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Whoever's trying to buy for .25 would make my portfolio look a whole lot better if they'd just spring for the extra penny.
BFD. New website is all well and good, but I don't feel that's going to turn this stock around. I'm getting my fat adult butt kicked here.
Cheney has staked his career and future reputation on another terrorist strike. He may not want it, but he needs it.
Bill Cosby didn't write that trash. This is an old right-wing ploy. You should read the one where the try to make George Carlin into an anti-immigrant raving maniac. You should know better, Wal.
Barack Obama never promised a rose garden and he never promised a revolution. As president of the USA it is his responsibility to protect American institutions such as Wall Street and the Pentagon. If he were not dedicated to those propositions he never would have been elected and if he strayed from those purposes he would probably be dispatched from office, one way or another. Within that framework, he is staying true to his campaign promises -- he said withdrawal from Iraq will take some time, the closing of Gitmo is on schedule, the release of the photos is inevitable as it's not his decision to make, and he knows that. That he has to play politics, and that he is so good at it, is more a guarantee that these things will get done than if he charged ahead and tried to do it all by decree.
I believe the great discontent that intellectuals and people on 'the left' supposedly have with Barack is inflamed by a Republican narrative.
Obama was elected by people who saw a different way for America than is offered by the not-so-loyal opposition. That does not give each of us who supported him the right to a line-item approval of how he deals with each and every situation. He is in a precarious position and I still personally put my trust in him to do as much towards that vision as he feels he is able, and more than I trust the din of voices on cable and the internet.
I did not mean to challenge your personal integrity, Wal, but I ask again if it isn't possible that the standards of accountability you say you are holding Obama to are not like the kind of expectations Krishnamurti warns us against?
Isn't what you call accountability actually desire on your part, desire destined to cause you unhappiness?
And yet you, Walrus, in your eagerness to criticize Obama as a sell-out help to empower those who wish to return to the attitudes and policies of Bush.
Actually, those of us in the the middle of the road believe it is very possible that the cia might lie -- Barry Goldwater accused them of it 45 years ago -- and just because a bunch of right wing radicals have tried to make a big deal of it doesn't really mean that it's blown up in Pelosi's face, as you would characterize it.
From what I've read of your posts, 'ed', I believe that Nancy Pelosi's politics is more mainstream and centrist that yours.
My wife Peggy and I own a lot of this stuff.
He's just trying to protect himself, ed. He doesn't care about 'us'.
To what purpose did you address that post to me?
He's just trying to buy some cheap.
Andrew Sullivan on Cheney's speech:
21 May 2009 02:45 pm
The Unbalanced
by Andrew
A simple note having now read the former vice-president's despicable and disgraceful speech. It confirms the very worst of him, and reveals just how callow, just how arrogant, and just how reckless and unrepentant this man is and has long been. There was not a whisper of regret or reflection; there was a series of lies and distortions, a reckless attack on a graceful successor, inheriting a world of intractable problems, and a reminder that while serious men and women will indeed move on, Cheney never will. He remains a threat to this country's constitution as he remains a stain on its honor and moral standing. I never believed I would hear a vice-president of the United States not simply defend torture but insist on pride in it, insist on its honor. But that is what he said, with that sly grin insisting that fear always beats reason, that violence always beats dialogue, and that torture is always an American value.
He repeats this core untruth:
In public discussion of these matters, there has been a strange and sometimes willful attempt to conflate what happened at Abu Ghraib prison with the top secret program of enhanced interrogations. At Abu Ghraib, a few sadistic prison guards abused inmates in violation of American law, military regulations, and simple decency. For the harm they did, to Iraqi prisoners and to America's cause, they deserved and received Army justice. And it takes a deeply unfair cast of mind to equate the disgraces of Abu Ghraib with the lawful, skillful, and entirely honorable work of CIA personnel trained to deal with a few malevolent men.
This "strange and sometimes willful attempt to conflate what happened at Abu Ghraib prison with the top secret program of enhanced interrogations" is the sober conclusion of the Senate Armed Services Committee Report, as well as every report issued getting to the bottom of Abu Ghraib.
It was a function of a policy of abuse and torture and mistreatment of prisoners in the war on terror in every theater of combat, directed and emanating from the will of Dick Cheney via the pen of George W Bush. It is simply impossible to review the evidence and conclude otherwise and no one, outside the Cheney cocoon, has been able to sustain the fiction that Cheney proposes as fact. The attempt to separate this from his own highly controlled, personally directed program of torture and abuse and coercion is a deep and malicious and wilfull lie. It may be what Bush wishes to believe. But Cheney knows otherwise. His speech was therefore not a patriotic defense of what he thinks is best for this country; it was a vile and deliberately divisive attempt to use the politics of fear and false machismo against the stability of the American polity.
He has clearly learned nothing; and will remain a threat to this country's ability to fight terror and defend its values. The president will remain above this, as he should, as Cheney seeks further to divide and destabilize this country in a futile attempt to rescue his reputation. But his reputation is unrescuable, his crimes a matter of record, and his character now indelibly written in history. Our job is to never let him forget it, to never let history be re-written and to remain resolute in bringing both him and those who attacked us to justice. And that is in the presidential oath of office.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/05/the-unbalanced.html#more
If there is to be a share holder on the board, I vote for Nature Boy.
Why, why, why indeed!
You want for the SEC to have regulated the banking industry? Why, that would be socialism, comrade, and the previous administration would rather have seen the country get looted by free-marketeers than there be any whiff of market regulation by the hateful government.
Go back to Russia, Dude.
Some mensch just bought 100 shares of MKRS for .27.
Those 4400 shares that some mm just paid .18 for could probably be picked up by some shrewd investor here for .20 or .22.
VODG is about to explode.
Who's the schmuck who sold at market? If they wanted out they could have done better than .18.
Awfully quite here in the face of our imminent explosion.
$144,000,000,000.00
DFNS -- I have no idea what you were trying to say, Swan, but perhaps this week or next will be the week that was.
Great article. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
I will reiterate that I would love to see a thread where progressives could talk freely among themselves without constant badgering anddenigrating from the representatives of 'Idiot-America.'
It has 30 bookmarks. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
I read them every morning.
I used to read Krishnamurti, back in the 70's, and I vowed back then that I would continue reading him, but I drifted away. I enjoy reading short quotes from him daily. Thanks.
Tom Meaney, President of Mikros stated, "We expect new production orders for up to 30 units of the ADEPT system by the end of the Government fiscal year.
That's 9/30/09, 30 units ordered.
I enjoy your Krishnamurti quotes, wall, but don't think I derive pleasure from them
@swampboots -- Funniest post this year.
@bbotc -- It's too late . . . you ARE a wet blanket, but everyone is lucky sometimes. Maybe it's your turn.
Listen to Manny T, koz. Gary Grobbel called this some time ago and you should check out his microcap kitchen on SI.
Next week he's claiming big things for CTEI and VODG.
Stoopid MKRS.
SMID gonna move tomorrow:
SMC Announces Financial Results for the Quarter Ended March 31, 2009
May 13, 2009 5:38:00 PM
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View Additional ProfilesMIDLAND, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Smith-Midland Corporation (OTCBB:SMID) announced the company reported total revenue of approximately $9.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2009, and pre-tax earnings of $1.5 million for the same period, as compared to total revenue of $6.9 million and pre-tax earnings of $104,000 for the same period in 2008. The increase in sales and pre-tax income was due, in part, to our ability to meet the demanding schedule in providing concrete security barrier for the inauguration of President Obama in January 2009.
As of May 6, 2009, the Company's sales backlog of inventoried products and unbilled construction contracts was approximately $15.9 million compared to $12.4 million at approximately the same time in 2008.
"Due to management's commitment to product diversification, the Company continues to maintain an extremely high backlog of sales even as the construction industry is in the midst of one of the most severe downturns in recent history," said Chairman and CEO Rodney Smith. "The Company is fortunate to be located near the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., where road projects continue to outpace the nation, even in the current economic conditions."
Smith-Midland develops, manufactures, licenses, rents, and sells a broad array of precast concrete products for use primarily in the construction, transportation and utilities Industries.
This announcement contains forward-looking statements, which involve risks and uncertainties. The Company's actual results may differ significantly from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. Factors which might cause such a difference include, but are not limited to, product demand, the impact of competitive products and pricing, capacity and supply constraints or difficulties, general business and economic conditions, the effect of the Company's accounting policies and other risks detailed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
For more complete information on Smith-Midland Corporation, visit the Company's web site at www.SMITHMIDLAND.com. The "Investor Relations" area will include the Company's Form 10-K.
Source: Smith-Midland Corporation (SMC)
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I just added and avg'd up a bit.
I too heeded your call, Swamp, and went in and out pretty quickly. I may regret having played it so briefly, but I did secure enough to buy baby a nice new pair of shoes. Thx . . .
I remember when it broke a buck -- I believe it was July of '07 -- and I remember thinking this is just the beginning, no way am I selling here. And then I wisely grabbed some more a month later when it had dipped back down to .60.
Actually I had a partial fill of 750 shares of dfns @.21 yesterday, like I really needed another 750 shares to go with my long-held 100k. Put the remaining dough on dvax this am.
Great find, Bob. This must explain the heavy volume this week.
PS -- THIS IS NOT SPAM.
Does that mean you're out. I'm holding 2k. The 10q looked good and I guess I'm long now.
Damn! Long another stock.
Despite the articles cited in the 3 or 4 previous posts, a lot of the panic about swine flu seems to have lessened over the weekend. APT holding up better than I had feared it would.
Sometimes I'm good, sometimes I'm lucky and sometimes I'm neither.