McCain - Palin

by **withahip** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:39 am

zabird wrote:What do you think I've been doing? The color copier at work has been very busy.

Canadian money?

by **Epsilon** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 8:15 am

Mr. Brian, if FTB is 'winning' with regards to having the worst losses,
then I want to be the biggest loser. I'll gladly take that title in this
case for sure.

by **Frank The Bunny** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 8:33 am

Mr. Brian wrote:Personal Rate of Return from 01/01/2008 to 10/08/2008 is -26.8%

I'm not quite at -30% yet! Frank is in the lead!

Good Morning!

Personal Rate of Return from 01/01/2008 to 10/09/2008 is -32.8%

I guess this means I should live it up. I'll be working until I die.

I'm a little pissed actually. I elected to move all my stuff over to the stable bond funds over a week ago, but Fidelity hasn't moved it yet. I've dropped from -20% to -32.8% in that time.

by **Epsilon** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 9:18 am

With only a 1/2 hour of the open to the trading day, the Dow went negative
700 points, gained it back, and cheers on the floor of the New York Stock
Exchange when it went positive. GO GO GO! Let's hope we are near a bottom.

by **JackT** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 9:23 am

Hey you know, if we are entering another Great Depression, it won't be so bad. I have seen all the Little Rascals episodes, and it seems like it was a lot of fun.

Who wants to get the Gang together and put on a show at the old barn?

by **moondance** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:09 am

Who wants to be Buckwheat?

by **zabird** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 12:39 pm

JackT wrote:Hey you know, if we are entering another Great Depression, it won't be so bad. I have seen all the Little Rascals episodes, and it seems like it was a lot of fun.

Who wants to get the Gang together and put on a show at the old barn?

Remember that little Mickey Gubitosi? He grew up to be Robert Blake :eek:

by **Epsilon** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 3:15 pm

OMG, this week is FINALLY over! It supposedly was the worst week in
the 112 year history of the New York Stock Exchange.

by **crystal daze** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 4:34 pm

http://sadguysontradingfloors.tumblr.com/

by **Epsilon** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 5:50 pm

Crystal Daze, thank you for the chuckle. Those captions are pretty funny,
and try to make a really bad situation better, at least for me.

by **In The Margins** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:35 pm

moondance wrote:Who wants to be Buckwheat?

I'll be Buckwheat, but I'd rather be Alfalfa. His cowlick was sweet.

by **Frank The Bunny** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 9:34 am

Anybody seen this "typo" on the absentee ballots in upstate NY? Typo, my ass.

NY election mix-up: 'Osama' on the ballot
By RICHARD RICHTMYER – 18 hours ago

TROY, N.Y. (AP) — Who is running for president? In an upstate New York county, hundreds of voters have been sent absentee ballots in which they could vote for "Barack Osama."

The absentee ballots sent to voters in Rensselaer County identified the two presidential candidates as "Barack Osama" and "John McCain." In the United States, the best-known individual named Osama is Osama bin Laden, leader of the al Qaida terrorist group behind the 2001 attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center in New York City.

The typographical terror error was first reported by the Times Union of Albany.

The elections office faxed a statement in which the two commissioners, Democrat Edward McDonough and Republican Larry Bugbee, said they regret the error but never acknowledge what the error was.

"It's human error, it's very unfortunate, it's an embarrassment to our office, obviously," McDonough said in a later phone interview. "We wish we could turn back the clock, but we can't."

When they discovered the mistake, officials shredded the remaining "Osama" ballots and mailed correct versions to the roughly 300 people who had already received them. McDonough said the "Osama" mistake was made in only one of the 13 ballot versions mailed throughout the county, located east of the state capital of Albany.

Voters who received both versions will be allowed to send in either one and have it counted, McDonough said.

Obama spokesman Blake Zeff said the campaign is "glad officials are working to correct this error and we assume it won't happen again."

AP Writer Devlin Barrett in Washington contributed to this report.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j9YD ... wD93NRLQG0

by **Frank The Bunny** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 10:10 am

Mr. Brian wrote:Personal Rate of Return from 01/01/2008 to 10/08/2008 is -26.8%

I'm not quite at -30% yet! Frank is in the lead!

Personal Rate of Return from 01/01/2008 to 10/10/2008 is -33.5%

by **withahip** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 10:23 pm

by **Epsilon** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 3:17 pm

Almost 1000 point gain in the Dow Jones today, one of the largest point
moves in history. The bulls are almost back, just a little longer, than look
out. We will never see a better time to invest than now. Oh yeah!

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