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Local Observations: Rental Inventory Continues to Shrink
Homes available for rent in the Sacramento foothills is down 75% over the last 9 months. It seemed like there was a glut of for rent homes in 2013.
That was probably a result of the investor groups buying homes for rental inventory in 2013. They seem to be all leased out, because the number of homes for rent in the foothills submarket is at the lowest level since 2007.
home prices are still rising. Get on board the gravy train while you still can.
Appreciation from stocks and homes will make you a winner too!!!
Janet yellen is the greatest dove wall street has seen in a century.
Prepare for for money printing to support assets prices.
Deflation is the central bankers enemy!! Slay deflation!!
deflation was a good thing in 1920-21
no wage or price controls= boom time ahead
Forward guidance from the FOMC suggests rate increases will start in Spring 2015.
Investing
3/27/2014 @ 12:30PM 2,715 views
Fed On Target To Raise Interest Rates In Spring 2015
Kevin Mahn, Contributor
Last Wednesday, Janet Yellen presided over a press conference as the new chairman of the Federal Reserve following the conclusion of the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC’s) two day meeting and its release of the official FOMC statement.
Markets hung on every word and some confusion was created afterwards as Yellen offered a more transparent look at the Fed’s timeline for raising interest rates. To be specific, when the Fed discusses the topic of “raising interest rates,” it is referring to the Federal Funds Rate, which is the interest rate at which institutions lend funds maintained at the Federal Reserve to other institutions.
The Federal Funds Rate is often looked at as a benchmark for other interest rates and has a profound influence on overall economic activity as its level can either help to stimulate the economy or control inflationary pressures. The FOMC sets targets for the Federal Funds Rate and looks to achieve these targets through their own open market operations.
In its recent statement, the Fed said it would no longer be considering the unemployment rate, in isolation, as a barometer for when to begin raising interest rates and instead would now consider a wide range of information, including measures of labor market conditions, indicators of inflation pressures, inflation expectations and readings on financial developments. The Fed reiterated that its outlook for the economy and monetary policy remains unchanged.
At one point during the press conference, Yellen was asked to clarify her following statement:
In her explanation, Yellen said her expectation for the first increase in the Federal Funds Rate would come approximately six months following the end of the asset purchase program.
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Forward guidance from the FOMC suggests rate increases will start in Spring 2015.
That means Now is the time for the Kiyosaki-wannabes and the Trump-wannabes to buy a house with no down and fully adjustable rate mortgage!
LOLZ. Not for me though. I will continue to throw my money away on rent and eat popcorn.
Front page article on the OC Register about real estate investing is all hunky dory for RE of course.
Is there any place in the hilly part of the OC where the Irvine company has no control?
Renting is half the cost of buying out there still, right?
It is not half, but today it is less than the cost of buying. 2500 SF sells for $375,000. Renting it is about $2,250/mon. Pretty easy to calculate.
Renting is half the cost of buying out there still, right?
My sister’s family is living just north of Stanford University, ideally situated to travel north of south as the IT contracting permits. Their 70’s apartment rent is more than $2300-month, but it’s less than half of buying a 50’s 3/1 stucco with an separate garage.
Is it because the investors are looking to jump out of a losing game ?
I don’t think they are jumping out, but they have definitely trimmed back their acquisitions. They are just filling up their rental units.
Colony American Homes, for example, purchased 100’s of homes between San Francisco and Sacramento. I can only find 6 available for rent today.
The flippers had houses to rent out, now they are trying to sell them. But they sit empty due to wishing prices not being found.
Down we go!
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/01/02/article-1104075-02EB99B1000005DC-923_468×351.jpg
Sacramento Housing Demand Craters 13% YoY; Falls To 5 Year Low
http://www.zillow.com/local-info/CA-Sacramento-County-home-value/r_3017/#metric=mt%3D30%26dt%3D1%26tp%3D6%26rt%3D6%26r%3D3017%26el%3D0
From yesterday”
“Comment by Ben Jones
2014-03-29 07:18:41
So Oxide, how do you reconcile a neocon running around Europe and elsewhere for the Democrats? A little background:
‘Robert Kagan (born September 26, 1958 in Athens, Greece) is an American historian, author, columnist, and foreign policy commentator at the Brookings Institution. A co-founder of the Project for the New American Century, Kagan is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He been a foreign policy advisor to several U.S. Republican presidential candidates as well as to Hillary Clinton, when she was Secretary of State under President Obama.’”
Ben, I’ve already given the history of the “neocon” label. The “neocon” label was co-opted by Kagan, PNAC and the Iraq warhawks the same way that the original “teabagger” label was co-opted by the Koch brothers et al.
The argument is whether Neocons are aligned with Progressives. They are NOT. What happened was that the Democratic big tent got a little TOO big. The DailyKos community, (for lack of a better name, sorry) got thoroughly tired of Hillary and Bill “triangulating” and tacking to the right. They got tired of Blue Dog Dems. They got tired of Obama having to tack right just to get something, anything, through Congress. They got tired of the word “liberal” being co-opted and demonized. So they gave themselves a new name: Progressives, to separate themselves from impostor Dems.
Hillary, Bill, Obama are NOT Progressives. So if — IF — Bill And Hillary and Obama are aligned with necons, that has no relation to Progressives. That’s WHY they called themselves Progressives in the first place. What if someone said that Kagan and PNAC were aligned with a real Progressive like Elizabeth Warren. Would that get any traction?
‘if — IF — Bill And Hillary and Obama are aligned with necons’
There’s more than enough evidence of that. Who they really work for, its hard to say. But they all work together.
‘that has no relation to Progressives’
I see. Progressives are all huddled together on one web site, just as indignant as anyone about the people they’ve voted in.
That sounds about right, except that it’s a group of similar websites, not just one. There are Kos, Firedoglake, Talking Points memo, and others. Similarly, on the conservative side, there are Bretibart, Drudge, Daily Caller, newsmax, and others. Kos and similar communities are pretty disappointed in Obama, but many take the view that Obama is doing what he can, given Congress. Others disagree, fights ensure, etc, just like any factions a la Federalist #10.
I believe the meme about “neocons = progressives” came about when Rush and other conservatives realized just what I described here: The libs just separated themselves from the centrist Dem label…so it no longer worked to refer to Hillary or Obama. Quick, better discredit that name too!
‘The libs just separated themselves from the centrist Dem label’
So many pigeons, so few pigeon holes. Does this sound ‘centrist’ to you?
‘The United Nations called on all states on Friday to ensure that the use of armed drones complies with international law, backing a proposal from Pakistan seen as taking aim at the United States.’
‘The resolution was adopted by a vote of 27 states in favour to six against, with 14 abstentions at the 47-member Geneva forum. The United States, Britain and France voted against.’
‘The text voiced concern at civilian casualties resulting from the use of remotely-piloted aircraft or armed drones, as highlighted by the U.N. special investigator on counter-terrorism Ben Emmerson in a recent report.’
‘The United States, Britain and France said it was not appropriate for the forum to put weapons systems on its agenda. The Obama administration preferred to discuss drones under an initiative of Switzerland and the International Committee of the Red Cross, which it hoped would provide a “non-politicised forum” where military experts can discuss law of war issues, Schriefer said.’
‘Pakistan’s ambassador Zamir Akram, speaking before the vote, said opposition “can only lead to the conclusion that these states are guilty of violating applicable international law and demonstrate that they are afraid of being exposed in the expert panel”.
Oliver Stone said publicly that Obama was a ’snake’. Can we expect the progressives to say the same? Can we expect them to oppose Hillary Clinton? Hillary approves of drone killings. Obama likes them. Romney likes them. Rush likes them. There’s very few people that oppose drone assassinations (by the US, of course) in the US’s political world. If ‘progressives’ can’t stand up for the rule of law and oppose killing innocent women and children, what does the label even mean?
It’s not centrist. She’s just trying to re-write it.
Oxide does understand the points being made.
NeoCons = Progressives. Progressives = Big Government.
It doesn’t matter if the believers are from the “Democrat” camp or from the “Republican” camp. They are the same, with the same ambition: reduced liberties for individuals.
Oxide’s answer is to split “NeoCons” from true blue, even further-left “progressives”.
To that I say, they cannot be split. Both want to increase their power at the expense of the individual’s right to self- determination.
The people being targeted by the drones are ultra conservative. Maybe that’s why the libs are on board.
Don’t know, Russ.
It should raise a serious red flag that both “NeoCons” and “Progressives” are pro-drone.
What does it tell you about where we’re at?
For one thing, it means that we hated “Democrats” and “Republicans” do have core things in common, such as a yen for self-determination.
What is happening to you, to me and to everyone else on this board is atrocious.
The people being targeted by the drones are ultra conservative. Maybe that’s why the libs are on board.
And darker color, too.
NeoCons = Progressives
And black is white and war is peace.
Republicans spout such nonsense because they don’t like what their party has become.
Republicans spout such nonsense because they don’t like what their party has become.
Who says either Macbeth or I are Republicans? I certainly am not.
You refuse to let go of your memes don’t you Riotard?
Who says either Macbeth or I are Republicans? I certainly am not.
Who cares what someone like you is individually? I’m addressing issues that are bigger than single people with fringe ideas.
You refuse to let go of your memes don’t you Riotard?
Now that’s funny coming from you BillSomwhereSh!ttyWhereTheyTellHimToGo.
Compared to launching a full-scale ground war in Iraq, yes, drones are centrist. And no, most the Progressives are not pro-drone. They are more or less holding their nose and thankful that they aren’t bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bombing Iran. Foreign policy is murky. On this, Progressive disagree and get into fights, which is what I just said. On domestic policy, progressives are pretty united.
And here comes MacBeth, right on schedule. You see, he can’t allow a sensible gray-area post to stand. The lurkers might formulate their own ideas or something, and we can’t be having any of that.
NeoCons = Progressives
Progressives = Big Government
Big Government = Loss of Liberty
Any questions?
Ignore the troll, Bill. He’s a leech.
“And here comes MacBeth, right on schedule.”
Well, I DO lack nuance….
There are Kos, Firedoglake, Talking Points memo, and others. Similarly, on the conservative side, there are Bretibart, Drudge, Daily Caller,
The quality of the “conservative” sites pales in comparison to the liberal sites. It’s almost like comparing The LA times to The Onion.
10 Totally Fake Stories Bannered By Drudge This Year
http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/10/03/948751/10-totally-fake-stories-bannered-by-drudge-this-year/
How Breitbart Got Away With His Lies
http://www.fair.org/blog/2012/03/02/how-breitbart-got-away-with-his-lies/
Daily Caller Opinion Page An Embarrassing Spectacle Of Conspiracy Theories
http://mediamatters.org/research/2012/09/06/daily-caller-opinion-page-an-embarrassing-spect/189768
Most of those Drudge links are not written by real journalists.
You realize you are being made fun of right?
You realize you are being made fun of right?
You realize I really piss u off right?
I was talking to oxide. Hello Lola.
I was talking to oxide. Hello Lola.
But you still realize that I really piss u off right?
LolaLOL lives in Lolas empty skull rent free.
You realize you are being made fun of right?
Isn’t that every day nowadays? Hardly a shock, babyboo.
I thought I was on the ignore list for Lola! Now I happily know that she can see my little lines of wit, …
Trust me when I tell you….. nobody here ignores you or me.
“There’s more than enough evidence of that. Who they really work for, its hard to say. But they all work together.”
Banned College Lecture! U.S False Education Exposed, Hosea 4:6 …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-SyKuOpIAI - 156k -
Oxide:
Are you then also stating that Democrats have every bit the identity problem that Republicans have?
They certainly do if Hillary, Bill and Obama essentially are NeoCons. If that is true, does that not effectively destroy the Democratic platform?
It appears that here, you are trying to establish a line in the sand between left-wing progressives and right-wing conservatives. And why not? The Democratic Party has been very disappointing to socialists. Alas, you are forgetting that many Democrats do not believe in socialism. Not even socialism-lite. (They draw the line at being dictated TO, though approve of being able to dictate AT).
Your attempt to split Democrats in half ideologically isn’t going to fly. You’re now stuck with the negative perceptions as are Republicans.
The masses are seeing what government programs such as Medicare and ObamaCare, the NSA, IRS and DoE are doing to us economically and socially. They know that Democrats and Republicans both are responsible.
It’s too late for damage control.
Our bloated, elitist government is fully aboard the Titanic, which left port quite some time ago. The bets are fully hedged, and they were the wrong bets.
You’re now stuck with the negative perceptions as are Republicans.
Repub’s negative perceptions run quite a bit higher.
Everyone knows that the Republican Party’s brand stinks, and while the Democratic brand is still mediocre, it’s measurably better than the GOP’s.
A Feb. 19-23 CBS News/New York Times poll found that only 33 percent of respondents had a favorable view of the Republican Party, while a stunning 61 percent had an unfavorable view. In contrast, 42 percent of respondents had a favorable view of the Democratic Party, while only 53 percent had an unfavorable view.
So the Democratic brand was about 10 points better than the GOP’s in the CBS News/New York Times survey.
That conclusion should feed the Democratic argument that while voters have problems with President Barack Obama, they have even more problems with the Republican Party going into the midterm elections. Voters who don’t like the GOP are an obvious target for Democratic strategists.
…A stunning 29 percent of Republicans had an unfavorable view of the GOP, while only 14 percent of Democrats had an unfavorable view of their party. Only 67 percent of Republicans had a favorable view of the GOP, while 85 percent of Democrats had a favorable view of the Democratic Party.
http://blogs dot rollcall dot com
Lola rides in to the rescue. Calling all progressives. Time to bash Reagan so that Hillary gets a pass.
“The two party system is a tyranny in and of itself.”
I read that as: The two party system is a tranny in and of itself.
I must have had someone on my mind.
Time to bash Reagan so that Hillary gets a pass.
Goon, you mean this Reagan?
Reagan administration
Neocon ideas were given its first weight during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. In particular, Jeane Kirkpatrick was made ambassador to the UN, and often had the president’s ear on foreign policy.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Neoconservatism
Who are you talking to Brony?
Ben’s IP logs will confirm that the goon is not LolaLOL.
Thanks for playing…
Ben’s IP logs will confirm that the goon is not LolaLOL.
Good to hear because I like most of your posts. My bad. It just seemed similar to your style. (But with anger and bigotry.)
I’m not goon. I am against the mental illness of transvestitism being promoted as okay.
Goon is LolaLOL? LOLOLOLOLOLOL. You silly tranny Lola!
Rio:
I didn’t read your post. I never do read your posts. Perhaps others do, but I don’t know that as fact.
Just an FYI.
I didn’t read your post. I never do read your posts.
I wouldn’t either if I were you.
‘Democrats and Republicans both are responsible’
The two party system is a tyranny in and of itself. I ask this; are there only two opinions on every subject? Because if there are a multitude of opinions, and only two candidates on the ballot, that means a whole bunch of us have to go along with things we don’t support. In this decidedly un-democratic system, who benefits? Who perpetuates this system? How hard is it for powerful people to pull the strings and run everything behind the two party farce?
I’ve mentioned that when I was just becoming politically aware, I read that some wall street guy had donated equally huge amounts of money to both presidential candidates. I couldn’t get my head around that. Why on Earth would any person do such a thing? It was the beginning of a realization that all was not as it seemed.
So what to do? As a life long libertarian, I only have the slight advantage of having been outside the political system the whole time. I settled for hoping Democrats would protect me from Republicans and vice-versa. But if these parties aren’t doing that anymore, if they are used by the same powers to work an agenda which is not illuminated by the press or public awareness, we have a real problem.
Consider this; if I sit down with any regular joe, we can usually agree that certain things are not right. Don’t we need good paying jobs in this country? Yet my entire adult life our politicians have worked hard to send every job possible outside of this country. Where’s the political opposition to globalism? It’s not even discussed, except in “alternative media”, or around kitchen tables.
I’ve mentioned that when I was just becoming politically aware, I read that some wall street guy had donated equally huge amounts of money to both presidential candidates. I couldn’t get my head around that. Why on Earth would any person do such a thing? It was the beginning of a realization that all was not as it seemed.
Bingo.
Corporatism needs the State (limited liability, favoratism).
The State needs Corporatisim (kickbacks, donations).
The libertarian movement is all along part and parcel against corporations as well as government. I used the lower case “l” - I don’t bother anymore with the Libertarian Party. It’s using the very same machine that is part of the evil - the political process.
Don’t forget the corporate welfare, including all the taxpayer money spent on developing computer and satellite technology.
“Don’t forget the corporate welfare, including all the taxpayer money spent on developing computer and satellite technology.”
Of course it was part of a deal. The taxpayer money spent on that would be first for national defense use to defend big government of the USA - its citizens be damned. Then privatize it totally.
Don’t forget dairy subsidies - to produce more dairy goods - more milk at times - or less dairy goods - dump the milk into sewers.
This all is state-corporate fascism, which would not exist in a libertarian society.
Where’s the political opposition to globalism?
Obama tried to oppose globalism. When he first came into officfe he convinced his buddy Dick Durbin to introduce a Senate Bill (S.3816) which would remove tax breaks from offshoring jobs. The bill was promptly filibustered by Rebpulicans in the Senate. Remember that Reuters article that was posted all the time? That’s what it was about.
Obama has held numerous meetings with business leaders, trying to convince them of their “duty” to America and to provide jobs to Americans. But Obama has no real teeth. He can’t get any kind of tariffs through Congress, and if he does anything by exec order he’s suddenly King Obama. He even tried tax breaks in his stimulus package. When even that failed, Obama was reduced to making a few trade deals just to save a few jobs temporarily.
Best to ask the Republicans where all their “jobs bills” are.
It’s interesting how to almost everyone, “globalism” equates to jobs and job loss. Automatically it does.
How about “globalism” relative to social issues?
Global “corporatism” is bad.
Global “socialism”? Whatever that is, it clearly is Good. More specifically, so is a Global Carbon Tax. As is Global Medicine. As is Global Gun Control. As is Global Property.
The United Nations? It’s a wonderful global construct.
So is one-size-fits-all education.
I could go on.
Why are those all good when Global Corporatism is not?
Funny, that.
Why are those all good when Global Corporatism is not?
Who says that all those others are good? You’re just making up stuff and acting like it’s true.
To JOSE:
Yes, you are factually correct in the “neoliberal” label.
However, it’s a bad idea to use that term. Semantics DO matter. “Neoliberal” will never be understood by the masses. They might embrace the term as a Hope and Change type of construct yet not understand the consequences of blindly agreeing with it.
NeoCon = Progressive is something most understand.
At first, the comparison is a surprise and perhaps offensive, then disregarded as lunacy and even heresy. Eventually it is discussed. The “NeoCon” = “Progressive” construct enables comparison between the two terms.
The term ‘Neoliberal” does not enable (promote) comparison as it is monolithic. Monolithic terms are popular among pointy-headed elitists as it fosters theoretical discussion rather than action. Elitists love discussion as it promotes the status quo.
Further, “neo”-anything is seen as so very 21st Century. Bad path to go down if you’re wanting something other than a head-nod and a catchphrase.
“Neoliberal” will never be understood by the masses.
The right hopes not, but it’s not that complicated.
“Neoliberalism is a political philosophy whose advocates support economic liberalizations, free trade and open markets, privatization, deregulation, and enhancing the role of the private sector in modern society.[1][2][3]……”capitalism with the gloves off,” …..
…….the driving force behind rising inequality in the U.S. has been a series of deliberate, neoliberal policy choices including anti-inflationary bias, anti-unionism, and profiteering in the health industry.[120
Classical neoliberalism's respect for tradition, combined with its pragmatic approach to progress, endeared it to conservative movements around the world looking for a way to adapt to the changing nature of the modern world. This saw it adopted by conservative movements, most famously in Chile under Pinochet, the United Kingdom under Margaret Thatcher[91] and in the United States of America under Ronald Reagan.
….Economic neoliberalism is the most common form of neoliberalism, and is what is usually meant when a system is described as neoliberal……..
….Economic neoliberalism stems out of the historical rift between classical liberalism and economic liberalism, and developed when the economically liberal minded co-opted the language and ideas of classical neoliberalism to place economic freedom at its heart, making it a right-wing ideology. wiki
NeoCon = Progressive is something most understand.
I don’t think so. Here is an example of why:
Most associate “progressive” with being for:
“Obamacare”
Higher minimum wage
Being pro abortion rights
Being pro homosexual rights
Higher taxation on the wealthy
etc.
While “neocons” are perceived as being opposed to those things.
Just because both groups are pro-war doesn’t mean they are perceived as the same. Being pro-war is an American value. Americans expect some overlap between the two groups.
“neocons” are perceived as being opposed to those things’
‘In The Neoconservative Persuasion, Irving Kristol argues…neoconservatism and traditional or classical conservatism are very different from one another. “Neocons,” he states, “feel at home in today’s America to a degree that more traditional conservatives do not.”
‘Furthermore: “Its twentieth-century heroes tend to be TR [Teddy Roosevelt], FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt], and Ronald Reagan,” while “Republican and conservative worthies” like “Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower, and Barry Goldwater are politely overlooked.”
‘Kristol is refreshingly, almost shockingly honest: Neoconservatism, he informs us, endorses “the welfare state.” Its adherents support “social security, unemployment insurance, some form of national health insurance, some kind of family assistance plan, etc.” and will not hesitate “to interfere with the market for overriding social purposes”—even if this requires “‘rigging’” it instead of imposing upon it “direct bureaucratic controls”.
While “neocons” are perceived as being opposed to those things.
Neocons don’t oppose those things. They say they oppose them just to fit in the big “tent”.
I agree that paleos are different than neos. Just saying that equating neocons with progressives is disingenuous. There are differences.
Kristol can say that Neocons endorse the welfare state, but their opposition to Obamacare and their desire to end social security, medicare and medicaid say otherwise.
‘equating neocons with progressives is disingenuous’
Well, a neocon just spearheaded a color revolution in Ukraine for the current president, who probably holds himself out to be a progressive. IMO, maybe we should reconsider just WTF is going on here.
Only thing neocons and “conservative/mainstream republicans” agrees is the war. Other than that neocons have nothing but disdain for social conservatives and fiscal conservatives.
Neocons want what’s best for the country. However, that country is Israel.
Also Ronald Reagan praised FDR over and over during his administration.
Man have they come out of the woodwork today. What is it some kind of lib holiday or an online Soros flashmob.
No doubt! And it seems the housing liars are also lieberal-statists too.
Man have they come out of the woodwork today. What is it some kind of lib holiday or an online Soros flashmob.
Maybe some are tired of constant over representation of right-wing drivel - lies and anger all the time.
America is a little over half left of the right’s perceived center. Black or white, that’s the math. Maybe you just don’t like the math. But it will not go away because you hate it.
I suspect one account and many names.
I suspect one account and many names.
That’s you dude - strawberry picker, this, that or whatever. But you can talk to me just now. Tomorrow you are ignored. Sorry but I get bad vibes with you. Hate. I feel bad juju with you LolaLOL.
All I know is that the progressives have been around for over 100 years and they want to CONSERVE their imposition of their disease.
They don’t want change. They will say the opposite of what they want.
Neo cons are run by McShame, Bush, Romney, Mitch McConnel, Boehner. Some of their predecesors include Bob Dole, Nelson Rockeffeller, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford.
I challenge any progressive to tell me the $500 billion Prescription Medical benefit is not progressive. Romneycare is not progressive. Section 8 housing (Nixon) is not progressive. “Whip Inflation Now” buttons instead of a gold standard (Gerald Ford) is not progressive.
All the Republicans I mentioned expanded entitlements and government intrusion into the American economy.
As for Democrat “progressive” heros tell me more about your tradition of anti war through Lyndon Baines Johnson’s failed Vietnam war, which happened to be started and escalated by Democrats. Tell me more about Obama’s and sKerry’s attempts to get American heads on the chopping block in Syria. And last I checked, America still has 60,000 soldiers in Afghanistan. Wasn’t the black God supposed to end the wars when he got into office?
Progressivism IS Neo-conservatism.
Macbeth wrote:
“The masses are seeing what government programs such as Medicare and ObamaCare, the NSA, IRS and DoE are doing to us economically and socially. They know that Democrats and Republicans both are responsible.”
But as long as the peanut brain masses insist there are distinctions between “progressives” and neo conservatism the government will grow, our liberties will be violated more, and the peanut brains will continue to vote for their partisan party thinking things will be better with their D or their R candidates.” But they never get better. Things get worse into a quagmire.
I got off the train. I’m not voting. I’m no longer going to contribute to this mess of phony partisanship which leads to more violations of our individual liberties. More people will opt out like me. The remaining few in power will eventually have to vote for themselves.
We will by then have taken the pitchforks to all the capital buildings.
Precisely right, Bill.
You’ll continue to see NeoCon = Progressive from me as I believe appropriate.
Progressives HATE the comparison, much less the equating itself.
BILL:
1. It’s an honor knowing you, even if it’s only online. You and I don’t agree on everything, but it’s good just the same.
2. Pursuant to yesterday’s preparedness session, don’t forget a vital something in addition to a generator, food and defense:
a CB radio. You’ll want to be able to communicate should everything go down.
Thanks to Ben, jose canusi and others yesterday about Honda generators. I’ll be picking up a generator in June or July and I’ll give that one serious consideration.
One thing about the Honda’s that the dealer told me; it’s so compact it is easily stolen. Can’t leave it sitting around.
a CB radio. You’ll want to be able to communicate should everything go down.
Who are you going to want to talk to, when the world has come apart and you can trust no one?
Good points. I have just finished a long chat on-line with an electrician concerning inverters.
Here’s the math.
full load amps x max rated voltage = watts.
So my 21 cubic foot fridge is 6.5 amps at 115v. The electrician used 6.5 X 120 = 780 watts.
My wine Fridge is 1.7 cu feet and it’s 1.1amps at 120volts.
So the electrician recommended a 1,000 watt power inverter. He provided me a whole bunch of links to the box stores selling all sorts of sizes.
Next I have to worry about the batteries. I saw a Youtube from an Optima company guy. He was charging a yellow top battery. I saw him hook up the red first. Then the black. So I assume once I have my 12V batter I hook up the red cable from the inverter to the red side of the optima. Then I hook the black. I verify I have power from the battery to the inverter. Then plug in my appliance. Should be good to go.
Some of these can produce the required energy for a couple of days. But that is my aim.
a CB radio. You’ll want to be able to communicate should everything go down.
CB has limited range, channels and power. Go Ham!
Amateur Extra, here…
I will file that away - c.b. radio. 10-4!
Just occurred to me that you can essentially recharge some 12V batteries from your own car while it’s running.
So here is the scenario. Someone like me in a one bedroom apartment has enough space for lots of water containers, canned goods, and so forth. No power from the wall sockets? But you have an inverter, two or more 12v batteries, half a tank of gas in your car and cables to charge your spare battery from your car. You got most of what you need to survive a few weeks of no power. And the kicker is that you don’t have to be a backwoods survivalist to do all this. You can be in a busy urban area like me in a very inexpensive apartment and handle most of the emergencies that the HBB have been predicting.
It’s likely you can have nearly uninterrupted emergency power as long as you can idle your car to charge a spare 12V battery from it while using another battery to run your appliances.
So you could go perhaps for a month of having power for your fridge and other appliances before you better find some gas for your vehicle to be able to use it as a generator for for charging your batteries.
I’m going to order an inverter in a few days. They are not expensive. $90 to $150 will get you reasonable inverters. An apartment dweller does not really need anything over 1500 watts, methinks.
I’m sorry,I can’t keep up with all the threads. But yes, the Democrats have had a pretty big identity crisis, since around 2004, when Howard Dean famously said that he came from “the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.” That got some Dems thinking. The tent was getting so big that no one was happy. If they stuck by their principles they would be pure but they would probably lose elections. Or, they could pitch a big tent and force everybody held their nose about something or other, and would have a better chance to get enough consensus to win. The choice was easy: they remembered the Ralph Nadar debacle in Florida and immediately chose big tent. In 2004, the Dem big tent was no match for Rove’s consensus building on the other side. But Dems (led by Howard Dean) regrouped and came back in 2006. The big tent question came up again during the Hillary vs. Obama primaries. Hillary supporters were called PUMA’s, or Party Unity My @$$. In the end Obama and Hillary themselves forged party unity to save the election.
Ben is exactly right about the evils of the two-party system. If there were any kind of a run-off for major elections, e.g., the House the Senate and the Presidency, politics would be a totally different game. But we’re stuck with the system as is. The Tea party recently learned the lessons that the Dems learned in 2000. All purity does is make you feel better when you lose. At the moment, I would say that the state of progressives is that they work to the left when they can, but hold their noses and vote centrist if they have to. Kos’s motto sums it up: “more and better Democrats.”
I don’t think that Romney is a neocon, but that’s up for debate. However, in programs that are aligned, it’s usually another nose-holder. For example, progressives like Obamacare because it gets people insurance. Conservatives like it because it’s still privatized. But few people are totally happy with it, which is how you get a 65+% disapproval rating.
Bill in LA, yes, “Progressivism” is a early 1900’s phrase. So what? Republican is a mid-1800’s phrase. I think the word was chosen deliberately because its root is “progress” (especially as it applies to women’s rights), and to coattail a bit off of Teddy’s trust-busting.
‘Ben is exactly right about the evils of the two-party system…“more and better Democrats.”
Pearls before swine.
So then if Hillary isn’t a progressive, it looks like she’s screwed because none of the leftist machine will support her?
Define it however you want so you aren’t forced to admit you were wrong by the actions of your progressive leaders.
Progressivism is at its core just mushy headed feel goodism where Santa Claus hands out free candy to everyone so they won’t feel bad and besides you can always raise taxes for more moneyism.
Hilary isn’t progressive, Bill isn’t, Obama isn’t.
But Bush, Ray-gun, etc. are the beacon of conservatives and capitalism.
If you’re trying to say we’re screwed, you won’t get any argument from me.
Hilary isn’t progressive, Bill isn’t, Obama isn’t.
But then why do Trogressives vote for them?
“The argument is whether Neocons are aligned with Progressives. They are NOT.”
B.S. Romney: Romneycare, McShame: Against all the Bush tax cuts and aligned with the “progressive” Brookings Institute. Mainstream Republicans attacked Cruz and Paul for their recent filibusters.
Even Ronald Reagan was a “progressive” as well as neocon: “We are not cutting government spending” he would say several times, “we are cutting the rate of increase” of government spending.”
Many neo-conservatives promote interventionism in foreign countries in the guise of “progressivism”: “Make the world safe for Democracy.” McShame, Obama, sKerry were all for invading Syria.
The lines of distinction between neo cons and progressives are really very blurry.
They are successful to the extent that the peanut gallery such as Oxide think there are two polar opposites keeping each other in check. They are NOT polar opposites. They both disguise their philosophy as “for the people.”
So they gave themselves a new name: Progressives, to separate themselves from impostor Dems.
More nonsense.
“Progressivism” came about in the early 20th century Oxide. BTW: 20th century refers to 1900-1999.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivism_in_the_United_States
Judge Andrew Napolitano wrote a book about the two presidents REPUBLICAN Teddy Roosevelt and Democrat Woodrow Wilson as the big players in the “progressive” movement.
“Theodore and Woodrow: How Two American Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedom”"
http://www.amazon.com/Theodore-Woodrow-Presidents-Destroyed-Constitutional/dp/B00F6IND00
The Federal Reserve act and the sixteenth amendment were part of the “progressive” agenda.
Progressivism is the biggest evil that has ever happened to the United States.
“Progressivism is the biggest evil that has ever happened to the United States.”
King George III, 1775
Jefferson Davis, 1861
Carrie Nation, 1909
National Association OPPOSED to Woman Suffrage, 1912
George Wallace, 1963
David Duke, 1990
David H. Koch 2008
Ted Nugent 2014
‘the standard neocon rhetorical weapons: those who disagree with his faction are racist, nativist, anti-Semitic, and of course “unpatriotic.”
‘the standard neocon rhetorical weapons: …”
Ouch. You might not agree with me, but there’s no need to call me a Republican.
….Neoconservatism is a political movement born in the United States during the 1960s. Many of its adherents rose to political fame during the Republican presidential administrations of the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. During the George W. Bush administration, neoconservatives played a major role in promoting and planning the invasion of Iraq.[1] wiki
those who disagree with his faction are racist, nativist, anti-Semitic, and of course “unpatriotic.”
But that was not even the point. The point was that how can someone say “Progressivism is the biggest evil that has ever happened to the United States.” when it was the progressives who founded America, fought against slavery, fought for women’s suffrage, put a man on the moon, fought for civil rights, gave our parents and grandparents medical care access and the ability to buy rice and beans when they’re old and are responsible for almost all the progress America has ever made?
How can someone in their right mind say “Progressivism is the biggest evil that has ever happened to the United States.”?
Ooh, I’ll start.
Progressivism is evil because:
1. It has condemned millions of poor children to lives of utter hopelessness in inner city urban slums
2. It has condemned millions of children to lives of desperation being raised by drug addicts
3. 3/4 children born in the black community today are being raised without fathers.
1. It has condemned millions of poor children to lives of utter hopelessness in inner city urban slums
Prejudice, bigotry and lack of opportunity are much more responsible for that.
2. It has condemned millions of children to lives of desperation being raised by drug addicts
That’s just dumb.
3. 3/4 children born in the black community today are being raised without fathers.
Prejudice, bigotry and lack of opportunity and education have been greatly responsible for the black man’s unemployment.
when it was the progressives who founded America, fought against slavery,
Lies. Progressivism started in at the turn of the 20th century. Teddy Roosevelt (Republican) era.
The founders of America were fixated on INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS including life (which includes the result of your own labor - your blood, sweat, and tears - your property), liberty, and pursuit (not provision) of happiness.
All libertarian. Not socialist. Not Riotard. Not Marxist. It was progress but it was not “progressivism” which was all of the following: Establishment of permanent income tax: 1913. Establishment of the Federal Reserve Bank: 1913. Establishment of capital gain taxes was in 1954. There were rich people before 1954 not paying capital gains taxes. But there were middle class people before 1954 not paying capital gain taxes. Sales taxes first appeared in 1924.
You libtards love taxes so much and it’s YOU “Progressives” who robbed the rest of us all these years because YOU “Progressives” implemented such thefts.
http://www.investopedia.com/articles/tax/10/history-taxes.asp
Progressivism is evil because:
But how can you cherry pick a few issues and say progressivism is evil when it was the progressives who founded America, fought against slavery, fought for women’s suffrage, put a man on the moon, fought for civil rights, gave our parents and grandparents medical care access and the ability to buy rice and beans when they’re old and are responsible for almost all the progress America has ever made?
Can you see the big picture of your country’s history or does that conflict with your hate?
Lies. Progressivism started in at the turn of the 20th century
Yep. Because everyone knows that the American 20th century occurred in the 17th and 18th century in Europe.
Progressivism became highly significant during the Age of Enlightenment in Europe…….The Age of Enlightenment (or simply the Enlightenment or Age of Reason) was a cultural movement of intellectuals beginning in late 17th- and 18th-century Europe emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition wiki
The founders of America were fixated on INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS including life
Yes, but actually the main reason for the Constitutional Convention was to establish a much stronger Federal Government than the Articles of Confederation. The US Constitution was a very progressive document of its day but history of your own country when it conflicts with your boring dogma is hard I reckon.
The founders of America …..All libertarian. You libtards love taxes so much
I didn’t know George Washington, Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson were libtards did you?
The Founding Fathers and Taxes: The Real Story
….”And Jefferson was openly pro-progressive taxation. As he said in a 1785 letter to James Madison, “Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise.”
Thomas Paine was also a vocal advocate of the progressive income tax. The country passed a progressive estate tax in 1797, and this debate’s been settled at least since the days of Teddy Roosevelt.
Even George Washington, …wasn’t anti-tax. General Washington levied the first tax in the new republic, the Whiskey Tax, and when people rebelled, he “gathered his armies” — and not in the way Barber would like. Yes, he used the military to enforce tax policy.
Conservatives always quote one snippet from Washington where he says that taxes are always “inconvenient and unpleasant.” Strangely, they never quote the whole passage, which shows Washington’s views in context. He said this in his farewell address (emphasis mine):
“To facilitate to them the performance of their duty, it is essential that you should practically bear in mind that towards the payment of debts there must be revenue; that to have revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant; that the intrinsic embarrassment, inseparable from the selection of the proper objects (which is always a choice of difficulties), ought to be a decisive motive for a candid construction of the conduct of the government in making it, and for a spirit of acquiescence in the measures for obtaining revenue, which the public exigencies may at any time dictate”.
In other words: yeah, it’s always going to be a pain to pay taxes, but to promote the common good, we need them so we can raise revenue and do the things the public needs done.
Which is still the mainstream position among Americans now.
Next time you hear a Teabagger ranting about the Founding Fathers, give them a history lesson. The history of this country — like the constitution — is a lot more interesting and rich if you actually read it
ulse.ncpolicywatch dot org
Lola’s gone off her rocker. Sooooo funny. Progressives put a man on the moon? Where is Spook when I need him?
“Prejudice, bigotry and lack of opportunity and education have been greatly responsible …”
There has always been lots of this, but there hasn’t always been a 3/4 with no dads problem. That came with good ole LBJ and company and their lieberal children.
At the end of the day you have no answer to the ever deteriorating social welfare state you have caused.
One minute Lola is perfectly normal posting tranny webcam shots of herself and then she goes off the deep end and posts communist cut and pastes.
Lola…. stick with the tranny webcam.
At the end of the day you have no answer to the ever deteriorating social welfare state you have caused.
We know the answer LolaLOL. It’s as clear as your hate and bad vibe, and it’s as sickening LolaLOL.
The US government has enacted laws and policies that have given black people a much more more fair chance in America and they have done better because of these laws and policies.
However, laws and policies have not trumped the prevailing and ongoing prejudice, bigotry and lack of opportunity/education LolaLOL. Is this complicated?
Progressives put a man on the moon? Where is Spook when I need him?
LOL. Spook on NASA? You’re joking.
But who could have possibly put a man on the moon? Conservatives?
It had to be progressives because that was scientific progress.
Or you don’t believe it happened? Fine. Thanks for your mental level’s “gift” that keeps on kicking America in the nuts in the eyes of the world.
You embarrass America. You embarrass America to the world. You are what they laugh at. Well done.
For Bill in LA and others who are waiting for Go Time:
This is a link to the first installment in a 5-part series on emergency preparedness. It was written by a disaster expert in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/09/09/147439/-Are-YOU-ready-for-disaster-Part-1-of-5-Assess-your-risks
Yes, I realize it’s a DailyKos link, but it is chock full of useful information, and it is not political (warning, the comments are political). Please note that most emergency preparedness experts advocate that beginner preppers do not just skip straight to fun stuff like the emergency kits and guns. There is a lot of preplanning first. The guns don’t show up until Part 5. Enjoy!
“waiting for Go Time”
Considering how badly metro D.C. residents react when there’s 2 inches of snow on the ground, how will they fare when Go Time happens?
The entire eastern seaboard is screwed. Too many people, too little land. I’d get a gun first. And second, learn how to shoot. Otherwise you’ll be like the drug dealers in street shoot outs that only hit innocent bystander little kids and rarely each other.
Carlos Mencia once proposed that gang bangers be taught to shoot straight in order to reduce collateral damage.
Carlos Mencia once proposed that gang bangers be taught to shoot straight
Awesome.
I would support spending public funds for that kind of job-training.
“Go Time”
This sounds like a military reference to an apocalyptic moment in time of war.
What does that have to do with disaster preparedness, unless war on American soil is the disaster for which you are preparing? I realize people like to fantasize about sci-fi scenarios playing out in the real world, but is there any basis for this kind of thinking in reality?
The Chris Dorner manhunt in Southern California (in which innocent motorists had their vehicles riddled with bullets) was a dry run.
The Watertown, MA warrantless door to door searches was a dry run.
The electrical substation takedown near Silicon Valley was a dry run.
As another poster here wisely said recently:
Statists gonna state
Got 7.62×39?
Wouldn’t it be just easier to leave the country? Set up a bank account in some backwater and bail when the time comes.
I don’t get the whole bunker mentality. You’ll eventually run out of supplies and ammo. Maybe you can survive by eating roots and berries, but I think you might be better off in Paraguay.
Heading for the hills sounds tempting, except for the fact that it might get a bit crowded out there, and rural property owners won’t take kindly to having their land invaded by city slickers.
Your defeatist, retreatist attitude is exactly what the statists want.
“bail when the time comes”
You really think that’s possible?
I heard the food isn’t all that bad at Camp Feinstein. As long as you play nice and be an enthusiastic little badge licker maybe you’ll get a second bowl of gruel on Sundays
You really think that’s possible?
It is if you don’ wait until it’s too late.
If you want to fight guys who have tanks, bombers, napalm, drones, etc. with your assault rifle, knock yourself out.
“I don’t get the whole bunker mentality.”
You put your finger on it: It’s a mentality.
Separate the “bunker mentality” part from the part where you would need emergency power for a couple days. That’s where I come in.
My own opinion is that urban areas are where the survival chances are greater than the rural areas. It would help if most people had backup power off the grid.
But it is undeniable that the biggest threat to a modern Davy Crockett in the backwoods is that a major emergency to him would be a minor deal to a city dweller. You can bleed to death out in the woods but have a far greater chance in, say, Laguna Beach if you slipped while cutting carrots with a knife and your hand is bleeding.
An electrical grid attack by terrorists is a real threat and has the government worried and companies scurrying to provide solutions. SCADA (wiki it up) is part of the solution to look up status so that any problem with remote equipment can be addressed quickly.
(needing) emergency power for a couple days….surban areas are where the survival chances are greater than the rural areas…..You can bleed to death out in the woods but have a far greater chance in, say, Laguna Beach if you slipped while cutting carrots with a knife
No. Think clearly. If power is out for a couple days, not much bad stuff will happen anyway. Or if really bad stuff happens over a long period, most rural dwellers don’t cut themselves cutting carrots, most rural dwellers have a clear field of fire, most rural dwellers grow their own carrots and most zombies will have enough action in Laguna Beach.
Whac, yes, “go time” was been a bit of an HBB joke a while back. Yesterday Bill talked a little about what he was doing. I knew about the series on Daily Kos (sorry) and waited to post the link until this morning, so more people would see it. Well of course you’re more likely to be hit by a earthquake or power outage, but the zombie invasion is just much more romantic, ya know?
“a bit of an HBB joke”
We’ll see who’s laughing when it’s Go Time
“the next time we are visited by widespread, large-scale urban riots, a dangerous new escalation may be triggered by a fresh vulnerability: It’s estimated that the average American home has less than two weeks of food on hand. In poor minority areas, it may be much less. What if a cascading economic crisis, even a temporary one, leads to millions of EBT (electronic benefit transfer) cards flashing nothing but ERROR? This could also be the result of deliberate sabotage by hackers, or other technical system failures. Alternatively, the government might pump endless digits into the cards in a hopeless attempt to outpace future hyperinflation. The government can order the supermarkets to honor the cards, and it can even set price controls, but history’s verdict is clear: If suppliers are paid only with worthless scrip or blinking digits, the food will stop.
In my scenario, the initial riots begin spontaneously across affected urban areas, as SNAP (supplemental nutrition assistance program) and other government welfare recipients learn that their EBT cards no longer function. This sudden revelation will cause widespread anger, which will quickly lead to the flash-mob looting of local supermarkets and other businesses. The media will initially portray these “food riots” as at least partly justifiable. Sadly, millions of Americans have been made largely, or even entirely, dependent on government wealth transfer payments to put food on their tables.
A new social contract has been created, where bread and circuses buy a measure of peace in our minority-populated urban zones. In the era of ubiquitous big-screen cable television, the internet and smart phones, the circus part of the equation is never in doubt as long as the electricity flows. But the bread is highly problematic. Food must be delivered the old-fashioned way: physically. Any disruption in the normal functioning of the EBT system will lead to food riots with a speed that is astonishing. This will inevitably happen when our unsustainable, debt-fueled binge party finally stops, and the music is over. Now that the delivery of free or heavily subsidized food is perceived by tens of millions of Americans to be a basic human right, the cutoff of “their” food money will cause an immediate explosion of rage. When the hunger begins to bite, supermarkets, shops and restaurants will be looted, and initially the media will not condemn the looting. Unfortunately, this initial violence will only be the start of a dangerous escalation.
The ransacked supermarkets, convenience stores, ATMs and gas stations will not be restocked during this period due to the precarious security situation. A single truck loaded with food or gasoline would be perceived to be a Fort Knox on wheels and subject to immediate attack unless heavily protected by powerfully armed security forces, but such forces will not be available during this chaotic period. Under those conditions, resupply to the urban areas cannot and will not take place. The downward spiral of social and economic dysfunction will therefore both accelerate and spread from city to city. These delays, in turn, will lead to more riots with the constant underlying demand that hungry people be fed, one way or another.”
https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/bracken-when-the-music-stops-how-americas-cities-may-explode-in-violence/
“Dark Ages can last for centuries, after sinking civilizations in a vicious, downward vortex. “When the music’s over, turn out the lights,” to quote Jim Morrison of The Doors. Sometimes the lights stay out for a long time. Sometimes civilization itself is lost. Millions of EBT cards flashing zeroes might be the signal event of a terrible transformation.
It is a frightening thing to crystallize the possible outbreak of mass starvation and racial warfare into words, so that the mind is forced to confront agonizingly painful scenarios. It is much easier to avert one’s eyes and mind from the ugliness with politically correct Kumbaya bromides.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=443Vy3I0gJs
but the zombie invasion is just much more romantic, ya know?
An American zombie invasion? Come on. Chill out.
Although the poor have done better the past 20 years, a place like Rio de Janiero is a thousand times more likely to have a “zombie invasion” than most all of America.
There are millions of poor people surrounding every “rich” Rio neighborhood but I don’t freak out about it.
Heck, Americans don’t even protest much, let alone a zombie invasion. Just my opinion.
Oxide,
Small steps are very important and easy. The first thing anyone should ever do is to stock up on water. Once I have water I have lots of food sources around here. All sorts of green vegetation is edible.
Next slowly build up canned goods.
A deep cycle battery, maybe two 6V’s in serial or a 12V and an inverter and battery charger will keep your regrigerator going for a couple of days. In many emergencies that is enough you need.
If the whole grid system goes off for weeks we are all scru-ed.
“If the whole grid system goes off for weeks we are all scru-ed.”
Think airlifts, helicopter drops of supplies, etc…not all that bad unless the entire U.S. of A. is impacted.
If the whole grid system goes off, the place to Go To is Texas. Their grid is disconnected from the rest of the country.
Bill, yes, small steps are easy. But the emergency preparedness guys are right to think of pre-planning. If there is a house fire, tornado, or an earthquake and you only have time to grab the baby and run, bottled water in the closet isn’t going to help much. Immediate needs are things like the family evacuation plan and meet-up spot, finding pay phones, knowing the roads out of town, keeping documents in order, backing up the computer, etc. What if disaster strikes when the family is scattered among offices, schools, and soccer practice? AK-47s didn’t help the kids stranded in schools in Atlanta. Or what about decluttering the house and keeping important or sentimental stuff by the door to grab. (How many tornado victims dig through pieces looking for Grandma’s wedding ring or what have you?) Will you need to camp in the back yard if the house is uninhabitable? Can you live out of your car for the crucial 72 hours? This is a whole field of study.
That said, the pre-planning takes very little time. And yes, water is the first physical thing to stock up on. I used to have a slow buildup of canned food, as you say, but those expiration dates come up fast. I eventually got rid of the canned stuff and bought the dehydrated food in #10 cans. You can get a lot of it through Amazon.
And yes, water is the first physical thing to stock up on.
This is where I have an advantage over the apartment people. I have 2000 liters of water above my head maybe 5000 liters below my feet in a cistern.
I used to have a slow buildup of canned food
You guys are making me nervous. I think I’m going to buy 5 kilos of dried beans tomorrow and 5 kilos of rice.
And some cookies and sardines.
Get rice, legumes and beans and put them in a plastic container from wallmart. These items can last for 2 to 3 years. You can buy a lot of beans and rice that can feed a family for a month for less than 100 bucks.
You can buy a lot of beans and rice that can feed a family for a month for less than 100 bucks.
Thank you. I’m going to do it. And coffee, because the water from my cistern does not taste the best.
“This is where I have an advantage over the apartment people. I have 2000 liters of water above my head maybe 5000 liters below my feet in a cistern.”
Like these cisterns right Lola?
http://picpaste.com/pics/7b59aea62be135be08391714d3a9e60f.1396225756.jpg
Rio looks like paradise.
Is This Listing Real, or Just a Ghost?
MARCH 27, 2014
In an era when drop-down menus and mouse clicks are critical tools for a house hunt, one scenario in particular has become all too familiar to some buyers.
A buyer scans many online listings until a particular co-op catches her eye. It’s love at first page view: location, exposed brick kitchen walls, price.
But after contacting the listing agent to see that perfect-sounding home, she learns that it has already been rented or sold.
As a consolation prize, the agent offers to show a different apartment, swearing that it has nearly identical features. But the buyer quickly realizes, despondently, that it’s not even close to her first pick. She feels duped by an ad for something that she now suspects didn’t exist.
“Of course this happens, the bait-and-switch,” said Nikki Field, a longtime broker with Sotheby’s International Realty. “Brokers are looking for all ways possible to pull in clients.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/realestate/is-this-listing-real-or-just-a-ghost.html - -
Watch This Reaction: Putin Laughs Right In This Journalist’s Face
Mac Slavo
March 29th, 2014
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When an interviewer recently confronted Vladimir Putin about Europe’s American-made missile defense system, the President of the Russian Federation couldn’t help but laugh right in his face.
According to the journalist, NATO’s missile defense system is pointed at and designed to protect Europe from the nuclear threat posed by Iran, not Russia.
Putin’s reaction is a must-see.
Interview: NATO claims the missile shield was not built against you but against Iran.
[Putin begins laughing almost uncontrollably]
Putin: You really make me laugh. God bless you because it’s almost time to finish the day… indeed it’s already time to go to sleep. At least I get home in good humor.
(Watch at Youtube)
What’s even more humorous is the seriousness of the interviewer’s subsequent reaction to being laughed at.
It seems that he actually believed the notion that NATO built its missile defense shield to protect from Iran, a country which, according to U.S. intelligence reports, has yet to develop not only the nuclear technology, but the inter-continental ballistic missile systems capable of delivering such technology all the way from Iran.
The propaganda on both sides is actually pretty funny considering how ridiculous the back and forth posturing has gotten, especially in recent months.
What won’t be funny is when Europe, Russia, China and the United States eventually use it to facilitate entry into a global conflict involving billions of people.
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/watch-this-reaction-putin-laughs-right-in-this-journalists-face_03292014 - 590k -
What won’t be funny is when Europe, Russia, China and the United States eventually use it to facilitate entry into a global conflict involving billions of people.
Stop worrying and learn to love the bomb.
other than austin-boston-dc
are there any “hot” markets left ????
nothing is hotter than so cal . all the foreigners want the ca lifestyle. Babes, big homes, good beer and a nice beach to see pretty women in bikinis. You just can go wrong.
Skip the beaches and buy up some shacks in the Inland Empire. You can be a millionaire part time.
Babes…. good beer and a nice beach to see pretty women in bikinis.
That must be really nice.
If you’re from South America, Miami is hot, hot, hot!
Sure. How about any oilfield city in TX, NM, or ND.
Denver too. They have jobs for some reason.
And Silly Valley.
This article sponsored by the National Association of Realtors:
“If you’ve looked for a home to buy in the Washington region in recent months, you’re already aware that buyers in the area face limited inventory and high prices, particularly in the most desirable neighborhoods.
“For most people, location is the most important priority when they’re looking for a home,” says Hugo Romero, a realty agent with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Alexandria. “Everyone wants to be close to work and to community amenities, but because everyone wants that, the value goes up and buyers must look farther away to find something they can afford.”
While a lot of Arlington’s real estate is pricey, Rachel Burns, an agent with Evers & Co., says there are pockets of more affordable homes in South Arlington in neighborhoods such as Aurora Hills and Aurora Highlands and along Columbia Pike, where an anticipated trolley is sparking new development. She says buyers can ride a bike from neighborhoods around Columbia Pike to Capitol Hill, walk to shops, restaurants, community centers, trails and parks.
“Buyers can find a big single-family home in those neighborhoods for $500,000 to $650,000, but it may need some cosmetic work,” Burns says. “It’s a great investment to buy a home in a good location and do some minor renovations.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/realestate/affordable-homes-in-the-dc-area-can-be-found-if-you-look-in-the-right-neighborhoods/2014/03/27/36925bac-a612-11e3-a5fa-55f0c77bf39c_story.html?tid=hpModule_34d54128-919e-11e2-bdea-e32ad90da239
realtors are liars
What part of “It’s a great investment” do you not understand?
Three trips to Loan Depot or Blowe’s and a couple weekends of elbow grease, and you’ve got $100K of instant equity!
You can’t loose with D.C. real estate…
I just realized what we need is a National Association of Renters (”NAR”) to lobby Washington, DC for special tax breaks and other wealth transfers to the rentership class, as a foil to the National Association of Realtors.
Pushing Toward The Final War — Paul Craig Roberts
March 28, 2014
The position of the government in Washington and its puppet states (Eastern and Western Europe, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Georgia, Japan) and other allies purchased with bagfuls of money is that Washington’s violation of international law by torturing people, by invading sovereign countries on totally false pretenses, by routinely overthrowing democratically elected governments that do not toe the Washington line is nothing but the “indispensable and exceptional country” bringing “freedom and democracy to the world.” But Russia’s acceptance of the self-determination of Crimean people to return to their home country is “a violation of international law.”
Just what international law has Washington and its puppets not violated?
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/03/28/pushing-toward-final-war-paul-craig-roberts/ - 111k -
Drudge link - Lawsuit: Man Arrested, Searched For Marijuana Solely For Having Colorado License Plate
“An Idaho state trooper arrested and fully searched a 70-year-old Washington man’s vehicle solely because he had a Colorado license plate – a state where marijuana is legal – a federal “license plate profiling” lawsuit alleges.
Darien Roseen was driving along I-84 between his second home in Colorado and Washington state on Jan. 25 when Idaho State Trooper Justin Klitch “immediately” pulled out from the Interstate median and began “rapidly accelerating” to catch up to Roseen, according to the complaint in a Courthouse News Service report. Exiting at a designated rest area, Roseen says he became “uncomfortable” that Klitch had followed him though he not “done anything wrong.”
After pulling Roseen over, Klitch reportedly failed to explain why he made the stop, although he later said he made the stop because Roseen failed to use his signal when pulling off on the exit, and because he bumped the curb. Klitch rejected Roseen’s reason for pulling into the rest area, telling him, “You didn’t have to go to the bathroom before you saw me … I’m telling you, you pulled in here to avoid me.”
The complaint states that Klitch asked Roseen why his eyes “appeared glassy,” while failing to ask him for his proof of insurance, registration, or returning to his vehicle to verify Roseen’s license. He then accused Roseen of “having something in his vehicle that he should not have.”
“After Mr. Roseen identified his possession of valid prescription medications, Trooper Klitch asked him, ‘When is the last time you used any marijuana?’ thereby assuming that Mr. Roseen had, in fact, used marijuana and inferring that he had used it recently,” according to the complaint.
Klitch repeatedly asked to search Roseen’s vehicle as he accused him of “hiding” something. And when Roseen did not grant him permission, Klitch threatened to bring in a drug-sniffing dog and characterized Roseen’s behavior as “consistent with a person who was hiding something illegal.”
http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2014/03/28/lawsuit-man-arrested-searched-for-marijuana-solely-for-having-colorado-license-plate/
Albuquerque Police Dept. Helmet cam: camper turning away from officers when shot
Capitol Hill(DC Metro)Rental Rates Sink 13% YoY And Falling
http://www.zillow.com/local-info/DC-Washington/Capitol-Hill-home-value/r_121685/#metric=mt%3D46%26dt%3D1%26tp%3D4%26rt%3D8%26r%3D121685%26el%3D0
Rental list price up 2.7% per square foot year over year.
Oddly enough, size matters.
Thats funny, but sorry Polly, facts don’t matter.
Aww how cute. The charlatans rub shoulders.
In the meantime, rental rates sliding across the country. Even here in Manhattan!
Manhattan Rental Rates Fall 6 Months Straight
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-13/manhattan-apartment-tenants-get-relief-as-rents-decline.html
HA.
I will not accept you calling Polly that. How dare you?
We’ve had several discussions between us and what I’ve discovered is that it’s inevitable that you’ll gloss over/ignore any facts that run counter to your general meme. If we’ve had any disagreements it’s because I don’t live in your black and white world.
There are in fact many variations in the housing industry. Try listening and learning because I know Polly is “hardly ever” wrong and when she is, it’s when she disagrees with me!!!
Good. Don’t accept it then. :shrug:
Thing is you’re both right. Statistics depend on the data and the data used depends on the author’s goals.
Kind of like how the government can claim an unemployment rate less that 8%. Government is a master at “massaging” the data.
It’s not a matter of “data”. I know what I build and I build every day. Construction is my stock in trade.
Good. What does that have to do with DC?
Where do you build? What zip?
It has everything to do with DC.
All 48 states.
Article on different nets in different areas.
You have to make $28.52 per hour to rent a 1 bedroom in DC
http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2014/03/27/how-much-to-afford-a-1-bedroom-apartment-in-san-francisco/
Falling rents in DC… falling rents in NYC. What’s not to like?
Boston, MA Housing Prices Fall 10% QoQ; Sink 6% MoM
http://www.zillow.com/local-info/MA-Boston-home-value/r_44269/#metric=mt%3D36%26dt%3D1%26tp%3D4%26rt%3D8%26r%3D44269%26el%3D0
Zillow Home Value Index up 9% YoY. Crater? Shirley you jest!
http://www.zillow.com/local-info/MA-Boston-home-value/r_44269/#metric=mt%3D34%26dt%3D1%26tp%3D4%26rt%3D8%26r%3D44269%26el%3D0
Sacramento up 3.7% MoM, up 23.9% YoY.
HA, you keep cherry picking stats, that is where you excel. HA, hahahahaha.
“Home value” eh J._Fraud? LOLZ
Western Looting Of Ukraine Has Begun
Paul Craig Roberts
Infowars.com
March 30, 2014
It is now apparent that the “Maiden protests” in Kiev were in actuality a Washington organized coup against the elected democratic government. The purpose of the coup is to put NATO military bases on Ukraine’s border with Russia and to impose an IMF austerity program that serves as cover for Western financial interests to loot the country. The sincere idealistic protesters who took to the streets without being paid were the gullible dupes of the plot to destroy their country.
Politically Ukraine is an untenable aggregation of Ukrainian and Russian territory, because traditional Russian territories were stuck into the borders of the Ukraine Soviet Republic by Lenin and Khrushchev. The Crimea, stuck into Ukraine by Khrushchev, has already departed and rejoined Russia. Unless some autonomy is granted to them, Russian areas in eastern and southern Ukraine might also depart and return to Russia. If the animosity displayed toward the Russian speaking population by the stooge government in Kiev continues, more defections to Russia are likely.
The Washington-imposed coup faces other possible difficulties from what seems to be a growing conflict between the well-organized Right Sector and the Washington-imposed stooges. If armed conflict between these two groups were to occur, Washington might conclude that it needs to send help to its stooges. The appearance of US/NATO troops in Ukraine would create pressure on Putin to occupy the remaining Russian speaking parts of Ukraine.
Before the political and geographical issues are settled, the Western looting of Ukraine has already begun. The Western media, doesn’t tell any more truth about IMF “rescue packages” than it does about anything else. The media reports, and many Ukrainians believe, that the IMF is going to rescue Ukraine financially by giving the country billions of dollars.
Ukraine will never see one dollar of the IMF money. What the IMF is going to do is to substitute Ukrainian indebtedness to the IMF for Ukrainian indebtedness to Western banks. The IMF will hand over the money to the Western banks, and the Western banks will reduce Ukraine’s indebtedness by the amount of IMF money. Instead of being indebted to the banks, Ukraine will now be indebted to the IMF.
Now the looting can begin. The IMF loan brings new conditions and imposes austerity on the Ukrainian people so that the Ukraine government can gather up the money with which to repay the IMF. The IMF conditions that will be imposed on the struggling Ukraine population will consist of severe reductions in old-age pensions, in government services, in government employment, and in subsidies for basic consumer purchases such as natural gas. Already low living standards will plummet. In addition, Ukrainian public assets and Ukrainian owned private industries will have to be sold off to Western purchasers.
Additionally, Ukraine will have to float its currency. In a futile effort to protect its currency’s value from being driven very low (and consequently import prices very high) by speculators ganging up on the currency and short-selling it, Ukraine will borrow more money with which to support its currency in the foreign exchange market. Of course, the currency speculators will end up with the borrowed money, leaving Ukraine much deeper in debt than currently.
The corruption involved is legendary, so the direct result of the gullible Maiden protesters will be lower Ukrainian living standards, more corruption, loss of sovereignty over the country’s economic policy, and the transfer of Ukrainian public and private property to Western interests.
If Ukraine also falls into NATO’s clutches, Ukraine will also find itself in a military alliance against Russia and find itself targeted by Russian missiles. This will be a tragedy for Ukraine and Russia as Ukrainians have relatives in Russia and Russians have relatives in Ukraine. The two countries have essentially been one for 200 years. To have them torn apart by Western looting and Washington’s drive for world hegemony is a terrible shame and a great crime.
The gullible dupes who participated in the orchestrated Maiden protests will rue it for the rest of their lives.
When the protests began, I described what the consequences would be and said that I would explain the looting process. It is not necessary for me to do so. Professor Michel Chossudovsky has explained the IMF looting process along with much history here:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/regime-change-in-ukraine-and-the-imfs-bitter-economic-medicine/5374877
One final word. Despite unequivocal evidence of one country after another being looted by the West, governments of indebted countries continue to sign up for IMF programs. Why do governments of countries continue to agree to the foreign looting of their populations? The only answer is that they are paid. The corruption that is descending upon Ukraine will make the former regime look honest.
Now the looting can begin. The IMF loan brings new conditions and imposes austerity on the Ukrainian people so that the Ukraine government can gather up the money with which to repay the IMF. The IMF conditions that will be imposed on the struggling Ukraine population will consist of severe reductions in old-age pensions, in government services, in government employment, and in subsidies for basic consumer purchases such as natural gas. Already low living standards will plummet.
The Banking Clan seems hell bent on starting a confrontation with Russia. History has shown that is always a bad idea. The last thing we need is for the Banksters to provoke the Russians to invade and once the looting begins the man on the street in Kiev might want Vlad to liberate them.
Actually this sounds like a great idea… if the bankers offer to contribute their own money and sons to the cause.
“Get what you can get for your house today because it’s going to be less tomorrow for many years to come.”
Wise advice.
“I have so much money left after “throwing money away on rent” every month that I don’t know where to throw it.”
You better believe it.
HA, You’ve been telling me that for years, all the while the houses keep going up in value and the rents generate solid cash flow. Pretty HAlarious. HA, hahahahahaha!
You’ve told us alot of things J._Fraud. All of them have proven to be tall tales.
Right Mr. Contractor? Like those $90k building permits.
“Get what you can get for your house today because it’s going to be less tomorrow for many years to come.”
The last time I believed that, the Fed’s willingness to rig markets exceeded expectations.
The Essence Of The Banking Industry… - YouTube
► 1:43 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B_SxGmSJP0
The essence of the banking system is to make everyone slaves to debt.
(”You can’t lose with the stuff I use.” - Rev Ike)
Willing slaves to debt. No coersion, no kidnapping and no chains required - no slaves to debt but willing participants.
Slaves brought about by force are expensive, no? But slaves brought about by persuasion are cheap, yes?
Present a ruinous contract to a schmuck that has a dotted line at the bottom and the schmuck will willingly sign it. Present millions of ruinous contracts to millions of schmucks and millions of signatures will fill in the dotted lines.
And this is because …
People are smart.
This persuasion that generates debt slaves is not done by me, rather it is done by others for their own reasons.
They, these persuaders, spend their time and energy and money to persuade schmucks to buy into ideas that is entirely against the schmuck’s best interests and then these persuaders bring the schmucks to me for the signings of the dotted lines.
They, the persuaders, do all the work and I get to kick back.
You can’t lose with the stuff I use.
The return of the “indentured servant.”
“Indentured servitude was a form of debt bondage, established in the early years of the British colonies in North America and elsewhere.”
Author and historian Richard Hofstadter has written:
The best part … (from the link)
“The most unenviable situation was that of servants on Southern plantations, living alongside but never with Negro slaves, both groups doing much the same work, often under the supervision of a relentless overseer…. Even as late as 1770, William Eddis, the English surveyor of customs at Annapolis, thought that the Maryland Negroes were better off than “the Europeans, over whom the rigid planter exercises an inflexible severity.” The Negroes, Eddis thought, were a lifelong property so were treated with a certain care, but the whites were “strained to the utmost to perform their allotted labor.”[
Also, don’t forget the Company Store:
“You load 16 tons and whaddaya get?
another day older and deeper in dept
Saint Peter don’tcha call me ‘Cause-I can’t go
I owe my soul to the Company Store”
Company store (per Wikipedia):
“A company store is a retail store selling a limited range of food, clothing and daily necessities to employees of a company. It is typical of a company town in a remote area where virtually everyone is employed by one firm, such as a coal mine. In a company town, the housing is owned by the company but there may be independent stores there or nearby. Company stores face little or no competition and prices are therefore not competitive. The store typically accepts scrip or non-cash vouchers issued by the company in advance of weekly cash paychecks, and gives credit to employees before payday. Except in very remote areas, company stores became scarcer after the miners bought automobiles and could travel to a range of stores. Even so the stores could survive because they provided convenience and easy credit.
Fishback finds that:
“The company store is one of the most reviled and misunderstood of economic institutions. In song, folktale, and union rhetoric the company store was often cast as a villain, a collector of souls through perpetual debt peonage. Nicknames, like the “pluck me” and more obscene versions that cannot appear in a family newspaper, seem to point to exploitation. The attitudes carry over into the scholarly literature, which emphasizes that the company store was a monopoly.”[1]
My favorite part: “… a collector of souls through perpetual debt bondage.”
White House looks to regulate cow flatulence as part of climate agenda - The Daily Caller
“As part of its plan to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, the Obama administration is targeting the dairy industry to reduce methane emissions in their operations.
This comes despite falling methane emission levels across the economy since 1990.
The White House has proposed cutting methane emissions from the dairy industry by 25 percent by 2020. Although U.S. agriculture only accounts for about 9 percent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, it makes up a sizeable portion of methane emissions — which is a very potent greenhouse gas.”
OK folks, how in the hell do they know how much methane is being expelled by dairy cattle??? These people have no idea that cows don’t give a rip about what they think.
If you want to reduce gas emissions, just have Obama, the administration and Congress STFU.
OK folks, how in the hell do they know how much methane is being expelled by dairy cattle???
Let’s say that they can. What can they do about it? Replace Bessie with a hybrid cow?
Methane is exhaled by a cow via breathing, not farted.
Blue. Really? I’m no farmer but I bet it includes cow
fartshttp://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/five-forms-alternative-energy4.htm
Methane is exhaled by a cow via breathing,
Isn’t it really belching, rather than breathing, as the gas is produced by anaerobic bacteria in one of their multiple stomachs?
This is how:
http://inhabitat.com/spiffy-backpack-traps-bovine-gas/
Hope and Change
“Climate change has already left its mark “on all continents and across the oceans”, damaging food crops, spreading disease, and melting glaciers, according to the leaked text of a blockbuster UN climate science report due out on Monday.
Government officials and scientists are gathered in Yokohama this week to wrangle over every line of a summary of the report before the final wording is released on Monday – the first update in seven years.
“In recent decades, changes in climate have caused impacts on natural and human systems on all continents and across the oceans,” the final report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will say.
Some parts of the world could soon be at a tipping point. For others, that tipping point has already arrived. “Both warm water coral reef and Arctic ecosystems are already experiencing irreversible regime shifts,” the approved version of the report will say.
This will be the second of three reports on the causes, consequences of and solutions to climate change, drawing on researchers from around the world.
The first report, released last September in Stockholm, found humans were the “dominant cause” of climate change, and warned that much of the world’s fossil fuel reserves would have to stay in the ground to avoid catastrophic climate change.
This report will, for the first time, look at the effects of climate change as a series of risks – with those risks multiplying as temperatures warm.”
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/28/ipcc-report-climate-change-report-human-natural-systems
Best way to prevent “global warming” is put on a condom. But try telling that to certain ethnicities.
If ya can’t feed ‘em, don’t breed ‘em!
Government will feed all. Breed more FSA voters.
As long as it is voluntary it won’t happen.
Best way to prevent “global warming” is put on a condom. But try telling that to certain ethnicities.
It’s a catchy phrase but the top 3 regions by emissions are China, (1 child policy for years) USA and the EU (not growing nearly as fast as “certain ethnicities”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_consumption_per_capita
shoot, no link, just a sliding bar with arrows on either side.
‘Best way to prevent “global warming” is put on a condom. But try telling that to certain ethnicities.’
The global warming issue is trying to address saving mankind?
Is it? I think it’s pretty much another bankers’ scam game. Lots of money to be made.
As to mankind, I do want to see mankind survive, not extinguish itself through overpopulation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/12/dining/farm-to-table-living-takes-root.html?_r=0
Folks, just a reminder: Never wrestle with a pig, because you just get dirty and the pig loves it.
Folks, just a reminder: Never wrestle with a pig, because you just get dirty and the pig loves it.
Folks, just a reminder: Never argue with someone more informed because you just look uninformed and the more informed person loves it.
Rio, this sounds like you are equating yourself to a pig. I sure that is an unintended consequence, but curious just the same.
Rio, this sounds like you are equating yourself to a pig
Maybe. I was a total pig last Thursday. I was at my friends ocean view house in a little fishing village outside of Rio and I was cooking pig on a my Weber kettle made in Palatine, Illinois that I brought to Brazil in a container in 2008 and I brought to my friends pool house for the BBQ. I actually added chips of American hickory and cherry that I brought in my luggage on one of my trips. I also used some of the last of my American BBQ sauce too.
Actually the Weber was under that huge mango tree that I often speak of. Man it’s huge but the leaves get in the pool. But there are no more mangos. ( Maybe the bats at them.)
Anyway, I ate so much BBQ pork, grilled beets, carrots, onions garlic, salad etc. It was great. You can’t find hickory wood here. It tasted like I was back in America. An hour later we made French toast for desert. Yea, I ate like a pig but when you live in a jungle and walk a lot, you just sweat it all off in a couple days. I weigh what I did in college now. Go figure.
PS: Brazilians are good meat grillers but I do a better BBQ. And there is a difference.
“Brazilians are good meat grillers”
Step AWAY from the keyboard, canusi. Just step away.
LOL
But come on, I threw a couple of youz a big fat bone there.
“a big fat bone”
Braggart.
PS: Brazilians are good meat grillers but I do a better BBQ. And there is a difference.
Is there even a local equivalent to American BBQ?
How much does a good meal at a churrasqueria cost?
Is there even a local equivalent to American BBQ?
I’ve not seen any in Rio. Maybe down south in gaucho land but IDK. You can get ribs here but they’re not USA slow smoked falling off the bone type. They are grilled covered with rock-salt. You can get falling off the bone type at some American type restaurants (Outback Applebees (no waiting time)) but they’re oven baked with a lousy sauce. I’ve never seen brisket done like USA here.
How much does a good meal at a churrasqueria cost?
I do like Brazil’s churrasquerias. In Rio at a nice one, depending on the place, day and time of day, about US $30-45 plus drinks and 10% gratuity.
A glass of wine will be about $5-7 a beer $4-5 and a Coke around $3.50.
Here’s a good chain of one that’s called “Big Pig” in Portuguese.
http://www.porcao.com.br/churrascaria/unidades/porcao-rio%C2%B4s/
In Rio at a nice one, depending on the place, day and time of day, about US $30-45 plus drinks and 10% gratuity.
That seems crazy: first-world prices in a third-world location?
That seems crazy: first-world prices in a third-world location?
It only seems “crazy” if you don’t get Rio de Janeiro. It’s a first world city and a third world city living side by side.
It’s very hard for Americans to understand.
It’s a first world city and a third world city living side by side.
I get that it is both. Basically, it’s schizophrenic.
Coming soon to a first-world country near you…
I do like Brazil’s churrasquerias. In Rio at a nice one, depending on the place, day and time of day, about US $30-45 plus drinks and 10% gratuity.
Dang, I can have lunch at Rodizio’s in Fort Collins for far less.
http://www.rodiziogrill.com/fort-collins
Dang, I can have lunch at Rodizio’s in Fort Collins for far less.
I know of some here that could match those prices and be good. And in a cheaper part of town even less. But not somewhere like Porcão or similar in the South Zone.
And there are some that charge by weight. (The plate, not the person)
From the stories on the google new aggravator page, “global warming” is the big story today, lol. It’s all “global warming”, all the time. Another bankers’ game, feh.
Oh, well, I’ll just keep reading my book on Greenland during the Little Warm Age. I learned a new word: skraeling. The name for the Eskimos or Inuits or whatever that followed the Greenland hunters and traders from Markland (Labrador) back to Greenland and started doing a little “settling” of their own. They were not indigenous to Greenland. Ever.
I’ll just keep reading my book on Greenland during the Little Warm Age.
Other parts of the earth got colder when Greenland got warmer.
Warming during the Medieval Climatic Anomaly was not global
http://www.skepticalscience.com/greenland-used-to-be-green.htm
During the Medieval Climatic Anomaly, some areas, most notably in the North Atlantic and parts of Europe, were at least as warm as today, if not warmer. However, other areas were colder, and overall evidence suggests that global temperatures during this period were similar to those at the beginning or middle of the 20th century, and colder than today. This period is explored in more depth here.
So not only was Greenland already mostly covered in ice when Europeans settled there, but also the relatively warm conditions during this period were not a global phenomenon. This contrasts with what we are seeing today, where warming is truly global. Figure 1 is a map showing reconstructions of temperature anomalies during the Medieval Warm Period. Blue colours show lower temperatures and warm colours show higher temperatures when compared to the 1961-1990 reference period.
Statists gonna state. And warmists gonna warm.
And this isn’t a fetish for me like it is for ABQ Dan. Just posting some MSM news written by real journalists to reiterate my correct statement that infinite growth is not possible in a finite ecosystem.
Keep on breeding. Keep on driving. Keep buying those new i-phones. Whatever it takes to convince yourself that the capitalist model of growth for growth’s sake can somehow continue indefinitely.
infinite growth is not possible in a finite ecosystem.
Commie talk.
We can’t grow ourselves out of debt, no matter what the Federal Reserve does
Let’s replace our fixation on growth with a steady-state economy focusing on lower consumption, leisure and ecological health
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/sep/03/debt-federal-reserve-fixation-on-growth
……Obviously, it isn’t true that the more we buy, the happier we are. Endless growth means endlessly increasing production and endlessly increasing consumption. Social critics have for a long time pointed out the resulting hollowness carried by that thesis. Furthermore, it is becoming increasingly apparent that infinite growth is impossible on a finite planet. Why, then, are liberals and conservatives alike so fervent in their pursuit of growth?
The reason is that our present money system can only function in a growing economy. Money is created as interest-bearing debt: it only comes into being when someone promises to pay back even more of it. Therefore, there is always more debt than there is money. In a growth economy that is not a problem, because new money (and new debt) is constantly lent into existence so that existing debt can be repaid. But when growth slows, good lending opportunities become scarce. Indebtedness rises faster than income, debt service becomes more difficult, bankruptcies and layoffs rise.
This is getting bad. And the rainy season is over in much of Brazil.
Brazil rations water in 140 cities amid worst drought in decades
http://rt.com/news/water-ration-drought-brazil-253/
Over 140 Brazilian cities have been pushed to ration water during the worst drought on record, …..A record heat wave could raise energy prices and damage crops. ……..described the situation at Cantareira as “critical”: the amount of rain registered in the month to January was the lowest in 84 years.
…..January was the hottest month on record in parts of the country, including in Sao Paulo. The heat, plus a severe drought, has raised concerns over growing water shortages and crop damage. According to Brazil’s national meteorological institute INMET, Sao Paulo’s average maximum daily temperature so far this year was 31.9 degrees Celsius (89.4 degrees Fahrenheit), a degree hotter than the previous January record and surpassing February 1984 as the city’s hottest month ever.
According to the state meteorological agency in Ceara state, the northeast of the country is also experiencing its worst drought in at least 50 years. Hundreds of thousands of cattle have died from heat exhaustion, and farmers are getting desperate. “I have never seen a drought like this,” Ulisses de Sousa Ferraz, an 85-year-old farmer in Pernambuco state, told Reuters, adding that he has lost 50 cows. “Everything has dried up.”
How are the riots going?
Brazil’s World Cup courts disaster as delays, protests and deaths mount
An attack on the president’s office was just the latest alarming episode in the runup to June’s tournament
Jonathan Watts in Brasília
The Observer, Saturday 15 February 2014
Another week, another storm of teargas and rubber bullets at a World Cup host city in Brazil. This time, the clashes were in the capital, Brasília, where 15,000 protesters from the Landless Workers Movement marched from the Mané Garrincha football stadium to the Palácio do Planalto state office of the president, Dilma Rousseff.
Riot police using batons and teargas fought off several attempts to invade the building. The demonstrators threw stones and tore down railings which they used as weapons. In the fierce fighting, 12 protesters and 30 police officers were injured.
Rousseff was not in her office at the time, but this latest explosion of unrest is yet another headache for the president in what is supposed to be one of the most triumphant, feelgood years in the nation’s history.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/16/brazil-world-cup-disaster-delays-protests-deaths - 124k -
How are the riots going?
IDK really. But I admire a people who protest injustice. Frankly, I didn’t think the Brazilians had it in them. But the average Brazilian is very turned off at the violence on both sides.
Brazil’s World Cup courts disaster
Sometimes “disasters” are a needed wake-up call. Think big. But I doubt there will be a “disaster”. It’s just futbol. OMG a stadium or two might still have wet paint. I take that back. It will be a disaster in Brazil if Argentina wins.
the Pantanal in Brazil. Ever been there, Rio?
I have not. It’s on my list before I leave Brazil someday alive I hope.
The cops just go in to the slums and shoot homeless teenage boys until it quiets down.
That is why Lola is doing such a service down there. He is picking them up to save them from being shot by the cops.
The cops just go in to the slums and shoot homeless teenage boys until it quiets down.
That big story - Candelária massacre- was 21 years ago July. It’s gotten a lot better but you would not know. If I were to guess again I’d say you might be strawberrypicker - same anger level.
I think you have a black heart and a poor soul LolaLOL. A dark vibe. It’s been “fun” but you’re back on ignore tomorrow.
Maybe we’ll chat again in a month or so. But maybe not.
“Ulisses de Sousa Ferraz, an 85-year-old farmer in Pernambuco state, told Reuters, adding that he has lost 50 cows.”
I see Obama’s plan to reduce methane emissions from cattle is already working, lol.
On another note, I saw a fascinating documentary on PBS about the Pantanal in Brazil. Ever been there, Rio? What I saw reminded me of the Florida Everglades, although many times the size and the Everglades are not appropriate for the grazing of cattle. But there were similarities in the ecosystem, or so it seemed. When areas like that dry up, the bog fires can be really nasty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantanal
“County homes undervalued, low risk investment”
Where have I heard this before?
Oh that’s right, in 2005 when a Realtor was telling me that I could still get a house in Port St. Lucie for under $300k because I was never going to be able to afford a house in Palm Beach County.
County homes undervalued, low risk investment
By Kimberly Miller
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Posted: 5:00 p.m. Friday, March 28, 2014
Palm Beach County real estate remains undervalued and is still a “low risk” for investors despite a year of rocketing home prices unnervingly similar to the last market run-up, according to two studies released this week.
The San Francisco-based Trulia’s quarterly “bubble watch” report found Palm Beach County home prices are 3 percent undervalued when factors such as income, long-term price trends and rental costs are considered.
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So I found a box of photos and letters from my dads mother, Helen. I found a stock certificate for the Dahlonega Gold Mining company registered on the new York stock exchange! I looked up the name and now it’s a museum in Georgia! looks like it’s 100 shares, signed july 24th 1870! help me cash it in and you get a commission!
Send it to me.
yeah, if you can’t trust Mr. Banker, who can you trust.
Is mr banker someone from 2006? I can send a copy!
I just found an old realtor printout of her house, grandma, for sale in aurora Illinois. the address is 826 downer st. priced at 25k! I bet it’s still standing. can someone find the value in todays market?
826 West Downer Street?
Current Zestimate = $230,090
Pre-2008 Housing Bubble Peak (August 2006) = $309,000
Echo Bubble Peak (February 2014) = $235,000
Wow, those sure aren’t California prices! I could buy my daddy’s home! But I live here in balmy SD! Now what about those gold certificates?
JImmy Buffet
I Don’t Know Where I’m Going to Go when the Volcano Blow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjGHwGkFIFw - 150k - Cached - Similar pages
Aug 16, 2007 … Jimmy Buffett - Volcano ….
Earthquake Rattles Yellowstone National Park, No Damage Reported
A 4.8 magnitude earthquake rocked Yellowstone National Park in Montana early Sunday, but there were no immediate reports of damage.
Peter Cervelli, a spokesman for the U.S. Geological Survey’s Yellowstone Volcano Observatory said the quake, which hit at 6:34 a.m. local time, was centered almost in the middle of Yellowstone National Park, near the Norris Geyser Basin. He said any damage from the temblor would likely be minor, adding that there are not many visitors in the park at the moment.
The quake was not expected to trigger any volcanic activity, Cervelli said.
Jessica Turner, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Service, said the quake was the most powerful to hit the park since 1985. She said residents in the town of West Yellowstone felt the quake.
First published March 30 2014, 7:34 AM
Which is why we should be bleeding the geothermal energy there.
Everyone must check in.
Check.
Check
Do you want me to read the card?
Looks like the family is there and there getting ready to come to the microphone so, we’ll listen in.
I’m sorry, they’re getting ready to come to the microphone.
I never understood these comments but understood them to be worthy and re-posted. Would you care to provide some context? I’m not sure if I can read the card right now…
“Do you want me to read the card?”
google it
Beam me up the Port-a-Potties, Scotty
you got me going in circles - YouTube
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I have to apologize. I didn’t know what progressivism was so I looked it up. It is really, really evil.
Progressivism is a broad political philosophy based on the Idea of Progress, which asserts that advances in science, technology, economic development, and social organization can improve the human condition. Progressivism became highly significant during the Age of Enlightenment in Europe.
….Immanuel Kant identified progress as being a movement away from barbarism towards civilization. Eighteenth century philosopher and political scientist Marquis de Condorcet predicted that political progress would involve the disappearance of slavery, the rise of literacy, the lessening of inequalities between the sexes, reforms of harsh prisons and the decline of poverty.[3] wiki
“Progressivism is a broad political philosophy based on the Idea of Progress, which asserts that advances in science, technology, economic development, and social organization can improve the human condition.”
Progressivism in ‘Merica 2014 = Exterminate Whitey.
Here in the People’s Republic of Trayvon Martin, the “Idea of Progress” is whatever the Marxists, feminists, race hustlers, and other brownshirted jackboot thugs working for Social Justice, Inc. can cook up to destroy the rights of individuals and transfer that power to the Almighty State.
This isn’t your grandpa’s eighteenth century, yo.
Got 7.62×39?
‘got 7.62×39?’
why yes, yes i do.
http://www.picpaste.com/IMG_20140330_172513_260-hMaPmiMM.jpg
i’m checking out of here for a while, wake me up when it’s go time
This isn’t your grandpa’s eighteenth century, yo.
IMO. You have the inordinate, rare, smarta$$ skill and a sly sophisticated talent that skillfully bypasses the unsophisticated’s radar in calling them out on their unsophistication which gives you the right to call me a dumsh!t right now because obviously I’m wrong as usual.
TIL this word:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazumping
Used in a sentence:
Lola stood in front of a webcam wearing a green shirt, pants around ankles, hoping to make some dollars gazumping.
Working for the Clampdown:
“But, you grow up and you calm down and
You’re working for the clampdown
You start wearing the blue and brown and
You’re working for the clampdown
So you got someone to boss around
It makes you feel big now
You drift until you brutalize
You made your first kill now…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psB0cidB5bg
Gary Numan: Metal
“I need my treatment, it’s tomorrow they send me
Singing, “I am an American”, do you?
Picture this if I could make the change
I’d love to pull the wires from the wall, did you?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpBUmS5em0w
And RIP Kurt 1967-1994.
1994 feels like it was yesterday…
+1 GS.
….And I swear that I should have a gun…
CORRECTION:
“And I swear that I don’t have a gun” — Kurt Cobain, Nirvana circa 1991
God Bless ‘Merica, I love everything about it
CORRECTION:
No correction. I know the line very well, more than you imagine. That’s why I put should in italics.
That’s why I put should in italics.
Every legal gringo in Rio should have a gun to protect his family imo.
But we can’t really. Which is why I prefer America’s gun laws. Just my opinion.
I thought you said your brother’s sister’s coursing used to be a cop and sold you a gun?
I thought you said your brother’s sister’s coursing used to be a cop and sold you a gun?
Wrong. But you don’t even “think” LolaLOL. I see no evidence of thinking beyond a 12 year old, disturbed level.
Seriously. You have bad vibe preconceptions that fit your black-hearted delusions. You are creepy.
MC5 - Back in the U.S.A.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYgy0XrYaaw
This message brought to you by the National Association of Realtors:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUYKlQ7UvDQ
And that’s REALTOR® in all caps and with a circle R, thank you.
REALTOR®
Beware of REALTORS®
BEWARE…
A house represents a loss that never stops losing.