Thank you, You are right, Ayelet. I was about to do just that--ask Boaz. He has always treated me well.

All that is fine and dandy. But when it comes down to it, as strange as it sounds, i would rather own 1000 shares of something with "no value" than zero shares of something with "no value". I am not the brightest lightbulb in the mix so please bare with me as i am still finding it difficult to find out the actual number of shares i own so that i can guestimate what that value will be when TalkMarkets actually takes off.

I am sorry but i still cannot find how many share points i have earned to date and the value of a share. Maybe it is because i slipped on the ice and banged my head this morning and i am just not thinking straight.

Is there any way i can get TalkMarkets just to send me the information via an email? I can ask the editors, but i hate to bother them on such a trivial issue, especially since the information is so readily available.

There's probably a real good reason that i forgot this. Because no one has ever told me: (1) how many shares i own; (2) how many TalkMarket shares there are: and (3) what the total Market Value is of all TalkMarket shares. If i had that information, i would know a lot more about what my pay is.

Does my benevolent benefactor know what i have been paid to date? I don't.

Look at it this way. Trump had a lot of opportunities to enjoy himself in any way he wanted to while spending several nights in Moscow. Maybe, even one of these nights, Putin (an ex-cia guy i might add) offered the Skallywag Trump a night beyond his foundest believes--even maybe butt-fucking--whatever). Any way, it would be my guess if Putin ever did set Trump up for the night, he had the entire night filmed.

Now you take Lindsey with his pecularities and you don't think Trump didn't learn what blackmail had to offer.

I am not Sherlock Holmes, but i think his antannae might be up without blowing up into a conspiracy theory.

I have given a little more thought to your sci-fi thing. Here is the answer i have come up with the delima you set, looking at it through aged adjusted eyes: You shoot the goddamn missiles off." I know that is what we would have done at the time. And i still think that is what should be done: just the thought of that scenario would make just about anyone say "human Kind might not be worth saving, either that it needs to start up from the beginning again.

Rickover used to say that we did not actually need our missiles, we just needed the enemy to think we had the missiles in our missile tubes. And he was right. The U.S. Submarine Force in those days then and now always thought of themselves as a "Deterrent Force", not an "aggressive one."

I hate to think i would have blown up the world myself back in those not so olden days that i served in the nuclear navy, but i think even back then I would have participated or watched without interrupting an authorized shoot.

Yes, i agree. I have and am using that avenue already. And that is the plan for The Submariner once things settle down and i get some time to get back on it. The book, itself, is complete and fully professionally edited, so it is ready to go. I just need to go through the technical issues with Amazon.

I wrote a memoir last year that i intend to self-publish about my four-years in the Navy. I called it, The Submariner. It is a really good book, with both serious and humorous thought. I have tried to get a literary agent to publish it with no luck.

I have no problem with that. I have written a couple other very good books that i self-published. It's my writings that i consider my legacy.

I can relate to that. We had conversations relating to that subject during a few dinners in the officer wardroom.

But what really brought it home for me was the day i was standing the Officer of the Deck watch, when a test message came to tell us to "go to battle stations missile, battle stations missile" and it was up to me to hit the alarm and pass the word.

I just some how lucked into the Navy, as i tried to avoid Vietnam. I wouldn't have probably in the Navy if it wasn't for the Vietnam war, let alone on a fleet ballistic missile submarine. Hell, i wasn't even that smart at he time.

Anyway, it is that one moment in time, that i have had to live with all of my life afterwards and something like that really makes one think of what one's own role in the world was.

i sent you something earlier that again i think failed. So here is my best solution.

have been having difficulty pasting the link to my blog, so if you want to see it, i recommend that you do this:  go to youtube and type in the following search "Biden question and answer commerce labor"  I watched the CBSN version which i think will probably be the first option you get.  I recommend you go directly to the 46 or 47 minute part of the video, which is the beginning of the question answer period, after the earlier time spent introducing labor and commerce.