*Wal-Mart's September Sales Top Forecasts (Washington Post)

*Jobless Claims Lowest in Eight Months (Washington Post)

*Dow Jumps Triple-Digits To New Yearly High (CBS Marke****ch)

*Good News on Jobs Front (USA Today)

*Ole! Market Surge Strong As Ever (USA Today)

From: "NOYB"

Wal-Mart's September Sales Top Forecasts (Washington Post)

*Jobless Claims Lowest in Eight Months (Washington Post)

*Dow Jumps Triple-Digits To New Yearly High (CBS Marke****ch)

*Good News on Jobs Front (USA Today)

*Ole! Market Surge Strong As Ever (USA Today)


Don'tcha just love it..

An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys.

Did you watch Frontline tonight?

While your financial news is good, the Bush administration has little to do
with it.

However, they do have a lot to do with calling the shots in our war with
Iraq.

It's not going so well.




"NOYB" wrote in message
ink.net...

*Wal-Mart's September Sales Top Forecasts (Washington Post)

*Jobless Claims Lowest in Eight Months (Washington Post)

*Dow Jumps Triple-Digits To New Yearly High (CBS Marke****ch)

*Good News on Jobs Front (USA Today)

*Ole! Market Surge Strong As Ever (USA Today)

Not exactly a headline:

10/08/2003 $6,815,762,633,308.91


Current
Month

10/07/2003 $6,817,256,800,753.20
10/06/2003 $6,814,440,215,107.91
10/03/2003 $6,812,573,929,325.08
10/02/2003 $6,805,599,570,918.78
10/01/2003 $6,804,504,127,055.70


That's the national debt. Going up a helluva lot faster than the stock market
or WalMart earnings. In fact, it's up 11 billion dollars in the last week.

Bush wants 87 billion to play "army" in Iraq. Congress is appalled. But at this
rate, if they debate the issue for a couple of months we will have pee'd away
another 87 billion in just general horsehockey. Iraq or no.

We're going deeper into debt by the proposed cost of (continuing) the war in
Iraq every two months. Anybody care?

NOYB's headlines remind me of the guy who borrowed 110% of his home equity and
went on a consumer spending spree.
Cars, trips, clothes, toys, and other total wastes. All the while he was acting
like he had a bottomless checkbook, he felt "rich".

Remember how the Soviet Union fell?
We forced the Soviets to spend so much money for defense their economy could no
longer support the cost of government.
"Couldn't happen here! We're a democratic republic! Those Soviets were godless
socialists!"

All I can say is that we are certainly lucky the "conservatives" are in the
White House and have the Congressional majority. Just think of the fix we'd be
in if the moderates or liberals were holding the reins! Last time that
happened, we were paying down this debt by running a surplus! What could those
commie pinko leftist *******s have been thinking?

The right don't like big gummit? It ain't never, ever, been anywhere nearly so
big as it is now. The cost of gummit grew 11 billion dollars in the last week.
For a family of five, the combined per capita increase was close to $200.
(*not* the toal cost of federal government, just this week's increase!)

Did your family make $200 more this week than it did last? If not, you're
behind by the difference. If so, you can be pleased with the knowledge that
your gummit spent it for you.

Gene, here is a story of someone that you remind me of:

http://www.geocities.com/mjloundy/



"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 16:50:20 GMT, "NOYB" wrote:


*Wal-Mart's September Sales Top Forecasts (Washington Post)


Good for Wal-Mart. Unclear how this is good for anybody else....
other than Asian sweat shops.....

Meanwhile, Retail Forward Inc. vice president Frank Badillo said
one-time factors such as cooler weather and tax rebate checks led to
upbeat chain-store sales, and questioned whether the sales momentum
can be carried through the holiday shopping season....

*Jobless Claims Lowest in Eight Months (Washington Post)

Perhaps you missed that part of the report that said, and I quote,

"We're still not at a level where people are thinking that the labor
situation has improved, but we're getting close," said Gary Thayer,
chief economist at A.G. Edwards & Sons in St. Louis.


*Dow Jumps Triple-Digits To New Yearly High (CBS Marke****ch)


From CBS Marke****ch:

U.S. stocks close up, but well off highs ($INDU, $COMPQ) By Greg
Morcroft

Blah...blah...blah.....

From your expertise at locating "facts, " I'm doubly sure that "The
National Enquirer" could use you as an editor......


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Here. I'll help. Excerpts from a longer article. This is YOUR chimp at work:

"The White House has promised its full cooperation, but Mr. Bush said this
week that he had doubts about whether investigators would catch the leaker.

"I don't know," Mr. Bush said, "if we're going to find out the senior
administration official" who told Robert Novak, as Mr. Novak wrote in his
syndicated column in July, that Valerie Plame, the wife of former Ambassador
Joseph C. Wilson IV, was a C.I.A. employee. Mr. Wilson was a critic of the
administration's Iraq policies.


"Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, Democrat of New Jersey, said in an interview
that the comments threatened to undermine the inquiry by lowering
expectations.

"If the president says, `I don't know if we're going to find this person,'
what kind of a statement is that for the president of the United States to
make?" Mr. Lautenberg asked. "Would he say that about a bank-robbery
investigation? He should be as indignant as everybody else is over this
breach."

Mr. Wilson said Mr. Bush "certainly seems far less certain about finding the
leaker than he is about finding Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein."

Yeah, things are going so well these days I just can't wait to get the
newspaper to see what Bush and his loyal team have screwed up today. It
appears we will be spending the $87,000,000,000 (that's $300 for every
man. woman and child in this country, by the way) and we all know where
that money will go. I'm disgusted with the lot of them, and wish Colin
Powell would resign and send them a message they need to hear.

Messing In Boats wrote:

Yeah, things are going so well these days I just can't wait to get the
newspaper to see what Bush and his loyal team have screwed up today. It
appears we will be spending the $87,000,000,000 (that's $300 for every
man. woman and child in this country, by the way) and we all know where
that money will go. I'm disgusted with the lot of them, and wish Colin
Powell would resign and send them a message they need to hear.


Indeed, of all the b.s'ers in the Bush Administration, I thought for the
longest time that at least Powell had some integrity on the matters that
really counted. What a disappointment he's turned out to be.

Anyone remember John Dunlop, who was secretary of labor under Gerry
Ford? Dunlop died last week at the age of 89. He resigned from the Ford
Administration on a matter of integrity. Ford had promised to support a
particular bill that further codified collective bargaining but at the
last minute, backed off. Dunlop had worked long and hard on that bill to
bring together all involved sides in agreement.


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"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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Tell you what. I'll tell *you* when the economy gets better.

WTF do you think *you* are? I thought any fool could see the economy is
improving...but obviously I found one fool (you) that can't.

I don't
have to read or cite statistics that some bureaucratic conehead in
Washington is hired to mung up. I'm sort of like the farmer that walks
out in his field to see what the weather is like. I don't need the
weatherman to tell me what I can see with my own eyes. Mr. Weatherman
is rarely any more correct than the economists, anyway.

You think you're the only farmer with eyes? I can see things too Gene...and
they're quite the opposite of what you see.



It is my job and the job of the company I work for to train and
retrain the employed and unemployed alike. When we have *plenty* to
do, the economy sucks. When we have to go looking for people to
train, that means the economy is good.

What, specifically, does your company do? Much of what's done in dentistry
these days is elective...and, despite a sub-par year in 2002, my numbers
(and many of my peers' numbers) are up about 20% from last year.

Dentistry is a very good indicator of the economy.



Trust me, all of the economic misinformation and interpretation and
statistics aside.... the economy sucks.

No, Gene, trust me. The economy has been turning upward for awhile
now...and is poised to skyrocket. The NYSE is up 32% from a year ago...and
the Nasdaq is up 70%. GDP is increasing each month. Unemployment is
dropping. The statistics sure seem to substantiate my opinion...not yours.

When it gets better....
*really* better..... I'll be one of the first to know.

Actually, it seems you're the last to know.


Oh, and while you are trying to improve your reading list beyond
Mother Goose, how about looking into your email program's
documentation and see why it always adds "RE" to everything AND copies
*EVERYTHING* in a reply... even properly delineated signatures...

Maybe you could cite some government statistics and take them to the
bank for enough money to buy a real newsreader......

Slamming someone's newsreader is rather off the point, don't you think?

"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
...

Trust me, all of the economic misinformation and interpretation and
statistics aside.... the economy sucks. When it gets better....
*really* better..... I'll be one of the first to know.

Totally agree with you. End users of products in our industry are Fortune
1000 companies. Although we're holding our own and our revenues are growing
(due to the evolutionary nature of our product), investment in corporate
infrastructure is incredibly stagnant and there's little sign of change.

Like you, we'll see the upturn when it happens and it ain't happenin' yet.