Eric Sprott got the boot on Friday. Hopefully a slew of those pumpers follow him out. $3B to $350M = what took them so long?

Jeff, I’m not sure economics is any more of a ‘science’ than sociology. They are better defined as ‘philosophies’ riddled with disputed postulates and theories. Much the same can be said for governments, where history suggests that the form of isn’t as important as the corruption that rots the institution, and likewise for social and economic models. The ‘commonsense’ is that there will always be the powerful and the powerless where the common thread is money—and when it becomes too thin in the middle everything snaps.

One might hope the rich would employ the plebs at a living wage, thereby diminishing the need for government to subsidize labor. But in practice, trickle down economics has led to economic dislocations and social unrest due to a declining middleclass; and it’s the middleclass that buffers the rich from the poor and thereby maintains stability within a society. When the middleclass disappears, the totalitarians step in to protect the haves from the have nots; thus the Patriot Act—not to protect Americans for the cave dwellers on the other side of the world but to protect the power elite here at home from the consequences of social unrest.

hello

Cory could you please look at a couple of tech ideas

Softbank SFTBY is a Japanese company with a large position in Alibaba. Some people think that Ali will be the next wealth generator a la Apple

Fireswirl FSW-V is very speculative. It markets north american companies in China

Thanks and Happy holidays

If I had one book to read on economics it would be this one:
http://mises.org/Books/humanaction.pdf
“Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito.”

When the bulk of responsibility is in the hands of the few and the risk in the hands of the many, the mistakes will be monumental ones for which those responsible will pay no commensurate penalty. The responsibility over this kind of risk has laughably been extremely well remunerated, when to those individuals the risk is minimal.

Great show.
I think what we have today are the unintended consequences of the social security system,and the illusion that the government will take care of you.
Stan Druckenmiller has some excellent commentary on the disparity between how much seniors collect as apposed to how much the unborn will collect in the future and the price tag for it all.
The illusion that the government will take care of you is being fostered, simply by the voting patterns of the elderly.
Politicians refuse to do entitlement reform for good reason.No explanation needed.
The real elephant in the room are the entitlements.

You make a point about gold equities that is very interesting to me Al. A lot of people wonder what might be the fate of resource stocks if the major equity markets keep rising. I have been amongst them puzzling over that situation as mining has done quite poorly these past few years. It strikes me though that it is just a matter of time before interest will shift to the beaten down sectors for the mere fact that everything else looks overpriced. Where better than to stake a claim than on what has been underperforming badly for so long but also has tremendous upside potential given fundamental risks? So from that perpsective I do believe now that gold, silver, platinum and many other resource based companies are going to be in the line of sights of that group of investors who are seeking opportunities with a great upside versus just cycling in and out of the current popular stocks. I would like to believe that markets will rise higher in 2014 and that gold equities will finally benefit from the positive feelings. Others are not so positive though and there are whispers that a coming bull in metals will actually be signalling a downdraft in conventional markets. That is to say that a falling stock market will be bullish for precious metals but by that token it cannot also be bullish for gold stocks which we should expect to stay flat or fall along with everything else during a selloff. It will be interesting to see whose views hold the most water in the end. In my own case I am shifting to the idea that commodities will get a fresh boost as inflation is tweaked by the Fed and other Central Banks. That suggests economic growth will follow and that stocks in general will also continue to benefit especially as buying debt instruments looks to be such a drag and a loser. I know it sounds crazy but in my view if markets are to continue along the current bullish path we must see resource prices recover and gold rise along with them.You know this is nuts but bear with me. IF GOLD STOCKS have really bottomed then it defies logic they will rise against a falling market. In other words, the stock bull will remain intact. Gold stock will rise along with gold and equities in general which is in defiance of the idea that a crash lies just ahead. In other words…..long equities, long gold, sell bonds.

From my e-mail in box to Al’s guest suggestion box….A Notre Dame professors states the unspoken obvious about Obamacare:

To all our Republican, Democrat and Libertarian friends, this is a great explanation of why many of us are so scared about our future and the future of this country.

Notre Dame Professor on Obamacare

Obamacare Should Remind Us We Are Not ‘Subjects,’ We Are People
Laura Hollis is a professor at the University of Notre Dame
November 20, 2013|10:42 am

The unveiling of the dictatorial debacle that is Obamacare absolutely
flabbergasts me. It is stunning on so many levels, but the most shocking aspect of it for me is watching millions of free Americans stand idly by while this man, his minions in Congress and his cheerleaders in the press systematically dismantle our Constitution, steal our money, and crush our freedoms.
The President, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid (with no small help from Justice John Roberts) take away our health care, and we allow it. They take away our insurance, and we allow it. They take away our doctors, and we allow it.They charge us thousands of dollars more a year, and we allow it. They make legal products illegal, and we allow it. They cripple our businesses, and we allow it.They announce by fiat that we must ignore our most deeply held beliefs – and we allow it.
Where is your spine, America?
Yes, I know people are complaining. I read the news on the internet. I read blogs. I have a Twitter feed. So what? People in the Soviet Union complained. People in Cuba complain. People in China complain (quietly). Complaining isn’t the same thing as doing anything about it. In fact, much of the complaining that we hear sounds like resignation: Wow. This sucks. Oh well, this is the way things are. Too bad.
Perhaps you need reminding of a few important facts. Here goes:

1. The President is not a king. Barack Obama does not behave like a President, an elected official, someone who realizes that he works for us. He behaves like a king, a dictator – someone who believes that his own pronouncements have the force of law, and who thinks he can dispense with the law’s enforcement when he deigns to do so. And those of us who object? How dare we? Racists!
And while he moves steadily “forward” with his plans to “fundamentally transform” the greatest country in human history, he distracts people with cheap, meaningless trivialities, like “free birth control pills”! (In fact, let’s face it: this administration’s odd obsession with sex in general – Birth control! Abortion! Sterilization! Gay guys who play basketball! — is just plain weird. Since when did the leader of the free world care so much about how people have sex, who they have it with, and what meds they use when they have it? Does he have nothing more important to concern himself with?)

2. It isn’t just a failed software program; it is a failed philosophy. People are marveling that Healthcare.gov was such a spectacular failure. Well, if one is only interested in it as a product launch, I’ve explained some of the reasons for that here. But the larger point is that it isn’t a software failure, or even a product failure; it is a philosophy failure.
I have said this before: Obama is not a centrist; he is a central planner. And this – all of it: the disastrous computer program, the hundreds of millions of dollars wasted, the lies, the manipulation of public opinion, the theft of the public’s money and property, and freedom (read insurance, and premiums, and doctors) — IS what central planning looks like.
The central premise of central planning is that a handful of wunderkinds with your best interests at heart (yeah, right) know better than you what’s good for you. The failure of such a premise and the misery it causes have been clear from the dawn of humanity. Kings and congressmen, dictators and Dear Leaders, potentates, princes and presidents can all fall prey to the same imperial impulses: “we know what is good the ‘the people.’
And they are always wrong.
There is a reason that the only times communism has really been tried have been after wars, revolutions, or coups d’état. You have to have complete chaos for people to be willing to accept the garbage that centralized planning produces. Take the Soviet Union, for example. After two wars, famine, and the collapse of the Romanov dynasty, why wouldn’t people wait in line for hours to buy size 10 shoes? Or settle for the gray matter that passed for meat in the grocery stores?
But communism’s watered-down cousin, socialism, isn’t much better. Ask the Venezuelans who cannot get toilet paper. Toilet paper. ¡Viva la Revolución!
Contrary to what so many who believe in a “living Constitution” say, the Founding Fathers absolutely understood this. That is why the Constitution was set up to limit government power. (Memo to the President: the drafters of the Constitution deliberately didn’t say “what government had to do on your behalf.”) They understood that that was the path to folly, fear, and famine.)

3. Obama is deceitful. Just as the collapse of the computer program should not surprise anyone, neither should we be shocked that the President lied about his healthcare plan. Have any of you been paying attention over the past few years? Obama has made no secret of his motivations or his methods. The philosophies which inspire him espouse deceit and other vicious tactics. (Don’t take my word for it: read Saul Alinsky.) Obama infamously told reporter Richard Wolffe, “You know, I actually believe my own bullshit.” He has refused to be forthcoming about his past (where are his academic records?). His own pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, told author Ed Klein, that Obama said to him, “You know what your problem is? You have to tell the truth.”
Did Obama lie when he said dozens of times, “If you like you plan, you can keep it. Period!”? Of course he did. That’s what he does.

4. The media is responsible. And had the media been doing their jobs, we would have known a lot of this much, much earlier.
The press is charged with the sacred responsibility of protecting the people from the excesses of government. Our press has been complicit, incompetent, or corrupt. Had they vetted this man in 2008, as they would have a Republican candidate, we would have known far more about him than we do, even now. Had they pressed for more details about Obamacare, Congress’ feet would have been held to the fire. Had they done their jobs about Eric Holder, Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the IRS scandal, NSA spying – or any of the other myriad betrayals of the public trust that this administration has committed, Obama would likely have lost his 2012 reelection campaign. (A fact that even The Washington Post has tacitly acknowledged. Well done, fellas! Happy now?)
Instead, they turned a blind eye, even when they knew he was lying, abusing power, disregarding the limits of the Constitution. It was only when he began to spy on them, and when the lies were so blatant that the lowest of low-information voters could figure it out that they realized they had to report on it. (Even in the face of blatant, deliberate and repeated lies,The New York Times has the audacity to tell us that the President “misspoke.”) They have betrayed us, abandoned us, and deceived us.

5. Ted Cruz was right. So was Sarah Palin. The computer program is a disaster. The insurance exchanges are a disaster. What’s left? The healthcare system itself. And this, of necessity, will be a disaster, too.
Millions of people have lost their individual insurance plans. In 2015, millions more will lose their employer-provided coverage (a fact which the Obama administration also knew, and admitted elsewhere).
The exorbitant additional costs that Obamacare has foisted on unsuspecting Americans are all part of a plan of wealth confiscation and redistribution. That is bad enough. But it will not end there.
When the numbers of people into the system and the corresponding demand for care vastly exceed the cost projections (and they will, make no mistake), then the rationing will start. Not only choice at that point, but quality and care itself will go down the tubes. And then will come the decisions made by the Independent Payment Advisory Board about what care will be covered (read “paid for”) and what will not.
That’s just a death panel, put politely. In fact, progressives are already greasing the wheels for acceptance of that miserable reality as well. They’re spreading the lie that it will be about the ability of the dying to refuse unwanted or unhelpful care. Don’t fall for that one, either. It will be about the deaths that inevitably result from decisions made by people other than the patients, their families, and their physicians. (Perhaps it’s helpful to think of their assurances this way: “If you like your end-of-life care, you can keep your end-of-life-care.”)

6. We are not SUBJECTS. (or, Nice Try, the Tea Party Isn’t Going Away). We have tolerated these incursions into our lives and livelihoods too long already. There is no end to the insatiable demand “progressives” have to remake us in their image. Today it is our insurance, our businesses, our doctors, our health care. Tomorrow some new crusade will be announced that enables them to take over other aspects of our formerly free lives.
I will say it again: WE ARE NOT SUBJECTS. Not only is the Tea Party right on the fiscal issues, but it appears that they are more relevant than ever. We fought a war once to prove we did not want to be the subjects of a king, and the Boston Tea Party was just a taste of the larger conflict to come. If some people missed that lesson in history class, we can give them a refresher.
The 2014 elections are a good place to start. Call your representative, your senator, your candidate and tell them: “We are not subjects. You work for us. And if the word “REPEAL” isn’t front and center in your campaign, we won’t vote for you. Period.”

Laura Hollis is an attorney and teaches entrepreneurship and business law at the University of Notre Dame. She resides in Indiana with her husband and two children.

I think “goldseek” just had an interview with proffeser Kotlikoff. Dont know if I spelled it right. Boston univercity?
Anyway,I guess some nobel prize winners (economices) have a petition going to attempt to get the american government to tell the truth to their people. I guess he and they feel taxes need to increase a bit.

Segment #4 — I LOVED it. Too good you guys. All around great commentary. I just burst out laughing when Rick started saying in reference to Fed interventions that “nobody believes it”. On hundred percent right of course. We are all just agreeing to go along with this fantasy for ou own different resaons even though we ALL know it to be fiction. End of the day it is bullshit though. I really enjoyed the honesty in all the viewpoints during that segment though. Makes me cheerful for Christmas!

GOLD EQUITIES SOARED …when …SP500 CORRECTED 20% ………HELLO !!!!!

Dec. 2001 to July 2002 ONE OF THE BEST BULL MARKETS IN GOLD SHARES

I made 8 times on a very large investment…….

WHEN YOU PEOPLE POST THIS BULL ABOUT GOLD SHARES DECLINING WITH GENERAL
EQUITIES IS JUST MORE DISINFORMATION. With yhe golc sharez so beaten down in the ground they have no wherd else to go but UP……if they were at higher levels they would be sold off. At the end of 2001 they wefe beaten into the ground.

LETZ GET THE STORY STRAIGHT……disinformation is negligence. PULL UP YOUR CHARTS AND HISTORICAL NUMBERS…..MAN

As of right now I still have a future target for gold at $0.

That’s in dollars by the way.

Reprint so ya don’t miss it. Not from the gold pumper category.
Pls do try to avoid web sites like KWN. Clowns are leaches.

“Our last Gold Comment suggested investors
shy away from the sector for now and wait
for a technical setup that would warrant
taking a risk. While at the moment the
sector remains in severe distress, there is
some evidence that a major relief rally
could come as soon as early 2014.
An examination of the entire decline since
the 2011 top shows five distinctive waves
resembling a typical five-leg structure
(three down, two up – see chart on the last
page). The market appears to be in the
midst of a final down-leg (leg 5). Such a
Another evidence pointing to the possibility
of a significant rally is the late stage of this
bull market. The Gold sector is usually the
last that comes alive during bull cycles. If
this bull market takes its last breath
sometime in 2014, the New Year may be a
favourable time for Golds to stage a rally.
The New Year is most likely to prompt some
investors to search for bargains in the
market and Gold stocks will certainly
appear on such lists. As usual in bull
markets, the final advances usually draw
m a n y n e w i n v e s t o r s w h o h a v e n ’ t
participated in this bull market yet. Many of
them have previously invested in mining
stocks; therefore, the Gold sector will be
one of the first sectors they examine.

Note to Cory: Did you just go over to the dark side or what man?

Great show as always but especially inspiring Segs 7 & 8. Great to share in Congressman Jones’ vision along with yours Al & Cory.

When times feel especially dark and with today being the shortest day of the year, the Christian message needs re-declaring from the rooftops. So often cynicism and a sense of being overwhelmed by bad news can drive us to a sense of dark despair. A stock market that’s become a casino; a festive season in which about 1 card in 50 bears any message relating to the Nativity (at least here in the UK); debts accumulating in millions of households; a society so much at sixes and sevens it seems paralysed to know where or how to initiate realistic reforms of any kind. Doubting Castles and Giants of despair everywhere.

But beautifully the Bible deals in the endless paradoxes of where it is the weak who in placing their trust in God/Christ become strong: True prophets in a minority of one speaking up against droves of false ones; men like Daniel stripped of power and thrown to the lions only to confound kings and emperors; the widow putting all that she had by way of her two mites into the offertory…..on and on we have the paradoxes of where sanctified weakness turns to strength! And then there is Jesus in the crib and on the cross!

‘He who saves a single life saves the entire world’ was a favourite Talmudic quote used by Oscar Schindler in his extraordinary rescue of well over a thousand Jews. In the end bad people are left only with their badness to torment them, because as the evil burns itself out Truth always prevails..

A peaceful, prosperous and laughter-filled Christmas to one and all, Andrew

Right now the market is giving credence to juniors that not only have gold but copper as well, these are the better plays, IMHO. Management of course is critical and the size of the deposit as well as location, not an easy investment decision but in this market you can be sure if you get it right as a contrarian you will be very well rewarded. DT

Just got back from a local coin shop up north—–was there yesterday and in bullion, he only had one 10 ounce silver bar and some 1964 Kennedy half dollars. Looked at some numismatic coins and then went home to research the PCGS value and return today and buy the 10 ounce silver bar along with an offer on a couple of the rare coins. When we got there the 10 ounce bar was gone and the proprieter told me he had large orders for silver from specific customer demand and that no-one was selling silver in his area.

http://67.19.64.18/news/2013/12-20pr/radomski_december202013_6.gif

Chart Porn:
Some random companies >$2 which have a pretty chart; I haven’t done any due diligence on these.
– like looking at pretty women, but not asking too many questions.
http://tinyurl.com/lbphn4f

HEY BILLY……WE NEED ONE MORE WASH OUT TO 1155 OR HIGHER…TOTALLY AGREE. I was disappointed friday we didnt get that big down and then up.

HOWEVER THE GOLD SHARES WILL RALLY IF GOLD BOTTOMS ON THAT TEST OF A DOUBLE BOTTOM. My style is to catch major bottoms within about 10 percent. I dont like momentem trades ….rising markets in the middle of a move up already type investments. THIS GOLD TRADE RARELY MEETS MY CRITERIA FOR INVESTING. I dont trade in and out rarely and hold the investment until the excitement kicks in or like now its a bear rally my exit is preplanned. UNLESS PROVEN OTHERWISE…..I dont trust gold especially. FWIW

Franky;
I found that story about the vatican.
Maybe a blessing from the pope is what the miners need.
http://omiusajpic.org/2013/09/11/vatican-hosts-mining-ceos-in-a-day-of-reflection/

Have to say Franky .. your English is greatly improved!

What a bunch of hypocrites you all are.

It’s not just about money, human level, not worry about the bottom line, goes beyond dollars and cents, helping your fellow man, charitable nation, disincentive to man, Government taking care of everybody, devastation of social democracy, not working not productive citizen, I feel blessed, cheap college, common sense, morally to give back, take care of fellow man. Common sense – really!!!! Let them eat cake – I’m surprised you didn’t throw that one in.

What a joke.

50 million on food stamps now taken away – help your fellow man, american jobs taken offshore and now returning as cheap labour with no benefits, so capitalists want to make more money at the expense of ordinary people – help your fellow man and it’s not about the bottom line.

Not to mention the failing of capitalism when it came to the crunch TOO BIG TO FAIL. So social democracy is no good for the people but it is a wonderful thing for corporations. I thought it was your mantra that help comes to those who help themselves except when it comes to corporate welfare then the people who have to help themselves have to help the corporations.

You have no credibility talking about ordinary people and what they can and can’t do or how they behave when they feel there is no incentive, when they feel the playing field is not level. Where were all the corporate leaders helping their fellow man when it came the time to stand up. No where to be seen.

What are you all social psychologists now, economic psychologists?

Just another talk fest with a lot of theoretical mumbo jumbo thrown in. Seriously you think you can solve the countries problems with these weekend get togethers on the radio.

If you want to help your fellow man then provide him with the two things that will make him productive Education and Healthcare and yes they should be free and if not free cheap as your guest Jeff Deist and most of you all benefitted from. They should certainly not be something that people profit from.

How can people dream when the only game in town is corporate greed.

Cheers
TonyW

Somebody here mentioned …LOGIC…when it comes to economics and markets.

Informing that poster its not suppose to be LOGIC

IF IT WAS WE WOULD ALL BE VERY RICH…and money wouldn’t be worth anything

So respect the markets…. make sure it doesn’t make any sense…only then can you make money.

Christmas at the Gas Station, Enjoy!

The old man sat in his gas station on a cold Christmas Eve. He hadn’t been anywhere in years since his wife had passed away. It was just another day to him. He didn’t hate Christmas, just couldn’t find a reason to celebrate. He was sitting there looking at the snow that had been falling for the last hour and wondering what it was all about when the door opened and a homeless man stepped through.

Instead of throwing the man out, Old George as he was known by his customers, told the man to come and sit by the heater and warm up. “Thank you, but I don’t mean to intrude,” said the stranger. “I see you’re busy, I’ll just go.”

“Not without something hot in your belly.” George said.

He turned and opened a wide mouth Thermos and handed it to the stranger. “It ain’t much, but it’s hot and tasty. Stew … Made it myself. When you’re done, there’s coffee and it’s fresh.”

Just at that moment he heard the “ding” of the driveway bell. “Excuse me, be right back,” George said. There in the driveway was an old ’53 Chevy. Steam was rolling out of the front.. The driver was panicked. “Mister can you help me!” said the driver, with a deep Spanish accent. “My wife is with child and my car is broken.” George opened the hood. It was bad. The block looked cracked from the cold, the car was dead.

“You ain’t going in this thing,” George said as he turned away.

“But Mister, please help …” The door of the office closed behind George as he went inside. He went to the office wall and got the keys to his old truck, and went back outside. He walked around the building, opened the garage, started the truck and drove it around to where the couple was waiting. “Here, take my truck,” he said. “She ain’t the best thing you ever looked at, but she runs real good.”

George helped put the woman in the truck and watched as it sped off into the night. He turned and walked back inside the office. “Glad I gave ’em the truck, their tires were shot too. That ‘ole truck has brand new .” George thought he was talking to the stranger, but the man had gone. The Thermos was on the desk, empty, with a used coffee cup beside it. “Well, at least he got something in his belly,” George thought.

George went back outside to see if the old Chevy would start. It cranked slowly, but it started. He pulled it into the garage where the truck had been. He thought he would tinker with it for something to do. Christmas Eve meant no customers. He discovered the the block hadn’t cracked, it was just the bottom hose on the radiator. “Well, shoot, I can fix this,” he said to himself. So he put a new one on.

“Those tires ain’t gonna get ’em through the winter either.” He took the snow treads off of his wife’s old Lincoln. They were like new and he wasn’t going to drive the car anyway.

As he was working, he heard shots being fired. He ran outside and beside a police car an officer lay on the cold ground. Bleeding from the left shoulder, the officer moaned, “Please help me.”

George helped the officer inside as he remembered the training he had received in the Army as a medic. He knew the wound needed attention. “Pressure to stop the bleeding,” he thought. The uniform company had been there that morning and had left clean shop towels. He used those and duct tape to bind the wound. “Hey, they say duct tape can fix anything,” he said, trying to make the policeman feel at ease.

“Something for pain,” George thought. All he had was the pills he used for his back. “These ought to work.” He put some water in a cup and gave the policeman the pills. “You hang in there, I’m going to get you an ambulance.”

The phone was dead. “Maybe I can get one of your buddies on that there talk box out in your car.” He went out only to find that a bullet had gone into the dashboard destroying the two way radio.

He went back in to find the policeman sitting up. “Thanks,” said the officer. “You could have left me there. The guy that shot me is still in the area.”

George sat down beside him, “I would never leave an injured man in the Army and I ain’t gonna leave you.” George pulled back the bandage to check for bleeding. “Looks worse than what it is. Bullet passed right through ‘ya. Good thing it missed the important stuff though. I think with time your gonna be right as rain.”

George got up and poured a cup of coffee. “How do you take it?” he asked.

“None for me,” said the officer..

“Oh, yer gonna drink this. Best in the city. Too bad I ain’t got no donuts.” The officer laughed and winced at the same time.

The front door of the office flew open. In burst a young man with a gun. “Give me all your cash! Do it now!” the young man yelled. His hand was shaking and George could tell that he had never done anything like this before.

“That’s the guy that shot me!” exclaimed the officer.

“Son, why are you doing this?” asked George, “You need to put the cannon away. Somebody else might get hurt.”

The young man was confused. “Shut up old man, or I’ll shoot you, too. Now give me the cash!”

The cop was reaching for his gun. “Put that thing away,” George said to the cop, “we got one too many in here now.”

He turned his attention to the young man. “Son, it’s Christmas Eve. If you need money, well then, here. It ain’t much but it’s all I got. Now put that pea shooter away.”

George pulled $150 out of his pocket and handed it to the young man, reaching for the barrel of the gun at the same time. The young man released his grip on the gun, fell to his knees and began to cry. “I’m not very good at this am I? All I wanted was to buy something for my wife and son,” he went on. “I’ve lost my job, my rent is due, my car got repossessed last week.”

George handed the gun to the cop. “Son, we all get in a bit of squeeze now and then. The road gets hard sometimes, but we make it through the best we can.”

He got the young man to his feet, and sat him down on a chair across from the cop. “Sometimes we do stupid things.” George handed the young man a cup of coffee. “Being stupid is one of the things that makes us human. Coming in here with a gun ain’t the answer. Now sit there and get warm and we’ll sort this thing out.”

The young man had stopped crying. He looked over to the cop. “Sorry I shot you. It just went off. I’m sorry officer.”

“Shut up and drink your coffee ” the cop said.

George could hear the sounds of sirens outside. A police car
and an ambulance skidded to a halt. Two cops came through the door, guns drawn. “Chuck! You ok?” one of the cops asked the wounded officer.

“Not bad for a guy who took a bullet. How did you find me?”

“GPS locator in the car. Best thing since sliced bread. Who did this?” the other cop asked as he approached the young man.

Chuck answered him, “I don’t know. The guy ran off into the dark. Just dropped his gun and ran.”

George and the young man both looked puzzled at each other.

“That guy work here?” the wounded cop continued.

“Yep,” George said, “just hired him this morning. Boy lost his job.”

The paramedics came in and loaded Chuck onto the stretcher. The young man leaned over the wounded cop and whispered, “Why?”

Chuck just said, “Merry Christmas boy … and you too, George, and thanks for everything.”

“Well, looks like you got one doozy of a break there. That ought to solve some of your problems.”

George went into the back room and came out with a box. He pulled out a ring box. “Here you go, something for the little woman. I don’t think Martha would mind. She said it would come in handy some day.”

The young man looked inside to see the biggest diamond ring he ever saw. “I can’t take this,” said the young man. “It means something to you.”

“And now it means something to you,” replied George. “I got my memories. That’s all I need.”

George reached into the box again. An airplane, a car and a truck appeared next. They were toys that the oil company had left for him to sell. “Here’s something for that little man of yours.”

The young man began to cry again as he handed back the $150 that the old man had handed him earlier.

“And what are you supposed to buy Christmas dinner with? You keep that too,” George said. “Now git home to your family.”

The young man turned with tears streaming down his face. “I’ll be here in the morning for work, if that job offer is still good.”

“Nope. I’m closed Christmas day,” George said. “See ya the day after.”

George turned around to find that the stranger had returned. “Where’d you come from? I thought you left?”

“I have been here. I have always been here,” said the stranger. “You say you don’t celebrate Christmas. Why?”

“Well, after my wife passed away, I just couldn’t see what all the bother was. Putting up a tree and all seemed a waste of a good pine tree. Baking cookies like I used to with Martha just wasn’t the same by myself and besides I was getting a little chubby.”

The stranger put his hand on George’s shoulder. “But you do celebrate the holiday, George. You gave me food and drink and warmed me when I was cold and hungry. The woman with child will bear a son and he will become a great doctor.

The policeman you helped will go on to save 19 people from being killed by terrorists. The young man who tried to rob you will make you a rich man and not take any for himself. “That is the spirit of the season and you keep it as good as any man.”

George was taken aback by all this stranger had said. “And how do you know all this?” asked the old man.

“Trust me, George. I have the inside track on this sort of thing. And when your days are done you will be with Martha again.”

The stranger moved toward the door. “If you will excuse me, George, I have to go now. I have to go home where there is a big celebration planned.”

George watched as the old leather jacket and the torn pants that the stranger was wearing turned into a white robe. A golden light began to fill the room.

“You see, George … it’s My birthday. Merry Christmas.”

George fell to his knees and replied, “Happy Birthday, Lord Jesus”

Its beginning to look like Christmas: Obama, Clinton Charged in Muslim Brotherhood Conspiracy http://www.westernjournalism.com/obama-clinton-charged-muslim-brotherhood-conspiracy/ the video portion is 3:57 min. in length.

Hey Al, you`ll love this ad for ObamaCare – Half Naked Gays Spread ObamaCare Enrollment Message in New Commercial http://www.mrconservative.com/2013/12/29357-video-panders-to-half-naked-gays-to-spread-obamacare-enrollment-message/ its 1:58 min. in length its got (sick) Christmas cheer in it. – – I guess its a very merry Christmas to all those supporting TransPacific Partnership(TPP) in this forum and since Obama hasn`t signed into law CISPA which should end all privacy for all time, Obama`s probably waiting for the passage of the TPP, then like a spider he will spring it upon the general population at large. CISPA, at risk are emails … texts… Facebook(FB) posts… Tweets. Skype conversations. Discussion boards. Web pages. Travel records. Banking records. Credit card transactions. Stock market trades. Google(GOOG) searches. Even our landline cell phone traffic. …. All of it – fair game.

Simply the best analysis of 2013. David Collum tackles it all and if you have not read this, you should. My take for what is worth is, the world is transitioning into a new world currency and will relinquish the Dollar to minority status. The Dollar owners know this and are both fighting and positioning accordingly.

http://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/84101/2013-year-in-review

TALK ABOUT THE SEASON TO BE MERRY…..Did anyone else see that piece about a Brazilian source telling Reuters ‘ON CONDITION OF ANONYMITY’ (HO HO HO) that it has by-passed Boeing to award Saab of Sweden with a $4.5 billion contract to buy new fighter jets. And the reason for this minor sleight – the NSA of course.

Again we on Al’s site should all give a collective HO HO HO!!!!

That was reported by RT last week. Guess the spying is costing them. I also noticed that Japan is intending to buy the f-35. China will be licking their chops over that. The f-35 is like shooting ducks in a pond for other newer fighter jets.
Experts have the f-35 as completly incompetant at everything it was designed for, too many tasks, so lousey at everyhting.