[In the financial news outlet, The Motley Fool, they printed this yesterday (16 November, 2018) about Warren Buffett. Todd Campbell wrote: “Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway owns a lot of businesses outright, including homebuilders, railroads, and insurers, but it also manages a massive $200 billion stock portfolio that every investor ought to be paying attention to. Why? …savvy investors can be handsomely rewarded for following in Warren Buffett’s footsteps.”
It reminded me of something G5 sent me the other day about Buffett and Obama.]
by G5
The TSA only harasses the middle and lower social orders. Those able to take corporate flights or use private or government, are apparently not a danger to others. This all packaged with the “Since 9/11” fakery.
The mysteries are no more. Check for motive, opportunity, and ability.
And if they are going to have their stocks tampered with, as MH-17 and MH-370, check the other brands who have ‘Lost’ aircraft.
Airline shares were a good buy after 9/11. As a matter of fact, the plays were already in the market days before. Now how could that be? Who would have known that 19 terrorist hijackers would do what they did. REALLY?
And of course railway shares were an excellent buy.
But again, you must always be in the loop.
Rail companies filled their yards with rolling stock going nowhere. Barry to the rescue of the whole domestic economy. He was armed with Quantitative Easing, Fed interest rate plays, Sequesters, and Stimuli. The last one was the bite.
Now Barry was surrounded by Experts who really knew their stuff. We’re talking Harvard and Yale here. So the almost bankrupted rail companies hit the banks for the hundreds of new locos they were going to need, to shift all that new product that was definitely going to happen. (Barry would never lie.)
Then nothing happened.
So the new locos in their hundreds headed to the stabling yards. But the banks were still owed. They didn’t want the locos. And who would the buyers be? All were broke.
A plan was already afoot. Warren phoned Barry and Plan A was set. Very serious environmental issues have just come to hand, and Barry backs out, cancelling the OK Pipeline he already approved.
Now all that Canadian and American crude has to be moved. What is the solution?
Unknown to the fans, Warren has just bought up the rail companies for pennies. What a clever and fast-thinking astute businessman is that Warren.
Warren puts on his red cape, and steps into the light. We can rail the crude around Canada and America. Brilliant says Barry.
So the railing-of-crude-monopoly sets up business. The rolling stock has problems, but is protected by archaic laws from the wild west, land grab, unaccountability, and non-compliance days. So unsafe and disasters pending, rolling stock begins hurtling around villages and major cities.
As time passes, the exact environmental and human endangerment issues screeched by the employed environmentally concerned pretenders (with regard to the pipeline) actually happened with regard to the railing. Now who would have thought?
One good monopoly deserves another. And what are friends like Barry for? So Warren buys up the broke pipeline companies and begins to unload the rail companies, backed by the strength of dead rail contracts.
So — at the end of the day — the pipeline was the better option. What happened in between is totally immaterial.
Boy, those shares controlled by Warren certainly know how to return. What a great businessman.
Apparently, Warren had approached certain members of The Usual Suspects and agreed to underwrite the loans that would be coming in from the rail companies. And of course the rail companies had very enthusiastic players on their boards — and apparently knew good old Warren from the old country club.
Well, Warren always astute, had ensured The Usual Suspects a win-win situation. And loaded heavy encumbrances onto the rail companies, for those great loans.
So when it came to sell-up time for those rail companies, those balance sheets really looked terrible. They were lucky to see those pennies from Warren. And of course it all needed to be kept on the quiet and acted on very quickly. Because you see, apart from unconscionable loans agreed to at a moment of great passion, certain rail directors allowed themselves to be transposed into personal financial positions, that could be viewed by certain energetic minds, as being not fully representative of the interests of the rail companies at issue.
Nothing left to do but to get this whole affair behind and move on. Regrettable, but mistakes happen.
What does Brexit REALLY stand for?
https://veaterecosan.blogspot.com/2018/11/what-does-brexit-really-stand-for.html
IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU’RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH
A priest, a preacher and a Rabbi decided to do an experiment. They would all go out into the woods, find a bear, preach to it, and attempt to convert it.
Seven days later, they’re all together to discuss the experience.
Father Flannery, who has his arm in a sling, is on crutches, and has various bandages, goes first.
“Well,” he says, “I went into the woods to find me a bear. And when I found him I began to read to him from the Catechism. Well, that bear wanted nothing to do with me and began to slap me around. So I quickly grabbed my holy water, sprinkled him and, Holy Mary Mother of God, he became as gentle a lamb. The bishop is coming out next week to give him first communion and confirmation.”
Reverend Billy Bob spoke next. He was in a wheelchair, with an arm and both legs in casts, and an IV drip. In his best fire and brimstone oratory he claimed, ” WELL brothers, you KNOW that we don’t sprinkle! I went out and I FOUND me a bear. And then I began to read to my bear from God’s HOLY WORD! But that bear wanted nothing to do with me. So I took HOLD of him and we began to wrestle. We wrestled down one hill, UP another and DOWN another until we came to a creek. So I quick DUNKED him and BAPTIZED his hairy soul. And just like you said, he became as gentle as a lamb. We spent the rest of the day praising Jesus.”
They both looked down at the rabbi, who was lying in a hospital bed. He was in a body cast and traction with IV’s and monitors running in and out of him. He was in bad shape.
The rabbi looks up and says, “Looking back on it, circumcision may not have been the best way to start.”
Ok Mary, you want a bear story with a more appropriate ending?
“An atheist was taking a walk along a river and through the woods admiring all that evolution had created. ‘What a beautiful world’ he thought as he wondered at the great forest, the rivers and all the creatures around him.
Then he heard the rustling of the bushes, turned to see and there was a 7 foot grizzly bear charging toward him
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Well, he ran and ran but to no avail, he stumbled and there was the bear with both massive paws on his body and bearing its teeth toward his miserable neck.
“Oh my God’ he screamed as the bear’s teeth bore down on him.
Time stopped.
The bear ‘froze’.
The forest was silent.
The river stopped flowing.
Then a light shone down from the heavens and a voice called and sounded: “You deny my existence for all your years and even tell others that I do not exist and now you call out to me to save you. Really; fair dinkum what do you expect me to do………..you are an atheist”. Do you now see that I exist, you have just heard me, you have witnessed time suspended”.
The atheist was not to be called a hypocrite and said to God that he must still disbelieve. To wiggle out of his predicament he said to God: “God just make the bear a Christian and all will be well”.
‘Very well’, the God voice replied and all was as before, but the bear removed his paws, stood erect and joining both paws in prayer looked to the heavens and recited:
“Lord for this food which I am about to receive, I am truly thankful…AMEN”.
Bewdy. Bewdy. Bewdy.
and you will not find many atheists in the trenches as they climb up and over.