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Destroying the U.S.A. from within--the latest:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12962801/FAA-recruit-workers-severe-intellectual-psychiatric-disabilities.html
Gmenfan: A REPUBLICAN Senator from Oklahoma, a Baptist minister no less, has turned out to be a first class rat.
He is negotiating with vile Sen. Shumer on the border and sending $68B more to---you guessed it--Ukraine.
My thought is that to do something like this, he is being blackmailed. Gay? Who knows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lankford
al44: It might be humorous, but it won't bring back the murdered deputy and the police dog.
Do U have a link I could use to send that to a friend in Florida. It is great.
lj: VTLE and REI
That is an interesting observation. VTLE is stuck in a rut. A rise in oil, also, did not help the stock.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, XOM has been unspectacular, too.
As U say, and so we watch--paint dry!
lj: OT
It should be interesting! The only reason someone wouldn't want the job has to be money.
al44: Mike Lindell is working hard to get counties to go back to paper ballots. The 2024 election will be stolen, mark my words. Your average Republican, doesn't care.
Proof positive that liberalism is a mental illness:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12953637/Outrage-Democrat-run-Maine-towns-luxury-digs-migrants-Asylum-seekers-live-rent-free-palace-apartments-balconies-hundreds-born-homeless-sleep-rough.html
The richest 10 percent own 90 percent of stocks. What is the criteria for being in the "richest 10 percent"? $2M in assets? Very misleading. What percentage do the top 2-3 percent own?
Could the top 3 percent own 90 percent of the 90 percent of stocks.
lj: Chalk it up to greed. EOM
DD: Really, you know that for a fact. You have done a survey. P-A-T-H-E-T-I-C.
lj: I think Brent closed at $76 and change. Vital Energy's hedge contracts are looking good--at least for the time being.
al44: They are sick people, al44. A Jewish friend told me that if Trump is elected, her life will be in danger from right-wing extremists. I explained the biggest danger to American Jews are the illegals who have come here during the past to years from places like Afghanistan and other mid-East countries. That didn't sink in.
Nikki Haley was born in Bamberg, South Carolina. End of discussion on her citizenship.
IMO, Trump's reposting that article was for the purpose of ginning up prejudice. I think he finally has done himself in politically. He knows she is going to win the Iowa caucuses.
Sens. Thune and Cornyn have killed their chances of getting reelected.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-senators-slap-down-trump-110000940.html
They are selling down the river people who received unjust sentences.
lj: In that case, I will set my thermostat at 77. That is a scary thought. First, California bans menthol in cigs.
Will they mandate termostat temps for private residences. It sounds crazy, but tyranny is tryanny.
DD: You are ignorant of both domestic politics and geopolitics. Why don't U go watch Dr. Phil!
DD: U are woefully ignorant of geopolitics. EOM
al44: I don't think Trump will win the Iowa caucuses. Haley will. Reason I think this?
Newsmax, which has been in the tank for Trump for quite some time, ran a clip of one of their reporters interviewing Iowans yesterday, asking who they like. They like Nikki Haley. Trump attacked Haley's ethnicity yesterday, reposting an article suggesting she cannot be President because her parents were immigrants, and I guess did not get citizenship, but don't quote me on that. Nikki is U.S. born, so she has birthright citizenship if her parents were not citizens, unlike Obama, who was born in Kenya. I am thinking that Dick Morris, who owns Newsmax, might believe that Trump will lose in Iowa. Otherwise, why would he allow the clip of people saying they like Haley? Trump is his own worst enemy.
al44: Ray Epps' community service will be cleaning the sidewalks in front of FBI Headquarters, and possibly washing Chief Wray's vehicle!
al44: Their tactic is as clear as a pane of glass--They are trying to scare conservatives so they will not protest anything ever.
It is called tryanny.
lj: NVDA
Thank you. All very solid thoughts. However. . .I took about a $7,500 debit and rolled it out to Dec. 2026 with a $600 strike price. I took in about $3,400 when I sold the $300 call early last year, so the loss (not adjusting for taxes) is about $4,100. If called at $600, the cap gain increases by $30K. What I don't know is whether the $7,500 loss is a "wash sale" since I bought another call in rolling it out. My guess is "yes", it is a wash sale, which is a kick in rear, but that is what I did.
Buying in the call outright, then waiting 31 days to sell another call, would have been costly--over $19k to buy in the $300 call.
Bottom line--
I will never again sell a call on a LT position. N-E-V-E-R.
lj: KOLD and BOIL
Amen to that. Today's move in both is proof.
lj: Alabama was grand, no matter how U slice it!
lj: rain
Judging from my wheelbarrow, I believe we got a total of 5" of rain. I think 1" of rain would be 1' of snow!
No thank you.
jtomm: OneMindNg
Translation: One World Order! Good stuff, jtomm.
DD: No one said Ukraine was at fault. It is a country of grifters, and there is no accountability for the billions the U.S. taxpayers have sent them. When a country is drafting 64-year-olds, the war is over. I don't have any more time to waste on your silly statements.
JS016: re: OneMindng Thank you. EOM
END MAIL-IN BALLOTS. END THEM NOW.
Gmenfan: I tried to explain to a liberal friend today that in Maryland, due to Motor-Voter of past years (you register to vote at the MVA when you renew your license or get your initial license), there are lots of illegals in this State who can vote.
She didn't believe me.
The 2020 election was "stolen" because judges won't hear challenges to election results. In Georgia, MAGA Republicans had proof of failure to verify signatures on mail-in ballots, and other issues that made LOTS of ballots invalid, but the court wouldn't hear the case. I hope Fani gets her fanny kicked. Her little romance should throw cold water on the prosecution of her (actually his) case.
END MAIL-IN VOTING for anyone under 80.
oldstocks: If you find out which U.S. company owns OneMindNg, please let us know.
AI is going to change everything a lot faster than your average person would imagine.
It will have to be reined in, because it is going to destroy jobs at an incredible rate. My best guess is that will start happening in 3 years.
It has the potential to improve medicine exponentially. It will be a boon to radiology, to name one discipline of medicine.
It will allow ophthalmology to take a giant leap forward, imo.
Ditto with drug development.
If used for the betterment of humanity, it will be wondrous.
But it has a very dark side.
Ray Epps gets 1 year's probation, while trespassers are rotting in jail? That tells U right there he was or is an FBI asset. Ray knows where the proverbial bodies are buried at the FBI.
lj: Sold half of BOIL position last week. Glad I held the other half.
Oil popped a little today. You are correct about these storms keeping petrol consumption down.
Raining like a son-of-a-gun here today. One county canceled school--think tidal surge from tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay. An event I was supposed to attend tonight was canceled. Cancellation here, cancellation there--gasoline sits in the tanks at the filling stations.
You have an accurate crystal ball.
(OT: Speaking of which, I'm not buying the Defense Secretary's story. Why was he in an icu? Out of an abundance of caution. Something is off.)
By the way, Michelle/Michael did an interview recently, saying how scared she is about MAGA. She definitely is running for President. She won't get in the primaries; they will draft her at the convention.
And he was in an ICU? Something doesn't add up. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12944241/Lloyd-Austin-prostate-cancer-secret-surgery-defense-secretary.html
I still say he is transitioning to female. It worked for Michelle! LOL!!!
DD: You are seriously underinformed on the War in Ukraine. EOM
pos_stock_hoarder: God help us all! At least we don't live in a country that is recruiting males up to age 64 to fight in an endless, hopeless war. Think Zelenskyy.
DD: menthol ban
You got me there. But California is an insane asylum. What next? No cherry coke because it encourages soft drink consumption? Banning menthol should not be done by ANY State.
Banning menthol means more Black votes for The Donald!
Gen. Lloyd Austin--no surprise that the mainstream media is ignoring the story so far today.
Even the Daily Mail cannot find out what is going on.
p_s_h: If the MAGA House Republicans cannot get a balanced budget, the currency is going to flop. Guaranteed. Meanwhile, BRIC's and other countries are working hard to kill the Petro Dollar.
We are in big trouble. The White House is a joke. This business with the DOD head is the tip of a very high, wide iceberg. And it is melting.
r59: NVDA
Funny you should say that. I am thinking about rolling out the $300 call to a Dec. 2026 $600. I would have a loss for this year of maybe $3-4K on the rollout, but, at $600, the LT capital gain would increase by $30K.