Posted on 06/18/2011 6:06:48 PM PDT by Talkradio03
You must be one of Eric Holder's people.
It’s probably more indicative of your own low self-esteem that you would think realism combined with optimism is somehow unwarranted high self-esteem. If you don’t like my peaches, don’t shake my tree. I didn’t contact you.
I bet you're better than everybody, aren't you?
You're so good you know that other people like Glenn Beck don't have much to do and need to follow your itinerary.
You really seem to be getting worked up over this. Do you feel like you’re worse than everyone?
Re-read what I wrote here, maybe after you’ve calmed down, and you’ll realize that’s your own idiosyncratic interpretation of what I wrote.
We’re making progress here, TR. There’s no link to your MySpace page, but the youtube link lacks HTML coding. Perhaps you need a refresher course in HTML in the FR sandbox.
He likes it best when we post the links for him -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zJp8hZTRiE&feature=player_embedded
Nah. I'm sure it's just a training issue. Only a scummy, dishonest blogpimp would purposely screw up the youtube link.
Don’t debate commies. Just expose them.
You mean that kind of scummy, dishonest blogpimp?
TR would never do such things. He's the "Dean of ReYouTubists."
I hope he debates Beck—it would be good TV. I would watch.
For whatever reason, if you post the address of a link in the first post it does not automatically convert it to clickable html. If you do so is a subsequent post (as "shibumi" did) it does it for you.
Not defending TR3 but there are a few minor quirks to FR...
“High risk doesn’t necessarily equal high reward.”
I think you are speaking of a different topic in discussing trading and investments vs. ‘betting the farm’ on a venture/business. Example: a friend owned a small busiess that was successful. However, he decided to move on and wanted to sell to a specific man that worked for him. The man did not have the capital and would not take out a mortgage on his house to complete the transaction. It was more that he was willing to put on the table, and so he declined. Later, he did buy a similar business at another location, but that was quite a while later.
Another example: you may know the story of the founding of Colorado as a state by the Silver King, H.A.W. Tabor. He made his fortune by grubstaking people who were exploring the silver finds there. He provided tools out of a hardware store he’d started after exploring himself without much luck. Actually, he’d come by wagon train from Maine. The entire venture was betting the farm for him, and it paid off—until the US switched to the gold standard, when he lost everything, except for the Matchless mine. That, and the story of the love triangle with Baby Doe, is the source of the saying, “Hold on to the Matchless, Baby Doe.” She did.
My overarching comment here is to compare the difference between the business affairs of the individual and the spirit of entrepreneurism. In Beck’s case, he already knows what it means to lose everything. He also has a vision for his ideas and is willing to put his money where his mouth is, considering that his vision deals directly with national heritage and values. In addition, he now has earned the ability to have the resources to create that vision and help a number of people in the process with jobs,information and purposeful recognition that American exceptionalism is worth fighting for.
It’s a different mindset than wanting to make a lot of money in investments. Like the man said in “Citizen Kane,” “It’s not hard to make a lot of money if what you want is to make a lot of money.” Today that may not be as true as it might have been then, but that’s a different sentiment than what Beck is doing, which is high risk, the reward for which is dedicated to all of us citizens and the country.
Beck would have nothing to worry about if he accepted the challenge. Van “Green Jobs” Jones would disappear like a fart in a windstorm.
He’s not that stupid. He posted hot links to his own website (since removed by Admin - Thanks!) and then put a cold link to the video, so that you’d click the blog link rather than the video link.
Think about it. You have to actually put some HTML into your post to make a posted link cold. There’s no text in post #1. So it was done on purpose.
Sorry for the delay responding. I was just speaking in general terms about risk, in part because I thought it was only tangential to the issue the other poster took up with me: interpreting my post as an insult to Glenn Beck when none was intended.
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