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Milwaukee ‘cold train’
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I’m sure that would work for mammal pests, but I’m not so sure about birds.  I think they cannot ‘taste’ the hot stuff.  We grow hot Hawaiian Chili Peppers here, and when they turn red, it is not long before the birds go for them.  They are loaded with vitamin C that the birds instinctively go for…. and the pepper heat doesn’t bother them at all.

Aguila, yep that must be it. I took a grandchild to Mac Donald’s today and actually was the cheapest place to get just hamburger patties by itself. They cut workers I saw only had one window at the drive through instead of paying at one picking up at next. I made her chicken rice and vitamins here and there she loved but she enjoyed going out and getting her own food. Her back legs been going out for awhile so could not longer go out.
Her last episode the other day was so bad trying to go out side and could get out herself but couldn’t get back in then found her in distress and getting a heat stroke and was just warm but had a jet black coat that could heat up fast except the front. Major distress. She was suffering terribly.Breathing hard and labored and fast. Had to physically get her in fast as I could. Dealt with that and getting fluids drip by drip in her due to her breathing with a tiny bit of salt in the water while cooling her. She needed oxygen so fanned her non stop. After she couldn’t get up just laid there after that. I couldn’t bear seeing her suffer again like that or perhaps dying that way. It’s been one medical after another had blood in her urine about a month ago she was treated with tests and medicine for but it was quality of life but I kept on as long as she would. The last episode told me I was being cruel if I let her suffer like this. The doctor said it sometimes takes a bad episode like that to come to terms of letting them go. But even then you don’t want to. Next life I’ll have to become a vet.
I’m glad your getting more but I’m done.

Amals, thanks
You can emphasize with someone’s pain losing a pet and can see things in better perspective from the outside less you had one. But when it’s yours it’s hard to see that perspective.
If it was anything like the feeling I had I don’t know how you could do it again other than your giving another a good life cuz there’s a lot of bad out there. 17 years minus months is a long time but no consolation it seems.

Sorry you lost your pal.  The first time I had to do it was the saddest thing I ever did.  The second time wasn’t much better.  Seventeen years, though– that’s a long life.  Cherish the memory.

Hamburger patties !! so that’s why mcDonalds stock is down.  Sorry to hear of your loss, and never say never.  You need a cat for rodent control and a dog to back up your 9mm so hopefully before long another canine will find you.  We are without a dog for 3 years now.  Time to bring one in but not a puppy.

Thanks Maya and Ipso. She’ll be my last. If I can’t get out do things with them anymore or have two so they can keep each other company not fair to them. She’s been camping, to the beach, parks, day care, she loved getting hamburger patties at fast food get excited in the line. A lot of doctors appts. too as they’re prone to allergies.

“Hot Pepper Wax” Thanks I’ll have to check that out.

Where do you think our market is? A bit of a low coming? Most shares have been doing no great shakes considering the POG.

I have to net the snap peas and broccoli already but have never had to net the radishes before.

That’s what I get for feeding the birds. Ungrateful wretches! 🙂

Yes I saw your pineapple. Your climate is great for stuff like that! You’ll have to give us a review when you munch it down.

Very sorry to hear about your dog. I’ve been their a few times and it’s always terrible. I just try to remember all the good times.

If there’s a Heaven worth going to then all our dogs are there too.

ipso

All you need for the radish problem is “Hot Pepper Wax”  Its food grade and can also be used indoors. Perfectly safe and unless the critters want a burning mouth/throat they will stay away. A concentrate jug  will probably last you for many years….cheap too.

Total cases: 553 (12 newly reported)
Hawai’i County: 44
Honolulu County: 380
Kaua’i County: 21
Maui County: 102
Pending: 0
Residents diagnosed outside of Hawai‘i: 6
Required Hospitalization: 48
Hawaii deaths: 9
Released from Isolation: 390
Cumulative totals as of 12:00pm, April 17, 2020

Goldi- Condolences on your loss.  I had to do that once in my younger years with a loved dog, too.   Now I’ve got a bird bonded to me that I don’t want to think about losing.

Ipso- BIRD NETS over your radishes!  I keep a feeder in the backyard away from the garden ares, too.  I trust you saw my white pineaple growing.  🙂

If they didn’t shut it down except the vulnerable it probably would of peaked already and went away like the flu. Dragging it out is just guaranteeing more vulnerable will get it either by others or getting out to go to the store.
This isn’t anything like Spanish Flu which killed mostly young heathy people and some children. I wonder about some of the children because people didn’t know then not to give aspirin to children up to 19 with the flu because it causes Reye’s syndrome.

I had to put my dog down yesterday and one of the hardest decisions I ever made. She was my best gal friend always by my side. A pitty aka that never killed a cat a dog or a kid. A clown sometimes who Wags a place for dogs to play with activities all knew her clownish or rambunctious pranks like pushing a trainer in their dog pool. I have a new toy sitting here she didn’t even get. I have left is some of her fur and they gave me a paw print mold box where I can put in her picture. 2003 to 2020

The Commitment of Traders Report

Silver

*The large specs increased their long positions by 1,532 contracts and increased their shorts by 695 contracts.

*The commercials increased their longs by 1,145 contracts and increased their shorts by 1,614 contracts.

*The small specs increased their longs by 2,022 contracts and increased their shorts by 2,390 contracts.

The commercials nest short position is 43,546 contracts.

GOLD

 *The large specs increased their long positions by 6,737 contracts and increased their shorts by 3,178 contracts.

*The commercials reduced their longs by 2,046 contracts and increased their shorts by 2,751 contracts.

*The small specs increased their longs by 1,707 contracts and increased their shorts by 469 contracts.

The commercials net short position is 280,408 contracts.

Make that two boring, unimportant COT reports in a row.

https://cftc.gov/dea/futures/deacmxlf.htm

I guess this OpEx day should have been expected in the shares especially.

Everything that was almost overbought – and I mean ALMOST – because they clearly weren’t overbought, RSI’s were below 70, are now no longer overbought.

Scum flexed their muscles today and showed us who is boss.

Sure would be nice to vanquish this virus without Bill Gates and vaccines being involved!

Now If I could figure out how to stop the birds from munching on my radishes …

news that could develop over the weekend to help gold…what? another trillion buck bailout plan??….yawn….

And nobody says a word about it. The Fed even admits it on TV. “We are mandated to maintain price stability and full employment”? Even with full employment, *(3.5%?) if the tax paying workers are living paycheck to paycheck, it is not fair to call it full employment.

If we have 10% unemployment, but the employed tax payers are earning 100% MORE than they need? Double? So happy they don’t care about paying taxes? So happy they don’t care about the 10% on welfare?

That figures into a real unemployment rate of 125%. Like the old “real” interest rates they used to talk about. Like 6% interest at the bank, on a CD, with 4% inflation, you get a “real” 2% interest rate, but pay taxes on the 6%. All this crap will fix itself. Wait until the happy gleeful people who locked in a 3.5% mortgage, and their house drops 10% a year. They’ll be losing 6.5% a year on top of insurance and maintenance. Negative equity.

I’ve seen a similar thing happen here, 1972 to 1982.A $40 k house in 1972 was still $40k in 1982. As rates went 6% to 18%. And heating oil went .18 cents to $1.30, gasoline same thing. Dow? Same thing. 1972 to 1982 it could NOT stay above 1000, the “Graveyard in the sky above 1000″ Jim Dines called it. In June 1982 he recommended the Dow at 796,in June ’82. A very good call.

This is what a dollar could buy through the years” Link won’t work on internet explorer.

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/entertainment/restaurants-and-bars/table-talkers/sns-what-food-a-dollar-could-buy-the-year-you-were-born-20200416-h3wj6bwsrjbm7jplpweuke4wly-photogallery.html

didn’t…also the dollar hasn’t rallied back…been down .310 pert nealr all session…On days like today there is seldom a last 1/2 hr bounce…G&S usually close on or near their lows…if so I will be obligated to buy SOMETHING before the close…DYOD JMO…

O, yeah, almost forgot…we’ll never see the price of gold this low again in our lives…

Nurses aware of it, it was being used in Japan prior. Glad it’s having good results. People are more resilient, creative, independent than sone of these politicians.

Remdesivir anti-viral trial reports ‘rapid recoveries’ for severe hospitalised coronavirus patients with ‘nearly all’ discharged within a week and only two deaths out of 125

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8228223/Report-says-COVID-19-patients-respond-Gileads-remdesivir-shares-surge.html

US Share Market – Is it Over?

 

Many people are getting excited assuming this will be a V-Bottom and here we go. Just because Trump is pushing to get the economy going, the damage inflicted by the socialists cheered by their press is far more serious than anyone dares to even contemplate. I realize that Trump has stated that the market will make new highs and the economy will come back stronger than ever. Sorry to say, while we will see new highs in the US share market, that is not right now and it will NOT be on the back of a new robust economic boom. It will be because Europe is absolutely imploding.

The Head of France, Macron, has come out and warned that the “EU will fail without financial transfers” which is a direct assault against the Netherlands and Germany. He has further warned that otherwise, the Union remains a purely economic project and cannot be a political player.  Macron realizes that Europe cannot survive. The ploy to try to keep debts in check and austerity will not work and he is demanding the excess money of the Netherlands and Germany be sent to other states as welfare checks. But then what? The system is unsustainable and even if the Netherlands and Germany agreed, their surpluses will quickly prove to be futile. Capital will flee Europe for there remains a risk that they will impose capital controls. That capital will flee to US equities as confidence in government debts suddenly declines dramatically.

One reader asked:

I understand and agree with the various conclusions in the private blog posted this morning, namely, that there will be no V-shaped recovery, that there’s been a serious underestimation of the damage from the lockdown, that Gates and Fauci have caused severe damage to the nation, that Socrates does not agree with POTUS that the economy will be bigger and stronger, that Americans have suffered profound psychological damage, that we should expect prolonged damage to the economy with sustained unemployment due to the Draconian lockdown, etc. If, however, a vaccine were found today, or much sooner than expected, could/would Socrates’ forecasts be different and/or brighter than as stated in this morning’s private blog?

Best regards,

EGM

 

 

The answer is no because such a vaccine would be good for this version alone. Every year the flu vaccine is altered based upon the cycle they anticipate the virus will mutate to. There is no single vaccine that would cure the world permanently and then the virus will mutate to compensate. The real danger is this has been a giant fraud to further the goals of Climate Change which is why oil has collapsed. They will no doubt try this again come September/October and they will pump-up the same script in hopes of undermining Trump. They will then claim he opened the economy so this is why it is back. That will be the headlines of the New York Times and others.

Resistance remains at the 24700 level on a closing basis for this week. There remains a risk that this week can still produce a temporary high.

The Real Damage of the Lockdowns=This will be a permanent reminder of what was done to society by Bill Gates and his co-conspirators insisting upon these lockdowns.

Friday, 17 April 2020 By: Marty Armstrong

Although Initial Unemployment Claims, released at 5.245Mn, that was marginally under the estimated figure of 5.4Mn. Nevertheless, it pushed the total to over 22Mn. This number is still huge and now equals almost 13% of the entire US workforce.

 

We have already seen banks set aside billions in their Q1 results, in preparation for potential loan losses. Interesting that although China has reopened, the consumer has stayed away. People are fearful that either, this isn’t over or they do not wish to make provision never to be offside again. Irrespective of through the worst or has still to come, people feel vulnerable, unprepared and fearful.  We even have the IMF stating – first the first time ever – there will be a fall in global GDP.

 

The broader US stock markets remain the best performing (S+P -13%, DAX -21%, FTSE -25%, NIK -18%) when comparing YTD numbers. However, when we do see the NFP, Growth and Trade numbers next month the reality will probably hit that there will be no V-shaped recovery anytime soon.

 

 

There is a serious underestimate of the damage. In Florida, where we have not been locked down, it is interesting that everywhere you go from the food store, office supply, or the post office, everyone has plastic sheets for cashier which you must stand behind. This will be a permanent reminder of what was done to society by Bill Gates and his co-conspirators insisting upon these lockdowns. We can see that Fauci insisting on the entire economy being shut down was severely damaging to the nation. There was no justification for the national lockdown. At the very best, there were some hot spots, but as Sweden has proven, they did not lockdown and their exposure rate was no worse than any other country which locked down. The virus peaked precisely on target that Socrates provided – the week of April 6th.

 

Bloomberg News interestingly reports that where the restaurants are open again in Wuhan China, people are not going out to eat. This is consistent with what we should expect. Although President Trump has come out and said the economy will be bigger and stronger, on that score, sorry Socrates does not agree.

 

The psychological damage to people is profound. From here on out people will be aware of any disease by mere close association that will be possible. This fear has been struck deep in the hearts of the public and that is not going to simply vanish easily.

 

Because the economy is 70% service in the United States, this is the sector that has been directly impacted. Last Christmas, online shopping exceeded mall shopping for the first time. People are getting used to having food delivered rather than going out. We should expect prolonged damage to the economy with sustained unemployment thanks to this draconian lockdown. It has already gone way too far and will have prolonged implications for the economy and employment going forward.

We get busloads of tourists eating at the local restaurants down here that stop on their way to Yellowstone.

I guess that won’t be the case this year though.

Picked up a little more KL – Kirkland Lake @ $35.40

Kind of like the way pm’s are holding up as the SM fades a little.

they pretty much already have it.  last time i was there (summer of ’18) you couldn’t turn around without tripping on three or four asians with cameras.