Saturday, February 26, 2022

Palindromic Saturday -- 2-26-22

The good news: palindrome week is almost over. Even I'm getting tired of it, but my editor makes the rules.

From PowerLine overnight with my comment:

SRE is "$124 stock" that closed at $141 yesterday after jumping $7 / share. 

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Reminder: weekly spotlight on stocks in the news is posted here every Saturday. This week, February 26, 2022: DE, NOK, QCOM, TGT.

  • Earnings:
    • ZM on Monday
    • TGT on Tuesday
  • projected dividend increase, include, not limited to: DPZ (huge increase in dividend); QCOM (from 68 cents to 71 cents).
  • DE is in the news because of its heavy exposure in Europe.  

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My Favorite Things

Wow, wow, wow!

Via Hulu, just starting, from the beginning, the movie, Giant with Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean in that order of opening credits.

Among my favorite things and best bang for the buck:

  • Amazon Prime
    • movies, music, same day shipping, prices, subscription savings, customer-friendly;
  • Hulu
    • one word: incredible
  • Apple
    • "everything simply works"
  • Schwab
  • Lego
    • addicted; price points -- something for everyone

Giant:

The film begins with Jordan "Bick" Benedict, played by Hudson, arriving at Ardmore, Maryland, to purchase a stallion from the Lynnton family. The first part of the picture was actually shot in Albemarle County, Virginia, and used the Keswick, Virginia, railroad station as the Ardmore railway depot.

Rock Hudson's ranch: 595,000 acres. 

Novel by Edna Ferber. Wiki entry worth reading.  

When we lived in Virginia, I became intrigued with "horses" in Virginia The opening scene in Giant reminded me of those days, specifically as it related to Jackie Kennedy. See this "flashback" to "Wexford."  More photographs here.

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War

Updates

February 27, 2022: link here.

Original Post

For the record, now that "we're" in it, I would rather have a "Biden" as president than a "Trump." 

The 82nd Airborne Division, northbound in the Seneca, SC, area. If accurate, it would be headed north to Greer, SC, where it will connect with rail to Charleston, SC, to the southeast. When I first saw this video clip I just saw the tanks and thought these were destined for the Polish army, but now that I have watched the full clip it appears it's the "hardware" for the US' 82nd Airborne Division, and, yes, headed for Poland. 

I would assume it will be a month before this hardware meets up with its personnel and is operational. 

The bad news: there's only one way for Putin to match this. Nuclear. Which tends to level the playing field.