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Cool a threesome! Now only if we can change it into a her with nice tits. Gonna need lotta of plastic surgery on that one. Must make lots of money fast.
Salute, you as well. I always enjoyed your banter on the board and the folks around. I hope you get back soon. Now I better get my butt to work or I'll be trading for a living. Somehow I don't think I want to pay for my own health insurance lol.
Don't be sad! I'm not special, how many were in my shoes, exactly the same situation yet still landed on the hard street. I am fortunate and blessed. I have all material things intact.
I can't imagine what life would be like if I were out of work, on the street, and lost a spouse. In my eyes heaven above corrected what was wrong and has rewarded us both for attempting to do the right things.
Only thing you can say is it's magic :). Just life sir. On the up note, I can hit strip joints again and do all the crap I couldn't when I was married! I'm still young Lol.
I wish you luck in your pursuit! I work a regular job and love the smartphone app by etrade. Make life and market trading much easier I hope.
Waiting on funds to transfer and I'll be up and going again.
I hear you. It was life issues for me. Market wise I broke even, thank god. Serious pay issues on job, almost lost a home to foreclosure. And my wife passed away 6 months ago.
I'd tell you the rest, but I don't want to depress you lol. J/k
I'm back now, but well be sticking to listed stocks. need to wet my feet again and redevelop my nerve. Been awhile.
much appreciated! I'm putting TGC on watch. It was an old favorite that used to bounce from .50 to .80. Looks like it's going from .70 to .90 these days. Nice to see some things never change LOL.
QID - In the toilet due to booming market. When the pain returns it should boom to! It used to be a favorite of ChrisJP, back in the day... what is your take now days sir!
So what has everyone been up to? What we looking at these days. PLease keep it to the Big Boards for me, i'm not ready for the anxiety of the pinks haha.
*wink* i'm back darlin. Like the song says though, you've got to go through hell before you get to heaven. I've met a new lady i've been talking with and going out. Real estate interest are doing well, regular job is making up for lost ground.
Financially, i'm better off than i've been in 10 years. Told my CPA i feel like the richest man in the world now. The financial burden from her illness was a killer on us and then everything else too... sheesh lol.
But i'm happy, despite all that stuff i've a real faith in god above. He did what we couldn't do to help one another. I couldn't help her pain and she couldn't work. I do miss her though, terribly sometimes.
Yep and some new folks too! This really was always the safest most honest no BS board. Good folks calling it how it was... god how i've missed the
$$$$$$$$$$$$$ buy ABXLKAS for instant money $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ posts on other boards. Of course i'm going to have to re-fashion a new aluminum foil hat to prevent E-insanity from message board paranoia lol. Many of these folks can be nuts as i remember.
you not premium? how have you been?
me too tina LOL. Wife passed away, etc. I posted what's been going on over in the house of pain. sorta fitting place in part haha.
kinda tough girl. Got my feet back under me though :)
Started up an etrade account cause i love thier andriod app.
It should be funded in the next few days and i'll be looking though the markets and getting my feet wet.
I gotta have to occupy my mind in positive ways.
Hey folks, this is a name that's a blast from the past for you :). Life has had me by the nads hard. Hope you folks have been doing well.
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Yoohoo, Tina darling dearest... i'm back in the house of pleasure. I see we need new furniture, a slight dusting of the place. Maybe a few scantily clad waitresses wouldn't hurt either haha.
BOOYAHHH I'm back! And believe me i've been in the house of pain :(.
The last 2 years have seen my pay cut by 50%, almost lost a home to foreclosure, and 6 months ago my wife passed away.
The short story is pay is nearly returned to our happy time hi of 5 years ago. I've managed to save the home and it's all good there. Although i miss my wife terribly financially i'm better than we ever were the last 8 years. Leukemia was wicked on her, i really hope god had her victorian home waiting on her.
I've opened an E-trade account to get my feet wet again. You folks will start seeing much more of me again :)
I do hope you both have been doing well.
Realest!
Hello folks, we still alive over here? I'm about to fire back up my trading accounts. Been awhile!
I'm looking heartily at QID the oldie i remember from Chris JP.
I hope everyone has been doing well, the board looks like it's in need of some love!
Things not so good for me right now :(, horrible actually. It'll get better though. I still keep an eye out. Hopefully the start of next year will find some stable ground for me. The last 6 months feels like the bottom came out.
lol, how has everyone been.
I am an investor in the Dinar, however i do not look for revals or Lops. Either in my opinion is outside of rational thought.
I can see revals occurring, but not the sudden rich revals. Lets say they did a reval taking it fro .0008 to .0011. I could believe that and say it's an accpetable thought. But .0008 to Dollars... come on, put down the crack pipe.
It is my position that in maybe 10 to 20 years we can see a growth to an exchange rate of a dollar or more. But it's going to take peace, stability, and work.
If you think this is going to BAM 2 bucks in the morning... again, put down the crack pipes.
Aero, is the dinar pegged to the dollar? I often disagree with your points of view of the outcome, but your information is typically dead on to my knowledge and understanding.
It was my understanding that the dinar was not pegged to anything. Maybe i'm misunderstanding here, but at any rate can you please point me to the pegged memo or information please sir.
Appreciate ya!
In time, i still think the Dinar can make some good money. Just gonna take time.
agreed! Get rich quick... talk to berney madoff.
i've also never said anything about mythical revals either. Just appreciation.
And you have never read any of my previous posts! I have never said that this would be instantaneous gratification. I have said that given time, this has the potential to be a windfall (at least in my opinion).
I don't look to wake up and find i'm a millionaire. Would be nice, but no, not realistic.
I am saying that there are those on the boards that for whatever reason believe that the Dinar is a lose-lose proposition and have all sorts of lopster or exchange talk. Both of which i find not in the interest of the developing state. Realistically speaking, it's a great expense to change out currency and a major inconvienience to a population which does not give creedence to the idea that the government is stable or has ideas of longevity.
Read and prepare to weep nay sayers LOL
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34217889/ns/world_news-the_new_york_times
NYT: With Iraq foothold, oil giants eye future
Companies accept deals with limited profits now, in order to cash in later
By Timothy Williams
The New York Times
updated 4:04 a.m. CT, Tues., Dec . 1, 2009
BAGHDAD - More than six and a half years after the United States-led invasion here that many believed was about oil, the major oil companies are finally gaining access to Iraq’s petroleum reserves. But they are doing so at far less advantageous terms than they once envisioned.
The companies seem to have calculated that it is worth their while to accept deals with limited profit opportunities now, in order to cash in on more lucrative development deals in the future, oil industry analysts say.
“The attraction of these fields to oil companies is not the per-barrel profit, which is very low, but their value as an entrance ticket to the oil sector of southern Iraq,” said Reidar Visser, a research fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs who operates an Iraq Web site, Historiae. “In terms of size and potential, the Basra region remains one of the most attractive areas of future growth for the international oil industry.”
Iraq’s first stab at opening its oil industry to foreign investment ended in disappointment at an auction in June in which most companies declined to bid. But last month many of those same companies — including Exxon Mobil and Occidental Petroleum, the first American companies to reach production agreements with Baghdad since the 2003 invasion — signed deals at much the same terms they rejected over the summer.
Analysts say the deals on three of the country’s top fields show that Iraq, after an embarrassing start, may be on a path to joining the world’s major oil-producing nations, which could in turn upset the equilibrium in OPEC and increase tensions with the neighboring oil giants Iran and Saudi Arabia. Adding to those strains, development rights to 10 other Iraqi oil fields will be offered to foreign companies at a public auction in Baghdad on Dec. 11.
However, the auction and the contracts come at an awkward time: just months before national elections that could provoke renewed violence or sweep in a new government that could disown the deals.
‘Total control’
In the recent deals, the major oil companies have agreed to accept service contracts, in which they earn a fee for each barrel of oil produced. Yet they vastly prefer production-sharing agreements, in which they gain an equity stake in the oil itself. Such deals are far more lucrative to oil companies, but for Iraqis they are reminiscent of the colonial era, when foreign companies controlled the country’s oil wealth. “We have shown that we can attract international companies to invest in Iraq and boost production through service contracts,” Hussain al-Shahristani, Iraq’s oil minister, said recently. “They will not have a share of Iraqi oil, and our country will have total control over production.”
But Iraq has also been forced to acknowledge that it cannot hope to revive its decrepit oil industry without the money and the technical expertise of the major companies. Despite strong anti-American sentiments among the Iraqi public, few officials want to refuse American cash.
“We do not have any preferences,” said Abdul Hadi al-Hassani, deputy chairman of Parliament’s Oil and Gas Committee. “We are interested only in the financial health of the company and in their technical know-how. American companies are well known in the oil sector.”
Deals roll in
After months of secret negotiations between the Oil Ministry and the companies, two new deals and the completion of a third were announced in recent weeks. A consortium of Eni, an Italian oil company, Occidental and Korea Gas signed a preliminary agreement to develop the Zubayr field, which has an estimated 4.1 billion barrels of oil.
Shortly thereafter came the formal ratification of the only deal reached during the June auction, a partnership between British Petroleum and the China National Petroleum Company for Iraq’s Rumaila oil field, one of the largest in the world, with an estimated 17.8 billion barrels of oil.
Within days of that deal’s ratification, Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell signed an initial contract to develop West Qurna, Iraq’s most sought-after field in part because it is believed to have at least 8.6 billion barrels of oil.
The government said it expected production from the three fields alone to vault Iraq’s output to 7 million barrels a day from 2.5 million barrels a day within six years, which would move it from the world’s 13th largest producer to the fourth, according to Department of Energy statistics.
“Iraq is now on its way,” Mr. Shahristani said after the announcements.
‘Strategically important developments’
Oil industry analysts said that there appeared to have been little change from the contracts offered in June. But the major oil companies appeared to have rethought their positions and decided that despite what they considered paltry returns, they could not afford to be left out of Iraq’s riches. A foot in the door now, they reasoned, might lead to better contracts.
“The recent award of Zubayr and West Qurna serves to illustrate a wider acceptance that, in order to secure these strategically important developments, compromise is required,” Colin Lothian, a research analyst for Wood Mackenzie, an energy industry adviser, said via e-mail.
In the West Qurna field, for example, the Exxon Mobil-Shell partnership agreed to accept $1.90 for each barrel of oil it produced above the field’s current production level, precisely what the government demanded in June and less than half the $4 a barrel the oil giants wanted.
“It’s fair to say that there are many people negotiating now who would not have taken $2 before,” said Shell’s chief financial officer, Simon Henry, during a conference call with reporters on Oct. 29, days before the preliminary agreement was announced.
However, while the companies have pledged to invest billions in Iraq, few here believe much of that will actually be spent until the country successfully concludes national elections and attains a period of relative peace.
Looming conflict with OPEC?
Iraq has the third largest proven reserves of oil in the world, with about 115 billion barrels, but it does not rank in the top 10 producers. If and when its oil production rises toward seven million barrels a day or more, Iraq might find itself in conflict with OPEC, which maintains production quotas for its members. Iraq has been exempt from the quotas since sanctions were imposed in 1990, Iraqi officials said.
Iraqi officials say there is no justification for imposing a quota on their production, saying they have been underproducing for years, allowing others to enjoy higher quotas.
“The production from these three fields will surely threaten other oil-producing countries and will show the world that Iraq can match Saudi Arabia’s production,” said Mr. Hassani. “Our share has been taken by other countries, and we will gain our share again from the countries that took it.”
Mohammed Hussein, Sa’ad Izzi and Omar al-Jawoshy contributed reporting.
This article, "Oil Companies Look to the Future in Iraq," first appeared in The New York Times.
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Ken Kuhn is legit. I bought mine from him some years back. He's been around quite awhile. He's been a good to me.
I wouldn't be trolling the net looking for dong... it just doesn't sound right. LOL.
REV She turned into a beast. Old Pigs everyone said. We should have bought like it was the last day ever and held on. She's a running good it appears.
wow, they are on FIRE today!
Yep, the rebound has begun IMO.
You see it that way, i see it as beginning to integrate into the world economy again. That must be achieved and held for any dinar appreciation i think.
This move has nothing to do with supply and demand, it has everything to do with getting cash currency off the field.
Oh yea, this should tighten demand to supply when the militants start running into problems finding cash suppliers with automatic banking. LOL.
Excellent
no i sold out for a gain. When i saw Mick show up i sold and fled like the wind. Some of his rock, but most of them sink like the titanic.
COBRA is why i think we should have a public option on the health care revamp. A buddy at work had to pay 600 a month, court ordered because of kids. COBRA is nothing less than legalized looting of your bank account by insuarance companies. He didn't qualify for other insurances etc.
LOL, it has been a pleasure day. I"m making it, this economy is getting worse, i don't care what they say. lol
well poo, i let my premium lapse and i can't post on the house of pain LOL.
LOL, there is never anything wrong with a profit.
i'm still holding. Just got that gut feeling on this.
i've got a truck backed up for .04 so you better get a line started lol.
I don't know if they all filled or not, i have it set a little lower than last fill. But this mornings low volume and no movement... maybe she's about to spring the other way.
me too, i thought this may happen with yesterdays big volume. Folks buy it up then when it drops from their 6c to 5.5 they panic and sell it. My buy was early 4s just before the run up. I got lucky with timing.
Trying to apply those trading principles. Picked off a refill and have some cash to spare, now to get a bigger piece of the pie.
i took some profits early this am, but man, didn't mean to crash it like that LOL.
OK, come on new buys! I need me a panicky seller. The sky is falling, now fill my buy LOL.