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News of Armageddon Pounds the Dow for 0.63%

So let’s review today’s events:

We are all going to die from some pig fucking virus.

The military thought it made sense to buzz NYC skyscrapers with COMMERCIAL airplanes.

On top of the pig fucking flu, Mexico gets nailed with a 6.0 earthquake, yet here I am buying stocks.

While it’s true, commercial real estate names got clown raped for 11%+. It’s also true, tech sort of just yawned off the end of times rumors. Pardon me for minimizing this “Swine Flu,” but 40,000 people die from the flu annually. I think it’s kind of lame/ stupid to start wearing face masks and avoid eating at Taco Bell, based upon 150 deaths, none of which occurred in a 1st tier country.

At the end of the day, I lost some coin today, but feel confident that I am on the right side of the tape.


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45 comments

  1. ahhh-choo!

    WHO raises alert level on swine flu to 4 on a scale of 6, Kyodo reports
    The World Health Organization, or WHO, raised its alert level for a global influenza pandemic to 4 on a scale of 1-6, according to a WHO source. Reference Link

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  2. Maelstrom

    Long Pinatas

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  3. isay

    Taco Bell is an e-coli play.

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  4. Contrary Indicator
    Contrary Indicator

    I think it’s a fucking pig virus, not a pig-fucking virus.

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  5. ZenProfit

    Frank ain’t singing tonight: “Embedding Prohibiting by poster”.

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  6. Contrary Indicator
    Contrary Indicator

    unless you like the fatties.

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  7. Goldie

    Day one of Chinese water torture never seems that bad…

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  8. gappingandyapping
    gappingandyapping

    Evidently the news was not that bad considering CMG was up today.

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  9. ZenProfit

    Here’s Frank:

    http://tr.youtube.com/watch?v=KIiUqfxFttM

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  10. The Fly

    fixed

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  11. The Taller and Better Looking Fake Jed
    The Taller and Better Looking Fake Jed

    mrkcbill once worked as a “proud hatcheck girl”.

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  12. The Zombie

    The Fly is God.

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  13. mrkcbill

    Jed, Coined the phrase “Totally Nude Dancers”

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  14. arnoldsimage

    if you live in new york city… you might want to leave it before thursday this week. very bad karma.

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  15. Cash-N-Guns

    I just sent 350 newly imported Mexicans to Dennis Kneales rented shitbox home to sneeze on him and throw raw pork chops like rice at him…

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  16. mrkcbill

    LOL @ Cash…what a world. Like the fat fucks that live on pork give a shit. FWIW I’m eating steaks and burgers.

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  17. Ron in a Sauna

    I can’t believe I gave up my CNBS gig !

    .

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  18. Cash-N-Guns

    I will be having a pig roast Saturday..your all invited…fucking mexicans are fat beaner fucks..

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  19. 308 -hmmmmm

    US Steel reports Q1 EPS of ($3.78) vs. consensus ($1.69)
    Reports Q1 revenue of $2.75B vs. consensus $3.14B

    US Steel cuts dividend to 5c from 25c

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  20. Taco

    Short: jalapeno pork rinds, Tijuana transvestite blowjobs, roadside fish tacos, Tecate beer, cartel-controlled fake silver jewelry

    Long: Pacifico beer, San Felipe 19-year-old handjobs, tortilla soup, smuggling illegals via Ford van, Mexican jumping beans

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  21. Magpie

    -0.64%, no?

    Respectfully

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  22. Rubber

    So Fly is more bullish than ever!

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  23. lazy man

    Having your priorities in line.

    Mexico City news source Uno Mas Uno has 5 major headlines for the day:

    1. EU declares swine flu situation an emergency
    2. Calderón requests calm before influenza
    3. 103 dead, 614 hospitalized…
    4. GDF reports 15 more deaths
    5. Miss California provokes a debate on gay marriage… homosexual Perez Hilton…

    WAIT, WHAT??

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  24. JakeGint

    More priorities:

    On the Important Matter of the Jennifer Connelly Paradox.

    ______

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  25. GA

    My gut tells me the 875 resistance will hold, and that there will be a pull-back to at least 780 before there is any chance of climbing back and breaking through 875.

    Which means we’ll probably break through 875 on the first try, to be followed by massive short-covering.

    I’m going with my gut, but what is the path of most pain?

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  26. FastEddie

    Here are some links with a video and comments of todays buzzing of NYC & NJ by AirForce 1 and some fighter jets. Very inconsiderate to the people of NYC & NJ in light of 9/11, in my opinion. I’m sure we’ll soon here of people hurt in the panic it caused today.

    http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=327763&widget=1

    http://www.boundlessline.org/2009/04/air-force-one-buzzes-nyc-in-photo-op-gone-bad.html

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  27. gappingandyapping
    gappingandyapping

    Oh Lenny, now your fucking brokerage account is getting seized too. Bro, you really need a fucking new tie, I wipe my balls with this here tie.

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  28. firstadopter

    Watch New Yorkers run for their lives video from today’s Air Force One Flyby – http://bit.ly/xAFJO

    Crazy stuff man.

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  29. Maelstrom

    @ Taco Says.. who the fuck goes to Tijuana for a hand job? unless of course you are a double amputee

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  30. omfgitsjd

    The most exciting buzzjobs are in NY, but the best hand jobs are just a fly away.

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  31. The Fly

    how idiotic is this?

    why not photoshop?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYIYSfVS42Y

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  32. artha

    well there’s your damned swine play:

    NVAX +79% (having opened at + %250)
    http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/keyDevelopments?symbol=NVAX.W

    april 14th: Novavax, Inc. announced preclinical study results showing that an investigational H1N1 virus-like particle (VLP) vaccine based on the 1918 Spanish influenza strain protected against both the Spanish flu and a highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza strain.

    should’ve searched for H5N1 but I always feel I don’t understand biotech enough so I keep away.

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  33. jelyfish

    My conspiracy ass believes this Swine Flu Pandemic is nothing more than a little misdirection from the torture scandal unravelling. IE The elite dems signed off on water boarding and et al. Basically, Pelosi and Co. are trying to save their leadership positions.

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  34. MOOBS

    I just ate a slightly undercooked pork chop. How rock and roll is that?!

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  35. Obama's Teleprompter
    Obama's Teleprompter

    I wanted to let everyone know that I have come down with the Swine Flu. Please forgive me in this time of sickness. I will be back soon, operating very effectively on Wednesday evening.

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  36. Goldie

    Well well well.. BBT Saying certain charge offs “inavertenly” excluded. Honest mistake I’m sure..

    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/BBampT-discloses-more-stress-apf-15042507.html?.v=1

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  37. Carson

    Housing Market- Because new construction had slowed to almost null over the last 2 years. Existing houses are being bought up, and inventories are getting thin. Soon there will be a need because inventories are approaching moderate levels. People are getting more confident on the economy, and builders are starting to take small risk by offering incentives to buyers foor example: trades, buying down their rates..etc. Hbuilders are not a buy maybe at the moment but things are looking much better. Just thinking outloud.

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  38. DPeezy

    That’s fucking 11, ‘MOOBS’.

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  39. Ron in a Sauna

    “Devil Dog” now has a “tab” here ?

    “Devil Dog” is NOW a blogger here @ ibc ?

    Are you shittin’ me ?

    ———————

    I guess the bar has effectively been lowered !

    Lowered hell…the bar has been removed…packed up…and stored in the Field House !!!

    The Inmates are NOW taking over the Asylum !!!

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  40. London

    Love the WSJ article on China new-grad bubble. Yup, China’s done it again – the new grads are heavily laced with melamine and the diplomas start emitting a sulphurous smell after the holder gets hired…

    What’s in YOUR firmware…? 😉

    But I’ll buy it up anyway. later.

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  41. The Fly

    DD does not have a tab. Gracious Fly has afforded one of my detractors a voice here, only on Monday’s, particularly since iBC is fair and balanced.

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  42. DMG

    Obama has just released an explanation for that low flying

    plane incident in NYC today. Surprisingly, considering the source,

    it’s actually quite believable.

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  43. AnneMarie

    “Clown raped”? Conjures up all kinds of bizarre images that I wish my mind had never visited

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  44. IBC rules

    FLY is a benevolent dictator!

    Much props for giving DD a voice – make it permanent.

    This is why IBC rules – you can be a total nut jobber but as long as you contribute something there is love.

    DD for PRESIDENT

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  45. Goin'Fawr

    Fly, nice work on giving DD a temporary tab, now he has somewhere else to vent his spleen. As do I…

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