The Housing Bubble

I’m not sure that ISIS is really our concern either. People who say what a major threat it is are the same ones who wanted us in Iraq. Why do these people always want American soldiers to fight other people’s battles for them?

Thanks, Ben. Good post.

Rather than pay attention to media pundits, I heed items such as the following:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdTihf2_GGMd

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9ixOsjut3E

People nationwide know what is happening where they live. What they may lack in political prowess doesn’t stop them from experiencing what they are experiencing.

I’ll be concerned when ISIS is killing us faster than our freeways.

+1

Everyone should know who is giving money to who. There should be a law that requires this information to be reported. Don’t hold your breath waiting for it.

Everyone should know who is giving money to who. There should be a law that requires this information to be reported. Don’t hold your breath waiting for it.

Robin Williams once said that congressmen should wear their sponsor’s logos on their jackets, a la NASCAR drivers.

Who do you give YOUR money to, Dman?

I want to see a list of those entities you’ve donated to during the past 20 years, plus the dollar amounts of each donation.

Care to do so?

I always vote for the lesser of two evils, and I keep my money in my wallet.

So in other words, you support taxing others while keeping your money in your pocket.

As is rational.

Adelson riles up the bible-thumping part of the Republican party, since he is vocally pro-choice. He therefore can’t be entirely evil.

EXCLUSIVE: Adelson encouraged Netanyahu to streamline Israel’s gas regulations

At height of 2014 Gaza war, casino tycoon sent message on behalf of the U.S.-Israel Business Initiative - of which Noble Energy is a member; PM denies ‘promoting Adelson’s interests in any way.’

http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel/.premium-1.663097

Excerpt from Jim Rogers and why would I be depressed since I expected a correction and was not in China’s market?

China is the largest creditor nation and its stock market is 30% below its all-time high. The U.S. is the largest debtor nation in the history of the world and its stock market is at all-time highs.I don’t see a bubble in China yet, but if it keeps going up, it will turn into a bubble. Debt is building up in China internally that has never happened in decades. It will cause problems for them but it’s not at the tipping point yet. I hope there will be a significant correction so the market will return to a better level. It’s an incipient bubble.

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/business/finance/Salaries-to-climb-510/shdaily.shtml

Jim Rogers: Drat those danged Mandarin lessons for Muffy.

Oh, the huge manatee!

http://queasyfish.blogspot.com/2011/02/blog-post_02.html

China’s stock market is at at the irregular heartbeat stage, before the big one kicks in. I’m comin to join ya, Elizabeth!

BANG! Kerwhacketawhacketawhacketa…..

… and then the riots.

People getting 10% raises when inflation is around 2% don’t riot over economic conditions.

Their stock market is a sign of a soaring economy, right Dan?

Exactly. I’m traveling to Espanola today and can’t play much, but here from a link that will post later: “The Chinese are Smarter Than Us”

http://www.inpraiseofchina.com/2015/05/the-chinese-are-smarter-than-us-2.html

Nailed it, as usual.

Does this mean Ann Romney will be getting a sister wife or two or three?

There’ll be some high-fiving going on in Utah, that’s for sure.

Decades ago, the father of a Mormon acquaintance of mine predicted this.

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A Marisa Romeo for everyone

Does this mean Ann Romney will be getting a sister wife or two or three?

Or she could have a 2nd husband.

Probably together if you could.

In abstinance… for other people.

Yes, they are preached, but not practiced.

Do not care to get into defining evangelical ??

Don’t need to…They define themselves…They believe they are above it all…If you are not one of us you are one of them…

They believe they are above it all…If you are not one of us you are one of them

Actually, that is the definition of a fundamentalist. Evangs, while they wear similar stripes, are not as elitist. It is not unusual for a Fundy pastor to tell his small flock that anyone outside their church/movement is a heretic and is Hell bound.

Religion has typically been the storinghouse for our morals - now, SCOTUS is our new god, being the arbiter of all things right and wrong.

SCOTUS is just the arbiter of what’s legal. You’re to make up your own mind regarding right and wrong.

SCOTUS is just the arbiter of what’s legal.

And what standard do they apply now. Liberals seem to think that history only flows in one direction and that it is appropriate to apply current views to past laws, the “living” constitutional standard. Ask the people living in Iran, Afghanistan and even Turkey on whether the flow of history is always to afford more rights to women and gays. We will not even talk about living under ISIS. Scalia’s views are anchored by the need to be consistent with the framer’s intent and change is to be made by constitutional amendment if societies views have changed. The liberal views are anchored by nothing, they have the amorphous standard of current values. In twenty years or 100 years, if we have a lot more Muslims will the Supreme Court “discover” the right to force genital mutilations of daughters by fathers or even the father’s right to conduct “honor killings”.

When you have Jim Rogers out on the same limb, you feel a lot of comfort. P.S. It has been only in the last few weeks that I have heard that he has similar views.

P.S. It has been only in the last few weeks that I have heard that he has similar views ??

Well, you must live in a cave then because Rogers has been crowing about China for a very long time…

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB4QtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DGNcecTvHf_s&ei=P2SNVcO0EYvv-AGkm4GQCg&usg=AFQjCNGDzCAdy6S9eQJh4tLoj7ASBxHbwQ&sig2=5WEYj1TsYfJ6CqpUM8Lhew

His recent views. He seems to be like me when the facts change my views change.

I think George is in heaven despite some of his comments. It might be hard for Goon to communicate with him in this life and he appears to working on making it hard in the next life.

And now legal to marry in all 50 states

Around 30 years the Supreme Court upheld the criminal prosecution of a gay that had gay sex in his own home. Has the constitution changed that much in such a short time? Or are we now not a nation of laws but governed at the whim of humans or members of the Business Round Table? There is no need for anyone to seek a constitutional amendment since our constitution can be changed on the whim of five justices.

I’ll never understand why any lawyer would be against gay marriage…its jobs lots of jobs and gay people have lots of spare cash to throw at a lawyer during a divorce…..lawyers should be ecstatic over this.

There is no need for anyone to seek a constitutional amendment since our constitution can be changed on the whim of five justices.

One of the few times I agree with you. Why bother with an equal rights amendment when the Supremes can conjure it out of thin air?

I am far more worried about the constitutional process. Women did not get the vote because five justices discovered their right to vote. I think it was a good change for them to get the right but if they still did not have it, I would oppos

” Has the constitution changed that much in such a short time? ”

No, but our extension of Constitutional rights to formerly marginalized groups has.

“extension of Constitutional rights to formerly marginalized groups”

The last remaining one of which, is divorced dads raped by the court system

It is a two way street, rights given by five people can be taken away quite easily. People are surprised on how scalia rules on some 4th amendment issues but that is because his views are set by the constitution not his view on how things should be.

I do not count on this supreme court to strike down anything in a trade agreement. The constitution is just an impediment to them.

I’ll never understand why any lawyer would be against gay marriage…its jobs lots of jobs and gay people have lots of spare cash to throw at a lawyer during a divorce…..lawyers should be ecstatic over this.

As an attorney that really cares about it as a profession and not just as a way to make money, I deeply care. A number of decades ago when I graduated from law school and started as an assistant attorney general for a state, I was asked to decide whether a member of board was eligible to sit on that board due to a potential conflict. I did not know that an in-house attorney was looking at the issue as well as a very high price law firm. I did my analysis and submitted it. The person then told me about the other two attorneys. He said he was amazed that my analysis, statutory citation and case citation was exactly like the other two attorneys. He said he thought lawyers really just made things up. My point is that in a nation governed by law not men that is how it should work. All the 5-4 decisions or even 6-3 decisions, the split between circuits etc. actually tell people that really care about the law that the system is collapsing and people’s ideology is more important than upholding the law.

Think about it this way if you asked nine engineers whether a bridge was safe and five said yes and four said no, would you want to travel on that bridge? The Judicial Branch’s role is not to decide what is best for society, that is the role of Congress subject to the veto of the President. The Supreme Court’s role is to apply the law including the constitution as both Congress and the framers intended. Anymore than that is judicial tyranny.

As you know, it’s called “kritarchy”. Rule by judges. As in Islam.

Tyranny is ALLOWING people to do something? How does gay people getting married tyrannize ANYBODY?

A Judicial Branch “discovering rights” contrary to statutory law is tyranny even if it is good for the people receiving the rights.

The tyranny is not allowing two dudes or two chicks to get married, the tyranny is how a right was created out of thin air by 5 people.

This should have been handled legislatively.

If they can do it for this, then they can do it for anything.

the tyranny is how a right was created out of thin air by 5 people

And by the same token they can eliminate rights with nothing more than a majority opinion.

Yes, and not so long ago the left essentially thought that twelve year olds had a constitutional right to consent to sex:

http://volokh.com/posts/1127335040.shtml

CHE just nailed it. To a two by four.

“If they can do it for this, then they can do it for anything.”

And they will. Count on it.

The problem lies with Congress, though, which seems to be busily delegating their authority to everyone and anyone in sight. President, SCOTUS, Lobbyists, etc. Don’t look now, but nobody much seems to be taking members of Congress seriously these days. Yellen declined to respond to a recent request. IRS laughed in their faces. Archuleta did a masterful job of answering their questions with insane answers, with a completely straight bland face. No wonder their favorite prey are sports figures on steroids. Seems like those are the only folks they can take a bite out of anymore.

I laugh, but it’s serious. Once Congress decided it no longer represented the people, but the corporate interests over the people, it was over. We’re seeing the results now.

I would rather not have a Congress than this current Politburo pretense. Better off to know that you are under a weird combination dictatorship/kritarchy/oligarchy, this way at least you know what you have to contend with. And nothing would make me happier than to see the majority of these turds out on their fat arses, no pensions, nothing but Obamacare for insurance, etc. Retroactive. No protections. I think it would be rather fun.

How many people comprised this left?

And I find this the most important excerpt of the article, we are boiling the frog slowly now:

There obviously was some serious sentiment at the time in favor of lowering the age of consent to 12 — such a bill was introduced in the Senate, and that’s the bill that the Ginsburg report seemed to generally praise. I agree the view is deluded, but some people seemed to have it during that era. (For whatever it’s worth, the National Coalition of Gay Organizations’ “1972 Gay Rights Platform in the United States” called for “Repeal of all laws governing the age of sexual consent.” According to Laud Humphreys, Out of the Closets: The Sociology of Homosexual Liberation 162 (1972), the meeting at which this was adopted was apparently a pretty mainstream event within the liberal activist movement — “[s]upportive telegrams were received from Democratic candidates John Lindsay and George McGovern,” which suggests that it wasn’t just an entirely irrelevant fringe group.) So I don’t see much of a basis for just assuming that this was a mistake of the Ted Danson / Charles Manson variety.

9.21.2005 6:19pm

(link)
Eugene Volokh (www):
Remember that the report was a report on the federal code. The report was making recommendations for changes to that code.

One of the recommendations was drawn from a then-proposed bill; but the report was indeed affirmatively making a recommendation. It didn’t have to rely on the bill (since it wasn’t a report on proposed the bill, but on the then-existing federal code). Even if the report relied on the bill, it didn’t have to urge adoption of the bill with no changes.

“Think about it this way if you asked nine engineers whether a bridge was safe and five said yes and four said no, would you want to travel on that bridge?”?

I dunno Dan, why don’t we have the American people VOTE on whether the bridge was safe and then follow what they say. Their majority vote is always right, correct?

Engineering is not politics.

dan remember jerry lee lewis married his 13 year old cousin which was perfectly legal to do in his state and the rest of the world thought is was child abuse.

True dat. Maybe we should let some headhunters in so when the Muslims cut-off the heads, they will not go to waste.

it soon will be ??

Really? You do not see the connection between the number of Muslims in a country and the frequency of the attacks and how an attack anywhere in the world motivates an attack in other places with large Muslim populations?

Perhaps once an ISIS flag is planted in U.S. soil scdave will notice the connection.

After all, flags kill people.

+1 Colorado…

“The company attacked in France was American-owned.

Still not our problem, even if Americans were killed. It happened in France. Let the French deal with it.”

Hmmm…..would you feel the same if an American started killing foreigners on U.S soil? Let the United States deal with it?

Does that mindset of yours extend to include….

Climate change?
Money exchange?
Drugs?
Health care?
Jobs?
Religion?

A very interesting stance you have taken.

Hmmm…..would you feel the same if an American started killing foreigners on U.S soil? Let the United States deal with it?

Yes. If it happens here, then it’s our problem.

Hmmm…..would you feel the same if an American started killing foreigners on U.S soil? Let the United States deal with it?

If an American started killing foreigners in my community, I would want the local police to address the issue. Who would disagree with that?

And they dealt with it pretty quickly in Texas last month

ISIS knows what states have an unarmed population

I see that you ignored the rest of my post.

ISIS knows what states have an unarmed population

Just because they are less armed than say your average Texan doesn’t mean they are unarmed.

So I guess I won’t get a response.

I can only assume then that your belief is that punishment for crimes is to be handled by the country in which it is committed.

I’ll remember your position should a global Climate Change criminal court ever charge someone with a crime.

I can only assume then that your belief is that punishment for crimes is to be handled by the country in which it is committed.

I have been very clear on where i stand on this issue. If you are too obtuse to see it, that’s your problem

Let me reiterate: the word I used is “crimes”, not “murder”.

Now answer the question.

Full disclosure: I’m not anti-vax. It just seems that they were much more sensible about it back in the day. I had my share of them, but they were on a schedule where shots were well spaced. I’m glad I got shots for polio and tetanus and the like.

Today, however, the doctors seem to want to shoot all that stuff into the kids all at once and I think that is a huge problem. Also we didn’t get MMR shots, we actually got the illnesses and suffered through them. Chicken pox was the worst, as I recall.

And I also have the feeling that today’s Big Pharma potions are worse than those that existed when I wuz a pup. JMO.

“I mean, if your kid is vaccinated, then he or she has nothing to fear from a kid who isn’t, right?”

Wrong. Vaccinations have variable success rates. Look at the recent mumps outbreak in the NHL.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tarahaelle/2014/12/16/nhl-mumps-outbreak-whats-up-with-the-vaccine/

Sigh. Another lottery brought to you by Big Pharma.

The big thing in the retiree community is flu shots. The retirees line up for those like they’re giving away early bird specials and then get all upset (if they’re still alive) when they get the flu, often right after the shot.

As they used to say, back in the day, legal drugs suck.

Those retirees have a lot of free time. They should use it to read on the flu vaccines. Maybe they wouldn’t get so upset if they knew a little about them beforehand.

palmetto: “why all the ruckus about “anti-vaxxers”?”

Yeah, I don’t know either. I mean the anti-vaxx movement is a huge threat to undo a century of progress in containing major epidemics. Nah, nothing to get excited about.

“Sigh. Another lottery brought to you by Big Pharma.”

The Rubella Raffle and the Smallpox Sweepstakes are much better, right?

Also, there is no link between ASDs and vaccinations.

https://thenib.com/vaccines-work-here-are-the-facts-5de3d0f9ffd0

As someone who has personally had a very bad reaction to thimerosal (via contact lens solution, which produced a painful case of bloody tomato eyes) I think I’ll pass on the colorful, cheerful, puke-inducing ootsie-wootsie propaganda. Who produced it? Merck? Pfizer?

Which, btw, is exactly my point and you TOTALLY missed it. I’m not anti-vax. I don’t want smallpox or polio or tetanus or any of that and you know it and if you don’t, take a remedial reading course. I’m just anti sh*tty cretin creating vax. We actually used to have stuff that worked without doing that.

As to why we have a resurgence in certain diseases, please. Anyone with half a brain can make the connection between that and events like the kiddie krusade from south of the border. Or importing exotic diseases from Africa.

Never let a good crisis go to waste, though. More $$ for the cretin creators, “autism” research and that sort of thing.

Seriously, does anyone have an objection to vaccines being effective and non-toxic? And I mean for real, not propagandized.

Ah. You’re willfully ignorant with regard to this subject. Got it. Carry on.

Same deal when the doc loaded up my infant kids with all of the shots at the same appt. - they were like zombies for an entire day afterwards and it did worry me.

I’m not anti-vax either, but cheeze and crackers, maybe it’s better to space them out over several weeks/months as one’s immune system can only deal with so much at one time.

“Ah. You’re willfully ignorant with regard to this subject. Got it. Carry on.”

I did you the courtesy of reading that comic strip all the way through, although I had a good laugh over the thimerosal part, given my own direct experience with it. Why not sprinkle it on the kid’s cereal if it’s so great?

Here’s what my doctor did when I called his office thinking I was going to bleed out through the eyeballs: he said “Take those contacts out immediately and toss ‘em. Get some distilled water and flush your eyes. NOW. Wear glasses for a couple of days until the redness goes away. Come in for a new pair. And get a solution that doesn’t contain Thimerosal.”

Of course, in order to cover his butt, he also gave the disclaimer about how most people tolerate Thimerosal well, but clearly I wasn’t one of them. Now, this was years ago. And funny thing about that, I haven’t recently seen any solutions that still have Thimerosal. I guess it’s easier to hide the effects in vaccines than have folks walking around looking like they’ve got tomatoes for eyes.

But I guess the comic strip is a great comfort at the PTA with those parents seeking personal absolution. “See there, I did the right thing! I’m a responsible parent! Merck sez so!”

“Same deal when the doc loaded up my infant kids with all of the shots at the same appt. - they were like zombies for an entire day afterwards and it did worry me.

I’m not anti-vax either, but cheeze and crackers, maybe it’s better to space them out over several weeks/months as one’s immune system can only deal with so much at one time.”

Spot on. They USED to do this, that’s how I got the shots. But the doctors started getting all sh*tty about it with the onset of the HMO system, I got the lecture back in the early 1990s. The doc sat me down in his office and gave me a rapid fire discourse on how, because of “the system” they can no longer afford to spend much time with patients anymore. Seriously. He wanted me to know this before he treated me, but he was also venting.

So that’s the reason they marinate infants and if some end up as cretins, so what? It’s not his fault. It’s the system’s fault. Except they take it out on the patients.

anyway, redmond, most people aren’t anti-vax. Most people want to be free of things like smallpox and polio and such. Most parents want to do the right thing for their kids, they’re just sick to death of being bullied by “the experts” and they don’t want their kids to end up as collateral damage.

I mean, don’t look now, but the whole special needs area is having a population explosion. I mean, it’s starting to look like special needs is the new normal.

No one asks why, because when they do, they get called out as nuts.

“”Today, however, the doctors seem to want to shoot all that stuff into the kids all at once and I think that is a huge problem.”

What do you mean?

I have young kids 2, 5 and almost 8. There were a couple of times when they got more than one shot, but the whole regimen of vaccinations were spaced out over a few years.

When we were kids, the quantity of vaccines were not overwhelming. We had the important ones, not the amt of vacs now a days. I read something like 75, most combined. That’s insane!

I heard a pediatrician say he thought it was insane as well, and told parents, being germ phobic wasn’t good for their kid’s immune system. He ate dirt as a kid, and recommended it. Refreshing doc.

All these anti-bacterial wipes at retail establishments makes me batty. I hardly ever get sick, because I wasn’t cuddled as a child, and we’re not germ phobic. What the h*ll is wrong with people today?

I love George Carlin’s take on this issue, where he talks about swimming in raw garbage, lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X29lF43mUlo

palmetto
Thanks. LOVED it. One word for Carlin: Genius

Well, heck, don’t let the shoreline stop ya. There’s a whole radiation infested Pacific out there.

Kon-Tiki, baybeeeeeee!

I know what you mean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdTihf2_GGM

If you know what I mean then why did you post a GOP ad under my comment about homophobe and racist trolls?

Kind of looks like a deflect and distract move.

It’s not a GOP ad.

Just goes to show how racist you truly are.

Keep them on the government plantation, right? Those slaves who speak out simply are part of a GOP ad.

You are intellectually dishonest.

More like the result of a random synaptic storm of an enraged shrieking tree monkey.

You, too, are intellectually dishonest.

Those people’s needs are legitimate. Not because they’re black (that would be racist), but because they don’t fit your view (intellectual bias).

Additionally, their thoughts are their own.

That must really irritate you …. those that dare to think outside the plantation.

Their own? You guys echo Fox news perfectly. Amazing coincidence, that.

MacBeth, what about my point that homophobic and racist trolls deflect the general public’s interest from ideas that challenge the political and economic status quo?

“MacBeth, what about my point that homophobic and racist trolls deflect the general public’s interest from ideas that challenge the political and economic status quo?”

Funny, I just did that.

I have only rarely seen broadcasts such as the one I posted. Yet those people are out there, scrambling to make it.

And you just dismissed it.

There’s a lesson to be learned. But not by me. Not this time.

Your response is a video with people saying that the Chicago Democratic party is pretty crappy? That’s your response to my point that homophobic and racist posters steer people away from otherwise legitimate political and economic ideas?

How are the two things connected?

+1000 Bill

I am sharing that sentiment with every one of my slacktivist Facebook friends who think sharing an article with a pretty rainbow flag makes them all enlightened and benevolent

Any object, organic or inorganic, into any orifice, as long they are adults, and it is voluntary, and no limit on group size for that matter, but get government out of it!

The problem is marriage is deeply interwoven into our legal system.

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This gets silly. Now someone needs to find another website with a critical description of urbandictionary.com.

If you want to try a new tactic, I can help you with that. And it’s one that is tailor made for your neck of the woods. I started to write it out, but the computer hiccuped, not sure if it will post in part, or if it got swallowed.

Wish there was a way to communicate via private message with some of the folks on the board, but it’s actually probably for the best not to have that feature.

Here’s what you’re doing wrong, though. You’re overwhelming people with expectations of pitchforks and torches, much as you may like to see it.

Start small. Way small. Give people something they can actually conceive of doing and then get them busy doing it.

WTF is it with Illinois. The Land of Lincoln indeed. Seems like sex offenses, politics and financial irregularities go hand in hand.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/26/usa-illinois-crime-politics-idUSL1N0ZC16K20150626

I went to a concert at Red Rocks last week, and thought to myself the only thing that could make this concert any better is if I had an adult diaper

Hey, there, Ruprecht! (See Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. The dinner table sequence.)