Great Pundits

HE WILL ALSO INVADE THE BEAUTIFUL LAND...The U.S.-Israel Strategic Alliance - Part III

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:41:46 -0500

THE WEST'S INTRUSION INTO THE LAND OF THE PATRIARCHS'NOTHING BUT TOTAL VICTORY!The West's fascination with the Holy Land'the 'Beautiful Land' or 'Glorious Land' Daniel :'be it for 'hiddenmaterial' or 'propheticspiritual' treasures, has climaxed at the apex of the modern era in America's most recent intrusion into Iraq.The last Caliphate, the Ottoman Turks, collapsed at the close of World War I. On December , , British Field Marshal, Edmund Allenby, dismounted, and walked through Jerusalem's Jaffa Gate, in honor of the three great religions as the Allies eventually wrested control of the Levant from the decrepit Ottomans'thusly, was this member of the Axis Powers dismembered.'By December, , Allenby had moved upwards from Egypt and captured Jerusalem. As the first Christian conqueror of the Holy City since the Crusades, Allenby ordered his troops to dismount as a mark of respect when they entered the city.' PBS, Lawrence of Arabia.'Jerusalem ' The Endless Cru...

Beck Rally a Political Ploy?

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:48:53 -0500

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I've Figured Out President Obama's Religion

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:48:45 -0500

It's A New One That Fits Him Wellby Michael D. Hume, M.S.I've been hearing a lot of talk lately about President Obama's religion if any. A recent poll discovered that a high and rising number of Americans believe Mr. Obama is a Muslim. This prompted a strong protest from a White House spokesperson, who claimed the president is "obviously a Christian," based on the fact that he does things like meet regularly with spiritual advisors things that a Muslim would also do, as would a Buddhist or a Hindu or a Navajo medicine man.You can see where this large segment of the public got it wrong, of course. Mr. Obama made remarks defending the proposed "Ground Zero Mosque" at a Ramadan dinner at which he spoke. He does deliver a lot of speeches to Muslim audiences, and in fact his first interview as president was granted not to CNN or Fox News, but to Al-Jazeera, the Islamic network in the Middle East. His father was a Muslim from Kenya, and his mother was a "non-believer,...

Time to think outside the box

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 02:28:12 -0500

The mortgage industry has faced up to some pretty demandingchallenges over the last few years and only now does it appearto be settling down to something like normality.So as the market moves onwards and upwards,I think there is alot the lending industry can gain by taking a look at marketingtechniques which have been adopted by other industries.Take another financial market, credit cards, as an example. Itshares many similar characteristics with the mortgage market:it's a financial service, highly competitive, and a saturatedmarket in which the challenge is to win market share fromcompetitors because there is little room for genuine growth.Sound familiar?The credit card market has employed some very sophisticated andaggressive marketing tactics to win new business - you may wellhave been on the receiving end of them. They have analysed andsegmented their customer base in great detail; they knowprecisely the profile of people they would like to own theircredit cards. T...

How to Make a Politician Say Something HONEST

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:52:15 -0500

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Retire Debt FREE!

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:52:14 -0500

Retirement. We dream about it, whether it is five years or years away. We fantasize about the day when we march into theboss's office and declare that we are retiring in one month andplan to take off to Bora Bora to unwind from decades of stressand office politics.Retirement can indeed be the "golden years," if you are notbogged down with money issues such as keeping current onmortgage payments, affording medical insurance, buying a car,taking vacations, enjoying golf, enrolling in continuingeducation, etc.Retirement means that you will need less money because expensessuch as professional attire, lunch, weekly parking and commutinggas will be gone. However these expenses will be replaced withother expenses.It is estimated that the average American will need of theincome that they earned during their peak earning years forretirement. In other words, if you make , per year whenyou are nearing retirement then you will need approximately, per year as a r...

Jaime Watt on Summer Political Polls

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:29:08 -0500

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How to Use Emotion in Stock Trading

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:29:07 -0500

The stock market is driven solely by human emotion. Nothing elsereally matters. Human emotion is driven by perception, andperception is jaded by expectations. If your expectations arenot met, than your perception is that this is bad. So if yourexpectations are high, chances are you will be disappointed. Thetrick then is to gauge the expectations that stock traders haveat any given moment. Unfortunately there is no reliablemeasurement that I know of to gauge expectations.Much of any day's movement can be attributed to the daily news.And most of the time it can be narrowed down to the day'seconomic news. There are of course non-economic events thatshape the trader's expectations. Politics, war, disasters, etc.,but barring any unusual activity in these areas, the economicnews is the driving force of most trading day's activity. Thenotable exception is during 'earnings season', but we will writea whole article on that later. Traders usually have scenarios intheir heads, exp...