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Is Pentagon Federal the Wells Fargo of credit unions?
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I will be speaking at the 10th annual Freedomfest in Las Vegas in July
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The 10th annual FreedomFest convention will be at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas from July 19 to July 22nd. I think I have spoken at about 7 or 8 of them and I will be speaking again at this one. I will be the real estate/hyperinflation guy on a panel with Jim Rogers, Nicholas Vardy, and Louis Navallier with Gary Alexander moderating. The panel is about what we would do differently if we had our investing lives to live over. . I am really proud to be among the list of speakers there. Here is a partial list of...
Drive a great car for once in your life
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My perspective on cars underwent a sea change when I bought my Lexus SC in 2006.Before that, I owned a Camaro, Mustang, Buick station wagon, Avalon, Camry. My wife had a VW bug, Audi, Granada, Oldsmobile, and two Lincolns before she got her current 2003 Lexus 430 LS.I got compliments on my Camaro, and many more on my SC. People would stop on the street when I put the top up or down. My wife got compliments on the Lexus and on one of her Lincolns. Many of the compliments were about the mirror dashboard. The actual instruments were down...
An unexpected sighting in Scott Adams’ YouTube tour of his home.
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A Facebook friend, Jose Miura, sent me a Scott Adams (the Dilbert cartoonist) YouTube he thought I might be interested in. I started watching it a day or so ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43oV01a6qY8I posted comments about it then before I had finished reading it. I just resumed watching the last half of it and discovered the SPECIFIC part that caused Jose to do that. I mentioned in my initial remarks that I had sent a copy of my novel the Unelected President to Adams at his home address.At 17:16 in the YouTube tour of his house, he shows some books he has...
The Left’s innuendo-apalooza referencing alleged Russian connections with the Trump campaign
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The Russia accusations against Trump are a classic opportunity to see innuendo in action. Indeed, this is the second such use of Russia, the first being the McCarthy era, which Dems belatedly opposed. McCarthy was a Republican.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyismBelow I list the verbal tools of the intellectually-dishonest debate tactics known as innuendo and insinuation:24. Innuendo: an indirect remark, gesture, or reference, usually implying something derogatory. 25. Insinuation: a sly, subtle, and usually derogatory reference https://www.johntreed.com/…/60887299-intellectually-honest-…• Where there’s smoke there’s fire. (#11)• This does not pass the smell test. (#11)• Trump, Flynn, etc. have ties, connections, possible contacts, entanglements, etc. to Russia. (#11)•...