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Trash shot, Bomb Threats, and Entitlement

I’m going to start with the least controversial and move down the line. I’ve made note in previous entry’s about throwing trash into the can but today I’m going to go into some more depth. On day’s I get Dunkin Doughnuts for breakfast, a paper bag always accompanies the order. I always sit in the same spot eating it and after I finish it I take the bag and basketball shoot it into a 1 1/2′ x 1′ can. This is how I determine whether the day is going to be a good day or not. I probably make 75% but I’m using a crumpled up paper bag which is pretty easy material to shoot. The annoying thing about the trash can shot is that if you miss, you have to stand up and then in a defeated manner slam the bag into the trash can in disgust. Now a paper bag is an easy shot but with material like paper towels and writing paper, it can get more challenging. I hardly find anything more annoying than dropping a piece of paper in the basket and having it flutter around and get swept up by a sudden gust of wind and miss the target. Picking up thrown trash can make or break the day.

I’ve never really understood bomb threats. I read that there was one on the Eiffel Tower the other day which made me think of this. My initial thought is to disregard all bomb threats. If the person was so serious about blowing something up, why would he inform authorities of what he was going to do. Seems like the stupidest thing to draw as much attention as possible to yourself and increase your chances of getting caught infinitely. Now I understand that if you are going to blow something up, you at least want to be recognized for the cowardly act. There’s no notoriety if you just put a bomb on the Eiffel tower, blow it up, and then hide in the shadows the rest of your life. They must be thinking “I don’t really want to do this, BUT I CAN, so you better take me seriously.” The worst thing is that you have to take these maniacs seriously because if you dismissed all bomb threats and then it occurred, you’d look like a schmuck. Just an unusual event in general.

If your a loyal reader, you know I stay away from politics, but every once in a while I read something to comment on. The gov’t and entitlements has me stirring. Here are a few facts:
“Nearly half of all Americans live in a household in which someone receives gov’t benefits, more than at any time in history.”
“At the same time, the fraction of American households not paying federal income taxes has also grown – to an estimated 45% in 2010 from 39% five years ago.”
“Some 41.3 million people were on food stamps, up 45% from June 2008”
“9.7 million unemployed workers were receiving unemployment checks (for 99 weeks), more than twice as many as the 4.2 million in August 2008.

My thoughts. (Lazy) People are relying on the gov’t, while the gov’t is relying on it’s hard working citizens. This is a formula destined to fail. With new taxes going into place Jan 1st, this trend of taxing the working and giving to the needy will only get worse. What this also does is give less incentive to the bright people to be innovative because they get taxed more by the gov’t for making a lot of money. People are constantly complaining about unemployment but if the gov’t is going to give unemployment benefits for 99 weeks, what motivation do these people have to even look for jobs? America is a great place to live because of the freedom it offers, but we shouldn’t be a nation of smart, hard workers providing for the slothful and stupid. Sadly the real problem isn’t because of the citizens but the people in charge. All the corruption and waste in the political circles is frightening. I’m sure if I actually knew more about what actually occurs, I would be even more horrified. I’m moving to a better place like Afghanistan where I can be living everyday in fear of being blown up opposed to whining about Obama.

By Tom Stortz|2010-09-15T13:18:34-04:00September 15th, 2010|My Brain|0 Comments

People are retarded

I was listening to Howard Stern yesterday and they were playing clips from this Oprah show about her taking her fans to Australia. I’m not a regular listener to Howard but I do tune in every so often. When I watch this clip of how nuts and crazy her fans are going (and how crazy she is) I just sit here and wonder what medication all these people are on because I obviously need some. I honestly don’t think I’ve ever been as excited in my entire life as these people get. Obviously they are all middle-aged women who would sacrifice their lives for Oprah but this must be overdoing it to some extent. I couldn’t find the whole segment but I know they were going nuts for many minutes previous to this clip. After watching it, doesn’t Oprah seem nuts herself? What is she thinking when she keeps screaming “WE’RE GOING TO AUSTRALIA” in her hoarse and raspy, disgusting voice. This whole scene is bothersome to me because these people have devoted themselves, to their full capacity, to OPRAH! Obviously from a younger males point of view, I’m not going to appreciate everything Oprah has to offer but the what I do understand is the Oprah effect on her viewers and how she must be a professional hypnotist because she has these people brainwashed and in a trance. When I view clips like this I’m just happy to be alone because if I were any of the females in the audience’s husband’s, I’d jump off the deep end because my wife is a lunatic. The whole thing is disturbing.

By Tom Stortz|2013-03-15T17:24:01-04:00September 15th, 2010|My Brain, Videos|1 Comment

Blog This!

Since I really have nothing interesting going on in my life, fantasy football won me over last night. Jamaal put a hurting some people last night as I rolled through Hafer and ended up tying the Moisturizers. Hafer, Blog This!, if you want to transfer me the money on Full Tilt, I’m happy to give you a chance to win your money back in any heads up action… Also if anyone else wants to place wagers against me in either fantasy football or heads up action, let me know. A thing to note, I hardly believe in tying in fantasy football so to see that 4 of our 12 teams tied in the one league is disappointing when a simple solution is for fraction of points should be tallied. I ended up 2-1-1 for the week among(st) my 4 teams but that was just mostly due to favorable matchups, as I wasn’t near the points lead in any of them.

I finished the week up 20 dollars betting on football games through the weekend. Considering I started up 100 after my first 2 bets, it should be a decent indicator of how not good I am. I got completely lucky on the first 2 picks and then squandered the money on poor bets that weren’t well thought out and pretty much got rocked. The Bengals lost by the 1st qtr and the Cowboys/Over couldn’t have been more wrong. The reality is that there is no easy money in sports betting. This will bring me to the other point, if it was easy, everyone would be doing it. There is nothing easy, especially when it comes to making money.

I’ve been feeling a little blah lately with just nothing of any real significance occurring lately. When Doug from Weed’s made the comment “I’m living an insignificant life,” I thought to myself that I bet a lot of people have that feeling. I thought that last nights Weed’s episode was decent but the 25 minute shows are just killer to wait a week for. Back to Doug’s comment, if you have an average paying job that isn’t ever going to make you enough money to really live comfortably, you are going to be constantly working to pay for things and never getting ahead. When people plan to have a wife, start and family, buy a house and all the other … things to a “normal” life, you are just getting yourself into financial responsibilities. I honestly don’t know how people do it. Everything from rings, houses, weddings, kids, car payments, all normal stuff costs money. Now we think of Doug living an insignificant life with no money, no family, and just tending to himself, well things would probably be much harder to live a significant life and have to provide for all the above. As of right now, I can take care of myself but that’s seriously it.

No real point to this other than as you get older you feel the pressure to do these “normal” things but the reality is that, unless you can do them comfortable from a financial standpoint, you are going to spend the rest of your life working and trying to provide. I’m not sure how fun that is. To quote another Weed’s line “I just go home, pray, and play the lottery.”

By Tom Stortz|2010-09-14T08:02:05-04:00September 14th, 2010|Sports|1 Comment

Sweat

I’m sure Hafer is going to read this so I want to headline with a fantasy football matchup. With 5 players left and trailing by 70 points, I’m sure Hafer thought he had my 50 bucks all wrapped up but then Miles Austin tallied 30+ points to pull me within 40 with 4 to play. My remaning players are my main man Jamaal Charles, Antonio Gates, QB Flacco, and the Jet’s Defense. They certainly have the potential for 40. I think I’m about 50/50 to win and this should guarantee Hafer a nice sweat. On a side note, the Manayunk Moisturizers were able to shut down the Nuts unless Jamaal, the Jets, and Boldin can go for 38 points. I think I have about a 5% chance of winning this one.

I didn’t really do much this weekend except play a lot of poker. I jumped right into some bigger games and was playing the 60-115 Turbo’s and even a 230 Heads up match. I came out on the losing end of the stick a couple hundred but my luck just wasn’t on my side. I have guy in the 230 heads up AI with K6 vs my A8 and after hitting an A and K on the flop, he rivered a 6 to bring my hopes of victory down. Also if BigBadBluff ever reads this, he cost me about 500 dollars this weekend. I literally had him all in with the best of it 4 straight times and couldn’t win once. The guy’s a joke and I read his soul over and over.

Regarding other things over the weekend, the night scene wasn’t much to talk about and we played some football Saturday morning. I don’t really find playing football all that exciting. Plus I have this race coming up which I’m going to bomb due to lack of motivation as I got closer to the date. Oh well, I’ll still be able to do it but any chance at a really good time is out the window. This was a pretty lackluster year for me and 2010 isn’t going down in the memory books for pretty much anything.

By Tom Stortz|2010-09-13T08:23:13-04:00September 13th, 2010|Sports|1 Comment

CVS, Sun Glare, & Fine

I buy my daily shower stuff at CVS. They always have a lot of brands to choose from and deals on different brands so it keeps things different. Sometimes Old Spice will be a two for 1, or Dial will be knocked down to 3 bucks. Suave is always the cheapest and is my usual go to because I can’t tell the difference between any of them. So I’m standing in front of the selections and Old Spice is 5.49 for some incredible “16 hour staying power.” The Dial is the same price but you get 18 oz instead of 16 oz. And the lowly Suave was a tad under 3. The Nivea was the brand on sale but it was a hair + body wash and I just have this thing that things you use in your hair should be different than soap on your body. So I went out on a limb and chose the Dial for the extra 2 oz’s. I’ve never used the Dial before so I’ll be sure to let you know how it performs. They also had these Arizona Arnold Palmers, 22oz, for $.99! Naturally they were all sold out and I couldn’t get my half and half fix. The half and half has become my drink of choice over any soda or water. I also noticed that this CVS keeps their store at 60 degrees and I walk in and it’s a shot of cold air. I was immediately uncomfortable and was deciding if I really wanted to be cold for the 5 minutes it takes me to get my stuff, but I chose to tough it out.

This part of the yearly cycle brings about ridiculous sun glare on my drive to and from work. I’m a firm believer in no sunglasses and not putting down the sun glare blocker. I’ve wrote before but I don’t understand the blocker because it covers half your windshield and the sun is still right in your face. The sun is so bad that it scares me that someone is going to be crossing the street thinking I’ll see them, but like Judas Priest said “they have another thing coming.” I like to throw in some random music lyrics that people probably have no idea because if you ever get a trivia question who sang the above song, you’ll now know.

I catch myself saying “that’s fine” all the time now and I’m doing my best to use other phrases. Amazingly everyone else uses it too. The phrase is so common place that I’m going to start using ridiculous terms to break it’s popularity. Whenever I find myself in these spots I go to the Thesaurus. Some of the better ones were dandy, swell, peachy, and hunky-dory. I’ll probably just use ok.

It looks like we may be entering a bball team this year without a center once again. If you are 6-4 or bigger and want to play in Ambler, or even know someone who may want to play, it could be helpful. Football starts tonight and I’m deciding whether to add funds to my bodog account. I haven’t made a bet since college bball so it’s been quite a while. I actually bet on the UFC one time since but whose counting. I think I’m leaning towards the points and the under, both of which are going off at -115. I have theorys on the -115, the juice becomes that because more people are betting on them, thus the handicappers offer less payout, and the public is generally wrong, so you should go with the other side. My thoughts are that teams are usually rusty week 1 and unders tend to be the play. I have no data to back my statement up and will leave it as that.

By Tom Stortz|2010-09-09T07:50:29-04:00September 9th, 2010|My Brain, Sports|0 Comments

Negativity and lack of knowledge

So I’ve pretty much decided to not listen to anyone’s advice because more often than not, people don’t know jack shit. People might think they know things but there’s a lot of this mis-information out there. The key to life is knowing how sift through the bullshit and know who’s on point compared to those who just like to talk. Everyone likes to talk by the way. I also want to point out that you can also include me in this “who not to take advice from.” I obviously have my own way of doing things and if they don’t work out, I have no one to blame but myself and that’s just the way I like it. When you take others advices you tend to blame them for when it doesn’t work out, which is human tendency to not take the blame. So you have my foreword that I’m no smarter than the rest of you.

I have one example and it pertains to fantasy football. I picked Jamaal Charles and someone commented “what a terrible pick, he’s splitting time with Thomas Jones.” I go to rotoworld.com and read “there is a gaping separation between the two in terms of productivity and talent.” Plus have you watched one pre-season game of Charles or are aware he finished the year with games of 143, 154, 102, and 259 yards? I’ll take my chances that this is going to be a bad pick. So with this person running their mouth, they show their lack of knowledge and combine it with a negativity to make me feel like the idiot. Bad business all around.

Another example of this is I chose a defense with the 74th pick of a 12 team draft. The avg selection of the jets, determined by previous yahoo drafts, was 60. So I’m not the only moron out there and someone chimes in “you’re choosing a defense this early…” like I’m a complete tard. Players that went after my pick were Jacobs, Stewart, Barber, Bradshaw…. The very next round I got Cadillac Williams, a starter for the Bucs and not sharing time. So I’m a tard because I get the top ranked defense and then the very next round get a player whose numbers are going to be comparable to Jacobs, Stewart, Barber, or Bradshaw. This is obviously debatable but if you can predict the future you should be doing something other than picking fantasy football teams. So my point is, what’s the point of opening your mouth and criticizing someone else when it’s all guesswork anyway. If I’m an idiot, let me be an idiot in peace and I’ll lose all my games and you have nothing to worry about.

This relates to poker in the sense that if I win a pot from a total fish, I’m not telling them they are a moron, I’m telling them how great they play and how unlucky they got. Don’t tap the fish bowl is the general motto amongst better players.

The negativity end of things is also prevalent everywhere. People seem to prefer other people to fail, then succeed. When other people fail, it makes them feel better about their own failures. An example is on the golf course, on hole 9 where I would have had a 42 if I par’d in. While on the tee box waiting to hit my drive, I hear my playing partner say “hit it in the water.” Now me and my playing partner are good friends so I don’t mind bringing this to his attention, but I don’t need you rooting against me and hoping for my destruction. If you want to silently hope for that, that’s a-ok but I don’t need to hear it. Now this is slightly different to what Ck4 spazzed out at me about. CK4 had a spaz when he hit a 30 foot putt 10 feet and I pointed out how bad of a putt it was. I completely understand why he wouldn’t want to hear that, I said I was sorry and I wouldn’t do it again. But I’m not hoping he does bad, he just is bad and I’m being a dick and letting him know. On that note I’ve also decided to quit golf for the season because I’m tired of paying 50 bucks to shoot 100. I thought I got over the hump about 3 weeks ago shooting some decent rounds in the 80’s but I’ve proved lately that it was just a mirage.

I also haven’t run since Friday and considering the race is the 19th, that’s not good. I’m going to go for a run today and see how I feel. I thought I was in really good shape but after this little lapse of training, I’m not sure. Other than that though I’ve been squeezing in a lot of poker and final tabled another 180 man tournament last night. I only managed 8th but it just shows that I have the consistency of getting there. Posts like this could limit my friend count but what’s the point of having a personal blog if you can’t be real with it.

By Tom Stortz|2010-09-08T08:53:36-04:00September 8th, 2010|Sports|1 Comment

Sick?

I get tired of hearing people complain that they are sick. People will even go out of their way to take days off and just be lazy because they are “sick.” I’m not really sure what constitutes being ill. I suppose if you are going to effect everyone around you and turn any area in a diseased area, then by all means stay home. But sore throats and head colds are no excuse for time off. The only reason I write this is because I’m not feeling 100%, but it never crossed my mind that I can’t perform my daily activities.

I played a boatload of poker this weekend. I took down a 12 dollar 180 man, a 12 dollar 45 man, a 16 dollar 18 man, and various SNG’s ranging from 27 to 60 bucks. At this point my confidence is pretty high and I go into each tourny or cash game thinking I’m the best player at the table. Arrogant, I know, but I think you have to have this attitude to win. The key to this upswing is winning the tournament opposed to 3rd, 4ths, and 5ths. When I’m getting to these final tables I’m taking them down which is what you need to do when you get there. I feel like my game has come around and I’m hoping this good luck continues.

Golf was atrocious this weekend. It’s great if you can hit the ball 300 yards but if it takes 6 strokes from 25 yards, you aren’t going to score well and it’s obviously all about scoring. We played a nice course in Gilbertsville called Bella Vista which I would recommend if you are hitting the ball well. I was playing well there until the course turned on me and ate me alive. Golf is something that is supposed to be enjoyable but when the game starts to feel like work, something has to make you pause and ask what are you really trying to accomplish.

That’s all I really have going on. The weekend was pretty tame and no good stories. I still am not putting forth effort to this like I used to but it sort of brings me back to the point that nothing is really going to come of this. It’s why I pretty much gave up practicing sports because there’s no real reward other than self satisfaction. So if I compare spending my time to adding to my blog or trying to win money at poker, I spend my time doing what profits me the most.

By Tom Stortz|2010-09-07T07:55:02-04:00September 7th, 2010|My Brain|0 Comments

Lax

I know I haven’t been updating this as frequently as I was earlier, but I still was in line for the most posts ever for a month in August. I’m pretty much built on routine and when I alter from the routine, sometimes things don’t get done and this blog is one of them. My routine is to write these entries before I go to sleep on a Monday-Thursday basis and anything else I do is just additional. Since I’ve changed this, I don’t really find time to write. There’s no real good reason for the change except that sometimes I find that what I post is interesting to my readers, and other times I think I just don’t have much to say. This recent few weeks have been the latter.

As of late I’ve been waking up earlier and going to sleep earlier. This means that I’ve been spending more time at work and less time for things that I’d rather be doing. I’ve been waking up at 6:30 to beat any sorts of traffic which I know is just going to get worse once next week rolls around. Then when I get home I’ve been running longer runs which just take up more time. So by the time I eat it’s already later than 7 and I’ve been playing a lot of poker so that’s been occupying my free time and the blog has been pushed aside. I think it’s fairly obvious why I push it aside and it’s the reason why 90% of people don’t have a blog. It takes a fair amount of time and effort for virtually no reward. It actually might have a negative effect because anyone who reads this knows exactly what I’m thinking and I’m an open book. So I just wanted to justify to anyone who visits this page on a daily basis for why I’ve had a lack of updates and to assure you that I’m not quitting my blog, but I just can’t update as routinely as I may like.

So enough complaining, I’ll actually bring some material to this post. My family went out to dinner for Sam’s B-day on Monday and I have a thing with sitting in the bar by myself. I’m a punctual person and plan my schedule around being punctual, so I always err to the early side than the late whereas my dad is the other way around. This brings me situations where I’m the first person there waiting on the group to arrive. So I get to the restaurant where we are going to eat about 15 minutes early and I’m acutely aware that I’m going to be sitting at the bar alone with this uncomfortable feeling. So I get to the parking lot and rather than just barge right in, I hem and haw in my car for a minute or two, check my phone, things to reduce the amount of alone bar time. Eventually I go in and take a seat and order a drink and then I just sit there watching TV acting as normal as I can. Striking up conversation with random 50 years old’s isn’t my style so I just sit and drink my beer. I know that that’s what people do all the time, just go to a bar and have a drink without any social interaction but I just feel uncomfortable sitting and doing nothing when everyone around you all know each other and act like best friends. I would never have the feeling of being by myself and wanting to go to the bar to have a few drinks just for the interaction. I’d prefer to just drink by myself than to meet and greet the regulars. Eventually the group came and the story ends but I just wanted to share my feelings on drinking alone at the bar.

Another interesting topic was that my sister’s bf sent me an article on how Old City was becoming an area of sloppiness and debauchery and considering we own a building in Old City, this was of interest. Hilariously enough at one point the article was pointing out how the business crowd had been replaced with skanks and guys in cargo shorts and untucked polo’s. I had to laugh a second because I’m pretty sure I fit the description to a tee. Not only in the attire but the crowd they were describing was about people looking for cheap drink specials to get completely bombed out of their mind. So after reading it I had to agree that the article was spot on and that I was one of the people who was helping to create that atmosphere. Certainly something I’m not proud of when they correlate this to dropping real estate prices in this specific area.

Aside from these two barely amusing thoughts, things have been fine and I’ve been feeling good. Works been a little slow but considering this is the last vacation week, it’s to be expected. I have a few ideas for posts in the works so hopefully I will be able to supply some captivating material which has been alluding me.

By Tom Stortz|2010-09-01T10:52:17-04:00September 1st, 2010|My Brain, My Life|0 Comments

That’s Fine

It’s come to my attention that I use the phrase “that’s fine” on a regular basis. I suppose whenever I agree with something it just turns into a “that’s fine.” It’s one of the those things that you don’t realize you do it until someone points it out and then you realize how often you do it. Nothing more to note other than a phrase that becomes stuck in one’s brain. I actually think the phrase is a fine statement. Maybe I’ll start saying “ok”, “no problem”, “for sure”, “no doubt”, or “absofuckinglutely.”

Pretty ho-hum weekend overall. Got wasted on Friday to the point that I was past the normal point of buzzed. Jkash says that I get so wasted because my sober self is shy with talking to girls and the more I drink, the better I get (in my mind). It’s probably a valid point and getting that smashed doesn’t improve any ability with the ladies. The bombing began when Jeff came over and him and I were the main contributors to killing a 1/5 of this Three Olive RangTang vodka which I don’t think I can recommend as a good alcoholic drink. After some mind erasers at the bar, that’s all she wrote. No incidents though so I must have had some sense of wit to me. I’m sure anyone who saw me would argue otherwise.

Saturday was also a pretty standard. We played Bucks County Country Club in the afternoon and I shot an 84 even with being surrounded by some hackers. Ck4 even managed to card a 13 which was a pretty impressive display of ability. Anyone who plays golf would agree that isn’t easy to do. I was pretty much in play all day and was bombing drives down the middle which made the course play a lot easier. I will say however that I almost drove two par 4 greens (one with a 5 iron) so this certainly isn’t the hardest course out there. Ck4 and I also elected to play a nice course on Sunday called Raven’s Claw. It was voted top 10 in PA by some magazine so we went in looking forward to the round. I ended up with a 104 and he ousted me with a 102. 20 shot swing in a day is a bit bizarre but the difference was just keeping the ball in play. I hit some bomb drives but was just ending up in ditches and different areas of the course. The main difference between hacker courses and nice courses is the rough. You can’t hit 200 yard 5 irons out of the rough on this course and the cabbage was just not fun. I did almost drive a 300 yard par 4 again, but alas, only got a par because I’m a tard. The course was really nice though and even though Chad would say he didn’t think it’s that tough, the greens are surrounded by bunkers, plus tons more fairway bunkers and doglegs make it much more difficult. We even had a funny scenario where a guy in our group duck hooked one into a house and broke the guys window. He gave him 40 bucks, but we were all skeptical because no one heard any glass shatter and we thought the guy was pulling a scam.

I know people probably don’t love my golf posts but I really didn’t do much else this weekend so that’s what I write about. I’m looking forward to 5 days of good living and getting in shape for this half marathon the 3rd week of Sept. I get my tooth put in on Thursday so I survived the 3 months of eating only on my right side. All in all, made it out of this weekend alive and feeling well which is a nice change of pace.

By Tom Stortz|2010-08-30T09:35:22-04:00August 30th, 2010|My Life, Sports|0 Comments

A little luck never hurt

I won a 12 dollar 180 man sit n go yesterday which netted me $584 dollars. I wish that I could say that I played fantastically but I’d have to correct myself and say I only played very well. With about 14 left I sucked out with an 89 vs 9T ai pf. Then I had my JK beat an 8T pf and then a JK beat a pair of 5’s ai pf to get to 40k, which had me at 2nd to start the final table. I had AA at the first hand of the ft and then 88 the 2nd, both hands I took down pf. Then some action happened and we were down to 5 and I made a call from the bb vs a Button shove with 55 and held against an AT. At 4 people I was outplaying my opponents and built a stack to 120k. I knocked at 4th with an AQ vs his 44. Then I knocked out 3rd when he shoved in to my pair of nines with J8 from the SB. HU I had 200k to his 50k or so. I got it in with A8 vs his K4 and he hit. Then I got it in with KJ vs his A4 and took it down.

These tournies are weird because you can play so many of them and have unfortunate things happen to knock you out but to win them really requires a huge amount of luck and the game pretty much just decided that I was going to win. Sadly though, after my last 60 days of deposits, this win only puts me to the plus side 450. I’ve probably played about 50-100 hours worth of time, so you do the math on how much I earn per hour of playing. At least this gives me a little bit of a bankroll to gamble with because my philosophy is deposit small chunks until something like this happens and you can start to increase the stakes you play.

I also have a new thing that I’m doing that I’m writing down one investment idea a day and through this process hopefully I’ll find a better way of investing my money. AGEN is primed for takeoff as it is has a key component in a vaccination being used by GlaxoSmith-Kline. I’ve owned the stock at $1 and it has been a dog so any increase in valuation would be appreciated. I also think that POT is a good stock to look at. If BHP Billiton, a company that just had earnings of 24 billion, offers $130 dollars a share (39 billion takeover offer) and POT thinks that the offer is way too low, and their share price is up to 148, I would guess there is still some room to grow. I also read that the food demand is going to increase over time and Potash is a key component to agriculture, which might make sense why BHP is looking to buy now while they are flush with cash and the valuation may be cheap in this rough economy. My 3rd idea is to buy the VIX. I think the market will head lower in the upcoming months and as the market declines, the VIX usually will increase.

By Tom Stortz|2010-08-26T07:13:52-04:00August 26th, 2010|My Brain|0 Comments