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2004-09-08 Fifth Column

MSM to resume pounding on Bush Guard duty.

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Posted by JerseyMike 2004-09-08 7:35:33 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Good move! Drag this up for the ?tenth? time and see if the story still has legs. I doubt it. You can't prove something by nothing. If there isn't an official record of the "lapse" in guard service, that doesn't prove a lapse. It should prove that the LLL press claims of "AWOL" and "Desertion" are just wet dreams from the left. This won't last the 24-hour news cycle.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2004-09-08 10:16:08 AM|| 2004-09-08 10:16:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Doesn't the NYT have stockholders to answer to? If I owned stock in these companies - I'd be dumping it pronto. They are about as valuable as National Horse and Buggy was 100 years ago.

I wish I knew how to capitalize on stock that is certain to move downward. There is a way. I could be RICH!!

Posted by B 2004-09-08 10:24:00 AM|| 2004-09-08 10:24:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 B: Selling short is what you're looking for. If the NYT were a public company Wall Street investors would have shorted it a long time ago (say around the time of Howell Raines/Jayson Blair).

Posted by Jonathan 2004-09-08 10:49:06 AM|| [http://www.workaround.blogspot.com] 2004-09-08 10:49:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Of course, the interesting thing is that a drunk retard like Bush could place in the middle of his flight class. Guess it must have been all those family connections that kept him from crashing in a notoriously unforgiving airplane.

If this is the best the LLL can do on 9/8, they have basically raised the white flag. Wonder who they'll run in '08?

Posted by Dreadnought 2004-09-08 10:50:12 AM|| 2004-09-08 10:50:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 The Dem playbook... she is quite thin. This is dopey playground stuff. "Our guy is a he-ro, and you-ou are-n't. Neener neener neener."

Here are two options for coming back in the same vein:
"Well, our candidate can beat up your candidate."
or
"Yeah, Kerry's a hero all right: a hero to the North Vietnamese!"

Posted by eLarson 2004-09-08 11:32:43 AM|| 2004-09-08 11:32:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Actaully the NYT is starting to sound like the National Inquirer.

Posted by Bill Nelson 2004-09-08 11:36:45 AM|| 2004-09-08 11:36:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 NYT is a public company. It's trading range for the last twelve months is 52wk Range:40.25 - 49.23. With a current price of $41 and a market cap of $6billion. It's price 5 years ago was about $39.

So, it's near it's 12 month low and the price has gone up 5% in 5 years. Not a stellar performance but the 10 mutual funds that own 60% of the stock must be crazy or supporting their political fantasies as opposed to their fundholders interest. FYI the funds are:

Price (T.Rowe) Associates
Barclays Bank Plc
State Street Corporation
A I M Management Group Inc.
Morgan Stanley
Massachusetts Financial Services Co - Other
Vanguard Group, Inc. (The)
Private Capital Management, Inc.
Mellon Bank, N.A.
American Century Investment Management Inc.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-09-08 11:57:39 AM|| 2004-09-08 11:57:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Jonathan, for although more risky, buying put options is another good strategy (in this case, since the decline will likely be a long lived one, LEAPS)

Posted by mjh 2004-09-08 2:18:04 PM|| 2004-09-08 2:18:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Hmm, I obviously heard wrong; I swore I read somewhere that the Sulzbergers controlled the NYT themselves. As for buying put options -- naw, I have a hard enough time dealing with the (embarassingly) modest investments I have.

Posted by Jonathan 2004-09-08 9:16:46 PM|| 2004-09-08 9:16:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 I was a Reserve Training Officer on a ship that was home-ported in Norfolk. For me the assignment was one of 10 to 20 collateral duties. I received no formal training on any aspect of the required administrative tasks that went with any of these sundry collateral hats I wore. While I was only the active duty liaison for Reservists that came to train on my ship (as well as all the Sea Cadets, Lawyers, VIP's...), I am sure that my records were not up to snuff. I cannot even fathom what type of administrative compliance there must have been for Reservists in the Texas Guard during the 70's.

Even several years after I retired from active duty in the mid 90's, I had to make a trip to Cleveland with my DD214 to prove to the Veterans Administration that I had actually been in the military at all. They had no record of my service.

I'm sure all the paperwork for all personnel getting out of the military is straight today, now that we have computerized records. [/sarcasm]

Posted by Super Hose 2004-09-08 9:29:29 PM|| 2004-09-08 9:29:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 The MSM is doing this to divert attention from their allies the baby-killing gang raping Islamics of he Russian School murders.

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-09-08 9:39:31 PM|| 2004-09-08 9:39:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Massachusetts Financial Services Co - Other

Don't get me started. They're as inept as fund managers can possibly get.

Posted by Raj 2004-09-08 9:53:43 PM|| 2004-09-08 9:53:43 PM|| Front Page Top

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