Whether it's 5.8% or 16% as other have said doesn't matter. Every penny of government funding is wrong. And it's every bit as wrong as every penny the government gives Catholic charities or whatever.

So while you may have a point with your "shut up", it does matter since the government has no business funding any private business or entity.

So it landed, bounced, and then crashed through the cottage?

Or was it just a meteor like most? :-P :-P :-P :-P

Lower 4 digit number, as not requested.

Oh, how convenient that would be. :-/

Well, my sister's company uses Dreamhost, and they were hacked. They do use ftp (instead of sftp) to upload their files, so I'm guessing that's the likely culprit. I've since set them straight.

I've been a loyal Dreamhost cusomter since 1998 and I'm happy with their response.

I like to give to the WBAT Kids Campaign

http://www.wbal.com/kids/

100% of your donation goes directly to needy kids in one form or another. The radio station assumed all of the administrative costs.

Can't get any better than that!

Ron Paul, whom I support, would be the first to tell you that the govt needs to get out of the business of [many, many things], and that govt makes a disaster of things.

Actually, they're really not doing anything. As usual, they're only giving the illusion of doing something.

Which is good, since when they actually do something, it's invariably a disaster.

Yeah, it would only work once.

Anyone who invents a non-carcinogenic method of repelling mosquitoes 100% effectively will be my hero for life.

Hahahaha, you actually made me LOL.
Thanks, I needed that.

When geeks meet and have sex, that's like incest.

YouTube is blocked by the proxy nazis here at work, but I looked at those articles. The first one is simply a rehash of Mish's original post, and the second one is simply wrong. For example: "Isn't the dollar much stronger and aren't foreign stock markets much lower today than they were when he advised readers to invest in them"? -- No, both are much lower. Of course, it could have been true when the article was written, but Schiff invests for the long term. The results shown in that portfolio were clearly short-term results (i.e. bought right before the 2008 crash).

And Schiff is the first to admit he had no idea the Fed was going to begin Quantitative Easing which is simply propping up the stock market for the short term. It's easy to see that massive inflation is in our future, but *nobody* knows exactly when. Mish likes to say "Schiff was wrong about hyperinflation". I don't recall Schiff ever giving a date for this event, but just that it will happen given our current policies (which aren't likely to be changing). He's quite right about that. But it's still a future event, so it's premature to declare him "wrong" about that.

And yet that doesn't contradict anything I've said.

The complaints made by Mish (Mike Shedlock) have been well-hashed out and well-refuted, and as I said, those who joined immediately before the crash and then bailed out before the bounce of course lost. But those that hung around are well back into the green.

It may be fun and self-serving to spread such myths about Peter Schiff, but it's simply not true.

Those who have been with him for 5+ years are deeply in the green. Only those who joined immediately before the Asian markets fell had a temporary setback, but even those are now in the green. No market is constantly going up. But in the long run Schiff's vision is spot-on.

Personally, I opened an account at EuroPac in 2008, and my portfolio is up 342%. Of course that's largely due to a small stock (of which I had 40,000 shares) went up 1200% within the span of a year. Discounting that "lucky" home run, my portfolio is up 48%. I'm quite happy with the results, naturally.