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What should of, could of, will take time to sort out. What is, is important.

Spin will come from both extremes, the truth may remain cloudy for a long time.

Guard members in our office left immediately. I hope they are Ok!

Rgds, and be careful :? Spaf
 
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Not to sound like someone that only cares about $, but I have a question..... Are there any deals out there to invest in manufactured housing companies in light of the storm? What do you think?? A short term stock play on some of these companies???
 
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JohnnieB1 wrote:
Not to sound like someone that only cares about $, but I have a question..... Are there any deals out there to invest in manufactured housing companies in light of the storm? What do you think?? A short term stock play on some of these companies???
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CTX, NVR, LEN, TOL, DHI and PHM
 
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JohnnieB1,

What I do is check in with http://www2.barchart.com/ You can sellect the market and sort the stocks by % increase. I use ETF's. Check the individual stocks out to see their chart trend, opinion, etc. Yahoo can give you similiar and backup information.
I try to pick 5 (IVV, 2Caps, 1Sec. and, 1foreign) and sellect the best 3 for a start in a bull market. When the bear appears, it's back to trading cash.

Rgds :) Spaf
 
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teknobucks wrote:
Rokid!! u r kidding right???:shock:

Bush declared NOa disaster area prior 2 landfall.He called blanco and urged her to evac the city...offered all the federal aid she needed. The feds can not move in on a city and take over operations w/o the mayor and gov. giving them a green light.

do agree mikebrown is a little thin on experience......but that is the only thing in your post i can hang my hat on. this storm's dire outcome has nothing 2 do with ms. plame, iraq, or republicans v. democrats.

granted once the leeves failed the rate and quality at which govt. overall functioned was very poor and has no doubt added to the fatalities.

jmo

tekno
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Yeah, I was kidding.

You're right, it was the welfare state that caused the disaster. And, the Washington Post lied in their retraction.

As Groucho Marx said "Who do you believe, me or your lying eyes?":^
 
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Don't worry, I just heard Chris Matthews of Hardball say that Dick Cheney is on his way to save the day.
 
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rokid wrote:
teknobucks wrote:
Rokid!! u r kidding right???:shock:

Bush declared NOa disaster area prior 2 landfall.He called blanco and urged her to evac the city...offered all the federal aid she needed. The feds can not move in on a city and take over operations w/o the mayor and gov. giving them a green light.

do agree mikebrown is a little thin on experience......but that is the only thing in your post i can hang my hat on. this storm's dire outcome has nothing 2 do with ms. plame, iraq, or republicans v. democrats.

granted once the leeves failed the rate and quality at which govt. overall functioned was very poor and has no doubt added to the fatalities.

jmo

tekno
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Yeah, I was kidding.

You're right, it was the welfare state that caused the disaster. And, the Washington Post lied in their retraction.

As Groucho Marx said "Who do you believe, me or your lying eyes?":^
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went from "added to" to "caused" got it thanks.....had wondered why cuba had so many storms.bet JFK new allalong.......geeezzzzzzzz

poor folks with no means to leave town have unfortunately been the victims ofthe 4 P's and SHODDY PREPARATIONS BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES.

lookwe live in florida, grew up here....the feds do not get involved until all hell has broken loose (after the hit). to count on them to handle matters for us is NUTZ! the planning and preparations are done by local govt. and mainly by the individual household. we have bertha storm panels, generators, food, water, camping equip., and yes a few guns....that along with important docs and photographs already packed in suitcases ready for hurrevac.

we just went thru our checklist yesterdayduetohttp://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at200516_5day.html . if u choose to live in an area where hurricanes frequent it isyour duty to be on top of your survival preparations period.
 
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the real deal is for everyone in every area of the country to be prepared for the worst.;)

even if the area you live in does not have hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc......the threats from bio, nuke, chem, fire storms,riots/civil unrest, or just plain violent wx may cause you and your loved ones to take life saving actions.

jmho

tekno
 
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Katrina PICS.....

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If you are looking for a specific image or just browsing, please return to the previous page and click on the thumbnail image of Katrina's path to locate and view individual images.

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great tune 2 listen 2 while d/l'ing........ http://geronimo-vietnam.com/A1/FB/Anim_HotRS.wma

tekno





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Katrina hits home for Prince George’s businesses
Despite climbing costs, companies aid relief efforts


Thursday, Sept. 8, 2005

by Marcus Moore

The effects of Hurricane Katrina — including higher prices for everything from gasoline to oysters — are being felt by Prince George’s businesses, even as they mount efforts to send relief to the Gulf Coast.

‘‘Our gas prices have gone up 37 percent in a week,” said Bridget Burns, CEO of Century Fence Construction, LLC in Upper Marlboro.
Before Katrina, Burns estimated it cost $65 to fill up one of her construction trucks. Last week, it cost $90.

‘‘It’s something you have to figure into your costs,” Burns said. The increased gas costs, she said, ‘‘really gives you a perspective.”

Yet while Century Fence is feeling the pinch at the pump, it is donating $500 to the American Red Cross and canned goods for hurricane survivors to the Associated Builders & Contractors of Metro Washington.

The seafood industry is being squeezed, too: The pre-Katrina price for a box of oysters was $42. Now, seafood restaurants pay $48, said Greg Daley, president of Mid-Atlantic Seafood in Prince George’s.

‘‘The cost of eating seafood could go up,” Daley said. ‘‘Supplies are limited, and what’s available costs more.”

Crab supplies have also been decimated, after Slidell, La., a major distributor of crabs to Maryland, was ‘‘all but wiped out” when Katrina knocked out portions of the Interstate 10 bridge over Lake Pontchartrain, he said.

Not all county businesses have been hurt, though.

Supermarket chain Giant Food LLC of Landover has not been at all affected, said spokesman Barry Scher.

Last week, Giant launched a fund-raising relief drive, collecting donations from customers and employees. Proceeds will be donated to the American Red Cross and America’s Second Harvest, a food bank network.

Some officials said they still don’t know if their businesses have been affected by the hurricane.

‘‘To be honest, it’s too early to tell yet,” said Gregory TenEyck, a spokesman for grocer Safeway.

Immediately after the hurricane struck, Safeway’s Texas stores donated truckloads of water to the devastated areas, TenEyck said.

The Safeway Foundation also started a fund-raising drive last week — it is matching employee contributions — and has donated $100,000 to the American Red Cross and 10,000 emergency preparedness kits, which contain blankets, flashlights and first-aid supplies.

Some Prince George’s companies are donating services, rather than money.

Spherix Inc. of Beltsville has expanded its call center in Cumberland to perform disaster recovery services for the Thrift Savings Plan call center in New Orleans, which has closed.

Spherix has also expanded its government call center operations for other agencies dealing with the aftermath of the hurricane.

‘‘Running a parallel call center with disaster recovery responsibilities is one of our specialties,” Richard Levin, president and CEO, said in a statement. ‘‘We were prepared for the worst. We started taking 100 percent of the calls early in the morning on Aug. 29, and we’ll continue to do so for as long as necessary.”

Officials with Dimensions Healthcare System of Cheverly, which operates several hospitals in the county, and the Maryland Hospital Association did not return phone calls seeking comment on whether their institutions were providing any services to hurricane victims.

The storm’s economic impact will be felt for many years in many parts of the country, says analyst Peter Morici, an economics professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.

‘‘Rebuilding will be much delayed, and the impact on neighboring regions will be larger and longer lasting,” Morici said.

Morici speculated the impact will be ‘‘much broader and deeper than initially estimated by economists.”

Repairing refineries, oil rigs and pipelines will help stabilize fuel prices, but that is not the most daunting task to stanch the economic damage, he said. The loss of the port of New Orleans — the nation’s largest — will be compounded by the loss of east-west transportation routes across the Mississippi River, Morici said.

‘‘The crisis created by Katrina will only serve to exacerbate the consequences of rising energy prices and of other fundamental shifts in the economy,” Morici said.

Copyright © 2005 The Gazette
 
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El Vis wrote:
Katrina hits home for Prince George’s businesses
Despite climbing costs, companies aid relief efforts

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word has it forrest gump is getting into the roofing business;)
 
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How many Bush administration officials does it take to change a light
bulb?


1. One to deny that a light bulb needs to be changed;

2. One to attack the patriotism of anyone who says the light bulb needs
to be changed;

3. One to blame Clinton for burning out the light bulb;

4. One to arrange the invasion of a country rumored to have a secret
stockpile of light bulbs;

5. One to give a billion dollar no-bid contract to Halliburton for the
new light bulb;

6. One to arrange a photograph of Bush, dressed as a janitor, standing on a step ladder under the banner: Light Bulb Change Accomplished[/b];

7. One administration insider to resign and write a book documenting in detail how Bush was literally in the dark;

8. One to viciously smear #7;

9. One surrogate to campaign on TV and at rallies on how George Bush has had a strong light-bulb-changing policy all along;

10. And finally one to confuse Americans about the difference between
screwing a light bulb and screwing the country.:^



 
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Rokid,

My dear man, I think Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi could use your support for their presidential aspirations. They are however not running under the Democratic Party platform - they are heading up a new party to be called the [bleep] Party. The welcome mat is out to anyone who wants to join.

Dennis
 
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If the Fed Stops Pushing, Might Bond Yields Rise?: Chet Currier
Sept. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Should the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina deter the Federal Reserve from raising short-term interest rates this month, an odd thing might happen.

The bond market could at last give us some of the higher longer- term interest rates that the Fed has been trying without success to promote since the middle of last year.

While the central bank's next move is the subject of much debate, the disaster in four southern states has clearly altered the calculations it must make in setting monetary policy.

After more than a year of uninterrupted increases in short-term rates, ``the Fed will probably stop a little bit short of where they would have because of Katrina,'' Bill Gross, chief investment officer at Pacific Investment Management Co. and manager of the biggest of all bond funds, said in an interview this week.

Since June 30, 2004, the Fed has steadily increased the overnight bank rate in quarter-point increments to 3.5 percent from 1 percent. Yet at recent levels of about 4.1 percent, the yield on 10-year Treasury notes stands almost half a percentage point below where it was at mid-2004.

With the devastation inflicted by Katrina, Fed policy makers face pressure from Congress, among other places, to hold off on the next quarter-point increase in money rates -- which until the hurricane struck was projected for Sept. 20 by all 81 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News.

Tough Choice

Some say the Fed will put economics ahead of politics and keep raising rates; others say the situation is simply too grim in human terms for that. Whatever the central bank does, there is likely to be a response from bond traders as well as political commentators. If the Fed decides to stand pat, it might intensify concern about inflation in the bond market, and prompt a drop in bond prices and a rise in bond yields.

The reasoning goes like this: Until now, with its steady barrage of rate increases, the Fed has been taking steps to counter whatever inflationary impulses might be stirring in a surprisingly vibrant economy. If the central bank strays even temporarily from that mission, bond investors might decide they needed to take up the cudgels themselves.

``Going into the end of August, the U.S. economy was expanding at about a 4 percent rate by our measures,'' said Jason Rotenberg, an analyst at Bridgewater Associates Inc., the largest U.S. hedge fund manager by assets, in a commentary this week. ``There was no longer any slack in the economy. Inflation was at 3 percent and rising.''

Question Marks

In this setting, ``current yields of slightly higher than 4 percent don't make much sense to us,'' Rotenberg said. ``U.S. credit markets are underestimating inflationary pressures -- both cyclical and related to rising commodity prices -- and overestimating the likely economic impact of the hurricane.''

The after-effects of Katrina are a study in short-term uncertainty, says David Kelly, economic adviser at mutual-fund manager Putnam Investments in Boston.

``Katrina will raise inflation and cut profits, but only for a short period of time,'' Kelly says. ``On balance, it will hurt economic growth also, but we still cannot tell with assurance by how much.''

``This uncertainty alone may be enough to cause the Federal Reserve to pause in its monetary tightening when it meets on Sept. 20,'' he says. ``If it does so, however, this should only be a temporary pause. When the U.S. economy has shaken off Katrina's effects, the Fed will not want to maintain an overly easy monetary policy.''

Contrary

And yet -- wouldn't Fed policy makers be interested to see any sort of rise in long-term interest rates that might accompany its pause? If one primary object of its policy lately has been to cool the housing market and other economic hot spots stoked by easy money, the Fed ought to be happy to see higher bond rates working toward that end.

If the Fed does pause, whether sooner or later, it would be entirely in character for the bond market to decide it was time for some rate increases of its own.

Bond traders have demonstrated their contrariness over the last 15 months, refusing to raise long-term rates on demand. That makes them just the sort to deliver higher rates once they were no longer being pushed.
 
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Birchtree wrote:
Rokid,

My dear man, I think Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi could use your support for their presidential aspirations. They are however not running under the Democratic Party platform - they are heading up a new party to be called the [bleep] Party. The welcome mat is out to anyone who wants to join.

Dennis
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Democrats'symbol is the donkey.

Republican's symbol isthe elephant.

[bleep] Pary's symbol is the [bleep].

LHM!
 
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