In case you missed it, a few choice comments on existing home sales.

http://wallstreetexaminer.com/?p=2115

Free!

Have a SAFE and happy holiday!

i won't know for sure until the end of the week

but it's looking pretty damn bearish right now

Dec 31st, 2007 Bloomberger End'O'Year Power-Bonar Scam-Pump Sham-Print Show-Goose Stock Manipulation Update:

GAGGLE 700 show:
Close: 691.48 -11.05
Result: FAILURE
Status: Limp
Cigar: No

CRAPPLE 200 show:
Close: 198.08 -1.75
Result: FAILURE
Status: Limp
Cigar: No

RIMMSUCKER 120 show:
Close: 113.4 -3.54
Result: FAILURE
Status: Limp
Cigar: No

4:00 PM Urgent Merrill-Lunch Trader Advisory:
ALL FAILED SHILLS ARE ORDERED TO RETURN TO ASS-POUNDING PRISON PROMPTLY AT 4:15 PM. HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Considering it was the last day of the year, that was some close. Looks like a few folks headed for the exits early.

2007 aSSet allocation comparative performance:

Gold +31% WINNER

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COST OF LIVING INFLATION (Shorty estimate) +15%
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NaSSty CONposite +9.8% LOSER

ShowDawg30 +6.4% LOSER

Spoozer500 +3.5% LOSER

ReamEstate -15% OH MY, PLUG THAT INTO YER NOMINAL/REAL CALCFIGGERER!

2008 Headline News ForecaSSt:

Scottrade, Inc. Buys Merrill-Lynch for $1.69 in caSSh plus aSSumption of Trading-Loss Debts; Fires Everyone

Angelo Mozilo Spotted in Tijuana, Mexico Working Drive-Thru Window at Taco Bell with Kenny Lay

New U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman, P.T. Barnum III, Jr. Takes Over from retiring Benjammin Bonarke

Frankie Raines Appointed U.S. Treasury Secretary

Happy new year everyone.

Silliness has overcome me, and I can't even recall if the market is open tomorrow. Is it?

Everything is closed tomorrow.

Ken Lay is dead and if you see him working at a Taco Bell drive-through, I would not eat that particular taco.

Enron exec. Lou Pei, the guy who charged his strip club bills to the company, now owns a 14,000 foot mountain in Colorado and keeps the tourists away with a security team. Pei got out before the stock tanked, lucky fella.

Happy New Years, one & all.

For those operating a different calendar, Happy Whateverfish!

May I wish Dok and all the rest of you stoolies a Happy New Year???? I really mean it as a sentimental ingredient that will provide each and every one of you and yours with some fortiffication against the madness to be expected this coming new year..

And dok thanks for your herculean efforts in trying to get us to understand the machinations of the Fed and its International consorts...I just got through reading your latest today..to my associate --or at least as much as he could stand

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He understood very little of it, but i wanted him to get a tast of what a real deep-going many sided analysis of a problem amounted to..because he said that his headache was was too painful ,I took mrcy upon him,and I stopped .....But now he understands (somatically) the difference between the bullshit he reads in the newspaper and serious reportage.

And he promised not to ask for more rabbit stories....

A quote from Arthur Bentley

The activities are interlaced. That , however, is a bad amnner of expression. For the interlacing is itself the activity. We have one great movingh process to study, and of this great moving process it is impossible to state any part except as valued in terms of other parts....The Process of Government

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I can deeply sympathise with anyone who objects being tossed into such a floating cosmology... The firm land of "matter" or even of "sense" or "self" is pleasenter , if only it stands firm..To anyone whose tasks can be performed on such ground, I have not the slightest thought of bringing disturbance.

But for many of us, tasks are pressing, in the course of which our firmest spots of conventional departure themselves dissolve in function..When they have so dissolved, and when so involved, there is no hope of finding refuge in some chance island of "fact" which may appear..

The Continents Go , and so do the Islands....
AB Behaviour Knowledge Fact

beardrech

Happy New Year folks. and thanks a bunch Shorty...I will be on the look out for Ken and yes I will stay away from whatever he is selling!

Happy New Year to all -- and thanks to Shorty: it's always good to end the year laughing.

I would like to wish every stoolie and especially Doc, a Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous New year.

Happy New Year everyone!

jickiss is back!



jickiss is back!

and

Happy new year, 2008, to all them of capitalstool.com!

and

here is the Best Idea to make fast money as 2008 begins....CDE

here is the item and the ratio of that item to the silver price.

jickiss!!!!!!!

jickiss is back!



jickiss is back!

and



enjoy this if you can
after all, Hawaii is Part of the United States of America

and, like the seeming anticipation of 2008, there is

something at the end that is disturbing, or, maybe this was actually recorded for use in 2008???

On a White Sandy Beach in Hawaii ----- Go before it is too late.......

Enron exec. Lou Pei, the guy who charged his strip club bills to the company, now owns a 14,000 foot mountain in Colorado and keeps the tourists away with a security team. Pei got out before the stock tanked, lucky fella.




please provide a link to your acquisation.


colorado is home to 55 so called 14'ers and not one is owned by a Pei.....

Happy New Year!

As promised, here are some candidates for the '08 year.

The concept here is Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep Value!!!

The first few days of the new year should see some selling of high flying schlock tickets and trading them in for the deeeep value tickets.

All the cash from winner sellers, in the new year [so they pay no tax until the deadlines in April '09] will be lookiing for new vehicles to, ahem, invest in.

So...after much trolling, here are the candidates that have been spit on, pissed on, shit on and flushed right into the central vortex of the swirl.

...but, as with so many modern terlets, some turds just won't flush.

*Caveat! I have no idea whatsoever what any of these companies actually do, but as my father once said, " Whether it's a trophy fish or a trophy girlfriend...yah gots ta fish deeeeep!"

.....and two more floaters

.....just for good measure.

I would love to hear any fundamental or technical input on any of these fine turds.

HOT IPO MARKET????????

TRY HOT LPO (LAST PUBLIC OFFERING) MARKET!!!!!!

From the Street



Except they dont mention the $150 Billion in PUBLIC companies taken PRIVATE which is THREE times the amount of PRIVATE companies taken PUBLIC.

Seems to me the action is all the other way or was.

US Gold Corp (UXG) is one to keep on the radar. I've got it on my watchlist but don't own it (yet). It's nothing but a good idea on paper right now, but it has potential. Rob McEwen, the founder of Goldcorp, is the largest shareholder and believes they own some valuable property in Nevada. Their property is situated on some geographical formation where gold is being mine all around them. Check their website for more info.
http://www.usgold.com/about/

Happy New Year.

Jim Willie tells it like he thinks it is. A lot of people here agree with his take. If they are only partially right, there is going to be big money to be made on the short side of every thing J6P consumes or doesn't consume in great quantities such as houses and automobiles.

Wall Street is in deep sneakers. They are busy putting a positive spin on 2007, which in mid-year unleashed the beginning of an unstoppable nightmare. The first cracks were revealed in gory fashion in the form of subprime mortgages blasting fissures through the entire bank and bond system. The next cracks will blossom into a mindboggling series of shocks next year. The US Federal Reserve planted millions of seeds, led by Alan Appleseed Greenspan, during almost two years of ridiculously irresponsible low interest rates so as to assure a doomed outcome. One should never entrust US-based lending institutions to create mortgage products, to approve of loans, to work (collude) with appraisers, the end result of which is massive creation of new debt destined to implode. Recall that the Good Crazed Maestro, who resembles Mr Magoo even more since his retirement, endorsed the housing bubble, begged for it even, urging down long-term interest rates in 2001 & 2002. He desperately needed for housing inflated so-called wealth to save his bacon from the stock bust a year earlier. Both the stock bubble and housing/mortgage bubbles had his fingerprints on them. GREENSPAN MORTGAGED THE ENTIRE BANKING SYSTEM AND ECONOMY WITH BAD LOANS, WHICH ARE IN SYSTEMIC DEFAULT. He actually blessed the housing bubble as a legitimate foundation for an entire USEconomy, a fact that should never be forgotten. One must knock down a fifth martini or whiskey to buy such heretical garbage, but the entire nation lapped it up like hopeless drunkards grasping at overturned bottles. The past several weeks have included a boatload of denials and a large dose of tontaria (Spanish: nonsense). This article is a brief attempt to address the denials and tontaria, a reflection upon the completed year. In no way is any claim made of being a comprehensive listing of blatant deceptions. That requires a 200-page book.

The Robert Rubin mentality has prevailed for well over a decade, wherein US banking policy is designed to recklessly put off problems until tomorrow in order to buy some time today. And yes, during the many todays, the Manhattan Made Men crowd have profited handsomely. Well, Bob, tomorrow is 2008. You are busy covering your hind parts with a fresh Abu Dhabi infusion at Citigroup, a guarantee of some bought time but not any reprieve of eventual bankruptcy. Rubin ushered in, with zero fanfare or broad recognition, the age of the Mussolini Fascist Business Model. The merger of state of big business started in the mid-1990 years with the financial sector, and has extended to energy and military defense in the 2000 years. Get nervous if and when it extends to the pharmaceutical industry in coming years and forced innoculations. Their motives are almost uniformly self-serving, not for the public sector service and benefit. This is about profit and control. In fact, a syndicate has had control of the White House since the Ole Gipper took one in the ribcage in a close call with the Grim Reaper in 1981. This group crosses political party lines with excellent disguise. Nationalism and security are their calling cards these days. The tragedy of this business model is the spread of corruption throughout an entire system, hidden at first, boasted in midstream, enforced at the point of a gun later on. My claim of US institutionalized dishonesty made in 2005 in public manner, even at conferences, has been verified with bold examples for all to see. It extends far and wide, to charity organizations, even to sports.

Next year, a reign of financial and economic terror will befall the world banking system, with the United States as its origin. The shock waves will have California as its epicenter, the creative laboratory of nutty mortgage design. The US banking system will finally be recognized as destroyed, insolvent, and entirely dysfunctional. The repair process in reaction will be interesting to behold, as money will be printed, created, and dispensed at a clip never seen before in a multi-national fashion in the history of mankind. So far, no level of desperation can be detected. That will surely change in 2008. The Wall Street criminal fraud artisans, at the focal point of responsibility for dissemination of trillion$ of mortgage bonds, could not resist temptation. In fact, the US Federal Reserve seems still unaware of crisis. Wall Street did what they do best, package and sell, with regard only for their fees, paychecks, and bonuses, as they organized collusion toward fraud and misrepresentation never seen before in modern history. Well, this time, they got stuck with a huge amount of inventory. Big domestic institutions followed by foreign institutions wised up, but not quickly enough. The private equity movement was in full swing also, leading to more accumulated inventory. Then it slammed shut. Unfortunately for them, the assembly line was halted abruptly. IMAGINE SALMONELLA in a meat packing business with huge volume in shipping products. As the production line halted, much of the toxic output ended up in the meat packer balance sheet, even dinner table. Some CEO executives took sick and fell by the wayside. Their customers are all sick, very sick, and will get even sicker.

http://www.kitco.com/ind/willie/dec272007.html

Here is one, who cashed out early and escaped with her loot. Rebecca Mark.

After Enron
Mark, now Rebecca Mark-Jusbasche after her marriage to Michael Jusbasche in October 1999, left Enron at a fortunate time, selling her stock for $80 million before the company collapsed in 2001. Mark was never accused of wrongdoing in the ensuing series of scandals and prosecutions, but did pay five million dollars as part of a settlement of a lawsuit filed by Enron stockholders.[4]

Today, Mark sits on the Board of a California based company called Water Health International[5]. She has twins enrolled in college. After her remarriage to Michael Jusbasche, the two adopted a two year old boy from Kazakhstan. She also owns and operates cattle ranches in Watrous, New Mexico and Colorado
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Mark-Jusbasche

Maybe he really was the smartest guy in the room.

P.S. The most colorful member of the Enron gang was Lou Pei, who headed Enron Energy Services, the arm of the company which sold energy to industrial clients. Pei was very single-minded--his goal was to make money for the company no matter what. He also had a particular fondness for strippers, and would go almost nightly to local strip joints, and often bring a few of his employees with him. He would frequently solicit the strippers for sex later on. [When one of his buddies asked him how he hid the scent of perfume from the stripper from his wife, he said that he would go to a gas station afterward and spill gasoline on himself, to mask the odor]. The profit reports of EES were almost entirely falsified, but Pei, knowing that shit would go down soon, quit the company in 2000 right before everything started to crash, and profited $250 million from Enron stock. He then divorced his wife and moved to Hawaii with one of his regular stripper/prostitutes, who was pregnant with his child. What a guy.

http://www.deucesblog.com/weblogs/archives...s_rise_and.html

Bullion continues to outpace the stocks. maybe it is different this time?

can anyone give an opinion on my WYNN here?

Looks like a good bounce candidate here and closed right on the 200 dma.



Anyone smarter than me with an honest opinion? (That means everyone here )

Ken Lay is alive and well, at least as of October '06. I saw him in the British Properties [developed by the Guiness family aka beer after building the Lion's Gate bridge to access it] in West Vancouver.

I was doing some lovely custom granite work on the entrance to Dave Leddy's new house [aka Ledcor, 360 networks] and two couples drive up in a Maybach and proceed to ooooh and aaah over the stonework as they walked around.

Now I tell ya, right here and now, that most defeinately was Ken Lay. Spittin' image of him. His wife was with him and I vivdly recall the exchange I had with them. Nice couple. Real nice people. Ken Lay, or one hell of a facsimile, was quite intrigued with some of my chisels and tools [very custom].

Real nice people....

jickiss is back!



jickiss is back!

Again, Happy 2008 to all.

1. da General says that Ken L _ _ is definitely alive, and was key. Period. your jickiss says to just let this go. forever. the smarter you are, the faster you learn to forget in this world....

2. UXG will be Huge. The main issue is to wait for the chart to show an uptrend. At this level, only, Repeat, only buy 10% of what you might wish to really own for the long pull. There is an ISSUE with all miners/potential miners in USA having to do with the desire of da Feds to grab money right at the mine head, as though to earn taxes like unto a Royalty owner, rather than to tax corporate Earnings of miners. Keep an eye on this, you can research it via Sinclair's website if you care about funny mentals.

This is an example of da Feds acting like Hollywood people, where, if you don't get paid a % of Gross, you dont get paid. Da feds know what is going to happen to the Price of Gold, and they want to take their slice FIRST!

Hoo Ha, indeed.

3. 2008. This is going to get UGLY before it ends. You can just feel it. This is the beginning of "Right Shoulder Think." Wishin and Hopin and Thinkin and Dreamin.....It will manifest first in RE. Keep an Eye on the INDU. Thie INDU is really the key index. The yield on the Zombie will call the top in the INDU.

get it?

in other words, as business gets weaker over the span of 2008, da herd will Expect rates to decline. Keep your eyes on the yield on da Zombie.

Any Zombie yield Expectations for YE 2008?

This could be a really cool contest, "public forecasts for Zombie yield at YE 2008, at capital stool.com."

What would be the Prize?

jickiss!!!!!!!

more competition for the Crapple iPhone

I wonder if his death was faked.

I believe BD still has some of those fine snack crackers. The kind that have the long shelf life and store well in your average bomb shelter environment...

Check wit him.

I wouldn't eat his tacos, but his potato chips are the best.

A little unfinished business from 2007...

The trip to Philly to see 'THE WORD' came off almost as planned. I/We were there at The Electric Factory as planned, but our unfamiliarity with the venue caused us some problems. The show/venue was listed as being for 'all ages' and I took that as meaning in a theatre setting. What we got was a bar with a 'no alcohol' area in front of the stage. The place was great, it would have been a great show for the adults, but I just happened to have the kids along.

The kids were troopers, and the venue had good kid snacks so everything was going OK while we were waiting for the 8:30 start. By the time the band started at 9:20 things weren't quite as nice so being the responsible parent I am, we were out of there by 9:45.

Seems that "The WORD" is filling a market niche left underserved by the loss of THE GRATEFUL DEAD and PHISH. They are a jam band of the first order and they have the fans to prove it. And the fans have all of the exotic 'music appreciation additives' that one would expect of such a crowd. And by 9:21, The Electric Factory was no place for kids.

The two guys they added to NMA were a slide guitar player and an organ player. The music was super, the band just played, barely spoke or sang at all, and seemed to be doing a lot of jazz-type 'improvising on a theme' stuff.

Anyway, I'll do it different in 2008, but for now, here's a pic...

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Of course it was. He was the money man for monkeyboy and his gang of petrolords. Here's the proof.


Wow

In death, Kenneth Lay's criminal record has been erased:
A federal judge in Houston this afternoon wiped away the fraud and conspiracy conviction of Kenneth L. Lay, the Enron Corp. founder who died of heart disease in July, bowing to decades of legal precedent but frustrating government attempts to seize nearly $44 million from his estate.

The ruling worried employees and investors who lost billions of dollars when the Houston energy trading company filed for bankruptcy protection in December 2001. It also came weeks after Congress recessed for the November elections without acting on a last-ditch Justice Department proposal that would have changed the law to allow prosecutors to seize millions in investments and other assets that Lay controlled.[...]

Legal analysts said the ruling by a federal judge in Houston closely hewed to long-held doctrine, which allows defendants to vacate their convictions if they die before they are able to exercise their right to appeal. The law hesitates to punish the dead, the analysts said.Samuel J. Buffone, a Washington-based lawyer for Lay, said, "We're very pleased with the ruling and are glad that the criminal case against Mr. Lay is at an end."

What is there to say?

Posted by Ezra Klein on October 17, 2006 4:21 PM | Permalink
AmericanProspect

I think we should demand that the body be Exuma-ed and an official like autopsy be performed. We have an eye witness in Gold member who'd swear in a court-a-law he saw him alive and nice.

I doubt it.

Leaving the track after a fun fllled day gathering losing tickets as if they were posies,.one invariably sees,at the winner's window, an undeserving winner,laughing like a cackling jackal...

I know in my heart we,the streaming band of woebegone losers,dolefully exiting en mass, have spiritual positions far superior to the hyena with uncontrollable laughter..

That the good lord says I created that braying ass for my amusement, and now ,justice demands I pay the assh**e...

beardrech

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http://jessel.100megsfree3.com/?M=D

Very possible Shorty:Considering his life,his magical talents, his virtuosity at converting everything into edible offal for nourishing credulous apes...

Espescially In a period when the the Chief of the Chief Executives,Capo de Capo, El Presidente, hyperambiguates the the word "is", a tiny word that does all of the linguistic heavy lifting, by insinuatingly asking his moonfaced , plugugly constituents: What do you mean "IS"?

It all depends depends on what you mean by the word "is", he says with aplomb.

And thus we enter the world of pure possibility where every word including "and" & "but", will one day, be surrounded by quotation marks of irony...

When Orwelllian "reality" will enter through the gates of grammatical deconstructivistic Anarchism

beardrech

I tried posting this twice

my 2008 year-end forecaSSt for Gold:

$1,111

as I type that, it feels too low

butt that's my best guesstimate at the moment

enough already

time to short 'N' hold this bloated pig

initial price target: 70

final price target: 1 (oh, yes! ......competition is a beeyatch)

will add to short position after rallies on the way down

re-evaluate around 70 area

May I leave all of you with this, my Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanza or whatever gift you give your friends and realitives on your favorite giving day ??

Go to YOU TUBE and get Nathan Milstein's performance of Bach's Chaconne...then on the same bill of fare order yourself the same Chaconne cooked by Heifitz--

Prepare yourself for the sounds so beautiuful that they can strike you dead...If,perchance,you are left uninspired by these two doing their numbers, something of almost equal value will have occured...

You will have learned, through the pressures of modernity, have become a mutant...I dont say this with anger at your disagreement with my musical taste...I say it in sorrow as if a dear friend were sailing off into a great sonic beyond, a parallel musical universe from which people like myself are forever excluded...

Im firmly convinced that there is no war fought with greater intensity than Musical warfare. So intimate are the pleasures of sound that have notes that make me joyful, it happens,that many times, if played loudly from an open-windowed car, will, at certain intersections, arouse involuntary listners to a homocidal fury...

In Mann's Novel, Doktor Faustus, Leverkuhn, the mad composer confesses that he wanted to destroy people's ability to listen to Beethoven.....and Brahms wanted to crate a musical armentarium that would annihilate Wagner...

beardrech Beat me Daddy eight to the bar!!!!!!!!!

I will also git short Scamazon.con

Net Tangible ASSet Value per Share = one-tenth of a penny

what a joke

what an absolute POS

true, the rappers today are always shooting at each other

Toronto and Vancouver get Curry and Wasabi chips, an experiment in catering to the high number of Asians in both cities.

The curry ones are awesome!!! What a munchie!

*...psssst. Ya can git some on ebay!