Screwball

Morbid post warning. Given the United Heath guy getting gunned down in NYC today, I had to look at the stock price. This is from yesterday in normal market hours into the over night when the market is closed for us (the grey band) and part of today. Just to the left of the Lo 584 is a vertical dotted line which is midnight. So those large green candles going up to the Hi 627 was yesterday. The Lo 584 was around 8:30 today. I don't know when it hit the news, but it sounds like it happened around 7:15? From high to low, or low to high, in after hours the price moved around 7 percent. Normally this stock trades like a mutual fund. Wild stuff.

I don't know who you go by, but it doesn't matter. Bunch of smart people there. Nicely done blog. The lady that runs it worked on Wall Street, retired now. Goldman. Was always rated one of the top financial blogs. They do a lot of politics too. Lean left, Bernie fans, or were. Also into the MMT monetary stuff, which I don't like, but they also cover climate change and the green energy stuff pretty well. Dive in.

Because you are entertaining.

It's a quarter of a mile as the crow flies, but to hang someone with these gallows you might need to swim too. Dragging someone from the capital around the city streets which is probably more than a mile to the gallows is probably not going to happen before someone stops it. Then there is the question of how these gallows showed up to begin with. Has to weigh enough you would need a truck, and maybe a forklift. Unless built piece by piece, which takes time. Wouldn't someone alert the cops people are erecting gallows? One would think. And why hasn't anyone been found or charged who did it? The Famous Gallows of January 6: Who, What, Where, When, and Why?

It has been repeated over and over on this board she is a Russian asset. If so, why is she still one? This isn't difficult.

Do you realize the gallows were not at the capital but over a quarter of a mile away, and didn't have the ability to hang anyone? Further, who built it, and who took it down? Just a few unanswered questions.

You people are hilarious. We are quoting the Daily Beast in this thread, and Amanda Morcotte (from Salon) in the other. Why should we give one good crap about what the Daily Beast says (it's a tabloid ffs) instead of what our own country agencies say? Why hasn't the US of A declared Gabbord a foreign asset and removed her from service and put her in jail? Maybe they should read the Daily Beast. LOL! And the Salon writer, Marcotte, is one of the most egregious political hacks in the country. A left version of Sean Hannity. How do I know that? I've known her for a long time. She was a writing partner with my ex son-in-law (at Salon) and was in their wedding. She is about the last person someone should look to for news. But whatever fits the narrative.

If Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian asset, how could she still be a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve? Shouldn't she be in jail and charged with treason? Nobody can do anything about this?

Art Cashin, New York Stock Exchange fixture for decades, dies at age 83 Sad news, he was a cool guy. Too bad he never wrote a book.

Enron - ticker ENE Jeff Skilling should really be on the Mt. Rushmore of financial criminals. What Enron did was leading edge stuff, not to exclude the bookkeeping debacle. So many other financial criminals learned what Skilling did and made a wad of money too. Most of the books are worth reading. And he only served 12 years of a 24 year term. I still respect the lady named Sherron Watkins for outing these assholes. She had some brass balls sitting beside Skilling in front of the dip**** congress people blowing the whistle on him. I got to see her in person circa 2010ish while she give a lecture on the whole ordeal.

Without a doubt.

I have never ran across any bank that didn't suck. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Thanks. I might not have been clear enough, but this incident had nothing to do with Bitcoin, so no blockchain involved unless you are calling a credit card transaction records blockchain. They may be called that, I don't know, but this was common credit/debit card stuff. I know the lady who owns the store. Known her for a long time. I went to see her too, as I'm not sure who I should be dealing with all this - her store - or my bank. She gave me the email of her store and I sent her all the information. I "assumed" she could find the time stamps. But she apparently was too busy to look into this and I never heard anything. Thanks. What a world we live in.

Here's another question for Del. On this bank thing above. I had double charges on the same day at the same place, but I couldn't tell what time by my statement. Only on rare occasions did I go there twice in one day, but possible. There were a few that could be, but I wanted to question anyway. A time stamp would prove it. If both transactions were the same time, I was double charged. Different times, then no problem. Who has access to the time stamps, and am I missing anything? This is my bank debt card. I think they run it as a credit.

I don't know how the transactions work, so I can't speak to this. I'm interested in the coding. Bitcoin transactions can contain a line of code entered by the seller that has nothing to do with the transaction. It is limited in size due to ASCII coding. It's turned into hex to save space. It was around 80 characters, but I think it is now 40, but I could be wrong. As far as fixing exchange **** ups, and banks... *warning bank rant* My fault for not catching it, but about a year ago I found about a dozen dual charges on my card from the same place, a local gas station/carry out. I am usually on top of that as I check it all the time, but I missed this. I only buy about 3 things so from the dollar amount I know what I bought. I went though my statement, took screenshots, documented so I could go play phone tag and stupidity with the bankers. I wasn't disappointed. I started out online with my bank. It took over a half hour to get a person. It took 20 minutes to not find out anything about the first double charge on my statement. I told them I had a bunch of these, so why don't I just send you an email and you can work on it and get back to me. Nope, they don't do that. I told them we are going to be on here for hours doing it this way, and I don't have time. You need to go to your local branch. OK, so I did. I was promptly told that all they could do is call the same number I did. At that point I gave up. The banks win again, and my fault too. Not worth the hassle. Then a couple of weeks later, I get an email from this bank, some person at the regional office. Hi, my name is Joe Schmoe, in capital letters no less. I am your personal banker and I'm here to make your experience with X bank the best it can possibly be. How can I help you? Well, lookie here, an email address. So I spun up a letter explaining everything, and finished with how glad I am he was going to make my experience all it could be. In a nice way of course. Nothing. A month later, I emailed him back and ask why I never heard anything, and my experience has not been much better. Nothing again. This is where we are. **** banks.

Thanks for this. I was doing a little investigating. So many angles to the crypto fad. Will it ever replace money, is it a medium for fraud, what exchange rates, does it protect against inflation, it is a good investment, all kinds of things. I got a kick out of the OP_RETURN stuff but then thought, in these days the spooks would be all over that, or should be. Should be easy to decode and read it one would think. When you think about it, crypto is short for cryptography - code. I grew up and played baseball with a guy who was a highly intelligent human. He was a walking talking calculator before we ever heard of them. He went to a high dollar college and majored in math. His dad was a professor who was a mathematician and did code breaking before and during the cold war. I've always been fascinated by that kind of stuff. And thanks for the link. I found a bunch of stuff but didn't know what to trust.

Interesting, but I'm not surprised. Funny, here in Cornhole a little grocery close by has a Bitcoin machine. I have no idea how it works or what it does. That said, disclosure; I've never followed the cryto stuff ever to any extent. It didn't interest my kind of investing. I really had no care about it. But I do remember you posting about it since maybe 3 boards ago, so I have a few questions since you have been on top of this for a long time. In the article you posted, it said this; If Bitcoin’s isn’t used for payments, what use does it have? I don't care about the first part, but the bold is key. The article talked about the volatility. It has to work that way when there is a hard cap. But traders love it, and probably make a killing. But that's not the deal that matters, maybe... This is where I get curious. Again, from that article; I only care about the first part. The rest gives the pundits and idiots in DC something to make themselves look stupid over. What intrigues me is the OP_RETURN stuff. Is anyone digging into this? Is there a way to read the blockchain, and I know you talked about the blockchain long ago? That could be some wild stuff.

I don't think I ever "equated" a trans person with a sexual predator, but go on with your insinuations. She might have in her mind. I don't know exactly why she was afraid to go in, but she was, and I didn't care why - I was put in a position to do address it. Part of keeping our jobs it to take regular training on how to handle things in school, like safety, discrimination, bullying, medical emergencies, weather related evacuations, and even how to handle mass shootings. This training also includes how to help identify and spot potential issues and how to prevent them. Our job is keep everyone safe, no matter what their biases may be. And we must consider any and all circumstances. You can't be too careful, and you can't ignore anything. People's biases be damned. This is a school. We know all the bad things that happen in schools. Maybe people should try it sometime before passing judgement on those who do.

This is the correct answer, but I did her one better. Hello! This is the janitor, anyone in there? Hang on...Nobody in there. You are safe, I'll be right outside. She was grateful. I've had ex-cons and felons in my class. You can never be to safe, or too careful. I exposed a potential person last year, and he got thrown out. She has every right to be afraid.

No argument. I don't watch any TV news, or read any of the major publications as my first choice of news. I see what headlines are trending, pick which ones are interesting, then go see what people are saying about it. The "perception" or "narrative" one might say, and how people are reacting. Then pursue how they came to that conclusion. Many times I find, I think, it is because they have built their own silo, and are happy to live in it. It's human nature to avoid "negative vibes" as "Oddball" of Kelly's Hero's fame said. That's why they can't look in the mirror. Then there is the follow the crowd thing. All interesting stuff. Then there is the question of what America wants right now, since fighting for years over a bunch of inept, crooked, and bought off assholes who want to **** us next. It's a big club, and we ain't in it. And we hate each other. Giddy up!

A year or so ago our college changed the signs on the restrooms to "Men" and "Gender Exclusive." Last year about this time, a late afternoon class, so not as many at the school in our wing, I had a women who was around 50 I'm guessing. We were walking out around 6:45 and she told me she wanted to go to the bathroom before she had to drive all the way home, but was afraid to go in the bathroom. What do you tell her?

Around here, no. Shop class, and what used to be called home ec, has been outsourced to vocational schools. Many offer shop type classes with machining, welding, robotics. There is also carpentry, auto body and mechanics courses, along with some medical and cosmetology and hair salon stuff. As a few examples. It sounds good on paper as they offer these skills for those who are not interested in college prep courses. The local school I taught at was fueled by 14 different public school districts in this part of the state. There is little learning going on there. It is complete joke. Kids come to school and play video games and play on their phone. The administration is a complete and utter joke. They are good at PR but bad at education. But then again, you can only work with what you have. If little Johnny and sister Jessica have parents who doesn't stress education - then you are behind the curve before you even start. But in general it was widespread ineptness on the part of the administration. Plenty of wasted money too. And they have no answer for those boondoggles either.

That's about where I was too. You should also remember the nuclear bomb drills we went through. They told us to get under our desks. Yea, that will help... Wild times, as the threat of nuclear war was was real. And here we are, 61 years later and wondering about nuclear exchanges. I truly hope the current idiots in charge don't get us all killed before they are done ****ing up the world.

I kind of equate it to science. And maybe free speech too. Throw all the **** on the table and let's have an adult conversation about the pile in front of us. What is true, and what isn't. Pretty simple IMO. The KISS rule once again applies. And don't hide from what you don't want to hear. Too bad it doesn't work that way today.

Which has nothing to do with what I said. I would expect more from you.