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Futures are down this morning with the /ES sitting right on the 990 pivot area:
The dollar is flat, gold is doing a rocket launch and is now sitting right on the top of that large triangle, threatening to break higher. Gold actually pinned through the top and pulled back. It is quite bullish if it breaks higher and stays above that top. Oil, on the other hand, is breaking down hard. Bonds are higher on the flight to safety. This is a pretty scary combination as you would expect the dollar to rise and gold to sink under an ordinary flight to safety type of trade. If it weren't for bonds moving up, this looks more like a capital flight trade, a BIG difference.
The MBA purchase application, which no longer gives us meaningful data, fell 1.0%. Here's Econoday:
MBA's purchase index slipped 1.0 percent in the Aug. 28 week while the refinance index fell 3.1 percent. The government purchase index rose 0.5 percent for a seventh straight gain. The government-insured share of purchase applications was 40.4 percent in August, the highest since 1991 and compared with 38.3 percent in July and 31.7 percent a year ago. Rates were down in the week with the average 30-year mortgage averaging 5.15 percent, down 9 basis points.
In a sign that government layoffs will be playing a role in the future, Challenger's job layoff announcements came in like this:
Challenger's layoff announcement count fell sizably in August, to 76,456 vs. July's 97,373. The government component, swollen by post office cuts, made up half of all cuts. Non-government categories are showing easing levels of layoffs in what is good news for Friday's employment report. ADP's more closely watched count is up at 8:15 a.m. ET.
And the ADP report is estimating a job loss of 298,000, indeed, the markets did move further down on that release:
ADP is looking for a decline of 298,000 in private payrolls, a result that would be on the low end of expectations. This report has not been getting favorable reviews for accuracy, but markets did react with stocks and commodities moving slightly lower in immediate reaction.
"…not been getting favorable reviews for accuracy," lol, no kidding. None of the Challenger,ADP, OR BLS reports are accurate, the most accurate of them all is probably the BLS U6.
Factory orders come out at 10 Eastern.
Yesterday was a pretty serious breakdown. We're coming up on some support and 50 day moving averages, the bottom Bollinger bands aren't that far away either. Be careful right here as the /ES is sitting right on the 990 pivot area and the short term stochastics are oversold, the percent of stocks above the 5 day moving average is ZERO, a condition that's very oversold, although the farther out in time you go, the condition quickly reverses to being way overbought still.
The next lower pivot is at 961. For more, please scroll down a couple posts as I did a short market recap yesterday.
Is this the start of the big wave C? McHugh still does not believe so, but he is guarded as yesterday's 93.4% volume move down was a little too powerful to be sticking to a bullish case. It's still possible though… a breakdown below 975 would put a nail in bull's hopes for more rally, it's a nail biter, keep your eye on the VIX, on Gold, on bonds, on the dollar, heck, this is a time to be paying attention.
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Theresa M. Walker
Bunker Hill | Saturday, May 25 2013
Theresa M. Walker, 56, of Bunker Hill, passed away at 8:30 pm May 25, 2013 at St. Anthony's Health Center in Alton.
She was born on March 13, 1957 in Lawrence, Kansas, the daughter of Leroy Helen (Woolley) Walker.
She graduated from School of the Ozark in Ozark, MO and she was an avid St. Louis Cardinal Baseball fan and knew the baseball players from working as a Concierge at Chase Park Plaza Hotel.
Theresa loved her family and her grandkids and is survived by a son, Tim Walker of Lake Ozark, MO, a daughter and son-in-law, Amy Pastor David Runyan of Bunker Hill, IL; fifteen grandchildren, Brianna Hauck, Tripp Walker, Ronni Walker, Bethany (Amho) Gully, Jenna (Andrew) Richards, Jon Runyan, Shanda Howard, Justin Huth, Christy Dixon, Matthew, Amber, Paul and Ellie Runyan, Jaden Dixon, and Evie Haper; two sisters and brother-in-law and two brothers and sisters-in-law, Loretta Walker of Bunker Hill, Donald Anna Walker of Shawnee, OK, Alvin Lisa Walker of Jerseyville and Wanda Jack Howard of Mustang, OK; and several nieces, nephews, and many friends
Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 pm Thursday May 30, 2013 at Elias, Kallal Schaaf Funeral Homes, Bethalto, Illinois where funeral services will be held 10:00 am Friday, May 31, 2013, with Pastor David Runyan officiating.
Burial will take place Roselawn Memory Gardens Cemetery in Bethalto.
Memorials are suggested to mission support for Bethany Runyan Gully.
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The TDA oversees more than $600,000 collected from a 3 percent tax on overnight lodging, revenue that's used to promote tourism. Most of the money goes toward promoting Haywood County as a whole, but a portion is doled out to advocate one part of the county over another. Maggie Valley gets a piece. Waynesville and Lake Junaluska get a piece. And Canton and Clyde get a piece.
The system was created 10 years ago to give each area of the county a little autonomy over its tourism needs. The three sections of the county were dubbed corridors, and the funding became known as corridor funding. Money passed out to corridors is spent on everything from visitor center staff to festival advertising.
But complaints have cropped up in recent years that the system propagates divisiveness. It pigeonholes each community into thinking of themselves as a tourist island. A visitor center employee paid out of Maggie Valley corridor funds feels beholden to promote Maggie and would be less likely to send walk-in tourists down the road to Waynesville. A festival funded with Waynesville corridor funds is shoe-horned into benefiting that community only.
"Both chamber directors have said please don't divide us up like that," said Alice Aumen, co-owner of Cataloochee Ranch and a TDA board member. "Waynesville might have a wonderful festival that brings in a lot of tourists for Maggie and vice-versa."
Aumen was director of the Maggie chamber when the system of divvying up tourism dollars around the county was instituted.
"It served its purpose at the time, but times have changed. There seems to be a mindset of more cooperation," Aumen said.
Wade Reece, a TDA board member, said he sends tourists from his hotel in Maggie to downtown Waynesville all the time. And when Reece threw a festival in Maggie last summer, he posted hand-written signs on utility poles in and around downtown Waynesville directing people to his festival.
"We want people that come to Maggie to go to Waynesville because it increases their stay," Reece said. "We all have to work together."
Fair share
Another source of contention over corridor money is how much each corridor gets. The money is divvied up based on where it originated, in other words, where the tourists slept. That means the Maggie Valley area, home to the largest concentration of hotels and motels, gets the lion's share.
The formula has drawn criticism lately for rewarding Maggie Valley with the majority of tourism funds simply because that's where the hotels and motels are located, regardless of what tourists came to Haywood County for.
Another concern was the growing portion of corridor funds being used to pay the salaries of workers at the Maggie Valley Visitors Bureau. Corridor funds accounted for more than half the Maggie Visitors Bureau's annual budget.
The TDA will vote later this month on whether to do away with corridor funds. Instead, the TDA will fund visitor centers in Maggie Valley and the Waynesville/Lake Junaluska vicinity with a set amount of $25,000 each. The TDA will also fund a visitor center in Canton and one at the rest area in Balsam off U.S. 23-74.
The rest of the corridor money — some $85,000 — will be reserved for festivals and tourism initiatives like before. But it will be considered one big pot of money that anyone anywhere in the county can apply for, with no quotas or formulas that dictate how much each corridor is entitled to.
"Maybe it's time to change it, modify it, time to do away with it, let every project stand on its own," said Ken Stahl at a TDA meeting last fall when the idea of doing away with the formula was first broached.
Like the merger of the chambers, however, many thought it would never happen.
"We are in an osmosis right now," Reece said.


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Renaissance Technologies, founded by Jim Simons, has been one of the most successful hedge funds of all time and charges outside investors a jaw-dropping 44% performance fee. Between these high fees and good returns, Simons has become a multi-billionaire.
We maintain a database of quarterly 13F filings from hundreds of hedge funds as part of our work developing investment strategies; we have found that the most popular small cap stocks among hedge funds earn an average excess return of 18 percentage points per year (learn more about our small cap strategy) and our own portfolio based on these results outperformed the S&P 500 by 33 percentage points in the last 11 months.
This database also comes in handy for tracking holdings of individual hedge funds over time to see what they have been buying recently. We have gone through our database of Renaissance's 13Fs (see more of the fund's picks over time) and here are its five largest new positions from the second quarter of 2013:
The investment team bought more than 370,000 shares of Apple (AAPL) during the quarter, making that stock their largest new holding. With both the stock price and company earnings down about 20% from their levels a year ago, Apple currently trades at 13 times its trailing earnings (the stock rallied recently after billionaire activist Carl Icahn claimed to be having discussions with management.) The company is trying to balance a desire for "dry powder" with the prospects of returning more cash to shareholders, including through a large buyback program. Wall Street analysts expect a combination of business improvements and buybacks to result in EPS increases.
Between April and June, Renaissance initiated a position of 3.7 million shares in Citigroup (C). The bank's business continues to recover from the American and European crises, with net income up more than 40% last quarter compared to the second quarter of 2012. Analysts are bullish here as well with projections for 2014 which imply a forward P/E of only 9. Between that figure and the fact that Citigroup trades at a discount to the book value of its equity -- at a P/B of 0.8- it is worth comparing to other megabanks as a potential value stock.
Conagra (CAG) was another of the fund's new stock picks. The $15 billion market cap packaged foods company is valued at 13 times forward earnings estimates, which is low for a food company in the current environment (particularly following Warren Buffett's purchase of Heinz earlier this year.) We'd note that the stock's beta is 0.5 with a dividend yield of less than 3%. At the beginning of 2013 Conagra had purchased Ralcorp (which has driven a temporary bump in the company's financials), and so markets may be concerned about integration risk.
The Renaissance filing disclosed ownership of 1.4 million shares of ConocoPhillips (COP) as of the beginning of July. ConocoPhillips, which is now more of a pure-play exploration and production company following the spinout of Phillips 66, increased its dividend earlier this year and now pays an annual yield of about 4%. Its trailing P/E is 11, with profits expected to show little change next year; this is even to slightly above where integrated oil majors currently trade. Of course, ConocoPhillips and its peers would be expected to be tightly tied to oil prices.
Simons' fund added Comcast (CMCSA) to its portfolio last quarter. Comcast -- which is a media and entertainment company through its ownership of NBC Universal as well as a cable operator -- carries trailing and forward P/Es of 17 and 15 respectively. The company has been growing decently in the past year, with sales up 7% in Q2 2013 versus a year earlier and net margins expanding as well. Even if margins hold steady from this point forward, a 7% earnings growth rate with good cash generation could make Comcast attractive at this valuation.


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PRAGUE -- It's a job for two when the Czechs win Davis Cup finals.
Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek gave the Czech Republic the title for the first time as an independent nation by beating Spain 3-2 in the final on Sunday. Each spent about 10 grueling hours on court, playing the opening singles, teaming up for the doubles and then completing the reverse singles.
Ivan Lendl and Tomas Smid did the same when Czechoslovakia defeated Italy 4-1 in the 1980 final.
"They've been our inspiration, our idols. They're the legends and now we're joining them," Stepanek said after clinching the title with a 6-4, 7-6 (0), 3-6, 6-3 upset victory over Nicolas Almagro in the last reverse singles.
Stepanek dropped to the court in disbelief before teammates Tomas Berdych, Lukas Rosol, Ivo Minar and captain Jaroslav Navratil jumped on him.
"I'm living a dream," said Stepanek, who wept openly. "We have been working very hard very hard for this moment. It was the biggest pressure under which I've ever played. Everything was at stake."
Berdych added: "This is a moment we'll never forget."
The Czechs' quest for the Davis Cup began in the 2007 World Cup playoff against Switzerland in Prague, with Stepanek and Berdych teaming up in doubles against Roger Federer and Yves Allegro. The pair saved a match point before going on to win the match and ultimately the series, starting the journey to this title.
"We've been dreaming about it since the series against Switzerland," Stepanek said. "Whatever it takes in the Davis Cup, we'll go through it."
Although Berdych rarely plays doubles, the two now have an excellent record of 12-1 in the Davis Cup.
On Sunday, the 37th-ranked Stepanek was an underdog against his 11th-ranked opponent. But he stuck to his attacking game on the fast indoor carpet at the O2 Arena, winning 41 points at the net.
"I was playing very aggressive today; I wanted be the one who is active, who is controlling the game," Stepanek said. "It paid off, even though I lost the third set. I had no doubt I was on the way."
Leading 4-2 in the fourth set, he dived to his right to produce a volley that Almagro was unable to return to go 30-15 up and rouse the crowd with chants of "Radek, Radek" echoing around the arena.
"It was an important moment," said Stepanek, who turns 34 later in November. "It gives us a great motivation for the next season."
Playing in his first final, Almagro said he learned a lot despite losing to Stepanek and Berdych.
"It was a fantastic experience," Almagro said. "It's a pleasure for me to be part of the team."
The victory was a sweet revenge for the Czechs after they were swept 5-0 by Spain in the 2009 final in Barcelona
Earlier Sunday, David Ferrer kept alive Spain's hopes of winning a fourth Davis Cup title in five years by beating Berdych 6-2, 6-3, 7-5 in the first reverse singles match to tie the final at 2-2.
Ferrer is wrapping up the best season of his career with a tour-best seven tournament titles. He converted his first match point for his 76th win of the year when Berdych's forehand hit the net, bringing cheers from the boisterous section of Spanish fans.
"We're sad at this moment," Ferrer said after Almagro's loss. "I'm very proud of our team. We were fighting to win here in Prague."
The Czechs beat Italy, Serbia and Argentina en route to the final. Spain, without the injured Rafael Nadal, had been looking for its sixth title.


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After suffering near-constant post-crisis turmoil and three years of losing both advisors and assets to other channels, new research from Cerulli Associates shows wirehouses have begun to stabilize while still controlling industry-leading asset share.
"While the wirehouses are not yet winning new clients, they are for the first time in recent memory retaining share of assets, including those of high-net-worth investors," said Kenton Shirk, associate director at Cerulli, in a statement. "Wirehouse firms have reshaped their business around serving the industry's largest and most productive advisors. These firms have positioned themselves as delivering the scope and scale of a global financial institution to affluent investors."
While wirehouses' market share loss of HNW investors continues, Cerulli says the pace of that loss has stabilized in the past few years. In 2007, the four New York wirehouses controlled more than half (53%) of high-net-worth assets, but by 2009 that share had plummeted to 44%, according to Cerulli's research. The report shows the market share loss of HNW investors dropping from 43% in 2010 to 42% in 2011 to 41% in 2012, and Cerulli projects these firms to drop less than one percentage point of HNW share in 2013.
"It appears that the wirehouses' strategy of focusing on the largest advisors has begun to bear fruit as their market share stabilizes," Shirk adds in the statment. "The four wirehouses already boast the industry's most significant assets under management per advisor."
As measured by assets under management per advisor, wirehouse advisors are 159% more productive than the average, according to Cerulli. Cerulli notes that a wirehouse practice delivers 11 different services to its clientele on average, more than the industry average of less than 10 and the highest of any channel.
Merrill Lynch advisors had the highest average yearly production, at $1.056 million in the first quarter, ThinkAdvisor reported.
Clients of wirehouse advisors are the most likely of those serviced by any channel to receive estate planning, elder care planning, cash management and charitable giving counsel from their advisor — services that require extensive provider support, infrastructure and scale.
"Wirehouses have sought to be smaller, more productive and more profitable firms," Cerulli reports in The Cerulli Edge: Advisor Edition for the third quarter. "They reduce overhead through efforts such as eliminating branch managers and administrative staff and reducing training class attendance. The wirehouses focus on corner-office advisors by retaining top producers with long-term retention contracts, allowing mid-tier advisors to leave, and terminating less productive advisors. These efforts have helped the wires improve profit margins."
Cerulli also suggests strategies in its advisor edition for wirehouses to leverage their resources and grow their market share — touting the best options for these firms to consider as selectively recruiting existing advisory practices and capitalizing on their scale to create centralized units that embrace technology. The report also advocates for "the greater adoption of models that encourage employee advisors to create ongoing, goal-based client connections, with a focus on serving as relationship managers delivering customized advice formulated by central resources.
"While industry insiders may perceive some tarnish on the wirehouse brands, for the average consumer these firms remain the pillars of the segment," Cerulli reported. "Cerulli believes wirehouse firms could benefit by supplementing traditional "eat what you kill" advisors with in-house colleagues largely reliant on internal referrals and corporate advertising to generate initial client contact. This structure would not only broaden the addressable market of these firms at a reasonable cost, but also present a robust training ground for advisors interested in traditional branch-based roles in the future."
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The State of the Union: A handy benchmark for immigration reform
President Barack Obama is expected to make immigration the centerpiece of his annual State of the Union address Tuesday, but it will hardly be the first time the topic has come up.
In the past 18 years, immigration has been discussed a dozen times in the president's annual speech to Congress, including three out of four of Obama's previous addresses.
That makes it a useful benchmark for how much the political environment has changed.
President Bill Clinton used harsh rhetoric and promised to crack down on illegal immigration, while George W. Bush called for a guest-worker program and disavowed amnesty for undocumented immigrants already here.
To date, Obama has mentioned the issue only briefly, mostly avoiding specifics while calling for Congress to take action on a comprehensive plan and allow undocumented immigrants brought here as children to become citizens.
He'll likely abandon that approach on Tuesday to outline general principles that would include a broader path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, showing how much the policy discussion has changed.
Below, a closer look at what recent presidents have said about immigration in their State of the Union addresses.
Clinton: 'A nation of laws'
Although President Ronald Reagan signed an immigration overhaul in 1986, the issue never came up in his speeches to Congress or in any of President George H.W. Bush's four addresses.
Clinton first talked about it in 1995, when there were estimated to be about 5.8 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., roughly half the number today.
Clinton took a harsh tone, arguing that Americans were "rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country." He promised to strengthen border security, deport undocumented immigrants who committed crimes and identify them in the workforce.
"We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws," he said, to sustained applause. "It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it."
Clinton repeated much the same language in the following year's address -- including the phrase "a nation of laws" -- and announced he would sign an executive order barring federal contracts to businesses that hire illegal immigrants. But he added a conciliatory line about honoring "every legal immigrant here, working hard to be a good citizen."
Clinton: 'A responsibility to enter the mainstream'
In his 1999 and 2000 State of the Union speeches, Clinton took a different tack, avoiding the issue of illegal immigration.
Instead, he argued that legal immigrants "have a responsibility to enter the mainstream of American life" and called for more funding for programs to help them become American citizens.
"We should do more to help new immigrants to fully participate in our community," he said in 2000. "That's why I recommend spending more to teach them civics and English."
Bush: 'Honest and orderly system'
Toward the end of his first term, President George W. Bush returned to the topic of immigration, calling in his 2004 address for a temporary-worker program that would "match willing foreign workers with willing employers when no Americans can be found to fill the job."
Bush argued that an "honest and orderly system" would help the economy and allow the Border Patrol to focus on more serious threats, but he drew a bright line on how to handle undocumented immigrants already in the country, then estimated to number about 10.3 million.
"I oppose amnesty, because it would encourage further illegal immigration and unfairly reward those who break our laws," he said. "My temporary-worker program will preserve the citizenship path for those who respect the law while bringing millions of hard-working men and women out from the shadows of American life."
Bush repeated that same message in his 2005 and 2006 addresses in a more abbreviated argument.
"It is time for an immigration policy that permits temporary-guest workers to fill jobs Americans will not take, that rejects amnesty, that tells us who is entering and leaving our country, and that closes the border to drug dealers and terrorists," he said in 2005.
Facing a newly Democratic Congress in 2007, Bush made the case for a temporary-worker program at more length, including his first reference in a State of the Union to what should happen to undocumented immigrants already in the country. Though he still rejected amnesty, he took a more conciliatory tone.
"We need to resolve the status of the illegal immigrants who are already in our country without animosity and without amnesty," he said.
He again made the argument in his 2008 address.
"We must also find a sensible and humane way to deal with people here illegally. Illegal immigration is complicated, but it can be resolved," he said.
Obama: 'Our broken immigration system'
Obama did not mention immigration in his first joint address to Congress in 2009, which focused on the major economic crisis then going on.
When he first talked about the issue in his 2010 address, the passage was vague enough that it could have been said by either of his predecessors.
"We should continue the work of fixing our broken immigration system, to secure our borders and enforce our laws and ensure that everyone who plays by the rules can contribute to our economy and enrich our nation," he said.
His 2011 State of the Union took the issue on more directly, including a reference to addressing "the millions of undocumented workers who are now living in the shadows."
He also made the first reference to younger immigrants, including a nod to the DREAM Act, which would allow undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to become citizens if they go to college or join the military and have not committed any crimes.
"Let's stop expelling talented, responsible young people who could be staffing our research labs or starting a new business, who could be further enriching this nation," he said.
As he ran for re-election in 2012, Obama argued that the border was more secure and called again for a comprehensive immigration overhaul. He also explicitly promised to sign the DREAM Act, the first reference to any path to citizenship in a recent State of the Union.
"If election-year politics keeps Congress from acting on a comprehensive plan, let's at least agree to stop expelling responsible young people who want to staff our labs, start new businesses, defend this country," he said. "Send me a law that gives them the chance to earn their citizenship. I will sign it right away."
Though Congress did not pass the DREAM Act, the Obama administration announced several months later a deferred-deportation program that allowed undocumented immigrants brought here as children to stay without making them citizens.
No one knows exactly what Obama will say in his next State of the Union about immigration, but based on his current positions it will likely go much further than recent addresses have.


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Im not sure why; but I was destroyed and a given away much like a slave in a cage! The world around me turned on me! I watched all of this happened while I slowly went to mental sleep at which I would never awaken from!
Looking back on it; it is a reality for some like myself! I was not protected and thrown out into the world and devoured! The problem; like some; the house hold I came from was the enemy who was destroying me!
I desperately called for help to anyone that would help me; surely my upper middle class friends would help! Not only did they not help! They turned on me viciously and completely! Slammed their doors in my face! It was death for me; they knew this! For them; they were safe! For me, it was was the guillotine!
They let me die with the understanding I would not be coming back; ever; that they would never see me again; ever! so, from that point on I could no longer visit them; I was no longer friends with them! Its a form of death prejudice! you are hated by the community your in! Who has the problem; in confusion; you do not know! then with enough time and recovery; looking back, you see them for what they were!
You cannot see it! not when your young! you cant see what they are like; in their houses, and their jobs and their lives and their work! with their families and nice clothing! but something creeps up! you hear of events! someone dies or someone is killed! and then suddenly, it is whisked under the rug! or a child is being tormented by the family system they live in; and the child finally goes outside and simply puts a gun in their mouth and kills themselves! suddenly, its pushed under the middle class or upper middle class carpet! and you hear nothing of it, ever again! Why? What are they hiding! Are they murder's! Are they evil; did they push this innocent child to their death! I think so! And I think they push more then one to their death!
If you don't join them; your banished by them! Permanently! None of it is human; it is pure evil; all of it! Sociopathic!
If you are accepted you may go around the neighborhood! you may make friends! if you decide to be yourself and you end up in trouble and need! you will murder'd by them and destroyed! psychologically raped and burned to death! and in many ways, actually destroyed! certainly they will send out rumors to have you destroyed! you will become a villain or bad person; they will shun you! you did nothing wrong!
It's not sure hate; its worse! Its death! Even if they were friends; thats over with! Your over ran and ran out! Doors are shut and locked! You do not exist anymore! For ever! Its as if you were never born! You certainly will never see these people ever again!
You have to go through this to believe it! It's shocking! But not knew! You did not know the people down the street were never nice people! And they were never your friends!
I look back at all that Ive gone through and cannot believe Im still alive!
I must have buried myself deep down, all the way down into the core of self and subconscious where no one knew, not even me! And when the time was safe; if ever that would happen! I popped out! Or upward into my head again! Its crazy! The real me is slowly coming fourth again! Im very much untouched! Protected! Im the original me from 9 years old! And Im starting once again to be willing like a nine year old to learn new things! Im starting over again!
Starting over;
So, I go to this friends house! He has a small room I can sing in! It's not perfect! He has a tenant in the upstairs apartment of this house! I sing and record; no one seems to care, but I cant get that loud! And my friend; he plays on his plastic keyboard and sings! And I have to stop and show him how to complete a song! But its all good! Its all pro active and interactive! And it's happening because Im willing again to be apart of life! Slowly relearning how!
Willingness is more important then substance!
Participation is more important then the end product! But the product must be finished!
Interaction is more important then organization! It might be Un manageable or Im on the edge when doing things; but Im doing things with other people and I'm working with others and not in control! Im learning to be in an environment with others and do the things I used to do by myself! God is attempting to use all of this to bring me back to life again around others! That I get re introduced back into society and civilization once more!
I was brainwashed to death or out of my life!
And Im learning and it hurts! But it's working!
It never worked for me to be alone; I never accomplished much! I never had the will or strength to go out and be apart of anything! The world over ran me and I could not negotiate it!
I was hated and run over; my life! I was hated and ruined by the people I grew up with; ran off; I was run off! Thats a better word for it! I was ran off because I could see through them and realized they were murder's and nothing better!
I could not understand how I could have been treated the way I was treated; non of this made any sense! Nothing!
I had no friends; I was all alone! Once I saw through these people and saw that they were murder's; I was shunned out of existence!
Malcolm X, he used to say the same thing! He was correct! But I did not understand at what extent he was talking about! I always thought what he was talking about; it was the other guy he was talking about! Certainly not the people I came from!
These middle roaders or well to do! They are the worst of the bunch! They have no conscious about their treachery! Its as if they act like it's a privilege! As if it's a God given right to be above everyone!
Many times I have seen them to similar to the nazi regime of the 3rd Reich from world war 2! They are of the same nature; everyone unlike them is treated like a Jew with a number tagged on their foreheads! Money is their God! And they are in love with themselves! They worship themselves as Gods! It's ######6 putrefying! But its real! And it's not a game! They are killers or murder's!
These types don't kill you directly! But they do kill you directly in other ways that leave them intact and you hanging at the end of a rope! If you were not born into privilege! You will be a second class example to them! For they believe they own the earth and everyone else works for them to survive!
When these types read the bible, they assume the bible is simply talking about the middle class! Or upper middle class! And no one else! They own their own private God; Jesus Christ! And their private God shall do their bidding to protect them in their evil land marks and practices!
I had no hope and no connection! Now, things are different; but this has come from recovery work and God! It did not come from the locals in the local community! They would have destroyed me again; if given the chance!
They are worthless merciless losers! Godless murder's! Sycophants!
When I was natural or myself and innocent! It exposed what these people were! They were a closed tribe of liars adapting Jesus Christ as a private murder God to get back at the people that were trying to get back at them! They went to Jesus for revenge power! " take out our enemies O. God, slain them like David did Goliath'! Who are their enemies! The only enemies these people have are the decent real people they have robbed! They have been robbing the poor for years and the poor will rise up! The upper middle classes or middle class are hiring Jesus to get rid of these vermin; the poor! So they don't tell the world of the middle class crimes against innocent people that are fueled by the desire to fit in with the rich! They are suede rich people! Or false rich!
The upper middle classes didn't get their money any other way then selling their souls! They are hiring Jesus to protect their way of life! They think they own Jesus! They rent him at the rental center because they are privileged now; and privileged people get to rent Jesse's from the rental center! " I want my Jesus statue; I get one now"!
Jesus is their thug Generator of destruction! If you got a problem with someone that claims you're not who you think you are; call Jesus and have that person zapped!
But the real Jesus Christ! Is not the one in the videos on youtube proving he was nothing more then a replacement sun God for the Egyptians! And the real Jesus Christ is not the middle class hired gun that they may continue to uptain hi rates of money at all costs; squeezing a dime out of the poor! Selling their souls for a brick of gold! Smiling about their achievements with their gold plated teeth and gold plated death!
God is God! And God is with the poor and no other! And every person is poor! Anyone on this planet; but only a few know it! And when you know you are poor! You are stunned and have no place to run or hide! You're not sure what to do or think! So, you turn to God! For the world has rejected you for being honest!


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Thursday, October 19, 2006
THE WASH CLOTHPosted by Bonnie S. Calhoun at 1:45 AM
(But, there is not a woman alive today who won't crack up over this!)
I was due for an appointment with the gynecologist later in the week. Early one morning, I received a call from the doctor's office to tell me there was a cancellation and the 9:30am appointment was available.
I took it.
I had only just packed everyone off to work and school, and it was already around 8:45 am. The trip to his office took about 35 minutes, so I didn't have any time to spare.
As most women do, I like to take a little extra effort over hygiene when making such visits, but this time I wasn't going to be able to make the full effort. So, I rushed upstairs, threw off my pajamas, wet the washcloth that was sitting next to the sink, and gave myself a quick wash in "that area" to make sure I was at least presentable.
I threw the washcloth in the clothes basket, donned some clothes, hopped in the car and raced to my appointment.
I was in the waiting room for only a few minutes when I was called in.
Knowing the procedure, as I'm sure you do, I hopped up on the table, looked over at the other side of the room and pretended that I was in Paris or some other such glamorous place a million miles away.
I was a little surprised when the doctor said, "My, we have made an extra effort this morning, haven't we?"
I didn't respond.
After the appointment, I heaved a sigh of relief and went home.
The rest of the day was normal... some shopping, cleaning, cooking, etc.
After school when my six year old daughter was playing, she called out from the bathroom, "Mommy, where's my washcloth?" I told her to get another one from the cupboard.
She replied, "No!!!"
(Now wait for it, this is too funny not to be true!!!)
She yelled, "I need the one that was here by the sink, it had all my glitter and sparkles saved inside it."
7 Comments:
- Bernita said...7:08 AMOh. My. Goodness.
- Stephen Newton said...10:08 AMThat is truly priceless and will be in the Bonnie Hall of Fame for sure.
Thanks for making my day.
- Denise McDonald said...10:21 AMLOL -
I have almost got my plot down for Nano! yay me! I AM ready!
- Rulan said...11:25 PMha ha ha. lol he he Too funny for words. ha ha ha
- David Meigs said...12:55 AMYikes!
- Ballpoint Wren said...11:29 AMWah!
That's a really good one, Bonnie!
- Pattie said...10:14 AMOH MY GOODNESS!!!


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NEW YORK, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Newark Mayor Cory Booker is
giving serious thought to challenging Chris Christie when the
New Jersey governor runs for re-election next year and will
announce his plans within two weeks, Booker said on Sunday.
"I am absolutely considering running for governor, as well
as giving other options some consideration," said Booker, one of
the state's leading Democrats and an early favorite to challenge
Christie next November.
Booker, appearing on CBS's "Face the Nation" program, said
he is also weighing a run for the U.S. Senate.
"Life, ultimately, is not about a position. It's about a
purpose," Booker told the morning talk show. "So I'm really
thinking about both offices right now, and which one can I
better serve the issues that I'm passionate about and the things
I feel driven to contribute to."
Christie, who took office three years ago, has been enjoying
sky-high approval ratings for his handling of Superstorm Sandy,
which plowed into the Jersey Shore in late October, laying waste
to thousands of homes and tearing up miles of beach-front
A Quinnipiac University poll released last month found that
two-thirds of New Jersey voters say Christie deserves to be
re-elected, and a match-up between Christie and Booker had the
Republican governor winning by 53 percent to 35 percent.
Democrats say they expect Christie's popularity to subside,
and point to the governor's opposition to a so-called
millionaire's tax and his veto of a bill that would have
legalized same-sex marriage as potential vulnerabilities.
Like Christie, Booker is a charismatic politician who has
cultivated a place on the national political stage in part
thanks to an aggressive use of social media. The two men have
made much of their close working relationship.
Democrats control both houses of the state legislature, and
U.S. Senators Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez are both
A survey by Public Policy Polling released last month found
that most New Jersey Democrats would like to see Lautenberg, who
is 88, retire at the end of his term rather than run for
re-election in 2014.
The same survey found Booker leading the pack of potential
Democratic candidates for the Senate seat, with six in 10 voters
saying they want to see him run.
(Reporting By Edith Honan; editing by Philip Barbara)


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SeeSaw Temperatures
Thank You Lake Michigan For 40s
We've turned the corner into spring as highs today reach the upper 50s with April sun and southwest breezes. A few clouds ride with a cool front for late afternoon and highs are cooler for Friday
North to northeast winds Friday dip temperatures to the 40s tomorrow with another warm up to the 50s for Saturday. Highs will go back and forth between the 40s and 50s for the next several days. The cooler highs are thanks to Lake Michigan! Water temperatures only in the mid 30s, so any time east breezes commence-we turn colder.
There is a chance for a light, spotty mix early Saturday morning when temperatures are in the low to mid 30s. Chances for light showers increase Saturday as highs hit the mid 50s.
Pattern looks wet off and on into next week with seasonal highs in the low 50s.
Send us your photos to ulocal-we'd love to see green grass or budding trees! You can also post to our Facebook and Twitter pages.


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