The Housing Bubble

“LA schools were shutdown for the price of an email.”

A teenaged surfer’s dream: When the surf is up and you are suck in the classroom, send an email.

And it really does make you wonder how terrible a job is Big Brother doing. Do the privacy advocates take heart that no one really seems to be listening? What’s all that NSA money being spent on, looking up ex girlfriends?

“Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself”: FDR

Exactly. It’s called terrorism.

It’s called terrorism.

And it could easily be being done by white christian Swedes.

Yes, because White Christian Swedes are known to go around threatening people to convert to a religion that openly wants to kill Christians.

Muslims openly threaten the West, they go around BRUTALLY ATTACKING AND KILLING A GAY PERSON and the left still wants to try to smear Christianity.

Absolutely a mental disorder this leftism.

“And it could easily be being done by white christian Swedes.”

Yeah, those 5 Lutheran Swedes would definitely do that.

If you ask yourself the “Cui bono?” question, I think Oddfellow might be on to something.

If you don’t want immigrants to come in to your country, send out some anonymous letters, supposedly from immigrants, threatening everybody.

It ain’t rocket science. It’s one of the older tricks in the book.

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Wow Ben, thanks for the post!

I’m a progressive/liberal voter and continue to be horrified by the Republican amnesia concerning Bush-43’s ineptitude.

I am no fan-boy of Hillary but compared to the Republican choices the decision is clear.

This is a good thing to come back to. I agree, it is incredibly rare and we don’t need to spend all that has been spent, probably not a tenth of it. But we just have to search grandma in her wheelchair because of hurt feelings.

Still, with 3 million US Muslims, the polling data would suggest that there are more than 100,000 hardcore radical jihadi sympathizers among that group in the US. Loretta Snachez - D, Ca puts it at 5-20 percent or 150,000 to 600,000. That absolute number has the chance of changing the stats real quick at some point.

See the small group of backwards bullshit goat herders (fundamentalist jihadis) for the murderous evil that they are and focus on that problem efficiently.

Well, if they don’t do anything more than sympathize, that’s not something to worry about. There are probably more Americans who sympathize with the guy who shot up Planned Parenthood.

Bush administration ignored CIA warnings in the months before 9/11 ??

Because, behind that evangelical cloak, is a evil person…He needed a terrorist attack that would give him the reasoning to attack Iraq…Foiling the attack did not play into the neocon narrative… It was all planned…It was all theater….All the blood and carnage since is on his hands…

Sympathizing means protecting, like the momma of the San Berdoo shooter who was living with them while they went on the Internet watching radical ISIS propaganda and made IEDs.

‘the chance of changing the stats real quick at some point’

The chance and stats say a coconut is more likely to kill me. At some point? This is what statistics are saying; we are being robbed blind by the Threat Inflation Complex, and they are taking our liberties too.

Did you see the latest budget deal? This is ongoing but all they need is a little ooga-booga from time to time to freak people out.

For instance, we are told, Mexicans/Muslims are over-running the country! Then the GOP passes a budget that pays for it. These guys aren’t serious. Nobody in DC gives a crap about the people. This is why Trumps immigration ban was very instructive: he simply said “Ooga-booga? Stop the flow.” And everybody screamed to high heaven, “Racist! Hitler!”

It’s like the ebola thing. Just stop the flights from Africa until it dies down. “Racist!!”

No, sympathizing doesn’t mean protecting. One is a mood or an attitude. The other is an activity.

Sympathizing isn’t action in itself, but it generates a level of comfort with the philosophy such that a fellow sympathizer is encouraged to rise to the level of action. Almost like peer pressure.

.sympathizing was me being kind. The poll numbers are much more shocking. 20 percent believing in violent jihad and it’s okay to do so in the us. 20 effing percent of 3 million.

Europe is toast due to Muslim immigration.

We will eventually be toast due to immigration of poors and jihadists.

The freaks in our congress are funding resettlement of Migrants and funding increased work visas for service related jobs. Not to mention community organizers paid to walk said migrants through all of the subsidized housing, welfare and food stamp applications.

How does this help the tax paying citizens of the United States? This crap has to stop.

Cheeseburgers and fried chicken are killing more Americans than all muslim terrorists combined

I have more fear of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton than of Muslims.

It’s not about current death tallies, it’s about a culture that has proven itself unable or more likely unwilling to assimilate to western culture. Sharia is not compatible with western culture. Get it?

Sharia is not synonymous with Muslim. Get it?

Who are you to say Sharia is not compatible? What percent of Muslims disagree? 10 percent? 20, 30? What percentage of Middle East Muslims disagree?

RE: Islam incompatible with Western Values

You could say the same thing about (fundamental) Christians -refusing to serve gays, respect their matrimony, shooting doctors that violate their religious views.

“Nuts” are incompatible with any civilized society. Muslim (and some Jewish) women who where a hijab are no threat to me.

Poll of U.S. Muslims Reveals Ominous Levels Of Support For Islamic Supremacists’ Doctrine of Shariah, Jihad

https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2015/06/23/nationwide-poll-of-us-muslims-shows-thousands-support-shariah-jihad/

Next.

‘Ominous Levels Of Support For Islamic Supremacists’ Doctrine’

Do I need to provide numerous links showing the US helped create and support ISIS and Al-Quad again? First rule if you don’t like head chopping jihadists; stop giving them money!

“Do I need to provide numerous links showing the US helped create and support ISIS and Al-Quad again? First rule if you don’t like head chopping jihadists; stop giving them money!”

I agree. McCain, Hildabeast, Graham, Rubio, Obama, Power and Jarrett armed and trained what is now ISIS. Turns out Neocon and Globalist Progressive regime change has consequences.

Sharia infiltrators are flooding Europe and the United States with the goal of Islamic Supremacy. This has been going on for decades.

Is it possible to deal with the here and now without moral equivalency and political correctness? A moratorium on immigration is needed and it’s needed now…

Ben, I don’t think the US created the original problem. The underlying philosophy was always there; it was just tamped down by various dictators. Knock out the dictators and the philosophy is free to roam. Quite literally, whether on the internet or a northbound train in Greece.

Nor do I see the value in cutting off money, at least in preventing attacks outside the ME. These attacks are very cheap, as we’ve seen.

‘Nor do I see the value in cutting off money’

Obama agrees with you. That’s why he didn’t touch their oil trucks until Putin embarrassed him with photos of them lined up going to Turkey.

I’m still not buying it. What if Obama blew up every oil truck (on its way to fuel a wedding, of course) and confiscated all the exorbitant taxes* that these folks extract in ME countries? How is that going to stop a home-grown radical in California from taking out a personal loan from an online bank in Utah? Or some other upstanding member of society from buying a clock or a pressure cooker or a box cutter from Wal-Mart? Or anyone buying a few guns legally anywhere?

The problem is the philosophy.

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*more on their sources of money: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/islamic-state-richest-terrorist-armies-in-history/

‘How is that going to stop a home-grown radical’

It’s not but there might be 300,000 people who aren’t dead in Syria if the US didn’t get involved.

‘In Al Jazeera’s latest Head to Head episode, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Michael Flynn confirms to Mehdi Hasan that not only had he studied the DIA memo predicting the West’s backing of an Islamic State in Syria when it came across his desk in 2012, but even asserts that the White House’s sponsoring of radical jihadists (that would emerge as ISIL and Nusra) against the Syrian regime was “a willful decision.” [Lengthy discussion of the DIA memo begins at the 8:50 mark.]‘

‘Amazingly, Flynn actually took issue with the way interviewer Mehdi Hasan posed the question—Flynn seemed to want to make it clear that the policies that led to the rise of ISIL were not merely the result of ignorance or looking the other way, but the result of conscious decision making.’

Hasan: You are basically saying that even in government at the time you knew these groups were around, you saw this analysis, and you were arguing against it, but who wasn’t listening?

Flynn: I think the administration.

Hasan: So the administration turned a blind eye to your analysis?

Flynn: I don’t know that they turned a blind eye, I think it was a decision. I think it was a willful decision.

Hasan: A willful decision to support an insurgency that had Salafists, Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood?

Flynn: It was a willful decision to do what they’re doing.

‘Hasan himself expresses surprise at Flynn’s frankness during this portion of the interview. While holding up a paper copy of the 2012 DIA report declassified through FOIA, Hasan reads aloud key passages such as, “there is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist principality in Eastern Syria, and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime.”

‘Rather than downplay the importance of the document and these startling passages, as did the State Department soon after its release, Flynn does the opposite: he confirms that while acting DIA chief he “paid very close attention” to this report in particular and later adds that “the intelligence was very clear.”

‘Lt. Gen. Flynn, speaking safely from retirement, is the highest ranking intelligence official to go on record saying the United States and other state sponsors of rebels in Syria knowingly gave political backing and shipped weapons to Al-Qaeda in order to put pressure on the Syrian regime.’

Hasan: In 2012 the U.S. was helping coordinate arms transfers to those same groups [Salafists, Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda in Iraq], why did you not stop that if you’re worried about the rise of quote-unquote Islamic extremists?

Flynn: I hate to say it’s not my job…but that…my job was to…was to ensure that the accuracy of our intelligence that was being presented was as good as it could be.

Oxy, it may not cost much for the agency you work for to send someone out for donuts or something. However if your agency lost its funding, these inexpensive trips would be much less likely.

Blue, the analogy doesn’t apply.

The guy in San Bernadino wasn’t sent for donuts by an “agency,” so to speak. Effectively, he went out and got his own donuts on the side. And even if his agency did fund him and then cut off the money, he could simply borrow money to continue to buy his own donuts, which is what he did.

In fact, I surmise that cutting off the money to such organizations would lead to MORE small-scale attacks and fear. Some coalition might choke off most of the money, but they can’t get all of it. And I’m sure they have some savings hidden away somewhere. So, what do you do on a reduced budget? You discontinue the expensive operations, like armies and occupations, and continue the cheap operations, like small scale attacks.

Didn’t Bin Laden spell out the three reasons he was attacking the USA? I think they all centered on supporting illegitimate governments all over SW Asia (what we call the Middle East).

I think Oxy is right that homegrown shooting terrorists would be unaffected by cutting off the money. Stopping the export of Wahabism might help.

“Kingdom of fear”

God’s gift. So easy to rule.

Oh yeah.. totally forgot about the killer bees..

I remember ominous warnings when I was a young lad. Now, you never hear about them.

Here’s a little update showing their spread through 2007 now in FL,OK,CA and the SW is engulfed.

I don’t live in those places. I’m curious if those that do hear horror stories or at least strong warnings.

KIller Bee spread in USA

Psssst … maybe the bees were … raptured.

“Missing Bees, Cell Phones and Fulfillment of Bible Prophecy”

(I have a link so it must be true)

“Bees have been disappearing at an alarming rate. Learn how these missing bees relate to the use of cell phones, and the fulfillment of Bible prophecy.”

(snip)

“It seems like the plot of a particularly far-fetched horror film. But some scientists suggest that our love of the mobile phone could cause massive food shortages, as the world’s harvests fail.

“They are putting forward the theory that radiation given off by mobile phones and other hi-tech gadgets is a possible answer to one of the more bizarre mysteries ever to happen in the natural world - the abrupt disappearance of the bees that pollinate crops. Late last week, some bee-keepers claimed that the phenomenon - which started in the US, then spread to continental Europe - was beginning to hit Britain as well.”

(snip)

Next up: “Supporting evidence” taken from the Bible …

“Revelation 6:6

“‘Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a day’s wages, and three quarts of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!’

“Although the Bible plainly speaks of great famine in the last days, the prophetic words of Revelation 6:6 states that the olive and grape harvest will not be damaged.”

http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/27552961.html

Sigh…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xIraCchPDhk

It is the opposite. My conscience is clear. I am not responsible for the assassin drone killing innocents all over the world. I betcha Oxide voted for O in 2012. By voting for neoconservatives like O, she voted for more defense spending and to make defense contractors like myself richer. I never thanked Oxide but…thanks Donk!

I am not responsible for the assassin drone killing innocents all over the world ??

Maybe not…But you are irresponsible for not voting for the other guy/gal (whom ever that could be) that has a different policy position…Even if you write the name in….Don’t vote ?? Don’t complain…

If you vote you have no right to complain. Your candidate who won screwed up, it is your fault.

I think not voting is saying not caring. I know the PTB runs the beauty contest, but if 70% wrote in “Mickey Mouse” for president, I think it might be lead to a game change. Even 10%.

I think not voting is saying not caring ??

And the extension of that is “not complaining” about policy…If you don’t care then don’t complain…

Voting doesn’t matter. The tax money you send in to fund these invasions does.

Voting doesn’t matter. The tax money you send in to fund

Taxes are not a “option” that is unless you want to go to prison…Voting is and the point is if you don’t want to vote fair enough but don’t complain….If you want to complain, you got to be able to say I voted for X even if X is none of the above…register your rejection or displeasure…Thats what voting is all about…taking a interest in rather than “I don’t Care”…

They are an option. If you keep your income low enough, you don’t pay taxes.

For all the high and mighty huffing and puffing around here, I don’t see anybody doing what’s really necessary to put an end to this foolishness. Just a bunch of Sunday afternoon patriots that can be scared into supporting pretty much anything by a picture of some guy with a towel on his head.

If you keep your income low enough, you don’t pay taxes ??

Thats a interesting take…So, Mr. employer, will you give me a “pay-cut” please so I don’t have to pay income taxes that way, like the Scrutinizer, I will not be supporting the USA budget…

You don’t HAVE to work at all. Strikes have been an effective tool against oppression throughout history.

Oh, and I think I left the Saudis off the list…sorry, they should have been listed first.

Better understanding through pills.

Lola,

Vladimir Putin lives in your empty skull, rent-free.

It indicates paranoia and gullibility in the people that believe it.

If they like much about Trump, I don’t see what Hillary could do to pander to them.

A bad economy helped Obama rise to power. And Reagan before that, and FDR before that. Are they all fascists too?

The most potent fuel for Trumpism is the destruction of American jobs through globalism, technology, worker protections, pollution standards, and an American dollar which stretches pretty far in third-world countries.

‘Are they all fascists too?’

Yes.

seeded mistrust in the American Dream among millions of would-be breadwinners, especially people without college educations.’ ??

Now add to that the millions that have a “Felony” tattooed on the forehead…

“… people without college educations.”

Bahahahahaha …I can’t allow this remark to slide by … untouched:

“Sadness, shame and blame at Yale over First Amendment repeal video”

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/18/sadness-shame-and-blame-at-yale-over-first-amendment-repeal-video.html

“The most potent fuel for Trumpism is the destruction of American jobs through globalism”

Already accomplished by Mr. Trumps predecessors.

LaborForce Participation Rate Plummets To 37 Year Low; Jobless Population At Record High

http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000

Traditionally conservative cops and firefighters corrupted by union crookedness and promises of outlandish pensions. This is the heart of many of the problems.

The border industrial complex is composed of unionized border patrol and TSA employees. A wall takes many jobs.

That can’t be right, the linked article above says the Suffolk County budget is $3.4B.
However per the article below, the City and County of San Francisco with a budget of $9B is ahead of 10 states….

http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/A-city-with-an-8-96-billion-budget-should-be-6311442.php

You must regret not buying a house in 2010 and still being stuck in your mommy’s basement HA. HA!

The price bottom is a long way down Jingle_Fraud.

You just keep repeating yourself over and over and over.

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“Game Over for Real Estate: Time to Short US Housing Market”

HA! How is that one working out for you! HA!

Are you sure?

Sacramento, CA Housing Craters; Prices Dive 6% YoY

http://www.zillow.com/market-report/12-15/268126/east-sacramento-sacramento-ca.xls?rt=14

‘This is what gets me about this board’

I’ve been involved in buying more houses in these years than you will in your life.

Paying in excess of construction cost for a 20 year old house is not an opportunity.

I could have bought houses that would have tripled JM rents for what he spent. Now, they wouldn’t have “skyrocketed in value” either, but I wasn’t going for that. And what goes up can come down.

I’ve spent some time this month at the Maricopa trustee sales. There are always foreclosures and lots of games being played. Right now there is a bunch of hankey-pankey about who’s going to get the bag; the GSE’s or the mortgage insurance or the lender. It’s like hot potato. One I saw the other day was a house that had been foreclosed in 2006, flipped for double, resold in 2012 and now foreclosed again.

Did you turn a profit, Ben?

A hot wife, piles o’ cash, a squad of sexy strumpets and headed to the WhiteHouse.

Instead of jealousy, why not go out and make your own rain?

To answer your question, Trump doesn’t need to amass any more money to run for President. In 2012, Obama ran on $0.65 billion and Romney ran on $0.4 billion. Fortune Mag pegs Trump at $4.5 billion. So if Trump really had to and wanted to, he could fund his own campaign on 10-20% of his assets. I’m sure Melania could get by on $3.5 billion.

“By your logic, we should be governed only by billionaires,”

At least in Presidential politics, we ARE governed by billionaires — or, to be more accurate, by hundred-millionaires. Yes, I know, you’re idealistic, but you can’t win the office by greeting folks from your porch in Ohio anymore. No matter how you slice it, you need $400 million, and that has to come from somewhere.

Trump doesn’t need to amass any more money to run for President.

You’re missing my point about need vs. desire. Trump is still selling condos. Why would he do that? He has all the money he needs, according to you.

Because he wants more.

then get.a.job. Quit harping on the successful.

he could fund his own campaign on 10-20% of his assets ??

But its throwing money down a rat hole because he can’t win…And knowing how important money & winning is to this egotist, he won’t do it IMO…

Oddfellow and SCdave, let me see if I understand what you’re saying:

Running for President costs $600 billion these days. Trump possesses more than have $600 billion in assets. Therefore, he has the ability to run for President by himself. However, he’s too much of an egoist to part with $600 billion, even if he has the ability to do so. We know he doesn’t want to part with $600 billion because he’s still amassing wealth. That is, if he were really willing to part with $600 billion, he would have stopped selling condos $600 billion ago.

So, no matter what he says, we see by his actions that he’s really not willing to part with his $600 billion. So, at some point, to avoid that ego-busting expenditure, he will either take dark money or drop out.

So, that’s the theory? We don’t know yet how this will play out. Currently Trump clearly seems comfortable with the amount of money he’s spending. He hasn’t hit some mental ceiling yet. I don’t think even he knows what his ceiling will be. I think the jury is out, and may be for a while, possibly until Super Tuesday.

I can’t say it any simpler than this: Just because Trump might have enough money to fund his own campaign, that in no way proves that he will not be open to the influence of money while in office. Self-funding your campaign does not make you immune to corruption.

I can’t understand what is confusing about that.

And note: He is not campaigning to change or end the role of dark money in our political system.

‘Trump might have enough money to fund his own campaign… He is not campaigning to change or end the role of dark money in our political system.’

I think he did make a statement about how PAC’s stink.

how PAC’s stink.

He mocks them because he does not need them while others do. But has he called for ending them?

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Which he will be because that’s his whole life, his whole existence ??

It would be the ultimate ego rub for the egotist….

“Do you, or anyone else, really honestly believe that Trump won’t use his position in office to grease all kinds of deals with his business cronies?”

Let’s review, shall we? I said that

Trump may be a bastard, but he’s his OWN bastard.

So OF COURSE I realize Trump is going to use the position feather his own nest. I didn’t say that he was lily-white.

But here’s my point: When you vote for a candidate, you are effectively voting for the person whispering in his ear.

Jeb is supported by $100 mil of generally anonymous Dark Money. Do you agree with whoever is whispering in Jeb’s ear, enough to vote for Jeb? You don’t know, because you don’t know who it is. In fact you’re not even sure if Jeb and his whisperers have the same policy.

Trump (so far) is supported by himself. If you vote for him, the person whispering in his ear is … Trump. So you know that Trump and his whisperer have the same policy, because duh they’re the same person. For once, you actually have the choice of voting for or against the whisperer, directly.

See the difference?

Trump (so far) is supported by himself ??

LOL….His biggest expense right now is Jet fuel..Hell, they charge a fee to get into his rallies…LOL…He knows he won’t need to spend his own money because he will not get the nomination and its after you get the nomination that you really need the war chest because those are the rules of the game today….Run as a independent you say ?? Only if someone else bankrolls it…Trump will take as much of this attention as he can get because it does not cost him much and it strokes his ego…

See the difference?

No. Corruption is still corruption whether or not a quid pro quo bribe is involved or not.

Don’t overlook that indoor tanning salons charge a 10% excise tax under Obamacare.

Yeah, don’t overlook the tanning salons. They’re very important.

But those are not recurring fees, say like the ones you pay to the DMV every year. They are not tied to income.

I was just pointing out how many different ways they raise revenue even if they are not recurring…

I’m not sure how that’s possible (April) when taxes collected are about half of what everybody earns totaled up. It points to a June direction. Maybe they are only looking at income tax proper.

It points to a June direction. Maybe they are only looking at income tax proper.

Maybe paying “half what everybody earns” isn’t true. Hard to imagine the (anti-)Tax Foundation so fundamentally messing up measuring their key issue.

I can’t date-rape, I can’t slap my secretary on the butt, I can’t beat my wife, I can’t afford to fill up my monster truck.

It’s a war on men, I tell ya!

“Pick your mate wisely.”

And you will only have to pick once.

(But you gotta kiss a lot of toads to get there.)

But you gotta kiss a lot of toads to get there ??

Nothing wrong with getting in a little practice before your pull the trigger… :>)

It’s pheromones. Makes you very crazy for the first six months or more of “love” ??

Wife & I dated for 7 years before we got married…We were engaged for the last 3….So my pheromones were still being used past your 6 month timeline for the “love” to disappear…

Mine lasted for over three decades! “Your mileage may vary.” Good for you having staying power.

We don’t have a lot of good choices do we? My biggest problem with Trump is he is politically rudderless. But what’s the alternative? 10 different flavors of globalist neocons? The outrage is that our system has presented us with this dilemma.

“And how we burned in the camps later …”

An efficient parasite won’t burn its hosts in camps.

We’ve got Bernie or Rand. Maybe not perfect, but better than Trump.

All kidding aside, I am not looking forward to the first report of someone getting gunned down at the intersection of the roads named after Obama and Martin Luther King Jr. in Riviera Beach.

But it’s gonna happen.

It was always unclear who the sad pandas are. Now we know one of them.

“It was always unclear who the sad pandas are.”

No it wasn’t.

And the propaganda war continues to this day. Let’s consider the website zerohedge. We can have a vigorous debate about the veracity of the articles, but it’s hard to argue that one will get seriously demoralized if one spends too much time on that site. Mission accomplished!

While on that topic - the burning platform has a couple of classics posted today - the one on Cass Sunstein just precious…..

http://www.theburningplatform.com/

“The way to resist was to stay moral.”

Exactly. Don’t go into agreement with moral relativism. This is where the real decline is taking place, where people start to slip and think it’s OK to screw thy neighbor. Maybe just a little bit, because money, or some such thing.

Well, if we MUST go down that path, when do we reach the stage where the enablers get taken out and shot? In a sense, this is already happening, figuratively speaking. The academic enablers are, in some cases, being forced into resignation, for example. Some in the gubbermint, as well.

Useful idiots are expendable and are among the first to be purged. Bitter humor there. They think they will be rewarded for their service through being granted power and position of some sort. They get a bullet instead. I wonder what Chris Stevens’ dying thoughts were.

It is obvious that Paul Ryan, for example, is looking for his lollipop.

Globalism Mike. It is no longer country vs country.

Better luck in 2016 Snowflake.

Intelligent debate is good. Here is a piece of the discussion.

It’s one guy’s opinion, reasonably presented. He says global warming is happening but it won’t be as bad as the climate models say and the damage won’t be as bad as predicted. That’s fine, I will consider embracing his viewpoint when I see it accepted by a majority of independent scientists and published in peer-reviewed climate journals.