Pure Rhetoric to create panic in the market to instigate a sell off. Markets up 25% YTD, yes execs and other "big players" will take the profits and keep them liquid until the market drops 30% or more then swoop in and go "bargain shopping".  Look at the graphs of most stocks just in the past 6 months. Choose to sell a...more

I just found two lottery tickets sitting in my room mixed with a stack of papers on my dresser that were 6 months old. I didn't have the same luck after cleaning the pile and discovering my tickets. Both losers! Guess in the future I will allow my room to look like a scene from the TV Series Hoarders and have my MOM ye...more

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For those of you who truly believe the government does not have the ability to manipulate the price of gasoline please re-educate yourself on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. My thick head is going to buy Nosgoth a happy hour drink to loosen him up a bit, probably buy him two to make him more human like, nope, decided ...more

I apologize Nosgoth I forgot anyone with a law degree has no sense of humor and is unable to recognize tongue in cheek humor. However, as a Federal Narcotics Inspector I will remind you the word GOD has been removed from the Pledge of Allegiance from the public school system. Also, as a self professed law degree holdin...more

Oh paano, look up jesse ventura h a a r p watch the full length option that comes up. Let me know in forty five minutes what your answer is then.

Nosgoth, The conversation revolves around gas prices and politics for two reasons.  1. Every time a hurricane, earthquake or a republican has a bowel movement the price of gas is  affected.   2. Katrina was a perfect example on how ill equipped the government is prepared to handle emergencies. Their response to ...more

Actually its basic politics. Regardless of your persuasion, there is a ideation called Politically Lobbying. Standing in front of that line is the "BIG" Oil Companies. Commodities are manipulated by political forces affecting supply and pricing. So, yes, Politics does play a key role in gasoline pricing. Here is the la...more

Please keep everything in context. The new prediction of the end of the World is now October 21, 2011 due to a mathematical error and misunderstanding by the prophet Harold Campings. Of course, that day will pass and then we have 12.21.2012. All I need is the dow to  break the 15,000 point barrier so  I can afford one ...more