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Howdy, dnr. What did you hear from filing your complaint with the SEC?
$$$$FOLLOW THE MONEY$$$$
Absolutely right, I did not get rich from NAEG/NAGP.
However, I do try to learn from my mistakes.
What Is A Republican For?
If the GOP can’t pass ObamaCare reform, voters may return Congress to the Democrats.
By Daniel Henninger, May 3, 2017 6:59 p.m. ET
The comments on this are very telling.
Republicans may be close to turning their party into fake news.
“Fake news” is a phrase open to many meanings, but in my recent experience people watching the melodrama of the Trump presidency unspool aren’t sure who or what they should trust or believe these days.
The mainstream media, no matter how many righteous speeches got delivered at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, is on a bigger credibility bubble with the American public than it imagines. Now a Republican Party fantastically unable to deliver on its promise to repeal and replace ObamaCare is close to creating its own credibility bubble.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-is-a-republican-for-1493852370
OK, maybe an over reaction. Not enough .000000 as a positive?
I thought one of your alt-egos had taken control and was speaking positively about NAGP stock split.
HUH?!? What does that even mean?
Forward split ???
not enough .00000000 ???
check out a remedial math class at your local junior college.
.2296 pps, I am to lazy to even try figure out what this would be if it got an equal forward split....don't know if I hit that right or not, but you get my gist.....probable not enough .000000's to register....lol.....but that tells me that NAGP is on fire, blast off
I don't know. Appears to be coming down NOT taking off.
As Trump budget plans fade, Republicans brace for war – with each other
BY WILLIAM DOUGLAS AND ALEX DAUGHERTY
McClatchy Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON
Look out, Republicans up for re-election in 2018. Look out, House Speaker Paul Ryan.
The fiery, never-give-in ultra-conservative wing of the GOP is highly displeased with the budget agreement reached this week.
“Instead of fighting for President Trump’s conservative budget priorities, they have surrendered to the Democrats once again,” Ken Cuccinelli, a former Virginia attorney general who heads the Senate Conservatives Fund, said of congressional Republican leaders Democrats are elated over the $1.07 trillion budget deal, which reads almost like an Obama administration blueprint.
“Early on in this debate, Democrats clearly laid out our principles,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. “At the end of the day, this is an agreement that reflects those principles.”
Gone is money for President Donald Trump’s border wall or efforts to deny Obamacare subsidies. There’s billions more for non-defense spending, and no changes to President Barack Obama’s Cuba policy.
“It’s no different than if Hillary was elected; it’s a huge loss, and I’m livid. Paul Ryan’s House is a not conservative House,” said tea party Republican Art Halvorson, who nearly defeated Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa., in the 2016 primary with 49.4 percent of the vote.
Conservative groups are watching their members, too. Dozens are expected to vote no, meaning GOP leaders will need Democratic votes to pass the budget. Heritage Action, a leading conservative group, will likely make opposing the budget vote a key vote in its scorecard of votes to watch.
Ryan now faces the same challenge from the right as his embattled predecessor, John Boehner, R-Ohio. Boehner left the office in 2015 after conservatives grew increasingly disgusted with his leadership. They were upset over how time after time he made similar deals with Democrats to get fiscal matters resolved.
Conservatives, already frustrated in recent weeks at the leadership’s inability to get the votes to repeal and replace Obamacare, see a similar pattern emerging.
“Instead of defending status quo, GOP should be defending Constitution, Rule of Law, federalism, free speech/markets, responsible budgeting,” Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., said on Twitter.
While no viable challenge to Ryan appears imminent, the prospect of conservative primary challengers to GOP center-right loyalists looms.
“Republican leaders promised things would be different if Republicans won the White House, but this bill proves that nothing has changed,” said Cuccinelli. “This is why it is so important for Republican voters to elect true conservatives in the upcoming midterm elections.”
The party’s center-right incumbents face a different problem. Cooperation with Democrats could be to their advantage, but the party’s internal squabbles could depress enthusiasm among the GOP base, said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
Democrats are more likely to turn out because they are mad, and the flip side” is that maybe Republicans, if they are not getting what they want from a Republican-led Congress and Trump, become even less likely to turn out, Kondik said.
Depressed turnout at the polls could hurt the 23 Republicans in districts carried by Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016, including Rep. Carlos Curbelo of Florida and Kevin Yoder of Kansas. Republicans currently control 238 seats in the House of Representatives, with 218 needed for a majority.
Still, argued conservatives, there’s no need to work so closely with Democrats.
“In December, conservatives viewed this funding deadline as an opportunity to deliver on key administration priorities,” said Heritage Action spokesman Dan Holler. “Instead, this bill reflects little more than a desire to kick the can down the road with the promise of a real fight — a winning fight — in September.”
Julie McCarty, president of the NE Tarrant Tea Party in North Texas, said the latest budget proposal showed that the GOP stood for nothing.
“We tend to be more disgusted with so-called conservatives because they lie and deceive . . . consistently,” McCarty said. “At least we know what we're getting with the left.”
More center-right Republicans defended the deal as an important political step, a chance to show constituents that the GOP can work with Democrats.
Former GOP Chairman Michael Steele didn’t think Ryan will face the conservative revolt that Boehner did because “he’s got the blessing of the White House.”
He saw the agreement as evidence that Trump is learning the tough reality of governing.
“A lot of core things the party has promoted, and the administration promoted, just aren’t happening” in this budget, Steele said.
Bill Dal Col, who managed publisher Steve Forbes’ 1996 and 2000 Republican presidential campaigns, said congressional Republicans were willing to take a short-term hit to get beyond the budget and move to bigger targets: eliminating Obamacare and revamping the nation’s tax laws.
“I think the base, and particularly the Trump base, will forgive them,” Dal Col said. “There will be some grumbling, some rough water. But they will forgive them provided they use what they did to get to the two big issues: health care and taxes. There’s now no distraction with a deadline looming. So now focus, get taxes, get health care done.”
If Republicans fail to do that, then “we probably are standing a very strong chance of losing the House in 2018 and will not pick up nearly the Senate seats we should,” Dal Col said.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article147934729.html
OMG, did dippy Feinstein really say that?
Two for the price of one -
Trump to NRA: ‘Eight-Year Assault’ on Gun Rights Is Over
by ALI VITALI
President Donald Trump promised guns rights advocates gathered in Atlanta on Friday that he'd come through for them as they did for him during the 2016 campaign.
"The eight-year assault on your Second Amendment freedoms has come to a crashing end," Trump told the members of the National Rifle Association, assuring them that they now "have a true friend and champion in the White House."
"I will never, ever infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms," Trump said. "Never ever."
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-nra-eight-year-assault-gun-rights-over-n752446
Sturm, Ruger and American Outdoor Brands Stock Rise as Trump Makes Speech to the NRA
TheStreet Staff
Gun stocks American Outdoor Brands (AOBC) and Sturm, Ruger (RGR) were both climbing Friday afternoon. This came during President Donald Trump's speech at the National Rifle Association. While campaigning, Trump came out heavily in favor of gun rights. Trump's visit to the NRA is the first time since 1983 a sitting president has addressed the group. Trump is making his speech just outside of Atlanta.
Sturm, Ruger shares were up more than 1% Friday afternoon while American Outdoor Brands was rising just under 1%.
https://www.thestreet.com/video/14109816/sturm-ruger-and-american-outdoor-brands-stock-rise-as-trump-makes-speech-to-the-nra.html?puc=yahoov&cm_ven=YAHOOV
What is that worth per pound at the Recycling Center?
Perhaps that could be the next project for Green Peace?
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. - Groucho Marx
OHHHH, YEAH !!! SHOW ME DA MONEY!!!
But, don't ask me to hold my breath.
Thanks, trkyhntr. I was probably watching that show on television when that recording, er, excuse me, that video was made. Would have been early 70's I guess
I doubt if Biden remembers the 70's ...
Or, you can use a Faraday cage, shield, box. Whatever you want to call them. Easily bought or made by hand.
Use a "Thumb" drive as your backup media for your data, programs, etc. and drop it in the Faraday box.
Or build one big enough to protect your entire computer, with one caveat, your computer must be completely isolated within the Faraday cage.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Faraday-cage-EMP-Proof-Box/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage
You mean, after all these years, I can say to my wife, "See, honey, I was right."
No, wait, I haven't gone suicidal.
Visualizing The Collapse Of The Middle Class In 20 Major U.S. Cities
by Tyler Durden
When future historians look back at the beginning of the 21st century, they’ll note that we grappled with many big issues. They’ll write about the battle between nationalism and globalism, soaring global debt, a dysfunctional healthcare system, societal concerns around automation and AI, and pushback on immigration. They will also note the growing number of populist leaders in Western democracies, ranging from Marine Le Pen to Donald Trump.
However, as Visual Cpitalist's Jeff Desjardins notes, these historians will not view these ideas and events in isolation. Instead, they will link them all, at least partially, to an overarching trend that is intimately connected to today’s biggest problems: the “hollowing out” of the middle class.
The fact is many people have less money in their pockets – and understandably, this has motivated people to take action against the status quo.
And while the collapse of the middle class and income inequality are issues that receive a fair share of discussion, we thought that this particular animation from Metrocosm helped to put things in perspective.
The following animation shows the change in income distribution in 20 major U.S. cities between 1970 and 2015:
http://www.visualcapitalist.com/animation-collapse-middle-class-20-major-u-s-cities/
The differences between 1970 and 2015 are intense. At first, each distribution is more bell-shaped, with the majority of people in a middle income bracket – and by 2015, those people are “pushed” out towards the extremes as they either get richer or poorer.
A BROADER LOOK AT INCOME INEQUALITY
This phenomenon is not limited to major cities, either.
Here’s another look at the change in income distribution using smaller brackets and the whole U.S. adult population:
http://www.visualcapitalist.com/animation-collapse-middle-class-20-major-u-s-cities/
It’s a multi-faceted challenge, because while a significant portion of middle class households are being shifted into lower income territory, there are also many households that are doing the opposite. According to Pew Research, the percentage of households in the upper income bracket has grown from 14% to 21% between 1971 and 2015.
The end result? With people being pushed to both ends of the spectrum, the middle class has decreased considerably in size. In 1971, the middle class made up 61% of the adult population, and by 2014 it accounted for less than 50%.
As this “core” of society shrinks, it aggravates the aforementioned problems. People and governments borrow more money to make up for a lack of middle class wealth, while backlashes against globalism, free trade, and open borders are fueled. The populists who can “fix” the broken system are elected, and so on.
Link to article:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-22/visualizing-collapse-middle-class-20-major-us-cities
Concierge Medicine will get Massive Boost from ObamaCare
Sounds like a good idea to me, here's a doctors point of view.
The shortage of physicians caused by the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in the next five years will drive a massive increase in the popularity of Concierge Medicine in the US.
As the typical healthcare organization adapts to the coming tidal wave of newly insured patients it will become very difficult for you to see your doctor when you are ill, impossible to see them for routine care and make the typical experience of getting a checkup feel like being dropped into a “patient mill”.
5 years from now, If you want to have a personal physician see you for all your healthcare needs, you will need to pay for the privilege.
One popular way to do this is “concierge medicine” where you pay a monthly or annual premium directly to your doctor and, in return, they become your own personal physician, taking direct responsibility for your healthcare needs. The good news is that concierge medicine is no longer a privilege of the rich. Premiums are becoming much more affordable – as low as $200/year – and if you enjoy seeing “my doctor” and not being rushed, you will feel the additional money for a concierge medicine doctor is well spent.
Concierge medicine popularity will also be driven by the primary care doctors themselves. Those who want to continue to have a personal relationship with their patients will find it very difficult to be satisfied with the typical high volume practice.
Read the full article
https://www.thehappymd.com/blog/bid/285923/concierge-medicine-will-get-massive-boost-from-obamacare
Mark this post. I am predicting shale oil and uranium extracted shale oil sand imported from Saudi Arabia from housing for Native Americans in Shanwei outside of Hong Kong.
OK, let's be sure I've got this straight.
First, you were hearing ducks quacking and they were telling you great things about NAGP. But, it wasn't actually ducks, it was a tape.
Now, it is not a tape and you're not hearing things anymore because:
My assumptions are based on what I see. Take it however you wish and use the information how you choose.
??? smh
Ask a simple question ...
I guess the dog goes in next?
What tape is that?
Your ears are much better than mine, I can't hear any ducks.
Would you be so kind to share what the ducks are telling you?
A whole weekend, I'm away and miss all the action.
Oh well, what can you expect from a free loader?
Fingers crossed that they WILL actually comply with the SEC and report what's been going on.
I'll take a WAG. She's got gas, again???
She's rumbling
McCain: Trump Administration Rhetoric ‘Probably Was Partially to Blame’ for Syria Chemical Attack
by Pam Key
Beat those drums, McCain
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said the administration of President Donald Trump was “probably was partially to blame,” for the deadly chemical weapons attack in Syria.
McCain referred to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson comments in March that “the longer-term status” of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will be decided by the Syrian people, McCain said, “I think it probably was partially to blame. And Secretary Tillerson is basically saying the same thing after kind of contradicting himself and then saying the same thing argues vigorously for a plan and a strategy. As I said, again, taking this action, I support and was important. But we have got to have a strategy and a plan to follow through.”
“Just a one-time deal is not going to be productive,” he continued. “And saying we are only going after chemical weapons areas ignores the enormity of the problem. A very small percentage of the people have been slaughtered in Syria have been slaughtered by chemical weapons. It has been done by barrel bombs and indiscriminate killing and all of the other war crimes that have been committed.”
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/04/09/mccain-trump-administration-probably-was-partially-to-blame-for-syria-chemical-attack/
Awww, man. I missed all the hissing and scratching. Darn!
Somebody give me a quick summary.
Wash, rinse, repeat. Form 12b-25 checklist for NAGP.
PART III -- Narrative
< > add current period to late periods
< > update dates in "deliberate haste" verbiage
PART IV -- Other stuff
< > update list of late reports
SMH
Jeb Bush: Trump Has Become ‘a Distraction in and of Himself’
something Jeb will never need to worry about
“He’s a distraction in and of himself,” he continued. “He’s got a lot of work to do, and some of these things — the wiretapping and all of this stuff — is a complete distraction that makes it harder to accomplish the things I know he wants to do.”
Trump Agenda on Offense: 7 Stories in 24 Hours Give President’s Base Hope
“Draining the swamp” involves hammering home the truth that Washington itself is a special interest, endlessly lobbying itself for more money and power. The EPA is among the worst examples of “regulatory capture,” where the line between a federal agency and its lobbyists becomes blurred. Taxpayers will rally behind Trump every time he hits the flabbiest, most economy-stifling sections of the federal bureaucracy.
Brooks said one of the purposes behind his bill is to “burn away the fog” and “show American voters who really wants to repeal Obamacare, and who merely acted that way during election time.” We’ll have to see how many of his colleagues run downfield to catch that particular pass.
The simplicity of Brooks’ bill was a slap in the face to Speaker Paul Ryan’s convoluted, ineffective, wildly unpopular, and politically tone deaf Ryancare bill that would have hurt Trump’s base more than anyone.
Bill Gates vs. the Robots
By ANDY KESSLER
Updated March 26, 2017 4:22 p.m. ET
230 COMMENTS
I just love the irony of this article.
Bill Gates, meet Ned Ludd. Ned, meet Bill.
Ludd was the 18th-century folk hero of anti-industrialists. As the possibly apocryphal story goes, in the 1770s he busted up a few stocking frames—knitting machines used to make socks and other clothing—to protest the labor-saving devices. Taking up his cause a few decades later, a band of self-described “Luddites” rebelled by smashing some of the machines that powered the Industrial Revolution.
Apparently this is the sort of behavior that would make Mr. Gates proud. Last month in an interview with the website Quartz, the Microsoft founder and richest man alive said it would be OK to tax job-killing robots. If a $50,000 worker was replaced by a robot, the government would lose income-tax revenue. Therefore, Mr. Gates suggested, the feds can make up their loss with “some type of robot tax.”
This is the dumbest idea since Messrs. Smoot and Hawley rampaged through the U.S. Capitol in 1930. It’s a shame, especially since Bill Gates is one of my heroes.
When I started working on Wall Street, I was taken into rooms with giant sheets of paper spread across huge tables. People milled about armed with rulers, pencils and X-Acto Knives, creating financial models and earnings estimates.
Spreadsheets, get it? This all disappeared quickly when VisiCalc, Lotus 1-2-3 and eventually Microsoft Excel automated the calculations. Some fine motor-skill workers and maybe a few math majors lost jobs, but hundreds of thousands more were hired to model the world. Should we have taxed software because it killed jobs? Put levies on spell checkers because copy editors are out of work?
Mr. Gates killed as many jobs as anyone: secretaries, typesetters, tax accountants—the list doesn’t end. It’s almost indiscriminate destruction. But he’s my hero because he made the world productive, rolling over mundane and often grueling jobs with automation. The American Dream is not sorting airline tickets, setting type or counting $20 bills. Better jobs emerged.
Mr. Gates may be worth $86 billion—who’s counting?—but the rest of the world made multiples of his fortune using his tools. Society as a whole is better off. In August 1981, when Microsoft’s operating system first began to ship, U.S. employment stood at 91 million jobs. The economy has since added 53 million jobs, outpacing the rate of population growth.
Even better, the Third World is rising out of poverty because of improved logistics from personal computers and servers. This has dramatically lowered the cost of basic food, energy and health care. None of this happens without productive tools—doing more with less.
What’s most disturbing is that the Luddites never totally went away. How many times have we been subject to proposals that would tax progress? ObamaCare’s regulations froze the medical industry. Its 2.3% medical-device tax was even worse, discouraging investment in one of the few innovative health-care sectors. Mileage standards on automobiles were a waste of resources contributing to the moronic Detroit bailout in 2009. Even a carbon tax is Ludd-like, raising the cost of energy to slow its consumption.
There is a murmuring movement out of Europe known as “degrowth.” If this sounds to you like a cabal of cave dwellers, you’re not that far off. Degrowth Week in Budapest last summer featured enchanting sessions like this one: “Popular competence building against the Technocracy.” Channeling Ludd, industrial insurgents and sustainability samurais want to keep things the way they are, like the eco-protesters at Standing Rock. The site degrowth.org is clear about the movement’s unproductive goals: Consume less and share more.
OK, but do you want to give up Google Maps, Snapchat and future innovations? Pry them out of my cold dead thumbs. Surely Mr. Gates knows that his charitable foundation’s efforts to eradicate malaria and other diseases require a lot of productive capital and hard work. I can’t picture him clamoring to tax robots that lower the cost of malaria drugs or mosquito nets. That kind of tax would kill off the next wave of disease-killing productivity.
I don’t think Mr. Gates wants to be the poster boy for the degrowth movement. He knows how hard progress is. After PCs, Microsoft missed the start of every subsequent technology trend: browsers, video streaming, search, smartphones and cloud computing. Today the company is playing catchup with neural computing, which drives image recognition and other robotic cognitive skills. This type of innovation, even if it destroys jobs near-term, needs to be nurtured and encouraged. Burden progress with taxes, and degrowth is what you’ll get.
Mr. Kessler, a former hedge-fund manager, is the author of “Eat People” (Portfolio, 2011).
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bill-gates-vs-the-robots-1490559460
Is that why silver is headed back to $18+, again?
Rachel Maddow: Trump ‘Totally’ Could Have Leaked His Own 2005 Tax Return
Journalist ??? SMH
Wednesday on ABC’s ‘The View,” MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said President Donald Trump “totally” could have leaked his own 2005 taxes, which she featured on her show last week.
Maddow said, “It totally could’ve come from Trump, which is like such a bizarre human drama at the center of this. As far as I’m concerned, the only thing that matters is, is that document real? That’s the story.”
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/03/22/rachel-maddow-trump-totally-leaked-2005-tax-return/
Swamp or natural???
naw, it's pollen.
CEO Makes Potential Employees Take a ‘Snowflake Test’ Before Hiring
I could tell I liked this guy even before I read the article.
Kyle S. Reyes, CEO of The Silent Partner Marketing, claims he makes potential employees take a “snowflake test” before hiring them, in a new article for the New Boston Post.
In the article, Reyes explained how his test works, and what questions it includes.
“I don’t want most people to work for my company. No, seriously. Most people suck,” wrote Reyes. “And I want people to work for me who don’t suck… So I’ve implemented something that is going to give HR managers and the PC Police night sweats. I lovingly refer to it as The Snowflake Test.”
“Anyone who may be a viable candidate for our agency has to take the test before they get an at-bat at an interview,” he continued. “It’s 30 short-answer and essay-style questions that help us to really get to know a candidate. We want to get in their heads. See how they apply logic and reason to different scenarios. See what makes them tick. See if they’d be a good fit for our culture.”
The test includes questions on how the applicant feels about guns, safe spaces, and trigger warnings, as well as some which are more personal and complex.
“When was the last time you cried and why?” is allegedly one, as well as “You see someone stepping on an American Flag. What happens next?”
“Since I launched this ‘filtering’ process, if you will, I’ve gotten a tremendous amount of whining from the general public,” claimed Reyes, added that he was “scolded by a woman on the phone yesterday who told me she wouldn’t take the test and ‘shame’ on me for making people take a test to come work for us.”
“She “demanded” I remove the test or risk losing out on ‘perfect employees’ like herself,” he claimed. “Bummer. Well, snowflake, it’s back to the heaping pile of applications for me.”
Reyes has previously criticized safe spaces and trigger warnings, publishing “An open letter to college crybabies from a CEO,” last year.
Charlie Nash is a reporter for Breitbart Tech. You can follow him on Twitter @MrNashington or like his page at Facebook.
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/03/17/ceo-makes-potential-employees-take-snowflake-test-hiring/
Wash, rinse, repeat. About due again.
mbaa519 posted on March 31, 2016 -
On December 30, 2015, the Company issued a press release to inform the public that its board of directors has taken a decision to resume financial reporting by the end of first quarter, 2016. Well it is the end of the first quarter!
Ahhhh, speaking of Al Gore, invoking Revelations now.
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/03/13/al-gore-every-night-on-the-news-were-seeing-a-nature-hike-through-the-book-of-revelation/
Al Gore: Every Night on the News We’re Seeing ‘A Nature Hike Through the Book of Revelation’
by PAM KEY 13 Mar 2017
Monday, on “PBS NewsHour,” while discussing President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt saying carbon dioxide is not a primary contributor to climate change, environmental activist former Vice President Al Gore said, “We’re seeing every night on the television news now a nature hike through the Book of Revelation.”
Gore said, “[T]hat’s a perfect example of a problem I’m describing in ‘The Assault on Reason.’ Again, at some point, a false belief collides with physical reality. We are seeing every night on the television news now a nature hike through the Book of Revelation. These climate-related extreme weather events have convinced the vast majority of people that the scientists have been right for a long time. We have to address this. But putting someone in the EPA who denies even the most basic scientific truth about this — you know, it’s the old cliches are, you can say the earth is flat, but doesn’t mean you’re going to fall off the edge.”
Morning, basserdan. just wanted to say I really like your signature. It looks as if Al Gore has lost weight
This is one "Ditto!" and a big "Amen" for Rush Limbaugh.
President Trump was showing his true colors.