Screwball

OFF TOPIC; From the sophisticated world of F1 & Indy (upside down airplanes that contact the ground), to the wild and woolly world of ovals, horsepower, and dirt.

I'm trying to find the journalist in this. 🙂 This isn't a news organization either. It is a propaganda machine. Buy hey, if people are dumb enough to give money to Cramer, they deserve to lose it.

Here you go - short the living shit out of oil. LOL!

Been a while, but one of his bullet points was "small" bills. That seems obvious, but that's just me. Of course, if "they" wanted that to happen - it would.

The rail thing is something to watch for sure, and there is energy (crude) shit going on too. WTI under 80, the OPEC jawboning. All you can do it watch the tape.

I think it was Justin Amash, a Michigan guy who most would remember I think. He said McCarthy is one of the biggest POS he ever dealt with (and probably not the only one). Imagine that. He was offering on Twitter to be Speaker of the House, and what he would do. That would be a hoot, but would never happen. He made too much sense.

She might be a nutjob, but she's right. From The Hill. Marjorie Taylor Greene unveils resolution to audit Ukraine aid funds Where exactly is all this money (to one of the most corrupt countries in the world) and these weapons going? I've already read some of the weapons have ended up on the black market. Some of us remember the Stinger missiles that went missing in the middle east in our 20 year blunder there. I know, this time it's different.

That's about the funniest fucking things I have ever read here. How many people are dead because of American imperialism under the PNAC killing for profit criminals you so adore? Give me a fucking break Gomer. You should be in a padded cell.

That's funny. I'm old enough to remember when the swine fucking bankers blew up the world back in 08/09. Congress brought all these evil CEO's to congress to make things right (after they bailed their criminal asses out) for the destruction they caused. I watched almost every single hearing. It was so puke worthy it would run the satire people out of business. Some of it was pretty good (SIGTARP/Borofsky stuff) but in aggregate - a clown show. When you study the Enron stuff, they called themselves the "smartest guys in the room" and they were (except some of them actually went to jail). Jeff Skilling should be on the Mt. Rushmore of financial criminals, but he should also be there for his innovation on how to create and lever money out of nothing. The blueprint for swindling the system. The bankers vs. the congress people is truly David and Goliath. The market guys are the smartest guys in the room, and it's not even close. Wall Street pays buy side analysts multiple times more money than the CEO's of the companies (and sector/industry) they cover. As George would say "it's a big club and you ain't in it."

What if they can't?

And from Today - again from MarketWatch; Housing starts fall again as high mortgage rates scare off U.S. home buyers

My oldest lives in the Columbus, Ohio area. Not far from where the new chip plant is suppose to be built (New Albany I think). He is in a development that was pretty empty when he bought a few years back. It exploded with homes in the last year and a half, none finished as of yet. I will be curious to see what it looks like next week when I go down there. I don't know the deal on these homes. Investment homes built for profit selling to the new plant employees, or people themselves as the buyer. Either way, given the cost increase over the last year, they have to be losing their ass unless they can raise the price of the house. I would love to ask a contractor how that works. Contractor quotes a house for X, over time while being built, cost go up 20 percent. Quote price of X now only covers the cost and ate all the profit. What kind of protection does the contractor have?

Home builder numbers came out yesterday. This from MarketWatch; Home builder sentiment continues to sour in November

Adding again; we don't go down the rabbit hole of CUSIP numbers either. How stupid of me.

To further that thought. I never paid any attention to the crypto stuff. I thought it was a scam. The only thing that seemed to have any intrinsic value (used loosely) was the block chain technology. I have no idea how that works. The block chain should prove transactions (as I understand it) just like our CUSIP numbers trading on the NYSE. Now it seems we have "issues" (imagine that) so it would make sense to look under the hood and see what happened and why? But that's not what we do.

Let's go down that rabbit hole please. HA!!!!!!!

You should read the Constitution instead of the PNAC imperialistic manifesto.

I was forced to study Deming over the years. I think it is great stuff. Once you are programmed into that mindset, it makes so many more things we see today make sense. Like a window into the mechanism and process of how the world works. Since this is an investment thread, should we be buying TSLA, or shorting? I would start with chart porn.

The entire war is insanity. We have now sent how many billions (70-90?) to one of the most corrupt countries in the world, while provoking a nuclear power, rejecting detente, feeding endless war bullshit (propaganda) to our people via the mouth organs of the press (hate to break this to you, but Russia is NOT losing this war, and won't)? WTF? Oh, and Ukraine has a GDP about the size of Nebraska. Double WTF? Maybe the people who want this war so damn bad should shut the fuck up and go fight themselves. And no, I won't apologize for not being a war monger, so save your agastitude. One more thing, if anyone doesn't think all these sanctions to get Russia, Russia, Russia isn't causing pain here and around the world (only to get worse) then you are not paying attention. You might want to remove your head from your ass.

Deming has only one m, not two. If you hate Musk and Twitter, don't buy the stock. 🙂

Thank you - a voice of reason.

Highly recommend. I have 4, 2 in front, 2 in back. I can see most of the perimeter of my house (but all entrances). I bought them through Amazon. I won't recommend a particular brand as it depends on what you want to do. Mine are night vision capable, have sound, I can talk though them, and they trigger on motion. They run on battery, not hard wired like the expensive systems. One is mounted on the peak of my garage, which charges via a solar panel (sold separately), while the others I charge manually when needed. You can set the sensitivity for triggering. How long to record, and what to do with the video. It can be stored locally to a SD card in the camera, or to a cloud (I don't do clouds), and is connected to my secure WIFI network. You will get an alert on your phone when triggered. You can view the video on your phone, or there is computer software as well. You can hit any camera at any time to see a live feed via your phone rather you are home or not. You can also set it up to send you an e-mail with a screenshot of what triggered the camera. I turn this off since it would send a million e-mails. I don't have a sign in the yard or the window warning of a security camera/system. I mounted the two in the front right on my front porch for all to see. Smile, you're on candid camera. At night someone would see the LED's turn on when triggered. They pissed off some people that walk their dog past the house, one young guy in particular, who almost ran by the house after seeing them. What he doesn't know, and I didn't tell him, they are not set sensitive enough to pick up the dog walkers, only if someone approaches the front porch. The second camera in the front is pointed directly at the door and front steps. One night a cop was banging on my door at 2:30 am. He was looking for someone I never heard heard of, so it was all good. But I had video of him walking up the front walk, then the other camera picked him up at the steps, and recorded our entire conversation at the door. I wondered what he thought about being watched as he came to the house. I don't know if our cops have body cams, but it didn't matter, I had the whole thing anyway. I saved the video to a directory on my computer. I have the 4 cameras, a charger for the batteries. The old style used 4 small batteries, but the newer ones have a single battery that charges with a USB. Takes about 2 hours to charge, and I charge them on average once a month, depending on how much they are triggered. The solar panel was extra, but I only have one, which is mounted on the garage peak and looks down my driveway. The entire system ran me around $400. You are at the mercy of your wireless, since they are connected to that network. I couldn't hit the one on the garage if I didn't have the Mesh wireless system which allowed me to put a WIFI device in the garage.

Haven't checked in for a while. That NASCAR race was something. Some were not thrilled. F1 and crypto might get worse. The steering wheel looks like it should be in the space shuttle. How they hell do they have time to drive? Impressive none the less.

I don't know how many post in the political forum so I don't know how many 90% would be, but I think that's probably close. I would be curious of the numbers though. I remember (going back to the old board) when there were plenty of non-democrats, but they have disappeared. I wonder why?