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thanks bro..just looking around for now..
mostly looking at newswires, assorted quotetackers,
and an occasinal refreshing of HOT! in hub toolbar
to see what is buzzing..lol..
Good MOOrning MOOvers! Have a GREEN day!
:)
Good MOOrning MOOvers! Have a GREEN day!
:)
Much truth is said in jest...
http://www.answers.com/topic/many-a-true-word-is-spoken-in-jest
You gotta love Robin Williams........Even if he's nuts! Leave it to Robin Williams to come up with the perfect plan. What we need now is for our UN Ambassador to stand up and repeat this message.
Robin Williams' plan...(Hard to argue with this logic!)
'I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So, here's one plan.'
1) 'The US will apologize to the world for our 'interference' in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those 'good 'ole' boys', we will never 'interfere' again.
2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany , South Korea , the Middle East , and the Philippines . They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.
3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of whom or where they are. They're illegal!!! France will welcome them..
4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.
5) No foreign 'students' over age 21. The older ones are the bombers.. If they don't attend classes, they get a 'D' and it's back home baby.
6) The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while
7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)
8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not 'interfere.' They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.
9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.
10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us 'Ugly Americans' any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH..learn it...or LEAVE...Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?
'The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'you want a piece of me?' '
You gotta love Robin Williams........Even if he's nuts! Leave it to Robin Williams to come up with the perfect plan. What we need now is for our UN Ambassador to stand up and repeat this message.
Robin Williams' plan...(Hard to argue with this logic!)
'I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So, here's one plan.'
1) 'The US will apologize to the world for our 'interference' in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those 'good 'ole' boys', we will never 'interfere' again.
2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany , South Korea , the Middle East , and the Philippines . They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.
3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of whom or where they are. They're illegal!!! France will welcome them..
4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.
5) No foreign 'students' over age 21. The older ones are the bombers.. If they don't attend classes, they get a 'D' and it's back home baby.
6) The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while
7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)
8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not 'interfere.' They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.
9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.
10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us 'Ugly Americans' any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH..learn it...or LEAVE...Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?
'The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'you want a piece of me?' '
Grandson on Harley ride...
yes, nice car!...I drove a '69 Mustang Mach 1 in my senior year ('70) to high school..working at KFC to pay for it..
we have a place in Chattanooga TN that specializes in restoring stangs..J.J. Mustang...
the first pic is one like I had except
mine was maroon with gold stripe..
http://wmg.photobucket.com/pbwidget.swf?pbwurl=http://wmg.photobucket.com/albums/v188/ddfridd007/CARS/1167536796.pbw
all I want for Christmas is more teeth..
Grandson Cayden..
Obama has the 'pork' flu...
Good MOOrnin' MOOvers..hope all have a GREEN day!
Had 3 trades against me so couldn't trade yesterday..
so mowed my Heinz 57 variety yard, aka as 'lawn'..
1977 Snapper mower deck developed severe shaking..
found some a bunch of mounting bolts missing..
so I push-mowered entire acre...figured I could use a
little exercise anyways....gotta get back to doing elipitical
machine one of these days..at one point I had some strange
moisture on my forehead..i think it was 'sweat'..LOL..
oh, got interesting fact in morning e-mail...
learn something new everyday..lol..
Manure... An interesting fact
In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything had to be
transported by
ship and it was also before commercial fertilizer's
invention, so large
shipments of manure were common.
It was shipped dry, because in dry form it weighed a lot
less than when wet,
but once water (at sea) hit it, it not only became heavier,
but the process
of fermentation began again, of which a by product is
methane gas. As the *stuff was stored below decks in bundles
you can see what could (and did)
happen. Methane began to build up below decks and the first
time someone came below at night with a lantern, BOOOOM!
Several ships were destroyed in this manner before it was
determined just
what was happening
After that, the bundles of manure were always stamped with
the term 'Ship
High In Transit' on them, which meant for the sailors to
stow it high
enough off the lower decks so that any water that came into
the hold would not
touch this volatile cargo and start the production of methane.
Thus evolved the term ' S.H.I.T ' , (Ship High In Transit)
which has come
down through the centuries and is in use to this very day.
You probably did not know the true history of this word.
Neither did I.
I had always thought it was a day-trading term.
:)
VSTN and LEA...thanks StockFetcher!
:)
what's your take on this?...fake?...
http://thecrit.com/2009/05/05/200000-year-old-statue-found-on-moon/
Banks zooming this morning...eom
Good MOOrning MOOvers..futures up 63..
all have a GREEN day..again!..
now back to bed for awhile...
most likely to just to lay there, sip coffee and burn a few..
Later!
why sure!..you and my Dad (79) and Mom (76) can all BS together...
heck, I ain't no spring chicken anymore..57..wow..
where did the last 20 years go?..
I got another Uncle that gets around pretty good..
he'll be 91 in October..
well, I'm getting off here for awhile...
Later!
:)
Pappy...making enough to scrape by...lol..
twiddling my thumbs mostly on Paramount Development..
they're working out a proposal this week (supposedly)
on bringing a Walmart and possibly a Lowe's to a 47 acre
chunk of land that me, my dad, and 7 other families own..
our go between realtor has us all land/house owners signed up and she said
we would all be offered an offer we CAN'T refuse...
THEN, if that goes thru, I will be in the 'chips'..yeeHaw!
http://paramountdevcorp.com/portfolio.shtml
small world..been flipping bank stocks mostly all year..
freddie and fannie too when they get at or below 50¢...
wished I'd bought F & HOG on the down low...
or Siri at a dime..
oh well..
:)
Pearl River Resort..Google Earth..
the Moon and SilverStar hooked together
by skywalk..
the Golden Moon..
oh..ok..
Tree..your siggy..er, uh..WILD turkeys can fly..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Turkey#Flight_and_calls
but most of the time they forage/walk around..
bottom-line is banks will come back first..
before anything..
and I think C has more bang for the buck..
imo..
C wanting $4 today??..eom
GoogleEarth screenshot of SilverStar and Golden Moon complex..
also known as 'Pearl River Resort'...Choctaw, MS...
Good MOOrnin' MOOvers!..have a GREEN day!
:)
some to possibly keep an eye on tomorrow...
hard for me to believe this board still even exists...
oh well...
shares got caught and flooded away with Kool-Ade tsunami...
Have a good day!
WATCH OUT FOR KOOL-AID STOCKS...
you'll get screwed out of your money, Honey!...lol..
came back in the GREEN both trips, 2 in one week...
the Tunica Gold Strike in Tunica, MS and then
Golden Moon..Choctaw, Mississippi...
Good MOOrnin' MOOvers! Let the games begin! :)
interesting..Stock Charts Fail Forecast Test
in Complete S&P Miss (Update2)
By Michael Tsang and Eric Martin
May 4 (Bloomberg) -- John Bollinger, inventor of the “Bollinger bands” system of predicting stock movements with price charts, says technical analysis works.
“I don’t know what people are saying when they say somehow indicators have broken down,” Bollinger, president of Bollinger Capital Management, said in a telephone interview from Manhattan Beach, California. “It’s like somehow saying streetlights don’t work anymore. As long as people obey them, streetlights work.”
Ever since the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index peaked in October 2007, six of eight strategies -- which are supposed to make money whether stocks rise or fall -- failed, according to back-testing data compiled by Bloomberg. As the bear market erased $11 trillion from the value of U.S. equities, buy and sell signals from those six technical indicators produced losses of as much as 49 percent, the data show.
“Technical analysis on its own as a discipline does not work,” said Diane Garnick, the New York-based investment strategist at Invesco Ltd., which oversees $348 billion. Using it in isolation is “the fastest way to lose money,” she said.
Of the eight strategies, stochastics, Bollinger bands, relative strength, commodity channels, parabolic systems and the Williams %R indicator generated buy and sell signals that resulted in losses between the S&P 500’s peak of 1,565.15 on Oct. 9, 2007, and its March 9 trough, the data show. They did worse as the index then rallied 30 percent through last week.
No Help
The models failed to protect investors last year, when the S&P 500 had its biggest decline since 1937, as price swings reached a record, according to William Stone, chief investment strategist at PNC Financial Services Group Inc.’s wealth management unit, which oversees $96 billion in Philadelphia.
The S&P 500 gained 2.4 percent to 898.81 at 11:13 a.m. in New York today.
Bollinger bands are designed to alert investors when a security rises too high or falls too low by comparing its price to the average level over the past 20 days. If the stock gains or drops enough from the average -- two standard deviations -- a turnaround may be at hand, Bollinger’s system says. Moves of two standard deviations are defined as occurring 5 percent of the time or less in a statistical model.
Financial Stocks
When used to determine when to buy or bet against S&P 500 financial stocks, the technique produced a gain through mid- September of $28,588 on a $100,000 investment, when banks retreated 37 percent, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Profits evaporated in less than a month and turned into a loss of $64,388 as the strategy failed to trigger any sell signals during the rest of the bear market, when banks and brokerages plummeted 72 percent.
John Bollinger says that methodology is too simple and his bands should be used in conjunction with data on trading volume to create “set-ups” and “confirmations” for investment decisions. His fund, which aims to profit in any environment, made money sometimes during the bear market. He declined to comment on specific returns.
Stochastics predicts a security’s movement based on how close its price is to the highest or lowest levels. Stochastics would have left anyone who started with $100,000 at the October 2007 peak with $75,881 by March 9, a 24 percent loss, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
False Buys
The trades were undone by the buy signals, which on eight occasions suggested that the S&P 500 had fallen too far, too fast, based on data compiled by Bloomberg that exclude trading costs and unexpected price fluctuations at the moment of the trade. Stochastics told traders to buy on Oct. 6 last year, three weeks after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s bankruptcy. The S&P 500 lost 14 percent in the following month.
Burton Malkiel, whose 1973 investment text “A Random Walk Down Wall Street” argued that price movements aren’t predictable, says chart-based investing worsens returns.
“People who think they are going to make excess profits with technical analysis are kidding themselves,” Malkiel said in a telephone interview from Princeton, New Jersey. “Most of the people who say this is pretty good have some ax to grind.”
Traders shouldn’t use charts without other technical data, and choosing the most appropriate ones can both mitigate losses and produce gains, said Katie Townshend Stockton, chief market technician at Greenwich, Connecticut-based MKM Partners LLC.
Cut Losses
Each of the eight strategies would have cut losses for investors benchmarked to the S&P 500. The directional movement indicator and the moving average convergence/divergence indicator flashed signals that made money even during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
Directional movement is a theory developed by J. Welles Wilder in 1978 that measures how far a security moves from an average price range calculated from second to second. The system is designed to gauge who is more eager to trade a security, buyers or sellers.
The so-called DMI generated a gain of 24 percent. The moving average convergence/divergence indicator, which bases trades on the difference between 12- and 26-day moving averages, provided profits of $25,896 from a $100,000 investment.
In both strategies, the signals that directed traders to sell and then short the S&P 500 made more money than their buy signals lost. Short sellers typically borrow shares from a brokerage and then sell them on a bet they will be able to repurchase the stock at a lower price.
Value Investors
Returns also exceeded those of many who follow the principles of value investing, the practice popularized by Warren Buffett, the billionaire chairman of Omaha, Nebraska- based Berkshire Hathaway Inc. He searches for the cheapest companies relative to earnings or assets.
Buffett told shareholders at Berkshire’s annual meeting on May 2 that “many” U.S. stocks have fallen to levels where they are cheap relative to their intrinsic value. He said the housing market is the biggest drag on the economy and remains “very hard” to forecast.
Bill Miller, whose Legg Mason Value Trust beat the S&P 500 for a record 15 straight years through 2005, produced a loss of 72 percent, including dividends, during the bear market.
David Dreman was fired this year by Deutsche Bank AG’s asset management unit after his flagship $2.62 billion DWS Dreman High Return Equity Fund lost 65 percent. Both managers piled into stocks such as Freddie Mac and American International Group Inc., misjudging the severity of the financial meltdown.
‘A Little Misleading’
“It’s a little misleading to be looking at any indicator in a vacuum,” said MKM’s Stockton. “It’s a matter of knowing which ones to combine and knowing what environment you’re in.”
None of the technical indicators produced a bigger return than S&P 500’s 30 percent rally from its 12-year low on March 9.
Five sent signals that have resulted in losses of between 1.9 percent and 8.3 percent during the eight-week climb, which added $2.29 trillion to the value of U.S. equities, data compiled by Bloomberg show. The Williams %R indicator, which calculates the difference between a security’s closing price and its highest price and then compares the result with its average over 14 days, handed traders who heeded its buy and sell signals an $8,286 loss on $100,000 invested at the trough.
Only one technical indicator, moving average convergence/divergence, made money for investors during both the bear market and the subsequent rebound.
“Some of the indicators might work at given times, but that’s not where I put my odds,” said PNC’s Stone, a certified market technician who learned to read charts on the trading floor of Salomon Brothers Inc. in the early 1990s. “You zigged when you should have zagged.”
Ranked Performance of Eight Technical Indicators
Indicator 10/09/2007 - 3/09/2009
Relative Strength Index -49.0%
Williams %R -41.7%
Commodity Channel Index -38.7%
Parabolic Systems -36.6%
Bollinger Bands -31.5%
Stochastics -24.1%
Directional Movement Indicator +24.0%
Moving Average Convergence/Divergence +25.9%
S&P 500 -56.8%
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Indicator 3/09/2009 - 5/01/2009
Commodity Channel Index -8.3%
Williams %R -8.3%
Bollinger Bands -6.6%
Stochastics -3.3%
Directional Movement Indicator -1.9%
Moving Average Convergence/Divergence +7.8%
Parabolic Systems +8.2%
Relative Strength Index +21.8%
S&P 500 +29.7%
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Indicator 10/09/2007 - 5/01/2009
Williams %R -43.1%
Commodity Channel Index -40.3%
Parabolic Systems -34.3%
Relative Strength Index -34.1%
Bollinger Bands -22.2%
Stochastics -21.8%
Directional Movement Indicator +9.0%
Moving Average Convergence/Divergence +24.6%
S&P 500 -43.9%
To contact the reporters on this story: Michael Tsang in New York at mtsang1@bloomberg.net; Eric Martin in New York at emartin21@bloomberg.net.
Last Updated: May 4, 2009 11:16 EDT
picked up some Regions Bank this morning..RF is symbol..eom
Good MOOrnin' MOOvers..all have a GREEN day!
just got up..scoping out news wires, etc...
gulping down the coffee, cig in each hand..
:)
Good MOOrning MOOvers..headed out Casino hopping..
have a great week-end!
ok..enough about that..Unc and I headed to Golden Moon Casino for 3 days...(my aunt died of pancreatic cancer a couple of years ago so when my lonely Unc wants to go somewhere instead of looking at 4 walls at home..we go!)
Have a good day!..and week-end!
Be careful out there on those highways...............
lawsuit...his only child, and un-married daughter rear-ended by tractor-trailer
hauling brand new GM cars..
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INFERNO ON THE 190
MULTIPLE CRASH KILLS SIX NEAR DOWNTOWN
BY MICHAEL BEEBE AND JANICE L. HABUDA - NEWS STAFF REPORTERS
Published on March 12, 1998
© The Buffalo News Inc.
Six people died in a fiery rush-hour crash Wednesday on the elevated Niagara Thruway opposite City Hall, an accident Buffalo's fire commissioner said was the worst he's seen in more than 30 years on the job.
A southbound tractor-trailer loaded with new Chrysler Concordes set off the chain-reaction collision shortly before 4 p.m., witnesses said, when the rig was unable to avoid a line of vehicles slowed for an earlier minor accident. Drivers trapped in traffic watched in horror as the big semi plowed into the rear of a line of cars and a 10-passenger Carrier Coach van burst into flames.
The van's driver and all four passengers, headed home to the Southtowns from various sites in Buffalo, died in the flames.
Fueled by exploding gasoline tanks, the fire spread to four other vehicles, shooting up a wall of flame and smoke clearly visible from waterfront condominiums and City Hall offices.
Troopers identified the Carrier Coach occupants as:
Richard Spencer, 71, of Transitline Road, Springville. He was driving the van.
Maurice Black, 61, and Ronald Colern, 61, who lived in a home for developmentally disabled adults on Browning Drive in the Village of Hamburg.
Carol Philips, 60, of Holiday Lane, Town of Hamburg.
Patricia Rodgers, 52, of Knoll Road, Eden.
The sixth victim, whose car burst into flames on impact, was identified as Pamela Friddell, 29, of Southwestern Boulevard, Town of Hamburg.
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AFTER THE CRASH
$815 MILLION IS SOUGHT IN LAWSUITS
Published on March 11, 1999
Author: MATT GRYTA and MICHAEL BEEBE
News Staff Reporters
© The Buffalo News Inc.
A year ago today, six people were burned alive in full view of City Hall and waterfront condominiums as a tractor-trailer loaded with new cars set off a fiery chain reaction on the downtown section of the Niagara Thruway.
Today, lawsuits adding up to $815 million were filed in State Supreme Court against the Canadian car hauler, the rig's driver....
who the heck is Vision airlines?..
well, now i know...never seen them around Chattanooga TN..
but then again i was on a chartered jet this past weekend..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_Airlines
I'm trying to talk my Uncle into getting a Viper in hopes he gives me his 12,000 mile Lexus LS 430..hehe..
Dave Jr. wants me to get one of these like he's got..
vance/hines pipes added...screamin' eagle air intake..
Uncle bought paid cash for Jr.s' bike...
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