AmenRa's Corner 3.16.12



Creditcane™: Struggling against me is not good for your health.


SPX
Bullish short day. Midpoint above EMA(10). Holding above all SMA's. Holding above the 0.0% retrace (1359.44). Still testing the upper trend line. New high on daily 3LB changes (reversal is 1364.33). QE2infinity.



DXY
Bearish long day (confirmed bearish harami). Midpoint above EMA(10). Tested and failed the 50.0% minor retrace (79.96). Still above all SMA's. Daily 3LB reversal down (reversal is 80.57).



VIX
Doji day. Midpoint below EMA(10). Failing all SMA's. Tested and held its 100.0% retrace (14.27). New low on daily 3LB (reversal is 16.80).



GOLD
Spinning top day. Midpoint below EMA(10). Tested and held its 50.0% retrace (1649.30). Tested and failed SMA(233). No daily 3LB changes (reversal is 1711.50). Still above monthly 3LB mid. Must have the precious.



EURUSD
Bullish long day. Midpoint below EMA(10). Tested and held SMA(55). Tested and held its 50.0% minor retrace (1.3145). No daily 3LB changes (reversal is 1.3465).



JNK
Spinning top day. Midpoint below EMA(10). Tested and failed SMA(21). Tested and failed its 38.2% minor retrace (39.62). No daily 3LB changes (reversal is 39.88).



10YR YIELD
Bearish short day. Still above all SMA's. Midpoint above EMA(10). Tested and held its 61.8% minor retrace (22.85). New high on daily 3LB (reversal is 21.07).



WTI
Bullish long day. Tested and held SMA(21). Midpoint below EMA(10). Tested and held its 50.0% minor retrace (106.97). No dally 3LB changes (reversal is 109.77). Not confirming the monthly 3LB reversal down.



SILVER
Bullish short day. Tested and held SMA(55,89). Midpoint below EMA(10). Tested and held its 38.2% minor retrace (31.77). No daily 3LB changes (reversal is 37.20).



BKX
Spinning top day (evening star forming?). Midpoint above EMA(10). Still above all SMA's. Holding above its 61.8% retrace (46.14). New high on daily 3LB (reversal is 47.49).



HYG/LQD
Bearish long day (confirmed handing man). Tested and held SMA(233). Midpoint above EMA(10). Tested and failed its 50.0% retrace (0.7942). No daily 3LB changes (reversal is 0.7706).



COPPER
Bearish short day. Midpoint above EMA(10). Tested and held SMA(21). Holding above its 50.0% retrace (3.802). No daily 3LB changes (reversal is 3.987).



AAPL
Spinning top day. Still above all SMA's. Midpoint above EMA(10). Failing its 0.0% retrace (594.72). No daily 3LB changes (reversal is 533.16).




IT HAS BEGUN. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

48 comments:

cv said...

NCAA Brackets 2012 = "Bust-ola"

I could have survived both Duke & Mizzou losing...

But Memphis State losing probably totally did me in (even if the rest comes out correct)...

Anonymous said...

cv--

what was the 'Vegas Line'/'Odds' on that Lehigh v. Duke -Tilt?

needless to say, that Lehigh was Great!

as well, Xavier over ND was a, major, +

now, Who likes Whom? in the Lehigh v. Xavier match-up? (??)

AAIP

b22 said...

Xavier's PG is a beast, Tu Holloway

I like Xavier

Anonymous said...

yeah, it blows, I like Xavier--was hoping that they'd beat-back ND..

and, obviously, would like to see Lehigh win (again)..

(at the min., it's Good for the Local Economy/Morale)
~~~


Comment Text:

Dear CFTC Staff,

Hello, I am a current JPMorgan Chase employee. This is an open letter to all commissioners and regulators. I am emailing you today b/c I know of insider information that will be damning at best for JPMorgan Chase. I have decided to play the role of whistleblower b/c I no longer have faith and belief that what we are doing for society is bringing value to people. I am now under the opinion that we are actually putting hard working Americans unaware of what lays ahead at extreme market risk. This risk is unnecessary and will lead to wide-scale market collapse if not handled properly. With the release of Mr. Smith’s open letter to Goldman, I too would like to set the record straight for JPM as well. I have seen the disruptive behavior of superiors and no longer can say that I look up to employees at the ED/MD level here at JPM. Their smug exuberance and arrogance permeates the air just as pungently as rotting vegetables. They all know too well of the backdoor crony connections they share intimately with elected officials and with other institutions. It is apparent in everything they do, from the meager attempts to manipulate LIBOR, therefore controlling how almost all derivatives are priced to the inherit and fraudulent commodities manipulation. They too may have one day stood for something in the past in the client-employee relationship. Does anyone in today’s market really care about the protection of their client? From the ruthless and scandalous treatment of MF Global client asset funds to the excessive bonuses paid by companies with burgeoning liabilities. Yes, we at JPMorgan that are in the know are fearful of a cascading credit event being triggered in Greece as they have hidden derivatives in excess of $1 Trillion USD. We at JPMorgan own enough of these through counterparty risk and outright prop trading that our entire IB EDG space could be annihilated within a few short days. The last ten years has been market by inflexion point after inflexion point with the most notable coming in 2008 after the acquisition of Bear.

I wish to remain anonymous as of now as fear of termination mounts from what I am about to reveal. Robert Gottlieb is not my real name; however he is a trader that is involved in a lawsuit for manipulative trading while working with JPMorgan Chase. He was acquired during our Bear Stearns acquisition and is known to be the notorious person shorting in the silver future market from his trading space, along with Blythe Masters, his IB Global boss. However, with that said, we are manipulating the silver futures market and playing a smaller (but still massively manipulative) role in manipulating the gold futures market. We have a little over a 25% (give or take a percentage) position in the short market for silver futures and by your definition this denotes a larger position than for speculative purposes or for hedging and is beyond the line of manipulation....

Anonymous said...

Via: Wired:

More and more personal and household devices are connecting to the internet, from your television to your car navigation systems to your light switches. CIA Director David Petraeus cannot wait to spy on you through them.

Earlier this month, Petraeus mused about the emergence of an “Internet of Things” — that is, wired devices — at a summit for In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital firm. “‘Transformational’ is an overused word, but I do believe it properly applies to these technologies,” Petraeus enthused, “particularly to their effect on clandestine tradecraft.”

All those new online devices are a treasure trove of data if you’re a “person of interest” to the spy community. Once upon a time, spies had to place a bug in your chandelier to hear your conversation. With the rise of the “smart home,” you’d be sending tagged, geolocated data that a spy agency can intercept in real time when you use the lighting app on your phone to adjust your living room’s ambiance.

“Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters — all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing,” Petraeus said, “the latter now going to cloud computing, in many areas greater and greater supercomputing, and, ultimately, heading to quantum computing.”

Petraeus allowed that these household spy devices “change our notions of secrecy” and prompt a rethink of “our notions of identity and secrecy.” All of which is true — if convenient for a CIA director.

Posted in Covert Operations, Dictatorship, Rise of the Machines, Surveillance, Technology |

http://cryptogon.com/?p=28074

ibid.

cv said...

@AAIP (other thread ~ last)

It's all good...

I think the misunderstanding then, was that I hadn't made it clear that the 'autopick' draft that I was referring to was actually a MOCK DRAFT (a 'practice' one ~ which doesn't count)...

& the rest followed...

~~~

Lehigh ~ Duke (yesterday)

FYI ~ This is my main source for line 'lookups' (becauser they have this little calendar bot on the right side of the page that you can get archived lines on games that have already gone OFF)...

http://www.scoresandodds.com/grid_20120316.html

Looks to me like the ML on Lehigh went off at +695 (essentially 7-1)...

~~~

& FWIW... I like Xavier... Hard to beat dem 'Jesuits' in anything... Effin Gonzaga took down WVU & Georgetown advanced as well...

cv said...

Norfolk State was +2250

qqqqtrader said...

OT: sorry, LOL

SPX 10yr Rolling Period Performance

...and it's inflation adjusted too!

cv said...

I clicked on ITT Technical...

U kno... So I can get me sum ejjucashun...

Hope you made a 'pre 83' penny...

cv

qqqqtrader said...

lol cv, shouldn't reply while driving but i've been finding wheat pennies lately in kona. prolly some young kid aquired them and buying candy.

Anonymous said...

cv--

FYI ~ This is my main source for line 'lookups' (becauser they have this little calendar bot on the right side of the page that you can get archived lines on games that have already gone OFF)...

http://www.scoresandodds.com/grid_20120316.html


thanks, that site is a good one, esp. with: "...little calendar bot on the right side of the page that you can get archived lines on games that have already gone OFF)..."

AAIP

Anonymous said...

Goldman Roiled by Op-Ed Loses $2.2 Billion ... Smith Resignation Costs Goldman Shareholders $2.2B ... Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) saw $2.15 billion of its market value wiped out after an employee assailed Chief Executive Officer Lloyd C. Blankfein's management and the firm's treatment of clients, sparking debate across Wall Street. The shares dropped 3.4 percent in New York trading yesterday, the third-biggest decline in the 81-company Standard & Poor's 500 Financials Index, after London-based Greg Smith made the accusations in a New York Times op-ed piece. Smith, who also wrote that he was quitting after 12 years at the company, blamed Blankfein, 57, and President Gary D. Cohn, 51, for a "decline in the firm's moral fiber." They responded in a memo to current and former employees, saying that Smith's assertions don't reflect the firm's values, culture or "how the vast majority of people at Goldman Sachs think about the firm and the work it does on behalf of our clients." – New York Times

Dominant Social Theme: Dig up Pecora and let him run a commission.

Free-Market Analysis: Hoo boy. Here's what we really need: New "Pecora Hearings." is this why Goldman is being pilloried once again?

Is it a deliberate hit job of sorts? Certainly it is compelling. People hate the system so much that even the alternative news media goes along when it comes to Goldman Sachs.

It never seems to occur to anyone, even the brightest of the alternative media minds, that this is the way the power elite works. Do they ever set up a dialectic they don't control? "They" OWN Goldman Sachs it seems to us. Goldman works for "them" ... and "they" are offering up this firm like a sacrificial lamb.

But the stakes could not be higher. The end of the US system of capital-raising is being oiled and greased in Washington thanks to the constant drumbeat of anti-Wall Street news.

The guillotine is being sharpened. The screws are being tightened. It is almost time for the show to begin.

And what a show it will be: Political theatre designed to reduce what is left of Wall Street entirely to an adjunct of Washington, DC.

In the process it will accomplish what Alexander Hamilton long dreamed of doing 250 years ago: Reconfigure the Republic and turn it into a version of European nation-states...."

http://www.thedailybell.com/bellinclude.cfm?ID=3705&order=asc#FeedBackStart

AAIP

Web Bot said...

@BBJL (cinquanta quaranta tre)

Many entrepeneurial BOOK -ease, use that site because it's of of the few places that they can do their accounting without dispute...

I wouldn't know anything about that though being as much as I'm a random web bot...

cv said...

@qqqq

Wheat pennies... SWEET!

You just made 250% on your money... (no taxes)

http://www.coinflation.com/

Better, even, than my fantasy sports rake...

~~~~

Even better than "nickles bitchez"... Only difference is, with nickles, it's still pure profit... You don't have to sift thru the wreckage to find the value...

To put it into perspective... I think I said "nickles bitchez" (for the first time on this blog) about 2 years ago...

So... On a timid, let's say $20 a week exchange program (fiat for nickles exchange at the local bank)... One could have accumulated:

52 weeks X 2 years X 10 rolls of nickles = $40

That's 41,600 nickles...

OK... Now let's say the dollar gets devalued (which is ABSURD because we know it NEVER will)... But just for FUN...

I've said many times that throughout history, coinage (especially in more valuable metals), tended to retain its fractional value in the new currency... Remember... US coins are issued by the US Government NOT the Federal Reserve...

So let's say the dollar REVALUE is something like 10-1... (apply ANY math to this)...

It means that your nickles have a value of 50 cents on the dollar in the new currency...

41,600 X .5 = 20,800 (for a $2,080 investment, which wasn't even an investment at all because it was a ZERO RISK... It will always be worth $2,080 if none of the above happens)...

~~~

It took Kyle Bass a little bit of time to catch on to cv's logic... But I'm glad he came around...

Anonymous said...

Gold is money of Kings.

Silver is money of gentlemen.

Barter is money of peasants.

Debt is money of slaves.

H/t: Weekend Watering @ Cobrasmarketview http://bbs.cobrasmarketview.com

qqqqtrader said...

cv, thought about it and if I can make a few bucks from the ads, I'll just buy silver. It cost me nothing except for my time and it'll be 100% profit. Oh shit, forgot Goofle will prolly send me a W2 so less taxes, it'll be all profit.

Went to Walmart to buy some drinks, noticed the Sobe 0-calorie drinks I buy went from $1 even to $1.25... Gatorade G2 is also up 2-bits. Started looking around and noticed alot of stuff priced around $1 is up about 25c....hmmm

cv said...

But none of that really matters... does it?

saving dimes... saving nickles... all that crazy stuff...

~~~

For example (1964):

- a gallon of gasoline cost 30 cents (3 dimes)...

TODAY those '64 dimes could buy you $2.36 x 3 = $7.08 (which is roughly 2 gallons of gasoline)... While your 1/10th of a dollar FIAT dime buys you less than 1/10th of a gallon of gas...

http://www.1960sflashback.com/1964/economy.asp

~~~~

- Let's say... In 1964... You'd decided to take $20,500 to the bank & buy rolls of dimes... You'd have gotten 205,000 dimes for your effort...

Take those to a coin shop today & they're worth $2.35 per dime... 2.35 X 205,000 = $481,750... (not a bad house ~ especially since you avoided paying for about 3 roofing jobs, unlimited upgrades, property taxes, etc. all the while to maintain it)...

http://www.1960sflashback.com/1964/economy.asp

~~~

- DOW Jones?... Somewhere averaging 850 back that year... so 8500 dimes would have bought you PAR on the DOW... (.1 x 85 = 850)... Now it would buy you 20,060 DOW...

http://www.1960sflashback.com/1964/economy.asp

So what's lagging here?

My simpleton guess is that it's fiat...

~~~

The 'other side' of the proverbial coin is that the COIN itself is in a BUBBLE...

& I'm sure it's going to come crashing back down to earth very soon because one knows when you print trillions upon trillions upon trillions more of 'debt' denominated in a PAPER CURRENCY...

It gains value...

Right? Right?

cv said...

Roman inflation in numbers...

http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Money_and_banking_in_Ancient_Rome

From at least the 4th century B.C.. the Roman government bought grain in times of shortage and resold it at a lower price. At 58 B.C. was the law changed: every citizen should receive free wheat. To the surprise of the government, most farmers left the country to live in Rome without working. To deal with the increasing economical problems, the emperors gradually began to devalue their currency

~~~

It'll never happen here though... We're WAAAAAY smarter than that... After all ~ we were smart enough to elect Bush & Obama [which is PROOF of our intelligence]...

Jetpacks coming in 5...4...3...2...

qqqqtrader said...

guess it all ads up to not live beyond the means you have. Try to stay ahead of "the game" and protect yourself if/when SHTF.

Julian Assange Australia Senate Run

cv said...

The 'money shot' (from the link)...

"The silver currency was basically abandoned, so much that the government started to demand payment of taxes in kind and in services instead of coin. Constantine the Great issued the golden solidus in large numbers. The government moved away from collecting taxes and paying salaries in kind, and began to use gold. But taxes had to be paid in gold bullion, as the government refused its own coins, since was never sure how adulterated the coinage really was. The inflation of lesser coins continued, even cities were free to make their own token coins. Most people had to buy gold coins to pay taxes with, those who couldn't afford it lost their lands or became delinquents. So there was a relatively stable 'gold standard' used by the growing number of soldiers and civil servants, and an increasingly worthless currency for the rest of the citizenry.

A rapid decline of their fortunes and personal freedoms followed"

Anonymous said...

"...The 'other side' of the proverbial coin is that the COIN itself is in a BUBBLE..."

cv--

you Know that is 'What is Up!~'

before too long, that Bubble is gonna Pop!

Suckers (those Betting on 'Hard Assets') are going to be 'skinned alive'..

Crate, upon Crate of worthless Bars of Gold, and Silver Coins will be found piled up, by the Street, their Owners praying that 'someone' comes by, in the middle of the Night', to take them off their hands..
~~~

- Let's say... In 1964... You'd decided to take $20,500 to the bank & buy rolls of dimes... You'd have gotten 205,000 dimes for your effort...

True Story, following..

that C*nt that used to 'puppet' "Lambchop", did a "PSA", purportedly for the U.S. Mint, in '65, claiming there was a "Change Shortage"..

and, People, to do 'their part(to alleviate the 'Shortage')', needed to bring their 'Piggy Banks' (to the local Bank Branch) and 'turn it into 'Deposits'/'Dollars'...

from here, alone...

1960 55,416,000 1,691,602
1960-D 192,582,180 0
1961 73,640,100 3,028,144
1961-D 229,342,760 0
1962 97,384,000 3,218,019
1962-D 280,195,720 0
1963 178,851,645 3,075,645
1963-D 276,829,460 0
1964 1,028,622,762 3,950,762
1964-D 1,787,297,160 0
1965 136,131,380 2,360,000*

http://www.coincommunity.com/us_nickels/jefferson.asp

further..
http://www.coincommunity.com/us_coin_facts/

you know, it was a Total Crock....(the 'PSA)

AAIP

Random Weblog Syntax Clarifier/overlooked Fact adder-backer said...

that C*nt that used to 'puppet' "Lambchop", did a "PSA", purportedly for the U.S. Mint, in '65, claiming there was a "Change Shortage"..
~~
that C*nt that used to 'puppet' "Lambchop", did a "PSA", with the f****** Puppet, purportedly for the U.S. Mint, in '65, claiming there was a "Change Shortage"..

cv said...

If you wanna get some laughs (& spend some time)... Oughta read thru the comment section on this one...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/%E2%80%9Cwe-are-far-turnkey-totalitarian-state-big-brother-goes-live-september-2013

~~~

I laugh because we're beyond the point of serious... Half the thread is the comments just "yukking it up" as to the idiocy of TPTB...

It's truly fun (if you have the right frame of mind)...

Anonymous said...

Lil’Asset: The Modern Slave Doll You Love to Hate

Posted by 99percentspace on March 16, 2012 · Leave a Comment

The first time you see Lil’Asset, all dumb and pudgy, you will feel the irresistable urge to squeeze it. Real hard.

Go ahead, it won’t complain. See?

Soon you will realize that this lump of putty was created for one purpose and one purpose alone: to be squeezed by you.

In fact, if it weren’t for your untiring grip, the lil’ tard would spend all day sitting around with its thumb up its sweet lil’ asset, as they say in French.

But don’t expect it to thank you; it’s too stupid to appreciate your effort in this regard. If you find its lack of gratitude frustrating, try burying it under 400 Lbs of printed legalese gibberish and debt currency. Its head might explode, but the body won’t complain…

What? It dared squeak? Time to whip out the orange jumpsuit accessory and get medieval on Lil’Asset! Lock it in the dark, play Justin Beiber at it, hold it upside down in the toilet, let the pooch chew on it… be creative! Strike the fear of dog in its heart and see the terror in its eyes as it stares at you in stricken silence…

Just how much can it take before bursting?

That’s between you and your sweet Lil’Asset to decide.
http://99percentspace.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/lilasset-the-modern-slave-doll-you-love-to-hate/

ibid.

Anonymous said...

cv--

here..
http://99percentspace.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/lil_asset_slave_doll.gif

do you 'ken' why the "Certificate of Live Birth" is 'part of the Picture' ?

AAIP

cv said...

@AAIP

Have you ever seen those machines in the supermarkets (over the past year or so), that take your coins & spit you out cash (you know ~ for your CONVENIENCE)?...

I think it's COINSTAR...

Who do you think owns those?

cv said...

@AAIP

I have to be careful here because my COIN fixation actually does have boundaries...

It's not like I have my entire net worth in nickles (contrary to popular belief)...

But I believe that the nickles themselves represent a FREE... (read that FREE FREE FREE FREE) insurance policy against a currency collapse...

At much LESS a premium than most people pay for annual car insurance, or life insurance, or medical insurance, etc. etc. (which are essentially PUTS that expire worthless)...

Yes ~ CV is the raving lunatic on this blog...

Anonymous said...

cv--

here..
http://99percentspace.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/lil_asset_slave_doll.gif

do you 'ken' why the "Certificate of Live Birth" is 'part of the Picture' ?
~~

go with some 'Answer' to the above Q: ....

AAIP

cv said...

@AAIP (8:45)

do you 'ken' why the "Certificate of Live Birth" is 'part of the Picture'?

~~~

I confess that I don't know the story in detail... But I think it has something to do with the fact that the United States is actually not a country, but a corporation...

Social Security numbers & certificates of live birth have been pledged [long before you or I were born], to a debt payment structure... [to a NOT TO BE MENTIONED conglomerate]...

~~~

But we ought not get into that... It only serves to unravel some folks...

cv said...

Also...

The "paper" (which is the certificate)... Is at the TOP of a "pyramid" of paper...

How quaint...

Anonymous said...

cv--

you know, if (or, IF..(if, one chooses..)):

"...But we ought not get into that... It only serves to unravel some folks..."

'unravels 'some folk'', then, really, I say, "let them be(-come) Yarn"

or, IOW, that's their F****** Problem..
~~

and, w/: "...But we ought not get into that... It only serves to unravel some folks..."

of course it is.(Period.)

for, "What else is a Plantation, but for its Slaves?"

AAIP

cv said...

@AAIP

"PROFITS"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk0Zo3fx4JM

~~~

(8:00 - 8:45)

One of my favorite movie scenes of all time...

cv said...

The less FRN's I hold or hoarde... ('digitally' or otherwise)...

The less of a plantation slave I feel like...

cv said...

Remember...

- gold
- silver
- nickles (Cu/Ni)
- lumber
- land
- food
- guns

ARE NOT DEBT SLAVERY NOTES... They are Liberty...

Anonymous said...

cv--

that 'Clip' is Funny..

and, yes, 'Jack Reed', succinctly, summarizes that which Smedley Butler (among (many) others) left to 'Posterity'..

~"it's a _______ Racket.."

AAIP

Weblog 'Massive' "Cut 'n Paste" Error/____ Up/"Point(-er) Out(-er)" said...

@21:29

The "paper" (which is the certificate)... Is at the TOP of a "pyramid" of paper...

should have been, instead of..

and, w/: "...But we ought not get into that... It only serves to unravel some folks..."

then..

"...of course it is.(Period.)..."

for, "What else is a Plantation, but for its Slaves?"

AAIP

qqqqtrader said...

Ahhhh, profits!

I'll take all I can... now with google ads, that makes 4 income streams. I'll take all the paper I can get and when the SHTF and the dollar is worthless, I'll have the lumpiest mattress this side of the mississippi!

cv said...

@qqqq

Put a link up to your blog everyday...

I'll go there a couple of times a day just to click on some ads...

When the ads for "Sugar Daddy Dating Service" arrive, you'll know you've arrived...

cv said...

@Andy @Amen

On that note, this is y'alls blog now so you can do anything you want with it... If you want to give what "q's" is doing a whirl than they's your prerogative...

I never really did it (for my own reasons), but my own reasons have nothing to do with anything you guys might want to experiment...

Andy T said...

Could there be a better weekend?

St. Patrick's Day PLUS Final 32 Hoops going???

Had a fantastic St.Patty's day party that i'm still recovering from....

Nickels...yeah, i'm still long nickels too...

And yeah...the Jetpacks are coming....

Becoming a Vodka Snob said...

So a couple three weeks ago some of you were talking about how running cheap vodka through a Brita water filter would make it better vodka, so I took some Monarch Vodka and ran half of it through and saved the other half and as I reported a couple weeks ago, there was a huge difference in taste and palatability.
But that got me to wondering does this make cheap vodka into good vodka, so the next step for this experience was to taste the “distilled” Monarch against some good vodka.
You guys need to keep in mind I am not a big drinker and vodka is not my first choice when I do and my wife if even less of a drinker and knows less about vodka than I do, the reason I am stating this is to let you know, this experiment was done without any preconceived biases or expecting a certain outcome.
So Friday night I go into the liquor store trying to remember the names of “good” vodka’s you guys had mentioned, so there I am studying the selections when I look over my shoulder and see a very nicely dressed, beautiful blonde woman standing behind me, I would say she was a trophy wife, but she was too intelligent, too educated and seemed to independent for that, she was most certainly not the type of woman that I would associate with on a daily basis, but in the name of science I nervously asked her, “Do you drink vodka” She looked start at me, gave me a slight smile and answered it a voice that indicated I asked her such a silly question and she answered “Why yes I do” . So I explained to her what I was doing and she explained to me the difference between top shelf vodka and bottom shelf - I had certainly heard these terms before, but when you have a beautiful woman actually showing you the difference it was like a light bulb coming on and I could actually see the difference.
She than told me she liked 3 Olives –So I hope 3 Olives is acceptable for you Vodka Snobs out there.
When I got home I ran a good portion of the 3 Olives through the Brita filter, poured a little of the filter and unfiltered 3 Olives into glasses and discovered there was a slight taste difference between them, so the next step was to have my wife try them, she too could taste a slight difference but she liked the unfiltered better while I liked the filtered a little better
My conclusion to filtering Top Shelf Vodka, it is a waste of time.
Now it was time for the real test, how would my twice filtered Monarch stand up against the 3 Olives?
It did NOT even come close.
My conclusion is, filtering Bottom Shelf Vodka, does improve it’s palatability, but does not even bring it close to the good stuff.
So Ben and all you other’s who profess to be Vodka Snobs – Please concider me one now too
Mangy Mutt

BinT said...

What does it do for Ripple?

qqqqtrader said...

I don't drink but did have a few beers last night - frik'n drunk after 4 beers! Maybe the "green" in one of the beers did it. Anyway, if ya ever make it to the Big Island, Kona Brewing Co is a great place to drink, eat really good pizza, appetizers.

cv, Not sure if I can make a chart everyday, run out new material. But like I said before, it was just an experiment. Some of these charts take alot of time and some days I just don't have it. Think the payout for 5 days is $9.88, not sure because it keeps changing... LOL

...now need to nurse a headache :/

Mutt, does the taste really matter after the 1st drink? :)

Anonymous said...

Melting nickels will get you a $10,000 fine, 5 years, or both. Hard to see the profit margin in that.

Taste said...

QQQQ - I can only speak for the vodka, but it is more than just the taste, it is the quality, because I was doing this for scientific purposes and I did not want to mix the filtered 3 Olive with the non- filtered, (CUZ That would have been all wrong) I had to finish the ALL of the filtered stuff and I really thought I would wake up with a headache, but as the beautiful blonde woman told me, Amazingly I did not have one.

Mutt

Anonymous said...

MMutt,

it was cv-- that mentioned 'doing the Brita' to the ~cheaper Vodka..

and, as you found, it ~improves the Taste..

personally, it's a nice thing to do if you're making 'Well Drinks'/'Trash Can Punch' for a bunch of peep looking to get ~'Hammered'..

it's the "Activated Carbon" (in the Brita filter) that is 'working the ~Magic'..
~~

the Real Question is, whether, you've found that it 'filters out the 'Hangover'' (from the ~Cheap Stuff)..

~~~

AT,

you picking a 'Dog' for the Lehigh v. Xavier throwdown?

AAIP

Anonymous said...

also, for add'l ~Info, on the Accion` ..

http://search.yippy.com/search?query=Activated+Carbon+uses+Alcohol+Distilling&tb=sitesearch-all&v%3Aproject=clusty

ibid.

Anonymous said...

though, really, to me, 4 'Well Drinks', 'TC Punch'...

"...Everclear is relatively low in congeners..."

http://search.yippy.com/search?input-form=clusty-simple&v%3Asources=webplus-ns-aaf&v%3Aproject=clusty&query=Everclear+190+Proof

like..

Hangover Causes - Food & Dining - Tree.comnew windowpreviewshow in cloudsflag as inappropriate
More expensive alcohol generally contains fewer congeners because it undergoes a more rigorous distillation process that filters out a higher percentage of the congeners.
www.tree.com/food-dining/hangover-causes.aspx

add'l..

http://search.yippy.com/search?query=Alcohol+Distilling+congeners&tb=sitesearch-all&v%3Aproject=clusty

'congeners' are 'the Culprit'..

AAIP

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