By Paul Hodgson, Contributor There’s been a lot of publicity lately for CEOs earning $1 in base salary – the likes of Larry Ellison at Oracle, John Mackey at Whole Foods and Meg Whitman at Hewlett-Packard, though it is only John Mackey who is restrained elsewhere in his package, the others can earn millions in stock and incentives. …read more
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In this video, Andrew Tonner explains his reason for preferring Dell over Hewlett-Packard for short-term returns. In a nutshell, Dell is in the midst of a takeover fight that will probably drive the stock higher. That said, if any buyout deal falls through, the stock could dive pretty quickly, too. HP, meanwhile, is still in the midst of a turnaround. The company remains heavily exposed to the declining PC market, and there’s no guarantee that Meg Whitman‘s tough decisions will resurrect HP.
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The massive wave of mobile computing has done much to unseat the major players in the PC market, including venerable technology names like Hewlett-Packard. However, HP‘s rapidly shifting its strategy under the new leadership of CEO Meg Whitman. But does this make HP one of the least-appreciated turnaround stories on the market, or is this a minor blip on its road to irrelevance? The Motley Fool’s technology analyst details exactly what investors need to know about HP in our new premium research report. Just click here now to get your copy today.
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By Matt Thalman, The Motley Fool
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As investors wait for news from Cyprus, they seem to have missed another strong jobs report this morning. The Department of Labor released its initial jobless claims report today, and while claims did rise, it was only a 2,000-claim increase. For the week ending March 16, 336,000 individuals filed initial jobless claims, and the four-week moving average fell by 7,500 claims to 339,750.
But that wasn’t enough to get the markets moving higher, and as of 12:55 p.m. EDT the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 46 points, or 0.31%. The S&P 500 is performing slightly worse, down 0.35%, and the NASDAQ has fallen the furthest, down 0.56%.
Today’s Dow downers
2013’s darling of the Dow, Hewlett-Packard , is moderately lower today. At yesterday’s shareholder meeting, all of the board members were re-elected even though a number of investors and activists wanted those involved in the acquisition of Autonomy — the software company for which HP overpaid by $8 billion — to be removed. However, all of the members in question managed to earn majority votes in their favor.
Those investors who wanted new board members are likely selling today, even though the board raised the dividend by 10% — or perhaps because the dividend was raised. HP is in the midst of a turnaround, and global PC sales are flatlining, so the company may need all the cash it can get if the economy turns south again before Meg Whitman has righted the ship.
Shares of Intel are lower by 0.69% after analysts from both Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase published cautious reports this morning. Citigroup’s Glen Young cut his first- and second-quarter revenue estimates, while JPMorgan’s Christopher Danely noted that PC shipments to Asian countries will grow at lower-than-normal rates. Both analysts believe results will come in lower than Intel’s guidance and consensus estimates.
Currently, however, Cisco is not only the Dow’s worst-performing technology stock, but also the index’s worst-performing component, with shares down 3.8%. Like Intel, Cisco was recently downgraded, but that cannot fully account for this massive drop today. Oracle , one of Cisco’s closest competitors, is down 8.3% today after reporting last night that it is seeing weak demand in virtually all of its operating segments. Cisco and Oracle compete in all of the same areas with similar products and offerings. Oracle’s weak performance could mean that Cisco is gaining market share, but based on today’s stock performance, I think it’s safe to say investors feel that the market for these tech devices is weakening.
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By Matt Thalman, The Motley Fool
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average hasn’t had a 10-day winning streak in nearly 17 years. The index crossed that mark again today, after closing higher by 83 points. During this streak, the Dow has set a number of new record highs on a daily basis. As the markets closed, investors began watching another index, now that the Dow’s record-breaking mystique has begun to fade.
After closing up 8.71 points today, the S&P 500 is now just two points away from the all-time record high it set back in 2007. Most market participants would actually consider the S&P 500 record a more important milestone, since the index tracks a broader number of stocks, and likely gives a more accurate picture of the U.S. economy.
A few Dow winners
Two of the Dow’s big technology stocks, Hewlett-Packard and IBM , helped move the index higher during today’s trading session. Shares of H-P rose 2.86%, as IBM‘s stock gained 1.75%. Though market participants gave a number or reasons for each stock‘s move today, there really was no single driving force behind either stock.
It seems H-P’s CEO, Meg Whitman, has been successful thus far in turning the company around, which is partially why the stock has steadily risen in 2013. Shares of H-P are up almost 54% year to date.
Chevron ended the day as one of the blue-chip winners. Shares rose 1.39%, despite the fact that a company-owned pipeline was hit by a tugboat and burst into flames yesterday. The move higher today could be related to a report, also released yesterday, which argues that opening California up to fracking would boost the state’s economy. The Monterey Shale deposits, located in central California, are believed to hold 15.4 billion barrels of oil, or two-thirds of the nation’s shale oil reserves. Opening this area up for drilling would be not only a boost to California, but also to U.S. oil and gas producers.
The king of cola, Coca-Cola , also rose today; the company’s stock ended the afternoon up 1.11%. The move was the result of an analyst upgrade from the brokerage house CLSA, which increased its previous “underperform” to an “outperform,” and lifted its target price from $40 per share to $43. The ratings change came as a result of CLSA‘s belief that Coke’s marketing and brand-building initiatives over the years have now given Coke the upper hand in its battle against Pepsi.
Coca-Cola’s wide moat has helped provide its shareholders with superior gains in the past, but the company faces some new threats to its continued market dominance. The Motley Fool recently compiled a premium research report containing everything you need to know about Coca-Cola. If you own, or are considering owning, shares in the company, you’ll want to click here now and get started!
By Dan Dzombak, The Motley Fool
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average is making moderate gains following two better-than-expected economic reports. As of 1:20 p.m. EST, the Dow is up 39 points, or 0.27%, to 14,287. The S&P 500 was up just 0.1% to 1,541.
There were two U.S. economic releases today.
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Report |
Period |
Result |
Previous |
|---|---|---|---|
|
ADP private-sector jobs |
February |
198,000 |
215,000 |
|
Factory orders |
January |
(2%) |
1.3% |
Source: MarketWatch U.S. Economic Calendar.
First up, payroll processor ADP reported that the private sector added 198,000 jobs in February. That’s down slightly from January’s addition of 215,000 jobs but above analyst expectations of 175,000. ADP‘s report always comes out two days before the government‘s nonfarm payrolls report, which will be released on Friday. The government‘s report includes both private and public jobs data. Economists expect the government‘s report to show jobs growth of just 160,000 and no change in the unemployment rate, which sits at 7.9%.
ADP Change in Nonfarm Payrolls data by YCharts.
The second economic release came from the Department of Commerce, which reported that factory orders dropped 2% in January. That’s below December’s 1.3% growth but better than analyst expectations of a 2.2% drop. Factory orders include both durable and nondurable goods. Last week the advance report on durable-goods manufacturers showed that durable-goods orders dropped 5.2% in January. This led analysts to lower their expectations for the factory goods report. However, the initial report from the Department of Commerce was slightly too dour, as the drop in durable-goods orders was revised upward to a 4.9% drop for January.
Today’s Dow leader
Today’s Dow leader is Hewlett-Packard , up 3.6% to $21.10. HP is leading the Dow higher for the second day in a row. Yesterday the company announced that it was selected by Teradyne “to improve operational efficiency, reduce network downtime and boost design-phase efficiency for new products” by using HP‘s FlexNetwork architecture. While this is a small victory, it shows that HP can continue to innovate and win contracts in the hotly contested networking and enterprise-storage space.
Public-facing wins are a must, as Hewlett-Packard is undergoing a turnaround under new CEO Meg Whitman. Three members of the company’s board came under fire yesterday from proxy advisory firm ISS, which recommended that investors vote against re-electing Chairman Ray Lane, head of the audit committee; G. Kennedy Thompson; and John Hammergren, the head of the finance and investments committee. All three were in their positions in August of 2011 when HP paid $10.3 billion for Autonomy, which later earned HP a massive $8.8 billion writedown. While HP is alleging fraud by Autonomy’s executives, this was the second $8 billion-plus writedown of a recent acquisition by HP in 2012. Meg Whitman certainly has her work cut out for her.
The question remains: Is HP one of the least appreciated turnaround stories on the market, or is this a minor detour on its road to irrelevance? The Motley …read more
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The news of the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting new highs this week is certainly good news. The problem is that the news comes with some serious caveats. We just featured that there are really only seven of the 30 DJIA component stocks that would be needed to take the DJIA up even higher to 15,000. The rest of the market could stay the same, but there are some serious DJIA laggards that have to be considered when you see that the market is back to all-time highs.
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is perhaps the biggest disappointment of all DJIA stocks. After all, GE probably represents the broad economy more than any other single DJIA stock. It has business and personal finance, oil, power, energy, appliances, health care and many other aspects covering each sector of the economy. At $23.75, and with a market cap of about $245 billion, GE‘s stock is barely half of its share price from late 2007, and on the chart its stock would have to rise about 150% before taking out the 2001 highs back when valuations were silly at about 30 times earnings. GE has recovered well over 200% from its lows, but it its share price and market value are a fraction of the peak before the recession.
Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) may have been the best DJIA stock of 2012, but it is a shell of its former glory, if you count the price of the stock after the recession. In 2006 and in 2007 Bank of America was a $40 and $50 stock. Even after doubling from its lows, and even backing out a few dollars worth of dividends since then, has the stock at $11.84. It is very possible that Bank of America may not see its old highs for a generation or more, even if Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) have a large stake. Its market cap is $128 billion, and it seems hard to imagine that shares would rise 200% to 300% further in any short period without hyperinflation.
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) cannot win for losing, and it has been losing. This is not even due to the recession, but due to a change in technology demand toward Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and to smartphones and mobile computing. Mismanagement was another nail in the coffin, and even Meg Whitman has warned that the turnaround might not be seen fully until 2015 or so. The good news is that shares are actually back above $20, and that is approaching a double off of the lows of 2012. The bad news is that HP was basically a $50 stock back in 2010 and early 2011, when Mark Hurd was in charge. That company has been lost ever since Hurd was canned.
Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) is another huge drag on the DJIA. Its stock is around $8.50 now and only has a …read more
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By Dan Dzombak, The Motley Fool
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up to a new all-time high following two positive economic reports. As of 1:35 p.m. EST the Dow is up 157 points, or 1.1%, to 14,285. The S&P 500 is up 1.2% to 1,543.
There were two U.S. economic releases today.
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Report |
Period |
Result |
Previous |
|---|---|---|---|
|
CoreLogic Home Price Index |
January |
0.7% |
0.2% |
|
ISM Non-Manufacturing Index |
February |
56% |
55.2% |
The first economic release was CoreLogic’s Home Price Index, which rose 0.7% from December and 9.7% in the 12-month period ending Jan. 31. CoreLogic chief economist Mark Fleming noted:
The [Home Price Index] showed strong growth during the typically slow winter season. With these gains, the housing market is poised to enter the spring selling season on sound footing. The improvements are materializing across the country, with all but Delaware and Illinois showing increasing HPI and 15 states within 10 percent of their peak values.
The second economic release was from the Institute for Supply Management, which reported that its Non-Manufacturing Index rose 0.8 percentage points to 56% in February. That’s above January’s 55.2% and analyst expectations of 55.2%. Any reading higher than 50% indicates economic growth. The rise in the index to 56% indicates that responders believe the economy is still growing, and at a faster rate than in January.
Today’s Dow leader
Leading the Dow to record highs is beleaguered tech giant Hewlett-Packard , up 2.6%. Last year was rough for HP, which finished down 46% after two $8 billion-plus writedowns for relatively recent acquisitions. The second of those writedowns was for Autonomy, which was purchased in August of 2011 for $10.3 billion and written down for $8.8 billion in November 2012.
Today, in response to the Autonomy disaster, institutional proxy advisor ISS recommended that shareholders in Hewlett-Packard vote against the re-election of HP chairman Ray Lane, as well as board members John Hammergren and G. Kennedy Thompson. John Hammergren is chairman and CEO of McKesson and chairs HP’s finance and investment committee. G. Kennedy Thompson was CEO of Wachovia from 2000 to 2008 and is chairman of HP’s audit committee.
Meg Whitman’s turnaround of the company is beginning to take shape. A key part of that should include the removal of those who were responsible for oversight of the company’s two enormously failed acquisitions.
The question remains: Is HP one of the least appreciated turnaround stories on the market, or is this a minor detour on its road to irrelevance? The Motley Fool’s technology analyst details exactly what investors need to know about HP in our new premium research report. Just click here now to get your copy today.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) wants back into the tablet market, an effort which the company previously jettisoned under prior misguided leadership. What is so different about this effort here is that the move is coming at a price so cheap that you have to wonder about the profitability metrics.
Its 7-inch tablet is called the Slate 7 and H-P plans to sell it for a low-low price of only $169. Here is where it gets complicated. It is using Android from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), but the price is $30 less than the Kindle Fire by Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and the Nexus 7 tablet from Google. It is almost half of the price of the iPad mini from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) at $329 per unit. This looks to be a race to zero on the proposed tablet pricing.
Maybe it is aimed more at unseating the Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) Surface tablet that starts at about $500. CNET reported earlier that WebOS is being acquired by LG but for televisions rather than for smartphones. Meg Whitman said last week that she wants to take share away from Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL), and Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) also missed the boat on the tablet market.
It is hard to trust whether or not H-P can adequately make a comeback in the tablet market. Its other efforts cost more than that of Apple, yet the younger generation only wants Apple (or Android) and says that Apple is a far better product. If H-P really wanted this market it should have just stuck with its initial efforts. Oh well, missteps and misdirection from H-P’s leadership at the time.
Maybe H-P should just keep WebOS, the old Palm, and try to get back into the smartphone market too. Or not.
H-P shares closed down 0.7% at $19.07 on the day, but that is a win considering how the DJIA closed down by 216 points or by -1.55%.
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With today’s robust rally, Hewlett-Packard shareholders are enjoying a rare day indeed. With an hour left to go in the trading day, the stock is up 14%. The move has lifted HP‘s market cap by $4.7 billion. By my calculation (using historic data from Yahoo Finance), HP shares have had moves of 14% or more just five other times over the last 50 years. Yes, 50 years. (The company actually went public in November 1957, but the data set I’m using doesn’t quite go back that far.) I count just 26 days in the company’s long history with moves of 10% or more, just five since 2002, and none (before today) since 2008. The most recent comparable move was a 14.5% rally on November 18, 2008, a day in which the company pre-announced strong earnings for the October 2008 quarter. The single biggest one-day move in HP‘s shares was November 6, 2001, when the stock rallied 17.3%. And here’s a delicious irony: That was the day that heirs of Bill Hewlett vowed to vote against the then-pending acquisition of Compaq; the Street was hoping the deal would not be completed. (But, of course, it was.) On November 18, 1999, the stock rose 16.3%; that was the day HP spun-off Agilent Technologies as a separate company. On May 17, 2001, HP shares rose 15.6%, following a strong earnings report for the April 2001 quarter. And on February 19, 1992, the stock rose 14.2%, which I presume followed a strong January quarter earnings report. (I’d note that the next big rally on the list was exactly one year earlier, a 13.7% move on February 19, 1991.) HP‘s rally accounts for more than 18 points of today’s rally on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Even after today’s rally, HP shares are down 16% since Meg Whitman was named CEO. HP shares have now rallied 36% for the year to date. Previously: HP Spikes After FY Q1 Tops Estimates; UBS Raises Rating HP Earnings Top Estimates, CEO Whitman Says ‘No Plans’ For Breakup (LIVE) …read more
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(Phys.org)—Women are reaching the upper echelons of business in record numbers—Marissa Mayer at Yahoo!, Meg Whitman at Hewlett-Packard, Ginni Rometty at IBM and Rosalind Brewer at Sam’s Club, to name a few. Even so, women comprise a mere 4 percent of the chief executive officer positions at Fortune 500 companies.
Economists at UC Santa Barbara are exploring some of the reasons behind this continuing disparity, and they’re using a 1-mile race as their data source. Their findings appear in the current issue of the journal Economic Inquiry. …read more
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As most informed people know, there was a tragic and senseless school shooting incident in Newtown, Connecticut last month that left defenseless children and adults killed by an obviously deranged young man. It is inconceivable to most people how a young man can go so astray that he murders random people for no obvious reason.
As a result, certain elements of the political class in Washington have taken advantage of this tragedy to advance their own personal agendas relative to gun control, with the idea that controlling or eliminating gun possession by all of us would have somehow prevented the Newtown tragedy.
Rather than trying to understand the root causes of such abhorrent behavior, these politicians simplistically look at the “what” of the situation (guns were used to kill) rather than the “why” of the situation (what causes such behavior.) By not understanding the root causes, the chance of resolving the problem is next to nothing.
Maybe there are other causes of such behavior, not simply gun possession. Rather than more draconian gun control rules and laws, we should do a little “hate control” before we recklessly and senselessly go off on a gun control tangent, a tangent that will likely increase crime and gun play, not reduce it and shred the Second Amendment in the process.
Let’s be honest; there is a lot of hate and venom circulating in our country today. Much of it is fomented by the political class as they try to incite their supporters and degrade their opponents in the most dehumanizing ways possible.
The more we dehumanize others, the easier it is to see them as less worthy of their opinion and their life. Maybe if we started respecting each other a little more and taking some of the hate and venom out of our politics, thought processes, and speech, incidents like the shootings in Newtown, in south Chicago, in the ghettos of Detroit, etc. might become a little less frequent if we respected each other a little more.
This increase in respect and humanizing of other human beings should start with our so-called leaders, However, these so-called leaders are a big cause of the problem, not the solution. They have had a busy and disgraceful past couple of years degrading and abusing the opinions, lives, and very existence of the citizens they are supposed to be serving:
When you viciously and unfoundedly associate ordinary citizens with racism, call them terrorists, question their patriotism, wish they would go to hell, and then threaten to take them out/exterminate them, you have dehumanized them in the eyes of your political supporters, making it easy to imagine them actually going away permanently.
Maybe this type of hate, venom, and dehumanizing goes through the head of a young man when he decides to go off and actually follows the advice that those people “need to be taken out.” When your so-called leaders call for this type of behavior and language, it can’t be wrong, can it?
But our political class and their direct supporters also direct their hate and venomous words towards other politicians:
When you label others as “sluts” and “whores” and suggest they should be raped or be killed, either by themselves or a fiery bus explosion, you set another stage for dehumanization. If you political opponents are just “sluts” and “whores”, no big deal if they go away, right?
This type of disgusting, hateful behavior is an influence in our society and not an influence for good. It infects the undertone of how we view others. It reduces the amount of respect we have for others, making it easier to abuse others, possibly violently.
It usually does not cause someone to go off and actually start killing others, but it certainly cannot help. It also cuts short the ability to listen to each other and appreciate the diversity of opinion each brings to a potential solution of a problem.
If I have allowed the political class and their ardent supporters to frame you as a racist or a slut or a terrorist, I am unlikely to consider any good you can bring to my life or to a solution of a problem. If I think it is a good thing that you self-decapitate or die in a bus explosion, you will probably not get my attention when it comes to working towards a better society.
As a result of this hateful divisiveness the political class has driven into our society, we despise others who have opinions different from ours. Major issues, such as failing public schools, a lost war on drugs, skyrocketing national debt, high health care costs, illegal immigration, etc. never get resolved. The hate prevents us from listening to each other and calibrating our view of the world with others’ views of the world.
And possibly in the case of Newtown, we go beyond not listening, and we start shooting. Not because guns are legal, but because we have allowed the political class to desensitize us to each other as human beings.
But it is not only politicians who spew the hate and venom, hate and venom that others take to heart, hate and venom that their children take and internalize. Consider just some recent examples that have appeared in the news:
– Consider the hateful speech and intentions of Professor Richard Parncutt of the University of Graz regarding other human beings who are global warming deniers, those daring to have a different opinion than his: “In this article I am going to suggest that the death penalty is an appropriate punishment for influential GW [global warming] deniers… They [global warming deniers] are already causing the deaths of hundreds of millions of future people. We could be speaking of billions, but I am making a conservative estimate… With high probability it will cause hundreds of millions of deaths. For this reason I propose that the death penalty is appropriate for influential GW deniers.”
Different opinion; therefore, you should die. If you have a different opinion than Professor Parncutt, he deigns that you do not deserve to live.
– Pulitzer nominated newspaper columnist Donald Kaul recently wrote an article for the Des Moines Register where he called for the killing of gun owners and “dragging legislators who disagree with gun control behind pickup trucks until they get the message.” Don’t agree with my opinion? Thus, we should have more killing and more torture for those who dare to have a difference of opinion. How does this stop the cycle of hate that starts with the political class?
– Erik Loomis, PhD, assistant professor of history at the University of Rhode Island, decided he needed to get into the hate and venom game also when he recently stated on Twitter that he wanted the death of National Rifle Association (NRA) CEO Wayne LaPierre, branding the gun rights group he heads as a terrorist organization””[I] want Wayne LaPierre’s head on a stick.” A little hateful, a little violent?
– Karen Lewis, head of the Chicago Teachers’ Union, recently had some violent rhetoric of her own to share: “Do not think for a minute that the wealthy are ever going to allow you to legislate their riches away from them. Please understand that. However, we are in a moment where the wealth disparity in this country is very reminiscent of the robber baron ages. The labor leaders of that time, though, were ready to kill. They were. They were just – off with their heads. They were seriously talking about that.”
And this person is associated with educating young minds and kids. Don’t like someone or are jealous of their wealth (that in all probability was garnered via hard work and sweat? Then just off with their heads.
You cannot have such hate and disrespect and venomous speech floating around and not have a negative impact on how we treat each other, how it dehumanizes others. You cannot say the Newtown shooting was directly caused because of this poisonous environment, but it certainly did not help. Was the shooter seated around his dinner table through the years when slurs and demeaning things were said about others, how others different from him were worthy of being “taken out“?
And it certainly does not allow us to sit down and go face-to-face with others to leverage everyone’s knowledge and skills to confront all of our problems from school shootings to high debt, high illiteracy levels, failing public education, a failing health care system, etc.
But if we solved all of our problems, on what issues would our politicians run on? And that, my friends, is the root cause of most of our problems from school shootings to the lack of a national energy problem; our shameless politicians need the hate and venom to frame and finance their continual reelection effort.
So tonight, when you are sitting around the table with your family, how about a little more hate control and a lot more respect for others in front of our kids? Again, it couldn’t hurt.
And when you come across such people in life, those who want others to die simply because they have a different opinion, walk away. These people are part of the problem; do not join them in spreading their venom and hatred. There is an old saying that goes as follows: “Never mud wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it.” Stay clean, reduce the hatred, and maybe save the Second Amendment in the process.
