Well, this will break LLM’s heart. Guess nearly all of them aren’t in favor of arming themselves in the classroom.

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-pension-votes-firearms-divestment-20130109,0,4942689.story

Of course not GT.. most of my compadres swing your direction, politically.

Typical “stupid” (your term} financial move by liberals. The gun market in the US is ON FIRE…and it won’t slow down any time soon

From a financial perspective, it’s a solid short term lock

I’m sure you question Obama’s biggest donor regarding his morals too?

I was being sarcastic LLM. I wouldn’t call the financial move stupid, either. More like one of standing on principle, and maybe they simply don’t want to finance something they disagree with.

Ironically, of course, selling shares at this point will probably result in a pile of money.

From a financial perspective, then, what we need is a few random mass murderers periodically to drive up the stock? Yeesh. I’m reminded of the great scene in Steinbeck’s ‘East of Eden,’ when the father, who served on the draft board and had to send young men to die in WWI, is horrified by the gift his son tries to bestow upon him…serious money, made by capitalizing on bean futures in anticipation of the war.

LLM: you keep making that claim about Soros, two claims, actually, that he is Obama’s biggest donor (false, as demonstrated several times), and that he has billions of his own money ‘riding on the collapse of the US economy’.

Sigh.

In the first place, that is an absolutely stupid financial bet. Who would pay off on it? Second, the economy is growing, not collapsing. Third, the biggest single threat facing the US economy is the GOP representatives elected to primarily the House and some in the Senate, who are endangering the economy more and more with intransigence and as much understanding of economics as they have of global warming and evolution (which is to say, worse than none). It’s like Alice in Wonderland…everything is absolutely backwards.

Fourth, you offer absolutely no proof of Soros’ so-called position. He’s been buying stocks, not selling. Because he made money once from looking at the data and figuring the British currency was going to devalue, he made an investment that benefitted him personally, he’s evil in your eyes?

Try directing some of your vituperation towards most of the rest of the folks on Wall Street, who have been the primary source of danger to our economy and impediments to its recovery.

I have done my own homework and I have concluded your charges against Soros are ridiculously wrong. If anyone is uninformed here, it’s not me…or perhaps the better term is ‘misinformed.’ I pity you for having to have a boogie man to always worry about. It’s sad, really.

GT said
“I pity you for having to have a boogie man to always worry about. It’s sad, really.”

Because being a clueless twit has so many benefits, errrrr repercussions,personally and socially.

Now, children………..

Just thought I’d drop in and see if things have changed any but, I clearly see it hasn’t, I’ll go back to the side lines but then again, I’m sure no one misses me. ;=)))