The weekend is here and all of the preparations have been made, stemming from entertainment to a good Michelin meal. Most Americans transfix themselves stupid via their giant televisions, watching drug addicts in tight pants run around, wrestling one another to the ground–breaking each others necks. In between breaks, they eat nachos with melted cheese and talk with their mouths full. After the game, they go to “their buddies” house and drink cheap whiskey (for them, it’s pricey) until they vomit in the back yard. I, on the other hand, enjoy theatre or live orchestra, the best food– and if the occasion calls for it–I enjoy a nice bottle of Bordeaux, accompanied by a number of finger foods (dates, almonds, olives etc).
The way you treat your bodies will affect your business career. If you think drinking shots of Cuervo at 35 is “cool”, I suggest throwing yourself into a lit fireplace, preferably mine, so that I can watch the spectacle over a nice cup of Early Grey.
As for the market, it is destined to trade lower. There are opportunities abound and there are exactly 278 stocks that are trading strong, as defined by yours truly. However, let me remind you, 2012 is “The Year of The Fly”. This is the year everything goes my way and nothing is reserved for later, for I want it and I want it now.
Into the weekend lullaby, I am long DECK, WNR, GSVC, RBCN GMXR and TZA.
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been followig you for a long time. Not sucking up, but you tell it like it is…no BS , That’s a rare quality now days.
Good show!
What’s the age cut off for Cuervo Shots
34.9
I’ll substitute the Cuervo with Level Vodka shots since I’m in the clear. I suggest you try some Level unless $29.95 bottles are not worthy.
13.9 years left. Awesome
Wrong.
You should never do another tequila shot after your senior year in college.
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I resent the fact that you referred to football players as drug addicts. Not all of us athletes are stupid and mindless, and certainly not drug addicts.
Actually the vast majority are idiots, please excuse me rashness.
*my
amen.
nasty eats snowball into stupid decisions.
that is all.
Jake likes football as well, does this raise our level of “vagrancy?” I am going to go to the gym right now, squat north of 500lbs and grunt just for you.
North of 500 lbs? I guess you mean celestial north since that is imaginary too.
Don’t let Fly bullshit you.
He likes football too. It’s just that the Titans and Jets have been hard suck candy for years.
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Fly. While eating a healthy lifestyle with a good exercise regime will keep your weight down and inside a 36 waist size. Look no further than you Father or Mothers health as a guide to the cards you have been dealt. If you see early heart disease, diabetes, gout, or in your Grandfather’s memory problems, chances are you can raise all of the best fish in a backyard tank and still fall prey to the cards that were dealt. Food for thought and it’s in the genes.
agreed. we are born with a ticket. when it comes due there is little lifestyle can do about it. but people need to believe they have some control.
Sounds like somebody wants to have fate direct their life instead of grabbing fate by the throat and making it do as you please.
Having a healthy lifestyle can and will reverse that stuff.
I agree with both sides. On the one hand, genetics does predispose one’s fate; on the other, one needs to strive for the best regardless, as opposed to being decadent.
My aunt has been strict vegetarian and is a devout believer in her religion; but very sadly she’s just been diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer recently. Not much she could have done differently to change the course.
Did she worship cigarettes?
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tell that to steve jobs. bein born with an expiration date scares the shit out of people. it is what it is.
Not to pick at the deceased, but Steve could have intervened on his future. The man opted for “alternative medicine” when his cancer was discovered (extremely early). Had he quickly chosen a Whipple procedure or total pancreatectomy instead of ginko for that first critical year of diagnosis, I believe he’d still be with us today.
CDude..that is what I heard too, it was a bad call on his part. Fifty2week..sorry for your Aunt, Listen to the JP Morgan Health Conf this next week, lot of new stuff comes out. For Lung Cancer there is a small cell vs a large cell..if its large cell in stage 3 she can have it removed and the odds are with her esp with her lifestyle of Plant Based Diet and exercise. If its small cell, then she really did get a horrible lottery ticket if she never smoked or hung out with smokers and or/bad polluted environment.
What book are you reading this weekend?
Rum Diary
decent book. was never intended to be published and reads like it. unfinished but written by a master at a younger age.
Hunter Thompson ?
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Why you GONZO son-of-a … uhhh … uhhh … GUN !!!
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Ironically, I’m reading the classic …
“Ben Hogan’s Five Lessons” ! (For About The One Hundredth Time). Never gits old ! imo
Uhhh … while NOT drinkin’ a cup of Earl Grey… I
might add !!! Let’s be clear about that !
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Under no circumstances is it okay to read the same book 5 times, unless you’ve read everything else or you are a girl reading Twilight.
I’d argue anything by Gene Wolfe needs to be read at least three times or don’t bother.
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Big fan of Rum Diary. Makes we want to back to Puerto Rico and hit all the seedy spots instead of staying at the El San Juan
Die young and leave a good looking corpse. Old age is overrated. The day my dick doesn’t work anymore is when I seriously think about checking out.
A big enough hit of Cialis or Viagra will probably give you a dick even the gods would admire. Unfortunately, you probably pay for it a few days down the road when it wears off.
I think a normal dose of either would probably do the trick on his d*ck.
lol…
Dont matter how early you die, Corpses never look good. you look a bit shriveled and sunken in, even the best Estee Lauder foundation wont help..
Have you ever tried a bottle of Dogajolo, “Dry red table wine of Tuscany.” I really liked it. A couple of Italian guys from New Hampshire recommended it to me while we were all shopping at the Salem, N.H., state liquor store.
Ok, I admit, I finished up my daughter’s nachos during my son’s hockey game against Homer last night, and even paid 50 cents for extra cheese. For another 50 cents I also bought 10 pieces of Swedish Fish. I think every now and then it’s OK to splurge a little and I walked 7.5 miles today to make up for it. I also happen to like Jose Cuervo Gold in a margarita, very smooth.
Banned
Not fair, it was just a weak moment when I had the nachos and cheese…
Lol
To state what ought to be obvious, genetics and lifestyle both play a role in health. Only one of these can you control though. So you may as well focus on that one.
I couldn’t agree more, senior tropicana. On all counts.
With regard to the market, i foolishly accumulated about 130 SPY puts last week, mostly dated february. I am losing much money. I also don’t think this will work out for me.
Here is how I believe it will unfold. The market will open up Monday, and i’ll lose more money. The market will close above resistance Monday night, and I’ll close my entire position tuesday at a loss of about 2% or 3% of my portfolio.
By Thursday, the market will decline close to 5% in response to failed/poor bond auctions. I will lose significant money there as well in my 50% core long holdings (buy and hold).
Bearshitter.
You bought 130 SPY puts? Why don’t you just jump on a casino boat and cruise the Mississippi instead? For the love of Cheeze Whiz, Huggie, what are you thinking?
It was a foolish mistake…i will close them this week before they whittle away to nothing.
I got all zero-hedged out for some reason.
Flyaway18, I thought Monsieur Fly baaaanned you for extra cheese on the nachos, and Swedish fish, or was it the “red table wine”? :)~~~
I am asking for The Fly’s forgiveness. The Dogajolo is a good wine (oh, you and I tried some I think) and my neighbor, John, the wine and liquor salesman, is going to find out where I can buy some in NY.
Really, the extra cheese was pure folly, but the chips had gotten cold in the rink and Ineed to warm them up with something.
Flyaway18, i wish you GODSPEED, and trust Monsieur Fly will find the kindness in his heart to keep you as his “teachers pet” perhaps a polished apple, or sharing you Chobani, will sway him for Sarah! PAL
Jack LaLane died a yr ago at 96. The early pioneer of living right. [Diet, vigorous exercise, and attitude/expectations].
He had averge genetics.
At age 80 and well into his 80s, he was still young in movement and mind.
At 90, despite continuing his stellar diet, exercise, and expectation program, he was looking and acting old. He worked out until the day before he died.
Conclusion from a 40 yr interest in ageing and longevity [based on more than Jack LaLane]:
The average person, unless felled by an unusual outlier [genetic or otherwise], can expect to be quite active and relatively youthful in mind and body even through the 80s. [if they do the right things and have expectations aligned accordingly]
Exercise and diet will help after that but around age 90 [give or take], even with the best diet, exercise, and expectations, genetics comes much stronger into play.
With extraordinarily exceptional genetics, the current lifespan is maxed out at around 115-116. That is usually the age of the oldest living individual who dies, and some one 6 mo younger takes the crown only to die within a year after taking it.
All this will change in due time due to medical advances but we’re not close to that time yet.
Compared to the degenerative condition that sets in way prematurely for most Americans, being active in mind and body through one’s 80s is not bad for those who start early and take their diet, exercise, and expectations to heart.
It’s not only the payoff in the end. It’s the lower incidence of all kinds of problems well before one’s 80s.
One can not determine the outcome but one has the power to dramatically shift the odds of it being a good outcome.
I still have hopes they will cure aging, the work with Progera and the unlocking of the DNA code is amazing and I think it is a puzzle to be solved. But, knowing my luck..it all happens..and I even get my Copper Bubble to pop, World Wars start and we blow it all up. For Jack LaLane, the man found his passion in life and had one great run, if we all will be so lucky.
Fly, just wondering what were your percent gains in LULU?
we only allow nachos to be consumed at coctail parties. every sunday we watch nfl at the ocean view lounge. (strangely ironic its on the bay side). we partake in grilled chicken and bloody mary’s.
i’m getting long nacho cheese futures asap. and cheap tequila futures. like any good drug dealer i will avoid sampling my own product.
That’s not cheese, it’s “cheese-like food”. That’s why most Amerikans weigh close to 300 lbs. and can’t lift themselves off the sofa to get to the bathroom. We’ve seen sofa’s morph into lounges with built in coolers. The next step will be built in toilets, so they can simply sit, watch, drink, eat and shit. Is this a great country, or what? I think it’s what.