slump" until September....whoever it was had a good handle on the fickleness of these markets...

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Ah, this growing OLD is a challenge, right PB 1?...seems our permabear has completed another spin around the sun over the past year...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PB 1

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lonestar...40811....good on ya!  If there's a way for the cities to scrape another pound of flesh off the homeowner in situations like that, they'll make it some sort of mandated "Code"....Desperate times seem to bring out a lot of unnecessary regulations....

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40789....yeah, LSteve, too many of them are still in awe of the "science" crap that Fouci pushed out -- completely brainwashed in effect and refusing to even consider that their wondrous "vaccines" could possibly be doing them more harm than good. ..The sadest part is their inability to even consider the factual information that has poured out in the past year...to them, that's right-wing propaganda -- though comparable to the b.s. thrown at trump that the lefties created...but, then, they're right and we're wrong, eh?

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Hmmm..... Sam is sneaking up on 81 come early August...I'd love to have the resonance of his voice -- coulda been the "What's for dinner" guy...sigh...

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Saturday, July 12th and summer has apparently finally arrived in NW Washington...82 degrees here late today -- only a bit below the previous high a while back ....
gonna be maybe up into the 90's next week...with the ongoing increase of water prices here in our little burg, ah bleeve I'm gonna work on a yellow lawn if this keeps up...Now, I'm not moaning and groaning over "how hot" it is, having spent too many years in Texas to know what REAL heat is like, however....lonestar and Cherokeee will verify that!

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The big question, kapex, is it about time for another Elliott Wave to hit the metals?

Thanks for that link, ROAN...what a labor of love that restoration became...With it's rural setting about 40 miles east of Moscow, ID, and not much further from Pullman, WA, it will, no doubt attract quite a few collegians from those campuses and likely their parents who come to visit...But, at $350./night, that's stepping out there to impress a coed one might be wooing....

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Small flash floods were pretty common when I lived in the Austin area...a normally calm creek about a half mile south of our duplex decided to show it's power over one stretch with 2 days of heavy rain...that little creek moved up toward our housing development to within 100' or so of our plat there in a matter of 40 or so hours...We almost got caught in one of the low-water crossings up in the hill country on one other outing...our old VW bug started sliding downstream as we were crossing thru but I gunned it and we somehow jumped out and up to the main crude roadway we'd come in on only hours earlier.....

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40210....wolavka are you able to read a statement without twisting it into some absurd response, just as you've done with that earlier post ?  Unless you have some knowledge of what this Bo Polony claims as being able to "talk with God" then STFU and do your homework before mouthing off....

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O.K., Cherokeee.....all I asked was what IF his current projections fail to come to pass -- is his credibility questionable then?

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40177....this Klayman guy is definitely one I like :

" This is why I tell people, go out there and buy a gun.  Get ready to protect your family.  Don’t use a gun offensively, but use it defensively.  If you feel you are going to be killed or have bodily injury, then use it.  They are coming for us.”
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.   got yur dragon's breath 12 gauges ready?

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One of my former employees lives there in Couer d' Alene and another settled just south of Sandpoint...both are actively involved in the Search and Rescue organizations, so they'll have the story behind any MSM story to share with us....

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Years ago, about 1986 or so, I got hooked up with a partner running a coin shop in Seattle.  Late one day, we had this chunky guy show up with a 3lb. white bucket such as was often used in those days to ship metals or just available to buyers to haul theirs out....He was a salvage operator, he said, and found this bucket buried under severeral wrecks that they'd crunched up -- discovering it as they were loading scrap onto a big semi box.  He said he had no way to trace the owner as there were no plates on the remaining vehicle and the dash was gone as well (no VIN number), so he was the legitimate owner.  We popped the lid to see an assortment of misc. silver roumds, with a few bars showing among the mess.   He said he needed cash and no paper trail and wanted $5000. for it, which was a bit high....I chiseled him down to $4600. and we put the bucket on our scale...It weighed close to the typical 1,000-oz. lots of silver, so we struck a deal and he was off like a race horse.  I set the bucket inside one of our lock-up cages for sorting the next day, and we locked up for the nigjht...The next morning after getting the shop ready for opening I started stacking the rounds in lots of 20, sorting into 5 or 6 different patterns.  As I got thru about 600 I felt a polybag buried at the bottom and pulled it out....It contained 14 Krugerrands and ten bars of Palladium!  ka-ching! Now that was one of our best surprises of that year!  He'd left no name, so the deal was done and done.

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SO?  Are we "there" yet or, as the wolavka perma bull keeps muttering $3620. before it's officially a summer top ?  I dunno....seems to me that sludge has had a helluva quick run up and is now stuck around this $33.20 level . . . unless, uf coors, the chews decide they have to lob some serious ammo at Iran....which could happen, and, if in the wind, that should show up tomorrow with short covering ahead of the fireworks.....as I admitted, I dunno, BUT I'm not ruling out a collapse in the sludge market as there are too many bullish eggspurts now calling for $40./oz white metal....I don't see it....
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38960.....Porsche, Bufford, brings out a feeling of success, i suppose, for a lot of the newer generation....In the mid-80's I owned a 944 for a few years....I just wasn't comfortable in a Carrera so opted for the less-expensive 944 as bigger and more practical....Kept it 2+ years and got lots of thumbs-up as it was a babe magnet...But, when my first minor servicing ran $400. I started to reconsider its pracicality as that was the mid 1980's and most comparable servicing costs were maybe $150. for the 90-day mandate....Had a full-blown 40K servicing that smacked me for $850. and decided that it had been fun and a great pleasure as a sports car, but enough was enough..Funny, though, after roughly 30 months of ownership and putting nearly 45K mileage on it, I sold it for virtually a break-even price.....

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Ya'all 'member this classic from earlier days ?

Was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay
And at dinnertime we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
And Mama hollered out the back door y'all remember to wipe your feet And then she said I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge Today Billie Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJZ_ViDADOE

ah, yes, some truly inspiring Southern songs like "Delta Dawn" and...uh...some others (no doubt)...um...like "You Picked A Fine Time To Leave me, Lucille..." ...prolly a few dozen more that made it onto the charts....back then....

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38620.....that's been happening for a great many years, near as i can tell....when we sold our home in Sammamish ten years ago, the young (30-something) Chinese guy who bought it as is [inspection declined], our realtor found out that he'd bought 4 others he'd seen that day!  Obviously, he was the representative for the tong and relatives all who were moving funds out of Canada at that time....The homes he bought, like those mentioned, sat empty for a few weeks until the various investors/relatives began to move in....Not too many folks in the position to buy -- outright -- five homes averaging over 800K each and pay for them all at once...sheesh....

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While the day has waned at this point, an old friend sent me this link to a Billy Ray Cyrus song that I can't remember ever hearing...but, I thought it was quite nicely done....memorializing today's importance..

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube%20some%20gave%20all%20videos&FORM=VIRE0&mid=1948B394CA0E5C8B2F781948B394CA0E5C8B2F78&view=detail&ru=%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dyoutube%20some%20gave%20all

I hope others see it as a kind remembrance, too...

38004....contrary to what she believes, I've no ax to grind with Tamryn...I felt, several iterations ago, that some of her exchanges with other posters were a bit 'raw' and unnecessary responses.  But, she did indeed post a goodly amount of information many of us found to be of use and/or have definite validity in regard to specific situations, often challenging the accepted internet lies....
 
I was a bit weary of her patting herself on the back for being one of the first to warn of certain distorted internet views...That wasn't necessary nor, in my mind, did anything to elevate her to some lofty intellect on the forum.  We knew she was good and that would have sufficed without an "I-told-you-so" added on....Anyway, I hope she feels that rejoining this blog/forum at the end of her "sentence" is worth her time, as she had a lot of knowledge to share.....

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77721....kapex....does breeze or whoever created those charts mention where they feel silver will go if we get that strong a drop?

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Hola, amigos!  Manana es Cinco de Mayo....yep, 5th of May, that Mexican holiday that commemorates a battle they won against Maximillian and his better-equipped French forces....so, here in the Estados Unitos (we are still united, right?) it is commemorated with the liquidation of mas of that pee-water weak beer the muchachos foisted upon the yuppie and Gen Xers, Corona, which is a joke to the natives in Mexico as another fooling of the Gringos....Now, recent production of and marketing of Modelo are to be applauded as it's actually a rather decent Mexican beer. . .To me, the best of the pale ale products there however is Bohemia, but it's rather hard to find....

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Hmmmm...the metals markets seem to be completely disinterested in the bomb-lobbing going on 'tween the dotheads and turbans ....and those clever Pakis had given a great deal of ammo to the Ukraine so are already scrambling to resist the long-range bombing by the Indians....

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#37443....I haven't a WAG who "Paradigm Press" may be -- the source of this BS article -- but one would think a professional journalist could at least get the DATE of this wonderful unvealing correct...There is no Friday, Mqy 3rd if you haven't noticed...today BE  May 2nd....

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37233.....regarding "The so called media"....in the early '90's I was living over on the Olympic Penisula in a lake-based community of maybe 3000 souls, most working in the timber industry.  It was a bit of a tourist area, most of those folks staying for a day or two at the old National Forest lodge across the lake from where I lived.  But, every Friday night, a smaller resort at the north end of the lake would put on a karioki night, well attended by the locals and, quite often, tourists from down the lake at the old Lodge.  On one such occassion, a group of four Seattle television anchors strolled into the bar there and slid into the empty table beside where I was sitting.  I struck up a conversation with the head anchor for their newscasts who, after a quick round or two of cocktails had relaxed from his original tight-collared aloofness and reverted to his "good ol' boy" underlying nature [he'd grown up in some small town in Montana], ready and willing to talk about his job and those of the others with him...He admitted that, in regard to virtually any national news they were reporting, they were handed a fixed script in advance of going on air and mandated to present ONLY what was written thereon....as far as the local news, they were told to only be civil to the political party they were paid to discredit but to do or say nothing that might influence voters at the polls...."Fixed agenda"?...I asked him if he agreed to those mandates and, while he did not, he emphasized that he had a family of 3 kids, a big mortgage, and a lifestyle he enjoyed and couldn't begin to find if he were relagated to some out-of-the-way burg like Havre, Montana, or any other such place.  I'd thought of him as a pretty straight shooter, but much of what one saw on the tube was nothing but following the script...or else...

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36820...."All I know is this has been a COLD April...."  Likewise here in the great NW, ROAN . . .we finally reached into the 70's briefly today, but tomorrow is expected to again be in the low 60's and likely wet and cooler on Easter sunday....Now, we're used to gray, gloomy and misty skies for much of the winter months, but, normally, we should have had temps at least 10-15 degrees higher by this time of Spring....This could be a year without a normal "Summer" the way things are looking....

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"....so where is Tam"? ....I bleeve she's at home dyeing Easter eggs for the great Easter Egg Hunt out in her pasture this weekend....maybe?

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#36324....Years ago, I rolled thru that land the gummint gave the Crow as a "reservation" on which they constructed maybe a 100 or more small frame houses....Most of those that were still standing back in the early '80's had these big sections of their roofs missing -- torn out or maybe carefully removed....surrounding the openings there was a lot of black, smokey stains.....It seems they had not been shown the use of the heating systems, had no use for kitchens, so they built their new "teepees" (as they were) with a central fire and cooking area and let the smoke out through the roof holes...a great many had been burned up, of course....Stopping for gas and something cold to drink in the 95+ temperatures that day, I talked with the Indian operator of the mini-mart who explained the missing
roofs to me and other sad abuses by the Bureau of Indian Affairs....and now, some 40 years later, perhaps they are finally getting their just dues through their casino revenues?

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#36222......Geez Louise!!!  How about a little more fact checking before putting out these clever creations like this one -- there's no truth to this Pam Bondi story...AS YET...at least, so I call bullsh*t!
That scumbag Roberts ain't goin' no where.....as yet....

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For those who mostly follow tech trends, just a while ago Silver (AKA "Sludge") hit $31.40.....that just happens to be a .618 Fibonnaci retracement level from it's Feb. 28th low to the recent high of $34.58....so, is it safe to enter the water yet?  A further drop would target $30.65-$30.70....which could happen, depending on tomorrow's gummit statistics/lies.....we watch and see...

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Our "Spring" is being a bit reluctant too, PB 1 -- the mists and cold of the past months has subsided, but we're stil in the upper 40's to mid-50's during the days with heavy cloud cover moving in to break up the brief hour or so of sunshine early in the days...Sure would be nice if we actually had a full day's worth and warmed up to the 60's and 70's, but it may not happen this year.....A great many moons ago when I was living over on the Olympic Peninsula, we saw weather patterns a lot like what we're seeing now....It came to be called the Summer of No Sun......................

Ben.....return that crap bucket to the seller, or if not possible, go thru it carefully seperating out the 'unfinished' casings/bullets and ship that sh*t back to the maker insisting on fresh, new quality replacements..WHO, so that we know, was the product maker or seller?  Why would you even consider trying to correct such an obvious manufacturing problem?  Besides, regardless of what you might try to tighten those casing around the bullet ,they could still malfunction screwing up the entry/feed chamber of your firearm....

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Now, before opening this link, I just kinda guessed as to the ethnicity of the perpetrator.....big surprise, eh?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/race-hoax-city-employee-school-board-member-pennsylvania/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1784
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...what's with these screwed-up attention getters?  sheesh....

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35550.... a bit too salty, eh, bufford? . . .shudda put it in the chocolate pudding cups....

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35535....that's Nor-a-fargo....as you will have a far way to go to reach this part of the whirld....7 miles souf uf the Kanajian border and just 15+ miles in from the Salish Sea....pack a lunch...no beer for you!

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O.K. ...nobody else gives a sh*t, so I'll just sit here and suck down my snifter of Gran Marnier and mellow out on memories....

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Ah, the times they are a changing.....another once-favored source for linens, dress materials, ribbons, etc. etc. is packing it in:

"Joann Fabrics is closing all of its 800 stores nationwide after struggling financially, filing for bankruptcy twice in the past year, and failing to find a buyer to keep the business operating, with the assets being sold to a liquidation firm......"

It's amazing that they've hung on so long as they have, what with very few of the possible users born in the past 40 years having any interest in doing their own seamstress work much less knowing what a sewing machine was, or how to use one.....very sad....

Our local store which is located across from an office supply place I happened into today had 3 sign-holders out front and on the side of the building proclaiming 50% off on sales today.....

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35188....thanks for the clarification, AF....now tell that to wolavka and maybe he'll get off his 'holier-than-thou' pedestal...

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