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Prices dropping everywhere. “Equity” vanishing. Better hope you got out in time.
If what you say comes true, I will be getting in on time. Buying right is the key to successful real estate investing. I hear you saying that time is coming.
It’s a long way down Jingle_Fraud.
How long will it take, HA?
A very long way down.
Cash is king.
Sell your big gains. Put the proceeds under your mattresses.
“We will meet again in Paris to sign a global agreement that will prevent the planet from experiencing global warming of as much as three or four degrees (Celsius), which could lead to catastrophe, if not war,”
This just in…
The Sun will not sign
Hollande raises specter of war over climate change
ReutersReuters – 23 hours ago
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande said failure to address global warming could lead to war, and called on G20 countries to act ahead of a climate change conference in Paris next year.
“We will meet again in Paris to sign a global agreement that will prevent the planet from experiencing global warming of as much as three or four degrees (Celsius), which could lead to catastrophe, if not war,” Hollande said at the G20 summit in Brisbane.
“One way to prevent conflicts and catastrophe is by taking decisions.”
Hollande hopes countries will sign binding agreements to limit global warming to two degrees at the conference, which will run from Nov. 30 to Dec. 11, 2015.
At the G20 summit, other nations overrode host Australia’s attempts to keep climate change off the agenda and agreed to call for strong action with the aim of adopting a binding protocol at the Paris conference.
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“Hollande hopes countries will sign binding agreements to limit global warming to two degrees at the conference, which will run from Nov. 30 to Dec. 11, 2015.”
July 30 to August 11, 2015 might be a better time for the global warming party.
Alexander Smith
First published November 17th 2014, 4:53 am
An icy blast that claimed at least six lives over the weekend was set to issue a second punch Monday and plunge large areas of the East, Midwest and South into a unseasonable freeze. Commuters in parts of the Midwest faced a “treacherous commute” on Monday after the deadly storm tore through their area. Forecasters said a new temperature drop later in the day would be accompanied by up to three feet of lake effect snow around the Great Lakes over the next two days, with the heaviest dump coming from Cleveland, Ohio, to Buffalo, New York. “It’s going to be painful,” said Kevin Roth, lead meteorologist at The Weather Channel. “You’re talking 24 to 36 inches coming down at a rate of up to five or six inches an hour—that’s what we mean when we say intense.”
While last week’s freeze focused on the Rockies and Plains states, this bout is set to hone in on the Midwest early Monday, then the Northeast and the South on Monday afternoon and overnight into Tuesday. Boston, New York and Washington, D.C., were bracing for temperatures in the low 30s, and other areas were set to reach the mid 20s, Roth said. In the South, highs failing to get above freezing could reach as far down as Tennessee and parts of North Carolina by Tuesday, according to The Weather Channel. “By Tuesday, the whole eastern half of the United States will have temperatures from 15 to 30 degrees below average,” said Tom Moore, a coordinating meteorologist for The Weather Channel. The winter storm that triggered winter watches and warnings in a diagonal band from Vermont to Arkansas was due to wrap up by Monday afternoon, having brought deaths on the roads in Texas, Ohio and Minnesota.
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At least most of the leaves are down and this will not shred too many trees.
‘Hollande said at the G20 summit in Brisbane…the aim of adopting a binding protocol at the Paris conference.’
How much pollution was and will be created by these guys flying all over the world to shake hands? They couldn’t do this with an internet based meet-up? Oh, but that wouldn’t provide the political photo op’s. I just don’t think these people are serious when they can’t ditch the private jets for a week.
“Oh, but that wouldn’t provide the political photo op’s.”
+1 Or a chance to diddle the new staffer.
Every single person I know who is a self-proclaimed “environmentalist” has flown to Europe at least once, and some multiple times, and trips to Latin America and Asia.
Because the “cultural education” of international travel somehow exempts them from their carbon footprint, bunch of f*ing hypocrites.
Regards,
Single occupant, two vehicle household
It really gets to the core of the problem. They scream, “it’ll be war”! Then they get on their jet and fly to wherever. And they wonder why the average schmoe doesn’t take them seriously. If Al Gore was really worried, he’d be the first to lose the limo and get a bike.
If the solution to everything wasn’t a new tax, the public might actually listen.
Fat-a**ed aging boomer Al Gore on a bike? That would make a great SNL skit, although they would never do it.
You’d want the helmet at bikey tights for the full effect.
Yes. The Village People costume and extra 80lbs around the waist is a prerequisite.
The solution is always another tax. Identifying the right problem to match the solution is the challenge. “We’re all going to die!”
Goon….From yesterday;
Comment by scdave
2014-11-16 11:08:04
Manning’s playing is incredible…Only team that may be able to beat them right now is possibly New England…
Ooops…Egg-on-face…
The solution is always another tax. Identifying the right problem to match the solution is the challenge. “We’re all going to die!”
One doesn’t need to go that far.
All one has to do is convince others that, “it’s so unfair that 30 million other people have that problem, even though I don’t, and nor does anyone else I know….”
Blah, blah, bah.
See ObamaCare.
Tell some Prius driver how much environmental damage is caused by mining the lithium for the batteries (if not their meds) and watch them squirm like toads.
I think you are confusing global warming with climate change. It will still get cold in November, and some places will get even colder over time. That is one of the side effects of global warming. Global warming does not, however, stop the sun from getting lower in the sky part of the year, thus reducing the warming of the atmosphere by solar radiation. That is caused by the tilting of the earth in its orbit around the sun. But pollutants in the air will slowly retain more and more of that heat over time, and that is what scientists who didn’t graduate from bible college call global warming.
Yes, we should watch out for those trace atmospheric gases that remain in trace quantities. Our future expansion of Government depends on it.
My question is why do we keep tilting the earth if is such a problem?
Ted Cruz is going to shut down the government until the earth stops tilting, which, as everyone knows, is caused by Obamacare.
“some places will get even colder over time. That is one of the side effects of global warming.”
Stop it. Just. Stop. It. There oughta be a law against the insane having access to the internet and putting up these absolutely crazy posts.
Here’s one for ya: When the bell rings, the air outside will turn green.
Palm, have you ever watched a weather report before? Let me try to explain to you how it works. Warming oceans can alter oceanic currents so that some areas, such as northern Europe, will experience even colder winters because colder oceanic currents will be carried farther north, while other areas will be warmer because the warm currents will stay farther south. Detroit was warmer than Dallas this morning because of the jet stream, but Michigan is getting more early snow because cold northwest winds are picking up moisture over the warmer waters of Lake Michigan, which hasn’t had time to cool yet. There will still be winters. But if there’s a winter, then that means global warming can’t be real, right? Palmetto, meet the green sky.
The unknown shouldn’t be called real.
Dude heroic effort, but don’t even try. Either he’s trolling or if he really believes his crap too far gone to have a hope of understanding.
I was a huge skeptic of climate change until I worked on an ocenographic research ship with a bunch of scientists, many of whom were doing research on chenges in the atmosphere and oceans over time. Almost all of them were quite conservative, both politically and fiscally, although their allegiance to the more conservative of our two parties was almost non-existent, mainly due to their moronic and epically ignorant stance on climate change.
Change that they were measuring right in front of me and with my assistance.
If ANY of these guys could uncover evidence that disproved human caused climate change they would have literally given their left testicle to be the one to do it as it would assure them of a place in history and a lifetime on the lecture circuit.
I don’t want it to be true either, but as I mentioned, I helped take the measurements myself.
WE ARE F*CKING UP THE ATMOSPHERE WITH THE 30+ *BILLION TONS* of C02 we pump out every year(and climbing).
The idiots that are too peabrained and/or too lazy to actually read up on how in an entire planetary system, an overall warming effect can translate to oscillating imbalances which cause cold areas to get even colder at times (and hot areas to get FREAKY hot sometimes too) are pretty much being willfully ignorant.
I think it’s pretty obvious to anyone that takes a minute to look at it that the earth’s climate systems operates in cycles. Yearly obviously, but also longer with things like El Nino/La Nina etc. Ups and downs. When you increase the temperature for THE ENTIRE PLANET by even a few degrees, this means that the hot parts of the cycles get hotter, and the cold parts get colder. Putting energy into the system causes the oscillations to get more violent and pronouced. The overall effect/trend is warming, but the practical upshot is hotter hots AND colder colds, at least in the near future.
Further out, who knows? The planet’s never experience anything quite like this according to the ice/fossil record.
Change that they were measuring right in front of me and with my assistance.
Can you tell me how you proved/showed that any change in climate is due to man’s actions? It’s one thing to show that the climate is changing. It’s another thing to establish the cause.
You state that folks would “give their left nut” to disprove climage change exists and its man-made. But how do you expect someone to disprove a negative? What if it’s impossible to prove the cause? One can’t prove or disprove either side, at that point.
Upon what do you base your assertion that it’s our actions causing it, vs a natural cycle, or other ‘natural’ causes?
Drum, what natural cycles are you referring to? Is it the earths “time of the month?” Your theory intrigues me. On one hand we have billions of tons of greenhouse gases, and on the other hand we have whatever it is you’re talking about. Please continue.
Why don’t you read information provided by the IPCC? Their summary for policy makers is available here:
http://www.climatechange2013.org/contributors/summary-for-policymakers
I took an ecology class a year or so ago and from what I remember, human caused climate change is greenhouse gases warming the lower atmosphere, which causes a bunch of chemical reactions in the way solar energy is absorbed and in the way ocean currents move vapor and the way vapor magnifies warming. It’s very complicated science and I do not pretend to understand it completely, but it is based on chemistry and how different chemicals react. Our entire universe is made up of chemicals, so it makes sense that when we are spewing tons of chemicals into the air, there is going to be a reaction, no? I.e. Chemical reaction???
P.S. Just because we don’t like he way a message is delivered or that the messenger is a hypocrite does not mean that climate change isn’t happening and IS going to effect our lives. California is running out of water. That is HUGE. And it has been predicted that climate change will cause droughts to become more extreme. If we can collectively do something to slow climate change, shouldn’t we try? What is the worst thing that can happen? We sacrifice a few things for a few years and we all die trying? We are going to die anyway, we may as well try to save our children, no?
‘Just because we don’t like he way a message is delivered or that the messenger is a hypocrite does not mean that climate change isn’t happening and IS going to effect our lives.’
My conclusion is nothing is going to change. I suggested to a person adamant about this that we might better just get ready for the inevitable. That was brushed off. It’s entirely possible this effect, if real, is too far along to be reversed. For instance, I’ve mentioned that globalism is the biggest creator of pollution. But you can bet the PTB would step on that like a bug. Oh, but they want to take some money out of my pocket for climate change. Every day, every year. How original is that? Here’s just one example of how F-d up this is: proposed extra taxes on hybrid cars.
Your theory intrigues me. On one hand we have billions of tons of greenhouse gases, and on the other hand we have whatever it is you’re talking about
Gotta love how quick folks are to attack here. Re-read my post. Did I make any assertions? Did I state any of my own beliefs?
No? Then what the heck do you think you’re attacking?
However, the post I was responding to made this assertion:
WE ARE F*CKING UP THE ATMOSPHERE WITH THE 30+ *BILLION TONS* of C02 we pump out every year(and climbing).
I’d say it’s perfectly reasonable, and even logical, for me to ask what the basis of this conclusion is, especially given the poster stated they took part in the data collection/science that led to this conclusion.
Do you just believe everything a stranger on the internet asserts? Is it more valid if 100 people assert it?
Drum, what natural cycles are you referring to? Is it the earths “time of the month?” Your theory intrigues me. On one hand we have billions of tons of greenhouse gases, and on the other hand we have whatever it is you’re talking about. Please continue.
Lots of cycles. Sunspot cycles being the most obvious. The Earth goes through warming and cooling cycles all the time on a geological scale. Do you think it was a lot colder when dinosaurs ruled the Earth? Were there some people long ago that caused that warm-up? What caused the ice ages?
You lose all credibility when 1) you don’t know anything about cycles in the Earth’s temperature and 2) you don’t understand what DJ is saying about disproving a negative.
Lastly, please explain why Greenland was called GREENland. And given that it was warm enough to be green there, also explain why the world didn’t end, polar bears didn’t become extinct - and who caused the warming…
People who say “global warming is real” should be called retards.
Jonathan Gruber
You are not paying attention to how the warmist narrative is written.
Go to the Drudge Report website, and click on any random article about unseasonable cold weather (there are several linked from Drudge at any time) and don’t even bother reading the article, just scroll down to the online article comments.
This is where the narrative is scripted.
“Global warming” has been effectively scripted as being socialist, European, and gay.
“Real American” rugged individualists demonstrate their masculinity by driving vehicles that get less than 15 miles per gallon.
Riding public transportation is for black and brown (not Real American) poors.
Riding a bicycle is European and/or gay (probably both, look at those tight shorts).
http://www.businessinsider.com/conservatives-purposely-making-cars-spew-black-smoke-2014-7
H8R
I thought the Drudge Report was an LGBT hook-up site. Live and learn.
Dman,
How much do you add to the Enviro-Nut tithe every week, month or year?
Rather than ask others to cough up the dough to cover the cost of your religious beliefs, why not cover the cost yourself?
This link just for you, MacBeth. Happy Monday
http://www.businessinsider.com/climate-change-affects-everything-2014-11
My offer is this. Nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.
“scientists who didn’t graduate from bible college…”
Apparently you have to hate those with Bibles to join this club. There is a great irony there. From where do such people draw a discipline of Truth, much less a basis for benevolence? I wonder about this sort of thing sometimes.
I have no problem with bible colleges, but science requires an outlook unencumbered by dogma. In the same vein, I wouldn’t want Bill Nye performing my last rites either.
I went to a college that taught both Theology and Science, and I studied both. They did a great job of not forcing one to mindlessly conform to the dogma of the other and my experience was a balance of ideas with no insurmountable contradictions anywhere. If two things are contradictory, maybe your understanding of one or both is incomplete. That’s where I am on most everything and I am pretty sure everyone else is too.
I don’t know which everyone else’s you are referring to, but other peoples refusal to believe something that all the evidence supports doesn’t prove that my understanding is incomplete.
However, your understanding is incomplete. Do you completely understand why we were heading into another iceage in 1970?
my understanding is incomplete.
I completely agree with you!
Don’t take it personally. I prefer to judge the validity of the facts before I make an opinion. Some people just like to have an opinion.
Comment by phony scandals
2014-11-17 06:17:03
Hollande raises specter of war over climate change
ca.news.yahoo.com/hollande-raises-specter-war-over-climate-change-133133544.html
Will legalizing 10 million illegals result in no more divided government in 2016?
Yeah, if this happens and the Rs just sit there holding their privates and whining about Obama, they can just blow off the 2016 election. I’m really tired of getting mau-mau’ed on immigration, day in and day out.
More to the point, if this happens, we are done as a country. Believe it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehH8KMIxntQ
It is supposedly happening this week. I had a friend whose Dad was an air traffic controller during the Reagan ATC controversy. Because of that he vowed never to vote R again in his life. I wonder how many will do the same because of Pen Amnesty?
Count me as one of those. I sat out the mid-terms. The Rs are bigger frauds than the Dems, IMO. All the stuff they complain about, they put in place themselves.
Speaking of St. Ronnie, he was the first to come up with an “executive amnesty”. The Rs dissolved Glass-Steagall. The Rs came up with NAFTA, even though Billyboy signed it. Mitt Romney gave us Romneycare, the blueprint for Obamacare (and btw, Gruber was one of his consultants). John Roberts gave Ocare the force of law. And don’t get me started on GWB and his endless wars.
I gotta say, though, the dems are pretty good at catching the ball and running with it.
It’s one heck of a relay race.
R = D = We’re screwed.
The “Rs” you cite are all NeoCons.
NeoCons = Progressives.
Both parties have been co-opted.
Take a good, long look at the folks who have co-opted both parties. The “policy makers”. The Grubers, the Nulands, etc.
“R = D = We’re screwed.”
But day after day the punks and pukes post pablum about it.
Other than keeping the heat on high on the @$$wipe that holds office from top to bottom, irrespective or R or D status, there is nothing to discuss.
PS- Once that thin veil of D. vs. R nonsense is peeled away, you’ll begin to see the motive of these punks. It’s about the money and keeping the big lie alive. Don’t buy into the confidence game.
Palmetto, you are correct. Based on my read of the facts: we are living in a fascist state, In the rigorous definition. Corporatist interests instantiated through government implementation.
“Both parties have been co-opted.
Take a good, long look at the folks who have co-opted both parties.”
It’s the lawyers.
Speaking of St. Ronnie, he was the first to come up with an “executive amnesty”.
I believe the immigration amnesty under RR was a bipartisan congressionally passed bill that was signed by Ronald Reagan. There was no “executive amnesty” involved.
The Rs are part of the same corporate-statist duopoly that gave us Obama and dictates his policies (which are no different than those of his “opponents” or predecessors). So whining about Obama is all they’ve got.
“As a result of what I said at CNBC, I was called into management where I was told that I was quote, ‘Disrespecting the office of the president,’”
Fox Biz Host: My Old Bosses At CNBC Silenced O-Care Criticism (VIDEO)
ByDylan ScottPublishedNovember 15, 2014, 1:47 PM EST
Melissa Francis, once employed by CNBC and now a host for Fox Business, accused her former corporate overseers Friday of trying to silence her because she had criticized the Affordable Care Act.
It seems that MIT professor Jonathan Gruber’s controversial comments about the law have inspired Francis to open up about the censorship by her employer-turned-competitor.
“They aren’t the only villains in this story, though,” Francis said of Gruber and the White House. “They’re also depending on the liberal media to cover up the truth.”
“It is shocking, but it actually doesn’t surprise me because when I was at CNBC, I pointed out to my viewers that the math of Obamacare simply didn’t work,” she continued. “When I did that, I was silenced.”
Francis said she warned her CNBC audience that some people would pay more for coverage, that the “keep your plan” promise was a lie, etc.
“As a result of what I said at CNBC, I was called into management where I was told that I was quote, ‘Disrespecting the office of the president,’” she said, “by telling what turned out to be the absolute truth.”
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Pravda famously said that Obama in four years accomplished more to spread socialism than the Soviet Union managed during its entire existence.
The MSM in toto is America’s Pravda.
The ends justify the means.
#FundamentalTransformationOfAmerica
Comment by phony scandals
2014-11-17 06:58:40
Fox Biz Host: My Old Bosses At CNBC Silenced O-Care Criticism (VIDEO)
talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/melissa-francis-cnbc-obamacare
2nd Grader’s Homework Teaches ‘The Government GIVES Us Our Rights’
Truthstream Media
TruthstreamMedia.com
November 16th, 2014
Apparently this homework sheet given out to 2nd graders about “Being a Good Citizen” is teaching them that the government GIVES us our rights.
And the government doesn’t just give us our rights, but the government specifically gives us “special privileges called rights.”
2. When you are a citizen you have rights. Rights are special privileges the government gives you. In our country, you have free speech. You are also given the right to chooes a religion. In America, the press is free to tell you what is happening in the world. The Bill of Rights lists the freedoms given to citizens. These rights are very important. Many people in the world do not have freedoms like we do.
A derivative of the word “give” is used no less than three times just in example number two. Number three begins with, “Because the government gives us rights, we have the duty to be good citizens.” Number four tells us being a good citizen means “you show your love for your country.” We are told to obey all laws. We are then told someday (in number seven) we will be given the right to vote, which will be an “honor.” It goes on to tell us to pay our taxes.
This is what eight-year-old kids are being taught in this country.
Wait, did I say taught? I meant being indoctrinated to blindly believe. They might as well exchange the word “citizen” in “being a good citizen” for “statist” or “fascist” or “communist.”
The only thing this sheet didn’t say was “Obey. Consume. Sleep.”
Not that it should even have to be said, but our rights are inalienable. Definition: unable to be taken away from or given away by the possessor. Why? Because they are inherent. Definition: existing in something as a permanent, essential, or characteristic attribute. The government is not in a position (although it is trying as hard as it’s tyrannical centralized little heart can) to grant or give rights which we already have. By the same token, those rights cannot be taken away by the government either.
You wouldn’t know it from this worksheet however. That’s the real message these kids are getting here. Because if the kids can be taught to believe the government gives them their rights, then would that same government not also be able to condition them that it can take their rights away as well?
Apparently this homework sheet given out to 2nd graders about “Being a Good Citizen” is teaching them that the government GIVES us our rights.
See more at: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/2nd-graders-homework-teaches-the-government-gives-us-our-rights_112014#sthash.ZZgJuLrz.dpuf
Well, when your life’s blood is dependent upon draining wealth out of the economy and the citizenry, you gotta come up with something!
Washington. The capital of the Fatherland (or Motherland, if you find “Fatherland” offensive).
Not enough parents realize that the public school system is in the business of communist indoctrination first and education second.
#FundamentalTransformationOfAmerica
If our rights cannot be taken away or given away, then why do we have prisons full of people?
“If our rights cannot be taken away or given away, then why do we have prisons full of people?”
You must be talking about…
Amendment 28
The right of the people to murder, pillage & rape shall not be infringed.
Do the people in prison have all their rights? No. So someone took their rights away. So our rights apparently can be taken away, and you seem quite enthused by the idea.
And now for some good news to kick off your Monday
“The number of homeless children in the U.S. has surged in recent years to an all-time high, amounting to one child in 30, according to a comprehensive state-by-state report that blames the nation’s high poverty rate, the lack of affordable housing and the impacts of pervasive domestic violence.
The problem is severe in California, which has one-eighth of the U.S. population but accounts for more than one-fifth of the homeless children with a tally of nearly 527,000.”
http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_26950913/report-child-homelessness-reaches-all-time-high
What those homeless kidz need are $500,000 starter homes!
“You’re all welcome in California”
- Jerry Brown
#SanctuaryState
“…as long as you register and vote Democrat.”
Continuing with my gun grabbing from people prescribed serious psychotropic drugs like Haldol and lithium, I would also like to add anyone who is on serious opiates like OxyContin, methadone, Oxycodone, long term. Prescription opiate addiction is a serious problem.
Why don’t you try some car grabbing, you would save a lot more people.
“Continuing with my gun grabbing”
“I would also like to add anyone who is on serious opiates like OxyContin, methadone, Oxycodone, long term. Prescription opiate addiction is a serious problem.”
Impaired Driving: Get the Facts
How big is the problem?
In 2012, 10,322 people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for nearly one-third (31%) of all traffic-related deaths in the United States.1
Of the 1,168 traffic deaths among children ages 0 to 14 years in 2012, 239 (20%) involved an alcohol-impaired driver.1
Of the 239 child passengers ages 14 and younger who died in alcohol-impaired driving crashes in 2012, over half (124) were riding in the vehicle with the alcohol-impaired driver.1
In 2010, over 1.4 million drivers were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or narcotics.3 That’s one percent of the 112 million self-reported episodes of alcohol-impaired driving among U.S. adults each year.4
Drugs other than alcohol (e.g., marijuana and cocaine) are involved in about 18% of motor vehicle driver deaths. These other drugs are often used in combination with alcohol.5
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Every day, almost 30 people in the United States die in motor vehicle crashes that involve an alcohol-impaired driver. This amounts to one death every 51 minutes.1 The annual cost of alcohol-r
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d. How do we know that drug use causes crashes and impacts highway traffic safety?
The Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), a census of fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes, provides data on the presence of drugs among drivers. Of the 12,055 drivers with known test results in 2009, 33% were positive for drugs. While the number of drivers killed in motor vehicle crashes has declined over the past five years, the number of drivers positive for drugs has increased by 5%. ix
The Institute for Behavior and Health, Inc. conservatively estimates that 20% of motor vehicle accidents are attributable to Drugged Driving. x Based on that figure, IBH estimates:
6,761 People died in 2009 as a result of Drugged Driving xi
440,000 People were injured in car crashes as a result of Drugged Driving xii
$59.9 billion in costs every year are attributable to Drugged Driving xiii
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Regrettably, the most reliable insurance any of us have in protecting ourselves is to drive a vehicle that has larger mass than the drunk and drugged-up drivers.
Yes, that means a gas (or diesel) hog.
I’m due to replace my wheels at some point. Seriously thinking to size up, for this reason. It will be worse with amnesty - the Latin ethic sez you demonstrate your macho by driving drunk, unregistered, uninsured - preferably in a stolen “cool” car.
I agree with that also. We live in a society of unsafe people on the roads due to prescription drug abuse, whether opiates or psych meds. Make DLs contingent on certifying you aren’t on either opiates or serious psych meds.
We could always try some Gang Grabbing.
America Doesn’t Have a Gun Problem, It Has a Gang Problem
December 31, 2012 by Daniel Greenfield
Chicago’s murder numbers have hit that magic 500. Baltimore’s murder toll has passed 200. In Philly, it’s up to 324, the highest since 2007. In Detroit, it’s approaching 400, another record. In New Orleans, it’s almost at 200. New York City is down to 414 from 508. In Los Angeles, it’s over 500. In St. Louis it’s 113 and 130 in Oakland. It’s 121 in Memphis and 76 in Birmingham.
Washington, D.C., home of the boys and girls who can solve it all, is nearing its own big 100.
Those 12 cities alone account for nearly 3,200 dead and nearly a quarter of all murders in the United States. And we haven’t even visited sunny Atlanta or chilly Cleveland.
A breakdown of the Chicago killing fields shows that 83% of those murdered in Chicago last year had criminal records. In Philly, it’s 75%. In Milwaukee it’s 77% percent. In New Orleans, it’s 64%. In Baltimore, it’s 91%. Many were felons who had served time. And as many as 80% of the homicides were gang related.
Chicago’s problem isn’t guns; it’s gangs. Gun control efforts in Chicago or any other major city are doomed because gangs represent organized crime networks which stretch down to Mexico, and trying to cut off their gun supply will be as effective as trying to cut off their drug supply.
America’s murder rate isn’t the work of the suburban and rural homeowners who shop for guns at sporting goods stores and at gun shows, and whom news shows profile after every shooting, but by the gangs embedded in the urban areas controlled by the Democratic machine. The gangs who drive up America’s murder rate look nothing like the occasional mentally ill suburban white kid who goes off his medication and decides to shoot up a school. Lanza, like most serial killers, is a media aberration, not the norm.
National murder statistics show that blacks are far more likely to be killers than whites and they are also far more likely to be killed. The single largest cause of homicides is the argument. 4th on the list is juvenile gang activity with 676 murders, which combined with various flavors of gangland killings takes us nearly to the 1,000 mark. America has more gangland murders than Sierra Leone, Eritrea and Puerto Rico have murders.
Our national murder rate is not some incomprehensible mystery that can only be attributed to the inanimate tools, the steel, brass and wood that do the work. It is largely the work of adult males from age 18 to 39 with criminal records killing other males of that same age and criminal past.
If this were going on in Rwanda, El Salvador or Sierra Leone, we would have no trouble knowing what to make of it, and silly pearl-clutching nonsense about gun control would never even come up. But this is Chicago, it’s Baltimore, it’s Philly and NOLA; and so we refuse to see that our major cities are in the same boat as some of the worst trouble spots in the world.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/…/america-doesnt-have-a-gun-problem-it-has-a-gang-problem/ - 107k -
And hammer grabbing, we are going to need some hammer grabbing too.
FBI: More People Killed with Hammers, Clubs Each Year than Rifles
AWR Hawkins 3 Jan 2013
Think about it: In 2005, the number of murders committed with a rifle was 445, while the number of murders committed with hammers and clubs was 605. In 2006, the number of murders committed with a rifle was 438, while the number of murders committed with hammers and clubs was 618.
And so the list goes, with the actual numbers changing somewhat from year to year, yet the fact that more people are killed with blunt objects each year remains constant.
For example, in 2011, there was 323 murders committed with a rifle but 496 murders committed with hammers and clubs.
While the FBI makes is clear that some of the “murder by rifle” numbers could be adjusted up slightly, when you take into account murders with non-categorized types of guns, it does not change the fact that their annual reports consistently show more lives are taken each year with these blunt objects than are taken with Feinstein’s dreaded rifle.
Another interesting fact: According to the FBI, nearly twice as many people are killed by hands and fists each year than are killed by murderers who use rifles.
http://www.breitbart.com/…People-Killed-With-Hammers-and-Clubs-Each-Year-Than-With-Rifles - 132k -
This is a difficult narrative to frame.
On one “side” you have the badge lickers and uniform fetishists who get a tingle in their trousers every time the cops waste some black kid.
On the other “side” you have the Social Justice Warriors™ who conveniently overlook that Michael Brown had just robbed a convenience store, was 300 pounds, and was lunging for Darren Wilson’s gun when he got capped.
Perhaps the narrative is that there is no narrative, good luck to the real journalists trying to frame this one.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/in-st-louis-protesters-plan-an-orderly-response-to-indictment-news-1416178350
Cops should just stand down and let the whole pop stand blow to kingdom come. Grab a donut, hide out on a side street.
Then we could rename the place “Newark”.
LOL - that’s quite a statement.
On the other “side” you have the Social Justice Warriors™ who conveniently overlook that Michael Brown had just robbed a convenience store, was 300 pounds, and was lunging for Darren Wilson’s gun when he got capped.
Your first point is irrelevant and your second is just a claim by the cops.
MYTH: Wilson stopped Brown because he was a suspect in a robbery.
FACT: Wilson did not know Brown was a suspect in a strong-arm robbery that happened moments before the shooting, according to Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson. Wilson stopped Brown and his friend for walking in the middle of the street, Jackson said.
MYTH: Autopsies tell us EXACTLY what happened when Brown was shot.
FACT: Police say Brown struggled with Wilson inside his police car, then reached for Wilson’s weapon. Brown’s family and some witnesses say Wilson killed Brown as he raised his hands in surrender. Multiple pathologists say the autopsy performed by the St. Louis County medical examiner and the pathologist hired by Brown’s family could support either version.
Pathologists say forensic science alone can’t determine whether Wilson justifiably shot the teen. Judy Melinek, a forensic pathologist based in California, says she was quoted out of context in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch story that said she thought the St. Louis County medical examiner’s autopsy of Brown supported Wilson’s claim that Brown was reaching for his gun. Melinek and others say crucial missing information including blood-spatter evidence, the number and location of bullet casings, the height of the officer’s weapon and other ballistic information must be factored in to determine what happened.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/11/15/myths-and-facts-on-ferguson-shooting/19085451/
Fact #1: Jaywalking is still a crime. Telling people not to walk in the middle of the road is normal procedure. Who said what to whom after that point is hearsay. Neither side is credible: Brown’s associate has proven to be a liar. While Wilson is most definitely a cop. Which everyone knows makes him suspect to embellishment or flat out lying.
Fact #2: Is nothing more than a circle jerk at this point. Neither side can prove the other one as false. Police think that Brown got what he had coming. Brown and his supporters think the cop was out of line.
10 out of 10. There will be riots if he is indicted. There will be riots if he’s not. Footlocker beware.
I suppose that you have a point on issue # 1. The cop didn’t know about the robbery, but nevertheless had a valid reason for detaining Mr. Brown. This issue is whether he had a valid reason for killing him. However, the robbery issue appears to be important to many people, as it partially justifies the killing.
wow, I never thought Mikey would be defending Michael Brown. I guess you never know.
I’m not defending him, just stating some of the things that are currently known. It’s quite possible that we’ll never know the full story. In that case, it would unreasonable for anyone to defend or denounce him.
Heading to my folks’ place for Thanksgiving…walking distance away from Ferguson.
Wish me luck!
Fitzgerald: Mob fury imperils justice in Ferguson
Monday, November 17, 2014
Joe Fitzgerald
Did you, too, flinch when you saw recent TV footage of merchants in Ferguson, Mo., placing plywood panels over their storefront windows?
It’s a scene we see all the time up here, whenever a Nor’easter is about to blow through a community; those plywood sheets are a defense against nature’s fury.
But the plywood being nailed by businessmen in Ferguson is a defense against the expected fury of a lawless mob, ready to riot if a grand jury does not deliver officer Darren Wilson’s head on a platter.
Of course no one in that crowd knows the specifics of what went down when Wilson fatally shot Michael Brown. All it knows, and all that seems to matter, is that Wilson is a white cop and Brown was a black kid, meaning The Man must be guilty, ipso facto.
The violence triggered by that shooting three months ago was like a spontaneous combustion, erupting in the heat of the moment, putting it in some context, not unlike the furious reaction to George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin 16 months ago.
But what we’re now seeing is premeditated anarchy. It’s almost like watching a weather forecast as so-called community leaders warn of similarly violent consequences if the legal system does not give the insurrectionists the pound of flesh they demand, pertinent facts notwithstanding.
Since when is lawlessness trumpeted like a coming attraction?
The word for that is extortion, and it’s repugnant.
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So, savers are bad, right? They’re selfishly not spending (enough) money, and improving their net worth. These people are bad, in our modern Keynesian paradigm.
But… “savings” via a house is good (although it’s not really savings, any more than paying off a big RV or boat is savings). Money spent on debt service and interest is good, in our modern Keynesian paradigm.
There was another economic paradigm in which self improvement was considered bad: “From each according to his ability to each according to his needs.” If you were unwilling to selflessly work for your neighbor, you were a bad actor.
I think this shows the basic problem with modern economic thought - it doesn’t accurately model the individual. Some European cultures fit the high debt / high spending mode. Other European cultures fit the high savings / low spending mode. Japan is like the latter too.
An economic model which coerces people into behaving contrary to their best interests (living deep in debt, hand to mouth spending, this is not how the wealthy live, but it’s how the pundits want us to live) is a basically flawed economic model, as surely as communism’s basic model was flawed.
“Savings” doesn’t require “credit” so therefore, it is bad.
“Savings” promotes ethics and morals whereas “credit” does the opposite.
“Savings” represents wealth for individuals. “Credit” represents wealth for statists.
Savings and no debt is the way to not sanction the State.
“Savings” represents wealth for individuals. “Credit” represents wealth for
statistsbankers.Selfish hoarder loves your post! Yes I’m bad to have zero debt.
It’s no coincidence that I’m an agorist - living freely and enjoying living freely - because I have zero debt and lots of alternative assets outside realtard estate and american stocks.
alternative assets outside realtard estate and american stocks.
Yeah, I have saving in those kinds of assets as well - TIPS, municipal bond funds, corporate bond funds. In other words, my savings funds someone else’s borrowing. If those borrowers weren’t out there taking on debt, I’d get zero interest on my savings instead of getting at least a little something.
Getting zero on your cash is better than losing it by buying junk like houses.
Remember…. Every day that passes, your cash becomes more valuable. Hold onto every dollar you’ve got. You’ll be glad you did.
And you never miss a chance to remind us that you’re living freely and have zero debts and encumberances, SH.
Seriously few people understand the tie between being debt-free and politically-free.
Dave Ramsey does say “live like no one else so that you will live like no one else.” I don’t think he himself is aware of the broader meaning.
It starts with being debt free. Being debt-free and showing it by the car you drive and clothes you wear is one trait so rare that you realize you are different.
Realizing gains in your most successful assets is another way. Few people sell near the top. Or buy near the bottom. When a stock has outlived the normal duration of its market cycle, it’s past time to move.
Also most people here on this blog are set apart from the rest by renting instead of buying.
You notice so much of your values differ from the values of society and you then think maybe your political values differ. Yup. They should. Because you have a habit of questioning memes and examining them in detail. Ergo libertarian.
I like it.
Short-sellers in limbo waiting for mortgage forgiveness tax relief
By Kenneth R. Harney
November 16 2014
David Foster, who sold his condo in Chicago last month, isn’t plugged in to Capitol Hill’s political games. But he has banked the financial future of his family on Congress accomplishing at least one thing during the post-election session: renewing the expired Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act so that he and his wife and three young children aren’t crushed by taxes next year on the $100,000 his lender agreed to cancel as part of a short sale.
Like thousands of other owners across the country who have been struggling with underwater properties, Foster, a 33-year-old campus pastor with a local ministry group, knew he was taking a risk when he negotiated the short sale and debt cancellation. In a short sale, the lender allows a new purchaser to buy a house at a price below the mortgage amount owed by the seller. As part of the deal, the lender typically forgives the unpaid balance.
The risk Foster took was this: If the Senate and House do not pass an extension of the mortgage debt relief law during the lame-duck session, the full principal balance his lender wrote off on his mortgage probably will be treated as ordinary income for 2014. Although Foster never received a dollar of that “income” in his wallet, under the federal tax code he’ll owe a tax payment to the government — $28,000 — on the $100,000 his lender wrote off.
Where’s this headed? No one can yet say for sure, but Alexis Eldorrado, the Chicago realty broker who helped Foster accomplish his short sale, says Congress needs to find a way to do the right thing for thousands of financially pressed owners. To fail to pass one more extension, she says, “would be unconscionable.”
http://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/la-fi-harney-20141116-story.html - 131k -
Sooo … why did he sell it? Did he get a pay cut from his youth pastor ministry? Or did he just want to unload it because it plunged in value and he thought he could just walk away and owe no income tax on the forgiven amount?
What would Jesus do?
I’ll tell you what Jesus would do. He would pay back money to the bank that he promised to pay, pay his due to Caesar(IRS), and not expect to get bailed out of his gamble on real estate appreciation that didn’t pay off like he hoped it would.
He also wouldn’t be contributing to unaffordable housing and generally being part of the problem.
“Short-sellers in limbo waiting for mortgage forgiveness tax relief”
Tax forgiveness cargo cultists, unite!
One in 30 US children are homeless as rates rise in 31 states, report finds
State-by-state report links racial disparities, increasing poverty and domestic violence to rising rates as southern states rank particularly poorly
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/17/report-one-in-30-us-children-homeless
“southern states rank particularly poorly”
That’s unpossible, 2brony has posted hundreds of posts here proving that the South is an economic utopia. The South is a bastion of American Exceptionalism, leading the country in:
Population without health insurance
Infant mortality
Child poverty
Tobacco use
Obesity
Diabetes
Creation of low wage jobs
Incarceration rates
Being a net “taker” of federal tax dollars
Have you ever been to the South, frankie? And Florida doesn’t count
No the only places I have visited in the Americas are Antigua and the Dominican republic. Can recommend the first, not so much the second.
Sounds like a corporate paradise.
1 in 30 kids have a parent that is mentally ill, abusive, addicted, incarcerated, otherwise vacant or a broken down debt donkey.
It’s probably more than that. There’s a probably at 1 in 10 kids who have parents with out of control debt.
The Swiss maybe want their gold. The Russians want gold. The Chinese want gold.
Probably a price collapse nearby.
Business Insider - Israeli Prime Minister Has A Warning For The US
“Netanyahu said Israel is “fully coordinated” with the US in the fight against ISIS, which he characterized as a “global conflict” against jihadists.
http://www.businessinsider.com/netanyahus-warning-for-the-us-dont-get-tricked-by-iran-2014-11
Fully coordinated? LOLZ
AIPAC has “fully coordinated” the continued transfer of $10+ billion of American taxpayer dollars to Israel every year
The ADL and SPLC have “fully coordinated” that any criticism of the fascist apartheid state Israel is anti-semitic and equivalent to supporting Nazi Germany
Sheldon Adelson has “fully coordinated” the purchase and ownership of the 2016 Republican presidential nominee
How many IDF soldiers fought alongside the U.S. in Afghanistan and Iraq? Oh, wait, they were too busy “fully coordinating” a bulldozer with Rachel Corrie’s face
All the mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging, Earth-is-6,000-years-old, Christian Zionists should “fully coordinate” some burial plots for all of their sons
And don’t forget to “fully coordinate” that Rapture insurance policy for your pets
Touchdown I….I
Just follow the big money flow… direction, volume and velocity.
I’d suggest googling the war nerd; don’t always agree on his take on matters but can’t say he doesn’t have interesting views.
For 2014 so far, the Midwest is one of the very few places on Earth that is colder than normal. Nearly everywhere else is hotter than normal:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/service/global/map-percentile-mntp/201401-201409.gif
Joe Sixpack in Podunk, Indiana says it’s cold outside and there ain’t no global warming. His awareness, limited to his small corner of the world, is oblivious to the warming occurring over most of the planet.
Drudge Report link clickers are adult thalidomide children, born with one finger, and physically and intellectually capable only to click click click those Drudge links
The lucky ones born with a finger on each hand can not only click Drudge links but can slowly type out online article comments on articles from Breitbart, World Net Daily, Weekly Standard, Daily Caller, Washington Times, et cetera
What happened to Krusty Perkins? Did he go underwater completely and drown?
There are 51 million families on food stamps today. Unimaginable.
What time does Dancing With The Kardashians start?
Black Flag - TV Party
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3yUQFluNq0
This show had it all, war on women, racism, Tea baggers you name it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxyR_zOzW-s - 295k -
Don’t talk about anything else, we don’t wanna know!
We’re dedicated to our favorite shows!
No pizza today for region VIII.
That’s my only real loss. I don’t get emotionally invested in the concussionball game beyond what kind of free food I can get out of it. Maybe the real reason they lost is that the cops took away all their vicodin before the game, LOLZ.
Mission Complete for the Fed - the oligarchs are riding high as 2.5 million US kids are homeless.
http://www.theburningplatform.com/2014/11/16/what-the-fed-has-wrought/
The chart below might be the most powerful indictment of the Federal Reserve and our corporate fascist empire of debt ever created. Some people don’t get charts. Charts tell a story. This chart tells the story of elitist bankers supporting the agenda of a corporate fascist state, resulting in the gutting of the middle class. Anyone who views this chart in a positive manner is either a Federal Reserve banker or their paycheck is dependent upon the continuation of the pillaging of the working class. Corporate profits are at all-time highs. Profit margins have always reverted to the mean throughout modern history. If they remain at all-time highs then something is terribly wrong.
If you like your crony capitalism, you can keep your crony capitalism.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-17/mission-accomplished-stocks-homeless-kids-hit-all-time-highs
Mission Accomplished: Stocks & Homeless Kids Hit All-Time Highs
Forward!
According to the NAR, there’s never been a better time to buy in Ferguson.
http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/11/17/nixon-activates-missouri-national-guard/
“there’s never been a better time to buy in Ferguson.”
Never been a better time to buy what, plywood and ammo?
Tenth Amendment
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
“One of the things I’ll be emphasizing in this meeting,” he said, “is the fact that we are not just going to be waiting for legislation in order to make sure that we’re providing Americans the kind of help that they need.”
“I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone,” the president asserted, “and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward in helping to make sure our kids are getting the best education possible, making sure that our businesses are getting the kind of support and help they need to grow and advance, to make sure that people are getting the skills that they need to get those jobs that our businesses are creating.”
If at first you don’t succeed, lie, lie again.
Obama: We didn’t mislead on health care bill
David Jackson, USA TODAY 8:09 a.m. EST November 17, 2014
President Obama says he and his administration did not mislead the public on the financing of the health care law, disputing statements by a consultant who said supporters of the bill took advantage of the “stupidity” of American voters.
“The fact that an adviser who was never on our staff expressed an opinion that I completely disagree with in terms of the voters is not a reflection on the actual process that was run,” Obama told reporters at a news conference following the G-20 summit in Brisbane, Australia.
From Politico:
“While Gruber was not a staffer, he was a paid consultant whose models were used to help assess the impact of various policy changes being considered as part of health care legislation. Official logs show he visited the White House about a dozen times between 2009 and this year.
“Despite Obama’s dismissive tone toward Gruber, the president has acknowledged that some of his own statements about the law were ill-advised, in particular his repeated promises that if Americans liked their health care plans they could keep them. In fact, many plans were deemed inadequate under the law, leading people to get notices that their plans were being canceled.”
http://www.usatoday.com/…/19129763/ - 290k -
Region VIII
And may the odds be ever in your favor Region VIII
Would any of our resident Obama Zombies care to reveal if they’re still bamboozled by “hope ‘n change” or if they’ve seen the light? Although from what I’ve observed, you can’t fix stupid.
There’s never been a better time to get out of debt!
Still debt-free in Region IX.
You do know that makes you an enemy right?
Obama in 2006: I’ve ‘liberally’ stolen ideas from Gruber
President Obama said in 2006 that he had stolen ideas “liberally” from the professor under fire for saying voter “stupidity” aided ObamaCare’s passage.
Video unearthed by the conservative Washington Free Beacon Monday showed Obama praising Jonathan Gruber and other liberal policy experts as some of the “brightest minds” in academia.
“Many of them I have stolen ideas from liberally, people ranging from [economist] Robert Gordon to [economist] Austan Goolsbee [to] Jon Gruber,” Obama said in the clip.
Gruber is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology whose past criticism of voters has gone viral in the last week. He served as a consultant during the passage of the healthcare law and its counterpart in the Bay State under former Gov. Mitt Romney (R).
The Obama administration and congressional Democrats are trying to distance themselves from Gruber as more videos emerge.
thehill.com/…/224423-obama-in-2006-ive-liberally-stolen-ideas-from-gruber - 172k -
The People’s Republic of New York is enforcing back-door gun confiscation by taking the handguns of registered gun owners who die. To all Democrat voters who are party to the gutting of the 2nd Amendment, without which the rest of our rights will be irrevocably nullified by the statists: F**k you.
http://www.wsbradio.com/news/news/national/report-cops-collect-guns-after-permit-owners-die/nh8jx/#__federated=1