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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
The Dollar-Proof Portfolio - Morningstar - ETF Specialist
The Dollar-Proof Portfolio - Morningstar - ETF Specialist:
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"It is said that if you know your enemies
and know yourself, you will not be
imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do
not know your enemies but do know
yourself, you will win one and lose one;
if you do not know your enemies nor
yourself, you will be imperiled in every
single battle." - Sun Tzu
"It is said that if you know your enemies
and know yourself, you will not be
imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do
not know your enemies but do know
yourself, you will win one and lose one;
if you do not know your enemies nor
yourself, you will be imperiled in every
single battle." - Sun Tzu
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Love Worth Finding Ministries with Adrian Rogers: Daily Treasures
Love Worth Finding Ministries with Adrian Rogers: Daily Treasures
Dare Not Be Silent
November 3, 2009
We are to praise our country when it does right. We are to preach to our country when it does wrong. God’s people dare not be silent.
Let me be very frank with you about politics and Christian involvement. Christians should not identify the Christian faith with Democrats or Republicans. We need to be free to tell both parties to repent and get right with God.
Christians will be civil, but we will not be silent. Nathan warned David. Elijah preached to Ahab. Eleazer warned Jehosophat. Daniel preached to Nebuchadnezzar. Moses warned Pharaoh. John the Baptist preached to Herod.
We must declare to any government under which we live: Whatever is morally wrong is not politically right. And as long as I am talking on this subject, let me add that as long as abortionists kill babies and doctors practice infanticide I will not be silent.
Monday, November 02, 2009
The GOP Establishment Must Be Purged as the GOP Loses in NY-23 - Erick’s blog - RedState
Quote of the day
Erick’s blog - RedState: "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!—Ben Franklin"
Erick’s blog - RedState: "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!—Ben Franklin"
Why Keep Geithner? | The Big Picture
Why Keep Geithner? | The Big Picture
A year ago it was revealed to the American people that our banking system was a legalized Ponzi scheme in which bank and insurance CEOs paid themselves billions of dollars in personal compensation to lend and insure assets with money they didn’t have to customers who couldn’t pay back the loans.
In those dark days between the fall of Lehman Brothers and before the presidential election, we were often carried through that time by the small glimmer of hope in that at least we would soon have a new leader who would hopefully fix this mess and punish those responsible.
Yet in the past 9 months, not only has the administration not fixed anything, they have made things much worse for anyone who isn’t a Wall Street banker. Therefore, we are past the point where anyone in power still gets the benefit of the doubt and the process of taking back our country for all citizens must begin now.
This is why I think we must ask if U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is still the right person for the job. It has become clear recently that back in his previous role as New York Federal Reserve Governor, he unnecessarily gave billions of dollars of US tax money to banks and insurance companies with few strings attached. And it is now becoming clear that his lack of meaningful action is helping many of these same banks steal more by legalizing their most economically dangerous, socially destructive and self-enriching practices.
Yesterday on NBC’s Meet the Press, Secretary Geithner again endorsed House bank reform legislation that would allow, by my calculations, as much as 80%, or $475 trillion, of the bank’s $600 trillion in crooked insurance schemes to still be held in secret. It was and is the secret risks held in this very market that led to our collapse in the first place and continue to pose massive future risk to the global economy.From Licensed investigator Susan Daniels to judge Carter � Count Us Out
From Licensed investigator Susan Daniels to judge Carter � Count Us Out
Dear Judge Carter:
Dear Judge Carter:
I am the private investigator who contacted Dr. Orly Taitz when I found that Barack Obama has been using a bogus social security number for years, which is a felony. I have been a licensed investigator for almost fifteen years and recognized it immediately as fraudulent.
If you had allowed Discovery and required the SSA to release his alleged application for that number (and I do not believe such an application exists), you would have realized it, too. Numbers are issued to a person in the state where they are living. Between 1977-79 when it was issued, he was living in Hawaii not Connecticut.
I now realize that you always intended to dismiss the case, because that’s what you were ordered to do. You have bartered your integrity for a lofty position and a hefty pension. Shame on you.
The men and and women in the military will continue to die under the direction of someone who is not entitled to hold the position of Commander in Chief and who is nothing more than a Chicago thug with questionable loyalties.
Semper Fi? I think not.
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Livermores Seven Trading Lessons | The Big Picture
Livermores Seven Trading Lessons | The Big Picture
Via Minyanville, we get this good version of Jesse Livermore’s trading rules, considered to be one of the best traders of all time:
Lesson Number One: Cut your losses quickly.
As soon as a trade is contemplated, a trader must know at what point in time he’ll be proven wrong and exit a position. If a trader doesn’t know his exit before he takes the entry, he might as well go to the racetrack or casino where at least the odds can be quantified.
Lesson Number Two: Confirm your judgment before going all in.
Livermore was famous for throwing out a small position and waiting for his thesis to be confirmed. Once the stock was traveling in the direction he desired, Livermore would pile on rapidly to maximize the returns.
There are several ways to buy more in a winning position — pyramiding up, buying in thirds at predetermined prices, being 100% in no more than 5% above the initial entry — but the take home is to buy in the direction of your winning trade – never when it goes against you.
Lesson Number Three: Watch leading stocks for the best action.
Livermore knew that trending issues were where the big money would be made, and to fight this reality was a loser’s game.
Lesson Number Four: Let profits ride until price action dictates otherwise.
“It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.”
One method that satisfies the desire for profit and subdues the fear of a losing trade is to take one half of your profit off at a predetermined level, put a stop at breakeven on the rest, and let it play out without micromanaging the position.
Lesson Number Five: Buy all-time new highs.
The psychological merits of buying all-time or 52-week highs are immense and shouldn’t be discounted as a part of your overall strategy.
Lesson Number Six: Use pivot points to determine trends.
When going long, traders are continually looking for confirmation by assessing the strength of a move. Higher highs and higher lows are a solid indicator that a current uptrend is merely taking a slight pause, and the odds of higher prices are in their favor. These same pivot points are integral to drawing support and resistance lines to give traders their line in the sand. Taken together, trend lines and pivot points can enlighten a trader to a change in momentum, which may change the character of a trade.
Lesson Number Seven: Control your emotions.
Our goal as traders should be to also make a critical yet honest assessment of the areas we can improve so the bottom line will support our claims of truly being seasoned traders. Adhering to the time-tested rules of Jesse Livermore would be a great start for anyone.
The full article is here.
Sense of Events
Sense of Events: "Sunday, November 1, 2009
Quote of the day
'Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve.
'It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle--when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.'
Roger Bannister, first person to run a mile in under four minutes
By Donald Sensing"
Quote of the day
'Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve.
'It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle--when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.'
Roger Bannister, first person to run a mile in under four minutes
By Donald Sensing"
Saturday, October 31, 2009
24-stage frac job planned for Sanish Three Forks well - Oil & Gas Journal
24-stage frac job planned for Sanish Three Forks well - Oil & Gas Journal: "24-stage frac job planned for Sanish Three Forks well
Oct 28, 2009
Guntis Moritis
OGJ Production Editor
HOUSTON, Oct. 28 -- Whiting Petroleum Corp. plans to use 24-stages for hydraulically fracture its Ogden 11-3 TFH horizontal well, completed in the Three Forks reservoir in the Sanish field, Mountrail County, ND."
Oct 28, 2009
Guntis Moritis
OGJ Production Editor
HOUSTON, Oct. 28 -- Whiting Petroleum Corp. plans to use 24-stages for hydraulically fracture its Ogden 11-3 TFH horizontal well, completed in the Three Forks reservoir in the Sanish field, Mountrail County, ND."
Friday, October 30, 2009
Gold vs Silver..Why The Debate? (by Market Sniper) - Slope Of Hope with Tim Knight
Gold vs Silver..Why The Debate? (by Market Sniper) - Slope Of Hope with Tim Knight
Ratios
At one point it was even at 100:1. I now use 45:1 and 70:1 as switch points. See your tax accountant as to the benefits of such a program. Think 1031 Tax Deferred Exchange. For those who do not want to break the rear axle of your automobile moving your silver when it comes time to switch, think about using ETF’s that solely reflect the price of the two metals. There are a variety of ways to accomplish this. From being in just one or the other to being long one and short the other.
Ratios
At one point it was even at 100:1. I now use 45:1 and 70:1 as switch points. See your tax accountant as to the benefits of such a program. Think 1031 Tax Deferred Exchange. For those who do not want to break the rear axle of your automobile moving your silver when it comes time to switch, think about using ETF’s that solely reflect the price of the two metals. There are a variety of ways to accomplish this. From being in just one or the other to being long one and short the other.
IF your objective is to accumulate the actual physical metals, do not use ETF’s as a substitute for physical ownership. Rather, take profits from your switching trades and purchase the actual metals themselves. Gold vs. Silver? No debate, accumulate both.
Big Government � Blog Archive � Pelosi Health Care Bill Blows a Kiss to Trial Lawyers
Big Government � Blog Archive � Pelosi Health Care Bill Blows a Kiss to Trial Lawyers
check out this juicy morsel to the trial lawyers (page 1431-1433 of the bill):
check out this juicy morsel to the trial lawyers (page 1431-1433 of the bill):
Section 2531, entitled “Medical Liability Alternatives,” establishes an incentive program for states to adopt and implement alternatives to medical liability litigation. [But]…… a state is not eligible for the incentive payments if that state puts a law on the books that limits attorneys’ fees or imposes caps on damages.
Lame Cherry: The Thirdworldness of Obama
Lame Cherry: The Thirdworldness of Obama
Judge Carter is a very bright justice and yet in all of this he has appeared being tainted by Mr. Obama associations to be nothing but 3rd World.
For starters, Robert Bauer as this blog reported is married to Anita Dunn who works under David Axelrod as the pictures reveal quite intimately. Mr. Bauer is also Mr. Obama's attorney who works for the international law firm, Perkins Coie.
The problem there starts in Judge Carter just hired a law clerk named Sid Velamoor who worked for Perkins Coie. In such a national case as this, Judge Carter is not that inept to have done this career ruining maneuver in hiring someone from a law firm who has had received most of the 2 million dollars Mr. Obama has spent on the Birther case.
This blog noted that something odd appeared to be going on, a feeling with Judge Carter, that it looks as if this was happening in Kenya, that it looked like a Judge with a stinking fish and was auctioning off to a high bidder in sometimes a Hillary Clinton was making pillow talk, and at other times, it was Bearick Obama.
The end result is the appearance looks like the most powerful man in America forced Judge Carter to hire a clerk to write a decision throwing out Obama's case, and the clerk worked for Obama's personal attorney.
Judge Carter is a very bright justice and yet in all of this he has appeared being tainted by Mr. Obama associations to be nothing but 3rd World.
For starters, Robert Bauer as this blog reported is married to Anita Dunn who works under David Axelrod as the pictures reveal quite intimately. Mr. Bauer is also Mr. Obama's attorney who works for the international law firm, Perkins Coie.
The problem there starts in Judge Carter just hired a law clerk named Sid Velamoor who worked for Perkins Coie. In such a national case as this, Judge Carter is not that inept to have done this career ruining maneuver in hiring someone from a law firm who has had received most of the 2 million dollars Mr. Obama has spent on the Birther case.
This blog noted that something odd appeared to be going on, a feeling with Judge Carter, that it looks as if this was happening in Kenya, that it looked like a Judge with a stinking fish and was auctioning off to a high bidder in sometimes a Hillary Clinton was making pillow talk, and at other times, it was Bearick Obama.
The end result is the appearance looks like the most powerful man in America forced Judge Carter to hire a clerk to write a decision throwing out Obama's case, and the clerk worked for Obama's personal attorney.
Lame Cherry
Lame Cherry
I have always noted someone like Noel Sheppard of Newsbusters when gas was 4 dollars a gallon. He has children he can afford. He has his business. He has money to pay for college etc... So when it costs another thousand dollars a year for gas, he just pays it.
Poor people have to make decisions in buying gas to go to work or to not eat meat, fruit for that week, which weakens their physical condition, they get sick over time, then can't work, and then lose what home they have, and end up in government housing never able to get on their feet again.
I have always noted someone like Noel Sheppard of Newsbusters when gas was 4 dollars a gallon. He has children he can afford. He has his business. He has money to pay for college etc... So when it costs another thousand dollars a year for gas, he just pays it.
Poor people have to make decisions in buying gas to go to work or to not eat meat, fruit for that week, which weakens their physical condition, they get sick over time, then can't work, and then lose what home they have, and end up in government housing never able to get on their feet again.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Trends I'm Watching
Trends I'm Watching
Presently, Ben Bernanke and Tim Geithner have become the quintessential short-term decision makers. They explicitly "do whatever it takes" to "solve one problem at a time" and deal with the unintended consequences later. It is too soon for history to evaluate their work, because there hasn't been time for the unintended consequences of the "do whatever it takes" decision-making to materialize.
In the context of the recent economic crisis, a highly motivated and organized banking lobby has demonstrated enormous influence. Bankers advance ideas like, "without banks, we would have no economy." Of course, there was a public interest in protecting the guts of the system, but the ATMs could have continued working, even with forced debt-to-equity conversions that would not have required any public funds. Instead, our leaders responded by handing over hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to protect the speculative investments of bank shareholders and creditors. This has been particularly remarkable, considering that most agree that these same banks had an enormous role in creating this mess which has thrown millions out of their homes and jobs.
...Americans understand that the Washington-Wall Street relationship has rewarded the least deserving people and institutions at the expense of the prudent. They don't know the particulars or how to argue against the "without banks, we have no economy" demagogues. So, they fight healthcare reform, where they have enough personal experience to equip them to argue with Congressmen at town hall meetings. As I see it, the revolt over healthcare isn't really about healthcare, but represents a broader upset at Washington. The lack of trust over the inability to deal seriously with the party goers feeds the lack of trust over healthcare.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Mich. Democrat: Pelosi 'not happy with me' - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room
Mich. Democrat: Pelosi 'not happy with me' - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room: "Stupak wants a vote on the House floor to strike the language, and predicts he would have the votes to pass such an amendment.
'This has been federal law since 1976,' he said, noting that President Barack Obama has vowed not to allow healthcare reform to pay for abortions.
'We have to have a vote,' he said."
'This has been federal law since 1976,' he said, noting that President Barack Obama has vowed not to allow healthcare reform to pay for abortions.
'We have to have a vote,' he said."
Monday, October 26, 2009
Ogre’s Politics and Views � Hate Crimes
Ogre’s Politics and Views � Hate Crimes: "Hate Crimes
Posted on October 23rd, 2009 by Ogre
There can be no freedom of speech where there are hate crimes law.
There is no freedom where thoughts can be punished."
Posted on October 23rd, 2009 by Ogre
There can be no freedom of speech where there are hate crimes law.
There is no freedom where thoughts can be punished."
Why I Believe in God | The Scriptorium Daily: Middlebrow
Why I Believe in God | The Scriptorium Daily: Middlebrow
So why do I know God exists?
Given the limits of a short essay, I will only be able to point in the direction of my favorite reasons, but there are many books that provide deeper justification and further explication of these reasons. On a popular level favorite books that were helpful to me include J.P. Moreland’s Scaling the Secular City and A.E. Taylor’s Does God Exist? Readers looking for something more difficult would do well to check out the work of Richard Swinburne of Oxford University.
Of course, I don’t believe in God at first because I sat and thought about Him. I believe in God, because I encountered Him. I prayed and had an experience of Him from a very early age. He has answered my prayers and forced me to change my behavior. This every day direct mental experience of His existence is fundamentally why I know God is real.
If I did not have it, I would have little motivation to wonder about Him, but I sought Him and I found Him . . . or better He found me! Of course, despite my apparent sanity (from my own biased point of view!), I might be mad or deceived. God might be an illusion in my head, despite the sense that there is a different mental texture to what His voice is saying.
Once challenged in his beliefs by reasonable questions, only a fool or a saint would be sure that he was not deluding himself. I know I am no saint and I hope not to be a fool, so I had to ask if my experiences were real and if I had correctly interpreted them.
It is important, therefore, that I have every day indirect experience of His existence. The community of believers around me matters. I am not alone in thinking God is real or speaks to people. This does not prove that God exist, but the billions of people over long periods of time who have believed in God does suggest that at the very least I am not the victim of some private delusion!
So I speak to God and He speaks to me and millions of living and otherwise rational human beings share this experience. It is what I would anticipate if God is out there. Why do some people fail to share that experience?
I don’t know, but absence of evidence in a few does not suggest the problem is in those who believe.
Third, there are philosophical arguments that suggest the existence of God is either necessary or reasonable. For example, the existence and nature of the cosmos suggests the existence of a rational God. The universe appears to have order and design and I am not persuaded that merely naturalistic processes can account for this order and design. Whatever the process God used to create, and only the arrogant believe they have this all worked out, the fundamental nature of that creation suggests a plan.
Fourth, morality persuades me that God exists. The long trajectory of human history demonstrates a common morality behind the blind spots of any particular culture. There is a common way that most people in most places and most times have followed. This law suggests a lawgiver.
Fifth, the existence of gratuitous beauty convinces me God exists. When I traveled above the clouds for the first time with my oldest son, he told me that it was beautiful and neither of us was surprised. Wherever we looked, we saw beauty and this was not a beauty that could have been hardwired into us by any natural process. Wherever we look as human even to the furthest reaches of the cosmos beauty is there waiting for us.
Sixth, the world of Ideas points in the direction of the existence of the Mind of God. As a Platonist, I am convinced that numbers and ideas are real. There is a metaphysical world that cannot be reduced to the material. This does not prove God exists, but makes His existence more plausible to me.
Finally, love suggests to me that God is real. As Plato points out in his masterful dialogue Symposium love is surely of something. Humanity possesses a love for the Good, the True, and the Beautiful that demands a proper object. Only God is great enough to be a sufficient end for all the longing in the human heart. It might be that the universe is perverse and has given us this great longing without any means of fulfilling it, but there is no good reason to take this withering view. The sensible, indeed the hopeful response, is to assume that like hunger or thirst this longing too can be find satisfaction in reality.
My friends who don’t believe in God might claim that I believe in God, partly, because I want to do so. This is true. The existence of a good God is such an awesome, exciting, and hopeful idea that I am rooting for it. There is nothing irrational with giving good news the benefit of the doubt, if you don’t sacrifice your mind to do so.
You ask me how I know He lives? He lives within my heart.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
• Ask The Animals (how far we’ve strayed) � ASK THE ANIMALS and they will TEACH you… [Job 12:7-12]
• Ask The Animals (how far we’ve strayed) � ASK THE ANIMALS and they will TEACH you… [Job 12:7-12]
For you have need of endurance, so that you may do the will of God and receive what is promised.
“For yet a little while, and the coming one shall come and shall not tarry; but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and keep their souls.
-Hebrews 10:36-39
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Lame Cherry
Lame Cherry: "Old Version has a number of fun programs that do things to entertain the mind of French interest like downloading things from other computers in emule. I have vast loads of fun in this Napster type program which seems to have Obama server sex on it's mind, but in finding an emule main server, one can usually find all sorts of things that should be free that others think should be Obama enslaved.
A great deal of the artwork found here comes from Paint Shop Pro, which opens all sorts of jpeg to gif files found online. One does not need to have the big new versions. Some of the small older ones do the job very well."
A great deal of the artwork found here comes from Paint Shop Pro, which opens all sorts of jpeg to gif files found online. One does not need to have the big new versions. Some of the small older ones do the job very well."
HIMknowledgey Ministry - Revive Us Again
HIMknowledgey Ministry - Revive Us Again: "329.......The Love Of God"
329.......The Love Of God
The Love of God, hymn #329, has three verses, the first two of which were written by Frederick Martin Lehman in 1917 in Pasadena, California. 
Verse number three, comes from a Jewish poem, Haddanut, written in Aramaic in 1050 by Meir Ben Isaac Nehorai, a cantor in Worms, Germany. The music was arranged by his daughter Claudia Faustina Lehman Mays. She was born July 15, 1892 in Griswold, Iowa. One of nine children, she harmonized many of the songs written by her father. She died February 19, 1973 in Medford, Oregon.
Lehman was working in a packing-house, lifting and moving as much as thirty tons of lemons and oranges a day which were then packed into crates for shipment. The previous Sunday, he had heard a heart-warming sermon on God's love. He could hardly contain himself. In fact, so much so, that he had found it hard to get to sleep. The next morning, the thrill of the previous evening had not left him and as he was eating breakfast, the first words to this song came to him. On the way to 
work, more followed. At work, during short intervals of inattention (break time), more words came which he jotted down until he had completed the first two verses. When he got home, he went to the old upright piano and composed the melody for the two verses and chorus. However, a hymn has to have three verses to be complete. As he tried to write the third, he found the words were not falling into place as had the first two. As he tried to figure out what to do, he remembered about the poem he had heard at a camp meeting. The profound depths of the lines moved him to preserve them for future use and it was not until coming to California that this urge was fulfilled. He knew that he had saved the card with the poem but where was it now? His search was soon rewarded because he had used it for a bookmark. As Lehman again read the words, his heart was thrilled just as had happened when he heard them originally. This time he noticed some smaller print that told this story, "These lines were found in translated form on the walls of a patient's room in an insane asylum after the patient's death." As he set the words to the third verse to the tune, he found they matched exactly. God knew when he had the poem, written in 1050, that it would be translated into English and brought to America at the exact time Lehman was going to need it to finish this hymn. That is 867 years from the time the words were written and they traveled half-way around the world to be joined with this song. Since then, this hymn has been translated into at least 18 languages. This hymn was first published in Songs That Are Different, Volume 2, 1919.
Frederick Martin Lehman was born August 7, 1868 in Mecklenburg, Schwerin, Germany. He came to America at the age of 4 with his family, settling in Iowa where he lived most of his childhood. He came to Christ at age 11, as he relates, "One glad morning about 11 o'clock while walking up the country lane, skirted by a wild crab-apple grove on the right and an Osage (American Indian from Missouri) fence, with an old white-elm gate in a gap at the left, suddenly Heaven let a cornucopia (abundant) of glory descend on this 11 year old lad. The wild crab-apple grove assumed a heavenly glow and the Osage fence, an unearthly luster. That old white-elm gate with its sun-warped boards, gleamed and glowed like silver bars to shut out the world and shut him in with the 'form of the forth,' just come into his heart. The weight of conviction was gone and the paeans (a song) of joy and praise fell from his lips." Lehman studied for the ministry at Northwestern College in Naperville, Illinois, and pastored at Audubon, Iowa; New London, Indiana; and Kansas City, Missouri. The majority of his life was devoted to writing sacred-songs. In 1911, he moved to Kansas City, where he helped found the Nazarene Publishing House. He died February 20, 1953 in Pasadena, California.
Vinegar and Honey
Vinegar and Honey: "'The Love of God,' because they are so true:
Could we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made,
Were every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade,
To write the love of God above,
Would drain the ocean dry.
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.
This was written by Frederick M. Lehman in 1917, based on the Jewish poem, 'Haddamut,' written by Cantor Meir Ben Isaac Nehorai, in 1050, in Worms, Germany."
Could we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made,
Were every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade,
To write the love of God above,
Would drain the ocean dry.
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.
This was written by Frederick M. Lehman in 1917, based on the Jewish poem, 'Haddamut,' written by Cantor Meir Ben Isaac Nehorai, in 1050, in Worms, Germany."
OGX makes Campos basin discovery - Offshore
OGX makes Campos basin discovery - Offshore
Published: Oct 15, 2009
Offshore staff
RIO DE JANEIRO -- The 1-OGX -1-RJS well in block BM-C-43, offshore Brazil, has hit pay, according to OGX. The well encountered an oil column of over 200 m (656 ft) and net pay of 57 m (187 ft). Based on well information and existing 3D seismic data interpretation, OGX estimates a recoverable oil volume of between 500 MMbbl and 1.5 Bbbl.
The well, in the southern part of the Campos basin, was drilled to a depth of 2,347 m (7,700 ft) in 140 m (459 ft) of water. The rig Ocean Ambassador will now be mobilized to the 1-OGX-2-RJS well in block BM-C-41.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Emigre with a Digital Cluebat
Emigre with a Digital Cluebat
America the Arrogant ?
Jeff S. of my Second Amendment group wrote the following; I concur with him 100%:
The American Cemetery at Ardennes , Belgium .. A total of 5329 of our dead.
The American Cemetery at Brittany, France . A total of 4410 of our military
dead.
Brookwood , England American Cemetery. A total of 468 of our dead.
Cambridge , England . 3812 of our military dead.
Epinal , France American Cemetery. A total of 5525 of our Military dead.
Flanders Field , Belgium . A total of 368 of our military.
Florence , Italy . A total of 4402 of our military dead.
Henri-Chapelle , Belgium . A total of 7992 of our military dead.
Lorraine , France . A total of 10,489 of our military dead.
Luxembourg , Luxembourg . A total of 5076 of our military dead.
Meuse-Argonne. A total of 14246 of our military dead.
Netherlands , Netherlands . A total of 8301 of our military dead.
Normandy , France . A total of 9387 of our military dead.
Oise-Aisne , France . A total of 6012 of our military dead.
Rhone , France . A total of 861 of our military dead.
Sicily , Italy . A total of 7861 of our military dead.
Somme , France . A total of 1844 of our military dead.
St. Mihiel , France . A total of 4153 of our military dead.
Suresnes , France . A total of 1541 of our military dead.
IF I ADDED CORRECTLY THE COUNT IS 104,366 BURIED ON FOREIGN SOIL
Apologize to no one.
Remind those of our sacrifice
And don't confuse Arrogance with Leadership.
As Americans, let's all look forward to the next elections-
To find a President who doesn't think we need to be ashamed.
Are we Arrogant ? I don't think so !
May God have mercy on us until this Presidential term is over !
Thursday, October 22, 2009
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http://www.keeskennis.blogspot.com/
http://www.keeskennis.blogspot.com/
Torture?
n jail...as was John McCain...and we agree that McCain does
not speak for the POW group when he claims that Al Gharib was
torture...or that "water boarding" is torture.
Our president and those fools around him who keep bad mouthing
our great country are a disgrace to the United States . I hope Sean Hannity. He uses this to point out the stupidity of the claims that water boarding...which has no after effect...is torture.
If it got the Arab to cough up the story about how he planned the attack on the twin towers in NYC ... hurrah for the guy who poured the water.
Torture?
Medal of Honor recipient Bud Day Speaks of Torture
n jail...as was John McCain...and we agree that McCain does
not speak for the POW group when he claims that Al Gharib was
torture...or that "water boarding" is torture.
Our president and those fools around him who keep bad mouthing
our great country are a disgrace to the United States . I hope Sean Hannity. He uses this to point out the stupidity of the claims that water boarding...which has no after effect...is torture.
If it got the Arab to cough up the story about how he planned the attack on the twin towers in NYC ... hurrah for the guy who poured the water.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical�
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical�
A crusty old Marine Sergeant Major found himself at a gala event hosted by a local liberal arts college. There was no shortage of extremely young idealistic ladies in attendance, one of whom approached the Sergeant Major for conversation.
'Excuse me, sir, but you seem to be a very serious man. Is something bothering you?'
'Negative, ma'am. Just serious by nature.'
The young lady looked at his awards and decorations and said, 'It looks like you have seen a lot of action.'
'Yes, ma'am, a lot of action.'
The young lady, tiring of trying to start up a conversation, said, 'You know, you should lighten up a little. Relax and enjoy yourself.'
The Sergeant Major just stared at her in his serious manner.
Finally the young lady said, 'You know, I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but when is the last time you had sex?
"1955, ma'am."
"Well, there you are. No wonder you're so serious. You really need to chill out! I mean, no sex since 1955!"
She took his hand and led him to a private room where she proceeded to 'relax' him several times. Afterwards, panting for breath, she leaned against his bare chest and said, 'Wow, you sure didn't forget much since 1955.'
The Sergeant Major said in his serious voice, after glancing at his watch, 'I hope not; It's only 2130 now.'
Joke Humor
A crusty old Marine Sergeant Major found himself at a gala event hosted by a local liberal arts college. There was no shortage of extremely young idealistic ladies in attendance, one of whom approached the Sergeant Major for conversation.
'Excuse me, sir, but you seem to be a very serious man. Is something bothering you?'
'Negative, ma'am. Just serious by nature.'
The young lady looked at his awards and decorations and said, 'It looks like you have seen a lot of action.'
'Yes, ma'am, a lot of action.'
The young lady, tiring of trying to start up a conversation, said, 'You know, you should lighten up a little. Relax and enjoy yourself.'
The Sergeant Major just stared at her in his serious manner.
Finally the young lady said, 'You know, I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but when is the last time you had sex?
"1955, ma'am."
"Well, there you are. No wonder you're so serious. You really need to chill out! I mean, no sex since 1955!"
She took his hand and led him to a private room where she proceeded to 'relax' him several times. Afterwards, panting for breath, she leaned against his bare chest and said, 'Wow, you sure didn't forget much since 1955.'
The Sergeant Major said in his serious voice, after glancing at his watch, 'I hope not; It's only 2130 now.'
Joke Humor
Thursday, October 15, 2009
The Oil Drum | Shale Gas Estimates Perhaps Optimistic - An Interesting and Worrying Talk at ASPO
The Oil Drum | Shale Gas Estimates Perhaps Optimistic - An Interesting and Worrying Talk at ASPO: "Shale Gas Estimates Perhaps Optimistic"
the U.S. today consumes about 63 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day - in energy BTU equivalency terms, that’s 10.5 million barrels of oil per day, or about half of the amount of oil that the U.S. consumes each day. Of that 63 bcf per day of natural gas consumption, we import about 1 bcf in the form of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, and we import about 8 bcf per day from Canada. This means that we are about 98.5% self-reliant on natural gas supply from North America and about 86% self-reliant on natural gas supply from the U.S. Contrast that with oil, where we are only about 41% North American self-reliant and only about 27% self-reliant from U.S. sources.
the U.S. today consumes about 63 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day - in energy BTU equivalency terms, that’s 10.5 million barrels of oil per day, or about half of the amount of oil that the U.S. consumes each day. Of that 63 bcf per day of natural gas consumption, we import about 1 bcf in the form of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, and we import about 8 bcf per day from Canada. This means that we are about 98.5% self-reliant on natural gas supply from North America and about 86% self-reliant on natural gas supply from the U.S. Contrast that with oil, where we are only about 41% North American self-reliant and only about 27% self-reliant from U.S. sources.
VIX Definition - What is VIX?
VIX Definition - What is VIX?
VIX is the CBOE Volatility Index, created by the Chicago Board Options Exchange as a measure of equity market volatility. The VIX was introduced in January 1986. Since January 1993, the VIX has been computed in real time throughout the trading day. The computation of the value of VIX is based on the implied volatility of eight option series on the S&P 100 index, or OEX. The VIX is quoted in percentage points per annum. For instance, a VIX value of 19.28 represents an annualized implied volatility of 19.28%. The VIX is sometimes called the investor fear index, since investor uncertainty can lead to high market volatility through drops in prices, such as happened on Black Monday in 1987. Options are traded on the VIX, enabling additional hedging and speculation positions on volatility. Closely related to the VIX are the VXD, or CBOE Dow Jones Industrial Average Volatility Index, and the VXN, or CBOE NASDAQ 100 Volatility Index.
LIBOR Definition - What is LIBOR?
LIBOR Definition - What is LIBOR?
LIBOR stands for London Interbank Offered Rate. The British Bankers’ Association calculates LIBOR in an open manner each business day. LIBOR rates are generally released around 11am London time. Many LIBOR rates exist, for various multiple short-term periods in a number of currencies. For example, each day LIBOR rates are released, there is a 1 week Japanese Yen LIBOR rate, a 1 month US dollar LIBOR rate, and 6 month Euro LIBOR rate. LIBOR is the primary benchmark for interest rates around the world. Interest rate contracts traded on many exchanges around the world, such as the Chicago Board of Trade, settle based on LIBOR. LIBOR affects consumers, too, as LIBOR is often used as a benchmark for ARMs and other credit products.
Joint Will Definition - What is Joint Will?
Joint Will Definition - What is Joint Will?
A joint will is a type of legal agreement, in which property is distributed according to a will without the right to survivorship. According to a joint will agreement, the distribution of assets is predetermined by a joint will regardless of who dies first. A joint will is common among married couples, though legally a joint will can apply to any two people who intend to become each other’s beneficiaries according to a stipulated will. Like other legal contracts, a joint will has its benefits and drawbacks. On the plus side, a joint will prevents the surviving person from using the estate in ways that contradict the terms of the joint will contract. Thus for example, should the surviving spouse decide to remarry, a joint will contract may block him or her from granting the estate to the new spouse or stepchildren. A negative of a joint will is its constricting nature and inability to accommodate changing life circumstances.
A joint will is a type of legal agreement, in which property is distributed according to a will without the right to survivorship. According to a joint will agreement, the distribution of assets is predetermined by a joint will regardless of who dies first. A joint will is common among married couples, though legally a joint will can apply to any two people who intend to become each other’s beneficiaries according to a stipulated will. Like other legal contracts, a joint will has its benefits and drawbacks. On the plus side, a joint will prevents the surviving person from using the estate in ways that contradict the terms of the joint will contract. Thus for example, should the surviving spouse decide to remarry, a joint will contract may block him or her from granting the estate to the new spouse or stepchildren. A negative of a joint will is its constricting nature and inability to accommodate changing life circumstances.
Lame Cherry: The English Language Program
Lame Cherry: The English Language Program
He was joined by two other hispanics in what was overtly termed, "The English Language Program" to teach North Vietnamese communist guards in prison torture camps how to speak English.
No one knows for certain who these three animals were, but were nicknamed Fidel, Chico and Pancho who joined with a North Vietnamese officer named, The Lump, due to a large tumor on his forehead.
For 13 months, 19 American Heroes were isolated and brought into a program of advanced torture which went beyond the normal communist Vietnamese methods of tying the arms behind the back and legs with ropes, pulling them until the joints popped loose, bouncing them from a hook on the ceiling and beating the snot out of them, as John McCain endured.
Fidel would enact a Manchurian candidate psychological warfare program on these 19 Americans in demanding these men "surrender" to him. This psychotic was operating under full knowledge of the North Vietnamese, Cubans and therefore Moscow.
Fidel would demand that he would not be "cheated" in the Heroes not obeying his every command. It was ritual in mind control with the advent of the Soldiers were ordered to carve little objects to give to the Vietnamese people to prove they were sorry for their "crimes".
United States Air Force Major Earl Cobeil was beaten so savagely that he was incoherent. It was then that Major Cobeil began the tortuous last days of his life as Fidel demanded to be bowed to, but Cobeil who was completely incapacitated mentally would refuse.
To this Fidel would personally whip the Major with a whip made from a truck tire, until his skin was shredded from his back and legs.
The Heroes would force a stick into the Major's mouth to shove food down his throat to keep him alive.
Major Cobeil would be knocked down 20 to 40 times by brute force in a torture session which he was not even aware the reason for.
At the end of the English Language Program, Major Cobeil, disappeared into North Vietnam beaten to death.
The Cuban Connection into Vietnam was precise. Fidel Castro had armed troops murdering American Soldiers and allied Fighters in Laos.
It was believed the Cubans created a program where Americans would be so punished, that they would recite communist text on cue, be exported to a communist "trial" symposium for war crimes by Americans, about to be held in Cuba, as the propaganda event of the century.
There are thousands of still missing Americans from Southeast Asia, and while the door has been shut on the Moscow connection of imported American Servicemen, escapees from Cuba have spoken of American Soldiers who arrived there and were under Castro's brutal torture programs.
It is thought that Fidel was Fernando Vecino Alegret, a Cuban communist, but the reality is no one is certain.
The English Language Program
For 13 months between 1967 and 1968, a Caucasian with a latino accent was in North Vietnam, at a place termed The Zoo.He was joined by two other hispanics in what was overtly termed, "The English Language Program" to teach North Vietnamese communist guards in prison torture camps how to speak English.
No one knows for certain who these three animals were, but were nicknamed Fidel, Chico and Pancho who joined with a North Vietnamese officer named, The Lump, due to a large tumor on his forehead.
For 13 months, 19 American Heroes were isolated and brought into a program of advanced torture which went beyond the normal communist Vietnamese methods of tying the arms behind the back and legs with ropes, pulling them until the joints popped loose, bouncing them from a hook on the ceiling and beating the snot out of them, as John McCain endured.
Fidel would enact a Manchurian candidate psychological warfare program on these 19 Americans in demanding these men "surrender" to him. This psychotic was operating under full knowledge of the North Vietnamese, Cubans and therefore Moscow.
Fidel would demand that he would not be "cheated" in the Heroes not obeying his every command. It was ritual in mind control with the advent of the Soldiers were ordered to carve little objects to give to the Vietnamese people to prove they were sorry for their "crimes".
United States Air Force Major Earl Cobeil was beaten so savagely that he was incoherent. It was then that Major Cobeil began the tortuous last days of his life as Fidel demanded to be bowed to, but Cobeil who was completely incapacitated mentally would refuse.
To this Fidel would personally whip the Major with a whip made from a truck tire, until his skin was shredded from his back and legs.
The Heroes would force a stick into the Major's mouth to shove food down his throat to keep him alive.
Major Cobeil would be knocked down 20 to 40 times by brute force in a torture session which he was not even aware the reason for.
At the end of the English Language Program, Major Cobeil, disappeared into North Vietnam beaten to death.
The Cuban Connection into Vietnam was precise. Fidel Castro had armed troops murdering American Soldiers and allied Fighters in Laos.
It was believed the Cubans created a program where Americans would be so punished, that they would recite communist text on cue, be exported to a communist "trial" symposium for war crimes by Americans, about to be held in Cuba, as the propaganda event of the century.
There are thousands of still missing Americans from Southeast Asia, and while the door has been shut on the Moscow connection of imported American Servicemen, escapees from Cuba have spoken of American Soldiers who arrived there and were under Castro's brutal torture programs.
It is thought that Fidel was Fernando Vecino Alegret, a Cuban communist, but the reality is no one is certain.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Emigre with a Digital Cluebat
Emigre with a Digital Cluebat
These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read. This is one paragraph that should be in every book in every school room in every city in every state in our great Union ... Our educators should make a lesson plan on this one statement and instill these words in the minds of all students.
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation..
5. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
Interview with Sadad al Husseini: Part 2—“A lot of Money = a Little Oil” | Energy Bulletin
Interview with Sadad al Husseini: Part 2—“A lot of Money = a Little Oil” | Energy Bulletin
Question: In the past you’ve mentioned that world oil reserves are overstated by as much as 300 billion barrels.
Sadad: It’s very important to adhere to proper reserve definitions when we’re talking about oil. Oil is money in the bank. If you are very loose in terms of how you define it, you can go off and make assumptions that are unsustainable. The current numbers published—I call them “declared reserves”—are something like 1,200 billion barrels. On top of that there are another 150 billion of extra-heavy crudes and 150 billion Canadian type of bitumens. So that would lead you to believe that we have roughly 1,500 billion barrels of proven oil reserves. In fact, those are hardly proven. There is a lot of speculation. If we go back to the SEC type of definitions, that number drops way back, maybe down to 900 billion. I think it’s important to be precise about the definitions if not the actual estimates, because that’s the only way we can decide how much can be delivered on a timely basis. So yes, I think I would say 900 billion proven, perhaps 1,200 billion probable and potential. But that’s about the limit.
Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe isn't as famous as Galileo or Copernicus, but in some circles he's considered the father of modern astronomy. He spent much of his life compiling the world's first truly accurate and complete set of astronomical tables -- all before the invention of the telescope. Brahe's assistant, Johannes Kepler, later used the tables to deduce the laws of planetary motion. In 1628 Kepler published the Rudolphine Tables, a list of remarkably accurate logarithmic astronomical tables based on Brahe's observations and Kepler's subsequent analysis.
In 1566 Brahe lost most of his nose in a duel, and wore a metal replacement the rest of his life.
Anti-Mullah
Anti-Mullah
Fredrick Bastat
If you haven't read or listened to it, you must must must must must. Maybe I am late to the game on this... but it is stunning in its verbal and moral clarity. And it was written by a french dude, Frederic Bastiat. And it was published, in the year of his death... in 1850. Eighteen. Fifty. And it could have been written this year and been just as relevant. It's only like 60 pages, and the free MP3's add up to two hours listening. Great for your commute.
A country full of people familiar with this work would resist socialism like an immovable object. It ought to be required reading by 8th grade. And again by 12th grade.
In private schools, of course ;-)
Please encourage others to read or listen.
http://www.fee.org/pdf/books/The_Law.pdf
http://www.freeaudio.org/fbastiat/thelaw.html
Thursday, October 08, 2009
Adrian
The Worst Form of Badness
October 9, 2009
I want you to tell you something big, plain and straight. Salvation is not a reward for the righteous. It is a gift for the guilty.
Many come to church and perhaps say, “You know, I need to change my way of living. I am going to change my lifestyle. I want to be right with God.” And so they begin to reform themselves.
I‘ve often wondered what a church full of Pharisees would be like. Number One, they would be the most faithful attendees. Number Two, all of them would tithe. Number Three, they would live outwardly clean, pure, moral lives. Number Four, they would be very busy doing church work. Sounds like a good church, doesn’t it?
Oh, did I forget to mention Number Five? They would all be going to hell. Why? Because they are ignorant of God’s righteous. They attempt to establish their own righteousness and have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
The worst form of badness is human goodness when human goodness becomes a substitute for the new birth.
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Delftsman: A Well-Planned Retirement
Delftsman: A Well-Planned Retirement: "A Well-Planned Retirement
From The London Times:
Outside England 's Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot
for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, its
parking fees were managed by a very pleasant
attendant. The fees were 1 for cars ($1.40),
5 for busses (about $7).
Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never missing
a day of work, he just didn't show up; so the Zoo
Management called the City Council and asked it
to send them another parking agent.
The Council did some research and replied that the
parking lot was the Zoo's own responsibility.
The Zoo advised the Council that the attendant was
a City employee.
The City Council responded that the lot attendant
had never been on the City payroll.
Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain
(or some such scenario), is a man who'd apparently had a
ticket machine installed completely on his own; and then
had simply begun to show up every day, commencing
to collect and keep the parking fees, estimated at about
$560 per day -- for 25 years.
Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over
$7 million dollars!
......
And no one even knows his name."
From The London Times:
Outside England 's Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot
for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, its
parking fees were managed by a very pleasant
attendant. The fees were 1 for cars ($1.40),
5 for busses (about $7).
Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never missing
a day of work, he just didn't show up; so the Zoo
Management called the City Council and asked it
to send them another parking agent.
The Council did some research and replied that the
parking lot was the Zoo's own responsibility.
The Zoo advised the Council that the attendant was
a City employee.
The City Council responded that the lot attendant
had never been on the City payroll.
Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain
(or some such scenario), is a man who'd apparently had a
ticket machine installed completely on his own; and then
had simply begun to show up every day, commencing
to collect and keep the parking fees, estimated at about
$560 per day -- for 25 years.
Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over
$7 million dollars!
......
And no one even knows his name."
Sunday, October 04, 2009
Saturday, October 03, 2009
Power Line - Does A-jad have a secret?
Power Line - Does A-jad have a secret?: "Was Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad born Jewish? Today's Telegraph reports that a photograph of A-jad holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots, and that a close-up of the document reveals he was previously known as Sabourjian -- a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver. Martin Solomon comments, among other things:"
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Eternity Road
Eternity Road: "kak�is�toc�ra�cy (kăk'ĭ-stŏk'rə-sē, k�kĭ-) pronunciation
n., pl., -cies.
Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens."
n., pl., -cies.
Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens."
Home On the Range
Home On the Range: "If she could have sat with me that night, I would have told her how much that the years had brought me. Despite the struggles, I would have told her how much she taught me, how deeply sorry I was for the impatience of my youth, how unappreciative I may sometimes have seemed to what she brought me., the tools she gave me to construct a good life. I would say that I hope wherever she was, that she she had the happiness she brought us, as my tears mingled with the sweat of my work.
Salt and truth."
Salt and truth."
Sunday, September 27, 2009
The Skeptical Optimist
The Skeptical Optimist: "Harvard Law Prof. Charles Ogletree told how Mr. Obama spoke on one contentious issue at the law school, and each side thought he was endorsing their view. Mr. Ogletree said: 'Everyone was nodding, Oh, he agrees with me.'
The reason I have never forgotten this article is its last sentence, in which Al Gore's former chief of staff Ron Klain, also of Harvard Law, reflects on the Obama sensation: 'The interesting caveat is that is a style of leadership more effective running a law review than running a country.'"
The reason I have never forgotten this article is its last sentence, in which Al Gore's former chief of staff Ron Klain, also of Harvard Law, reflects on the Obama sensation: 'The interesting caveat is that is a style of leadership more effective running a law review than running a country.'"
Mostly Cajun, All American and Opinionated � More Humour of the Vilest Sort…
Mostly Cajun, All American and Opinionated � More Humour of the Vilest Sort…
A bear walks into a bar in Billings , Montana and sits down. He bangs on the bar with his paw and demands a beer.
The bartender approaches and says, ‘We don’t serve beer to bears in bars in Billings ‘
The bear, becoming angry, demands again that he be served a beer.
The bartender tells him again, more forcefully, ‘We don’t serve beer to belligerent bears in bars in Billings ..’
The bear, very angry now, says, ‘If you don’t serve me a beer, I’m going to eat that lady sitting at the end of the bar.’
The bartender says, ‘Sorry, we don’t serve beer to belligerent, bully bears in bars in Billings ‘
The bear goes to the end of the bar, and, as promised, eats the woman. He comes back to his seat and again demands a beer.
The bartender states, ‘Sorry, but we especially don’t serve beer to belligerent, bully bears in bars in Billings who are on drugs.’
The bear looks at him quizzically and says, ‘I’m not on drugs.’
(You’re gonna love me for this…)
The bartender says, “You are now. That was a barbitchyouate”
Friday, September 25, 2009
VDH's Private Papers::Sleeping Through Speeches
VDH's Private Papers::Sleeping Through Speeches
While Obama was praising the U.N., the U.N. was showing America why most of us don’t want much to do with it. The Gaddafi and Ahmadinejad rambling hate-filled speeches were lunatic and nutty; but, remember, they are typical, not unrepresentative of the sort of leaders that the world outside the West so often produces these days. A Chavez, Kim Jong Il, Assad, or Mullah Omar would say about the same. Why would Obama wish to brag of returning to the human rights council given the creepy regimes on it? Watching the U.N. watch Ahmadinejad, I was reminded of Europe circa July 1941. As Hitler swept through Russia, suddenly a Spain, a Sweden, a Turkey, a Romania, a Hungary, etc. as both Axis allies and as neutrals, all in varying ways were horse-trading with Nazi Germany for various trade deals, land grabs, and general profiteering. That the Wehrmacht slaughtered Jews by the thousands the day it entered Russia, mattered not at all; the Nazis looked like winners and it was time to cut deals. By 1944/5, the opposite was true: neutrals and formal allies were bailing and claiming they had been coerced, duped, had no choices, and were now our friends if not allies, after all. Take away oil, and Ahmadinejad and Gaddafi would be written off as two-bit psychopaths that no legitimate body would let in the service entrance.
While Obama was praising the U.N., the U.N. was showing America why most of us don’t want much to do with it. The Gaddafi and Ahmadinejad rambling hate-filled speeches were lunatic and nutty; but, remember, they are typical, not unrepresentative of the sort of leaders that the world outside the West so often produces these days. A Chavez, Kim Jong Il, Assad, or Mullah Omar would say about the same. Why would Obama wish to brag of returning to the human rights council given the creepy regimes on it? Watching the U.N. watch Ahmadinejad, I was reminded of Europe circa July 1941. As Hitler swept through Russia, suddenly a Spain, a Sweden, a Turkey, a Romania, a Hungary, etc. as both Axis allies and as neutrals, all in varying ways were horse-trading with Nazi Germany for various trade deals, land grabs, and general profiteering. That the Wehrmacht slaughtered Jews by the thousands the day it entered Russia, mattered not at all; the Nazis looked like winners and it was time to cut deals. By 1944/5, the opposite was true: neutrals and formal allies were bailing and claiming they had been coerced, duped, had no choices, and were now our friends if not allies, after all. Take away oil, and Ahmadinejad and Gaddafi would be written off as two-bit psychopaths that no legitimate body would let in the service entrance.
Bullying the Open Thread - Atlas Shrugs
Bullying the Open Thread - Atlas Shrugs
Bob Dylan nee Zimmerman :)
Well, the neighborhood bully, he's just one man,
His enemies say he's on their land.
They got him outnumbered about a million to one,
He got no place to escape to, no place to run.
He's the neighborhood bully.
The neighborhood bully just lives to survive,
He's criticized and condemned for being alive.
He's not supposed to fight back, he's supposed to have thick skin,
He's supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in.
He's the neighborhood bully.
The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land,
He's wandered the earth an exiled man.
Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn,
He's always on trial for just being born.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized,
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad.
The bombs were meant for him.
He was supposed to feel bad.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, the chances are against it and the odds are slim
That he'll live by the rules that the world makes for him,
'Cause there's a noose at his neck and a gun at his back
And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac.
He's the neighborhood bully.
He got no allies to really speak of.
What he gets he must pay for, he don't get it out of love.
He buys obsolete weapons and he won't be denied
But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, he's surrounded by pacifists who all want peace,
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease.
Now, they wouldn't hurt a fly.
To hurt one they would weep.
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Every empire that's enslaved him is gone,
Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon.
He's made a garden of paradise in the desert sand,
In bed with nobody, under no one's command.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Now his holiest books have been trampled upon,
No contract he signed was worth what it was written on.
He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth,
Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health.
He's the neighborhood bully.
What's anybody indebted to him for?
Nothin', they say.
He just likes to cause war.
Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed,
They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed.
He's the neighborhood bully.
What has he done to wear so many scars?
Does he change the course of rivers?
Does he pollute the moon and stars?
Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill,
Running out the clock, time standing still,
Neighborhood bully.
Emigre with a Digital Cluebat
Emigre with a Digital Cluebat
Quote of the Day
"An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself... A murderer is less to fear." --Marcus Tullius Cicero
Monday, September 21, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Mostly Cajun, All American and Opinionated � Joe Wilson
Mostly Cajun, All American and Opinionated � Joe Wilson
Yeah, THAT Joe Wilson, the one who called Obama a liar. Even the republican “leadership” was shocked.
Kind of speaks volumes about republican “leaders”.
What about “decorum”? Who was talking about decorum a few years back when the story about the kiting of checks from the congressional post office? Or when Barney Frank’s weiner du jour was running a gay prostitution ring out of their joint (heh) apartment? Or when the besainted Teddy Kennedy and Chris Dodd made the waitress sandwich? To ascribe ANY amount of “decorum” to congress is akin to gift-wrapping a bag of dogshit.
Our Imperial Congress, both sides, regularly meets and acts like they’re playing games. They have quaint little rules and traditions that they wrap themselves in to differentiate themselves from us hoi polloi. And at the end of the day, they go away, having put forth changes that affect MY daily life.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Francis W. Porretto - Eternity Road
Francis W. Porretto - Eternity Road: "THE STRANGER within my gate,
He may be true or kind,
But he does not talk my talk --
I cannot feel his mind.
I see the face and the eyes and the mouth,
But not the soul behind."
He may be true or kind,
But he does not talk my talk --
I cannot feel his mind.
I see the face and the eyes and the mouth,
But not the soul behind."
Obama’s Crashing and Probably Burning / Dr. Barack JEKYLL and Mr. Obama HYDE � Count Us Out
Obama’s Crashing and Probably Burning / Dr. Barack JEKYLL and Mr. Obama HYDE � Count Us Out
The backlash is sharp as voters learn that Obama is not the man they thought he was.
The backlash is sharp as voters learn that Obama is not the man they thought he was.
By Victor Davis Hanson
September 19, 2009
Friday, September 18, 2009
60-Second Science Blog Directory: Scientific American Blog
60-Second Science Blog Directory: Scientific American Blog: "At least some members of the Obama Administration plan to call for an end to fossil fuel subsidies as part of next week's G20 economic leaders summit, citing positive impacts ranging from improved energy security to combating climate change. But how much does the U.S. government pay? Well, according to a new analysis from the Environmental Law Institute released today, roughly $72 billion between 2002 and 2008.
More than $54 billion of that was in the form of 23 different tax credits for oil, coal and natural gas producers, including those overseas, most of which are permanent provisions of the U.S. Tax Code. Just $18.3 billion was grants and other direct cash for research and development and other pursuits, such as the Strategic Petroleum Reserve."
More than $54 billion of that was in the form of 23 different tax credits for oil, coal and natural gas producers, including those overseas, most of which are permanent provisions of the U.S. Tax Code. Just $18.3 billion was grants and other direct cash for research and development and other pursuits, such as the Strategic Petroleum Reserve."
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
See no Evil; Why Is the Media Refusing to Cover the Acorn Scandal? | The Hippo's Ass
See no Evil; Why Is the Media Refusing to Cover the Acorn Scandal? | The Hippo's Ass
Send a message or a twitter to the news outlets and tell them to get off their butts. Here is a list of media twitter addresses (thanks to Resist Tyranny Now)
Send a message or a twitter to the news outlets and tell them to get off their butts. Here is a list of media twitter addresses (thanks to Resist Tyranny Now)
ABC @abcnews
George Stephanopoulos @GStephanopoulos
Jake Tapper @jaketapper
CBS @CBSnews
Katie Couric @katiecouric
Mark Knoller @markknoller
CNN @cnn
Alexander Mooney @AWMooneyCNN
Anderson Cooper @andersoncooper
Allison Blakely @AllisonCNN
Don Lemon @donlemonCNN
J. Smith @JSmith_CNN
Kim Segal @CNNkimsegal
Kristie Lu Stout @klustout
Rick Sanchez @ricksanchezCNN
Saad Abedine @CNNSaadAbedine
Suzanne Malveaux @SuzanneMalveaux
Fox
Glenn Beck @GlennBeck (send him a thank you)
Huffington Post @HuffingtonPost
MSNBC @msnbc_breaking
Joe Scarborough @JoeNBC
Rachel Maddow @maddow
NBC @NBCnews
David Gregory @davidgregory
New York Times @NYTimes
Nicholas Kristof @nytimeskristof
Opinion @nytimesopinion
Politics @nytimespolitics
USA Today @USAToday
Public Chart Lists - StockCharts.com
Public Chart Lists - StockCharts.com
REQUIRED READING
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/correlation-sp-500-performance-fed-monetization-activities-start-qe
http://seekingalpha.com/article/160619-the-coming-consequences-of-banking-fraud?source=article_sb_popular
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/september-2009-fundamentallydisconnected
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/rosie-unemployment
http://pragcap.com/negotiating-the-w
http://financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/willie/2009/0820.html
http://english.caijing.com.cn/2009-08-20/110227359.html
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/Deficit.PNG
http://seekingalpha.com/article/156712-how-to-tell-a-real-economic-recovery
http://www.minyanville.com/articles//8/11/2009/index/a/23985
http://www.blytic.com/Player.aspx?key=f45402a39fd24273abb5dacf527cad13
http://www.comstockfunds.com/default.aspx?act=Newsletter.aspx&category=SpecialReport&newsletterid=1473&menugroup=Home&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
http://seekingalpha.com/article/154641-july-same-store-sales-summary-no-boost-for-retailers
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2009/08/consumer-credit-declines-in-june.html
http://dailyoptionsreport.com/blog/post/fear-has-returned-to-the-building/
http://pragcap.com/sentiment-readings-send-up-warning-signals
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigV-_du0KbFQjbOv-x1Tk12n2M2xSN0nhnN-NSpJzYy2rPaib7bb0Mgg_tvf58fZnb4Ey43iquc7YSFvWPUHuojeN5SoQQFdE4m2A2T4y-NZPwIQQSAAbnLmfulL7onliV-hKaBQ/s1600-h/DumbSmart%5B2%5D.png
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJr8nRZvbFq9lKyjvj-lFoxaqKdXdEnION9ybxnCV5M1uZ7ibTQf6XicwA3OOW-IBa83at2aDOA-qd5H4enISDvu55FeAMSsu-CUUuITrSz7aWIAAqcfBTiiv99xRbeM1UITh9JQ/s1600-h/DumbSmartLong%5B2%5D.png
http://seekingalpha.com/article/153117-take-a-closer-look-at-q2-earnings
http://www2.standardandpoors.com/spf/xls/index/SP500EPSEST.XLS
http://seekingalpha.com/article/152877-why-gdp-stats-are-still-ugly
http://seekingalpha.com/article/152899-government-expenditures-help-mitigate-gdp-s-decline
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/money-sidelines-fallacy
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/cnbc-now-openly-misrepresenting-reality
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2009/07/26/gps.recession.near.end.cnn
http://pragcap.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/dailybuy.jpg
http://zerohedge.blo
REQUIRED READING
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/correlation-sp-500-performance-fed-monetization-activities-start-qe
http://seekingalpha.com/article/160619-the-coming-consequences-of-banking-fraud?source=article_sb_popular
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/september-2009-fundamentallydisconnected
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/rosie-unemployment
http://pragcap.com/negotiating-the-w
http://financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/willie/2009/0820.html
http://english.caijing.com.cn/2009-08-20/110227359.html
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/Deficit.PNG
http://seekingalpha.com/article/156712-how-to-tell-a-real-economic-recovery
http://www.minyanville.com/articles//8/11/2009/index/a/23985
http://www.blytic.com/Player.aspx?key=f45402a39fd24273abb5dacf527cad13
http://www.comstockfunds.com/default.aspx?act=Newsletter.aspx&category=SpecialReport&newsletterid=1473&menugroup=Home&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
http://seekingalpha.com/article/154641-july-same-store-sales-summary-no-boost-for-retailers
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2009/08/consumer-credit-declines-in-june.html
http://dailyoptionsreport.com/blog/post/fear-has-returned-to-the-building/
http://pragcap.com/sentiment-readings-send-up-warning-signals
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigV-_du0KbFQjbOv-x1Tk12n2M2xSN0nhnN-NSpJzYy2rPaib7bb0Mgg_tvf58fZnb4Ey43iquc7YSFvWPUHuojeN5SoQQFdE4m2A2T4y-NZPwIQQSAAbnLmfulL7onliV-hKaBQ/s1600-h/DumbSmart%5B2%5D.png
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJr8nRZvbFq9lKyjvj-lFoxaqKdXdEnION9ybxnCV5M1uZ7ibTQf6XicwA3OOW-IBa83at2aDOA-qd5H4enISDvu55FeAMSsu-CUUuITrSz7aWIAAqcfBTiiv99xRbeM1UITh9JQ/s1600-h/DumbSmartLong%5B2%5D.png
http://seekingalpha.com/article/153117-take-a-closer-look-at-q2-earnings
http://www2.standardandpoors.com/spf/xls/index/SP500EPSEST.XLS
http://seekingalpha.com/article/152877-why-gdp-stats-are-still-ugly
http://seekingalpha.com/article/152899-government-expenditures-help-mitigate-gdp-s-decline
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/money-sidelines-fallacy
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/cnbc-now-openly-misrepresenting-reality
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2009/07/26/gps.recession.near.end.cnn
http://pragcap.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/dailybuy.jpg
http://zerohedge.blo
Liberal Rapture
Liberal Rapture
The persistence of the illusion that economists know anything is astonishing. Tuesday Mr. Bernanke, who apparently couldn't be bothered to warn anyone of the coming collapse last fall, said the economic recession is over.
Phew! That wasn't so bad. Bailout the banks by forcing a nation into decades of debt, print piles of cash and BANG! It's over! Whoo hoo!
Here's the dirty little secret Bernanke and his crew avoid: When they say the recession is over - they mean it's over FOR THEM.
The persistence of the illusion that economists know anything is astonishing. Tuesday Mr. Bernanke, who apparently couldn't be bothered to warn anyone of the coming collapse last fall, said the economic recession is over.
Phew! That wasn't so bad. Bailout the banks by forcing a nation into decades of debt, print piles of cash and BANG! It's over! Whoo hoo!
Here's the dirty little secret Bernanke and his crew avoid: When they say the recession is over - they mean it's over FOR THEM.
Liberal Rapture
Liberal Rapture: "The use of the word 'racist' has been so warped and abused since BHO came on the scene that soon it will be synonymous with being called:
*a patriot,
*a person of integrity
*a courageous American
*a person willing to speak truth to power,
*a person who refuses to be controlled and talked down to.
So go ahead - call me racist."
*a patriot,
*a person of integrity
*a courageous American
*a person willing to speak truth to power,
*a person who refuses to be controlled and talked down to.
So go ahead - call me racist."
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
CHARMING, JUST CHARMING: Doctors Vs Guns
CHARMING, JUST CHARMING: Doctors Vs Guns
(A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is around 700,000..
(B) Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year are 120,000.
(C) Accidental deaths per physician is 17.1%.
Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services.
Guns
(A) The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000. (Yes, that's 80 million)
(B) The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is 1,500.
(C) Accidental deaths per gun owner is 0.00188%.
Statistics courtesy of FBI
So, statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.
Remember,
'Guns don't kill people, doctors do.'
FACT:
NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN,
BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR.
Please alert your friends to this alarming threat.
We must ban doctors before this gets completely out of hand!!!!!
*** Out of concern for the public at large,
I withheld the statistics on lawyers
for fear the shock would cause people to panic
and seek medical attention!
Doctors Vs Guns
Doctors(A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is around 700,000..
(B) Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year are 120,000.
(C) Accidental deaths per physician is 17.1%.
Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services.
Guns
(A) The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000. (Yes, that's 80 million)
(B) The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is 1,500.
(C) Accidental deaths per gun owner is 0.00188%.
Statistics courtesy of FBI
So, statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.
Remember,
'Guns don't kill people, doctors do.'
FACT:
NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN,
BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR.
Please alert your friends to this alarming threat.
We must ban doctors before this gets completely out of hand!!!!!
*** Out of concern for the public at large,
I withheld the statistics on lawyers
for fear the shock would cause people to panic
and seek medical attention!
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Delftsman: Quote of the Day
Delftsman: Quote of the Day: "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers (1879-1935)"
-- Will Rogers (1879-1935)"
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
The Kirk Report � Blog Archive � 7 Questions
The Kirk Report � Blog Archive � 7 Questions
Q: On four different trades over the last month, I was in ahead of the crowd and in great position, only to lose confidence, get out at a loss, and then watch the things go up. I am scared now to trade and I need to take steps to boost my confidence. Will you consider this and make suggestions? Thank you so much.
A: You need to first take a detailed look at your stop loss strategy. When I hear these things, typically (but not always) it is because stops are set to tight and/or you’re trading extremely volatile positions. I would take the last 50 trades you made and were stopped out at loss in order to determine whether the stop strategy you are using (like one based on average true range) was effective. In addition, if you’re not using a consistent stop strategy in this regard (i.e. you are getting stopping out when you “feel like it or when it “looks good”) you need to start incorporating one right now. Being consistent here is important and will help improve your consistency overall.
As for your level of confidence, remember there’s no room for perfection in trading. Mistakes will be made and you will get stopped and chopped on good positions routinely if you’re doing a good job of managing your risk. After evaluating your stop loss strategy, I’d also look closely into how you position size and whether you are using any “scale-in” techniques. Both are integral parts of the process here.
Finally, the best way to restore confidence is moving onto the next trade once you taken time to fully analyze what has happened with your stop outs and you have established confidence in the exit strategy you use even with the whipsaws that are likely to continue to occur. If your methods are sound, four bad trades shouldn’t rattle your confidence unless they’re the only four trades you’ve made and the exit strategy is faulty by design.
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