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Open thread 8/10/2026 — 4 Comments

  1. I knew a young man 60 years ago whose Father fought the Nazis in WWII in Germany. He happened to be of German ancestry, spoke fluent German and was an art expert. In 1945 a desperate German sold him an Albrecht Dürer painting for next to nothing – it’s worth $ millions today.

    Another example:
    $50 Million Durer Drawing Bought for $30 at Estate Sale
    https://www.rarebookhub.com/articles/3116

    I have bought many signed first edition books for $25 to $200 and sold them later for thousands: Books by Ayn Rand, Thomas Sowell, Hayek, It is pretty easy actually. Buy something of value and then just wait.

    Go to Abe Books and look around until you find something you really like, buy it and wait.

  2. My father served in China during WWII and brought back a few artifacts. They were displayed around the house and the family has always considered them to be trinkets with little resale value. He’s been gone since 1991 and my mother since 2012, so they’re all scattered in 4 households now with no sense of being worth much.

  3. Over the weekend Open Thread, I posted developments around Europe’s Muslim immigrant invasion. The vitality of this problem afflicts the the region’s western most island nations, too.

    Today, I see a weekend story from the Daily Mail on military intel warning of a Civil War threat emerging in Northern Ireland getting vetted by an Irish observer. He confirms talk of violent chaos from…The New IRA.

    Open source data such as opinion from X.com tells us that the New IRA’s political aim is “All Migrants Out!”

    Apparently, as many as 90% of invaders to Ireland — the Wokest stronghold in Europe — are arriving through the United Kingdom’s Northern Ireland.

    According to Derek Dominic, we get a practical window in what these events mean. Apparently, polls show one third of Shin Fein voters support a hard — actively policed — border with Ireland.

    The issue Dominic raises is whether or not the old Left-Right divisions (or Republican-IRA aligned versus Unionist [or pro UK]) in Northern Ireland are going to see a new fusion of both ends coming together over the toxic migrant issue: if it does, then a Hard Border enforcing immigration it is!

    And thus on practical nuances like this does the alarming headline “All Migrants Out!” (media label for the New IRA) devolve. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGU9yfFMDDc

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