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Friday, November 7, 2003 COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) -- A man charged with entering a restricted area during an October 2002 presidential visit has subpoenaed U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and Bush political adviser Karl Rove to testify at his trial next week. Activist Brett...

I agree with waggie945 and others here. Yes bullets gone is an edge lost. But Bullets is not the only edge a trader has. The real edge is within the trader and his/her ability to adapt. Edges come and go. Imagine the market as a terrain will all kinds of roadways to get to the top. You can...

Well said. I don't remember the author, but the quote rings true: -a society of sheep, breeds a government of wolves-

I'll have to agree with Maverick74. As of today GW will win the elections. And there are many strong reasons for it. Only well recognized obstacle to GW winning control, would be a bad economy, news can only pump it up with words so much. There is a point that no matter what you hear and no...

We have lost bullets an edge that many have profitably used to earn significant profits. It effects to some extent both traders and trading houses. However; this is not the first time that an edge is taken away. We used to have a much better than bullet edge in the past that is gone sometime...

great excerpt. The last paragraph, definitely the last sentence, speaks volumes. War is one of the best if not the best business, for the arm chair generals and controlling elite that is...hehe harrytrader, can you repost the full "Georges Orwell's 1984" url?, this comes up as unknown page...

Anyone remember this thread from 06/30/2003??? Brilliant! This is how it is done. Trading, life, war, heck it's all the same. Do you want the crowd to follow? Easy! Keep on repeating the same. Every hour on the hour. It won't be too long until perceptions start to form and believed as...

Still trying to justify the war and the dead by using Vietnam as a benchmark? Sad.... U.S. War Dead in Iraq Exceed Early Vietnam Years By David Morgan PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The U.S. death toll in Iraq has surpassed the number of American soldiers killed during the first three years of...

Rearden Metal, good find Julius Caesar quote. History just keeps on repeating it self. Here is more from the Nazi State of the Union Guidebook MEIN KAMPF: The State of the Union Guidebook "The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence small, but their power of...

Only keeping track of $$$ and souls lost. If you you see no point, then no point to reply. If you want we can start another thread and discuss if U.S. "was unsafe" with Sadam in power and how, and how high on our hit list should Iraq have been. We could also discuss what needs to be done now...

Shocking images shame US forces By Yvonne Ridley and Lawrence Smallman Monday 10 November 2003, 0:46 Makka Time, 21:46 GMT Fearful women and children are bound by US soldiers A series of shocking pictures revealing US soldiers tying up Iraqi women and children in their own home...

Cost of war so far over 161 billion to the US taxpayer. Hundreds of our own dead. But lest not forget the Iraqi dead either. Death toll Entitled Continuing Collateral Damage: the health and environmental costs of war on Iraq, the report estimates that between 22,000 and 55,000...

CIA says insurgents now 50,000 strong Crisis talks over transfer of power Julian Borger in Washington and Rory McCarthy in Baghdad Wednesday November 12 2003 The White House yesterday drew up emergency plans to accelerate the transfer of power in Iraq after being shown a devastating CIA...

by Arjun Chowdhury Published on Saturday, November 1, 2003 by the Minneapolis Star Tribune Someone breaks into your shop that's been in your family for generations, cuts off your electricity and water, destroys your cash register and part of your building, scares the life out of your...

"Should CBS have pulled the Reagan docudrama? " No.

ARogueTrader, good find. Great points. We were having these same discussions here about a year ago. Do you have url?

The 14 characteristics are: Rampant Cronyism and Corruption -- Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions, and who use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not...

WISHFUL THINKING....As I was Googling links for the post below, I came across this Eric Schmitt article for the New York Times from last February. http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/attack/consequences/2003/0228pentagoncontra.htm In retrospect, it is nothing less than mind...

11). Marc Grossman-----Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. He was Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Human Resources at the Department of State. Grossman is one of many of the pro-Israel Jewish officials from the Clinton Administration that Bush has promoted to...

Well...It doesn't seem that Jews have been marginalized. Some of the highest and critical ranking positions within our gov't are held by them. It will be naive to think that they have no influence at least partially in favor of Israel. Israel doesn't have much to fear. 1). Richard...