dualstow Neither Kresser (see other thread) nor GUmby (based on his food choices in his post) consider lentils bad (at least in the sense of bad for everyone). I'd eat them happily anyway, but I am glad to hear the news. Now if you could tell me that bacon is good for me, I'll be ecstatic. Or even,...

found it, rocketdog: http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Cartman%27s_Silly_Hate_Crime_2000 I find the whole idea of a "hate crime" to be stupid. Isn't every crime an act of hate? The South Park guys have a brilliant episode on this. Really?  I'd love to see it.  Do you remember the episode nam...

Niall Ferguson to Paul Krugman: You’re Still Wrong About Government Spending http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/niall-ferguson-paul-krugman-still-wrong-government-spending-150100183.html World to Niall Ferguson: You're Kind of a Douchebag... ... Hah. I said almost the exact same thing on a...

I understand much better now. Thank you.

doodle wrote: Beans of some sort...lentils, blackbeans, etc. (10%)

I love lentils. One billion Indians can't be wrong.

Its easy to beat an index (for now). … but its those with the perserverance and stamina to stick with it that become the above average 10% MG, many of your comments invite the question, Are you personally beating the market? Year after year? I do see that "for now" at the end, which sugge...

It seems to me that if you put enough diets together and avoid everything they proscribe, there'll be nothing left to eat! Still, some foods keep coming up on the list: Refined wheat flour, like what you will find in bagels and white bread. Some forms of soy, like textured vegetable protein (TVP) ar...

Remember this thread from mid-2012?
Time to revisit it: http://gyroscopicinvesting.com/forum/ht ... ic.php?t=2

Pointedstick wrote: I find the whole idea of a "hate crime" to be stupid. Isn't every crime an act of hate?

The South Park guys have a brilliant episode on this.

murphy_p_t wrote: I'm including another example of a Christian martyr because it is relevant to the specifics of this thread.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Stachowicz

Looks like she harassed the wrong gay guy. Still, I find it hard to believe that anyone would call this a hate crime.

I actually listed some of your own examples before you did, but fair enough: you list more, including some Caucasian ones which I did not.
I admit my statement was pretty bombastic.

Still above average, though.
The last line in that article is baffling!

I suspect that if average investors had to come to terms with that they are being exploited by above average investors despite all the Boglehand rah-rah circle jerk propaganda to justify their false above averageness, they would become increasingly uncomfortable.  And that is why they justify the p...

Great information here. Thanks, all.
And, for convenience to future readers, here's the sticky that Sophie referenced:
http://gyroscopicinvesting.com/forum/ht ... ;topicseen

blaming much of the crisis on Germany's wage squeeze

In other words, "It's not you, it's me." Typical breakup. 

what spreadsheet you use to follow your PP ? I know it's not as much fun as starting a thread within a thread, frugal, but there are some good posts here: http://gyroscopicinvesting.com/forum/http://77.104.139.218/~gyroscop/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=8;topicseen (' Tracking Your PP's Performance ') In ...

With T-Bills, you made less than $19 for a 6-month investment of $10K.  With a reward checking accounts you could have made $75 or more. I guess the main point is that in addition to the safety, T-bills gave more than I thought they would. Of course, I was expecting the worst. There are quite a few...

How exactly did they "prove" if you were Jewish or a Communist?  I can understand the former by looks in the vast majority of the cases, but the latter is an invisible internal philosophy. As Clint Eastwood would say, prove 's got nothing to do with it. You mean this? Freedom of Religion ...

One difference that I've noticed, although perhaps not an important one, is the use of icons in E.Orthodox. I had a student in Russia who used to paint religious icons...and then pray to them. Not that there's anything wrong with that. They were great paintings. Jesus, of course, was an iconoclast.

I haven't looked at Coke bonds but I agree they seem quite safe. I still have KO stock from the mid-90s when I was not in charge of my own investments. Will probably never sell. If I thought there was such a thing as "blue chip" stocks (I don't) I would say Coke was the real thing. heh heh

I think MachineGhost is an alien and he's just playing with us. 863 voters polled. Not enough. As I recall, don't you need about 1,500 for a good sample, assuming that the rest of the survey methodology is sound? I have no idea, but whatever that minimum number is, it sure seems tiny compared to the...

AdamA wrote: I don't think these bonds have call protection either.

Now wherever did you get that idea? Certainly not from the first 97% of this thread.
Just teasing. 

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did you mean to write something else that second time, PS?

The correct answer to both of these is "who cares." A lot of people care. The way I see it is that it's relatively easy to be a white Christian. Yes, the PC people are trying  to force you to say "Happy Holidays" instead of Merry Christmas, and yes there are issues with prayer i...

This is much more satisfying than the nickel or so interest that my bank gives me every year for a larger principal. I think the major point of owning T-bills is the fact that they are (almost) risk-free. Absolutely. If it weren't for the pp, I would never think of buying them. But, until the aucti...