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Ever since I was a little boy I’ve loved maps. Take a look at the maps on this link. It isolates water, corn, brush, evergreen and deciduous trees, and urban areas in the U.S.
Cornfields, Trees, and Water: Mapping the Rest of America
http://www.citylab.com/design/2015/03/cornfields-trees-and-water-mapping-the-rest-of-america/388754/
“[C]orn fields take up 91 million acres of the American landscape,” writes the author in an email. “This is a staggering 4.83 percent of the continuous United States.
“Ever since I was a little boy I’ve loved maps.”
Indeed, enter ESRI ArcGIS.
Ever since I was a little boy I’ve loved maps.
Odd, me too!
But I won’t give you the map to my gold
Your gold is in the pantry behind the oatmeal. Everyone knows that.
Somebody may not need a map to your gold. They may have simply watched you dig your hole, and it’s already gone. That’s the problem with burying things outdoors- you can never be 100% certain somebody is not watching you.
Think about that tonight as you go to sleep. Now you’re never going to stop worrying about your gold. You’ll have an urge to check on it, but every time you check on your gold, you are increasing the risk of somebody finding it. Your gold is never safe, nor is your mind from the worry.
You are single with no kids, too, so somebody needs to know where your gold is in the event you die. I’m sure you would like it to go to family. That means leaving written instructions to find the gold, something else which needs to be hidden/protected. These instructions to the gold have to be just as secure as the gold itself, so they can essentially be considered “the gold.” These are somewhat easier to hide, but somebody needs to know where to find them, and that they need to be found.
They will have to go into a will or something, and into a safe deposit box. Unfortunately, safe deposit boxes are NOT safe. In fact, I have read several reports of people who say that their items were shuffled/moved with the obvious responsible party being the bank. This means the bank is going through peoples’ items. That’s not where you want your gold instructions. So back to worrying you go.
I’m not too squeamish about safe deposit boxes. Had some for years. I never heard of the issue you talk about on safe deposit boxes. Probably what you read are urban myths.
The older I get the more likely my precious items will be in my safe deposit boxes.
“You are single with no kids, too, so somebody needs to know where your gold is in the event you die.”
I already told you: everyone knows the gold is in the pantry behind the oatmeal.
Yes my estate knows where my gold is. My estate will go to charity of some sort. Maybe to the Ludwig Von Mises Institute as well.
“Yes my estate knows where my gold is.”
Gold is just so dumb. It really is. The amount of earth-rape going on to find this silly metal is beyond comprehension.
Gold is just so dumb. It really is. The amount of earth-rape going on to find this silly metal is beyond comprehension.
Gold is so dumb it has a 5,000 year history of being used for a store of wealth.
I suppose you do not own a car, do not use a train or fly in a plane, do not ride a bike. Your computer must be made of air. All the material for them came from “earth-rape.”
I don’t honestly care how long people have been ogling their ingots.
“I don’t honestly care how long people have been ogling their ingots.”
But it makes more sense to you that the cost to print a $1 bill is the same as the cost to print a $100 bill. It does not cost 100 times as much.
How much farther do commodities have to fall before reaching bottom for the end of this supercycle?
I have a feeling a lot of people are making a pretty good living off all these printed dollars that the taxpayer is suppose to pay back someday.
Its not what you know, its who you know.
Yes buying up commodities with newly printed dollars after the Fed has driven down commodities with a stronger dollar is a good way to make a lot of money. Knowing when the Fed is going to do what is priceless.
That is pretty much the key to investing these days, as the Fed and rival central banks have taken over the financial markets.
P.S. Appears that the justification for weakening the dollar is being sowed in the MSM:
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/mar/28/rising-dollar-debt-fears-global-economic-crash
BTW azdude, you can see with these comments just how much SA hates Putin and why it was willing to join Obama’s war to drive down oil prices to hurt Russia:
http://news.yahoo.com/putin-letter-arab-summit-triggers-strong-saudi-attack-124059771.html
I doubt that the nations financial policies are being made based based on what will harm a two-bit dictator.
I for one am not the least bit convinced that Mr. Obama rules the global economy with any kind of effective efficiency. He is rather ineffective and inefficient in everything else.
There is a more simple explanation; that the global economy was/is in the most spectacular bubble in history and that it is stumbling/crumbling. It is not necessary to contrive a conspiracy when things are falling in the direction of gravity.
+infinty.
Small minds just can’t grasp this.
“I have a feeling a lot of people are making a pretty good living off all these printed dollars that the taxpayer is suppose to pay back someday.”
Yep, and then have the chutzpa to declare the rest of us negative for being down on the phony economy.
How much farther do commodities have to fall before reaching bottom for the end of this supercycle?
Dunno, but gold is $1199. Its 5 year low is $1103. Gold is selling at 8.5% more than its 5 year low.
The S&P 500 5 year low is 1167 and trades at 2062 now. It is 76% higher than its 5 year low.
Which is more likely to have a huge sell off?
Have Echo Bubble prices surpassed their pre-2008 peak in your area?
Yes
And Realtors are LIARS
Realtor Arrested In Hit And Run Death
http://patch.com/new-jersey/tomsriver/island-heights-man-arrested-fatal-toms-river-hit-run
Are you part of the “Friends of the FED club”?
Data Poet data….
Rogue River, OR List Prices Crater 25% YoY; Sellers Slash As Foreclosures Bloom
http://www.zillow.com/rogue-river-or/home-values/
Have Echo Bubble prices surpassed their pre-2008 peak in your area ?
Yes…In certain areas by a lot…
That should explain why housing demand is at 20-30 year lows in those same areas.
Rememeber, I can ask $50k for my 10 year old Chevy pickup but where is the buyer at that price?
So it is with any depreciating asset like housing.
Floods in one of the driest places on Earth
http://www.bbc.com/weather/features/32088809
Interesting. We don’t see this on our MSM because it didn’t happen in Israel.
Seattle, WA List Prices Plunge 10% As Housing Correction Ramps Up
http://www.zillow.com/seattle-wa-98121/home-values/
Region VIII
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/thenow/soaring-rental-prices-are-forcing-some-denver-renters-to-out-of-their-apartments
“You’ve got to save, but you’re spending money on rent, maybe more money on rent,” says Maria. “The question is: does your income rise faster than your rent?”
Maria obviously needs some student loan debt to fix this problem.
Raising the rent money or a home owner that wanted to go skiing?
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/front-range/castle-rock/suspect-caught-near-castle-rock-outlet-mall-after-two-bank-robberies-in-an-hour
My rent has not been raised in 4 years. Meanwhile house prices have gone up by double digits in each of the last 3 years.
“Dope will get you through times of no rentals better than rentals will get you through times of no dope.” –Homeless Franklin
Mistreated by a mortgage company? Now you can tell everyone about it.
By Kenneth R. Harney March 27
Move over, Yelp. The federal government’s top consumer agency has just begun allowing mortgage borrowers to vent publicly — in full narrative detail — about the bad experiences they’ve had with financial institutions.
Say your mortgage-servicing company keeps harassing you with phone calls about the timeliness of your payments, even though you consistently send them within the grace period specified in the mortgage documents.
Or say your bank is proceeding to foreclose, even though you’ve been deep in negotiations to modify the terms of your loan. Not only does the bank inexplicably keep losing the documents you send them, but every time you call to try to rectify the situation, you’re shifted to new personnel, none of whom seem competent or sympathetic. You want to tear your hair out, you’re so angry.
So here’s the good news: Now you can rant and rave about this poor service for all to see. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is boosting the firepower of its complaint system, opening it up to include the narrative details that consumers are often eager to share if they just had a place to express them.
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KingOfCarlsbad
2:27 AM EST
A compliant board for deadbeats? Seriously? Now we got govt workers with 6 figure salaries, pensions, and lifetime medical spending time adminstering compliants by deadbeats. Great.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/realestate/mistreated-by-a-mortgage-company-now-you-can-tell-everyone-about-it/2015/03/25/91115a32-d24a-11e4-8fce-3941fc548f1c_story.html?hpid=z5
So you think its wrong for people to have the ability to inform each other of the business practices of mortgage lenders, and you somehow turn it into a rant about the gubbament? Your big business boot licking continues.
I like it. The more time and energy these pukes spend in ranting the less time and energy they will have left over to do something really productive to remedy the stupid situation their utterly limitless stupidity got them into.
BTW, love the late fees …
“So here’s the good news: Now you can rant and rave about this poor service for all to see.”
OMG! That’s going to kill my business!
(Bahahahahahaha.)
“The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is boosting the firepower of its complaint system, opening it up to include the narrative details that consumers are often eager to share if they just had a place to express them.”
Oh, no! Not the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau! This is it! I am screwed!
Bahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahaha
Especially scary is the news that the all-powerful Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is BOOSTING ITS FIREPOWER, it’s boosting the firepower of its COMPLAINT SYSTEM!
I am dooooomed!
Bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
(But at the same time all this is happening Amy is out there busily hustling up an endless supply of marks and will no doubt bring many of them to me. The beat on, and not a beat is missed)
the beat on = the beat goes on
(and on and on and on …)
There are three words that could put me out of business and these three words are:
Just say no.
(But, thankfully, they are rarely spoken.)
The smart buyers will do their research and get a good deal. You can continue to screw over the dumb ones - they’ll find some way to lose their money anyway.
Q. How about rolling over that car loan to buy that new car you want? Your car payment won’t change for the next eleven years!
A. Where do I sign?!!
“You can continue to screw over the dumb ones …”
Thank you for your permission. And a big thanks to the educational system for making this possible.
Of course, even the dumb ones eventually figure out that they can just give you the car back, and good luck collecting the deficiency from a Wal-Mat cashiers salary.
Of course, even the dumb ones eventually figure out that they can just give you the car back …”
Which means they would then be out of a car. And since they cannot stand to be without a car the advantage lies with me.
It’s not about getting screwed over, it’s about it being done with manners.
He cannot imagine why his daughter joined ISIS:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3015311/Pictured-Father-blamed-police-not-stopping-daughter-joining-ISIS-screams-burn-USA-stands-just-feet-Lee-Rigby-s-killer-Muslim-demo.html
my guess is she was abused or molested at home and daddy is in denial
Question about Michael Brown leads to beating on St. Louis light rail train
By Ben Brumfield, CNN
Updated 3:37 PM ET, Sat March 28, 2015
(CNN)When one man sat down next to a second man in a St. Louis light rail car and asked him his opinion on the shooting of Michael Brown, it was not the beginning of a discussion.
It was the start of an assault, police said.
The second man, who was white, didn’t want to answer the question. Then the first man, who was black, boxed him in the face. Two more African-American men joined in the beating, according to a police report about Monday’s incident.
It was caught on surveillance cameras on the MetroLink train and a passenger recorded it with a cell phone and posted the video online. It has gone viral.
Police confirmed to CNN that the online images came from the attack.
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Man gets beaten in MetroLink train in St Louis (Original Video …
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So this proves what?
Starbucks was right to stop its encouragement of race discussions?
What percentage of people are seriously mentally ill or criminal enough that they need to be locked up? 5 in 100? 1 in 10,000?
5 in 100 is closer to the mark but a little high.
Of course it depends on the country and things like average IQ do come into play, for example compare the U.S to Brazil or Central American countries on this intentional homicide list. Now, for something very interesting look at Puerto Rico on the list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
“need to be locked up”
It is not illegal to be mentally ill. It is illegal to harm someone.
If it was illegal to be mentally ill, I think most businesses wouldn’t have a CEO, and most jurisdictions wouldn’t have any politicians. Just my opinion.
Or look at Switzerland where fully automatic weapons in the home are not rare due to military service.
Seriously mentally ill enough to be locked up does not mean they’ve done something illegal. Dangerous to themselves or others is fine.
Are we anywhere close to doing this if it is 5 out of 100? 5 percent of 300 million is 15 million. Per Google: “According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), 2,266,800 adults were incarcerated in U.S. federal and state prisons, and county jails at year-end 2011 – about 0.94% of adults in the U.S. resident population.”
“What percentage of people are seriously mentally ill or criminal enough that they need to be locked up? 5 in 100? 1 in 10,000?”
Federal employees or private sector?
DNC or RNC?
If we limit this question to include only right wing paranoids with inadequacy issues and delusions of racial persecution, then the answer is one hundred percent.
One hundred percent of dangerous criminals should be locked up regardless of race. 100% of dangerous mentally ill people should be in civil detainment regardless of race.
Are Wall Street psychopaths who ruin the lives of millions of investors and nearly destroy a country’s financial system dangerous criminals?
If the Lord did not want them sheared He would not have made them sheep.
Dangerous as in violent no, however many deserved to have been incarcerated, but instead of pursuing jail time Holder went for a share of the loot. It was a win/win for both of them, bankers hung on to a large amount of ill gotten gains and Holder got Obama lots of money to make his deficits look smaller. It is good to be Mr. Banker.
By concentrating wealth at the top, big government actually derives more revenue. If you look at blue states you actually find more inequality than most red states, it actually serves the needs of big government to have the super rich who fall in the top tax brackets.
“It is good to be Mr. Banker.”
Very good, very good indeed. There are so, sooooo many that make it so.
They work, I reap. Life is good.
Are Wall Street psychopaths who ruin the lives of millions of investors and nearly destroy a country’s financial system dangerous criminals ??
+1 +1…..
Dangerous as in violent no ??
Define violent Adan…I would submit that physical force is not necessary to be a violent person…Isn’t destroying someones economic life a violent act ??
What about the psychopath voters who for psychopath politicians who enable psychopath bankers?
voters who vote for
“So this proves what?”
That some people have an obsession with posting black-on-white crime reports. They think they reveal some deep-seated truth that is being covered up by the PTB, or some such. Or they’re GOP trolls, working the sheep. Or some combination of the two.
The lower white rung of the ladder needs someone to feel superior to, and at the same time blame for their failures. Its called the Rush Limbaugh Demographic “(RLD)”.
“So this proves what?”
For one thing it proves that Dman’s cyber gum flapping rant of a week or two ago about ignoring and having to scroll past all Phony and Zbannana posts was either a lie or he is in the early stages of dementia.
“So this proves what?”
Definitely a poor standard of living there.
It’s all good, because the unarmed assault victim was white.
“It’s all good, because the unarmed assault victim was white.”
+1 Whitey’s taxes likely clothed and fed his assailant; he deserved it.
How many innocent people did that white Christian German pilot just brutally kill? But that doesn’t get the race-baiter’s cyber gums flapping.
Why not?
Maybe he’s German and not American?
There were American victims on board.
Deflect, Obtuse and Bamboozle
Attorneys At Law for sad pandas
Pointing out selection bias is not deflection.
“cyber gums flapping.”
Plagiarism! Plagiarism!
Your subconscious projection was such an apt description of yourself, as such things tend to be, that I had just had to ‘borrow’ it.
I’ll tell you what, you pay off that $1,000.00 bet you lost and I will forget all about it.
Make the $1,000.00 check payable to…
Ben Jones
PO Box 5914
Peoria, AZ 85385-5914
As a fellow poster said, ” quotes from comments ain’t gonna cut it”.
It’s called selection bias, phony. Look it up, it could be a life-changing discovery for you.
You hated to rain on the hero parade. You knew a cop. You would bet 10 to 1 the old man was a drug dealer. I took your bet with $100 on your 10 to 1 payable to Ben Jones if I won.
Well all I can find is he was an old man who had money in a safe and had prescription drugs in the house. You had a month to prove your drug dealer accusations. It has been 5 months
WELL!?
Noun 1. welcher - someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager
welsher
Neighbors shocked by violent home invasion
Homeowner, two intruders shot; 1 dead
Last updated: October 23. 2014 8:50AM - 41016 Views
By Sarah Willets - swillets@civitasmedia.com
LUMBERTON —Neighbors of a man and wife severely injured during a home invasion on Monday night say they never expected Kenneth and Judy Byrd would be the victims of such a violent crime.
“They’re real friendly, help you anyway they can, do anything for you,” said a woman who has lived near the Byrds on Yedda Road for about 20 years.
According to a statement from Sheriff Kenneth Sealey, Kenneth Byrd, 67, was in serious condition Tuesday afternoon after three gunmen entered his Yedda Road home at about 10 p.m. on Monday. Jamie Lee Faison, 20, was later found dead in Byrd’s stolen vehicle with a gunshot wound, according to the statement. Two other men suspected of being involved are facing surgeries for injuries they suffered during the incident.
Sealey said Byrd, his 65-year-old wife, and their teenage granddaughter were at home when someone knocked on the door and asked for water, saying he was having issues with a vehicle.
Two other men, both wearing black clothing, ski masks and gloves, then entered the home and asked for money, forcing the Byrds into a back room to open a safe, the statement said. The men then attempted to rape the granddaughter, the statement said. It is not known what was stolen.
Kenneth Byrd got a gun, exchanged shots with the men and was struck “multiple times,” the statement said. He was taken to Southeastern Regional Medical Center and has since been transferred to another hospital, where he is in serious condition. The men fled the home in Kenneth Byrd’s gold Cadillac.
The neighbor said things could have been much worse if Byrd hadn’t stood up to the intruders.
“It could have been uglier,” she said.
Later, the Sheriff’s Office was alerted that two people — identified as 28-year-old Brandon Carver Stephens and 17-year-old Jamar Hawkins — were at McLeod Health Hospital in Dillon, South Carolina, suffering gunshot wounds.
According to the statement, the two have since been airlifted to another facility for emergency surgery.
The statement said “information led” deputies to find Fasion dead in the Cadillac at a home on the 600 block of Singletary Church Road in Lumberton.
The three were suspects in other home invasions. Stephens lives on N.C. 130 East in Fairmont and Hawkins on Old Whiteville Road in Lumberton.
Sherri Bridgeman, a neice of Judy Byrd, wrote on Facebook Tuesday afternoon that the intruders had been caught.
“Thanks everyone for all your prayers just keep them coming!!!,” she wrote. She said that Kenneth Byrd was in critical condition after surgery.
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And where is your proof? Statements from the comments section?
You’re demonstrating your inability to grasp basic concepts of proof. Which does explain a lot.
You were the one who shot off his mouth about the dude being a drug dealer without any proof and laid 10 to 1 odds on top of it. You have had 5 months to prove it and great big surprise, you can’t.
Now I hate to rain on your parade but you sir are a…
Noun 1. welcher - someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager
welsher
Where did I say he was a drug dealer?
“Where did I say he was a drug dealer?”
You don’t have a firm handshake do you.
Never mind, I already know.
So you got nothing. Except a display of your inability to discern truth from ‘comments’.
Ah well, you’ll always have race-baiting!
lolA
Cool, breezy weather to greet President Obama
7:59 a.m. Saturday, March 28, 2015 | Filed in: Weather
Sunny, breezy days are in store Saturday and Sunday during President Barak Obama’s two-day visit to the region.
Cooler air has pushed into Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast after Friday’s heat and rains. Expect daytime high temperatures between 70 and 75 degrees both days, the National Weather Service said.
radar 032815 photo
The overnight low will dip into the 50s, forecasters say.
Winds will be a factor if the president plays at the Floridian Golf Club in Palm City, where he will be staying while in the area. They will blow from the north and northwest during his stay at about 15 mph, gusting to nearly 25 mph.
Obama, who spent a golfing weekend at the private, secluded club along the St. Lucie River in February 2013, is expected to arrive at St. Lucie International Airport just before noon Saturday and depart just before 5 p.m. Sunday.
Funny, if a President uses taxpayer’s money for a golf weekend getaway on his private jet, staying at a deluxe resort (and they all do), that’s bad; but if a CEO spends the shareholder’s money doing the same thing, that’s good leadership.
Politicians should be paid millions for their work. “Pub1c service” is a sham anyway.
Okay, I just gotta say. ANY golf is bad.
Nice 7 minute video of the President arriving for his glacier melting golf weekend on Air Force One before getting in to one of 12 armored SUVs in a convoy that included an MRAP, a bus and a firetruck heading off to the Floridian National Golf Club.
Obama in Palm City: President golfs with Alonzo Mourning
2:53 p.m. Saturday, March 28, 2015 | Filed in: News
FORT PIERCE — President Barack Obama arrived in the Treasure Coast on Saturday for a golfing getaway, hitting the exclusive links at the Floridian National Golf Club with former Miami Heat star Alonzo Mourning and former NFL player and sportscaster Ahmad Rashad.
UPDATE 2:40 p.m.: President Barack Obama will take to the par-71 course at Floridian National Golf Club on Saturday afternoon with former Miami Heat great Alonzo Mourning, pool reports say.
Mourning, who won an NBA championship with the Heat in 2006 and who was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2014, was an early supporter of Obama in 2008. He has played golf with Obama several times before.
Also playing with Obama on Saturday are broadcaster Ahmad Rashad, a former NFL Wide receiver, and Cy Walker, an attorney and a close friend of the president.
UPDATE 2:30 p.m.: President Barack Obama has arrived at Floridian National Golf Club in Palm City.
The president’s motorcade pulled into the club shortly before 2 p.m. Saturday after landing at St. Lucie International Airport at about noon.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/…/obama-palm-city-presidents-plane-lands-st-lucie/nkg7p/ - 283k -
President Barack Obama is teeing off in Florida with a trio of oil and private equity moguls.
The president is spending the weekend in Palm City in eastern Florida, at the private Floridian National Golf Club.
Obama was joined for his round of golf Sunday by Jim Crane, who owns the Floridian. Crane is a major Democratic donor who also owns the Houston Astros and golfed with Obama and Tiger Woods in 2013. He’s also a major player in the Texas energy industry.
Also in Obama’s foursome is Milton Carroll. He’s on the board of directors of Halliburton, the oil company closely associated with former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney.
Private equity investor Glenn Hutchins rounds out the president’s group. He’s a partial owner of the Boston Celtics.
These are 1%’ers who conspire to rape the country. That’s it. People stuck in partisan mode like poor Jeff just don’t get it.
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2015/03-overflow/20150329_obo1.jpg
The Reckless Man’s Case for Bombing Iran
Reading John Bolton’s dangerously casual argument for yet another war in the Middle East
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/03/john-bolton-times-iran-bomb-war/388850/
The Confused Person’s Guide to Middle East Conflicts
Who’s friends with whom, in one simple diagram
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/03/the-confused-persons-guide-to-middle-east-conflicts/388883/
The solution …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sONfxPCTU0
+1 LOLZ!
Cheap easy solution. Bomb the facilities back to the Stone Age. Repeat every three years as necessary. Much cheaper than a war.
Bothell, WA Sale Prices Plunge 8% YoY As Housing Inventory As Foreclosures Balloon Statewide
http://www.zillow.com/bothell-wa/home-values/
When you can roll dollar bills off a printing press and then lend them out and then come after real assets if they don’t pay isn’t that some sort of corruption?
The goal would to be load everyone up with debt and then hope they don’t pay and come after their stuff.
“When you can roll dollar bills off a printing press and then lend them out and then come after real assets if they don’t pay isn’t that some sort of corruption?”
No, it’s a viable business plan.
“The goal would to be load everyone up with debt and then hope they don’t pay and come after their stuff.”
Mostly true. The goal would be to load everyone up with debt and then extract a much money from them in the form of payments that is possible until their stupid ass are flat broke, and THEN come after their stuff.
Brothel, District of Columbia Price jump by 100% in a week.
Overseas or here these guys are training to do some bad sh#t.
Video Shows Troops Training to Intern Citizens in Fort Lauderdale
by Paul Joseph Watson | March 29, 2015
Footage out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida shot earlier this week shows military and law enforcement practicing the internment of citizens during martial-law style training.
The clip shows armed troops arresting role players on the street before a column of prisoners are marched towards a mock internment facility. Black Hawk choppers are also seen whizzing between buildings.
The exercise was accompanied by very little media coverage. A Sun-Sentinel report said that Broward County police would be “assisting members of the U.S. Special Operations Forces who are undergoing urban warfare training.”
The drill, which was held in locations the military refused to disclose beforehand, began on March 17 and ended on Friday. 200 military personnel from all four branches, Air Force, Army, Marines and Navy, took part in the exercise.
“The goal is to prepare participants in realistic, unfamiliar training conditions before they deploy for combat overseas,” states the report. Residents were advised “not to be alarmed by the Black Hawk helicopters in the sky.”
Broward County also saw similar drills back in March 2014, when Navy SEALS practicing storming a university building from a helicopter.
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I Achieved the American Dream — and It Was Awful
DailyWorth By Darlena Cunha
The year was 2008. I was 25, pregnant with twins, and very much in love. And we had just hit the quintessential American rite of passage: We bought our first home.
The large, open floor plan beckoned us. Before the ink was dry, we’d bought a lawnmower, buckets of paint, and some new appliances. We were all in. We wanted to get as much done as we could before the babies came.
A month later, my husband brought home a pink slip and the housing market died a fiery death — both results of the economic crash.
Overnight, instead of a homeowner’s blissful daydream, the house became a nightmare we couldn’t afford. We’d purchased the house for $240,000. Just weeks later, it was worth less than $150,000. Our mortgage stood at $1,200 a month, plus utilities, taxes, insurance, and everything that goes with the American Dream.
https://homes.yahoo.com/news/achieved-american-dream-awful-040000718.html
“We’d purchased the house for $240,000.”
So these people paid a quarter million dollars for a pile of 40 year old materials that cost $100k to buy and assemble today and they wonder why they have problems.
What other stupid irrecoverable financial mistakes have they made?
buying a 50,000 truck on credit
25, married, pregnant, new house, american….
So many wrongs there……
240 down to 150? Not that much of a loss and probably all recouped by now. Did they keep paying and spread a little of their foam on the bankers runway?
Because of the seething anger today…..
Sunday CraterRage® Photo
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Its it ethical for companies to be gambling in their own stocks?
Didn’t Ken say, “Enron is a great buy?”
I got the pear and plum tree planted. Pear trees are self pollinating despite what you may have read on the internet. The peach tree I planted last fall is blooming nicely despite the damage from the 40 year old pecan tree that fell on it in Oct. Come aug/sept we’ll be enjoying some Belle of Georgia white peaches.
Stopped at home depot to get a new blade for my edger. The box on the shelf was empty. The gal said the computer shows 17 in stock….go figure. I helped myself to a 6 inch potted azalea on the way out for my trouble. Stickin it to the man!
Housing- 2 new Fsbo listing s in my hood. the market is so tight people figure a sign in the yard is all they need.
Sure about that?
Plano, TX List Prices Plunge 13% YoY As Oil Bust Spreads; Inventory Explodes 45%
http://www.movoto.com/plano-tx/market-trends/
Petty low life.
“Stopped at home depot to get a new blade for my edger. The box on the shelf was empty. The gal said the computer shows 17 in stock….go figure.”
Employees might have a eBay store.
My suspicion is theft by commercial landscapers. it is an easy item to lift, about 8 inches long by 2 inches wide, very much unlike an azaela.
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Comment by Oddfellow
2015-03-29 14:06:37
“Where did I say he was a drug dealer?”
Prosecutor: Your Honor, I object to this witness. Improper foundation. I’m not aware of this person’s qualifications. I’d like to voir dire this witness as to the extent of his expertise
J: Granted. Mr. Trotter, you may proceed.
Q: Oddfellow, what’s your current profession?
A: I’m an out of work hairdresser.
Q: Out of work hairdresser? Now, in what way does that qualify you as an expert Realtor?
A: It doesn’t.
Q: In what way are you qualified?
A: Well, my father was a Realtor, his father was a Realtor, my mother’s father was a Realtor, my three brothers are Realtors, four uncles on my father’s side are Realtors–
Q: Your family is obviously qualified to swindle, but have you ever worked as a Realtor?
A: Yeah, at my father’s Century 21 office, yeah.
Q: As a Realtor? What did you do in your father’s Century 21 office?
A: Swindle, Deflect, Bamboozle
10 to 1 the old man was a drug dealer
Noun: welcher - someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager
Make the $1,000.00 check payable to…
Ben Jones
PO Box 5914
Peoria, AZ 85385-5914