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To: NOW who wrote (62783)	1/26/2007 1:55:16 PM
From: orkrious	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

philbond@Iraq -- trotsky, 13:25:15 01/26/07 Fri " Now it's time for the elected representatives to figure out what's really going on and fix things, because they're gonna be privy to much more info than you or I and that's their feckin job anyway." i don't think these dumb sh*ts are 'privy to more information than you or i'. a short while ago, most of them didn't even know the difference between a Sunni and a Shia, and i'm not sure that they have brushed up on that little deficiency since. from what one hears, the administration tells them exactly nothing in intelligence oversight meetings in camera. one senator recently admitted that he learns more from the print media than from those meetings, and that is quite telling. from what one can further tell, neither the US military nor anyone else is quite sure WHO their enemy is in Iraq. they know someone is blowing them up, but they don't know who it is. so much for the informational advantage enjoyed by the decisionmakers. it's non-existent. as to what their job is, your (and my) interpretation of this probably differs from theirs. they are committed to advancing the imperial project by hook or by crook. so mainly, their job is to pull the wool over our eyes (to wit, the recent show of faux resistance to Shrubco.'s 'surge' plans. the surge has of course begun already in the meantime - the first 4,000 or so soldiers are already deployed). i hope you don't have any illusions that elections can change any of this. after all, there isn't really a choice. you can vote for good cop or bad cop, to use a metaphor, but you can't vote for 'no cop'. now to Iran. you are perfectly right, attacking Iran would be supremely irrational , regardless of what Israel wants. thus every halfway rational observer would have to conclude that it won't happen. so far so good. the only problem here is what passes for a mind between the ears of one GW Shrub. we don't quite know what's going on in there, but it's a good bet that whatever it is, it's NOT 100% rational. it has occasionally leaked that this dude hears voices and thinks he's commanded by god to do all sorts of things. what happens if he hears another command? who's going to stop him from obeying the voices? frustrated@new home sales -- trotsky, 12:49:37 01/26/07 Fri "However, there have been some signs that the steep slide in housing may be coming to an end. " yes, a major sign is e.g. David Lehrea "crossing his fingers and toes". that simply HAS to help. @CGLD -- trotsky, 11:33:09 01/26/07 Fri a brief reminder on CGLD: they have a medium sized near surface low grade deposit (porphyry style) in Mexico, and initially wanted to finance mine construction by selling a royalty to RGLD. however, these negotiations ultimately went nowhere, as the price RGLD tried to extract was deemed too steep. this then pressured CGLD's stock for quite a while (it had been in a nice uptrend prior to the end of said negotiations), however, management succeeded in arranging a mix of equity and debt finance for the mine, and construction is now basically complete (they moved very fast, and on budget, once the financing was secured). with production slated to begin next month, the stock has begun to move, and this looks to me like a fairly bullish chart: CGLD, one year it's not a widely followed stock, but it has quite respectable trading liquidity. the fact that it's not widely followed or known may be an advantage actually, since this means that there remains a large pool of potential buyers.