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I have selected your comments not to use as a personal attack rather to highlight how highly problematic is your stance. My presumption is you are writing of Freedom of Speech, unlimited and uncensored Freedom of Speech. A number of other participants are assuming a stance similar to yours which is we should be free to use language as we please.

Based upon this notion of yours and of others, I should be allowed to approach a child, perhaps your child, then begin speaking about sexual activities using vulgarity. This should not bother you at all because I am exercising my right to Freedom of Speech.

I am quite certain if you, others, me, if we began speaking around children using vulgar words, began talking about sex, I am quite certain we would be beaten to death right on the spot by angry parents.

So, if you do not support this freedom to speak about sex, or how wonderful is abusing drugs, or becoming a gang banger, if you do not support freedom of using vulgar words around children, you are a hypocrite, yes? You are adamant about Freedom of Speech but I do know you and others draw a line, a deep and distinct line.

You and others are practicing your own brand of censorship, rightfully so. Mick Weinstein and his people enjoy the same right.

Yours and others attitude of "all or nothing" is, quite frankly, unrealistic and certainly a display of hypocrisy.

We are expected to measure our language usage according to circumstance. This expectation applies here at Seeking Alpha.

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:15:51 -0500
I have selected your comments not to use as a personal attack rather to highlight how highly problematic is your stance. My presumption is you are writing of Freedom of Speech, unlimited and uncensored Freedom of Speech. A number of other participants are assuming a stance similar to yours which is we should be free to use language as we please.

Based upon this notion of yours and of others, I should be allowed to approach a child, perhaps your child, then begin speaking about sexual activities using vulgarity. This should not bother you at all because I am exercising my right to Freedom of Speech.

I am quite certain if you, others, me, if we began speaking around children using vulgar words, began talking about sex, I am quite certain we would be beaten to death right on the spot by angry parents.

So, if you do not support this freedom to speak about sex, or how wonderful is abusing drugs, or becoming a gang banger, if you do not support freedom of using vulgar words around children, you are a hypocrite, yes? You are adamant about Freedom of Speech but I do know you and others draw a line, a deep and distinct line.

You and others are practicing your own brand of censorship, rightfully so. Mick Weinstein and his people enjoy the same right.

Yours and others attitude of "all or nothing" is, quite frankly, unrealistic and certainly a display of hypocrisy.

We are expected to measure our language usage according to circumstance. This expectation applies here at Seeking Alpha.

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/110312-blogs-profanity-and-editorial-integrity?source=feed#comment-329581 329581
Right off I object to unwarranted censorship but am pragmatic and know we are not to shout out "Let's get naked" during a Catholic high mass. I am a strong supporter of Freedom of Speech and a strong supporter of appropriate civil behavior.

A good writer, a talented writer, will adjust language usage level according to a target audience. We speak differently to children than we do to adults. We speak differently to a recalcitrant gang banger than we do to a parish priest. Same principle applies at this blog and all blogs.

Profanity works well for some creative writing, for some story telling. We are not telling stories here at Seeking Alpha. At this blog, profanity does not add power to words, does not truly add any value. Use of profanity here is to target the wrong audience.

Topics here are financial in nature, are technical in nature, are of a high level, a professional level. Profanity and professionalism simply do not mix well. Mick Weinstein and other administrators should hold participants to a higher level of conduct, a more professional conduct.

Readers do not need to read, "Bernard Madoff F-worded over people." We know this, we are intelligent and aware. This type of profanity adds no value rather reduces quality of writings. Almost all of us would rather read opinion on what effects Madoff's actions will have upon our stock markets, upon our economy, upon peoples. We know he perpetrated horrific fraud and do not need to be informed of this through profanity.

Profanity at Seeking Alpha adds no value, is problematic and is insulting. My personal insult is not the profanity rather is some participants assuming me to be so ignorant I need to read profanity to realize the impact and seriousness of an issue. I am sure other participants experience the same type of personal insult.

This is the wrong place for profanity. There is no power in profanity here. Most of us expect a higher level of professionalism and we expect to be treated as intelligent and aware people. We are here to discuss, to share information, to learn, to do better. Profanity does not lend well to those notions.

I support Mick Weinstein and staff on this issue; profanity should not be allowed. Participants should both show respect and support Weinstein by not using profanity.

We are professionals, this is a professional blog, our words should also be of a professional nature. Profanity is not a display of professionalism.

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation

]]> Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:13:06 -0500
Right off I object to unwarranted censorship but am pragmatic and know we are not to shout out "Let's get naked" during a Catholic high mass. I am a strong supporter of Freedom of Speech and a strong supporter of appropriate civil behavior.

A good writer, a talented writer, will adjust language usage level according to a target audience. We speak differently to children than we do to adults. We speak differently to a recalcitrant gang banger than we do to a parish priest. Same principle applies at this blog and all blogs.

Profanity works well for some creative writing, for some story telling. We are not telling stories here at Seeking Alpha. At this blog, profanity does not add power to words, does not truly add any value. Use of profanity here is to target the wrong audience.

Topics here are financial in nature, are technical in nature, are of a high level, a professional level. Profanity and professionalism simply do not mix well. Mick Weinstein and other administrators should hold participants to a higher level of conduct, a more professional conduct.

Readers do not need to read, "Bernard Madoff F-worded over people." We know this, we are intelligent and aware. This type of profanity adds no value rather reduces quality of writings. Almost all of us would rather read opinion on what effects Madoff's actions will have upon our stock markets, upon our economy, upon peoples. We know he perpetrated horrific fraud and do not need to be informed of this through profanity.

Profanity at Seeking Alpha adds no value, is problematic and is insulting. My personal insult is not the profanity rather is some participants assuming me to be so ignorant I need to read profanity to realize the impact and seriousness of an issue. I am sure other participants experience the same type of personal insult.

This is the wrong place for profanity. There is no power in profanity here. Most of us expect a higher level of professionalism and we expect to be treated as intelligent and aware people. We are here to discuss, to share information, to learn, to do better. Profanity does not lend well to those notions.

I support Mick Weinstein and staff on this issue; profanity should not be allowed. Participants should both show respect and support Weinstein by not using profanity.

We are professionals, this is a professional blog, our words should also be of a professional nature. Profanity is not a display of professionalism.

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation

]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/98120-don-t-get-sanguine-about-this-bill?source=feed#comment-271186 271186 Congress will heel and pass this bill Friday.

Each of you is to whip out your checkbook and write
a $2500 check payable to "My Favorite Wall Street CEO".

Welcome to the United Socialist States Of America.

USSA! USSA! USSA! USSR! USSR! ooopppsss...

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:19:45 -0400 Congress will heel and pass this bill Friday.

Each of you is to whip out your checkbook and write
a $2500 check payable to "My Favorite Wall Street CEO".

Welcome to the United Socialist States Of America.

USSA! USSA! USSA! USSR! USSR! ooopppsss...

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/97692-3-key-steps-to-fix-this-fiasco?source=feed#comment-267653 267653
No! No! Wall Street has this Monopoly card up its sleeve:

www.purlgurl.net/aue/b...

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:39:00 -0400
No! No! Wall Street has this Monopoly card up its sleeve:

www.purlgurl.net/aue/b...

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/97602-time-not-for-a-bailout-but-for-nationalization?source=feed#comment-266993 266993
Oh my, Mr. Delong, you are a partisan leftist socialist, yes?

Rather clear your thinking is tainted by partisan concerns rather than concern for our American peoples. This economic crisis is a national issue, is a global issue, yet you are sitting there thinking leftist socialism.

I am a registered democrat. I am voting John and Sarah because I think clearly and because I am partial to good common sense. I do not make decisions based upon political party affiliation rather I make decisions based upon what I believe will be best for all peoples.

You disqualify yourself as a commentator upon playing party politics when this comes to issues which both effect and affect all peoples.

Mr. Delong continues, “Let's decide between bailout and nationalization.”

Bailout, this is to reward Wall Street criminals for their financial crimes against America.

Nationalization, is not this a tactic of Banana Republic despots?

Best option is the “Do Nothing” option. Wall Street should be allowed to collapse. Our economy and our global economy should be allowed to collapse. We need a repeat of the Great Depression to cull the flock. America and our world need to be rid of Wall Street types and be rid of peoples who refuse to live a lifestyle within their means. Wall Street is not solely responsible; our politicians and our peoples are equally responsible.

Yes, I am advocating economic collapse leading to loss of jobs, loss of homes, families ending up on welfare, maybe homeless and on the streets. This breaks my heart because of innocent children who will be victimized by adults who made bad decisions and gave over to greed.

If I could protect children of our world, I would financially nuke our world.

All in our family were born to poverty on a rural Oklahoma farm, many decades back. We were born ignorant, could not attend school, never enjoyed money, literally, then we set about working our fingers to the bone to attain financial security. Yes, this economic crisis has reduced our family wealth quite significantly. Nonetheless, we are very comfortable; we enjoyed sense enough over the decades to stash away cash for rainy days. We have no debt, no credit card debt, no mortgages on our home nor our income properties. No debt at all. Reason for this is our family made a point to do without, to sacrifice, to work hard, to move ahead in life by living well within our means and ways; we hold ourselves financially responsible.

Why should our family bailout Wall Street and Americans who are financially irresponsible?

Let the chips fall where they may. Our world needs culling.

Pity the children of our world, though. This hurts me deeply.

These leftist socialist bailout and nationalization notions will prove an albatross around the necks of hard working honest peoples who did not contribute to our current economic crisis.

Survival of the Fittest is Mother Nature’s way. This is precisely what we need.

No bailout, no nationalization. We need to cull this diseased chicken flock we call America and call, our world.

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation
]]> Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:28:52 -0400
Oh my, Mr. Delong, you are a partisan leftist socialist, yes?

Rather clear your thinking is tainted by partisan concerns rather than concern for our American peoples. This economic crisis is a national issue, is a global issue, yet you are sitting there thinking leftist socialism.

I am a registered democrat. I am voting John and Sarah because I think clearly and because I am partial to good common sense. I do not make decisions based upon political party affiliation rather I make decisions based upon what I believe will be best for all peoples.

You disqualify yourself as a commentator upon playing party politics when this comes to issues which both effect and affect all peoples.

Mr. Delong continues, “Let's decide between bailout and nationalization.”

Bailout, this is to reward Wall Street criminals for their financial crimes against America.

Nationalization, is not this a tactic of Banana Republic despots?

Best option is the “Do Nothing” option. Wall Street should be allowed to collapse. Our economy and our global economy should be allowed to collapse. We need a repeat of the Great Depression to cull the flock. America and our world need to be rid of Wall Street types and be rid of peoples who refuse to live a lifestyle within their means. Wall Street is not solely responsible; our politicians and our peoples are equally responsible.

Yes, I am advocating economic collapse leading to loss of jobs, loss of homes, families ending up on welfare, maybe homeless and on the streets. This breaks my heart because of innocent children who will be victimized by adults who made bad decisions and gave over to greed.

If I could protect children of our world, I would financially nuke our world.

All in our family were born to poverty on a rural Oklahoma farm, many decades back. We were born ignorant, could not attend school, never enjoyed money, literally, then we set about working our fingers to the bone to attain financial security. Yes, this economic crisis has reduced our family wealth quite significantly. Nonetheless, we are very comfortable; we enjoyed sense enough over the decades to stash away cash for rainy days. We have no debt, no credit card debt, no mortgages on our home nor our income properties. No debt at all. Reason for this is our family made a point to do without, to sacrifice, to work hard, to move ahead in life by living well within our means and ways; we hold ourselves financially responsible.

Why should our family bailout Wall Street and Americans who are financially irresponsible?

Let the chips fall where they may. Our world needs culling.

Pity the children of our world, though. This hurts me deeply.

These leftist socialist bailout and nationalization notions will prove an albatross around the necks of hard working honest peoples who did not contribute to our current economic crisis.

Survival of the Fittest is Mother Nature’s way. This is precisely what we need.

No bailout, no nationalization. We need to cull this diseased chicken flock we call America and call, our world.

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation
]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/71237-how-much-can-we-blame-the-uptick-rule?source=feed#comment-137086 137086
You are afforded an opportunity to comment on naked shorting through the SEC web site. The SEC is requesting comment on proposed rule changes related to naked shorting. This is your chance to make a difference.

Main page for proposed rule changes:

www.sec.gov/rules/prop... (top rule - naked shorting)

Your comments can be submitted at this web page:

www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/ru...
8-08&action=Show_F...

Already submitted public comments can be read here:

www.sec.gov/comments/s...

My submitted comments are available here:

www.sec.gov/comments/s...


Rather than complain, take action.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation
]]> Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:45:45 -0400
You are afforded an opportunity to comment on naked shorting through the SEC web site. The SEC is requesting comment on proposed rule changes related to naked shorting. This is your chance to make a difference.

Main page for proposed rule changes:

www.sec.gov/rules/prop... (top rule - naked shorting)

Your comments can be submitted at this web page:

www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/ru...
8-08&action=Show_F...

Already submitted public comments can be read here:

www.sec.gov/comments/s...

My submitted comments are available here:

www.sec.gov/comments/s...


Rather than complain, take action.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation
]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/70236-should-wall-street-have-saved-itself?source=feed#comment-132588 132588
- Paul Kedrosky

Paul currently comments on Wall Street,

“...blaming the banks for doing what they had to do....”

Typical of a PhD type to over-think mocking parody. Your sarcasm is sorely appreciated by this PhD type, also out of the University of California, but not the sun tanned surfer, party hard campus down south, your San Diego campus. No, I am up here at our traditional straight laced conservative right-wing farmer agricultural campus, Riverside.

As you know, PhD types typically have not a cow lick of common sense. You have some common sense. I have my share of common sense. Your common sense is displayed through your frequent sarcastic articles aimed at mockery of the powers that be; sometime during the course of your life you learned to question societal dogma.

My common sense originates from being born penniless, ignorant and bare foot on a rural Oklahoma farm, literally on our farm. We were richly poor. Life on our farm could not be better although we had no car, although electricity, telephone and television did not come to our farm until the late Sixties. We never went hungry, well, almost never. All of our needs were provided through farming. A good life, there were even years our family was able to save up a few hundred bucks over the course of a year.

Personally, I would rather still be a farmer than a PhD type over-thinking my stock trading.

My Choctaw elders taught me about life, pride and integrity. Grandpa, an Anglo, taught me about being fiercely honest, usually by taking a switch to my bare butt.

We bartered a lot corn for socks, boots, coveralls along with pots and pans. Sometimes we sold corn to our local community. Grandpa taught us, after leveling off a bushel of corn, to add two quart Mason jars of corn to maintain our family reputation for fierce honesty. When we sold a gallon of raw milk, we always tossed in a pint of fresh cream. A dozen eggs from our farm counted fourteen. Behind Grandpa’s back, we always gave a couple of free quart Mason jars of white lightning to our local sheriff in exchange for his overlooking our still which we operated far off in a pine forest on our farm land. We played the survival game fair and square although Grandpa never knew we were bootlegging. Grandma knew, though.

Wall Street has no common sense. Wall Street is engaged in a business of selling empty bushel baskets with a promise of filling those baskets with corn, sometime in the future. Surprises me how many people will buy empty bushel baskets based only on a promise of future rich rewards.

This is what Wall Street leveraging is all about; selling empty bushel baskets of promises. Maybe this is just we Okie farmers have a bit more common sense than to buy empty bushel baskets, even if we do drink white lightning.

I do not know. Reckon I figure the old fashion way of doing business is the right way. Folks around our farming community always came to our farm to buy crops, milk, cream and salted pork knowing they would enjoy a really good bargain, along with enjoyment of swapping lies and swapping tall tales, along with swapping a blackberry pie for a gallon of our raw milk.

Wall Street has no common sense, has not enough sense to toss a few handfuls of corn into their empty bushel baskets so naive and gullible traders will think they are receiving something in exchange for their easily and soon parted money.

Yes, Wall Street should save itself and Wall Street is to blame for these financial crises which plague us like blood sucking ticks and chiggers back on our Oklahoma farm. Wall Street should grow some corn to show off, to sell, to take to the general store to barter. Wall Street simply has not a cow lick of common sense; their heads are empty bushel baskets.

What do I know? Heck, I am just an ornery Okie farm girl who likes to sip white lightning while telling really tall tales about my wild Choctaw lifestyle. Well, I have sense enough to keep my doctorate degree buried under reams of paper in a bedroom closet so none will think me to be a PhD type who has not a cow lick of common sense.

I also have sense enough to fill up a bushel basket with corn until overflowing. I am honest.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:43:20 -0400
- Paul Kedrosky

Paul currently comments on Wall Street,

“...blaming the banks for doing what they had to do....”

Typical of a PhD type to over-think mocking parody. Your sarcasm is sorely appreciated by this PhD type, also out of the University of California, but not the sun tanned surfer, party hard campus down south, your San Diego campus. No, I am up here at our traditional straight laced conservative right-wing farmer agricultural campus, Riverside.

As you know, PhD types typically have not a cow lick of common sense. You have some common sense. I have my share of common sense. Your common sense is displayed through your frequent sarcastic articles aimed at mockery of the powers that be; sometime during the course of your life you learned to question societal dogma.

My common sense originates from being born penniless, ignorant and bare foot on a rural Oklahoma farm, literally on our farm. We were richly poor. Life on our farm could not be better although we had no car, although electricity, telephone and television did not come to our farm until the late Sixties. We never went hungry, well, almost never. All of our needs were provided through farming. A good life, there were even years our family was able to save up a few hundred bucks over the course of a year.

Personally, I would rather still be a farmer than a PhD type over-thinking my stock trading.

My Choctaw elders taught me about life, pride and integrity. Grandpa, an Anglo, taught me about being fiercely honest, usually by taking a switch to my bare butt.

We bartered a lot corn for socks, boots, coveralls along with pots and pans. Sometimes we sold corn to our local community. Grandpa taught us, after leveling off a bushel of corn, to add two quart Mason jars of corn to maintain our family reputation for fierce honesty. When we sold a gallon of raw milk, we always tossed in a pint of fresh cream. A dozen eggs from our farm counted fourteen. Behind Grandpa’s back, we always gave a couple of free quart Mason jars of white lightning to our local sheriff in exchange for his overlooking our still which we operated far off in a pine forest on our farm land. We played the survival game fair and square although Grandpa never knew we were bootlegging. Grandma knew, though.

Wall Street has no common sense. Wall Street is engaged in a business of selling empty bushel baskets with a promise of filling those baskets with corn, sometime in the future. Surprises me how many people will buy empty bushel baskets based only on a promise of future rich rewards.

This is what Wall Street leveraging is all about; selling empty bushel baskets of promises. Maybe this is just we Okie farmers have a bit more common sense than to buy empty bushel baskets, even if we do drink white lightning.

I do not know. Reckon I figure the old fashion way of doing business is the right way. Folks around our farming community always came to our farm to buy crops, milk, cream and salted pork knowing they would enjoy a really good bargain, along with enjoyment of swapping lies and swapping tall tales, along with swapping a blackberry pie for a gallon of our raw milk.

Wall Street has no common sense, has not enough sense to toss a few handfuls of corn into their empty bushel baskets so naive and gullible traders will think they are receiving something in exchange for their easily and soon parted money.

Yes, Wall Street should save itself and Wall Street is to blame for these financial crises which plague us like blood sucking ticks and chiggers back on our Oklahoma farm. Wall Street should grow some corn to show off, to sell, to take to the general store to barter. Wall Street simply has not a cow lick of common sense; their heads are empty bushel baskets.

What do I know? Heck, I am just an ornery Okie farm girl who likes to sip white lightning while telling really tall tales about my wild Choctaw lifestyle. Well, I have sense enough to keep my doctorate degree buried under reams of paper in a bedroom closet so none will think me to be a PhD type who has not a cow lick of common sense.

I also have sense enough to fill up a bushel basket with corn until overflowing. I am honest.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/70018-the-fed-is-leaning-hard-into-a-headwind?source=feed#comment-132378 132378
"Affordable housing is a good thing, right?"


Stable or lowering cost of living along with improving wages is better, yes?

Dan, your logic is housing should become cheaper rather than workers' average wages becoming better. Yours is backwards thinking.

Home prices have corrected a safe amount. Any further lowering of home prices will have a devastating effect upon almost all American families. What you and others are proposing is causing greater economic harm to the majority so the few can afford homes.

As it is, Americans have lost the greatest amount of family equity in their homes since 1945 year. Should home prices fall more, America will be faced with Great Depression II circumstances. Lower home prices will create economic circumstances of almost none being able to afford homes regardless of how low home prices fall; people cannot afford homes while standing in long bread lines.

American wages can be improved through raising relative purchasing power. This can be accomplished through lowering cost of living, such as energy costs, food costs and health care costs. Our dollar is seriously devalued, inflation is running rampant and corporate America is increasing its efforts at stealing away American families' money while our government effects a domestic economic policy slopped together by a known chimpanzee in the Oval Office.

Real estate prices do not need to lower more and best not lower. Purchasing power of Americans needs to increase.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation
]]> Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:23:16 -0400
"Affordable housing is a good thing, right?"


Stable or lowering cost of living along with improving wages is better, yes?

Dan, your logic is housing should become cheaper rather than workers' average wages becoming better. Yours is backwards thinking.

Home prices have corrected a safe amount. Any further lowering of home prices will have a devastating effect upon almost all American families. What you and others are proposing is causing greater economic harm to the majority so the few can afford homes.

As it is, Americans have lost the greatest amount of family equity in their homes since 1945 year. Should home prices fall more, America will be faced with Great Depression II circumstances. Lower home prices will create economic circumstances of almost none being able to afford homes regardless of how low home prices fall; people cannot afford homes while standing in long bread lines.

American wages can be improved through raising relative purchasing power. This can be accomplished through lowering cost of living, such as energy costs, food costs and health care costs. Our dollar is seriously devalued, inflation is running rampant and corporate America is increasing its efforts at stealing away American families' money while our government effects a domestic economic policy slopped together by a known chimpanzee in the Oval Office.

Real estate prices do not need to lower more and best not lower. Purchasing power of Americans needs to increase.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation
]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/70053-in-the-wake-of-bear-i-bank-regulation-now-in-fed-s-hands?source=feed#comment-132161 132161
Prince writes, in part,

"Leveraging through derivatives will probably end with an order from the regulators against such actions."

I would not hedge a bet on this, certainly not under Bush's administration. Regulatory enforcement and regulatory actions, both are down significantly since Bush fired aggressive SEC chair Bill Donaldson then replaced him with a known crook, Chris Cox.

Some quick SEC numbers generated by the White House:

Cases Successfully Resolved:

Donaldson - 98%
Cox - 92%

Cases Filed After Complaint Initiation:

Donaldson - 69%
Cox - 54%

Monetary Disgorgements / Penalties Ordered

Donaldson - 86%
Cox - 55%


There is no doubt new regulations are needed to strap a leash on this new class of Wall Street criminals. However, a leash serves no purpose when our government actively discourages enforcement of securities regulations and discourages enforcement of our laws; Wall Street criminals are allowed to run wild upon our streets while their leashes hang on a wall in the SEC chairman's office.

Is not this the true crisis we Americans face today?


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation
]]> Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:30:41 -0400
Prince writes, in part,

"Leveraging through derivatives will probably end with an order from the regulators against such actions."

I would not hedge a bet on this, certainly not under Bush's administration. Regulatory enforcement and regulatory actions, both are down significantly since Bush fired aggressive SEC chair Bill Donaldson then replaced him with a known crook, Chris Cox.

Some quick SEC numbers generated by the White House:

Cases Successfully Resolved:

Donaldson - 98%
Cox - 92%

Cases Filed After Complaint Initiation:

Donaldson - 69%
Cox - 54%

Monetary Disgorgements / Penalties Ordered

Donaldson - 86%
Cox - 55%


There is no doubt new regulations are needed to strap a leash on this new class of Wall Street criminals. However, a leash serves no purpose when our government actively discourages enforcement of securities regulations and discourages enforcement of our laws; Wall Street criminals are allowed to run wild upon our streets while their leashes hang on a wall in the SEC chairman's office.

Is not this the true crisis we Americans face today?


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation
]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/70018-the-fed-is-leaning-hard-into-a-headwind?source=feed#comment-132128 132128
"Affordability is the key issue in restoring the longterm health of the housing sector. Incomes will improve over time, but home prices may have to decline further to bring them in line with incomes."

This crisis in housing affordability is significantly more complex than presented in your article. Home prices have corrected downward an appropriate amount. Wages, adjusted for cost of living, have not adjusted upward an appropriate amount.

As of this date, home prices have corrected a maximum amount without setting off a downward death spiral. Current home prices are a "Goldilocks" just right. Any further drop in real estate value will have her bears eating us.

While your nifty chart shows wages increasing, this is raw data not adjusted for income relative to cost of living. Reality is average wages are decreasing through devaluation of the dollar and inflation. A quick look at energy costs, food costs and health costs, quickly informs us the purchasing power of average wages has dramatically decreased.

Spending by our American people represents about three-fourths of our Gross Domestic Product. While inflation adjusted wages are decreasing, corporate profits are increasing. A vulgar example is Exxon clearing a net profit of forty-billion last year while American consumers are being severely beaten down by gasoline costs and diesel fuel costs. Wall Street crime and greed is eating up Americans’ disposable income; the bears are eating us. As Wall Street financial criminals steal away money from American families, public spending, which supports our Gross Domestic Product, decreases. Wall Street crooks are biting the hands which feed them.

Health costs is an interesting form of greed being somewhat disconnected from inflation through rising energy costs. Last year, my husband consulted with a surgeon, related to minor but needed surgery. Fairly typical hospital, fairly typical surgeon. I timed my husband’s office visit with this doctor. He visited with the doctor for just under six minutes. The doctor billed us $750 for roughly a five minute office visit. This is more than greed, this is outright theft.

While your charts are fancy, those charts do not reflect the true problem. Home prices are no longer a problem having corrected downward. Diminishing inflation adjusted wages are the true problem; raw wages are increasing, purchasing power is dramatically decreasing.

Americans could afford homes if inflation adjusted wages were moving upward rather than moving downward. Home prices are just right. Relative wages are all wrong.

Reality is, the true problem is, a loss of moral values and loss of good ethics. Each time an American looks behind, there is a politician, a Wall Street tycoon or a doctor, looking to pick pockets without one bit of shame.

What is needed is for Goldilocks’ Three Bears to eat those crooks.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:42:54 -0400
"Affordability is the key issue in restoring the longterm health of the housing sector. Incomes will improve over time, but home prices may have to decline further to bring them in line with incomes."

This crisis in housing affordability is significantly more complex than presented in your article. Home prices have corrected downward an appropriate amount. Wages, adjusted for cost of living, have not adjusted upward an appropriate amount.

As of this date, home prices have corrected a maximum amount without setting off a downward death spiral. Current home prices are a "Goldilocks" just right. Any further drop in real estate value will have her bears eating us.

While your nifty chart shows wages increasing, this is raw data not adjusted for income relative to cost of living. Reality is average wages are decreasing through devaluation of the dollar and inflation. A quick look at energy costs, food costs and health costs, quickly informs us the purchasing power of average wages has dramatically decreased.

Spending by our American people represents about three-fourths of our Gross Domestic Product. While inflation adjusted wages are decreasing, corporate profits are increasing. A vulgar example is Exxon clearing a net profit of forty-billion last year while American consumers are being severely beaten down by gasoline costs and diesel fuel costs. Wall Street crime and greed is eating up Americans’ disposable income; the bears are eating us. As Wall Street financial criminals steal away money from American families, public spending, which supports our Gross Domestic Product, decreases. Wall Street crooks are biting the hands which feed them.

Health costs is an interesting form of greed being somewhat disconnected from inflation through rising energy costs. Last year, my husband consulted with a surgeon, related to minor but needed surgery. Fairly typical hospital, fairly typical surgeon. I timed my husband’s office visit with this doctor. He visited with the doctor for just under six minutes. The doctor billed us $750 for roughly a five minute office visit. This is more than greed, this is outright theft.

While your charts are fancy, those charts do not reflect the true problem. Home prices are no longer a problem having corrected downward. Diminishing inflation adjusted wages are the true problem; raw wages are increasing, purchasing power is dramatically decreasing.

Americans could afford homes if inflation adjusted wages were moving upward rather than moving downward. Home prices are just right. Relative wages are all wrong.

Reality is, the true problem is, a loss of moral values and loss of good ethics. Each time an American looks behind, there is a politician, a Wall Street tycoon or a doctor, looking to pick pockets without one bit of shame.

What is needed is for Goldilocks’ Three Bears to eat those crooks.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/69641-bidz-shareholders-fight-against-alleged-illegal-shorting?source=feed#comment-130693 130693
"I'll get those shorters! I'll sue them, sue others, sue everybody!"

Just a pile of mule manure excuse making. None have been successfully sued for lawful shorting nor has Timothy Miles nor has his alter ego, Andrew Left, ever been successfully sued for their exposé articles, although inanely emotionally charged laughable articles written to masturbate their egos.

Nothing new about any of this, just a handful of shareholders all ticked off because they suckered into a scam company and are looking to blame any and all for their poor trading decisions.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:47:42 -0400
"I'll get those shorters! I'll sue them, sue others, sue everybody!"

Just a pile of mule manure excuse making. None have been successfully sued for lawful shorting nor has Timothy Miles nor has his alter ego, Andrew Left, ever been successfully sued for their exposé articles, although inanely emotionally charged laughable articles written to masturbate their egos.

Nothing new about any of this, just a handful of shareholders all ticked off because they suckered into a scam company and are looking to blame any and all for their poor trading decisions.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/69641-bidz-shareholders-fight-against-alleged-illegal-shorting?source=feed#comment-130637 130637

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:01:51 -0400

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/69652-the-fed-on-the-cusp-of-moral-hazard?source=feed#comment-130631 130631
"But my analysis was predicated upon one key assumption: that the Fed is not populated by a bunch of morons."


There is your fatal erroneous assumption for your analysis.

The feds are blithering idiots, capital hill is populated by clowns and the Oval Office is a romper room for an illiterate chimpanzee.

Our American public is not of much higher caliber; almost all of our citizens are fat, lazy, hamburger eating, beer drinking, television remote control button pushers.

Wall Street, however, is overburdened with savvy financial criminals.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation
]]> Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:55:02 -0400
"But my analysis was predicated upon one key assumption: that the Fed is not populated by a bunch of morons."


There is your fatal erroneous assumption for your analysis.

The feds are blithering idiots, capital hill is populated by clowns and the Oval Office is a romper room for an illiterate chimpanzee.

Our American public is not of much higher caliber; almost all of our citizens are fat, lazy, hamburger eating, beer drinking, television remote control button pushers.

Wall Street, however, is overburdened with savvy financial criminals.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation
]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/69538-a-diversified-portfolio-should-take-risks-but-not-a-lot?source=feed#comment-130321 130321
"ETFs are the best friend of small investors...."

Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) are usually not for "small investors" as you suggest. Typically, an investor needs to drop ten grand into an ETF to overcome fee based erosion of investor equity. Ten grand is not an insignificant amount of money.

An ETF is a safer investment when markets are stable. We do know today's markets are far from stable. An example is an ETF based on the financial sector has lost an average twenty-five percent in equity value.

While an ETF provides a loss cushion through specific sector diversification in securities holdings, should an entire sector suffer losses across all related securities, ETF losses can be multiplied by extreme losses for specific securities within an ETF portfolio. This is well exemplified by my financial sector losses previously cited. A more specific example is being vested in an ETF which contains Bear Stearns in the securities mix.

An ETF will almost never exceed average index growth in a specific sector. Through diversified holdings there will be, inherently, some securities which lose value contrary to overall average growth of a sector. Potential for ETF growth is almost always slightly less than an index average. Savvy and seasoned investors usually can well outperform an index average. However, individual investing does require a lot of research and time, to be successful.

During times of market stability and growth, an ETF is a very good choice for those who want to assume less risk in the markets and need to have others decide which securities to buy and how much diversification is needed for acceptable growth and lower risk.

Contrasting this, during times of market instability, such as now, an ETF can be amongst the most high risk investments made. This risk is concentration of investment in specific sectors such as the financial sector or the precious metals sector.

There are advantages and disadvantages with these “exotic mutual funds” we know as Exchange Traded Funds. Rather than launch into a lengthy discussion of ETF basics, my sincere suggestion is readers spend a lot of time carefully researching ETF basics to determine if an ETF investment or ETF trading is best for you and your individual needs.

Always keep in mind when a person promotes a certain investment strategy, this is almost always done so for self-interest reasons; those of Wall Street are certainly not your friends.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:53:38 -0400
"ETFs are the best friend of small investors...."

Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) are usually not for "small investors" as you suggest. Typically, an investor needs to drop ten grand into an ETF to overcome fee based erosion of investor equity. Ten grand is not an insignificant amount of money.

An ETF is a safer investment when markets are stable. We do know today's markets are far from stable. An example is an ETF based on the financial sector has lost an average twenty-five percent in equity value.

While an ETF provides a loss cushion through specific sector diversification in securities holdings, should an entire sector suffer losses across all related securities, ETF losses can be multiplied by extreme losses for specific securities within an ETF portfolio. This is well exemplified by my financial sector losses previously cited. A more specific example is being vested in an ETF which contains Bear Stearns in the securities mix.

An ETF will almost never exceed average index growth in a specific sector. Through diversified holdings there will be, inherently, some securities which lose value contrary to overall average growth of a sector. Potential for ETF growth is almost always slightly less than an index average. Savvy and seasoned investors usually can well outperform an index average. However, individual investing does require a lot of research and time, to be successful.

During times of market stability and growth, an ETF is a very good choice for those who want to assume less risk in the markets and need to have others decide which securities to buy and how much diversification is needed for acceptable growth and lower risk.

Contrasting this, during times of market instability, such as now, an ETF can be amongst the most high risk investments made. This risk is concentration of investment in specific sectors such as the financial sector or the precious metals sector.

There are advantages and disadvantages with these “exotic mutual funds” we know as Exchange Traded Funds. Rather than launch into a lengthy discussion of ETF basics, my sincere suggestion is readers spend a lot of time carefully researching ETF basics to determine if an ETF investment or ETF trading is best for you and your individual needs.

Always keep in mind when a person promotes a certain investment strategy, this is almost always done so for self-interest reasons; those of Wall Street are certainly not your friends.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/69437-the-credit-crisis-and-potential-shorts?source=feed#comment-130099 130099
Stock traders frequently chase around different market sectors based on anticipated better performance within a given sector. Stock traders often do not think of sectors outside our traditional stock market sectors.

Real estate investment will prove a very viable investment in the long term, with long term being a number of years away. The real estate market will recover, always does, but will recover very slowly as is expected and as is historical. There is a way to profit and multiply your profits in the real estate market. This method is to purchase rental homes for income.

Only trick to rental home investment is location, location, location. A typical three bedroom, two bath home is a more attractive neighborhood is an excellent investment; we have never lost money on income real property. Our equity value moves up and down in the short term, but long term growth is typically better than most long term stock investments.

Home prices have not quite hit bottom but are coming very close. Some micro-regions are now beginning to display increases in home prices, others have stabilized, most regions are still yet to fall another two to four percent. Timing of purchase of real property is not too important but is to be considered. This is a hot buyer’s market for real estate; prices will not be this low ever again during your lifetime.

Opportunity here is double. There will be equity growth plus enjoyment of monthly rental income. Equity growth will be somewhat slow to resume but monthly rental income is quite reliable; a virtual guarantee if you properly manage your rental homes.

Here in Southern California, an average home in a decent location will fetch a rent in the range of $1200 to $2000 per month. This is a decent fixed income. Demand for rental homes has skyrocketed right along with foreclosures skyrocketing. We enjoy a waiting list for our rental homes, a very long waiting list.

Of course there is upkeep, taxes and such. This carves out about one-fourth of yearly income.
Rental homes do require work, especially if you buy a “fixer upper” type home but there is no better money earned than sweat equity. Sometimes a headache dealing with tenants but income is very consistent, very reliable, very low risk.

Concept is, on the average, you enjoy ten percent growth in equity per year plus your annual income from rent collected. This is a very decent growth in your money. Equity moves up and down with market value but, historically, always moves upward. Rental income never moves downward and enjoys room for modest increases in rental fees, especially between tenants.

Our approach to buying real estate is to always pay cash. We have no mortgages making for an excellent equity position. However, most are not willing to work at real estate investment for decades to earn a position of being able to pay cash for homes. There is an alternative. This is to make a down payment of fifty percent then finance the rest. Typically, your rental income will pay your mortgage payment, with fifty percent down on the purchase price. If a lesser down payment, your rental income will not quite meet your mortgage payment which is a bit of negative cash flow but your equity growth compensates for this. Other words, your tenants pay a majority of your mortgage payment, you pay a little and realize gains in equity growth. More succinct, your tenants are paying for your purchased house.

This is an excellent time to roll your money over into real estate. Again, location of a home is extremely critical. A decent neighborhood is a must typically gauged by a location within a good school district and a safe neighborhood, which parents want.

A caution is some regions in our country will experience continued falling in real estate prices to a rather severe degree. Typically, rural, industrial and urban centers are not good locations. This is to be carefully considered and carefully researched.
Regions like Southern California, lower Florida, Las Vegas, Reno, Portland, Seattle, New York, Boston and other popular cities, out in the suburbs which are attractive to family living, these are types of micro-regions which will recover first and display the greatest growth over the years. In some cases, equity growth can be up to 15 percent to 20 percent per year, in a high demand location, often suburban areas surrounding major job market centers.

Real estate market crashes like today’s do not come around very often. Usually crashes like this are twenty to thirty years between. Chances are very high this is the best buyer’s real estate market you will witness during your lifetime.

Should you be looking to safely profit on this credit crisis, consider buying income real property.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:33:03 -0400
Stock traders frequently chase around different market sectors based on anticipated better performance within a given sector. Stock traders often do not think of sectors outside our traditional stock market sectors.

Real estate investment will prove a very viable investment in the long term, with long term being a number of years away. The real estate market will recover, always does, but will recover very slowly as is expected and as is historical. There is a way to profit and multiply your profits in the real estate market. This method is to purchase rental homes for income.

Only trick to rental home investment is location, location, location. A typical three bedroom, two bath home is a more attractive neighborhood is an excellent investment; we have never lost money on income real property. Our equity value moves up and down in the short term, but long term growth is typically better than most long term stock investments.

Home prices have not quite hit bottom but are coming very close. Some micro-regions are now beginning to display increases in home prices, others have stabilized, most regions are still yet to fall another two to four percent. Timing of purchase of real property is not too important but is to be considered. This is a hot buyer’s market for real estate; prices will not be this low ever again during your lifetime.

Opportunity here is double. There will be equity growth plus enjoyment of monthly rental income. Equity growth will be somewhat slow to resume but monthly rental income is quite reliable; a virtual guarantee if you properly manage your rental homes.

Here in Southern California, an average home in a decent location will fetch a rent in the range of $1200 to $2000 per month. This is a decent fixed income. Demand for rental homes has skyrocketed right along with foreclosures skyrocketing. We enjoy a waiting list for our rental homes, a very long waiting list.

Of course there is upkeep, taxes and such. This carves out about one-fourth of yearly income.
Rental homes do require work, especially if you buy a “fixer upper” type home but there is no better money earned than sweat equity. Sometimes a headache dealing with tenants but income is very consistent, very reliable, very low risk.

Concept is, on the average, you enjoy ten percent growth in equity per year plus your annual income from rent collected. This is a very decent growth in your money. Equity moves up and down with market value but, historically, always moves upward. Rental income never moves downward and enjoys room for modest increases in rental fees, especially between tenants.

Our approach to buying real estate is to always pay cash. We have no mortgages making for an excellent equity position. However, most are not willing to work at real estate investment for decades to earn a position of being able to pay cash for homes. There is an alternative. This is to make a down payment of fifty percent then finance the rest. Typically, your rental income will pay your mortgage payment, with fifty percent down on the purchase price. If a lesser down payment, your rental income will not quite meet your mortgage payment which is a bit of negative cash flow but your equity growth compensates for this. Other words, your tenants pay a majority of your mortgage payment, you pay a little and realize gains in equity growth. More succinct, your tenants are paying for your purchased house.

This is an excellent time to roll your money over into real estate. Again, location of a home is extremely critical. A decent neighborhood is a must typically gauged by a location within a good school district and a safe neighborhood, which parents want.

A caution is some regions in our country will experience continued falling in real estate prices to a rather severe degree. Typically, rural, industrial and urban centers are not good locations. This is to be carefully considered and carefully researched.
Regions like Southern California, lower Florida, Las Vegas, Reno, Portland, Seattle, New York, Boston and other popular cities, out in the suburbs which are attractive to family living, these are types of micro-regions which will recover first and display the greatest growth over the years. In some cases, equity growth can be up to 15 percent to 20 percent per year, in a high demand location, often suburban areas surrounding major job market centers.

Real estate market crashes like today’s do not come around very often. Usually crashes like this are twenty to thirty years between. Chances are very high this is the best buyer’s real estate market you will witness during your lifetime.

Should you be looking to safely profit on this credit crisis, consider buying income real property.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/69427-time-to-sit-on-your-hands?source=feed#comment-130081 130081
"the problem with research is 'who's lying & whats buried in 150 page shareholder report.'"

Ha! Ha! You are a pretty smart boy!

My personal attitude is to assume all corporate executives to be liars and thieves, which is just about right. Upon assuming all company reports to be deceit, then I work on proving those reports to be true. Not often am I able to prove company reports to be true.

Quite clear almost all Wall Street types are financial criminals. Keeping this notion in mind lends well to not having your money ripped off.

I truly believe an important part of successful stock trading is fending off being victimized by Wall Street criminals.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:43:01 -0400
"the problem with research is 'who's lying & whats buried in 150 page shareholder report.'"

Ha! Ha! You are a pretty smart boy!

My personal attitude is to assume all corporate executives to be liars and thieves, which is just about right. Upon assuming all company reports to be deceit, then I work on proving those reports to be true. Not often am I able to prove company reports to be true.

Quite clear almost all Wall Street types are financial criminals. Keeping this notion in mind lends well to not having your money ripped off.

I truly believe an important part of successful stock trading is fending off being victimized by Wall Street criminals.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/69525-changing-of-the-short-uptick-rule-bad-timing-for-a-bad-idea?source=feed#comment-130079 130079
"Since large amounts of capital are required to play this high-stakes game, many players have been driven out of the market."


This is much needed. My personal guesstimate is one-third or more of stock traders need to be removed from our stock markets. Today, our stock markets are plagued by naive gullible online traders who simply are not qualified to trade stocks.

Since the advent of online trading, our markets have become more volatile than what your charts display but over longer terms. Typically, there are gradual upward price swings in any given stock followed by a dramatic one to three day crash of share prices. These gradual ramp up movements in share prices, followed by a near vertical chart crash in share prices, are caused by emotional online traders who truly believe they can become rich overnight. These are people who know little about stock market dynamics, who do not perform good research, who buy and sell based only on speculation generated solely by positive hype or negative hype. These are online traders whose trading activities are guided by talking heads and hyped up news releases from companies.

Today’s online traders, a majority, have no business trading stocks. These people serve only as a source of profits for scam artists and savvy seasoned traders. There seems to be an endless supply of online traders, which I like, but this is not good for market stability.

Removal of the uptick rule is beneficial. A greater ability to short leads to better moderation of fabricated upward runs in share prices of a given stock. Yes, there is an increase in volatility of stock prices but this is not detrimental for talented stock traders who perform good research, who well track the markets and who make prudent trading decisions.

Removal of the uptick rule will eventually lead to better stability in the markets through removal of unqualified stock traders by means of their loss of capital.

You comment about a need for “...large amounts of capital are required....” to engage in effective stock trading. This is highly beneficial. A golden rule is “Never invest more than you can afford to lose.” A very common mistake made by naive online traders is entering the stock markets with a relatively low amount of capital. This is a reflection of poor money management. Far too many online traders are risking money they cannot afford to lose. Capital used for playing stocks should only be truly excess money which well exceeds what is needed for a comfortable family budget. Other words, money which can be thrown away without causing family financial harm.

Being successful at stock trading requires periodically losing money while earning profits which exceed the amount of money lost. There are none who are active traders who earn only profits. Success is only earned by having a large amount of capital to cushion losses while growing capital through profits. Most online traders do have not sense enough to maintain a loss cushion.

These naive and gullible online traders, who could not be bothered with performing good research, would be better off contributing a monthly amount of money to a guided investment vehicle such as a traditional mutual fund. These are people who cannot successfully manage their money and need to give over control of their money to reputable professionals.

Successful stock trading requires a cold, calculating and cutthroat attitude. Earning consistent profits in the stock markets is a full time and half job. A large majority of today’s online traders simply do not have available time needed to be successful traders nor have needed excess capital to place at risk. Not only do naive online traders not have time nor have excess money to play the stock markets, they also are not willing to invest in the hard work needed to be successful traders.

I am enjoying this increase in volatility through removal of the uptick rule and through emotional panic caused by failure in the financial sector; my profit margins have increased by an amount equal to this increase in market volatility. However, I am one of those few who are willing to work really hard at being a successful stock trader.

During my rural Oklahoma farming childhood, I learned to keep a flock of chickens healthy, you must periodically cull out unhealthy chickens. There is a need to cull out unhealthy traders from our stock markets to keep our economy healthy.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:13:25 -0400
"Since large amounts of capital are required to play this high-stakes game, many players have been driven out of the market."


This is much needed. My personal guesstimate is one-third or more of stock traders need to be removed from our stock markets. Today, our stock markets are plagued by naive gullible online traders who simply are not qualified to trade stocks.

Since the advent of online trading, our markets have become more volatile than what your charts display but over longer terms. Typically, there are gradual upward price swings in any given stock followed by a dramatic one to three day crash of share prices. These gradual ramp up movements in share prices, followed by a near vertical chart crash in share prices, are caused by emotional online traders who truly believe they can become rich overnight. These are people who know little about stock market dynamics, who do not perform good research, who buy and sell based only on speculation generated solely by positive hype or negative hype. These are online traders whose trading activities are guided by talking heads and hyped up news releases from companies.

Today’s online traders, a majority, have no business trading stocks. These people serve only as a source of profits for scam artists and savvy seasoned traders. There seems to be an endless supply of online traders, which I like, but this is not good for market stability.

Removal of the uptick rule is beneficial. A greater ability to short leads to better moderation of fabricated upward runs in share prices of a given stock. Yes, there is an increase in volatility of stock prices but this is not detrimental for talented stock traders who perform good research, who well track the markets and who make prudent trading decisions.

Removal of the uptick rule will eventually lead to better stability in the markets through removal of unqualified stock traders by means of their loss of capital.

You comment about a need for “...large amounts of capital are required....” to engage in effective stock trading. This is highly beneficial. A golden rule is “Never invest more than you can afford to lose.” A very common mistake made by naive online traders is entering the stock markets with a relatively low amount of capital. This is a reflection of poor money management. Far too many online traders are risking money they cannot afford to lose. Capital used for playing stocks should only be truly excess money which well exceeds what is needed for a comfortable family budget. Other words, money which can be thrown away without causing family financial harm.

Being successful at stock trading requires periodically losing money while earning profits which exceed the amount of money lost. There are none who are active traders who earn only profits. Success is only earned by having a large amount of capital to cushion losses while growing capital through profits. Most online traders do have not sense enough to maintain a loss cushion.

These naive and gullible online traders, who could not be bothered with performing good research, would be better off contributing a monthly amount of money to a guided investment vehicle such as a traditional mutual fund. These are people who cannot successfully manage their money and need to give over control of their money to reputable professionals.

Successful stock trading requires a cold, calculating and cutthroat attitude. Earning consistent profits in the stock markets is a full time and half job. A large majority of today’s online traders simply do not have available time needed to be successful traders nor have needed excess capital to place at risk. Not only do naive online traders not have time nor have excess money to play the stock markets, they also are not willing to invest in the hard work needed to be successful traders.

I am enjoying this increase in volatility through removal of the uptick rule and through emotional panic caused by failure in the financial sector; my profit margins have increased by an amount equal to this increase in market volatility. However, I am one of those few who are willing to work really hard at being a successful stock trader.

During my rural Oklahoma farming childhood, I learned to keep a flock of chickens healthy, you must periodically cull out unhealthy chickens. There is a need to cull out unhealthy traders from our stock markets to keep our economy healthy.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/69504-financial-entertainment-tv-buries-itself-with-disinformation?source=feed#comment-129878 129878
I never fail to miss each Nightly Business Report on PBS stations.

www.pbs.org/nbr/

Nightly Business Report provides information in a matter-of-fact format sans all the hype and Cramer screaming. Although I favor Susie, both Susie and Paul provide news of current market events without bias. Each reports on major events and reports on events which are related, providing viewers a better understanding of what is factually happening, not personal opinions on “why” something is happening.

Nightly Business Reports invites a variety of scholars and known business leaders to comment on major trending which is very informative. These brief presentations provide information about market forces behind events rather than predictions in front of events. Their news reports are carefully crafted to provide counterbalance through opposing viewpoints from experts; there is no selling of a single viewpoint.

A delightful segment is hosting guests who have previously suggested stocks to buy. These guests are invited back in the future then Paul makes a point to cover how those previously suggested stocks performed, both good performance and bad performance. This helps viewers to sort who “knows their stuff” and who does not.

Nightly Business Report on PBS television stations is an excellent source of factual information, of learning and a good source of well founded expert opinion free of bias and hype.

An excellent follow-through is watching the Jim Lehrer news hour, usually immediately following the Nightly Business Report. Lehrer does not always cover business news but when his show does, the reporting is of significant excellence and often includes a roundtable discussion by business experts providing a wide variety of opinion.

Reads to me you boys are watching the wrong television shows!


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:22:03 -0400
I never fail to miss each Nightly Business Report on PBS stations.

www.pbs.org/nbr/

Nightly Business Report provides information in a matter-of-fact format sans all the hype and Cramer screaming. Although I favor Susie, both Susie and Paul provide news of current market events without bias. Each reports on major events and reports on events which are related, providing viewers a better understanding of what is factually happening, not personal opinions on “why” something is happening.

Nightly Business Reports invites a variety of scholars and known business leaders to comment on major trending which is very informative. These brief presentations provide information about market forces behind events rather than predictions in front of events. Their news reports are carefully crafted to provide counterbalance through opposing viewpoints from experts; there is no selling of a single viewpoint.

A delightful segment is hosting guests who have previously suggested stocks to buy. These guests are invited back in the future then Paul makes a point to cover how those previously suggested stocks performed, both good performance and bad performance. This helps viewers to sort who “knows their stuff” and who does not.

Nightly Business Report on PBS television stations is an excellent source of factual information, of learning and a good source of well founded expert opinion free of bias and hype.

An excellent follow-through is watching the Jim Lehrer news hour, usually immediately following the Nightly Business Report. Lehrer does not always cover business news but when his show does, the reporting is of significant excellence and often includes a roundtable discussion by business experts providing a wide variety of opinion.

Reads to me you boys are watching the wrong television shows!


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/69427-time-to-sit-on-your-hands?source=feed#comment-129343 129343

"...challenging market times are when large amounts of wealth are transferred from the greedy and the panicked to the measured and the patient."

Boy howdy! Now ain't that the truth.

Surviving our stocks markets, being successful at trading stocks, requires a cold, calculating and cutthroat mind-set. Successful traders are less emotional than Spock and meaner than Jim Croce’s junk yard dog.

Since the advent of online trading, a new market sector has opened up. This is the emotional sector created by a significant influx of naive, inexperienced and highly emotional online traders who believe they will become rich overnight trading stocks. Fortunately, there are a lot of those gullible traders providing tidy profits for seasoned and savvy traders who are sharp enough to track collective mood swings of those over-the-cliff lemming online traders.

Greed and panic are both based upon emotions. Greed is an emotion driven by an unhealthy and a weak ego creating this feeling of needing more to satiate personal insecurity. Panic is a very clear emotion derived from our instinctive “flight or fight” genetic wiring. In my native tongue, we have an expression, “nashoba isikopa” a wolf who plunders and feeds with greed; a fat greedy wolf who is easily trapped. We Choctaw have no word nor expression for panic; traditional American Indians simply do not experience panic. We do have an expression “hatak hobak” which is a gelding man. This expression most readers understand.

An effective stock trader creates a plan and a strategy, free of emotion, then sticks to this course of action, and never panics when failure is a result. Good traders set rules and strictly follow those rules no matter the emotional pleadings whispering in mind.


Jim Wiandt also comments,

“...doing a lot of reading and research....”


This is the foremost and most critical component of successful stock trading. This is also the most ignored principle of profitable stock trading. Naive online traders simply could not be bothered with spending hours and hours per day performing quality research. This is much in keeping with today’s Americans being fat and lazy.

Good research is the most important tool available to stock traders. Research is where the real money is earned, hard earned. No effective plan nor good strategy can be formulated without a basis upon high quality research.

Traders who do not research are mere lemmings following others to certain panic during their free-fall flight from a cliff edge of greed.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:46:09 -0400

"...challenging market times are when large amounts of wealth are transferred from the greedy and the panicked to the measured and the patient."

Boy howdy! Now ain't that the truth.

Surviving our stocks markets, being successful at trading stocks, requires a cold, calculating and cutthroat mind-set. Successful traders are less emotional than Spock and meaner than Jim Croce’s junk yard dog.

Since the advent of online trading, a new market sector has opened up. This is the emotional sector created by a significant influx of naive, inexperienced and highly emotional online traders who believe they will become rich overnight trading stocks. Fortunately, there are a lot of those gullible traders providing tidy profits for seasoned and savvy traders who are sharp enough to track collective mood swings of those over-the-cliff lemming online traders.

Greed and panic are both based upon emotions. Greed is an emotion driven by an unhealthy and a weak ego creating this feeling of needing more to satiate personal insecurity. Panic is a very clear emotion derived from our instinctive “flight or fight” genetic wiring. In my native tongue, we have an expression, “nashoba isikopa” a wolf who plunders and feeds with greed; a fat greedy wolf who is easily trapped. We Choctaw have no word nor expression for panic; traditional American Indians simply do not experience panic. We do have an expression “hatak hobak” which is a gelding man. This expression most readers understand.

An effective stock trader creates a plan and a strategy, free of emotion, then sticks to this course of action, and never panics when failure is a result. Good traders set rules and strictly follow those rules no matter the emotional pleadings whispering in mind.


Jim Wiandt also comments,

“...doing a lot of reading and research....”


This is the foremost and most critical component of successful stock trading. This is also the most ignored principle of profitable stock trading. Naive online traders simply could not be bothered with spending hours and hours per day performing quality research. This is much in keeping with today’s Americans being fat and lazy.

Good research is the most important tool available to stock traders. Research is where the real money is earned, hard earned. No effective plan nor good strategy can be formulated without a basis upon high quality research.

Traders who do not research are mere lemmings following others to certain panic during their free-fall flight from a cliff edge of greed.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/69285-march-madness-cbs-wins-no-matter-what?source=feed#comment-129112 129112

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:38:30 -0400

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/69285-march-madness-cbs-wins-no-matter-what?source=feed#comment-129069 129069
"If you're an NCAA basketball fan, you're probably watching games wherever you are...."


Your comment delights me in a way most would never guess. Your words remind me of significant generation gap and reminds me of an exceptionally significant cultural gap.

I am always delighted to witness one of our gender rise to such success through good education and through hard work although there is a bit of envy on my part knowing you were born to circumstances of wealth allowing you to attend Princeton.

My most meaningful education was taught working alongside my Choctaw elders out in our crop fields on our rural Oklahoma farm, long before you were born. I was also taught how to be right tough plowing behind a mule whose belly bottom was about head high to me, during my early childhood. Out in our fields, I learned of life through American Indian eyes and learned a half-ton mule can drag you across five acres of land, without breaking a sweat.

I am somewhat delighted, more amused really, observing fat, dumb and happy men sleeping and snoring in front a television airing a football game on Thanksgiving Day, a result of those men stuffing their faces with far too much food and wine. I reckon the future is truly here with snoring men now sitting, sound asleep, in front of a computer monitor with sound system blaring a football game. This works better; I can vacuum my living room floor without a need to move men’s feet and legs around. Seems your audience is not always paying attention.

We grew up listening to Grandpa’s tiny AM radio, powered by a six volt car battery. Each Sunday, we were to listen to a fire and brimstone preacher out of Del Rio, Texas. There were some special times he would allow us to listen to radio shows, like Green Hornet, Groucho Marx, Gunsmoke along with Superman and Sherlock Holmes. The Del Rio preacher, though, this man I cannot shake from my radio days memories; his fiery voice still preaches within my pagan mind.

Electricity came into our farm during the late Sixties, also my late childhood being born in Sixty even. A year later, Grandpa came back from town carting a television in the back of his mule drawn wagon; took our family a year to save up enough money to buy a television set. We never had enough money to own a car, never wanted a car anyhow. This was the day my world changed, the day my world became much larger.

Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolfman caused me to hold tight to Grandma. Three Stooges, Abbott and Costello, Amos and Andy, gave all of us a good laugh. Although black and white on our old television, Star Trek taught me there are worlds beyond our hot humid Oklahoma skies. Grandpa did not much care for Star Trek but he loved wrestling matches on television, even gave our television set a thump on top and adjusted those rabbit ears to be sure he did not miss a second of wrestlers “cheating” at fighting.

My Choctaw elders did not care for television at all. I spent most of my evenings, after a hard day’s work out in the fields, simply sitting on our front porch listening to wonderful tall tales told to us in my native American Indian tongue. Within our culture, within my native culture, we are story tellers beyond compare. Story telling is a critical component of our culture. This is how we teach our young, how we maintain our culture and our traditions. This is how we learn of life. I do envy your Princeton education; I had to settle for a English doctorate out of the University of California, paid for through my odd part-time jobs and my husband’s support. Despite my envy of your Princeton education, I am quite sure you would envy my Choctaw education delivered under a hot Oklahoma sun, delivered with sweat, dirt and plenty of ticks and chiggers sucking our very blood, just as you would envy my learning how to free myself from a step-in plow while be dragged along by a mule moving at a stubborn good trot.

I never watch sports games on television nor does our girl nor does her father. There is no interest for us. Sports lack any story telling, lack imparting moral conflicts to resolve, lack mystery and intrigue. More succinct, sports are boring, even during our time of suffering modern technology such as suffering having to buy a new television in early 2009 year simply so I can catch reruns of Get Smart and old scary movies on KDOC out of Orange County. Well, I could not survive life without my nightly dose of PBS, especially Nova and Jim Lehrer.

Nothing wrong with sports. I know the many love watching sports. This is a generation gap and a cultural gap. We grew up telling stories, tall tales and, of course, a lot of swapping lies. We grew up reading books loaned to us by our only schoolmarm, Mamie J, who taught four generations of our family in a two room school house over in Eagletown, Oklahoma.

I am not a Thoroughly Modern Millie but modern enough to recognize you, Julia Boorstin, have accomplished much in your life at a fairly young age. You are dancing upon an ageless glass ceiling while many men look up to you, hopefully with proper respect and in the right places.

Personally, I am not all this thrilled by modern technology although I am sitting here typing on a fancy computer and connected to our world through the web. I am, however, always thrilled to know of another woman who has beat the odds and has beat men by becoming very successful in work, and in life. You are to be commended for your hard work and for your breaking your way through that glass ceiling we know too well, even though I do not watch your sports shows.

To close, a bit of advice from a now Choctaw elder. Stories are best told while sitting out on a front porch with friends, and while sipping white lightning from a shared Mason jar.

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:56:01 -0400
"If you're an NCAA basketball fan, you're probably watching games wherever you are...."


Your comment delights me in a way most would never guess. Your words remind me of significant generation gap and reminds me of an exceptionally significant cultural gap.

I am always delighted to witness one of our gender rise to such success through good education and through hard work although there is a bit of envy on my part knowing you were born to circumstances of wealth allowing you to attend Princeton.

My most meaningful education was taught working alongside my Choctaw elders out in our crop fields on our rural Oklahoma farm, long before you were born. I was also taught how to be right tough plowing behind a mule whose belly bottom was about head high to me, during my early childhood. Out in our fields, I learned of life through American Indian eyes and learned a half-ton mule can drag you across five acres of land, without breaking a sweat.

I am somewhat delighted, more amused really, observing fat, dumb and happy men sleeping and snoring in front a television airing a football game on Thanksgiving Day, a result of those men stuffing their faces with far too much food and wine. I reckon the future is truly here with snoring men now sitting, sound asleep, in front of a computer monitor with sound system blaring a football game. This works better; I can vacuum my living room floor without a need to move men’s feet and legs around. Seems your audience is not always paying attention.

We grew up listening to Grandpa’s tiny AM radio, powered by a six volt car battery. Each Sunday, we were to listen to a fire and brimstone preacher out of Del Rio, Texas. There were some special times he would allow us to listen to radio shows, like Green Hornet, Groucho Marx, Gunsmoke along with Superman and Sherlock Holmes. The Del Rio preacher, though, this man I cannot shake from my radio days memories; his fiery voice still preaches within my pagan mind.

Electricity came into our farm during the late Sixties, also my late childhood being born in Sixty even. A year later, Grandpa came back from town carting a television in the back of his mule drawn wagon; took our family a year to save up enough money to buy a television set. We never had enough money to own a car, never wanted a car anyhow. This was the day my world changed, the day my world became much larger.

Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolfman caused me to hold tight to Grandma. Three Stooges, Abbott and Costello, Amos and Andy, gave all of us a good laugh. Although black and white on our old television, Star Trek taught me there are worlds beyond our hot humid Oklahoma skies. Grandpa did not much care for Star Trek but he loved wrestling matches on television, even gave our television set a thump on top and adjusted those rabbit ears to be sure he did not miss a second of wrestlers “cheating” at fighting.

My Choctaw elders did not care for television at all. I spent most of my evenings, after a hard day’s work out in the fields, simply sitting on our front porch listening to wonderful tall tales told to us in my native American Indian tongue. Within our culture, within my native culture, we are story tellers beyond compare. Story telling is a critical component of our culture. This is how we teach our young, how we maintain our culture and our traditions. This is how we learn of life. I do envy your Princeton education; I had to settle for a English doctorate out of the University of California, paid for through my odd part-time jobs and my husband’s support. Despite my envy of your Princeton education, I am quite sure you would envy my Choctaw education delivered under a hot Oklahoma sun, delivered with sweat, dirt and plenty of ticks and chiggers sucking our very blood, just as you would envy my learning how to free myself from a step-in plow while be dragged along by a mule moving at a stubborn good trot.

I never watch sports games on television nor does our girl nor does her father. There is no interest for us. Sports lack any story telling, lack imparting moral conflicts to resolve, lack mystery and intrigue. More succinct, sports are boring, even during our time of suffering modern technology such as suffering having to buy a new television in early 2009 year simply so I can catch reruns of Get Smart and old scary movies on KDOC out of Orange County. Well, I could not survive life without my nightly dose of PBS, especially Nova and Jim Lehrer.

Nothing wrong with sports. I know the many love watching sports. This is a generation gap and a cultural gap. We grew up telling stories, tall tales and, of course, a lot of swapping lies. We grew up reading books loaned to us by our only schoolmarm, Mamie J, who taught four generations of our family in a two room school house over in Eagletown, Oklahoma.

I am not a Thoroughly Modern Millie but modern enough to recognize you, Julia Boorstin, have accomplished much in your life at a fairly young age. You are dancing upon an ageless glass ceiling while many men look up to you, hopefully with proper respect and in the right places.

Personally, I am not all this thrilled by modern technology although I am sitting here typing on a fancy computer and connected to our world through the web. I am, however, always thrilled to know of another woman who has beat the odds and has beat men by becoming very successful in work, and in life. You are to be commended for your hard work and for your breaking your way through that glass ceiling we know too well, even though I do not watch your sports shows.

To close, a bit of advice from a now Choctaw elder. Stories are best told while sitting out on a front porch with friends, and while sipping white lightning from a shared Mason jar.

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/69178-buying-in-the-crisis?source=feed#comment-128883 128883
"While buying now would not be a wrong idea for the very long term...."

This is highly dependent upon adjustment for relative dollar devaluation and relative inflation over the coming years.

We do know dollar devaluation is currently very severe leading to a relative loss of purchasing power. Inflation is obvious through energy, food, gasoline and health insurance costs. On this hand, the dollar is worth a lot less. On the other hand, cost of living is skyrocketing. This is a lose-lose situation for average Americans. Although a taboo word, this is Stagflation.

Only way long term investing can be profitable is to net an average ten percent growth in portfolio equity per year. This is, of course, a net growth rate after adjusting for dollar value loss and inflation. This is not currently possible; long term value stocks are, on the average, losing value or value is increasing at a rate less than dollar devaluation and inflation. Overall, long term investments are being slowly whittled down by rising cost of living.

Only counter to this problem is aggressive, more risky trading which yields gains greater than cost of living increases, along with maintaining a much stricter family budget. Chances are high, cutting back on family expenditures will yield the greatest gains for average American families.


Malkiel makes an important and historic note,

“...situations like Bear where the writing wasn't on the wall of publicly available information....”

Securities fraud is an ongoing problem for decades, since the Great Depression. There is no argument but what Wall Street is organized crime given a wink of approval by regulatory agencies and by our government. This is all the more reason to get in and get out of stocks as quickly as possible to avoid having your money stolen by Wall Street financial criminals.

Bear Stearns is the most recent example of Wall Street crime and support of crime by the feds. A week back, Bear Stearns claims smooth sailing then sinks on Sunday. This is rather obvious deceit on the part of Bear Stearns but not so obvious to the chimpanzee sitting in the Oval Office.

Returning to high risk aggressive trading, I made an unethical killing playing Bear Stearns on Monday and Tuesday. I am staying out now because volatility has diminished. Some would consider this unethical day trading because I played upon the public’s fear and the public’s panic along with playing along with short covering. I have no shame, though, because I made a lot of money, lots and lots, and I have this money earning more money, elsewhere.

Malkiel makes a critical and a true point,

“...the only catalysts for improvement out there are good April real estate sales....”

Absolutely. This collapse of the real estate market is the core of our current financial crisis. There was a need for price adjustment in housing, this we know. However, this complete collapse in the housing market is the root cause of our nationwide financial crisis. The majority cause of the real estate market collapse is unethical if not illegal lending by the Wall Street boys. Rather ironic those Wall Street criminals are being bailed out by the feds, a reward for their financial crimes.

The feds are not addressing the needs of the housing market rather are addressing the needs of well known Wall Street criminals.

Next major contributing factor to our real estate market collapse, maybe an equal cause to financial crimes by Wall Street, is rising cost of living. American families are simply out of cash.

The feds are contributing to inflation to save Wall Street criminals.

Some blame must be shouldered by American families for not maintaining strict family budgets. A majority of Americans, today, are fat, lazy and financially irresponsible. Americans want everything, want everything now and do not want to work for what they want.

American families are contributing to this financial crisis through being financially irresponsible.

To close, only way out of this mess is for Americans to get their financial act together and for the feds to crack down on financial crimes. Doubtful either will happen. For those of us who are hard working and willing to sacrifice now for a secure future, our only choice is to become more aggressive about earning money to compensate for a continuing rise in cost of living, especially a sharp rise in cost of living which is at our doorsteps, right now.

For trivia, when I drive about in my old 1952 Chevy rust bucket pickup, which is affordable but slow and gas thrifty, each time I see a new car on the road, I think, “There goes a fool.” Almost every car I see on the road, is a brand new car.

For humor, come 2009 year, cost of living will surge; almost all of us will have no choice but to buy a new television. I will certainly miss those rabbit ears along with black and white television shows like “I Love Lucy.”

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:42:42 -0400
"While buying now would not be a wrong idea for the very long term...."

This is highly dependent upon adjustment for relative dollar devaluation and relative inflation over the coming years.

We do know dollar devaluation is currently very severe leading to a relative loss of purchasing power. Inflation is obvious through energy, food, gasoline and health insurance costs. On this hand, the dollar is worth a lot less. On the other hand, cost of living is skyrocketing. This is a lose-lose situation for average Americans. Although a taboo word, this is Stagflation.

Only way long term investing can be profitable is to net an average ten percent growth in portfolio equity per year. This is, of course, a net growth rate after adjusting for dollar value loss and inflation. This is not currently possible; long term value stocks are, on the average, losing value or value is increasing at a rate less than dollar devaluation and inflation. Overall, long term investments are being slowly whittled down by rising cost of living.

Only counter to this problem is aggressive, more risky trading which yields gains greater than cost of living increases, along with maintaining a much stricter family budget. Chances are high, cutting back on family expenditures will yield the greatest gains for average American families.


Malkiel makes an important and historic note,

“...situations like Bear where the writing wasn't on the wall of publicly available information....”

Securities fraud is an ongoing problem for decades, since the Great Depression. There is no argument but what Wall Street is organized crime given a wink of approval by regulatory agencies and by our government. This is all the more reason to get in and get out of stocks as quickly as possible to avoid having your money stolen by Wall Street financial criminals.

Bear Stearns is the most recent example of Wall Street crime and support of crime by the feds. A week back, Bear Stearns claims smooth sailing then sinks on Sunday. This is rather obvious deceit on the part of Bear Stearns but not so obvious to the chimpanzee sitting in the Oval Office.

Returning to high risk aggressive trading, I made an unethical killing playing Bear Stearns on Monday and Tuesday. I am staying out now because volatility has diminished. Some would consider this unethical day trading because I played upon the public’s fear and the public’s panic along with playing along with short covering. I have no shame, though, because I made a lot of money, lots and lots, and I have this money earning more money, elsewhere.

Malkiel makes a critical and a true point,

“...the only catalysts for improvement out there are good April real estate sales....”

Absolutely. This collapse of the real estate market is the core of our current financial crisis. There was a need for price adjustment in housing, this we know. However, this complete collapse in the housing market is the root cause of our nationwide financial crisis. The majority cause of the real estate market collapse is unethical if not illegal lending by the Wall Street boys. Rather ironic those Wall Street criminals are being bailed out by the feds, a reward for their financial crimes.

The feds are not addressing the needs of the housing market rather are addressing the needs of well known Wall Street criminals.

Next major contributing factor to our real estate market collapse, maybe an equal cause to financial crimes by Wall Street, is rising cost of living. American families are simply out of cash.

The feds are contributing to inflation to save Wall Street criminals.

Some blame must be shouldered by American families for not maintaining strict family budgets. A majority of Americans, today, are fat, lazy and financially irresponsible. Americans want everything, want everything now and do not want to work for what they want.

American families are contributing to this financial crisis through being financially irresponsible.

To close, only way out of this mess is for Americans to get their financial act together and for the feds to crack down on financial crimes. Doubtful either will happen. For those of us who are hard working and willing to sacrifice now for a secure future, our only choice is to become more aggressive about earning money to compensate for a continuing rise in cost of living, especially a sharp rise in cost of living which is at our doorsteps, right now.

For trivia, when I drive about in my old 1952 Chevy rust bucket pickup, which is affordable but slow and gas thrifty, each time I see a new car on the road, I think, “There goes a fool.” Almost every car I see on the road, is a brand new car.

For humor, come 2009 year, cost of living will surge; almost all of us will have no choice but to buy a new television. I will certainly miss those rabbit ears along with black and white television shows like “I Love Lucy.”

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/69178-buying-in-the-crisis?source=feed#comment-128795 128795
"In general, it's better to avoid buying what today's headlines say to buy."

Under current market conditions following headlines or not following headlines is not a good trading strategy. My experience is chasing after volatility is a good trading strategy for current conditions.

Under better market conditions, for years, I work at trading emerging companies, mostly penny stocks, which exhibit some longer term value. As all know, playing the pennies is high risk trading which affords significant gains, or significant losses.

I never trade big board stocks; too slow, too predictable.

Day trading and shorting are the money makers, today. This is not a trading style which is appropriate for all. This is extreme risk trading. Our current market conditions are testing the metal of traders, are testing the skills of traders. Clearly, a majority of traders are not passing those tests; a lot of money is being lost by almost all and those all are stereotypical naive and gullible online traders new to stock trading.

This is not a time to follow headlines nor a time to listen to talking heads like Cramer. This is not a time for fundamental analysis nor a time to chart technicals. This is a time to play volatility with skill honed by decades of trading experience. This is a time to get in quick and to get out quick. This is a time to buy and sell over one or two days. Holding any given stock for more than a week is begging for losses.

Holding for long term gains, holding for a year, holding for years, is the worst strategy of all. While an investor is waiting for future gains, this money is dead, doing nothing, just sitting there collecting dust. Your money should be constantly churning, constantly working, not simply doing nothing. These market conditions will last a very long time; recovery will be years in the making. This is a dead zone, this is a time your dollars are losing value while not making gains. Each day you money sits doing nothing, you are losing money; dollar devaluation and inflation are slowly eating up your money.

Best position for typical inexperienced online traders is cash and on the sidelines. This is a time for the many to cash out and wait. Actually, this time has past; the many should have cashed out last summer while the getting was good. Cash is not the best position, you are losing money to lessening value of the dollar and to inflation, but you are not risking losses through market crashing. This is a time the inexperienced should be investing time into learning how to effectively and successfully trade stocks during challenging circumstances.

Today's market conditions are a naive online trader's nightmare.

Today's market conditions are an experienced day trader's dream come true.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation
]]> Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:32:23 -0400
"In general, it's better to avoid buying what today's headlines say to buy."

Under current market conditions following headlines or not following headlines is not a good trading strategy. My experience is chasing after volatility is a good trading strategy for current conditions.

Under better market conditions, for years, I work at trading emerging companies, mostly penny stocks, which exhibit some longer term value. As all know, playing the pennies is high risk trading which affords significant gains, or significant losses.

I never trade big board stocks; too slow, too predictable.

Day trading and shorting are the money makers, today. This is not a trading style which is appropriate for all. This is extreme risk trading. Our current market conditions are testing the metal of traders, are testing the skills of traders. Clearly, a majority of traders are not passing those tests; a lot of money is being lost by almost all and those all are stereotypical naive and gullible online traders new to stock trading.

This is not a time to follow headlines nor a time to listen to talking heads like Cramer. This is not a time for fundamental analysis nor a time to chart technicals. This is a time to play volatility with skill honed by decades of trading experience. This is a time to get in quick and to get out quick. This is a time to buy and sell over one or two days. Holding any given stock for more than a week is begging for losses.

Holding for long term gains, holding for a year, holding for years, is the worst strategy of all. While an investor is waiting for future gains, this money is dead, doing nothing, just sitting there collecting dust. Your money should be constantly churning, constantly working, not simply doing nothing. These market conditions will last a very long time; recovery will be years in the making. This is a dead zone, this is a time your dollars are losing value while not making gains. Each day you money sits doing nothing, you are losing money; dollar devaluation and inflation are slowly eating up your money.

Best position for typical inexperienced online traders is cash and on the sidelines. This is a time for the many to cash out and wait. Actually, this time has past; the many should have cashed out last summer while the getting was good. Cash is not the best position, you are losing money to lessening value of the dollar and to inflation, but you are not risking losses through market crashing. This is a time the inexperienced should be investing time into learning how to effectively and successfully trade stocks during challenging circumstances.

Today's market conditions are a naive online trader's nightmare.

Today's market conditions are an experienced day trader's dream come true.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation
]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/69104-it-wasn-t-a-bailout?source=feed#comment-128561 128561
"Bear Stearns...The first big casualty of the credit crisis, yes. Bailout, no."

This historical action by the feds was not a bailout of Bear Stearns rather was a bailout of Wall Street, at large. There is really no difference with the feds simply using Bear Stearns as a vehicle to bailout almost all other Wall Street financial institutions.

Bear Sterns is not a "casualty" of this credit crunch. No, Bear Stearns did not shoot itself in the foot, Bear Stearns shot itself in both feet through deceptive business practices. This deception is the clear omission of truth about this company's fundamental strength, or lack of fundamental strength.

While statistical analysis of our economy, of our world economy, serves an important and good service for all, this learning afforded through analysis is of lesser quality when presented data is fabricated. Clearly Bear Sterns engaged in fabrication for quite a period of time before this company could no longer cover up truth.

Certainly controversial, my personal opinion is a good eighty percent of corporate executives, especially those directly involved with Wall Street, are financial criminals yet to be caught and prosecuted. Readers can fairly debate what percentage of Wall Street executives are criminals, but cannot debate this level of securities fraud inflicted upon American families is significantly higher than is expected; financial crime is pervasive across Wall Street, both subtle and overt.

Part of my personal trading strategy is considering all companies to be operated by financial criminals. I presume all company executives to be liars and thieves. Then I proceed to work at proving those executives to be truthful and honest. Quite rare am I able to prove those of Wall Street to not be criminals.

I am not so sure this fed action was a bailout. I do entertain a suspicion this fed action was, in part, an effort to delay revealing truth, while working at correcting problems created by deceptive corporate practices.

Fortunately, truth has a habit of becoming self-evident, in time.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation

]]> Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:15:32 -0400
"Bear Stearns...The first big casualty of the credit crisis, yes. Bailout, no."

This historical action by the feds was not a bailout of Bear Stearns rather was a bailout of Wall Street, at large. There is really no difference with the feds simply using Bear Stearns as a vehicle to bailout almost all other Wall Street financial institutions.

Bear Sterns is not a "casualty" of this credit crunch. No, Bear Stearns did not shoot itself in the foot, Bear Stearns shot itself in both feet through deceptive business practices. This deception is the clear omission of truth about this company's fundamental strength, or lack of fundamental strength.

While statistical analysis of our economy, of our world economy, serves an important and good service for all, this learning afforded through analysis is of lesser quality when presented data is fabricated. Clearly Bear Sterns engaged in fabrication for quite a period of time before this company could no longer cover up truth.

Certainly controversial, my personal opinion is a good eighty percent of corporate executives, especially those directly involved with Wall Street, are financial criminals yet to be caught and prosecuted. Readers can fairly debate what percentage of Wall Street executives are criminals, but cannot debate this level of securities fraud inflicted upon American families is significantly higher than is expected; financial crime is pervasive across Wall Street, both subtle and overt.

Part of my personal trading strategy is considering all companies to be operated by financial criminals. I presume all company executives to be liars and thieves. Then I proceed to work at proving those executives to be truthful and honest. Quite rare am I able to prove those of Wall Street to not be criminals.

I am not so sure this fed action was a bailout. I do entertain a suspicion this fed action was, in part, an effort to delay revealing truth, while working at correcting problems created by deceptive corporate practices.

Fortunately, truth has a habit of becoming self-evident, in time.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation

]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/69084-are-these-once-in-a-lifetime-moves?source=feed#comment-128383 128383
"It usually takes 5 to 10 years for these stocks to move this far down and this far up again. In the current market environment, it takes less than 24 hours."


Don't you young boys just love this wild roller coaster ride? Tell ya, this really excites me.

These are times when decades of stock trading experience pay well and I am earning boat loads of bucks through high anxiety, high risk day trading.

Fundamentals, out the window with the baby. Technicals, might as well be drawing cartoons of Mohammad. These are market conditions, within the financial sector, requiring quick assessment of trader perception based solely on volatility of share prices. This quick assessment is keeping your ugly mug plastered to your live feed while watching minute-by-minute changes in trending.

Not for everyone, not for almost all, certainly not for young boys who fancy themselves savvy traders, these are conditions under which those very few with lots of experience and a willingness to take on extreme risks, can made gobs of money, or lose gobs of money.

I am loving this wildness in the markets. If I could this my way, our stocks markets would be this wild on a daily basis; this is exciting.

Probably kinda scary for young boys, though.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:14:54 -0400
"It usually takes 5 to 10 years for these stocks to move this far down and this far up again. In the current market environment, it takes less than 24 hours."


Don't you young boys just love this wild roller coaster ride? Tell ya, this really excites me.

These are times when decades of stock trading experience pay well and I am earning boat loads of bucks through high anxiety, high risk day trading.

Fundamentals, out the window with the baby. Technicals, might as well be drawing cartoons of Mohammad. These are market conditions, within the financial sector, requiring quick assessment of trader perception based solely on volatility of share prices. This quick assessment is keeping your ugly mug plastered to your live feed while watching minute-by-minute changes in trending.

Not for everyone, not for almost all, certainly not for young boys who fancy themselves savvy traders, these are conditions under which those very few with lots of experience and a willingness to take on extreme risks, can made gobs of money, or lose gobs of money.

I am loving this wildness in the markets. If I could this my way, our stocks markets would be this wild on a daily basis; this is exciting.

Probably kinda scary for young boys, though.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/68618-thinking-about-the-bear-stearns-bailout?source=feed#comment-128236 128236
Where I am is about to hot rod my way to our bank, laughing the whole delightful way. On Sunday, I had a parish priest bless my plan B for making a graceful exit from Bear Sterns.

I did so. Plan B cleared me a net profit of $4688.51 in exchange for a weekend of significant high anxiety. A few more gray hairs on my head, a few more worry wrinkles on my face, but worth the money. Just a matter of dumping a total quarter million into Bear Sterns to exit with a little bit of pocket change.

Whew! Thank God and Her preference for favoring women; now I can afford a tank of gas for my classic hot rod Corvette.

So, how many of you savvy trader boys saw this $2.00 per share sellout coming on Sunday? Not one of you! I sure did not nor did anyone else around our world.

Difference between boy traders and girl traders is God, in Her infinitive wisdom, blessed us women with metaphorical balls and blessed us women with sense enough to have a plan B backup.

Now I am looking at plan C to possibly earn more profits off Bear Sterns but must first confess to a priest inside one of those cramped little boxes where people spill their guts and say a lot of "Hail Mary" type repentance. I must confess I made use of a lot of vulgar words on Sunday afternoon. Certainly I am on the Highway to Hell.

Not really. I am not about to confess to a priest I am a typical healthy person prone to both success and failure, along with be tempted by the lure of the Almighty Buck.

Besides, I am pagan savage American Indian.


Purl Gurl
Choctaw Nation

]]> Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:40:30 -0400
Where I am is about to hot rod my way to our bank, laughing the whole delightful way. On Sunday, I had a parish priest bless my plan B for making a graceful exit from Bear Sterns.

I did so. Plan B cleared me a net profit of $4688.51 in exchange for a weekend of significant high anxiety. A few more gray hairs on my head, a few more worry wrinkles on my face, but worth the money. Just a matter of dumping a total quarter million into Bear Sterns to exit with a little bit of pocket change.

Whew! Thank God and Her preference for favoring women; now I can afford a tank of gas for my classic hot rod Corvette.

So, how many of you savvy trader boys saw this $2.00 per share sellout coming on Sunday? Not one of you! I sure did not nor did anyone else around our world.

Difference between boy traders and girl traders is God, in Her infinitive wisdom, blessed us women with metaphorical balls and blessed us women with sense enough to have a plan B backup.

Now I am looking at plan C to possibly earn more profits off Bear Sterns but must first confess to a priest inside one of those cramped little boxes where people spill their guts and say a lot of "Hail Mary" type repentance. I must confess I made use of a lot of vulgar words on Sunday afternoon. Certainly I am on the Highway to Hell.

Not really. I am not about to confess to a priest I am a typical healthy person prone to both success and failure, along with be tempted by the lure of the Almighty Buck.

Besides, I am pagan savage American Indian.


Purl Gurl
Choctaw Nation

]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/68620-the-bailout-s-pathetic-here-s-who-to-blame?source=feed#comment-127234 127234
"Okpulot Taha of the Choctaw Nation, I certainly have my issues with Wall Street, as you do, but I detect a shrillness in your rhetoric which smacks of glee."

Ha! Ha! Damn straight, Bubba. I am an English professor who simply delights in masturbating my ego through shrill stirring it up. Lots of fun is found in eliciting emotional responses from readers. Doing so, also prompts readers to do a bit of thinking, and a bit of thinking is sorely needed here in America.

I must be firm but fair. This is a bit of thinking lacking amongst both the American public and amongst those of Wall Street. Our American public is not thinking, well evidenced by living beyond our financial means. Americans have not accepted responsibility for keeping strict family budgets. Wall Street is not thinking, well evidenced by these exotic sub-prime loans. Americans knew, beforehand, they could not afford those loans, just as Wall Street knew, beforehand, a significant percentage of those loans would default.

Everyone, from our public to the elitist crooks of Wall Street are stuck in the right now, and all want everything, right now. This is not how life operates; there is a future and future planning should be the right now thinking.

Many are looking to blame someone. True blame belongs to all of us.

Well, almost all save for our family. We were born to poverty on a rural Oklahoma farm, then scratched and clawed our way to financial security. We behaved responsibly and are rewarded for our willingness to "do without" in exchange for a secure future. No doubt there are very many other families out there who are just as successful, more successful, because those families also worked hard, saved their money and behaved with responsibility; they lived a lifestyle well within their means.

I am not too worried about this financial meltdown. Personally, I find all of this rather entertaining. Reads to be a rather cruel attitude but you get what you earn. I hold people accountable.

Yes, there is horrific abuse of American families by Wall Street and by our government. This is not new, annoying but not new. People simply need to plan ahead for being ripped off by the so called ruling class over on Wall Street and on Capital Hill.

Of course, Sammy, there is glee in my written voice. I am delighting in watching both Wall Street crooks and politicians being paraded around the streets, buck ass naked for all to see. I am not delighting is seeing so many American families being harmed. Nonetheless, this is the nature of reality.

Entertainment is found in watching all these talking heads popping up here at this website, in the press, on the radio, on television, all over Wall Street and Capital Hill. Almost all are simply making fools of themselves through offering convoluted explanations for what is happening and what truly is happening is a lot of ass covering and self ego masturbation, quite impotently at that.

What is truly happening is we are paying the price for living beyond our financial means.

I am not worried because if Bear Sterns goes down, so does our American economy. Should America go down, so does the rest of the world, although virtually all of the world hates America. This will not happen. Money will come flooding in from all around the world to save our American economy, thus saving the world economy. Fat cats out there simply cannot make do without their lavish lifestyles, afforded by ripping off us pissants. Those fat cats are not out to save our world, no, they are out to save their opulence and power. All of this will pass in short order and there will be great improvements.

Some improvements will be found in Americans smartening up by being slapped down. Some improvements will be found in Wall Street fat cats realizing they will lose their ability to steal from the unwashed masses if they do not toss us slovenly servants a bit more bread and butter.

Much worthless rhetoric is being bantered about, talk of tougher regulations and laws. This is nonsense, this is a verbal placebo for us peons. There is no need for this. After recovery from this comical financial debacle, people are not about to make these mistakes again, both out here on our impoverished gasoline alley and on eloquent estates of Wall Street criminals.

No, this will resolve. Status quo must be maintained. We untouchables must continue to be victimized by Wall Street, and fat cats of Wall Street must continue to be fat and happy. This is the way of the world.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation




]]> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:44:19 -0400
"Okpulot Taha of the Choctaw Nation, I certainly have my issues with Wall Street, as you do, but I detect a shrillness in your rhetoric which smacks of glee."

Ha! Ha! Damn straight, Bubba. I am an English professor who simply delights in masturbating my ego through shrill stirring it up. Lots of fun is found in eliciting emotional responses from readers. Doing so, also prompts readers to do a bit of thinking, and a bit of thinking is sorely needed here in America.

I must be firm but fair. This is a bit of thinking lacking amongst both the American public and amongst those of Wall Street. Our American public is not thinking, well evidenced by living beyond our financial means. Americans have not accepted responsibility for keeping strict family budgets. Wall Street is not thinking, well evidenced by these exotic sub-prime loans. Americans knew, beforehand, they could not afford those loans, just as Wall Street knew, beforehand, a significant percentage of those loans would default.

Everyone, from our public to the elitist crooks of Wall Street are stuck in the right now, and all want everything, right now. This is not how life operates; there is a future and future planning should be the right now thinking.

Many are looking to blame someone. True blame belongs to all of us.

Well, almost all save for our family. We were born to poverty on a rural Oklahoma farm, then scratched and clawed our way to financial security. We behaved responsibly and are rewarded for our willingness to "do without" in exchange for a secure future. No doubt there are very many other families out there who are just as successful, more successful, because those families also worked hard, saved their money and behaved with responsibility; they lived a lifestyle well within their means.

I am not too worried about this financial meltdown. Personally, I find all of this rather entertaining. Reads to be a rather cruel attitude but you get what you earn. I hold people accountable.

Yes, there is horrific abuse of American families by Wall Street and by our government. This is not new, annoying but not new. People simply need to plan ahead for being ripped off by the so called ruling class over on Wall Street and on Capital Hill.

Of course, Sammy, there is glee in my written voice. I am delighting in watching both Wall Street crooks and politicians being paraded around the streets, buck ass naked for all to see. I am not delighting is seeing so many American families being harmed. Nonetheless, this is the nature of reality.

Entertainment is found in watching all these talking heads popping up here at this website, in the press, on the radio, on television, all over Wall Street and Capital Hill. Almost all are simply making fools of themselves through offering convoluted explanations for what is happening and what truly is happening is a lot of ass covering and self ego masturbation, quite impotently at that.

What is truly happening is we are paying the price for living beyond our financial means.

I am not worried because if Bear Sterns goes down, so does our American economy. Should America go down, so does the rest of the world, although virtually all of the world hates America. This will not happen. Money will come flooding in from all around the world to save our American economy, thus saving the world economy. Fat cats out there simply cannot make do without their lavish lifestyles, afforded by ripping off us pissants. Those fat cats are not out to save our world, no, they are out to save their opulence and power. All of this will pass in short order and there will be great improvements.

Some improvements will be found in Americans smartening up by being slapped down. Some improvements will be found in Wall Street fat cats realizing they will lose their ability to steal from the unwashed masses if they do not toss us slovenly servants a bit more bread and butter.

Much worthless rhetoric is being bantered about, talk of tougher regulations and laws. This is nonsense, this is a verbal placebo for us peons. There is no need for this. After recovery from this comical financial debacle, people are not about to make these mistakes again, both out here on our impoverished gasoline alley and on eloquent estates of Wall Street criminals.

No, this will resolve. Status quo must be maintained. We untouchables must continue to be victimized by Wall Street, and fat cats of Wall Street must continue to be fat and happy. This is the way of the world.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation




]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/68617-the-bear-necessities-law-of-the-jungle-rules?source=feed#comment-127187 127187
"Wall Streets' butts may not really be 'spanked'...."

Before you can suffer having your butt spanked, you must first enjoy pride and dignity. Wall Street fat cats have neither.

These recent bouts of Wall Street fat cats being kicked out of corporate jets is meaningless. Those fat cats enjoy Golden Parachutes worth hundreds of millions, making for soft landings. More insulting is Capital Hill raising a big ruckus but taking no action; politicians are in the pockets of Wall Street fat cats.

All of us pissants out here would love to be paid hundreds of millions of dollars to be complete failures. We are really good at failure.

A lack of pride and dignity is almost impossible to cure. Accountability can be cured but is very difficult when government regulators and politicians are owned by Wall Street fat cats.

Recently, I submitted a shareholder proposal to a company for proxy vote. This proposal is to hire a specific person for a CEO position. Part of my proposal is linking his pay to share price performance; share value goes up, his pay goes up. Falling share prices, his pay also falls. This shareholder proposal will never fly like those corporate jets. This type of accountability is grossly unacceptable to Wall Street fat cats whose only intent is to continue ripping off the American public for as much money as possible.

There is no pride and dignity amongst those of Wall Street. There is no accountability amongst those of Wall Street. While I write of butt spankings, there truly are no butt spankings because those of Wall Street are untouchable; they are well guarded behind closed doors of vast estates of luxury bought with ill-gotten gains.

I probably should have my big butt spanked for stupidly thinking those of Wall Street can be held accountable for their actions. However, wishful thinking does feel good, at times.

I do wish I could take a switch to the bare butts of Wall Street fat cats.

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:41:20 -0400
"Wall Streets' butts may not really be 'spanked'...."

Before you can suffer having your butt spanked, you must first enjoy pride and dignity. Wall Street fat cats have neither.

These recent bouts of Wall Street fat cats being kicked out of corporate jets is meaningless. Those fat cats enjoy Golden Parachutes worth hundreds of millions, making for soft landings. More insulting is Capital Hill raising a big ruckus but taking no action; politicians are in the pockets of Wall Street fat cats.

All of us pissants out here would love to be paid hundreds of millions of dollars to be complete failures. We are really good at failure.

A lack of pride and dignity is almost impossible to cure. Accountability can be cured but is very difficult when government regulators and politicians are owned by Wall Street fat cats.

Recently, I submitted a shareholder proposal to a company for proxy vote. This proposal is to hire a specific person for a CEO position. Part of my proposal is linking his pay to share price performance; share value goes up, his pay goes up. Falling share prices, his pay also falls. This shareholder proposal will never fly like those corporate jets. This type of accountability is grossly unacceptable to Wall Street fat cats whose only intent is to continue ripping off the American public for as much money as possible.

There is no pride and dignity amongst those of Wall Street. There is no accountability amongst those of Wall Street. While I write of butt spankings, there truly are no butt spankings because those of Wall Street are untouchable; they are well guarded behind closed doors of vast estates of luxury bought with ill-gotten gains.

I probably should have my big butt spanked for stupidly thinking those of Wall Street can be held accountable for their actions. However, wishful thinking does feel good, at times.

I do wish I could take a switch to the bare butts of Wall Street fat cats.

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/68618-thinking-about-the-bear-stearns-bailout?source=feed#comment-127155 127155
"I hope you have a crate of gas-X because that BSC stock is going to cause you some indigestion."

I will fall to my knees and pray for profitable salvation.

There is little concern on my part. Should my trading strategy prove successful, I will be out of Bear Stearns stock before close of markets on Monday, and enjoying a five to ten percent profit margin.

If not, I will be out of BSC by Monday afternoon and suffering a five to ten percent loss on my money.

Trading stocks is simply an art of risk management. You have to be willing to take risks if to effectively play the markets.

Prescient shares his thoughts,

"Sharks are out looking for blood and several firms will make serious money."

Yep. Bear Stearns is a K-Mart blue light special at a fifty percent discount sale price, a blood in the streets sale. I am noting there is even a Chinese shark or two joining in on this feeding frenzy. Rumor has it JP Morgan will be the shark who takes the biggest bites.

Peter Lynch up there, smells this one just right. Only problem with Bear Sterns, setting aside a cash flow problem, is fear and panic. Any of you readers notice how fast trades were flying by on Friday? Heck, I had to down ten cups of Folger's jitter juice just to catch every fifth trade flying by at warp nine.

Label me a sinner. I jumped in to wring a few Chicken Little necks for a fine feast. Rather gratifying to feed upon fear and panic of others; easy pickings. Easy to do when you do not have Heavenly commandments and proper societal mores in your way.

Pays well to be a pagan savage.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation

]]> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:53:20 -0400
"I hope you have a crate of gas-X because that BSC stock is going to cause you some indigestion."

I will fall to my knees and pray for profitable salvation.

There is little concern on my part. Should my trading strategy prove successful, I will be out of Bear Stearns stock before close of markets on Monday, and enjoying a five to ten percent profit margin.

If not, I will be out of BSC by Monday afternoon and suffering a five to ten percent loss on my money.

Trading stocks is simply an art of risk management. You have to be willing to take risks if to effectively play the markets.

Prescient shares his thoughts,

"Sharks are out looking for blood and several firms will make serious money."

Yep. Bear Stearns is a K-Mart blue light special at a fifty percent discount sale price, a blood in the streets sale. I am noting there is even a Chinese shark or two joining in on this feeding frenzy. Rumor has it JP Morgan will be the shark who takes the biggest bites.

Peter Lynch up there, smells this one just right. Only problem with Bear Sterns, setting aside a cash flow problem, is fear and panic. Any of you readers notice how fast trades were flying by on Friday? Heck, I had to down ten cups of Folger's jitter juice just to catch every fifth trade flying by at warp nine.

Label me a sinner. I jumped in to wring a few Chicken Little necks for a fine feast. Rather gratifying to feed upon fear and panic of others; easy pickings. Easy to do when you do not have Heavenly commandments and proper societal mores in your way.

Pays well to be a pagan savage.


Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation

]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/68620-the-bailout-s-pathetic-here-s-who-to-blame?source=feed#comment-126952 126952
Before rushing into one of my usual American Indian rants, Henry, are not you pleased as punch Eliot is being "keelhauled" just as he keelhauled you, back when Eliot was attorney general? Boy howdy, what goes around, comes around.

This is what is happening to Wall Street and CEO types; go around, come around. You are a CEO type, yes? You understand the primary purpose of Wall Street is to defraud the American public of their money so CEO types can drive Mercedes Benz cars and live a lavish lifestyle within an upper New York state vast estate.

Henry, dear boy, this is not a bailout of Bear Sterns. This is a bailout from our American public panic. Roll down your driver's seat Porsche window then have a look at the streets. No, I am not writing Wall Street, I am writing Main Street, Hometown, America. Take a look around. Open your eyes. What I see out here, from my 1952 Chevy pickup rust bucket, is American families in a world of financial hurt.

I see American parents wondering if they will be able to buy food to feed their children until the next paycheck arrives. This is not a problem for Jaguar driving, estate living Wall Street tycoons, yes?

America is in a panic. America is being foreclosed out of its home. America is visiting Check-Into-Cash to finance a few gallons of gasoline. America is not bothering to balance its checkbook; no money.

America is in a panic and this is what the Bear Sterns bailout is all about. This chimpanzee in the Oval Office, those boys at the fed bank, are not at all concerned about Bear Sterns. This is all a circus show with intent to persuade Americans to not form past history long lines at bank doors to withdraw what little cash they have.

Americans are to blame for borrowing more money than can be afforded. Wall Street is to blame for easy lending to people who those lenders knew could not afford those loans. Americans are placed in a position of needing to borrow because of Wall Street defrauding money from our public simply for financial greed.

Americans are hurting because we have a chimpanzee in the Oval Office and we have crooks residing on Wall Street.

This Bear Sterns bailout is a federally sponsored three ring circus act to entertain Americans, to divert America's attention from Wall Street corruption and bad federal economic policy.

Should Bear Sterns go down, so will our American economy and our entire world economy. This is a chimpanzee led circus act to prevent our public panic from becoming a hanging noose carrying, torch bearing lynch mob howling at the doors of the White House, with has a street address on Wall Street.

While I have significant compassion for our American families, I am truly delighted to watch Wall Street fall to a status of Skid Row, Los Angeles, shame. This is justice for decades of Wall Street financial crime. Sadly, Americans are being punished for crimes of Wall Street crooks.

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]> Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:55:32 -0400
Before rushing into one of my usual American Indian rants, Henry, are not you pleased as punch Eliot is being "keelhauled" just as he keelhauled you, back when Eliot was attorney general? Boy howdy, what goes around, comes around.

This is what is happening to Wall Street and CEO types; go around, come around. You are a CEO type, yes? You understand the primary purpose of Wall Street is to defraud the American public of their money so CEO types can drive Mercedes Benz cars and live a lavish lifestyle within an upper New York state vast estate.

Henry, dear boy, this is not a bailout of Bear Sterns. This is a bailout from our American public panic. Roll down your driver's seat Porsche window then have a look at the streets. No, I am not writing Wall Street, I am writing Main Street, Hometown, America. Take a look around. Open your eyes. What I see out here, from my 1952 Chevy pickup rust bucket, is American families in a world of financial hurt.

I see American parents wondering if they will be able to buy food to feed their children until the next paycheck arrives. This is not a problem for Jaguar driving, estate living Wall Street tycoons, yes?

America is in a panic. America is being foreclosed out of its home. America is visiting Check-Into-Cash to finance a few gallons of gasoline. America is not bothering to balance its checkbook; no money.

America is in a panic and this is what the Bear Sterns bailout is all about. This chimpanzee in the Oval Office, those boys at the fed bank, are not at all concerned about Bear Sterns. This is all a circus show with intent to persuade Americans to not form past history long lines at bank doors to withdraw what little cash they have.

Americans are to blame for borrowing more money than can be afforded. Wall Street is to blame for easy lending to people who those lenders knew could not afford those loans. Americans are placed in a position of needing to borrow because of Wall Street defrauding money from our public simply for financial greed.

Americans are hurting because we have a chimpanzee in the Oval Office and we have crooks residing on Wall Street.

This Bear Sterns bailout is a federally sponsored three ring circus act to entertain Americans, to divert America's attention from Wall Street corruption and bad federal economic policy.

Should Bear Sterns go down, so will our American economy and our entire world economy. This is a chimpanzee led circus act to prevent our public panic from becoming a hanging noose carrying, torch bearing lynch mob howling at the doors of the White House, with has a street address on Wall Street.

While I have significant compassion for our American families, I am truly delighted to watch Wall Street fall to a status of Skid Row, Los Angeles, shame. This is justice for decades of Wall Street financial crime. Sadly, Americans are being punished for crimes of Wall Street crooks.

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation]]>