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Skip to comments.Barry Goldwater: A True Conservative
Posted on 06/22/2012 6:37:39 PM PDT by Diggity
It's too bad that we don't have a Barry Goldwater for today's times.
No kidding. He's one of my personal political heroes. Reading "Conscience of a Conservative" was a revelation: "Hey! I'm not crazy after all!"
I should read that book since you like it so well. I was too young to really remember him but of all the politicians now on the scene he is closest to how I believe.
Not on the scene of course but of all he ones that I have seen.
This Leftist film praises Goldwater for NOT being a social conservative, for being an violent enemy of Jerry Falwell, etc..
I wish there were still guys like him in our party now...He was a strong leader and a great man. He went a bit off the rails on a few social issues late in his career but I don't hold it against him. A patriot..
I can remember going to a Goldwater rally in Montgomery, Alabama during his 1964 campaign. Ah, those were the days, when we had "A Choice, Not an Echo," to borrow Mr. Goldwater's phrase.
Check out "Pure Goldwater" it is a good read.Deals with his life i guess you would call it a biography.
I grew up in Montgomery. Did you? I went to REL high school and was 10 in 1964
Thanks for the info. I will check it out.
I was a high school senior in 1964, too young to vote, but I learned my political direction from Barry Goldwater in that summer and fall.
The Goldwater of the 1960s may have been conservative, but something happened to him sometime around the time Reagan was president. He suddenly became a social liberal and said some nasty things about Reagan. Nancy Reagan took issue with him turning on her husband after Pres. Reagan went to bat for him in the 1964 election.
He was the Milton Friedman of politicians.
"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
And liberals/moderates still think that's fall down, knee slapping funny.
We have a lot of work to do to save our Republic when lines like that are cause for derision.
If you recall, his '64 campaign slogan - "In your heart, you know he's right" was mocked by the lefties as "In your guts, you know he's nuts"
They never change.
Goldwater was more of a libertarian than a conservative. He was NEVER a moral conservative. That became more evident later, as the issue of abortion became more overwhelming. But it was there from the start, if you looked hard enough.
I was impressed by him at the time, but even back then it was evident that he was lacking something on the moral and religious side.
I had also read Ayn Rand at the time, including some of her earlier work. I greatly admired some aspects of her work, but she had the same problem—something was missing, namely a firm sense of moral right and wrong.
My Dad, I remember being mad and scared enough by that jacka** Cronkite let himself get tricked into voting for LBJ "I will not send American boys to do a job Vietnamese boys should be doing for themselves." because that Goldwater was crazy and he was going to "Get us into a War."
Famous "Daisy" Attack Ad from 1964 Presidential Election
In your guts, you know hes nuts
Fascinating reminiscence. Thanks.
In your guts, not your heart.
It's always about Feelings, a Feeling of some indefinable hunger or want to the left.
No, I came down with some other college students from the Birmingham area to hear Goldwater speak.
Oh Yeah, and every Administration from FDR on shoved Detent on us because we couldn't beat the Russians and we had to learn to Get Along with Communism, until RR broke them without firing a shot by bankrupting them.
When RR tightened the screws on Europe exporting dual use technologies to Moscow, the story goes that one of the Politburo was heard to say,
"That B**tard would ban the import of the wheel if he thought he could get away with it."
Barry got pretty leftie in his dotage.
Barry wasn't perfect. But if we had the 64 Election as a do over, .....
The Great Society, War on Poverty, Socialized Medicine/Medicare, and on and on.
I named my son " Barry" after this great man. Instead we got that crook LBJ— what a decadent POC. "Guns and Butter" RAIDED MY SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUND. He was a total failure as a president and ruined our beloved country with WELFARE— Free stuff for free loaders!!!
Medicare was just one of LBJ's enduring curses. It opened the door for 40 years of Senator, Hero of the Battle of Chappaquiddick Run, Swimmer to keep reforming one entitlement after another into it until healthcare got so expensive that the country was primed for a complete Govt takeover called ObamaCare, because the average working joe just couldn't afford it anymore.
Darn straight, something happened. He leaned lefter and lefter as he aged—not just on social issues (like abortion) but on certain foreign policy as well. He also could have helped Nixon in '74 but demurred. He disappointed many if not all of his original supporters—including but not confined to the entire staff of National Review (when NR actually mattered).
The Daisy ad of Moyers angered Sam Waterson so much he voted for Goldwater.
63-4 was activation of what had not been tapped.
I saw M. Stanton Evans then-editor of the Indianapolis News (whom Ann Coulter called the greatest living authority on Senator McCarthy) destroy in debate Dr. Robert Risk of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union.
My YAF friends and I engaged Risk's coterie of bearded Marxists.
Dick Allen (later the major national security player) used us to organize for rallies, then on to New York to a YAF convention to Draft Goldwater.
The country wanted LBJ to take care of them, and trusted him with the prosecution of the war.
He interfered with victory to his eternal shame, wimpered like a little girl March '68 when the heat turned up, consuming Mockingbird Cronkite, King, Bobby.
Whatever disaster Moyers sought to evoke it was nothing compared to the nightmare his doomed president wrought.
Goldwater catapulted Reagan to leadership when the nation needed it--to win the Cold War.
Lincoln had McClellan until he could win with Grant.
The candidate today who removes the Islamo-Commie crack-smoking closet queen will be replaced by someone of our choosing in '16 with the correct core beliefs.
History has a way of never ending.
He was also K7UGA, and a Brigadier General in the Air national Guard. He was a straight shooter. He said what he meant, and walked the walk. He was the most un-politician like politician of our time.
What happened was that after his first wife died he met and married a younger woman...whose name escapes me. Anyway he was in thrall to her and she soon took complete control of his attitudes and comings and goings.
So in essence I feel that he said "Yes dear" a lot and was seduced by the thrill of having a much younger good-looking woman with decidedly liberal views as his "helpmate".
That's my humble opinion and I'm sticking to it.
I met Barry numerous times in the early 60's and even visited his home once.
Later in life he remarried (I guess he wife had died) and his second wife was a flaming Liberal and Barry was getting a bit senile in his later years and started seeing things through her eyes.
I think we all understood and just let that fact slide. He was no longer active in politics.
I also heard that when he got out of reach of his wife he became the old Barry again.
There was an old saying going around in the 1960's:
They told me that if I voted for Goldwater that we would get bogged down in a terrible Asian war.
Well, I voted for Goldwater anyway. And you know what? They were right.
In your heart, you know he's right.
Yes and people today who call him left wing don't understand what the term really means. Not only that they only differ from the democrats in one way; how the government is to run our lives since both groups expect it tell us how to live
Barry felt that the government had no business legislating morality and that is how I feel. All the morality the founders thought the government should dictate was in the original constitution and you will find none.
It was the "moral majority" that alienated the independents and elected Carter, Clinton and Obama not to mention all of the democrats that have gave us the unbridled expansion of government over the last 40 years.
My father was k4pdx and actually spoke with him once his rig.
Goldwater was the man.
LOL, good one.
Great story. Thanks for sharing!
Barry Goldwater Tells It Like It Is
Yes, there was a lot about Goldwater to admire. But, regretably, he was not really pro-life, as his later statements revealed.
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Mayor, I like the all over print and I'm feeling the inside sole. I've got some crazy bespokes that I just got back and will b taking pics this week and posting them, stay tuned.....They will def b game changers!
Since its "Game Over" does that mean we never have to be subjected to his worthless and overrated design aesthetic? Just like DJCK, your 15 minutes are up Mayor. Make way for REAL creative minds.
I don't like Mayor and I don't really like this shoe but he's right it's game over. people been trying to get their personalized heel tab and lazer logos on the side. dude puts his name all OVER the shoe, what more can you do?
He like's pink to damn much.
So Mayor, what do you do for a living? I make stuff, t-shirts, sneakers, wood wood chains. And then I put my name all over them. I lazered my name into my ipad to. I love my name.
A huge joke.
You mean Lame Over?
So Mayor gave relentless hate over the Yeezys because it's supposedly overhyped and too flamboyant looking. Yet it's okay when he designs a pair of shoes that is tired and cliche (AF1), and have flamboyant AND clashing colors?
YUK, ugliest bespoke EVER!! throw that sh*t out
These are crack and that royal blue suede is out of this world in person. Dope kick.
Weak I seen better from him. I Guess when u have so much u could do whatever...
These are real heat.
Game Over Man! Game Over!
I guess it aint trickin if you got It.
Not worthy of the title game over...
This does look like something that fat midget slob mayor would design to wear for his fairy faggot ass.
He said that he does autoshop thingy.
that makes as much sense as "could care less" ... it's "couldn't." Lame Over means the lame is done, which obviously it isn't since those things were created
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The ones where Peyton Manning couldn't throw a football.
Seems almost funny now, a little odd, really. The Denver Broncos quarterback has thrown 92 touchdown passes in two seasons on the Front Range, he's won his fifth MVP award, been behind center for 26 regular-season wins and helped power the Broncos to Super Bowl XLVIII. And heading into his 17th season -- and his third with the Broncos -- he's No. 3 in our 2014 #NFLRank survey, up two spots from No. 5 a year ago.
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"It's been a lot of work, I will say that," Manning said. "A lot of time with help from an awful lot of people to get where things are. But I've had to make some adjustments, I think, in how I do things. The goal has always been to help your team win games, to be reliable for your teammates. People always kind of ask me did I think I could come all the way back. I don't always know how to answer that, I knew I wanted to play if I could get to the point where I could compete at the level you need to compete."
Consider it done. It may be appreciated far more when Manning's career is over, when he's thrown his last competitive pass and the league's record book has his name next to the most significant passing records.
But coming back from four neck surgeries, the fourth being a spinal fusion surgery, as a professional football player who had already left his 35th birthday in the rear-view mirror, to where he is now is rare in his vocation, perhaps unprecedented.
"I don't know how many people could have done it," Broncos executive vice president of football operations/general manager John Elway said. "It just shows what kind of guy Peyton is, how much work he's willing to put in to get to this point. And we feel like he's got a lot of good football in him and we're certainly glad he's here."
The post-surgery Manning has made his "adjustments" to be sure. Sometimes he wears a glove on his throwing hand in practice, sometimes in games, sometimes in any weather, wet or dry, hot or cold. But the nerves affected by the herniated disc in his neck that was repaired were in his right arm, which also happens to be his throwing arm.
They affected his triceps as well as his grip on the ball. Those nerves, in the early stages of healing were also the reason Manning bounced the first passes of his recovery, thrown in private, to trusted friends and family that included former Rockies first baseman Todd Helton and Manning's father, Archie.
Put video of his throwing motion now next to some early in his career and his current motion is a little more lower body driven, his stride a little longer, all to generate the power he needs to throw to NFL receivers in his post-fusion career.
Technology has helped him some as well. He doesn't have to divide his day into study and treatment. He can now take his iPad, with all of the game video he wishes to watch, wherever he happens to be in the Broncos' complex, whether it be the cold tub or with the trainers. It takes longer for him to get ready to play, longer to get ready for practice, but he continues to progress, to show more.
"All I know is it seems like his arm keeps getting strong," Broncos wide receiver Demaryius Thomas said. "I think this year he's stronger than last year and last year he was stronger than the first year. He's Peyton, he just does what he does."


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Humour or humor (see spelling differences) is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term derives from the humoral medicine of theancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humors (Latin: humor, "body fluid"), control human health and emotion.
People of all ages and cultures respond to humour. The majority of people are able to experience humour, i.e., to be amused, to laugh or smile at something funny, and thus they are considered to have a sense of humour. The hypothetical person lacking a sense of humour would likely find the behaviour induced by humour to be inexplicable, strange, or even irrational. Though ultimately decided by personal taste, the extent to which a person will find something humorous depends upon a host of variables, including geographical location, culture, maturity, level ofeducation, intelligence and context. For example, young children may favour slapstick, such as Punch and Judy puppet shows or cartoons such as Tom and Jerry. Satire may rely more on understanding the target of the humour and thus tends to appeal to more mature audiences.
Many theories exist about what humour is and what social function it serves. The prevailing types of theories attempting to account for the existence of humour include psychological theories, the vast majority of which consider humour-induced behaviour to be very healthy; spiritual theories, which may, for instance, consider humour to be a "gift from God"; and theories which consider humour to be an unexplainable mystery, very much like a mystical experience.[1]Views on humour
Some claim that humour cannot or should not be explained. Author E.B. White once said, "Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind."[2]
Arthur Schopenhauer lamented the misuse of the term "humour" (a German loanword from English) to mean any type of comedy. However, both "humour" and "comic" are often used when theorising about the subject. The connotations of "humour" as opposed to "comic" are said to be that of response versus stimulus. Additionally, "humour" was thought to include a combination of ridiculousness and wit in an individual; the paradigmatic case being Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff. The French were slow to adopt the term "humour"; in French, "humeur" and "humour" are still two different words, the former referring to a person's mood or to the archaic concept of the four humours.[citation needed]
Nonsatirical humour can be specifically termed "recreational drollery".[3][4]Ancient Greece
Western humour theory begins with Plato, who attributed to Socrates (as a semihistorical dialogue character) in the Philebus (p. 49b) the view that the essence of the ridiculous is an ignorance in the weak, who are thus unable to retaliate when ridiculed. Later, in Greek philosophy, Aristotle, in the Poetics (1449a, pp. 34–35), suggested that an ugliness that does not disgust is fundamental to humour.India
In ancient Sanskrit drama, Bharata Muni's Natya Shastra defined humour (hāsyam) as one of the nine nava rasas, or principle rasas (emotional responses), which can be inspired in the audience by bhavas, the imitations of emotions that the actors perform. Each rasa was associated with a specific bhavas portrayed on stage. In the case of humour, it was associated with mirth (hasya).[citation needed]Arabia
The terms "comedy" and "satire" became synonymous after Aristotle's Poetics was translated into Arabic in the medieval Islamic world, where it was elaborated upon by Arabic writers and Islamic philosophers such as Abu Bischr, his pupil Al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Averroes. Due to cultural differences, they disassociated comedy from Greek dramatic representation, and instead identified it with Arabic poetic themes and forms, such as hija (satirical poetry). They viewed comedy as simply the "art of reprehension" and made no reference to light and cheerful events or troublous beginnings and happy endings associated with classical Greek comedy. After the Latin translations of the 12th century, the term "comedy" thus gained a new semantic meaning in Medieval literature.[5]Social demographics
As with any form of art, acceptance depends on social demographics and varies from person to person. Throughout history, comedy has been used as a form of entertainment all over the world, whether in the courts of the Western kings or the villages of the Far East. Both a social etiquette and a certain intelligence can be displayed through forms of wit and sarcasm. Eighteenth-century German author Georg Lichtenberg said that "the more you know humour, the more you become demanding in fineness."[citation needed]Root components
- Being reflective of or imitative of reality
- Surprise/misdirection, contradiction/paradox, ambiguity.
Rowan Atkinson explains in his lecture in the documentary "Funny Business"[6] that an object or a person can become funny in three ways. They are:
- By behaving in an unusual way
- By being in an unusual place
- By being the wrong size
Most sight gags fit into one or more of these categories.Exaggeration
"Some theoreticians of the comic consider exaggeration to be a universal comic device".[7] It may take different forms in different genres, but all rely on the fact that "the easiest way to make things laughable is to exaggerate to the point of absurdity their salient traits".[8]Humour and culture
Different cultures have different expectations of humour so comedy shows are not always successful when transplanted into another culture. Two well-known sayings in Britain are "Americans don't do irony" and Germans have no sense of humour. Whether these sayings have any validity has been discussed in a BBC News article.[9]See also
- Gelotology, the study of laughing and laughter
- List of humorists
- Theories of humor
- Laughter in literature
- Humor styles
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- Alexander, Richard (1984) Verbal humor and variation in English: Sociolinguistic notes on a variety of jokes
- Alexander, Richard (1997) Aspects of verbal humour in English
- Basu, S (December 1999), "Dialogic ethics and the virtue of humor", Journal of Political Philosophy (Blackwell Publishing Ltd) Vol. 7 (No. 4): 378–403, doi:10.1111/1467-9760.00082, retrieved 2007-07-06 (Abstract)
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- Buijzen, Moniek; Valkenburg, Patti M. (2004), "Developing a Typology of Humor in Audiovisual Media", Media Psychology Vol. 6 (No. 2): 147–167, doi:10.1207/s1532785xmep0602_2(Abstract)
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- Goldstein, Jeffrey H., et al. (1976) "Humour, Laughter, and Comedy: A Bibliography of Empirical and Nonempirical Analyses in the English Language." It's a Funny Thing, Humour. Ed. Antony J. Chapman and Hugh C. Foot. Oxford and New York: Pergamon Press, 1976. 469-504.
- Hurley, Matthew M., Dennet, Daniel C., and Adams, Reginald B. Jr. (2011), Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-01582-0
- Holland, Norman. (1982) "Bibliography of Theories of Humor." Laughing; A Psychology of Humor. Ithaca: Cornell U P, 209-223.
- Luttazzi, Daniele (2004) Introduction to his Italian translation of Woody Allen's trilogy Side Effects, Without Feathers and Getting Even (Bompiani, 2004, ISBN 88-452-3304-9 (57-65).
- Martin, Rod A. (2007). The Psychology Of Humour: An Integrative Approach. London, UK: Elsevier Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-372564-6
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Historical Traveler Reviews Riu Monica Hotel Nerja
Luxurious rooms
We stayed at the Riu Monica for 2 weeks in 2004. The hotel was beautiful and the room was excellent. The room we stayed in was reallly big. We had a room with 2 views. One at the side looking over the pool and the main view from the balcony straight over the pool area and the sea beyond. Food was good but did get a bit samey by the second week. Every night the Manager went round getting people's views. He took his role very seriously and he had a good presence there, seen around often.
The hotel was on the outskirts of Nerja so a walk into the centre was a good half hour's walk. If the had been a walkway along the front it would have been ideal.
Good out of season choice
In December this hotel offers some good deals. Reception is friendly and efficient, the rooms are fine and it's in a quiet road. Only 10mins walk from Balcon, with several bars/shops two minutes away. Might be a bit claustrophobic at busy times, but recommended out of season.
Very good Hotel
Das Hotel war im Gro�en und Ganzen sehr gut,besonders weil ich esse nicht alles,aber das Essen hat man essen m�ssen ! Ein fettes Lob an die flei�igen K�che:-)
Der Service war sehr freundlich und hilfsbereit.Auch ein Lob an die Kellner!
Nur was besser sein k�nnte ist das abendliche Programm und die Hygiene.
Aber ich w�rde jederzeit wieder kommen und ich kann es nur empfehlen schon allein wegen dem Essen und der guten Strandlage
Liebe Gr��e an das Team und dem Bingoman !
Eure Jennifer
Fantastic location
We stayed for 4 nights and booked direct with the hotel which was very easy and efficient.
We took an 11 year old and she also loved it especially when she started talking spanish to the staff!
Breakfast was good but watch out for people stealing your toast!
The rooms are nice but could do with a face lift as a little dated but still very clean, we had a room overlooking the sea which was fantastic. The town of Nerja is very relaxing and it is lovely to roam around the lanes. Only problem we had was trying to get sunbeds on the beach as they are always reserved so we just set up by the pool and strolled over to the beach. Not many English people in the hotel and the entertainment is a bit rubbish so worth while going into Nerja to see the street entertainers.
Fantastic Holiday
Our family have just returned from a week in Nerja at the Riu Monica. We had originally booked a week at a different hotel but were influenced by some adverse comments on TripAdvisor. How glad we are that we did. We did pay a premium for a 'real' sea view, but all rooms were spacious and reasonably well equipped, even with an exra bed for our daughter.
The season is at its start, but even then, the sun-bathing facilities were beginning to get a little stretched (i.e. towels on beds at 7:00am, and they did generally belong to our German friends). The hotel is 7/8 floors and therefore half the grounds were in shadow until midday or beyond. So if the sun is what you want, be prepared for some early mornings! The pool area though is lovely, though the main pool is deep throughout (about 1.7m).
The 'old' town is about 10-12 minute walk away from the hotel and is charming, with lots of restaurants and bars, and the shops were open until around 9 - 10pm. The Saturday evening in particular, with all the locals out and about was great fun and with a very friendly atmosphere!
The food, both at breakfast and evening, was great with a most amazing choice. My 'rather fussy' daughter never had a problem!
I would say though, that the best aspect of our stay was the amazing quality of the staff at the Monica. Whether it was reception or bar staff, cleaners or restaurant staff - all were just fantastic at what they did! Indeed, I would say that I have never experienced a better level of service.
Great Riu Hotel
We booked this hotel following personal recommendation and good reviews on Tripadvisor.
Just as previous reviewers say, the service at the hotel is excellent and the buffet style food very good. The bedrooms could do with a bit of an update but our room was clean, very spacious and easily accommodated two adults and one child.
The pool area is clean, well equiped with loungers and there is some nice garden areas away from the pool areas for those who want to relax in a bit of peace and quiet.
Overall we would thoroughly recommend this hotel.
Excellent hotel - just not a very nice town
Stayed Feb 2005 at 80 Euros per night. A good location in the heart of Nerja, right on the beach. A great welcome with friendly staff and a glass of Cava in reception! Adequate rooms, good pool area - this is an excellent hotel - but book in advance as the tour operators block book rooms (it was nearly full in February). As for Nerja - well it has turned in to England by the sea. Traffic, English pubs, fish and chip shops, tourist quality restaurant food - if this is for you then a great place to stay and it is only a very short drive to the wonderful village of Frigiliana. No complaints about the hotel though and would stay again (if it wasn't in Nerja).
Excellent, quality hotel
I stayed at the Riu Monica last september & was pleasently suprised. The hotel is well maintained, clean and spacious & suitable for all ages although if your looking for noisy clubs, bars and brand shops head for Benidorm as Nerja is a little village surrounded by mountains with this being the only high rise hotel.
Location: The hotel is directly on the beach & is accessible through the pool area. It really is convienient. The beach is a lovely golden sand & the sea is clean & suitable for children as there are no rocks or sharp pebbles, yet there can be quite strong waves. On the other side of the hotel across a road is a few cafe/bars, tourist shops & a supermarket which are all accessible. The place has kept its tradition & even has a market 100m away once or twice a week selling cloth & jewellery.
Facilities: The pool is large & all the time we stayed there it wasn't crowded. There are lovely large gardens surrounding the pool & hotel with lots of shade & waiters are always at hand. There is a games room for the kids & fun activities such as water bomb games. Also two tennis courts & billiards room.
Food & Drink: Breakfast & dinner are situated in the main hall & the managers are always there to greet you, it felt like a 5* hotel! The food is really good with a seperate section for hot & cold food. Wide choice for breakfast & a carvery in the evening. The only complaint I have to make is that you have to assign a time for dinner & get seated at the same table every night. There is an outdoor lunch area serving a range of food but there are some lovely cafe's in the center 200m away max. The bar/lounge is large & comfortable with friendly staff.
Entertainment: As there isn't much to do outside the hotel in the evening, the nightly entertainment is focused in the hotels grounds, with a range of comedy programmes, dancing & singing shows, all of which are quite fun to watch sitting outside by the beach with cocktails (all served in ceramic fruit shaped cups & also quite strong!)
Accommodation: In total we had three rooms (party of 6) & ours faced the pool but sometimes grasped the smell of cooked breakfast through the kitchens vent in the morning. All are angled to the beach & gardens which is nice in the evening. The rooms are spacious with fully fitted bathrooms, all perfect condition & nicely furnished. Room service is excellent & at no extra cost. The A/C was perfect & one room was like an iceburg which was nice in such heat. TV shows a good selection of British channels.
Overall: Lovely holiday & definately worth the money. If you like a peaceful holiday then this is for you, but teenagers could be a little bored after a week as there is not much else to do. I recommend hiring a car to explore the sights of the Costa Del Sol as we did& was very entertaining!
Riu Monica great holiday
The hotel was terrific. The staff were most corteous and obliging in everyway nothing was too much trouble. The room service was excellent the food very good. The only thing I could find any critisism with would be the evening entertainment a little lacking. I would certainly recommend the Monica to anyone. The situation of the hotel was excellent just a short walk from the bustling centre of Nerja. A thoroughly enjoyable holiday we will return.
We stayed at the Monica for Christmas last year, and found the hotel to be excellent. Although the furnishings are getting a little tired and are probably due for a refurbishment, this doesn't spoil things. The staff were excellent, and every night when you went in for dinner, there to greet you at the door was the Hotel Manager and all his staff. The food was buffet style, very fresh and loads of choice.
It was a short walk into the town centre, which meant that it was quiet at night, with very little passing traffic.
We met many people who had come back to the Monica year after year, and I can understand why. We found all the staff to be extremely helpful and they made it clear that if you had any problems, they couldn't put it right if you didn't tell them - what a refreshing change!
Although the music wasn't always to our taste, there was a lot of entertainment provided in the hotel.
I would certainly recommend the Monica and I am sure we will revisit there again.
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On Fear & Nervousness: A Little Boy's PerspectiveSelena Mills
My son has always been a cautious one. Independent yet rather nervous in nature when it comes to trying new things – especially anything that requires physical challenge or a threat to his gravity and/or perceived safety.
Things that fall out of his comfort zone have been slides, the street, large bodies of water or big swimming pools, thunderstorms (or even the sound of heavy rain), fireworks, getting dirty and walking barefoot outside.
His dad's absence when he's on tour has been something we've all been working through, (lately he gets upset if his dad even goes to take out the garbage. Every time he goes outside Wyndham wonders aloud if he's going away to do 'Rock and Roll' and I see the panic building as his little body stiffens up.)
His sister's unwavering independence freaks him out (he and I both!) He's very protective of her outside and has gotten quite upset on occasion when she runs around, especially if it's close to the street.
His caution and at times outright fear never seems unreasonable to me. Most of it is pretty common stuff for a toddler to be cautious or fearful of. It has simply become very apparent that my guy is a sensitive thinker. A little boy who loves his family passionately. A toddler with a sensitivity to people, the environment, sounds, tastes and textures regarding the world around him.
We work with him patiently through all that we can with him. Water isn't the devil anymore, although he is still very, very cautious. He hates dunking his head and wavers between wanting to learn to swim and bucking against it. Either his dad or I accompanied him countless times on the 'big kid' slide. Now, nearly a year later – he'll climb the jungle gym and go down by himself. But it was a delicate process. Sometimes he still wants one of us to go up with him – not so much for assistance, just to have one of us by his side.
It's been key for us to encourage him to do these things rather than validate his fears and not giving him a gentle push in the face of those fears. We build up his confidence as much as we can without pushing him to far. A delicate dance indeed.
When I was introduced to this short film last night, all that my partner and I could think of was our son and how much we wanted to show it to him. This little movie charmed us to our core. Created by Bianca Giaever, the gist of it seems simple enough. She asked a little boy, six-year-old Asa Baker-Rouse, what she should make a movie about. She asked him to tell her a story.
His response? Some pretty masterful improv, I must say.
Cute and profound, The Scared Is Scared is a film that touches on more than just the charming and at times non-sensical way that young children communicate. (Making 'sense' is over-rated anyhow.) It's more than a story of a bear and mouse. It's a philosophical viewpoint of what fear and caution mean, how it defines who we are, what we do and what we love; from the perspective of a little kid.
I mean, anytime a person turns to a young child for inspiration, the result is likely to be amazing. If we open ourselves up to such a notion.
It is after all, just under 8 minutes long. YOU HAVE 8 MINUTES. This is a movie you must watch! It lies at the heart of what many of our little ones struggle with in the early years of childhood development. Watch it. Watch it. Watch it. Be charmed. Laugh.
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And may you both/all have a couple of a-ha! moments. As Bianca would say, quoting Asa at the end…
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Here is why I have a nice position in NBG:
NBG's ROA=0.18% was 2010, while average bank's ROA=1.0%-2.0% Take the smaller number; then earnings should go up to 5 times. Price should follow.
ROE=2.15% now, while average banks ROE=12-25%.
Take the smaller number; then earnings should go up to 6 times.
(NBG's ROE was in year 2007 26%).
Book Value is: 3.35/sh; Distressed banks P/B are usually 1.0-1.3 times; P should go to $3.35 - 4.0.
Normal working banks sell at P/B=2.5-3.0, this projects P should go to $8.2-10.1
Net profit in year 2007 was 1.6B Euros, or cca. 2.1B USD. In 2006 it was 0.99B Euros.
If they can reach this profitability level again, then at a normal PE=11-13, the bank Market cap should go to $22-26B, compared to $9B in febr.2011.
Hence, P should go to $6.0.
10 year average price of NBG was about $6.5.
This should be the minimum target in 1-2 years.
Summary: take the above simple projections,
and take the average of it: (10+12+3.5+9+6+6.5)/6=$7.7
Average expected price target, after the bank is normally working and investors return to normal state of mind: $7.7/sh
A part of NBG, Finansbank is already working at 2007 level.
Typical LONGS, making stuff up, a sign of continued desperation
never trust any opinion in investment decisions but yours only.
I give my current outlook to help you forms yours.
1) Greece is indebted 150% ratio to GDP. History tells us not all country was able to get out from debt over this ratio (maybe except Japan)
So, forget any positive outcome for Greece now, (I still think there might be a chance of 50% for better outcome)
and consider Greece defaulted.
2) Greece's debt is mostly in the hands of other EU country's banks, and at their home banks. So I think the EU wants a controlled Greece default, and keep them in Euro zone. And for this purpose EU with ECB started a rescue package. This way they will know who has what size of problem, and can work out the best solution. The package for now means they lend cash against GGBs (to any bank, including NBG).
3)The added problem for greek banks is that they are losing business and deposits, so they first used up mostly their GGB's for cash, and are now getting short of them.
Plus, it is hard to manage the survival of 40 banks, so EU and Greece will work to merge banks, in order to improve their liquidity and more easily control the transitory process.
4) This is why the GreekCentralBank opened a new facility Emergency Lending Assistance to keep the country's banks solvent for a time.
5) I think those 2 cash sources should be enough to keep NGB liquid and solvent for the necessery time, like 6-12 more months, when the controlled default could be arranged, with all information in the hand, by ECB, without any banks to go bankrupt.
6) I estimate this time is the necessary preparation time for all banks, to withstand the shock to lose a min. 30%, or max. of 50% of their GGBs value to lose. An EU country should be able to finance themselvs if the debt comes down from 150% to 100% (30%cut) or to 75% (50%cut) of GDP.
In the US media this effort is called "kick the can down the road". I consider this reasonable effort to buy time and get more precise info about the details of the problems.
7) NGB has 13.2B GGB asset according to 1Q2011 report, so after default they might lose 30-50%, a total of 4.0 - 6.6B on their GGBs. Against this loss they have equity cca. 10-10.5B.
8)This is clearly a huge loss, but not lethal. This alone can not bankrupt NGB and probably any greek banks, if some rules are suspended or circumvent.
NGB and other Greek banks probably will get
a) a temporary relief, from EU, to ignore the Basel rules for 3-10 years, so they can recapitalize by issuing new shares (very preferably to current owners) and/or new rights issue.
b) greek banks get a Greek state equity injection, or subordinated loan, or some special bonds, etc. to get close to Basel rules after writing down the above loss.
9) So, in 2 years we might get a dilution. I dont know how big that could be, but from the above numbers I estimate it 40-60%. If it is a subordinated state loan, then NGB will pay it back just like ING does pay the Dutch state.
10)After this reorganisation NGB could be again a strong bank in a healthy country,
with 10-12B equity and cca. $1B yearly earnings, and a reasonable MarketCap close to $12B.
I consider this a high probability sequence of events; all other is more pain, more loss. There could be better solutions;
for now I consider this the worst outcome.
Again, this is just my dream. Trust only your own opinion.
Crymorepls, you dont need to comment.
Jromper: congratulations. Things came out pretty much as you described only better.
(1) Greece indeed pretty much defaulted and 50% of the GGB value has to be graced;
(2) NBG did get a 1B Euro infusion in preferred shares. Just as you said (and a bit better.);
(3) NBG is immediately using this cash infusion to buy back 1.85B of its obligations at 40-70% of nominal value (and at a premium to the market.)
I do expect the rest of your scenario to come through, too.
Great predictions.
Good thoughts. A couple of points to add:
- a missing piece is the mounting bad loan provisions. They already reached abnormal levels (>7% if I remember correctly, with norm <1%), and keep creeping up. They are currently killing profits but soon might start cutting into equity. It does not look like we reached the peak yet, more loan defaults are coming in the region.
- Neither GBG default nor mounting provisions can kill NBG, but combined, they might. Most likely, NBG will survive as an institution in the long run, but its common equity might be wiped out or very heavily diluted.
- Given the complexity of the situation and the difficulty of conducting proper due diligence, NBG is a very speculative bet. Ok to invest some pocket change, not ok to bet the farm.
Very nice work and analysis.
thank you guys!!!
jpomper thanks!
I had to sell off something to raise a few more bucks to add today
I will continue to add under $2 and for my taste it can stay under $2 for a month or two
I am no Rhodes Scholar but I did buy AVF in the $4 range ;)
I like blood on the street = time to buy
to enrico.capa
to answer your question of 12.febr:
Yes, I checked the irish banks, AIB in particular;
Here is my opinion:
1) Irish banks are in very different situation compared to NBG.
Why? AIB has exorbitant volume of bad debt; and it may be still increasing:
According their report, they have bad debts (calling them "under watch" up to "nonperforming" quality) in 2007 = 11B, 2008= 14B, 2009= 17B Euros.
Cca. 30-40% of their loan portfolio is suspect; and their loss provisions and reserves are at only 35% to cover the losses. This simply means AIB is practically bankrupt.
NGB has cca. 800-1000M Euros bad debt; they can cover it from one year profit.
This is managable easily, if no new crisis hits.
2)If, and this is big if, their government will keep them alive for at least 4-6 years, and allow them to work off their bad debt losses, then they might come back. But in this timeframe anything could happen. Until then, all shareholders are on the mercy of the Irish (and EU) government decisions, and not on bank business.
3)Remember the story of the Japanese banks. Their stockmarket collapsed, their banks become practically bankrupt. Their government kept the interest rates at 0% since almost 15 years Gave ample time for the japanese banks, and they really needed cca. that many years time to work off bad loans. And are now returning from banktrupcy to normal working state.
Actually, since last year, the Japanese banks are hitting on 4 cylinder; from next year on six, and in 2013-15 on twelve. Check their balance sheet instead of irish banks. Big banks, like NMR, MFG, MTU all look fine to me.
On the Irish banks, AIB is just a gamble. IRE remains a real bank. I will be buying back into IRE, but personally would not touch AIB.
NBG, we agree has more value than current trading. That said, the path upward is always uncertain. I think $4 year end is a prudent conservative target. The real wildcard is Finansbank, doing well, which may be the true catylst (for NBG stock price) as we move through this year.
thanks a lot
do you think 8 bugs it's reality targhet end 2011 for nbg?
have a good day
jpomper, you are a daydreamer Sir!
The Fundamentals are like a girl in a mini skirt you see almost everthing but never the real "Thing".
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I have one objection, you wrote that
<<Average expected price target, after the bank is normally working and investors return to normal state of mind: $7.7/sh>>
At the end of 2007 or beginning of 2008 the historical highest capitalization of NBG was €23b. (pre-crisis level)
Plus €3b. from last 2 capital increasing (2009/1.2b. and 2010/1.8b.)
So the currently highest capitalization of NBG (adjusted) should be €26b. (23+1.2+1.8)
The total shares of NBG are 956m. and the current rate of euro/usd is 1.355
€26b. / 956 = €27.20 / 5 = 5.44 X 1.355 = $7.37
So the adjusted historical highest price per adr is $7.37
Also before IPO of finansbank the equity of NBG is 9751m.
So the current book value per adr should be as follows
So the first target for the adr is $2.765 and the final target should be at least $7.37
I repeat that all above figures are before the IPO of finansbank.
By $7.37 adr's price then the book value is 7.37 / 2.765 = 2.67 but historical higest p/bv of NBG was about 4
Now this is the post i like to read.. Thank you very much
Yes - Projections is good for NBG..
But don't forget this Greek Bank and not American Bank.
And Greek is Bankrupt country.. more than half of populations of Greek work for Greek Bankrupt Gov. and other half of Greek people are Tax evader..?
where is revenue for coming for this BK country when in 2013 they debt load is 149 % of GDP.
Only way is Greek govt sell their country to Turkey & Germany and pay their debt..so atleast their people live debt free..
Very good analysis. There are people who post here, of fundamentals of this Bank. Instead of clued out nonsense posted by some.
That part of NBG that is working at 2007 level, is a huge factor of the business. The profit that NBG was generating form greece, will soon be made up from the expansion of the Finansbank, which will be twice the bank they were in 2007.


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BALTIMORE -- Appearances were deceiving at the inaugural Baltimore Grand Prix.
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