I was lamenting a down day. I was searching for sympathy.
My Wall Street friend said, “I don’t care.”
“What do you care about?” I asked naively.
“Assets.”
You can figure the rest out.
Are car loans the next sub-prime mortgages? Peddling them on the airwaves. Peddling them to people who have no money. Peddling them to people who have no job. Peddling them to deadbeats.
In some places the air waves are full of ads for cheap car loans.
Are they packaged up, securitized and sold to unsuspecting German institutions?
Can I sell them short? I’m checking. Any ideas?
Robin Williams was my favorite. Part 2. (Yesterday was Part 1.)
This picture is from a standup he did for HBO. Watch here. Oops, HBO just took it down. Maybe it’s on HBOGO. It’s not. I just checked.
Here’s another Robin Williams on YouTube. Click here.
Charlie Rose did a full hour on Williams last night. They haven’t posted Charlie’s show yet. Probably today or tomorrow. It’s worth watching.
This is Robin with his idol Jonathan Winters and Pam Dawber on the sitcom “Mork & Mindy.”
Williams wrote a piece for the New York Times on Winters, “A Madman, But Angelic.” The piece begins:
My father’s laughter introduced me to the comedy of Jonathan Winters. My dad was a sweet man, but not an easy laugh. We were watching Jack Paar on “The Tonight Show” on our black-and-white television, and on came Jonathan in a pith helmet.
“Who are you?” Paar asked.
“I’m a great white hunter,” Jonathan said in an effete voice. “I hunt mainly squirrels.”
“How do you do that?”
“I aim for their little nuts.”
My dad and I lost it. Seeing my father laugh like that made me think, “Who is this guy and what’s he on?”
You can read the full piece here.
There are many Robin Williams videos on YouTube. Just search for Robin Williams and enjoy the rest of your day. Do not watch the stockmarket. It will go up and down. Trust me. Watch Robin Williams.
Apparently the demons inside Williams’ head caught up with him and he hung himself earlier this week. It’s very very sad. The world has lost a huge talent.
Sarah Palin has a online TV channel. It costs $100 a year. You have to give her your credit card before you get to watch the free episodes. Please do. Better your credit card than mine.
Watch what Robin Williams says about her in the beginning of his HBO stand-up — see above. It’s priceless.
God bless human ingenuity. If you take a “pet” on an airline, it typically costs $100 for the trip. If you take a “service dog,” it’s free.
All you need to do is to figure out what type of dog you have:
And buy it a nice little jacket:
Then decide how much you want to to spend (if at all) on all the useless paraphernalia.
God bless man’s ingenuity.
Channels make you money on YouTube: Here are two tennis ones:
There are zillions of others. Good way to make money at home. Suggestion: Upside down crocheting for Australians.
A full day of fishing and hanging out with the boys.
Got home real late last night after a full day of fishing and hanging out with the guys, my wife left a message in the kitchen.
I think she wants me to eat more fruit. Bless her heart.
Harry Newton who bought a backpack from eBay. It came with a 20% discount coupon. It’s cheaper for me to return the backpack and re-buy it with the coupon. (Re-buy is not the same as re-gift, which is when I take a present someone just gave me and give it to someone else.)
The summer hasn’t been brilliant for our stocks. Maybe we should “Sell in May and Go Away.” We’ll see. My backhand has improved. One plus.
From today’s Wall Street Journal:
Food companies have come to the important conclusion that shoppers like to see what they will be eating. But transparent packaging is surprisingly hard to engineer, our story finds, as some foods aren’t made to bare all before consumers.
Last night Cramer lamented the poor stock performance of the packaged goods makers. The best part was when he read some of the ingredients. He tried to pronounce the chemicals added to the food. Do yourself a favor. Read the labels of some this stuff. See if you can pronounce the chemicals. Then go shopping at Whole Foods. I bought back in and it’s popping.
I was able to get my dog to be an emotional support animal (same size dog as yours). United gives me a better seat on plane and it’s free for pet to fly. The annoying part is each airline requires different documentation and a doctors note so I just stick with United. That dog paraphernalia is useless but it does prevent people from asking questions even though it’s not legitimate. You should make your dog an ESA dog if it is well behaved.
Hard to say what pushed Robin over the edge, think his ex-wife’s 30 million dollar squeeze major factor.
By the way, Rhett is correct. I recently attended a Section 8 Landlord class and was told in no uncertain terms that “Emotional Support Dogs” are not covered by restrictions in leases, in HOA documents, etc. BUT, Rhett, in Florida at least, the “certification” expires after one year. In Florida they have to get a letter from a “healthcare professional” and re-certify every year. That’s a little something.
Try this. ONly $39.95 from Service Dog Tags.com.
There is nothing that drives Liberals into a frenzy faster and more reliably than Sarah Palin. It’s like giving catnip to a cat. They can’t let go. One has to ask, “Why they are so enthralled?” Is it Fear? Does she threaten them so? Sarah send Liberals into spasms of activity with a simple smile and a “You Betcha!” It is wonderful to watch.
I wouldn’t consider myself liberal, but the prospect of Sarah Palin as Vice-President was a bit unnerving.
Harry, as always your thoughts are timely. We own 1,000+ doors at Affordable Housing complexes, mainly West of the Mississippi. Sadly, one of our largest expenses is insurance to guard against dog attacks in our complexes. Even though our CC&R’s explicitly state that dogs over 30 lbs are illegal, we’ve had 100+ tenants realize that these “emotional support dog” certificates on the internet are their golden ticket for Pit Bulls, Rottweilers, German Shepherds, Pinchers, etc. Thanks to anti-discrimination laws, we are now forced to carry $1M+ per complex in large dog INS thanks to this internet loophole with no slow-down in attacks on our tenants from these dangerous breeds.
Harry…I’ll bet you that Sarah Palin will have more viewers that MSNBC by the end of the year.
I bet you are probably right, Ronald_Reagan. If you market anything properly, you can find enough people who will buy whatever it is that you are selling, good or bad.
Sarah Palin may come across like a bumbling idiot to people who are relatively intelligent but she is a proven genius at making money. She seized the opportunity that was created for her by her selection as a Vice-Presidential candidate and continues to generate millions of dollars in income for herself while the man who nominated her along with the others who were said to have “made” her fade into the back pages of history and have no means of generating the type of income that she does.
While I thought she was unqualified to be a VP and a borderline idiot when she talked on subjects she was clearly ill-informed or uninformed on, I am in awe of her ability to seize opportunities and cash-in on them. I don’t think anyone in the history of American politics has achieved the level of financial success that she has after losing an election. As the saying goes, she is laughing all the way to the bank.