The Housing Bubble

or rent.

He hasn’t done a thing to reform our mental health system to allow the easier detention of crazies which is the root of the problem.

I mean, like, do you just stick to one forum, or do you have a circuit that you run on a more or less daily basis? Sort of a round robin thing?

Ah, give fruity a break. He’s more or less harmless. Sometimes the posts are even interesting.

I don’t get paid in any way to post on the internet. Can you get 2fruit, Dan, or phony to say that?

So why are you targeting phony so fiercely? Yes, I know he gets into some of the darker conspiracy stuff, but if you think it’s so far out, then why the attacks on him?

You’ve selected him as a target. Why?

The “liberal/progressive” types on this blog are rather intolerant

I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you weren’t including me.

Can you get 2fruit, Dan, or phony to say that?

Yes, that is why I do not care whether I am thrown off this site. If I cannot say what I believe than it is pointless, I am not paid to post, so long periods of being banned do not cost me anything. In fact, I usually make money day trading for fun when I am bored. I do not believe that other conservatives are being paid either it is just such a Saul Alinsky tactic to accuse them of it.

You’re sincere, dan. I strongly disagree with you on China and it hurts my head to even read about it, but you’re at least sincere.

Oddie-WPA now, something ain’t right.

Dan! Finally took the pledge, after only a few months. Legal was cool with it?

I am legal. Remember I am an in house attorney? However, no one pays me to post anything.

“However, no one pays me to post anything.”

So… a pro bono blogger?

Aren’t most of us that?

“Remember I am an in house attorney? ”

When? You post here incessantly and say you day trade when you don’t. Dad’s firm?

I say when I am bored I day trade sometimes. Sorry but if you do your job well, you solve problems before they happen and sometimes have spare time.

Yet rents are still half the cost of buying at current grossly inflated asking prices.

How to “win” at renting:

Live in a building that only contains 1 bedroom or efficiency units, and that allows a maximum of 2 adults per unit

Do not live in a complex, live in a standalone building (in my case a pair of buildings with the tenant parking lot between them)

Do not live in an apartment building surrounded by other apartment buildings, my block (and adjacent blocks) are all SFH, only a fraction of which are rentals

Do not allow lifestyle inflation creep, I was still in grad school when I started reading this blog and received the Gospel of Bill in Los Angeles / Tampa / Maryland, I actually live in an apartment now that is smaller than the one I lived in while in grad school

Continued:

Always live on the top floor, having no shared neighbor walls due to the architectural oddity of my building is an added bonus

Always live in a security building so nobody can walk in off the street and knock on your door (or burglarize your apartment without somebody noticing)

Something MacBeth and others here fail to understand regarding walkscore is that high walkscore does not equal Manhattan, or Boulder for that matter. The SFH housing stock in my neighborhood was mostly built between 120 to 80 years ago, on blocks contiguous with the City of Denver street grid, meaning they were scaled to pedestrian life before there were hipsters to invent the concept of walkscore

Many of the people in my building do not drive because they can’t afford to. If I had to compare my neighborhood to other neighborhoods Back East, the South Side of Columbus or the West Side of Cleveland are the closest that come to mind

And because I haven’t posted it in a while, Bill just south of Irvine = WIN

You should have bought 5 years ago when you had your chance. Now Denver’s going first tier, and you’re destined to keep moving further out.

Whooops…

Denver, CO Housing Prices Fall 9%

http://www.movoto.com/denver-co/market-trends/

‘from May to June…There were a total of 128 price increases and 508 price decreases.’

Look at that price drop from January 2015 to February.

Mac, North, Dan,

A few comments on religion, family, etc. For centuries, religion was the sole civilizing influence on the planet. The spiritual aspects of existence have always been important and various religions attempted to codify behaviour so that their adherents would survive.

It was discovered, by observation of life, that certain things promoted survival, certain things harmed it. A good but less loaded example would be the Jewish prohibition against pork (and I might add, they weren’t the only ones). In the times when this prohibition was developed, things like lack of refrigeration and advanced food prep techniques, not to mention the physical location of the people, meant that consumption of pork could be injurious to the population, causing illness and death.

Thus, since religion and government were one and the same for various groups of people, the prohibition against pig meat came about, as religious law. This was meant to promote better survival of the population.

So it has been for many religions across the centuries, that this law or that was promulgated for better survival. It was observed that certain sexual behaviors caused disease and societal problems, hence the governing authority, usually religious, regulated accordingly, based on observation.
Some of these problems were eliminated as civilization advanced and so these religious edicts become antiquated and indeed the original purpose was forgotten.

Religions get into trouble when members of the clergy say one thing and do another, or use their power and position to twist the laws to tyrannize adherents and solidify their position with the elites.

I have recently finished reading Aztec, by Gary Jennings. Fascinating historical fiction of the time just prior to and during the conquest of the indigenous peoples of Mexico by the Spanish. I was greatly amused how the narrator (indigenous man) drew parallels between the priests of his society and those of the Catholic Spanish.

I read some Spanish books (translated to English) that make the same comparisons. The Mormons also argued that many of the practices of the Incas and Aztecs show that they were originally Christian prior to their religions losing their way.

Of course, in the good old old testament days, men could have multiple wives. So our current ‘traditional’ system was yesterday’s shocking new ‘liberal’ development.

No, the multiple wives traditonwas often a way a society that lost a lot of men to warfare compensated for the war losses. The one man and one women tradition goes back to before society even existed and produced the healthiest families which are the backbone of every society.

” The one man and one women tradition goes back to before society even existed ”

Then the old testament is a liberal manifesto, because multiple wives is god’s blessing in it.

Do you have more detail on this, palmy? Was it an office, a restaurant, warehouse stock trader floor? Were they young/old? High-pay low pay? What sort of meds? I’m curious.

A tightly controlled inbound call center, all ages from early 20s to folks in their late 60s, both male and female, mix of black, white and Hispanic. Middling pay. Anti-anxiety meds, mainly. To the best of my memory, most of those taking the meds were white, 20-45 range, male and female. Breaking it down further, the females on the drugs were older, males on the drugs were younger.

Heh, come to think of it, that’s interesting. It’s like influence of lady teachers on their male students.

One quarter of all American females are on some sort of mood drugs, and yet they’ve never been more neurotic.

Is that before or after you date them?
BTW, maybe you need to test fly this plane story from China Daily, it soars like the Chinese stock market (JK):

SHENYANG - The world’s first electric passenger aircraft to gain an airworthiness certificate has been produced by China.

The BX1E has a 14.5 meter wingspan and a maximum payload of 230 kg. It can fly at an altitude of 3,000 meters.

The charging is completed within two hours, allowing a flight time of 45 minutes to one hour, at a maximum speed of 160 km per hour.

The plane was designed by Shenyang Aerospace University and Liaoning general aviation academy in the northeastern Liaoning Province. The first two aircrafts were delivered to Liaoning Ruixiang General Aviation Co on Thursday.

The aircraft can be used in pilot training, tourism, meteorology and rescue operations. Each sells for about one million yuan ($163,000).

The number of orders has reached 28.

One quarter of all American females are on some sort of mood drugs

What’s even scarier is that the other three quarters are unmedicated

Bernie joins with Jeb and Hillary for placement on my no way I would vote for him list. I mentioned about a month ago that I saw a tape which made me question whether he would do anything positive on immigration. If you change the makeup of the population you change the country, Greece has very little of the same ethnic stock of ancient Greece and it shows. Bernie has just come out for essentially open borders.

No problem palm. Actually, it would be interesting if Ben did scan his IP logs to tell us if there are any IP addresses logging in with multiple usernames. Wouldn’t that be fun?

Makes no never mind to me. It is, as you’ve said, a waste of his time.