Opening Stuff:
Some mornings I sit here and wonder "what the hell am I going to write about today". And then all of a sudden it appears before you. God acts in mysterious ways.
Don't go to school, Wal-Mart will take care of you! Department:
(But, be sure to vote!)
(Note: If you didn't get the picture, the headline above makes no sense. If you want to see the pic, email me and I will forward it to you. Basically it is a pic of a sign over the cash register: "Express Lane - 15 Items" and under that 3 hands with fifteen fingers.)
So...what do you think the chances are of a Hillary challenge in 2012? Me not so sure she and the 0-man are best of buds. 2012 is better suited to her age, if she wants it. I think she could win the whole thing.
The Question:
What are the DOW winners and losers since 12/31/2010?
The Headlines:
--**Employers Add No New Net Jobs In August; Alarming Set Back For Sluggish Economy; Could Prez Speech Change All This?--Wall Street Down 216 At 10:00.
--August Is First Month Without Death Of US Soldier In Iraq.
--Britain Bans Import Of Syrian Oil.
--Libya Short of Water, Fuel, And Medicine.
--Slow Moving Tropical Depression In Gulf Could Pummel Gulf Coast States With Up To 20 Inches Of rains.
The Leader of the free world is betwixt and between. His ballyhooed speech on job creation was originally scheduled against a major GOP Debate, the first in which Rick Perry would be sparring. Even Mr. Democrat James Carville thought it"the White House was out of bounds", stating that this Cal GOP war of words was an important eventand that thought would be great TV for all, including himself. So the Prez changes and schedules against the opening of the NFL season featuring Green Bay and NO. The only reason I would watch the speech is to see if there was actually something new, or just more political boilerplate.
(Note, the newspaper didn't report that segment of the Carville interview on GMA. It did report on the subject saying "Carville dcried the spectacle of the President being forced..." accompanied with Carvilles words: "This last thing the White House needed was to cave into the speaker [Referencing a previous opinion that the WH must first win the economic battle with the republicans] and that's what happened.)
I noted yesterday that one of my absolutely favorite people was born in September. I always think of the people I know as I write my monthly intro columns. But as I thought further, I realized I don't don't have birthdays in Feb or April. I'm figuring that many of you readers must have been born in those months, so from now on I'll think of you...whoever you are.
The New York Post reports that the "I want more taxes" Guy's Berkshire Hathaway company has been fighting the IRS about a 10 year old $1 Billion back Tax bill! Can you say hypocrisy?
Hey, good news! The first big college football weekend is upon us. I think some of the more interesting games will be ND-So, Fla, Boise State-Georgia, Oregon-La. State, BC/Northwestern and BYU-Ole' Miss. Most of the others are beat up on your small across the state college games. You know 62-7, 85-0.
Have you noticed that Presidential Press Guy Jay Carney is getting surlier and surlier? That's a basic liberal character trait.
I asked the Q in the Headlines Department about the content of the Prez Thursday speech being capable of changing the alarming slow jobs growth thing. I think he can, and this new bad news may be just what he needed to help him make good decisions. He can advocate eliminating regulations, taking a new look at ObamaCare (He would never say abandon it) and easing certain tax burdens. He will have to make his liberal base mad. It all depends on how much he cares about the country, and perhaps the legacy creation that may be upon him 4 years early. I think the upcoming speech can start the process if he can do it right. Stay tuned.
Reading Between the Lines Movie Reviews:
--The Debt is the big one and seems to be alot more than just another Holocaust film. It is a tense thriller about a retired Mossad team learning that a case they had thought closed 30 years ago, shows signs of still being active. Good opening action and surprises in the end.
--Apollo 18 is the story of a secret mission to the moon funded by the DoD. You see real footage of a sight the astronauts captures on that mission. Nasa denies it is true. Some say it is the reason we have never gone back to the moon.
--A Good Old Fashioned Orgy could be considered a unexplicit bad porn film and a very bad comedy with now socially redeeming features. It is bad. Don't go.
--Shark Night 3D is Jaws on a Lake! 7 friends spending a weekend in a lake house discover that the lake is infested by sharks. You can gues the rest. But it is far better than the "Orgy" movie above. It's just a different kind of orgy.
Almost Near: Chapter 37 continues. --Tucker quickly told Audrey about the new developments in Samantha's ever changing personality. "I'll talk to you more about that when I call after I'm finished talking to Rebecca and Sheila." Audrey glanced over at the two different faces both now looking intently at Audrey, wondering what the conversation was about. Audrey decided not to tell them that Tucker was with their Mom.
"That was a friend of mine who is also worried about you. He grew up with your Mom and knew her real well, and we are looking for her, too." The two faces relaxed. "So you see, what you can tell me can help us find where your mom is hiding." She was thinking what is mom really like and can we get her out of the place in which she is hiding.
"Let's see. You said Dad was bad?" Audrey looked at Rebecca, but noticed at the side Sheila's lips tighten.
"Dad used to sleep with us and it made Mom mad." Rebecca said it with no emotion. Audrey felt emotions rushing to her chest. Her heart was pounding. Some how she thought this is where it was all going.
Rather than respond to that, Audrey changed subjects slightly, "And why shouldn't I tell Bounty."
The two girls looked at each other. Sheila spoke, softly. "He's mean. And when Daddy gets angry, he makes Bounty hit people."
"No, but he hit mom while dad laughed, and then he always turned to us and said, 'Do what your dad says.' And we didn't gnat to get beat up too.
RI is formulating a tax incentive plan trying to keep a big Japanese Company Tory Plastics, from moving to Virginia. The whizbangs in this fairly impoverished and high unemployment State are talking a million dollars in encouragements. Tory, a big manufacturer of palstic film is asying out energy costs are too high -- Ri 11 cents/KWH vs. Va's 5,5 cents. Our big state news paper says ugh to Va's 5 cent cost because it comes from "heavily polluting coal". The same newspaper and the Governor Chafee-Lite are advocating green energy from windmills in the ocean (Sounds like a song title) that will produce energy at 20 cents/Kwh. Do you think we are crazy up here?
The Answer:
The big 3 were McDonald's, IBM and American Express up 17%, 16% and 15% respectively. The rest of the ups in order were Kraft, Pfizer, Chevron, Coke, J&J, Boeing and Exxon(1%). Verizon was flat. The big two on the loser side was BoA (-41%) and HP (-39%). The rest in bad to better order are Cisco, Alcoa, JPM/C, GE, Disney, Travelers, Merck, UT, MSFT, Home Depot, Cat, 3M, Intel, DuPont, AT&T, Wal-Mart and PG. The total DOW was down -1%.
It looks like the investors thought Exxon's profits were lackluster as opposed to the rants of the political harangue-ers. Most experts are saying drug companies are good. Maybe Merck is a buy. Travelers took a big tumble in advance of Irene. HP must be still paying off the campaign of Carly! I have a lot of admiration for HP products. I guess they don't have the Steve Jobs Zing!
If an industry works, RI will ruin it it.
Money in the bank betting tip: The Democrat side of the aisle will leap to their feet in mindless adulation so many times that this speech will become the longest in the history of the World.
Yesterday after four good economic news blips the market went down 119 because it didn't know what this morning's job news would be. Well, as you know it was real bad, so the market went down another as of now 175. So that means the combo of news that wasn't news and news that was news produced a real downer of 294! Yikes. I think Wall Street is loony. Well, maybe the computers are happy.
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