Archive for November, 2010
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I don’t know. I guess I’m not really shocked about this Wikileak “thing”. I mean after all the e-mails, and THIS is the damaging stuff that is coming out? The most “shocking” thing I could see was China telling us that their former “comrade in arms”, North Korea, was “small potatahs”, and they didn’t care [...]
Top Story Today
What did you think I was going to write about when you saw that headline? Irish Bailout? Black Friday Numbers? Impending war in Korea? Well we might get to those later, but there is no more important story then this guy passing away at 84 years old today.
Turkey Time Soon!
For all the hubub about air travel these days, and today being the busiest travel day of the year, I wanted to give you the joke of the day, told to me about 5 minutes ago in the elevator of my building by this 75+ year old man. “I wear a pacemaker, and cant go [...]
Build Em All, And They Won’t Come
In a little noticed deal struck yesterday, between legally blind Governor of New York, David Paterson, representing theState of New York,and an Indian tribe from WISCONSIN, representing themselves, we got some questions. You see this”quiet” dealwas for afullblown casino in the Catskill region of Upstate NY.With a tribe from WISCONSIN. Not with the Mohican tribe [...]
Where’s The "Thanks" or The "Giving"?
I guess the US is the only country to celebrate “Thanksgiving” on the last Thursday in November. It has become most apparent the last couple days with Europe getting bailed out, Iran sabre-rattling some more, and now this N. Korea vs S. Korea business. It’s also not gonna be too thankful for a few families [...]
Oh You Take the High Road and I’ll Take the Low Road……..
……..And I’ll be in Scotland before ye! An oldie but a goodie right? I’ll tell you where it ain’t good, and getting worser (broken English technical term). Europa, baby. Yeah I know all about the Ireland mess, but who is next? And there IS a next. Maybe a next 2 or 3 or 6. Portugal [...]
Good News Items! Well, For Some
I commented to a buddy of mine the other day that the marketplace is a VERY telling thing. And that can be ANY market. One market that I think is a pretty free market without any manipulation is the television ratings market. I mean there’s few things more fair than you sitting at home with [...]
Mortgage Lending – Lowest October In 10 years
Gross mortgage lending in October was an estimated 12.4 billion, unchanged from September but down 9% from 13.6 billion in October 2009, according to new data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders. This is the lowest October total since 2000 (9.9 billion).
You See What I’m Saying, Right?
Now that we are looking down the barrel at the 2nd straight week of stock market losses, it doesn’t feel too great, correct? We’re still hanging in there as far as owning plenty of ticker SSO (which is roughly 2x the movement of the S&P 500), but it’s getting a little “tingly” holding it, if [...]
Um, ANYONE As Hot As Big Dick? ANYONE?!?!
Editor’s Note–There’s an old joke about if you had 3 wishes, what would you wish for. The joke is the guy says, “I only need 1 wish. You can keep the other 2. My wish is to get TOMORROW’s newspaper, today.” Think about it. You could do a lot of work with tomorrow’s newspaper. Speaking [...]
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