Wednesday, November 12, 2008

All I want to say about this past October is you can't beat it.  As much as we tried to find some humor in which was one of the worst, if not, THE worst, Octobers on record.  I will Google that after I finish this thought or poof it’s gone forever.  This month has been childlike. Investors like me (allegedly) are the sit at home types who watch TV all day and listen to expert after expert.  Than an expert telling us not to listen to those experts and than a game show disguised as a format for intelligence in securities which it might if it took itself and my suggestions a bit more seriously. It's just hard to take anything seriously when I went to one of the websites I regularly look for and I passed it up the first time thinking it was a cartoon site for kids. I went back to renter and low and behold it is actually a website for stock info. More experts; I don't remember that option on career day...stock expert.  How does one get that title?  Wait I'm writing about them in a sort of convoluted way, can I call myself an expert on stocks also.  No where does it say under a lot of the experts names how much profit or loss they have made over the years.  You don't have to be specific for tax purposes or bonus reasons, just a hint if you have succeeded and what you say is worth listening to, say it, so back to the game show / stock expert show.  When did it become World's Funniest Stand-up Pundit?  You weren't funny when it was a tight ass-ed show till it moved times and loosened up, but lost the best voice on your show to the new experts on the Fox, I mean block, things changed seriously for the worse.  Not for the new people, but the freedom, others took.  When did cartoon web site guys become so enamored with his comedy on the show that he has actually cut guests off or others while trying to get a BAD joke in that the host had to apologize for? All in all, it is a stock show to some effect. Just way too many stupid graphics, gives it the feel of watching the similar silliness during a Fox football game. 

While sort of on the subject, way to treat your guests also.  Excuse us guest, yeah sorry you had to come in and wait for hours.  Can you do us a favor and just stand at the end of the counter when we get to you.  This way, whatever it is you are saying, won't cut into some of our face time.  Would you do that to your good friend Carl Icahn?  Not so sure bout that!

They have some marvelous minds there, some who know when to talk and when they do speak facts, in their opinion. Facts, opinions, personal choices, OK can deal with it, don't always agree but there are those there that I respect.  Those who do not deserve respect regardless if it’s his rule, the networks or whoever, is the fact that the host is the only one allowed to wear a suit with jacket. All the other men, some superior in knowledge of stocks and such, have to show up in shirtsleeves. It looks like you just dragged guys in off the street (exaggeratory) and sat them down to next to the divine one. The Stock King.  The only one who gets more face time than any pictures of all the hot women on the network hanging on high school boys bedroom walls. If not, they should be. I love the look on Bob's face in the morning when he gets introduced by the Stock King and gets constantly interrupted by the King while trying to speak his report. The look on Bob's face is you righteous bastard. Don't you talk and see yourself enough on this station, that I can't get my last couple of sentences in. When you have people owning and running their own hedge funds, as brilliant as she may be and entertaining, how much is she going to reveal that isn't fluff, or hear more about flowing pipes somewhere. Makes you think she's in the plumbers union.

And now back to the bad October.  I am going to be listing the particulars in the days to come as we proceed on this march toward glorious change.  Sorry, I don't anoint anyone the next anything till they do something.

In finality, this may be the last report, Staples Gun or Billy Staples Blog, whatever you call it and that’s who I am that you will read here or one of our other sites that is written like the above.  No names and facts, I hate it and did it for a reason.  Just toward the end, some of the good guy names came out.  I only have Cablevision so I only get CNBC to watch during the day, which is kept on for background noise, an occasional story before the web and not too often no matter how many times they say breaking news. Today’s Breaking News was the interview with the AIG CEO yesterday he was screwing with you.  He told CNBC one thing, swallowed it live, a starving big mouth bass, and today says he never meant to do that and changed their minds about what he plans to do with his TARP payout.

I do enjoy very much how Mark Haines will not let a guy go on an interview without him answering his question.  Mark will ask again and again...I love that persistence.  Unlike a Dennis Neal, who is a paid shill?  He is the guy that they take the opposite side of whichever side the guest has taken to mix it up with him.  This I know plenty about, except it’s not as easy when you don't have time to plan in advance for it.  He is their little poodle who they want to sound like a pit bull.  Charlie Gasparinoo gets upset when they say lets see what he's got.  Why?  Most of the time it’s wrong or misleading. 

Ahhh…enough for now but this is the new sports section so to speak, we'll we come to see who won and lost in my twisted mind today.  Trust me; finally letting myself worry about what others might think isn't worth your integrity of saying what you feel.

Wednesday April 16, 2008

I watch CNBC all day.  OK, I take lunch time off as I can't watch Power
Lunch even with the edition of Michelle Caruso Cabrera's legs. Bill and Sue
are a snooze fest and Dennis Neal is a huge...what the???  It seems he is
the Charlie Gasparino starter kit except he has the guts to show up in the
studio.  Gasparino is their hired thug with all the connections. Yet half
of them are wrong and he will not shut up during an interview.  It is as if his
is the only voice that matters and will always, always, get the last word in.
On the other hand, Dennis Neal, who I keep expecting to see grab a
guitar and start singing 'Oliver's Army’, is a slave to the ear piece from
the producers.  Everyone, or almost everyone, especially close to any kind of
show business can see this and make no mistake about it; this is just what it is.  Why do you think they added Dennis and Michelle?  Off the record note, Michelle is a real
package but she has that sexy coy smirk that just makes you want to...never
mind.  Let's just say it works well for her as an attractive woman.  So here is Dennis Neal, an intelligent man I believe, but will badger guests
based on what is said to him in his earpiece.   He is so contradictory at
times, but it’s all because of what I hinted to before, that most people
know.  Conflict = better TV.  It is actually, conflict = comedy. It is
really true for a lot of different forms of entertainment. How boring would
it have been when the Congressman was on the show today talking about using cell
phones on planes and he was introducing a bill to make it illegal to use,
other than text.  This makes perfect sense.  Anyone who has been on a train or
a bus knows how annoying it can be.  I'm sorry but at
50,000 feet in the air, you can’t go and leave. Allowing cell phones on planes
to talk is a ridiculous idea.  Not too mention more reason for tension and
fighting.  Dennis just sat there and tried to make this poor Congressman
look like an idiot and than looked all proud of himself.  He is an
embarrassment, a fake and should be selling old computers on Barry Diller's
network.

Stapled shut!

January, 4, 2008

In your daily travels, I am trying to find an alleged quote I heard from Mitt Romney who said that they will not embarrass the White House like Bill Clinton.

Whoa there Mr. Mormon...what, the last 8 years and his lies weren't tarnishing the White House and the country's rep?  Weapons of Mass Destruction....lie, ordering the torture of Abu Ghraib prisoners and no one high up got their hand slapped? It made the US look no worse than the guys we complain about. Scooter Libby, Carl Rove and a few more, oh yeah, Antonio Gonzalez. His testimony was hysterical. Everyone knew he was lying but you just saw him sitting there almost laughing when he said he couldn't answer on the grounds of national security or something stupid like that. He fell on the sword for Bush and more I'll have to think. I just found it so hypocritical and a blinders on kind of thing.

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