Movies Watched - Written on the Wind (1956)

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99 minute running time … more Sirk, on a real Sirk kick following All That Heaven Allows (Which Ain’t Much) … this one starred Rock Hudson and Lauren Bacall with her sexy smoker’s voice, in Technicolor! Another love triangle involving a Texas oil heir/playboy, Loren and Rock … mostly interesting as a window into the culture of mid-1950s America, but I can’t recommend it, though Farr did. Movies that end with a courtroom scene are almost always lame….

You know, good ol' days, when a fellow knew nothing and cared less.

Movies Watched -- Summer Storm (1944)

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108 minute running time … early Sirk … love triangle based in post-Revolution Russia (1919), a Chekhov story, I guess… Linda Darnell was a great beauty (she had some Cherokee blood) ... George Sanders with his snotty British accent .. it’s not a terrible movie, but it doesn’t get a recommendation, unless you’re a Sirk completist.

Why is it you degrade everything you touch?

Movies Watched -- Tyrannosaur (2011)

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92 minute running time, so the right length, but my disc didn’t have subtitles and this was a British yob picture so subtitles are absolutely necessary because you can’t understand a word anyone says … it ended up being a gift since I could then 8x ffwd through and damn if this didn’t look depressing … angry, drunken, violent, bitter idiots, pitbulls, beaten wives, innocent stepchildren caught in the crossfire … just awful, terrible stuff … who the hell would voluntarily watch this? I’m sure Olivia Colman’s performance was excellent, but I couldn’t bear to watch it. Full red, avoid.

It’s not your fault, buddy.

Rigged Ticker Review for Friday, November 26, 2021 -- $BFRI

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Again, $BFRI was today’s rigged ticker, rotating the float (3.6MM) nearly 29 times on 238,000 trades.

Keep an eye out for the double tap minutes before the close.

(November 29, 2021 09:27 ET - Update surprise: Biofrontera Inc. Pricing of $15 Million Private Placement Priced At-the-Market Under Nasdaq Rules)

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Gambling Is a Tax on Ignorance

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Buffett at the 2007 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting:

“The desire of people to gamble ... and they gamble in stocks incidentally too ... day trading I would say very often came very close to gambling as defined … but people like to gamble … if the Super Bowl is on, better yet, if a terribly boring football game is on, but you don't have anything to do and you're sitting there with somebody else, you're probably going to enjoy the game more if you bet a few bucks on it one way or the other ... the human propensity to gamble is huge ... now when it was legalized only in Nevada, you had to go to some distance or break some laws to do any serious gambling, but as the states learned what a great source of revenue it was, they gradually made it easier and easier for people to gamble and believe me the easier it's made, the more people will gamble.

40 years ago I bought a slot machine and I put it up on our third floor and I could give my kids any allowance they wanted as long as it was in dimes, I mean I had it all back by nightfall ... I thought it would be a good lesson for them, they weren't going to Las Vegas to do it, but believe me when it was on the third floor they could find it ... my payout ratio was terrible too, but that's the kind of father I was.

But gambling, people are always going to want to do it and for that reason I particularly think that to quite an extent gambling is a tax on ignorance ... if you want to tax the ignorant, people who will do things with the odds against them, you just put it in and guys like me don't have to pay taxes, and I find that kind of socially revolting when a government preys on the weaknesses of the citizenry rather than acts to serve them....”

Rigged Ticker Review for Wednesday, November 24, 2021 -- $BFRI

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$BFRI was today’s rigged ticker, rotating the float (3.6MM) nearly 63 times on 516,000 trades.

(Mon, November 29, 2021 09:27 ET - Update surprise: Biofrontera Inc. Pricing of $15 Million Private Placement Priced At-the-Market Under Nasdaq Rules)

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Rigged Ticker Review for Tuesday, November 23, 2021 -- $APVO

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The market is currently so crazy that it has become difficult to pick a single rigged ticker to feature. Today we saw the following float rotation figures:

  1. KTTA — 40x

    (Wed, November 24, 2021 08:52 ET - Update surprise: Pasithea Therapeutics Corp. Announces Pricing of a $30.4 Million Private Placement)

  2. APVO — 35x

  3. PTPI — 28x

    (Tue, November 30, 2021, 9:00 AM - Update surprise: Petros Pharmaceuticals Announces $10 Million Offering)

  4. ISCP — 12x

    (Mon, November 29, 2021, 12:03 AM - Update surprise: iSpecimen Inc. Announces $21 Million Private Placement)

  5. CRXT — 10x

  6. VLON — 8x

  7. QLGN — 8x

    (Mon, November 29, 2021, 3:50 PM - Update surprise: QUALIGEN THERAPEUTICS, INC. ANNOUNCES $8.82 MILLION COMMON STOCK REGISTERED DIRECT OFFERING)

I will feature $APVO because some people may remember the action in this stock last November … today it rotated the float (4.62MM) over 35 times on 454,000 trades.

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Movies Watched -- The Selfish Giant (2013)

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93 minute running time so the right length… subtitles required since the people of northern England (Bradford, outside Leeds) speak with such a thick accent that you can’t understand a word… doesn’t help that they’re savages … this movie was made by the same woman who made The Arbor, which was incredibly depressing, and so was this one … not the feel-good movie of the year … I didn’t hate the story, but the characters are just so poor and desperate and pathetic, it makes it hard to watch…

Don’t say owt!