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Time for some positive vibes towards our biggest heart-and-soul player!
As you all know, the Great Strangelove has always sprung to the defense of one Alexandre Burrows.
For good reason.
And yours truly is more interested in what AB can bring to this team in the FUTURE than the past.
But sadly, it seems some of CC's best posters have forgotten even what Mr Burrows has done in the past.
A re-post from tonight's GDT if I may...
Now I'm not sure if many here turned into mindless pitchforkersStrangelove wrote:WOW never thought I'd see that said about AB.Blob Mckenzie wrote: A day late and a dollar short. He didn't show up when the games mattered.
But I guess now that folks can't claim he's a washed-up-stick-a-fork-in-him player anymore...
2nd in all-time Canuck short-handed goals (Bure is first).
Tied for 9th in all-time Canuck game-winning goals (and I bet he's 3rd in ES game-winning goals).
1st in goals-per-playoff-game among present-day Canucks.
The only present-day Canuck to score a short-handed playoff goal.
Tied for 1st (with Gus Adams) in ALL-TIME OVERTIME PLAYOFF GOALS.
Can you say CLUTCH??
"He didn't show up when the games mattered"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Va ... ks_records
PLUS he's in there like a dirty shirt when things get ugly.
All this from our best defensive forward.
No offense Blob, but some of you guys have gone nutty....
... or if the hatred spewed by the media has achieved it's desired effect.
Or if it's both.
But IMESHO whether one is a rebuilder, retooler, or re-upper...
(well not unless you get a HUGE return for him)

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Welcoming the new year a little late
>> Thursday, January 15, 2009
Date: 10th Jan 2009
Venue: Kulim
Occasion: New Year celebration cum housewarming :P
All the while I thought organizing a BBQ party is 'wet wet water' (very easy). Not till I organized one myself and I ended up lying on the bed the whole day after the party. Too tired to do anything else *shame* :P
The party was a long-awaited one. My housemate and I started planning for it since end of last year :) Food preparation started a night before. Both of us marinated the lamb without knowing the exact recipe :P None of us has experience in it before...hehe. So bad of us to treat our guests as guinea pigs :P But...thanks god the lamb turn out to be very very nice!!
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Memory work: colonialism, control, civilization
June 19, 2008
Haraway's work examines how ideology informs science both through legitimization of claims and the intrusion of values into 'scientific' facts. In her introduction Haraway describes how the concepts of love, power and science are intricately intertwined in the constructions of nature in the late twentieth century. In the eighteenth century Linneaus named the order of Primates. Since then in western life sciences, 'nature' has encompassed themes of race, sexuality, gender, nation, family and class. Projects of colonialism developed ideologies of the control of nature and the civilization of native cultures (Haraway 1989:1).
The concept of 'civilization' as a benchmark for evaluating the evolution of culture had been an accepted and integral part of colonialism. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century the control of nature by technology, the machine, had become ambiguous. Nature, a potent symbol of innocence, was female and she needed protection from technology.
The American Museum of Natural History near Central Park, New York, was opened after the Civil War. In 1936 the African Hall was unveiled, a vision of the communion between nature and man, made possible through the craft of taxidermy. Carl Akeley's, the chief taxidermist, greatest success was his display of a giant silverback gorilla from Congo-Zaire. This silverback is exhibited in a specially created diorama against a backdrop of Akeley's own burial site in Congo-Zaire where he died in 1921. Haraway notes that in the same year, the Museum of Natural Science hosted a meeting of the International Congress of Eugenics. (Haraway 1989:26 -27).
Haraway reveals how the funding of the Museum of Natural History and related projects, such as public education, scientific collection and eugenics was provided by wealthy philanthropists. These men were often sports hunters who hunted in the African jungle and were enamoured with nature (Haraway 1989:54). They created a Hall of the Age of Man which museum trustee H. F. Osborn hoped would provide children with "…the book of nature written in facts" in order to prepare them to be "…better citizens of the future." These early trustees and scientists believed that the nature they knew and were showing was not an interpretation. Nature was real. This realism also informed aesthetic choices in exhibitions.
Haraway reveals how it was also designed to "…make the moral lessons of racial hierarchy and progress explicit." Osborn was an ardent eugenicist. Another Museum trustee was a white-supremacist author, Madison Grant, who was deeply concerned by the increase of immigration of non-white working classes whom he feared would outnumber the "old American stock". Non-white included the Jewish and Eastern European cultures (Haraway 1989:57).
Haraway traces the way in which primates: monkeys, apes and chimpanzees, represent a privileged relation to nature and culture. In the chapter on the work of Robert Yerkes (Yale) on Human Engineering and the Laboratories of Primate Biology (1924-1942) she examines his research in comparative primate psychobiology. Human engineering was a term and tool developed c. 1910 to establish and maintain a stable, productive, non-conflictual workplace to prevent lost time and resources. Workers who were properly managed, or 'engineered', would ensure industry's profits. The engineering included concern for stable family situations to encourage the maintenance of a constructive force. In Yerkes research chimpanzees became physiological models of humans. Through them Yerkes investigated instinct, personality, culture and human engineering. In the process he was reformulating the relationship between nature and culture (Haraway 1989:66).
In her final chapter Haraway narrates a link between primatology and science fiction. She tells the story of Lilith, an Octavia Butler character in the science-fiction Dawn. Lilith, a woman of colour, out of Africa, becomes the primal mother, the Eve to a polymorphous species. The story unfolds in a post-nuclear, post-slavery world overtaken by an alien species. It is a survival fiction about the "… resistance to the imperative to recreate the sacred image of the same (Haraway 1989:378)." Haraway refers to a part in Dawn when Lilith talks about her feelings of being impregnated with something that is not human, a metamorphose. "I had gone back to school." [Lilith] said. "I was majoring in anthropology." She laughed out bitterly. "I suppose I could think of this as fieldwork – but how the hell can I get out of the field?" (Butler 1987: 262-3)
In this monumental, thorough work Haraway examined the various 'border disputes" about primates including those between biology and psychiatry, scientists and administrators, specialists and lay people and historians of science and real scientists. "The primate field, naturalistic and textual, has been a site for elaborating and contesting the bio-politics of difference and identity for members of industrial and post-industrial cultures (Haraway 1989:368)." She traced the history of the science of primatology down an exciting path through Central Park, into the dark jungles of Africa, to taxidermy laboratories, to museum dioramas, to Disney homes for chimps and women scientists who serve as a kind of missing link in a long evolutionary chain. She concludes with a fiction, the beginning of a myth of Eve without Adam. She ends her narrative with that of a female scientist who becomes part of the experiment, part of the field study unable to escape (Haraway 1989:14).
Her work is so deeply intertextual and detailed that it confounds but does not prevent criticism. Haraway looked at the way frameworks become acceptable on the basis of value systems or world views held by particular interest groups or power groups which in turn provide the criteria for the legitimization of truth claims. She describes how ideology informs science.
Debates in sociology revolve around sociology's function as a discipline within academia. Conflicting oppositional viewpoints are often defined as extreme and exclusive dichotomies: nomologism vs. historicism, generalizing vs particularizing, positivism vs relativism, scientific facts vs discourse, Science vs journalism, uncritical vs self-reflexive, occupation vs profession, value-free vs. social, hard science vs soft science, centre vs periphery, intra disciplinary vs interdisciplinary, optimistic vs sceptical; scientific elite vs the public; liberal vs illiberal; objective vs engaged political thinker.
These debates are somewhat like a conversation that takes place over centuries. The character of the debates often takes on the form of rhetorical assertions coupled with evidence. However, the evidence is often grounded in oppositional stances. The most diametrically opposed players then face an impasse which Joan Huber's and Goldthorpe describe as an unbridgeable chasm. Empirical positivists "know" Science deals in Scientific facts which are predictable, replicable and guaranteed results of pure scientific methodologies. There is no need to theorize because they already know this to be true. SSK, relativists and postmodernists assert that the tools with which scientists work, their methodologies and the very environments in which they work, have to be constantly revisited and theorized. This they know is true. Those who attempt to enter into the conversation, need to first gauge the level of credibility of the discourse on either side. A legalistic strategy of the weighing of evidence might be useful. However, the weight of evidence can be valid only if all the major arguments on both sides are reviewed, a monumental task.
Webliography and Bibliography
Haraway, Donna. 1989. Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science.
My Summary: Haraway looked at the way frameworks become acceptable on the basis of value systems or world views held by particular interest groups or power groups which in turn provide the criteria for the legitimization of truth claims. She describes how ideology informs science. In Primate Visions (1989) Haraway reveals how Yerkes' Human Engineering projects (1924-1942) used chimpanzees as physiological models of humans. Through them Yerkes investigated instinct, personality, culture and human engineering. In the process he was reformulating the relationship between nature and culture (Haraway 1989:66).
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Eli Manning insists he did nothing wrong in memorabilia suit
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. >> An angry and emotional Eli Manning has denied providing fake game-used memorabilia to a collector, insisting he will be vindicated.
Manning addressed the accusations on Thursday after a plaintiff in a 2014 lawsuit recently filed a motion to compel testimony that included an email from Manning to a team equipment manager asking for two helmets that could pass as game-used items.
The two-time Super Bowl MVP refused to discuss the specifics of the civil case, which is scheduled to go to trial in September in state Superior Court in Bergen County,
"I will say I have never done what I have been accused of doing," Manning said at a Giants offseason availability. "I have no reason nor have I had any reason to do anything of that nature. I have done nothing wrong and I have nothing to hide, and I know when this is done everyone will see it the same way."
Manning said he can handle people attacking him for his play. Attacking his integrity is something else, and his voice reflected that he was upset.
"I think my track record of how I have handled myself since I have been here in New York since 2004 speaks for itself," Manning said. "I have tried to do everything with class and be a standup citizen. That's what I have done."
Sports memorabilia collector Eric Inselberg of Short Hills sued Manning, Giants co-owner John Mara and others in 2014, alleging they engaged in a scam to sell fake "game-worn" equipment for profit. He also asked that the NFL team be held accountable for the lies that led to his indictment on federal changes that ruined his business.
The federal charges against Inselberg were later dropped.
His lawsuit against Manning and the Giants returned to the headlines recently when the plaintiff filed a motion to compel testimony. It included that email from Manning to a team equipment manager.
Manning insisted that email was taken out of context, adding some recent court filings will make that clear.
"This was first reported three years ago and I have been dealing with it for a long time, but I am just more angry than anything having to deal with it, knowing I have done nothing wrong and still being attacked," Manning said.
Manning said he has been surprised how people have turned in the wake of the email, which he gave to the plaintiff in discovery.
"...Someone starts something up and everybody turns against you very quickly," Manning said. "It hurts."
He said the league has not talked to him about the allegations.
Manning has a deal with Steiner Sports to provide memorabilia. He said has never personally sold or made any money off a jersey or helmet sale.
Manning, who is scheduled to earn almost $20 million in salary and bonuses this season, was asked why he had a contract with a memorabilia dealer when he made so much money on the field.
"Well, it's just autographs," he said. "It is just a way to sign your name, and I think a lot of people do it. It is just part of the business."
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Fans of the Mega Man series, until recently, had yet to experience the delights of the Blue Bomber in anything other than side-scrolling 2D. But now, thanks to some technical wizardry at Capcom, you can run, jump and shoot stuff as the man himself, all in glorious 3D. And in this, the seventh outing for Mega Man, you have a choice of characters. You can choose to take on the guise of the eponymous hero 'X', play as his rival Zero or step nimbly into the shoes of newcomer Axl.
In Mega Man's latest adventure, the Red Alert Syndicate (a reploid crime organisation) has been steadily amassing power and terrorising the populace, and it's up to X and co. to put a stop to their fiendish schemes. There's just one glitch though; the Blue Bomber is out of the crime fighting circuit and in hiding somewhere, leaving Zero to clean up the mean streets without him. Never fear though, it wouldn't be a Mega Man game if the guy himself didn't figure, and it isn't long before he's coaxed out of retirement and back into action.
Once the (somewhat flimsy) plot is out of the way, it's business as usual, with X heading up the team with his trusty arm cannon, which you can charge up for a more powerful shot. Zero weilds his standard laser sword and, in addition to an arm cannon, Axl has the ability to transform into various enemies by acquiring their robotic DNA. So, the basic premise is to get tooled up, take out the bad guys and complete various missions. And when you're not fighting robots with souped-up weaponry, you'll be tasked with saving reploids wandering about the shop. Rescue enough and you'll be rewarded for your efforts.
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Webb Simpson would like to have won already on the PGA Tour, and he has not been without his chances. A win at the Wyndham Championship, though, may very well be worth the wait.
On Sunday at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C., Simpson will be a favorite for a number of reasons. The foremost reason is that he owns a two-stroke, 54-hole lead over fellow non-winner Tommy Gainey.
Second, Simpson is about as native a Tar Heel as there is in the field. He grew up about 90 minutes east of Sedgefield in Raleigh, and attended college at Wake Forest University, about 45 minutes in the opposite direction.
"Honestly, my first year in Charlotte, my first year was tough," said Simpson, who shot 74-75 to miss the cut in his first Quail Hollow Championship two years ago. "I felt a ton of pressure because you want to do well in front of your home crowd and they want you to do well.
"So it's a lot of emotions. Last year here I finished top-10 and kind of broke through you could say for local tournaments and it's tough when you're playing bad because you know everybody wants you to play well, but when you're playing good, when I was able to go on the stretch, you felt like everyone is behind you. It really helps you build on those birdies and makes it a lot of fun."
If scores are indicative of the positive vibes surrounding Simpson this week, then Sunday bodes well for the 26-year-old new father. He has posted progressively better rounds of 66, 65 and 64. A year ago he posted a final-round 63 to tie for eighth.
While Simpson admits to being frustrated by not having won yet in three full seasons on tour, he considers it part of a pattern.
"I've always been a little slow to win," he said. "I think I was the best coming out of high school. I get to college and it takes me to my second semester junior year to win and I won a few more times.
"I'm seeing that pattern out here on tour now. I'm just trying to get comfortable. As soon as I start trying to win instead of trying to do what I know how to do, which is just continue to get better, I think it will take a lot longer."
Simpson's wait should not be too long.
Already this season he has a pair of second-place finishes, plus a pair of top-20 finishes in the U.S. Open and British Open, respectively. A win on Sunday would move him to third in the FedEx Cup Playoff point standings and inside the top 10 for U.S. Presidents Cup points.
Those are not numbers of a player struggling to find his way out on tour.
"The way I look at it, if God wants me to win, then I will," he said. "If not, I'll have plenty more opportunities. But I'm just going to rely on my faith and if it's my time, great, we're going to go out there and win. If we come up short, then it's just the way it's going to happen."
Winning in front of both friends and family would just be sweeter.
Stuart Hall is editor of the Golf Press Association.


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March 19, 2008 in From the kitchen
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Not really mutant eggs, but sort of. Remember when I was blasting Jamie "Goody-two-shoes-my-ass" Oliver? Okay, here's the thing: There is SOME difference between organic and non-organic. With non-organic stuff, because it's been tampered with so much, everything looks perfect and that is not natural. There is no chicken that lays eggs that are the exact same size as one another. That's why my eggs look like these:
Mutate your friends
Mark's Homemade Potato Pie
January 3, 2008 in From the kitchen
Tags: anal, cheddar, cloudy bay, dance, dying, eating, family, family feud, food, freak, freakazoid, french music, kangaroo testicles, m&s, own label, potato, recipes, sainsbury's, shopping, tesco, tips, waitrose, wine
I love food. I'm not sure if I love food, or the act of eating. But I'm pretty sure I love eating more than I love food. Otherwise I'd probably worship peppers and pray to salamis like a freaking freakazoid freak.
When some people cook this is what they do:
1. Look at recipe
2. Gather ingredients
3. Measure
4. Measure
5. Measure
6. Get a bit anal about something or rather
7. Look at recipe
8. Start cooking
9. Look at recipe
10. Shout "Get the hell outta my kitchen, boy."
"Uh-uh, you ain't wearing that. I can see your tits from here a mile away!"
(or something like that)
But the food usually comes out pretty alright. No biggie. You know what home cooked meals are like. Mom or wife gets sick of cooking and it becomes cooking as a responsibility. Taste and garnishing goes out the window, and then you eat for the sake of having to live! No fun, no fun at all.
However, I believe that when you have lost the pleasure of eating, it's time to die. As the French say (cue French music and Eiffel Tower in the BG) "Food….it's the symphony of life". I dont know which French said it but I sure didn't make that up. HONEST!
Anyway, as I was saying, food is simply one of the best pleasures in life so now you're expecting me to give you some funky fancy modern fusion Asian-Western-Ethnic cooking tip eh? Oh, the build-up! When I cook, this is what I do:
1. Open a bottle of wine (No vintage rubbish for me. A nice South Australian'll do me just fine. And I aint talking about the women!)
2. Open fridge
3. Take everything out
4. Try and play Food-Tetris with the stuff and see what and what fit best
5. Sip wine (a sip, depending on your culture, varies in size and volume)
6. Turn on the radio (or iTunes) and get a li'l bitta samba, and a bitta venga
7. Decide on what I'm going to cook
8. Sip more wine (see point 5)
9. Up the volume, Up the tempo
10. Sippy, sippy
11. Pri pair de food
12. Take large swig of booze
13. Put eberyting in oven
So, after having a very good time, some time last week, I'm going to share with you a recipe, straight out of my kitchen. I call it Mark's Potato Pie (spare me the jokes!)
Here's what you need:
Potatoes (the £1.50 for 4 type) – some
Mushroom (The big-ish ones) – some
Dried herbs from the supermarket – normally comes in bottles
Mature cheddar cheese – I used half a block.
A tip for buying le cheddar: Don't buy those Cathedral City fancy named cheddar. Cheddar is a farmhouse, old-skool kinda cheese. Get it in the supermarkets, those without the fancy packaging. AND definitely not from Lidl. They do great food, but not cheddar. If you can, get cheddar from the farm! Or just the regular supermarket own label stuff is alright. I've tried Sainsbury's, Tesco's, Waitrose's and M&S's – they're alright. Any other supermarket, you're on your own.
Salt and Pepper – As much as tickles your fancy. And let's stop using this lo-sodium nonsense. Nasty, nasty stuff. That's what pants must taste like.
Garlic – one
Olive oil – Lots
Here's what you do (feel free to add wine wherever you like)
1. Peel potatoes and slice them. About 1/2 a centimeter should do it
2. Toss in salt and pepper. Leave
3. Slice mushrooms to the size of the potato slices. This is the tricky bit. If the potatoes are significantly bigger than the mushrooms, it will taste nothing like mushrooms. And if your mushrooms are bigger than the potatoes, you really have to stop smoking pot!
4. Smash garlic and rub the insides of an oven-safe dish. The dish has to be at least 3 inches deep, otherwise, you're in trouble when mom/granny/wife/pet fish/girlfriend/boyfriend finds the doo-doo your dish has done!
5. Lace the dish with olive oil.
6. Lay the potato slices AROUND the walls of the dish (I learned my lesson – I WILL take pictures next time) so that they look like you're preparing an egg salad – each slice overlapping the next. You'll find a void in the middle. chuck all the small insignificant potato slices in there.
7. Sprinkle fresh herbs and olive oil on this layer.
8. After you've done one layer, arrange mushrooms, similar fashion, but a bit trickier, so I just dumped a whole bunch and lay them flat. Then sprinkle salt and pepper. I like the taste of mushrooms so I used only pepper instead.
9. Lay the remaining potatoes on top of mushroom layer to form another potato layer.
10. Finally, the cheese. Seriously, not the whole block! Use slices. I've had people from all over the world ask me, "How do you measure cheese?". And after thinking about this and doing my research, I've finally found the answer: your preference for cheese, will be determined by your pinky. So regardless of body size whether you're a sumo wrestler or Paris Hilton, your preference for amount of cheese is half your pinky's width. Yup. For this recipe, Look at how thick your pinky is, half that, and that's how thick you cheddar slices should be! Now once you've sliced them, pile them onto the top potato layer and make sure there are no holes.
11. Leave it in the oven 'til the cheese is brownish and looks like as thought it has burnt and has stuck to the sides of the dish. Believe me, this is PERFECT, and it will come off easily, and it's so so yummy!
You can serve with a side of olives, mushroom and sundried tomato antipasto, or just have it on its own. Have a bottle of nice Cloudy Bay, a couple of Kangaroo's testicles, and have a G'Day, Mate!
Tell me what you think of the recipe when you've tried it.
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Greetings Fellow Patriots,
July the 4th will soon be upon us once again. Independence Day. Cook outs, fireworks, ball games, etc, etc, etc... That's the way we celebrate, right? Most every one does and our members celebrate in these ways, too. But we strive also to remember and appreciate that America is about so much more than that. She is about liberty and justice for all.
I have for some time been planning to write about one of the things that is so special about America, the idea of American exceptionalism. This is a much maligned and misunderstood term and perhaps Independence Day is a good time for me to put in my 2 cents worth.
What American exceptionalism does and does not mean: It does not mean that Americans are somehow inherently superior people. That seems to be what those who have attached a negative connotation to the term think. But this makes no sense whatsoever given the fact that our population is made up of people from "every nation, tribe and tongue."
American exceptionalism does mean that the American Way-the system of government and society devised and instituted by the Founders-provides a framework of just law which, when adhered to, makes it possible for anyone to reach their maximum potential, i.e. to live an exceptional life.
The principles of American exceptionalism are articulated in The Declaration of Independence and codified in The Constitution. Perhaps these principles cannot be better summarized than by the words of the documents themselves found in the prologue to the Declaration and the preamble to the Constitution. I never get tired of reading them and I don't think we can do so too much. So, here they are:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,...
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
May we the members of MCP, in reliance on God, work to restore a right understanding and application of American exceptionalism. Then may God bless America once again. And may He bless us each and all this Independence Day.
Richard Cochran, President
Macon County Patriots
Independence Day, 2011
Richard Cochran, President
Macon County Patriots
Independence Day, 2011
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5 things you need to know happening today
1. Balloon release for Luke Bresette
Students from St. Thomas More will honor the life of their classmate Luke Bresette at 2 p.m. at the school at 11800 Holmes Rd. in Kansas City.
Bresette was killed when an airport flight status board fell on top of him and his family members in Alabama.
2. Ad Hoc prayer vigil
The AdHoc Group Against Crime will hold a prayer vigil for Arnold Shelby at 5:30 p.m. at 3707 East 29th St. Shelby was found shot to death in a yard in the 3700 block of East 29th Street in September 2012.
3. Former "SNL" star Darrell Hammond visits KC
Former "Saturday Night Live" star, Darrell Hammond, will be the keynote speaker at the Angels' of The Children's Place Gala at the Downtown Marriott Friday evening. Hammond is in Kansas City to share his story of physical abuse that led to years of drug and alcohol addiction and raise awareness of child abuse. To buy a ticket, visit www.childrensplacekc.org
4. Innovation Summit in Kansas City, Kan.
An Innovation Summit runs from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Upper Jewell at Kansas City, Kan., Community College.
5. Clemons Classic memorial basketball tournament
A basketball tournament will honor the memory of two slain brothers Amir and Gerard Clemons. The tournament will be held at Raytown South High School Friday through Sunday. Visit ClemonsClassic.org for information and costs on registering.


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Equity futures are roughly flat this morning following yesterday's very powerful 93% volume down day. The dollar and bonds are also roughly flat, while oil and gold are up just a little. It's typical to pause after such a powerful move and it appears that we are moving sideways, possibly creating a flag, just above support at DOW 11,000.
The still worthless Purchase Applications report from the hypocritical Mortgage Banker's Association showed a dramatic falloff in both purchase (-5.5%) and refinance (-16.5%) activity, for a composite loss of 14.4%. Here's Econoday:
Purchase activity, after two prior weeks of strength, slowed in the November 12 week, down 5.0 percent according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. Refinance activity fell 16.5 percent. MBA blamed the drops, especially for refinancing, to a surge in rates including an 18 basis point jump for 30-year loans to an average 4.46 percent.
And there you have it. The surge in rates followed the QE2 announcement which means that the Fed's actions are causing direct harm.
Housing Starts for October just released came in as a complete disaster. September was reported at 610,000, the consensus was looking for 590,000, but the actual came in at only 519,000! This number is only a fraction of peak, yet another depression era print:
Homebuilders appear to be more pessimistic about the housing sector as housing starts dropped significantly in October. Housing starts in October fell 11.7 percent, following a downwardly revised 4.2 percent decline the month before (previously up 0.3 percent). The October annualized pace of 0.519 million units was notably lower than analysts' forecast for 0.590 million units and is down 1.9 percent on a year-ago basis. The dip in October was led by a monthly 43.5 percent plunge in multifamily starts, following a 19.2 percent decrease in September. The single-family component slipped 1.1 percent after edging up 2.1 percent the prior month.
But looking ahead, the outlook is not so negative but is still soft. Permits edged up in October, rising 0.2 percent after declining 4.2 percent in September. Overall permits came in at an annualized rate of 0.550 million units and are down 4.5 percent on a year-ago basis. The rebound was led by the single family component which was up 0.5 percent while multifamily permits eased 0.7 percent.
Due to continued concern over excessive supply and potential additions from pending foreclosures, homebuilders remain extremely cautious about new construction with starts remaining new record lows.
Note how all of the sudden all the reports have turned negative with big negative revisions? Contrast that with how they magically levitated just prior to the elections. Nothing is real anymore in the economy and markets, it's all a central banker led circus. In fact, I'm beginning to view the markets less in the technical sense and more in the banker sense – not political, BANKER. By this I mean that all one has to do is to look at whether the bankers are getting their way at robbing, hiding, and committing FRAUD. If they are getting their way, then the markets go up… when they want something (like Ireland to take on more debt) then markets begin to sink as a threat of imminent implosion if they don't get their way, and markets do actually implode if they don't get their way like in '08 when mark-to-fantasy accounting was temporarily halted. This new market view sees politicians as simply an obscuring interface between the banks and the public who are being manipulated and robbed.
Meanwhile the latest holographic economic report comes with the CPI following the PPI in being both flat month over month, and in being lower than expected at the core level. The month to month consensus was looking for a .4% rise, and the actual came in at .2%. Less food & energy it was flat. Of course these numbers are contrived. Here's Econoday:
Headline inflation worsened but only marginally and less than forecast. The overall CPI in October posted a 0.2 percent boost, following a 0.1 percent rise in September. The market consensus had expected a 0.4 percent boost for the latest month. Excluding food and energy, CPI inflation was unchanged for the third month in a row. Analysts had projected a 0.1 percent rise for October.
By major components, energy increased a strong 2.6 percent, following a 0.7 percent boost in September. Most of the latest gain was from a 4.6 percent surge in gasoline prices. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 90 percent of the CPI increase came from the increase in gasoline. Food slowed to a 0.1 percent rise after gaining 0.3 percent the month before.
Weakness in the core was led by declines in indexes for new vehicles, used cars and trucks, apparel, recreation, and tobacco. Also, shelter rose only 0.1 percent.
Year-on-year, overall CPI inflation firmed to 1.2 (seasonally adjusted) from 1.1 percent September. The core rate in September slipped to 0.6 percent from 0.8 percent the prior month. On an unadjusted year-ago basis, the headline number was up 1.2 percent in October while the core was up 0.6 percent.
On the news, Treasury yields eased marginally. Today's report corroborates the view by many at the Fed that inflation is too low as the core has been flat for three months. Nonetheless, consumers are noticing higher gasoline prices and not noticing weak shelter costs. But other components in the core showing declines support the Fed's concern about price weakness in the economy. With lower than expected housing starts also out this morning, the odds of continued QE2 went up.
Food only rose .1%? Wow, they must be measuring price on planet Morgan.
And the problem with QE is obvious. They can't control where the flood of money goes – where it's not going is your wages or to pay down your debt – the two places it's needed. Where it is going is straight out of the country, and into oil and other commodities where it works against the people who need those things to live. Businesses also use those things as inputs, and thus margin compression is occurring.
And so, the latest gimmick to manipulate and control the price of everything is to tamper with the margin requirement! The latest margin adjustment this morning comes to, get this, Irish debt! That's right, for the second time in two weeks, Clearnet is increasing margin requirement for Irish government bonds (Clearnet Announces Management of Sovereign Credit Risk for RepoClear Service).
What effect will this have? Well, it will make it harder to buy Irish debt on margin, which could spike borrowing costs higher! This also happened just prior to the last surge. Is it intentional? You bet – it forces Ireland's hand – remember, take the DEBT ("rescue") or else!
Who is LCH.Clearnet?
"LCH.Clearnet is the leading independent clearing house group, serving major international exchanges and platforms, as well as a range of OTC markets. It clears a broad range of asset classes including: securities, exchange traded derivatives, commodities, energy, freight, interest rate swaps, credit default swaps and euro and sterling denominated bonds and repos; and works closely with market participants and exchanges to identify and develop clearing services for new asset classes.
LCH.Clearnet Group Ltd is owned 83% by users and 17% by exchanges."
And who are those users and who owns the exchanges? Well, with a little bit deeper research we find that in 1980 "Ownership of LCH passes to a consortium of six British Banks."
And there you have it. Take our DEBT OR ELSE (we crash the entire planet).
Note how completely obscure they show the ownership trail, and yet it comes right back around to the same bankers – it always does.
For now Ireland is holding out strong, as they should – GO PEOPLE OF IRELAND, TELL THE BANKERS TO PISS OFF! And let's remember that one of the main reasons Ireland is so in debt is that the country came to the rescue of the BANKS! The people of Ireland didn't get a say in that – they simply did it, indebting them without permission and without representation. Now the banks want the people to commit to paying new debt forever and ever. FORGET IT.
And if that's not clearly happening here, then I don't know what is. Yet we are so blinded we can't even see it much less act on it like the people of Iceland and Ireland.
But our day will come – you see now we're talking massive austerity as the money for more unemployment benefits and food stamps runs out. And if you haven't read Mish's latest on how more than 6 million jobs disappeared in the past year, then you should follow this link and see for yourself just how whack our job situation is and how underreported the statistics are: 6 Million Benefit Paying Jobs Vanish in One Year!
And disgustingly, yesterday late afternoon we learned that today the House is going to attempt a VETO override vote in order to implement HR-3808. This would create a stealth bailout of the banks who committed FRAUD by allowing interstate electronic signature. This must be stopped AGAIN, so please call your representative ASAP this morning if you can, and let them know in no uncertain terms that you will remember this treasonous act in 2012, just as you remember those who voted for TARP: Find Your Representative
This is just one of many attempts to sweep foreclosuregate under the rug… hold your state representatives feet to the fire as well, tell them to prosecute the banks for their FRAUD! Do not let them get away with it, we will NOT have a thriving economy again until the FRAUD is prosecuted!
And as sickening as that is, I almost couldn't contain the puke this morning when I read the following:
Buffett to Uncle Sam: Thanks
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Financial titan Warren Buffett praised the U.S. government's response to the financial crisis Wednesday, writing in an open letter addressed to "Uncle Sam" that Washington responded well to a "destructive economic force unlike any seen for generations."
"People will second-guess your specific decisions; you can always count on that. But just as there is a fog of war, there is a fog of panic -- and, overall, your actions were remarkably effective," Buffett said in an op-ed published in the New York Times.
After describing corporate America in September 2008 as a series of dominoes "ready to topple at lightning speed," Buffett paints the U.S. government as the backstop preventing collapse.
"Only one counterforce was available, and that was you, Uncle Sam," Buffett wrote. "Yes, you are often clumsy, even inept. But when businesses and people worldwide race to get liquid, you are the only party with the resources to take the other side of the transaction."
Members of both the Obama and Bush administrations earn specific praise from Buffett.
"In the darkest of days, Ben Bernanke, Hank Paulson, Tim Geithner and Sheila Bair grasped the gravity of the situation and acted with courage and dispatch," Buffett writes. "And though I never voted for George W. Bush, I give him great credit for leading, even as Congress postured and squabbled."
HURL! This from a man with no spine, a TRAITOR to his country – he took BILLIONS from U.S. taxpayers by getting in bed with Goldman Sachs and then lobbying for taxpayer backed bailouts. Buffett belongs in PRISON with the rest of the criminals, this type of public pandering is simply sickening. It is brainwashing, plain and simple, and it is the reason that the people of the United States are blinded by the bullshit instead of rising up to do what is RIGHT. Disgusting.
So, what is the market doing? Is it a wave 4 before higher, or is it going down in earnest? Too soon to tell, but wave 4's usually don't contain 90%+ down days coupled with sovereign debt problems and imploding municipal bond markets!
Yesterday's selling came on good volume and was powerful. It stopped just short of DOW 11,000 and its 50dma. In the SPX weekly chart the double-top looks ominous. Remember, the wider they are, the deeper the coming decline:
The DOW triggered a new sell signal on the Point & Figure diagram targeting 10,500:
Yesterday the VIX broke out higher and closed above the upper Bollinger band. This sets up a market buy signal that will be triggered once the VIX returns back inside the Bollinger's range:
This breakout in the VIX yesterday produced an initial bullish VIX P&F target of 33.5:
So, for now we just have to watch key levels, realizing that the markets are manipulated beyond words by the bankers. I see it as our DUTY to remove the bankers from power – we owe that to future generations.