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Occupation/Title: Techie...
Age: Fortysomething
Location: Berkshire, UK
College: Yep.
Degree: BSc Hons.
Favorite Stocks: The good ones get taken over, the others fall. What's to love?
Investment Style: Buy. Hold. Sell at the wrong time now and then.
Investment Experience: 17 years.
Interests and Hobbies: We'll start with travel, reading, watching cricket, rugby & football, F/I, IT, cards, socialising... and end with family.
Quote: The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Additional Info: In life there is great joy, and great grief - but life does indeed go on.
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Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction12/7/2008 115
President Barack Obama12/7/2008 73
Sarah Palin For President 2012 11/7/2008 8
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Politics for Pros- moderated10/11/2008 11
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Excellent article. Any Republican candidate ought to be required to read it, thView from the Center and Left 9/16/2009
every idiot who voted from more largesse, but voted "no" on tax cuts, View from the Center and Left 7/27/2009
Hey Mme, any comments on the California budget status? guardian.co.uk  ApView from the Center and Left 7/27/2009
Good article. guardian.co.uk  Better photo. [graphic] George Bush (left). Sioux Nation27/21/2009
Just got back from seeing Leonard Cohen in concert on his latest tour. There muBooks, Movies, Food, Wine, and Whatever7/11/2009
Actually I prefer this somewhat surreal take. thedailymash.co.uk  Well, pView from the Center and Left 7/10/2009
Luckily, our present government is not crewed merely by officious ex-Stalinist mNNBM - SI Branch4/27/2009
Talking of Forrest Gump (well, a brief mention): note, language distinctly NSFW.NNBM - SI Branch1/23/2009
Well, they got #7 right, but that was all... nytimes.com  in the end, Mr. View from the Center and Left 1/21/2009
Finally. flixxy.com  View from the Center and Left 1/20/2009
another currency of choice--perhaps as suggested by someone else here---the ChinView from the Center and Left 1/8/2009
Sadly, this satirical site is also pretty balanced: I think the last para is a rView from the Center and Left 1/8/2009
This has to be the story of the year. Or at least an early contender. (Sorry,iView from the Center and Left 1/7/2009
IIRC Fatah had explicitly accepted the two-state solution, but got no further...View from the Center and Left 1/7/2009
You want to talk about "great disparity in the number of casualties"? View from the Center and Left 1/7/2009
So you want to equate the conflict between Israel and Hamas to Germany vs AlliesView from the Center and Left 1/7/2009
Indeed. What's the ratio of dead now... 600+ Palestinians, including 200+ cView from the Center and Left 1/7/2009
At least 30 people were killed and 55 injured when Israeli artillery shells landView from the Center and Left 1/6/2009
[Tax] Lowest quintile: 4.3 percent Second quintile: 9.9 percent Middle quintileView from the Center and Left 1/6/2009
Well, that's not too bad, I suppose: it almost passes muster as satire. BuNNBM - SI Branch1/3/2009
Sun, excited 3-year-old, a few beers with father-in-law and grandfather-in-law aNNBM - SI Branch12/25/2008
Merry Xmas, y'all. We even have sun here. NNBM - SI Branch12/25/2008
I don't believe I read all through that and didn't see it coming. ExcelNNBM - SI Branch12/21/2008
More seriously, an excellent article on the Mumbai attacks: puts the terrorism iView from the Center and Left 12/13/2008
Here's a good take on all that financial innovation. [graphic] View from the Center and Left 12/13/2008
One of the few countries in the world where "normal for the time of year&quNNBM - SI Branch12/11/2008
And irony. Don't forget the irony, that was key for me. Sioux Nation12/9/2008
Season tickets for some English Premier clubs run at £600+ (about $900+) anSioux Nation12/8/2008
Was Bush 43 the worst president for 50 years? Long but entertaining debate tranView from the Center and Left 12/8/2008
by punching the right rhetorical buttons Overload of the word "right"Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction12/7/2008
Interesting - and worrying - article and graphic from the FT here. ft.com View from the Center and Left 12/7/2008
Hey, let me know when those Elizabethan butt-kissers in Virginia get round to rePresident Barack Obama12/7/2008
I said 'that thing that water comes out of" which is equally questionabView from the Center and Left 12/7/2008
Steve has a point, though: is it worth Obama expending his political capital - aView from the Center and Left 12/5/2008
I think Bush's boredom threshold must be extremely high... I'd imagine hView from the Center and Left 12/5/2008
What a fine opinion column. How true, how true... I'm Really Gonna Miss SyPresident Barack Obama12/5/2008
For that matter, here's the BBC (which as we are told never uses the word teView from the Center and Left 12/3/2008
GM had $104 billion in their pension fund at 12/2007, which was overfunded by ~$President Barack Obama11/28/2008
I don't think it was/is AQ that's the military problem. That was the TaView from the Center and Left 11/27/2008
And Karen says that the "wall of separation" and/or Jefferson's leView from the Center and Left 11/27/2008
Thanks - I do appreciate that! Brumar kept accusing me of being a US-wannabe &lView from the Center and Left 11/27/2008
And I owe it all to SI. Agreed. Actually I noted that I wouldn't have knownView from the Center and Left 11/27/2008
Can you point me towards some NT passages regarding anal sex between men? Maybe View from the Center and Left 11/27/2008
What, and have the 119 million Pakistanis who don't support the terrorists jView from the Center and Left 11/27/2008
>> The targets of the Bombay attacks are Americans and British, not Jews. View from the Center and Left 11/27/2008
The Indian military is well equipped and very capable to go after the ISI cells View from the Center and Left 11/27/2008
I'd be staggered if this causes war between India and Pakistan. It may - ifView from the Center and Left 11/27/2008
And then, rather than the X Commandments, our modern Moses could come back with View from the Center and Left 11/27/2008
Bah humbug. (which means, enjoy the holiday. but I don't get one and itNNBM - SI Branch11/26/2008
From there... In 1991, Larry Summers signed a memo when he was vice president anView from the Center and Left 11/26/2008
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