Chris Monty at Blippet decribes the phenomenum: “The spinning spiral was seen around 8:45 a.m. local time (in Norway) and lasted for about two minutes. A blue tail of sorts seemed to anchor the spiral to earth, before the light “exploded” into a ring of white fire.”
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When completed, the Freedom Tower will be among the tallest buildings in the world and the tallest in the United States.
I received my copy of the Labor Press and was disheartened to read that the contract for blast resistant glass for the first 20 stories has been [...]
#1 Florida 13, #2 Alabama 32 Final
#5 Cincinnati 45, #15 Pittsburgh 44 With 60 secs to go Cincinnati trailed by six. No upset. The team that beat Oregon State is still undefeated at 12-0.
#18 USC 17, Arizona 21
#19 California 10, Washington 42 Final
#21 Houston 32, East [...]
La Gringa Blogicito reports
With a vote of 111 in favor and 14 against, the National Congress of Honduras today overwhelmingly rejected the restitution of Mr. José Manuel Zelaya Rosales to the presidency of the Republic.
Obamama tried to convince the world that the ouster of Zelaya was a coup and [...]
One of the big success stories in 2009 was the rise of Apple. With its sexy new products like the iPhone, the iPod, and the iMac, Apple has seen its fortunes rise in dramatic fashion.
So what’s happening just before the holidays with Apple? Why are we [...]
For the second year in a row, Oregon beats the beavers and robs them of the Rose Bowl. My predictions for Beavers winning are as good as duck poop on the bottom of the lake.
The good news is that the Oregon State is going to the Rose Bowl. I’m [...]
What was that and did you hear one say something about a smell?
[...]This new S&P 500 video looks at a number of issues and levels with the S&P 500.
In the month of December things can get pretty tricky. For this reason, Adam Hewison wanted to produce a video that he thought would be helpful to you during this time.
The man suspected of gunning down four police officers in a suburban coffee shop was shot and killed by Seattle police early Tuesday, a sheriff’s spokesman said. Three other people were arrested for allegedly helping (Maurice Clemmons) elude authorities during a massive two-day manhunt.
Now that’s the way [...]
The Seattle Times reports that Maurice Clemmons, a 37-year-old Tacoma man, is being sought for questioning in the killing this morning of four Lakewood police officers.
Nine years ago, then-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee granted clemency to Clemmons, commuting his lengthy prison sentence over the protests of prosecutors.
In an unrelated development, [...]
The four policemen and women were part of the original group forming the Lakewood police.
[...]Is it open season on the police in the Seattle-Tacoma area?
The deadly shootings in Lakewood today come less than a month after Seattle Police Officer Timothy Brenton was shot to death in cold blood as he was sitting in a cruiser with trainee Britt Sweeney on Halloween night. [...]
Here is the fastest and easiest way to tell the trend in the foreign exchange markets.
In today’s video Adam Hewison is going to share with you a wonderful way to look at the forex markets and determine which way they are headed in a matter of seconds. He’ll be looking [...]
Four policemen were on the laptops in coffeeshop in Parkland, Washington near the McChord Air Force Base when two gunmen walked in and opened fire.
[...]#7 Georgia Tech 24, Georgia 30
#9 Pittsburgh 16 West Virginia 19
#12 Oklahome State 0, Oklahoma 27
#18 Clemson 17, South Carolina 34
#24 North Carolina 27, N Carolina St 28
#25 Mississippi 27, Mississippi St 41
According to NewsMax
…White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Dr. John P. Holdren, is a key player in the Climategate e-mails flap, which is shaping up as the biggest scandal in the history of modern science.
…Canada Free Press this week revealed that the former Harvard professor and [...]
Hat tip to First Things
[...]One of my favorite poets, Billy Collins, former poet laureate of the U.S., now has “Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems” out in paperback. I don’t travel anywhere without a “Billy Collins” with me. He inspires me to see with different eyes.
Read the first stanza of his new [...]
According to the NYT and no mention of CLIMATEGATE in the article “Mr. Obama will tell the delegates to the climate conference that the United States intends to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions “in the range of 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020,” according to a White [...]
Apparently he doesn’t give a RA about what we think of his bowing. I want to say bowing and scraping, but that would be racist, I guess..
[...]New York High Court Upholds Eminent Domain for Private Gain:
While upholding the taking, the New York court did not go so far as to embrace the United States Supreme Court’s much-maligned reasoning in the 2005 Kelo v. City of New London case, which held that the U.S. Constitution [...]
The story that most of the MSM aren’t reporting:
CLIMATEGATEWritten by Jack Kelly
On Friday (11/20), Mr. Gore’s signature cause, anthropogenic global warming (AGW), suffered a mortal blow… if Climategate is reported fully.
The Climate Research Unit (CRU) of [...]
Here’s an almost unbelievable story from
Jim Willie, The Golden Jackass.
Please enjoy the article and comment below, follow me @movermike and Khrono Stock
Mike Landfair
One of our own congressional representatives wants a tax on our stock transactions in hopes of raising $150 billion.
Under a bill being drafted by Democratic Reps. Peter DeFazio (Ore.) and Ed Perlmutter (Colo.), the sale and purchase of financial instruments such as stocks, options, derivatives and futures would face [...]
In today’s video Adam Hewison is going to share with you a wonderful way to look at the forex markets and determine which way they are headed in a matter of seconds. He’ll be looking at three different cross rates and how they all correlate [...]
I saw this first on Instapundit:
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Rumor is that Lou Dobbs, former CNN commentator and JD Hayworth of Arizona and broadcaster, are both thinking of running for the Senate.
I say they would be a huge step up!
[...]AP Top 20 has Oregon #10, Oregon State #16 and Rose Bowl Opponent Ohio State #9
USA Today Poll has has Oregon #10, Oregon State #18 and Rose Bowl Opponent Ohio State #8
ESPNUFan Rankings has has Oregon #4, Oregon State #6 and Rose Bowl Opponent Ohio State #18
Man, I [...]
So far we have finals in eight games and there are no upsets. Of course there are two BIG games this afternoon and evening:
#11 Oregon plays at Arizona and is a six-point favorite and
#19 Oregon State plays at Washington State and is a 31 point favorite. If both [...]
There’s fear mongering over (gasp) global warming, but this reaches new heights of absurdity! ‘Climate change pushes poor women to prostitution, dangerous work’
First, it uses the active verb “pushes” as if it is happening now. The article then uses “could” as in ““Climate change could reduce income from farming [...]
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[...]Is the S&P about to fall out of bed or is it headed higher?
In Adam Hewison’s latest video about the S&P 500, he hopes to answer those questions and show you what he thinks could happen to this market in the near-term.
There is a fascinating cycle at work that [...]
It may surprise you as to which indices have had the most comeback from the lows seen in March. In today’s video we take a close look at both the Dow and NASDAQ indices.
In this short video about the Dow and NASDAQ, we look at the retracement levels and [...]
The gold market continues to steam roll ahead as it gets closer to our $1,300 target zone.
As we have stated before, gold is in a fully fledged bull market and sharp pullbacks are to be expected. This is not to say the bull market is over; it is more to [...]
Recently, referring to my post From October - 3rd coolest Ever!, 2009/11/18 at 11:09 AM, Mark commented, “You’re kidding right?” Well Mark here’s another post to ponder: in Little Ice Age II, The Sequel, Al Simmons and Doug L. Hoffman at The Resilieant Earth have a very interesting [...]
Heard more from the alphabetized KINK library this morning as I’m sitting up at NW Skyline and Germantown Road: Toni Childs singing “Stop Your Fussin Boy”. Giosh where has she been? She hasn’t released a CD since 2000. I have every one of her albums and [...]
You know the kids on the bus are not into conversation with the bus driver. I pick them up all the way out to Cornelius Pass in my yellow bus and take them to Lincoln and then take them home at night. The 13 to 20 [...]
One cycle that is NOT moving up is the sunspot cycle. We should by now have come off the mat and heading for 25 sunspots
The sun is blank!
Please enjoy the article and comment below, follow me @movermike and Khrono Stock
Mike Landfair
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It’s getting so that almost every day USGS reports a >6.0 earthquake. I didn’t what that meant historically until I saw this chart courtesy of George Ure of Peoplenomics:
Just today two large quakes in Canada:
MAP 5.7 2009/11/17 15:37:43 52.148 -131.469 10.0 QUEEN CHARLOTTE [...]
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Happy Holidays! Please enter our Trader’s Blog Holiday Giveaway for a chance to win one of 12 prizes.
We will be selecting 1 winner every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday starting on November 30th through December 25th via phone call from the prize entries we receive. The winner [...]
We lost that vote, but it’s not over!
[...]Get mad People!
[...]How much do you think you could learn if you had a chance to sit down with over 15 of the most successful day, value, and long term investors of all time? Do you think you’d finally get that one piece of advice that takes your trading from OK to [...]
BCS Standings has Oregon 11 and OSU 19
AP Top 25 has Oregon 11 and OSU 20
USA Today Poll has Oregon 11 and OSU 20
ESPNU Fan Rankings has Oregon 10 and OSU 18
It’s going to be one heck of a Civil War on December 3rd if Oregon and [...]
What do you think?
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Ski Bowl is Mt. Hood’s lowest elevation place to ski. Look at the opening dates for the last five years. Clear evidence that all that CO2 in the atmosphere is causing our climate to warm:
If we extrapolate this trend into the future, why we could be sking [...]
If I see our president lower himself one more time before another world leader, I am going to puke!
[...]So far we have:
#10 Iowa 24, #11 Ohio State 27
#9 USC 21, Stanford 55 !!! Oregon State beat Stanford who beat USC who beat Oregon State.
#14 Miami (Fl) 24, North Carolina 33
#15 Houston 32, UCF 37
#17 Arizona 16, California 24 Arizona beat Oregon State who beat [...]
I hear that the holy water fonts in the back of Catholic Churches will be converted to hands free holy water dispensers to avoid possible contamination from H1N1.
Perhaps you can help me. If holy water has corrosive effects on super-nasty beings, like werewolves and Dracula, why [...]
The Federal Housing Administration, the government agency whose loan-insurance programs have become a crucial source of support for the housing market, said on Thursday that its cash reserves had dwindled significantly in the last year as more borrowers defaulted on their mortgages.
“Scotty, we need more money!”
“I’m sorry Captain, [...]
Official: Craig to step down as White House lawyer
White House counsel and top lawyer Greg Craig would be the highest-ranking departure so far in Obama’s 10-month presidency.
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On Wednesday, 11/11/09, the Dow Jones Industrial Index rallied to a 50% retracement level based on MarketClub’s Fibonacci measuring tool. The action today indicates that this level is very important and that it could be an important top for this market.
Last night we watched a few hours of the CMA awards and I really got a charge out of the group Lady Antebellum. They sang a song named “Need you Now”. Boy did it bring back memories of my single, drinking days. Here are the lines that hit home:
Another shot [...]
CNN Money study shows that Oregon is one of ten states in Financial trouble.
Oregon: Oregon’s leading industries, such as timber and computer-chip manufacturing, have been hit hard in the recession. Lawmakers have approved more than $1 billion in new taxes to keep it afloat. But voters in January will [...]
A quick quote about Oregon weather from Chief Meteorologist Mark Nelsen
The main story with the upcoming weather is cold and snow. Looks to me that the snow level may dip as low as 1,500′ on Friday as a wave of showers follows Friday morning’s cold front. It dries out Friday [...]
Trading debuted today in Van Eck’s Market Vector Junior Miners ETF under the ticker symbol (NYSE: GDXJ). The arrival of this ETF couldn’t come at a better time as gold reached a new all time high of $1.119. Junior Gold Miners had spectacular gains the last time Gold took off. [...]
Ronald Kessler investigative reporter for Newsmax reports that “Imams preach jihad and extremism in 10 percent of the 2,000 mosques in the United States, the FBI estimates.”
My God, that’s 200 mosques with how many worshipers in each mosque? That’s a considerable amount of people that may be operating as [...]
One more of the bunch of radicals steps down: Dunn leaving White House, Pfeiffer takes over
[...]Gene Arensberg at Stockhouse reports
Backwardation in Both Gold and Silver
Perhaps the most interesting news this week is that both gold and silver futures ended the week in moderate backwardation, where the cash or spot price was higher than the front active contracts. In the case of gold, cash [...]
Man oh man, we need some of that (gasp) global warming. NOAA says
The average October temperature of 50.8°F was 4.0°F below the 20th Century average and ranked as the 3rd coolest based on preliminary data. The U.S. recorded its wettest October in the 115-year period of record. The [...]Recently, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a jump in the unemployment rate to 10.2%.Some economists think we could be looking at 10.5% by early next year.
Given these grim forecasts, how do you counsel recent college graduates and others entering the job market for the first time in this [...]
You have to concentrate on what Jose Maria Aznar says, but it seems to me that he is exactly correct!
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John Murphy has written 8 highly touted technical analysis books and today you’ll be sitting in on one of his seminars for no expense. His expertise is known the world over, his teaching style is impeccable, and he’s agreed to give access to a limited number of [...]
Oil companies start to shut GOM operations in preparation for hurricane Ida. Currently packing winds of 105 mph, Mobile. Alabama may be target for landfall sometime on Tuesday morning.
Ida “could be a mildly bullish event” if production gets shut in, said Toby Hassall, a research analyst at CWA Global [...]
According to NewsMax:
Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army major suspected of killing 13 people and wounding 29 others at Fort Hood, worshipped at the same mosque as two of the 9/11 terrorists.
According to the London Sunday Telegraph, Hasan attended services at the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Va., in [...]
#4 Iowa 10, Northwestern 17
#8 Oregon 42, Stanford 51
#11 Penn State 7, #16 Ohio State 24
#20 California 14, Oregon State 31
#22 Notre Dame 21, Navy 23
Late:
#24 Oklahoma 3, Nebraska 10
Go Beavs!
[...]Karl Denninger at Seeking Alpha writes,
Let’s face it. They’re bankrupt. They’ve been bankrupt. They continue to become more bankrupt, despite being under “conservatorship” for more than a year!
[...]
Dr. Tawfik Hamid (aka Tarek Abdelhamid), is an Islamic thinker and reformer, formerly an Islamic extremist from Egypt. He was a member of a terrorist Islamic organization JI with Dr. Ayman Al-Zawaherri who became later on the second in command of Al-Qaeda. Hamid writes for [...]
Apparently, the latest sunspot has its polarity wrong and is puzzling sun-watching scientists.
[...]Fannie Mae - Troubled company!
[...]Wow! NBC Chicago is ripping Obama!
[...]Well, how about that! The three couples, we call ourselves Sei Amici, that golf together and vacation together and share birthdays together for the last 17 years is splitting up. Not splitting up as in divorcing, “I don’t ever want to see you again!” splitting up, but one of the [...]
Gold has just traded at a new all-time high of $1086. However, adjusted for inflation it should be trading over $2200! Hang on to your gold!
[...]So says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the UK Telegraph.
“The debt situation is irrecoverable,” said Carl Weinberg from High Frequency Economics. “I don’t see any orderly way out of this. They will not be able to fund their deficit. There will be a fiscal shutdown, a pension haircut, and bank failures [...]
In our last video on the S&P 500 (10/27), we indicated that this market may have topped out for the year. Today’s action puts in place a weekly “Trade Triangle” which indicates that a temporary or a permanent top is now in place for this market.
Something a Little Bit Different for You This Week
You have often heard Adam Hewison talk about a game plan and how important it is to your trading success. Well today he’sam making available to you “Five Professional Trading Rules” plus, a downloadable game plan template [...]
#5 USC 20, #10 Oregon 47!!!
#13 Virginia Tech 17, North Carolina 20
#12 West Virginia 19, South Florida 30
#22 South Carolina 13, Tennessee 31
#25 Mississippi 20, Auburn 33
No upset: Oregon State 26, UCLA 19
Yay Ducks and Beavers!!!
[...]Sarah Palin bucked the PTB and endorsed Conservative Hoffman and now we have “Republican Dede Scozzafava (suspending) her bid in next Tuesday’s NY 23 special election…”
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Some people are crazy, ranting about the lack of a mouse pad in a hotel room. Contrary to Instapundit, I have the perfect solution for only $10.99:
[...]Isn’t this how Johnson conducted the war in Vietnam?
…the troop numbers (in Afghanistan) under the narrowed scenario probably would be lower than McChrystal’s preference, at least at the outset.
Thank you Obamamama!
[...]Yesterday Adam was talking about the S&P being at a potential top…and today it’s Gold?
Big moves and the technicals are really lining up for something huge. But don’t take my word for it, watch this new video about Gold from Adam Hewison at MarketClub.
Sure, even small pullbacks are painful, [...]
First there was this weird cloud formation over Moscow, now Romania:
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Joe Rojas-Burke of The Oregonian has a story about that swarm of quakes back in March 140 miles off the coast from Newport, Oregon. He writes,
This swarm erupted in a steady stream as if emanating from a hot spot of rising magma from beneath the [...]
