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This video is from Don Harrold, someone who I feel actually knows a fair bit about stocks and may even know how to pick stocks. He has been calling for Jim Cramer to be fired from CNBC for maybe years now.

However, I’m not asking for him to be fired: I’m asking for him to go to jail for severely misleading the American public. Think this is the only time? He does this every damn time he gets a chance; for the past year at least (as long as I’ve been watching him), he has made bad pick after bad pick after bad pick.

If you listen to Jim Cramer, you WILL LOSE MONEY without any doubt whatsoever. He purposely leads the ‘Cramaricans’ that watch his show into financial ruin to personally profit and for those who are his close friends to profit.

Jim Cramer is a former Bear Stearns employee, and ran one of the most successful hedge funds ever. You cannot tell me soon as he left Bear Stearns he became an idiot: no, he only became a fool if he can think he can mislead the American people and get away with it.

I’d also like my readers to watch this earlier Don Harrold video where Jim Cramer recommends to continue holding Bear Stearns stock (for those who have some in their portfolio) on Tuesday before the Friday that Bear Stearns crashed and burned. You think Jim Cramer knew nothing? No, he still has his friends feeding him all the insider information: he knew exactly what he was doing, and his friends over at BS made a killing over this.

Not only that, he then tried to cover it up. HE TRIED TO COVER IT UP.

So where the hell is the SEC here? Why hasn’t the SEC investigated Jim Cramer for knowingly giving out bad information to purposely lead the American people astray? Jim Cramer has inside traded, he has mislead the American people so he and his friends can profit, and with the first video, it proves his a bold faced liar and doesn’t even try to cover it up anymore.

Not only that, how much of his bad information over the past 2 years has influenced the recession we are currently in? Millions of people in the US listen to Cramer and repeatedly lose money because of his bad stock picks.

I ask ‘Cramerica’ to wake up: I ask ‘Cramerica’ to use their logic, their common sense, to objectively look at Jim Cramer’s record and realize that ‘Cramerica’ has lost millions and millions of dollars because of him.

If the SEC won’t investigate him and throw him in jail, then at the very least CNBC will fire him if everyone quits watching his show.

Last night I watched a two hour program on CNBC named The Age of Wal-Mart, a decently two (three? four?) sided view on one of the world’s largest companies. It was originally aired in 2004, I believe.

Well, one of the groups featured was a tiny little startup called Wallpocketts: little pieces of material that stuck to the wall and provided a pocket you could stuff light items in… photos, receipts, cards, CDs, pretty much anything like that.

Through-out the program, you got to see the saga of them trying to get Wal-Mart to carry their product. At the end, Wal-mart finally decides to carry their product, and they’re beyond happy. Except one little problem: I googled their domain, and they’re no longer around. I don’t know what happened, but I’m pretty sure of one thing… Wal-mart eventually back-stabbed them.

Someone has uploaded CNBC’s program to Youtube, and its 9 parts long. This is the most disturbing 2 hours of programming you’ll see in awhile. Be sure to use the numbered tabs to see all 9 parts.

Several months ago, back in September, I linked to a lecture by Randy Pausch, a professor from CMU that has pancreatic cancer. I’m just going to say it now, I think the man is a genius, and it really fucking sucks that maybe tomorrow or the day after that hes going to be dead.

This is possibly the most important lecture you’re ever going to watch, and the most important stuff you’re ever going to learn. For those that haven’t already seen it, watch the whole thing; and for those that have, watch the whole thing again.

I honestly should have written this stuff in September, but I didn’t… I didn’t know what to write. If statistics applied to Randy Pausch, I shouldn’t even have this chance to write this to him. 75% of people who get pancreatic cancer die within the first year. Thankfully, Randy hasn’t shuffled off his mortal coil yet. I still don’t know what to write, but I’m going to try anyhow because I feel this is important.

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Dear Randy,

I would to thank you for the most inspiring thing I’ve ever seen, and probably will ever see. I wish the teachers that I’ve had in my life had this sort of mastery of telling people the real things they need to know, instead of just parroting things out of books.

Your experiences in life are not just important to you, but important to everyone that watches your lecture. Your experiences have given you a real rare look into how the world really works, and I thank you for sharing that with not only your students but with the entire world.

I didn’t grow up in the same environment you did, I was always taught (although I didn’t really believe it) that the walls in life were there to protect others first and then protect you second; if someone would have told me that the walls are there to tell you what you really want when I was a kid, I would probably be a lot more happy than I am now and I would have actually followed my dreams instead of doing what was slightly easier.

When I was a kid, I wanted to make video games. Nintendo was sort of the heroes I had. I bet I’m not different than a lot of students that you’ve had over the years, but the goal of making video games like that was so far away I abandoned it by the time I was old enough to know better.

I’m now 24, and looking back, I don’t think its too late to do what I want in life. Maybe not video games, but things that are still important in the computer industry I probably can tackle and solve. Some things people just do not want to tackle, partially because there is no funding (sound familiar?), and some things people don’t even believe need to be solved.

In my area of the industry, Google is sorta like your Imagineering guys, except instead of building really awesome VR worlds and other technological feats, Google data crunches. The fact I can describe what Google does in two words means what they do is extremely hard and would probably scare the crap out of most people.

Honestly, I don’t think Google has solved all the problems they can solve yet, and I do believe that they need to have more competition (friendly, of course, I have great respect for those guys). I think that being the next Google is one gigantic wall that people, including myself, should try to either climb over or just plow through like you’re the Kool-Aid guy. I may not be able to do it, but it’ll be an interesting experience to have none-the-less.

Again, thank you. I don’t think I would even be trying to do this if I had never seen your lecture.

From the Fake Mothership…

This is followed by a recommendation that I retain an attorney to represent me. And then, I swear to friggin God, there’s a list of my assets with an estimated value for each and I suppose the implied threat that I stand to lose them. Which kinda scares the living shit out of me, to be honest, since they’ve got a pretty thorough list, which means they’ve been doing some research on this and the offer didn’t just come out of thin air. Their lists includes my home address, most recent assessed value of my house and all the information about my mortgage; a rental property that we own; my bank accounts and investment accounts, including the college funds for our kids, whose names are used; and our boat and two cars.

You know what, Real Steve Jobs? Up yours. You should be so damned lucky to have someone like the Fake Steve Jobs (aka Daniel Lyons) to be the bizzaro version of you. Hell, if I was in the same position, I’d fucking hire him and put him on the payroll just to continue doing it.

And I fucking quote, “I have read a few of the Fake Steve Jobs things recently and I think they’re pretty funny.” You know who said that, Real Steve Jobs? You did!

Hey Daniel, if Steve does sue you, I’ll donate to your legal fund if you so decide to start one.