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Strategies & Market Trends : VOLTAIRE'S PORCH-MODERATED -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Voltaire who wrote (20908)	11/29/2000 10:51:29 PM
From: freeus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

This is cute (I didn't write them alas) Listen, my children, don't dare ignore, > The midnight actions of Bush and Gore > In early November, the year ought-ought, > Hard to believe the mess they wrought. > Two billion bucks of campaign bounty > All came down to Palm Beach County. > What result could have been horrider > Than the situation we found in Florider? > > Edgar Allen Poe is his usual gloomy self: > Once upon a campaign dreary, one which left us weak and weary > O'er many a quaint and curious promise of political lore > While we nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a yapping > As of some votes overlapping, energy-zapping to the core > "'Tis a mess here," we all muttered, as the network anchors > stuttered, stuttered over Bush and Gore. > Could there be another election with such a case of misdirection, > One with such a weak selection, yet fraught with tension to the > core? > Quoth the ravers, "Nevermore." > > Britain's Edward Lear's limerick is lighter: > There once was a U.S. election > That called for some expert detection - > How thousands of pollers > Could become two-holers > Like outhouses of recollection > Ditto Ogden Nash: I regret to admit that all my knowledge > Is what I learned at Electoral College, > So tell me please, though I hate to troubya, > Will the winner be Al, or will it be Dubya? > > Joyce Kilmer's a media analyst: > I thought that I would never see > The networks all so up a tree. > > Walt Whitman is lyrical, as always: > O' Captain! My Captain! our > fearful trip's not done > The ship has weather'd every rack, > but nobody knows who's won. > > Alfred Noyes rhythmically rumbles: > And still of an autumn night they say, with the White House on > the line, > When the campaign's a ghostly galleon and both candidates cry, > 'Tis mine!" > When the road is a ribbon of ballots, all within easy reach, > A highwayman comes riding, > Riding, Riding, > A highwayman comes riding, and punches two holes in each. > > Dr. Seuss takes a look at election officials: > I cannot count them in a box > I cannot count them with a fox > I cannot count them by computer > I will not with a Roto-Rooter > I cannot count them card-by-card > I will not 'cause it's way too hard > I cannot count them on my fingers > I will not while suspicion lingers. > I'll leave the country in a jam - > I can't count ballots, Sam-I-Am. > > Clement Moore adopts a holiday theme: > 'Twas the month before Christmas, when all through the courts, > All the plaintiffs made stirring bad ballot reports. > Which leaves the problem: > Perhaps the best way to stop complaints that are raucous is > Start over again, with the Iowa caucuses. >> Freeus -----------------

To: Voltaire who wrote (20908)	11/29/2000 11:04:43 PM
From: GrillSgt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

I agree Voltaire and I will be a buyer in the morning as well. I'll be a buyer of optics, networking, selected chips and possibly b2b. I'll be a buyer of Intel, Qualcomm, Emc, and Softie. Just give me 2500. I have no desire of an attempt to buy these as that bell rings that tells everyone else when to buy. Wouldn't that be frustrating. Folks want cars on sale, clothes on sale, and food on sale...hell no, not stocks...ever. It's not going to matter whether I bought Jnpr at 105 or 85 four quarters out.