Talking of Walmart there was a shooting in one of their stores a few days ago following an argument in the queue. That's what happens if folk carry guns to go shopping, Trump of course thinks it's a good idea to carry a gun everywhere "for protection" or to prevent crime. In this case it led to a major crime. If he had no gun there wouldn't have been anything like the same outcome.

They say you can tell a Heinz pickel, but you can't tell it much Mark. Right now the first ammendment is being stepped on and that seems ok by the Republicans but dare mention the secnd ammendment to them and their whole world falls apart.

So the markets have only ever done well twice in 90 years? We are talking about quick rises in the markets like in 1928 and 2006-7. where there seemed no end to the bull market. Kennedy father in 1929 when talking to a man that was shinning his shoes found out that he was in the markets also. He though if everyone including his shoe shine man was in the markets now then if was bound to crash. 3 months before it did he took his money out and was able to survive the crash. They are now saying that with the States going into protectionist mod it perlonged the depression by 7 yrs. The markets started climbing again when Obama took office and have been on an upward climb ever since.

 I find Trump to be a total tit at times and he can go right off the cringeometer scale as well but I never let this cloud the facts. You are crediting the total up swing on Trump when it's not. I'm wondering what those Mexicans and Blacks are being paid for wages. Are they making enough to support themselves or a family? How many are buying houses or new cars without over extending themselves to the limit. It may not be all roses like we are told.

I'm off to the Legion but will have to hold off on the rum because I'm on meds. Will just have to sit quietly and lick my own body parts.

So the markets have been on the upward incline since Obarmy have they? Yup  If you check then you will find out that it's true.

Well it would appear then that nothing Trump has done or said has affected them in any adverse way. No matter who was elected President they had to go up. The economy was in recovery mod after the last crash and started climbing noticeablely with Obama and still is with Trump. They call this period in the markets a Bull Market. (A market in which share prices are rising, encouraging buying). It's usual the time when businesses expand and unemployment goes down and people seem to have more cash to spend. Compare it to what the German sub crews called Happy Times. Trouble is happy times don't go up for ever and with the way American Banks are operated unrestricted and without reguard for anything other than profit, the markets could very easily change over night and put the world back into a bad down turn or what they call a Bear market.

You wonder if blacks or Mexicans are buying cars? Why not wonder if whites are too. Are car sales up in America? and if they are, why do you naturally assume Mexicans and blacks are not amongst the buyers? If you don't make a pretty good wage to afford payments on a new car then you buy something second hand which is much less. Blacks use to prefer the older Cadillacs or Linclons while many Mexicans prefered the larger Chevy's etc. Car prices really haven't changed much on American cars in the last 20 years. For example I paid pretty much the same price for my 1999 Grand Caravan SXT as I did for my 2009 Grand Caravan and my 2016 Grand Caravan. If you buy lets say a new 2019 model now in the year 2018 then you will pay full asking price. If you wait until some time in 2019 to buy that same vehicle the price will be considerly less. For example I bought my 2016 in May of 2016 and saved $12,300.00 or 7,384.09 GBP. The American car industry works on cars produced and that's how it is gaged, not so much on car that can be sold. They are already saying with the new tariffs on steel and aluminum prices of new cars will have to rise. So not good for the average consumer. This will happen on all produces including  construction materials.  So any small gains they have made they will lose to tariffs put in place by their own country. The States like us don't even produce there own clothing anymore. The company may be north American owned but we both out source for everything from soup to nuts.US retail trade rose by 0.5 percent month-over-month in July 2018, following a downwardly revised 0.2 percent advance in June. The sales beat market expectations of a 0.1 percent gain boosted by purchases of motor vehicles and clothing. Retail Sales MoM in the United States averaged 0.36 percent from 1992 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 6.70 percent in October of 2001 and a record low of -3.90 percent in November of 2008.

Well PB, I see that the left has removed another symbol of your heritage from the streets, namely the statue of your first Prime Minister, John McDonald from Victoria. Turns out he was the wrong colour for today's exquisitely sensitive lefty utopia seekers.

You are still taking it wrong. The President no matter what side of the aisle he comes from doesn't control the market up swings or down swings as you would like to think. If it does drop lets say in his second term do you blame the sitting President, no. The markets run on speculation and really it's only a gambling game they are playing.

Probably to appease the natives. Ontario said that it will take the Statue off BC's hands and put it up here. Don't know if it will happen.

I do have some knowledge of the markets PB and a sitting president and his policies do have a great influence upon them.

So are you saying baby Bush caused the markets to crash in 07 when he was President? The unregulated Banks were the cause, not the President. When Obama came in he had to pour billions into the banks just to keep them afloat or the whole country would have gone under. They also were allowing people who only made 30k a year to buy 6 and 7 hundred thousand dollar homes with no collaterial. People simple just had to drop their house keys back to the banks and had nothing to lose themselves. But the banks, mortage companies and insurance companies that financed theses peoples houses did. They were whole streets and subdivisions they were stuck with and no one to buy them. I'm sure British banks like Canadian ones are regulated so it should never happen in our countries. 

New York governer Cuomo, he of the 'America was never great' has since worn his knees out grovelling to the American public.

Have you ever listened to his son who has is own program on CNN. He's also a lawyer and a smart cookie to boot.

I do have some knowledge of the markets PB and a sitting president and his policies do have a great influence upon them. Did you know that on Wednesday of this week it will mark the longest Bull run in the markets in American history. If you do think a President and his policies have a great influence then look at this.  By looking at the start date March 9th 2009 you can see it was already going up and did each year for 7 years under Obama before Trump even run for PresidentThe stock market in the U.S. has staged a truly spectacular turnaround since the financial crisis of 2008, during which stock prices, the financial system and the economy at large all were on the verge of complete collapse. As reckoned by Michael Hartnett, chief investment strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, the current bull market is poised to set a new all-time record for longevity before the month of August is over, per a note to clients quoted by MarketWatch. The current bull market generally is considered to have begun on March 9, 2009, when, based on closing prices, the preceding bear market hit bottom, as measured by the S&P 500 Index (SPX).

What do you know about Jimmy Carter's involvement with Chalk River Ontario in Dec of 1952?

Really it's the Ottawa River. In 1952 when Jimmy was still in the navy they had a melt down at the Chalk nulclear plant. Apparently Jimmy had some knowledge at the time about nuclear reactors and he with a team of 14 other navy types came up to help try and stop it. Because they only could be close to the reactor for 90 seconds at a time they built another reactor to practise taking apart in 3 man crews for 90 second shifts. They did in the end manage to take apart the bad one doing the same.

Must be why my Muskie was so atrophied. The third eye should have been the first giveaway. great place for pickerel though.

After that experience he's very lucky to get into his 90s.

After that experience he's very lucky to get into his 90s. I was thinking the same Mark. There were actually hundreds involved with the clean up and unfortunity when you read into it most health records were lost over the years.

He was in more trouble when the rabbit attacked him. Yes they can be nasty little suckers. Ok, tell us about the rabbit attack.

Figures released by Lord Green, chairman of migration watch, reveals that Britain's population has risen by 6.6 million since the turn of the century. It is expected to rise, under the current circumstances, at around one million every three years. Naturally, the pressure this places on our services is pretty severe, especially housing and it is said that we will have to build a new house every five minutes, around the clock, to cover the shortfall. The once sacred 'greenbelt' land, land which was once sacrosanct and could never be built on, is now up for grabs, as politicians debate relaxing the rules to allow it to go under the dozers. I know that where I live is under the microscope now and recently the rules have been slowly relaxed to allow an extra house here and there, which councillor's know slowly sets a precedence. Prescedence is everything and is always used by councils to set the next agenda, it's a creeping process.