Settling much?

To be fair the market 'settling' has been certainly less dramatic than I anticipated following last weeks impressive showing. Watching the uncertainty in the House Congress about the taxes should cause a pretty tepid back and forth movement until a decision is made. Honestly at this point they all should just resign, they are all useless. Make both house and senate a rotating position like a jury selection, take you average citizens and throw them into seats. If nothing at least those people will be able to compromise a little because what is going on now is a disgrace and downright embarrassing. This way you'll get a good mix of liberal and conservatives with a limited session to do something (Say 1 month) and who wouldn't want to say "Oh and during the January session I helped pass ______." You certainly wouldn't be on the side of "Well we did nothing because nothing was better than a bad bill." What?! It would be downright cool- I'd jump at that in a minute if I got that kind of letter.

Action today: TCK and ANR have slowly been hemorrhagic recently usually with a strong open then decline the rest of the day. I think they may be ripe to start the next leg up. TCK options are still strong for $65 now, but I would be very doubtful those will be in the money by next Friday. Might buy DGIT options on a strong down. Currently the TCK 50 options are down but I'm going to let that ride into next week unless today is particularly good.

Just a point I need to get off my chest; Julian Assange is NOT a hero, this line 'I am Julian Assange' is a naive thing to say; he is nothing more than a figurehead and a thug, and whatever so-called moral highground he said he had long dissapeared when he attempted to blackmail.... well everyone with this 'massive dump' of information. Look I too want my Government to act with honesty and integrity in their actions, but I also know I am not educated enough to undestand diplomatic releations either, nor am I naive enough to believe that goverment (and business) can run without whispers and not megahorns broadcasting their every move. If he (Assange) claims to be 'policing' the US government, who polices him and his organisation? And the answer is no-one. So he is just another hypocriticate- do as I say not as I do. I think he enjoys it, the fame, the intrigue, the life on the run, cloak and dagger mystery surrounding him; he's been called everything from scum to 'a hero of our time.' He is not Woodward to Deepthroat, Assange -though he calls himself a reporter nor writer, does no research, really does nothing but expouse the benifit and beauty of free information, and other Utopian- and completely impractical views. If anyone is the 'hero' here is the former analayst who allegedly stole the information in the first place; and who by-the-way will spend the rest of his life in jail for the largest act of espionage ever reported. But of him Assage dismisses, afterall he can't lose the spotlight, and claims due to 'journalistic integrity' they can't reveal the source- nor support him, and so they leave him to rot- disposable heroes aren't just for the military.

Finally we reach the point where it turns a bit comical; REVENGE! shreiked the headline on Huffpost yesterday and gleefully described the temporary takedown of Mastercard and later Visa, by this new hacker group as 'revenge' for halting payments to Wikileaks. Now this part is where it gets good; An anonymous hacker says 'We don't know Assange but we support freedom on the internet, and together we can take down the credit card web sites' 'Ok' say all the wannabe anachists help us create a new world Utopia of free information, "Alright' says the hacker first you need to download my software and then we can do it! So all these drones download this hacking software which I garuntee is loaded with backdoors and other nastiness and the hacker has expanded his network by a thousand-fold, then sure enough Mastercard goes down, alright tell your friends and we'll take down more! So now the hacker has an even larger network of zombie computers. Good they deserve eachother.

"In an online letter the group said its activists were neither vigilantes nor terrorists. It added: "The goal is simple: Win the right to keep the Internet free of any control from any entity, corporation, or government.""

So purposefully shuttuing down websites is not control by an entitity? Its the dillusitional running the asylum. The only thing that their mucking around does is point out a growing need FOR a governing/police body on the internet; exactly opposite what they said they stand for. Next thing that will be said is this is a Governement conspiracy to control the internet. Its just unbelievable.