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We’ve had some posters (in the last 90 pages or so ) who find it easy to reject out of hand 2nd amendment arguments in this situation. … their primary arguments are idealist variations of “wouldn’t it be better if ?” … to them, 2nd amendment arguments are distractions in the To Arm or To Disarm debate. Do these people have exceptional trust in government? Are they not at all threatened by trends of the ptb, of trends in society, of trends in ‘civilian deaths’ in wars, etc. Do they think they have nothing to fear… that all is well, we won’t have any SHTF… or that they might be “just lucky I guess” when and if the SdidHTF… etc etc. … ie it is seamless for them to denigrate or redirect any arguments that guns should not be banned because of liberty or mistrust of govt. These posters are intelligent, metro people. They are ahead of the curve. They understand how there’s no need for “fear” and alarmism… They know things you don’t know. This link will help you stupid gun nuts to understand what they understand. Articles: Good News: You May Be Spared Execution

Still "planning" to hold but bitchn' and itchn' to get out ... more trillion dollar coin jokes Japan May Or May Not Mint Quadrillion Yen Coins, But It Will Monetize European Debt | Zero Hedge ... and through golden eyes... “If Just 1%Of Japanese Pension Assets Shift Into Gold, The Gold Market Would Explode†| Zero Hedge thoughts ?

sidra, it is my opinion that a mature, self aware woman can develop further as a trader than can a man of equivalent maturity and self awareness . ... and it is my opinion that men and women traders have slightly different 'biological' obstacles and challenges... womens' brains are slightly less 'hemisphered', etc, etc, etc. ...and btw independent women traders don't have to 'interview' for the job... they don't really encounter sexism - beyond the 'sexism' they find within >>> People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway. If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway. What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway. Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway. In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway. -this version is credited to Mother Teresa

Rande, (or anyone else) can you cite research of what happens neurologically / in the brains, etc? Particularly, about the number of ‘uncertainties’ encountered before breakdowns go to high probability … Enigmatics the OP, for example “had been on a nice 3.5 week run” ..., etc. etc. Just trying to get a handle on a certain perspective with what happens ‘universally’ with traders … and beyond my sample of one / subjective experiences with this issue. Please don’t interpret these questions to be disputing to the veracity of what you’re saying... or how you work with it... or... etc etc Many thanks.

I personally got more upset with the word Junkie! than I did Truths MF, please don't be a Junkie! Junkies ignore / deny / distort the risks ... which removes any chance of leveraging any real Truths yours, ever pedantic, zdo

Yes. But, the suffering is not primarily bcse of guns ie removing all the ‘guns’ on the planet would do little to change it. I will reiterate the opinion I put out last week. (and also be an idiot by linking to lies/stats). Yes, ‘the world would be a nicer place to live” without guns… but this article, America's Biggest Killers: The Chart Anti-Gunners Don't Want You To See, shows how the world would even be a nicer place to live without addictions (...btw, before some bozo gets started, I'm not saying the suffering is primarily bcse of addictions either )

c'mon SIUYA, if you have the right stop loss point * you don't get a margin call and your account won't blow up. The point is that a gun can be used as a stop loss point to halt further damage to self and others. - in real, instead of financial, life and death situations. In both cases, the person has 'attracted' threats by 'being at the wrong place at the wrong time, etc. Here's the discrepancy - We have traders who would never 'walk around' without a way to stop out / limit losses financially... but they're completely ready to go totally faith based and would walk around without means to stop or limit losses to real physical life. They see the sense in being willing to carry their iMobiledevice into any situation to protect their financial safety... yet these same ppl. do not see the sense in carrying an appropriate tool into any situation to protect their actual physical life. They would never tell a fellow trader to just hope for "just lucky i guess" - yet they're willing to depend on "just lucky i guess" when the bullets start flying... * not restricting it to just stop orders, btw.

ya'll come do a walk about in these places Large Cities All Over America Are Degenerating Into Gang-Infested War Zones - BlackListedNews.com //// a few posters have started making connections between gun control and good trading. Let me make a couple of them - real simple and basic. Guns are like stop loss orders. 'Suggested' - but not necessary at all...:rofl: In each situation, some stop loss orders are better than others. In each situation, some guns are better than others. A trader should not be limited by his own lack of sophistication, or by his broker, or legally in the situation appropriateness of the stop losses he can apply. A gun owner should not be limited by his own beliefs, or his gun dealers, or legally in the situation appropriateness of the fire power he can apply.

well duh while we're fantasizing... lately, I'm thinking a 'society' without addictions would even be a nicer society to live in than one without efficient lethal weapons.

SunTrader, not sure exactly what your points are lately. For example, …almost every act a human can do is easier said than done… one breath, probably ‘easier done than said’… two breaths – already over the threshold and is easier said than done… and btw, warrior is not something that is ‘said’ anyway… it is something done from within. Words get in the way of real warrior. ... and...Few are or should be ‘full time’warriors… but everyone – even the weakest among us - should be in touch with that side of themselves… for their own wholeness and safety, etc. so - to modernize the phrase for us traders --- “Better to be a warrior sitting in front of a trading screen than a trader in the war.” ... the points of your other recent 'truisms' and 'quips' - just as smoggy... just saying ... :helloooo: :haha: ...anytime you're making less sense than me, it's time to ...

SIUYA, I can certainly relate to those sentiments and outcomes. Maybe I do too many thoughts about Japan. Do you all think this "dont have many thoughts on Japan" (for such 'reasons' like "it never came", "non starter", etc.) is pretty common? ...that Japan was 'canned' long ago? etc? fwiw Planning to hold EURJPY and USDJPY longs bias until ~ 3/29/13 ... but, these trades need some grounding in 'reality' ...maybe jpn ministry of finance will meltdown a trillion yen coin or something

Folks – on both sides of this argument - we really need to get away from citing statistics. When dealing with human culture and society, statistics are tools for lying - mostly about causation. … even Snopes tells the ‘truth’ to build and maintain credibility, then when it suits them to lie, they twist stats with the best of them… … etc…

SUIYA, Thanks for the post and link. I take full responsibility for sliding my own topic off topic to KeynesiaLand. Getting back on topic. My real questioning is about JPY (and jpn) Are my ???s ultimately about rates? … along with my own traditional JPY ‘go nowhere fast’ trades, I’ve also made a bunch of ‘went nowhere fast’ trades "chasing rates" in the last few years… each time there was a tinge of this time it will be different somewhere in my brains… last week, wired money to almost quadruple my treasury futures trading account in prep. for … Thoughts? Thx. zdo Related reading KeynesianLand: charles hugh smith-Spoiled Teenager Syndrome JPY/jpn: Japan's Central Bank Is Pressed to Boost Money Supply - Businessweek Stocks to soar as world money catches fire, Calvinst Europe left behind - Telegraph

re: charles hugh smith-The Dangerous Blindspots of Clueless Keynesians

I have been bearish on JPY since 1989… inexplicably … If I remember it correctly( and I don’t ), the bias ‘formed’ in contrariness … I do remember skimming a publication titled The Japan That Can Say No… I don’t think such docs ‘caused’ my bias though ...I have ‘blogged’ some about it long ago on TL http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/traders-log/7706-v-dow-spread-5.html#post104057 And before… … don’t worry – it’s just a (painful) bias:rofl:… thankfully, in trades, I have been able to override that stupid bias many times in the past and … across time, PM and other fx positions(like a long string of many short EUR’s, etc) have far more than offset the series of stopouts and breakevens and, (the thankfully, low quantity of ) serious losing short JPYtrades . ... avg price this long USDJPY trade is sub 80… been building the position since mid 2011... … fast forward to the present (:haha: via the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time ) The open profits are great - but something ain’t right...something ain’t quite right beyond subjectively not deriving much 'pleasure' from the trade even when the 'bias' is paying off... Some thoughts from others unlimited printing = Abe’s plan. Ben has a serious head start. “So far the entire sell-off in the yen is based on nothing but perceptions – the idea that this time, they really mean it!” “The quadrillionYen question remains – when does the bond market break it’s zero bound shackles?” “sympathies are with the Japanese pensioners and their middle class destined to penury as a consequence of neo-keynesianism and money printing run amock.” Wtf is penury? Does it mean they won’t be able to afford adult diapers, etc? Are junky/small EU members the new ‘carry trade’? Etc. :missy: thanks for Your thoughts?

MM said "Not everyone has the guts to shoot someone even in self defense. Don't kid yourself just because you think you can. " It's important here to add Don't kid yourself just because you think you can't. . The whole point of To Arm (instead of to Disarm) is to keep your choices available... instead of previously giving your options up in fear anticipating the conflict of such a moment, or fear that you might hurt an innocent in the process, or cause something worse than what would have happened had the perp just been allowed to complete his or her deeds (...or that a drug addict might steal your gun and do bad things with it, or that it's a police matter... and the ongoing rapidly deteriorating list of why's to Disarm...)... Distasteful YES but I'm advising all us to take the responsibility to be prepared... To Arm... and yes - to arm in the face of not knowing before or during what you might be capable of doing when and if such a moment arises. etc. “Better to be a warrior in the garden, than a gardener in the war”

Col B Well put. Great post ... For the 'survey' I own guns and plenty of ammo. Legally purchased + I maintain a concealed carry permit AND fortunately, I also did sufficient 'unregistered' purchases long ago. I practice with them and maintain them about twice a year. I don't like or enjoy them.

“As long as the right has more guns, the left should oppose guns. …Only when the left has more guns, should they… ” Saul Alinsky ... and his example “They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet…” Lenin Beware the crap in this link. … because the author looks half white – double the dishonesty etc. Gun Control’s Racist Origins | Online Library of Law and Liberty _______________ All statistically based ‘science’ / ‘truth’ is biased by the individual scientist. Hold it all suspect. The only sure role is the one of the skeptic.

As our bodies (and time itself) clear the emotional peptides about the massmurdersuicide, we get more and more discussion and ‘concerns’ showing up about ‘preventing’ murders in general…and theft, etc… and ‘understanding’ the underlying social issues involved… and how ‘vanishing’ the weapons would fix that… Ie our collective wisdom is showing through now [snik]. I’d like to be more nice about it db, but… that post is ‘collectivist’ drivel. ….in my years relating to those who spout this kind of stuff – those who hate hate the most, hate the most … ironic ain’t it. POVERTY in the US has a 60 inch flat screen, ebt cards, iPhone or at least a smartphone… currently, however unsustainable… Doug Casey. Two equally valid and stupid sentences: Poverty doesn’t cause murders. Murder doesn’t cause poverty. RASCISM. I’m one of those with an armed and alarmed home. But guess what? The first home invasion imago I get is a white frkn psychopath – not a black dude. I think you are projecting. ME Over 50% of my income is now transferred to others… and the gubmnt has made promises to the mob democracy in that “safety net” that CAN NEVER BE KEPT.* CHSmith I personally think ME could allocate most of those funds more wisely… even more compassionately… with less killing too. I’d also bet you have a limit where you say “enough! This isn’t “fair” to ME anymore. What about ME and mine? ” … and when you do get your ME back, db, guess what … it won’t make it any easier to (as the hypocrite Michael Moore says it) “kill one another.” three extenuating factors ... maybe... but maybe not. certainly no reasons to disarm the peeps jmo

To Arm or to Disarm... that is the question. Massmurdersuicides is why we is discusn it. Be careful... A fringe opinion… at least at the moment … Feinstein's Gun Control Bill Will Trigger The Next American Revolution

FakeBook (where can I buy some of that stock? :helloooo:) Facebook bans Gandhi quote as part of revisionist history purge

The compiler admits this is not a comprehensive or even representative list of economic ‘crises’ ‘collapses’, etc. It is a list of more obscure crises that were “interesting” to him at the time… Note how localized most of these were… to date, at least... We are now living through the first genuine fully globalized debt and fake money crisis … 10 Fascinating Economic Collapses Through History - Listverse

The Real Crisis: "People Have Lost Trust In The Government And The Market" | ZeroHedge I noted this because it reminded me of something my old EW teacher told me way back in the late nineties… while he was (very accurately, btw) projecting the decade + ‘correction’ that started ~ 2000 . He termed it something like “the stock markets will all be institutional by the end of it, the public will be out…”. I didn’t understand… (:haha:still don’t really ) … but Good EW work = quality socionomics work.

Here you go... pages of more well crafted lies, damn lies, and statistics... http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/Homicide/Globa_study_on_homicide_2011_web.pdf ( Ingot, I’ll see your statistics and raise you these ) Since everyone is lying with their dam stats... let’s randomize the propaganda a little bit 50 Random Facts About Guns, Gun Control and Gun Violence Articles: Murder by Numbers

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