Screwball

About an hour or so ago Bloomberg posted this article about the United Heath Care killer; CEO murder suspect was Ivy League Graduate Who Praised Unabomber Behind a paywall but you can find it. More detail. I found this part interesting, FTA: Given his education, he wasn't a practicing luddite. Might be a nutjob trying to send a message. Who knows, too early IMO. The interesting part will be how it is all spun.

Poor analogy. Here's some more waste for those with bad memory. 20 years of incompetence and billions and billions of taxpayer money pissed away to make the rich richer by turning brown people into pink mist that accomplished nothing. Well except even more graft, corruption, and death. At war with the truth - The Afghanistan Papers A secret history of the war - Washington Post - from 2019. I will add, one of the better things ever printed from this CIA mouthpiece. Maybe they will do the same on the money laundering cesspit known as Ukraine over the last 10+ years.

All you have to do is read Cooper's resume and know he is not to be believed about anything.

It is an example of a great amount of waste, but I wouldn't expect you to understand.

The F-35 is one of the biggest wastes of money and an epic boondoggles ever. The Most Expensive Weapon Ever Built We even have graveyards for our waste (near Tuscon - been there - huge place - goes for miles). $$$$$$$$$

The amount of waste, by the military, government, and business (especially big business) is off the charts. It became this way due to inept clueless imbeciles who are bad at their job, and the only way to survive is to be a talented ass kisser because they work for more inept clueless people who don't know any better. They can't fix any of this stuff because the same idiots created the mess to begin with. And of course a whole bunch of money.

Well, not everybody, point taken. I'm looking at the transaction end and how all this might turn out. As I have already said I think we will eventually go non paper money - cash. How long that will take, who knows, but it will happen. Like so many things of importance, this transition, done correctly, needs a bunch of adults in the room to sit down and have an intelligent conversation. But that ain't gonna happen. For example; Maybe it's just my worthless bank (a well known regional whorehouse) but all I see when I look at my online statement is money in, money out. The transactions look like hieroglyphics and if it wasn't for the amounts I wouldn't know who the hell I paid. And no time stamps - why? That should be easy. Nothing will change because the people in the big club don't want it to, and as far as illicit purposes, the "market" will find a way to continue to fund illicit things because they have been doing it since forever no matter the means of commerce. People are life, and people will find a way, no matter the exchange.

Yes, and that's what's so neat about it. You gave me a link to interrogate Bitcoin transactions a while back. I did some poking around, interesting stuff. Everything is all right there. I guess at the same time, once again, buyer beware. ON EDIT: Adding, I think we will eventually be forced away from cash, so if we have to do that conversion - let's do it right - transparency - so all parties have the same transaction data - and all of it. I would think that would make things simpler, but maybe not.

I can't believe there are scams going on. LOL! I remember a guy named Harry Markopolos who served up Bernie Madoff on a silver platter and nothing happened until it did. Funny too, the great JP Morgan Chase under Jamie Dimon had the records because they moved his money in the Ponzi he created. He was even a chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange. Probably went to all the good parties. It's a big club and we ain't in it. They bust a few every once in a while to make it look good, but the graft and corruption is off the charts. Follow the money.

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.