The picture of the “Famous Coffee maker”. Note that I haven’t washed it since it was purchase in 2001 and until my mother scrubbed it last week, much to my distress.
Day 3 was taking up by packing. At the last minute I realized that I forgot to buy thermos (much needed for long exertions in the Wasatch) and replace my bad windshield wipers. As I was packing, CNN and MSNBC were getting ever more giddy over mass layoff at Pfizer, Boeing, Caterpillar, Home Depot, Texas Instruments, Starbucks, Harley Davidson, Time Warner, Dell, General Motors, Target and perhaps many smaller companies that didn’t make it into the headline news. I couldn’t help to notice that I am feeling like a school boy who is cutting the class. On the other hand, it was very easy to jump of the train, but I also feel a good deal of anxiety about my ability to get back on. Especially, when scores of others have been thrown off. Even the Halliburton, Darth Vader of the Oil Industry, said it will reduce its workforce. Curiously enough if you look at the Halliburton’s stock performance for the year 2008 (here is the link from yahoo finance: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=HAL) you can pick up a very peculiar trend. The stock topped 50$ in July (gas prices near all time high) and began to shrink slightly as economy was slipping into a dipper recession. However at the beginning of September, the stock takes a deep and dramatic dive below 20$. If you re-call, this is the time when Lehman went under and sunk all hopes of the quick economic recovery along with John McCain’s presidential bid. The price plunged even further, to the all year low, in November, when it was officially over for the GOP. Of course, since Dick Cheney stepped down as Halliburton’s CEO to become 43rd Vise President and “severed” all ties with the company, he will have a very plausible explanation for the above trend, alone with Halliburton’s multibillion dollar no-bid government contracts. I am wondering if he was more upset about his party loosing the election or Halliburton loosing its leverage (or at least huge part of it) in the US government.
Day 3 was taking up by packing. At the last minute I realized that I forgot to buy thermos (much needed for long exertions in the Wasatch) and replace my bad windshield wipers. As I was packing, CNN and MSNBC were getting ever more giddy over mass layoff at Pfizer, Boeing, Caterpillar, Home Depot, Texas Instruments, Starbucks, Harley Davidson, Time Warner, Dell, General Motors, Target and perhaps many smaller companies that didn’t make it into the headline news. I couldn’t help to notice that I am feeling like a school boy who is cutting the class. On the other hand, it was very easy to jump of the train, but I also feel a good deal of anxiety about my ability to get back on. Especially, when scores of others have been thrown off. Even the Halliburton, Darth Vader of the Oil Industry, said it will reduce its workforce. Curiously enough if you look at the Halliburton’s stock performance for the year 2008 (here is the link from yahoo finance: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=HAL) you can pick up a very peculiar trend. The stock topped 50$ in July (gas prices near all time high) and began to shrink slightly as economy was slipping into a dipper recession. However at the beginning of September, the stock takes a deep and dramatic dive below 20$. If you re-call, this is the time when Lehman went under and sunk all hopes of the quick economic recovery along with John McCain’s presidential bid. The price plunged even further, to the all year low, in November, when it was officially over for the GOP. Of course, since Dick Cheney stepped down as Halliburton’s CEO to become 43rd Vise President and “severed” all ties with the company, he will have a very plausible explanation for the above trend, alone with Halliburton’s multibillion dollar no-bid government contracts. I am wondering if he was more upset about his party loosing the election or Halliburton loosing its leverage (or at least huge part of it) in the US government.
O, no! Mama Inna did not get her hands on the sacred relic!
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