Remember when “experts” claimed Ronald Reagan was too “extreme” and couldn’t win in November? Never follow the advice of media “experts.”
TheoSpark.net one-liner #180 says “The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
“Like him or loathe him, you get the feeling that you could enjoy having a beer with Bill Clinton. You don’t get the feeling that you could enjoy anything with Hillary Clinton - except maybe anesthesia.”
Brent Bozell on newsmax.com
There is nothing wrong with being a political newcomer running for office. In fact, when voter disgust seems to be aimed at politicians in general, these new candidates usually perform well and can often take out veteran officeholders.
In the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress, 55 percent of the Republican freshman class had never held political office. When Democrats regained control in 2006, 45 percent of their new members had never before held public office.
An extremist today in the USA is someone who wants to be able to buy incandescent light bulbs.
Invest $10,000 at 10 percent per year for 50 years and you will have $1.2 million. At 16 percent a year for the same 50 years the $10,000 grows to $16.7 million. See the difference in getting a better rate of return?
The Standard & Poor’s 500 averaged around 10 percent a year over the past 50 years. Veteran value investor Walter Schloss, still spry at age 92, managed accounts for investors for many years, averaging a 16 percent annual return for 50 years, after deducting his fee, which was 25 percent of the profit on the account. That is a very impressive rate of return.
Mr. Schloss was the subject of an interesting article in Forbes magazine last year. He still looks for bargains although he stopped managing money for others in 2003. Mr. Schloss didn’t go to some fancy school. He grew up during the Depression and has a high school education, a self-taught investor who began working on Wall Street as a teenager. He has lived through 17 recessions.
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Why do people use “golf” as a verb? I sometimes hear people say “do you golf?” but never hear “do you tennis?”
Bumper sticker of the day: George Washington: Right-Wing Extremist.
During the 2000 presidential race a prominent Republican called George W. Bush “a Pat Robertson Republican” and predicted Bush would lose to Al Gore in November. Want to guess who said this? It was John McCain, Bush’s rival for the nomination and part-time conservative. Of course, Bush was also a part-time conservative. McCain sounds good lately, but he faces a primary challenge this year from J.D. Hayworth so he is trying to sound conservative again.
“All men have equal rights; but not to equal things.”
Edmund Burke, Irish statesman (1729-1797)
Probably true:
“People will buy anything that is one to a customer.”
Novelist Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)
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