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This decision suggests that the Federal judiciary is going down the drain. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13865593/Deep-red-state-pay-transgender-baby-murderers-male-female-surgery.html
lj: What I got out of that article is that the Government has its hooks into DeWine, hence the downplaying of the Haitian debacle in Springfield. He stood by while they dumped Haitians in his State? Now it makes sense. Create a tech center and the liberals will flow in. Happened in the "golden triangle" in North Carolina.
lj: Tesla charging stations
I'll answer my own question: "In summary, while Tesla's Supercharging network primarily charges users for electricity consumed or time spent charging, there are exceptions for specific models and promotional offers. Most users should expect to incur fees when using Tesla's charging stations." My takeaway, which may or may not be accurate: The charge is based on the kwH rate in the area where a vehicle is being charged. If that is not possible, the charging fee is based upon the time it takes. Also, if the car is idle after the charging is completed, there is a fee if the station is more than 50 percent in use. However, that does not seem to be a hard and fast rule. I guess it varies by area and station. Don't take my word for anything other than what is in quotes.
TSLA's charging stations. https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/layoffs-tesla-supercharger-expansion-slows-093000033.html I am assuming that there is a charge for a charge. If that is the case, who in their right mind would buy an EV. Is the power grid going to be on the ropes in 5 years if EV's are widely adopted, not to mention cyber-currency mining and AI? Is anyone in Washington, D.C. planning anything, other than how to raise money for their next election campaign? It is disgusting.
NYBob: Do U think the picture of Trump with Jesus might be blasphemous?
lj: No comment on the Hezbollah pagers? Lots of collateral damage, it seems.
lj: "Blacks have to consider whether they want
to risk seeing their young relatives sent
to war zones under another Dem control
period of four long years..."
Do U think African-Americans have any inkling that this might happen? If U do think that, I have a bridge I want to sell U.
I argue with a liberal friend by texts almost daily. He has a very bad case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, being brainwashed by the worst of the worst, MSNBC.
I am to the point where my reply to his idiotic statements and memes is simply "Border, border, border".
The price of eggs should help Trump win. They are ridiculously high, worse that before.
lj: Intel, which has a lot of challenges, is a big beneficiary of the Chips Act.
Without that support, U have to wonder whether INTC would be $10 a share.
al44: The "Bee" is milking the latest assassination attempt!
SMCI: That selloff was overdone. When a good company's stock sells off to that extent, suspicion sets in and investors don't want to touch it with a 10-foot-pole (barge pole if you are British.) I'm still kicking myself for not buying MSTR at the halving and selling it for a nice profit when it went back up to $1,800 or better, if my memory serves me correctly.
Will we be smacking our heads if SMCI does the same thing? By the way, the 10:1 split happens on October 1.
al44: That was very amusing!
lj: Agree. This rally seems weak.
al44: An attorney general who would allow the Freaking Bureau of Ineptitude to go after right-to-lifers with SWAT teams at their homes (where they have children), is EVIL. Pure and simple. It was payback after the S.C. overturned Roe v. Wade.
lj: There is a poll out staying that Trump has lost significant support among Hispanic voters.
That rigged debate was a disaster, and whoever advised him to do it might have put Harris in the White House. I have good instincts on matters like this, and I was very much against his doing the debate. They fact checked him but let Harris' lies roll.
GRRR: After reading your analysis of the facts, I might sell all of my shares and consider repurchasing some at tax-loss selling time if an opportunity for a sale during the January effects seems to be presenting itself. Good post.
OT: What I have left that will produce any fruit is one plant with two big tomatoes, one of which I picked green yesterday. That is the entire yield for that plant--two tomatoes.
I have another plant, an Early Girl, that is tardy. It has maybe half a dozen small tomatoes that haven't finished growing, and a lot of blooms. At this time of year, the blooms are for naught, unless we get a very warm October.
I paid $20 for six tomato plants, and will have a loss on my investment! Mentioning this is in a post on GRRR is appropriate.
Early Girl's are determinate. However, I found that if you leave them alone after the first crop and let them grow all summer, if the fall is warm, they will produce a second crop, albeit with a lower yield. The Early Girl mentioned above is producing its first crop.
lj: GRRR Interesting. On another topic, there is another "pop up" storm that is headed for Myrtle Beach. It seems that Central Maryland isn't going to get much rain from the storm that drenched southeast and south-central N.C. today. It is going to go more westerly than originally predicted due to a high-pressure system off the cost of the Mid-Atlantic. And so our lawns are browning in September, which is odd.
al44: Perfect satire. U gotta love the "Bee". I am sending it to libtards.
Here it is: The COVID variant that will arrive just in time for the election. Actually, the article says it is a combo of two variants, which is suspicious, imo. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13852933/covid-strain-xec-new-cases-coronavirus.html
al44: "All of this should be clear to everyone paying attention, especially now that the World Economic Forum (WEF) admitted that the COVID pandemic was a “test” of our compliance with its desired New World Order." And people are still running out getting COVID booster shots.
What a racket.
Gmenfan: It is ugly, let's face it. Taylor's endorsement could change the outcomes in swing States, as Swifties register to vote, people who before her endorsement had no interest in the election. 18-21 year olds.
lj: As soon as I heard the cat-lady comment, I said "Dump Vance, put Haley on the ticket".
Had they done that, Trump was be unstoppable.
lj: I don't think a gasoline price drop will get people to up their Christmas spending, because if we are not in a recession, we are on the verge of one, imo. But, very low ngas prices are a BIG boon to the economy a few quarters from now because manufacturing costs should decrease.
TRUMP has made an election-losing mistake, imo. According to the Daily Mail, he posted that he "hates Taylor Swift". I think it is fake news. But if true, her fans will come out in droves to vote against Trump. Swift is upset with Vance's cat-lady comments. When I first heard of Vance's stupid statement, I was an advocate of Trump immediately dumping Vance. My neighbor, who is single (divorced) and lost her only child to fentanyl, has cats. She is a big Trump fan, and is very conservative.
Think about it. He insulted single women who are childless due to the death of the child.
Vance is an idiot. Trump is not getting good advice. Vance's job is to deliver the swing States.
Well, now U have to wonder how many Swifties are in those States, who, before Taylor's endorsement of Harris, had zero interest in the election. I think this latest development could be a BIG disaster for the Republicans, not to mention our freedom.
lj: Good recap. The refs were no friends of the Raven's in the season opener in K.C. on the 5th. As a general statement, not specific to the South Carolina game, u have to wonder how many payoffs there are in college football. OT: Saw a guy on a parking lot sporting a t-shirt that read "Roll Tide". I controlled myself and did not say "round the bowl, down the hole."
He looked a little on the weird side. Best not to get a Bama fan riled!
al44: That article was a softball piece, if ever there was one.
NYBob: If Ukraine lobs a long-range missle into Russia, it will be WWWIII. Putin has warned the West.
lj: GE and BLDR
Both of these stocks made moves up this week.
I couldn't take it any longer today, purchasing some shares of BLDR in my IRA.
I should have done that 20 points ago.
So, I end this trading week thinking about two missed opportunities.
lj: There is NO way in the world the U.N. would put troops in Israel. Rep. House Leader Mike Johnson would cut off U.S. funding for the U.N.
SSKILLZ1: Thank you for your take on VTRS.
The bottom line is if U believe the company has prospects, U will be paid to wait with an excellent dividend yield.
bbotcs: P.S. I believe Kelce is in the relationship for the publicity and money. She is all over him like a cheap suit, and he seems indifferent.
Gmenfan: Good point on feeding her the questions. But she did herself more harm than good with the adolescent smirking. She used facial expressions to call Trump a liar, and ABC enabled her with the split screen. The woman is an ass and so is Taylor Swift.
Trump bombed. End of discussion. Or not. The Taylor Swift recommendation will get 17-22 year-old females interested in voting for Kamala. Doing these debates was a HUGE misstep for Trump. He has nothing to gain. But his opponent has a lot to gain. James Carville, of all people, opined that Trump was making a mistake during the debates. For once, he was right!
LJ: "VTLE has something going on that doesn't
seem to be public yet by the
drop in the share price..." I don't think that is necessarily true. Perhaps some analyst downgrades are imminent, citing the new debt load due to the acquisition coupled with a significantly lower price of WTI since the acquisition. In other words, they think management are "screwups"!
lj: The Great White Hope lost the debate when he took the bait about the size of the crowds at the rallies. Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway reportedly just sold a big stake in Bank of America, on the heels of selling a big stake in Apple. I might go to nearly 100 percent cash in my IRA and spread it among U.S. Treasury MM's.
Question: Can Vital Energy survive, that is to say, stay in business with lower oil prices, after taking on big debt for what some believe was a bone-headed acquisition?
al44: Yes, the W.H. is correct, it is illegal for illegals to vote. But would the Justice Department prosecute illegals who vote or have them deported? You would have to be crazy to think that would happen.
lj: Take care if U are in the storm surge. Looks like she will make landfall in Louisiana after strengthening for up to 24 hours. Then she heads eastward. We could use rain from the storm, but it doesn't seem that we would get much, if any. My guess is that it will soak the poor people in the eastern Carolinas once again.
If you are in the flood zone, or worse, I'm sure U aren't too interest in stocks.
After the storm, when you have a chance, I have a question about VTLE.
lj: The U.N. isn't going to amass an army in the MidEast when the U.S. and China are going to end up at war. IMO, if Kamala is elected, all hell is going to break loose. The MidEast will be the least of our worries. The U.S. can be energy independent overnight.
lj: SMCI is beginning to turn me off. Their products require an incredible number of parts/pieces. Are their parts going to be highly reliable? Are some, many, or most of their made in China?
Speaking of AI in general, is the genie out of the bottle? In how many years will there be energy shortages due to AI?
Debate tonight. If Harris does really well, I expect a BIG selloff in the market.
r59: If I wrote the $10 call, the stock would be $20 a share by December! I might write close calls, say October $10's, and let the stock go, taking the loss for tax purposes.
lj: That storm is the equivalent of an annoying pop-up ad on your computer screen.
Nearly all stations on Maryland's Eastern Shore and Central Maryland that I passed today are selling gasoline at the fixed, rigged price of $3.09 a gallon.
al44:
Trump knows that the only way we are going to be able to bring down the national debt is to become energy DOMINANT, not just independent. The way to make the planet green is to stop deforestation and encourage people in China, India and Nigeria to stop having babies, though I believe they already are doing that in China, and, believe it or not, China could have a population collapse in 80 years. The more people, the more fossil fuels that are burned, and they must be burned because solar and wind cannot cut the mustard. If the Western world had not gone insane, it would have starting building more nuclear plants 10 years ago.