@Jack,

As a follow on to some of the things we were discussing from Friday’s show. This Liberty Dollar guy. Good example–that US Attorney A-Clown sees that guy as a TERRORIST, and is justifying prosecuting him on what is really little more than technicalities.

This guy is one of those unlucky ones who drew the ire of the government too strongly and they’ve gone after him. We’ve got such an insane net of regulations and laws that the common person isn’t even aware of that almost anyone could be made into a criminal if they put their minds to it.

It’s a pretty scary thing to consider. That’s I think why some people are nervous or wary about things like a 4473 form, even if problems arising from that are on in a million.

Jack, regarding Bernard Von Nothaus getting convicted because he was bartering with Liberty Dollars …

Back in the early 1980’s, a starving yong artist named Boggs was flat broke and down to his very last dollar. He bought a cup of coffee and a donut at a small diner and the tab came to 90 cents. When the waitress set down the check at his plateside for him, she looked over his shoulder and saw that he was busy doodling a very elaborate drawing upon one of his paper napkins. She said: “That’s the most beautiful one dollar bill I’ve ever seen! Will you give it to me to pay for your coffee instead of a real dollar?” And that marked the beginning of his own personal niche artworks of drawing mock US currency. He made a decent living off of it for a while. But then the Secret Service decided to get involved. First they siezed some of his work from an art gallery. And later they broke into his art studio and confiscated everything.

http://localcurrencycouncil.org/index.php/resources/features–articles-research-a-concepts/boggs-the-art-of-making-your-own-money

Here’s a quote from the news item:

Boggs made his own versions of US as well as other countries’ banknotes – although instantly recognizable as “funny money” (one of his most famous notes was created for the Florida United Numismatist convention shown above, complete with “IN FUN WE TRUST”), Boggs were repeatedly arrested for counterfeiting in the USA and abroad.

“Boggs Bills” typically feature the same size, coloration, design patterns, and symbols as the bills he is inspired by, but with a few noticeable variations usually aimed at comedic effect. There is no evidence that he has ever attempted to pass his bills off as authentic currency, or that his “bills” have been mistaken for the real thing.

Nonetheless, in 1991, U.S. Secret Service agents seized 15 of Boggs’ pieces from an exhibit in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The following year, Secret Service agents seized the majority of Boggs’ remaining work from his studio, home, and office at Carnegie Mellon University. In neither instance, however, was Boggs charged with counterfeiting. In 1993, Boggs sued for the return of his work, claiming the seizure of his work violated his First Amendment right of free speech. He argued the counterfeiting statute was written too broadly, allowing law enforcement officials to apply it to works never mistaken for actual currency. His legal efforts were unsuccessful. Both trial and appellate courts upheld the seizure of Boggs’ work, finding that the federal statute served the government interest of preventing counterfeiting without unduly restricting free expression. To this day Boggs has never been charged with counterfeiting, yet his work remains in the possession of the Secret Service.

Jack, you offered advice on long term storage of gas and diesel. But please help me out with this one hitch: when I mow the lawn for the last time in October, and then I put the lawn mower away for the winter and there’s still gas left in it, the gas in the law mower tank all goes bad by April. So when I take the lawn mower out again. I try to start the mower but the gas is useless because it broke down during the winter.

How do you prevent long-term stores of gas and diesel from breaking down in mere months?

Replying to Oil Lady-I put Stabil in my gas tanks for all my motors as a prep them for the winter. I mix the stabil in the gas before I use them for the last time in the fall (Motor Cycles, Lawn Mowers everything) and even in Minnesota where dang it they are forcasting more snow this week!!!!!! the start the motors up when I need them in the Spring with little or no trouble. Make sure all the gas in the motor has the stabil in it, and make sure you run the motor so you have the mixture in the cylinders. Or drain all the gas and run the engine dry and store it that way. Thats how I do it but I am sure others have other ways.

I have never heard stabil helps your engines last-does that seem to be true steelheart or you’re not sure? If it does seem to help I may have to try it otherwise it seems like an added expense. One things for sure though-its been a long snowy winter and I am ready for this stuff to melt. Over 5 months with snow on the ground is just too long!

Yeah, I don’t see the link off there front page but I found it within like the first hour I was there if I remember correctly. The link is http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/CB-BOOK/files/

I do not know if you have to be a member of there Yahoo group to download it but I am so I was able to link to it directly.
To join you just have to apply and you are automatically in, so if you have to join that group to get it it should only take a min to do and download.