John Hjorth

Thank you for the very kind words, Charlie [ @dealraker ].

@Eldad, Ask for advice about homelessness in Norway and Denmark. I.e. : Reasons to be cheerful [June 26th 2025] : How Norway Is Proving That Homelessness Is a Solvable Problem Subtitle : The Scandinavian nation has significantly reduced the number of people experiencing homelessness. What could other countries learn from its example?

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@bizaro86, lol! - ... Banks, mind you!

NATO - News [September 12th 2025] : NATO launches “Eastern Sentry” to bolster posture along eastern flank, & NATO’s Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) - News Release  [September 12th 2025] : Eastern Sentry to enhance NATO's presence along its Eastern flank. - - - o 0 o - - - Clear NATO red line. No more *BS* and fooling around.

Thank you, @Sweet & Greg [ @Gregmal ], Thank you for shedding some light on backdrop and perceptions. The Correspondence Dinner in black tie / tux and long gowns, but still just a bad taste party. Ugh.

Interesting stuff about Giorgio Armanis estate and will on Bloomberg today : Bloomberg - Pursuit [September 12th 2025] : Armani Will Directs Sale of Italian Luxury House to Larger Group.

@Sweet, Hopelessly uninformed as I am about American matters, I'm shocked by viewing and listening to the above video. A president's most important task is to unite and bring together the people of the nation, as the diametric opposite of dividing and creating discord. The above video is a disgrace of bad form for a POTUS. So, thank you for sharing it, @Sweet, thereby contributing to some balance in this topic.

Reuters - Russian - Ukrainian war [September 12th 2025] : Russia calls Danish plan to host Ukrainian long-range missile fuel production hostile. Meanwhile, drones and missiles continue dropping down over Ukraine, like it was rain. *shug* - Please try! ... so we can get this over with ... *holding my mouth - diden't say that! * - - - o 0 o - - - Reuters - Business [September 12th 2025] : Denmark to buy $9 billion air defence systems as tensions with Russia grow 9 billion USD is a lot of money for tiny Denmark, with about 6 million citizens.

Yes, thank you, @73 Reds, On a more serious note to you and Charlie [ @dealraker ], more serious than my last post above, is that we all have to find our personal path through this non-zero-sum game, we are participating in. No doubt, the presence of ambitions is key. But that does not cut it alone. One also has to find ones own modus operandi, personal style [that by the way will be ever evolving!], so that ones sleep isen't ruined by investment 'doings' / 'work in progress'. Personally, I'm a firm believer in, that it can be taught, if one put in the kJoules, including the efforts of gaining self-awareness on the matter. I personally was a 'lost orphan' entering CofB&F back in 2013, basically spending the first three years reading up the whole CofB&F since it's 'big bang', when Sanjeev [ @parsad ] folded out the new CofB&F January 31st 2009, on another forum softwareplatform than today. A lot of people give up before, because of losses already incurred. And then there is the local tax regime for all of us, individually, that for some CofB&F members provide material limits as to what to do.

Charlie [ @dealraker ], I just had a discussion [here, it's now about 9:00 P.M. in the evening, dark as black hole outside], with the Lady of House, that she really should try to take it easy with those three times per day bp measurements, that she has promised her doc, 'three times per 'time'', stressing her, causing her bp to go up!, after which she started self-occilating, causing her bp go even further up! lol! *sigh*

@73 Reds & Charlie [ @dealraker ], lol! - Your concept of 'scr**w everything!' somehow has - intuitively - a lot of appeal to me! -But it's true, - persistence is important for the long haul - even turtles get forward in the long haul, if persistent.

Charlie [ @dealraker ], What a gruesome, terrible story! I've untill now been in the biased perception, that your wife and you were living a calme and relative secure place outside Lexington, NC in green, awesome and cosy surroundings.

CofB&F - Book Forum : Morgan Housel - The Art of Spending Money.

The Kyiv Independent - News Feed [September 10th 2025] : Poland asks NATO to activate Article 4 over Russian drone incursion. - - - o 0 o - - - This is to me personally very bad, Russian President is showing totally reckless and gamling behavior, provoking, testing limits, over and over again. - - - o 0 o - - - Edit : YouTube - NATO News [September 10th 2025] : NATO Secretary General statement on violation of Polish airspace by Russian drones, 10 Sep 2025. [About 8:30 long, action starts at around 4:20].

Today, I've visited Ravi Nagarajans website The Rational Walk, because I do not any longer keep track of Ravis writing activities. He is not as active as he has been earlier, and because he's basically folded his account on X, as so many others because of politics and all that. I've also had the experience ['pleasure'] of his behavior in public when somebody [here, me] - also in public - happens to respectfully disagree with him, which in fact triggers him turning into a full blown disrespectful, patronizing, ridiculing, arrogant, self-sufficient, I-know-it-all-attitude, a**hole, when he misses arguments. One time when I pointed out to him, that Warren Buffetts power over Berkshire Hathaway board members ridiculous board fees with no directors insurance [a fact that is also rewarding to me, not only Ravi] was just a no-go, because it existed because of only Warren Buffetts halo effect. That does not change the fact that I've during the years gained a lot of knowledge from Ravi and I've come to appreciate tremendously Ravis writings. - - - o 0 o - - - Anyway, I visited The Rational Walk today, and I found this article very useful and actually worth sharing here on CofB&F : The Rational Walk [February 11th 2025] : Primary sources. Enjoy!

@Spekulatius, -And certainly not in conflict with POTUS' schmooze for a peace prize, right

LMAO! My god it's ugly! - - - o 0 o - - - And price tag 'only' DKK 47,000.00 here! - - - o 0 o - - - -Perfect gift from a wifey to hubby who she hates from the dearest of her heart! Bonus effect : Whatever restaurant or cafe he tries to enter with that ugly thingy he will not be allowed to enter, met by the comment : 'Sorry, you're not allowed to bring your own food here!' - - - o 0 o - - - Last night I was viewing 'The Bank Job', streaming it on Viasat Action. At one moment, in the cellar in the neighbour premises, ready to start digging a tunnel into the vault of a Lloyds Bank Branch next to, and also testing the walkie-talkies, before sending a man on the roof to look out, one man, by walkie-talkie, asking 'What do we do with all the soil we dig out of the hole?' the other guy, ready to go to the roof, answering by walkie-talkie : 'I suggest we dig a hole over at the other corner and put it in there!'. Awesome entertainment!, despite I had to give up on viewing the movie ... It'll be another day.

Bad US job report again! Who will POTUS fire this time? lol! https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115012532470689820

lol! How about the Elephant situated to the West of Canada? - Not! -lol!

Mike [ @cubsfan ], Next, naturally, the Russian adversary accusing Denmark of what Russia does it self, naturally [], you can't make this up [ ], best KGB style : TASS - Russian News Agency [September 3rd 2025] : Denmark actively promoting escalation of Ukraine conflict — Russian envoy. - - - o 0 o - - - Make up your mind, and check with whatever hand is your primary : 'Balls, or just no Balls?" [ ], - here, lingering is absolutely not an option!" - And now throw this Russian Ambassador to Denmark Vladimir Barbin out of here! - How difficult can it be?

Thank you, Mike [ @cubsfan ], Yes, that's true. Even the most boneheaded, dumb European politician now has to recognize, that there is no workaround to getting to mentally let dawn, that there exists no workaround to let European manpower get involved in the warfare activities on the Ukrainian side. There is no hiding behind the wide shoulders of 'the american brother' and ally, which there by basic and simple logic also shoulden't be [skin in the game argument]. - - - o 0 o - - - In fact, I have absolutely no idea about how ugly this 'thingy' can become. It's bad, - really bad.

Thanks Mike [ @cubsfan ], Here : Link to my post of March 1st 2025. Which Big Dog? Russia? Putin has already himself crippled his army, air force and navy! It's about finishing his own work in progress, actually! Russia hasen't been able to conquer more than a small bite of an originally friendly and peaceful neighbour in 3 1/2 years! The rest of Europe is gradually getting aware of that Ukraine loosing in the conflict with Russia is not an option, because then they all know that one or some of us are next in line! It will not be allowed to spread because other European countries are exactly as egoistic as USA, when it really matters! - - - o 0 o - - - Last year, in November, over about three days or so, I had serious discussions with the Lady of the House, about what to do for us, if war comes to Denmark. It ended in we agreed to disagree, creating a house in the next more than a week with about no communication between us, just silence ... My point was, why even stay here in case of war, when we actually have the means to move our butts [at least temporary] to a better, more safe spot, simply just locking down our Danish home and leave. She simply did not have the same degree of mental flexibility as the one I posses. I had to say, that a I have provided total freedom for her to decide about her own life, including leaving me, if she wants [no ties!], so she had to repect that if the situation pops up, she really can't expect to demand more from me, than I was providng for her. - So : Long silence ...

Mike [ @cubsfan ], You are obviously uninformed about what's actually going on in Western Europe these days. That's also why I'm posting stuff like the above about that Ukrainian factory here in Denmark. - - - o 0 o - - - The hope of an unarmed solution of this conflict for other European contries is dwindling really fast - an assessment I personally have ventilated here in this topic now several months ago, when asked about how solve this conflict : I answered @73 Reds that Europe would like to rent [AirBnB style] 4 - 5 of the CVNs, including Gerald R. Ford and some of the Nimitz class aircraft carriers, including ammo, fuels, planes, pilots and crews and all the hardware, at the end of the AirBnB period paying also for filling up ammo and fuel stocks on these thingies again. Simpy to give Putin a lesson once and for all, that he will never recover from again. It is the only thing his creepy monster [Putin] understands. POTUS 'deal of the year', you know! Much better to go big than braggin' being a small scale arms dealer by selling a Himars system or two to Europe, calling it a success. Then Europe sending the stuff to Ukraine. - - - o 0 o - - - I've personally long ago lost the tiny rest of hope or belief in, that will find its solution without involving non-Ukrainian European troops in real warfare activities. - - - o 0 o - - - But first for me related to you, Mike [ @cubsfan, I need to explain for you some stuff about Greenland.

Danmarks Radio - dr.dk [September 3rd 2025] : Ukrainian arms company behind powerful 'flamingo' missile starts production in Denmark Subtitle : The company FPRT expects to start production on December 1 in Skrydstrup. - - - o 0 o - - - Zelenskyi on visit at Danish PM Mette Frederiksen today at her PM summer residence Marienborg. It is about start of production of solid rocket fuel for the Flamingo missiles here in Denmark, outside Russias reach. Nobody in Europe trust Putin anymore on any matter, and about all agree that Putin managed to play POTUS in Alaska, and none of POTUS' deadlines have been upheld with consequences, making POTUS look like a babbling fool.