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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (44200)	1/19/2013 2:25:15 AM
From: Vendit™	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 218609

Anyone know the what and why behind this??? This is number five if my finger counting is accurate. It may be a good thing but I will sit back with a wait and see attitude. Dear Silicon Investor Members: Greetings. My name is Craig Longhurst. I am the Chairman of Knight Sac Media, the company that recently acquired and will operate Silicon Investor. I come from the investment business - spent thirty years as a stock broker selling funds for Waddell & Reed, managing Dean Witter and Smith Barney offices, as an investment advisor and venture capitalist, starting and managing companies, taking them public, M&A’s, reverse mergers and of course trading stocks. I remember the old days of EF Hutton, Shearson Leman, and Bear Stearns (for the old timers). One constant is change, roll-ups, consolidations, mergers, bull markets and bears. Silicon Investor has a longstanding history with the investment community. Retail traders, analysts, professionals, investors, large and small, and friends have enjoyed the resources brought together by the community that is Silicon Investor. SI bore witness to the dawn of the dotcom era that has grown and developed into our modern era of mobile phones, apps and technology beyond comprehension. In keeping pace with the future, our site must be the "safe keeper" of its history, its capabilities, and its technological applications. Over the coming months Knight Sac Media will be upgrading infrastructure and implementing improvements that will make our site even more engaging, informative and advantageous to investors. We value your participation and the quality of your input to the site. After all, your comments, your research, your insights and your opinions are what make Silicon Investor the rich and valuable resource, community of friends and entertaining destination that it is. We aim to make this transition as seamless as possible. We’ll be improving and updating behind the scenes with the goal of making SI the ultimate social network for the informed investor. Comments, opinions, and evaluations of the site are greatly appreciated. Please share your ideas on our New Feature Discussion message board. As a family of investors in the capital markets of the world, let’s support each other, teach and learn from one another, and take advantage of this valuable and informative site. Participants and Silicon Investors, we’ve an exciting future together!

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (44200)	1/19/2013 2:46:58 AM
From: Vendit™	4 Recommendations Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 218609

I kind of like this………..plus the markets will like this………… House GOP agrees to debt ceiling deal Republicans have agreed to extend the government's borrowing authority for three months. The GOP also demands “no budget, no pay” idea for chambers who fail to pass a budget this year. WASHINGTON — House Republicans Friday backed off threats to force a government default if Democrats did not approve deep spending cuts next month — handing President Obama another victory over conservatives in Congress. The Republicans said they would agree to extend the government’s borrowing authority for three more months, when the existing borrowing limit is reached next month. House Republican leaders like House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) had been demanding spending reductions in exchange for letting the government borrow more money. But the President said that was unacceptable — setting up the possibility of a deadlock that would have left the government unable to pay its bills, shaking financial markets and cratering the economy. Friday’s announcement buys both sides more time to resolve their differences — and signals a softening of the Republican hard line. Obama and Senate Democrats welcomed the announcement as a Republican retreat. NRA SAYS CONGRESS WILL NOT PASS WEAPONS BAN “We are encouraged that there are signs that Congressional Republicans may back off their insistence on holding our economy hostage to extract drastic cuts in Medicare, education and programs middle class families depend on,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said. “Congress must pay its bills and pass a clean debt limit increase without further delay. And as he has said, the President remains committed to further reducing the deficit in a balanced way.” It was the second time in less than a month that Obama has prevailed over Republicans. REP. PETE KING CALLS ANTI-HURRICANE SANDY POLITICIANS DISGRACEFUL Three weeks ago, the GOP reluctantly agreed to raise taxes on high earners in exchange for extending tax cuts for the middle class. This time, House Republicans faced rising pressure from business groups to avoid a confrontation that would harm the economy. But the Republicans still made a demand, one aimed at prodding Senate Democrats to pass a budget after almost four years of failing to do so: a threat to cut off the pay of lawmakers in either House or Senate if their chamber fails to pass a budget this year. “We are going to pursue strategies that will obligate the Senate to finally join the House in confronting the government's spending problem,” Boehner said in a speech to House Republicans at a retreat in Williamsburg, Va. The “no budget, no pay” idea is backed by No Labels, a group started about two years ago by both Democrats and Republicans in hopes of easing the partisanship and gridlock that has engulfed Washington http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/house-gop-oks-deal-debt-ceiling-article-1.1243039