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  • SOME MORE INTERESTING QUOTES

    “Neither a monkey who misses a branch nor a man who misses his chance can be saved”  – Old Indian Saying A Toast-   “Some ships are wooden ships, and other ships may sink,  but the best ships are friendships and to those ships we drink”  –As told to Bob Dylan by David Crosby The moral…

  • LIES ARE SO MUCH MORE FUN

    NEW BEST SELLER- [HOW TO ATTAIN PROFIT AND POWER BY LYING AND COMMITTING FRAUD]   Written by George Santos, with a forward by Donald Trump and pictures supplied by Marjorie Taylor Greene BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE IN PRODUCTION WITH CAMEOS BY JIM JORDAN AND RAND PAUL CLASSES START IN THE FALL AT ALL MAJOR UNIVERSITIES

  • GREAT BANKSY ART

     

  • SOME INTERESTING RULES FOR TRADING SECURITIES

    1. NEVER, EVER ADD TO A LOSING POSITION… NOT EVER!: Adding to losing trades eventually leads to ruin. All great market humiliations are first preceded by a person… or a group… doing so, such as the Nobel Laureates of Long Term Capital Management or Nick Leeson of Barings or Sam Bankman-Fried! 2. TRADE LIKE A…

  • SOME QUOTES BY THE AUTHOR

      You can't be richer than a genuinely contented man.   One of the great things in life is being able to say you're lucky.    It is a life well lived that has only a few regrets.   My behavior is derived from habit rather than tradition.   There is no measuring stick for…

  • The supplement Dr. Fauci takes to help keep his immune system healthy

    HEALTH AND WELLNESS The supplement Dr. Fauci takes to help keep his immune system healthy Published Mon, Sep 14 20202:33 PM EDTUpdated Mon, Sep 14 20207:38 PM EDT     Jade Scipioni Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, prepares to testify during a House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis hearing…

  • 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…

  • LATEST GRAFFITE MURAL BY BANKSY

    Two walls of a garage owned by a local steelworker.The art, which appears to pay homage to the town's industrial past, depicts a child playing in what looks like snow. But viewed from another angle this appears to be embers and smoke from a skip fire.

  • 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- BE PREPARED FOR THREE MORE MONTHS OF THE SAME

    The republican party has no mechanism to remove Trump from the ticket. Nor can they talk him into changing his ways, because the legacy he wants to leave is that nobody tells him what to do. The man who uses his phone and twitter account like a little boy uses a new toy, seems to…

  • 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…

  • A Pretty Little Bauble

    The world's biggest blue star sapphire weighs 1404.49 carats.   (CNN)The world's biggest blue star sapphire — weighing in at 1,404.49 carats — has been found in a mine in Sri Lanka. Gemologists in Colombo say the gem is worth at least $100 million, but could sell for up to $175 million. Star sapphires get…

  • Robin Williams

    One of the most endearing and talented entertainers of our era has past away, reportedly as a suicide..  A fine actor of varied skills, he had an organic intensity and a great quality for eliciting empathy from the viewers.  The master of improvisational comedy, Robin had incredible skills of mimicry, creativity and physical delivery, that enabled…

  • THE FROG AND THE SCORPION

    A frog and a scorpion are on the side of the river. The scorpion says to the frog “will you give me a ride on your back across the river?“  The frog says “you must be crazy, if I give you a ride on my back across the water you will sting me”.    The…

  • Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain

    No one ever gave Michele Bachmann or Herman Cain a shot at winning the nomination,  but don't all candidates at least owe the public a degree of candor and english literacy. First Herman Cain, and last night, Michele Bachmann announced suspensions of their campaigns.  They did not suspend their campaigns, they terminated them.  They withdrew from…

  • Donald Trump- An Embarrassment of American Culture

    C'mon man;  In his latest act of buffoonery, Trump has pulled out of his moderator's role in the Republican debate which all but two campaigners refused to attend in the first place.  Self promotion is what gets Donald Trump out of bed each morning. The fact that he initiated the debate to coincide with the release of a…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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 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…

  • A Curious Man

    It's difficult to publicize a man like H.L. Mencken. Viewed as a terrible anti-semite, in reality, a critic of everything, with a penchant for horrific hyperbole.  As one who showed a marked indifference to the ramifications of his diatribes, it is hard to deny his wit. "I never lecture, not because I am shy or…

  • Who Said Tackle

    Football has it's share of unpopular and controversial rules. There still is confusion over a reception when the ball partially hits the ground, whether a coach and the referee should be able to plan in advance a timeout before a field goal attempt and can you have pass interference if the pass is uncatchable. Some…

  • VESTED OPTIMISM

    It’s that time of the year again when the stock market pundits make their forecasts for ever rising stock prices in the coming year. $96 oil, the housing and auto markets falling faster than the direst predictions, the consumer up to his eyeballs in debt and not likely to continue to be the engine of…

  • Nature’s Way

    Desired or not nature decided to slow things down today.  Parked in the middle of Clarksdale Rd., a busy little two lane thoroughfare in my neighborhood, with a lot of farm area and not many cross streets, was a giant turtle, almost two feet in diameter.    People were getting out of their cars to…

  • 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…

  • The Autonomy of the Fed is being Threatened

      Eventually all the pundits that try to jawbone the Fed to action will reap the negative results of a weakened Federal Reserve if the Fed is seen to be reactionary to the pressures of the outcries. The confidence of the business world which the Fed needs to maintain in order to function effectively, is…

  • New Low For Bush

    Bush's insistence on announcing the detailed timetable for deploying troops into Baghdad has once again given up any advantage of surprise, given advance time to the enemy to formulate it's plan of action, and is another example of his using the military as pawns to gain political advantage. As a result of his tragic misadventure…

  • Bull or Bear

                     Not a correction, not a bear market…When the Dow Jones, S&P, and NASDAQ were purring along on an upward climb from July of 2006 through February of 2007 the market was reacting to a positive set of circumstances, led by high corporate earnings. The fact that the markets have…

  • Bernard

    "Life is a tragedy full of joy"- Bernard Malamud

  • Constructive Criticism

    The Attorney General spoke today about the inferior abilities of federal judges to decide terrorism cases.  In his address to a Washington think tank he said,"That, for example, a judge will never be in the best position to know what is in the national security interests of our country." When outlining criteria for selecting candidates…

  • Righting a Wrong

    There is a new Democratic initiative in congress to tax Internet commerce. First of all, there is a trade off between shopping at the brick & mortar retailers and buying over the Internet. Whereas you don't pay taxes for most goods purchased over the Internet , you do pay for shipping. Secondly, the most egregious…

  • Sometimes You Just Can’t Win

    In the early 1940s a group including actors,writers and business people were assembled over dinner at a restaurant in Chicago. The hostess of the dinner started gushing over her friend, an up and coming  business man in his early 30"s. She told the group that this fellow was the youngest bridge player, at fifteen, to…