tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68610271854321441482024-02-08T12:14:18.074-07:00The Right HuffCrista Huffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429020308221764149noreply@blogger.comBlogger129125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6861027185432144148.post-75878799557162010572012-01-19T12:01:00.000-07:002012-01-19T12:01:13.342-07:00Colorado Caucus Classes, Jan./Feb. 2012 (updated)Dear Political Friends,<div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: small; "><span><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="font-size: large; ">Here is a schedule of upcoming caucus classes at my home in Castle Pines, CO. There is a nominal fee for the class, which is waived for young students.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span>Friday, Jan. 20, 10:00 - 11:15 AM (a newspaper writer will join us for this class)</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span>Friday, Jan. 20, 7:00 - 8:15 PM</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span>Saturday, Jan. 21, 10:00 - 11:15 AM</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">Tues., Jan. 24, 7:00 - 8:15 PM </div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">Weds., Jan. 25, 10:00 - 11:15 AM</div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span>Weds., Jan. 25, 7:00 - 8:15 PM</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span>Thurs., Jan. 26, 10:00 - 11:15 AM</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span>Fri., Jan. 27, 10:00 - 11:15 AM</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span>Weds., Feb. 1, 10:00 - 11:15 AM</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span>Thurs., Feb. 2, 10:00 - 11:15 AM</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span>Friday, Feb. 3, 10:00 - 11:15 AM</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span>Sat., Feb. 4, 10:00 - 11:15 AM</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span><b>...and this one at a different location:</b></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span>Sat., Jan. 28, 5:30 - 7:00 PM at a location in Centennial, CO, near Arapahoe & University. </span>(rsvp to get the location; it will fill up quickly)</div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span>Tuesday, Feb. 7, 7:00 - 9:00 PM -- <b>Your Neighborhood Republican Caucus</b></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span>Tuesday, March 6, 7:00 - 9:00 PM --<b> Your Neighborhood Democrat Caucus</b></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span>Attendees MUST RSVP because classes might be cancelled, rescheduled, or held at a different location. Please contact me to rsvp and to get the address. Use this email address: <span>research@goodfellowllc.com</span> </span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span>Class arrangements can be made for groups which you might put together, at locations within a reasonable driving distance; and for private instruction. Democrats and all types of non-Republicans are welcome, including children and out-of-state guests. Non-partisan presentations can be arranged; otherwise, the presentations concentrate on Republican Party procedures and candidates.</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span>Best regards,</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span>Crista Huff</span></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Crista Huffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429020308221764149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6861027185432144148.post-53345388007387514052011-10-15T19:19:00.000-06:002011-10-15T19:19:47.397-06:00Patriot Success, October 2011It may seem like the Socialists are winning all the battles, but here is some good news for the Patriots! (Most recent news: Wisconsin)<div><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>* * * *</b></span></i></span></div><div><div><div><div style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; display: inline !important; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span">In Kansas: </span><a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/healthcare/brownback-kansas-to-return-31-5-million-health-exchange-grant-20110809"><span class="Apple-style-span">Brownback: Kansas to Return $31.5 Million Health Exchange Grant -- </span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>NationalJounral.com</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">, Aug. 10, 2011</span></span></span></p></span></div></span></div></span></span></span></span></span></div></span></span></span></span></div></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><i><br /></i></span></strong></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><i>"</i></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Kansas is the second state to turn back "early innovator" funds to set up health-insurance exchanges. Oklahoma refused a similar grant in April after initially applying for the funds."</span></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><i><br /></i></span></strong></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><i><br /></i></span></strong></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>* * * *</b></span></i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; "><strong><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; "><strong><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; display: inline !important; "><strong style="font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="color: rgb(2, 124, 29); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">In Michigan:</span></span></strong></p></span></div></span></div></span></span></strong></span></span></b></span></div></span></span></strong></span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20110711/NEWS04/107110324/Report-says-1997-reform-saved-Michigan-billions?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Michigan's 401(k) plan saved state more than $4 billion</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> -- </span><i style="font-weight: normal; ">LansingStateJournal.com</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">, July 10, 2011</span></span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "></div></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(44, 44, 44); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(44, 44, 44); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; "><br /></span></div>"A 14-year-old reform that ended defined pension benefits for new state employees has saved the state up to $4.3 billion in unfunded state employee pension liability, according to a new report by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy."</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>* * * *</b></span></i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; "><strong style="font-size: 12pt; "><span style="color: rgb(2, 124, 29); ">In Wisconsin</span>:</strong></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><a href="http://americasmrsright.areavoices.com/2011/08/08/good-stuff-happening-in-wisconsin/"><span class="Apple-style-span" >Good Stuff Happening in Wisconsin</span></a> -- read about statewide cost savings and other quality of life improvements that started in Gov. Walker's office.<br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong style="font-size: 12pt; "><br /></strong></p><p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong style="font-size: 12pt; "><a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/08/10/on,_wisconsin!_gop_holds_state_senate,_left_devastated"><span class="Apple-style-span">On, Wisconsin! GOP Holds State Senate, Left Devastated</span></a> -- <i>Townhall.com</i>, Aug. 10, 2011</strong></p></span></div></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"Democrats, liberal groups, and labor unions spent <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/the-wisconsin-recall-vacuum/2011/08/08/gIQAn3eH4I_blog.html" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); ">roughly $20 million</a> on these races -- an unfathomable sum for off-year, state level races. They were better organized, better funded, and seemed to have a distinct intensity advantage. And yet, when the people of Wisconsin had their say, Republicans prevailed."</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-weight: 800;"><br /></p></span></div></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>* * * *</b></span></i></span></span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="font-style: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; display: inline !important; "><strong style="font-size: 12pt; "><span style="color: rgb(2, 124, 29); ">Oh Canada!</span>: The Conservative Party won a majority of seats in the House of Commons.</strong></p></span></span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><p style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; "></p><p style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; "></p></span></div></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px; ">"But the installation of a majority government by itself is not a political revolution. The biggest changes in Canada were indicated by the devastating defeats of two of the opposition parties.</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><p style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />The Bloc Quebecois was reduced from 50 seats to only four. Formerly it represented most of Canada’s second-largest province. Now it represents a tiny rump."</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; "></p></span></div><div style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="font-style: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span">* * * *</span></p></span></span></i></span></div></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="font-style: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p></span></span></i></span></div></span></div></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="font-style: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><strong style="font-size: 12pt; "><span style="color: rgb(2, 124, 29); ">The Netherlands:</span></strong></p></span></span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="font-style: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p></span></span></i></span></div></span></div><div style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="font-style: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.hudson-ny.org/2219/netherlands-abandons-multiculturalism" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span">The Netherlands to Abandon Multiculturalism</span></a><b> -- </b>hudson-ny.org, June 23. 2011</span></p></span></span></i></span></div></span></div></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">The Dutch government says it will abandon the long-standing model of multiculturalism that has encouraged Muslim immigrants to create a parallel society within the Netherlands. ....</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="font-style: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p></span></span></i></span></div></span></div><div style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="font-style: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span">* * * *</span></p></span></span></i></span></div></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="font-style: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.therighthuff.blogspot.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">The Right Huff</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> is Crista Huff's blog for politics and items of sociological or financial interest. Crista Huff also manages </span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Goodfellow LLC</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span">, a subscription-only stock market website. We strive to identify financially healthy companies in which traders and investors can buy shares and earn dividends and capital gains. See </span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/free-stock-market-content/investment-disclaimer" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">disclaimer</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> for the risks associated with investing in the stock market. See your tax advisor for the tax consequences of investing. See your estate planning attorney to clarify beneficiary and inheritance issues associated with your assets.</span></span></span></p></span></span></i></span></div></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="font-style: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></p></span></span></i></span></div></span></div></span></span></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><i><br /></i></span></strong></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><i><br /></i></span></strong></div></div></div></div>Crista Huffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429020308221764149noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6861027185432144148.post-61226435355677394902011-10-15T17:32:00.003-06:002011-10-15T17:38:22.712-06:00"Big media outlets ignore subpoena of entire top tier of Obama Administration"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">by <b>Anthony Martin</b>, <i>Conservative Examiner</i>, <a href="http://www.examiner.com">www.examiner.com</a></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">Perhaps the biggest story in the political world since the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach Bill Clinton in the 1990s, although the Senate refused to remove him from office, is the fact that this week a subpoena from the House was issued to the entire top tier of the Obama Administration. Yet as of today the big media outlets--ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, the New York Times, and the Washington Post--have ignored the story entirely. And if they did mention it in passing, it was buried on a back page or relegated to an inconspicuous web page while never seeing the light of day on the air. <strong style="font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/2011/10/12/house-oversight-chairman-darrell-issa-subpoenas-corrupt-attorney-general-eric-holder-over-fast-and-furious-lies/" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">Only Fox gave the story top billing.</a></strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">Regarding the news blackout of the subpoena, <strong style="font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2011/10/hypocrisy-and-hope-credit-and-blame-in.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">one astute observer</a></strong> had this to say:</p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Big media complicity in the news blackout is a heavy indictment against modern journalism in America today.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><blockquote style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 40px; background-color: rgb(234, 239, 245); border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(224, 230, 238); border-right-color: rgb(224, 230, 238); border-bottom-color: rgb(224, 230, 238); border-left-color: rgb(224, 230, 238); font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">As evidence, ladies and gentlemen of the jury of history, I present the undisputed fact that on the evening news shows of NBC, ABC and CBS this week not one -- NOT ONE -- mentioned the unprecedented subpoena by a Congressional committee of information regarding the entire top echelon of the Justice Department in the Gunwalker Scandal.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">Had this scandal involved John Ashcroft and the Bush Administration, does anyone doubt that the story would have led the nightly half-hour "puppet theater"? Or, that it wouldn't have been covered like a blanket by all news departments from the moment the blood of Brian Terry dried in the desert sands of Rio Rico?</p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><strong style="font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2011/10/hypocrisy-and-hope-credit-and-blame-in.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">In a stunningly insightful piece at Sipsy Street Irregulars today</a></strong>, citizen investigative journalist Mike Vanderboegh writes that when history records the dreadful events leading to the Project Gunwalker scandal, and its subsequent cover-up, the mainstream media will not be treated kindly. In fact, they will be the subject of ridicule and scorn for their complicity in the scandal, giving aid to the Administration's attempt to hide its illegal activity and cover-ups by either refusing to report it or by slanting its reporting to imply that the key players at the top did no wrong. </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">The only exception to this stinging indictment against the mainstream media has been reporter <strong style="font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/2011/10/07/white-house-furious-cbs-fast-and-furious-investigation" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">Sharyl Attkisson at CBS News</a></strong>. Attkisson's has been a lone voice, an oasis of investigative integrity in a desert of journalistic malpractice within the hallowed halls of what was once the epitome of tenacious gum-shoe reporting, the foundation of which was laid by Edward R. Murrow, Marvin and Bernard Kalb, Douglas Edwards, and Walter Cronkite.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">However, the vacuum of serious investigative journalism created by the mainstream media's abdication of its responsibility has been filled by the 'alternative media,' such as bloggers, free-lance writers, and columnists for lesser-known media outlets.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">In the case of the Gunwalker scandal, had it not been for <strong style="font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/david-codrea" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">National Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea</a></strong>, and investigative reporter Mike Vanderboegh, this story would have never been brought to the forefront of public attention. These astute and tenacious journalists set onto the trail that led to their breaking the Gunwalker story all the way back in December of 2010. Shortly thereafter this writer began to hammer away at the Administration, seeking answers concerning the scandal. At about the same time, writers such as <strong style="font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-st-louis/kurt-hofmann" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">Kurt Hofmann</a></strong> and <strong style="font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-seattle/dave-workman" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">Dave Workman</a></strong>, both of whom write at <strong style="font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://www.examiner.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">The Examiner</a></strong>, did the same thing.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">Thus, unlike the Watergate scandal during which the Washington Post and investigative reporters Woodward and Bernstein made sure that the Nixon fiasco stayed at the top of the news heap for months until Nixon was driven from office, this story--which is infinitely worse and much more widespread than Watergate--has been the work of alternative media journalists. And the mainstream media have been dragged kicking and screaming into it due to their dogged determination to bury any story that places Obama or any member of his Administration in a negative light.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">The pressure, however, has been building to the point to where it is nearly impossible for the media moguls to continue to bury the Gunwalker story. Even now, with the historic events that have occurred this week, there is much more to come that will stun even the most seasoned political observers.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">Waiting in the wings, in the shadows, are numerous figures who know the score and who are ready to tell all they know.</p></span>Crista Huffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429020308221764149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6861027185432144148.post-60474391126710540082011-10-15T10:39:00.003-06:002011-10-15T10:42:21.740-06:00"We fabricated drug charges against innocent people to meet arrest quotas, former detective testifies."<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(78, 78, 78); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(238, 239, 240); ">written by <a href="mailto:jmarzulli@nydailynews.com" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(1, 95, 182); text-decoration: none; ">jmarzulli@nydailynews.com</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(238, 239, 240); "><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(78, 78, 78); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(78, 78, 78); ">A former <a title="New York City Police Department" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/New+York+City+Police+Department" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(1, 95, 182); text-decoration: none; ">NYPD</a> narcotics detective snared in a corruption scandal testified it was common practice to fabricate drug charges against innocent people to meet arrest quotas.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(78, 78, 78); ">The bombshell testimony from <a title="Stephen Anderson" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Stephen+Anderson" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(1, 95, 182); text-decoration: none; ">Stephen Anderson</a> is the first public account of the twisted culture behind the false arrests in the <a title="Brooklyn (New York City)" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Brooklyn+(New+York+City)" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(1, 95, 182); text-decoration: none; ">Brooklyn</a> South and Queens narc squads, which led to the arrests of eight cops and a massive shakeup.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(78, 78, 78); ">Anderson, testifying under a cooperation agreement with prosecutors, was busted for planting cocaine, a practice known as "flaking," on four men in a Queens bar in 2008 to help out fellow cop <a title="Henry Tavarez" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Henry+Tavarez" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(1, 95, 182); text-decoration: none; ">Henry Tavarez</a>, whose buy-and-bust activity had been low.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(78, 78, 78); ">"Tavarez was ... was worried about getting sent back [to patrol] and, you know, the supervisors getting on his case," he recounted at the corruption trial of Brooklyn South narcotics <a title="Jason Arbeeny" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Jason+Arbeeny" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(1, 95, 182); text-decoration: none; ">Detective Jason Arbeeny</a>.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(78, 78, 78); ">"I had decided to give him [Tavarez] the drugs to help him out so that he could say he had a buy," Anderson testified last week in <a title="Brooklyn Supreme Court" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Brooklyn+Supreme+Court" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(1, 95, 182); text-decoration: none; ">Brooklyn Supreme Court</a>.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(78, 78, 78); ">He made clear he wasn't about to pass off the two legit arrests he had made in the bar to Tavarez.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(78, 78, 78); ">"As a detective, you still have a number to reach while you are in the narcotics division," he said.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(78, 78, 78); ">NYPD officials did not respond to a request for comment.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(78, 78, 78); ">Anderson worked in the Queens and Brooklyn South narcotics squads and was called to the stand at Arbeeny's bench trial to show the illegal conduct wasn't limited to a single squad.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(78, 78, 78); ">"Did you observe with some frequency this ... practice which is taking someone who was seemingly not guilty of a crime and laying the drugs on them?" <a title="Gustin Reichbach" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Gustin+Reichbach" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(1, 95, 182); text-decoration: none; ">Justice Gustin Reichbach</a> asked Anderson.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(78, 78, 78); ">"Yes, multiple times," he replied.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(78, 78, 78); ">The judge pressed Anderson on whether he ever gave a thought to the damage he was inflicting on the innocent.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(78, 78, 78); ">"It was something I was seeing a lot of, whether it was from supervisors or undercovers and even investigators," he said.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(78, 78, 78); ">"It's almost like you have no emotion with it, that they attach the bodies to it, they're going to be out of jail tomorrow anyway; nothing is going to happen to them anyway."</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(78, 78, 78); ">The city paid $300,000 to settle a false arrest suit by <a title="Jose Colon" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Jose+Colon" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(1, 95, 182); text-decoration: none; ">Jose Colon</a> and his brother Maximo, who were falsely arrested by Anderson and Tavarez. A surveillance tape inside the bar showed they had been framed.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(78, 78, 78); ">A federal judge presiding over the suit said the NYPD's plagued by "widespread falsification" by arresting officers.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(78, 78, 78); "><br /></p><span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><br /></span></span>Crista Huffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429020308221764149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6861027185432144148.post-51980885866850062292011-10-12T08:07:00.008-06:002011-10-12T08:26:01.700-06:00Ballot Question 1A on Term Limits, Douglas County, CO<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: large; ">Many voters don’t know that <span class="Apple-style-span">Proposition 1A gives a third term to the current sheriff,</span> already in his second term. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div></div></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: large; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: large; ">Supporters tell us we can vote out a bad Sheriff. In Douglas County partisan races, delegates decide who runs for Sheriff, and the incumbent <i>always</i> wins. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">I </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: large; ">know this because I hosted a caucus and chose delegates specifically to help our current Sheriff win his place on the ballot in March 2006, and I have since trained another 2000 Colorado citizens how to become delegates and select candidates for office. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: large; ">There hasn’t been a real two-party contest in the Sheriff’s general election in decades.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><span><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><span><b>The truth is that in Douglas County, November voters don’t really select the Sheriff. This is because our voting population majority is Republican, and the Republican always wins. <span class="Apple-style-span">(There is no elected Democrat in a partisan office anywhere in Douglas County.) </span>Therefore, the candidate chosen at the Republican Assembly or at the Republican Primary becomes the winner of the November election. <span class="Apple-style-span">Our best chance at having a new person take on a fresh, supervisory role at the Sheriff's Department is to keep the current maximum of eight years in office. </span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><span><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><span><b>Also, a change to elected </b></span><span style="font-size: large; ">official rules shouldn’t apply to those already in office. When term limits started, they didn’t affect incumbents. Why should we give our current Sheriff special </span><span style="font-size: large; ">treatment? </span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><span><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><span><b>Supporters of 1A say we can’t afford $2,000 for special training required for a new Sheriff. The Sheriff’s budget is $46 million! We could send a new Sheriff to </b></span><span style="font-size: large; ">dozens of courses and not hurt the budget! </span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><span><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><span><b>Supporters tell us the Department will fall apart when we change Sheriffs. The Douglas County Sheriff Department is a large enterprise, and I am confident that there are many qualified employees who would jump at the chance of serving the County in a future elected capacity. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><span><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><span><b>Another more serious problem with ballot question 1A is that, if successful, it will open the door for more ballot questions to extend term limits in other elected offices. Here's how I know this:</b></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><span><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><span><b>In the 1990's in Colorado, a few small rural towns wanted to institute legal gaming in order to shore up their struggling economies. Many voters, including myself, thought, "How bad could this be?" And we voted yes. Gaming was instituted in those three towns.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><span><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><span><b>In the next one or two election cycles, a plethora of Colorado towns put forth ballot initiatives in order to also institute gaming in their towns as well. We had opened the floodgates! The voters got wise to the big picture, and voted "no" repeatedly from that point onward.</b></span></div></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span">Opening the door to the extension of term limits for the Sheriff in Douglas County will invariably lead to efforts to extend term limits for many more offices,</span> which could include Treasurer, County Commissioner, Clerk & Recorder, and more.</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><span><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><span>I’m voting No on 1A. Eight years in office is long enough.</span></div></div></span></b></span></div>Crista Huffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429020308221764149noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6861027185432144148.post-410153270287479812011-09-29T21:54:00.005-06:002011-09-29T22:00:10.303-06:00Sarah Palin Can Save This Republic<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><h3 style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.286em; margin-left: 0px; clear: both; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" >(article originally published at </span><a href="http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/cristahuff/2011/09/26/sarah_palin_can_save_this_republic/page/full/"><span class="Apple-style-span" >finance.townhall.com</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" > on 09/26/11)</span></span></h3></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(114, 116, 122); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">I am a conservative, which means that I believe in fiscal responsibility, free markets, personal responsibility and the Constitution. When the voting choices are between a Democrat and a Republican, I vote Republican because that gives me better odds that my candidate will be fiscally responsible and loyal to the Republic.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 19px;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(114, 116, 122); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><h3 style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.1666em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.286em; margin-left: 0px; clear: both; ">There are other people who vote Republican who bear no philosophical resemblance to me. They think it’s okay to kill babies without restraint, raise taxes and grow government. I don’t know why they call themselves Republicans, because their philosophies do not even remotely mirror the Republican Party platform. I also don’t know why fiscally responsible “Democrats” vote Democrat. But that’s not my problem to solve.</h3><h3 style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.1666em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.286em; margin-left: 0px; clear: both; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); ">As a citizen activist and a voter, I see it as my job to help save the Republic from socialism and fiscal demise</span> (which, by the way, always go hand-in-hand). I want a presidential candidate who has no history of cozying up to terrorists; nor people from religions and countries which do not denounce terrorists; illegal immigrants; nor socialist policies. That omits Chris Christie, Ron Paul, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney from receiving my support.</h3><h3 style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.1666em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.286em; margin-left: 0px; clear: both; ">I would be wary of supporting anybody hyped by the MSM, because it’s in their best interest to promote the biggest RINO among the candidate field. The MSM wants a Democrat to win, and just as they promoted John McCain, to the shock and horror of my fellow conservatives, they will again promote somebody whose policies bear no resemblance to conservative policies. And then they will refer to that person as a “conservative”, which really galls me, because the public is unfortunately gullible enough to believe that somebody is conservative simply because the MSM says so.</h3><h3 style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.1666em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.286em; margin-left: 0px; clear: both; ">The MSM will keep its distance from any truly conservative candidate who can stand firmly on their record, because the true conservative stands a much, much better chance of winning a presidential election than a RINO.</h3><h3 style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.1666em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.286em; margin-left: 0px; clear: both; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); ">My conservative candidate of choice is Sarah Palin.</span></h3><h3 style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.1666em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.286em; margin-left: 0px; clear: both; ">Sarah Palin’s record in Alaska shows her to be the bravest, most effective legislator I’ve ever known. She accomplished incredible feats as Governor and united Democrats and Republicans in order to succeed with projects which brought great prosperity to her state. She swept the Capitol clean of traditional political corruption in situations where typical legislators wouldn’t dare risk their political capital and financial support by rocking the boat.</h3><h3 style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.1666em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.286em; margin-left: 0px; clear: both; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); ">Sarah Palin scares people. </span>I can understand why she’d scare politicians, especially when entering a White House and federal government completely staffed by Chicago-style thugs. But to me, the liberal fear of Sarah Palin is just incredibly silly. Yes, yes, I know they’re terrified that she’ll force them to have Down Syndrome babies. Get real! The POTUS has no ability to change abortion laws, and this is not (yet) a socialist country, which means the POTUS cannot force you to have abortions OR babies.</h3><h3 style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.1666em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.286em; margin-left: 0px; clear: both; ">We are at a crossroads in America, where <span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); ">the single most important issue is saving America from a socialist train wreck. </span></h3><h3 style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.1666em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.286em; margin-left: 0px; clear: both; ">Listen carefully, liberals and conservatives. Your abortion-driven vote is a classic case of not seeing the forest for the trees. If we do not elect a fiscal conservative in November 2012 who will dramatically rein in debt and spending, remove onerous business regulations and decrease corporate taxes, your concerns over abortion will be moot, because<span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "> in socialist governments, your opinion does not count! </span></h3><h3 style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.1666em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.286em; margin-left: 0px; clear: both; ">If we save the Republic, you still get to fight over abortion. If we lose the Republic, your government will tell you EXACTLY what you can and cannot do with your reproductive system.</h3><h3 style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.1666em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.286em; margin-left: 0px; clear: both; ">You want everybody to have abortions? Then you need to save the Republic first.</h3><h3 style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.1666em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.286em; margin-left: 0px; clear: both; ">You want nobody to have abortions? Then you need to save the Republic first.</h3><h3 style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.1666em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.286em; margin-left: 0px; clear: both; ">You want to save the Republic? Elect somebody who has already saved her state: Sarah Palin.</h3></span></div>Crista Huffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429020308221764149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6861027185432144148.post-18625791848083484062011-07-04T15:28:00.002-06:002011-07-04T15:31:48.401-06:00Governor Dayton Government Shutdown<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">(reprinted with permission from author Paul Pekarek)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; "><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">Governor Dayton and the media have made much noise about the Government Shutdown. But what are the facts? </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; "><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; "><u></u> <u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; ">Ready to hear about how the <b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Governor Dayton Government Shutdown</span></b> came to be? <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; "><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; "><u></u> <u></u></span></span></p><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-top: 0in; "><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">Legislature made a balanced budget. Governor Dayton won’t sign it – in other words, in simple terms: <u></u><u></u><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Dayton</span></b><u></u><u></u><b><span style="font-weight: bold; "> <i><span style="font-style: italic; ">refused</span></i></span></b>.<u></u><u></u></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">Earlier on, <u></u><u></u>Dayton<u></u><u></u> offered a budget. It was late. His fellow DFL Legislators failed to even introduce <u></u><u></u>Dayton<u></u><u></u>’s Budget </span></span><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: windowtext; ">Plan </span></span><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">to the Legislature.</span></span><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: windowtext; "> How can this possibly have happened? </span></span><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; "> Is the governor even <b><i><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; ">trying</span></i></b> to make a budget? No. <u></u><u></u><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Dayton</span></b><u></u><u></u><b><span style="font-weight: bold; "> <i><span style="font-style: italic; ">refused</span></i></span></b>.<u></u><u></u></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">Republican Legislators gave Governor Dayton 9 budget bills & a tax bill. <u></u><u></u>Dayton<u></u><u></u> vetoed all 10. In other words, <u></u><u></u><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Dayton</span></b><u></u><u></u><b><span style="font-weight: bold; "> <i><span style="font-style: italic; ">refused</span></i></span></b>.<u></u><u></u></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">Republican Legislators funded K-12 at <u></u><u></u>Dayton<u></u><u></u>’s levels. <u></u><u></u><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Dayton</span></b><u></u><u></u><b><span style="font-weight: bold; "> <i><span style="font-style: italic; ">refused</span></i></span></b>.<u></u><u></u></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">Republican Legislators funded Public Safety at <u></u><u></u>Dayton<u></u><u></u>’s levels. <u></u><u></u><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Dayton</span></b><u></u><u></u><b><span style="font-weight: bold; "> <i><span style="font-style: italic; ">refused</span></i></span></b>.<u></u><u></u></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; ">Republican Legislators removed tax reforms. <u></u><u></u><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Dayton</span></b><u></u><u></u><b><span style="font-weight: bold; "> <i><span style="font-style: italic; ">refused</span></i></span></b>.</span></span><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; "><u></u><u></u></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">Republican Legislators asked for a mere outline of <u></u><u></u>Dayton<u></u><u></u>’s extra $1.8 billion in tax & spend ideas. <u></u>Dayton<u></u> gave not even an <i><span style="font-style: italic; ">outline</span></i>, more-less a <i><span style="font-style: italic; ">plan</span></i> – So … again we see, <u></u><u></u><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Dayton</span></b><u></u><u></u><b><span style="font-weight: bold; "> refused</span></b>.<u></u><u></u></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">Republican Legislators passed a $34B budget (14% over our prior $30B budget). Despite false claims of “Republican Budget Cuts”, this record budget increased funding for schools, hospitals, and a host of other state activities. Indeed, this record spending shows how Republicans tried so hard to avoid a shutdown, that they actually compromised, no <b><i><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; ">abandoned</span></i></b>, their goal of cutting government. Yet, $34 Billion is not big enough for <u></u>Dayton<u></u>; the 14% increase in government isn’t big enough for <u></u>Dayton<u></u> – <u></u><u></u>Dayton<u></u><u></u> refused to accept all this liberal big-government panacea. Again, we see -- <u></u><u></u><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Dayton</span></b><u></u><u></u><b><span style="font-weight: bold; "> refused</span></b>.<u></u><u></u></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">Republican Legislators compromised, offering to keep MN the nation’s 5th-largest tax burden, per <u></u><u></u>Dayton<u></u><u></u>’s wishes, by eliminating Republican tax reforms & tax reductions. The reforms & reductions would have benefitted all taxpayers. Republicans offered all these taxes to <u></u><u></u>Dayton<u></u><u></u>, instead of to taxpayers, hoping to compromise to avoid a government shutdown. Again, we see -- <u></u><u></u><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Dayton</span></b><u></u><u></u><b><span style="font-weight: bold; "> refused</span></b>.<u></u><u></u></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">Republican Legislators compromised their 2 Nov 2010 election sweep from voters wanting smaller government, by compromising, giving <u></u><u></u>Dayton<u></u><u></u> his preferred huge budget and increased regulations. Even at this supreme Republican sacrifice, for the cause of compromise; again, we see -- <u></u><u></u><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Dayton</span></b><u></u><u></u><b><span style="font-weight: bold; "> refused</span></b>.<u></u><u></u></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">Governor Dayton intentionally shut down the government, and keeps it shut down. First, Republicans were waiting in chambers for <u></u><u></u>Dayton<u></u><u></u> to call them back into session, even at the 11<sup>th</sup> hour. <u></u>Dayton<u></u> failed to avert this <b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Governor Dayton Government Shutdown</span></b> even at 10pm on the eve of the shutdown – even two hours before the <b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Governor Dayton Government Shutdown</span></b> would occur, again, we see, <u></u><u></u><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Dayton</span></b><u></u><u></u><b><span style="font-weight: bold; "> refused</span></b>. But that’s not the end of this number eleven. Governor Dayton continues to refuse. Now news outlets are printing endless examples about how the <b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Governor Dayton Government Shutdown</span></b> is hurting Minnesotans. And still, even with all the media coverage of the <b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Governor Dayton Government Shutdown</span></b> – again, we see: </span></span><b><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: windowtext; font-weight: bold; ">Governor</span></span></b><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: windowtext; "> </span></span><b><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; ">Dayton refused</span></span></b><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">.<u></u><u></u></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><u></u><u></u><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">Dayton</span></span><u></u><u></u><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; "> won’t compromise his extra 6%; he won’t give any counter-offer. He demands Republicans compromise on each & every principle, while he insists he not compromise on a single thing. Only in socialist ‘doublespeak’ can that be called “Compromise”</span></span><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: windowtext; ">.</span></span><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; "> Governor Dayton has behaved as an intransigent ideologue – Republican Legislators compromised on almost every point – even entirely abandoning many points. Again, we see, … <b><i><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; ">Governor</span></i></b><i><span style="font-style: italic; "> <b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Dayton refused</span></b></span></i>.<u></u><u></u></span></span></li></ol><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; "><u></u> <u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; ">Regards,<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Blackadder ITC'; font-weight: bold; "> - Paul<u></u><u></u></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-weight: bold; ">Paul Pekarek, </span></span></b><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; ">Major, USAF (Retired) </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; "><br /></span></span></p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><div style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span">* * * *</span></p></span></span></i></span></div></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.therighthuff.blogspot.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">The Right Huff</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> is Crista Huff's blog for politics and items of sociological or financial interest. Crista Huff also manages </span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Goodfellow LLC</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span">, a subscription-only stock market website. We strive to identify financially healthy companies in which traders and investors can buy shares and earn dividends and capital gains. 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Our speaker will be former Congressman and one of the 2010 Gubernatorial Candidates for Colorado, <span class="Apple-style-span" ><b>Tom Tancredo.</b></span> The discussion will be "Let's Talk Politics" plus a myriad of other interesting discussions with Congressman Tancredo on illegal immigration, The Agenda, etc. Please let me know if you can attend as space will be limited: <span class="Apple-style-span" >margoknutson@gmail.com</span>.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Food and drinks will be served. </span></div><p></p><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><p align="CENTER" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0in; "><b><br /></b></p><p align="CENTER" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0in; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>July 12, Tuesday</b></span></p><p align="CENTER" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0in; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Politics on the Rocks -- Summer Kick-Off</b></span>, 5:30 - 7:30 PM at The Warehouse Restaurant and Gallery in Colorado Springs. More info on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=168222406573193"><span class="Apple-style-span">Facebook</span></a>!</span></p><p align="CENTER" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0in; "><span class="Apple-style-span">*****</span></p><p align="CENTER" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0in; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: 17px; border-collapse: separate; "></span></span></p><div style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.therighthuff.blogspot.com/" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span">The Right Huff</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> is Crista Huff's blog for politics and items of sociological or financial interest. Crista Huff also manages </span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Goodfellow LLC</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span">, a subscription-only stock market website. We strive to identify financially healthy companies in which traders and investors can buy shares and earn dividends and capital gains. See </span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/free-stock-market-content/investment-disclaimer" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span">disclaimer</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> for the risks associated with investing in the stock market. See your tax advisor for the tax consequences of investing. See your estate planning attorney to clarify beneficiary and inheritance issues associated with your assets.</span></span></span></p></span></span></i></span></div></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></p></span></span></i></span></div></span></span></div><p></p></span></span></div></div>Crista Huffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429020308221764149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6861027185432144148.post-58280555300208011072011-06-17T08:56:00.003-06:002011-06-17T08:59:45.505-06:00Copa Holdings (CPA): Flying Over Stock Market Turbulence<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px; ">Copa Holdings S.A. (CPA, $64.90) is a Latin American provider of airline passenger and cargo service in Panama, Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><h3 style="font-size: 1.17em; ">"Copa Holdings, S. A. is one airline that is benefiting from the growth in Latin America. The company is growing earnings as it is able to more than offset rising fuel costs with higher revenues." -- <a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/news/53927/Zacks+Releases+Four+Powerful+''Buy''+Stocks:+Atmel,+Copa+Holdings,+Foot+Locker+and+Kraton+Performance+Polymers" _mce_href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/news/53927/Zacks+Releases+Four+Powerful+''Buy''+Stocks:+Atmel,+Copa+Holdings,+Foot+Locker+and+Kraton+Performance+Polymers">Zacks.com</a>, 05/25/11</h3><div>(Subscribe now to read more about Copa's financials, stock chart history, price target and Wall Street comments at <a href="http://www.GoodfellowLLC.com"><span class="Apple-style-span" >www.GoodfellowLLC.com</span></a>)</div><div><br /></div><div>* * * *</div><div><br /></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; "><strong><strong><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/" _mce_href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/">Goodfellow LLC</a></strong> is a subscription-only stock market website. We strive to identify financially healthy companies in which traders and investors can buy shares and earn dividends and capital gains. See <a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/free-stock-market-content/investment-disclaimer" _mce_href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/free-stock-market-content/investment-disclaimer">disclaimer</a> for the risks associated with investing in the stock market. See your tax advisor for the tax consequences of investing. See your estate planning attorney to clarify beneficiary and inheritance issues associated with your assets.</strong></span></div>Crista Huffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429020308221764149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6861027185432144148.post-82808074572250653082011-06-12T16:38:00.000-06:002011-06-12T16:38:35.050-06:00It's Time To Buy Low in Your Stock Portfolio!<div><br /></div>The latest post on my financial website, <a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" >Goodfellow LLC</span></a>, is a model portfolio of growth stocks, most of which pay dividends. Unfortunately, you can't read the stock recommendations unless you subscribe. But here's a synopsis.<div><br /></div><div>I listed stocks in fourteen industries: growth companies whose stocks are not in a free fall during the current stock market correction. Remember, stock market corrections are <i>normal</i>. And when the market goes back up, which stocks rebound first...the ones in a free fall or the ones which fell to the bottom of their trading ranges and bounced? The latter.</div><div><br /></div><div>Most of the stocks which I recommended in the article pay dividends, many in the 3-5% area.</div><div><br /></div><div>The industries are diverse, but do not include technology stocks, clothing retailers, nor American banks. These industries are out of favor in the market right now, despite some fantastic sales and earnings. No problem. I'll wait a few months and watch for a sector rotation.</div><div><br /></div><div>You can <a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/contact"><span class="Apple-style-span" >send me questions</span></a> from <a href="http://www.GoodfellowLLC.com"><span class="Apple-style-span" >Goodfellow LLC</span></a>'s website, and there are <a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/category/free-stock-market-content">free articles</a> which non-subscribers can view, including <a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/free-stock-market-content/how-to-structure-a-stock-portfolio"><span class="Apple-style-span" >How to Structure a Stock Portfolio</span></a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>*****</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.therighthuff.blogspot.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">The Right Huff</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> is Crista Huff's blog for politics and items of sociological or financial interest. Crista Huff also manages </span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Goodfellow LLC</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span">, a subscription-only stock market website. We strive to identify financially healthy companies in which traders and investors can buy shares and earn dividends and capital gains. See </span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/free-stock-market-content/investment-disclaimer" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">disclaimer</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> for the risks associated with investing in the stock market. See your tax advisor for the tax consequences of investing. See your estate planning attorney to clarify beneficiary and inheritance issues associated with your assets.</span></span></span></p></span></span></i></span></div><div><br /></div>Crista Huffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429020308221764149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6861027185432144148.post-67923551152599180812011-06-10T10:16:00.008-06:002011-06-10T16:46:48.416-06:00Living Life As I Choose by Nancy Wenlock<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span">(reprinted from </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/notes/nancy-wenlock/living-life-as-i-choose/10150198441386020?notif_t=note_tag"><span class="Apple-style-span">Facebook</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span">, June 10, 2011)</span></i></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">Waking up this morning the first thing I heard were the meadowlarks. Made me smile. Then a car drove by. A neighbor heading to work. A small airplane passed overhead. Sounds of people doing what they do. We and those we know love it out here. And it occurred to me that none of this needs government intervention. People are perfectly capable of living their lives, making their decisions, doing what they need to do, without being held down by an oppressive government interfering with every facit of our lives. </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">Those who want to control others are simply perverted. Those who want to take advantage of others are simply mean. Those who want to allow people to live their lives are wise. Those who take from others are thieves.</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">The founders of this country had a great amount of knowledge about governments throughout history. They took great care to chain the government down so that the government could not grow into being an oppressive government like almost all governments have done. And yet here we are, with a government in this country that has usurped our liberties instead of protecting them. And Congress has been complicit in this for decades.</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">People are capable for the most part. Some small part of the population are not capable but it's a very small part of the population. The vast majority of the population are not only capable, but a free people can invent and create an incredible society. Every single time we the people or our representatives allow a government to dictate over the people, we help it along to tyranny.</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">Regulations and more regulations do not keep us safe. Regulations and more regulations do not keep our lives free. Regulations and more regulations do not keep prices down. </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">We must push back against all of this. We must repeal laws, we must drastically reduce the number of agencies of government because the cost has become oppressive. It does not take hundreds of agencies to "care" for people. the government's job is to PROTECT OUR ABILITY TO LIVE OUR LIVES FREELY. That job however, is not the job tyrants have any interest in doing. </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">What can we do? We can learn about our government set up. We can teach others about how our government works because there is not another government like it on earth. We can find out what is going on at all levels in government. We can insist loudly, that the size of local, state and federal government be REDUCED NOW.</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">Every time we hear about some usurpation of power by any governmental agency or person, we must call attention to it and we must take effective action to nullify it and we must see to it that those people doing it get properly hauled up for the crimes they commit. And every official at every level of government are UNDER THE SAME LAW as anyone else. Corruption is corruption and must be tackled and fought loudly and tenaciously. </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">So in my exasperation I sometimes get shrill. Sometimes we have to yell.</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">But Americans are awakening to something amazing: we are seeing tyranny do its work. We must step up and take action locally and at every level of government in order to pare back government to an affordable size and a government that actually upholds our rights instead of stealing them.</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">We have very good people trying to do this. Every person who learns about government and adds his voice to this is helping. We need to judge people on deeds, not words and make sure our elected officials do only what they are supposed to. Does this take work? Yes. It takes information, it takes awareness and it takes a lot of energy. We have a chance now, with the liberty groups that have sprung up, to voice our love of life and to voice our intent to keep our liberties and seriously get government off our backs.</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">The alternative is to live in a grey, sour, oppressive society like the USSR was, like East Germany was - a society so evil that freedom of spirit was punished with imprisonment and death. There are countries in which freedom is still punished with torture and with death. </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">What's the difference between those countries and ours? Government. </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">What this country has in its founding documents is unlike anything else in the world. If we do not stop the onslaught of destruction, future generations will be living in terrible circumstances. The buck stops here. We must do everything we can. It is not going to be up to a majority of Americans. It's going to be up to those who have heard the call and understand the consequences.</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">We love life. We love freedom. It's time we work hard to get them back. I want to keep hearing those meadowlarks every day because this is the life I chose. Future generations deserve to live the life they choose, not the life that is chosen for them.</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><i style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; ">written by Nancy Wenlock</i><br /><br /><i style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; ">*****</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.therighthuff.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span">The Right Huff</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> is Crista Huff's blog for politics and items of sociological or financial interest. Crista Huff also manages </span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span">Goodfellow LLC</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span">, a subscription-only stock market website. We strive to identify financially healthy companies in which traders and investors can buy shares and earn dividends and capital gains. See </span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/free-stock-market-content/investment-disclaimer"><span class="Apple-style-span">disclaimer</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> for the risks associated with investing in the stock market. See your tax advisor for the tax consequences of investing. See your estate planning attorney to clarify beneficiary and inheritance issues associated with your assets.</span></p></span></span>Crista Huffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429020308221764149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6861027185432144148.post-59606604649789717302011-05-01T22:42:00.003-06:002011-06-10T23:45:25.928-06:00Protecting Stock Profits -- A Step Beyond "Buy and Hold"<div><i><span class="Apple-style-span">(May 16, 2011 update: All future stock posts will appear on my new subscription-only website at <a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/">www.GoodfellowLLC.com</a>. Please visit!)</span></i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Life is a process. And so is investing.</div><div><br /></div><div>You're a smart person. You earned some money which is now investable. (Praise God for capitalism!) You understand that investing in stocks can help your money grow over the long-term. But there's a learning curve, and you can't skip over it just because you're intelligent.</div><div><br /></div><div>Surprisingly, the learning curve of investing in the stock market is not about being smart; it's about getting a grip on your emotions and being brave enough to follow through with a strategy, even when you are getting scared or greedy. </div><div><br /></div><div>I'll tell you right now that folks who are easily angered, or who worry constantly, are not going to fare well in the stock market, so this conversation is aimed at people in between. We are emotional creatures. If the police officer pulls you over, and you can handle yourself without showing anger or crying, you can probably handle the stock market fairly well. (p.s. If the police officer pulls you over, and you're busy hiding contraband and gulping breath mints, you've got bigger problems than losing all your money in the stock market!)</div><div><br /></div><div>You already understand the concept of "buy and hold" investing. How can we improve upon that? Here's what I have been doing recently with my own stocks.</div><div><br /></div><div>First of all, many stocks go up and down in trading ranges, which you can identify by looking at their stock price charts. Most of the stocks I buy are in these trading ranges. When I buy them, I almost always simultaneously put in a sell order on the high side of the trading range.</div><div><br /></div><div>Look at the long-term chart on Home Depot (HD, $37.15). The price is recovering from the 2008 financial meltdown. Do you see where the stock traded steadily up and down, from $33 to $43, for four years leading up to 2008? Then the price crashed, and then it began its recovery. To me, it looks like it's about to re-establish that $33-$43 trading range. Home Depot is on my short list of stocks which I might buy next, and I won't wait for it to drop to $33. I'm not greedy. If I buy at $36 and sell at $42, minus commissions, that's about a 14% profit. It formerly took Home Depot stock about 2.5 to 5 months to make that price move. Personally, I'd be happy to make 14% in 5 months. What are the banks paying right now? Less than 1% for the full year?! </div><div><br /></div><div>My goal is not to measure my stock performance vs. Jim Cramer or Warren Buffet. My goal is to make investment returns which outperform safer alternatives, while finding ways to minimize risk.</div><div><br /></div><div>Other stocks which I own are climbing back up towards previous highs, or "resistance levels". I bought Kraft (KFT) at $31.40 and I have a sell limit order at $34.00, and I bought Sanofi-Aventis (SNY) at $34.97 and I have a sell limit order at $40.00. </div><div><br /></div><div>And then there are stocks which are freely climbing. I don't want to pick an arbitrary sell price, and miss out on 25% of my potential gain. On these stocks, I put in a stop loss order, which means that if the stock finally starts to fall in price, it will automatically sell if it hits the stop price. Right now I own WellPoint (WLP) at $66.37, the stock price is $76.79, and my stop loss order is at $73.00. Each day that the stock rises, I raise the stop loss price. I can do this with my online brokerage account at Morgan Stanley, and it doesn't cost me anything extra to use and change stop loss orders vs. selling the stock outright. If WellPoint reaches $82, I will cancel the stop loss order and sell the stock at that price, because that's near the top of a pre-financial meltdown trading range. And if WellPoint stock falls tomorrow and sells at $73.00, I will have net profit of 7.8% in 66 days, plus a little more from dividends. I'll take it!</div><div><br /></div><div>Why wouldn't I expect WellPoint to keep climbing through the mid-$80's? There are a lot of people who bought this stock several years ago around $80, and they've been holding onto it and grimacing for up to six years now. They are desperate to sell and break even. As the stock price reaches their cost basis, they will be selling, which will drive the stock price back down repeatedly until all those folks are done selling.</div><div><br /></div><div>Finally, there are stocks which I own which are disappointing me. I bought Fifth Third Bancorp a while back, and the trading range fell. So I put in a sell order at the top of the new trading range and got out with a small loss, about 2%. I'm not interested in waiting for the stock to stabilize in this new trading range before finally climbing back to the trading range where I bought it. During that time, my money can be better invested in a stock which has current momentum.</div><div><br /></div><div>To be a successful stock investor, you will need to learn to face the horror: stocks which are falling in price. I know my stock's trading range before I buy, and then if the stock falls through the bottom of that range, I usually sell, unless there's a huge dividend, such as 5.7% on Altria (MO). With a stock like that, you're getting paid to wait. Plus, people don't usually panic and sell a stock that's paying them 5% per year, so it becomes less likely that the stock price will go into a freefall.</div><div><br /></div><div>If I have several stocks which are selling at the tops of their trading ranges all within a few short weeks -- as I have had during these last two weeks in April 2011 -- this indicates to me that the market is toppy and is due for a short-term correction. Therefore, I hold onto the cash, make a list of stocks I'd be happy to own at certain prices, and wait for the market to correct. </div><div><br /></div><div>If it's just one stock selling here and there, I reinvest the money right away into another stock.</div><div><br /></div><div>Happy investing!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><strong>Investment Disclaimer</strong></div><div><br /></div><div><strong></strong>Release of Liability: Through use of this website viewing or using you agree to hold<span>www.TheRightHuff.blogspot.com <span>and me,</span> Crista Huff,</span> harmless and to completely release www.TheRightHuff.blogspot.com and Crista Huff from any and all liability due to any and all loss (monetary or otherwise), damage (monetary or otherwise), or injury (monetary or otherwise) that you may incur. I am not paid to promote nor disparage any investment. My recommendations are based on hypothetical situations of what I would do, not advice on what you should do.</div><div><br /></div><div>The information provided herein is obtained from sources believed to be reliable but is not guaranteed as to accuracy or completeness. Investments are risky, and can go down in value. Past investment results are not indicative of future returns. I am not a licensed investment advisor nor a tax advisor. Consult with a licensed investment advisor and a tax advisor to determine the suitability of any investment. This is not a solicitation to buy or sell any security.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>*****</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: 17px; "><div style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.therighthuff.blogspot.com/" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span">The Right Huff</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> is Crista Huff's blog for politics and items of sociological or financial interest. Crista Huff also manages </span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Goodfellow LLC</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span">, a subscription-only stock market website. We strive to identify financially healthy companies in which traders and investors can buy shares and earn dividends and capital gains. See </span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/free-stock-market-content/investment-disclaimer" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span">disclaimer</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> for the risks associated with investing in the stock market. See your tax advisor for the tax consequences of investing. See your estate planning attorney to clarify beneficiary and inheritance issues associated with your assets.</span></span></span></p></span></span></i></span></div></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></p></span></span></i></span></div></span></div></span></div><div><br /></div>Crista Huffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429020308221764149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6861027185432144148.post-64168188835599170482011-05-01T20:51:00.001-06:002011-06-13T15:31:10.602-06:00GOP and Patriot Groups in Colorado<em>(This list is being built. Send me web links to your favorite groups. -- Crista)</em><div><em></em><i><br /></i><strong></strong><br /><strong><span class="Apple-style-span">Front Range, Central:</span></strong><br /><br /><div><a href="http://www.sites.google.com/site/285corridorteapartygroup"><span class="Apple-style-span">285 Corridor Tea Party</span></a> </div><div><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://arapahoeteaparty.ning.com/">Arapahoe Tea Party</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.bouldercountygop.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span">Boulder County GOP</span></a> </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.meetup.com/Broomfield912/"><span class="Apple-style-span">Broomfield 9.12</span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><div><div><a href="http://www.cragaurora.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span">Citizens for Responsible Aurora Government</span></a> </div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color:#000099;"><a href="http://coffee4conservatives.com/index.html"><span style="color:#000099;">Coffee4Conservatives</span></a> </span><span style="color:#000000;">-- Franktown area (Douglas County)</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://http//www.ccm-den.org/">Coalition for a Conservative Majority -- Denver</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://http//www.ccm-den.org/"></a></span><b>District 2 Conservatives</b> -- Patriots in Congressional District 2 may contact: ddimig1@comcast.net<br /><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://http//hearus-now.org/">Hear Us Now! </a> -- </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Metro Denver</span></div><div><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Jefferson County Republican Men's Club</strong></span>, <a href="mailto:fredholden@aol.com"><span style="color:#cc0000;">Fred Holden</span></a>, president, 303-421-7619<br />(Not just for men; breakfast every Monday; contact Fred to join the email list.)</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.creubank.com/libertywest/"><span class="Apple-style-span">Liberty West Toastmasters Club</span></a> -- Lakewood. Also on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_191269034228419"><span class="Apple-style-span">Facebook</span></a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://http//files.meetup.com/1403185/ColoradoLiberty.pdf"><span class="Apple-style-span">9-12 Project -- Cherry Creek District </span></a><br /><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.meetup.com/Denver-CO-We-Surround-Them-Glenn-Beck-9-12-Project/"><span class="Apple-style-span">9-12 Project Colorado Denver/Front Range</span></a> -- Bailey, CO</div><div><br /><a href="http://www.rscc.us/home.html"><span style="color:#000099;">The Republican Study Committee of Colorado</span></a><br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>S. Denver 9-12 Project</strong></span> on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=70832407271#!/group.php?gid=70832407271&v=info"><span style="color:#cc0000;">Facebook</span></a>. Includes Castle Rock, Highlands Ranch, Littleton and more.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://coloradosfuture.net/"><span class="Apple-style-span">Students for Colorado's Future</span></a> -- conservative college students<br /><br /><a href="http://www.boulderyal.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span">Young Americans for Liberty</span></a> -- CU Boulder</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span">Foothills and Mountains</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.meetup.com/Clear-Creek-County-Precinct-Press">Clear Creek County Precinct Press</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://http//www.facebook.com/pages/Clear-Creek-Tea-Party/107070159349373">Clear Creek Tea Party</a></span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Concerned Citizens of Indian Hills</b> -- contact: vglyman@gmail.com </div></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.evergreenteaparty.com/">Evergreen Tea Party</a> -- Evergreen, Genesee</div><div><br /></div><div>High Country Conservatives -- Grand Lake email: aolson35@yahoo.com </div><div><br /></div><div><br /><strong><span class="Apple-style-span">Front Range, South:</span></strong><br /><br /><a href="http://www.ccm-cos.com/index.html"><span style="color:#000099;">Coalition for a Conservative Majority--Colorado Springs</span></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.fremontgop.com/"><span style="color:#000099;">Fremont County Republican Party</span></a><br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><a href="http://www.royalgorgeteaparty.com/">Royal Gorge Tea Party</a></span><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://teller-gop.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span">Teller County Republican Party</span></a> -- Ask Rip Blaisdell to add you to the email list!</div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span">Statewide Groups</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://http//tipofthespear.net/S-Colorado.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span">Tip of the Spear</span></a> -- electing and monitoring Republicans in Colorado</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span">National Groups</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.tipofthespear.net/">Tip of the Spear</a></span> -- electing and monitoring Republicans nationwide</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>*****</b></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><a href="http://www.therighthuff.blogspot.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span">The Right Huff</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> is Crista Huff's blog for politics and items of sociological or financial interest. Crista Huff also manages</span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Goodfellow LLC</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span">, a subscription-only stock market website. We strive to identify financially healthy companies in which traders and investors can buy shares and earn dividends and capital gains. See</span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/free-stock-market-content/investment-disclaimer" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span">disclaimer</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> for the risks associated with investing in the stock market. See your tax advisor for the tax consequences of investing. See your estate planning attorney to clarify beneficiary and inheritance issues associated with your assets.</span></span></div></div>Crista Huffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429020308221764149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6861027185432144148.post-14351262359657788152011-04-27T19:28:00.003-06:002011-06-13T15:30:34.523-06:00Stock Idea: Mosaic Company (MOS, $75.80)<div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><span class="Apple-style-span">(May 16, 2011 update: All future stock posts will appear on my new subscription-only website at <a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/">www.GoodfellowLLC.com.</a> Please visit!)</span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Mosaic Company (MOS) </b>produces fertilizer, a.k.a. “<span style="line-height: 115%; ">concentrated phosphate and potash crop nutrients" for the global agriculture industry. Click here to read about </span></span><a href="http://www.thestreet.com/story/11096545/1/fertilizer-earnings-whats-there-to-worry-about.html?cm_ven=GOOGLEN">fertilizer earnings</a>, <a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2011/04/27/3-stocks-for-rising-food-prices.aspx">rising food prices</a>, and <a href="http://blogs.forbes.com/tomaspray/2011/04/26/fertilizer-stocks-face-key-test/">fertilizer stock prices </a>.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; line-height: 18px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Projected consensus EPS growth is +118%,</span> +30.5%, and +11.2% for fiscal years 2011-2013. Mosaic's PE is 18. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; line-height: 18px; font-size: medium; ">Mosaic stock is still steadily recovering from the 2008 financial meltdown. It has most recently been trading in the $74 - $89 area. There is some active litigation which adds risk to the stock price, and it is unlikely that the litigation will be resolved quickly. I would be happy buying at the current price and selling near the top of the trading range in the short-term.</span></p></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><div><strong>Investment Disclaimer</strong></div><div><br /></div><div><strong></strong>Release of Liability: Through use of this website viewing or using you agree to hold<span>www.TheRightHuff.blogspot.com <span>and me,</span> Crista Huff,</span> harmless and to completely release www.TheRightHuff.blogspot.com and Crista Huff from any and all liability due to any and all loss (monetary or otherwise), damage (monetary or otherwise), or injury (monetary or otherwise) that you may incur. I am not paid to promote nor disparage any investment. My recommendations are based on hypothetical situations of what I would do, not advice on what you should do.</div><div><br /></div><div>The information provided herein is obtained from sources believed to be reliable but is not guaranteed as to accuracy or completeness. Investments are risky, and can go down in value. Past investment results are not indicative of future returns. I am not a licensed investment advisor nor a tax advisor. Consult with a licensed investment advisor and a tax advisor to determine the suitability of any investment. This is not a solicitation to buy or sell any security.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>*****</b></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><a href="http://www.therighthuff.blogspot.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span">The Right Huff</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> is Crista Huff's blog for politics and items of sociological or financial interest. Crista Huff also manages</span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Goodfellow LLC</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span">, a subscription-only stock market website. We strive to identify financially healthy companies in which traders and investors can buy shares and earn dividends and capital gains. See</span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/free-stock-market-content/investment-disclaimer" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span">disclaimer</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> for the risks associated with investing in the stock market. See your tax advisor for the tax consequences of investing. See your estate planning attorney to clarify beneficiary and inheritance issues associated with your assets.</span></span></div></div><div><br /></div>Crista Huffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429020308221764149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6861027185432144148.post-47337826932492785862011-04-26T17:21:00.003-06:002011-06-13T15:29:55.211-06:00Stock Idea: Adobe Systems Inc. (ADBE, $33.13)<div><i><span class="Apple-style-span">(May 16, 2011 update: All future stock posts will appear on my new subscription-only website at <a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/">www.GoodfellowLLC.com</a>. Please visit!)</span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></i></div><div><b>Adobe Systems Inc. (ADBE) </b>offers a range of business, Web and mobile software and services. </div><div><br /></div><div>Projected consensus EPS growth is +15.5%, +13.9% and +11.8% for fiscal years 2011 through 2013. The PE is 14.9. Adobe does not pay a dividend.</div><div><br /></div><div>I've been waiting for weeks for Adobe Systems (ADBE) to bounce down to $33, which I consider a good buy price. The stock closed today at $33.13. In the immediate future, I expect the stock to trade in the $33 to $35 area, then move towards $37/38, where it will meet with some resistance, on its way to retracing its pre-financial meltdown high near $48. </div><div><br /></div><div>Here's some data on the company:</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; "><strong style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; ">Adobe Systems</strong> (<span class="ticker" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; ">Nasdaq: <a href="http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/ADBE.aspx?source=isssitthv0000001" class="qsAdd qs-source-isssitthv0000001" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 102, 170); text-decoration: underline; ">ADBE</a></span> <a class="addToWatchListIcon qsAdd qs-source-iwlsitbut0000010" title="Add ADBE to My Watchlist" href="http://my.fool.com/watchlist/add?ticker=ADBE&source=iwlsitbut0000010" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 102, 170); text-decoration: underline; background-image: url(http://g.foolcdn.com/common/img/buttons/BtnAdd.gif); display: inline-block; height: 16px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "> </a>) just released the first major revision of its Audition package, formerly known as Cool Edit Pro, since 2007. Audition is now part of Adobe's flagship <a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2011/03/23/adobe-just-became-a-buy.aspx" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 102, 170); text-decoration: underline; ">Creative Suite</a> for the first time. That's a rival not to be taken lightly. -- <a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2011/04/25/how-does-avid-plan-to-fight-back.aspx">The Motley Fool</a>, April 26, 2011</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">Standard & Poor's maintains a current target price of $35 and a fair market calculation of $44.80. "</span>We are encouraged by recent strength in sales of products such as Acrobat and Creative Suite, as well as growth in subscriptions. However, we are concerned about slower growth from Japan, ADBE's second largest geographic region, given recent events." -- Standard & Poor's, 04/23/11</div><div><br /></div><div>Read: <a href="http://seekingalpha.com/article/264430-10-jim-cramer-sell-ideas-gone-wrong">10 Jim Cramer Sell Ideas Gone Wrong</a> -- www.SeekingAlpha.com </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><strong>Investment Disclaimer</strong></div><div><br /></div><div><strong></strong>Release of Liability: Through use of this website viewing or using you agree to hold<span>www.TheRightHuff.blogspot.com <span>and me,</span> Crista Huff,</span> harmless and to completely release www.TheRightHuff.blogspot.com and Crista Huff from any and all liability due to any and all loss (monetary or otherwise), damage (monetary or otherwise), or injury (monetary or otherwise) that you may incur. I am not paid to promote nor disparage any investment. My recommendations are based on hypothetical situations of what I would do, not advice on what you should do.</div><div><br /></div><div>The information provided herein is obtained from sources believed to be reliable but is not guaranteed as to accuracy or completeness. Investments are risky, and can go down in value. Past investment results are not indicative of future returns. I am not a licensed investment advisor nor a tax advisor. Consult with a licensed investment advisor and a tax advisor to determine the suitability of any investment. This is not a solicitation to buy or sell any security.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>*****</b></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><a href="http://www.therighthuff.blogspot.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span">The Right Huff</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> is Crista Huff's blog for politics and items of sociological or financial interest. Crista Huff also manages</span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Goodfellow LLC</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span">, a subscription-only stock market website. We strive to identify financially healthy companies in which traders and investors can buy shares and earn dividends and capital gains. See</span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/free-stock-market-content/investment-disclaimer" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span">disclaimer</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> for the risks associated with investing in the stock market. See your tax advisor for the tax consequences of investing. See your estate planning attorney to clarify beneficiary and inheritance issues associated with your assets.</span></span></div></div><div><br /></div>Crista Huffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429020308221764149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6861027185432144148.post-62179694709229329592011-04-26T16:51:00.001-06:002011-06-13T15:29:10.240-06:00CO SB-126: In-State Tuition for Illegal Aliens, April 13, 2011 Update<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Update 04/26/11: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-size: medium; ">COLORADO -- SB11-126 -- Last night, this bill was killed in committee. (Translation: we do not have to worry about Colorado legislators attempting to give in-state tuition to illegal aliens again until the 2011-2012 legislative session.)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">This bill was killed in a party-line vote, which means the Democrats wanted to give in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens, thereby taking college admission slots AWAY FROM tax-paying citizens, and the Republicans wanted to honor the Colorado and U.S. Constitutions by upholding laws as they regard citizens and non-citizens.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Obviously, the Democrats want illegal aliens in our country so that they can find ways to register them to vote, thereby increasing the Democrat voter base and helping Democrats win elections. It would be nice if Democrats could find a way to win elections based on productive ideas, but that apparently hasn't occurred to them. Sigh.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span">*****</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div>Update 04/13/11: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-size: medium; ">COLORADO -- SB11-126 -- BILL FOR IN-STATE TUITION FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS WILL COME TO THE SENATE FLOOR FOR A VOTE ON FRIDAY, APRIL 15.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-size: medium; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; "><i>Take action: </i> Call State Senators and ask them to vote "no".</span></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span">*****</span></b></div><div>(originally posted on March 14, 2011; written by Jen Raiffie and edited by Crista Huff)</div><div><br /></div><a href="http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/2011/03/14/senate-sets-deliberate-pace-on-tuition-bill/25116/"><span style="color:#3333ff;"><strong>Senate sets deliberate pace on tuition bill </strong></span></a><strong></strong><br /><br />"A bill potentially allowing illegal immigrants to qualify for in-state tuition at Colorado institutions of higher learning needs more time to gain momentum, Senate Pres. Brandon Shaffer, D-Longmont, said Monday.<br /><br />The Senate has repeatedly delayed consideration of Senate Bill 126, which allows 18-year-olds who graduate from Colorado high schools to apply for classification as unsubsidized in-state students without needing to show proof of lawful presence in the United States. While the bill appears to have the necessary support in the Democrat-controlled Senate, it may take time for its backers to find some traction in the Republican-controlled House, Shaffer told reporters during a “Meet the Press” conference.<br /><br />Shaffer said he is encouraged by a recent conversation with Republican House Speaker Frank McNulty, in which the two legislative leaders spoke generally about working together and trying to “make it into a bipartisan conversation.” "<br /><br /><strong>* * * *<br /><br /></strong>This bill will probably pass the Senate this Friday and take a likely path to the House Education Committee. The committee members and their contact info are listed below.<br /><br />Please take 2 minutes to contact the representatives to inquire where they stand on this bill.<br /><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">Hello Representative:<br /><br />Going to presume that since SB-126 was heard in the Senate education committee; its going to go to the house education committee as well. </span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"><br />Could you tell us how you stand on this bill if you have a stand? And if you don't, are you leaning one way or another?<br /><br />Thanks so much.<br /></span><br />If they are in favor of it, you can reply back to them and educate them on the multitude of reasons they should oppose this bill as outlined in the article linked above.<br /><br />You may also want to contact Speaker McNulty <a href="mailto:frank@frankmcnulty.com">frank@frankmcnulty.com</a> 303.866.2346 and ask him to send this bill upon arrival directly to the State Affairs Committee where it is certain to die a fast death instead of risking its passing via the Education committee. It makes no sense why he doesn't send it there in the first place, unless he is working for Big Biz instead of his constituents.<br /><br />Here is an <strong>email</strong> which you can send to <strong>Speaker Frank McNulty</strong>:<br /><br /><span style="color:#009900;">Dear Speaker McNulty:<br /><br />Kindly consider sending SB-126 (In-State Tuition for Illegal Aliens) directly to the State Affairs Committee, where it may die quickly, bypassing the Education Committee.<br /><br />If illegal aliens are in Colorado illegally, wouldn't it therefore be aiding and abetting a criminal to do helpful things for them? And isn't the State Legislature obligated to work on behalf of Colorado citizens, not non-citizens? Please help push the chronic problem of illegal aliens in a direction which starts solving the problem and not enabling the illegal aliens.<br /><br />Thank you!</span><br /><br /><br />HOUSE EDUCATION COMMITEE:<br />Representative Massey, Chair (R) undecided; rumor has it he may support this bill; cap ph. 303.866.2959, <a href="mailto:tom@tommassey.org">tom@tommassey.org</a><br />Representative Beezley (R), Vice-Chair undecided; cap ph. 303.866.4667, <a href="mailto:don.beezley.house@state.co.us">don.beezley.house@state.co.us</a><br />Representative Solano Ranking (D) cap. 303.866.2918, <a href="mailto:judy.solono.house@state.co.us">judy.solono.house@state.co.us</a><br />Representative Holbert (R)- opposes this bill; a definate no vote. cap ph. 303.866.2933, <a href="mailto:chris.holbert.house@state.co.us">chris.holbert.house@state.co.us</a><br />Representative Joshi (R) cap ph. 303.866.2937 <a href="mailto:janak.joshi.house@state.co.us">janak.joshi.house@state.co.us</a><br />Representative Kerr A. (D) cap ph. 303.866.2939 <a href="mailto:andy.kerr.house@state.co.us">andy.kerr.house@state.co.us</a><br />Representative Hamner (D) cap ph. 303.866.2952 <a href="mailto:millie.hamner.house@state.co.us">millie.hamner.house@state.co.us</a><br />Representative Murray (R) cap ph. 303.866.2948 <a href="mailto:murrayhouse45@gmail.com">murrayhouse45@gmail.com</a><br />Representative Peniston (D) cap ph. 303.866.2843 <a href="mailto:cherylin.peniston.house@state.co.us">cherylin.peniston.house@state.co.us</a><br />Representative Ramirez (R) unknown cap ph. 303.866.2950 <a href="mailto:robert.ramirez.house@state.co.us">robert.ramirez.house@state.co.us</a><br />Representative Schafer (D) cap ph. 303.866.5522 <a href="mailto:sue.shafer.house@state.co.us">sue.shafer.house@state.co.us</a><br /><br />*****<br />A message from Crista:<br /><br />Americans did not un-elect a slew of liberals and pro-amnesty RINOs in order to get a fresh batch of them this past November. Voters need to be prepared for more legislative turnover every November until we get legislators who listen to the will of The People. And I'm NOT talking about The People who vote based on skin color! I'm talking about the people who are able to articulate America's downfall and propose solutions. <strong>The People do not want legislators and beauracracies which cater to illegal aliens and refuse to enforce current laws</strong>. Why hasn't this become imminently clear to our legislators? Why are they still dancing around illegal aliens who would cut their throats and rape their daughters in a heartbeat?!<br /><br />Tea Party Patriots are not going to go away. <span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>"Don't Tread On Me" is not a cute little slogan. It is a battle cry, and we are at war.</strong></span> We are prepared to save the Republic at whatever the cost. We want the Constitution as the Law of the Land. We want immigration rules enforced. We want criminal statutes enforced. When the legislators toss aside our laws, free the criminals, cater to extremely dangerous immigrant populations and trash the Constitution, they are pushing us into a corner from which we will emerge enraged, and by then, we will have nothing left to lose.<br /><br />Don't Tread On Me!!!<div><br /></div><div><b>*****</b></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><a href="http://www.therighthuff.blogspot.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">The Right Huff</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> is Crista Huff's blog for politics and items of sociological or financial interest. Crista Huff also manages</span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Goodfellow LLC</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span">, a subscription-only stock market website. We strive to identify financially healthy companies in which traders and investors can buy shares and earn dividends and capital gains. See</span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/free-stock-market-content/investment-disclaimer" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">disclaimer</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> for the risks associated with investing in the stock market. See your tax advisor for the tax consequences of investing. See your estate planning attorney to clarify beneficiary and inheritance issues associated with your assets.</span></span></div>Crista Huffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429020308221764149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6861027185432144148.post-38034386836072354812011-04-25T07:16:00.002-06:002011-06-15T18:07:48.557-06:00News on Recently Recommended Stocks (ABT, T, BWA, FCX, GE, MA, MCD, PM, VZ)<div><i><span class="Apple-style-span">(May 16, 2011 update: All future stock posts will appear on my new subscription-only website at <a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/">www.GoodfellowLLC.com</a>. Please visit!)</span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></i></div><div><b>News on Recently Recommended Stocks</b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><b>Abbott Laboratories</b> (ABT, $50.49) -- After the recent quarterly earnings report, Morgan Stanley raised its earnings estimates for 2011 & 2012. (post from April 10)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>AT&T</b> (T, $30.68) -- Morgan Stanley modestly raised its earnings estimates for AT&T; those numbers being higher than consensus estimates. There have been several buy-low opportunities since I wrote about AT&T on Jan. 27. The upside potential is wide open. I suggest using a stop-loss order to protect profits at $30.00, and raising the stop-loss as the stock price climbs.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Borg Warner Inc. </b>(BWA, $76.94) -- The stock is more than half-way to its short-term price target of $80-ish. (post from April 18) </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold</b> (FCX, $54.84) -- The stock is halfway to its short-term target of $58. (post from April 19)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>General Electric</b> (GE, $19.95) -- Earnings report came out on April 21 and the company raised the dividend. There have been several opportunities to trade GE for 10%+ profit since I posted on this stock on Jan. 24. It is still a good buy, but next time it climbs beyond $22, I'd hold it and let it ride.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Mastercard</b> (MA $273.28) -- The stock is up $22 since I posted it on March 29. The price target is unclear. I suggest using a stop-loss order, and raising the stop-loss as the stock price continues to climb.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>McDonalds</b> (MCD, $76.91) -- Earnings report came out on April 21. Expect a short-term retracement to $80. (post from Feb. 18)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Philip Morris Int'l</b> (PM, $67.61) -- Earnings report came out on April 21. The stock is up over $8 since I posted about it on Feb. 8. Use a stop-loss order to protect profits and let the stock continue to climb.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Verizon Communications Inc. </b>(VZ, $36.91) -- Earnings report came out on April 21. There is still time to buy VZ. Watch for a retracement to $42. Short-term buyers should sell around $41.50. (post from Jan. 23)</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><strong>Investment Disclaimer</strong></div><div><br /></div><div><strong></strong>Release of Liability: Through use of this website viewing or using you agree to hold<span>www.TheRightHuff.blogspot.com <span>and me,</span> Crista Huff,</span> harmless and to completely release www.TheRightHuff.blogspot.com and Crista Huff from any and all liability due to any and all loss (monetary or otherwise), damage (monetary or otherwise), or injury (monetary or otherwise) that you may incur. I am not paid to promote nor disparage any investment. My recommendations are based on hypothetical situations of what I would do, not advice on what you should do.</div><div><br /></div><div>The information provided herein is obtained from sources believed to be reliable but is not guaranteed as to accuracy or completeness. Investments are risky, and can go down in value. Past investment results are not indicative of future returns. I am not a licensed investment advisor nor a tax advisor. Consult with a licensed investment advisor and a tax advisor to determine the suitability of any investment. This is not a solicitation to buy or sell any security.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.therighthuff.blogspot.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">The Right Huff</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> is Crista Huff's blog for politics and items of sociological or financial interest. Crista Huff also manages</span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Goodfellow LLC</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span">, a subscription-only stock market website. We strive to identify financially healthy companies in which traders and investors can buy shares and earn dividends and capital gains. See</span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/free-stock-market-content/investment-disclaimer" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">disclaimer</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> for the risks associated with investing in the stock market. See your tax advisor for the tax consequences of investing. See your estate planning attorney to clarify beneficiary and inheritance issues associated with your assets.</span></span></span></p></span></span></i></span></div><div><br /></div>Crista Huffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429020308221764149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6861027185432144148.post-31661547023632628702011-04-19T21:35:00.002-06:002011-06-15T18:10:23.600-06:00Trading Opportunity with Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX, $51.72)<div><i><span class="Apple-style-span">(May 16, 2011 update: All future stock posts will appear on my new subscription-only website at <a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/">www.GoodfellowLLC.com</a>. Please visit!)</span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></i></div><div><b>Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (FCX)</b> is a copper, gold and molybdenum mining company in Indonesia, South America, North America and Africa.</div><div><br /></div><div>Earnings per share are projected to rise 27.5% this fiscal year, the PE is 8.7, and the dividend is 1.93%. Despite these excellent "value stock" numbers, a mining stock is going to trade more in tune with metals markets, whereas a PepsiCo with the same valuation would be a good growth stock to own longer-term. Think of this as a trading opportunity, <i>not</i> a buy-and-hold stock.</div><div><br /></div><div>The stock has been trading in the $49-$61 range, and if it continues this pattern, a buyer at the current price could sell at $58 and net 10% profit in the short-term.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><strong>Investment Disclaimer</strong></div><div><br /></div><div><strong></strong>Release of Liability: Through use of this website viewing or using you agree to hold<span>www.TheRightHuff.blogspot.com <span>and me,</span> Crista Huff,</span> harmless and to completely release www.TheRightHuff.blogspot.com and Crista Huff from any and all liability due to any and all loss (monetary or otherwise), damage (monetary or otherwise), or injury (monetary or otherwise) that you may incur. I am not paid to promote nor disparage any investment. My recommendations are based on hypothetical situations of what I would do, not advice on what you should do.</div><div><br /></div><div>The information provided herein is obtained from sources believed to be reliable but is not guaranteed as to accuracy or completeness. Investments are risky, and can go down in value. Past investment results are not indicative of future returns. I am not a licensed investment advisor nor a tax advisor. Consult with a licensed investment advisor and a tax advisor to determine the suitability of any investment. This is not a solicitation to buy or sell any security.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>* * * *</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.therighthuff.blogspot.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">The Right Huff</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> is Crista Huff's blog for politics and items of sociological or financial interest. Crista Huff also manages</span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Goodfellow LLC</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span">, a subscription-only stock market website. We strive to identify financially healthy companies in which traders and investors can buy shares and earn dividends and capital gains. See</span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/free-stock-market-content/investment-disclaimer" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">disclaimer</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> for the risks associated with investing in the stock market. See your tax advisor for the tax consequences of investing. See your estate planning attorney to clarify beneficiary and inheritance issues associated with your assets.</span></span></span></p></span></span></i></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Crista Huffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429020308221764149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6861027185432144148.post-62517021168757054102011-04-18T18:08:00.002-06:002011-06-15T18:10:55.840-06:00BorgWarner Inc. ($70.89, BWA)<b><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span">(May 16, 2011 update: All future stock posts will appear on my new subscription-only website at <a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/">www.GoodfellowLLC.com</a>. Please visit!)</span></i></span></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div>BorgWarner Inc. (BWA) </b>is a global supplier of engineered automotive systems and components, primarily for powertrain applications. <div><br /></div><div>"The company is focused on developing advanced powertrain technologies that help improve fuel economy and reduce emissions, allowing auto manufacturers to comply with increasingly stringent emissions standards around the globe." -- Standard & Poor's research, April 16, 2011</div><div><br /></div><div><div>"We believe the top-line growth and margin power from unique secular growth opportunities should allow BWA to double earnings and revenues in the next 3-4 years. BWA remains our top-pick in the supplier group and an MS Best Idea." Morgan Stanley research, February 10, 2011</div><div><br /></div><div>Projected consensus EPS growth is 37%, 25% and 17% for fiscal years 2011 through 2013. The PE is 17, which is low for such a high-growth company.</div><div><br /></div><div>During the last decade, BorgWarner stock rose steadily until the financial meltdown of 2008. The stock later broke past the previous high in September 2010, and has been climbing in a two-steps-forward-one-step-back pattern. Today's price reflects the one-step-back, and represents a good purchase price. The stock reached the low 80's several times in February and April 2011. A retracement of those recent highs would net an easy 10+% for a short-term trader.</div><div><br /></div><div>S&P and Citigroup each maintain a $79 price target on BWA (based on April 2011 research reports).<br /><div><br /></div><b>Investment Disclaimer</b><br /><br />Release of Liability: Through use of this website viewing or using you agree to hold <span class="Apple-style-span">www.TheRightHuff.blogspot.com </span><span class="Apple-style-span">and me, </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Crista Huff,</span> harmless and to completely release www.TheRightHuff.blogspot.com and Crista Huff from any and all liability due to any and all loss (monetary or otherwise), damage (monetary or otherwise), or injury (monetary or otherwise) that you may incur. I am not paid to promote nor disparage any investment. My recommendations are based on hypothetical situations of what I would do, not advice on what you should do.<br /><br />The information provided herein is obtained from sources believed to be reliable but is not guaranteed as to accuracy or completeness. Investments are risky, and can go down in value. Past investment results are not indicative of future returns. I am not a licensed investment advisor nor a tax advisor. Consult with a licensed investment advisor and a tax advisor to determine the suitability of any investment. This is not a solicitation to buy or sell any security.<br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div>* * * </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.therighthuff.blogspot.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">The Right Huff</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> is Crista Huff's blog for politics and items of sociological or financial interest. Crista Huff also manages</span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Goodfellow LLC</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span">, a subscription-only stock market website. We strive to identify financially healthy companies in which traders and investors can buy shares and earn dividends and capital gains. See</span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/free-stock-market-content/investment-disclaimer" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">disclaimer</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> for the risks associated with investing in the stock market. See your tax advisor for the tax consequences of investing. See your estate planning attorney to clarify beneficiary and inheritance issues associated with your assets.</span></span></span></p></span></span></i></span></div>Crista Huffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429020308221764149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6861027185432144148.post-47236329563832232612011-04-17T20:51:00.005-06:002011-06-15T18:11:18.073-06:00Stock Idea: PepsiCo (PEP, $67.11)<div><i><span class="Apple-style-span">(May 16, 2011 update: All future stock posts will appear on my new subscription-only website at <a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/">www.GoodfellowLLC.com</a>. Please visit!)</span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></i></div><b><a href="http://www.pepsico.com/">PepsiCo. Inc. (PEP)</a></b> is a global food, snack and beverage company.<div><br /></div><div>Projected consensus EPS growth is 8.5%, 9.4% and 9.6% for fiscal years 2011 through 2013. The PE is 15, and the dividend yield is 2.86%.</div><div><br /></div><div>Standard & Poor's tell us, "PEP said it plans to repurchase about $2.5 billion of stock in 2011 after repurchasing $5 billion in 2010." PEP is on Morgan Stanley's Best Ideas List with a price target of $82.<br /><br /></div><div>PEP stock is still recovering steadily from the 2008 financial meltdown. The stock has been trading in the $60-$67 area for well over a year. It could bounce around a little in the $65-$67 area before moving toward $72, then establish a new trading range around $67-$72.</div><div><br /><br /><b>Investment Disclaimer</b><br /><br />Release of Liability: Through use of this website viewing or using you agree to hold www.TheRightHuff.blogspot.com and me, Crista Huff, harmless and to completely release www.TheRightHuff.blogspot.com and Crista Huff from any and all liability due to any and all loss (monetary or otherwise), damage (monetary or otherwise), or injury (monetary or otherwise) that you may incur. I am not paid to promote nor disparage any investment. My recommendations are based on hypothetical situations of what I would do, not advice on what you should do.<br /><br />The information provided herein is obtained from sources believed to be reliable but is not guaranteed as to accuracy or completeness. Investments are risky, and can go down in value. Past investment results are not indicative of future returns. I am not a licensed investment advisor nor a tax advisor. Consult with a licensed investment advisor and a tax advisor to determine the suitability of any investment. This is not a solicitation to buy or sell any security.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>* * * *</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.therighthuff.blogspot.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">The Right Huff</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> is Crista Huff's blog for politics and items of sociological or financial interest. Crista Huff also manages</span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Goodfellow LLC</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span">, a subscription-only stock market website. We strive to identify financially healthy companies in which traders and investors can buy shares and earn dividends and capital gains. See</span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/free-stock-market-content/investment-disclaimer" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">disclaimer</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> for the risks associated with investing in the stock market. See your tax advisor for the tax consequences of investing. See your estate planning attorney to clarify beneficiary and inheritance issues associated with your assets.</span></span></span></p></span></span></i></span></div>Crista Huffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429020308221764149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6861027185432144148.post-35851516285847495992011-04-14T13:03:00.002-06:002011-06-15T18:13:05.664-06:00Ford Motor Company (F, $14.75)<div><i><span class="Apple-style-span">(May 16, 2011 update: All future stock posts will appear on my new subscription-only website at <a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/">www.GoodfellowLLC.com</a>. Please visit!)</span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></i></div><div><b>Ford Motor Company (F) </b>is a worldwide producer of cars and trucks. Its business operations are split into two segments, Automotive and Financial Services. Unlike its U.S. competitors GM and Chrysler, which were heading into bankruptcy and required a bailout from the Federal government, Ford is a profitable company with a successful business plan. Read more <a href="http://http//www.wikinvest.com/stock/Ford_Motor_Company_(F)"><span class="Apple-style-span">here.</span></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Ford's profits have been increasing steadily, often surprising Wall St. in recent quarters, and with a price/earnings ratio (PE) of 7.9, the current price represents an extreme value for a growing company. </div><div><br /></div><div>Ford stock reached its all-time highs more than a decade ago, fell in price during the 9/11-induced recession in the early 2000's, got stuck in a trading range, and then fell again during the financial meltdown of 2008. The stock has recovered from these two economic downturns, and should be an interesting play for both short-term traders and longer-term investors.</div><div><br /></div><div>The current trading range is $14-$18 per share. I expect the stock to climb above this trading range this year as the company continues to pay down debt, compete aggressively against Toyota, maintain its #2 position in the U.S. automotive market, and surprise Wall St. with upside quarterly earnings reports. A short-term trader could easily make more than 10% profit, and for those with patience, Ford stock could be a star of their 2011-2012 stock portfolio.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><strong>Investment Disclaimer</strong></div><div><br /></div><div><strong></strong>Release of Liability: Through use of this website viewing or using you agree to hold<span>www.TheRightHuff.blogspot.com <span>and me,</span> Crista Huff,</span> harmless and to completely release www.TheRightHuff.blogspot.com and Crista Huff from any and all liability due to any and all loss (monetary or otherwise), damage (monetary or otherwise), or injury (monetary or otherwise) that you may incur. I am not paid to promote nor disparage any investment. My recommendations are based on hypothetical situations of what I would do, not advice on what you should do.</div><div><br /></div><div>The information provided herein is obtained from sources believed to be reliable but is not guaranteed as to accuracy or completeness. Investments are risky, and can go down in value. Past investment results are not indicative of future returns. I am not a licensed investment advisor nor a tax advisor. Consult with a licensed investment advisor and a tax advisor to determine the suitability of any investment. This is not a solicitation to buy or sell any security.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>* * * *</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.therighthuff.blogspot.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">The Right Huff</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> is Crista Huff's blog for politics and items of sociological or financial interest. Crista Huff also manages</span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Goodfellow LLC</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span">, a subscription-only stock market website. We strive to identify financially healthy companies in which traders and investors can buy shares and earn dividends and capital gains. See</span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/free-stock-market-content/investment-disclaimer" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">disclaimer</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> for the risks associated with investing in the stock market. See your tax advisor for the tax consequences of investing. See your estate planning attorney to clarify beneficiary and inheritance issues associated with your assets.</span></span></span></p></span></span></i></span></div><div><br /></div>Crista Huffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429020308221764149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6861027185432144148.post-37070295959507599712011-04-13T03:59:00.002-06:002011-06-15T18:13:28.184-06:00Stocks to Buy in the Face of Market Weakness -- April 13, 2011<div><i><span class="Apple-style-span">(May 16, 2011 update: All future stock posts will appear on my new subscription-only website at <a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/">www.GoodfellowLLC.com</a>. Please visit!)</span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></i></div><div>Here are some stocks which I previously blogged about which are at good prices today:</div><div><br /></div><div>Abbott Labs (ABT) -- April 10</div><div>Agilent (A) -- March 14</div><div>Altria (MO) -- April 5</div><div>Applied Materials (AMAT) -- February 22</div><div>Citigroup (C) -- February 17</div><div>Disney (DIS) -- February 2</div><div>Dole Food Co. (DOLE) -- March 14</div><div>Kraft (KFT) -- February 9</div><div>Kroger (KR) -- March 8</div><div>Macy*s (M) -- April 8</div><div>Microsoft (MSFT) -- April 4 and February 1</div><div>M&T Bank Corp. (MTB) -- February 4</div><div>Republic Services (RSG) -- March 28</div><div>Yahoo! (YHOO) -- February 11</div><div><br /></div><div>Happy investing!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><strong>Investment Disclaimer</strong></div><div><br /></div><div><strong></strong>Release of Liability: Through use of this website viewing or using you agree to hold<span>www.TheRightHuff.blogspot.com <span>and me,</span> Crista Huff,</span> harmless and to completely release www.TheRightHuff.blogspot.com and Crista Huff from any and all liability due to any and all loss (monetary or otherwise), damage (monetary or otherwise), or injury (monetary or otherwise) that you may incur. I am not paid to promote nor disparage any investment. My recommendations are based on hypothetical situations of what I would do, not advice on what you should do.</div><div><br /></div><div>The information provided herein is obtained from sources believed to be reliable but is not guaranteed as to accuracy or completeness. Investments are risky, and can go down in value. Past investment results are not indicative of future returns. I am not a licensed investment advisor nor a tax advisor. Consult with a licensed investment advisor and a tax advisor to determine the suitability of any investment. This is not a solicitation to buy or sell any security.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>****</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.therighthuff.blogspot.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">The Right Huff</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> is Crista Huff's blog for politics and items of sociological or financial interest. Crista Huff also manages</span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Goodfellow LLC</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span">, a subscription-only stock market website. We strive to identify financially healthy companies in which traders and investors can buy shares and earn dividends and capital gains. See</span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/free-stock-market-content/investment-disclaimer" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">disclaimer</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> for the risks associated with investing in the stock market. See your tax advisor for the tax consequences of investing. See your estate planning attorney to clarify beneficiary and inheritance issues associated with your assets.</span></span></span></p></span></span></i></span></div>Crista Huffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429020308221764149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6861027185432144148.post-79350330856666023952011-04-12T16:39:00.008-06:002011-06-15T18:14:29.131-06:00"Obama is hiding what appears to be a criminal past."<a href="http://americansunited2012.blogspot.com/2011/03/trump-uncovers-truth-about-obammaaka.html?zx=4a0b73b8826f43f8"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>TRUMP UNCOVERS TRUTH ABOUT OBAMA/AKA-(BARRY SOETORO)OBAMA IS NOT HIS REAL NAME.,HES A FRAUD</b></span></a><br /><br /><div>Trump is right, Barry Soetoro, AKA Obama is hiding what appears to be a criminal past.<br /><i>by Atom Ant on Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 5:01am</i><br /><br /><br />Trump is correct, Barry Soetoro, AKA Obama is hiding something in his past that is very bad... and it may not be his citizenship. (Trump would not say this if he did not know something and he has the money to get the dirt...)<br /><br />As an IRS tax examiner,one of many former federal jobs, I have seen what it appears Barry Soetoro has done, mostly by illegal aliens attempting to acquire a new identity in the U.S and/or criminals looking to acquire a new ID.<br /><br />Barry, AKA Obama, was lawfully adopted by a foreign national, Lolo Soetoro, and Barry's name was legally changed to "Barry Soetoro". (Barry’s own admission) Barry Soetoro was also made an official legal Indonesian citizen. (again Barry’s own admission) The adoption would be noted in Barry's vital statistics record in Hawaii on his original birth certificate...<br /><br />OR Lolo Soetoro may have always been Barry's legal birth farther. The public does not know for sure at this point who Barry's father really was and Barry himself may not know.<br /><br />Barry was raised as a Muslim in Indonesia and attended a Catholic funded school that permitted all faiths to attend.<br /><br />Barry's mother dropped him as a dependent for some reason, maybe even when Barry was adopted by Lolo Soetoro. His mother's passport records dropped Barry as a dependent indicating Barry was no longer a legal dependent of his mothers. (The passport records of his mother have been produced showing Barry was no longer a dependent when Barry was permanently residing in Indonesia.) Barry went to Hawaii to live with his alleged grand parents after Lolo Soetoro and Barry's mother divorced.<br /><br />A "certificate of live birth" can have names changed on it including a child's birth name, and birth parent’s names. Even a modified date of birth can be on a "certificate of live birth". This occurs frequently for adopted children where the birth parent does not want the child to know who they are. The public has no idea who Barry’s real birth father is or who Barry’s real birth mother is. (Barry could have been adopted by his mother) The original birth certificate is the only legal vital statistics record of a person’s birth parents, birth location, birth date, etc… I can get a “certificate of live birth” for a dead person; I cannot get a birth certificate of a dead person without “Deceased” on it. (I’ve tried)<br /><br />There is no evidence Barry Soetoro ever lawfully changed his name to “Barrack Hussein Obama”. There is no proof Barry Soetoro was born with the name "Barrack Hussein Obama". I’m willing to bet the name “Barrack Hussein Obama” is not present on the real birth certificate as Barry’s birth name or as Barry’s birth father. I have pictures of me with my mother and Jimmy Buffet… that doesn’t make him my father even if I start using the name Jimmy Buffet.<br /><br />The public knows Barry Soetoro finished high school in Hawaii as Barry Soetoro and attended Occidental as Barry Soetoro where he did drugs and flunked out of school. After dropping out of Occidental, Barry showed up in New York, homeless and on drugs. (Barry’s own admission) Barry then hooked up with a Pakistani to live with and traveled back to Indonesia on his new boyfriend’s dime to renew his Indonesian passport and traveled to Pakistan with him.<br /><br />Ask any law enforcement officer in a large city or detective and they will tell you homeless young men on drugs in large cities usually end up as male prostitutes. Barry ended up as a world traveler with a degree… (Not likely)<br /><br />Barry Soetoro returned to New York from Pakistan and began using the fictitious name “Obama” for some reason. (again Barry Soetoro’s own admission) One could only suspect that a person addicted to drugs returning from Pakistan to New York, the main route for Afghan heroin into the U.S., maybe Barry had a reason to start using a new name. There are literally over 1 million open warrants on file in New York… maybe Barry is one of them?....<br /><br />After spending some time in New York allegedly working under the name “Obama”, It appears Barry used the fictitious name "Barrack Hussein Obama" for the first time to file his federal taxes in Connecticut at a Post Office Box for the purpose of evading paying taxes in New York and /or to establish a new identity. (This is a felony with no statute of limitation.)<br /><br />When the IRS received Barry Soetoro’s federal tax filing, the IRS could not attach the name Barrack Hussein Obama to the SSI number provided or the address provided. So the IRS assigned the fictitious name "Barrack Hussein Obama" a tax ID number for a person from Connecticut (Where Barry unlawfully filed a federal tax form using a false name). Barry Soetoro began using the tax ID number as his SSI number when using the fictitious name Barrack Obama. This is why Barry Soetoro has a Connecticut SSI number. When I worked for the IRS, I saw this occur more than once and yes, it is a felony to knowingly file a fraudulent federal tax forms. Most of the politicians that cheat on their taxes claim it was an accident. That is how they get away with their tax cheat crimes. Using a fake name is no accident.<br /><br />It appears Barry fled New York to Chicago using his new identity to get a job . He likely ordered a fake diploma to bolster his new identity as "Obama". Fake Diploma's were very big in the 80's and diploma mills were even being used by federal workers to get promotions. There is evidence his alleged attendance at Columbia was faked (Barry never attended Columbia) and Barry lied his way into Harvard (he had no transcripts to get in)... Including telling the Saudi royal family he was fighting in Afghanistan with the Muslim Jihad against the Russians, so they would help him get into a law school.<br /><br />The Saudi's apparently loved Barry's story of Jihad in Pakistan/Afghanistan and paid for Barry to attend Harvard under the name "Obama". The Saudi family has admitted to paying for Obama to attend Harvard and gave Harvard a gift of $20 million dollars. Harvard in turn made their special attendy President of the law review a person that never wrote a single law review.... I guess that is what $20 million buys at Harvard.<br /><br />It is unlikely Barry was a Jihadist and was most likely a drug mule if anything, maybe even a CIA street hire to haul Afghan heroin back to New York, so the Afghans could buy U.S. made stinger missiles with U.S. dollars to shoot down Russian helicopters?... I hired people over seas to do work below my pay grade all the time, even foreign nationals... I think this is the story Barry told the Saudi's, but he was most likely really just a drug mule/dealer and probably still wanted on an outstanding warrant in New York.<br /><br />Barry’s selective service registration is not normal either… http://www.debbieschlussel.com/4428/exclusive-did-next-commander-in-chief-falsify-selective-service-registration-never-actually-register-obamas-draft-registration-raises-serious-questions/<br /><br />After I looked at Barry’s selective service filing I noticed it was most likely fraudulent too based on the name he used. Barry did not start using the name "Obama" until he returned from Pakistan (long after he flunked out of school in California) His selective service record (maintained in Chicago coincidentally) shows he registered at a Hawaiian post office as “Obama” in Sept 1980... Problem, Barry was getting high in California at Occidental in Sept 1980 (Barry's own admission) and was not using the fictitious name "Obama" at that time. Barry began using the fictitious name "Obama" only after he returned from Pakistan. The selective service filing is fraudulent.<br /><br />Barry returned to Chicago and attend a semi-christian radical black church with his first female love Michelle. Barry admits keeping in touch with Phil Boener, who traveled to New York from Occidental to be with Barry and was most likely Barry's first love.<br /><br />Barry still could not get a real job, because he was still a fraud, even with his Harvard degree in hand he could lie and take the Bar exam, but he could not work as a lawyer for a major law firm without a back ground investigation and he would never pass one. So, Michelle got Barry a job at her law firm. Barry never filed a case alone and never filed a motion. He wrote lost of memos according to the law firm where Barry worked. (I think they know Barry is a fraud and don't want to be sued by previous clients) Barry rescinded his law licenses, so as not to be disbarred for fraud. The Bar knows Barry lied on his application. Michelle also had to turn over her law license for her involvement in corruption with the Chicago mayors office.<br /><br />With time on his hands Barry, a well spoken black man, was able to get elected to a state office, oddly because he looked for fraud in his opponents voter registrations and got his opponent disqualified from running. Barry a well versed liar was a natural in state politics. He used his political influence to get himself a position as a lecturer at Chicago's law school. Barry embellished this position as a "professor of law" which everyone knows is completely false. Barry was not a professor or even a specialist at anything but lying.<br /><br />On a whim Barry ran for United States Senate for the State of Illinois. Politicians do this all the time to make a name for themselves even if they can't win. At the time the Republican Ryan was a shoe in for the Senate seat, so no real Democrat contenders entered the race, but Barry did. On a fluke after the primary Ryan's wife Jeri Ryan (Seven of nine from Star Trek) went public that her husband was making her have sex with other people while he watched. Ryan dropped out and Alan Keys moved from Maryland to run against Barry Soetoro.<br /><br />The election got all kinds of press because there was no blacks in the U.S. Senate and one of these black men was going to be a Senator. Alan Keys did his best to warn everyone Barry was not who he claimed to be, but the public saw him as a carpet bagger. Barry kept the lie going and presented himself as a clean black man that talked like a white man... Illinois elected Barry to U.S. Senate. The Democrats had already began scrubbing Barry's back ground when Ryan dropped out.<br /><br />Phil, Barry's boyfriend from Occidental, was found working in California as a communications specialist (receptionist) for a dental hygienist school and given a diploma from Columbia and cover story. The rest of Barry's drug friends were all given jobs or money by the Democrat machine to keep quiet.<br /><br />Because Barry was such a news maker as the only Black in the Senate, and he could speak like a white man he was made key speaker for the Democrat convention. Barry then decided to run for President to keep the lie going. No one thought to question Barry's back ground in the Democrt party... They helped cover up the ugly back ground. The only person jumping up and down warning Barry was not who he claimed to be was Alan Keys and he was discarded as just an angry loser.<br /><br />Now we have a complete fraud sitting in the Office of the President. Clearly the most corrupt, inexperienced, and ignorant President in the history of the United States who's only quality is that he can lie with a straight face.<br /><br />Barry Soetoro is as much of a fraud as Bernie Madoff and his house of cards will soon fall down.</div><div><br /></div><div>* * * </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.therighthuff.blogspot.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">The Right Huff</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> is Crista Huff's blog for politics and items of sociological or financial interest. Crista Huff also manages</span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Goodfellow LLC</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span">, a subscription-only stock market website. We strive to identify financially healthy companies in which traders and investors can buy shares and earn dividends and capital gains. See</span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/free-stock-market-content/investment-disclaimer" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">disclaimer</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> for the risks associated with investing in the stock market. See your tax advisor for the tax consequences of investing. See your estate planning attorney to clarify beneficiary and inheritance issues associated with your assets.</span></span></span></p></span></span></i></span></div><div><br /></div>Crista Huffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429020308221764149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6861027185432144148.post-67888002545271995152011-04-10T22:14:00.002-06:002011-06-15T18:14:52.633-06:00Stock Idea: Abbott Labs (ABT, $50.49)<div><i><span class="Apple-style-span">(May 16, 2011 update: All future stock posts will appear on my new subscription-only website at <a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/">www.GoodfellowLLC.com</a>. Please visit!)</span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></i></div><div><b>Abbott Labs (ABT)</b> develops, produces and sells pharmaceutical, vascular, nutritional and diagnostic products in the healthcare industry, with <b>sales of $35 billion in 2010.</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Projected consensus EPS growth is 10.1% and 7.63% for fiscal years 2011 and 2012. The PE is 11.0.</div><div><br /></div><div>The annual dividend is $1.92 per share, which <b>yields 3.8%.</b> <b>The ex-dividend date is April 13,</b> so you want to buy the stock by April 12 in order to receive the next dividend.</div><div><br /></div><div>The stock has recently been trading in the $46-$53 range, and it looks like it's getting ready to return to its pre-2008 financial meltdown trading range of $50-$60. Abbott stock shows good prospects for short-term and medium-term traders. Longer-term stock investors can collect a high dividend while expecting steady growth.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><strong>Investment Disclaimer</strong></div><div><br /></div><div><strong></strong>Release of Liability: Through use of this website viewing or using you agree to hold<span>www.TheRightHuff.blogspot.com <span>and me,</span> Crista Huff,</span> harmless and to completely release www.TheRightHuff.blogspot.com and Crista Huff from any and all liability due to any and all loss (monetary or otherwise), damage (monetary or otherwise), or injury (monetary or otherwise) that you may incur. I am not paid to promote nor disparage any investment. My recommendations are based on hypothetical situations of what I would do, not advice on what you should do.</div><div><br /></div><div>The information provided herein is obtained from sources believed to be reliable but is not guaranteed as to accuracy or completeness. Investments are risky, and can go down in value. Past investment results are not indicative of future returns. I am not a licensed investment advisor nor a tax advisor. Consult with a licensed investment advisor and a tax advisor to determine the suitability of any investment. This is not a solicitation to buy or sell any security.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>* * * *</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.therighthuff.blogspot.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">The Right Huff</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> is Crista Huff's blog for politics and items of sociological or financial interest. Crista Huff also manages</span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Goodfellow LLC</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span">, a subscription-only stock market website. We strive to identify financially healthy companies in which traders and investors can buy shares and earn dividends and capital gains. See</span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/free-stock-market-content/investment-disclaimer" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">disclaimer</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> for the risks associated with investing in the stock market. See your tax advisor for the tax consequences of investing. See your estate planning attorney to clarify beneficiary and inheritance issues associated with your assets.</span></span></span></p></span></span></i></span></div><div><br /></div>Crista Huffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429020308221764149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6861027185432144148.post-69201534556829820202011-04-08T09:05:00.008-06:002011-06-15T18:15:20.179-06:00Stock Idea: Macy*s (M, $25.00)<div><i><span class="Apple-style-span">(May 16, 2011 update: All future stock posts will appear on my new subscription-only website at <a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/">www.GoodfellowLLC.com</a>. Please visit!)</span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></i></div><div><b>Macy*s (M)</b> and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Bloomingdale's, sells merchandise in 45 states.</div><div><br /></div><div>Projected consensus EPS growth is +10.5%, +10.8% and +7.0% for fiscal years 2011 through 2013; with a PE of 10.8.</div><div><br /></div><div>Macy*s is one of those "two-steps-forward-one-step-back" stocks which is ripe for trading, but frustrating for buy & hold investors. I would be a buyer at the current price, and plan to sell before it reaches $30, expecting it to drop again, then buy it back a few dollars cheaper.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><strong>Investment Disclaimer</strong></div><div><br /></div><div><strong></strong>Release of Liability: Through use of this website viewing or using you agree to hold<span>www.TheRightHuff.blogspot.com <span>and me,</span> Crista Huff,</span> harmless and to completely release www.TheRightHuff.blogspot.com and Crista Huff from any and all liability due to any and all loss (monetary or otherwise), damage (monetary or otherwise), or injury (monetary or otherwise) that you may incur. I am not paid to promote nor disparage any investment. My recommendations are based on hypothetical situations of what I would do, not advice on what you should do.</div><div><br /></div><div>The information provided herein is obtained from sources believed to be reliable but is not guaranteed as to accuracy or completeness. Investments are risky, and can go down in value. Past investment results are not indicative of future returns. I am not a licensed investment advisor nor a tax advisor. Consult with a licensed investment advisor and a tax advisor to determine the suitability of any investment. This is not a solicitation to buy or sell any security.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>* * * *</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma, 'Trebuchet MS', lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.therighthuff.blogspot.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">The Right Huff</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> is Crista Huff's blog for politics and items of sociological or financial interest. Crista Huff also manages</span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Goodfellow LLC</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span">, a subscription-only stock market website. We strive to identify financially healthy companies in which traders and investors can buy shares and earn dividends and capital gains. See</span><a href="http://www.goodfellowllc.com/free-stock-market-content/investment-disclaimer" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">disclaimer</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> for the risks associated with investing in the stock market. See your tax advisor for the tax consequences of investing. See your estate planning attorney to clarify beneficiary and inheritance issues associated with your assets.</span></span></span></p></span></span></i></span></div><div><br /></div>Crista Huffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429020308221764149noreply@blogger.com0