The Housing Bubble

Most women have no issues with little older men. What’s your point?

It was a reference to a character in the movie “Dazed and Confused” although he kept hitting on high school girls.

You keep get older and the coeds stay the same. LOL.

A man’s SMV increases as he ages (up to a point).

And remember, 70% of men under 35 are single; and that number continues to grow. Men are the gatekeepers to marriage. They are the ones who, on bent knee and a ring in hand, propose. The thing is, they are doing that less and less and less. And if they don’t propose, no marriage.

And they don’t propose because they know that once they are established in their careers and especially if they’ve taken care of themselves that they can date 20 year old hotties. It’s become a no brainer for most of them, especially since that way they can avoid the divorce court minefield where all they have to look forward to is losing half their assets and paying half their income in CS and alimony.

And they don’t propose because they know that once they are established in their careers and especially if they’ve taken care of themselves that they can date 20 year old hotties

True but one downside of the consumer society is that there not that many 20 year old hotties to go by. They have consumed too much food, alcohol, and tats that most look like 40 years old.

True but one downside of the consumer society is that there not that many 20 year old hotties to go by. They have consumed too much food, alcohol, and tats that most look like 40 years old.

Perhaps, but they’re still more attractive than their older counterparts who have also undergone the same regime of too much food, alcohol, and tats. Anyway, just saying that as a man, if you keep your SMV up, you’ll be able to score a much younger hottie.

Your immature sense of humor won’t help you get a girl either. Oh well, you’ll always have your guns to keep you warm at night. Those darn girls are all feminists anyway, right?

Sounds like he has been getting plenty of girls, don’t know about the quality but the as Stalin once said quantity can be its own quality.

Goon was never much of a gun person, more of an outdoorsy hiker. But you’re right, he’s getting a bit long in the tooth for the ultra sarcasm and one-bed bachelor pad lifestyle. And he certainly isn’t “established in his career” or any kind of career. Given his resume, I don’t expect him to land any steady professional six-figure employment… and that’s what you need to attract the under-40’s.

Is that what they taught you at Oberlin?

That is funny I know people that went there.

America is not really the place for older men to date 20 something women. And yes, many young women (and older) in the USA don’t take care of themselves compared to their global competition. Sorry.

“Given his resume, I don’t expect him to land any steady professional six-figure employment… and that’s what you need to attract the under-40’s.”

I know a late twenties divorced hottie with a body that would put some wood in Pope Francis. If someone is willing to provide the income and health insurance so she can be at home with her three kids I’m sure you’d have a shiny helmet. She has a great attitude… looks like fun to be with. I’m still dating my wife, and I’m too old, but some lucky stiff with a good job will hit the jackpot.

She has a great attitude… looks like fun to be with.

Heh, heh. Then why is she divorced?

Three kids? Sounds like a barrel of fun. Nothing is more satisfying than manning up and raising some other dude’s kids.

Especially when the kids’ mom won’t let you enforce any kind of needed discipline on ‘her’ babies.

This gets ugly really fast - my uncle pulled the ‘D’ ring partly because of this (he’s on wife #4, or is it 5, I can’t even remember!).

And the DingBats cackle.

I know a late twenties divorced hottie with a body that would put some wood in Pope Francis.

Sounds like some other dude’s PITA who took him to the cleaners in the divorce.

“Three kids? Sounds like a barrel of fun. Nothing is more satisfying than manning up and raising some other dude’s kids.”

She works 25-hrs/wk and tends to the kids; no easy days.

“Sounds like some other dude’s PITA who took him to the cleaners in the divorce.”

He was/is a cool guy, but lacks the ambition to cooperate and graduate, to support his family. The state revoked his driver’s license for failing to pay child support. They started too young, IMHO.

Anyway, if I were loaded she’d be on my A list. I betcha she’d make the grade too, a skydiver.

Everyone on this thread outed as dysfunctional.

Work and barely survive Vs
Not work and barely survive.

It doesn’t take an Einstein to figure out what the better option is.

That plan doesn’t give you the satisfaction of looking down on somebody while you look out for the interest of somebody else that wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire.

I believe there are more cell phones than landlines in Mexico

Greece would look like Somalia.

Adan’s response to someone pointing out his sense of hugely misplaced self-importance is that “Greece would look like Somalia”.

The dude’s funny.

Again with the irrelevant comparison.

Hardly when one exchange will be the U.S. and another will be in China. Could not be a more relevant comparison.

Which has the artificially pegged currency? Sorry I missed the relevancy… I was laboring under the assumption you were trying to SUPPORT your point.

You are missing the movement of the currency towards full convertibility. Now, if China moves to a gold standard the Yuan will become the reserve currency of choice and China will destroy the economy of the U.S in the process.

…and monkeys will fly out your butt.

Virtually every time a liberal makes a bet with a conservative on what will happen they lose. See the Gore link below about AGW. Pat Buchanan was denounced and laughed at by the left decades ago, but virtually everything he predicted has come true. Conservatives predict better because they live in the world of reality while liberals live in their delusionary world.

What did Pat Buchanan predict decades ago?

Conservatives predict better

I know right?

Obamacare will death-spiral. Raising Taxes Will Cause a Recession. The Iraqis will welcome us and the war will be inexpensive. Abolishing Some Bank Regulations Will Help the Economy. Bin Laden Was a Front for Iraq.

(And Rasmussen has Romney up in Ohio.)

All instance of liberal false flag sabotage. They’re attacking the people of ‘murica from all angles! Oh the humanity!

No more piano lessons or music or art classes in schools now. All dollars diverted to Social Justic class.

Don’t forget LGBT..XYZ indoc classes.

Yes Obama has trashed the economy and foreign policy but he is not homophobic so he is a good president. (sarcasm off).

Liberals love the notion of starving artists. It’s so romantic!

“Conservatives” love the notion of no artists. Really. Most “conservatives” are pretty boring. Most all sound the same on the same issues all the time. Art? Music? Intellectualism? Forget it.

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Yes Obama has trashed the economy

Right. “Obama has trashed the economy” You are bad at math, history and reality Adan.

Obama came in office January 20, 2009.

The greatest financial crises since the Great Depression occurred a couple months before.

Why do you lie so much Adan? Why do you think people are that dumb?

Seriously. You just incessantly spout BS. It’s kinda weird actually.

I don’t know of ANY public schools that gave out free lessons in piano, not even when I was in school. The lessons were all for band/orchestra instruments. Piano is generally a private instrument.

Phonie’s clear implication was that this homeless guy was taking piano lessons while he was homeless. He was not. He was drawing on lessons from a long long time ago.

From the way he was playing, my guess is that he had at one time been a much better player. While 5-1-3-1 is a basic pattern, he was playing that pattern with confidence. It wasn’t new to him.

NSA must have some good sheet on him. Maybe that was the whole Omaba phone call.

“The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.” —Barbara Corcoran

That whole sentence is pathetic. What’s her definition of successful? Maybe rich people like her don’t “feeling sorry for themselves” because they’re rich, not the other way around. From what I’ve seen, she probably got rich in real estate, a rather poor reflection on the American economy.

‘a rather poor reflection on the American economy.’

CORCORAN, BARBARA
NEW YORK, NY
10001 SELF-EMPLOYED/REAL ESTATE $10,000 03/19/2008 P DEMOCRATIC SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE - Democrat

http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/barbara-corcoran.asp?cycle=08

The conservative government actually had restored growth

The “conservative” government restored growth. Right. As usual, you “mistake” blips and noise for grand trends. You just make stuff up, spout it and hope some of it sticks.

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/greece/gdp-growth

Not that again. The right wing’s “audit” of the Fed was exposed a long time ago to not be a real audit at all. The Fed’s books are regularly audited and have been for some time. The “audit” was an excuse for Congress to try to force Yellen to change the Fed’s actions.

Because some leftwing publication says it is true does not mean it is true. The left likes free sh#t too much to damage the Fed that buys treasuries to fund large deficits used to buy the free sh#. Thus, the left will never support anything that hurts the Fed.

The “audit” was an excuse for Congress to try to force Yellen to change the Fed’s actions.

So Warren,Sanders and you are all pretty misguided; you look to cure symptoms, not the disease itself. maybe that was plan after all…..

Actions my man, not words

Your words belie Bernie Sanders’ actions. And today’s Repubs are the most hypocritical version of any party I’ve seen in my lifetime. It’s pathological and UnAmerican.

GOP Officials Publicly Denounce Bernie Sanders’ Obamacare Expansion, Quietly Request Funding

(Bernie Sanders) the Democratic presidential candidate from Vermont has won legislative victory after victory on an issue that has been dear to him since his days as Burlington’s mayor.

The result has made an indelible mark on American health care, extending the number of people served by clinics from 18 million before the ACA to an expected 28 million next year.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/06/gop-senators-support-sanders-obamacare-expansion/

He had his Congress, virtually no president in the history of the U.S. had more of his or her party’s members than Obama and all he could pass was Obamacare. Of course, that turkey caused him to lose his favorable Congress in one of the biggest election wipeouts in the history of the U.S. Facts are stubborn things Colorado.

and all he could pass was Obamacare.

Yea. All Obama could pass was Obamacare. Just the most important social program in almost 50 years that has improved the lives of tens of millions - and saved the lives of tens of thousands - a goal tried and failed since Truman.

That’s “all he could pass”. Got history?

Yikes Rio - I think you need to look at history with an unbridled view. From my perch - the US is in far worse shape on all fronts that 30 or 40 years ago - but then age has its advatages right? Someone out here has to pay for all this f…ing social justice.

Someone out here has to pay for all this f…ing social justice.

Don’t you want to live in a just society? The USA does not rank that high in social justice or comparatively spend much on it.

“Want a just society? Consider moving to northern Europe. The U.S. isn’t even in the top 15.” Forbes/World Justice Project 3/06/2014

the US is in far worse shape on all fronts that 30 or 40 years ago

I agree. But IMO the main reason for that, is that 40 years ago wage gains were keeping pace with productivity - not anymore and not even close.

Now why did this happen? Because USA deviated from its recent past and put policies into effect that redistributed most productivity gains into the hands of the few instead of the many. Obama is not responsible for this 40 year trend and he has made noise and implemented a few policies to address this. ObamaCare is one of those policies.

Or vice versa with her current posture. Democratic voters don’t mean chit to democratic politicians because they can import as many without impunity.

They don’t need to import this time…. the republican clown car will scare off all the moderates.

. the republican clown car will scare off all the moderates.

And Donald Trump threw a firecracker in the Republican Clown Car. I’m in a USA red state right now and many people are either worried, tuned out or are laughing. I’ve never seen a such a clowning, capture and retrogradation of a once proud party in my entire life.

Alex Massie: Republican party on shaky ground
Scotsman-22 hours ago
Dana Milbank: Trump is the monster the GOP created
Battle Creek Enquirer-4 hours ago
Dana Milbank: GOP created the monster named Trump
La Crosse Tribune-14 hours ago
Donald Trump is the monster the GOP created
Opinion-Washington Post-Jul 8, 2015
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In-Depth-ABC News-Jul 9, 2015

Dana Milbank: Trump is the monster the GOP created
Battle Creek Enquirer-4 hours ago
Dana Milbank: GOP created the monster named Trump
La Crosse Tribune-14 hours ago
Donald Trump is the monster the GOP created
Opinion-Washington Post-Jul 8, 2015

These are the same articles picked up from the WP.

What exactly was the time period when Republicans were “once proud” in your opinion?

This should be good.

I think they’ve always been proud, and in Eisenhower’s time, they had some reason to be. Now it’s ridiculous for them to be… it’s become the strutting performance of deluded foolishness.

Public Papers of the Presidents, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960, p. 1035- 1040

My fellow Americans:

Three days from now, after half a century in the service of our country, I shall lay down the responsibilities of office as, in traditional and solemn ceremony, the authority of the Presidency is vested in my successor.

This evening I come to you with a message of leave-taking and farewell, and to share a few final thoughts with you, my countrymen.

Like every other citizen, I wish the new President, and all who will labor with him, Godspeed. I pray that the coming years will be blessed with peace and prosperity for all.

Our people expect their President and the Congress to find essential agreement on issues of great moment, the wise resolution of which will better shape the future of the Nation.

My own relations with the Congress, which began on a remote and tenuous basis when, long ago, a member of the Senate appointed me to West Point, have since ranged to the intimate during the war and immediate post-war period, and, finally, to the mutually interdependent during these past eight years.

In this final relationship, the Congress and the Administration have, on most vital issues, cooperated well, to serve the national good rather than mere partisanship, and so have assured that the business of the Nation should go forward. So, my official relationship with the Congress ends in a feeling, on my part, of gratitude that we have been able to do so much together.

II.

We now stand ten years past the midpoint of a century that has witnessed four major wars among great nations. Three of these involved our own country. Despite these holocausts America is today the strongest, the most influential and most productive nation in the world. Understandably proud of this pre-eminence, we yet realize that America’s leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment.

III.

Throughout America’s adventure in free government, our basic purposes have been to keep the peace; to foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity and integrity among people and among nations. To strive for less would be unworthy of a free and religious people. Any failure traceable to arrogance, or our lack of comprehension or readiness to sacrifice would inflict upon us grievous hurt both at home and abroad.

Progress toward these noble goals is persistently threatened by the conflict now engulfing the world. It commands our whole attention, absorbs our very beings. We face a hostile ideology — global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method. Unhappily the danger is poses promises to be of indefinite duration. To meet it successfully, there is called for, not so much the emotional and transitory sacrifices of crisis, but rather those which enable us to carry forward steadily, surely, and without complaint the burdens of a prolonged and complex struggle — with liberty the stake. Only thus shall we remain, despite every provocation, on our charted course toward permanent peace and human betterment.

Crises there will continue to be. In meeting them, whether foreign or domestic, great or small, there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties. A huge increase in newer elements of our defense; development of unrealistic programs to cure every ill in agriculture; a dramatic expansion in basic and applied research — these and many other possibilities, each possibly promising in itself, may be suggested as the only way to the road we wish to travel.

But each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration: the need to maintain balance in and among national programs — balance between the private and the public economy, balance between cost and hoped for advantage — balance between the clearly necessary and the comfortably desirable; balance between our essential requirements as a nation and the duties imposed by the nation upon the individual; balance between actions of the moment and the national welfare of the future. Good judgment seeks balance and progress; lack of it eventually finds imbalance and frustration.

The record of many decades stands as proof that our people and their government have, in the main, understood these truths and have responded to them well, in the face of stress and threat. But threats, new in kind or degree, constantly arise. I mention two only.

IV.

A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction.

Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.

Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.

In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present

and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientifictechnological elite.

It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system — ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society.

V.

Another factor in maintaining balance involves the element of time. As we peer into society’s future, we — you and I, and our government — must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.

VI.

Down the long lane of the history yet to be written America knows that this world of ours, ever growing smaller, must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Such a confederation must be one of equals. The weakest must come to the conference table with the same confidence as do we, protected as we are by our moral, economic, and military strength. That table, though scarred by many past frustrations, cannot be abandoned for the certain agony of the battlefield.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. Because this need is so sharp and apparent I confess that I lay down my official responsibilities in this field with a definite sense of disappointment. As one who has witnessed the horror and the lingering sadness of war — as one who knows that another war could utterly destroy this civilization which has been so slowly and painfully built over thousands of years — I wish I could say tonight that a lasting peace is in sight.

Happily, I can say that war has been avoided. Steady progress toward our ultimate goal has been made. But, so much remains to be done. As a private citizen, I shall never cease to do what little I can to help the world advance along that road.

VII.

So — in this my last good night to you as your President — I thank you for the many opportunities you have given me for public service in war and peace. I trust that in that service you find some things worthy; as for the rest of it, I know you will find ways to improve performance in the future.

You and I — my fellow citizens — need to be strong in our faith that all nations, under God, will reach the goal of peace with justice. May we be ever unswerving in devotion to principle, confident but humble with power, diligent in pursuit of the Nation’s great goals.

To all the peoples of the world, I once more give expression to America’s prayerful and continuing aspiration:

We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love.

http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/indust.html

What exactly was the time period when Republicans were “once proud” in your opinion?

During Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. During the Eisenhower years and The Reagan years minus the anti-government rhetoric and the TrickleDown religion it spawned.

Romney was selected to help Jeb get elected in 2012.

http://www.theclimatebet.com/june-2015-temperatures-edge-up-remain-below-gore-line/

Whackaloon blog > sciency people

Blue Skye and HA I think you have eluded to a similar study but have you ever read this?

http://energyskeptic.com/2015/tilting-at-windmills-spains-solar-pv/

Just as you elude the point.

Reread what you just wrote, specifically your choice of verb…

An unsolicited side effect of my half-marathon training, perhaps, but I don’t take any offense when twinks call me Daddy

Congrats! You got it.

“They’re coming for you…”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdT8Tlzto20 - 287k -