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Investors in SWHC, RGR, etc:
Gun show report: sales are cooling down from the frenzy levels of the past year.
http://www.radioshownotes.com/2013/12/been-while-heres-gun-show-report.html
Much as I hate to admit it, the Tigers didn't deserve the Pennant.
Congrats to Boston.
So the NYT isn't responsible for the lies it prints?
I guess I'll never under stand progressive thinking.
Once upon a time, the NYT took pride in being the newspaper of record and publishing objective fact on the news pages. They published lots of crazy stuff, but they strictly limited it to the opinion page. Now the whole rag is full of sensationalized crazy in search of readership and you have to go elsewhere for facts.
With the quality of what most of Feinstein's 'authorized journalists' are putting out these days, I'd rather read the Examiner and some of the better blogs than the NYT and WaPo.
So only the first two baserunners got there for free?
I was recalling game 1 when Sanchez walked the bases full trying to hang on to a no-hitter when the BoSox got smart and quit swinging at his crap pitches. Then IIRC he had to pitch to the lead off man after walking 3 guys from the bottom half of the batting order. That could have ended as badly as game 2 did.
As a Tiggers fan, game 1 was fun for me, watching Sanchez throw absolute crap and the BoSox batters go down swinging at it for five innings. Didn't he get 15-16 strikeouts and 4-5 more from the relievers?
I tuned in last night to see a game and find out if the Tigs were up 3-0 or 2-1. Imagine my surprise to find them down 2-1.
The last I'd seen, they were up 5-0 in game 2. What happened? The idjits didn't walk the bases loaded and then pitch to Big Papi, did they?
Game 2 repeated last night, except the Tiggers didn't totally blow it at the end.
Belgie's cousin?
In football, there's a clock, time-outs, and an easy way to penalize a coach for making an unfounded complaint about a call:
If the instant replay backs up the referee's call, the team loses a time-out.
Not sure how you'd handle that in baseball.
Give each time one replay for the whole game?
Give them more than one replay and watch them abuse it in the 8th and 9th innings?
I'm just annoyed at the Individual Mandate.
I'm used to certain government intervention in personal spending, like giving my neighbor a tax deduction for buying a house he couldn't afford and paying interest on it, while not giving me anything special for saving up until I could pay cash for a house.
If, however, they told me I had to pay a special "tax", AKA penalty, for not having a mortgage, then I'd be forced to file a protest return instead of paying the penalty.
Unless the Individual Mandate is repealed or delayed (delay seems somewhat likely), I'm still on schedule to file a protest return for 2014. Instead of filling out the form to assess the Obamacare fine against myself, I'll attach a 'Preparer's Note' that says: I'm exercising my Fourth Amendment right to medical privacy in accordance with the Supreme Court decision in Roe vs Wade. And, by the way, I humbly suggest that you take a flying F at a rolling doughnut.
She introduced a resolution that every Delaware chartered bank was sure to oppose, then pulled it when the banks told her it would cost her campaign contributions if she didn't back off?
Looks like DUST closed at 67 on the 23rd.
Them 3x funds can be volatile.
Sis paid her own way, made too much cashiering 'part time' at WM to qualify for more than a county issued 'discount card' that basically got her a negotiated insurance rate at a limited list of doctors.
I am truly sorry that your choices for medical care are difficult. Its one of those subjects that is never easy.
My folks are doing OK. When my childhood doctor finally retired about 8-10 years ago, they switched to a guy who was OK, but not great. After he dropped the ball one time too many, they managed to get in with the best doc in town earlier this year.
My doc retired in 2007 (I'd dumped my doc since childhood in 1999 when I had a nasty poison ivy outbreak and they tried to give me an appointment more than a week away. The guy who retired in '07 got me in that same day) In 2007 I was paying $43 cash per office visit. Got sticker shock when shopping for a new doctor. Most were about twice what I'd been paying, and few were taking new patients.
Haven't seen a doc since May '07 and I don't miss it all that much.
Had a dentist who did his own cleanings. I was glad to pay him $260 a year, he did the next best thing to a deep clean with an ultrasonic pick for $120 or $140 with x-rays. He sold his practice to a clinic that seems to be running a wallet cleaning service. I called them for my first appointment, and the conversation ended when they told me that they automatically schedule new patients for a deep clean. That's a somewhat specialized service for people with neglected teeth and calculus build up under the gums, not for people who had been using my former dentist twice a year, and certainly not to be ordered for a patient you haven't seen yet. I do need to find another dentist I can trust, but have been lazy about searching for one.
Fortunately for me, WM finally declared my sister to be full time with benefits last year.
Typical RINO behavior. They like to do nothing, and pat themselves on the back for 'trying'.
Her doctor has been refusing to give her an annual physical?
My local situation:
A subset of the medical community, about half the competent ones, accepts medicare. Those doctors are swamped and don't need to take new patients.
The other half are much more likely to have openings.
The doctors I wouldn't go to on a bet usually take medicare and usually have openings, but even those don't want medicaid patients.
Especially when we get hit with a 40% luxury tax if our health insurance is as good as theirs.
Every law that applies to The People should also apply to The Congresscritters. If they were subject to the same laws as humans are, I might stop calling them critters.
It's becoming hard to find medicare doctors in my community. We've got a lot of them, but they seldom are accepting new patients.
Finding a doctor that accepts medicaid patients is a virtual impossibility. A friend of mine went nearly a year without a primary physician before the company handling her medicaid managed to hook her up with a doctor who is new in town and desperate for customers.
Hey, leave Zab alone.
He makes meaningful posts about stocks too.
Yep, union members are exempt from 40% excise on "Cadillac" health insurance, but only until 2018. Apparently the aim wasn't to grant privileges and immunities to DNC supporting unions, but only to give them time to let their contracts expire before negotiating for lesser health insurance (which is still going to piss off certain union groups like the Michigan Education Association, which owns its own ridiculously overpriced insurance company that union negotiators always demand schools buy insurance from).
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/unions_get_pecial_treatment_in_health_AB053CwqPIJlIxXAm37DOM
http://www.healthcareexchange.com/node/1671
Looking back on my memory from 2010, aren't collective bargaining agreements exempt from the luxury tax on health insurance that's "too good for the serfs" (as opposed to health insurance that's still tax free to Congresscritters and the like)?
Health insurance benefits were always at risk.
PBGC doesn't pay a penny for health insurance IIRC.
If your employer fails and dumps their pensioners on PBGC, your checks get smaller while your insurance disappears.
That was a bit of an anomaly. Might have been a slow time of day.
I can show you others where the store finally has stock and is doing booming business.
What definitely changed is people are no longer fighting over a scarce good (guns anyway, a lot of ammunition is still scarce). A basic AR-15 that might have sold on the used market for $2000 in January will once again be in the store racks for $700 or less.
http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/hot-deals/1289546/
http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/hot-deals/1290075/
What, you mean by pledging assets in a security agreement, Detroit gave banks priority claims over those assets?
Shocking, simply shocking (/sarcasm).
The funds that divested in the firearms industry may have had good timing in doing so when the future looked the brightest.
http://oldgunhand.com/?p=4934
To my surprise all the gun shelves were full of guns, many that I was interested in. However the parking lot was empty and only the store owner stood behind the counter. His two salespeople were not there. You could almost hear the tumbleweed blowing through the place.
Nothing like an insurance plan so wonderful that the people who enacted it must:
1. Make it mandatory for the peons to buy it.
2. Exempt themselves from participating.
So much for "Equal protection under the law".
After CLPA (cell pathways inc) and the DNDN manipulation, small pharma scares me almost as much as airlines.
Held SWHC too long, but not long enough. Got in around 4, finally sold for 4.20 just before it hit 5.
Look for that on a chart and you'll see how stupid it was to sell there.
GURE up another 0.08 today.
Shorted NQ at 3117, looking for 3115 or better.
Chickened out at 16.5, now it's at 13.25
I get nervous staying in the market more than a couple of minutes.
Sometimes I turn a stop-loss into a tiny gain by closing early, sometimes I throw away a good trade.
Lotta movement in SI.
September contract back down to 19.90 already.
EDIT:
I'm showing a low of 19.185 and a high of 20.265 on that contract since yesterday's close.
I haven't been watching it very closely, but it seems like it's been a while since I saw an overnight range wider than a dollar.
Dan, was Glass-Steagall actually repealed or slightly modified in 1999?
So FAST (Face-Arms-Speech-Time) should be FASTT (Face-Arms-Speech-Tongue-Time)?
Is the tongue a good indicator?
http://www.strokeinfo.org/blog/?p=346
If I bought an accounting practice, the Goodwill could be extreme.
Let's say some guy has built up a part time business worth about $200k a year. He wants to sell it to me for $300k and walk away.
The only assets are a couple of computers, a printer, and some accounting software, all of which might net $100 at a garage sale.
If I take that deal, I credit cash for $300k and debit Goodwill, while he takes a $300k long term capital gain. Then I get to take $20k a year amortization expense for the next 15 years. It works great for him, but not so great for me.
Instead of walking away from the deal, I probably should have offered him 80-100% of first year revenue from existing clients. That way he wouldn't have to wait years for his money or have his price cut if I chased off all the customers, and I wouldn't be paying for customers who had no intention of staying on after he retired.
When looking at the balance sheet, just change goodwill to zero and reduce owner's equity to balance.
If you want to, you can also raise income by the amount deducted for amortization of goodwill.
They bought something for more than book value and debited goodwill to balance the transaction. The money they paid for it is long gone and doesn't affect present or future cash flows.
Snowden revealed that NSA was doing things which none of us had any idea were going on, that NSA officials now admit to openly lying to Congress about, and you want him prosecuted for being the only one telling the truth?
Why not prosecute NSA officials for perjury before Congress?
I can see where Pfc. Manning can be accused of treason, but Snowden?