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Houses are not investments, they depreciate and rot.
…sort of like the brains of dopers. Buy gold? Always bright and shiny……but down in value about 30%….hmmm, where should I invest?
B A N K R U P T
F R A U D
Doesn’t it all seem so rigged?
uncle fed is very good at getting you to pay more for stuff.
It also seems like Uncle Fed is in the business of helping to encourage all Americans to deplete their household savings by spending beyond their means. How does the U.S. savings rate look now compared to before when Alan Greenspan took over?
It was over ten percent before Greenspan, and persistently below ten percent since:
https://www.quandl.com/data/FRED/PSAVERT-Personal-Saving-Rate
savings? most people r so broke they have < 1000 bucks to their names.
People without savings are so much easier to control.
People with no savings are far better prospective subprime lending customers.
This time is gonna be different!
Financial Times
Traders look on as bottom end of securitisation market restarts
A worker cuts a piece of pipe as he builds a new home on Jan 21 2015 in Petaluma, California
©Getty
Across the country, house prices are rising at a pace of about 7 per cent a year
Look out next week for a small but significant milestone. A Santa Monica-based hedge fund is on the brink of selling bonds backed by mortgages deemed too risky to be bought by the government agencies that dominate home loans in the US.
At less than $100m, the deal would barely move the needle in the broader market for private mortgage-backed securities, which saw total issuance of $30bn in the third quarter. But according to Daniel Perl, chairman and chief executive of the loans’ originator, Citadel Servicing Corporation, it could mark a real moment: the first securitisation of subprime mortgages since the financial crisis.
CSC — an Irvine, California-based firm which is no relation to the investment group run out of Chicago by Ken Griffin — is at the forefront of a new breed of originators eyeing big opportunities for growth as tougher federal rules shut out huge swaths of Americans.
In January this year CSC closed $15m of home loans, last month it did $38m, and next year Mr Perl is aiming at $1bn — a target that a successful securitisation could bring nearer.
Sponsors, traders and underwriters are anxiously looking on to see if the bottom end of the market can be rebooted.
“The whole industry has been waiting with bated breath,” says Chris Whalen, senior managing director at Kroll Bond Rating Agency in New York. “I can’t tell you how many conferences I’ve been to where everyone’s been asking when [subprime] will come back.”
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Invest in Facebook and Amazon.
Average P/E is about 500
What could go wrong?
FANG!
Uncle fed has your back. If they didnt prices would have never go so stupid in the first place.
there will be a catalyst to unwind all this nonsense.
FANG: Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google (Alphabet)
Correction: FANG=Facebook, Apple, Netflix and Google
In Chinese Fang means Fraud.
i still cant figure out how fb makes money……with firefox and ad blocker where are the ads?
how fb makes money
Watch “Terms And Conditions May Apply” on netflix.
Thanks for the tip, Ben. I can understand the success of Amazon, but FB has me completely baffled.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terms_and_Conditions_May_Apply
Interesting. What I gather from this is that, quite apart from the ads, FB and others sell information blithely to third parties. Probably heavily subsidized by the government.
Or watch ’silicon valley no revenue’ clip on Youtube. That one pretty much sums up all these companies. Will be some good case studies for HBS, lets hope they learn the right lessons this time
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The government gets around constitutional limits using companies terms agreements (that are so long no one reads them). Watch the Google CEO say if you aren’t doing anything wrong you shouldn’t worry, then he gets mad because someone posts a picture of his house. And Zuckerberg asks that a camera get turned off before he’ll talk to an interviewer. These terms agreements have been constantly changing to make it easier to sell information on all of us to third parties. The government, that we’re told is here to protect us from greedy harmful acts of big corporations, is more than happy to go along because it gets to use this data anytime it wants.
“… FB has me completely baffled.”
I ran across this …
http://www.business-management-degree.net/facebook/
That one pretty much sums up all these companies ??
Got it….Apple & Oracle have no revenue…
Not nearly enough to offset their debt and burn rate.
Watch the clip dave and you’ll understand. It has nothing to do with revenue or numbers, only a perception of worth.
CUPERTINO, California—October 20, 2014—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2014 fourth quarter ended September 27, 2014. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $42.1 billion and quarterly net profit of $8.5 billion, or $1.42 per diluted share.
Watch the clip dave and you’ll understand ??
I did…What I had a bit of heartburn with your statement was the word “all”…
crApple needs all the revenue and cash flow they can get to offset all their debt.
All = companies with 500x P/E. not any one company in particular. AAPL is well within historic P/E and may be undervalued.
We laughed at the people who bought when the PE was 200 too.
Lots of winners out there.
And they will have their hands out when the next bailout comes, too.
Yellen the Felon is trying to force savers into Wall Street’s rigged casino where they can be fleeced by her .1% accomplices. NIRP will be her next escalation in the War on Savers.
Invest in guns and Alzheimers.
Assisted living housing for Baby Boomers with bank…
Sometimes the land goes up
Ex when bama creates 18 fed agencies to help sell aca
Or
When Hitler gets in a creates …….
Near dc
Yet typically land isn’t worth much considering there is a globe full of it where 95% of it goes undeveloped and unused.
got water?
They’re called pipes Liberace.
where they just invented?
95% undeveloped Lib.
got fresh water?
There’s a globe full of water Lib.
got clean water?
There’s a globe full of clean water Lib.
Hey Goon, I was worried when we didn’t hear from you after yesterday’s All-American taliban terrorist attack in your neck of the woods. What did you think of the backwoods christian jihadi?
The Almighty himself lives in your empty skull, rent-free.
hostem mihi gravem, sed non molestum
Unimpressed Lola but I’ll play.
Non difficile est mihi scribere vobis verbis referent eadem iterum atque iterum.
iterum atque iterum.
ut vidimus ad absurdum
OddfelLola appears to be the one flying the flag for the progressive nightmare these days. Short straw, early shift?
goon the almighty? sounds like a bad hollywood movie.
Occupiers are mightier than the empty skull.
I am less concerned with the actual circumstances of the event than with the narrative that will be scripted to follow it.
Dead fetuses and the clinic staff that abort them are irrelevant.
It is, as always, about the narrative.
the narrative that will be scripted to follow it.
Backwoods dumbsh#@ gets over-riled by the shepherds?
Or are they busy scripting another?
It will be a globalist, collectivist narrative.
Coastal elitist and disdainful of flyover.
Note that where he lived in Colorado is called South Park (no relation to the show which is actually modeled on Boulder / Nederland). It’s pretty desolate there, a good place to listen to the wind while losing your mind and plotting some Go Time.
Appears to be another failure of our mental health system, the same problem as always, we’ve known about forever. We used to lock crazies up in institutions, what happened?
We used to lock crazies up in institutions, what happened?
The crazies became a voting bloc.
The butt hurt and back pedaling are brisk this morning, and all will be forgotten when some gun grabber promotes a bill to keep ak47s out of the hands of the mentally ill.
The perfect circle of blamelessness.
Allah Akbar!
Appears to be another failure of our mental health system, the same problem as always,
It’s not just a lone nut. The problem is the Republican Party foments hate and violence.
Right-wing terrorism is here folks and it has been brought to USA by the Right-Wing’s extension of Nixon’s “Southern Strategy”
When hate is spouted 24-7, some people listen.
Were the body parts discounted on Black Friday?
I’ll have one set of fetus lungs for $59.99, Alex….
I just subscribed to Fear and Ignorance Magazine, only $59 a yr.
I just subscribed to Fear and Ignorance Magazine, only $59 a yr.
Still cheaper than the price we all are paying for your hope and chains.
Not mine, I am a Libertarian. I dont need the gov to save me.
I am a
LibertarianLiberace.Fixed for you Lib.
I am less concerned with the actual circumstances of the event than with the narrative that will be scripted to follow it.
Exactly. Most instructive is the refusal of the MSM to label the shooter a “terrorist,” even though the crime meets Homeland Security’s definition of terrorism. The same thing occurred with Dylann Roof. The MSM wouldn’t call him a terrorist and the Feds did not file terror charges against him — even though he carried out the political desires of the hate group he belonged to.
Something’s fishy here. MSM reluctant to anger Repubs by associating right-wing extremists with terrorism? MSM protecting Obama/Clinton so the Repubs can’t claim domestic terror is on the rise under Democrats?
Terrorist.
“The word was originally applied to supporters of the Jacobins in the French Revolution, who advocated repression and violence in pursuit of the principles of democracy and equality.”
The original right wing hate group?
It is, as always, about the narrative ??
Carly Fiorina…Her way of getting some national attention even if it was a big fat-a$$ lie…So now we get a mentally ill guy with a gun that wants to show his objection to what she stated…
Three people dead…Thanks Carly…
She wants to be the drone commander in chief. I doubt she’ll lose sleep over a few people who are “collateral damage” in her quest for a political career.
From MSNBC:
” Dear made a comment about “no more baby parts” in an apparent reference to Planned Parenthood. The officials stressed that Dear’s comments were made amidst a flurry of “rantings” that also included statements about politics and President Barack Obama.
People who were familiar with Dear from time he spent living in South Carolina were accustomed to similar rhetoric.”
Sounds like the output of a garden variety Shrieking Tree Monkey.
So this is the Obama Mass Shooting 2.0?
“Houses are not investments, they depreciate and rot.” Therefore if you want a status symbol, get a Mercedes S550, like one of my neighbors who pays the same rent I do.
Maybe it’s an LA/Orange County thing.
OC - they all lease and sit in traffic 20 hrs a weak. Sat they wash their car, do their laundry, then back to work on Mon.
In that Sheryl Crow song they wash their cars on their lunch breaks.
It’s always interesting how so many who make big money are so insecure.
How old is this guy - 17?
You missed it. Big money doesn’t need status symbols. In fact it’s the opposite.
I’m well aware of that.
I think he is in his 30s or 40s.
ThIs deal about buying $100k cars is far more common in rental areas of the South Bay part of L.A. My apartment garage was full of Mercedes, BMW, Lexus, Infiniti, Jaguar, Audi, and so forth.
I thought about it and realized the houses in he nearby neighborhoods were rotting stucco boxes anyway, with $6k annual property taxes. And these renters in my apartment were paying $1,500 monthly. Maybe they love the South Bay but would never want to own real estate, so they might as well enjoy their ride.
Lame. One can enjoy their ride for a lot less than $100K. Reeks of insecurity.
Why not put the money toward something infinitely more valuable - such as the purpose of time?
You think that someone making that kind of money might be a tad smarter of how it is spent.
Exactly. Several things that prevent me from showing off with a pricey car: The maintenance bill is magnified. Maintenance on a Nissan or Toyota is far less expensive than maintenance on a Infiniti or Lexus. For Mercedes and Audi, it’s much more. Next, there is always some envious hater that has an urge to key (pinstripe) your expensive car. That is the ugly unamerican (but French style) egalitarian of outcome urge. People who hate other people expressing pride in their success. And finally, it seems funny to park such a car at a place you rent for the lowest cost decent place to rent.
Better to keep the money working for you and take advantage of time to grow more wealth.
OTOH I have been accused of living miserly and having so much money, only to leave it to others and not enjoy what I earned.
Bill -
My post above should have ended with “purchase” of time, not “purpose” of time.
People who are bad with money don’t realize they can purchase time. They never focus on time as an asset.
I value the purchase of time infinitely more than I do the purchase of a Mercedes. It’s hard for me to understand those who have so little regard for time.
Lame. One can enjoy their ride for a lot less than $100K. Reeks of insecurity. Why not put the money toward something infinitely more valuable - such as the purpose of time?
If you’re spending a bunch of time in the car (commuting to/from work), why not do so in a car that’s comfortable and makes the experience suck less/more enjoyable?
If one can comfortably afford to pay cash for the car, I think it’s money well spent (I guess it depends what you’re buying for $100k). However, I agree that buying “time” (pay someone to mow your lawn, clean your house, avoid driving 30 mins to store and back) is a good use of funds also.
Fair disclosure: I drive a Mercedes. Not to show off, but to have something that’s enjoyable to drive, quiet, has a good sound system, and good safety features. But I paid cash, and can comfortably afford it.
A toyota is enjoyable to drive, quiet, has a good sound system and is equipped with every safety feature any other car…… for 65% less.
I thought you were a 4 wheel drive offroader type, drumminj.
I thought you were a 4 wheel drive offroader type, drumminj.
Not sure what I’ve said to give you that impression, though I used to fit that bill. FWIW, I did own a 1999 Toyota 4Runner, manual transmission 4×4. Loved that truck — sold it with just under 200k on the odometer.
These days I don’t get up into the mountains much, other than to ski. The AWD on the Mercedes plus a good set of tires (downsized from 19″ wheels to 17″) gets me where I need to go.
hence the demand and run up in prices the last 2 yrs. The Chinese love the rotten USA house like shark fin soup.
HI All!
I read daily and posted occasionaly on Bens excellent blog back in 2005-2006. But I honestly don’t recall the corny name I used at the time. Speaking of time, how it flies!
I sold my home back in Summer of 05 in Sacramento area, which it turns out by blind luck was the exact peak in the area. I had planned on moving to Davis and buying there. Thru google, I stumbled upon this blog while the home was in escrow and received quite an education. B/c of this blog, I also sold a rental home a month later and decided to rent instead while waiting out the boom/bust cycle, which I figured would be 7 years (2012). Turned into a couple huge home runs for me.
Well, 2012 came along and life happens and I was not ready to buy again. Turns out the summer of 2012 was the absolute bottom in Sacto area.)
I’m ready to buy in the same area of Sac (Natomas) - I’m tired of renting in Davis and while I love the landlord (no rent increase 9 years!) - the place is showing it’s age and I have a crappy neighbor.
Not interested in a Mcmansion, simple 3/2 1400-1800 sq ft. single story. 25% down.
Prices are up 50-90% since the bottom, but about 15% down from the 05 peak. Crazy. Did not expect the fast rebound nor did I expect ZIRP and massive hedge fund/Chinese buying.
Here is my dilema and I hope I ya’ll can set me straight once again.
The market here is absolutely red hot right now for clean single stories. Every house I find I like (around six since late Sept), receives a full price offer within 2 days before I can even submit mine. Over and over and over.
So if that seven year cycle thing stays true there is another 3.5 years or so of price increases, and I refuse to pay any more then what they are now.
I’m afraid if I attempt to get tricky again and sit on the sidelines a little longer i’ll be ‘priced out’ until the next down cycle is in full swing and prices hit my range - five years or so
Sorry for the novel and yes I am aware Realtors are buy and large either stupid or liars.
lolz.
Give it time. Prices are rolling back right now. Take a look at housing demand there. It’s at 30 year lows.
We are currently in the obama housing bubble V2.0 now.
Why would you buy in a bubble city in a bubble state?
is there any difference at all between 1.0 and 2.0?
I can think of some.
It’s the same fraud driven bubble Liberace.
Sure was easier to get a loan in 2005 than 2015. hmmmmm
Subprime lending is the standard today Lib.
May I suggest the name Lola if you are looking for a new funny moniker?
lolz or lola. It’s the same meaning.
May I suggest the name Lola
That’s what you tell you Craigslists “dates” I’m sure ClubberShrimpStrawberryProxy.
Who is Strawberry?
The thought that you’re afraid you will “be priced out” should tell you all you need to know.
This.
Bruce - read brother Jimmy’s comment again. And again and again.
Rent a house, if you must.
I recommend to continue renting. The interest rates are going up. Stock values and real esta e prices go the same direction, but stock prices go higher on the average.
I am originally from Fresno. The valley is not mucking futch. Maybe Sacramento has nearby UC Davis, the Statist bee hive of thugs, and some high tech companies in far suburbs like Grass Valley, but it’s got the same smog problems and summer heat problems.
If you instead dollar cost average into the Vanguard S&P 500 index fund you will get the equivalent (or better) in housing appreciation. You cannot dollar cost average into a house.
My own rule of thumb, for anyone past the age of 40 is to not borrow anymore than one sixth of your net worth for anything.
My investing strategy has been critical for me personally the last two years, as I have downsized my job. I had to sell some assets while trying to maintain net worth. So I sold my he biggest gainers of the best performing asset class. My net worth is about 96 percent of its peak right now, and it peaked a few months ago.
Another strategy is invest in three year notes. I think they go on sale monthly. While they don’t have the appreciation potential of stocks, you get your principle back. I figure you can throw in $2,000 per month in the three year notes. It is easy to set up with treasurydirect.gov and tie it into your bank ACH. there is no expense fee, for one. And three year note rates are going up so you will ride the wave. You get paid interest twice a year on your notes, which is not taxable by California.
I’m ready to buy in the same area of Sac (Natomas)
Check the flood maps before buying anywhere in the Sacramento region. Many square miles of homes are dependent on levees as the only line of defense in a flood. Even if a flood doesn’t happen, they can change the maps and make you buy expensive flood insurance. The best strategy is to buy to the east where the elevation is higher and there is no flood threat.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/08/24/3690955/sacramento-katrina-levees/
By all means follow the herd and buy now before you get priced out forever.
I’ve been following the HBB for about 10 years too, sold my last place (also in northern Calif.) in 2007, and also tried to buy again in 2011/2012. At that time it was pretty much hopeless competing against 100% cash flippers and speculators and I can remember reading that the situation was similar in Sacramento…so you might have wasted a year trying to buy like I did had you attempted back then.
Anyway, no way in hell I’d buy right now, am completely convinced that Bubble 2.0 exists and that it will inevitably pop…and aside from that renting makes much more sense financially currently. After Bubble 2.0 pops if prices drop back to 2012 levels and/or buying is about 10 years rent or less I will try again but in the meantime am renting happily (the place works well, is affordable, and is in the part of town I like)
Keep in mind that resale prices were still double+ long term trend during the price correction that was interrupted. 10x rental rates you’re overpaying substantially.
Having sold near the all time high, and calling that a home run, why would you then buy back in near the peak of the echo bubble?
We’re not bound by a simple 7 year business cycle. This is the biggest credit expansion and housing bubble in history. Keep some popcorn handy.
New York Times scripts a narrative, emphasis on the phrase ‘Preferred to Be Left Alone’
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/us/robert-dear-suspect-in-colorado-killings-preferred-to-be-left-alone.html?_r=0
‘Preferred to Be Left Alone’
And nothing gets you left alone better than going into town and shooting the place up.
From the article, oh dear:
“He seemed to have a separate life online. An online personals ad seeking women in North Carolina interested in bondage and sadomasochistic sex showed a picture that appeared to be Mr. Dear and used an online pseudonym associated with him. The same user also appeared to have turned to online message boards to seek companions in the Asheville area with whom he could smoke marijuana.”
Well the shooter is a nut. So…
Of course anyone who is sane and preferring to be left alone would always be in fear of uniformed thugs, and stay under the radar. My car has no bumper stickers or decals or license plate frames detailing my anarchist opinions. Even if I was a Cruz or Warren supporter I would be targeted by someone who hates Cruz or Warren.
Those crazies who shoot up places gve the anti gun crowd the chance to display their logical fallacy of hasty generalization. 100 million gun owners and we are compared to the people who shoot a dozen in some small town. Meanwhile the drone assassinations continue, killing that same amount every week. American cops continue to kill around 1,000 U.S. citizens per year.
100 million gun owners and we are compared to the people who shoot a dozen in some small town
Same thing the American muslims and the Syrian refugees say.
“Same thing American Muslims and the Syrian refugees say.”
I also don’t generalize Muslims, since I had a Kuwaiti Muslim girlfriend and we lived together for several years. She would celebrate Ramaden every year and be gone for a month back to her family. She was / is the kindest girl I met. I trusted her more than any Christian.
I agree that you are one of the few who walk their talk. I was making the point for others, though.
OddFelLola,
Telling people what and how to think when you’ve demonstrated you can’t think for yourself relegates you to irrelevance.
I trusted her more than any Christian ??
Wow….Pretty broad statement there….
Sc I cannot help it. I met too many Tartuffes in real life. Criminal and Chrisian are not opposites.
A loner can think for himself.
And that’s a problem for collectivists.
Shooting up an abortion clinic is not an original idea, unfortunately.
Why can’t somebody shoot up something interesting for a change?
One thing left and right should be able to agree on is that mentally unhinged people should not have access to firearms.
Obama keeps spouting off against “weapons of war.” ANY rifle, shotgun, or pistol in the wrong hands is a bad thing.
It would be nice if instead of comparing this atrocity to dissimilar situations, everybody could agree on a simple truth: there are too many disturbed people with access to guns. That needs to change.
One thing left and right should be able to agree on is that mentally unhinged people should not have access to firearms.
Similarly, they shouldn’t be able to vote, right?
Similarly, they shouldn’t be able to vote, right?
Never let a crisis go to waste.
there are too many disturbed people with access to guns. That needs to change.
The NRA won’t let it. They demand that each person have a jury trial to be determined too mentally ill to own a firearm, which makes it logistically impossible to get the guns away from the crazies.
Like I’ve been saying, they recognize that if they eliminated the crazies, the violent, and the tranquilized, they’d lose half their constituency.
The NRA won’t let it. They demand that each person have a jury trial to be determined too mentally ill to own a firearm
So you’re saying you’re in favor of revoking an individual’s constitutionally guaranteed rights without due process?
you’re saying you’re in favor of revoking an individual’s constitutionally guaranteed rights without due process?
Not speaking for him, but what I would say, is that since the Repubs push gun rights, then Repubs should tone down their hateful and gun violence inspiring rhetoric.
No?
Of course yes.
without due process
Apparently there are two competing bills in the House, one which would take away gun rights after being legally committed, another, supported by the NRA, which requires a separate jury trial. The second, separate jury trial seems a bit much, and experts predicted it would greatly lessen its effectiveness.
I may have some of the specifics wrong, though, and I can’t find the original article, any google search about gun legislation produces too many results.
Why are they saying the motive is unknown still?
What is now considered to be a moronic question is a lot broader than it used to be due to Google. Now, if you could have googled the answer first but still ask the question, you can be lumped into the moron category much quicker.
Now the dunderheads will be wanting death of all introverts and individualists.
Bill, this is precisely why I identify the narrative that the New York Times is promoting. Any who wander from the warm smell of the herd are suspect, and in need of some reprogramming.
Sounds like no one cared that he left the herd. His only brushes with the law were when he whooped his wife, peeped in his neighbor’s windows, and went on a killing spree in town.
The herd was ready to leave him alone, but he couldn’t leave the herd alone. All those dog-whistles in his head.
As with a school of fish, being part of a herd tends to protect an individual from being threatened, injured or killed off.
Among humans, when they’re part of a herd, individuals are held less accountable.
Protection AND absolution.
Join us and we’ll look the other way. Refuse us, and you’re guilty of whatever we throw at you, no matter your level of involvement.
Great post and so true.
So if he had shot up that clinic with a large enough peer group, he would have got a cookie instead of arrested?
Maybe just once you could contribute something of value to this board, instead of being a complete jackass.
If this were you, you’d do the same.
http://goo.gl/XK02Pc
I do contribute. I point out glaring logical fallacies in a humorous manner. You find this annoying because you can’t let go of your fallacies. Conservatives tend to be worse about this, and I think, if unchecked, this will lead to conservatism ending up as a historical punch line. So I’m checking it.
If you want it to stop, stop spouting nonsense. Stop being a crybaby. Stop pointing fingers at ‘them.’ Question what you read, no matter the source. Behave like a rational adult.
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Golden Beach, FL Housing Craters; Prices Plunge 9% YoY
http://www.zillow.com/market-report/11-15/72463/golden-beach-fl-33160.xls?rt=14
Washington Post real journalists provide a narrative:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/alleged-colorado-gunman-was-adrift-and-alienated/2015/11/28/7cb93b62-95f5-11e5-8aa0-5d0946560a97_story.html
There are millions of “adrift and alienated” individuals full of seething rage and blaming “Them” instead of themselves for their poor station in life. They used to live and die in harmless solitude. Now it seems more and more of them want to validate their pathetic existence by going out with a bank.
I mean, going out with a bang.
Although nothing warms my heart more than those who want bigger and bigger government get hit in the face with bigger and bigger government.
Notice how fast how “emergency terrorism laws” are used against citizens.
Will the frech sink so low that they will use their IRS to go after the political enemies of the party in power?
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France Uses Emergency Laws to Place Climate Activists Under House Arrest
Slate | November 28, 2015 | Daniel Politi
At least 24 activists who advocate for climate change have been placed under house arrest ahead of the highly anticipated United Nations talks in Paris. France used emergency laws that were implemented after the Paris shootings to arrest the green campaigners, the French government confirmed on Saturday. Earlier, the Guardian had reported the news, noting that the warrants delivered to the activists cited state of emergency laws that were imposed after 130 people were killed in terrorist attacks earlier this month…….
……It’s not that the French government thinks green campaigners are tantamount to terrorists, but rather that their actions could distract law enforcement from the most important task. “These people have no connection at all with the terrorist movement, but our forces need to be totally focused on the protection of the French people,” Cazeneuve added.
Why not cut off the welfare ,the Muslims are 70 on the dole
No worries in my hood there are more armed citizens than in all of Belgium
That really isn’t saying much
Embrace diversity.
It is amazing that the insane housing bubble in Sweden has not burst. At what point does the place then into Camden, Detroit or Stockton?
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Islam, rape, and the fate of Western women
American Thinker | Carol Brown
Perhaps there is no European country where rape has reached epidemic proportions as it has in Sweden, a country now known as the “rape capital” of Europe. Sweden ranks Number 2 on the global list of rape countries. From 1975 to present, rape in Sweden has increased 1472%. Based on this model, it is now projected that one in four Swedish women (and sometimes little girls) will be raped. Rape of men and boys is also on the rise.
Making this nightmarish situation worse, the authorities hide what’s going on, make outlandish excuses for it, and/or side with the rapists. Dhimmitude has taken hold. Few, if any, will state the truth: that the majority of rapes in Sweden are committed by Muslim males.
Of note, a large number of Muslim rapists are under the age of 18 and, if brought to “justice,” receive exceedingly light sentences (even lighter than the absurd non-punishment adults receive) because they are considered juveniles.
In Denmark, more than half of convicted rapists are Muslims. In Norway, there has been a dramatic spike in rapes. In Oslo, 10% of females over the age of 15 have been raped by Muslim men with Muslim men guilty of 100% of the rapes against Norwegian women.
“…that the majority of rapes in Sweden are committed by Muslim males.”
That’s easily solved: Deport the Muslim males.
Are we sure these aren’t made-up stats like those Trump used about black-on-white murders?
Yeah, that last sentence sounds impossible. Not a single non-Muslim Norwegian has committed rape? It sounds unlikely. You might include the fact the biggest terrorist incident in Norway was committed by a non-Muslim white supremacist Norwegian guy.
Actually the number is 145%, but the socialists made them round it down.
Why do Scandinavian country leaders tolerate the rape of their women folk by Muslims?
Because muslims vote as a bloc and for generations for the most left wing and progressive parties.
It is all about keeping power.
See the American democrat party for more examples
Wait…are you saying there is a left wing, progressive, Democratic party in Norway?
California Developer Arrested On Assault Charges
http://calcoastnews.com/2015/11/prominent-slo-county-developer-arrested-on-assault-charges/
This puke outfit is already on the carpet for ripping off sub-contractors.
They thought it was a zombie.
Town demolishes veteran’s house while he has surgery
Associated Press By MICHAEL BALSAMO and FRANK ELTMAN
20 hours ago
WEST HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) — When a U.S. Navy veteran traveled from Long Island to Florida for a knee replacement, his house was the last thing on his mind. But now his memory of it is all he can think about.
Philip Williams’ home was demolished in the spring by town officials while he spent about six months recuperating from surgical complications in Fort Lauderdale. Back in New York, officials in the Town of Hempstead deemed his modest two-story home unfit for habitation and knocked it down.
The 69-year-old has now waged a legal battle against the suburban New York town. He wants reimbursement — for the house and all the belongings inside.
“I’m angry and I’m upset. It’s just wrong on so many levels,” he said “My mortgage was up to date, my property taxes were up to date … everything was current and fine.”
Williams says he was never contacted and believes town officials thought his house was a so-called “zombie home” — a dwelling abandoned after foreclosure proceedings begin, but one not yet seized by the bank — and rushed to demolish it.
http://news.yahoo.com/town-demolishes-veterans-house-while-surgery-160829466.html
There has to be more to this story.
Someone is either getting a kickback or had a vendetta
Sacramento, CA Housing Craters; Prices Fall 6% YoY
http://www.zillow.com/east-sacramento-sacramento-ca/home-values/
east sac is where all the high rollers in sac live. Have you ever seen the fab 40’s my friend?
High rollers? Poet, why would anyone want to live among degenerate gamblers?
the housing market has been turned into a casino too.
Someone told me a condo with 1350 sq ft near foster city sold for over 800k, lmfao.
Todays 100% LTV sale is tomorrows default.
the housing market has been turned into a casino too.
the whole us is a casino. don’t play if you don’t want to lose.
They just needed to import some spenders.
Refugees, shoppers rev up German growth motor
AFP By Marie Julien
8 hours ago
Berlin (AFP) - A massive influx of refugees, and accompanying billions in public spending, have provided Germany with a long-awaited answer to partners’ calls for it to do more to jumpstart the eurozone economy.
Data released this week showed solid growth for Europe’s top economy in the third quarter, lifted by strong consumer spending and state expenditure for asylum seekers.
Analysts hailed the news as a welcome shift for a country that has often preached fiscal rectitude at the expense of stimulating the 19-country eurozone.
“The German economy has finally become what many international critics had been demanding for a long while: a domestically-driven economy,” ING economist Carsten Brzeski said, “at least in the third quarter”.
http://news.yahoo.com/refugees-shoppers-rev-german-growth-motor-043050420.html
Krugman’s wet dream.
“The Unintended Consequences Of ‘Lift-Off’ In A World Of Excess Reserves”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-28/unintended-consequences-lift-world-excess-reserves
“the excess reserve problem will be impossible to correct without causing a major financial upheaval at some level.”
“the excess reserve problem will be impossible to correct without causing a major financial upheaval at some level.”
That’s the reason I don’t understand why anyone believes the Fed will follow through on their liftoff saber rattling.
Fed will follow through on their liftoff saber rattling ??
I think they must barring some large event in the next couple of weeks…With all the talk and the dot plots I think the market has priced it in…Whats going to be more important is the pace of the increases…That where the real dilemma lies…The dollar will just continue to get stronger….
If they don’t lift off, two things will happen:
1) The dollar will weaken.
2) Wall Street will enjoy a rolicking Santa Claus rally.
If they do lift off, the Fed gets to enjoy Grinch status, and the dollar will strengthen, making it harder for the U.S. to sell exports.
Which will they choose?
1) The dollar will weaken.
The dollar can only weaken against other currencies. It’s strength isn’t solely determined by the federal funds rate.
The fed hasn’t raised rates and yet the dollar has continued to strengthen. I’d argue it’s quite possible to continue to stay strong, and even strengthen more, even without ‘liftoff’, as you put it.
“The dollar can only weaken against other currencies.”
Ignoring other currencies for the moment, suppose that by some stroke of economic calamity, the dollars in your pocket could buy twice as much of everything tomorrow as they could buy today, i.e. the price of everything fell by half overnight. As of tomorrow, the dollar would have strengthened against its value today; no other currencies need to be considered.
“It’s strength isn’t solely determined by the Federal Funds Rate.”
True. However, the Fed is threatening to tighten while other nations central banks are running their monetary policy ever looser. If they don’t tighten next month, look for a near-term weakening of the dollar.
“The Fed hasn’t raised rates and yet the dollar has continued to strengthen.”
Other things equal, a loosening of monetary policy in other countries with no change in the Fed’s policy stance will also result in a stronger dollar. Changes in the relative strength of national economies matters as well. Hence no ‘liftoff‘ (not my coinage) is needed for the dollar to continue strengthening.
Hence no ‘liftoff‘ (not my coinage) is needed for the dollar to continue strengthening.
How can you say this, yet above say that “if they don’t lift off…the dollar will weaken”.
The two statements are at odds, no?
Wish I could have attended, but alas, had a prior commitment. Besides, lining up at 3:00am just to get inside is a little much for me. They were expecting 5,000 and got way more, big overflow crowd, some say up to 12,000. The Don hit it out of the park.
http://politics.heraldtribune.com/2015/11/28/sarasota-gets-the-full-trump-experience/
They came from all over the state: “Magdalia Marmol, a 70-year-old native of the Dominican Republic who drove from North Miami Beach for the rally, said “Hispanic people love him more than anybody else.”
“He’s providing businesses and jobs for so many people in Miami,” Marmol said. “He’s the best.”
Yes, they do seem to like him in Miami, which shows the idiocy of lumping all “Hispanics” together.
“The media came in for extended criticism as “a bunch of phonies” that refused to acknowledge his huge crowds while exaggerating controversies.
“The press will not report it,” Trump said as the crowd booed loudly. “They never report the real spirit in the room.”
True. They fixated on the fact that the guy who brought the elephant was charged with animal cruelty in New Jersey.
“Trump talked about taking oil from Iraq to compensate families of service members killed in action and wounded veterans, said he would make the U.S. tax system so simple that “we’re going to put H&R Block the hell out of business”
Always get twitchy about that oil from Iraq thing, but WOW, I love the idea of drowning the US tax system in a bathtub.
Jolly good show, Don.
The man is a tireless campaigner.
You don’t get to script the narrative, only real journalists script narratives:
“Most of the electorate would not pass a test on what anybody’s positions are on anything,” he said. “Nobody cares.” Conservative voters, for instance, seem not to mind Trump’s favorable comments on national health insurance and eminent domain.
What can win over voters is what Pfeffer called “narcissism.”
“They’re responding to dynamism, to force, to movement, to smiling, to facial expressions that convey authority,” he said. Trump “does it with more force. He does it with more energy. Energy is contagious.”
“It’s the audacity of those promises in those circumstances that really carries a lot of weight,” Kruglanski said, “and it’s the emotional, as opposed to the kind of deliberative, rational appeal that carries the day.”
The world can feel like a complicated place. There may be no good answers to the problems we confront individually and as a society. It is hard to know whom or what to believe. Things are changing, and the future might be different in unpredictable ways. For many people, this uncertainty is deeply unpleasant.
“People are just inclined to say, ‘Okay, to hell with it. I’m not going to figure it out,’ ” Kruglanski said.
That desire is especially strong among social conservatives, research shows. They want answers, more so than other people.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/15/i-asked-psychologists-to-analyze-trump-supporters-this-is-what-i-learned/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_3_na
Because psychologists do such a bang-up (no pun intended) job of mental health. Not to mention the APA was heavily involved with the whole torture deal in Iraq.
f*ck psychologists anyway. The worse they do, the more money they extract.
Peasant, let your betters script that narrative:
“With anti-immigrant sentiment soaring among Republican presidential candidates, and immigration reform stalled in Congress and the courts, New York advocacy groups, with the support of the Obama administration, are redoubling their efforts in one area they can control: citizenship. They are pushing to convert as many of the country’s 8.8 million green card holders as possible into naturalized Americans.
The influence of the Latino voting bloc has added impetus to the drive. According to Latino Decisions, a polling and research firm, 80 percent of naturalized Latino citizens voted for President Obama in 2012. In New York State, there are approximately 915,000 legal permanent residents, more than 317,400 of whom are Latino, according to the Center for Migration Studies.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/28/nyregion/with-legal-aid-immigrant-advocates-turn-focus-to-citizenship.html
80 percent of naturalized Latino citizens voted for President Obama in 2012 ??
Why would they vote for Romney….
Why would any member of the 99% vote for Romney?
To be fair, they’re not the only ones who depend on worsening conditions for their pay. Police, military, medicine, finance, all are threatened by solutions to crime, war, ill health, poverty, etc.
“They came from all over the state: “Magdalia Marmol, a 70-year-old native of the Dominican Republic who drove from North Miami Beach for the rally, said “Hispanic people love him more than anybody else.”
Uh-oh. This is not going to sit well with some HBB posters who are convinced that Trump is offending Hispanics and women to such an extent that they’d never vote for him.
Magdalia Marmol, a 70-year-old native of the Dominican Republic … said “Hispanic people love him more than anybody else.
Makes sense for some. If you grew up in a small central American or Caribbean country with strong-man dictators, it would be comforting to vote for the US candidate who most resembles a dictator.
I bet Argentinian Americans will be lining up for Hillary.
… and older Italians getting behind Donald “Benito” Trump.
El Douchie!
Si, Il Douche! Trump resembles Il Duce:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BcV5CoVk9wM/Vlhy76zbEtI/AAAAAAAAI6o/YA6TVpad-is/s400/trump%2B%2526%2Bmussolini.jpg
“Fascism is a merger of state and corporate power.” — Mussolini
“I bet Argentinian Americans will be lining up for Hillary.”
LMAO!
Yes, they likely will vote what they know.
“Trump resembles Il Duce”
Interesting comparison.
This one is pretty good too:
“Trump resembles Il Duce” Interesting comparison.
Signs of fascism include corruption of government by corporations, strong nationalism, xenophobia, heavy-handed police, macho father-figure leadership. I’ll leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine to what extent Trump fits the definition.
Such massive Trump fear from the commies.
Another reason to vote for him. He provokes fear and loathing from all the right people.
Everyone that doesn’t crave a DaddyState?
“Such massive Trump fear from the commies.”
Such name calling from the Retardicans trolls.
Does Trump appeal to your fear, your anger, or both?
Readers React Trying to understand Donald Trump’s appeal from the outside
Donald Trump rally
A supporter holds up a personalized license plate labeled “Trump16″ during a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Columbus, Ohio, on Nov. 23.
(Ty Wright / Getty Images)
Paul Thornton
According to polls, more Republicans support Donald Trump than any other GOP candidate. According to my count, few of them write letters to The Times.
The letters responding to Doyle McManus’ column on Wednesday, which chalked up Trump’s persistent popularity to fear and anger, reflect that. Almost all of the letter writers oppose the Republican front-runner and attempt to explain (or understand) his appeal from the outside, engaging sometimes in pop psychology to penetrate the minds sitting beneath the “Make America Great Again” hats.
As with letters written in response to previous pieces on Trump, the writers this time mostly express bemusement over his candidacy. A small minority of readers defend him.
Here are some of their responses.
Linda Kranen of Carlsbad says the GOP base has only itself to blame for Trump’s ascendancy:
The popularity of Trump reflects an angry GOP electorate that feels it has been lied to and betrayed. So who’s to blame for that?
The so-called base insists on being lied to. Its members jeer candidates who show integrity, support the most despicable candidates in order to feel justified in their own ugly opinions, then act surprised and victimized when their “tell them anything as long as it’s ugly” candidates get elected and can’t make all the hateful nonsense come true.
Can the GOP get votes without fostering delusional thinking?
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Trump
Trump
Make America Waterboard Again!
better than droning an afghani hospital?
We’ll bomb the sh#% out of them! Much more humane.
Obama does it well OddFelLola……. he does it well.
Trump will bomb them better! It will be hyoooge!
Then we’ll make them pay for it.
The next dictator.
Hyperbole. But, I was just thinking about you the other day and wanted to mention that I admire your position on depriving the state of as much of your income as possible.
Bill is a model citizen. If i were prezident, i would give him the queen’s medal of honor.
Thanks. Not only depriving the state with as much my income but also the landlords, airlines, car rentals, coffee shops, wine companies, it all adds up. First thing I notice my credit card balances by the time I pay them every month - hilariously low. And I can still do my Roth 401k with catchup and contribute the full amount. Also to my traditional iRA.
Did you know that you can contribute to a nondeductible IRA every year and convert it all tax free to a Roth IRA? I’ve been doing this for several years. There is a catch to it though, so you first should have a tax advisor do this for you or you will end up paying huge taxes.
In three years I will be 59 and a half. I will be able to start tapping into any of my retirement accounts. Depending on my health, I will postpone the tapping.
I wouldn’t mind seeing you host a thread about your strategies, how you started out researching, etc. It might be of great help to some here.
And I wish you all the best in dealing with your health issue. It’s not easy putting on years. We try to do the best we can, but mortality always wins out over the body, in the end.
Thanks. It turns out I inherited a couple of things that require me to be on prescriptions the rest of my life. One of them I found out a few weeks ago and limits my exercise. Potentially fatal with too much exercise and without medicine. Still working with doc on defining how I can keep my goal of six pack abs with a lower max heart rate now. LOL.
“Still working with doc on defining how I can keep my goal of six pack abs with a lower max heart rate now.”
I’m confident you will figure this out.
My suggestion (maybe obvious?): Keep at it with your workouts, but take it slower so you don’t push your heart rate as high as you customarily have in the past. Use a slow motion resistance approach to keeping those abs firm rather than high adrenaline / high intensity / high exertion.
Thanks PB. It means longer minutes of lower heart rate, the machines are usually good with their heart rate grips and I suspect I do need to still exercise my heart. Resting pulse in a.m. Is in mid 50s and probably 125 is near my max without getting dizzy. Likely that is equivalent to 137 without my medicine.
Yeah I think I can figure a new approach. Of corse diet is important.
Still working with doc on defining how I can keep my goal of six pack abs with a lower max heart rate now.
Move to a big city in the jungle (harder to gain weight in the tropics), ditch the car, walk a lot and cut dairy 80%.
But I just remembered, the jungle has a lot of weird health hazards too.
Hey Lola…. I’m in Brazil too. Just check my IP address.
depriving the state of as much of your income as possible.
While conveniently glossing over where that income came from in the first place. Hypocrite.
That’s smart bot hypocrite.
It’s not Bill’s problem that you support a government that is dumb as sh1t.
I see nothing wrong with getting my income from my commercial work, beyatch
I do not support this Trump.
That said, he defies the globalist narrative. I see very scary things happening in this country within my lifetime, and voting is not gonna change any of it.
‘voting is not gonna change any of it.’
Seems to be the over-arching theme. And it’s the truth.
It seems like TRUMP has a lock on the disenfranchised late-middle age angry white male vote, but what other demographic can he win?
This is your mistake, thinking in leftist “demographic” group divisions. Silent Majority, which includes wives. Hillary has neither a lock on the women nor the minorities (who will stay home mostly anyway). Heck, she might not even get Caitlyn’s vote.
The Silent Majority morphed into The Shrieking Tree Monkey Club long ago.
Look at those plummeting poll numbers. I guess proposing Nazi tactics for keeping track of Muslims in America is bringing back bad memories?
No wonder the Trump supporters on this board are in a frenzied state of panic.
Donald Trump suffers his largest drop in polls after week of controversy
Poll suggests leading presidential Republican hopeful may finally have gone too far, with the billionaire losing 12 percentage points in one week
Donald Trump addresses supporters during a campaign rally at the Myrtle Beach Convention Centre.
Photograph: Richard Ellis/ZUMA Press/Corbis
Reuters
Friday 27 November 2015 21.56 EST
Last modified on Saturday 28 November 2015 09.51 EST
Donald Trump’s support among Republicans has dropped 12 points in less than a week, marking the presidential hopeful’s biggest decline since he started leading the field in July, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Trump is still in the lead, with 31% of people surveyed naming him as their preferred candidate in a rolling poll over five days that ended on 27 November. However, that number was down from a peak of 43% on 22 November.
Trump accused of ‘hate campaign’ after claiming thousands cheered on 9/11
The sharp drop follows criticism of Trump for comments he made in the aftermath of the Paris attacks on 13 November in which 130 people died.
Following the attacks, Trump told an NBC News reporter that he would support a plan requiring all Muslims within the United States to be registered to a special database, which his critics likened to the mandatory registration of Jews in Nazi Germany.
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The next Grey Champion?
I didn’t write what follows. It’s from another website (which I shall not name). I agree wholeheartedly with the writer (whom I shall not cite - I don’t know the person, anyway).
(Society is in woefully short supply of both pragmatism and brass tacks. Not surprising, as most believe law trumps ethics and morality. If it feels good, do it….right?)
“Anyway, this is what it comes down to on the subject of Boomer influence, and all of the issues discussed in this thread so far:
Boomers have hollowed out society in such a way that it cannot and will not survive unless their dogma is rejected. And it may be too late. There are a number of components that all work together to produce this result. There are certain things that any nation needs to have if it is going to survive. Boomers have assaulted them all.
First, by relentlessly focusing on the negative aspects of American and Western history, they have discredited the political principles and philosophy the nation is based on. If all of the founders of the US were horrible people, the things they stood for must be rejected as well, including the Constitution. The entire philosophical framework of self-government and democracy is discredited.
Second, “identity politics” fosters enormous division, refuses to let it heal, and disintegrates the very premise of a single, united country. “Multiculturalism” treats efforts at assimilation as reprehensible racism. Once again, the people are not allowed to get along, and not allowed to see themselves as part of a single, unified country.
Third, the cultural influence that always unified society, despite all of the disagreements and differences that existed, was Christianity. Not much needs to be said about the Boomer assault on religious faith and traditional morality.
So the United States only ever had two things that held it together as a society. In simplest form, they were the Constitution and the Bible.
Now, add on top of that the Boomer drive towards “globalization”, which has included a massive influx of foreign immigrants, legal and illegal, and a refusal to enforce immigration laws. The people coming in are not forced to assimilate as they were in the past, and any suggestion that they should be is denounced.
What all of it adds up to is a “Tower of Babel” where there may be a common language, but Boomer political correctness has guaranteed division and tribalism so deep that people identify with their “identity group”, and reject the society as a whole. Nothing holds the society together, and there are no controls over who comes in.
Meanwhile, the privileged elites in the “ruling class” use all of this ideological posturing of “Boomer values” as an excuse to ignore the law, and impose laws undemocratically through executive and judicial fiat, while enriching themselves. The ultimate masters of that game are, of course, Bill and Hillary Clinton. Barack Obama is less interested in the enrichment (although it’s a given he’ll make out like a bandit), and more interested in imposing his dogma on the people whether they vote for it or not.
What we are seeing then, is terrorists who have correctly assessed the massive weaknesses in the societies Boomers have brought about, and are exploiting them at every opportunity. The arrogance, decadence and complacency of the affluent, white western left and their amoral corporate partners has created a situation that cannot be sustained.
It is illustrated clearly and repeatedly when Boomer elites respond to terrorism with some version of, “we’re not going to compromise our values!”. They always try to pretend those are long standing values, when in fact they are merely Boomer values. They are willing to put their own citizens at risk in order to maintain political correctness, multi-culturalism, and economic globalism. It’s that simple.
The founders of the US were very conscious of what happened to Rome, and they did their best to forestall the same outcome. We have the example of history, the greatest empire of all time, which disintegrated and disappeared. We’re ignoring it, and it’s happening again. Thanks Boomers (and everyone who follows them unthinkingly). Of course, the Boomers will die off without fully suffering the consequences, which will be left to their children and grandchildren. Which is, of course, totally in keeping with their character since the day they were born.
The founders of the US were very conscious of what happened to Rome, and they did their best to forestall the same outcome. We have the example of history, the greatest empire of all time, which disintegrated and disappeared. We’re ignoring it, and it’s happening again. Thanks Boomers (and everyone who follows them unthinkingly). Of course, the Boomers will die off without fully suffering the consequences, which will be left to their children and grandchildren. Which is, of course, totally in keeping with their character since the day they were born.”
THIS. All of this.
So the United States only ever had two things that held it together as a society. In simplest form, they were the Constitution and the Bible.
We’ll just overlook the fact that Founding Fathers Jefferson, Madison, Adams and Paine were not Christian. They were Deists who believed in God but not Jesus, and they rejected the Bible as being nothing more than tall tales handed down through the generations.
All of this.
Even the “we’re a christian nation” part?
Because I never could find that in the Constitution. Is it one of those gut feelings?
There’s lots of nonsense in that sense.
For example,
So the United States only ever had two things that held it together as a society. In simplest form, they were the Constitution and the Bible.
Most Americans throughout history have only had a vague idea what’s in the constitution. Also, mixing politics and religion is nearly guaranteed to cause conflict instead of helping to hold society together. Emphasizing the importance of the Bible is also a form of identity politics, which the writer decries in the same rant.
Finally, lumping a bunch of stuff that the writer doesn’t like and calling them Boomer values is lame. Plenty of baby boomers probably agrees with diatribe.
Boy, for once in my life, I KNEW something (in that you’d respond very favorably, Goon, to what that person wrote).
While I do agree that much of it what is discussed was invented/furthered by Boomers (and you see such behavior on this board all the time - many idealistic platitudes, little practicality), they are not the only generation guilty of it.
Time to address and implement what actually might work rather than continue on with the nonsense cited as nonsense in the piece above.
I was quite shocked that someone here whom I like and respect in many ways, is in favor of open borders.
An example of boomer idealism/dogma getting in the way of practicality.
You cannot reasonably expect to further the concept of individualism when you allow in those who often find the very concept of individualism to be blasphemous.
At best, such people further the concept of the nanny state and their statist adherents. At worst, they cause consider harm to what made the United States a place worth living in.
Illegals aren’t interested in morality or ethics; they are interested in pillage.
What am I missing here? I am truly dumbfounded.
Lofty Boomer idealism - of all political stripe - makes less and less sense.
Boomers: What is needed now is solutions, not pontification. Get on the stick, or get out of the way.
mixing politics and religion is nearly guaranteed to cause conflict
The adulterous connection of church and state. Desired by the spiritually weak, granted by the authoritarian.
Thanks Macbeth.
My point is that the chicken$hit Republicans regard abolishing welfare as an impossible thing, as if it is tantamount to abolishing darkness. So they want to put up a big iron curtain.
It meansthat closing borders requires far more statism while abolishing welfare means far less statism.
I made no bones about it that I am a voluntaryist. I do not want rulers. This is not about boomers or whatever. It is about being consistent with individual liberty.
Individual rights are not just for Americans.
I don’t understand the fear the closed border types have if welfare is abolished and anyone can come into the USA. What job do you do that you worry might be stolen from you? Are you a janitor? Do you pick strawberries?
Note that I always say that if we get open borders, we must first abolish all taxpayer subsidies.
When I tell this to a Republican he always laughs and says it is impossible. He never explains why abolishing taxpayer aid is impossible.
Right back at you, Bill. I like how we converse with one another. We certainly share in the pursuit of liberty for all individuals everywhere.
I’ll respond with my thoughts tomorrow - I need to leave for a social gathering.
Second, “identity politics” fosters enormous division, refuses to let it heal, and disintegrates the very premise of a single, united country.
True, And Republicans are the kings of identity politics. White guy terrorism is a result of it.
Are Republicans For Freedom Or White Identity Politics?
Donald Trump could transform the Republican Party into a coalition focused on white identity politics. We’ve seen this in Europe, and it’s bad.
http://thefederalist.com/2015/08/21/are-republicans-for-freedom-or-white-identity-politics/
Now that we have had time to observe the Donald Trump phenomenon, there is enough evidence to make a clear assessment of what it represents. The rise of Trump is an epic expression of frustration with the American political system, and it is a natural outgrowth of frustrations with America’s changing demographics; the hollowing out of white working class values and culture, as Charles Murray has documented extensively; and what life is like when governed by the administrative state, where the president increasingly acts as a unilateral executive and elected representatives consistently ignore the people’s priorities.
At its best, these frustrations would be articulated by the Republican Party in ways that lead to more freedom and less government. At its worst, these frustrations cast aside Constitutional principles, encourage dictatorial behavior, and become the toxic political equivalent of the two Southie brothers who claimed Trump inspired them to beat up a Hispanic homeless man.
Tens of millions in never ending generational welfare chains. But hey, I’ll bitch from my paid for college campus about a miniscule number of violent police acts ignoring the 1000x as many caused by those in welfare chains. Not even in the top 20.
Opinion
Trump’s appeal exposes a national undercurrent of intolerance
Fans show support as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop Saturday in Birmingham, Ala. That his message of intolerance resonates says more about Americans than it does about Trump.
(Eric Schultz / Associated Press)
Scott Martelle, Reporter
The tycoon who would be president, Donald Trump, recently endorsed supporters who roughed up a protester at one of his campaign events. “Maybe he should have been roughed up,” Trump told Fox News over the weekend, “because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.” This was after Trump suggested in other settings that Muslims be forced to wear identifying markers and be tracked through a national database. All of which overshadows his earlier comments about Mexican immigrants.
There is a lot here to be outraged by, from Trump’s dismissal of a protester as “disgusting” to his embrace of thuggery to his demonization of Muslims and Mexicans. As Vox points out, Trump also recently retweeted some bogus stats about racial breakdown of homicides – a tweet that seems to have originated with someone espousing neo-Nazi beliefs, and that Trump chose not to disavow once the fake stats were pointed out. This isn’t to say Trump is a throwback fascist. My guess is the guy listens only to himself, and that’s a pretty inept echo chamber.
But Trump’s signal to supporters that roughing up political opponents is acceptable behavior pushes what had been a clownish political performance into a dangerous zone. It’s the move from rhetoric to action.
These are not small things. Bigotry is an inextricable part of the American fabric, unfortunately, but it’s something political leaders in this modern age should be campaigning against instead of supporting.
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Hillary!!
Hillary-Donald!
The Oxford Dictionary has:
Trump - Break wind audibly.
Hillary = silent but deadly?
I’m beginning to think Hillary’s election chances scares the he!! out of Republicans.
Can you imagine their fears after 8 years of a black guy then 8 years of a women president? And a women that’s hard to like?
16 years is almost a generation. Half the old white guys from 08 might be gone. I don’t relate to their fears but I understand them.
They should support Sanders because Repubs are toast imo.
Hillary isn’t a woman. Lizard people are unisexual.
Shows up right on cue to defend Hillary!
Here’s some data for you Lola.
0.00078% of all black males died from police use of force last year. Less than a lightning strike chance.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DqQNfjf4zKAJ:www.forcescience.org/forcepresentation.ppt+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari
Shows up right on cue to defend Hillary!
Are you dumb. It supports Sanders. That’s not a defense of Hillary. Re-read it. I don’t defend Hillary, but I think I start to just because it will drive you nuts. “Ratton”ClubberStrawberryProxyHA. 11/29/15
Should I start now? 1. Hillary’s stand on health-care is better than anything the Repubs are offering. 2. Hillary’s plan to shore up SocSec is better than any of Repubs. 3. Hillary does not represent a racist Party. I can keep going.
NewsFlash: BLM is going to keep rightfully protesting institutional racism whether a weird angry white dude like you likes it or not.
Lots of the angry old white guys who support Trump may be dead and gone by the time Hillary’s eight years in the WH are over. This may be Trump’s last chance to get elected!
Trumpsters’ Last Stand?
Seems like all Lola cares about is race.
Shes more of a slow bubbler with a percussive ending.
What is it about demagogues that so captivates the American electorate?
2016 Presidential Elections
See the Chilling New Anti-Trump Ad That Likens the GOP Hopeful to Nazis
By Tierney McAfee
11/28/2015 AT 02:10 PM EST
No more Mr. Nice John Kasich.
The Republican presidential hopeful’s campaign has released an anti-Donald Trump Web ad that draws on a famous poem about Nazi Germany to attack the GOP front-runner.
The ad features retired Air Force Col. Tom Moe, a former Vietnam POW, speaking at a recent event in Ohio.
“You might not care if Donald Trump says Muslims should register with their government, because you’re not one,” Moe says in the spot released on Tuesday.
“And you might not care if Donald Trump says he’s going to round up all the Hispanic immigrants, because you’re not one. And you might not care if Donald Trump says it’s okay to rough up black protesters, because you’re not one. And you might not care if Donald Trump wants to suppress journalists, because you’re not one. But think about this: If he keeps going, and he actually becomes president, he might just get around to you. And you better hope there’s someone left to help you.”
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That’s a scary ad, though I think they chose the wrong music. I recommend the producers consider using the Imperial March from Star Wars as background music to the next ad they make.
I showed my lovely wife* that ad. Her unscripted comment:
“We have stupid people who want Donald Trump as their president.”
Who on this board self-identifies with the moniker “stupid”?
* Her mom thinks Trump is secretly working to get Hillary elected.
I may have mentioned this previously, but Hitler’s populist appeal during his rise to power extended across the Atlantic, to as far away as the small Midwestern town where my mom grew up. She once recounted to me how the men about town even sported similar hair styles to Hitler’s, including his famous toothbrush mustache.
That was before 1940; after 1940, the Hitler fashion lost popularity for some reason.
Keep playing kissyface with the Establishment.
I keep seeing the words I introduce on the board show up in the oddest places.
Don’t be a Lola.
The indications and warnings of a market crash keep multiplying.
http://wolfstreet.com/2015/11/29/weve-seen-this-before-in-1999-then-stocks-crashed/
Not to worry: A closely-watched pot never boils over.
More millions of refugees will be flowing out of Syria, thanks to our “allies” Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
http://news.yahoo.com/syrias-assad-says-enemies-increasing-support-insurgents-134503286.html
rms
You have your answer.
The sleazy, corrupt Establishment GOP and its paymasters are preparing to support Hillary (a sleazebag in their own image) if Trump is the nominee.
Go figure.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/261227-gop-donors-wrestle-with-possibility-of-trump-nomination
Article from almost 10 months ago, before the advent of the Donald and the dimming of Jeb’s star, reports Wall Street “can’t lose” with Jeb or Hillary:
http://nypost.com/2015/02/08/wall-streets-no-lose-view-of-2016/
Pigmen gonna pig. Let’s make some bacon
William K Black for Attorney General.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_K._Black
With our lock we will get William Kristol for def sec.
Neocons = Progressives.
They are the same people. Began saying it here three years ago, to the chagrin of several.
Nope. Hillary may resemble a Neocon with her foreign policy stances, but she’s also not a Progressive. Too centrist. Sanders is a true Progressive and is most definitely not a Neocon.
Hillary Clinton: I’m a progressive who likes to get things done.
Are you saying she is a liar?
Hillary Clinton: I’m a progressive who likes to get things done. Are you saying she is a liar?
Ordinary politician-shapeshifter, just like Romney or Jeb. Romney ran to the right during the primaries then shifted to the center for the general. She’s doing to same thing, moving left in the primaries, she’ll go back to the center for the general. Mainstream D’s and R’s always flip-flop.
“Are you saying she is a liar?”
Does a fat dog fart?
You are right that Neocons = Progressives. Andrew Napolitano said as much. The welfare-warfare state is a phrase. It puts the humanitarianism in drone assassinations so that people at home can marvel about the generosity of their favorite rulers.
The GOP are going to get nowhere supporting Hillary. They’ve already swayed the base against her and there’s no way they’re going to sway them back.
Russia’s effective ban on tourist travel to Turkey in retaliation for the downing of one of its jets by Turkish F-16s this week will reverberate far beyond a Kremlin-themed hotel on the Antalya coast. …………..
Turkey is the most popular foreign destination for Russians, with 3.3 million making the trip in the first nine months of this year. They make up more than 10 percent of the tourists in Turkey, the second-highest number after Germany.
Selling tours to Turkey would be a “blatant violation” of Russian laws, according to the Federal Tourism Agency, and while there are no plans to evacuate as many as 11,000 Russian tourists already in the country, about 6,000 who’ve booked tours for coming weeks will need to change their plans.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-26/turkey-without-russian-tourists-strikes-economy-where-it-s-weak
It is getting nasty, a couple of unfortunate incidents and the tourist industry will collapse.
Watch the Turkish Lira. Unless Turkey is able to extort billions from the EU to deal with the refugee crisis the Turks themselves helped create with their support for Syrian rebels, it looks like an economic crisis is incipient.
http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/Currency/USDTRY?countrycode=US
Poor little snowflakes. They’re going to leave their safe spaces and soap-bubble liberal la-la land for the real world, then come running home to Mommy and Daddy when it kicks their a$$.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/12022041/How-political-correctness-rules-in-Americas-student-safe-spaces.html
You might appreciate this:
http://difficultrun.nathanielgivens.com/2015/11/25/when-social-justice-isnt-about-justice/
Ugh! You should’ve had a “Graphic: Hideous liberal harpie” warning before I opened that link.
“Ugh! You should’ve had a “Graphic: Hideous liberal harpie” warning before I opened that link.”
Lol. Same here. I let out an audible ugh when her nasty mug popped up again.
For the goldbugs
Half of the gold coming from mines may not be viable at current prices, underscoring the industry’s need for consolidation and output cuts, according to the best-performing producer of the metal in the past decade.
“The more we continue to produce unprofitable gold, the more pressure we put on the gold price,” Randgold Resources Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Mark Bristow said in an interview in Toronto on Friday. “In the medium term, it’s a very bullish outlook for the gold industry. The question is, how long are we going to supply it with unprofitable gold?”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-27/half-of-gold-output-may-not-be-viable-as-price-sags-randgold
‘While industrial metal producers have promised output cuts, “we don’t have that psyche in the gold industry, we just send it off our mine and somebody buys it,” Bristow said.’
It’s a version of the dry cleaner effect, and it’s happening with oil, coal, steel, etc. Easy money = deflation.
“In the medium term, it’s a very bullish outlook for the gold industry. The question is, how long are we going to supply it with unprofitable gold?”
The answer to that question may lie in how much outstanding debt there is that needs to be serviced.
Debt distorts the market on its way up, and it distorts the market on its way down.
How’s that “hope ‘n change Goldman Sachs can believe in” working out for ya, ‘Murica?
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/11/26/a-grim-holiday-season-awaits-americas-hungry.html
WTF story of the day….
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-training-video-shows-militants-kicking-each-other-in-the-groin-and-playing-leapfrog-a6753246.html
The NEA is doing its part to facilitate our national descent into IDIOCRACY.
http://nypost.com/2015/11/29/principal-fixes-failing-grades-behind-teachers-backs-staff/
You people who care about money make me sick.
Why can’t you be like Chelsea?
She always works harder than anybody else. Always!
HARDER THAN ANYBODY!
So all you money grubbing slime that refuse to work as hard as Chelsea had better just put some thought into this before you complain about housing costs and retirement.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
“I was curious if I could care about (money) on some fundamental level, and I couldn’t,” she told Fast Company in an interview that ran in the magazine’s May edition, explaining why she gave up lucrative gigs to join her family’s philanthropic foundation.
The Clinton name likely opened doors for the political heiress, including an eye-popping $600,000 annual salary for an irregular stint as an NBC special correspondent, but Chelsea insists her work speaks for itself.
“I will just always work harder (than anybody else) and hopefully perform better,” said Clinton, who along with former banker husband Marc Mezvinsky, purchased a $10.5-million Gramercy Park apartment in 2013. “And hopefully, over time, I preempt and erase whatever expectations people have of me not having a good work ethic, or not being smart, or not being motivated.”
The comments, while not new, have nonetheless garnered a new round of attention in recent days after her mom and likely 2016 candidate, Hillary, was criticized for remarks suggesting she exited the White House “dead broke” and wasn’t “truly well off” despite millions of dollars in public speaking earnings.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/chelsea-clinton-care-money-article-1.1840138 -
“I was curious if I could care about (money) on some fundamental level, and I couldn’t
What an upright and moral woman. I bet she lives in dad’s farm and grows her own food thus allowing her to not worry too much making a living.
Moral = $600,000 salary for a part-time schedule, no less.
Hey, if you can get it, why no take it? (with a caveat - you really should be a coastal elitist. Otherwise, that $600K is declasse - with or without the accent mark).
She’s the daughter of NeoCon parents….we should expect no less.
Note to Chelsea handlers: You need to develop and encourage a better “noblesse o’blige” stand-up bit. What she uses currently isn’t even good enough for her own crowd.
Maybe Joe Smith, the monied Princeton grad, can chime in here.
These people seemingly are of the sort that makes up his circle (well, his wannabe circle - despite his professed pedigree, he’ll never be let in).
Joe’s granddaddy was selling vegetables out of a pushcart on Mulberry Street when Uncle Goon was graduating Princeton class of ‘42. I myself am not Social Register, but I always dine at Onwentsia when in Lake Forest.
I’m sorry to hear that.
It must be distressing to know you grew up monied, studied hard at Ivy League, graduated superior to everyone else…only to not be let in The Club.
Pssst….don’t tell anyone, but I am in awe of you. If only I could worship at your feet.
Old boy, your narrative, albeit compelling, neglects the fact that I am a graduate of The Football Factory State University, not an Ivy League school.
Uncle Goon was an heir to a 19th century Midwest industrial fortune. He technically did not need to work. But upon returning from serving in North Africa and Italy during WWII, dutifully rode the train down to the Chicago Loop every day for 40 years, because that is what was done.
Aunt Goon hitched her wagon to that wallet and her grandkids will be well provided for. I work for a living.
I am a graduate of The Football Factory State University
So Go Wolverines!
Lake Forest!? That dump? That’s somewhere west of Pittsburgh, is it not?
Rich, wooded, Illinois, North Chicago, like a forest by a lake, lol. Like the house with the dad’s Ferrari in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”.
Lake Forest!? That dump?
That’s somewhere west of Pittsburgh, is it not? Whatever - it doesn’t matter.
Wrong Mediterranean.
Grampa Liberace was selling gyros out of a basement apartment in Queens.
Right Lib?
Wrong Mediterranean
They all look the same to him and it’s not worth his precious time to make such distinctions.
Keeps your attention SnowFlake.
When Hillary left the White House she had to scrub the floors after she was done with her $225,000.00 an hour public speaking engagements because she was “dead broke” and wasn’t “truly well off”.
This was the same time period when Chelsea was fighting financial Bulimia by working harder than anyone else at her $600,000 a year part time job as an NBC special correspondent.
Moochers who are jealous of other’s success bug me.
What are you talking about? You vote these people in elections year after year.
I never vote, my time is too precious.
It’s a club and you ain’t in it. To be admitted, you have to come from a lineage of lying, cheating, prostituting, and pimping (I.e. Being a politician) to have to work hard for $600k annual.
What Merkel hath wrought.
http://www.businessinsider.com/citi-start-of-the-breakdown-2015-11
History will paint her as the feeder of feces to the rotary oscillator.
Will Houston be the first housing market to break?
http://www.businessinsider.com/it-is-getting-worse-in-houston-2015-11
The junk bond market is collapsing. When will the rest of the bond market follow, forcing Yellen’s hand on raising rates?
http://investmentresearchdynamics.com/the-junk-bond-market-is-collapsing-2/
“Word to him from a big Texas bank is that the massive asset write-downs – i.e. energy and real estate loans – are just starting. Up until now the banks and financial firms have been able to hold off marking to market in hopes of a recovery in the price of oil. But distressed offerings in oil, gas and real estate assets are starting to hit the market and it’s going to force the issue. This is going to get ugly.”
Poof Number One: The equity takes a gigantic hit.
Poof Number Two: The debt takes a gigantic hit.
Poof Number One - the equity - gets immediately voted down by Mr. Market.
Poof Number Two - the debt that used to be backed by the now-vanished equity - survives a bit longer because ever-springing hope tends to keep the debt fantasy alive.
One person’s debt is another person’s money. Now you see it and - presto! - now you don’t. A few stokes of a pen and - poof - it’s gone.
Never gets old
No no no. it’s not god bless america, it’s god damn america!
Aren’t open borders grand? Thank you, globalist overlords!
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/11/27/paris-terror-mastermind-planned-more-strikes-on-jewish-targets-mocked-open-borders/
Follow the money….
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-28/isis-oil-trade-full-frontal-raqqas-rockefellers-bilal-erdogan-krg-crude-and-israel-c
Lots of Turkish deep state bank accounts just got fatter.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-29/europe-will-pay-turkey-€3-billion-halt-refugee-exodus
The Oligopoly and their pliant stooges are terrified at the prospect of a candidate they don’t own becoming president.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/29/politics/jeb-bush-donald-trump-scary/index.html?eref=rss_latest
Fundamental (and I do mean fundamental) transformation:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3338058/University-Missouri-Assistant-Professor-charged-violently-grabbing-14-year-old-relative-hair-dragging-school-not-wearing-hijab.html
Charlie Daniels Uneasy Rider - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=952h-AJ3Bcg - 301k -
Thank God for courageous, non-MSM journalists who still speak truth to power and uncover deep state machinations despite the high price they are likely to pay.
http://theantimedia.org/1-journalist-dead-3-more-arrested-after-exposing-turkey-arming-syrian-extremists/
LOL, right on cue: Zero Hedge has several anti-Turkey, anti-NATO articles posted. And not one word critical of Putin’s response to Turkey.
I give Zero Hedge credit — they don’t hide what they are. They openly use a server in Bulgaria despite how easy it would be to use a US server to hide their origins. By being open and obvious they are a Putin mouthpiece, it’s equivalent to full disclosure.
… and on that note, Putin is no doubt privately happy that Turkey shot down one of his planes. It opens a crack in the Turkey-NATO relationship. Putin senses an opportunity to widen that crack and exploit it.
WPA
Do you wake up in the middle of the night mumbling and then screaming…
zero hedge Zero Hedge ZERO HEDGE!!!?
Nah, I just find it entertaining that the “Permabear Patriots” can’t help but rebroadcast and disseminate the Kremlin’s agitprop. Zero Hedge is good, they know how to push the buttons of the Permabears to get them to take what they offer. It’s like setting out warm milk for alley cats, they just lap it up.
Why does a socialist hate Putin to obsession? Is he not Stalinesque enough?
Why does a socialist hate Putin to obsession? Is he not Stalinesque enough?
The fun I’ve had outing Zero Hedge shouldn’t be mistaken for obsessive Russia-hating or Putin-hating.
Actually, I have wondered why the U.S. and Russia are still enemies so long after the Cold War ended. After all, we had no trouble mending our relations with Germany and Japan after World War II. It might be of mutual benefit economically for U.S. - Europe - Russia to be allies instead of opponents. Culturally Russia is no longer a godless communist state, it has returned to its Christian/Orthodox roots. Certainly a US-Euro-Russia is a natural alliance against radical Islam. I need to ponder this more…
No need to ponder. You need to vote less.
They can’t take anything that might put the current administration in bad light.
and
Marsha, Marsha, Marasha….
Zero hedge is a joke.
Because it posts articles inconvenient to your world ideology?
Like FOX news owned by the Saudis, you are owned by a plagiarist Bulgarian.
Blanco Power.
“If China Killed The Commodities Supercycle, The Strong Dollar Is Set To Bury It”
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/if-china-killed-the-commodities-supercycle-the-strong-dollar-is-set-to-bury-it/
Falling prices to lower and lower levels…. It’s all good news.
Meanwhile, back at the Rio Grande:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/27/us/number-of-migrants-illegally-crossing-rio-grande-rises-sharply.html?_r=0
Wasn’t the MSM recently having a major gaz about more people going home over the border than coming in?
This is why I have such disgust for the MSM. Conflicting stories, sometimes on the same day. Housing is off, housing is going to the moon and similar crap.
So let me get this straight.
You can say they are crossing the border illegally but once they actually cross the border you can’t call them illegals?
I was in So Cal over the weekend. Lots of Indians out there shopping, not many white folks. Do we all just shop online?
buying stocks and homes make u feel important.
Poorest state in the country for a reason.
Poorest state in the country.
Uh it’s actually the richest. California produces one ninth of the GDP of the nation. I think the biggest critics of California have never stepped on its soil. Maybe, they watch too much TV.
No it’s not. California is the most impoverished state in the country.
Saudi Arabia & ISIS: two sides of the same coin.
http://www.theburningplatform.com/2015/11/29/saudi-arabia-and-isis-a-side-by-side-comparison/
Was Black Friday a bust as tapped-out ‘Muricans held on to their cash?
http://www.theburningplatform.com/2015/11/29/spending-was-at-an-all-time-low-for-black-friday-and-corporations-lost-billions/
Looks like our vermin count dropped by two, thanks to a 13-year-old and his mother’s evil handgun.
http://www.theburningplatform.com/2015/11/29/feel-good-story-of-the-day-2/
I love it when liberal arts colleges reap their just desserts from a generation of inculcating leftist indoctrination among the snowflakes.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/29/exclusive-video-black-students-in-canada-barricade-vice-president-accuse-college-of-anti-black-racism/
The University of Guelph is not a liberal arts college.
Sure it is. It’s got science but also plenty of liberal arts.
Neo-con ideologue Robert Kagan, husband of Victoria Nuland of “F**k the EU” fame, demands 50,000 US boots on the ground in Syria (of course none of the neocons’ children will be put in harm’s way). What these neocons want, they tend to get, especially with the likes of John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Jeb Bush doing their bidding.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-crisis-of-world-order-1448052095
McCain: Trump’s “rhetoric” is turning Muslims against the US. It seems McCain’s neocon adventurism in the Middle East has earned us a lot more emnity, not to mention failed “regime change” and endless refugee flows.
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/261443-trumps-rhetoric-turning-muslims-against-the-us-mccain-says
And Omaba’s drones win us new friends everyday.
McCain, what a sorry state of a human being.
Chainsaw wants O to stop dropping bombs — right? Or, he just want to stop O and whine.
Chainsaw wants Trump to bomb the sh#@ out of them, but with manned planes, because that makes a big difference to the people you’re blowing up.
McCain: Trump’s “rhetoric” is turning Muslims against the US.
Trump’s (and other Repub’s) quotes can be used as a recruitment too for ISIS and they make Christianity look even worse in the radicals’ eyes.
It’s just bad global policy.
The radicals were already committed to their position on Christians before there were any quotes from Trump.
The radicals were already committed to their position on Christians before there were any quotes from Trump.
That’s irrelevant to the point that Trump/Republican rhetoric will bolster ISIS recruitment going forward.
It’s like saying the French were most responsible for winning WWI because they were already committed to fighting the Germans before the British and Americans arrived.
Doesn’t mean much.
What you are saying is like that quotes from the French are the reason the Germans were able to recruit soldiers to exterminate and enslave the French. If only they had been silent!
Victim/abuser sociopath logic. Always a fail Pineapple.
Victim/abuser sociopath logic.
lol. Youz funny! You forgot “BabyEating Commie”.
(You need to step up your logic and your angry insults.)
I merely point out that your strategy is either a victim strategy or an abuser strategy, and that both choices are unhealthy failures.
If you have come out in favor of killing babies, that is a subtlety that I have missed. It is part of the socialist agenda though, so I wouldn’t be surprised if you were “liberal” about it.
I caught a little of the Mullets/Jets game today. The announcer said the Jets quarterback looked good with his beard trimmed up. He said he went from looking like Grizzly Adams to looking like a Hipster from Brooklyn.
Somebody asked me what I was laughing at.
I said…
That dude just said Ryan Fitzpatrick looks like he’s from Dumbo where the kind-hearted liberals don’t want their kids to go to school with the underprivileged kids.
Somebody asked me what I was laughing at.
I said…
That dude just said Ryan Fitzpatrick looks like he’s from Dumbo where the kind-hearted liberals don’t want their kids to go to school with the underprivileged kids.
Did he crack up and crush and empty PBR can on his head?
(Really? Football and politics?)
What it was, was concussionball.
the dollar is in a bubble.
Ergo this is a good time to hold lots of dollars in your portfolio.
If the dollar is in a bubble…
…and stocks are in a bubble…
…and treasuries are in a bubble…
…and houses are in a bubble…
should I trade my dollars for gold? Oil? Yen? Swiss Francs?
It can’t be possible that everything’s in a bubble.
I suggest trading in your bubble assets for other assets that are not currently in a bubble but which will strengthen against bubble assets when the bubbles eventually pop.
Dollar denominated assets are rolling over as the debt pyramid fractures. In this case, hold your dollars as the biggest expansion of credit in history unwinds.
Your strategy would work best in a world where QE4 was not a likely future prospect.
No, not everything is in a bubble. Some assets are artificially deflated just as others are artificially inflated.
Fun isn’t it?
My recommended strategy is to structure the flow between asset classes in your portfolio to always be trading assets from artificially inflated categories (bubbly assets) for artificially deflated ones (collapsed bubble assets). This should work out provided mean reversion eventually happens.
Parliament — Flash Light (extended 12″ single)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fatP7thewQM
The Who covers the Rolling Stones (to bail them out of jail) in 1965:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWf3O8EG75E
The Who covers the Rolling Stones
Nice. Got my Pioneer 540 turntable and audiophile component system re-running yesterday. ( The jungle eats electronics.) One of the first LP’s I rocked was The Stones, “Let it Bleed” and Waylon Jennings - I’ve Always Been Crazy.
Nothing like analog through a fine system pushing Vandersteens.
http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTExMVgxNjAw/z/j7sAAOSwPhdU4VHZ/_1.JPG
Lola,
Where are you pretending to be today? Mexico? Japan? Bangladesh?
He has moved pretty quickly from the hilltop coastal villa to the jungle. What kind of a shack can you build anyway that only costs as much as renting a flat for a couple of years?
Parliament — What Comes Funky (Chocolate City, 1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw2FcLdFoiI
He has moved pretty quickly from the hilltop coastal villa to the jungle.
If you’re talking about me, you’re lying again, or slipping. I’ve never said I lived in a hilltop coastal villa. I said I lived in Rio, Rio is in a jungle. Especially the villa I live in butting up against a jungle side covered mountain. Got geography?
And my house has paid for itself in about 6-7 years. And it’s very, very nice. (4 bathrooms, none of which are 4 feet from my “galley”.)
Prove it Lola.
RIGGED?
Whenever I drive through the Central Valley in California, I see all these propaganda pieces on billboards about how the Central Valley is being robbed of water by liberal politicians. It is interesting to note that these same people could never admit that there is actually a true shortage of water.
The Western U.S. lives and breathes on water. The giant evil city of Los Angeles and it’s surrounding rat dens need water to survive. Only by the Colorado, Owens and Feather projects sponsored by 1800’s geniuses of Mullholand and Eaton are these population centers possible. A continued drought will lead to forced population removal.
There’s the housing collapse some of you are so eager to see.
I’m glad Trump has finally gotten around to talking turkey regarding the details of his platform.
Trump: Track refugees, monitor mosques, waterboard
By Eric Bradner, CNN
Updated 12:02 PM ET, Sun November 22, 2015 | Video Source: CNN