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| Well, a great question. Especially when it concerns our recent "bail-out" crash and the concerns it brings to all of us. I have no money to invest with; I can barely maintain this slender thread to the Internet at my disability income of $339 each month (except when it is ZERO because the people who are lucky enough to have a job at the DSHS make mistakes.) All I can do is "shrug" and fight back when this happens.
However, I do have some suggestions, as usual ~ and here I present a few of them, garnered by sifting through some 28 year-old-song lyrics ~ and my fresh investigative research into the 2008 Stock Market.
First, these song lyrics from a really incredible and progressive band that had a chance to become The Next Big Thing, though timing ~ and name recognition, as they say, are everything. Name of the band: Russia. Name of the debut album: Russia. The year, not so hot for the name pick: 1980. Anyway, I have their album, in fact three copies of it.  Yes, I know they were that good. In any event, at least prescient, perhaps, those 28 years ago . . .
Remember, it's all about the metaphor.
(song lyrics, ©Russia, 1980)
"Fight Back"
You're standing - on your own - two feet
from in the shadows,
You're dreaming - your own dream
it's raining unaccountably,
Some baby steals your candy
Somebody paints the scenery,
Some joker - stockbroker - pulls the rug
out from under you . . .
Just when you'd thought you'd seen it all . . .
Time after time after time -
Fight back, understand it
Fight back, understand it!
You're smilin', "she's lying"
some other guy is history
You're losin' her magic
It's draining unaccountably
Some baby steals your candy
Too much, too sweet, too soon
Some plumber, all-thumber
pulls de plug out from under you . . .
Just when you'd thought you'd seen it all,
Time after time after time.
I'm making - my own time - in case of
an emergency;
I'm talking my own line
Please, don't you bother telling me
Some baby, steals your candy:
Too much, too sweet, too soon . . .
Some joker, StockBroker - pulls the rug
out from under you . . .
Time after time after time,
Fight Back, Understand it!
Fight Back, Understand it!
Fight Back, Understand it . . .
~~~~~~~~~Song Ends~~~~~~~~~
Anyway = here are my research results and non-stockBroker suggestions:
Guess what, people? We can live without oil. It won't be fun, but we can do it. Water, however, is a different story. Without it, we die in less than a week. And of course it's essential to everything we do -- drinking, cooking, bathing, agriculture, manufacturing, even oil drilling!
Maybe that's why Warren Buffett has been investing in water technology stocks. Maybe he knows that water will be to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th . . .
Along with visionary oilman, T. Boone Pickens, who owns more water (and Natural Gas, don't forget that) than any other individual in the U.S. - and is looking to control even more . . .
Legendary money managers Chuck Royce and Stanley Druckenmiller are piling in, too . . .
In fact, this opportunity has the characteristics that the world's most successful investors (the smart money) look for over and over again . . . so, what are we, the people with some scant money to invest, waiting for?
Here are some H2O investment tags:
Just look at these gains last year from water technology companies . . .
CCC -- stock up 283%
HDRX -- stock up 325%
PNR -- stock up 528%
WWAT -- stock up 630%
My labor, free for all, to inform those of you who are solvent enough to invest. | | |
| At the recent McCain and Palin Republican political rallies you can hear it. A certain density holds this tremor in the air, harshly palpable to your ear and the suffocating decibel is horrifying. You look through your growing anxiety, hard to breathe in, startled at the rage, expecting to see pointed white hat sheets with angry eye-holes, yet there are none. There are no flaming torches, yet you think you see them. Republican tongues rail into their cacophonous crowd and all focus is directly against Barack Obama, the Democratic Presidential nominee, while this puppet show becomes a macabre 'Punch and Judy' performance, though the satire is missing. The Republican strategists, led by new hire Tucker Eskew, smile a pleasant inner peace at one another, knowing they have done well. Stirring the crowds to a peak frenzy of an inner, once repressed hatred, this dance of stink retorts, "Kill him!", "Terrorist!", drowned in the fleeing rationality once present within hearts and minds, but perhaps I give too much credit here. Even the Press is attacked, for they must be Liberal. "Sit down, Boy," someone yells from the haze, "You fucking nigger," wails another voice, spitting at the American cameraman. Yes, American. Meanwhile, in Great Britain, a man is shot three times for wearing an Obama t-shirt with the word "Believe" scripted below Senator Obama's image. The shooter is a white man with a shaved head, yelling epithets and racial slurs before pulling his trigger. The victim is dark skinned. Christian groups are imploring Governor Palin to stop the lying. In a group letter to her, they write (sic) "We ask you to stop spreading these false attacks against Barack Obama. As Christians, we must all remember that Jesus taught us to love our neighbors as we love ourselves and that you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor, your brother. We call upon you to issue a retraction and apology, to refrain from using these attacks any further, in your political campaign. We implore you to raise your campaign above this base level." It's down to this, people. Racial hatred is all the Republican campaign has left to sell; Fear and Hate, courtesy of the ghost of Lee Atwater, Karl Rove's mentor and Tucker Eskew, the newer brainchild, hired to 'train' Sarah Palin. Why is this? Because they are finished, that is why this is; they have completely run out of any substantial material that supports any position they have on the issues. The only way they can see their path to the White House and the further control of this America... this country, is by way of these lies, these manipulations, these encouragements to their followers to hate Barack Obama. Explicit and overt hatred, bottled as vitriol, a snake oil stirred to frenzy intentionally, by the Republican nominees, their true faces exposed in the sunshine. "If you tell a lie often enough it becomes the truth." says McCain to his group, ignoring the mirror, projecting his own methods onto his target with the best aim he can muster, white foam spittle is forming on his lips. Meanwhile, Palin postulates to her minions, "Senator Obama pals around with terrorists! He does not view America the same way as you and I do!" They both mean this; I am now going to tell you the biggest lie that is the truth. With unwinking eyes, Captain James Tiberius Kirk looks keenly at Norman, "Now, listen carefully. I am telling the truth. Everything I say is a lie." "If you are telling the truth, yet you say everything you tell me is a lie, and that, yet you are telling the truth, this is illogical... illogical... illo...gi.. cal..." Norman, the mechanoid, is finally disabled, completely shut down by a clever Captain James T. Kirk, soon after telling this hapless humanoid that everything he tells him is the truth, but he is lying... While James Tiberius Kirk is a fictional character from the Star Trek series, John McCain and Sarah Palin are real; at least as real as their 'act' can portray in their manipulating course to the highest seat of government in America. Welcome to our modern day nightmare of Lies. Remember this, too. Republican strategy is to mandate that we all "Don't look here! Look over There!", while they are doing exactly what they say the people 'over there' are doing. We in America seem to fall for this, every time. Will we survive this cacophonous dissonance? These lies, that burn us down inside our souls if we allow them to, so much that our bodies ache for peace? And let's face the truth here, too many of us do allow the lies. A primal, adrenalin fueled, limbic reaction is easier than giving some objective thought to our worst behaviors, a direct result of raising our old fears, when all we really want is to evolve into the consciousness needed to stay above it all. My fear, you ask? The primal hatred of our own kind is foreign to me. Why is it not foreign to all of us? Peace. Voice. Action. Truth. ©The Blue Balloon, 10.07.08, by Steven DiBernardo "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared." ~Thomas Jefferson"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."~James Madison Source Link to Tucker Eskew http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/mccain-hires-go.html | | |
| Time to write here, once more, perhaps millenia more... should our invention of time allow it. The_Blue_Balloon has returned after nearly 4 years away. It was just too intense during the 2004 Election and it was very hard to continue writing after witnessing the 2nd abduction of America by the Neo-Cons that Con. Since then, every informed mind and spirit must realize we are about to see it happen in 2008, on a much grander scale, than we have at any time in the history of America and more importantly, our entire world. So I have returned, to celebrate our first through fourth amendment rights at the least, until they haul me away for daring self-expression. If the Fourth Estate is now owned primarily by the extremists coorporate Neo-Con right, then we bloggers have become what once was a foundation in the structure of our deeds in this United States of America. We are all here in the face of certain deadly restrictions being placed upon us by the most dangerous game that has no rules, rewritten rules with evil intent to suspend us into the poverty of support to the rich. Many uninformed minds simply do not want to change, they are comfortable in their ignorance. But ignorance will never be bliss. Not here. Not now. Not ever. My writing was pointedly political during the 2004 season. This time, it will have a more omniscient content, for I do not want to become the focus or be embraced by the myopically reflected insanity in this mirror; I refuse, this time, to be embalmed by the lie. I enjoy breathing in and out too much for this to happen once again, for this time I aim to live up to my youthfull exuberance, the optimistic 17 year old who wrote, "Put Being Human back into Human Being". I tire of this modern-day icon I've become, withered into more cynicism than I could ever have imagined. ~Peace. Voice. Action. Truth. ~Steven~ | | |
| Photo Gallery of Nightmares ~ Sweet Bird of Truth?
What's wrong with these pictures? You be the judge.
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Two-Day Economic Forum barely tops "Summit", the featured theme of Financial Challenges for Today and Tomorrow is apparently quite challanging.
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Don't worry Mr. President. What you can't see won't hurt you.
Note that the caps are still on the binoculars.
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Poll Worker in Ohio transferring ballots from 42 precincts to undisclosed location.
Note the obvious partisan display for Bush-Cheney in window.
Here's the Black Version ( no... contrary to what you may think, I am not a proponent of prejudice... )
Because, here's the White Version ... twin daughters of different Mothers? Fathers? Who really knows. It must be me. They look identical. Bush Me...
If our government has their way... we will never know.
Oh my - it's MORE than Ohio? Wow...
Thank you, Ezekiel... you mean, it's MORE than the man? Is it "the ring"?
Oh... so this is the final salute to the military...
Ahhh... the true revelation.
Hmmm... amazing they finally got the bumper crop right..
... because and effect ...
Our Bush, in his true element ...
"Ra ra ra - Iraq is my craw ... just believe my missed mexages ..."
Oh well ... better luck next time, eh?
Close ... requires a new definition ...
Ahh... yes, close and a spelling bee... by definition. It MUST be on purpose, for no one is THIS bad?
Further Deponent Sayeth ... not??
Once more, for old time's sake, eh?
All close-knit sphincters (a la conservative Army Brats, apparently) need not apply... you are all gay, fellas... aren't we ? We who love pussy so much? Ack! No, thanks, we're really gay! Because, we are all phucked by this administration!
Oh my... Isn't that Rumsfeld???
Gawd, after THAT New Gollum/Smeegle... I need a drink!
If only... there was no end date in this photo... 40 years is nothing!! ... Just Imagine ...
That is THE Question, apparently...
One clue to the answer ...
... another clue to the answer ...
Ahh finally; something that the mainstraem media can suggest IMPEACHMENT for ... Bush is really Bernie Kerik? In any case, this is Bernie's Maid (Made) read... Nanny.
Ya think? Oh, that's right. No Way! All Military clones REPORT~!!!
Report! We MUST destroy Blue Archipelago!! NOW!!
Oh, yeah... that's right - only those NOT involved with The New American Century!!
Really?? It just seems that we are AWOL now...
Ahhh... no WONDER many are AWOL ... we just don't want to be ... well, you know...
Oh, Christ, the Lord.
Rossi, freely translated, is NOT happy this Christmas... hey Bud; Join the Fhukking Klub!
Simply amazing... isn't it?
The Truth is somewhere... oh where, oh where can it be?
Oh... here it is... that's right, this is the American Truth.
Isokay God ... we're in here somewhere...
Can you still find us?
"No, sorry... as long as things like THIS are closer to the truth, I, God, have no idea where you are..."
"They're dead, Jim..."
You know what, Mr. Miller...? It may all be a tad too late, Sir."
Oh yeah... this is a pic of those peps who challenge rational thought... BOOYAH!!!
Yes, she is 12 years old... yes, she was killed by American Soldiers... they thought she was an insurgent...
Oh, that's right... !! We're NOT suposed to tell the Mainstream Press this shit! Oops...
Are you SURE there's intelligent life here???
I doubt it...
Are you SURE this isn't Rumsfeld??
Yes, it's the past... AND - the Future!
"There won't be any casualties..." President Bush to Pat Robertson in a "private" confab, 2002.
Want Work??
Oh, that's right = Right! Wellfare Rules!!
Christmas Carols anyone?
Happy New Year!!
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