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To: Joe Stocks who wrote (67237)	8/1/2006 10:40:49 PM
From: shades	Respond to of 110194

Deal or No Deal - have you seen that show with Howie Mandel? It's important that you have watched one episode of that show to understand the point I am going to make below. Harrison Bergeron do you know it? By Vonnegut... imdb.com Watch it - it is very telling... "All men are not created equal. It is the purpose of the Government to make them so." the PPT is in the markets daily to different degrees. I believe in the PPT and thier daily impacts. What I don't believe is that j5p (the sheeple) wants a market that can drop 8000 points tomorrow instead of only 200 and be trading at dow 2000 and walk around with big gold coins to buy a mcdonalds hamburger. I read a lot about suicides from unhappy people on sites like dailyrotten.com - lots of people choose the slow less painful way of sleeping pills or slit wrists - few seem to choose jumping in front of a semi truck - why is that you think? the major players. I have often said for things to really change hundreds of thousands of dilbert managers and finance people across the globe who live with the current memes would have to die and be replaced - I just don't see that happening. I was a network guy - some networks are pretty robust - you have to take out a lot of hubs to seriously impact it - like the BORG in star trek - picard would send photon torpedoes into the mother ship and blast a big hole in one side - but it only took down thier operating capacity by a few percent and was quickly repaired - that is like modern finance today - lots of the current system and people would have to implode at the same time for a quick change - short of nuclear world war 3 I don't see it but that is just me. Patron and others have said that the tech BUST was a once in a lifetime opportunity for a short - are we gonna get more? 800 dollar stocks going to a dollar? Like Uncle Bigs said before he left and phil grande often says - the casino is there - doesn't look like its going away - might as well learn how to profit from it - casino was there before you were born - will probably be there long after your dead. Las Vegas went on without Bugsy eh? Remember that movie I told you to watch up above - in it Howie Mandel was a host for a tv show of useless shallowness to cater to dumbed downed brain dead idiots - in TRUTH being Stranger than Fiction Howie Mandel now hosts in real life one of the most watched dumb down shows on television - DEAL OR NO DEAL - if that doesn't illuminate to you where we are headed - well Vonnegut is lost on you.

To: Joe Stocks who wrote (67237)	8/2/2006 12:17:21 AM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110194

Are banks a good buy? globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com Mish

To: Joe Stocks who wrote (67237)	8/2/2006 2:49:18 PM
From: shades	Respond to of 110194

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