There Are Teachers

And There are Educators. The greatest teacher is experience. When one listens to the presidential candidates they are preaching to those who will listen to what they think is THE most important issues facing us as Americans individually and collectively as a country. The candidates and their back grounds/ experience are what they draw from to base their preaching/ teaching to us for the next year and a half...It is hard to get excited about many of these people as their life experiences have not been all that impressive...especially for any career politician. The greater challenge is how to attract qualified people to want to be the President....this will be a greater issue every year as we go forward...

The market keeps going up and the preachers all say Iraq is THE most important issue..it is important but it is not the most important issue.. as many issues have to be considered. The Bank of Montreal lost $404 million dollars in the last 90 days trading natural gas futures....how dumb is that...with the trillions sitting with all the illiquid hedge funds all largely bearish and short.....makes this market even more interesting...we are not in bubble levels, real estate is just the latest market to self correct..like the commodities did last year!

The market does need to rest it can't go up every day..but the trend is your friend and bull markets have a way of making very bright hard working but not very experienced people look not very successful.

Danny Boy seen here is enjoying his first Sunday afternoon in the warm spring breezes...the leaves are just coming out, but the severe drought persists and the trees are very stressed.