Joke About Sale of Alaska Hits a Nerve in Russia

CNSNEWS.COM ^ | 11/28/2005 | Sergei Blagov

[TX Bluebonnet]

They'd drill on ANWR in a heartbeat and I doubt any of their citizens would care. It would almost be funny to see what the Greenies would do.

[CommandoFrank]

Actually we should sell them California

Now there is an idea with merit...

[jdm]

"I`ll be kicking myself in the arse forever for not knowing that back in Sept of `04 when I bought 500 shares of Google for $97 bucks and sold it a month later on "advice"."

At least you didn't "short" Google! I almost, almost did that some 14 months ago.

[tom paine 2]

Sell Alaska with one condition. Ted "The road to nowhere" Stevens goes with the sale

[RockinRight]

Alaska has become a burden for the U.S., wrote the centrist daily, Trud.

I think they spelled T-U-R-D wrong.

[Forte Runningrock]

"The only Joke here is Zhirinovsky. What a moron. He must have been a Democrat in a previous life."

Communist- Democrat, what's the difference?

[WillamShakespeare]

LOL!

[Forte Runningrock]

"I`ll be kicking myself in the arse forever for not knowing that back in Sept of `04 when I bought 500 shares of Google for $97 bucks and sold it a month later on "advice". As Howard Dean would say; "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGH"

Ouch! In your defence, internet investments weren't doing so well at the time. It made investors jumpy.

[Brilliant]

One trillion dollars would be far too little. One hundred trillion dollars might do it. As soon as they get done paying, we'll deed it over.

[WillamShakespeare]

You know why I sold it? Because a cousin of mine who supposedly is a "financial wiz" (according to my Aunt) told me "It will go down, it is just a search engine, search engines are on their way out.. you should short it"..

I figure right now that stock if I just held it would have been worth about a quarter mill and more being that it seems to be heading towards $500 now. Isn`t that amazing, listening to one fool cost me about $250 grand, and if you remember the first lesson of the stock market, it is don`t listen to ANYBODY!

I just knew that thing was going to take off which is why I bought it. It came off the IPO, went up then down on fears and I just knew that was the opportune time to buy and I was right on target more than I could have imagined. Can you imagine these people who bought 1000 shares and above at $100? I remember when I bought seeing some guy on Scottrade buy 10k shares. That`s a million bucks at $100 and now he is up (if he held it) to $4 million in ONE YEAR and will most likely see $5 mill by the end of `05. $4 million bucks profit in one freggin` year on just 10k shares.

[ricer1]

Let's keep the mineral rights...

[humblegunner]

So soon we'll be calling you thackneyevski?

[Eska]

Alaska, one big national park; Boy ain't that the truth. Just imagine if they run everyone off the land in New York State and made them all relocate in NYC.

Ten years ago, I was talking to a neighbor that had homesteaded his place before WWII. I asked him what was the biggest change he saw in Alaska over the years. He said most Alaskans were becomming plain old Americans demanding more government and control. He said the socialism created from all the oil wealth has ruined the place for the future. Not what I expected to hear from him but probably alot of truth to it.

[polymuser]

Maybe Israel's interested.

[FreedomCalls]

The littlest Farkers (curiously no Farkettes though) have noticed this thread.

[wafflehouse]

well someone stirred up the whiney liberal contingent over there..
and the funny thing is, he was just trolling.. lol those wacky farkers..

[fzx12345]

Imagine if Alaska was part of Russia during the Cold War...