The democrats are on the verge of bankrupting the country, via an egregious health care program. I know some of you political hacks are up in arms over such things. However, the way I see it, those goat fuckers are doing us all a HUGE favor, by expediting the inevitable. It’s like taking a bandaid off quickly, opposed to doing it slowly with lots of hair underneath.
As an aside, I like the action in CIT Group Inc. [[CIT]] and Adobe Systems Incorporated [[ADBE]] , for specific reasons. I like CIT because “The Real American Psycho” aka John Thain was thrown a bone by government dick suckers. And, I am pretty sure ADBE will blow away earnings, coming up next week.
My conundrum is more of an emotional one, instead of logical. The only headwind I am faced with is [[VXX]] . But the losses are entirely acceptable. Don’t worry about me. On the other hand, my [[TLT]] position is ticking higher again, despite all of this risk trading fuckery. All of this, AND MORE, should make you think: is the government looking to exit Citigroup Inc. [[C]] under advantageous market conditions? Moreover, is the government interested in getting TARP funds back, in order to start some new socialist agenda? There is much more going on here, than simple/innocent daily 40 point advances. Something sinister is afoot and I am not interested, at least not now.
Finally, [[MWW]] is trading higher again, based on chatter amongst urinal shadows—pertaining to takeover bids.
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They just renewed unemployment funds as well.
Dayman
I did not mean it literally
Just noticed the shamrock in the IBC logo. Nice touch.
Sweet Av — Gangs of New York, for you?
+++++++
Yes sir. Just saw it again the other day. Great movie.
Love the Guinness, as well as Murphy’s. There is nothing quite like drinking a pint at the top of the glass walled tower at St James Gate looking down on all of Dublin. Pity the Brits own it. Not that much of a Jameson fan – needs a bit-o-the-peat as the Scottish do.
We will never go bankrupt. Our “debt” isn’t debt like you and I could have, it is assisted devaluation of the dollar, which is mutually beneficial to both parties involved. It’s all part of a genius plan started in the 80’s to unite the world in prosperity under one currency- USA debt. Spread it around and shove it down their throats; I would tell them to spend more!
Never say never, especially after you look at the past 3 years.
Fabulous! Getting dolled up in a St. Paddy’s pipin’ surf stylin’ couture. Bands start at 1pm. Time to go bust beer bottles over the tops of albino boys sloshing green beer around while dancing to: play that funky music white boy. Nothing like viewing Spring Breakers twirling panties around the dancer floor and trying to catch beads as if it were Mardi Gras.
For all you that hate me, you would be glad to know that my account is bleeding like a gutted hog. Bleeding heavy. Perhaps me and the dogs are going to move to a third world country and take up residency in a mud hut.
F****** hell…… Sigh!
Gonna close stuff down for the rest of the week and go be a bum. Bumming around perhaps will do some good.
Happy St. Pats! Be safe….
I am glad you stopped arguing about politics over the years. The efforts people waste on political argeuments [sic] are egregious. I suspect most of the senators et al are on their iphones or laptops tending their cafe world/farm world/restaurant world/mafia wars world/bathroom world/hallway world/fur coat world just prior to questioning the next banking exec on the chopping block.
I can’t decide on my choice of drink for this evening.
Guinness or Dorothy Goodbody’s Stout?
hummmmm.
I suggest something that goes well with humble pie.
Artist just got served….
V.King coming soon and often
time will time dude…. time will tell..
Easy choice for 250 years
Guinness on St. Patrick’s Day. How original.
Adobe….their Flash app can’t be used on any touch mobile phones, and its notably excluded from the iPad. Developer say they can build apps for it either…Guess you believe their other markets will bring in enough $$$.
Just because AAPL are being total fuckwads about Flash being on their devices doesn’t mean that Flash isn’t available on other (far superior) devices:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlWOocHwcLo
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghIGj9r3_vc
APPL just doesn’t want to lose control over apps.
Those are good examples of Flash on mobile devices, not sure how widespread adoption is though.
Another headwind is that Windows Phone 7 third-party apps will be based on Microsoft’s Flash competitor, Silverlight. Since that’s the case, I have to wonder how interested Microsoft really is in seeing Flash on its devices.
Fair enough.
But what really makes this a moot point anyway is that Flash CS5 will come with a packager than can export Flash content as an iPhone app. Get ready to see an absurd amount of new apps hit the store once CS5 is released. Not to mention the boost in sales of the Flash CS5 for devs who will want it specifically for this purpose.
Look at it this way, Flash CS5 will allow you to develop iPhone apps on a PC! Something that cannot currently be done using the Apple iPhone SDK.
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/
I can promise you that, aside from stellar numbers, this will be one of the biggest talking points post-earnings.
How high can the XLF go? People are buying the financials like they are going out of style. I understand that they are still getting free money and endless liquidity, but has all the bad news been wiped off the table? It is like we never had a crisis at all. Does anyone else think the financials are waaaaaay too high?
No.
1) Pass healthcare bill (means funding for 3 years and increased taxes before ever delivering a service).
2) Remove liquidity from market therefore creating a “crash event” designed to move people into bonds for safety.
3) Due to the crash (blame Wall Street of course) the government decides to force all retirment plans in to safe annuities (otherwise known as government treasuries).
Conspiracy I know, but that would give them access to an additional $2 Trillion now safely under government control.
This is not a conspiracy but a game plan for a modern day Marxist end around power play…
won’t the average person have more cash to spend now that worrying about health care is not an issue?
If you live in Canada you never think about it. I don’t think you guys understand what your missing. The Canadian situation is COMPLETELY portraded wrong by the right wing contingent in the US. ( If you can believe such a thing could happen!).
Mind ya business.
You asked about Sugar yesterday…Speculators are leaving it and actual supply and demand is coming into play….http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/stocks-in-news/Slump-in-international-prices-send-sugar-stocks-lower-brokerages-advise-caution/articleshow/5666754.cms
Mr. Fly,
What percentage of our portfolio should be in cash now? -Thanks
So these 2 Irishmen go out fishing in a rowboat early one morning. They bring a case of Guinness. It gets to be light out, about 7 a.m., and they realize they’ve already drank the whole case.
As they’re wondering what to do, one reels in his line, and there’s an old crusty lantern at the end. So he goes to wipe the mud off of it, and a genie pops out. He gives them one wish.
The first Irish guy says,” I wish this whole lake was made from Guinness, so we’d never run out!”. The genie snaps his fingers and disappears, and holy shit, the whole lake is Guinness!
The second Irish guy slaps the first one in the back of the head, and says,”arghh, ye fookin’ idiot, now we got ta piss in the boat!”
nice..reminds me of this one:
One night, Mrs Mcmillen answers the door to see her husbands best friend, Paddy, standing on the doorstep,
“Hello Paddy, but where is my husband, he went with you to the beer factory” Paddy shook his head
“Ah Mrs Mcmillen, there was a terrible accident at the beer factory, your husband fell into a vat of guinness stout and drowned” Mrs Mcmillen starts crying
“Oh don’t tell me that, did he at least go quickly?” Paddy shakes his head
“Not really, he got out 3 times to pee”
LOL, I’ll be using that one this afternoon.