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The last week has been good preparation for playoff pressures....nicely done Tito.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) received a package with white powder in its offices today, forcing evacuation. There was a note..."Die a painful death, Muslims".
Hate speech has consequences.
And unfortunately, that fomented bigotry and fervor sometimes boils over....such as the terrorist attack on the Planned Parenthood clinic.
I haven't heard a clamor to find out who radicalized that shooter. Perhaps it's because a committee or FBI i…
The GOP in my note meant the establishment Republican Party. A skimming of most news services will produce several articles describing the conflict I mentioned.
This is the frenetic xenophobia that Trump has tapped into, and which threatens the GOP.
The statements made by Trump and his followers are what the extremist fringe of the GOP may have believed, but only said out loud after 3 drinks. Trump is att…
On the positive side hawkmountain, I just found my tax loss candidate for the year. It may spike to the upper teens before the end of year, but who knows.
I was not impacted as you were on KMP, but at this point Richard Kinder is not to be trusted…
Thanks MJG and Ted for the remembrance.
Yes...many thanks.
And thanks to the men and women who responded admirably to this challenge. The scope and scale of this effort is one I can only barely begin to imagine.
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I don't see a Christmas tree, or the words "Merry Christmas" anywhere on that ornament. Perhaps because they want their Jewish and Islamic NRA members to feel welcomed. But, I would have thought they would have learned from the Starbucks dust-up.
Nevertheless, Money, Kiplingers, U.S. News, and all the other mags will have their list of funds to buy NOW. It must sell magazines, but it is shoddy journalism.
Hi Bob....I have a soft spot for Kiplingers.
About 30 years ago, my dad bought me a s…
A large plurality of American Muslims prefer sharia law over our current Constitutional system:
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/06/24/shock-poll-51-of-american-muslims-want-sharia-25-okay-with-violence-against-americans/
I think…
I'm sure that the NRA and hate radio is glad that the terrorist attack on the Planned Parenthood clinic is off the front pages, and the focus returns to where it needs to be...on Muslims.
Holy crap...I'm posting an article from the NY Times ;) :
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-a-conservative-led-australia-ended-mass-killings/ar-AAg1Gfh
I thought we were discussing the accessibility of assault weapons specifically. This dis…
That is the difference between our positions.
You say the terrorists are winning, and will win...and we must abandon certain Constitutional rights and privileges in order to combat them.
In reality, they aren't winning. Not by any stretch of the i…
As I said earlier to you...You cannot be serious. The terrorists "hate us for our freedoms" so we fight them by casting the tenets of our Constitution in the trash can? I was hoping that the Patriot Act would have been finally recognized as a surren…
Yes. Good definition of a strawman argument.
So what does your suggestion of an abridgement and restriction on communication along with additional suspensions of civil liberties have to do with regulation of assault weapons?
What does abridgement and restrictions on communication and additional suspension of civil liberties have to do with regulation of assault weapons?
Sounds like a strawman.
Hi little5bee , "a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step." Stop the sale of these weapons now and every year after there will be fewer of these mass murder tools available. Allow the sale of mass murder weapons as they are today and …
The action steps to make this happen will be difficult but not impossible. What is needed is political will, which seems to be somewhat lacking. The Congress is not aligned as to what the problem actually is, so no action is an easy outcome.
If yo…
The company release inferred a cut is in play. The best case is most likely to be a freeze at the current dividend level. The stock would rocket.
Of course, I am finishing up a nice Chianti, so there's THAT to consider.
@heezsafe, Last I heard James Madison was the author of the Second Amendment and he is considered a founding father. Nor did he intend for the amendment to apply to assault rifles and hand guns for every lone gunman:
Supreme Court ruled on this aw…
I believe the $ change and % of change is comparing the current distribution (for December) with the one immediately preceding it (November). As some distributions vary from month to month, this chart reflects that variance.
M* seems to run fine for me, with the same configuration that you tried. You may want to download the M* app for ipad. It has a bit different presentation than the main site, but works ok as well.
For the first time since 1920, The New York Times has published a front-page editorial. The piece is entitled "End the Gun Epidemic in America".
"It is a moral outrage and a national disgrace that civilians can legally purchase weapons designed spe…
It might be helpful to have a current study into gun violence, but a bill passed almost 20 years ago at the behest of the NRA specifically prohibited the CDC from doing precisely that.
It might just be time to revisit this, assuming the NRA deems i…
You cannot be serious. The terrorists "hate us for our freedoms" so we fight them by casting the tenets of our Constitution in the trash can? I was hoping that the Patriot Act would have been finally recognized as a surrendering of our values, but…
The people using the guns improperly are influenced by and/or instructed by those who persuade them to or tell them to use the guns improperly. That is why we need limitations on free speech and restrictions on the means of communication of su…
One of the goals of ISIS is to foment distrust and hatred between the Muslim world and the west. Demonizing all Muslims because of the actions of a few outliers who have perverted the religion, appears to be playing into the hands of the terrorists …
I'm going to Vegas early January, so my objective is to make up my losses during the trip. We all need objectives.
It's not been a pleasant year overall, but yin and yang are at work....some plusses offsetting the laggards somewhat. Down overall th…
I actually sold my shares in my taxable account for the same reasons as dryflower, but also sold in my IRA.
The hyper-concentrated portfolio can make this choice easy. Would you buy AIG? BAC? Sears? St. Joe? Fannie and Freddie?
If 4 of 5 are not …
Hi Bob,
To jettison this thread even more off topic....how did you like the Viking cruise? The extended family did an Italy trip earlier this year, and Viking came up in conversation as a future...so opinions would be appreciated.
thanks
Thanks davfor.
I'm not usually one to be alarmed or nervous when trends or statistics of that nature are pointed out, but that last sentence frankly made me sit up and take notice.
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Thanks Ted....I liked the comment on the article:
"Why not put a link to Morningstar Prospects [for new/upcoming funds] on M* Homepage? Site search produces little on this newer M* service."
Why don't they just put up a link to MFO and save themse…
I remember the funeral more than the specific day he was killed, as I was just barely aware of the circumstances.
What I do remember the most was the funeral procession and the drums...those damn drums with their methodical and sorrowful repetition.
Exiting in taxable, keeping the holding in my IRA. I would say the taxable is permanent, as I need to de-risk a bit. While I'm still buying green bananas, my focus isn't sufficiently long term to take a double dose of FAIRX.
