Sipsey Street Irregulars: They'd be better off investing in brass and lead.

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

They'd be better off investing in brass and lead.

Sales of American Eagle gold coins soar.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...: Invest in the precious metals-- gold, silver, lead, brass and steel machined into the shape of a gun.; December 11, 2012 at 9:20 PM
Anonymous said...: Gold's gotten pricey. Brass is just as shiny.; December 11, 2012 at 11:12 PM
SWIFT said...: Invest in a set of brass balls. While millions of Americans are armed, millions will not have the cajones to aim at an aggressor's head and pull the trigger. Balls and mind-set are everything.; December 12, 2012 at 5:58 AM
Chuck said...: Gold is portable wealth. There may come a time when you have to leave everything behind to live to fight another day. $10,000 in gold eagles fits in your pocket.

A diversified portfolio for the prudent patriot includes lead, brass, steel, AND silver and gold.; December 12, 2012 at 9:29 AM
Anonymous said...: While doing physical therapy at NNMC a few years back I conversed with a gentleman who asked if I was buying gold/silver. Nope - I'm buying lead and long term food. HUH? Well if I can't eat it or shoot it - it's only valuable if someone says it is. Hmmm - perhaps I need to rethink my investment strategy........
Chuck - while I don't disagree with a diverse portfolio - that 10k in gold is only 'valuable' 'cuz someone says it is...........; December 12, 2012 at 1:24 PM
Dakota said...: Gold and silver will always have value, I have gold and silver because I feel that paper money will be worthless. i am waiting for the price to come back up on my silver and will then make my final purchases. Gotta keep some for "folding" money.; December 12, 2012 at 7:15 PM
Anonymous said...: Krugerrands are great but not for buying a loaf of bread. Just like you don't keep a wallet full of $1,000 bills today for "walking around money", don't forget to stash a few bags of "junk silver" for day to day expenses in a possible future environment where flashing an ounce of gold might get you killed.; December 13, 2012 at 12:43 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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They'd be better off investing in brass and lead.

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