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To: kodiak_bull who wrote (11962)	1/28/2002 5:02:09 PM
From: GREENLAW4-7	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23153

KB, I'm wondering if we had a TOP in builders today? Looks like New home Starts was BLOW OUT and this could have been why these stocks SQUEEZED over last several days. I have 1/2 positons currently in DHI,and HOV and waiting to add another 1/2 next day or 2. Fed meeting may be trigger for many to DUMP these stocks. The rally started last January w/ fed lowering. Any thoughts??

To: kodiak_bull who wrote (11962)	1/28/2002 6:01:31 PM
From: Warpfactor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23153

KB Re: Olympics I am basically a conservative pro-USA type of guy. However, when it comes to the Olympics my patriotism pretty much stops. Back in the 60's and 70's, when it was the free-world vs. the drug-using communist world, that was much more compelling. I rooted for the USA back then. Now its just corporations and professional athletes. Why is it that every sport now has a "freestyle" edition - where the winner is not the fastest or strongest - but determined by "judges". This seems particularly rampant in the winter olympics. And its not just "freestyle snowboarding" and "freestyle skiing" - there will be several versions of each for which medals will be awarded. I remember a few years ago, during the summer olympics, a local radio sports talk show was going on and on about how well the USA was doing in the medal count. We were winning of course. Going away. I felt the need to take the air out of his sails. I calculated the medal totals of each nation, then divided by the population of that nation and arrived at "medals per million people". I faxed it to the DJ the next day. He actually thought it was very interesting - thought I must've been an Aussie (which finished near the top of this list). The USA was something like 63rd. The big "sports" nations are Cuba, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, et. al. There are many very small nations like Tonga or the Bahamas with something like 200,000 population. Some Tongan picks up a bronze in some class of sailing, and Tonga is at the top of the list. In the 2000 Olympics, Australia bagged close to 100 medals, don't think they quite make it to 30,000,000 population. The USA with 280,000,000 bodies - I don't recall exactly, but didn't quite make it to 200 total medals. Warp