And if there are any Jimmy Carter believers who think Hamas will change it's spots now that it's in power: "Mahmoud Zahar, leader of the militant Palestinian group Hamas, told the Italian daily Il Giornale the cartoonists should be punished by death. We should have killed all those who offend the Prophet and instead here we are, protesting peacefully." he said."
As usual, I was first, and then society took a few years to catch up to me. I was an Islamophobe back when that was considered a bad thing: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14991&highlight=religion+of+peace I called fascism back in 2003, when nobody was even using the word yet: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=322900&highlight=fascist#post322900 http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=325171&highlight=fascist#post325171 http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=389669&highlight=fascist#post389669 I called the France riots three years ago: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=256359&highlight=rodney#post256359 And then there was this: ___________________________________________ Ready to listen to my predictions yet? 1) Buprenorphine is the Holy Grail of Psychiatry, and <b>the future</b> of depression treatment. Suicide rates across the developed world will plummet as soon as this fact is accepted by medical orthodoxy. http://www.naabt.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=366 2) And then there's this: If I were a Muslim terrorist leader, I would make every effort to conduct massive recruiting & brainwashing in America's prisons. You have hundreds of thousands (!) of pissed off young black men behind bars in the U.S., most of them having committed no crime other than helping people get high. That's a crime? The U.S. currently holds approximately 190,000 incarcerated African-Americans on prohibition violations. After being falsely persecuted as an enemy of the state, these disillusioned youths are fertile ground for Muslim terrorist propaganda. Even if the self-exploding Muzzies succeed in brainwashing just one in every thousand of these prisoners, how many homicidal terrorists does that leave us? Young imprisoned blacks are already converting to Islam in droves, and as you (should) know, there's a very fine line between Islam and terrorism. Within the next decade, a horrible terrorist atrocity will take place on U.S. soil. At least one of the key perpetrators of the deed will be a young African-American male, who was unjustly imprisoned for 'drug crimes', and converted to Islam/terrorism while imprisoned.
I do better- I run a hedge fund. I didn't get rich by <i>not</i> being able to predict the future. Edit: Jeez, why am I so arrogant today? A couple six-figure weeks and I sound like $$$Mr Market$$$. I'll slap myself and quit this, before the market does the slapping for me.
BTW, I can't predict the outcome of sporting events worth a shit, and not for lack of trying. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=766083&highlight=tyson#post766083
As a bookie, you don't have to predict the outcome of a sporting event. You have to predict what your bettors will predict.