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Harry, stay with stocks. Stay away from politics.

I bought a little HPQ, and a little more GILD and GOOGL yesterday.

I was impressed with HPQ’s Meg Whitman on CNBC yesterday.

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I don’t normally follow CNBCs lead. But if I hear something positive, I’ll check it out. Sometimes I’ll take a “flyer.” I took one on LOCO, but dumped it quickly as it continued its slide. Most times I check CNBC’s enthusiasms out, I reject them. A 24-hour TV channel has an urgency to produce  positive stock picks. Not easy. I’ve been a financial reporter. I know the pressures. Today I’ll admit to playing tennis. Not then. Meantime LOCO has not done well since its IPO.

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+ When I look back at my latest “History” on Fidelity, I see a nice collection of dividends from NRF, PG, AAPL, DIV, MA and BK. The “statistics” show that around 40% of your return on stocks is dividend income. I do like dividend payers. There’s something charming about dividends and consistently increasing them that makes for happy shareholders.

Your weekend work. Go through this list. It’s from here. See if you can find some favs. Drop a comment below when you find one or two.

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It’s sad when our President plays golf , instead of visiting Ferguson. Which is what he should have done. This cartoon shows where his priorities are. Number one: Get Elected. Number two: Play golf. Really sad.

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Favorite Wall Street Journal story:

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You can read the entire (predictable) story here.

The Tunnel’s Mating call
Two Indians and an Irishman were walking through the woods. All of a sudden one of the Indians ran up a hill to the mouth of a small cave.

‘Wooooo! Wooooo! Wooooo!’ he called into the cave and listened closely until he heard an answering, ‘Wooooo! Wooooo! Woooooo! He then tore off his clothes and ran into the cave.

The Irishman was puzzled and asked the remaining Indian what it was all about. ‘Was the other Indian crazy or what?’

The Indian replied ‘No, It is our custom during mating season when Indian men see cave, they holler ‘Wooooo! Wooooo! Wooooo!’ into the opening… If they get an answer back, it means there’s a beautiful squaw in there waiting for us.

Just then they came upon another cave.

The second Indian ran up to the cave, stopped, and hollered, ‘Wooooo! Wooooo! Wooooo!’  Immediately, there was the answer. ‘Wooooo! Wooooo! Wooooo!’ from deep inside.

He also tore off his clothes and ran into the opening.

The Irishman wandered around in the woods alone for a while, and then spied a third large cave.  As he looked in amazement at the size of the huge opening, he was thinking, ‘Hoo, man! Look at the size of this cave! It is bigger than those the Indians found. There must be some really big, fine women in this cave!’

He stood in front of the opening and hollered with all his might ‘Wooooo! Wooooo! Wooooo!’ Like the others, he then heard an answering call, ‘WOOOOOOOOO, WOOOOOOOOO WOOOOOOOOO!’

With a gleam in his eye and a smile on his face, he raced into the cave, tearing off his clothes as he ran.

The following day, the headline of the local newspaper read…………….

…You’ll like this

Naked Irishman Run Over By Train

Favorite New Yorker cover. It’s this week’s.

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Wonderful comment on fashion.

HarryNewton
Harry Newton who happily and proudly became an American  just over 33-years ago — on January 7, 1981. I don’t remember America being as polarized as it is today. (See yesterday’s comments.) Then, America was paradise — a place where anyone, including an Australian newly off-the-boat and sporting a funny accent could make it, and did. I still believe in The American Dream. A remarkable number of Americans — black and white, yellow and red have made it since. There’s still a ways to go. There are too many people in poverty. Too many people furious at the system. There’s a dysfunctional Congress incapable of addressing the problems. But we are a democracy. And things change. I remain optimistic.

7 Comments

  1. bruuno says:

    Harry I hope you’re not becoming a grumpy old get off my lawn guy.. Check out http://www.democracynow.org for meaningful analysis and news reporting.

  2. Ugh. It’s not that politics is pointless to discuss; rather, I think it’s important to have a dialog….but get the facts right and try not to just spew misleading “factoids.” Why do think the cartoons and criticisms of the president are always about golf and not vacation in general? Answer: because Obama has logged only 1/3 the vacation days as the previous president– and we had two full-blown wars going on for most of that time. So the point is that Obama is a shiftless, lazy ne’er-do well. Ok. When does the substantive political dialog start? For example, you say Obama should have gone to Ferguson.Why would that have been any better than sending his attorney general? I can imagine all the cat-calls about how he would have been interfering in the local law enforcement apparatus. I get the feeling it doesn’t matter what he does. http://www.mediaite.com/online/obama-has-logged-only-13-as-many-vacation-days-as-george-w-bush/

    • Lucky says:

      Like Hillery said “What does it matter now?” Great outlook on life for politicians…once it is done it is done….what does it matter now? Day after day of golf is really one continuous vacation…but then, what does it matter now?

      • Did you have a problem with the last guy’s vacations?

        • bruuno says:

          The US is tribal, has tribes that hate each other, then after the fact come up with justifications and reasons to hate.

          It even shows up on an investment column.

          I don’t know if my tribe is any better, but at least we can spell.

    • laughnow says:

      The vacation days above are total BS…made up conjecture…cmon,,,its Mediaite! no facts behind it. To make it worse, Obama is quantifiably the most corrupt President with the most corrupt administration ever, worse than Nixon, the Bush, Clinton put together.