You could always get a Nintendo emulator and Super Mario Bros ROM and play it on your computer. Or easier yet, just play it online! http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/80s_games/supermariobrothers.htm How dare you, sir...  Why not just feed a hobo crack.  This is my LIFE.  You can't just sweep away 30...

Is that actually you with the Nintendo Zapper Gun? I haven't seen one of those things in decades. Kudos to you. Ha... no.  Not me.  Found it in google images...  But I did have that particular orange version of the gun AND the Power Pad (for track and field).  I was just telling someone how I'm con...

Also it's interesting to me that almost everything that's been mentioned has been made predominantly of metal. Good call.  Love this thread.  I almost bought a Gerber multi-tool this morning... (glad I dodged that bullet)  I'll go for the Leatherman. Will seek out Iron cookware... The antique coffe...

You guys really are great.  But listen... If IF the dollar does collapse and mayhem washes over America... Let's erase this thread and say we were calling it all along!!! http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zJv17X2CI4c/TNQAr-cg__I/AAAAAAAAB_E/YB4Eo2gws4E/s1600/Captain+Hindsight.png ...(that's Captain Hindsigh...

Something tells me that this quote didn't make it into Spielberg's new movie Lincoln.

LOL... You don't think that quote is inscribed under Barack Obama's Lincoln bust in the oval office?

My brain actually took a big left turn recently.  That really hasn't happened to me in quite a while...  OK... try to follow me here...  Often there's a difference between what you think you believe, and what you actually believe. As recently as 2 months ago, I was convinced that the dollar was goin...

Jake, your show is outstanding.  I very recently became focused on my own financial freedom (last couple months, really).  Simultaneously, I'm trying to craft a small business over the internet.  AND, I'm obsessed with living consciously and being free...  Your show fits my brain like a glove.  Espe...

Pretty cool.  I'm always fascinated by peoples' inability to make the very next consequential leap in regulatory logic... That necessarily, to whatever extent you tighten regulation over business, you push business and government further into bed with each other.  We simultaneously loath "big b...

...So... Don't you have to wipe your butt to dry it after you hose it off?  I feel like any stream of liquid strong enough to clean away "the remnant" would also deflect all over the place.  Do people sort of just pull their pants up over a wet butt?  Doesn't adding water spread bacteria.....

I love that quote.  You guys might enjoy some articles by Tom DiLorenzo on this topic. To be clear, and for the benefit of any who may be reading, you love that quote for the picture that it paints of Lincoln, rather than out of any agreement with the sentiment expressed, right? Sorry, I should hav...

Like a Toyota Tacoma, or a Glock, or a good pair of canvas work pants....  It's not flashy.  It's value and long term durability supersedes it's cost.  It's simple and you can count on it.  It's the AK-47 version of EVERYTHING. I'll start---  It's the Oster 76 hair clippers.  They're powerful, barbe...

In a debate with Stephen Douglas in 1858, honest Abe said this: "I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroe...

First of all, you guys are AWESOME .  There really is an intellectual barrier to entry into finance and investing for people like me.  And it would seem that part of the solution is finding someone to explain things to me like I'm a 12 year old...  (Harry Browne was actually sensational at that). Fo...

In one of Harry's investment shows, he points out how big a difference 5 years makes with investing.  He points out that there's a huge difference between starting out at 30, then 35...  (hit home because I'm 35...). I'm poor.  After a horrible year, I'm finally beginning to get some traction.  I ha...

...Little did you guys know, how Harry Browne used to spend his nights prepping in his underground bunker in Tennessee.  Just imagine Harry sitting at a little wooden table surrounded by bags of rice and crates of ammo, blindfolded while he assembled and disassembled his .45 magnum.  Then spending t...

Hell yeah Storm, good lookin out...  Although I'd recommend dropping $4 on a used copy. 

I remember it being like 650 pages and (believe it or not) I read the WHOLE THING sitting on the can...  I've done so much profound thinking there....

I can't recommend enough, a book by the late Peter McWilliams called: " Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do- The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country ". This is one of those books that has EVERYTHING .  It's all over the place.  Even the footnotes are wildly informative and ent...

I love this.  You guys are awesome... So sometime in my late 20's, I became obsessed with being rational ...  so finding Harry Browne almost made my head explode...!!!  He's still my all time hero. What I wouldn't do to have actually sat through one of his seminars...  And in the 60's, Harry had a ...

Ahhrunforthehills -  Thanks for that writeup.  I went to Charles Schwab website to look at checking account details but it appears to be an "Investor checking" account that has to be linked to a Brokerage account (which apparently has no minimum balance).  However I can simplify my checki...

I must further confess that I was only able to get about halfway through "Freedom in an Unfree World" before I was too rattled to continue.  Perhaps I can only handle so much 200 proof reality in one stretch.   Man, Lone Wolfe.  I certainly do hope you finish the book.  The last third of ...

Wow.  That Chris Martenson "Crash Course" was an uplifting set of videos to watch over Christmas...  Pretty informative though. OK.  So this is a bit off the "Peak Oil" topic, but certainly in line with "Economic Collapse"....  Check out:  http://theeconomiccollapseblog...

Man, YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME...

I'm going to look down every avenue you've shared with me, here.  Thank you.  And keep it coming.

Hi there.  According to the news, on December 17, Julian Assange tweeted this: "Does your business do business with Bank of America?  Our advice is to place your funds somewhere safer."   If I believe Assange is credible (or at least knows something I don't...) how should I react? I only h...