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Temporary — Limited Posting

sorry (2)Due to some outside issues and a need to revamp the website, posts will be sparse the rest of this week. Things should return to normal by early next week.

The ETF selections will be published later this evening for the Premium Members of Trading To Armageddon. They will be published on that site, as usual.

Has Glenn Beck Gone Around The Bend?

Beck_by_Gage_Skidmore_3 (1)This video of Glenn Beck is pretty strong. Either he has something enormous to report or he has gone around the bend. The answer should be apparent by end of day Monday.

 

Website Update

websiterepair (2)The website is now back to speeds that are reasonable. To achieve this, two actions were taken:

  1. A more powerful webserver is now being used.
  2. Virtually all plug-ins have been disabled.

I am hoping this solves the problem although will not know for sure until the plug-ins are re-installed (making the website presentable and more easily usable).  This restoration process will be done slowly over the next week or so, so as to identify any plugins that may have caused the original problem.

Again, my apologies for any difficulties this has presented to readers. The next week will probably represent lower than normal posting due to these fixes, the Masters and income taxes. And, finally some decent weather here which means a rusty golf game needs to be addressed.

Tax season is one of my least favorite times of the year. Our income tax is a disgrace, wasting millions of hours of manpower unnecessarily. One truly can appreciate our government when we recognize how much they take and how little they deliver.

Website Repairs

repairThis website is having problems which I am sure some of you have experienced. I am told that the website is consuming too many resources on the web host and is being “throttled.” The effect of this, as felt by readers, is to make this website and its sister-site “Trading to Armageddon” very slow to respond.

In an attempt to identify the source of the problem, I will be disabling various plug-ins to identify the problem. The visual appearance of the website will be changing during this process. I am hoping that these adjustments will only take a couple of days, but have little basis for making such an estimate.

Hopefully this “debugging” will yield an answer to the problem and things can be returned to normal. I do not anticipate needing to make changes to Trading to Armageddon, although it is due for cosmetic updating which must await the current modifications.

My post volume will be low during this (hopefully) short period. My apologies for any inconvenience caused to readers.

 

How Does Your State Rank?

freedom123Freedom is a relative concept. Compared to other states in the US, how does your state rank in terms of various aspects of freedom?

George Mason’s Mercatus Center has produced a chart that ranks states on different measures of freedom.

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