“Living In Cramerica” from faulkingtruth.com

March 25, 2007

Living In Cramerica

Mark Faulk’s latest blog entry:

Jim Cramer, sole ruler and psycho-king of Cramerica, is losing his (King) Midas touch. For the past two years, he has been ranting like a crack-crazed king on CNBC’s Mad Money, a caricature so grotesque and absurd that, like a gruesome car wreck, America couldn’t help but stop and stare. (Cue Mad Money sound effect of a car wrecking.) Cramer is enough of an attention-starved sociopath that he mistook the freakshow curiousity element for real affection. Just as he can’t seem to discern the difference between right and wrong, or truth and lies, he seems to think that any attention is good attention.

continued at http://www.faulkingtruth.com/

“Lies, Market Manipulation and Wall Street: Jim Cramer Comes Clean” (counterpunch.org url)

March 21, 2007

Lies, Market Manipulation and Wall Street

Jim Cramer Comes Clean

By CORPORATE CRIME REPORTER

Finally, Jim Cramer has come clean.
The market is fiction, upon fiction, upon fiction.
Stock fundamentals don’t matter.
It’s all about lying and manipulation.
Lie, spread rumors to reporters, including to the bozos at the Wall Street Journal.
Price fixing is needed in certain industries–and don’t worry, the shareholders will demand phony lawyers to cover up the crime.
No need to worry about the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)–they don’t have a clue.
No need to worry anymore about Cramer’s Harvard Law School buddy Eliot Spitzer–he’s in Albany now.
Cramer–the former hedge fund trader and current host of the popular CNBC show "Mad Money"–was interviewed in December 2006 by Aaron Task on TheStreet.com television.

continued at http://counterpunch.org/ccr03212007.html

squamish rains

I can see how people get tired of the rain on the west coast. It said in the newspaper yesterday that so far in March there has been 43 hours of sun, much less than usual. My perception is that it rains for days at this time of year interspersed with a couple of hours of sun here and there. I was in Vancouver last Monday and the cherry trees are in blossom - very beautiful even in the rain. I haven’t seen one cherry tree in a public place in Squamish - something the local municipality should consider.

I did plant some seeds indoors a few weeks back and the scarlet runner seeds are now plants (about 8 inches tall). The other seeds I planted -black-eyed susan and nasturtium vines - are growing at a much slower pace. The plan is to have them in pots on the back porch which will provide some privacy. I expect that we will stay put here - this residence in Squamish - until the end of the summer.

My summer goal is to do a surf weekend in Tofino with ’Surf Sister’ (see http://www.surfsister.com). This would also be an opportunity to explore the west coast of Vancouver Island. A person I spoke with last week advised me to start exercising now in preparation for ’surf school’ as it is physically demanding (I saw recently that surfing burns 600 calories an hour). I will start off by going to the local pool this week!