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waaaa! i'm a rich movie star... waaaaaa!

pay your taxes like everyone else and deal with it....

TMF does tend to sensationalize things. If anyone is in RIMM for the long haul, they ought to do all right. And after all, isn't TMF always the "buy and hold" advocates? Seems they are changing their investment thesis....along with trying to sell services. Hey, I am all for options trading, do it myself. But we have enough fear going on. Time to think positive!

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Thanks for all of the comments and votes. This series names several stocks that are scary for a variety reasons. The polls at the end of each article allow the community to chime in with a vote. Just because one writer thinks RIMM is scary, does not mean that other Fools do. Currently the RIMM poll shows that the community does not think RIMM is ... Read Morescary. And hey, that's okay. We love to debate about stocks, and often disagree with each other (thus the Motley part of our name.) But let's not forget the other stocks in the series that our community does find scary. So, no, we're not changing our investment thesis, and this series isn't meant to sell services. It's meant to call out companies that some Fools don't think are great investments for the long-term. It's up to you -- as the community -- to debate us and vote in the polls. Thanks and Fool on!

One more interesting fact...the S. S. Minnow from Gilligan's Island is named after Nell's father.

If you're curious about the global warming reference, here's a NYTimes blogpost by Dubner which explains what happened:

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/global-warming-in-superfreakonomics-the-anatomy-of-a-smear/

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I just love the style and way of the fool.
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Here's an article about Stephen Dubner's visit to FoolHQ.
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2009/11/02/super-freaky-and-super-smart.aspx

Al Franken???

Al Franken was on the IRS "most taxes owed but not paid" list for quite a while. I also forgot to mention Charlie Rangel, Tom Daschle and Nancy Killefer.

From day one, he was in over his head.

Too bad the owners of the Cleveland Indians and Browns didn't see this first.

What are we going to do next, "ban crime." It's all "feel good" political BS! At the end of the day all this regulation will hurt the consumer and raise costs for the rest of us! When has goverment regulation ever done anything positive? Has the SEC ever done anything positive? I give up, I am going to Detroit to wait in line for my stimulus money!

lol that does throw a different light on matters…certainly agree with putting goog as low on the list as possible; personally i would have held out for 4th

Interesting that hes identified reasons why innovative companies fail to continue to innovate and get displaced by smaller emergent firms. Claytons thesis seems to explain the business and marketing aspects which are occurring in Schumpeters creative destruction, which sought to deal with the more purely economic aspects of capital flows.

He is def. one of the most overrated people -- not just businessmen -- of all time. Or over the past year, but that's still saying something.

He did nothing for Merrill Lynch that no one else could have done

Typically biased and narrow minded populist rhetoric, nothing but a visceral cry for help in the vague direction of a boogey man.

Nietzsche warns us about polarizing on the imperfections of our own epochs, Moore needs to look at our social system with a little perspective and realism. That would involve a serious acknowledgement of capitalisms benefits.

Capitalism didn't cause our current problems, the corruption of capitalism by a corrupt federal government (elected representatives and unelected bureaucrats alike) caused our current problems.

Interesting dude. And, yes, those giant containers of mayo are creepy!

This man is very down to earth. He his really smart in his approach to running Costco.

The things that the gardner twits never tell people is tha tthere are other reasons for success. Costco pays it's people well, provides benefits and a quality of life for the employees. This is the number one contributor to why people have a great experience at Costco. It's not all about rps and taxes as these twits would try to have you believe

He's a solid business man with common sense. I love Costco and have seen the difference between Sam's Club and Costco. Costco has top quality products, fantastic hotdogs, and freindly staff. The lighting is good in Costco and I don't mind spending time there. With Sam's Club, I can't wait to get out. I don't like to be in Sam's Club.

I agree with dorrena. This is a great company. We love our treasure hunts at costco. we visit one in every city we ever visit on vacation (assuming there is one). Jerry even did a "costco tour" of 5 costco throughout england one long weekend. They have seasoned and efficient staff, fantastic easy return policies, and quality merchandise (and fantabulous meats/poutry/fish). Go costco!

Good story but can't shop at costco every time I go in I have had bad luck. Sam's Club is ten times better service, prices and quality. SAM'S CLUB RULES!