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  • “We’re losing our damn minds”: James Carville unloads on the Democratic Party

    James Carville is "scared to death" of the November 2020 election. James Carville wearing a suit and tie: James Carville arrives for the annual JFK Profiles in Courage Award ceremony in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 20, 2018. © Paul Marotta/Getty Images James Carville arrives for the annual JFK Profiles in Courage Award ceremony in Boston,…

  • HOW DID WE GET OURSELVES INTO THIS MESS

    There were a few, myself included, who called Trump a snake -oil salesman, after he declared his bid for the Presidency in 2015. What has happened since, has been the replacement of truth and sincerity, with hokum and bunkum. The real Trump doctrine. I will lie to you as often as necessary to keep you…

  • PUTIN DOES TRUMP PROUD

      With Putin’s signature, ‘fake news’ bill becomes law     Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he meets with members of the public in Simferopol, Crimea, on March 18. (Yuri Kadobnov/Pool/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock) By Emily Tamkin March 18 at 3:21 PM Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a set of bills that will make it illegal to…

  • THOUGHTS OF THE DAY

    “All truth passes through three stages: first, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; and third, it is accepted as self-evident.”   –Schopenhauer(19th Century Philosopher)  The club motto of (The Bohemian Club),  "Weaving Spiders Come Not Here", a line taken from Act 2, Scene 2, of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.  implies that outside concerns and…

  • A LOOK TO THE FUTURE

    Tech giants may have to be broken up, says Tim Berners-Lee Web inventor says Silicon Valley firms have too much clout and ‘optimism has cracked’ Reuters Thu 1 Nov 2018 04.08 EDT  Tim Berners-Lee says social media is still being used to propagate hate but wonders if that is because Facebook or Twitter were built in a…

  • TRUMP AND THE SECOND CIVIL WAR

    Donald Trump has ushered in the second round of the Civil War.  We have witnessed him incite violence. We have heard him go to the defense of Neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan, and white supremacists. He has created a fictitious adversary in the alt left. On many occasions he has diminished the brand of the United…

  • The Betrayal of an Honest Man- First Page of the New Book

    The man was watching the news when it was announced that three states, previously thought to be in the bag for his opponent had  put him over the top, by a combined total of fewer than 110,000 votes. The electorate in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin,and Michigan had just made him the President elect.   It is said…

  • Trump’s relationship with the truth is becoming a national embarrassment

    CNN)Donald Trump’s peculiar relationship with the truth — his penchant for promoting unfounded stories and conspiracies theories — represents not just a curious quirk or a character flaw. They are a much-practiced technique that has paid dividends as self-promotion in his business career and in his political rise. Over decades spent in the company of…

  • HOLD ON TO YOUR HATS, WE’RE IN FOR A BUMPY RIDE

    On the eve of the inauguration, when power looms mighty, we stop and give pause to the intentions of the almighty. POWER ALWAYS THINKS IT HAS A GREAT SOUL, AND THAT IT IS DOING GOD’S SERVICE, WHEN IT IS VIOLATING ALL HIS LAWS.   – JOHN ADAMS NEARLY ALL MEN CAN STAND ADVERSITY, BUT IF YOU…

  • When Society Moves Too Fast

     Why did the electorate vote for Trump.  Let’s try these explanations: In their desire to find someone different from the mainstream politician, the voters chose someone different from everybody. A lot of people don’t have the time or inclination to read the New York Times  or the Economist, or even watch the nightly news.  They come…

  • AND THE UPSETS HAVE IT

    On the morning of the Brexit vote in England, Ladbrokes Betting Parlor was giving five to one that England would stay in the EU.  The odds that Cleveland would win the NBA championship after being down 3 games to 1, was Golden State -1600, Cleveland +850. One week before the Nobel Prize for literature was announced,…

  • TRUMP- LYING CAN ONLY GET YOU SO FAR

    Trump grabbed the low hanging fruit in the primaries.  Whether he adds to or loses from this base will not make him competitive in November.  A Trump Candidacy is unbelievable to begin with and is only made possible by a very weak Republican Party. A Trump Presidency is completely unfathomable.  Some Republicans would have you believe that he…

  • TRUMP- AMALGAM OF STRANGE

    People have been trying to figure out what Trump is all about. What makes him behave the way he does. What is an act and what does he truly believe.  Donald Trump is an amalgam of strange. From his appearance, to his hand gestures, to his facial expressions, to his use of repetition in his speech pattern,…

  • Clinton-The Ad She Needs To Run

    Donald Trump talks a lot about things he will fix, but he has never fixed anything.  He has built some buildings, but a lot of people have built buildings, they don't say it qualifies themselves to be President. He has defrauded students at his so called University and is currently being investigated. He has discriminated…

  • Trump- The latest attempt at fooling the public

    Trump’s teleprompted speech last night, didn’t include either of the words; sorry or apologize. Does he regret saying all those insulting, stupid and provocative things? He regrets them because the blowback was more than he could handle. The polls indicated a seriously deteriorating chance of even being competitive in the election. New people came in…

  • No Mass Shootings in Australia in 20 Years: How Did They Do It?

    Mass shootings stopped in Australia after strict new gun laws passed, researchers reported Wednesday. And overall deaths from firearms have fallen since the 1997 law, which banned certain semi-automatic and pump-action weapons and forced owners to sell them back to the government, the team reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association. "Following enactment…

  • THE ORANGE MAN DOES IT AGAIN

    (A spoiled, whiny, man who thrives on intimidation and likes to play by his own rules.  Since trump has denigrated women, by his logic he would be entitled to ask for the recusal of any female judge who gave him an unfavorable ruling in one of his 3500 lawsuits.)     A Biased Judge? Donald Trump Has Claimed It…

  • Trump (With Liberty, Equality, and Disdain for All)

    If a 12 year old boy who ends every sentence with O.K,  Believe me , It's terrible, or It's great, is your idea of solid government then Trump is your candidate. Mix in the verbal deliveries of Gilbert Gottfried, Andrew Dice Clay and Joan Rivers and you have for yourself the perfect opening act at "Catch A Rising Star". In…

  • THE HIDDEN INTERNET

    Huge raid to shut down 400-plus dark net sites By Jane Wakefield Technology reporter  The sites operated on the Tor network – a part of the internet unreachable via traditional search engines.   The joint operation between 16 European countries and the US saw 17 arrests. Tor is home to thousands of illegal marketplaces, trading in…

  • Wall Street bonuses-A mind-boggling statistic

    Here's a data point that puts America's income inequality into a new perspective: the total pot of Wall Street bonuses last year — $26.7 billion — was almost twice what all full-time minimum-wage workers combined earned in the same period. If those banker bonuses had instead been spread across the 1.1 million full-time workers earning…

  • Customer Service Really

      An unintended consequence of off-shoring, customer service departments became less personal and more scripted than when they were located in the U.S.  Due to the difference in cultures and the language differences, an emphasis was placed on courtesy, but the lack of background in the technical areas created undue waiting times and less efficient…

  • Rush Limbaugh, Mitt Romney, and Bain Capital

    Ever since RL issued his now famous tirade against Sandra Fluke, A Georgetown law student, calling her a slut and a prostitute, there has been a huge uproar by the media, women's groups and democratic women members of Congress.  There has been a clamour to prosecute him for slander, for the sponsors to withdraw their advertising and for Clear Channel,…

  • Occupy Wall Street Two Months In

    As one of the self appointed spokesmen for the 99%, I want the banks and brokerage houses to make a lot of money, but I want them to do it using talent and experience, not extreme leverage and shaky products that the public has to bail out if they don't work out.  The public is backstopping banks' massive…

  • World Series News

    A pregame riot delays Game 3 of the first modern World Series(10/3/1903), played at Huntington Grounds in Boston with the Americans (the future Red Sox) facing the Pittsburgh Pirates. It's estimated that about 25,000 fans are inside the ballpark, which has 9,000 seats. Attempts are made to keep the overflow behind ropes in the outfield,…

  • Millionaires and Billionaires

     The president has taken it upon himself to try to rally the American populous, by frequently mentioning millionaires and billionaires as individuals who should be paying higher taxes.  Most Americans agree with this in principle.  However there is some blowback to this. It is in the American cultural fiber to admire millionaires.  The term millionaires signifies…

  • Cloud Computing–Don’t Know What It Is—Read This

              Excerpt from an article in the April 2011 edition of CFO Magazine. Will cloud computing save you money?  There is broad consensus that cloud computing will save money.  But, Bruce Schuman, group controller for IT at Intel adds that, "while Intel has saved tens of millions of dollars, the prime motivation was not just about cost but…

  • Breaking news

    A Continental passenger jet that embarked in Newark, N.J. and was bound for Bogota,Columbia, was diverted to Jacksonville, Fl. today. It was determined that a passenger with a name similar to someone on the no-fly list, but with a different birth-date was on board. Once the individual was cleared the plane resumed its original course. This should not go…

  • Welcome To Charge-O-Rama

      If you used your credit card at a drinking establishment or a casino, bought generic motor oil or a chrome skull car accessory, you are more likely to miss a bill payment on your credit card than other cardholders would. If you used your credit card at a dentist or a clock repair shop, bought…

  • WMD, LOCAL VARIETY

    Assault weapons were invented for one reason; To kill as many people, in as short a period of time, as possible.  There was a ban on civilians owning certain assault weapons until 2004 when the ban was permitted to lapse during the Bush administration. While this is not a nuclear weapon capable of killing millions,…

  • Observations

    11/19/2008   The Uptick Rule was enacted in 1938 to prevent stock market manipulation.  It states that a short sale can only be executed after an uptick in the price of a company’s stock. It was meant to prevent cascading prices and bear raids.  In 2007 the SEC eliminated the rule after a trial run…

  • The Bush Upheaval

      Just when you thought W couldn’t screw the pooch any worse than he already has, he surprises us with another shot between the eyes.  He goes and brings about a major financial collapse.  After being in office for seven plus years it is impossible to say that most of the blame for the financial crisis…

  • A Few Easy Fixes

    A clearing house for all derivatives would create transparency, increase liquidity, and let derivatives trade in a market place, much the same way as bonds, stocks and options already trade.  By derivatives, I mean credit default swaps( of which an estimated $40 – $60 trillion exists ), currency swaps, embedded derivatives, interest rate swaps and all…

  • The Pundits Spoke

    The pundits spoke, predicted and prophesied with their pens.  Told us to expect an increase of 1/10th of a percent or 172,000 unemployed people for the month of May, but the number reported was five times that amount, 1/2 of a percent or 861,000 people.  The largest single month increase in 22 years. Download employment_situation_summary.mht…

  • Go Jimmy Go

    James Cayne, Chairman of Bear Stearns, bought a condo in the Plaza this week for $26.5 Million.  This added to another condo he had previously bought on the same floor for $2.6 million. Of course anyone can buy anything they want if they can pay for it, but when the purchase comes the same week…

  • House of Cards

    The investment into Sub-prime and Alt- A mortgages has resulted in such great losses that the brokers are pulling back from their fiduciary responsibilities to their customers in other areas. In particular I am discussing the class of securities known as auction rate preferred securities(APS).  These securities are marketed by the major brokerage firms as…

  • Flashpoint 9/28/07

    Oil and the Euro hit all time highs today!   Gold hit a 27 year high today!   Google, Apple and the casino stocks hit all time highs this week!   The stock market, as measured by the DJIA, is near all time highs and the yield on the 30 year treasury bond is about 1/2% point from…

  • In Case You Missed It

    In case you missed it Move-On .Org sent out an e-mail on 9/11/07 to refute the claims General Petraeus was making before Congress regarding a lessening of violence in Iraq.  The following is a paragraph taken from that e-mail. "Petraeus is using "funny math." According to the Washington Post, Petraeus and the Pentagon are using…

  • A Partitioned Iraq

    It does not look as if Iraq will emerge from this bloody conflict as a sovereign country in it's present form. A partitioned Iraq or a country left to the chaos of a civil war are the two most probable outcomes of the invasion of 2003. Dividing itself into separate countries, as the former Yugoslavia…