Addressing the Canny Investor

March 10 2009 bore witness to a scene of charity at its finest. Feed the Children, along with numerous volunteers, provided Elkhart County with a caravan of semi-trailers full of supplies.

Elkhart County is one of Indiana’s worst victims of the economic crisis that is plaguing the United States. It is located in the state of Indiana. Much of the county is located in the Elkhart-Goshen Metropolitan Statistical Area. Though considered as “the RV capital of the world,” Elkhart’s fortunes have fallen with the country’s economy. Factories now lie defunct, with lines of unsold motor homes parked outside.

Obama visited Elkhart on February 9, using the town’s situation to motivate Congress and the United States to support his plan for economic recovery. “People in Elkhart need this right now,” the President said, speaking at a town hall at Concord High School. “They cannot wait on Washington to get things done.”

Encouraged by President Obama’s appeal for an economic stimulus plan to help the needy, Feed the Children and a multitude of volunteers banded together to help 5,200 hungry families. Distressed families eagerly picked up free canned goods, baked goods, candy and even Avon products.

Certainly, Feed the Children has its hands full what with the economic crisis affecting various regions — Elkhart is just one of the US counties that have been hit hard by the global recession. As of now, answering the future of the country is uncertain, but predicting the outcome is irrelevant compared to what can be done now.

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elkhart_County,_Indiana

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Mesothelioma is a uncommon and fast moving tumor where no effective remedy has been discovered despite the discovery of quite a few possible molecular and genetic targets. The late stages of Malignant pleural mesothelioma diagnosis and the long latency that exists connects contacts and diagnosis have made it tricky to completely learn what risk factors do and the resulting molecular effects.

A lot of medical centers are now seeing more patients with mesothelioma. This presents pathologists involved in making the diagnosis with a number of problems, that are separated into those exposed in distinguishing between mesothelioma and benign changes and those seen in differentiating malignant mesotheliomas from different types of epithelial and tissue tumors that connect. Immunohistochemistry plays a major role in diagnosing, nevertheless it should be understood with regards to the medical setting and radiological characteristics, and with an understanding of the extensive morphological differentiations that exist in mesothelioma.

Mesothelioma is a cancer directly affecting the serosal cavities, an anatomical site that is also frequently affected by metastatic disease, mostly from primary carcinomas of the ovary, lung and breast. Progression in IHC have lead to improved diagnostic sensitivity and exactness in the differential diagnosis in regards to histological and cytological material. Recently, the researchers employed a high level of throughput technology to the identification of new flags that might assist in being able to tell the difference between malignant mesothelioma from ovarian and peritoneal cancer, tumors cells that contain closely related histogenesis and antigenic profile. Along with the improved tools accessible for cancer of the serosa diagnosis, realizing the biology of cancer of the mesothelium has accumulate lately.

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The devastating loss in case of Elliot Spitzer for NY Governator VS. Bank of America has set back the mirage behind the man who would be king. His case has clothes and his paper work no validity. This was one of the first of his high profile cases to run its course in the New York Court system. Apparently the house of cards like a bunch of watered down cattle is now public. The ponzi governor is now cut short. If only the election could have been two-weeks ago he might have fooled everyone that his entire career was not built on false premise.

But alas, the clock was ticking and the faade was illuminated and behind was an angry man without integrity hiding behind a mound of paperwork the terrorist threats against the corporations and their executives and directors which have made America what it is. This nation is the greatest country ever created in the history of mankind. Two men of this decade had attempted to destroy all we are and all we have built. Those men are none other than Osama Bin Laden and Elliot Spitzer.

And so the as the main character unravels while plot thickens and the saga continues, it is evident where the story is headed. Elliot Spitzer’s cases are made of less than junk science and his “Talley Band” of junior regulators are left with a boss who is unfit to lead. Elliot Spitzer has abused power in a Machiavellian scheme epic proportions and his demise will be similar to the brutal dictators who have taken down throughout history.

There will be few tears shed as Elliot Spitzer falls from grace and attempts damage control of his reputation and his new fate as a political casualty. Joy from across the land from Wall Street to Los Angeles as another anti-American bites the dust. This country is United and we do not need anyone in the New York attorney generals office to tell us otherwise.

The greatest people in the world are the producers, innovators and entrepreneurs who run the largest and most hard charging corporations; they are the ones, which bring us choice and quality of life. We thank you all the jury has made a decree, we love America and we are all on the same team.

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As I read the papers and watch the news day after day after day, and listen to the debates on what we Americans should do with Iran and North Korea, as if we were the only ones involved, yet as always the world will put their two cents in, and to be quite honest, that is all financially they will give, but for advise, like my neighbors, they will give a tone of it away free. Anyhow, I should get to my clout in my throat. As I read the papers and watch the news day after day, as I was saying before, I can’t be the only one that feels this way, yet sometimes I think I am, because I have not read much about what I’m going to say, in the floating media; be it reluctance on everyone else’s behalf, or perhaps I’m just wrong. But when I check the records, it indicates I’m not. Oh well, possibly people are just full of crap and don’t like the truth. Here is a bag full. Because of President Clinton, and let me say it again to get it right, Big Bill, Wild Bill, our ex-president Bill Clinton, they are all the same to me, because of this goofball, because of this wise guy, we have two towers down in New York City today (yes I’m talking about 9/11). It was not because of the FBI; nor the CIA; or President George W. Bush. No, no, no, it is because of Buffalo Bill Clinton; and his goofball wife.

Every time I think of this, I have to take calm down pill. Anyhow, in 1999I hope we have not all forgotten that yearas I was about to say, in 1999 the Clinton Administration could have sent missiles into the camp where Bin Ladin was, they had him focused in like a bug on a glass window, with the sun focusing in on him, parading around like a peacock. For some odd reasonand I think we all should know this, but when I see the world looking every which way, but at the Clintons, I fear they all need glasses, or a movie by our screwed up hero Sean Penn. Anyhow, the reason Mr. Ladin did not get a ass full of rocket juice was because he was with some high and mighty VIPs from the oil fields. So Mr. Clinton sacrificed New York City, and Washington D.C. (in my eyes), for the Middle East Camel Humpers. For what? for the sake of friendship (s). Because of this wild card he played, we can thank him for oil at the pumps I suppose, but not for the loss of 3000-lives.

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Submiting the Criminals to The ICC!

Everybody concerns about justice in the World should be
delighted because the call to submit the criminals in Sudan
to the International Criminal Court(ICC) becomes a reality
last Thrusday in the UN’s corridors!

The UN Security Council voted 11-0 to refer a sealed list of
51 people accused of crimes against humanity in the Sudanese
Darfurian region to the ICC.

The USA, China, Brazil and Algeria abstained after the last
minute wrangling led by the US to exempt its citizens from
submission to the ICC, some media sources said.

Now the suprise at the UN was the abstention of the USA and
China.

Each of those two countries has its own attitudes and
interests towards the sitution in Sudan. The USA has always
been the sole player in the International Channels to accuse
the Sudanese Dictatorial Regime of terrorism.

It launched an air-raids against a terorrist location in the
capital city of Khartoum in 1998, nevertheless the air raids
missed its targets.

That had happened because of the wrong information the USA
received about the location of the terrorist factory.

Up to this point, the air raids on Khartoum were not as
successful as those attacks led by the suspect terrorists
against the American Ambassies in Nairobi and Dar-a-Salam.

So, what has happened today to encourage the USA to change
its attitudes and be “neutral” at the Security Council
during the last vote?!!

Seems that the USA did not want the resolution to be a
precedent and to be implemented Internationally so as not to
take effects on the interantional American policy not in
Sudan alone but in Iraq too.

The question is why Buch Administration afraid of such
investigations and discovery to crimes committed by any US
citizen in the Darfurian case?

It’s obvious that some of the Darfurian rebels has an
American nationalities. But that’s not the strong case,
since the question is, is there any “American finger” in any
Darfurian crimes?

This situtaion declares very well that Buch Administration
is not after justice and it’s not up to its human tasks to
protect human rights over seas.

Well, I can see well that during the corridor’s talks, news
was heard that China will use the Veto against any
resolution to submit those dictators to the ICC. But China
chose to be “neutral” in the last vote.

This Chinese attitude indicates that China has been forced
by the USA to withhold with the Veto. But China played the
game through the American pressures in a manner that will
prevent any lose to it’s interests in the Sudanese Oil
Industry.

Aha, Money talks too the same way as politics does!

A lot of people in Africa and the Middle East now believe
that those International powers do not care about human
rights. Their cry for human rights is only allegations to
hide their economical interests.

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Birmingham Hodge Hill, the week before the 2005 parliamentary by-election. A team of Conservatives, both young and old, pour off the campaign coach ready to… have their photograph taken outside the Labour headquarters with Boris Johnson.

Yes, even in the most frantic of campaigns, political parties have never been adverse to enjoying themselves at the same time. Thousands of leaflets were delivered that day but, when the dust has settled on the campaign, what many people will remember is Labour volunteers coming out to join in the photograph. Not because it was significant or life changing, but just because it was fun, a much needed diversion in the middle of a hard day’s work. Even if the Conservatives had won that campaign I have no doubt that it would still be the memory that stuck around long afterwards.

Politics is about going out and making a difference in the world. But that doesn’t stop people from having a good time whilst doing so. Indeed that is what encourages many activists to keep coming back: the growing sense of companionship, rapport and teamwork which are established under the pressure of a political campaign. Which is something all of us political hacks could do well to remember when

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Okay, so the subject of South African deputy president Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka’s junket with buddies to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been written about ad nauseam. It’s one of those issues which just begs the hideous polarisation of which we South Africans of all hues are so regularly capable. The racist agendas creep out from under their stones and start gnawing away - again - at the fabric of our staged unity. The rainbow nation vaunted by my ‘fave’ archbishop - ye Very Reverend, His Grace, Desmond Tutu -appears a little faded and tatty around the edges.

I hold no brief for the ANC and by and large thoroughly dislike a lot of what they continue to inflict upon the poor and disadvantaged of this country. But I was of the view (and wrote so) at the time of President Thabo Mbeki’s R 400 million jet acquisition, that it made good sense. I’m of the same opinion regarding the deputy Prez’s little holiday to Dubai. It’s not OK to compare the scenario with Tony Blair occasionally using scheduled BA flights to hop the Thames or the Channel - (whether whale-spotting or not), to chat with French PM Dominique de Villepin. We are, folks, talking about a private, SA Airforce maintained jet, vs. the ‘flying coffins’ as they’ve been dubbed by IATA, of certain African countries. I’m not referring to the national carriers of South Africa or Kenya, but to those of their poorly maintained cousins and the air traffic control systems which are that in name only. It’s no secret that the parlous state of African airlines and air traffic navigation services in many countries on the continent is cause for grave concern to many airlines overflying Africa.

Separate for a moment your emotions, opinions, likes and dislikes from the principle at issue. If the likes (in status terms) of a deputy UK Prime Minister, John Presott, were based in South Africa, how would you transport him? (No jokes about the weight issue now!) So, logical thinking required: Would you seriously put the woman who would have to - in constitutional (even if not in capability) terms - step into the shoes of president Thabo Mbeki in the unlikely event that he gets hit by a minibus, in the position of having to get about, across or beyond the continent using some iffy airline? Would you expect Mbeki to use scheduled flights (oxymoron) for African Union (AU) or peace brokering activities in difficult-to-remember enclaves up North? I don’t think so. The onerous security, foreign affairs protocol, let alone safety and other arrangements that would have to be made are well outweighed by the relative simplicity of a point-to-point private flight.

The nucleus of the debacle lies not in the issue of the deputy Prez being ferried in an Airforce jet to her (I believe, entitled-to) holiday break. The issue that fanned the flames was the truly crappy communication surrounding it. I guarantee that had it been announced in advance that ‘Phumzie’ as that selectively and intentionally disrespectful tabloid rag, the ‘Citizen’, inappropriately refers to her, was going on hols, there probably wouldn’t have been a murmur. Other than perhaps from the perennially opportunistic leader of the Parliamentary opposition, Moaney - oops, I mean Tony - Leon.

The second silly blups was putting out an ‘explanation’, revising it and then going back to version one again. This was un-prayed-for Manna from heaven for the nay-sayers. The third glitch was putting the redoubtable Murphy Morobe, Presidency spokesperson, in the position of having to pour oil (not inappropriately given the UAE destination!) on sorely troubled waters. He did so surprisingly ineptly. I know him to be a suave, highly intelligent, charming communicator. I guess that’s the downside when you become the spin doctor for politicians who won’t let you do it your way. But who do ask you to come in with a poop-scoop when they’ve truly botched it. Simpatico Murphy, but you have to learn to say ‘Nyet!’ a little more forcefully, or pass the buck to Joel Netshitenze of GCIS (inappropriately-named Government Communication and [mis]Information Service) fame, who has so frequently ‘defended’ the indefensible that nobody remembers what he says anyhow.

I don’t believe the deputy Prez’s holiday is an abuse of tax-payers money. Our notoriously incompetent minister of health, Dr. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang is responsible for huge HIV and AIDS treatment budget underspends -with lethal consequences. That’s real abuse of all involved so let’s give it a lot of ink space and air time instead. It also really doesn’t matter how many other bums were in the seats of that aircraft. The fractional effect on fuel consumption - if any - should have encouraged Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka to take a bunch of AIDS orphan kids who’d never flown before, along with her. That might have got some positive press coverage.

If South Africa is indeed the economic engine room of the continent then maybe we should start acting like we are. And quit these churlish tirades when our head of state or his deputy fly in safety and security to fulfil their functions or recreation on the continent or beyond. I can’t recall ever having read of it being an issue when the Nats were in power in SA. Why should it be now? The international community must think we need a national course in emotional intelligence.

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This is a thought on the study of Home and Away Games, The Best Team Always Has the Advantage. Predators and Prey; The Hunters and The Hunted. Recently Rumsfeld asked his brightest commanders to come up with strategies to combat Islamic Extremists Terrorists. Here is an idea. Set up a couple of Humvees, which would drive at normal speed a head of a van, which had interior 1″ steel walls. Drive the Humvees in front and use remote control to draw fire. Put mannequins in the Humvees. And a Big America flag to piss them off. The van will have SWAT Team Special Forces. When the humvees are shot at stop them and the van unloads and surrounds the area from the rear and special forces shoot each one between the eyes, cut off the heads stick them on the posts out front of the houses where they were found and just get back into the van and drive around again.

Hunt the terrorists like the prey that they are. Turn the tables. The hunters become the hunted. The hit and run games of the past turn into a simple way to draw fire as a marker of you’re immediate and next target. At night sneak around in fatigues with special teams. Gore-ill the Gorillas. Use UAV helicopters to get in close a spook them. Use ELF to put them to sleep. Use RF to make them piss. Pull out all the stops to kill them. The triangle is not our Devils Triangle it is their place to meet Allah. Let them come to the triangle in large numbers from throughout the region and slice and dice. To fight this war we need to be the hunters. Play to win, get serious and let the boys have some fun, they have been practicing urban warfare for months on end, they are ready to rock and roll, the weather is going to get more livable, so after Ramadan and Christmas let’s load the place up with the toughest son’s of bitches in this country. The tough guys, Special Forces, the guys who know who they are and who know how to win. Hunt them down one by one. Mercilessly. They want to fight, show them hell on Earth. Cut throats, cut off their penis, shove it in their mouth and decapitate. I bet things change real fast. They want to fight and live in the year 3000 BC, show them what they are missing.

This hit and run sissy stuff cannot be tolerated. If you want to win a war you have to take the will of your enemy out of the group. Let’s do it. We need several hundred such plays as the one described above to deploy, like a football team, mixing up the plays, different each day, different special teams, different methods all with one idea in mind, the goal line. I am sorry if some people reading this think it is too extreme, I believe weak people succumbing to political correctness while our guys get picked off and lawyers determine targets is just dumb. I suppose the enemy is lucky that I am not in charge. There would be hovering apache helicopters over the horizon, just waiting lines up and armed to the hilt and we would be running these plays and hunting like big cats in the night, all night, every night, every holiday, every second, day and night, no rest for the enemy, until every last one is slaughtered. No mercy, no prisoners, no bull sh_t. Of course the Democratic Presidential hopefuls would be so disappointed in me. But let’s get real here. The war is over, these people just don’t get it. Jihad? G-Wizz? It might be time to start sending some of these heads back to the countries where they are coming from. Cruel and Unusual?

We should never fight evil with our hands tied behind our backs. This hide and seek, hit and run, drive and crash needs to turn into pray and pay, lead and be-head from the air and land. Get tough and win. This rhetoric of oh no what do we do now on TV is ridiculous. Either we have the balls, brains and Braun or the liberal anti-American guest stars on the nightly news are right. Which is it? A fighter pilot has rules, in war they are different. “Never give a sucker an even break, take the advantage and cheat.” So far this is what they are doing. Yet those are our rules of engagement and conflict. We are letting them run our plays and sitting around wondering what we should do? The political correctness has gotten out of hand and into the battle area. How can this be? How can we have done this to ourselves? Shoot back, hunt them down, and attack. We have all the advantages, use them. Just a thought, a single perspective and observation. What do you think?

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