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Are we having enough fun yet? Today was Day 3 of the downtrend I marked a couple days ago...given the springtail today, we may not get a day 4 before we head back up again. I'm not going to play tomorrow.

Meanwhile back at the ranch-Lord have mercy.

As if winter sending us drought isn't enough, the ARYAN NATIONS have decided they want to turn a small isolated community I used to live in-into their new National HQ!
gag me with a SPOON!!!! :mad::(:worried:


I've mentioned I and a good friend had acquaintence or closer in our early adulthoods with one of those types-but didn't know their association and philosophical bent til years later-after that person was indicted and then went to prison for conspiracy, fraud, forgery, armed robbery and murder-along with her son and colleagues.

The small logging and ranching community is up in arms in public demonstrations against the invasion. Acceptance of offers on 2 buildings in town! have been withdrawn now that the people know what's going on, and other properties for sale are being withdrawn from listings.
I'm really proud of the community's responses so far. It's a hurtin' place, over 20% unemployment, so its a sacrifice that people are making by refusing to sell whatever the AN might be interested in buying.

The AN wants to buy LOTS of property in the area-room to expand and "training grounds" for the people they hope to attract to the area from all over the country (read it and heard it from the front guys mouth on the tube tonight also).

The face on the AN looks like a young Elvis-go figure (saw him on TV tonight)-likely to make a few impressionable young girls hearts go pittypatter if they actually manage to get a toehold.

I still travel to that community on rare occasion and travel through the community enroute for parts south probably 1-2x/year. Still know people there.

Even still pick up some short-term work days there on the odd occasion (what happens when Congress doesn't allocate enough funds to keep me full employed on my home unit-been that way for years now). It will make me puke if the AN manages to move in despite community resistance. Pray the community will stand strong and stay strong and that it will be enough to keep those creeps OUT!!! :mad:
 
Allie, your story makes me feel great about our nation!

I was watching a Discovery channel program the other night that was talking about Hitler's scam to try to prove a superior white race. The program shot it down using DNA science. (Long story short, we're all Heinz 57 mongrels.) But the program also showed a wacko white supremacist who met the interviewers with two cocked pistols in his pockets.

A real eye roller. I'm glad to hear of more sane folks' reactions.

Lady
 
ARYAN NATIONS

Pray the community will stand strong and stay strong and that it will be enough to keep those creeps OUT!!! :mad:

That's pretty weird stuff Alevie -- I'd have to say after reading this I totally understand how CB feels. What in the world is this country turning into ??

Sounds to me like the Community will have no problem standing strong and I deeply admire them for the stand they're taking.

Pray the Government doesn't get involved and force this garbage on the communities in the name of 'Tollerance' and all the rahm that seems to flood their minds.
 
Let's hope. The frontguy on the tube last night mentioned suing re the renege of acceptance offers on the 2 in-town properties.

I had an accepted offer reneged on house I wanted to buy when I first hit town here-elderly guy owner-his 4 kids ganged up on him the night after he accepted my offer and earnest $.

His kids told him he had no business selling his home even tho he wanted a smaller place in an outlying community but they made him back out on our deal. The RE agent told me I could still force him to sell his house to me because he'd accepted my earnest $, and did I want to do that?

I had to look deep into my heart and seek counsel from on high, decided I didnt' want to start new life here with that kind of bad karma, so I walked away from that deal, got my earnest money back and made offer on the house I have now.

Sounds like the AN doesn't have that same kind of spirit and mentality operating in their attitude towards the community there-they scent vulnerability and intend to force things to go their way, not backing down-yet.

woo-hoo btw! Big fat round number on the posting board with this one.
 
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Prayers are with you. We have some in our community. I saw AN and skinheads on the Discovery or History Channel. This is some scary _hit. Be careful be safe.
 
Thanks for the prayers, Merlin. It's not so much me that needs them as it is the community where I used to live. It's not very diverse-the diverse elements actually stand out like a sore thumb-which is one of the reasons AN is targetting the community-which is extremely red state conservative actually-but thank God they are not AN type people.

Me-I'm not very diverse either-as British Isles and German extraction as they come, so they wouldn't come after me unless they somehow bumped into me in fed capacity in a hostile situation, which is doubtful. It's the people who live there I'm more concerned about.

Actually offers on other properties there have also already been retracted-by desireable buyers. Property values will plummet if the AN gets a toehold-which won't help people who live there at all.

YES-they are creepy and scary and truly warped and dangerous.
 
It's been awhile since I've chattered about DeMark indicator signals. If today closes below the close 4 days back, we'll have a bonafide daily price flip sell signal. If not, then we're apparently still on an upward march. YESTERDAY was day 9 of progressive closes higher than the close 4 days before, which is the number I've been waiting for a price flip to arrive possibly.

To add to the sell indicator, the weekly bar has touched the underside of the weekly 200 MA and come back down.

I'll adjust my AT allocation come Monday. I've been DCAing into G in the real account so not actually carrying the percentages in CSIF shown in the tracker. todays downer is a mosquito bite for the real account. an annoyance but no real hurt. If we go down a ways , I look forward to jumping in at some point. I need to do some catching up with all the many many people ahead of me.;)
 
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What on earth are you talking about, nnuutt? Nobody on MY thread said anything like that!!!!! :mad: I said the community was standing strong against AN and I am really PROUD of them for it!!!!!! :cool: And said nothing about Tea Parties whatsoever in connection with AN. :notrust:
 
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The folks at the Tea Parties want nothing to do with the crazy ARYAN NATIONS extremists, just a Smut campaign! Open your eyes!

What on earth are you talking about, nnuutt? Nobody on MY thread said anything like that!!!!! I said the community was standing strong against AN and I am really PROUD of them for it!!!!!! :cool: And said nothing about Tea Parties whatsoever in connection with AN. :notrust:
Sorry I actually didn't finish my thought, must have been in a hurry running away fron the GS thing.
I meant that the Tea Party Folks don't like the ARYAN NATIONS extremists but there are claims that they are a major part of the Tea Party movement. And that I would hate to live anywhere near those nnuuts and would probably move if I could. Sorry for the misunderstanding, no criticism of you was intended.:embarrest::toung:
 
Woohoo! The high before the fall? One of my favorite non-profits of all time, is coming out of the pits and verge of bankruptcy they've been facing for over a year now.

Talking about hiring 2-3 new staff to help the dedicated couple who manage one of the most magical places I've been, including a new advertising/fundraiser position.

It's all coming through matching grants and donations-which means people are loosening up their charitable donation pocketbooks for first time in a couple years.

And business traffic is up at their facility this year. Having a hard time making reservation for the time frame me and friends usually go there to spend a few days. Too many other people already booked for the same timeframe we wanted. Visitor count was WAAAAY down last year.


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Well, I read somewhere the past few days, that people are starting to open their checkbooks for necessary big-ticket home maintenance again after sitting tight for a year or more. I would be a contributor to that trend...met with roofing contractor on Friday, got a bid after talking through everything on my list of concerns. No more icedams! Yes!

Also Includes installation of some solar tubes-improve passive lighting (greenenergy savings/ deflation-costcutting in action) in select places in my too-dark house. Bid was in the ballpark of cost I'd been calculating. Made a call to another contractor Friday also but he hasn't made contact yet.

This contractor said his work schedule is out about 2 weeks, which I said fine by me, get beyond rainy season before ripping my roof off. So. does this fit with a trend of slow and cautious in the market? maybe so. for now. Later this year, with cash flow, comes attic fan and new insulation. Will consider A/C install once I see how the fan and new insulation perform to improve summer temps in the house, especially in evenings/at night.

To match the incremental home mtc-improvement, I bumped allocation to C and S and F up a bit today (the chart told me to :p) , still got big guns in G tho. Other charts tell me I'm being dumb money. Don't plan on putting more in until I see a stronger reason. If this is the snails pace with retail investors, the market has a ways to go yet.

New contribs in G automatically take me incrementally out of the market as it climbs, to reduce risk, been doing that since beginning of the year, my real PIP is a little higher than what AT shows, as a result.
 
Yep gotta maintain upkeep on the house,

New roof last year, 1 month wait, and new Central Air next month. All cash, no debt. If it can't be done without a loan, it doesn't get done.
 
Yep gotta maintain upkeep on the house,

New roof last year, 1 month wait, and new Central Air next month. All cash, no debt. If it can't be done without a loan, it doesn't get done.

Guys , may want to look into residential energy credits available 2009 and 2010, I believe. My son is renovating his upstairs space and is getting the credits on a new central air unit and solar tubes. Can be significant savings if they qualify. Not all do, but worth checking out. I'm no expert but irs.gov has information re credits.
 
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Yep gotta maintain upkeep on the house,

New roof last year, 1 month wait, and new Central Air next month. All cash, no debt. If it can't be done without a loan, it doesn't get done.

I know exactly what you are talking about. The wife wants a new pool. Told her only if we can pay cash. I shot that down. Thank goodness she doesn't read these post.
 
All cash, no debt. that's my rule. Only thing is, there's a good deal in our community right now (between now and October) if I go solar (after the new roof installed).

Would run me about 10K upfront, but with tax credits, paid back over 4 years, net cost $1K at 4th year. trouble is, I'd have to get a low/no interest load to put the $10K on the table upfront-the loans are available, but.... I don't really want to do that. so thinking I'll just work on cutting costs with things that give immediate payback, like the roof, insulation and passive lighting-which I do have the cash for this year-been saving since last year.
 


Guys , may want to look into residential energy credits available 2009 and 2010, I believe. My son is renovating his upstairs space and is getting the credits on a new central air unit and solar tubes. Can be significant savings if they qualify. Not all do, but worth checking out. I'm no expert but irs.gov has information re credits.

Got the max credit on the roof and will be doing the same for the AC:D
 
All cash, no debt. that's my rule. Only thing is, there's a good deal in our community right now (between now and October) if I go solar (after the new roof installed).

Would run me about 10K upfront, but with tax credits, paid back over 4 years, net cost $1K at 4th year. trouble is, I'd have to get a low/no interest load to put the $10K on the table upfront-the loans are available, but.... I don't really want to do that. so thinking I'll just work on cutting costs with things that give immediate payback, like the roof, insulation and passive lighting-which I do have the cash for this year-been saving since last year.


Sounds very tempting on the solar, but I can sure understand not wanting to go into debt. GL :D
 
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