Can't Post Pictures On My Tripod Blog

So I'm posting them here for now. Here's a picture of me in my former place of work at Canada Post. This was in Feburary of 2009 as I said goodbye to everyone. Why? I retired after 35 years, that's why.

"The Motown Song" By Rod Stewart

This is one of my favourite music videos of all time. At a time of deep depression in Detroit, it's great to know that this city gave us some of the greatest music and groups of all time: The Tempetations, The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, etc.

The Motown Song is so full of pure joy. Please enjoy it again and again and again:

The War Between Speculators And Investors

Warren Buffet made his money in the stock market because he was a true investor not a speculator. He bought the stocks of good companies at a value price and held onto them "forever". In that scenario, everyone wins including the economy.

Today speculators treat the stockmarket like it's a big casino. Selling short seems to be the only game in town. They roll the dice and hope that the rest of us lose who have money in blue chip stocks and mutual funds. They feed on greed, negativity and fear.

Well let them keep rolling the dice until they crap out, again and again and again. Gamblers will eventually lose everything. Not only are they playing against the odds, but they're stopping genuine investors from investing in good companies at good value. This is money that companies could use to expand their businesses and create more jobs.

All the investors have to do is sit on the sidelines until the speculators bankrupt themselves with too many missed calls and puts.

On the last settlement date for failed future contracts, the real investors will walk away with the good stocks at bargain basement prices.

Some try to catch the falling knife of the stock market. Some keep betting that it will fall as long as they have short postions. Howver, one can't time the bottom of the market in the same way one can't time the top of the market. What goes down will eventually go up.

It's better for the survival of the economies of the world that this happens sooner rather than later.

The speculators are having their faces shoved into this bear market again and again and again. The quicker they go bankrupt, the better it is for all of us. Eventually, they will buy and sell anything without reason. The will try to make back their losses, but they won't succeed. They will turn into compulsive gamblers.

Difficulties In Posting In Barron Blog # 1

I pay on a monthly basis for 1 gig of webspace at Tripod/Lycos. I used about half that space.

Over the last week, I've found it hard to put a new posting in my blog. I've written "Tripod Support" on this and they've found that my blog is too big with over 1340 entries. They
want me to delete earlier entries which is difficult to do because I have to delete them one at time and each time the webpage returns to the lastest blog after a deletion.

The File Manager at Tripod is not accessible to me for rapid deletes.

It is true I have lots of music, pictures and links in my blog, but I haven't even come
close to using all of the space that I pay for.

Tripod needs better faster servers that can do the job for customers with lots of webspace like me.

You can take a find the Barron Blog #1 at http://www.barronblog.com/.

Lately In My Life

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Over the last couple of weeks, I managed to learn enough about Hold'Em Poker to win some money, $208.00 from Poker Stars to be exact. I've also done well over the last three weeks with the poker games next door. I ahead about $80.00 there.

Now that I'm learning to manage risk, I've opened up at an online trading account at http://www.questrade.com/. I'm finding out how to invest from such websites like Beginning Investing and Investing 101.

You can only be a winner if you know how to play any game properly.

Barron Blog #2 Is Active Again

After having a hard time creating a post on my original blog at www.barronblog.com, I've went back to my archived blog from last year. I used to put some great musical videos on this blog and I'll keep doing it. The musical videos only last a few months on Blogger, but enjoy a very rare oldie by Barry Mann.

Neil Sedaka celebrates 50 years in showbiz with 'Definitive Collection' - Yahoo! Canada News

Last Thursday, I saw Neil perform at Casino Rama. He written so many great songs and still sounds good singing them. He's not in Rock and Roll's Hall of Fame and something should be done about it.
Sign the petition on the Neil Sedaka website.
Neil Sedaka celebrates 50 years in showbiz with 'Definitive Collection' - Yahoo! Canada News