Morning Audibles

Today's thread is going to be what many American households do for dinner (or what they might find themselves even more frequently as present policies are continued)... LEFTOVERS...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leftovers

Yesterday was an interesting day... It'll hopefully keep your attention easier if I just "bullet point" events rather than provide narrative (at least in the beginning)...

- We had a serious break in PM Markets, (ostensibly on news of upping silver margin requirements)...
- Obama has conveniently skipped town after his party was soundly trounced in the elections, is off in Asia on his knees begging for forbearance on our debt, on a diplomatic mission, with a fleet of warships by his side...
- And this... my favorite... Missles being launched from under the Pacific Ocean, 35 miles off the coast of Los Angeles, under the noses of the US Naval Fleet... & neither NORAD, the DoD, nor anybody can offer any explanation as to whose they were, or where they came from...

That last one had me laughing into the night... So much so, that I'd considered making todays thread simply about the top 20 "explanations"... The BEST of the BUNCH goes to Marla Singer (from Zero Hedge), who, with no comment... Summed everything up perfectly... (hat tip: Marla Singer/Zero Hedge)

It's probably all we can do to laugh and poke fun at such things (and yours truly does that ALL THE TIME)... But by the same token... I read a comment like this and realize that I'd BETTER DAMN WELL take some things seriously and take whatever steps I may as an individual...

COMMENT FROM THREAD

"A missile pops out of the water in US Territory near one of the most densely populated areas on the country in an earthquake region and we get half ass answers that it was no big deal and not a threat?


They need to take this shit seriously and convey to everyone that they take this shit seriously. Fucking Balloon Boy was given a more serious response than this..."
 
But what does anyone expect? Preparedness? The BOY SCOUTS motto is "be prepared"... Our effing POTUS is someone who probably understands the concept of "preparation" about as well as Antoine Dodson... &, at this summers Boy Scout National Jamboree was "booed" as his image came on the screen to deliver an address... He didn't happen to have the time (as other Presidents have done), to put that appointment on his busy calendar...
 
So instead, we're left with our own conjecture as to what it might have been (and here's the best we can do with all our blazing technological superiority that we need to spend trillions more on)...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w_DqhpMuFY

 
I like the fact that on this blog everyone talks tape, and tries to understand TECHNICAL ANALYSIS in looking at market movements... When this blog started it was called "traders-anonymous" (and still has that URL), but I've long since changed to SURVIVOR CAPITAL... The reason being, is that I believe that if you're a "trader" (in the markets), you're seeing the itty bitty dew drop, on the fern leaf, at the bottom of the forest floor, under the huge overhead canopy, of the Amazon Rainforest...
 
So while it's great that everyone here is a trader, and understands all the gears of the Swiss Watch so well, it WOULD BE SAD, in application... If "real life" occurrences were to disrupt anyones ability to do good work... Unfortunately, you may have to perform that brain surgery in a hurricane on a ship at sea...  
 
The truth is... We have an inept government, and a corrupt banking system... Reflected by this hilarious comment (on the missile thread)...
 
by centerline

on Tue, 11/09/2010 - 16:32
#713563

"Ben returning to his home planet now that ours is set for self-destruct?"

Again... Good for a laugh... But the question remains...

Why is the whole world just a sound byte? Moreover - Why are people like myself "ridiculed" for the QUAINT preparations that I suggest (on a different level of "prepare")... FOR FREE...

Is everyone REALLY that confident? Nothing bad could ever REALLY happen? And if it does... Why do you think that it will only unravel in an orderly way? That you have time? That there will be NO CHAOS in the process of 350,000,000 Americans, who are woefully unprepared for any disruption of service whatsover, to find themselves "needing" supplies (if only to manage a disruption that might only last a few days, or weeks)...

Like... um... Katrina... (oh - well - that was only something like .0000000001% of GDP... so nothing bad actually happened there... did it?)... There were no murders, no looting, no shortage of supplies, the police didn't abandon the area, law & order was in place, people weren't shooting at rescue helicopters, the GOVERNMENT response was adequate... Move along... Nothing to see... .00000000001% of GDP was all it was... Not worth noting...

Hey... Don't listen to CV... Move on to all the other "smart" people out there... Listen to their POV's instead... Actually - I'm quite serious when I say that... Because it appears to me that even Ritzy is "getting with the program" a little... (Hat tip BR... & a good start... but now let's work on some of those Boy Scouting skills... At minimum, it'll help you to be able to clean barnacles off your yacht)...

Kiss Your Assets Goodbye If Certainty Reigns: Barry Ritholtz

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-10/kiss-your-assets-goodbye-if-certainty-reigns-commentary-by-barry-ritholtz.html

 
It's certain that our POTUS has no clue... Ask yourself about the concept that our "Commander in Chief" is a NOBEL PEACE PRIZE winner... I'll get hate mail for typing that because, as with 90% of what I write, people will INTERPRET the statement incorrectly and peg me as a war monger (which is 180% from the truth)... As with most things that CV says... It would take more than the gifted "2 seconds" of consideration for anyone to understand any metaphors that I try and seed your minds with...
 
And as for "metaphors"?... Well - this one might be apt to conclude this thread with...
 

November 10, 1975

 

"That good shippin' true was a bone to be chewed

when the gales of November came early..."

 

 

"Does anyone know where the love of God goes

When the waves turn the minutes to hours..."

 

They might have split up

Or they might have capsized

They may have broke deep & took water

 

But all that remains

Are the faces & the names

Of the wives, & the ons, & the daughters"