Didja remember that Frida Lyngstad of ABBA was part of Hitler’s plan to populate the earth with Aryan children? The Jewish Channel did a documentary about it a few years back. Now with the resergence of the interest in ABBA because of Mamma Mia the channel is communicating to bloggers about the story and documentary.
If your cable system carries The Jewish Channel it sounds like a very interesting story.
10,000 babies were born to blonde, blue eyed Norwegian mothers and German fathers. The children were called Lebensborn - meaning “fountain of life.”
“We were just young, stupid, and in love,” a Norwegian woman who had a love affair with an S.S. soldier explains. “We didn’t think about a pure race… To be honest it was that we thought they were really handsome in their uniforms. That’s the main reason we went out with them.”
Frida Lyngstad (center) didn’t know who her father was, but the story came out right at the time of her greatest success.
Decades later, with millions of dollars in lawsuits pending, the whole story is a huge embarrassment for Norway. One of the Lebensborn children puts it aptly: “And to think that Norway is supposed to be such a perfect country,” he says, recognizing that no nation is infallible and that we must all guard against prejudice and injustice, even where it’s least expected.
WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE! But a stock picker says this is a good thing. I’ll leave all the punny stuff for the more lame bloggers (but commenters can have at it.) Investing in funeral homes is a wise and prudent thing to do, says one investment anal-cyst.
I didn’t know there were chain funeral homes. I knew that many funeral homes had multiple locations, but thought they all had a grey haired woman sitting in a back room someplace running things. Ha! Service Corporation Inc. has a friggin’ “brand.”
Seems there are 38 locations within 100 miles of my old bones right where I sit. They have 20,000 people all over the place just waiting to plant the huge baby boomer generation.
And those baby boomers dying as fast as they can, means the hedge funders are loving the potential upside for being in the downside. (damn! hard not to write punny, sorry.)
“There is a demographic benefit as the Baby Boom ages and the death rate rises,” said Dana Walker, a portfolio manager at Kalmar Investments Inc., which oversees $3 billion in Greenville, Delaware. “The flow-through, in a top-line and a bottom-line sense, ought to be very generous.”
Yeah, flow through, that’s us boomers. We’re just flowing through!
If you look at the number of deaths that occurred within the U.S. over the last few years, it’s been relatively flat, Ryan, 43, said. When you get out into the Baby Boomer years, you’d begin to expect that volume would increase to the tune of 2 percent a year.
Now that’s interesting, the number of deaths in the U.S. has been “relatively flat.” I don’t think about death much (never) but it sure seems that there would be a change in the death rate - up or down. Either we are getting healthier and living longer, or vice versa. But it just doesn’t compute that the death rate would be flat.
We’re invested in the boomer economy: jails (CXW), replacement knees (ZMH), blood tests (DGX), pet fixers (WOOF), cancer sticks (MO), cancer drugs (NVS), Velveeta (KFT), fake hearts (CTE) and anti-chaffing powder (JNJ).
So we’re kinda betting against dying.
But maybe we should consider that our future lies in death.
The company yesterday offered to buy its largest competitor, Stewart Enterprises Inc., for $11 a share in cash, or about $1.04 billion, based on 94.6 million shares outstanding as of April 30. Stewart rejected a bid of $9.50 a share earlier this month. Together, the companies would control about 20 percent of the market, Ransom estimated.
Cornering the market on the death business isn’t a bad strategy. Both SCI and Stewart are beaten down.
SCI peaked in the mid-$50s in summer 1996 when its stock split 2-for-1. Stewart stock reached the mid-$50s in spring 1998, when it also split 2-for-1. Those party-poopers, the SEC, said both companies would have to restate earnings based on the fact they counted “pre-need” revenue before the need was needed. SCI sells for about nine bucks a share now.
Dumbass stock market. If the companies were worth $50 a share a dozen years ago, why are they now just worth $9? Stock Anal-cysts that’s why.
Bah, Die Boomer Die, doesn’t seem to be a strategy we should pursue. Even the blog is dead.
I’m going to live forever…
Google and our cable system - Insightcom.com both have communicated with me today. Both have been very nice conversations. I am better off because we communicated.
Google wanted me to know that our secret deal is still OK and is progressing nicely. They will be in touch in the next few weeks with the details. I removed the post about them as they requested too. Sergey and Brin, buds, I’m still your man in Kentucky.
Congratulations! You are one of our four lucky winners to receive a Flip Video Ultra Camera just for being an Insight customer!
Attached is the winner release form. Please fill it out and return to me by email or by fax to 917-XXX-23XX.
Yeah, that had scam written all over it, right? So I called the local Insightcom.com office and got a really nice CSR. She said she would check because if corporate sent out emails to local customers, they usually got a copy. She checked, no dice. She said it didn’t come from them.
Yikes! I opened the attachment in Google Docs, so felt safe from any malware.
Then the CSR did the unthinkable. She said, “give me the number and I’ll call it.” Wow. Great idea. As she is calling, I’m Google (R) searching the name. Found it! And Google told me alot about the person from Insight.
Google affirmed the identity of another Giant Media Corporation’s employee.
Adventure racing is one of the few sports where just completing a race is considered a victory. It allows runners, hikers, climbers, bikers, and paddlers to participate and compete in new and challenging events. Large expedition competition races are over 300 miles and can take up to 10 days to complete, while sprint races can take only an hour or two. Adventure racing not only challenges the body but the mind as well. Competitors must always travel together as a team, putting an emphasis on teamwork rather than individual achievement.
I love the innerwebs!
Google is working for me. Google is working with me. I got a free video cam from a person who works for Giant Media Company who has a hugely exciting hobby.
I love the innerwebs. I’m glad I have Insight as my connection to the innerwebs. We’ve had our setbacks in the pass, Insightcom.com and I. But send me a gift and all is well.
But if Microsoft contacts me, I will be so screwed. Bill Gates is a Prick. If Microsoft contacts me, it probably will be to upgrade me to Vista.
Vox Populi