The Ol' Fat Guy Blathers On

  How About Some Investin' The Way I Do It?     Well, we got'a start with some important facts: 1. First of all this is no suggestion for any investments or any methods for procuring said vestments, merely a lil' story about how I do my vestin'...... 2. Let's go to investopedia.com  for a definition: a stock's 'ex-dividend date:  There are four dates to know when it comes to companies' dividends. These are the declaration date,  the ex-dividend date, the record-date , and the payable date. To receive the upcoming dividend, shareholders must have bought the stock before the ex-dividend date. On the ex-dividend date, stock prices typically decline by the amount of the dividend. When I go onto thestreet.com I'm looking for ex-dates out far enough that I can research into the stock to insure I like it [the industry, the product, etc], I can afford to invest in shares in multiples of 100, that the stock IS NOT based in China.  When I find such a stock I t...

  What'ta Fcuk, Chuck!!   Where the hell do they find these idiots?  No I don't mean the candidates- tho' they're bad enough themselves -I mean the tv ad composers. I'm sitting here on my comfortable couch watching the Greenbay vs Tampa Bay Bucs and here comes an ad: a dude in military camos suggesting that president Trump had called those serving as losers and another derogatory insult.  Then an announcer explained that Biden's son had served in the Navy and showed the two Bidens hugging as if in a congratulatory fashion!  What a load'a'shit that was! Nowhere was it mendioned that the younger Biden was tossed out'a the Navy on his ass  with a 'bad-conduct' discharge for being a heron/cocaine addict!! Oh, by the way, it ain't lookin' real good for the "Meat-Packers!" That's all I got for now... Justin Case