K Wave Rider Posted April 25, 2009 Report Share Posted April 25, 2009 This is a little weird and a little too close to home...... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090424/ap_on_...e/med_swine_flu CDC says too late to contain... http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/24443479.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4shzl Posted April 25, 2009 Report Share Posted April 25, 2009 Most, if not all, of those figures include lump sum retirement payouts....the annual figures are much lower.... Just sayin' If these were lump sum retirement payouts, you'd have at least a few seven figure numbers. Last year at the UC, there were 30 lump sum retirement payouts over $1 million. Even clerical staff with 40 years of service get $500K+ for a lump sum payout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrStool Posted April 25, 2009 Report Share Posted April 25, 2009 http://wallstreetexaminer.com/2009/04/24/d...sional-edition/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plantagenet Posted April 25, 2009 Report Share Posted April 25, 2009 glad we loaded the boat a few weeks ago at 1.15.... Hey, jickiss! Based in large measure on your prompting, we loaded up at 0.70. I worked all day today and did not even know of the recent eruption until reviewing MTM. Nice call! Also, given your grammar, I would not recommend TRE, lest people think you are actually Mr. Sinclair in disguise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrHanky Posted April 25, 2009 Report Share Posted April 25, 2009 Hate to say it but..... We actually have a real possibility of trading back to the 200 DMA,currently 972 and falling.So I guess 950ish is a reasonable upside target Not saying we get there,but would be a great time to go short if it happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4shzl Posted April 25, 2009 Report Share Posted April 25, 2009 Hate to say it but..... We actually have a real possibility of trading back to the 200 DMA,currently 972 and falling.So I guess 950ish is a reasonable upside target Not saying we get there,but would be a great time to go short if it happens. 950ish circa June 30 lets the public pension funds end their fiscal year no worse off that they were on December 31. That's the objective -- it's a national security priority. 'Nuff said. "Are we clear?" "Crystal!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charmin Posted April 25, 2009 Report Share Posted April 25, 2009 One possibility: 875 resistance level "If this is a top then we will see a rally of 1 to 4 more days that will either fail to reach the high or get just marginally above that high and then trend down with support at the 800 level. If this is a new leg in a bull campaign the index will drive above the last high and counter trend down and show support on top of that resistance and take off to the 950 level." Bill Mclaren http://www.mclarenreport.net.au/articles/a...rope/Page1.html http://www.StockSharePublishing.com/ChartL..._1240625582.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jickiss Posted April 25, 2009 Report Share Posted April 25, 2009 jickiss is back! jickiss is back! and, updating, even with strange grammer, the Weekly $WTIC chart. your jickiss notes that there have been 4 weekly Hammers within the last 8 weeks. and yesss, maybe these Hammers are not perfect, but take a look anyway. Earl. Even our Shorty has discussed much higher prices for Earl. Timing is, of course Everything. and, oh by the way, the key time date period to carefully watch, geo-politically has been expanded From May 08-15, 2009 to May 07 -May 18, 2009. What does this mean, jickiss? you may wonder??? Easy: Expect the First actual Surprise to happen after the 18th of May, 2009. phat had indicated earlier, that May 27 was the key Earl date. So there you have it....or, do we say, Dare, and you may finally get it Right and get paid, too! Meanwhile, let's all be careful, however, your jickiss would rather be in and Early rather than to be left out in the cold, protected only by Lam-o-lin, and Late. here is $WTIC with its 4 hammers a hammerin' regards to all! jickiss!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jickiss Posted April 25, 2009 Report Share Posted April 25, 2009 jickiss is back! jickis is back! and Dear Plantagenet Tanks for mentioning your jickiss, and CDE, the Stock of the Year. It is and it will remain the great wish of your jickiss that, at some point (maybe around $5.00 on the current CDE shares (they are intending to do a reverse split, which is going to make them look, again, like a "real company," which they are) you will sell enough shares to reduce your actual cost of all remaining shares to -0-, and then you will enjoy the GREAT AND FUTURE trip to super high levels that most today will scoff at) and that you will be able to save your self, and then be able to greatly help any deserving "others" that the universe will send to you to enable. remember, In the END (the invisible wire in the avatar) only the gold and silver and miners and miners related Bulls, and the Broads Bears, will win big. Hold Fast! jickiss!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetlag Posted April 25, 2009 Report Share Posted April 25, 2009 Eyes fixed firmly on the rear-view mirror, the sheeple plod steadily forward toward the abyss, their faith in Gippernomics unshaken: DavidBrooks, NYTimes "In a recent Gallup poll, 55 percent of Americans said that big government is the biggest threat to the country. Only 32 percent said big business. Those answers are near historical norms." Can't say I disagree. The bad decisions were taken by gubermint, with or without pressure from big business they ultimately took the option of repealing glass-steagall they also let China into the WTO and distorted the RE markets with "subsidies" and incentives to some segments of the market... Don't forget that by definition Big Government is corrupt and inefficient. Fits like a glove. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetlag Posted April 25, 2009 Report Share Posted April 25, 2009 This is a little weird and a little too close to home...... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090424/ap_on_...e/med_swine_flu CDC says too late to contain... http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/24443479.htm Sounds like the pigmen have gone airborne "The bug contains human virus, avian virus from North America and pig viruses from North America, Europe and Asia." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capitall Posted April 25, 2009 Report Share Posted April 25, 2009 "In a recent Gallup poll, 55 percent of Americans said that big government is the biggest threat to the country. Only 32 percent said big business. Those answers are near historical norms." Can't say I disagree. The bad decisions were taken by gubermint, with or without pressure from big business they ultimately took the option of repealing glass-steagall they also let China into the WTO and distorted the RE markets with "subsidies" and incentives to some segments of the market... Don't forget that by definition Big Government is corrupt and inefficient. Fits like a glove. Oh, I'm sure it was without any pressure from the saintly non-corrupt area of Big Business, LOL. There is no definition that says that Big Government has to be corrupt and inefficient either. That being said, if we citizens were to insist on campaign finance reform, such that taxpayers, not corporate campaign contributors, paid for political campaigns-- then, citizens could regain control of the government and have it do whatever they wanted it to do-- efficiently and with little or no corruption. It's the Golden Rule. He who supplies the gold makes the rules. It can easily be seen that this is the case, even though it my seem incredible to some. Yes, citizens could have government do whatever they wanted it to do-- efficiently and with little or no corruption. How do I know this? Just look at what we have now-- a government that is efficient and with very little corruption-- if one takes the viewpoint that Big Business folks and their lobbyists are saints and that they deserve to rule all of us by the rules they choose. From that point of view, one can see that we now already HAVE a government with high efficiency and minimal corruption of Big Business's goals. If you EVER see Turbo Timmy do ANYTHING that fails to richly reward and benefit his friends on Fraud Street (who somehow found money to hire lobbyists despite needing to be bailed out by the taxpayers), be sure to let us all know. The hatred of government is also very efficiently brought about through Big Business propaganda. Big Business hates government because they want to rule instead of the government ruling-- that is, instead of the citizens and their representatives ruling. When you hate the government, you are hating yourself, and loving Big Business's role as your Slave Master. The government is you, or at least your representatives. The problem is not actually so much Big Business, as the fact that the citizens have given up control of government, and so are living by someone else's rules. Anyone to whom citizens would give up all their power would seem evil, as they would have been given the right to lord it over the citizens. Such is the amazing power of the Golden Rule. If citizens supplied the gold, we would make the rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwd Posted April 25, 2009 Report Share Posted April 25, 2009 Seems to me that for all intents and purposes, the public is hostage to public safety employees to the degree that citizens have abrogated their personal and civic/Constitutional responsibilities. The public safety unions are probably the only union in the US now able to pull off a successful strike. That has a lot of bad ramifications as times get tougher, and public finances get tighter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwd Posted April 25, 2009 Report Share Posted April 25, 2009 The guy's base salary was around $60K. The vast majority of what he made was the $144K lump sum payment. I wonder what that was for? Too bad it doesn't say. Anyway, this guy is the exception for police sergeants, not the rule. There are a lot of big salaries on this list, I agree with you there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwd Posted April 25, 2009 Report Share Posted April 25, 2009 Last Name Mc Gehee First Name Stewart City/County City of San Jose Title Battalion Chief Department Fire Base Pay $152,699.00 Overtime $110,468.00 Lumpsum Other Compensation $21,078.00 Total Compensation $284,245.00 Retired In 2008? As I suspected the senior officials are logging a lot of overtime. If he can do this for two or three years, then his best three year average salary will give him an inflation adjusted retirement greater than his working base salary How about dem apples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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