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I also don't think it is a long shot. It likely may be the way this ends. Those Russian gangsters are as ruthless as Putin. And if someone takes him out what would everyone else in the room do. Probably just move on.

I wonder if he checks his food with a Geiger counter?

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He is definitely paranoid about something,

I think if you asked Putin, "When will the world end," his response would be, "With my death." That is why this is scary. If it gets to the point there is no way out for him he will try to take everyone out.

My first car was a 1968 Firebird.

Wrote a couple of MSGE 65-strike March 18 puts for $0.90 per share. I have limit orders in for more at higher prices. I echo GFP with thanks to Gregmal for calling our attention to EBAY. One I also haven't thought about for a while.

You don't think there are a lot of ruthless people around Putin who he is causing much angst?

@ERICOPOLY That is something I have always wanted to do. Maybe someday.

I wrote some 310-strike and 312.5-strike March 4 expiration puts on BRKB. Nice premiums and not a terrible price to pay for BRKB if I get put to.

Since Buffett took control of BRK, there has never been a day when SPY was a better buy and today certainly is not that day.

@gfp Happy Mardi Gras!

Wrote some FB 187.5 strike, Feb 25 expiration puts.

@DooDiligence I don't play anything, I just listen. Crazy is a great song and I did not know WIllie Nelson wrote it. But now that I know that it does sound like something he would write.

@DooDiligence I look forward to listening!

@Spekulatius I did not know that about Ritchie Blackmore.

You'll never see another nation give up nukes after this.

If you do some Doors' songs, you should post a recording. I'd like to hear it. The Doors had that unique combination of a classically-trained pianist, a jazz-trained drummer, a flamenco-trained guitarist, and a non-musically trained lead singer!

If you are using TurboTax and need to download data from Schwab it works not. From talking with Turbotax and Schwab it was not clear whose problem it was, but I was finally able to do it yesterday.

The Doors didn't have a bass player, well not in concert. Ray Manzarek provided bass for the doors on his organ, but he did it with his left hand. On some songs on their albums they would have a bass player overdub Ray's bass. On the album LA Women, Elvis Presley's bass player was on all the tracks.

"Buy when there's blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own," Baron Rothschild.

@Spekulatius You are right, it works. I was looking at a stock that was a spin out, so it wasn't trading back in 2006 and why Yahoo Finance wasn't showing any data. Sorry, my error, Thanks, Mike

Bill, Yes that was the date of death, so I guess I have to go to January 13. Thanks, Mike

Problem solved, I can do it on Schwab.

@Spekulatius Yahoo Finance won't let me go back that far, to January 2006.