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Strategies & Market Trends : Zeev's Turnips - No Politics -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Chispas who wrote (75703)6/6/2002 9:03:34 PM
From: Rock_nj  Respond to of 99280
 
May's unemployment report will also weigh on the markets Friday. Economists expect the government to report that unemployment edged up to 6.1 percent in May from 6 percent in April, according to a consensus of forecasts compiled by Briefing.com.

A separate Labor Department survey of businesses is expected to show that payrolls grew by 75,000 last month after rising by 43,000 in April.

money.cnn.com



To: Chispas who wrote (75703)6/7/2002 2:48:23 AM
From: Chispas  Respond to of 99280
 
Don Stott (Colorado Gold), about the President's speech...

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Well, the bearded bastards have done it again. The guy who stole the truck, stole
the tags, loaded it with explosives, drove alongside of a bus and lit it off, has killed
18 and wounded another 48 innocents, is undoubtedly in heaven with his 70 virgins
(yuk). I mean what a nutty religion Islam seems to be. Is there any way to stop
this terrorism? Only one as far as I can see. You can't get rid of termites by
swatting at the queens every spring, and you can't stop Muslim terrorism by tanks
and troops. So they have discovered a new way! Let's load a truck, drive along
side a bus and whoosh, bang, boom! Far more can be killed that way, than by
simply placing a couple of sticks of dynamite on one's body, and blowing one's self
to the land of virgins. Gets more bang for the buck. The biggest bang was the
World Trade Centers, but they promise more. Nice to comprehend, huh? Where
will these creeps strike next? Los Angeles? New York again? Washington DC is
my bet. Then the place my ancestors came to in 1791 will be uninhabitable for a
hundred years, if it is nuclear.

As a teen, growing up in DC, it was the big deal to race one's engine and roar off at
a traffic light and beat the moron next to you who thought he had the fastest set of
wheels on earth. I used to take great pleasure in pulling up to one of these idiots;
racing my engine, and jerking ahead a few inches, and just acting as though I was
itching for a race. As the light turned green, this fool spun his wheels, and roared
away, while I just acted as any normal driver would. At the next light, I was
laughing of course, and he a was furious. I would say in a pleasant voice, "Boy,
you sure are beating me to these red lights." At which point, of course, he would
race off again. It is testament to Detroit's toughness that so few differentials and
transmissions didn't strip themselves of teeth on punished gears. It did give me
great pleasure to see one such stoplight imbecile sit there, after destroying
something in his drive train by attempting to get away faster than the jerk next to
him.

The point of this is that the world is full of fools. Fools that think they will keep
company with 70 virgins if they kill innocents. Fools that think it is a mark of
manliness to have a hot car that makes a lot of noise, and gulps money, gasoline,
and time. Fools that think it is smart to save in shrinking dollars. And of course,
the fools who run America, who think terrorism can be defeated by declaring a war
on it. With all the news media talking about the foul ups of the FBI, they fail to
note that there are 14, yes FOURTEEN so called "intelligence" agencies, that are
full of bureaucrats shuffling papers, filling out forms, and desperately trying to keep
those jobs which pay so well. Why else do you think that the DC area is among
the richest in the world? Do you think being a government stooge pays poorly?
Can you imagine 14 separate depositories of ignorance attempting to communicate
with each other? Unless you have ever visited DC, and seen the utter shallowness
and falsity of it, you just cannot imagine how bad it is. You cannot imagine the
plethora of stretch limos, Mercedes Benzes, and the like that drive around with the
occupants looking like the vacuous people they are. These empty, thoughtless
faces are seen everywhere in DC, driving expensive cars, and just a casual look by
a person with a brain, indicates that there is nothing there. Nothing upstairs. These
hair brains run America. These numskulls with nary an IQ worth mentioning, issue
the unconstitutional rules and regulations we must abide by, or be fined or jailed.
How is this much different than the Nazis or Soviets in their beginning? So, of
course we must now deny everyone their common rights, police the entire country,
suspect everyone rather than the bearded towel heads. 80 year old ladies must be
frisked, and Arabs now sue the bejesus out of those who might be a tad suspicious.

One simple statement by Dubya, which could be followed by a vote of Congress
even, might say, "We, the American government and its citizens, do hereby declare
that we are totally neutral in all affairs of all other nations than our own. We will
no longer interfere in any nation's affairs, will offer no advice, subsidy, or
protection. Our troops will come back to our homeland, where they will be
deployed along our borders to secure them. We welcome trade with other nations,
and will levy appropriate tariffs on their imported goods if we see that these goods
were produced with low paid or slave labor, or were subsidized by a government.
We believe in free trade between equals, not unequals, and our tariffs will support
this belief. We would urge all nations in the world to seek peace with themselves
and their neighbors, but America will not participate in any war, nor give advice to
anyone. We are no longer a member of the United Nations, and that organization
has 3 months to get out of America, and take its people with it. We will defend our
shores with all strength that we have, and will destroy anyone who impinges on our
land. We are stopping all immigration for 5 years, and at the end of that time, we
might consider it, if the applicants are educated, speak English, and can be of
benefit to America. We are America, and by this proclamation intend to be once
again the light of the world that has faded so much, due to our faulty foreign policy,
immigration policy, and use of our power around the world, which has only aroused
the enmity of various peoples. We apologize for our error, and will no longer
commit them. Peace to you all."

Don't quit your day job waiting for it. We'll just be bombed in some other way that
no one has yet thought of, and then have secret hearings to see why all the horses
have left, after the barn door was left open...by someone.

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I'm keeping my short positions, waiting for the U.S. markets to open on Friday.