http://247wallst.com/investing/2015...g-for-1952-topps-mickey-mantle-baseball-card/With the exception of a handful of legitimately rare older cards. You could buy a '52 Topps Mantle (ungraded) for one or two grand in the early 90s, depending on condition. I saw half a dozen of them in shops around Los Angeles. Now they sell for six figures. One sold in August for almost $400,000. They say if any of the really high grade ones ever came up for auction they could probably fetch $650,000.
Back in 1986 the guy who bought the stash that included all of the really high grade Mantles that exist today paid $125,000 for the whole case. 42 like-new Mantles in there. He sold them all in the 80s and made $475,000 in the process. If you sold those now you'd probably pull in 10 times more.
Well, you can go back to Stitcher now if you'd like.Where do you recommend listening from?
There have been 353 in the U.S. this year. More than one a day.Mass shootings are so rare statistically...
It absolutely is.As to whether religious extremism is a form of mental illness - who knows.
If guns and ammunition were available at every drugstore in my country as they're available in the Land of the Free, there would be at least 353 000 shootings/killings a year here where I live.There have been 353 (shootings) in the U.S. this year.
That it has become so frequent over there? isn't that enough to say, you need to change the law and ban the private ownership of automatic weapons and handguns.I get the point about being awash in them and the illegal ownership,but it's a start. The U.S government were willing to ratify the Eighteenth Amendment banning alcohol because of its harmful effect (not a good point really, seeing as how that went) but why can't the same God fearing people get all riled up about this? possibly because they're too busy licking their guns in the privacy of their cupboard.There have been 353 in the U.S. this year. More than one a day.
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[...What's the difference between that and really believing that talking to someone who isn't there (i.e. praying) will keep you safe or cure your cancer or psoriasis?...]
They do get riled up about it. Not in the way you mean though. Any time there is talk of gun control, the NRA tells its adherents that THE GOVERNMENT IS COMING FOR YOUR GUNS! And the jungle telegraph lights up with defiant hillbillies screaming about prying their guns from their "cold, dead hands."The U.S government were willing to ratify the Eighteenth Amendment banning alcohol because of its harmful effect [...] why can't the same God fearing people get all riled up about this?
You might be surprised to learn that most Americans feel the same way when they see a picture like that.anybody who poses like this around here is simply regarded as mad, crazy, completely ballaballa and rather outright dangerous, really.
[... no modern country is going to amend their societal rules to allow the state to walk in to the citizens homes and take whatever they find offensive. We already have that in some places and it doesn't really make for a peaceful society, does it. View attachment 8621
You're right! How can these irresponsible adults leave the poor babies unarmed!pictures like this ... are really hard to process
You may also not be surprised to learn that most people in Nevada are bat-shit crazy.
Yeah, if you just keep clicking that you can listen to the whole thing in like half a minute. :aerb:The options below are very useful, especially the 30s skipper.