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NBC just made the call I made before I went to bed last night:
Senate taken by Democrats. Course, I was not completely sober when I made the call *grin*. I will now retire from prognosticating for a couple of years.
I'm calling a Democratic Senate
VA, MO, and MT does it.
Frack the racist Corker
Frack him good up his,
well, you know.
I am so happy for Oregon. EOM
Claire is agreeing with my call before CNN is
Hope she is not too early
McCaskill now up in MO according to CNN eom
McCaskill is moving up in Missouri
A lot of urban votes still to be reported.
Webb has moved ahead by 2,000 votes with 99% reporting according to CNN
It is pretty close for time for Claire to start moving up in Missouri .
Looks like Dems have control of the House. Time for a glass of wine
I just looked at county by county Missouri returns as of now
I am going out on a pretty thin limb and calling it for McCaskill. I think she has done better than expected in rural Missouri.
I am probably dead meat now
With a 1/4 of the precints reporting in Greene County Springfield, Mo - Southwest Missouri, Republican country), McCaskill has 44% in that county. Not good news for Talent, but not conclusive.
Not at the precint level, but fairly comfortable at the county level.
It's going to be damned close. About the only thing I'm certain of is a recount will be triggered.
This is one of the races that makes election nights so much fun. At least in Missouri I know the territory well enough for the county returns to have some meaning.
OT Oregon #4
Guess it never passed the silly test here - never got any coverage to speak of. My guess is that the people who wanted it were not taken seriously and gave up early in the process.
lango, measure 48 is the worse of two - is spending limitation ala one that was passed and then later repealed in Colorado - in fact we have quite a few Coloradans out here helping with the campaign against. Most recent poll shows it being defeated. It would cost about 2.2 billion a year in revenue.
Measure 41 is a tax deduction measure - would make the OR deduction the same as the Federal one, and would cost 400 million a year in tax revenues.
Should not have to wait too long - depends on how close the races are, in part. 50% of all ballots were in as of last night.
I have never heard of initiative #4 - are you sure that was not Washington state?
I hope that all of you who enjoy watching election returns have a wonderful time tonight. If the Dems take the house, I'll have a celebratory glass of wine. If they take the Senate, I may break out the tequila.
Oregon's state House of Representatives may go blue.
Our version of that awful Colorado income limitation initiative will likely go down in defeat.
OT: Political junkies, this may be worth watching.
I enjoy the Cook Political Report and the occasional times I have seen his staff on long C-SPAN call in shows.
http://www.cookpolitical.com/
• COOK, ROTHENBERG & TODD on CNBC’s “TIM RUSSERT” THIS WEEKEND: Don’t miss Tim Russert’s hour long interview with Charlie Cook, Stu Rothenberg, Editor and Publisher of The Rothenberg Political Report, and Chuck Todd, Editor of The Hotline, on CNBC Saturday, November 4 at 7pm EST and 10pm EST and Sunday, November 5 at 1am EST.
OT: Don't know if any of you follow Canadian Royalty trusts much
But a proposal to tax the dividends has caused a 10-20% drop in the share prices over the past few days. I decided to take advantage of it, buying ERF, CTE and PVX at the open this morning, thinking that in addition to very attractive dividends, the share prices have a good chance to recover from what some of termed panic selling.
Do your own DD and all that stuff
Weak hands
What a concept - I find it odd that many investors who choose to manage risk by limiting the amount of time they are willing to hold AAPL and/or by the amount of AAPL they are willing to hold are referred to as weak hands.
How many strong hands here sat through dizzying tumbles in AAPL over the past 10 years?
<I'm a Detroit fan with insomnia trying to keep it light...)>
My condonlences go out to you, Blue.
Fortuntaley we don't live and die by what happens in the 11 to 19 post-season games.
I am not much of a
general baseball fan, certainly not as well-informed as you are, but I do not see how a team that was an underdog until the Series (the Tigers), could be considered a top-caliber team. Seems like a top caliber team would not have been an underdog through the two postseason steps leading to the series.
I believe this was far and away the worst World Series ever for broadcast ratings. Little wonder.
I rather enjoyed it *grin* I do not subscribe to the notion that a team that persists and wins over an entire season is an inferior team. I could be wrong, but the evidence over a long, hard season certainly seems to contradict your assertion....and I know you respect evidence.
OT: The outcome
and the predictions of some of the pundits are at odds.
As always, the outcomes trump the predictions.
The Tigers allowed 8 unearned runs in 6 games. Tell me again which team was the worse one in the Series. Just give advance warning if you plan to maintain the fiction that it was the team that won the Series - I'd hate to spew a mouthful of Coke while reading that .
Kastel,
To be honest with you, I do not use an iPod much. My wife has a hard drive Mini that she has never had a problem with - using it with a Macintosh for music and as a portable hard drive.
We do use iTunes and a set of Bose computer speakers and a Harmon Kardon subwoofer as our home stereo now.
So, I am afraid I cannot be of any help to you nor can I really comment intelligently on your issue. I just know I have made a ton of money on AAPl since the spring of 2003.
Best wishes
Ron
OT - I guess you can go with what some
pundits have written or you can go with what you have watched in the Series. No doubt which team has been the best over the past 6 games, if you have watched the games but, like I wrote earlier, Detroit was down 3-1 in 1968 and beat the Cardinals to win the Series.
The Tigers may end up winning the Series
It would be shades of1968, but they would have to be considered one of the worst teams ever to win the Series, if they were to pull it off. What a bunch of bush leaguers, defensively speaking.
Shipping with 2GB of RAM
Not on the low end one - $1999 has one gig o' RAM.
Enjoyable World Series game
I enjoyed it anyway
napped a little in the early innings.
Happy with it at this time.
There is the time dimension to happiness, ya know.
Geeze...$79.99.......
I am tickled pink with 79.99 :).
Run a 5-year chart on AAPL and DELL and then attempt intelligence. EOM.
Conference call transcript
http://seekingalpha.com/article/18756
dilleet - I have not disagreed with that assessment. I am just glad they beat the Padres and the Mets. Over-achievement is usually applauded .
It is not a good team, in its current shape - you forgot to mention the Card's closer (Isri_whatever) being at sick bay as well.
Pujols has been playing hurt, and the hamstring could go at any time. Reyes, Beltran and Delgado all had their moments in the NCLS. My favorite moment was Chris Duncan's pinch-hit homer with his dad on the bench.
Media and coasters hate it when the middle of the country is in the World Series. Seems like a disturbance in the force to them. I will be watching some, but mostly click back to the Series - it can be torture to watch whole games :).
Hopefully Rolen won't chuck it into the stands during the Series - odd play for a Gold Glover.
Well, Detroit really doesn't have to play such a mediocre team - maybe Baseball should just award the series to them instead of subjecting fandom to such an ignoble fate .
Tigers - Cardinals 1968
I was at Game 6, after spending the night at the then new Busch Stadium for standing room only tickets. Such a big loss, such a great experience for a then 16 year old boy. I rode the bus downtown with my 17 year old and 13 year old brothers the afternoon before. What an adventure for us!!!
Those Cardinals
I am so glad they beat that East Coast team :), but then Stan Musial played in the first major league game I went to with my Daddy at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, so I am still biased that way.
Best Buy - from the Businessweek.com article
Also aiding Apple's retail efforts is a trial with Best Buy (BBY), which by the end of the quarter was selling Macs in 50 stores, up from 7 at the beginning of the period.
"If it succeeds, and expands across all of Best Buy, it could increase Apple's retail footprint by 10%," says Munster. "That will dramatically boost the U.S. go-to-market strategy with the Mac. I bet a year from now they're in half of Best Buy's stores."
fmikehugo: thanks for your posts. EOM.
No, saw that the Moyers show was on
caught the one last week, but I was in bed early last night. Recovering from the most uncomfortable and painful health episode I have ever experienced.
Avoid kidney stones if at all possible.
That's my advice.
AAPL up 4.27.
Nice article dilleet. I agree
In fact, there have been lowly investors right on this forum who have been predicting that 2007 will be known as the Year of the Mac. Course, I guess it could also become known as the year of the iPhone, the year of iTV and the Living Room and all kinds of years.
Just as long as it does not become known as the year that Steve Jobs had to leave Apple.