Minco Gold Corporation Retains Rubenstein Investor RelationsWednesday February 6, 2:30 pm ET

I thought this was great. This corp. retains a spin doctor to advertise all the great things they got going on in China. Notice nothing is said about any new deals which would bring in badly needed revenue, or maybe a repurchasing of stock to drive share prices up from a mere $.90.
A smart investor will look past all the hype, d-d-d-don’t believe the hype, and look at the financials. It doesn’t take a genius to see all the negative number and conclude this company is a bad investment.
On the oft chance that someone new to the game should stumble across my meager collection of thoughts and read this missive I will say one more time, d-d-d-don’t believe the hype. Don’t buy into this sinking stone until they start to do something about their numbers. Don’t let them talk about “modern technology”, or how they’re exploiting the richness of China’s newly opening markets.
The only thing they should be telling us is what steps they’re taking to fix this failing house, and not with flashy pictures, and flashy words, but with a new release here about a 1.5mil deal with this or that company or group. Maybe they can tell us how they plan on saving the cash that is left in the till.
At the moment their EV is good its just 81% of its Market cap, so thus far their cash out strips their debt. Unfortunately that won’t be the case is they can’t get some income.
Don’t fool us with pretty words Minco, investors only want one thing, money. If you think all you need is better publicity, then may be what you really need is better management. Maybe you could call up my 17 year old niece.

Riverside voters backing Measure A to limit roosters
09:01 AM PST on Wednesday, February 6, 2008
By DOUG HABERMANThe Press-Enterprise

This article is a study of transition. From reading the article I can see a Riverside of another era, probably one that looked much like the Ramona I knew in my childhood, mostly filled with farm and a sparse amount of housing for people who wanted to get away from the city.
As the years went by more and more people moved to Riverside to escape the city, but eventually the county reached a certain size and started to attract another sort of people. These people weren’t so much looking for a place to retreat but a place to where housing was cheap. Maybe these people were hoping that the growth in the area would continue so they could sell for a profit and move on to another growing area. Maybe they just wanted a place that was inexpensive, but not ghetto with its dirty streets, crime, and other signs of humanity.
It would seem a bit ludicrous for one to move into an area with farms and have a problem with roosters, but if I look at it in this light it makes a little more sense. Some of these residents with problems with country life, with their speculative buys, will eventually move on when riverside reaches its next growth phase. Maybe there will be some farms left but most farms would have been replaced with condos or apartment buildings as it becomes more and more difficult to run an Ag business whilst the area becomes more urbanized.
Maybe the area will become more like Escondido, with it’s farms in the hills where it is too costly to build residences in the because of all the rocks. Maybe Riverside will become like Cerritos, Farms are replaced by communities that resemble walled city on the hill tops, and for all the houses one is hard pressed to find a gas station save his/her life. Whichever form the cities of Riverside County take the one undeniable fact remains, the farm life is dead in Riverside.
Yes, some farm may be isolated enough to be spared the quiet death. For the most part anyone of meager means, read without enough money to own horses, will have to find another place to escape the city noise while man does what he does best. He expands to fill any given space, much like a gas but sprouting buildings, fast food joints, and shopping malls, much like spores from a fungus colony. With roads acting as arteries bringing nutrients to this newly established colony.

ABC’s Politically Incorrect Tackles Comedian’s ‘Chink’ Joke
Silverman and media watchdog Aoki face off
By Sam Chu Lin

I think what is so ludicrous about the article is the person set in Mr. Aoki’s cross hairs. Sarah Silverman makes her living by being offensive. To openly criticize her is about as useful as the FCC coming against Howard Stern through out the ‘90’s. I’m telling you it’s craziness to believe her fans are going to stops watching her because I, Aoki, or anyone else points out the offensiveness of her shtick, on the contrary it will only drive these people to watch her, just like any other shock jock.