Shoulda Woulda Coulda December 31, 2007

This is a follow up to a post I did June 1st 2007 about Jim Cramer.  I got interested in following the Mad Money pick for the year when Cramer’s pick for 2006 did very well.  For the first show of 2007 Cramer picked 9 stocks which I have attached.  I set up the portfolio with ten thousand in each of the nine stocks at the price when Cramer recomended them.  MO split off Kraft and when you add up the 10 stocks at year end you have a profit of $16,093.68.  or 17.88 percent.  Not bad but if you had cherry picked the bad stocks and left out Apple and SVNT you would have lost a lot of money.

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Warning about Apple Nano! December 15, 2007

I purchased a Nano for my wife today as a present.  My wife and I share our e-mail and as an aside I think it is weird for married couples to have separate e-mail accounts and bank accounts etc.  Well I check my e-mail and Apple has sent me an e-mail receipt for the Nano which my wife would have seen if she had checked our e-mail first.  The strange thing is I never gave the sales people my e-mail so how did they have it.  Why do I need an e-mail receipt when I have a paper one from the store?  Has any one at Apple ever found out that these e-mails can blow the surprise that their customers were hoping for? 

Sad news about Al Gore December 11, 2007

I hate to be the one to break the news but this troubling photograph of Vice president Al gore shows the latest results of GLOBAL WARMING.  It seems a new kind of Vortex named a Gortex has opened in the north east sky.  As you can see it is exerting a sucking force on the upper right portion of the Vice Presidents head.  It’s Kind of ironic since Democrats are left of center or maybe it makes perfect sense.  Stay tuned for further developments

Get the lead out! December 10, 2007

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/12/10/christmas.lights/

 

The above article is the last straw and I need to type in loud words

“GET THE LEAD OUT”.  Recently some group tested a bunch of toys at the toy store and a third was found to have lead which can cause permanent brain damage in children.  What next, sippy cups with high levels of lead?  I think CDC or some agency should start testing a few of our children at random to see what the exposure to lead is.  I have let my kids handle Christmas lights and now we find out the manufacturers knew about this lead coating and of course they also knew some children would handle the lights.