The Housing Bubble

Is he on some kind of medication? He could prescribe it for himself.

Maybe anti-psychotic meds so he won’t try to hit someone with a hammer or stab them over some trivial offense?

Ben Carson is a Janet Yellen admirer. That’s reason enough, aside from his mounting pile of fabrications, not to vote for him.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/live-from-milwaukee/2015/11/ben-carson-janet-yellen-fed-debate-215746

Ben lost it when he told his GOP sheeple he wants to take away their home mrtg deduction.

Only Trump and Rand and left.

Hey Oddie,

You asking is not me offering. If you were here for a beer and I thought you sincere, maybe I’d share my meager understanding or supposed understandings on how some things work. Here I think you’d just be baiting me and not really trying to understand the world around you better. I have fallen for that many times. So what’s the point?

I am trying to swear off explaining things.

Gotta give ABQ Dan credit: he was an all-out climate denier, but at least he backed up his assertions with data and links. I thought his sources were pseudo-science and he didn’t, which is fine and in the spirit of honorable debate.

I am trying to swear off explaining things….So what’s the point?

The point is you shouldn’t put down people smugly saying things like “people don’t understand this and that” implying that you do understand it, when you’re ignorant of the subject or too lazy to explain what “you understand but no one else does.”

And I’m responding because I was part of the original conversation where you implied you alone understood what you now can’t explain.

I am trying to swear off explaining things.

I guess that would go hand-in-hand with a non-scientific worldview.

a non-scientific worldview.

BlueSky really, really “cares” about the pollution in Guanabara Bay 6,000 miles from him, but billions and billions of tons of pollution spewed into the air year after year is no cause for real concern, even though over 90% of scientists working on the subject says it is a big deal.

That is just about a perfect definition of a biased non-scientific worldview

(I’d explain why but I am trying to swear off explaining things.)

Well Oddie, apparently you were just waiting to fling a personal insult. Insincere as I expected, which in my book is lying. And lookey there, all three of our pineapples hissing in chorus.

I have been studying and working in scientific fields for the past 50 years. My world view is both inquisitive and practical. It is not lazy to avoid fixing things that don’t want fixing and can’t be fixed.

You have no explanation because there isn’t one.

I have been studying and working in scientific fields for the past 50 years.

Can you Bend it like Beckham?

How Exxon Mobil ‘Bends’ Science to Cast Doubt on Climate Change

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/123433/how-exxon-mobil-bends-science-cast-doubt-climate-change

In a move that is potentially transformative, the New York attorney general is investigating Exxon for financial fraud.

The company made public statements questioning the science of climate change in years past, even as its own in-house scientists informed company executives that precisely the opposite was the case. Put in simpler terms, the New York investigation is exploring whether the company lied to investors and consumers in order to place its own profits ahead of the public good.

But while the case focuses specifically on Exxon’s activities, its impact will be felt by many other corporations accused of misleading the public and investors

Lola Thong….. What matters here is falling energy prices to dramatically lower and more affordable levels.

What is it about a booming economy founded on dramatically lower prices that gives you these meltdowns?

“You have no explanation because there isn’t one.”

Understanding does not thrive on infertile ground pineapple. Explanations are within your reach, yet beyond your grasp.

“…that gives you these meltdowns?”

Of course, no one can logically explain illogical behavior, but I suspect that improved quality of life for all does not fit the agenda of a globalist. Misery and the threat of misery are more fitting opportunities to gain control over others.

Understanding does not thrive on infertile ground….Explanations are within your reach, yet beyond your grasp.

“It is easier to become an attempted philosopher of life, than to explain the science of BlueBalls.”

Two things. Can you swim? Can you cook?

Atlas and Hercules combined couldn’t lift the sack containing Hillary’s balls.

Does she keep them underneath the trailer hitch on her Escalade?

Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton’s Failures Unleashed …
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1621571114
Richard Miniter - 2013 - ‎Political Science
When President Clinton ordered cruise-missile strikes on a pharmaceutical … After all, the Monica Lewinsky scandal was dominating the national conversation.
BBC News | Africa | Clinton defends military strikes
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/155252.stm
BBC
Aug 20, 1998 - President Clinton defends his decision to hit “terrorist facilities” in … been related to Mr Clinton’s continuing problems in the Monica Lewinsky affair. … been the private Shifa pharmaceutical plant which had nothing to do with …
The Facts About Clinton and Terrorism | National Review …
http://www.nationalreview.com/…/facts-about-clinton-and-terr...
National Review
Editor’s note: When it comes to Bill Clinton’s record on terrorism, there’s no need to … The African embassy attacks occurred as the Monica Lewinsky affair was at …. strikes on a bin Laden camp in Afghanistan and the al-Shifa pharmaceutical …

Innocent people were killed so Clinton could divert attention from a scandal. Oh, but I hope Bernie kicks her ass!

+1 Innocent people killed, and millions $ spent because Monica didn’t swallow.

Slick Willy gave the world NAFTA. Which in turn gave us the SHAFTA.

NAFTA has caused Mexican villages in places like Oaxaca and Michoacan to empty of young men, most of whom headed for the United States as illegals, since they could no longer grow corn for parity prices or otherwise compete with US agribusiness-grown corn and produce dumped on Mexican markets. It is no coincidence that the Marxist EZLN uprising launched its armed offensive in Chiapas on January 1st, 1994 - the same day NAFTA went into effect.

Did they ever make anywhere near close to what they could make in the construction industry in the US? Another case of fallout from the housing bubble.

“NAFTA has caused Mexican villages in places like Oaxaca and Michoacan to empty of young men,”

Time to head south and be Sancho!

Yep, and you can borrow it from Housing Analyst - he has it memorized.

Falling housing prices my friend.

I start to really wonder when there is something like this that could settle the issue but the other person refuses with feigned indignity. But I chalked it up to maybe him not being tech savvy enough to post a pic. And then when I saw Ben say his IP was from Brazil I thought, oh well that settles it. Then I saw almost immediately how easy it was to spoof that. And now that he comes up with this crazy “oh, I spend every morning at the beach excuse” to explain why his posts seem to reflect US times and he never posts in what would be morning in Brazil, I really think he is a catfish.

Shouldn’t you remember to switch your sig back to WPA before answering for him?

Are Rio and WPA the same individual?

Who is this mild mannered superhero?

Sarge? No

Rosemary, the telephone operator? No.

Henry, the janitor? COULD BE!

http://youtu.be/Va_Rmpd3PZI

Are Rio and WPA the same individual?

For a smart guy, you’re showing a real lack of perception. Look at the above sequence. BlueBalls posted this right after I posted a funny post.

Well, aren’t you the comic persona

So I answered him. Look above.

No, WPA and I are not the same person. NewsFlash: There are a lot of smart liberals on this planet who share many of the same views.

WPA does not even write like me. And WPA I’m sure does not live in Brazil.

Aahahhahahahahahahahaha, the WAPPER a smart liberal. He’s not even a goofy one like you.

the WAPPER a smart liberal.

Absolutely WAP is smart. And he’s not KooKoo like you.

He’s not even a goofy one like you.

Does that mean WPA doesn’t live in Brazil?

lol@Lola. Your a queen Lola. A real drama queen.

Too bad Rio you didn’t see which thread I was under. It was WPA’s. I don’t really care if the three of you are one Pineapple or three. You answer for each other like you are the same person, and post at the same time usually. Oddie admitted to multiple persona here so there is a stench. The conversations are all the same. Disagree with you (three) and it’s a sophomoric girl’s bitchslap fest immediately. Hardly your pretentious intellectual conversation. I am seriously interested in some topics, in calling out lies and in a little teasing, but I am not interested in teaching a circle of Red Army Guard types anything. This is how the three of you Pineapples behave, every time.

BTW -1 again for not being able to express yourself publicly without profanity.

Hardly your pretentious intellectual conversation.

That’s not it BlueBoy. You just don’t like being proven a liar Mr. Anti-Science.

Be careful misrepresenting what I’ve said for years on this blog.

This is how the three of you Pineapples behave, every time.

Shutting down your anti-science jive?

“Be careful…”

What, you have super powers in addition to your super intelligence and Brazil Bubble speculation mastery? Sorry Pineapple if we don’t dance when you say dance. You will just be playing with yourself.

Enjoy!

A fan boycott? That would just make the situation that much worse for the university. Same with alumni not donating.

Was the student group conspiracy to oust the president even legal?

Not in China, Russia and North Korea.

It’s still legal in the USA for now, but if the next president is a Republican and nominates a few more “conservatives” to the Supreme Court, they might disallow such heinous acts people power.

Was the student group conspiracy to oust the president even legal?

That’s quite a revealing question there. Following that logic, is any protest legal?

I did see a photograph of a bunch of tents on a campus lawn. That may be considered to be trespassing. What other laws could have been broken?

The laws of nature, judging by all those freakshow SJWs.

I’m not talking about legal protest. I’m talking about a calculated scheme to take down a university president in order to grab attention for a political cause. Certainly you aren’t so stupid that you don’t understand the difference?

Obviously, you’re not talking about anything legal. I’ve never heard of any law that prohibits a group of people getting together to pressure a university president to resign or be fired. Given that, I was considering everything that went on and thought of one thing that might be illegal.

Also, you may think ramping up the belligerence somehow makes seem cooler. The truth is that is has the opposite effect. It’s an attitude associated with ignorance.

“It’s an attitude associated with ignorance.”

Thought police gonna police.

What if lies were involved in the effort to take down the Mizzou president. Would that make it illegal?

http://thefederalist.com/2015/11/10/was-the-poop-swastika-incident-at-mizzou-a-giant-hoax/

If this ends up being another one of those incidents where the supposed graffiti was actually something out there by the victims then it could be.

If a student lied in a police report, that’s probably illegal. If someone lied about the president in an effort to get him fired, it’s possible that he could sue for libel. I doubt that there’s any law against kids on campus lying to other kids on campus about racist events.

Is there any chance of genetically testing the poop to see who was the author of the racial slur?

Small wonder the protesters are so uneasy about the glare of media scrutiny. It seems like they may have something to hide.

I’m talking about a calculated scheme to take down a university president in order to grab attention

No and here’s why. FWIU some issues were not addressed for weeks and months. Weeks and months.

A calculated scheme would not bide their time and remain unknown for weeks and months figuring that the university president would take not action.

It’s too drawn out, too open for discovery and too omniscient as to what the future would hold to be a calculated scheme to take down a university president.

If this ends up being another one of those incidents where the supposed graffiti was actually something out there by the victims then it could be.

Good point. You should find out if the graffiti happened in the very early morning. And Rio doesn’t post much in the very early morning. Coincidence?

Just sayin’.

I guess tomorrow we’ll see some early morning Rio posts, eh Thongsy? 8.4 million a year. That buys a lot of leftists.

I guess tomorrow we’ll see some early morning Rio posts,

lol. You guess wrong. I would never bark on command for a wackjob who’s obsessed with me. You have issues.

Picture Lola. Prove it.

“Was the student group conspiracy to oust the president even legal?”

“I’m not talking about a legal protest. I’m talking about a calculated scheme to take down a university president in order to grab attention for a political cause”

Interesting that you seem to have no understanding whatsoever of the 1st amendment, nor much sympathy for the ideas in it.

Or is it only when certain people exercise their right to assemble and protest, that it suddenly seems like it ought to be illegal to you?

To reiterate, scheming behind closed doors to take down a university president doesn’t seem much like a peaceful public protest, especially if it turns out that some of the student grievances were either very minor or even fabricated.

Also Donald Kohn’s speeches…

Lola,

What is important here is falling prices. Falling prices are positively bullish and good for the economy.

Obviously you either didn’t bother following my suggestion to read Kohn’s speeches, or you aren’t capable of parsing Fedspeak. The bubble popping plan is in one of his Spring 2006 speeches if you read between the lines.

PS You might be thinking of the wrong mortgage rates, as interest only and neg-am were the extensive margin of subprime lending in 2006, and these loans have much shorter average duration, particularly if they are made to households with a high probability of default, which is pretty much the definition of subprime. Are you certain the interest only and neg-am rates were uncorrelated with Fed funds?

The micro-aggressions have become increasingly blatant macro-aggressions….

The Kremlin’s propaganda is little different from what you spew here on a daily basis.

Nice try, but dead wrong. Notice how the Kremlin, aka Zero Hedge, chose to align itself with the conservative/libertarian point of view. That speaks volumes.

For anyone wanting to know more about Zero Hedge, Google is your friend. Judge for yourself what their credibility and possible motives/agendas may be.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/streetwise/who-is-zero-hedge-and-why-should-we-care/article616768/

Hmm. So they admit they’re talking their book. So why should we believe them?

Believe them, or don’t believe them. Read ZH, or don’t read ZH. Put on your big boy pants and make big-boy choices about where you get your information and how you form your opinions, while being open to contrary points of view.

We used to be a free country. Pretend we still are.

I never said that it was anti-American. I also never called for it to be censored. I just said that it was lame.

When you can’t refute the evidence, attack the poster. Good old ad hominem. Very original Blue Skye.

The lead writer for Zero Hedge is a Bulgarian guy who used to work on Wall Street until he got popped for some kind of securities fraud. Matt Taibi used him extensively as a source for his Rolling Stone articles about Wall Street fraud, since the guy is clearly onto a lot of the swindles being played on Wall Street. Whenever “Tyler Durden” (main ZH writer - there are several “Tyler Durdens”) writes about geopolitical events, he tends to take a pro-Russian slant. However, discerning readers can take that for what it’s worth rather than refusing to read any and all “Tyler Durden” authored articles because of the pro-Russian bias of the author.

but your batting record for truth and fact is practically zero.

His batting record is zero? Do you understand what “zero” is in mathematics or baseball? Batting “record”?

If you think his (or anyone’s) batting “record” is zero on issues, I’d say you have a close to zero understanding of mathematics or the meaning of numbers and words that represent them.

I’d say WPA’s batting “record” would equate to a number 4 hitter and yours would be like a pitcher in the American League.

Issues? Probably you mean opinions and agendas.

Next you’ll say I’m wrong on Regan’s Trickle-Down economic theory!

However, discerning readers can take that for what it’s worth rather than refusing to read any and all “Tyler Durden” authored articles because of the pro-Russian bias of the author.

A spirited defense of Zero Hedge by “Raymond K. Hessel,” a character from the same movie as “Tyler Durden.” I’ll just leave that there.

“pro-Russian bias of the author.” Yes, indeed. And Tyler Durden’s father was a member of the Bulgarian KGB. More dots to connect.

Zero Hedge’s constant stream of commentary is too voluminous and too smooth to be the output of a couple of volunteer bloggers. It’s a well-oiled machine and I suspect, but can’t prove, that money is being paid from foreign sources to prop up ZH and keep it running.

A spirited defense of Zero Hedge by “Raymond K. Hessel,” a character from the same movie as “Tyler Durden.” I’ll just leave that there.

Try a spirited defense of any credible information source that breaks through the journalistic omerta practiced by the MSM on too many taboo topics. It was just those non-mainstream sources and blogs that warned of the housing bubble and the 2008 financial crash, while the MSM kept assuring us all was well.

I also post the occasional al-Jazeera article - does that make me an Islamist to your way of thinking?

“Tyler Durden’s father was a member of the Bulgarian KGB.”

In the movie, or IRL?

IRL, according to this. About 20 paragraphs down.

“That is an intel operative’s CV with probability 1. Probability 1. Every one of those jobs was a classic cover. There is no doubt in my mind whatsoever—none—that Mr. Divandjiiski senior was a member of the Bulgarian Committee for State Security (Държавна сигурност or DS for short)—the Bulgarian equivalent of the KGB. And remember that Bulgarian DS was the USSR KGB’s most reliable allied service during the Cold War. It carried out wet work in western countries, notably the “umbrella murder” of Georgi Markov in London. It was linked to the plot to assassinate the Pope; although in the topsy-turvy world of intelligence, it is also alleged that the CIA fabricated the case against the DS. Regardless of the truth about the links to the attempt on John Paul II, it was a very, very, very nasty operation. (The African stops in Ivandjiiski’s resume makes it highly likely that his path intersected that of another charmer, Igor Sechin, who was a “translator” in Africa.)”

Lola…. I sent an email to zero hedge to let them know you want to censor their site.

I won’t take the bait and respond to your troll. I’ve made it clear I do not support censoring them or anyone else.

Perhaps he will know who this WPA is and tell us who he is an agent of.

WPA has every right to point out that Zero Hedge may have an agenda and the possibly nefarious linkages or motives of individuals connected to the site. Anyone who links ZH stories has to concede the point that at a minimum it often reflects a pro-Russian bias. That said, it also presents a perspective that is sharply at odds with the bias and agenda-pushing of the corporate media, and as such, is worth considering for its merits while not overlooking the potential that it is intended to influence as well as inform.

Now, can we all agree on this and move on, without bashing WPA for censorship (an unfair accusation) or feeling a need to add a disclaimer every time a ZH article gets posted in here?

I’m going to continue reading and posting ZeroHedge stuff. I really don’t care how many meltdowns Lola has because of it.

“It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.”
– Thomas Jefferson)

“The firmness with which the people have withstood the late abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false, and to form a correct judgment.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“You there Toby. Fetch to my chambers young Miss Sally Hemmings and a bottle of mulberry wine.”
Thomas Jefferson

(Couldn’t resist)

Which poster today first brought up balls? Was it Lola?

Which poster today first brought up balls? Was it Lola?

It’s 2015. No one cares. Just admit you like Lola’s Proxy. You practically scream it.

Balls, thongs, trannies. Did you forget your meds today Lola?

Just admit you like Lola’s Proxy.

Correction: “Lolas Proxy”

And I’m not posting this pic because you shamed me into it ProxyClubber or anyone. I’m doing it because I want to. I don’t care what you or anyone thinks or where you think I live. It means nothing to me. You mean nothing to me. I’m posting this because I don’t really care. Whatever. This is Copacabana and That’s SugarLoaf in the background

(I’m in the front but but I can’t be traced from this site of this pic.)

http://tinyurl.com/oy2hk8h

You really need therapy.

Why hide Lola?

You really need therapy.

lol. The quintessential reaction from a dour “Scientist of 50 years” that doesn’t even understand science. (Let alone humor.) Lighten’ up Professor… That was funny!

You’re backpedalling Lola.

I’m in the front

Why are you wearing a scarf and ear muffs if you’re in Rio?

picture.lola.

Why are you wearing a scarf and ear muffs if you’re in Rio?

That’s not the front.

picture lola

Well, they are all too busy staring at their iWhatever to notice anything else. It’s exactly as our corporate overlords wanted it to be. Why do you think Gates, Zuckerberg, and all the major tech company leaders meet with the big boys at the annual Bilderbergers meeting?

“MIZZOU students were not repeatedly call a ni@@ers because “Democrats need racism”.

Where do you get this sh#t?

One dude who claimed he was called the “n-word” from a passing pickup truck last year does not mean black students at the University of Missouri campus are repeatedly call a ni@@ers.

In fact given the source of the pickup story, even that should be called into question.

Mizzou student body president admits to spreading false rumor KKK was on campus

November 11, 2015 | Tom Tillison |

Much like the lie known as “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,” rumors and unsubstantiated allegations continue to flow freely on the University of Missouri campus, with some of the worst of it coming from student body president Payton Head.

Head, who had previously claimed he was called the “n-word” from a passing pickup truck — one of the actions that led to the school’s president, Tim Wolfe, resigning on Monday — was at it again on Tuesday.

This time, he took to social media to warn students about the KKK being on campus, according to Twitchy.com:

There’s only one small problem — it wasn’t true … never mind that this came from the president of the student body!

Is there any wonder students have been whipped up into a lather at the school?

Ironically, after the school’s online emergency information center posted a comment on Twitter about not spreading rumors, Head joined in to instruct students not to do what he was guilty of doing:

Read more: http://www.bizpacreview.com/2015/11/11/mizzou-student-body-president-admits-to-spreading-false-rumor-kkk-was-on-campus-272739#ixzz3rJg3jWYG

Where do you get this sh#t?….One dude who claimed he was called the “n-word”…does not mean black students at the University of Missouri campus are repeatedly call a ni@@ers.

So you are ignorant as to the MIZZOU situation. Then how can you in good conscious post multiple opinionated comments on an issue in which you are ignorant of. Seriously?

The incidents that led to the University of Missouri president’s resignation

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/11/09/the-incidents-that-led-to-the-university-of-missouri-presidents-resignation/

Tim Wolfe’s resignation Monday as the University of Missouri System president came after months of escalating racial tension surrounding high-profile incidents on the flagship campus in Columbia, Mo., and student criticism about the administration’s response.

Here’s a rundown of what happened leading up to Wolfe’s announcement that he was stepping down from his post leading the four-campus system.

“So you are ignorant as to the MIZZOU situation. Then how can you in good conscious post multiple opinionated comments on an issue in which you are ignorant of. Seriously?”

What you have here is exactly what I have seen. On a campus with 37,000 students you have 1 dumb@ss who wrote in charcoal the word “heil” and drew a swastika on a dorm wall.

He was arrested and charged.

Then you have 2 reported incidents of people using the “N” word, 1 by an “inebriated white man” and 1 by some unknown group of young people in a pickup truck that slowed down and screamed a racial epithet at him. Then you have the same dude with the pickup story, the one who just tweeted out the fake KKK story mind you, saying it happened before.

On a campus of 37,000 students this is hardly MIZZOU students being as you say…repeatedly called ni@@ers.

I will give you one swastika for which the dipsh#t was arrested and charged.

I will give you two “N” words although one of them considering the source is questionable.

Take your Soros flavored Kool-aid and sell it somewhere else, I ain’t buyin’.

On a campus of 37,000 students this is hardly MIZZOU students being as you say…repeatedly called ni@@ers.

It’s not just “as I say”, it’s as reported, and it’s in English using the English word “repeatedly”.

“…..Head said he was walking around campus when the passenger of a pickup repeatedly shouted the “N-word” at him.”

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/higher_education/racial-climate-at-mu-a-timeline-of-incidents-to-date/article_0c96f986-84c6-11e5-a38f-2bd0aab0bf74.html

sell it somewhere else, I ain’t buyin’.

I can understand the frustration but you “Buyin’” it has little consequence. The world is changing around you quickly in regards to racism whether you accept it or not.

“The world is changing around you quickly in regards to racism whether you accept it or not.”

The racism is about the same, same from whites, same from blacks, same from Hispanic etc.

The way racism is used by the left as a tool to divide and conquer is growing exponentially.

#ConcernedStudent1950 vs the media - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRlRAyulN4o - 374k -

The way racism is used by the left as a tool to divide and conquer is growing exponentially.

Says the host of the Daily Black Crime Report.

“…..Head said he was walking around campus when the passenger of a pickup repeatedly shouted the “N-word” at
him.”

Sorry bud, I can understand your frustration but that is one incident reported by a guy who has already been busted with his fake KKK story.

Where are you going to move to?

Wherever you aren’t.

You’d have to be more specific to achieve your goal.

Falling prices my friend.

Sacramento, CA Housing Prices Crater 5% YoY

http://www.zillow.com/east-sacramento-sacramento-ca/home-values/

What’s the difference between protesting and extortion?

What’s the difference between protesting and extortion?

Color?

Picture Lola. Man up.

What time is it currently in “Brasil”?