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woofer: As I previously mentioned I really don't have much interest in getting involved with the 911 discussion. Today I have a moment of curiosity.
Could you in one short post without any video or other links tell me what you think happened.
Thanks
dtt
I am sure the Repub. leadership is loving this! LOL It is entertaining.
Craig says he won't step down
Sen. Larry Craig says he won't resign despite a Minnesota judge's decision upholding the Idaho Republican's guilty plea in the bathroom sex sting.
"I am extremely disappointed with the ruling issued today. I am innocent of the charges against me. I continue to work with my legal team to explore my additional legal options," Craig said in a statement just released.
He adds that he will "continue to serve Idaho in the United States Senate" because "I have seen that it is possible for me to work here effectively" since he returned three weeks ago. He also wants to clear his name of ethics charges "something that is not possible if I am not serving in the Senate."
He concludes by saying that when his term expires in January 2009, "I will retire and not seek reelection. I hope this provides the certainty Idaho needs and deserves."
I am rarely serious. I am just here to incite riots. LOL
Of course he thinks it is a buy, he most likely just bought some @ $.20 and wants to make a quick buck. If he was consistent across the boards I would be ok with it. I have a different alias but always stick to the same story.
otc: you would not have that status if you just refrained from the needless insults.
think i am going to call the guy on it!
CHSH: A bad sign imo.
Woofer: First, the most important thing I can add to this discussion is that you and other Atheists put yourselves at a major disadvantage in any debate. Why? Because by definition "One who disbelieves or denies the existence of God or gods" you have ceded part of your position. I for one can't disbelieve or deny something that isn't. There is not a shred of evidence of the existence of that three letter referenced item and therefore I have nothing to deny or not believe in. When you debate entering with a position of strength, you have a better chance of the win.
That is a brainer! As opposed to a no brainer which is another topic for another time.
There are God believers, which is a no brainer!
OT: Found this on another board from another poster who threw in the towel on some scam stock. Thought it was a great insightful piece of internet writing.
Funny some of the people I considered enemies in the beginning have turned out to be far smarter than I ever was. Some of the people I considered friends turned out to be quite sinister. As I said the web of entanglement is quite deep.
Extended hours - Schwab is the same
* Pre-Market: Orders can be placed between 8:05 p.m. (previous trading day) and 9:15 a.m. ET and will be eligible for execution between 8:00 a.m. and 9:15 a.m. ET.
* After Hours: Orders can be placed between 4:05 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. ET and will be eligible for execution between 4:15 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. ET
EDIT - Fidelity =
Extended hours trading allow you to access the markets both before and after the standard trading session. Pre-market trades may be placed from 7:30 - 9:15 am ET. After-hours trades may be placed from 4:00 - 8:00 p.m. ET.
I think it is similar to going into a restaurant that needs to clean up the tables between a late lunch and early dinner crowd. It also gives the MM's and specialists a few moments to plan how to screw the average Joe.
SNEN - I bought SNEN @ $2.39 and sold @ $2.50, a genius on that stock I was not. However as a long ago former accountant, when companies changed fiscal years it was never ever in my experience for altruistic reasons. The IRS increasingly took a dim view of the practice.
Could be completely legit but it causes me a moment of pause. I also was a bit shocked at the email received by an IHUB poster from the company on a pre release of information regarding station opening announcements. Not sure that was kosher to provide those details outside of a public release.
At least I made $.11 US per share. <g>
10bagger:
I find the accounting change on SNEN a bit worrisome. Can't give a hard reason why, just a pink flag in my book!
The change in the company's fiscal year will be effective commencing with the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2007. The Company will report audited results for the nine month transitional financial period of Jan 1, 2007 to Sep 30, 2007 in December 2007.
This change will enable the company to avoid the conflicts and shortage of auditing resources surround the Chinese spring festival, leading to more timely and cost effective financial reporting.
OT 10bagger, I never have a bad day. I enjoy life. I asked a serious question and you chose to reply with a nasty retort. Others took on the question with actual answers. You gave Len as an example, erroneously of a non China stock buyer and trashed CHINA stocks in general. Len has not bought any stock since whatever date he just stated in his recent post. Why did you ignore BOBWINS, ABH, HWEB, NORTHLIGHTS, R59 etc or any of the other great prolific stock picker/posters on this board. Your post was lacking.
Maybe I am smarter than you, maybe not. I sure don't have your EGO, nor need to post my portfolio sizes and dollar amounts to show off how great I am. I guess since you have $750K portfolio that makes you correct.
So this week so far you trashed DPDW & China stocks, so you can save the world from investing in them.
Great Euphemism - "have a nice day" - Go build a boat.
zen: genx: Not to cast doubts on GENX or Digitech, but you can't really be sure that any poster is real unless you have met them. Even then I could tell you how many stock swindlers I have met who seem like perfectly nice men & women. They even have kids, pets and go to church. I can tell you that xyz is real but what does that really mean?
There are so many frauds, pump & dumps that go on every day in the USA, so to bash China stocks en masse is irresponsible imo.
10bagger: China Stocks
1. Are you implying that all China stocks are bad?
2. As I recall Len has several China stocks in his aged portfolio
3. As I recall Len has not bought a stock since June 2005
4. You forgot to remind us guys to be home by midnight and bring some protection. LOL Sorry ladies, you be home by 10 please.
5. In addition to commodity traders dying broke, most stock traders never beat the market over the long run.
Talk about a classic post!
Genuis!
LOL
Len, my anxiety was purely over worrying for you my friend. The many sleepless nights trying to come up with the proof. I fear it will interfere with your other endeavors.
I originally thought GOD please give Len the strength to answer the question and prove it once and for all. Give him the solid proof, maybe a reflection on a wall in a taco shop would suffice. But looks like he/she failed to come through.
I will therefore suffer more godless days of existence, may he/she strike me d
e a ....
wall:
An interesting bit of info on the subject
http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0400/stories/0401_0129.html" target="_blank">http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0400/frameset_reset.html?http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0400/stories/...
Wall: I won't. Did you ask your Native American friend how religion helped the original Americans? I am sure they were overjoyed with the missionaries.
Len, I anxiously await the proof!
Once again, I say the amount of GOOD created by religion is nearly INFINITELY greater than the amount of bad!!!
dtt
Len: Of course both of those statements are biased. I will go with the Nobel Prize winner on this.
Evil people will not be converted to religion until they do the evil and then see whatever light they supposedly see to get free of the shackles that bind them.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg, quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999
US physicist (1933 - )
Nobel prize winner 1979
VLDI - an old not so favorite of mine. Could mean something.. another P&D job?
Validian Corporation Resumes Trading on the OTC BB
OTTAWA, Oct 02, 2007 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- Ewire -- Validian Corporation (OTCBB: VLDI), a leader in application security software and solutions, today announced it has resumed trading on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board (OTCBB).
In May, Validian finished filing all past due annual and quarterly financial reports through its first financial quarter ended March 31, 2007, bringing the company current in its financial reporting with the SEC.
CEO Bruce Benn said, "Our return to the OTCBB listing is an important step in moving our business forward. This is vital to strengthening our credibility and in building the support of market makers, potential investors and business partners as well as current shareholders. We want our operations to be as transparent as possible so that the financial community can see and understand the progress we are making."
About Validian
Validian Corporation is a leader in the development and marketing of innovative application-security and secure data-exchange software and solutions for public and private enterprises. Validian ASI(TM) is a software-only development and deployment environment for peer-to-peer (P2P) and client-server architectures that enables application authentication and secure data exchange to be integrated directly into applications rapidly and easily, lowering development and deployment costs. ASI protects against attacks by authenticating applications thereby preventing the hacking of applications, and by encrypting and decrypting data within applications to ensure data exchanged between trusted applications never travels in the clear, thereby preventing the theft of data during transit. Cost-effective, simple-to-deploy and easy to manage, Validian solutions facilitate security audit compliance. A U.S. corporation, Validian has offices in the U.S, Canada and Switzerland.
For more information about Validian Corporation, visit www.validian.com.
Safe Harbor Statement
Investors should carefully consider the preceding information as well as information contained in this news release before making an investment in the shares of the company. Information contained in this news release contains "forward-looking statements," which can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "believes," expects," "may," "should," or "anticipates" or negative thereof or given that the future results covered by such forward-looking statements will be achieved. The preceding matters constitute cautionary statements identifying important factors with respect to such forward-looking statements, including certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to vary materially from the future statements. Other factors could also cause actual results to vary materially from the future results covered in such forward-looking statements.
CONTACT:
Investor Relations Contact:
The Del Mar Consulting Group, Inc.
Robert B. Prag
President
Email Contact
(858) 794-9500
Validian Contact:
Bruce Benn
President & CEO
Validian Corporation
(613) 230-7211 Ext 226
Email Contact
WEB SITE: http://www.validian.com
SOURCE: Validian Corporation
Bought a few today... this shall pass, 2008 is make or break for me.
OT: DPDW:
Hey Brikk: Remember this post of yours!
dtt, it may not surprise you, but i don't care what you think.
likewise
DPDW: First looked at it 11/06. Recommended it to my "reverse merger guru" @ $.16 . Not a bad ride to date.
Deep Down, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: DPDW - News) today announced it has delivered and installed the first of two active heave compensated in-line winch systems to Schlumberger, Inc.
I can't agree that SLB is "marginal".
JustFF: Piles of cash: I have many piles. It took me a long time to come to grips with the reality of the market. The more I trade the worse I do. I think the majority of investors suffer the same fate. That's why most day traders crap out eventually if not sooner.
I also think you have to define trading. What time frame is a trade to you vs. an investment? Makes a difference to your strategy.
Much less than 10% of my liquid net worth is used in what I would call trading. Most investors/traders tend to rationalize when they make a bad trade on entry, keep it longer and term it an investment. You can find loads of examples throughout IHUB, even many on this board do it, I know I have. So while we tend to "trade" it often becomes "investing" and it becomes hard to keep separate. Trading takes too much time for me, chains me to my desk when I don't want to be here and requires a lot of paperwork that I don't care for anymore.
Only the highly disciplined trader sticks to the rules, sets up stops religiously, follows his/her plan on entry and exits as they should.
Real estate columnist Robert Bruss dead
(really enjoyed his columns over the years and learned a lot from him)
BURLINGAME, Calif., 28 (UPI) -- Robert Bruss, a syndicated real estate columnist whose writing appeared in U.S. newspapers for more than 20 years, has died in Burlingame, Calif. He was 67.
Inman News, the Emeryville, Calif., news service that distributes Bruss' column, said the author and investment expert died in his home Wednesday after a battle with cancer, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.
Bruss, who worked as a real estate lawyer for years before taking up writing, said he was inspired to make the career jump by the low-quality of real estate journalism at the San Francisco Examiner 23 years ago.
"They had a terrible real estate section," he said in 2004, "and I thought I could do better."
Bruss also authored a number of books related to real estate and real estate law, including "The Smart Investor's Guide to Real Estate" (1983) and "The California Foreclosure Book" (1991).
He also co-authored a college text book with William Pivar, entitled "California Real Estate Law."
Bruss' final column is scheduled to run in newspapers around the country Sunday.
C&D: I can only relate local experience of Portland OR area. RE transactions have slowed considerably, but prices have not dropped yet. Homes are still selling if asking price is reasonable. I still think we are experiencing migration from higher priced areas like California and that is helping for the time being. Don't think we will see a 25% drop.
Len: Dollar:
What do you think are the options for the US Government to stop the slide? Not that they will do so. If I was a technical trader I would be buying some of the currency ETF's now. Alas I would be lost in that area and unsure of when to get in and out.
Stan: CXTI: With all good wishes please sell it! Then we don't have to discuss the scams here.
Learn to take profits.
KIK CFSG: Thanks for kudo's. Still think it goes higher. Also like GUFR for similar reasons that I liked CFSG way back then.
shmolton DPDW:
That was the best news release they have put out yet. Showing approximate prices for high valued equipment going to Schlumberger. Don't know the follow through on it, but it is a retail brokers dream PR for sending to clients to get them into a stock. Would not be surprised to see it double from here.
CFSG: Another new high today, breaks $12.00 . Someone actively going after it today with a vengeance.
The only strategy that will work in the long run is Alternative sources of energy. Everything else is a band-aid. It's likely to pull off your hair when it gets ripped off the skin.
As long as there is a lack of free thinking open minded peace loving people in the world, we will have invective filled speech tossed about.
All parties involved in the process need to come together and talk it out. Current administrations of US/IRAN/IRAQ etc. have no chance of success as they don't fit the bill.
Meanwhile I am holding my breath until 2009 January. Anyone currently in the presidential mix has got to be better than the current occupant.
Listed on Yahoo as the sole institutional holder. Position has increased over the year.
http://www.g2cm.com/G2MeettheManager.pdf
bleut: I have the book on request at my local library. Until then this "He said this would drive down the costs for corporations in areas such as the auto industry" sounds like easing the CAFE standards for mileage, subsidizing/bailing out the Auto industry to help them compete against Japan/Korea and soon China. Allowing the industry to cut back the union strangle hold. Throwing good money after bad is what it sounds like. I think the auto industry has been dead for 30 years in this country.
I saw him on Meet the Press and he basically disavowed any responsibility for any of the wrongs that are attributed to him.
woofer: I am endorsing a law that punishes people for stealing. You are talking about something different. You want a law that says that drug developers are not entitled to make profits above and beyond what someone else deems to be a "fair" profit. That is a different issue and if that question were put before me I would most likely have a different answer.
I can't imagine that our society would change the law on stealing no matter how many times people stole what they perceived as necessary to survive.
H1. What do you think the problem is? What should be done?
The problem is the druggist is greedy and lacks compassion. The local citizens should refuse to purchase from him and picket his store.
H2. Should Heinz steal the drug?
NO, that is contrary to the law.
H3. If Heinz doesn't love his wife any more, should he still steal the drug for her? Why, or why not?
NO, that is contrary to the law.
H4. Suppose the person dying is not his wife, but a stranger. Should he steal the drug for a stranger? Why, or why not?
NO, that is contrary to the law.
H5. Suppose Heinz does steal the drug. He is caught and brought to trial. The jury finds him guilty and the judge has to decide on the sentence. Should the judge sentence him or let him go free? Why?
He should punish him as any thief would be punished. Taking in to account mitigating circumstances that would be used in any similar case.
If a society has laws and then does not enforce them, they are useless and eventually the society will suffer for it.
I would most likely steal the drug if faced with some of those situations and beat the crap out of that uncaring cretin. But that is just me.
OT: BS:
This is a point of my term....."The Mexicanization of America".
So now you lay claim to a term that has been floating around for years. The least you could do is come up with an original idea before branding it.