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Zacks Updates --
"PLX: May is a Big Month"
- FDA May 9th, EMA expected early May
"....While we were not able to find any specific studies that estimated the probability of approval for a rare disease candidate after a positive CHMP opinion, a review of literature addressing the topic suggests that greater than 90% of products that receive such an opinion are ultimately approved...."
https://scr.zacks.com/news/news-details/2023/PLX-May-is-a-Big-Month-article/default.aspx
Full PLX Research Report
https://s27.q4cdn.com/906368049/files/News/2023/Zacks_SCR_Research_02282023_PLX_Vandermosten.pdf
"....If your thinking is: "Well, it's only mice - not humans", I would agree if we were dealing with a new biologic, but that is not the case with BT2111. Mice brain physiology is closely related to that of humans and don't forget, we are using human p97 and the same receptors exist on the mice BBB as in humans. In addition, species specific p97 trancytosis much better. What route will this take with respect to the NIH? Will this now be fastracked? Don't forget, Quentin Smith worked for the NIH for ~10 years as well...."
http://www.stockhouse.com/bullboards/messagedetail.aspx?p=0&m=32140061&l=0&r=0&s=BTI&t=LIST
Herceptin sales are close to $6 billion a year, but it doesn't treat cancer that has metastasized to the brain. And that occurs in about 1/3 of HER2+ breast cancer cases.
If the results reported today were in humans, you would be looking at a company with a market cap at least 10x the current 67 million.
Bioasis is a Canadian stock trading on the TSXV exchange. What trades on the OTCBB is pretty much irrelevant.
Traded volume today is currently 346,695 shares.
biOasis Breaks Through - Big Time!
Thursday, February 7, 2013
I'll keep this as brief as I can but today's news from biOasis is enormous. Basically, biOasis has announced a huge breakthrough in the transport of a large molecule drug across the Blood Brain Barrier! And the drug worked after it got through! That is the news! And because it is expected that biOasis can do the same with dozens, perhaps hundreds of other treatments, biOasis is setting itself up as one of the most valuable early-stage biotechs around today....
http://www.jdstox.com/2013/02/bioasis-breaks-through-big-time.html
biOasis Announces Positive Anti-Tumour Efficacy Data
February 07, 2013 09:00 ET
biOasis Transcend-Herceptin® Conjugate (BT2111) Significantly Reduces the Number and Size of Metastatic HER2+ Breast Cancer Tumors in the Brain
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Feb. 7, 2013) - biOasis Technologies Inc. (TSX VENTURE:BTI) announced today that its Transcend-Herceptin® Conjugate (BT2111) product candidate (a proprietary conjugate of Roche's anti-cancer antibody trastuzumab (Herceptin®) and Transcend, biOasis brain delivery vector) reduced the number of metastatic human HER2+ breast cancer tumors in the brains of test animals by 68% when compared to untreated control animals. The tumors that remained after treatment were 57% smaller than those in the untreated control animals....
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/bioasis-announces-positive-anti-tumour-efficacy-data-tsx-venture-bti-1754298.htm
BIOASIS Technologies Inc. (BTI on the TSXV) -- Small Vancouver biotech. Don't see it mentioned here in a search. Small float. Compelling story. Derisking is going well so far. (Yes, I have a significant position).
Company site: http://www.BIOASIS.ca
Good videos for an overview....
May 2012 video:
A few posts from the turnip patch (#board-1125).
Jan-Dec 2006.
Dec 15/06 · Naz run to be bounded by about 2500 - #msg-15580661
Dec 14/06 · Close, maybe, but no clear signal yet - #msg-15569361
Dec 14/06 · At least another minisurge before we fail - #msg-15566259
Nov 30/06 · Short term RSIs and Level II - #msg-15194705
Nov 20/06 · For a serious decline, EPC .42 or so - #msg-14951034
Nov 20/06 · Basic trend is still quite bullish - #msg-14948998
Nov 17/06 · Doubt we breach 2500 on the NAZ - #msg-14844079
Nov 10/06 · Market is showing no signs of letting go - #msg-14703742
Nov 09/06 · Still fearing a minor retrench of 100/150 Naz points - #msg-14631824
Nov 07/06 · EPC close to .5, the market could turn - #msg-14594647 #msg-14594870
Nov 03/06 · Good chance 2400 taken out before end of first quarter - #msg-14512084
Oct 17/06 · So far, not huge excess of optimism - #msg-14065218
Oct 16/06 · Getting close to another sell signal - #msg-14054587
Oct 13/06 · EPC is approaching danger zone - #msg-13994918
Oct 13/06 · At least a minor retrench from 2350/70 - #msg-13993802
Oct 12/06 · No major corrections in the next few weeks - #msg-13968296
Oct 09/06 · Last sell signal was faulty - #msg-13892435
Sep 29/06 · Still are not developing excess enthusiasm - #msg-13662625
Sep 21/06 · Right now I do not have a "nassacre" - #msg-13465874
Sep 18/06 · A little of that long overdue shake out - #msg-13389610
Sep 12/06 · 2200/2230 should be some type of resistance here - #msg-13259996
Sep 11/06 · Sell signal is still in effect - #msg-13231234
Sep 08/06 · Not changed the sell signal from 2135 yet - #msg-13181987
Sep 04/06 · Sell signal is probably false - #msg-13093869
Aug 30/06 · Sell signal I had about two weeks back may actually be false - #msg-12997567
Aug 29/06 · A retest of 2060 or so - #msg-12980817
Aug 21/06 · EPC should not go above .9 or so - #msg-12803192
Aug 18/06 · Potential risk of bigger than 10% over the next 2 or 3 months - #msg-12769028
Aug 17/06 · EPC dropped under .5, a very dangerous market for bulls - #msg-12728814
Aug 17/06 · Calling for a retreat to at least 2060 - #msg-12725826
Aug 16/06 • Sell signal as of today - #msg-12717946 #msg-12704900
Aug 16/06 · EPC is getting pretty close to .5 - #msg-12711913
Aug 16/06 · Immediate big sell signal; not yet - #msg-12694659
Aug 15/06 · Definitely in the "danger zone" here above 2100 - #msg-12677897
Aug 14/06 · Relatively high EPC, so no "Run for the Hills" yet - #msg-12659425
Aug 11/06 · At least 2100 to create excess optimism - #msg-12593514
Aug 10/06 · At least a week of additional distribution in the 2060/2120 area - #msg-12562311
Jul 31/06 · Back and forth once or twice in the 2000/2100 area - #msg-12350847
Jul 28/06 · Sentiment indicators have not given a buy signal - #msg-12320164
Jul 24/06 · Rally, possibly to 2100/20 or so - #msg-12211548
Jul 18/06 · Now approaching my original October target - #msg-12092405
Jul 17/06 · Maybe tomorrow or the day after we set a local bottom - #msg-12075509
Jul 15/06 · Late September early October low 1850/1910 - #msg-12049816
Jul 14/06 · 2150/80 in the next three to four weeks - #msg-12034121
Jul 13/06 · A range of 2080 to 2180 - #msg-12012964
Jul 13/06 · Near a major support here - #msg-12012424
Jul 12/06 · After a visit to the sub 2000 on the Naz - #msg-12001623
Jul 11/06 · Peak around mid August and go down hard - #msg-11970662
Jun 29/06 · Another 50-75 points - #msg-11826798
Jun 19/06 · In general, still a dangerous market - #msg-11647941
Jun 16/06 · Medium term, this rally, IMTO, is not going to go very far - #msg-11613697
Jun 14/06 · Up mildly into expiry - #msg-11587207
Jun 14/06 · Don't expect a real bottom till much later in the year - #msg-11575589
Jun 10/06 · This week up, medium term still bearish - #msg-11531539
Jun 06/06 · EPC...still not large enough for a solid bottom - #msg-11457890
Jun 01/06 · Maybe a spirited summer rally after another retest - #msg-11379265
May 30/06 · By late September the Naz might very well be sub 2000 - #msg-11351681
May 30/06 · We could be doing the normal retest of last week's low - #msg-11342728
May 25/06 · Looks and smells like bottoming - #msg-11281588
May 23/06 · 2150/2172 on the Naz is strong support - #msg-11254728
May 22/06 · Very short term we are in major support area - #msg-11223489
May 22/06 · The bull may be dead till later this year, maybe longer - #msg-11222249
May 19/06 · We may see the low 1900/2000 before October - #msg-11199024
May 19/06 · Entering another support area here, 2150/72 on the Naz - #msg-11195542
May 18/06 · Additional stronger support in the 2150/2170 area - #msg-11181066
May 17/06 · 2190 as the potential low of this move - #msg-11152441
May 17/06 · Still believe we turn today - #msg-11150662
May 16/06 • We could have a solid summer rally - #msg-11137548
May 16/06 · Many many indicators are flashing major buy signals - #msg-11137508
May 16/06 · A bottom before 11:00 AM tomorrow - #msg-11137045
May 15/06 · Bounce starting no later than Wednesday morning - #msg-11122849
May 15/06 • Looks like a major not just an intermediate bottom - #msg-11120424
May 12/06 · Expect within the next three days a sizeable run up - #msg-11081347
May 11/06 · Cash is bullish 15% - #msg-11073612
May 11/06 · Deep oversold levels, intermediary bottom - #msg-11066965
May 11/06 · Still a range bound market of 2290/2390 - #msg-11064428 #msg-
May 11/06 · Naz should not have breached the 2290 area - #msg-11065696
May 08/06 · 2290/2390 area, with a positive bias - #msg-11001919
May 02/06 · VTO - #msg-10905153 #msg-10906137
Apr 16/06 · Next few weeks, 2290 to 2390 range - #msg-10689630
Apr 13/06 · Direction should be back up to 2370/90 - #msg-10659597
Apr 11/06 · I still think we tag 2390 - #msg-10629657
Apr 11/06 · A relapse should be expected - #msg-10629644
Apr 11/06 · We are still in a bull move - #msg-10628839
Apr 04/06 · I think we finish the year quite well - #msg-10511606
Mar 30/06 · 2390 before we see 2290 - #msg-10430364
Mar 30/06 · Market internals are still OK - #msg-10429988
Mar 29/06 · A challenge of the 2370/2390 area - #msg-10420508
Mar 24/06 · A solid month here of sideway action - #msg-10345740
Mar 15/06 • Moving to neutral - #msg-10168833
Mar 11/06 · I think this time we do not even get to 2300 - #msg-10112019
Mar 09/06 · The whole market might be reaching a local bottom - #msg-10084051
Mar 08/06 · Medium term, possibility we test 2180/2200 area - #msg-10064466
Mar 07/06 · We may actually get a VTO buy signal in the next few days - #msg-10043873
Feb 26/06 · Still think we have a nasty six to three months ahead of us - #msg-9896573
Feb 22/06 · Maybe a range of 2230/2290 or so for a while - #msg-9836268
Feb 18/06 · For now it looks like a trading range - #msg-9782407
Feb 15/06 · Potential debacle here till late March - #msg-9739525
Feb 13/06 · 30 Naz points from my original target - #msg-9699106
Feb 11/06 · 2200 before we challenge 2300 again - #msg-9673406
Feb 09/06 · Do not expect too big a decline yet - #msg-9646064
Feb 08/06 · Maybe another 20/30 Naz points from here - #msg-9625492
Feb 08/06 · Very short term, naz up, just to relieve oversold condition - #msg-9625479
Feb 04/06 · I'll have to wait and see if 2180 is taken out - #msg-9566964
Feb 04/06 · A narrow trading range in the 2180 to 2320 area - #msg-9566924
Feb 03/06 · May have to suffer through February after a mild bounce - #msg-9560487
Feb 03/06 · Worst case of 2180/2200 - #msg-9548194
Feb 02/06 · Still do not have a major nassacre in the cards - #msg-9530762
Feb 01/06 · No change since last week - #msg-9505625
Jan 28/06 · Medium term, a pretty good environment for stocks - #msg-9456635
Jan 28/06 · Enough of a shake out to be scary - #msg-9453915
Jan 27/06 · On internal sentiments indicators - #msg-9446559
Jan 27/06 · Next four weeks or so, 100 Naz points pull back - #msg-9443967
Jan 27/06 • In a teddy bear suit with a target of 2180/2200 - #msg-9441522
Jan 26/06 · Dangerous waters - #msg-9424775
Jan 25/06 · Most we go is just shy of 2300 and retreat - #msg-9408831
Jan 25/06 · Not bearish on the year, just the next few months - #msg-9405409
Jan 25/06 · Sell signal effective here betweem 2280 and 2300 - #msg-9401647
Jan 24/06 · Short term decline from the end of February - #msg-9391146
Jan 24/06 · I think we have few days of green - #msg-9385208
Jan 21/06 · A nasty February with a target under 2100 - #msg-9348752
Jan 12/06 · Not yet in my bear suit, but quite cautious - #msg-9230891
Jan 12/06 · Close to the 2320/2340 area - #msg-9227908
Jan 09/06 · The year in general may very well be up - #msg-9188427
Jan 08/06 • In general, I cannot be too bearish here - #msg-9169397
Federal Appeals Court: Driving With Money is a Crime
Eighth Circuit Appeals Court ruling says police may seize cash from motorists even in the absence of any evidence that a crime has been committed.
A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that if a motorist is carrying large sums of money, it is automatically subject to confiscation. In the case entitled, "United States of America v. $124,700 in U.S. Currency," the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit took that amount of cash away from Emiliano Gomez Gonzolez, a man with a "lack of significant criminal history" neither accused nor convicted of any crime.
On May 28, 2003, a Nebraska state trooper signaled Gonzolez to pull over his rented Ford Taurus on Interstate 80. The trooper intended to issue a speeding ticket, but noticed the Gonzolez's name was not on the rental contract. The trooper then proceeded to question Gonzolez -- who did not speak English well -- and search the car. The trooper found a cooler containing $124,700 in cash, which he confiscated. A trained drug sniffing dog barked at the rental car and the cash. For the police, this was all the evidence needed to establish a drug crime that allows the force to keep the seized money.
Associates of Gonzolez testified in court that they had pooled their life savings to purchase a refrigerated truck to start a produce business. Gonzolez flew on a one-way ticket to Chicago to buy a truck, but it had sold by the time he had arrived. Without a credit card of his own, he had a third-party rent one for him. Gonzolez hid the money in a cooler to keep it from being noticed and stolen. He was scared when the troopers began questioning him about it. There was no evidence disputing Gonzolez's story....
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/12/1296.asp
A few posts from the turnip patch (#board-1125).
Jan-Dec 2005.
Dec 27/05 · Market may become a little hazardous for the longs here - #msg-9024912
Dec 22/05 · The decline may be quite murderous - #msg-8977244
Dec 20/05 · Accumulating many factors that are negative medium term - #msg-8954276
Dec 02/05 · Have not changed since removing my bear suit at 2220 - #msg-8713378
Nov 24/05 · Still coasting without too much excess - #msg-8620469
Nov 23/05 · A turn will require major extreme since we are in breakout mode - #msg-8607690
Nov 19/05 · This run will require a lot of extreme optimism to be halted - #msg-8564628
Nov 19/05 · Will need a lot of exuberance before I put my bear suit back on - #msg-8564568
Nov 17/05 • My bear suit is removed here at 2220 on the Naz - #msg-8542383
Nov 13/05 · Just a healthy retrenchment - #msg-8482070
Nov 12/05 · I expect just a healthy retrench - #msg-8477829
Nov 12/05 · Divergence between the BPCOMPQ and the COMPQ - #msg-8477639
Nov 11/05 · First target is a solid 100 Naz points, probably 120 to 2085 - #msg-8448617
Nov 11/05 • Here at 2205, the bear suit has returned from the cleaner - #msg-8447247
Nov 08/05 · The former. However 2140 is not really that far - #msg-8409780
Nov 07/05 · No extreme exuberance at all - #msg-8393394
Nov 05/05 · Neutral and expecting 2085 to 2215 for a while - #msg-8378837
Nov 02/05 · A good omen for the bulls - #msg-8338473
Nov 02/05 · Close to 2140/50, so caution is called for - #msg-8333482
Nov 01/05 · Bear suit is still at the cleaner - #msg-8327912
Oct 31/05 · Reach that target of 2140/50 soon enough - #msg-8312998
Oct 29/05 · 2040/2140 is probably a good bet - #msg-8288477
Oct 28/05 · Signals are mixed - #msg-8277837
Oct 27/05 · Target for the current retrench was around 2085 - #msg-8262247
Oct 26/05 · 2140/50, and possibly higher is still in the cards - #msg-8256644
Oct 25/05 · Healthy relief of excessive optimism - #msg-8239991
Oct 24/05 · If exuberance, maybe 200 Naz points decline into late November - #msg-8226568
Oct 24/05 · 2140/50 or so - #msg-8225549
Oct 22/05 · First 50/60 points did not bring on any excess optimism - #msg-8207334
Oct 21/05 · Early weakness Monday, before we resume our march toward the 2130/50 area - #msg-8203833
Oct 19/05 · This run may have more legs - #msg-8175085
Oct 17/05 · I expect this swoon to be temporary - #msg-8147460
Oct 13/05 · We should get at least a relief rally - #msg-8105470
Oct 13/05 · Doubt we get under 2000 on this run - #msg-8103783
Oct 13/05 · Throwing away the bear suit for now - #msg-8102212
Oct 12/05 · Pretty close to fully loaded - #msg-8085959
Oct 10/05 · I think that we will reach that 2040/50 support area - #msg-8058430
Oct 06/05 · Still have my bear suit on - #msg-8016033
Sep 25/05 · May take out 2100 - #msg-7876509
Sep 21/05 · Doubt we bounce much more than the 2150 area - #msg-7837232
Sep 15/05 · Still in my bearsuit - #msg-7761208
Sep 15/05 · 10,000 or so this time around - #msg-7748181
Sep 14/05 · Still with my July bear call - #msg-7744041
Sep 08/05 · Could be another major local top - #msg-7657334
Sep 02/05 · A good local bottom...six weeks or so - #msg-7594862
Sep 01/05 · Still have us going down hard - #msg-7593784
Aug 31/05 · Doubt we approach 2200 on the Naz on the next ramp - #msg-7568848
Aug 08/05 · 1940 area before the end of the year - #msg-7268334
Aug 07/05 · Still in that suit - #msg-7263674
Jul 26/05 · No change - #msg-7117405
Jul 22/05 · Extremes were reached about 10 (trading) days ago - #msg-7074035
Jul 22/05 · Might be a major top here - #msg-7073944
Jul 22/05 · Pessimism high, full suit on - #msg-7073005
Jul 15/05 · 2075, or a test of 2040 - #msg-6994445
Jul 14/05 · Upside is only some 30 Naz points or so, if at all - #msg-6984333
Jul 11/05 · A real rut or just a contained (2040) retrench? - #msg-6942677
Jul 11/05 · Very close to have a clear sell signal - #msg-6942609
Jul 08/05 · Still think 2130 is in the "picture" - #msg-6915522
Jul 08/05 · Not much above 2130 if at all - #msg-6914193
Jul 07/05 · 2100 territory before a major swoon down - #msg-6905922
Jun 23/05 · Not too positive on the market in general here - #msg-6772242
Jun 21/05 · I still think we take 2100 - #msg-6748122
Jun 18/05 · Not surprised if it took till late August for a local top - #msg-6719018
Jun 18/05 · Very strong possibility we get a much sharper reaction - #msg-6718988
Jun 16/05 · Still expect a fake take out of 2100 - #msg-6699314
Jun 14/05 · Still think an attempt at taking 2100 will be engineered - #msg-6665250
Jun 04/05 · August and September we give it all up - #msg-6572288
Jun 02/05 · Maybe a head fake and a retrench - #msg-6556876
Jun 02/05 · Looks as if they want to take out 2100 - #msg-6555439
Jun 02/05 · A fight here at 2100 - #msg-6547539
May 29/05 · A local peak - #msg-6511505
May 28/05 · A lot of indicators in the danger zone - #msg-6507427
May 28/05 · Gold and NEM - #msg-6506624
May 25/05 · Expecting a range between 1980 to 2100 - #msg-6470248
May 23/05 · Maybe as low as 1980 - #msg-6448552
May 23/05 · Retrenchment and then at least a challenge to 2100 - #msg-6438280
May 22/05 · A more optimistic point of view - #msg-6431212
May 21/05 · Down trend in force since January is terminated - #msg-6424551
May 21/05 · Getting ready to put in another bull leg - #msg-6424507
May 19/05 · Probably a top - #msg-6407985
May 16/05 · Major move will be down rather than up - #msg-6360160
May 14/05 · 1850, maybe even 1750 - #msg-6343207
May 13/05 · A nasty six weeks or so here - #msg-6341365
May 13/05 · More selling coming next week - #msg-6335803
May 09/05 · Major resistance here just around 2000 - #msg-6287183
May 08/05 · A range bound market - #msg-6272930
May 07/05 · A mildly bearish stance - #msg-6269763
May 07/05 · Maybe the trading range (1900/2000) continues - #msg-6268923
May 06/05 · Still think that this upleg will not go far - #msg-6257346
May 02/05 · I doubt we take 1975, but if we do - #msg-6217138
Apr 23/05 · Year low, September early October - #msg-6131080
Apr 23/05 · More ups and downs - #msg-6130980
Apr 22/05 · 1750 by July - #msg-6123564
Apr 17/05 · 80 to 120 points or so - #msg-6071887
Apr 17/05 · Pessimism has gone too far - #msg-6071691
Apr 16/05 · Definitely 1750 before 2300 - #msg-6067836
Apr 16/05 • Fast and furious run, maybe 2 to 3 weeks - #msg-6065639
Apr 15/05 · 80 to 100 Naz points ramp - #msg-6061784
Apr 14/05 · No relief till probably late in June - #msg-6053037
Apr 12/05 · A local bottom today or tomorrow - #msg-6021704
Apr 11/05 · Should hold the recent lows in the naz - #msg-6017006
Apr 11/05 · A range of 1750 to 2150 - #msg-6008552
Apr 08/05 · 2040 will be very formidable resistance - #msg-5990664
Apr 07/05 · Still mildly bullish - #msg-5978516
Mar 27/05 · Too much bearishness - #msg-5864495
Mar 24/05 · Reduced exposure a little - #msg-5849097
Mar 22/05 · Not bearish - #msg-5822924
Mar 20/05 · What will precipitate resumption of the secular bear - #msg-5791837
Mar 20/05 · Still do not see a consumer led recession - #msg-5791729
Mar 20/05 · Medium term, I think the trading range will hold - #msg-5791650
Mar 19/05 · Optimistic view - #msg-5786556
Mar 17/05 · A floor and a ceiling - #msg-5770560
Mar 17/05 · Not higher than 2100 - #msg-5770149
Mar 17/05 · Not much excess optimism - #msg-5762059
Mar 16/05 · Cash is now close to fully loaded at 12% - #msg-5756812
Mar 15/05 · Short term, quite positive on the market - #msg-5743474
Mar 10/05 · Sentiment indicators are quite neutral - #msg-5701755
Mar 07/05 · Very close to overhead supply here above 2100 - #msg-5661815
Mar 05/05 · Naz will probably catch up - #msg-5644979
Mar 05/05 · We had more exuberance in late December - #msg-5644878
Mar 05/05 · Nassacre has definitely been defenestrated - #msg-5642585
Mar 05/05 · Sharp decline will probably be led by the BTK - #msg-5642478
Mar 05/05 • Excesses in sentiment indicators did not materialize - #msg-5642414
Mar 05/05 · Nassacre, for now is definitely defenestrated - #msg-5641841
Mar 01/05 · No extremes one way or another - #msg-5593561
Feb 27/05 · 1750 is not yet off the table - #msg-5566323
Feb 27/05 • Could be the nassacre is just delayed - #msg-5565838
Feb 24/05 • We may not have that nassacre after all - #msg-5543299 #msg-5557104
Feb 24/05 · No clear signal one way or another - #msg-5534369
Feb 22/05 · A sell signal might be generated soon - #msg-5516269
Feb 22/05 · Never got the extremes - #msg-5515673
Feb 19/05 · Turn date is still 2/23 - #msg-5490438
Feb 18/05 · Strong week next week - #msg-5484501
Feb 16/05 · Some 100 Naz points - #msg-5461787
Feb 16/05 · Lack of put buying on the swoon today - #msg-5460063
Feb 15/05 · We need to take out 2106/12 - #msg-5441972
Feb 14/05 · Nominal date was supposed to be 2/23 - #msg-5427307
Feb 12/05 · This run may have a little more to go - #msg-5416472
Feb 12/05 · SMH is starting to look half decent - #msg-5415354
Feb 10/05 · Could be a sign that the map is wrong - #msg-5393473
Feb 09/05 · Still clear sailing here - #msg-5377313
Feb 07/05 · Nominal starting date (top) 2/23 - #msg-5363229
Feb 05/05 · July-November time period for a run into early 2006 - #msg-5345464
Feb 05/05 · This ramp may be quite "laborious" - #msg-5341165
Feb 04/05 · Cash position increased to 36% - #msg-5338194
Feb 03/05 · 2040 should hold - #msg-5316662
Jan 31/05 · I think the rally has started - #msg-5277401
Jan 24/05 · Maybe 2250 to 2275 - #msg-5211606
Jan 24/05 · Top may have to be lowered - #msg-5211538
Jan 24/05 · Changing current buy to sell? No - #msg-5206815
Jan 24/05 · Maybe the nassacre started already - #msg-5206376
Jan 23/05 · Low for the year is still around 1400 - #msg-5202014
Jan 22/05 · By late October, under 8000 on the dow - #msg-5196507
Jan 21/05 · Remaining bullish - #msg-5192442
Jan 21/05 · Under 10% cash - #msg-5189864
Jan 21/05 · If we bounce, not a bad area for a leg up - #msg-5183038
Jan 20/05 · Well within an orderly retreat to 2040 - #msg-5181277
Jan 20/05 · Cash at just under 15% - #msg-5178046
Jan 19/05 · We did not get the short term extremes - #msg-5168342
Jan 19/05 · Decline may still get to that 2040 - #msg-5164542
Jan 19/05 · New lows refuse to expand - #msg-5160515
Jan 18/05 · 2106 print should be enough for resuming upmarch - #msg-5148476
Jan 16/05 · Markman's excessive optimism - #msg-5133369
Jan 15/05 · Probably a first top around Feb 2-9 - #msg-5129606
Jan 15/05 · Double top before the end of February - #msg-5129211
Jan 12/05 · We hit 2066, close enough - #msg-5092624
Jan 07/05 · Maybe we get some relief next week - #msg-5049246
Jan 07/05 · Still expect another run to 2275 - #msg-5049160
Jan 06/05 · Maybe a delay into late January - #msg-5035675
Jan 05/05 · Still expect new highs - #msg-5026116
Jan 05/05 · Very strong oversold condition here - #msg-5023102
Jan 04/05 · Back in bullish mode - #msg-5013596
Jan 04/05 · We should rally before the end of the week - #msg-5011315
Jan 03/05 · Still expect a high later this month - #msg-4997879
Washington Post's Republican blogger resigns after 72 hours
Posted by Evan Derkacz at 11:16 AM on March 24, 2006.
Score one for the lefty blogs.
As Jan points out, Washingtonpost.com's new ex-blogger Ben Domenech resigned today. He's reportedly looking for a wife and kids with whom he wishes to spend more time.
The resignation comes as the Post was looking into allegations, dug up by the lefty blogosphere, that Domenech was a plagiarist. Some are questioning whether Domenech in fact wrote his own resignation letter.....
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/33995/
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/washpostblog/
Yes, I'm still posting.
The Science Of Sexual Orientation -- On 60 Minutes last night
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/09/60minutes/main1385230.shtml
From a Casey Research note.....
"If you think that all Arabs are raving lunatics, waiting to burn down another embassy and happily bomb themselves to kingdom come, you may change your mind after watching this video. But hurry, the link might only be up for a few days."
http://switch5.castup.net/frames/20041020_MemriTV_Popup/video_480x360.asp?ai=214&ar=1050wmv&....
Nigeria suspends 380,000 bpd oil exports after attack
Sat Feb 18, 7:52 AM ET
LAGOS (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) suspended exports from the 380,000 barrel-a-day Forcados terminal on Saturday after militants bombed the tanker loading platform, a senior oil industry source said.....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060218/bs_nm/energy_nigeria_forcados_dc
Take a look at the op-ed piece by Krugman in my last post. It's pretty clear IMHO.
For articles like the Krugman op-ed piece that are only available by subscription, I go to Google news, type in "Krugman", sort by date, and can usually find it posted somewhere.
I don't think that's true. The fact that Democrats received money from Indian tribes that dealt with Abramoff is misleading.
Long before Abramoff, the Indian tribes were giving money to both Democrats and Republicans. Abramoff persuaded them to REDUCE the amount given to Democrats by 9% and more than DOUBLE the amount given to Republicans. So, Abramoff was NOT directing money to Democrats. He was trying to direct money AWAY from Democrats.
Explained in the Krugman op-ed piece: #msg-9477585
NYT PAUL KRUGMAN on Abramoff
A False Balance - New York Times
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: January 30, 2006
There's nothing bipartisan about the tale of Jack Abramoff, which is all about the use and abuse of Republican connections.
subscription required...
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/tsc.html?URI=http://select.nytimes.com/2006/01/30/opinion/30krugman.ht...
reprinted for free here...
http://www.asianage.com/main.asp?layout=2&cat1=6&cat2=42&newsid=205817&RF=DefaultMai...
Too late. A quick review of your posts suggests they are already monitoring your phone calls.
Evolution named 2005's top scientific breakthrough
By Deborah Zabarenko
Thu Dec 22, 2:05 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two days after a U.S. judge struck down the teaching of intelligent design theory in a Pennsylvania public school, the journal Science on Thursday proclaimed evolution the breakthrough of 2005.
Wide-ranging research published this year, including a study that showed a mere 4 percent difference between human and chimpanzee DNA, built on Charles Darwin's landmark 1859 work "The Origin of Species" and the idea of natural selection, the journal's editors wrote.
"Amid this outpouring of results, 2005 stands out as a banner year for uncovering the intricacies of how evolution actually proceeds," they wrote. "Ironically, also this year, some segments of American society fought to dilute the teaching of even the basic facts of evolution."....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051222/sc_nm/science_evolution_dc
Fuel's paradise? Power source that turns physics on its head
· Scientist says device disproves quantum theory
· Opponents claim idea is result of wrong maths
Alok Jha, science correspondent
Friday November 4, 2005
The Guardian
It seems too good to be true: a new source of near-limitless power that costs virtually nothing, uses tiny amounts of water as its fuel and produces next to no waste. If that does not sound radical enough, how about this: the principle behind the source turns modern physics on its head.....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,3605,1627424,00.html
Miers family received 'excessive' sum in land case
By JACK DOUGLAS JR. and STEPHEN HENDERSON
Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers collected more than 10 times the market value for a small slice of family-owned land in a large Superfund pollution cleanup site in Dallas where the state wanted to build a highway off-ramp....
....Mediation efforts in 2003 reduced the award from $106,915 to $80,915, but Miers, who controls the family’s interest in the land, hasn’t reimbursed the state for the $26,000 difference, even after Bush appointed her to the Supreme Court.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/12973371.htm
Media Matters Fully Confronts RNC Distortions and Lies in Plame Affair
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/10/22/123944/27
I'm not sure I want to be long anything when the indictments hit the fan; probably next week.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/10/20/134759/47
Cervical Cancer Vaccine works...Dobson sh*ts the bed
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/10/6/173031/715
Venezuela to seek legal action against Robertson
By Matthew Robinson
54 minutes ago
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday his government would take legal action against Pat Robertson and potentially seek his extradition after the U.S. evangelist called for Washington to assassinate the South American leader.
Robertson, who later apologized for the remark, said he was expressing his frustration with Chavez's constant accusations against the administration of President George W. Bush.
"I announce that my government is going to take legal action in the United States ... to call for the assassination of a head of state is an act of terrorism." Chavez said in a televised speech.
The fiery left-wing critic of Bush's foreign policy who frequently charges the U.S. government is plotting to kill him, called Robertson "crazy" and a "public menace."
He said Venezuela could seek Robertson's extradition under international treaties and take its claim to the United Nations if the Bush administration did not act.
Pat Robertson political cartoons from around the country
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/25/82331/8316
A CIA Cover Blown, a White House Exposed
By Tom Hamburger and Sonni Efron, Times Staff Writers
August 25, 2005
WASHINGTON — Toward the end of a steamy summer week in 2003, reporters were peppering the White House with phone calls and e-mails, looking for someone to defend the administration's claims about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
About to emerge as a key critic was Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former diplomat who asserted that the administration had manipulated intelligence to justify the Iraq invasion....
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-leak25aug25,1,4131408,full.story?coll=la-headli...
Someone tell the president the war is over
Frank Rich
The New York Times
MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 2005
NEW YORK Like the Japanese soldier marooned on an island for years after V-J Day, President George W. Bush may be the last person in the United States to learn that for Americans, if not Iraqis, the war in Iraq is over. "We will stay the course," he insistently tells us from his Texas ranch. What do you mean we, white man?
A president can't stay the course when his own citizens (let alone his own allies) won't stay with him. The approval rate for Bush's handling of Iraq plunged to 34 percent in last weekend's Newsweek poll - a match for the 32 percent that approved President Lyndon Johnson's handling of Vietnam in early March 1968. (The two presidents' overall approval ratings have also converged: 41 percent for Johnson then, 42 percent for Bush now.) On March 31, 1968, as LBJ's ratings plummeted further, he announced he wouldn't seek re-election, commencing America's long extrication from that quagmire.
But the current Texas president has even outdone his predecessor; Bush has lost not only the country but also his army. Neither bonuses nor fudged standards nor the faking of high school diplomas has solved the recruitment shortfall. Now Jake Tapper of ABC News reports that the armed forces are so eager for bodies they will flout "don't ask, don't tell" and hang on to gay soldiers who tell, even if they tell the press.
The president's cable cadre is in disarray as well. At Fox News, Bill O'Reilly is trashing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for his incompetence, and Ann Coulter is chiding O'Reilly for being a defeatist. In an emblematic gesture akin to waving a white flag, Robert Novak walked off a CNN set and possibly out of a job rather than answer questions about his role in smearing the man who helped expose the administration's prewar inflation of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. (On this sinking ship, it's hard to know which rat to root for.)....
http://www.iht.com/protected/articles/2005/08/14/news/edrich.php
Talking Wounded
Terry Rodgers Came Back From Iraq a Changed Man, and Not Just Because of the Bomb
By Peter Carlson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 10, 2005; C01
"So we're driving down the road and it's midnight, so it's pitch-black, and when you're driving at night, you don't use any lights," says Terry Rodgers, "but we can see fine because we've got night vision goggles."
He's sitting in the living room of his mother's townhouse in Gaithersburg, telling the story of his last night in Iraq. He's still got his Army crew cut and he's wearing a T-shirt with an American flag on the chest.
"We're driving down this road and there's this tiny bridge over a little canal," he says. "They had rigged up this bomb and they had a tripwire running across the bridge and we hit it and it blew up."
Like the rest of the 13,877 Americans wounded in Iraq, Rodgers has a story to tell. He tells it in a matter-of-fact voice, like he's talking about making a midnight pizza run or something. He's sitting in an armchair with his right leg propped on an ottoman, the foot encased in a soft black cast that reaches almost to the knee. His crutches are lying on the rug beside the chair.
"The Humvee finally comes to a stop and the right side is just torn apart and I hear my squad leader screaming, 'I think I lost my arm!' And my best friend Maida was in the front passenger seat where the bomb went off and he was screaming, 'Where's help? Where's help?' And then he went quiet.
"And me, I'm trying to crawl out of the Humvee and I get most of my body out and just this leg is stuck and I thought it must be caught on something in the twisted metal. I look back and I see it's just laying there on the seat, so I'm like, 'Why is it stuck?' So I try to lift my leg up and it won't lift. I just had to pick up my leg and crawl the rest of the way out."....
....One day a nurse came in to ask Rodgers if he wanted to meet President Bush, who was visiting the hospital. Rodgers declined.
"I don't want anything to do with him," he explains. "My belief is that his ego is getting people killed and mutilated for no reason -- just his ego and his reputation. If we really wanted to, we could pull out of Iraq. Maybe not completely but enough that we wouldn't be losing people -- at least not at this rate. So I think he himself is responsible for quite a few American deaths."....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/09/AR2005080901441_pf.html
Paul Krugman: Living in a bubble
The New York Times
TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2005
PRINCETON, New Jersey This is the way the bubble ends: not with a pop, but with a hiss.
Housing prices move much more slowly than stock prices. There are no Black Mondays, when prices fall 23 percent in a day. In fact, prices often keep rising for a while even after a housing boom goes bust.
So the news that the U.S. housing bubble is over won't come in the form of plunging prices; it will come in the form of falling sales and rising inventory, as sellers try to get prices that buyers are no longer willing to pay. And the process may already have started.
Of course, some people still deny that there's a housing bubble in the United States. Let me explain how we know that they're wrong....
http://www.iht.com/protected/articles/2005/08/08/opinion/edkrug.php
Let's Have No More Monkey Trials
Charles Krauthammer
To teach faith as science is to undermine both
....To teach faith as science is to undermine the very idea of science, which is the acquisition of new knowledge through hypothesis, experimentation and evidence. To teach it as science is to encourage the supercilious caricature of America as a nation in the thrall of religious authority. To teach it as science is to discredit the welcome recent advances in permitting the public expression of religion. Faith can and should be proclaimed from every mountaintop and city square. But it has no place in science class. To impose it on the teaching of evolution is not just to invite ridicule but to earn it....
http://www.time.com/time/columnist/krauthammer/article/0,9565,1088869,00.html
Group to protest homosexuality at military funeral
Thursday, August 4, 2005
By Jon Seidel
Special to the Daily Southtown
A Baptist group from Kansas has announced it plans to picket Friday at the funeral of Spc. Adam Harting.
Portage, Ind., police learned about the group's intentions by fax Wednesday.
"We're doing everything here to ensure the safety of everyone involved," Chief Cliff Burch said.
The Westboro Baptist Church, based in Topeka, is not specifically targeting Harting, who died in Iraq last week.
It pickets at military funerals all over the country, saying God is killing U.S. soldiers as punishment to America for allowing homosexuality.
The group also has announced plans to picket at military funerals in Minnesota, Alabama and California this week.
http://www.dailysouthtown.com/southtown/yrtwn/south/043syt9.htm
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/5/74430/23765
<<A hell of a lot of people think otherwise>>
Then those people shouldn't have abortions, but neither should they try to impose their religious and moral beliefs on others.
Letters from an abortion doctor
....if the "Reverend" Flip and his "gentle Christians" thought that Warren Hern would bolt for the basement and lay low until they left town, they mistook their man.
The indomitable Dr. Hern came out swinging, immediately purchasing a newspaper ad that gave the OSA flyer far greater exposure than Flip Benham could have dreamed of, along with some well chosen words of his own....
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/3/22150/15155
On 'Intelligent Design'
"It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party," said Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), a leading liberal lawmaker. Noting Bush's Ivy League education, Frank said, "People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/02/AR2005080201686.html
Prosecutor In CIA Leak Case Casting A Wide Net
White House Effort To Discredit Critic Examined in Detail
By Walter Pincus and Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, July 27, 2005; Page A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/26/AR2005072602069.html
....Harlow, the former CIA spokesman, said in an interview yesterday that he testified last year before a grand jury about conversations he had with Novak at least three days before the column was published. He said he warned Novak, in the strongest terms he was permitted to use without revealing classified information, that Wilson's wife had not authorized the mission and that if he did write about it, her name should not be revealed.
Harlow said that after Novak's call, he checked Plame's status and confirmed that she was an undercover operative. He said he called Novak back to repeat that the story Novak had related to him was wrong and that Plame's name should not be used. But he did not tell Novak directly that she was undercover because that was classified....
Plame's Identity Marked As Secret
Memo Central to Probe Of Leak Was Written By State Dept. Analyst
By Walter Pincus and Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, July 21, 2005; A01
A classified State Department memorandum central to a federal leak investigation contained information about CIA officer Valerie Plame in a paragraph marked "(S)" for secret, a clear indication that any Bush administration official who read it should have been aware the information was classified, according to current and former government officials.
Plame -- who is referred to by her married name, Valerie Wilson, in the memo -- is mentioned in the second paragraph of the three-page document, which was written on June 10, 2003, by an analyst in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), according to a source who described the memo to The Washington Post.
The paragraph identifying her as the wife of former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV was clearly marked to show that it contained classified material at the "secret" level, two sources said. The CIA classifies as "secret" the names of officers whose identities are covert, according to former senior agency officials.....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/20/AR2005072002517_pf.html
This is like illegally revealing information about the "current president of the United States", and then your defense is that you didn't actually NAME the person.
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Rove Told Reporter of Plame's Role But Didn't Name Her, Attorney Says
By Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, July 11, 2005; Page A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/10/AR2005071001000.html
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove spoke with at least one reporter about Valerie Plame's role at the CIA before she was identified as a covert agent in a newspaper column two years ago, but Rove's lawyer said yesterday that his client did not identify her by name....
....Rove apparently told Cooper that it was "Wilson's wife, who apparently works at the agency on [weapons of mass destruction] issues who authorized the trip," according to a story in Newsweek's July 18 issue....