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Do you get a pit in your stomach when the Dow drops hundreds of points, day-in, day-out?
Nope. I munch my popcorn and enjoy watching these rigged markets crash and burn while my precious metals investments march higher.
How did you feel several yrs ago when market marched higher and gold crashed?
Great. That’s when I bought more gold.
Ditto. Thanks for the gift of cheap gold & silver, weak hands.
me too! Perfect timing!
Nope. Been liquid for some time. Hope it crashes so I can buy everything.
+1, The Donald
Nope.Still a long road down and still watching how far the powers that be can go to salvage markets, banking and the social unrest to follow.
Perhaps this time down the banking will start a new round of refi’s to put mortgages into the 2% range to keep people in their homes and spending going.
Well not really. Not at all.
The only cure for this mess is…. you guessed it….
Falling prices to dramatically lower and more affordable levels accelerating the economy, curing poverty and driving employment levels like nothing else can.
You still haven’t offered a solution for the root cause of “this mess”: namely, that fact that 95% of the population are morons.
Falling prices to dramatically lower and more affordable levels is the solution.
Marketwatch dot com
Market Snapshot
Losses for U.S. stock futures build as oil gains melt
By Carla Mozee
Published: Feb 9, 2016 8:17 a.m. ET
Sears warns of sales shortfall; Janet Yellen testimony looms
Losses for U.S. stock futures accelerated Tuesday as oil prices turned lower, adding to a global selloff that hit Japanese stocks particularly hard.
Investors awaited jobs data for clues ahead of Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen’s testimony this week. Earnings reports from drinks giant Coca-Cola Co. and drugstore operator CVS Health Corp. should give insight into consumer spending.
Dow Jones Industrial Average futures (YMH6, -1.03%) were down 131 points, or 0.8%, to 15,856. S&P 500 index futures (SPX, -1.42%) sank 16 points, or 0.9%, to 1,836. Nasdaq futures (NQH6, -1.22%) slumped 32 points, or 0.8%, to 3,931.
Pressure on oil prices and continuing worries about a slowdown in global economic growth are behind the global stock selloff. U.S. stocks finished sharply lower Monday, but off their worst levels. Oil prices (CLH6, -0.94%) rose early Tuesday, shrugging off a downbeat report from the International Energy Agency, but have since given up that move. Brent oil (LCOJ6, -0.97%) turned lower.
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Run for cover before it’s too late!
Top News
Tue Feb 9, 2016 | 8:31 AM EST
Global stocks hit the rocks after Asian markets slump
Pedestrians are reflected in an electronic board displaying various stock prices at a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, February 4, 2016. REUTERS/Yuya Shino
By Alistair Smout
LONDON (Reuters) - A drop in bank shares kept European shares under pressure on Tuesday, after losses in Asian markets sent investors scurrying for safe havens.
Turmoil in Asia set the tone for the session, as yields on longer-term Japanese bonds fell below zero for the first time, the yen surged to a 15-month peak and gold reached its highest since June.
After a choppy morning, the pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 turned lower, dropping 1.8 percent. It touched its lowest levels since October 2014 as it fell for a seventh straight day.
The STOXX Europe 600 bank sub-index fell 3.4 percent, leaving it down around 9 percent so far this week. Shares in several Italian banks were suspended from trading after dropping sharply.
The euro zone bank index was down for its seventh straight week, set for its longest weekly losing streak since 1998.
Other growth-sensitive sectors, such as basic resources also came under pressure, as copper fell 2 percent.
In all, world stocks fell 0.9 percent, and S&P 500 e-mini futures were also down 0.9 percent.
Many investors believed that signs of stress in the market for credit default swaps pointed to further declines ahead.
“There is a high probability of a further correction in equity prices, led by banking and energy stocks. There could be a wave of defaults in the energy sector and that will damage the balance sheet of the banking sector,” said Lorne Baring, managing director of B Capital Wealth Management. Slowing global growth was clouding the outlook further, he added.
“We are advising our investors to drastically reduce risk and build protection.”
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“The STOXX Europe 600 bank sub-index fell 3.4 percent, leaving it down around 9 percent so far this week.”
Gee, it goes up 9% in a week and everyone rejoices and everything is great. But when it goes down 9% in a week-fear and panic. I have a feeling that the general population does not live in my world.
CHK trading below $2? Possible bankruptcy? Good God!
Investors can relax today, as the Plunge Protection Team is back in the action.
Marketwatch dot com
Tech stocks gain, energy plays drops as benchmarks hold steady
By Ellie Ismailidou and Carla Mozee
Published: Feb 9, 2016 10:44 a.m. ET
Bank stocks crumble; Janet Yellen testimony looms
Bloomberg
Investors are awaiting Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen’s testimony this week to gauge the central bank’s next moves.
U.S. stocks were dipping in and out of positive territory Tuesday, boosted by a rally in the materials and tech sectors amid a continuing global equity selloff fueled by fears of economic slowdown.
All three main benchmarks opened in negative territory, turned positive but later struggled to hold on to gains.
The S&P 500 (SPX, -0.38%) was down less than a point, or less than 0.1%, at 1,852. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA, -0.54%) was down 40 points, or 0.2%, at 15,991. The Nasdaq Composite (COMP, -0.24%) was up 18 points, or 0.4% to 4,301.
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The small speculators (i.e. the gullible public) are net short on the market according to the latest Commitment of Traders report. Usually, whenever this has happened on our rigged and manipulated markets, the commercial longs have engineered a manipulated run-up to crush the shorts and take their money. Remember, kids, the second mouse gets the cheese. But if Da Boyz are unable to engineer such a short squeeze, then truly it means they’ve lost control of the Ponzi market and to look out below.
http://kingworldnews.com/red-alert-the-public-now-has-one-of-the-largest-short-positions-in-history/
thats what I have been talking about for a long time. How dare the retail investor make any money.
These engineered short squeezes are happening more frequently too.
At the close yesterday it seemed like some real rigging going on.
Az_Donk,
As long as crude continues to fall toward production cost($10/bbl), there will be plenty of opportunities to earn profit.
WTF u talkn about willis?
We are talking about stocks not oil.
Falling prices AZ_Donk. Falling prices my friend.
Consider that what is making the price of oil fall is the same thing that is making stocks fall.
Did you notice how sticky the oil price was at $30/bbl yesterday? Anyone who bought options to pay off at oil prices below $30/bbl got his shorts squeezed.
Fixed, rigged inflated prices destroy an economy.
See housing.
Yesterday was a textbook case of market rigging. The gullible retail investers rush into the market during the first hours of trading, then the Plunge Protection Team moves in around 10:00 a.m., then Da Boyz, having shaken loose shares from the weak hands (or those wise enough to panic first) run up the market for some end-of-day payola. Just like clockwork - until they lose control.
“How dare the retail investor make any money.”
The retail investor makes his money by earning it. After he earns his money whatever fraction of money that is left after paying his taxes is passed it up the line to the one-percenters - where it rightfully belongs.
The stock market does not cause this to happen, the stock market allows this to happen. It is God’s Plan.
Nailed it as usual, Mr. Banker. I suppose the reason 95% of the populace are sheep is because it is in accordance with some divine plan to send bankster “shepherds” to fleece them. After all, that is the purpose of sheep.
If God didn’t want the sheep to get sheared, then he wouldn’t have given them those lovely wool coats.
And walnut-sized brains.
With the dollar tanking, Yellen the Felon may be unable to unleash NIRP and QE4. What will happen to our Ponzi markets without the Fed put?
http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/dxy
Looks like Da Boyz are trying to get the retail “investor” bagholders to buy more stawks.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/nows-the-time-to-buy-stocks-the-stars-are-aligned-2016-02-09?dist=beforebell
this pullback is nothing. Still not even close to the pain that will see investors wiped out again.
How do you think wall street makes so much money?
The Wall Street-Federal Reserve Looting Syndicate has since 1913 been the most efficient swindle ever devised to transfer the wealth of the 99% to the .1%, and to concentrate all political power in the hands of political elites bought and paid for by the .1%. Then the 99% are culturally and genetically dumbed down to ensure the kind of bovine stupidity that causes them to mindlessly vote for their own fleecing election after election.
It’s called investing Az_Donk. There are always losses.
U R SMART
Or gambling in your case.
“Anyone who says the American economy is in decline is peddling fiction.”
–Barak Obama, 2016 SOTU Address
“This sucker could go down” — George W. Bush
Has oil finally stabilized?
CRATER
Marketwatch dot com
IEA warns oil surplus will be worse than expected
By Benoît Faucon
Published: Feb 9, 2016 4:27 a.m. ET
Iran’s return and lack of OPEC cuts are both factors
AFP/Getty Images
Iranian output of oil has increased by 80,000 barrels a day.
The International Energy Agency on Tuesday warned oil prices could fall again as Iranian output increased as part of a broader surge in OPEC output.
The news come after oil sanctions against Tehran were lifted and members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries failed to agree on output cuts.
“It is very hard to see how oil prices CLH6, +0.61% can rise significantly in the short term. In these conditions the short-term risk to the downside has increased,” the IEA said in its closely watched monthly oil-market report.
OPEC’s crude oil output rose by 280,000 barrels a day in January to 32.63 million barrels a day, said the energy watchdog, which advises some of the world’s largest oil consumers.
The boost was driven by sanctions-free Iran, whose output rose by 80,000 barrels a day in January to 2.99 million barrels a day.
Saudi Arabia also increased its production by 70,000 barrels a day to 10.21 million barrels a day. Meanwhile, Iraq set a new output record of 4.35 million barrels a day thanks to increased production of 50,000 barrels a day.
“Persistent speculation about a deal between OPEC and leading non-OPEC producers to cut output appears to be just that: speculation,” the IEA said.
Adding to global oversupply, commercial oil stocks in industrialized nations rose by 7.6 million barrels in December to stand at 3,012 million barrels and they continued to rise in January, the IEA said.
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Has oil finally stabilized?
The real question is, what is going to happen to the dollar? Will the Fed’s relentless debauchery of the currency since 2008 (and since 1913 more broadly) finally result in the kind of hyperinflationary dollar collapse scenario that sees commodity prices soar as the Fed’s Bernanke Bux become increasingly worthless?
I’m pretty fascinated by how a physical glut of oil is overwhelming market manipulators’ efforts to stave off further price collapse. What’s going to happen when they finally run out of storage capacity? It looks like we may know soon enough!
Geopolitical factors might trump the oversupply due to low demand (due to those 94.5 million ‘Muricans “not in the work force” not doing much driving). Turkey and Saudi Arabia are saber-rattling against Syria, and talking about sending in their troops (while quietly humming “Onward Christian Soldiers” to their neocon cohorts). If there is a major regional conflict between the Sunni bloc led by Saudi Arabia, and the Iran-Syria-Russia nexus, the price of oil could go into the stratosphere.
On your mark, neocons…better start working feverishly to get the draft restarted, and this time make sure America’s daughters get to do their fair share….
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-09/saudi-arabia-prepares-send-special-forces-syria-will-fight-part-us-led-coalition
Marketwatch dot com
Oil industry woes grow as storage levels hit ‘critical level’
By Myra P. Saefong
Published: Feb 8, 2016 5:23 p.m. ET
Bloomberg
Storage tanks at Cushing, Okla. are filling up.
The storage tanks at Cushing, Okla., the delivery point for the New York Mercantile Exchange crude contract, are edging closer to their limits, raising a new set of problems for an industry that has already suffered from a 70% drop in prices in the past year and a half.
Cushing, which represents about 13% of the nation’s oil storage, has a working capacity of about 73.014 million barrels of crude oil, according to data from Sept. 2015, the latest available from the Energy Information Administration.
As of the week ended Jan. 29, there was 64.174 million barrels of oil in storage at Cushing, so it is at about 88% full.
“Where inventories count the most—at the Nymex terminal complex in Cushing, Oklahoma—storage is already at a critical level,” said Stephen Schork, in The Schork Report published Monday. “Approximately 6 out of 7 barrels available storage capacity at the Nymex hub are now full.”
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So what does that do to the oil communities yearly plan of shutting down the refineries to ahem, perform maintenance but surely not to drive up pricing. Ah yes, the big boys are starting to loose control.
The oil industry shuts down the refineries in the spring to change over to summer gas which vaporizes at a higher temperature.
It shuts down in the fall to do the reverse. In California this is required by law and there are huge fines if the gas is tested and doesn’t meet the standards for the time of year.
Since the refineries have to shut down anyway, they take the opportunity to do maintenance at the same time. Prior to making the changeover, the storage throughout the system has to be drawn down to a minimum.
Without collusion, firms that didn’t draw down storage to a minimum prior to maintenance would have a market advantage over those that did.
Top News
Fri Feb 5, 2016 | 1:18 PM EST
As Cushing fills with oil, Enterprise among first to face hiccups
(This version of the Feb. 4 item, in 3rd paragraph corrects Cushing inventory to 64.2 million from 62.4 million)
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The unprecedented build-up of surplus crude oil supplies in Cushing, Oklahoma, is beginning to cause logistical headaches for companies moving crude between thousands of steel tanks in the nation’s most important storage hub.
Enterprise Products Partners, a large participant but relatively small operator in the Cushing market, has told at least some counterparties that it is experiencing delays in delivering crude from its tanks, according to three sources who were informed of unspecified “terminalling and pump” issues.
The sources attributed the disruptions to the unusually high level of oil collecting in Cushing, the delivery point of the CME Group’s U.S. oil futures contract. Stockpiles have risen to a record 64.2 million barrels as of last week, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, just 9 million barrels shy of their theoretical limit.
“It’s hard to move barrels around right now because there’s so much oil (in Cushing),” said one trader.
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there is nothing price wont fix.
Out of curiosity I googlemapped Cushing. Whoh. The oil storage facilities south of town are bigger than the town itself, and some of those tanks are larger than the parking lot at the Wal-Mart supercenter.
And Oxy - the startling thing to me - not only the number and size of those tank farms is from my limited view on google earth ground view - how little security it seems there is around these things. There are several batches of tanks that just seem to be in the middle of what was once a cow pasture.
Very cool Satellite pictures.
I wonder when they were taken. You can tell by the shadow that many of the tanks were 1/2 full when taken.
Those storage tanks are incredible, enormous but with the “collapsing” roof that drops with the storage level.
“collapsing”
floating
Nice catch with the floaty shadows! I didn’t see that.
+1 on the security too. The uploaded pictures show just a six-foot fence with 3 strands of barb wire. There must be security cameras all over the place.
We had a wingnut try to shoot a hole in one of our storage tanks with a rifle. No luck. Whatever would damage heavy steel plate would go through said security fence like it was not there. The fence is only to deter graffiti.
To any of the sheeple still holding tech or banking stawks: watch precious metals and gold/silver mining stocks today. If you must sob out loud, please try to do so with quiet dignity.
http://www.kitco.com/market/
XAU
^HUI
With all the turmoil out there, Gold should be zooming past $1,500/ounce.
When the US long bond gets to 1/2 %, Gold should be around $500. More sheeple to be hung out to dry.
You haven’t seen turmoil yet. Gold will get past $1400 within a couple years. And when it does, it will go up faster and past $2300 after that
“Bear Stearns is fine!” Jim Cramer, Mad Money host, before Bear Stearns plunged from $60 to $2 a share.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-09/deutsche-bank-is-absolutely-rock-solid-cryan-tells-employees
+2
It’s +0 now.
How are margin call bagholders going to pay their mortgages?
The system of rigged prices seems to big to let it go down again doesn’t it? Manipulate higher prices seems to be the only game in town.
Until they collapse AZ_Donk.
Here’s how I think it’s going to play out today. Da Boyz will stoke a sense of impending doom, causing the weak hands to dump their overpriced shares. Then the retail “investor” muppets, thinking this is finally their chance to beat the house in the rigged casino at its own game, will rush in with massive shorting of the “doomed” market. Da Boyz, who can monitor the short positions and stop-loss selling in real time, will let the carnage unfold until mid-afternoon or so, then around 1:00 will trot out one of their Fed accomplices to have him/her jawbone about QE4 or NIRP.
Immediately the algos will go wild, and the Great Muppet Slaughter of 2016 will recommence with a vengeance, with the muppet shorts scrambling to cover their short positions. At the end of the day Da Boyz will once again offload their shares, which once again they’ve run up in a totally artificial and manipulated manner. Then tomorrow the game can recommence all over again. Same as it ever was….
Has the Baltic Dry Index ended its freefall?
Baltic index touches new record low on muted vessel demand
in Dry Bulk Market 09/02/2016
The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships carrying industrial commodities, registered a new all-time low on Monday on muted vessel demand.
The overall index, which gauges the cost of shipping dry bulk including iron ore, cement, grain, coal and fertiliser, fell four points to 293 points. The index slid below the 300 mark for the first time on Feb. 4.
The index is yet to rise in a single session this year, tumbling nearly 40 percent and touching fresh lows in 24 of the 26 sessions.
A slowdown in the Chinese economy, which expanded at its slowest pace in a quarter of a century in 2015, and a huge over-capacity in vessels has hit the index hard. Chinese markets are closed from Feb. 8 to Feb. 12 for the Lunar New Year holiday.
“The fundamentals that we are experiencing now are unlikely to change much in the first half of this year so owners and charterers should not expect too much recovery post Chinese New Year,” shipping services firm Braemar ACM said in a note Monday.
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Source: Reuters (Reporting By Nallur Sethuraman in Bengaluru, editing by David Evans)
World Coal
A challenging year ahead for the dry bulk market
BIMCO, the world’s largest international shipping association, has released a new report on the dry bulk market. According to the report, the market faced a lot of headwind in 2015 as dwindling demand and over-supply created very unfavourable market conditions. 2016 has shown no improvements so far and prospects for the rest of the year are not looking promising. With poor earnings across the board the average scrapping age has dropped among all the dry bulk segments.
The capesize segment especially has seen a big drop in the average scrapping age; dropping almost four years from an average age close to 25 in 2014 to less than 21 in 2015. This is the result of a record amount of capesize tonnage that was scrapped in 2015.
Chief Shipping Analyst, Peter Sand, stated: “Despite a relatively low demand for scrap steel in 2015, the demolition of dry bulk ships was high compared to previous years, and the capesize segment was the leader of the pack.”
A total of 15.5 million DWT of capesize tonnage was sent for demolition in 2015 – more than half of the total 30 million DWT of dry bulk tonnage scrapped.
Sand continued: “The extensive demolition activity within the dry bulk shipping industry is expected to continue to climb through 2016. So far, the year has already started well with 4.6 million DWT scrapped in January alone. This increasing demolition is a very welcome development, but a lot more ships need to be scrapped in order to improve on the unfavourable market conditions present in the dry bulk market.”
The average demolition age follows the state of the market or at least the sentiment in the market. 2013 was one of the most volatile years for dry bulk shipping. After a very weak first half, things got better towards the end of the year. The improvement was partly due to some intensive stockpiling ahead of the Indonesian ban on exporting unprocessed mineral ores, posed to go into effect from the beginning of 2014. As the ships were kept busy towards the end of the year scrapping remained low and the average demolition age climbed slightly.
In 2014, the tumbling demand from import giant, China, hit the market hard. With an increase in hydropower generation, Chinese imports of thermal coal, including anthracite, became the biggest disappointment, despite lower prices. Dropping from 192 million t in 2013 to only 165 million t in 2014. This development continued into 2015 where imports reached another low of only 108 million t.
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Ship scrapyards in India - images.
As I understand it old ships are run aground onto the shore and then some very cheap labor is unleashed.
https://www.google.com/search?q=ship+scrap+yard+india&biw=1360&bih=667&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiPh-ej6erKAhUPxWMKHRQ3Dq0Q_AUICCgD
High-five, SH - our AUY is spiking like a mo-fo!
The ride has just begun. When gold gets above $1400 hang on! Mining stocks will go to da moon.
European sovereign risk soaring…looks like the can-kicking by the Keynesian fraudsters at the central banks may have finally run out of road.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-09/european-sovereign-risk-soars-bank-contagion-spreads
lol@degenerate debt donkeys
http://goo.gl/dIbKIm
Opinion: Why U.S. stocks could post double-digit losses this election year
By Chuck Jaffe
Published: Feb 9, 2016 5:08 a.m. ET
The last year of a two-term presidency has been down an average of almost 14% on the Dow and about 11% for the S&P 500
Bill W. was trying to calm his friends and neighbors when he spoke up at a current-events chat at the suburban Boston retirement community where he lives.
“Nothing too bad is going to happen to the market this year,” the 83-year-old former retired school administrator told a group of about two dozen senior friends and neighbors, “because this is an election year and the market always does fine in an election year.”
I asked the group who agreed with Bill’s assessment of what happens to the stock market during presidential election years and all hands went up.
Combined, the people who had asked me to come chat with their investment/current-events group represented about 1,000 years of investment experience, and enough financial success to have moved to a comfortable pricey community where they all expect to live out their days comfortably no matter what the stock market or economy dishes out next.
The people in that room came to their conclusions about election years from practice. They averaged more than a dozen presidential elections per person.
But their faith that the market always does well in election years isn’t actually based on experience or market history, it’s mostly that they don’t remember any traumatic events coinciding with presidential campaigns.
While that view is correct, the idea that election years are always good for U.S. stocks is wrong, and investors who are waiting for the power of the election to turn the market around this year need to recognize that they could be in for disappointment and pain.
Here are the numbers I gave Bill and his friends:
According to the Stock Traders Almanac, election years used to be the second-best year of the four-year presidential cycle. That’s where the perception of the seniors at the meeting came from.
Since 1920, however, the eighth years of presidential terms have represented the worst of election years. While the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA, -1.10%) has posted an average gain of 4.8% in election years since then, the last year of a two-term presidency has been down an average of almost 14% on the Dow and about 11% for the S&P 500 (SPX, -1.42%), according to the Almanac, with losses in five of the last six times a two-term president was finishing up.
In fact, with the recent history of two-term presidents and their final year in office, the fourth year of the election cycle has been worst, on average, for the Dow dating back to 1941.
In other words, the investors haven’t had the kind of experience they assume happens in election years, meaning they should have even less confidence that there will be any election protection for the market in 2016.
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Someone here reminded me of the 2008 election year, last year of a two termer and lo and behold, of course it was bad.
I don’t see any of the D or R presidential candidates being charismatic to cause America to be proud again. How can being anti immigrant be a proud thing? How can endless war and endless surveillance make Americans happy?
I hope the next president won’t be a two termer and will hope he or she does not finish one term.
Rallying the base:
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/268674-time-for-republicans-to-authorize-force-against-isis
No smaller government or less regulation or lower taxes happening here.
Neocons gonna neocon.
Purely coincidental that our Saudi “allies” want an international military force to prop up their proxies in Syria’s un-civil war. Just happenstance. I wonder how many fat Saudi checks are being cashed on K Street and Capital Hill by the neocons and their “think tanks” right about now.
http://news.yahoo.com/syria-rebels-face-rout-allies-saudi-turkey-may-071955719.html;_ylt=AwrTHRKl8rlWixwAqkNXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTByNWU4cGh1BGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw–
Jihadi John and 3 of his ISIS cohorts nicknamed “the Beatles” because of their English accents:
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/unmasked-other-isis-beatles-jihadi-john-terror-cell-n513661
Cueing Jeff Saturday to rewrite some Beatles lyrics for us.
Washington Post real journalists provide a cultural relativist narrative:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-rising-storm-of-ethnic-fear-in-europe-and-the-united-states/2016/02/08/bf0e73a8-ce92-11e5-b2bc-988409ee911b_story.html
“If you like your Iraqi migrant taxi driver raping 10 year olds, you can keep your Iraqi migrant taxi driver raping 10 year olds.” — King Obama
Forward.
As a newly-minted SJW, I find your proclivity to judge the actions of our latest guests and lifetime Democrat voters an affront to my progressive sensibilities. Please stop trying to impose your oppressive Western Christian white-male values on the rich diversity of cultural expression that makes us who we are as a nation: a garden for the vegetables who are True Believers in The Narrative.
Hugs,
A Snowflake
Commie website Counterpunch surprisingly provides a narrative criticizing the FAIL that is identity politics (trigger warning):
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/08/the-curse-and-failure-of-identity-politics/
Warmist Warming Tuesday, as reported by Washington Post real journalists:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/02/08/what-the-earth-will-be-like-in-10000-years-according-to-scientists/
Warmists gonna warm.
Twofer Tuesday:
http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/hottest-year-on-record/
“A large group of climate scientists has made a bracing statement in the journal Nature Climate Change, arguing that we are mistaken if we think global warming is only a matter of the next 100 years or so — in fact, they say, we are locking in changes that will play out over as many as 10,000 years.”
At least they are getting smart enough not to make failed 10 - 30 year predictions that can be so easily thrown back in their faces as male bovine excrement.
Just wait 100 - 10,000 years and you will see we were right!
Please do give us your money now though.
If they didn’t get paid 100 - 10,000 years in advance, this would be a government funded Climate Scientist ordering lunch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ6xBaZ92uA - 252k -
New York Times real journalists provide a narrative, for the children:
“Chief among the changes, experts say: longer and harder reading passages and more words in math problems. The shift is leading some educators and college admissions officers to fear that the revised test will penalize students who have not been exposed to a lot of reading, or who speak a different language at home — like immigrants and the poor.”
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/09/us/sat-test-changes.html
Reading is racist.
Reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic are so archaic and oppressive…emotional intelligence and self-esteem is what our NEA indoctrination mills, er, public education system, should be inculcating in our youngsters.
Oh, wait…they already are. Which is why these half-educated dolts are enlisted into Comrade Pelosi’s Free Sh*t Army as lifetime Democrats at the moment they are handed their meaningless diplomas.
While many black poors and brown poors have no choice but to send their chilrens to the Democrat Party meal program babysitting indoctrination center, this piece I heard this morning details rich whitey building their own pillow fort safe space for their snowflakes. Read and puke:
http://www.cpr.org/news/story/modern-one-room-school-house-coming-denvers-highland-neighborhood
I went to a one room school out in the wilds of Nebraska when I was in kindergarten. The school had one teacher for grades K thru 8 and it worked well.
Younger kids had time to listen as the teacher taught the older kids and the older kids essentially mentored the younger kids. The wide range of ages pretty much prevented the cliques that cause so much grief in our current system.
By the time I finished kindergarten I had a good handle on basic math and was an avid reader. I consider it an ideal approach to education.
Unfortunately my early education was handicapped the complete lack of any new-age touchy feely activities.
My husband went to a one room school house w/ mixed grades, and he was in advanced math classes as he reached pre-teen, and transitioned into a formal classroom setting. 1 of 10 kids in a rural Kansas family. All the kids are smart.
maff be extra hard
Racis.
“The shift is leading some educators and college admissions officers to fear that the revised test will penalize students who have not been exposed to a lot of reading, or who speak a different language at home — like immigrants and the poor.”
What language do the poor speak?
Every single comment said almost the same thing: Test is hard? GOOD. So is college. Suck it up and read and study.
I took the 5-question sample test of wordy math problems. It’s 8th grade math, maybe 9th.
What time is the crow served tonite?
Let’s see if Da Boyz once again arrange an ambush-slaughter of the Muppets using their ability to rig and manipulate these “markets” before we talk about serving up crow.
Perhaps some cooked goose instead?
Wiki says …
“someone’s ‘goose is cooked’ means that they have suffered, or are about to suffer, a terrible setback or misfortune.”
Is Albuquerque Dan back in town? I sure do miss his predictions of when oil will return to $80 / bbl.
Would you prefer Heckyl or Jekyll?
What does a certain fringe of the American electorate find appealing about smarmy, vulgar, autocratic bullies?
Bulletin Sears shares set to open at lowest level since 2003
Donald Trump’s last-minute attack on Ted Cruz may be coarsest yet
By Steve Goldstein
Published: Feb 9, 2016 9:05 a.m. ET
Latest New Hampshire poll, plus John McCain, John Kasich
Reuters
Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump gives a pair of thumbs-up gestures in Manchester, N.H..
On the heels of what polls say will be his first primary victory, real estate tycoon Donald Trump made arguably his coarsest insult of the campaign.
After a woman in a Manchester, N.H. crowd called Texas Sen. Ted Cruz a “pussy,” Trump repeated it, adding, “I never expect to hear that from you again” in a mocking reprimand, according to the Washington Post.
The context for the insult was Trump’s vow to bring back waterboarding that he made during Saturday’s Republican debate.
Sen. John McCain, before the Trump rally, had criticized the real-estate tycoon, according to The Hill. “It is important to remember the facts: that these forms of torture not only failed their purpose to secure actionable intelligence to prevent further attacks on the U.S. and our allies, but compromised our values, stained our national honor and did little practical good,” the Arizona Republican said.
…
For once, I agree wholeheartedly with Senator McCain.
next up, Trump calls Hillary a c#nt.
He should wear this to the next debate.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/a5/89/ee/a589eef1c953ccf5ae524d288bbf59c9.jpg
Wouldn’t be the least bit surprising…
Trump’s behavior is unbefitting of an American president.
Agreed. But if you look at how vulgar and dumbed-down ‘Muricans have become, it might be a winning strategy to talk to them in their own coarse language.
Totally agreed! How else can The Donald’s spectacular success be explained?
I suppose it is partially a reflection of his rival candidates…
I’ll send youse guys a case of smelling salts.
The resident apologist for the wannabe Middle School Bully in Chief has entered the building.
Good morning, Miss Crabtree.
I ask again -
What’s worse? A blowhard speaking foul languages or Nobel piece prize winner bombing hospitals?
Obama: all smiles and fists full of vaseline.
The blowhard says he’s going to bomb the sh!t out of ISIS and bring back waterboarding and “stuff we can’t even imagine”.
So he’s hardly the peace and Constitution candidate.
No one needs to bomb the peewadden out of ISIS. Putin’s got that one just about wrapped up.
The sensitivities are ironic. We have supporters of a President that has and is doing major things unbefitting America complaining that words hurt their feelings.
Out with the old…
Sticks and stones may break my bones
But names will never hurt me.
And in with the new…
Bombs and Drones may wreck your homes
But words will really hurt you.
Seems like Trump is fixing to escalate our Middle East military involvement plus use more extreme tactics than ISIS uses to conduct its reign of terror.
Or am I somehow misreading the proposal?
Or am I somehow misreading the proposal?
Apparently it’s just words, we’re not to believe them.
All 38% of the eligible voters? NBD.
This is the end, beautiful friend, the end….
http://www.businessinsider.com/harry-dent-looks-like-beginning-of-the-end-2016-2
What sort of lies do the central bankers use to spin these cold hard facts?
“Japan can’t seem to get a grip on the fact that, as a country, they’ve been slowly walking off the plank since 1989 back when everyone (except us) thought they were going to take over the world. They actually started experimenting with QE back in 1997, right after the last of its baby boom peaked in spending as we forecast would happen. And in early 2013, they really stepped on the gas, ultimately tripling their QE!
And what does Japan have to show for all that?
In the 20 years between 1996 and 2015, Japan’s GDP has grown by a lousy 0.17% as the country’s been on-and-off in recession.
Inflation has been comatose as well at near-zero, only bouncing temporarily at first with the surge in QE in 2013 forward.
Japan has the highest debt ratios of any major country. Their 10-year bond yields recently sank to 0.045%, which adjusted for inflation is well into negative. And now they’ve officially adopted negative short-term interest rates of -0.10%.”
Worthless housing. Worthless worthless housing. Housing is worth less and less with each passing day.
Thank God for the SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) that helped these Yutes grow up so strong.
New Jersey - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDTMhXyTmlA - 265k - Cached - Similar pages
2 days ago … PATERSON, NEW JERSEY —
Two New Jersey Teens Arrested for Brutal Knockout Attack on Elderly Man in Paterson
They all laughed as the old man collapsed on the street
Gateway Pundit | Jim Hoft - February 9, 2016
They thought it was funny–
This was so disturbing.
A young black male knocked out an unsuspecting old man on a street corner as his friends filmed the assault and laughed.
They all laughed as the old man collapsed on the street.
Two city teens have been charged with assaulting an unsuspecting elderly man as he attempted to cross an intersection, the video of which went viral on social media sparking widespread condemnation and a police investigation.
Police have identified and charged a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old with aggravated assault and endangering an injured victim for the vicious unprovoked attack on the victim as he attempted to cross the intersection of Rosa Parks Boulevard and Van Houten Street, according to police.
Rosa Parks Boulevard
Take a legitimate civil rights movement, mix it with some Cloward-Piven and Saul Alinsky, and put it in the hands of the Southern Poverty Law Center, and this is what you get.
“If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon” — King Obama
Probable concussionball syndrome. Note use of helmet as a weapon.
Michigan Man Convicted of Stomping Girl, 14, to Death After Trying to Kidnap and Sexually Assault Her as She Walked Her Dog
staff@people.com (Chris Harris),People 17 hours ago
On Monday, a Michigan jury found a 34-year-old man guilty of the 2014 murder, kidnapping and attempted sexual assault of 14-year-old April Millsap, PEOPLE confirms.
James VanCallis will likely be punished to spend the rest of his life behind bars when he is sentenced on March 30, according to court officials.
April’s body was found along a hiking trail in Armada, Michigan, on July 24, 2014, and medical examiners were able to determine she died from blunt force trauma and neck compression. Police claim April’s bra had been ripped off and that she was found in a wooded area with her pants and underwear around her ankles.
Authorities claim VanCallis killed April by stomping and beating her to death with his motorcycle helmet and law enforcement officials tell PEOPLE they believe the killer took several precautions to evade capture.
https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/michigan-man-convicted-stomping-girl-222953604.html
“Authorities claim VanCallis killed April by stomping and beating her to death with his motorcycle helmet”
Hang his sorry @ss.
Eerily similar to what the Kennedy’’s cousin did to one of my high school classmates, only he used a golf club.
Which cousin? Tommy or Michael?
“Which cousin? Tommy or Michael?”
I think the only ones who really know that answer are Tommy, Michael and Martha.
Those rich suburbanites are out of control. Going on affluenza induced killing sprees. Cops covering up their crimes.
“Going on affluenza induced killing sprees.”
Sometimes they just rape.
I’m doing a job on the north end of Palm Beach where I drive by the old Kennedy compound where William Kennedy Smith raped the girl from Jupiter (and got away with it) back in the 90s.
Gee, that’s fascinating. Make sure to keep window open so that you can hear any cries for help.
The Kennedy family has moved on Milky but I do check one thing when I am driving that stretch of road, the ocean, and it is right where it was in 1982 when I moved down here.
I guess the latest government bought settled climate science says that’s all going to change in 10,000 years.
Now lets hear that fascinating story about your coworker who named you Milky again.
Think they’d be better citizens if they’re starving? If you want starving animals roaming the streets, you better be willing to put them down.
“Think they’d be better citizens if they’re starving?”
The two city teens who have been charged with assaulting an unsuspecting elderly man as he attempted to cross an intersection?
Yes.
Poverty is a capital crime.
How do you say “neocons gonna neocon” in Hebrew?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-08/netanyahu-s-tv-vision-signals-fox-type-news-is-on-the-way
No smaller government or less regulation or lower taxes happening here.
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Smart Growth Advances Nationally
A special report by Jessica Tirado
“We are witnessing in essence the genesis of a set of rich, diverse and varied coalitions — each member bringing to the whole their own unique interests and views.” -Bruce Katz, Director of the Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy at the Brookings Institution, who foresaw the rapid increase of the forces of Smart Growth.
Fells Point, Baltimore: Fight Turns Into Raging Driver Ramming Cars & People
Written by: Alexis Sostre on February 6, 2016.
Apparently this went down in Fells Point late last night. Fuckin nuts man.
It takes a special kind of anger to try to ram a car into an intersection and then speed off with reckless abandon for everyone around you.
It does sound like a woman got hit by this driver twice, so I hope she’s ok. Just another brawl we can chalk up to Baltimore being Baltimore.
Baltimore fight turns into a driver ramming cars & people - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_GZ0vkPf20 - 224k - Cached - Similar pages
3 days ago
PS naturally I went to youtube to search whether any other angles of this were out there, so I searched “Baltimore fight” and of course I got a Horseshoe donnybrook. Baltimore Horseshoe fight recaps might have to become a weekly Saturday morning blog
HorseShoe Fight 2/6/16 - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeknIwxe8tI - 194k - Cached - Similar pages
3 days ago … Baltimore Casino HorseShoe Fight.
What is it with these people and their culture of gun violence? It can’t all be from concussionball,can it?
Tennessee boy found guilty of first-degree murder after shooting girl over puppy
by Sarah Larimer
Washington Post
The 11-year-old boy was inside his Tennessee mobile home, talking with three girls who were standing outside.
The group included 8-year-old McKayla Dyer and her sister, who was also 11, according to court documents. During the conversation that night, Oct. 3, the boy asked the girls to go get their puppies. The girls declined.
The boy left. When he returned, the documents state, he was carrying a BB gun and 12-gauge shotgun.
“[The boy] then made certain the gun was loaded, cocked the hammer of the gun, and shot the victim just above the heart at a downward trajectory, from a distance of 3-5 feet from inside his window.”
McKayla fell backward and was later pronounced dead.
McKayla Dyer died in her mother’s arms, according to the court documents.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-boy-shoots-kills-girl-for-puppy-trial-20160208-story.html
“The Associated Press reports that Department of Children’s Services officials were working to try to figure out where to put the boy, who had been trained in firearm safety, according to the court order.”
Trained by who?
Who allowed an 11 year old access to a loaded (shot gun?) without supervision?
No charges against the parents or guardians?
Something is missing here Oddie.
I agree, the parents or guardians should be charged too, and never allowed to have firearms again. Who would have unsecured guns around a house with children in it?
Something is missing here Oddie.
Justice in rural America?
If it was a knife it would be different.
Boy, 12, stabbed baby brother to death
Tuesday, Feb 9th 2016
A 12-year-old boy killed his six-month-old baby brother by stabbing him 17 times and cutting off his left hand as he lay in his cot, a court was told today.
Bristol Crown Court was told how the youngster, who is now 13 years old and cannot be named for legal reasons, walked into a Bristol police station on January 19 last year and told officers he had stabbed his brother - then produced a kitchen knife.
Officers went round to the boy’s home in the city’s Withywood area to find the baby in his cot with multiple stab wounds.
Police found the mother of both boys downstairs, and she discovered the baby at the same time as the officers.
Today Mr Roderick Denyer QC, prosecuting, accepted the boy’s plea of guilty of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility. The teenager had denied murder.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-22636/Boy-12-stabbed-baby-brother-death.html#ixzz3zgyF6MF8
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Those people are dangerous.
More selective outrage from Anklepants.
“More selective outrage from Anklepants.”
News Flash
The ruling elite are not afraid of Serfs with knives so there is no need to have their Useful Idiots Demonize them.
Freedom Fighters - Myth busters - NO SUCH THING AS … - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLziZdMrX8U - 181k - Cached - Similar pages
Jan 9, 2014 … The Freedom Fighter crew digs up proof! There is no such thing as a semi automatic Assault Rifle.
Interesting how you defend the white kid that deliberatly shot the white girl, but would happily execute black kids for beating somebody. I gotta give you credit for your honesty.
I sometimes wonder if they’re even capable of perceiving their own blatant hypocrisy.
Lola…. how is it you gryate while wearing heels?
“Interesting how you defend the white kid that deliberatly (deliberately) shot the white girl, but would happily execute black kids for beating somebody. I gotta give you credit for your honesty.”
Interesting how you can see anywhere I defended the white kid.
I asked why his parents or guardian weren’t charged.
The only place I said “Hang his sorry @ss.” was about the white dude Oddie posted…
“Michigan Man Convicted of Stomping Girl, 14, to Death”
So you two @ssclowns take care of your own “selective outrage” and blatant hypocrisy.
A nation of broke @ss loosers:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-09/americans-can-t-help-themselves-from-borrowing-more-on-credit-cards
No surprise that after signing a mortgage for a $500,000 starter home these debt donkeys have to max out the credit cards just to afford ramen.
Add a few 96 month auto loans and tell yourself you’re “living the dream.”
Not from RT.
‘The bodies are just blown to pieces’: Doctors are scrambling to treat the victims of Russia’s air campaign in Syria
The Telegraph
Louisa Loveluck and Hiba Dlewati, The Telegraph
Feb. 8, 2016, 9:54 AM
After five years of war, the doctor working in a Syrian border clinic thought he had seen everything. But with last week’s Russian bombing raids, there was still worse to come. The latest surge in Moscow’s air campaign was causing wounds so extreme that traumatised staff were working 24 hour shifts to cope with the severity and volume of the injuries, Dr Adel said. “We’re not even treating wounds anymore - the bodies are just blown to pieces,” the doctor, director of a rehabilitation clinic near Turkey’s Oncupinar border crossing, said. His staff said that most of the injured were civilians, due to indiscriminate bombing of built up residential areas, including those in which residents were seeking shelter from bombing elsewhere.
http://www.businessinsider.com/doctors-scramble-to-treat-the-victims-of-russias-air-campaign-in-syria-2016-2
lol@lola
Yeah, I didn’t expect any outrage.
But why not?
Your engagement with enragement is causing your derangement.
Russians know how to make war Ww2 style.
“Bill Clinton: Sometimes I Wish We Weren’t Married”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-09/bill-clinton-sometimes-i-wish-we-werent-married
It never stopped Bile before. Did he run out interns to molest?
So the Kremlin is apparently pro-Trump, anti-Hillary or Sanders.
Interesting. Of course, Putin has essentially endorsed Trump, so it comes as no surprise.
There’s something else from zerohedge which is completely devoid of content.
Vile Bile. Still vile.
Fox News declares Trump and Sanders winners in New Hampshire!
Wait, what?
http://mashable.com/2016/02/09/fox-news-trump-wins-new-hampshire/#tEr69RADu5q3
Creepy, IMO. Looks like they already had the story written, right down to percentages and oopsie, let slip.
But, they said “This is a test. This is only a test.”
Not to worry, though. Bloomberg’s warming up in the bullpen. I bet
he announces his candidacy RIGHT on the heels of the primary, lol.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3437816/Billionaire-Michael-Bloomberg-says-actively-considering-independent-run-president-public-deserve-lot-better.html
He’s running because he thinks we “deserve” better. You can make this stuff up.
“You can make this stuff up.”
Can = can’t. Jeebus.
GOP congress says they wont even discuss the new budget. w t f does that mean? what do these guys get pd for?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/obama-release-4-trillion-plus-091803268.html
It means nothing. Just some posturing for the rubes. They’ll cave to Obama like they usually do. Hook, line and stinker.
why does the GOP cave? Why are they so weak and lacking of fresh ideas? Why would anyone vote for these idiots?
Because it’s not caving, it’s doing what your donors want you to do.
Obama proposes a bill that is exactly what the elites want and they pass it. The rest is theater.
“In all, Obama’s budget would increase taxes by $2.6 trillion over the coming decade, nearly double the $1.4 trillion in new taxes Obama sought and failed to achieve in last year’s budget.”
Bernie will save us.
Barney Sanders is pro-debt slavery.
Obama is pulling a Bush, spend like crazy your last yr, let the next guy figure out how to pay for it.
But at least the spending is at home.
Feel the Bern 2016!
And a socialist
Here’s one for the “poverty pimps”
The Unequal Opportunity Race - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHynjESYDqM - 172k -
‘White Guilt’ Video Shown to High School Students for Black History Month
Video depicts minorities falling victim to discrimination, while Whites cruise on conveyor belt
Infowars.com - February 9, 2016
Parents in Virginia were outraged after a high school aired a controversial video purporting to teach a lesson on “white privilege.”
The Glen Allen High School in Henrico is under fire for playing a video entitled “Structural Discrimination: The Unequal Opportunity Race,” in which a pair of male and female minorities are pitted against two male and female white people in a literal, but metaphorical race.
The video depicts the minorities running into obstacles like “slavery,” “standardized tests” and “discrimination” preventing them from finishing the race, while the white people are seen passing the baton between each other and enjoying the benefits of “connections,” “privilege,” and “wealth disparities.”
The video ends with the white male winning the race and the message, “Affirmative action helps level the playing field.”
Outraged parents complained the video is actually about saddling students with “white guilt.”
“They are sitting there watching a video that is dividing them up from a racial standpoint. It’s a White guilt kind of video,” said the grandfather of one student. “I think somebody should be held accountable for this.”
A radio host also placed the blame on the Obama administration’s ongoing agenda to make everything about race.
“Dr. King gave his life so that America would be a place where we are judged by the content of our character not the color of our skin,” radio personality Craig Johnson told KSLA. “Now we have poverty pimps being led by our current president Barack Obama who all they talk about is the color of skin.”
School administrators responded that only a portion of the video was played, but that it was critical in producing a “thoughtful discussion.”
Racialized, financialized, militarized. USA! USA!
Unpossible.
King Obama’s “beer summit” in the White House rose garden solved the issue of race relations forever.
Outraged parents complained the video is actually about saddling students with “white guilt.”
“They are sitting there watching a video that is dividing them up from a racial standpoint. It’s a White guilt kind of video,” said the grandfather of one student. “I think somebody should be held accountable for this.”
So Grandpa is worried about his grandchild’s “feewings”. It’s feels before reals, as someone likes to say.
If this is a real concern, there’s a simple solution which I shared with Albuquerque Dan a year or so ago. A person is only responsible for his or her own behavior. It makes no sense to feel guilty about things that other people have done just because your skin resembles theirs.
Twitter Announces Partnership With Islamists, Feminists to Restrict Free Speech
“Social media giant organizing “Trust & Safety Council” with Islamists and feminists”
http://www.infowars.com/twitter-announces-partnership-with-islamists-feminists-to-restrict-free-speech/
“Twitter is organizing a “Trust & Safety Council” with Islamists and feminists to “prevent abuse, harassment, and bullying,” which critics point out will lead to mass censorship on Twitter.”
“The social media giant already characterizes users who disagree with someone’s opinion on Twitter as “engaging in abusive behavior” and allows feminists and radical Islamists in particular to flag users who speak out against them.”
PC=Tyranny
Resist
Meh, just shut the dang thing down. The world will be a better place. It’s kinda stoopit to begin with. Although I do admit to bookmarking Trump’s Twitter feed and checking it every day.
Your use of it keeps it going. Make up your mind.
I’m not a member. I don’t really use it, in that I don’t post or follow anyone, except for the Trumpster’s feed. Just to see what he’s saying.
Trump
Donald Trump. An esteemed statesman with a squad of sexy strumpets.
C’mon, man, it’s primary day! Post a pic! Make me proud to be an American.
Gladly and I share in the pride.
http://goo.gl/wl36Uk
All of a sudden I have a hankerin’ for some wings.
Dig in. There’s plenty more wings.
http://goo.gl/MLm2YQ
Why renters aren’t buying (spoiler alert: unlike 95% of the ‘Murican electorate, we’re not stupid).
http://www.businessinsider.com/financial-advisor-insights-february-9-2016-2016-2
“I’m not about to conform nor bend for anybody’s expectations”
To the contrary, he acted just like I expected he would if he lost.
Like a big pouting baby.
Newton defends actions at Super Bowl: ‘I will not conform’
By STEVE REED, AP
2 hours ago
Carolina Panthers’ Cam Newton answers questions after the NFL Super Bowl 50…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Cam Newton isn’t apologizing for acting like a “sore loser” after the Super Bowl.
The league’s MVP has been widely criticized for walking out of a three-minute press conference after a 24-10 loss to the Denver Broncos on Sunday in which he answered questions with mostly one- and two-word responses while sulking in his chair wearing a black Carolina Panthers hoodie over his head.
“Show me a good loser and I’ll show you a loser,” Newton said Tuesday as players cleaned out their lockers at the team’s downtown stadium.
Newton said he believes the situation is being overblown by the media, and added he doesn’t plan to change how he reacts to losing just to appease his critics.
“If I offended anybody that’s cool, but I know who I am and I’m not about to conform nor bend for anybody’s expectations because yours or anybody’s expectations would never exceed mine,” Newton said.
The quarterback went on to say, “Who are you to say that your way is right? I have all of these people who are condemning and saying this, that and the third, but what makes your way right?”
I don’t entirely disagree with him.
“I don’t entirely disagree with him.”
I don’t agree or disagree with him, he is what he is.
He runs around posing and playing Superman in front of his opponents and beams at the podium when he wins and he pouts and doesn’t want to answer questions when he loses.
Doesn’t really matter anyway, I doubt he ever makes it back to another Super Bowl. Great athlete, but not a great quarterback which was on full display this past Sunday. Once he loses a step he’s done.
Oh come on phony, cut the malarkey. We all know why you don’t like Cam. The same reason you host the Daily Black Crime Report.
And “we all know” you’re no more in Brazil than I am in Alaska.
Your point?
Trump
He lives in your head.
Americans are quitting their jobs like crazy, and this is good news for wages.
The latest monthly “Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey” (JOLTS) showed that in December, the total number of quits was 3.1 million, the highest level in a decade, while the quits rate was 2.1%, the highest since April 2008.
Now do you really think wages will triple or quadruple to meet grossly inflated prices?
Don’t be foolish.
Prices will continue falling to dramatically lower and more affordable levels to meet wages, accelerating the economy like nothing else can.
As I predicted: Da Boyz deployed one of their Fed hirelings to talk up the possibility of NIRP and thus prevent a market bloodbath.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-09/former-fed-president-demands-negative-rates-combat-terrible-fiscal-policy
good job Obama, creating jobs!! Fixing Bush mistakes
(today)
The report also showed that there were 5.6 million job openings during December, the second-highest ever, and more than the expectation for 5.41 million.
Are you sure?
Labor Force Participation Rate Plummets To 37 Year Low; Jobless Population Soars To Record High
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000
Millions of living wage jobs disappearing, to be replaced by minimum wage, no-benefits waiter and bartender jobs. Heckova job, Obama….
gov cant force co’s to pay you more. gotta earn it.
Don’t forget all the 29 hour a week jobs brought to you by Obamacare.
Heckova job, Obama….
Anklepants at work
https://goo.gl/DJEd93
I need some more equity to pay bills !
Rent a room to Lola. You two make a fine pair Az_Donk.
SWEAT EQUITY BIRD DOGGER
A fine fine pair.
Our permanent Democrat supermajority needs the felon voting bloc to elect ever more corrupt “leaders.” Forward!
http://news.yahoo.com/ex-felons-vote-maryland-now-says-yes-210641377.html
Hillary Clinton paid $675K for three speeches to Goldman Sachs. None dare call it bribes for services rendered during her “public service.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/clinton-speeches-218969
The oligarchs like their media lapdogs to be Quisling propagandists, just like they like the voters to be stupid, amoral, and docile when they pull the lever for the oligopoly’s political puppets.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ff-adelson-review-journal-20160209-story.html
Fear-contagion spreads to Japanese banking system.
http://wolfstreet.com/2016/02/09/fear-hits-japanese-banks-nikkei-plunges-10-year-yield-negative-for-first-time-ever/
While Hillary tosses Wall Street’s salad for profit, the 95% of ‘Muricans who did the same by voting for the .1%’s annointed Republicrat water carriers Obama, McCain, and Romney got nothing for their services.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2016/02/09/report-hillarys-goldman-sachs-speech-transcripts-would-bury-her-n2116991
who wants to go to walmart or the dollar store?
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/365694500000-merchandise-trade-deficit-china-hit-record-2015
Seems a lot of that cr@p at the dollar stores finds its way to a landfill real quick.
I imagine a lot of it comes through the port of long beach.
New Hampshire results trickling in. In contrast to 2008 and 2012, when 95% of the electorate tossed Wall Street’s salad by voting for its annointed water carriers Obama, McCain, and Romney, New Hampshire voters are bucking the status quo and throwing their support behind Trump & Sanders.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2016/feb/09/new-hampshire-primary-results-polls-us-election-2016-live-coverage
too late to sell those drug stocks and bio tech funds.
I idly will anpbolish taxes. Nobody will stop the surveillance state. Nobody will stop the wars and murders of innocents abroad. Nobody will stop the police state from killing over 1000 Americans per year. Nobody will abolish victimless crimes and reduce the worlds largest prison population.
I am voting for that Nobody.
“Nobody will abolish taxes…” (Dam iPad)
janet yellen needs to throw the market a lifeline tomorrow, not an anchor! LMAO
Yellen the Felon will all but promise NIRP and QE4. Bank on it.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-09/what-yellen-could-say-tomorrow-unleash-market-surge
Will markets tank tomorrow? The Oligopoly has to be rattled by the New Hampshire results, which don’t bode well for its water carriers HillaryJeb, Rubio, Cruz, et al. The oligarchs must be shocked: based on 2008 and 2012, they must’ve smugly assumed that 95% of the ‘Murican electorate would bend over for them on demand by voting for their puppets, but now that assumption is in doubt - and the oligopoly hates uncertainty above all else. This is going to send a shiver down their spines as they contemplate the horror of the intelligent but managable 5% of the population, which has always resented their control over our political process, joined by a great mass of voters they had previously written off as irredeemably stupid and docile. The horror, the horror!
Bought more PMs & mining stocks today. Why? This epic rant from a ZH poster nails it:
These f-ers are going to print hard enough to wake the dead. They’ll print like mo’fos, print like mad men, print like fly pimps. Print until their eyes bleed.
They will print via the swaps, via bank bailouts and mergers, via fixed Treasury yields, via real honest-to-God negative interest rates, via loans to banks on no collateral, via payroll tax reductions, and in the end via actual fiat paper instruments which they might very well drop in bails from actual mutherf-ing helicopters.
They will not give two figs what anyone thinks.
Here is why.
Because this is the Goddamned end of it my friend. There is no accounting beyond this point. There will be no history of it. No one to take notes of rates of exchange, or of the graft and violence, nobody to worry about the deficit or the GDP or the national debt of any nation large or small under the blazing Goddamned sun.
End. Of. It. Does anyone bitch about how Rome totally debased their coinage at the end? Hell no. But whoever did it had enough to hand and grabbed some land with a nice vineyard and sat back and waited for the Middle Ages to start 700 years further on.
And that’s what a singularity is about. Anything that passes through is striped of all meaning. Nothing we think is important now will remain so beyond the event horizon. Nobody will remember, nobody will write about it, nobody will be held to any standard. Ever for evar.
So yeah, they’ll print like the mad crazed terrorists they are. Because they have nothing to lose, and maybe something to gain. Maybe a dollar. Maybe a day. Maybe a slim chance to escape with some of the loot. Whatever the fuck advantage they see in it, for themselves and their elite crap wanking buddies, they will full-on-full-time-f-ing do it to advantage.
Watch for it, Dawg. It’s totally on this time, on like Donkey Kong. And when the dust is settled in a generation hence it’s going to have become another unbelievable episode among the ages of men.
some people get off on end of times talk it seems
Congratulations, Donald! You worked hard for that win. Now, don’t forget you owe Scott Brown big time.
“It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men’s property, which they had not before, as individuals.”
I wouldn’t walk across the road for Trump or Sanders, even for $100. I would for $10 million, then renounce my citizenship and move to a tax haven. Politicians are not monsters. The ones who admire them or vote for them are monsters. The order followers are monsters,
Hillary won notable support only among the Boomers, who rival her in sheer fecklessness and amorality. Go figure.
http://www.nytimes.com/live/new-hampshire-primary-2016-election/bernie-sanders-wins-every-demographic-group/
Farewell, lizard queen.
Are lower gasoline prices motivating other sectors to increase their prices as a way to scalp the extra money consumers have? We are on our way to seeing gasoline prices at the pump from 2003. Twelve years of fuel cost inflation going poof. Are prices coming down on many things though?