Don't be a cop in Iraq

I’m amazed they still try to be cops and soldiers in Iraq.The below link to the story about a car bomb attack that killed 110 is the worst yet.Trader”lover not a fighter”Mic

http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=050228&cat=frontpage&st=frontpageap20050228_445&src=abc

Out and about in Native America

Out for some adult fun at our Native American friends reservation yesterday.
On the way back it occurred to me, while 9/11 sinks further from thoughts, scum hiding as Native sons spew there hate. Anyway read this article I linked below, as a beginning. I blog, you decide.
Trader” no spin”Mic

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,146858,00.html

Sci Fi series

Well I Just love the new Battlestar Galactica series and recommend highly I was disappointed with the 4400 mini-series however. It turned into just another back thru time to save the future idea. It had a lot of promise but ended flat. It seems it was a USA network series re-run as a SCI-FI mini-series to promote a new second season in June on USA.
It won’t be on my list to watch.
Trader” make them and I’ll watch”Mic
http://www.usanetwork.com/series/the4400/flash.htm
and
http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/

Water and Life on Mars

Couldn’t get on yesterday and very busy today.
I added my favorite source of info to the links and 2 storys for you to check out.
Water and Life on Mars,can it be?
Check these articles out on Reuters and you decide
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2005-02-23T222642Z_01_N23629345_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-SPACE-BACTERIUM-DC.XML
Water
and
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2005-02-23T194246Z_01_L23261398_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-SPACE-MARS-DC.XML

Tax questions

Well it’s tax time and I wonder how much NHL owners will get back on deprecation of capital if there’s no season?
I wonder if Paris Hilton’s friends can write off their phone bills as a matter of personal security in a “theft of business” sense.
I wonder about tax deductions on Bush’s new social security private savings account preposal. They misled most on IRA’s. You get NO tax deduction if you have a company pension and make over 75G’s COMBINED with a spouse in 99.99 percent of the returns. Humm, no protective net OR deduction??
Finally I wonder when steroid “withdrawl”will come under “substance abuse” in health coverage plans.

Away on vacation 3 days

Can't really keep up with the news for Sat,Sun,and Monday,so don't expect to
post anything else till Tuesday.I'm down in Norfolk Va.,visiting
grandkids.Everything is fine so keep on trucking.
Trader"lying in the sun"Mic

Not a lot of choices today

Humm what was today’s big story?
Was it the phony white house correspondent?
Maybe the new intel czar?
Perhaps the MJ flu?
Naw,it had to be David Wells at spring training firing a week shot at the Yanks.
Pedro and the Mess,take a seat,and let the real games begin………
Trader:streaching for this one"Mic

The NHL and what this "Blog"will become

Well I guess I’ll use this forum for my opinions on the day’s big events. That seems a little oxy moronic when discussing the NHL and big events but in this case it just might be. Hockey at its best has been an Olympic sport tied to the cold war moment as with the “Miracle on ice” and at its worst as “gang warfare” The truth it’s the worst of the team sports, a poor copy of soccer on ice.
Still the NHL has transcended its place yesterday.
By canceling an entire sports season, something never done before in any sport, it has forever dug a hole it will be buried in.
Although I’m retired I did at a point in my carier, nogotate labor agreements at my place of employement, 4 times infact.
What happened in the case of NHL was 2 sides gave in and no one won. The players gave a cap, the owners gave up linkage, but in the end the dollars were to great and they killed the season and probably their future being the regional sport, at best, that they were.
Yes dollars the owners protected even when not yet earned vs. employees who want what was not yet available, and the limited fan base taxed to supply in the now questioned future.
Sadly in the end, to quote that weird but interesting morning radio jock, Don Imus,”Nobody cares, nobody”
True enough on a day when few were killed in Iraq and no political leaders killed in Lebanon or saber rattling in Washington, that NHL ending was thankfully the story.
OK, shead a few tears for the “collateral”busines’s but they will get by with other means, baseball did.
Trader” it doesn’t matter”Mic

Inital Audio test post.

Deep in thought 

Trader Mic's inital thoughts

Set up today and will seriously consider way to go tomorrow.
Check back then and may the farce be within you..................
Trader Mic