The Housing Bubble

Brazilian Tranny!

Calm down and think. What part do you like about transsexuals HA?

But Tranny….. You promised to ignore me.

No intestinal fortitude…. typical tranny.

But Tranny….. You promised to ignore me.

Wrong. I reserved the right to address you if you tried to insult me or addressed me.

Can’t you read, too busy thinking about transsexuals or are u dumb?

Can’t you read, too busy thinking about transsexuals or are u dumb?

where did he mention transsexuals? all the talk was about brazilian transmission work. it was shortened to ‘tranny’.

it seems you’re the one with transsexuals on the brain.

Nice trap HA. Professional!

transsexuals on the brain.

Be true to your self tj. Is that why you seem so angry and confused tj? Not happy about your sex life? You lit up like a firefly about Brazilian trannys. Go for it if that’s what you want but you don’t need to project.

Nice trap HA. Professional!

Trap? What trap. Go read the deal - look up the words in a dictionary.

As I’ve implied Strawberrypicker, you have the comprehension level of a child or you have a 90 IQ.

Not happy about your sex life?

jeez, that was really low. now you’ve went and really hurt my feelings. are you available?

I told you guys I owned a Brazilian Tranny.

I owned a Brazilian Tranny

That’s not like you HA.

I would have thought you’d have rented your Brazilian Tranny for “a fraction of the cost”.

As I’ve implied Strawberrypicker, you have the comprehension level of a child or you have a 90 IQ.

That would be 3 points above the average IQ in Brazil.

Brazilian Tranny,

Your head, just like your wild claims… is empty.

All of you are pathetic. Grow up.

Ok Big Sally.

Is it any coincidence that a judge in Brazil ordered Google to turn over its street view camera data after BT claims to have shown up on a street cam?

Your meds are wrong.

The jackboots are coming for you, knock, knock.

by the time he realizes it, it will be too late. he’s going to be very embarrassed.

The jackboots are coming for you, knock, knock.

“he’s going to be very embarrassed”

Really? Embarrassed? If jackboots busted down my door, took me away to be jackbooted I’d be “very embarrassed”? As with many of your posts tj, that reveals your fundamental disconnect with reality. What planet are you from?

If jackboots came for me, the last thing I’d be worried about is being “very embarrassed“.

If jackboots came for me, the last thing I’d be worried about is being “very embarrassed“.

trust me, just before they pulled the trigger you’d feel pretty embarrassed that you’d been supporting them.

just before they pulled the trigger you’d feel pretty embarrassed that you’d been supporting them.

Yea. I might pi$$ my pants in “embarrassment“.

Good grief.

Yea. I might pi$$ my pants in “embarrassment“.

no, that will be in fear. you won’t expect the embarrassment, but it will be there.

you won’t expect the embarrassment, but it will be there.

I’ve had guns pulled on me twice in my life. (I was so embarrassed.)

Good grief.

I’ve had guns pulled on me twice in my life. (I was so embarrassed.)

Good grief.

a true simpleton’s assessment. it not having the guns pulled on you that’s the embarrassment, it’s who’s pulling the guns. you didn’t support the guys who actually pulled guns on you, did you? you didn’t vote for them, correct?

but you will have voted for or supported in other ways, the guys who will line you up against the wall. that’s where the embarrassment will come from.

that’s where the embarrassment will come from

Read your posts, that’s where the embarrassment will come from. If you don’t died of boredom first.

Read your posts, that’s where the embarrassment will come from. If you don’t died of boredom first.

you still don’t get it, do you?

your embarrassment will come from participating in your own demise.

i can even tell you when it will come.

it will come shortly after you are celebrating your greatest victory. the conservatives will have been carted away to ‘re-education camps’. you will have no opposition in your new socialist nirvana.

now you can look forward to your ‘chicken in every pot’ promises being fulfilled. except that they won’t be. they never are.

and now you will have gone from being useful idiots to being useless idiots. useless because the conservative enemy has been vanquished. but since the elite you’ve put in power know that they can’t keep their promise to you, you turn from useless idiots, to liabilities. it won’t matter if you don’t care that the promises aren’t kept. the elite won’t be able to trust you. they can’t know you won’t turn on them for the broken promises.

so it will probably go down like it did in argentina. if only you need to die, they’ll kick down your door, shoot your dog and haul you off in the night never to be heard from again. if your family needs to die, they’ll just kill all of you in your home one night. it will be the great purge. and you will be a ’subversive’ whether you like it or not.

watch ‘house of spirits’ if you want to see your future. see if you can figure out what’s happening and who to trust when it all comes tumbling down.

i hope you live long enough to feel the embarrassment. you deserve it. good luck comrade.

…the conservatives will have been carted away to ‘re-education camps’. ..they’ll kick down your door, shoot your dog …if your family needs to die, they’ll just kill all of you in your home one night…

Dude….really….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny7uGEPgoXk

Maybe you meant to say “You can’t stop this train wreck.”

No, I meant “you can’t stop this train”.

The whole deal has changed. The argument has gone from “should we have “universal” health-care” to “how are we going to implement it”.

A “train wreck” imo, will not change the fundamental changing of the argument.

—> The whole deal has changed. The argument has gone from “should we have “universal” health-care” to “how are we going to implement it”.

Good, so RioAmericanInBrasil you are a U.S. citizen? If so you are going to sign up for Obamacare or pay the fine on your 2014 U.S. tax return? Assuming you are a U.S. citizen you do have to file a U.S. tax return in 2014, no? And you are still subject to the fine unless you have purchased a qualifying plan even if you don’t reside here, no?

In other words are you eating your own cooking? Or is Obamacare not good enough for you personally.

In other words are you eating your own cooking? Or is Obamacare not good enough for you personally.

Personally, Obamcare rocks! Let me tell ya why:

I live in Brazil where I have health-care. I’m healthy. (knock on wood) But I’m not getting younger and lets say I got some disease down here in Brazil and maybe had a couple months to live without treatment or many years to live with treatment.

Before ACA I would be stuck to live or die in Brazil, away from family and friends because no one would cover me in the USA because of a pre-existing condition.

Now I would be free to return to the USA, receive health-care and live and die in my own country with my own people.

You guys don’t understand the way lack of coverage affects sick people and their friends and families. It’s actually mind-boggling-the lack of understanding and care. It’s actually uncivilized.

You didn’t answer the question, will be be signing up for Obamacare or paying the fine?

It sounds to me like you don’t want to eat your own cooking sir.

What I read you saying is that you want to game the system and not pay into the kitty like an honest citizen. You want to not pay into Obamacare until you have some catastrophic illness and then at the last minute you will buy a policy and drop the expense on everyone else that has paid their fair share into the insurance pool all these years. Is that correct? Or am I misunderstanding you?

—> It’s actually uncivilized.

What we are seeing here is the wholesale mining of the treasure of civilization. It requires decades of hard work and education for a civilization to grow and harvest wealth like a good farmer. It takes no time for socialism to strip mine that wealth out of existence. Good husbandry breads civilization and strip mining destroys civilization.

You didn’t answer the question, will be be signing up for Obamacare or paying the fine?

My taxes and income are none of your business but
of course I will comply with the law.

What I read you saying is that you want to game the system and not pay into the kitty like an honest citizen.

You can’t “game the system” if you pay all of your taxes and comply with every measure of the law.

How can you “game the system” if you are honestly following every rule of the system and not avoiding one rule of the system?

I paid in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to American private health insurance companies for me, mine and my employees over the years. After paying in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, we probably all used a small fraction those payments in health-care. Did the private health insurers “game the system”?

Tranny…. you talk like a man with a paper a$$hole.

Good husbandry is what the far right mislabels as “socialism”.

Interesting. I wonder what everyone else here thinks of the fact that you are going to game the very system you espouse. Your plan is to only sign up for Obamacare *after* you are diagnosed with a very expensive illness. Until that time you don’t plan on signing up and paying your fair share. Paying for the care - that is for other people, but not for you. But receiving the benefit for Obamacare - you are first in line. Heads you win, tails everyone else loses.

I would posit that this isn’t civilized, this is strip mining civilization.

Until that time you don’t plan on signing up and paying your fair share.

How can I not be paying my “fair share” if I am complying with the law? You have no idea how much scratch I make.

Citizens living in a foreign country are not required to do anything under Obamacare.

“You have no idea how much scratch I make.”

I’d imagine a Brazilian Tranny has quite long fingernails, so I’m going with “alot”[sic].

Maybe single payer is right around the corner. Rather diabolical IMO.

I doubt it but if so, it will go down as the Republican Party’s greatest defeat in almost 80 years. And a defeat that Repubs brought upon themselves by not negotiating in good-faith 4 years ago on the ACA.

The Repubs should watch and have watched “A Bridge Too Far”.

Idiots.

“Maybe single payer is right around the corner”.

You think?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6D3JuV3TGg

The biggest defeat in almost 80 years was OBAMACARE? His legacy? His signature landmark legislation passed on a party line vote? Where they shut down the government to stop that train wreck?

Men plan, God laughs.

The biggest defeat in almost 80 years was OBAMACARE?

As I’ve implied many times Strawberrypicker, you have the comprehension level of a child. Re-read the posts in sequence. Here, let me explain it as to a child:

1. Blackhawk mused that “Maybe single payer is right around the corner”.

(Are you still with me?)

2. I replied: “I doubt it but if so, it will go down as the Republican Party’s greatest defeat in almost 80 years.”

(Now here’s where it gets tricky for a child’s comprehension. Concentrate. )

“it” was referring to the USA going to single-payer, not Obamacare. If you still don’t get it, ask you mother.

You’re so easy.

Funny how now you are calling me a child. Wonder where you got that from?

I think I see you on the streetcam now. Still wearing that same green shirt.

Funny how now you are calling me a child.

Because you have the comprehension level of a child Strawberrypicker.

I illustrated it again above.

I think I see you on the streetcam now.

Give Ben’s blog $500 right now and I’ll stand in front of a Rio streetcam wearing any color shirt you want. And I’ll wave an umbrella and there’s no rain. Put up or shut up kiddo.

I don’t need to put up any money. Google’s mobile streetcams driver right by your house. I can see you coming up the stairs from the basement with an empty plate getting ready to ask mom for more hot pockets.

And where’s my skeleton gunfight story?

And where’s my skeleton gunfight story?

You’re assuming I care what you think.

BTW when I saw my ladyfriend’s dad’s skull I didn’t get “very embarrassed”.

(And I’ve been to 49 states.)

Watching a tranny in heels run is comedic.

‘You’re assuming I care what you think’

Yeah, shut up and eat some cake!

Various managers of the five-store, 500-employee Daka chain have been arrested, and the company will now be forced to sell products at “fair prices,” Maduro said late on Friday.

the good part is when he gets sick he’ll probably run to cuba for care.

I think you need to study it out.

What he actually said or didn’t say is unimportant. All that matters is what his fan base thinks that he said.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg98BvqUvCc

“If I help him he’s gonna help me!”

How can you possibly take serious any “argument” that is not based in reality? Have you been brainwashed to ignore reality?

you libs always accuse others of exactly what you do..

The lynchpin of the lieberal outlook is to not say what they actually believe. If they did, they know they’d be thrown out on their ears. They lie because they know better than you what is good for you.

well…..afterall…. that is why they’re known as LIEberals.

—>> ” How can you possibly take serious any “argument” that is not based in reality?”

…RioAmericanInBrasil,

In the example the grade is the reward and individuals are motivated to put in the work required for their individual reward. Some fair better than others but the average reward is a “B” for the whole class. But if only one grade is given to the whole class the average grade becomes and “F” and everyone is worse off because everyone expects somebody else to do the work for them. They want the reward but they don’t want to pay for it.

RioAmericanInBrasil, you are a perfect example. You plan to game Obamacare. You do not want to sign up and pay monthly for Obamacare. You expect every other citizen to pay for instead and do that work for you. And after a few years when you need the reward of a $600,000 liver transplant well then you’ll just sign up and expect to receive the reward you didn’t pay for because you are sure every other citizen will sign up and pay monthly for Obamacare. This is reality. You said so yourself in your comments above.

The lynchpin of the lieberal outlook is to not say what they actually believe.

The lynchpin of far-right outlook is to not research what they actually believe.

If they did, they know they’d be “very embarrassed”.

RioAmericanInBrasil, you are a perfect example. You plan to game Obamacare.

That’s just dumb. According to your “logic” almost half the population of America under 65 might be in a position to “game Obamacare” I don’t plan on getting sick but who does? There are 10s of millions of uninsured Americas with pre-existing conditions who are going to sign up for Obamacare. Are they “gaming the system”?

When one of the 50-129 million people with pre-existing needs to sign up for ACA, are they “gaming the system”. If I have a pre-existing condition and my mom gets sick and I have to return to America to care for her, am I “gaming Obamacare” if I sign up for it? If ACA is considered a “Tax” by the SCOTUS and I’ve paid my American taxes for decades and I sign up for ACA and pay for the coverage am I gaming the system?

You make no sense. That’s the reality. The other reality is that access to health-care is now basically a right in America and people signing up for it, sick or not, are not gaming anything because you can’t game a right. How can you game a right?
Example:
Americans have the right of free-speech. When the far-right tells lies and someone on the left call B.S. is that someone on the left exercising his right of free-speech “gaming the system”?

According to a new analysis by the Department of Health and Human Services, 50 to 129 million (19 to 50 percent of) non-elderly Americans have some type of pre-existing health condition. Up to one in five non-elderly Americans with a pre-existing condition — 25 million individuals — is uninsured. Under the Affordable Care Act, starting in 2014, these Americans cannot be denied coverage, be charged significantly higher premiums, be subjected to an extended waiting period, or have their benefits curtailed by insurance companies.

As many as 82 million Americans with employer-based coverage have a pre-existing condition, ranging from life-threatening illnesses like cancer to chronic conditions like diabetes, asthma, or heart disease. Without the Affordable Care Act, such conditions limit the ability to obtain affordable health insurance if they become self-employed, take a job with a company that does not offer coverage, or experience a change in life circumstance, such as divorce, retirement, or moving to a different state. Older Americans between ages 55 and 64 are at particular risk: 48 to 86 percent of people in that age bracket have some type of pre-existing condition. And 15 to 30 percent of people in perfectly good health today are likely to develop a pre-existing condition over the next eight years, severely limiting their choices without the protections of the Affordable Care Act. HHS dot gov

That may be true, and socialism might fail on its own, it’s just not proven by this example.

“everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail”

By the rules of the experiment, everyone would get a B, C, or D.

“All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A…. ”

I wondered about this also, but I think the “all grades will be averaged” modifies the rest to mean that it is just the professor explaining what they believe will happen, not promising no one will fail. You could phrase it “so no one will receive the highest grade and no one will receive the lowest grade” and the point still stands.

Nonetheless, a low average just above failure or being defined as “not failing” seems to be what we are in store for.

‘not promising no one will fail’

I was an accounting/economics tutor at a community college in Austin while I studied for the CPA exam. Once a student was having problems in intermediate, which is the big hurdle class in accounting at most schools. So I went to talk with the “professor”. In the course of it all, I asked how many students failed that course. He looked puzzled and said, ‘Well, none. That would be bad for their self esteem.’

Wow.

Reminds me of schools making a big deal about 8th grade graduation because “it might be their only graduation”.

Way to set a low bar…

Where is the debt slave store? I’ll take two!! Do I get a tax deduction?

Where is the debt slave store?

If you like ‘em fresh you can find them at the mortgage broker office, but if you like them more preserved check out the payday loan store.

I can get you in with nothing down.

Tar Pit Realty: “I can get you in with nothing down.”

Seriously? Where do I sign up!?

“Where so I sign up?”

We’re located in L.A. on Wilshire Blvd, near La Brea Blvd.

Drop in anytime - we’re open 24/7.

Whoohoo! Can I be part of history?

“La Brea Blvd”

Is that near the La Brea Tar Pits? (Translation: The Tar Tar Pits)

Mr. Banker’s da man.

Houses depreciate. Rapidly.

Home is where you hang your hat

Home is where you hang yourself with a National Association of Realtors provided noose.

I’d guess a fair share of Wall Street traders view the taper talk as a means for the Fed to get extra stock market gains without having to increase QE3, as a taper head fake leads to new highs on the headline indexes every time. If anyone has access to a poll which asks traders how many think taper talk is merely a ruse, please post.

VTIP

“Got equity?”

What good is equity when it’s not cash and evaporates overnite?

Got Cash?(Bill?)

It is significant that gold is down about 33% from its peak price this year. It is also significant that there seems to be a base at $1300. Partly because the spot price is barely above the price to mine the gold.

Gdxj is worth a hold and aliaf is a buy. But I prefer stacking movable, hidable wealth.

Just started getting more serious in collecting medium-end Bordeaux. $100 starting price. I figure when I make my permanent move to Phoenix i will haul out my Bordeaux collection in the month of December. You can rent wine storage at some of those very same places that have storage units for your furniture and things. I think $100 per month will pay off to somewhere between $500 and $1000 depending on which brand. Ten years? Twenty years?

“clink clink clink clink” is the sound of another summer vacation’s worth of gold to use in my later years

Last summer has gone forever.

“clink clink clink clink” is the sound of another summer vacation’s worth of gold to use in my later years way up in the mountains or on the cool pacific coast.

here’s something to ponder for a while Bill.

if the whole world becomes destitute, gold will be of little value. gold, like many if not most things, has secondary value. that’s why it’s value is ‘whimsical’. that’s why the price of gold is so hard to predict.

things of primary value will hold the most value in a destitute world. what is primary value? value that is rooted in usefulness. things like food, guns, medicine, tools etc. have primary value.

i’m not saying the world will become destitute. i don’t know that it will. the only real chance of that happening is if socialism wins out worldwide. i don’t see that happening. but if it does, gold won’t help you much.

Provide me the precedent of every nation becoming destitute. It won’t happen. Those thing you mention: food, guns, medicine, tools, well fine, but many people will still find it easier to use a medium of exchange.

So are you also defying gold’s 5,000 year history as cross cultural medium of exchange?

BTW, socialism won’t win worldwide. It is impossible. Most nations will run out of other peoples money at different times, and some will have their own capitalist revolutions like we had ours in the 1770s.

Finally, I have to repeat this. Sad but (yawn) I am NOT 100 percent into gold. Not even ten percent. But ten to twenty percent of my assets would be a reasonable mix in my portfolio.

Provide me the precedent of every nation becoming destitute. It won’t happen.

you didn’t read my post very carefully Bill. that’s not like you.

So are you also defying gold’s 5,000 year history as cross cultural medium of exchange?

good is being used more as a store of value that a medium of exchange these days.

BTW, socialism won’t win worldwide. It is impossible.

Most nations will run out of other peoples money at different times

that’s wealth that gets mostly destroyed.
yes, i already told you i didn’t think it was likely. only that you should consider the chance. other countries are turning away from socialism even as we turn towards it. they have learned the lesson. we haven’t.

some will have their own capitalist revolutions like we had ours in the 1770s.

that’s the hope i hold out. someday maybe the scourge of socialism/communism/fascism will laid to rest and then the whole world can prosper.

good=gold..

Well I have taken gold coins to a dealer and walked out with cash several times a few years ago. It was due to rebalancing since my precious metals asset allocation was over my limit. Half an hour and walked out with cash.

It’s fast enough for me to regard it as a medium of exchange.

Lately I have had the pleasure of having too much in my stocks and stock fund asset class, so I moved 2.8% out to a government securities fund with average duration of 30 months for the securities.

But I am underweight precious metals. And fine wines.

Well I have taken gold coins to a dealer and walked out with cash several times a few years ago.

I did it in July in the USA and in Rio last year. It’s not that hard.

A statist into gold is like Hillary attending a libertarian protest rally. It don’t compute.

“A statist into gold is like Hillary attending a libertarian protest rally. It don’t compute.”

Does Goldwater count?

Is the USA currently a socialist country? If so, which countries are not socialist?

If male prostitution happens to be a personal goal, I suppose.

Sounds great. Hanging out in Brazil trolling a housing blog thousands of miles away. If you were in Brazil, you’d be the saddest clown there.

At least you have the internet to keep tabs on your Messiah. I suspect Daddy issues.

Yeah! The old, “let them eat cake” attitude!

Yeah! The old, “let them eat cake” attitude!

France’s “lack of cake” problems were not the product of democracy. ACA is the product of democracy.

I’m sure he’s losing a lot of sleep over your little squeaks.

he doesn’t see the pitchforks yet. they’re just over that hill..

France’s “lack of cake” problems were not the product of democracy.

they were a problem of liberalism, comrade.

ACA is the product of democracy.

the founders wanted a republic, not the mob rule of democracy.

‘ACA is the product of democracy’

So was the Iraq war. And like that war, we now know there was more than a little lying done in the run up.

If you were just in denial, it would be amusing. But your condescension reveals panic about how this is going down. That’s more than amusing.

reveals panic about how this is going down

Why would he panic? He lives in a country with functioning socialized health care. Unlike you (I understand that you are uninsured, if I am wrong, my apologies) he doesn’t have to worry about paying a huge hospital bill should he fall ill or have an accident.

I agree that ACA has sucked and I have no problems tossing it IF we come up with another approach and not simply go back to the old, dysfunctional system that we had before.

“I’m sure he’s losing a lot of sleep over your little squeaks.”

You are so right, the man’s a sound sleeper. He slept right thru Benghazi and showed up the next day well rested and all smiles in Vegas where he partyeeeeeeed all night long.

Speaking of Vegas I would wager that Obama has never read even one page of the healthcare insurance bill.

‘He lives in a country with functioning socialized health care’

Yeah, and when he gets sick he’ll find out how crappy it really is.

‘Why would he panic?’

Or congress, as they got special set-asides to protect them from the pain. And that was done democratically too! Let them eat cake indeed.

‘I agree that ACA has sucked’

One easy solution; make it voluntary. If it’s so great, people will flock to sign up.

But your condescension reveals panic about how this is going down.

“Panic”, I have no panic. I think it’s funny - not that ACA is having trouble getting started but that those on the right don’t understand that the earth has changed under their feet. The USA will never go back to 50 million being not covered. One way or another it is now America’s fate. The ship has sailed and the right is too brainwashed to see the big picture.

Repubs are stupid to fight ACA and hope it fails. Like they can instantly pull the plug on the law of the land? How? By what means and in what time frame? And replaced with what? This is why the Repubs should panic, not me.

And replaced with what?

a bounty on socialists?

‘the Repubs should panic’

I guess you don’t read much news. Even people that voted for Obama hate it.

“If You Like Your Plan, You Can Keep Your Plan.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt6_r0kLFdk

Yeah, and when he gets sick he’ll find out how crappy it really is.

Sure … Brazilians are dropping dead left and right from their poor healthcare. We Americans have been deluded into believing that our super expensive system is worth the unaffordable price. It reminds me of people who believe that housing is supposed to be unaffordable.

I will never forget the day when I was on the way to work in a carpool. The driver’s phone rang. I was her unemployed husband. He was having chest pains. At that job we had a really crappy HD plan. The driver and her husband decided that he would “tough it out” since they couldn’t afford the deductible if he went to the ER.

What good is “the best healthcare in the world” if you can’t afford it? That was an incredible risk they took. Since he had been unemployed for over a year, they were totally broke and a $1500 hospital bill was something they couldn’t take on.

“If You Like Your Plan, You Can Keep Your Plan.”

I got to keep my plan. And it didn’t go up in price this year (we are in open enrollment).

The ACA is just one large tax increase on the middle class to pay for the health care for the poor many of whom are the children of illegal immigrants. Government failed to secure the border and has failed with this Rube Goldberg plan to tax the middle class to create universal health care.

The drafters hid the tax and only started to admit to it when admitting it was the only slim reed they had to have its constitutionality upheld. Corporate America does support it since it shifts the costs from the employer to the middle class taxpayers hence its creation by Romney and John Robert’s vote. However, while it is constitutional for a state to mandate insurance, the federal government which is suppose to be a limited government does not have this authority.

The ACA is just one large tax increase on the middle class to pay for the health care for the poor many of whom are the children of illegal immigrants

They’ve already been covered by Medicaid for decades.

Some but not all it depends on where you draw the poverty time. The key question is whether you are disputing that it is a tax on the middle class something Obama promised he would not do. But that is just one more lie.

They’ve already been covered by Medicaid for decades.

Poor people are “gaming the system”.

‘Brazilians are dropping dead left and right from their poor healthcare’

I don’t know, but weren’t they protesting in the streets by the millions recently?

Thanks for the post yesterday outlining the specs and cost on the solar setup.