Raisng grandkids mostly...full custody of my daughter's 4 yahoo's..2 boys ages 12 & 8, 2 girls ages 4 and 18 months! Dave37308 UTube channel
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heck, they'll probably tax shoe leather..walking..
our local state parks over the last few years have raised
'fees' on campsites, (which include bike trails, etc)..
not to mention, you gotta pay like $3 a day just to park your car...
even if you don't do any fishing, camping, let the kids play,
or anything...a drive thru the park..well, plan on coughing
over 3 bucks at front gate...geesh...
Note that fuel efficient vehicles won’t save you from the tax.
I also heard it's to get tax on the all-electric cars should that day ever come...
AMERICA...HOME OF THE 'FEE'
poked C @1.42 on panic selling?
today I hope..back up Monday/next week??..
have a good week-end all
tax evasion..
I relatively don't have a pot to piss in but
I swear my BAC card has a credit line of $37,500..
other ones are like 25k, 20K, etc...
I hate debt..only in case of emergency, or to reserve
a hotel room is only when I use them..then I pay
it off when bill comes in..
I'm an ol fashioned 'pay as I go' type guy..
AP ALERT: (WASHINGTON) Economy shrinks at faster-than-expected 6.2 percent pace in fourth quarter, worst in quarter-century.
Good Morning MOOvers...have a GREEN day!
:)
wow...I got a feeling suicides will be way up this year.
U got that right...if I can get up as much as 7~10%+,
I'm apt to get out..
on anything here lately..
all cash...usually take it a day at a time..
sometimes only 3 trades a WEEK..
market is the pits..
browsing around my StockFetcher..Good nite all..
Aerial of Sheraton (partial view) on the right, Horseshoe in the middle, and Gold Strike on the left..
(Gold Strike staying there 3 days in late April)..
all in walking distance...I like that..
:)
Gold Strike full view..
Flying out to Tunica March 8th thru 11th..
play the slots a bit..
going to stay at the Sheraton this time..
but going to buffett out at the Horseshoe next door..
better grub over there!
:)
Tenac..apparently the South is where all the action is..
come to think about it, U never here of people who retire
moving NORTH...lol..
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=35917585
Solar plant coming my way..
Volkswagen building plant here too..
Where could I go..
ha..there's that FEE word again on Bloomberg..
•GM Bankruptcy Might Yield $1.2 Billion Fee `Bonanza' to Bankers, Lawyers
and i got out quick too..lol..figured it was a head-fake..
AMERICA...HOME OF THE "FEE"
Obama Showers Wall Street Fees With Muni Stimulus (Update1)
By Jeremy R. Cooke
Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) -- While U.S. President Barack Obama criticized Wall Street bonuses, his stimulus plan offers bankers the opportunity to boost fees with incentives that may lead to $65 billion in municipal bond sales.
(keep buying or trading for more guns is what my thinking is..
burglarys, break-ins, robberies, are all going to increase)
Lived just outside of Chattanooga, the rural area
of the county, all my life...
I've been just about everywhere in the United states over
the last few years..
ain't no place like here, all in all, IMO.
Better roads, cheaper prices, weather, and from Chattanooga
you're a 2 hour drive to Atlanta/Nashville/Smokies
and not that far from like Panama City Beach if you're into ocean, etc.
My son worked for awhile for allied Van lines on a tractor trailer moving people. the veteran truck Driver whose home base is in Oregon gave TN a big ol NUMBER 1 as his most fav state.
Biz wise were booming here..Volkwagen building a plant as I speak...lots of other stuff getting built too..
yep, we don't talk funny..THEY talk funny..
everyone needs to see/rent the movie 'Sargeant York' and see how real Americans talk...LOL...
:)
Jack..ol GM stroking...picked me up a bunch yesterday...eom
glad to be here..a short clip with digital camera
over at my sister's house..(Kris)..we're not rich
but we know how to have a good time..
I'll get some better vids the next time we have
a ffamily get together..I had to cut this one short because
grandson headed to grab my guitar on the stand..
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v188/ddfridd007/DDFRIDD%20Original/?action=view¤t=POP76thBirthday084.flv
Good MOOrnin' MOOvers..have a duelin' stock tradin' day!..
:)
There's just something about that name...
i'm out now..made a few shekels..have a good'un!
NEXT
Wonder what would happen to C PPS if Obama does take a 40% share in Citi THEN retires/forgives/writes off the bad shares...
I think he wants to restore confidence in the American banks in a HUGE way...just thinking out loud..
desperate men do desperate things..
and I think he's more for the 'common' man's interest and well-being than
big lobbying groups...
C..after hours..
Citigroup's Parsons spotted at W.H.
By: Jonathan Martin
February 23, 2009 05:57 PM EST
The incoming chairman of Citigroup, Richard Parsons, showed up at the White House Monday, fueling talk that the federal government might take a massive ownership stake in the troubled banking behemoth.
Parsons’ appointment was to see Valerie Jarrett, one of President Barack Obama’s closest West Wing confidants.
Parsons got through the main gate a little before 6 p.m. A White House official confirmed the meeting but declined to offer details.
"He was here to meet with Valerie - something she often does with business leaders," said the official.
News of Parsons' White House visit started a buzz among financial services executives in Washington, where several said Monday night that they expected an announcement of a Citigroup deal as early as Tuesday. One executive told POLITICO that the White House is telling industry players that the Parsons visit is "a friendly meeting."
The federal government is reportedly in talks to take as much as a 40 percent ownership stake in Citigroup, whose stock price has been battered by speculation that the government might seek to “nationalize” major banks to stabilize the financial services sector.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Monday reiterated Obama’s belief in the importance of a privately held banking system – even as the Treasury Department signaled that it’s open to the kind of deal reportedly being discussed by Citi. A unusual joint statement by the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve and other regulators Monday also signaled the government’s willingness to do what’s needed to keep the nation’s banking system operating efficiently.
Parsons, the former head of Time Warner and one of the nation’s most prominent African-American businessmen, had been rumored as a possible pick for Commerce Secretary. But administration sources now say that job is likely to go to former Washington Gov. Gary Locke.
Watch: Obama's remarks at the Fiscal Responsibility Summit
Good Morning MOOvers..all have GREEN day..
now back to bed..
Later!
C..Citigroup's Parsons spotted at W.H.
By: Jonathan Martin
February 23, 2009 05:57 PM EST
The incoming chairman of Citigroup, Richard Parsons, showed up at the White House Monday, fueling talk that the federal government might take a massive ownership stake in the troubled banking behemoth.
Parsons’ appointment was to see Valerie Jarrett, one of President Barack Obama’s closest West Wing confidants.
Parsons got through the main gate a little before 6 p.m. A White House official confirmed the meeting but declined to offer details.
"He was here to meet with Valerie - something she often does with business leaders," said the official.
News of Parsons' White House visit started a buzz among financial services executives in Washington, where several said Monday night that they expected an announcement of a Citigroup deal as early as Tuesday. One executive told POLITICO that the White House is telling industry players that the Parsons visit is "a friendly meeting."
The federal government is reportedly in talks to take as much as a 40 percent ownership stake in Citigroup, whose stock price has been battered by speculation that the government might seek to “nationalize” major banks to stabilize the financial services sector.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Monday reiterated Obama’s belief in the importance of a privately held banking system – even as the Treasury Department signaled that it’s open to the kind of deal reportedly being discussed by Citi. A unusual joint statement by the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve and other regulators Monday also signaled the government’s willingness to do what’s needed to keep the nation’s banking system operating efficiently.
Parsons, the former head of Time Warner and one of the nation’s most prominent African-American businessmen, had been rumored as a possible pick for Commerce Secretary. But administration sources now say that job is likely to go to former Washington Gov. Gary Locke.
Watch: Obama's remarks at the Fiscal Responsibility Summit
C is cranking it up...cool!
Good MOOrning MOOvers...have GREEN day!..
C moovin' on up in Europe...
•Stocks in Europe, U.S. Futures Gain as Citigroup Soars; Treasuries Decline
per Bloomberg..C..•Stocks in Europe, U.S. Futures Gain as Citigroup Soars; Treasuries Decline
anything is possible...but I'd rather have the gov FOR me
rather than against me..
IF the BANKS fail...the ripple effect will cause EVERYTHING to fail..
to fail even more than what it already IS!...
housing, autos, all jobs would be affected badly in one fashion or another etc...
I would think the governments NUMBER ONE PRIORITY is to keep America SAFE followed VERY closely by keeping the banks afloat...then everything else would gradually improve..
all this crap didn't happen overnight, and it's not going to
be fixed overnight...
all imo...Gnite!
Asian stocks already rising on the C news...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=aLSO3j_N_WEI&refer=asia
after hours Friday, C was going up..
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=35770882
No briefcase necessary...80 oz. of your favorite beverage...oh ok..
some terroist nut could fill and use
C-3, nitroglycerin, anthrax...
http://www.geardiary.com/2008/06/13/beerbelly-cooler-offbeat-fathers-day-gift/
another email overnight...this is true too, imo..
AN ABSOLUTE MUST READ BY EVERY AMERICAN!
PLEASE PASS THIS ON.
Juval Aviv was the Israeli Agent upon whom the movie ' Munich ' was based. He was Golda Meir's bodyguard -- she appointed him to track down an d bring to justice the Palestinian terrorists who took the Israeli athletes hostage and killed them during the Munich Olympic Games.
In a lecture in New York City a few weeks ago, he shared information that EVERY American needs to know -- but that our government has not yet shared with us.
He predicted the London subway bombing on the Bill O'Reilly show on Fox News stating publicly that it would happen within a week. At the time, O'Reilly laughed and mocked him saying that in a week he wanted him back on the show. But, unfortunately, within a week the terrorist attack had occurred.
Juval Aviv gave intelligence (via what he had gathered in Israel and the Middle East ) to the Bush Administration about 9/11 a month before it occurred. His report specifically said they would use planes as bombs and target high profile buildings and monuments. Congress has since hired him as a security consultant.
Now for his future predictions. He predicts the next terrorist attack on the U.S. will occur within the next few months.
Forget hijacking airplanes, because he says terrorists will NEVER try and hijack a plane again as they know the people onboard will never go down quietly again. Aviv believes our airport security is a joke -- that we have been reactionary rather than proactive in developing strategies that are truly effective.
For example:
1) Our airport technology is outdated. We look for metal, and the new explosives are made of plastic.
2) He talked about how some idiot tried to light his shoe on fire. Because of that, now everyone has to take off their shoes. A group of idiots tried to bring aboard liquid explosives. Now we can't bring liquids on board. He says he's waiting for some suicidal maniac to pour liquid explosive on his underwear; at which point, security will have us all traveling naked! Every strategy we have is 'reactionary.'
3) We only focus on security when people are heading to the gates.
Aviv says that if a terrorist attack targets airports in the future, they will target busy times on the front end of the airport when/where people are checking in. It would be easy for someone to take two suitcases of explosives, walk up to a busy check-in line, ask a person next to them to watch their bags for a minute while they run to the restroom or get a drink, and then detonate the bags BEFORE security even gets involved. In Israel , security checks bags BEFORE people can even ENTER the airport.
Aviv says the next terrorist att ack here in America is imminent and will involve suicide bombers and non-suicide bombers in places where large groups of people congregate. (i.e., Disneyland, Las Vegas casinos, big cities (New York, San Francisco, Chicago, etc.) and that it will also include shopping malls, subways in rush hour, train stations, etc., as well as rural America this time (Wyoming, Montana, etc.).
The attack will be characterized by simultaneous detonations around the country (terrorists like big impact), involving at least 5-8 cities, including rural areas.
Aviv says terrorists won't need to use suicide bombers in many of the larger cities, because at places like the MGM Grand in Las Vegas , they can simply valet park a car loaded with explosives and walk away.
Aviv says all of the above is well known in intelligence circles, but that our U. S. government does not want to 'alarm American citizens' with the facts.
The world is quickly going to become 'a different place', and issues like 'global warming' and political correctness will become totally irrelevant.
On an encouraging note, he says that Americans don't have to be concerned about being nuked. Aviv says the terrorists who want to destroy America will not use sophisticated weapons. They like to use suicide as a front-line approach. It's cheap, it's easy, it's effective; and they have an infinite abundance of young militants more than willing to 'meet their destiny'.
He also says the next level of terrorists, over which America should be most concerned, will not be coming from abroad. But will be, instead, 'homegrown' -- having attended and been educated in our own schools and universities right here in the U. S. He says to look for 'students' who frequently travel back and forth to the Middle East . These young terrorists will be most dangerous because they will know our language and will fully understand the habits of Americans; but that we Americans won't know/understand a thing about them.
Aviv says that, as a people, Americans are unaware and uneducated about the terroristic threats we will, inevitably, face. America still has only have a handful of Arabic and Farsi speaking people in our intelligence networks, and Aviv says it is critical that we change that fact SOON.
So, what can America do to protect itself?
From an intelligence perspective, Aviv says the U.S. needs to stop relying on satellites and technology for intelligence. We need to , instead, follow Israel 's, Ireland 's and England 's hands-on examples of human intelligence, both from an infiltration perspective as well as to trust 'aware' citizens to help. We need to engage and educate ourselves as citizens; however, our U. S. government continues to treat us, its citizens, 'like babies'. Our government thinks we 'can't handle the truth' and are concerned that we'll panic if we understand the realities of terrorism. Aviv says this is a deadly mistake.
Aviv recently created/executed a security test for our Congress, by placing an empty briefcase in five well-traveled spots in five major cities. The results? Not one person called 911 or sought a policeman to check it out. In fact, in Chicago , someone tried to steal the briefcase!
In comparison, Aviv says that citizens of Israel are so well 'trained' that an unattended bag or package would be reported in seconds by citizen(s) who know to publicly shout, 'Unattended Bag!' The area would be quickly & calmly cleared by the citizens themselves. But, unfortunately, America hasn't been yet 'hurt enough' by terrorism for their government to fully understand the need to educate its citizens or for the government to understand that it's their citizens who are, inevitably, the best first-line of defense against terrorism.
Aviv also was concerned about the high number of children here in America who were in preschool and kindergarten after 9/11, who were 'lost' without parents being able to pick them up, and about ours schools that had no plan in place to best care for the students until parents could get there. (In New York City , this was days, in some cases!)
He stresses the importance of having a plan, that's agreed upon within your family, to respond to in the event of a terroristic emergency. He urges parents to contact their children's schools and demand that the schools, too, develop plans of actions, as they do in Israel .
Does your family know what to do if you can't contact one another by phone? Where would you gather in an emergency? He says we should all have a plan that is easy enough for even our youngest children to remember and follow.
Aviv says that the U. S. government has in force a plan that, in the event of another terrorist attack, will immediately cut-off EVERYONE's ability to use cell phones, blackberries, etc., as this is the preferred communication source used by terrorists and is often the way that their bombs are detonated.
How will you communicate with your loved ones in the event you cannot speak? You need to have a plan.
cannot confirm this forwarded email, but it seems reasonably real to me…
unlike CNN or specifically MSNBC one sided talking heads.
Marine Recon Report
Marines seem to tell-it-all the best!! These types of guys make our lives livable here at home. God bless the American riflemen.
Subject: From the Sand Pit
Here is a US Marine who is not afraid to tell it like it is. Political Correctness doesn't mean beans to this tough young warrior.
From a Recon Marine in Afghanistan
It's freezing here. I'm sitting on hard, cold dirt between rocks and shrubs at the base of the Hindu Kush Mountains along the Dar 'yoi Pomir River watching a hole that leads to a tunnel that leads to a cave. Stake out, my friend, and no pizza delivery for thousands of miles.
I also glance at the area around my ass every ten to fifteen seconds to avoid another scorpion sting. I've actually given up battling the chiggers and sand fleas, but them scorpions give a jolt like a cattle prod. Hurts like a bastard. The antidote tastes like transmission fluid but God bless the Marine Corps for the five vials of it in my pack.
The one truth the Taliban cannot escape is that, believe it or not, they are human beings, which means they have to eat food and drink water. That requires couriers and that's where an old bounty hunter like me comes in handy. I track the couriers, locate the tunnel entrances and storage facilities, type the info into the handheld, shoot the coordinates up to the satellite link that tells the air commanders where to drop the hardware, we bash some heads for a while, then I track and record the new movement.
It's all about intelligence. We haven't even brought in the snipers yet. These scurrying rats have no idea what they're in for. We are but days away from cutting off supply lines and allowing the eradication to begin.
I dream of bin Laden waking up to find me standing over him with my boot on his throat as I spit into his face and plunge my nickel plated Bowie knife through his frontal lobe. But you know me. I'm a romantic. I've said it before and I'll say it again: This country blows, man. It's not even a country. There are no roads, there's no infrastructure, there's no government. This is an inhospitable, rock pit shit hole ruled by eleventh century warring tribes. There are no jobs here like we know jobs.
Afghanistan offers two ways for a man to support his family: join the opium trade or join the army. That's it. Those are your options. Oh, I forgot, you can also live in a refugee camp and eat plum-sweetened, crushed beetle paste and squirt mud like a goose with stomach flu if that's your idea of a party. But the smell alone of those 'tent cities of the walking dead' is enough to hurl you into the poppy fields to cheerfully scrape bulbs for eighteen hours a day.
I've been living with these Tajiks and Uzbeks and Turkmen and even a couple of Pushtins for over a month and a half now and this much I can say for sure: These guys, all of 'em, are Huns...actual, living Huns. They LIVE to fight. It's what they do. It's ALL they do. They have no respect for anything, not for their families or for each other or for themselves.
They claw at one another as a way of life. They play polo with dead calves and force their five-year-old sons into human cockfights to defend the family honor. Huns, roaming packs of savage, heartless beasts who feed on each other's barbarism. Cavemen with AK47's. Then again, maybe I'm just cranky.
I'm freezing my ass off on this stupid hill because my lap warmer is running out of juice and I can't recharge it until the sun comes up in a few hours.
Oh yeah! You like to write letters, right? Do me a favor, Bizarre. Write a letter to CNN and tell Wolf and Anderson and that awful, sneering, pompous Aaron Brown to stop calling the Taliban 'smart.' They are not smart. I suggest CNN invest in a dictionary because the word they are looking for is 'cunning.' The Taliban are cunning, like jackals and hyenas and wolverines.
They are sneaky and ruthless and, when confronted, cowardly. They are hateful, malevolent parasites who create nothing and destroy everything else. Smart. Pfft. Yeah, they're real smart.
They've spent their entire lives reading only one book(and not a very good one, as books go) and consider hygiene and indoor plumbing to be products of the devil. They're still figuring out how to work a Bic lighter. Talking to a Taliban warrior about improving his quality of life is like trying to teach an ape how to hold a pen; eventually he just gets frustrated and sticks you in the eye with it.
OK, enough. Snuffle will be up soon so I have to get back to my hole. Covering my tracks in the snow takes a lot of practice but I'm good at it. Please, I tell you and my fellow Americans to turn off the TV sets and move on with your lives.
The story line you are getting from CNN and other news agencies is utter bullshit and designed not to deliver truth but rather to keep you glued to the screen through the commercials. We've got this one under control. The worst thing you guys can do right now is sit around analyzing what we're doing over here because you have no idea what we're doing and, really, you don't want to know. We are your military and we are doing what you sent us
here to do.
You wanna help? Buy Bonds America .
Saucy Jack
Recon Marine in Afghanistan
Semper Fi
"Freedom is not free . . . but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share."
Pacifism is a luxury paid for by warriors Semper Fi
C, BAC, other banks up AH...cool!..
perhaps a good omen for next week..
skimming...hmm..
poked a little C on the down low...
the way I look at it, is.. if Banks fail, EVERYTHING fails..
see how it goes~~~