TINFOILHAT: BOR tries to explain BHO44’s CT SSN

Friday, April 15, 2011

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=287253

O’Reilly falsely claims Conn. was residence for Obama Sr.

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In an attempt to explain why Barack Obama, who lived in Hawaii as a teen, has a Social Security number that indicates he had a Connecticut address, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly asserted the president’s father lived in the state.

But there is no evidence that Barack Obama Sr., who left Hawaii in 1962 to study at Harvard in Massachusetts and then returned to his home country of Kenya, ever lived in Connecticut.

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I watch Bill O’Reilly regularly, and sometimes Glenn Beck.

BOR has been completely dismissive of the “birthers”. I agree that there is little “evidence” that BHO44 was born ANYWHERE.

Obviously, he was born SOMEWHERE. And, there is some assertions that REGARDLESS of where he was born, he’s not a “natural born citizen”. (That’s a term of art from the late 1700’s that is well defined in Blackstone’s but not in Federal Law.)

(That assertion cites the dual citizenship of BHO44’s purported father and the age of his purported mother. Or is it “alleged”?

Lately, I suspect everything. There’s a good reason for the Rules of Evidence. As opposed to the Rules of Engagement.

Anyway, I saw Bill making his argument. And, just from my casual knowledge of the assertions, I KNOW he’s wrong about the CT SSN. I think his EGO has tripped him up here.

And, expect that eventually there’s going to be a lot of “egg on face” for a lot of reporters, investigators, and pundits.

As Trump says, (and I’m no Trump fan), “He may have pulled off the scam of the century.”

Argh!

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MONEY: Money magazine asks me what my ” greatest regrets as an investor”?

Friday, April 15, 2011

> greatest regrets as an investor

“Regrets, I’ve had a few. But then again, too few to mention …”

I, personally, have a “no look back” policy. I’ve seen folks drive themselves nuts, literally, over choices made decades before. So, I don’t REGRET. I’ve made mistakes, blunder, and brain freezes. I’ll share one of the many financial lessons I’ve learned after paying some very expensive “tuition” at the University of Hard Knocks.

The biggest “lesson”, what you’d call a regret, is that, from youth to middle age, I always spent money like a drunken sailor. Savings were for old people. I had some thrifty relatives, but they never transferred that wisdom to me. During this period, I had many investment opportunities, ideas, and opportunities that I couldn’t, wouldn’t, or didn’t take advantage of. In hindsight, I would have been fantastically wealthy if I had taken advantage of them.

You want a specific. I worked on Wall Street and, during that ‘drunken sailor’ era, I thought I knew it all. I “invested” in all sorts of stuff pushed by my employers — the worst was Real Estate Unit Trust. They were dogs; the organizers and the firm made a lot of money. It was a disaster. And, caused me tax problems.

I wised up at some point in my life and got a real financial planner, who gets paid a fixed fee. They’ve gotten me organized and accumulating. Luckily, in my life, I’ve been lucky to stay employed and earning. Time heals all stupidity?

(I’ll permit myself one “coulda”. I know the “shouldas, couldas, and wouldas” will kill you.)

I “coulda” had a much better and different life if I’d just been a little smarter about money.

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