NUKE_CLEVELAND

QUOTE(Texsox @ Dec 23, 2007 -> 10:42 AM) I believe you meant back to where they came from. Maybe Buffalo won't be ordering that burger in proper English I believe you misunderstood what I said. Read it again closely and then buy me a number 4 combo meal.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Dec 23, 2007 -> 12:09 PM) Would someone "on the other side" please explain to me what the big deal is about an illegal being here, not committing crimes or using our system is? I much rather have some of them instead of our own home grown criminals. How many "parasites" in this country are american citizens, NUKE? This'll be a blanket response to you and the others who questioned my "parasite" comment. First, they break the law the moment they cross the border. That makes them criminals from that moment on. Second, many of them steal people's identities or falsify a new one. That makes them criminals twice over. Third, and this one really eats me alive, the amnesty crowd goes on and on about the "contribution to society" these parasites make. Of course they leave out the fact that whatever the pittance they pay in taxes while here is dwarfed by the amount of money states must spend on services for the parasites. Every time they visit the emergency room, every time they put one of their criminal children ( yes they too are criminals too once they cross the border ) in public school, every time one of them hits another driver with their POS 1980 Chevy ( you think these bastards have insurance? HAH! ).....etc.....etc.....etc..... they cost you and me and everyone else money. This runs in the tens of billions of dollars a year nationwide. Fourth, we are also laying out a god awful amount of money to house illegal aliens who commit further crimes after they arrive here. All of this madness is because of politicians who are too weak to deal with the problem, or are co-opted by business interests looking for cheap labor, or are pandering to the Mexican community for votes. Its a total disgrace how the government allows this to go on day after day and year after year. Santo, to answer you specifically on "American parasites", I have no love lost for them either. I've gone on and on in this forum about how much I hate the safety hammock.....er I mean safety net that is the American welfare state.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/22/immigrant...e.ap/index.html This is some really good news. It shows what can be accomplished when you drain the swamps ( employers that hire illegals ) that these parasites flock to when they come here.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Dec 23, 2007 -> 09:41 AM) http://www.themonitor.com/opinion/fence_75...ials_levee.html Basically it's pork. Build the fence on the levees and fix the levees in the process. Funny, this would be the biggest public works project down here in 80 years. Hundreds of millions of dollars. Initially every community on the Rio Grande River came out against it. Now they will line up and figure out how to get a little something in exchange for their cooperation. One thing I can always count on concerning the leaders on the border, they always figure out the angle to get theirs. With respect to Sinatra: Start spreading the pork, their building today I want to be a part of it - my pork, my pork These government rubes, are longing to spend Let's get to my part of it - my pork, my pork Funny how you choose to label as pork something that protects our country from the daily invasion of foreign nationals as "pork" when there's billions of dollars in really useless spending out there for you to rail against. But then you actually believe their presence benefits us anyhow so I guess its natural.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Dec 19, 2007 -> 06:45 PM) Well, the big oil companies certainly don't deserve our tax dollars. There claims of 'too poor for research' is kind of funny seeing their huge profits. Too bad the Dems are too wimpy to put up any kind of fight, at least force a filibuster instead of folding every time they hear a filibuster threat. Now this I agree with. It's extremely wasteful to hand companies making billions of dollars billions more dollars in subsidies. That is utterly shameful and a total waste with us being so far in debt.

Consensus??? LOL!!!!!! Yeah right. http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?Fus...c8-3c63dc2d02cb 400 different climate scientists from a broad range of Universities and Governmental organizations on record as saying the current warming cycle the earth is going through is not man-made. You have to love how the chicken-little enviro-alarmist crowd, headed by AlGore can just declare a consensus and then scream LA LA LA LA!!!! when voices of dissent arise.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Dec 20, 2007 -> 11:11 AM) I didn't know if he would have a shot at a Christmas leave or something like that... Looking at my patrol schedule, my truck crew is scheduled to have Christmas eve off.........if that counts.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Dec 20, 2007 -> 09:20 AM) It sounds like April if I read it right on his latest entry? Sometime toward the end of April if what they're telling us now is accurate.

Its been awhile since my last entry but there has been nothing to discuss since then. My unit still patrols our sector exclusively at night and I'm beginning to think it's a complete waste of time to even leave the wire. Since nobody is out during the night ( thank chilly weather and the midnight to 5 am curfew for that ) there's nothing to do out there. Most nights we'll do a foot patrol around the area for a couple of hours to make sure things are on the up and up but the remainder of the time gets spent swilling coffee and cutting each other up with crude jokes. It's pretty safe to say that our little slice of south Baghdad is thoroughly pacified. The stores are all open, homes and infrastructure are being rebuilt, people are moving back to the area in droves from wherever it was they fled to earlier, there have been no attacks of any kind in months and on and on. This current state of things is radically different from how it was when we first got here. As of now we're down to 4 months on our tour so hopefully things stay quiet and we get to hand off a nice area to the unit that replaces us.

QUOTE(NUKE @ Nov 30, 2007 -> 11:15 AM) Probably a good trade but for the wrong reason. We got as low as 1405 earlier in the week and now we're knocking on resistance. 85 points on the S&P is a lot to digest in one week. I bet you we're above that level by year end though. Took only about a week to close firmly above that 1490 resistance. Barring any major bad news we're headed back for the old highs I think.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Dec 3, 2007 -> 04:54 PM) For SHAME! http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071203/ap_on_...ation_in_debt_4 this debt is out of control and spending is horrible. and it looks like the GOP is about to nominate GW Bush II (Huckabee). i wish that one of these guys would think that Jesus told them to lower the debt. seems like that is the only way they would do anything about it. That is one thing that really is bothering me is that none of the GOP candidates have a plan to even balance the budget let alone reduce the debt. How much debt do we have to be in before we get a sense of urgency on this issue?

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-shep...mate-conference Seems this conference of hypocrites can't find enough room to park all their private jets. So much for sacrificing to save the planet. LOL!

Seems that the U.S. has done a better job of curbing carbon emissions than these high and mighty, stuck up pricks in the EU who constantly bash us for having not ratified this piece of trash treaty. Article needs a membership but I posted a quote from it. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1196647108...ew_and_outlooks

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,314584,00.html HAHA!!! The loudmouth commie bastard dealt a humiliating defeat in the polls. I love it!

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 2, 2007 -> 12:49 PM) The Des Moines Register, highly respected when it comes to keeping accurate poll tabs in Iowa over the years, has a new poll out... Huckabee: 29% Romney: 24% Giuliani: 13% Thompson: 9% McCain: 7% Paul: 7% It doesn't seem like Rudy even has any interest in these early states. He's getting his clock cleaned. If Huckabee can string together a few early wins he might just have a good shot, especially if the social conservatives turn out in large numbers. They don't want a Mormon with flip flopping views of abortion and they DEFENITELY don't want Rudy.

QUOTE(jackie hayes @ Nov 30, 2007 -> 08:11 PM) No, for allowing 7-year old Muslim children to name a teddy bear. Even better. Im surprised these Islamic thugs aren't out demanding the kids in the class be killed because they have been "tainted" or something lame like that.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Nov 30, 2007 -> 05:35 PM) So, the one part of your claim that I haven't yet seen justified to my satisfaction is that the pro dem questions were specifically solicited by CNN. Granting you the whole General in the Audience thing, can you provide any other evidence to support this claim? The fact that they were allowed to vet the questions beforehand? Does that not count for anything? It's perfectly clear that CNN cherrypicked the questions in order to embarrass the GOP candidates and make a mockery of the whole thing. Objectivity my ass. The Republicans should tell CNN where they can stick it the next time they want to do a debate and go with Fox News instead.

The Dems are REALLY furious these days and I would be if I was in their position as well. They have failed to do anything concrete to end the war since taking office, which is getting them killed among the leftist, anti-war wing of their party. Additionally, they are being forced to eat buckets of crow for judging the surge strategy before it even started and lo and behold.........it's working! Now they're in the awkward position of defending their blindly defeatist statements even in the face of growing military success.

QUOTE(Cknolls @ Nov 30, 2007 -> 08:57 AM) The Fed doesn't have a Band-Aid big enough to cover up the festering wound. I'm selling the 1490 level in SPX when it touches this morning. Probably a good trade but for the wrong reason. We got as low as 1405 earlier in the week and now we're knocking on resistance. 85 points on the S&P is a lot to digest in one week. I bet you we're above that level by year end though.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,314111,00.html Followers of everyone's "religion of peace" are conducting mass protests in Sudan calling for the execution of a British teacher for simply naming a teddy bear "Muhammed".

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Nov 28, 2007 -> 11:01 AM) 50 BP? If some really gi-normus piece of bad news comes out between now and the 11th you can bet on it. Barring that I think we get another quarter point.

QUOTE(Cknolls @ Nov 28, 2007 -> 10:49 AM) The sharpest rallies occur in bear markets. This will not stick. I believe you have to sell the rallies instead of buy the dips. If you would have said that last week I would have agreed. The bears tried to knock down the market yesterday about 2:45 or so and failed where they had succeeded in several previous days. I think they have shot their load, at least for the near term.

QUOTE(Cknolls @ Nov 28, 2007 -> 10:49 AM) I am simply saying that according to the DOW THEORY, we have been in a bear market since July. CFC is running out of money. They have borrowed over $52 billion dollars from FHLB in Atlanta. The only way they can attract money and originate new mortgages is to hand out over 5.50% on a 6 mo. cd. That is insane right now. Oh, and their dividend should be a goner too. My mistake. Im not denying that CFC is really in deep doo doo but unless it goes belly up ( which I don't think will happen ) then someone like BAC might make a bid. Also have you heard the rumors about Citi and BAC doing a merger? I dont lend them a lot of credence but it is helping stir things up today.

QUOTE(Cknolls @ Nov 28, 2007 -> 10:14 AM) But according to DOW THEORY we have been in a bear market since JULY. Why? Because last week we finally took out the lows in the DJIA. That was the only thing stopping a Dow Theory sell signal because the transports had already made a new low a couple weeks ago. So once they both make new lows you have to go back to their highs to find where the bear market started, and that would be in July. I just think this 10% number can be interpreted the same way people interpret when we are in a recession. I'm still $25 bid for C. And CFC is going to zero. Dow 12K if the Fed lowers rates 50 bps. All they will be doing is pushing the contagion further out on the curve. How can you say we have been in a bear market since July when the Dow and S&P ran to new highs back in October? No. I may not be the most educated man when it comes to investing but I think this market finally got washed out early this week and has bottomed. Speaking of Countrywide and a few others that have been destroyed lately, who is to say they won't get a takeout bid down at this level? At 9 a share I could easily see them getting bought, especially since they've been cleaning up their books. P.S. Im really, REALLY glad I bought my Goldman when it was down at 205 a few days ago.

QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Nov 26, 2007 -> 06:07 PM) so other than Evan Bayh who do you guys think fits this moderate model??? I feel that it has to be a male, a female/female ticket might just be too much for some. Thinking of southern govenors/senators...... I do wonder about Wesley Clark. The Clinton camp was the one pushing him to run in '04. He choose not to in '08, once Hillary made her intentions clear. That's a really interesting thought right there.