They’re Back
The Amityville Horror, AKA F-35B is back in the news. “Rick, there are Cracks in the Fuselage, I tell you, I am shocked, shocked I tell you”.Another structural failure observed and reported in the...
View ArticleAdvice to my Son
This is the first in what I hope to be a series of post to and for my son. The purpose is to distill some of the hard lessons that your mother and I have learned over the past 50 some years, alright...
View ArticlePhil Mickelson plans “drastic changes” over taxes
The last time I checked becoming a profession golfer was a personal choice, provided one had the talent and you could play well enough to earn a PGA Tour card, by one of three methods. Which Phillip...
View ArticleMay the Circle be Unbroken
Maj. Gen. James T. Ruebeor was one of my first posts on this site, and from time to time I go back and see just what has happened to these plucky few individual that I have written about.Maj. Gen....
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POT
POT, not the controlled substance, but Plain Old Transportation, but it did get your attention. Another post containing unsolicited advice for my son. What is the best car to own? That is the...
View Article580 Million Dollar oh crap moment at Caterpillar
580 Million Dollars, that was the total right down this last reporting quarter that Caterpillar Corp, of Peoria Ill announced.This was after they had already purchased for 690 Million Dollars (475...
View ArticleIs it time to unwind Royal Bank of Scotland?
With the latest round of scandal (Libor rigging) and it fines for misbehaving and or lack of adult supervision (500 Million Pounds to date more fines are expected), and now the specter of bonus (250...
View ArticleApril Fools
How appropriate that Aubrey McClendon, will step down/retire from his position of Chief Executive Officer and board member of Chesapeake Energy on of all days One April 2013.Now that Carl Icahn is the...
View ArticleUnwind Royal Bank of Scotland part 2 (Or the hits just keep on coming)?
First there was everything stated in the first post now there is the report that RBS will need to come up with another 1 Billion Pounds to pay for their improper derivatives sales to various and...
View ArticleThe Lion Roars!
The Right Honorable George Gideon Oliver Osborne, Chancellor Exchequer, Second Lord of the Treasury of the United Kingdom, and a member of the Conservative Party has called for the separation of...
View ArticleBenchmarking
One of my past employment function I was a Quality Assurance Engineer, and one of the critical aspect of my function was benchmarking our processes to our competitors, because I know that I am not one...
View ArticleDOD and the National Guard
The show down continues between the several states in particular Texas and the Department of Defense.So what is the SECDEF suppose to do? Well the first thing he might do is revoke or remove the...
View ArticleLearning to be still
One of the hardest lessons to learn about investing is to be still. Learning how not to get caught up in news and most importantly the noise of the moment. Learning how to wait for the shot....
View ArticleCurrent Employment Statistics (BLS)
I received a post from an investment advisor Mr. Steve Reitmeister, making very discouraging remarks about the differences between BLS statistics as compared to the ADP statistics. These remarks to me...
View ArticleQuestion of the Day 18 Feb 2014
Are Bitcoin, Zerocoin, and Dogecoin the Tulips of our day?Especially given a the recent quote by Zerocoin developer Matthew Green“if people will put money into Dogecoin, they'll put it into...
View ArticleEric Cantor's strange view of the world
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { }WTFAH?“Eric Cantor’s Foreign-Policy Ideas Would Consign Us to Perpetual War”, at least that is the headline of the post by Conor Friedersdorf....
View ArticleThe Expectation of Privacy?
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }At this time there is a lawsuit in the United States Federal Court System, Northern District of California San Jose Division Case Number 13-MD-02430-LHK “IN RE: GOOGLE INC....
View ArticleFrom those wonderful folks who gave us “The Great Recession” comes ..
During my morning cruise of the financial landscape comes a few frighting snippets from the following linkhttp://blogs.marketwatch.com/encore/2014/03/04/rethinking-the-4-retirement-spending-rule/in...
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