Wow, what energy! Our house sounds like a jungle with all these toys that make noises like elephants & birds & tigers. Sky roars through them. He also wants to get the older dogs to play, but so far they are a little indifferent. Except Krypto, who tried to get Sky to play outside, but Sky thought she was a little big (just wait a few months). He knows his name, and is very "full of himself" as the breeder said. Sky keeps working on Spike and I think he'll succeed getter her to play soon.
Spending a hundred $ or so on toys really helps save the furniture, etc. :-)
[btw, I am waiting to buy dips for add to my Alpha Fund margin level, unless we get bad news]
About Me
- Bunkerman
- I have a pioneer mentality. My wife & I live in the woods - neighbors aren't visible except slightly in winter. Our "bunker" - hehe, really a fine home & barn - has plenty of security. We have four dogs: Krypto (age 9, Kelpie), Ava (age 13, Rat Terrier), Sky (Kelpie, age 5) and Lucky Star (age 1, kelpie). I don't take crap from anyone anymore, having enough resources & gear stocked up to survive in any circumstance. I have three degrees from Harvard including a Ph. D. in a physical science, and an MS in Management from MIT. I worked as an investment banker for about 25 years, mainly in secured finance, at three major Wall Street firms and for the last 17 years with my partners at our own firm. I'm semi-retired now, managing some private corporations and business interests and doing my own trading & investing. This is not to boast, but to give you an idea I know a little about some subjects from experience. The photo is my 1943 M16 half-track which I am restoring. These armored vehicles were ubiquitous in the US Army in World War II and Korea. It's driveable.
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i got a 10 yr old (45 lb, mut) that wud tire your puppy out. cherise, aka "wild child" (vets nickname not mine) is still waiting for her puppy energy to burn off. the vet told me she was neutered to young, never went into heat, thus certain hormones were never released. makes sense but when i found her, took her to vet and she suggested the procedure. what did i know i was 26.
as far as the market goes, one thing seems for sure. water, oil, gold, uranium, silver, all that stuff is going up. if the fed is dumb enuff to cut or not hike while inflation is going, seems pretty clear that all this stuff is going higher
stupid fed :-)
when push came to shove, all that talk about inflation being their #1 concern, was a lie. the #1 concern of the fed, clearly, is all the butter in the system and how to handle it. they wont say it, and still talk tuff on inflation, but actions speak louder than words.
My dog, Spike, is 13 and still acts like a puppy most of the time. She was neutered young, too. But I don't agree with that vet - I've heard that before. My parents' old dog had lots of energy was wasn't spayed until much later - lived to be 18. And my old dog, Fido, was spayed young but they missed a piece of her ovaries, so she got some hormones anyway. She had lots of energy until about 15 - lived to be 19. What's wrong with them having that energy, anyway?
I remember helping my father on spays - doing them after a dog went into heat was more dangerous. Also, some cancers are less likely if you get them before going into heat.
Moderate economic growth means mineral demand is going up & supply can't go up fast enough -> higher prices.
cherise was raised poorly and high energy. cindy catches me all the time LOL when cherise does something bad. the other 2 dogs we have, got since meeting cindy. they r much better behaved.
cherise will bite u whether she likes u or not. she bites me all the time, shes playing. have always ruff housed with her. actually the more she likes u, the more shes inclined to bite u when leaving. shes just a bad dog, but my favorite. lol
iran being smart.
not much on the plate, but a long list of candidates to start picking at
an oil i took yesterday is moving out. added a bit on the open OMNI
I hate those four letter stocks. Grrrrr. I had TRGL a long while & today they sell stock at a big discount & it gets crushed.
Sticking to the big ones for my Alpha Fund. But I'm a month trader or LT, not a slut like you ;-)
if u dont like that, i got some real crap. LNOP and URRE which i hope gets listed on the nazz one of the these days
LOL
then there is URZ on the amex to top it off.
put some CCJ away two days ago.
like u said commodity prices going up.
u see amex setting aside 3 mil for some irs or sec audit. rofl, more like a straight payoff.
this was emailed to me, made me LOL
We are unanimously scared half to death by the implosion in housing, defaults and foreclosures. Our biggest fear is a recession. A jobs slowdown would worsen that situation dramatically.
We are also somewhat concerned by rising food prices but those prices are soaring primarily because of Bush administration policy handouts to farmers and the ethanol industry. Economic policy can not really cure problems caused by poor administrative decisions. It would be a mistake to try.
Because of blatantly bad policy decisions by us, notably Greenspan's praise of subprime lenders, promotion of ARMs at the exact worst time for the consumer, support of toxic loans, and most importantly our previous decision to slash interest rates to 1%, we created the current property bubble. We now admit we did that on purpose. We just never expected the bubble to get this out of hand. We created the housing bubble on purpose to bail out banks that were at risk due to poor loans made to the dotcom industry. Now to bail out the housing industry we feel compelled move to a more neutral stance.
With consumer debt levels where they are, we are going to do everything in our power to keep asset prices high. If we could, we would even reinflate the housing bubble. But that gig is up unfortunately and with it any real hope for jobs expansion.
Now is not the time for a recession. We are in this fix because there is never a time for a recession. We hope to forestall recessions forever because if we can't all hell will break loose on the downside.
I wonder who that "we" is? LOL.
I wonder how jobs can expand with 4.6% unemployment rate? More illegals from Mexico off the books?
Perma-bears. Ptui! ;-)
oops, said from the fed, missed that part.
its pretty much the reality. if it ever becomes the perception, it wud end bad. but dont look like anyday soon.
off loaded my bigh beta stuff around, most if it. still got a little. OMNI all gone
have fun with sky this weekend
peace
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