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I din't see no stinkin chart! :)
And another just in my mailbox now.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=27207
You Can't Fuel All of the People All of the Time
by Ann Coulter (more by this author)
Posted 06/25/2008 ET
Updated 06/25/2008 ET
Liberals dismiss studies that show a link between abortion and breast cancer, claiming they are biased because the people promoting the studies are "anti-choice."
For the same reason, no one should believe the Democrats' "energy" policies.
Democrats couldn't care less about high gas prices. The consistent policy of the Democratic Party, going back at least to Jimmy Carter, has been to jack up gas prices so we can all start pedaling around on tricycles.
Environmentalists are constantly clamoring for higher gas taxes as the cure-all to their insane global warming theory. Clinton proposed a 26-cent tax on gas. John Kerry said it should be 50 cents. Gore endorsed the Malthusian proposal of Paul and Anne Ehrlich in "The Population Explosion" that gas taxes be raised gradually to match prices in Europe and Japan.
The result is consumers now pay about 46 cents per gallon in gasoline taxes. That's not including taxes paid directly to the government by the oil companies and passed onto consumers. As the inestimable economist John Lott has pointed out, in the past 25 years oil companies have paid more than three times in taxes what they have made in profits.
B. Hussein Obama's response to soaring gas prices is to have the oil companies collect even more money from us at the pump, proposing a "windfall profits tax" on oil companies. "Corporate taxes" sound like taxes on rich people, but all they do is force corporations to collect taxes on behalf of the government.
Democrats have worked hard to ensure that Americans pay as much for gas as Europeans do. After a quarter-century of gas tax hikes, a ban on drilling for oil and a complete destruction of the nuclear power industry in America, I guess liberals can declare: Mission accomplished!
In response to skyrocketing gas prices, liberals say, practically in unison, "We can't drill our way out of this crisis."
What does that mean? This is like telling a starving man, "You can't eat your way out of being hungry!" "You can't water your way out of drought!" "You can't sleep your way out of tiredness!" "You can't drink yourself out of dehydration!"
Seriously, what does it mean? Finding more oil isn't going to increase the supply of oil?
It is the typical Democratic strategy to babble meaningless slogans, as if they have a plan. Their plan is: the permanent twilight of the human race. It's the only solution they can think of to deal with the beastly traffic on the LIE (Long Island Expressway).
How do liberals propose we acquire the energy required for the economic activity and production that results in light appearing when they flick a switch? The larger enterprise involved in producing that little miracle eludes them.
Liberals complain that -- as B. Hussein Obama put it -- there's "no way that allowing offshore drilling would lower gas prices right now. At best you are looking at five years or more down the road."
This is as opposed to airplanes that run on woodchips, which should be up and running any moment now.
Moreover, what was going on five years ago? Why didn't anyone propose drilling back then?
Say, you know what we need? We need a class of people paid to anticipate national crises and plan solutions in advance. It would be such an important job, the taxpayers would pay them salaries so they wouldn't have to worry about making a living and could just sit around anticipating crises.
If only we had had such a group -- let's call them "elected representatives" -- they could have proposed drilling five years ago!
But of course we do pay people to anticipate national problems and propose solutions. Some of them -- we'll call them Republicans -- did anticipate high gas prices and propose solutions.
Six long years ago President Bush had the foresight to demand that Congress allow drilling in a minuscule portion of the Alaska's barren, uninhabitable Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). In 2002, Bush, Tom DeLay and the entire Republican Party were screaming from the rooftops: Drill! Drill! Drill!
We'd be gushing oil now -- except the Democrats stopped us from drilling.
Drilling on only 0.01 percent of ANWR's 19 million acres was projected to produce about 10 billion barrels of oil. From all domestic sources combined, we currently produce about 1.8 billion barrels of oil per year. To a layperson like myself, 10 billion barrels seems like a lot of oil.
The other party -- plus John McCain -- ferociously opposed drilling in ANWR, drilling offshore or drilling anyplace else. Instead of Drill! Drill! Drill!, their motto could be: Kill! Kill! Kill!
They refuse to believe our abortion studies? I refuse to believe they care about Americans having to pay high gas prices.
Peter:
Got home to find this in my mailbox. Don't know if she's right about the guy she's touting, but she sure is right about the fat cats and Wall Street boys.
Dear Fellow Conservative,
Do you know which special interest has given more money to the Obama and Clinton campaigns than any other?
If you guessed "trial lawyers" -- well, okay, that's too easy. But can you guess which special interest came in second?
Labor unions? Nope. The Green Lobby? Nope. AARP? Wrong, again. NEA? Nyet.
Give up? Okay, here's the answer: Wall Street.
That's right. According to CNNMoney.com, Wall Street securities and investment firms have given over $35 million to Democratic candidates this election cycle. And the amount they've given to the Clinton and Obama campaigns is nearly five times the amount they've given to McCain.
If you've been wondering why the financial industry has been in meltdown -- and taking your 401(k) or investment portfolio down with it -- now you know.
Let's face it: The former frat boys who populate Wall Street today understand economics about as well as the pinko professors whose courses they snored through.
That's why betting their entire industry on "subprime" loans to people with no jobs and no collateral made sense to them -- and why betting the entire U.S. economy on the likes of Hillary and Obama makes sense to them now.
These jokers don't even know what's in their own self-interest, much less yours. Trusting them with your money is like trusting Bill Clinton to babysit your underage niece.
But I know someone you can trust to manage your investments -- or rather, to help you do it yourself, without paying a nickel in commissions to some Wall Street frat boy.
His name is Dr. Mark Skousen -- that's "Dr." as in "Ph.D. in Economics and Monetary History," something you don't get by playing Beer Pong with your frat buddies. For the past 28 years, subscribers to his investment newsletter, Forecasts & Strategies, have profited enormously from his uncanny ability to predict major market trends before they happen -- often while the Wall Street establishment is pointing investors the other way. For instance:
In the early '80s, Dr. Skousen predicted that "Reaganomics will work" and said "a long decade of profits is coming."
He issued a "sell everything" recommendation just 41 days before the stock market crash of 1987. Then he told investors to get fully invested again several weeks later, just in time for the recovery.
He called the Gulf War of 1990 "a turning point for U.S. stocks." The Dow subsequently began a bull market that didn't end for nearly ten years.
He told subscribers in 1995 that the NASDAQ would double, and then double again. That's exactly what it did.
Just weeks before the NASDAQ collapsed in 2000, he warned subscribers that tech stocks were dangerously overvalued.
In 2007, he warned subscribers about the coming dollar crisis -- and showed them how to protect themselves.
Personally, Dr. Skousen had me at "Reaganomics will work." But it's nice to
see -- and nicer still for his legions of loyal Forecasts & Strategies subscribers -- that he's continued to call things right ever since.
What's his secret? Well, if I knew, I'd be an investment advisor myself. But I think it begins with grasping the real laws of economics -- not the warmed-over Marxism that today's Wall Street frat boys imbibed with their warmed-over beer on the morning of their Econ 101 finals.
The "bottom line," as they say? Don't let Democrats run the country. And don't let Wall Street frat boys manage your investments. Do it yourself, with the genuinely expert guidance of freedom-loving economist Mark Skousen in Forecasts & Strategies.
Click here to learn more.
Sincerely,
Ann Coulter
P.S. Mark has just revealed his 7 "secret" strategies to make you 50% Richer in the next two years. I urge you to take a look at what Mark Skousen has to offer and get the full details on Forecasts & Strategies today.
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Thanks Len, I just went to another board and it was okay and came back to this one and read the last few in batch mode and they were okay as well. It is a pain though when you're trying to read in batch mode.
Bob
Hi Dave:
The message boxes in my "next 100" are now oversized and for any long messages I have to scroll to the right. It's been a long time since I've messed with my settings and I was sure that there's just something I'm missing. Could you help?
Thanks
Bob
Godspeed in your recovery. I know you're researching all angles so thought I would send this link to SI that was just posted today.
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=23428358
Longtime lurker
Bob
I understood that you weren't trying to be a smartazz and thanks for the help. To be on top of this one though is to be a couple of years behind. :) One of the reasons I'm here instead of SI asking is I have no advanced search over there and I did look back on the discussions from the past. The links to the fixes are where TC left them in the header to this thread.
Now since you've been helping me I'll give you some in return. Don't use the back button on your browser to edit, use the preview button over or under the composition box. I think you lose one of your free posts for the edited double post. You get a second chance with the edit button as well after it has been posted.
S5
No not pulling your leg. I had only used the buttons Use Current or Use Default until about:blank hit the scene. After the first reply from TC, I did change my Norton settings on the new box to allow the change so that I could see what happened and a blank page came up with about:blank in the address bar and status bar at the bottom. Oatmeal coloured background. Since all I've read is about the fixes, I still don't know how it's transported. I am now assuming that whoever wrote this saw that in the setting for Use Blank and named the hijacker after it. I had been under the impression if I clicked Use Blank, it would be blank. Anti-virus programmes let you know beforehand not to open, whereas programmes like Spybot tell you after the fact. These .dll hijackers, malware, adware etc are like illegal immigrants and I'd like to try and stop their entry rather than try and find them and purge them after they get in.
Overstuffed bloating is the reason I got the new box. I couldn't download the latest and when Adobe took over Macromedia they got more aggressive. Every time I went to Kitco I had to click six times or so before I got through. Good thing I don't trade minute by minute futures. :) So I listened to the hype about the duos for a minute or two from the salesmen before cutting in to say that I still have my first computer with two processors and it's almost thirty years old. Z80 and 8080 with a screaming 300 baud and a "digital" audio tape drive. Where are all those tight codewriters who could do so much with 64K? Had to find out what was new about the new ViiV and LIVE stuff too. The two words marketing ploy could have sufficed for the explanations I listened to from the salesmen.
On Vista, or 9.1.1, I'll do the search and research. If 95 was 4.1.1, 98 5.1.1, 2000 was either 6.1.1 or 7.1.1 because there was a disaster in there somewhere whose name I forget and XP is 8.1.1 Fortuitous perhaps? You're thinking it'll crash and burn. Maybe if I don't use it I'll forget it's name in a few years as well. LOL The disks are shipping by mail so it will be mid-Feb before I have it and I won't instal until I'm ready. I thought about a MAC but couldn't believe what I got for the money. They are almost throwaways now.
Regards
Bob
Thanks TC, I'll let you know how it goes in about a week. I think I'll get an external CD writer to hook up to the old box and download to that rather than networking the two. I can't update Spybot or the other new defs as 95 is not supported anymore, but I kept using it and it kept catching things and cleaning them so whatever would attack 95 probably was in the last defs I did download.
Thanks TC, I've been told that, but HP made this computer and set the home page to theirs, that's what confused me. Now is there a way to check on the old box if I actually have it there?
Had all those programs on the old box and will install them on the new one. I had to keep it lean and mean LOL. I'll use the Norton until it expires then uninstall it and use AVG, Spybot etc.
Geez, I think it's about six years since I talked to you on S.I. Do you think Vista is going to help with all these problems of security, viruses, malware, adware etc? Having started with punch cards, I think I might be a little long in the tooth to start using Linux.
tc and all:
Just got a new box. Big changes since my Pentium Pro running 95B 4G drive (only 66% full) Now I can watch YOUTUBE!
My concern is about the dreaded and much talked about ...about:blank
I've searched the thread and the links in the header, and they all talk about how to get rid of it and I'm fairly confident that I can do that. I was prepared to manually input my bookmarks to the new box which is an HP Pavilion with AMD 64 X 2 4600 @2.2GHz, 2G Ram & 300G SATA drive running XP with Media Center Edition, remote TV tuner and free upgrade to Vista.
The questions I have, don't have answers in all that i've read. How is this thing transmitted and what can you do to avoid getting this bug? Now I think that I have it in the old box as every once in a while a pop up would show about:blank for a moment before changing to whoever was actually sending it. I just assumed it really didn't know what to do in 95B.
Is there any easy way to check whether or not one has acquired this bug? I always thought that in Tools >- Internet Options > Home Page Settings > Use Blank ......should be blank and that if about:blank showed there you have it. Of course, much to my consternation when I booted up the new box, there it was! Everyone I have asked to check has also had it and today I went to the store where I bought the new box and checked two of their computers online and they both had it. If I have it on the new box, I might as well transport my favorites and e-mail history that I want to keep and then fix the new box.
Could anyone reading check their computers, report if they have it, and if you have answers, I'd appreciate them. I'm sure I'll have a few more questions as I get set up and when I do the upgrade to Vista in a couple of weeks.
Thanks
Peter:
Thanks for that post, I've not been on IHub for some time and came to see SOB's post on the conference last weekend and the meeting of the Toronto Gold Social Club. Posted on the Canadian Political Freeforall thread on SI about our Fiberals this week. Also noticed your post to CD on the Silver Price thread. Guess I call it pretty good on Aug 25.
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=21637364
Squire:
I had my blood checked at the hospital after being ill, and Zolt picked me up and asked where to for lunch. After juice and soup for over a week, I said I want a burger so head for the Steer Inn. Only place we know that still cuts fresh potatoes for their fries. Gyros on a pita there is good as well and who else has butterscotch milkshakes? Golden Flame has great homeburgers as well, but use frozen fries so order the roasted potatoes. GGG Souvlaki there is better and cheaper than the Greek chains and Zolt always likes their soup.
Hope everyone enjoyed that open this morning.
Regards
Bob
B-
You're right it's a little scary, as is everything these days:)
I have to start here however.
Loonie? Par shmarr? Rand? Shcmand!!!
It's all in the POG IMO for Droopy or any of the Canadians.
XAU, HUI, TSXGPM, POG they're all at a crossroads or from a TA perspective at an apex of what I read as bullish triangles. I've placed my bet (well about 80% of it) but if I'm wrong and it turns on me, hopefully I'll be nimble enough to turn on it at least long enough to recoup those losses I've cut. I have a little cushion at the moment but was too early in and went through a down and up with it in the past four weeks so who knows, maybe we get just more sideways. I'll get out of that after a little bit as there will be no liquidity unless we go up now and for a period of about three to four months keep right on going up. For now it is what will tomorrow bring with the U.S. markets closed.
SOB - haven't looked at a KKD chart for a long time, but I recall it still being over $40 when they put the price up a buck a dozen. Should have been a clue and it looks like the Loblaws distribution didn't help. Still like the smell when I walk by and you don't get that even inside a Tim's anymore GGGG. The Harvey's across the street still smells pretty good outside but not as good as when it still used charcoal. Speaking of the old days, I'm sure you won't care but those my age will be a little saddened to learn of the death of Sandra Dee. Think I probably listened to some of her music cruising up to Harvey's in the early sixties. There also used to be lots of Drive In Movie theatres around here to see her movies. You would have liked her squire, she was a tease LOL.
M - Don't be shy making those calls, no gurus here. As a matter of fact send me a PM to hit me over the head when you give up on the PM's. It's about that time we'll know if oil has gone down according to plan and I'll need a tutor. Are these two in oscillating mid term patterns?
Finally, Chary,
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Looks like some resistance every 10 points, but I'm expecting it to break out right to 250+. You'll notice I bought that BGO on Jan 20th for the same price as you. If you draw a line in your graph from the bottom on Oct 13 to the one Jan 7th, it defines the bullish triangle, just wasn't expecting the next down. That line BTW if extended would line up with the lower highs near the end of 2003. Anyway, I'll sell it if it breaks 2.60. Gotta let em swing 10% unless they all start tanking. Hope this helps.
Celebrity poker is over so it's time for bed.
Glad that got straightened out??????? Followed one of those links to some Yahoo board but couldn't figure you for one of the posters. Anyhow just to remind you to bookmark this thread.
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=21062337
Dave
IHub and SI hanging for me intermittently since the move. Even when it doesn't hang, it's not the blinding speed we are used to. Reboot time? Time to get Bob out of bed and reset that switch?
Bought some BGO AMEX as 2.83
Good luck with your short. Do you have a target to cover, like 10.50-60, watch it fall to 10.25 and go long?
Late post. Last Thursday as cable was down all day, was stopped out of DROOY at 1.30, and back in for double the number of shares at 1.31. It was sure strange to phone in an order as I haven't done that since the early nineties when TD came out with Miramax programme for what was then known as Greenline. They were aware of the problems with Rogers and gave me the same commission as if I had done the trade over the Web.
Presently at 1.43 so I have made a little since the first trade and being stopped out twice.
One little cut didn't hurt too much so I'll be a SM and do it again. Stopped out at 1.41 but back in at 1.36
14 months since I took a new position. Bought some DROOY this morning at 1.46. Hope I'm not trying to catch a falling knife.
It's one of those options that can be changed to the user's liking. Gotta help these old eyes any way we can, although I don't have any colour blindness, this messing with the number in the MailBox today is dizzying.
An old request revisited as there was no reply.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=4874702
It's only the uncontrollable aspect of the east that's helping you today. The bullish demand is there always as long as we're growing, but your central government, well, I mean my central government, well, it's not really mine either, it's just the one Quebec wants.....anyway, they keep increasing immigration and the perception of risk is created by their stupid ad for us to reduce a ton. Have you seen it? No suggestion that we could sell a little less to export, just be a good little unthinking sheeple but a little colder in the winter and a little warmer in the summer. F that, as long as all they want for those BTU's is paper or a little coloured tin, I'm staying warm. So you must keep making money out there cause Ottawa needs a lot of it to spend in the silliest ways. Sorry not much holiday spirit in that thought, so think of me as that hunter and Santa as the Feds and those reindeer as the provincial governments. Rudolph was there too making it nine so Alberta stands alone!
Cheers
Bob
Michael
You're probably correct and will include myself in the we. Still chuckling with that image stuck in my head SOB. Only your twisted sense of humour could come up with that.
Can't come up with anything better so I'll just wish all here a Merry Christmas. Retailers at our local mall not very happy today, it's empty due to the storm. :(
Bob
Bob
I always liked SI Classic. The narrower box reads more like a newspaper column and I find it easier to read. You quickly found the fix in the new S.I. and I would like it implemented here. My favourite size is the same as this compose window <G>.
Thanks
Bob
Amarks
Further to what FP has said, the views for lifetime members on SI will be the same as they are now, next 10 and not the unlimited (100) that there is presently or here at IHub. You will be allowed unlimited posting privileges. Still, they're not going to be offering Lifetimes too often so now might be the right time to jump in and you may not get another, at least for a while.
Hey SOB
Did you decide on cable internet? You must have a lot of time to watch TV to need all those channels!:) Just to let you know that I have had a few glitches in my service these last few days. Nothing serious, just a few minutes here and there and one evening for a half an hour while the TV cable was still on. Just over a week until the U.S. election so maybe time for me to load up. We'll see how we open tomorrow in the PM's.
Glad you clarified the comments, some of them made me wonder what you were thinking. Thought yours showed the ADX better in light of the discussion than the noise on those charts SOB posted. I'm too old to process that many indicators in my reducing grey matter. LOL
Sexy
Still waiting for the Yankees game to end. Looking at Zolt's charts, after all the noise on those you posted, simplifies it for me and I really like the way he overlaps a magnified view at the far right edge. He calls his "All that Glitters"
http://www.zolisfx.com/zolisstocks/charts.htm
+DI turning down on most and ADX also turning down or flattening suggesting and IT top has been reached here. The one thing that I agreed with on Swank's site was that the XAU gap at 85 was troubling. Just my opinion that gold will keep getting whacked up to the election while they pump everything else. Can't believe the breakout in RIMM, but there it is showing how the pumping is working. Notice the latest jump up in the gold equities came with reduced volume, so looks to me like distribution. Gaps that need closing on SWG and PDG might make interesting short term shorts. Boston wins so may be able to get up early and place a short order, or things could change in the world while I sleep!
Sorry Chris to be suggesting a short on your favourite puppy! Of course maybe you're not seeing the same things in your charts that I am. :)
Thanks Chary, SOB & Chris did you get that link?
Although I take that as a compliment, I would prefer the high country ranches of the BC interior.
Lol, a good likness! I also have that cynical look about me, as if to say when will they ever get it. My voice isn't quite so gravelly as the colonels'. Good likeness of you as Freddie with glasses.
As for the books, get Reminiscences from the library, you'll read it quick, buy Trading Room and between Chris and I we'll get you Selling Short to borrow. It's just average for readability but important. Elder is a nice read but there's a lot there.
Later
Bob
Joe Badali's.
Not there, but we have 14 IHub and SI members getting together next Sunday evening for dinner following this one.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=3835222
Hey, that could work out okay great for me. Not sure what time I'll be going down, but will also take the tube, but be driven down to Finch or take the bus. Since I'm taking rat poison, can't have more than two drinks so could lead you home by your hand.
Jeez everytime I see your handle I think "kirby69"
Nothing so exotic LOL, but if that was the case, it would take 20 years from my age.
Born and raised just south of Steeles and been travelling Yonge St. since long before that first Harvey's appeared. Have a vivid image of the steeples on the hill being scary, but knew we had to pass through them all in order to pick up my grandmother who worked at the Loyal True Blue and Orange when it was still an orphanage back in the early fifties.
The ten year stint I did in Edmonton was great and I still think as a city it vastly surpasses the big smoke, but the golfing season here is so much longer. :)
There may be no gurus here, but I'm not sure how SOB got my picture!
Not trying to as I know there are no gurus here :)