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Now THAT is a photo of a used war salesman:
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-02-16/george-w-bush-tries-to-give-jeb-what-100-million-couldn-t
What a hoot!
“As Bush’s campaign has been eclipsed by the rise of outsiders like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, the family’s financiers have headed for the doorsteps in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, asking for one vote at a time.”
“Becker walked New Hampshire streets with members of the Bush extended family, senior staff from George H.W. Bush’s White House, and Craig Stapleton, George W. Bush’s ambassador to France. “People were so shocked we were on their front porch in the snow, I think we got the pity vote,” she said.”
“Immergut, who was active in the Republican presidential campaign for Romney and Rudy Giuliani, said he’s never seen donors and top staff engaging in they type of campaign work usually reserved for college-aged supporters and other entry-level volunteers. “I’ve never done this before,” he said.”
Two words: PUH thetic.
The Cruz outs and Rubiots are beside themselves that Trump is doing so well. Most recent SC poll has him far ahead with those two tied fighting for 2nd.
I am completely stunned at the desperation of the Bush campaign and its supporters. It’s beyond humiliation and delusion, there’s something completely masochistic about it. What a train wreck.
You’d think JEB! would have seen the writing on the wall long ago and withdrawn gracefully “for the good of the party and the American people” or “to spend more time with his family” or some such thing, allowing him to salvage maybe a little bit of pride, not just for himself, but his supporters.
OTOH, they’ve got a lot invested, though, not just money, but the whole Romney placeholder gambit. Wherever Mitty is, my guess is that he’s laughing himself silly. No wonder he hasn’t given Trump a good lambasting (if he has, I haven’t heard about it).
George W. Bush: “I proudly carry the ‘Establishment’ label.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/15/george-w-bush-campaigns-for-jeb-warns-against-supporting-donald-trump/
And there you have it. That’s the “Establishment”.
JEB! has suffered considerable bullying at the hands of his older brother over the years. Trust me, GWB does NOT want to see him in the White House. It’s a brother thing, not a political thing. When JEB! was governor of Florida and wanted his guy Bill McCollum to get the Senate seat, Shrub backed Mel Martinez and Karl Rove’s people put out a hit on McCollum, sending out literature that implied McCollum was a homosexual, among other things. JEB! was quite pissed about it and protested, in vain. Real ugly stuff. You’d think Shrub would have wanted to reward his brother for what he did for Shrub in Florida and let him have just a little something, but no.
a used war salesman
“I would bring back waterboarding, and I would bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.”
-Donald Trump
A vote for Trump is a vote for our government to torture people.
A vote for Barney Sanders is a vote for a falling standard of living, rising poverty, collapsing demand, rampant unemployment and a crumbling economy.
Barney Sanders is pro-debt slavery.
I dont need the gov, Bernie wont effect my bottom line.
You’re gonna get a whole lot of Gov with Barney.
As opposed to whom?
“I would bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.”
I heard he was going to force them to watch the Superbowl halftime show over and over, followed by a Lady Gaga/Beyonce duet.
a Lady Gaga/Beyonce duet.
So the very things (torture, bombing) that are unspeakably evil when Obummer does them are laughable when Trump says he will do them?
How does that work in your mind? How do you accept or ignore your hypocrisy?
I ask Mafia to post one of his pics.
Gladly.
Donald Trump…. An esteemed statesman with a squad of sexy strumpets.
http://goo.gl/b6wjE3
post one of his pics.
Like this one?
https://adobochroniclesdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/image56.jpg?w=474
She’s hot Lola.
Jealous?
“Gladly.
Donald Trump…. An esteemed statesman with a squad of sexy strumpets.
http://goo.gl/b6wjE3”
I think that one’s my fave.
“Like this one?”
Is that some of Marla’s genes?
Is that some of Marla’s genes?
Yes, that’s his daughter Ivanka he’s grinding on. I’m not sure if that’s the one he says he wants to date, though.
Torture, incest, wars for pillage, Trump will be the perfect Roman emperor.
Obama was the candidate of peace. In practice he is one of the most prolific murders in history. Now the Obamaphile wants to disqualify the challenger because he speaks of violence. It would seem ironically insincere.
It would seem ironically insincere.
It would seem you guys are twisting yourselves into pretzels trying to find a way to logically support a pro-war, pro-torture candidate after preaching otherwise for years.
Now we’re faced with the question: Was your anti-war, anti-torture preaching all just politically based ? Or was it racial? Or both? Because it sure disappeared quickly when a big white daddy figure whose politics you like started calling for war and torture.
Or was it racial? Or both? Because it sure disappeared quickly when a big white daddy figure whose politics you like started calling for war and torture ??
+1…
Obama: “I’m Really Good At Killing People”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/03/obama-drones-double-down_n_4208815.html
Obama: “I’m Really Good At Killing People”
And Trump promises to be even better. So is it only wrong when Obama does it?
Pivoting to racism does not resolve insincerity. Try pivoting the murder issue to transvestites in bathrooms.
Looks like you’re the one wildly pivoting, Blue.
Why are torture and war now acceptable when Trump promises them?
Hey Oddfella, can you do me a favor and not spin what I’m going to ask into something about Trump? Can you state unequivocally that Obama is a killer and whether or not you support that? Is the Nobel Peace Prize Winner a murderer? Is he good at killing people and does he kill lots of people? Where do you stand on this issue. I don’t want to hear about Trump, Romney, Cruz or any other person. Stand up and go on record about your Nobel Prize Winner.
Trump didn’t kill anyone.
Don’t gyrate while backpedalling Lola.
Sure, Michael. I’ll answer all your questions just as soon as the anti-war anti-torture types explain how they can support a pro-war pro-torture candidate, which is the topic currently being discussed, as much as you might wish otherwise.
Who are the anti-war anti-torture types on this thread besides you?
President Obama: “I’m good at killing people”
Man up Lola. (At least try)
Who are the anti-war anti-torture types on this thread besides you?
You said it. Now we know it was all a sham for you and your pals.
Obama: “I’m Really Good At Killing People”
And Trump promises to be even better. So is it only wrong when Obama does it?
It’s an American core competence. But they really hate us for our freedoms.
“So the very things (torture, bombing) that are unspeakably evil when Obummer does them are laughable when Trump says he will do them? How does that work in your mind?”
Trump supporters like his bluster about kicking butt and taking names, but — outside of the few racists — I think most of the supporters know that it’s just that: bluster. Trump’s a realtor, not a bloodthirsty Cheney disciple with delusions about bringing on the Rapture or “securing the realm.” The supporters know that Trump would likely stop short of doing anything truly violent.
All he said was that you are a fake. Either explain your hypocrisy or don’t.
Sure, Michael. I’ll answer all your questions just as soon as the anti-war anti-torture types explain how they can support a pro-war pro-torture candidate, which is the topic currently being discussed, as much as you might wish otherwise.
That’s what I thought. ‘Tis hard for an empty bag to stand up.
Lola the windbag. Lol
Codswallow deserves no respect.
So no one can explain why it’s evil when Obama tortures and bombs, and yet perfectly fine when Trump promises to kick it up a few notches. Just the usual name-callers trying to change the subject from their own blatant hypocrisy.
Weak.
Who are the anti-war anti-torture types on this thread besides you?
President Obama: “I’m good at killing people”
Man up Lola. (At least try)
You’re a fraud and a hypocrite Lola.
You don’t even convince yourself anymore, mafia. I showed you who you are. Now you know.
“no one can explain why it’s evil when Obama tortures and bombs”
You either know this is true or you don’t think so. Or, it doesn’t matter to you because you are just trolling. Apparently it is just the fraud trolling.
Codswallow, now that’s a beaut.
We got enough material on Lola to write a novel. “Schooling Lola” is a fitting title.
You either know this is true or you don’t think so.
Still tying pretzels? I think torture is always evil. You guys think torture is evil when a black democrat does it, understandable when a white guy whose politics you like calls for it.
“I think torture is always evil.”
But it’s acceptable when a black socialist does it and boasts how proud he is of it.
You’re a hypocrite.
It’s evil when anybody does it, so I don’t support anyone who does.
Do you?
Not “anyone” Lola. Obama.
“So the very things (torture, bombing) that are unspeakably evil when Obummer does them are laughable when Trump says he will do them?”
I heard he was going to force them to watch the Superbowl halftime show over and over, followed by a Lady Gaga/Beyonce duet.
That would indeed be “cruel and unusual” punishment.
Lola’s gaga. But not over ladies.
Beyonce I group with Kanye and Adelle as superstars whose songs I just don’t like.
Lady Gaga is alright, did a great National Anthem at the Superbowl, although I thought she sounded too much like a Broadway showgirl belting one out as she sang the otherwise pretty good Bowie medley at the Grammy’s.
Pivoting to racism ??
Pivoting ?? Racisim is alive and well in this country my friend and not just with blacks, browns, muslims etc…Also with woman as we are witnessing right now…
Pivoting to a woman ???
Trumple tantrums abound this morning… the plump trumplings must have missed second breakfast.
Rusty….. From your empty skull, directly to the Whitehouse, Donald Trump lives rent-free.
“Vote for me… I know where you live.
“Two words: PUH thetic.”
Two words: Hat Trick
stocks and homes are the ticket to wealth beyond your wildest dreams!
Paging ABQ Dan….
http://www.businessinsider.com/china-banking-hits-290-of-gdp-banks-bailout-2016-2
When will the Eurozone fiancial crisis, papered over with stimulous but never resolved, come roaring back?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-02-16/european-bank-nightmare-far-from-over-as-fines-and-fintech-loom
Scandinavians voted for globalist leaders, and now they’re not so happy with the fundamental transformation they’re reaping.
http://www.businessinsider.com/r-insight-not-in-my-backyard-mainstream-scandinavia-warily-eyes-record-immigration-2016-2
It’s easy to forget how small Scandinavian countries are. Sweden has a population of 9 million. It doesn’t that many immigrants, especially if they can’t be assimilated, to leave a mark.
It’s even easier to forget we subsidize these failing governments.
How?
And heres another you don’t want to forget Lola.
“WTI Crude Plunges Back Below $30 - Gives Up All “Production Cut” Hype Gains
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-16/wti-crude-plunges-red-back-below-30
In 2012, the US gave Sweden a whopping 2.8 million dollars. That’s about 30 cents per person in Sweden. Not much of a subsidy.
http://us-foreign-aid.insidegov.com/q/169/1590/How-much-money-does-the-U-S-give-to-Sweden
You’re already backpedalling.
“U.S. Taxpayer Subsidies for European Welfare States Continue”
http://www.cato.org/blog/us-taxpayer-subsidies-european-welfare-states-continue
g 2.8 million dollars
In a country with a 580 billion dollar GDP.
You’re backpedalling.
http://www.taxpayer.net/images/uploads/NATO%20Budget%20Pie%20Chart%202.png
Sweden’s not a NATO member, Mafia.
Norway is a NATO member country.
Stay on topic my friend. Stay on topic.
If we are subsidizing NATO members, it’s being done in our interest, not theirs. I really don’t see how giving them guns in exchange for warm bodies (soldiers) is subsidizing their welfare states.
Oh I see. It’s done for our own good.
Bow to DaddyState.
Who is NATO protecting the Scandinavian countries from?
They’re all welfare states my friend.
Helsinki is an hour from St. Petersburg by plane. Probably not much longer by Borei.
If we are “protecting” them, it’s because it’s in our interest. If it wasn’t we would throw them to the wolves.
Try again.
Helsinki is an hour from St. Petersburg by plane.
But Putin is our bestest buddy, and a really great guy. Who would need protection from him?
Putin is your buddy?
Lola…. I seriously doubt the guy is interested in being friendly with a cross dressing street walker.
Lola….
Have you ever considered joining the conversation with the adults on the daily housing posts?
If you can keep yourself out of the RageCage and man up long enough, you might make your way over there. It might be… well…. therapeutic for you.
conversation with the adults
So you’re banned? Maybe I will check it out.
Why the backpedalling Lola? Why not discuss falling housing prices?
Got silver?
http://investmentresearchdynamics.com/silver-will-be-the-trade-of-the-decade-at-its-current-price/
Generation renter: what central bank asset bubbles and encouragement of speculation have wrought.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/property-market/12157946/Generation-Rent-London-to-become-a-city-of-renters-by-2025.html
I’m seeing more and more for sale signs now in the PHX area. Post Super Bowl, great weather now. Lots of delusionally priced houses will sit rather than being given away.
Beta-wallet homeowners beware.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-housing-crisis-is-creating-sharp-elbowed-husband-hunters-a6875576.html
50% of marriages end in divorce, and 70% of divorces are initiated by women.
All the TradCon shaming in the world won’t put the poop back inside that horse.
No single man with assets and options should ever get married.
50% of marriages end in divorce, and 70% of divorces are initiated by women ??
Which then translates into this outcome;
http://national.deseretnews.com/article/4535/us-marriage-rate-hits-new-low-and-may-continue-to-decline.html
To each their own. I personally love being married and don’t mind sharing.
As do I….Doesn’t change the facts though….
No single man with assets and options should ever get married.
Exactly. I miss working with my former colleagues, many of them single and don’t give a hoot about tradition. At my current place they ostracize me for not being married and for not owning real estate. You’d think they are bible thumping trads. My boss is a “progressive” and his favorite yes men are hipsters.
Who do you work for? Mormons?
Maybe the single women over 30 care about the men with assets/money/career, etc. The young-uns don’t give a cr@p about who they marry and date.
You mean that after the ladies have their “fun” with the non-husband material guys they lock on to a beta wallet?
AF/BB
My wife and I have been married for the last 38 years and we both enjoy it very much.
However, I know at least half a dozen women engineers here in Silicon Valley that are around the age of 50 and have no interest in marriage. These are all attractive, financially secure women at the top of their professions.
They basically don’t want to give up the freedom they have now for what they perceive as the constraints of marriage.
I would think most of them are neck deep in debt without a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out….. much like everyone else in California.
There are no greater losses than a rapidly depreciating house at a grossly inflated price.
Paying multiples of construction cost($55/sq ft for lot labor, materials and profit) for a 10+ year old house and then financing which doubles the total cost is a horrific mistake you’ll never recover from.
You can do it! —Susan
I would just make it easy. I would find a woman I hate already and just buy her a house. Save myself the feeling of betrayal.
This is where living on a boat comes in handy. Marriage aboard is only valid until returning to shore. If a lady wants to end the situation, she only has to step off.
You mean the divorce court judge won’t give her your boat?
There is no divorce court with jurisdiction.
There is no divorce court with jurisdiction.
Because you aren’t a resident in any state? I would think that if she is a resident somewhere she can still take you to court there.
My guess is that since Blue is his own ship captain, he “marries” the redhead every summer on the boat and “divorces” her when he throws her overboard in the fall.
Plus I think she’s Canadian and they sail international (fresh)waters.
A marriage at sea is performed under the jurisdiction of the ship’s captain. It is not valid in any land jurisdiction. What happens at sea stays at sea.
A marriage at sea is performed under the jurisdiction of the ship’s captain. It is not valid in any land jurisdiction. What happens at sea stays at sea.
Got it. So in other words, she isn’t really your wife. FWIW, you can divorce someone in a different jurisdiction as long as the marriage was considered valid. For instance, my parents were married in the USA, but were divorced in Mexico. That’s because Mexico recognizes American marriages as valid, as opposed to those officiated by Captain Blue Skye on the SS Minnow.
LOL. I must take care, having a Canadian partner. If I marry her on Canadian soil, I must live in Canada for one full year after filing before the court would grant a divorce.
After raising all the children I could possibly want to, it is better for me to take things day by day.
BTW, the boat is the Blue Skye, not the Minnow.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-housing-crisis-is-creating-sharp-elbowed-husband-hunters-a6875576.html
That really taking the AF/BB narrative to a new level.
Actually guyz, this is a pretty good article. Yes, it’s true that in the past, it was always the women chasing the man with the fortune. But since women may now earn or inherit just as well as men, this will soon be happening to all of us, regardless of gender:
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“Be you feminist or fervent bachelor, gay, straight, male, cis or genderfluid; for the average person, marrying into property will be your best shot at “owning it” these days. And if you can charm your name on to the mortgage deeds, well, even better. The housing crisis will make sharp-elbowed, radar-eyed Chelsea husband-hunters of all of us.
In another five years, I predict that Tinder will be outmoded by a simple database of single millennials who were lucky enough to inherit – or afford – a three-bedroom house with space for a homeworking office and a nursery. Or an app which lists unwedded people with sickly parents about to cark it who, in the meantime, happen to be sitting selfishly on a five-bedroom pile in Surrey. In the future, these property owners – not the slinky, the booby or the muscular – will be the sex gods of society.
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In some circles, this is true already. I’m still rather confident that I could find a husband in a week … if I wasn’t too particular about citizenship or mother tongue. I need only offer up my bedroom (and income) to the mate and the other bedrooms to the mate’s extended family.
But since women may now earn or inherit just as well as men, this will soon be happening to all of us, regardless of gender:
I read somewhere that 90%+ of all alimony awards are being awarded to women. But yeah, some well heeled ladies might find an alpha gigolo trying to attach themselves, like a lamprey, to her pocket book. But that is nothing new.
if I wasn’t too particular about citizenship or mother tongue.
Citizenship is a moot point if you marry one of them.
Not necessarily. There is no guarantee that Homeland Security/Immigration will grant a green card to a non citizen spouse.
grant a green card to a non citizen spouse.
Particularly if the spouse was on a terrorist watch list prior to the alleged marriage
Gold ain’t buying the “markets have bottomed out” chatter from the usual co-opted “analysts.”
http://www.kitco.com/market/
Once the collectivist comrades of the DNC have succeeded in importing enough millions of entitlement voters to secure their permanent Democrat supermajority, we, too, will devolve into a failed socialist dystopia like Venezuela with empty shelves for all. Forward!
http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/venezuela-is-out-of-food-heres-what-an-economic-collapse-really-looks-like-02132016
http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/7569
According to the article above, only 1.3 million people in Venezuela receive “welfare”, out of a population of 30 million. I don’t think we’ve had a participation rate that low since the Eisenhower administration (if that). So, FWIW, it isn’t the FSA that is causing “socialist Venezuela” to collapse. I would chalk that up to good old Latin American graft and corruption.
We are far more socialist that they are. And the Europeans even more so.
“If you like your brown cloud, you can keep your brown cloud”
http://imgur.com/zLpOSJJ
Region IX
That’s a good day in Metro LA. On really bad days you can’t see the mountains in the Inland Empire.
Then again, a bad day in LA would be a good day in Beijing.
LOL….
Metro LA
This is the only Region in USA that I have seen coils of razor wire around highway signs on overpasses to prevent graffiti. Also, revisiting Joshua Tree National Park for the first time in over a decade I learned that several sites in the park have since closed because of vandalism.
California = preview of the third world country ‘Merica will become.
P.S. the city sidewalks in Hollywood smell like urine.
Those cowboys vandalized that wildlife refuge in Oregon. The Third World must have spread north.
That old narrative?
Didn’t they give you a new one at this morning’s Southern Poverty Law Center employee all-hands meeting?
Your bird sanctuary narrative doesn’t change the fact that 99% of the inhabited land in the state of California is a third world ghetto thanks to the open border immigration policies advocated by shitbag Ted Kennedy and globalist George Soros.
Lurkers and newbs, know that MikeyMite is an employee of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is most certainly not a “civil rights organization.”
Got Cloward-Piven?
Damn!
Goon unloaded on old poor old Lester like Jim Braddock on Corn Griffin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3ywc_7_IE8 - 262k -
Phony, this is the best recent article I’ve seen about the SPLC:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/16/southern-poverty-law-center-manufacturing-hate-for-fun-and-profit/
Ben Jones, I am linking this article to my HBB username, this organization needs to be exposed for the total fraud that it is.
Your bird sanctuary narrative doesn’t change the fact that 99% of the inhabited land in the state of California is a third world ghetto thanks to the open border immigration policies advocated by shitbag Ted Kennedy and globalist George Soros.
I’ve been to a number of places in California. At least 20% of the state must be just fine. Also, very few people have any idea what you’re going on about when you rant and rave about the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Also, how it could be an old narrative? The situation just ended last week.
MikeyMite = paid employee of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
P.S. Andrew Breitbart was murdered under direct orders from Obama.
This is the only Region in USA that I have seen coils of razor wire around highway signs on overpasses to prevent graffiti.
It’s also the only region where I have seen armed security guards in supermarkets or at places like Walgreens, even just a few blocks away from Disneyland.
California = preview of the third world country ‘Merica will become.
I though it was interesting that buses in Anaheim had the ads on their exteriors in Spanish.
That said, having lived in a real 3rd world country, I can say that SoCal isn’t quite there yet.
Ca is liberal and yet has so many police why is that ?
The only Region? Come visit DC, goon. Buses here have Spanish advertisements too, as do the bus stops. I haven’t checked for weapons, but there are definitely guards at the stores. Even Walmart got rid of the greeter at the entrance and installed someone at the exit to check receipts, right about the same time that the clientele became overwhelmingly *ahem* foreign born and not just Latin.
Ca is liberal and yet has so many police why is that ?
Your being influenced to much by the California rhetoric and envy…California not even in the top 20…
http://www.smartpolicinginitiative.com/library-and-multimedia-resources/top-101-cities-highest-number-police-officers
Even Walmart got rid of the greeter at the entrance and installed someone at the exit to check receipts
I saw that in Dallas about 15 years ago. To this day Wallyworld doesn’t do that in my little burg.
Those receipt checkers are at every Costco I’ve ever visited. When my father first saw that he said that it reminded him of China, where they check your passport before they let you fly out of the country.
But they AREN’T at every Wal-Mart I’ve visited. I guess that makes Wal-Mart racis? Or does that make Costco like China?
When my father first saw that he said that it reminded him of China, where they check your passport before they let you fly out of the country.
FWIW, last Summer they checked my passport at Heathrow before letting me get on the plane. They took a VERY close look at it and chatted with me before letting me board the 747.
“Ca is liberal and yet has so many police why is that ?”
Poverty begets crime. There is nothing complicated about it.
Felony Crimes Skyrocket In Los Angeles
http://www.ladowntownnews.com/news/as-crime-surges-downtowners-worry/article_57e4f716-3247-11e5-aa62-079b56f2b0c8.html
Deutche Bank (DB), one of many canaries in the coal mine, was up more than 12% on Friday on the “everything is fixed!” rally…but starting to look shaky again at the open.
“the ‘everything is fixed!’ rally” = The shorts are screwed rally.
Once the shorts have been shaken out …
Methinks any algo-driven short-covering rally is going to be short-lived. Oil is turning down again, and the Yen is strengthening, which means the usual carry-trade antics to goose the market won’t work.
We will have to postepone any new neocon military adventurism until the social engineering of our military is complete.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/feb/15/us-special-forces-not-ready-to-integrate-women-rep/
Washington Times? They wouldn’t exist if Drudge didn’t link to them.
And speaking of Drudge, and neocon, the Drudge Report boldface headline now is an Iran narrative from Yahoo News. Drudge pretends to be libertarian, but his default foreign policy position is neocon, especially when it comes to Israel.
No smaller government or less regulation or lower taxes happening there.
Latest salvo in the .1%’s campaign for a cashless society where the proles can be taxed and looted at will.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-16/larry-summers-launches-war-us-paper-money-its-time-kill-100-bill
What happens to a cashless society dependent on electronic money when an adversary takes down our power grid?
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/books/review/lights-out-by-ted-koppel.html?_r=0
If the power grid goes down we’ll have bigger problems than non functioning ATMs or credit card readers.
Never fear, everything will be okay as long you don’t forget that master-password for your Bitcoin block-chain. And you WILL NOT forget it.
Is there a gas-lamp version of bitcoin?
I don’t know about that, but I did recover and resurrect a kerosene lantern from my great-grandmother’s farmhouse shed a couple of years ago. The fuel came with it, in a glass one-gallon jug. Still works!
How anybody did anything at night, using those lights, is beyond me. I think that’s why they all turned in early!
Global trade belies the “everyting is awesome!” meme.
http://wolfstreet.com/2016/02/15/im-in-awe-at-just-how-fast-global-trade-is-unraveling/
Does A Falling Baltic Dry Index Mean The Sky Is Falling Too?
in Dry Bulk Market,International Shipping News 16/02/2016
This week we tweeted that the Baltic Dry Index, traditionally a leading indicator of world economic growth, hit an all-time low, dipping under 290 points. The index has been falling steadily since August 2015, when it peaked at just over 1200. The sharp drop is the result of several factors, including increased freighter construction in China and falling commodity prices, particularly oil.
The BDI has historically been linked to overall global economic health because it tracks the price of shipping raw materials like coal, iron, or grain via cargo ship and is therefore closely association with the global demand for raw materials. Analysts believe that higher demand for raw goods directly correlates with higher demand for shipping capacity, driving up shipping costs as a result.
But while the index has continued to freefall, some are questioning whether the index is still a reliable indicator of economic growth. Because the index tracks the price of shipping, not volume, it may not be an accurate reflection of how much shipping is actually taking place. As one astute LinkedIn commenter pointed out, the global shipping industry has continued to build bigger and bigger ships for the last few years while the price of oil to power those ships has dropped. And while the ships themselves have grown, the global marketplace to generate proportionate increases in volumes of goods requiring shipping has not.
It’s true that the Baltic Dry Index has fallen by 75% in six months and is now lower than ever before, but perhaps that is not deserving of panic.
We saw the BDI fall sharply during the global economic recession in 2008, but current conditions don’t reflect the same dire outlook. The BDI is simply a price index that reflects the balance of supply and demand, and right now supply is far ahead of demand. Stronger global economic growth, a surge in trade in response to lower shipping rates and rising commodity prices will all potentially be factors in boosting demand. On the supply side, low transport prices may force many shippers to scrap their older vessels, which will help to alleviate some of the glut. It may take some time for supply and demand factors to get back in sync, but the current low levels of the Baltic Dry Index do not signal that the sky is falling.
Source: Value Walk
How’s that hope ‘n change crony capitalism working out for you, Carrier employees?
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/15/carrier-received-5-1-million-in-obama-stimulus-cash/
The 5.1 million probably paid for the new plant in Juarez.
There is one very positive thing this article says about Barney Sanders…
“He finally wormed his way into the Senate in 2006, where he still ranks as one of the poorest members of Congress.”
And possibly…
“He drove around in a rusted-out, Bondo-covered VW bug with no working windshield wipers.”
Bernie Sanders a Bum Who Didn’t Earn His First Steady Paycheck Until Age 40 Then Wormed His Way Into Politics
Jim Hoft | Gateway Pundit - February 16, 2016
Bernie Sanders was a bum who didn’t earn a steady paycheck until he was 40 years old. He was a slob who lived in a shack with a dirt floor. He later wrote about masturbation and rape for left-wing rags for $50 a story. The Socialist then wormed his way into politics.
Bernie had his electricity cut off a lot so he’d run an extension cord down to the basement. He couldn’t pay his bills.
And today he’s running for president so he can take your money and redistribute it.
Investor’s Business Daily reported:
Sanders spent most of his life as an angry radical and agitator who never accomplished much of anything. And yet now he thinks he deserves the power to run your life and your finances — “We will raise taxes;” he confirmed Monday, “yes, we will.”
One of his first jobs was registering people for food stamps, and it was all downhill from there.
Sanders took his first bride to live in a maple sugar shack with a dirt floor, and she soon left him. Penniless, he went on unemployment. Then he had a child out of wedlock. Desperate, he tried carpentry but could barely sink a nail. “He was a shi**y carpenter,” a friend told Politico Magazine. “His carpentry was not going to support him, and didn’t.”
Then he tried his hand freelancing for leftist rags, writing about “masturbation and rape” and other crudities for $50 a story. He drove around in a rusted-out, Bondo-covered VW bug with no working windshield wipers. Friends said he was “always poor” and his “electricity was turned off a lot.” They described him as a slob who kept a messy apartment — and this is what his friends had to say about him.
The only thing he was good at was talking … non-stop … about socialism and how the rich were ripping everybody off. “The whole quality of life in America is based on greed,” the bitter layabout said. “I believe in the redistribution of wealth in this nation.”
So he tried politics, starting his own socialist party. Four times he ran for Vermont public office, and four times he lost — badly. He never attracted more than single-digit support — even in the People’s Republic of Vermont. In his 1971 bid for U.S. Senate, the local press said the 30-year-old “Sanders describes himself as a carpenter who has worked with ‘disturbed children.’ ” In other words, a real winner.
He finally wormed his way into the Senate in 2006, where he still ranks as one of the poorest members of Congress. Save for a municipal pension, Sanders lists no assets in his name. All the assets provided in his financial disclosure form are his second wife’s. He does, however, have as much as $65,000 in credit-card debt.
He’s too lazy to torture anybody!
He hasn’t got enough get-up-and-go to get us into a new war!
un-friggin-real.
He needs to get out there and do some 300,000 dollar an hour goldman sach’s lecture, or pedal some influence and get a nice job for a family member. He could try his hand at illegal insider trading well it’s legal if you are a member of congress.
The article forgot to mention a few other things
As an independent (ie he had to organize and get on the ballet without a party to help him), he was elected mayor of Burlington, Vermont’s most populous city, in 1981, and was reelected three times (ie he was popular). In 1990, he was elected to represent Vermont’s at-large congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1991, Sanders co-founded the Congressional Progressive Caucus. He served as a congressman for 16 years before being elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006. In 2012, he was reelected with 71% of the popular vote. The guy has one again and again on a shoe string budget, but hey your article tells the whole story.
Seriously a guy who isn’t focused on his own wealth and you guys bash him. We all agree that Wall street and the elite have stripped the wealth of middle class using a gov and FED as a tool, but when someone comes along and says hey maybe these thieves and corporate welfare babies should pay something back it’s bashing time. As far as I can tell most on these boards work for a living, his policies will help those that work, but you’d all rather rave on about the emperor’s new clothes and how Donald Trump or some other trickle down economics deceiver will save the day.
Charlie Daniels’ Open Letter to America’s Enemies: You See Obama, But You Don’t Know America
http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/charlie-daniels/charlie-daniels-open-letter-americas-enemies-you-see-obama-you-dont-know
Charlie Daniels’ Open Letter
First Ted Nugent now Charlie Daniels…Two peas in a pod…
There are 2300+ comments…I only read a few but this one rang loud..
“Charlie Daniels is just another pathetic,old, redneck hillbilly who likes to think he’s John Wayne. Charlie Daniels is just another pathetic,old, redneck hillbilly who wants to send young men off to war even though he never served himself. Charlie Daniels is just another pathetic,old, redneck hillbilly who talks the talk, but never walked the walk.”
I thought he used to be cool; “Uneasy Rider” and all that. Then he became a born-again Christian nut who appears on “Give-Me-Mo-Money” evangelical TV shows.
happens a lot in country music. I would sometimes listen to country music while driving in Arizona, then when the lyrics discuss the sky wizard, I get sick of it and stop listening to country music for a long time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGZV2Sr1sTg
NASA Study: Sea Level Rise Absorbed by Earth
by Breitbart News11 Feb 20161,134
Miami (AFP) – As glaciers melt due to climate change, the increasingly hot and parched Earth is absorbing some of that water inland, slowing sea level rise, NASA experts said Thursday.
Here’s the proof.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPt6FZzriXQ - 244k -
It was almost 90° in Region IX yesterday:
http://imgur.com/gTqDLUO
Warmists gonna warm.
Nobody lives there and the weather is terrible.
“It was almost 90° in Region IX yesterday:”
What an opportunity to dig for Earth absorbing sea level rise.
Washington Post real journalists bewail shrinking pool of FB’s:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/16/where-the-american-dream-of-homeownership-is-fading-the-most/
No “pent-up demand” for $500,000 starter homes happening here.
Reston, VA Housing Market Craters; Prices Plummet 13% YoY On Plunging Housing Demand And Ballooning Inventory
http://www.zillow.com/reston-va/home-values/
Thanks! The wife and I are thinking of buying in Reston in several years.
I was curious if I could care about not being able to fill all the seats in a small grammar school cafeteria on some fundamental level, and I couldn’t.
Chelsea campaigns to empty seats in Cleveland
February 15, 2016
By Olaf Ekberg
While there may be sagging excitement around Hillary Clinton’s campaign, there seems to be even less to see Chelsea.
The younger Clinton was campaigning in Cleveland Monday and video shows numerous empty seats in an already small room.
“sagging excitement”
That isn’t the only thing sagging.
Another former Bill Clinton paramour emerges to say that Bill was so-so in bed, he confided to her that Hillary prefers women, and she still lives in fear of Hillary and her goons.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3427366/He-frilly-nightie-danced-playing-sax-Former-Miss-Arkansas-says-Bill-Clinton-bed-confided-Hillary-sex-women-fears-Hillary-vendetta-sleeps-loaded-semi-automatic.html
Since Chelsea has plenty of time on her hands from not having to care about money, maybe she could take a tour of Cleveland’s rusting, rotting, abandoned industrial base, a direct result of NAFTA that Daddy Bill signed.
…. and molested millions in the process.
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/269503-clinton-barks-like-a-dog-to-taunt-gop
Ouch! Always think before you bark, Hillary.
Geez, there’s so much potential for some pretty raw humor to backfire on Hillary in this. Howard Dean moment?
You have to admit, she does the barking dog pretty well.
I think she’s had some practice.
Hillaryous is unelectable.
Our healthcare is a horror show.
Do you still support universal single-payer health care coverage? Or have you flip-flopped on that one too?
+1 and congress does nothing….
“We have to pass the Healthcare bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
- Nancy Pelosi (House Speaker March 9, 2010)
“Trump Holds Commanding 20 Point National Lead Heading Into South Carolina”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-16/trump-holds-commanding-20-point-national-lead-heading-south-carolina
Will the central bankers succeed in their mission to prop up oil prices above fundamental value? And if so, where are they going to put the stuff, given that storage is nearly overflowing already?
For the love of cheap gasoline, which U.S. politician dares to criticize. Saudi Arabia, Russia and Venuzula cut a deal to dominate the market after U.S. domestic supplies disappear. That’s whose rings the next President will be kissing.
Why would “U.S. domestic supplies disappear”?
Larry probably meant “suppliers.” The reserves will stay in the ground as the pumpers go bankrupt.
I wonder what will happen to all those assets? Hopefully the State Department will prevent foreign entities from buying them up. (or prevent a domestic company from buying them, and then moving HQ overseas).
Crude prices have a long way to fall before that happens.
Q for the blog:
Anyone here have experience dealing with your LL selling the place you’re renting? How did things go as far as showings, potential lockbox on door, open house?
I have already formed my opinions on such things, but trying to get folks experiences without biasing up front at least. Any thoughts appreciated!
(and btw, the house rental market on the east side of seattle is freaking crazy. One house we looked at this weekend had four applications on the same day, effectively a ‘bidding war’ on the rent, and the realtor showing the house was suggesting cover letters for the application. Ugh)
Post a link of the house you’re speaking about.
The listing has already been pulled. Happy to provide details about house (neighborhood, size, lot, etc) if you have questions.
House is in Sammamish, right along Redmond border.
A zillow link will do. It has all the sale history and pertinent information.
How did things go as far as showings, potential lockbox on door, open house ??
You have a legal right to quiet enjoyment of the house…I don’t think you must allow a lock box…Shown by appointment only with 24 hour notice would be appropriate…Don’t think you must allow a open house either…Read your lease carefully…
Your read/thoughts are the same as mine.
Lease only parrots the state’s tenant laws, which is 24 hours to notice to show to potential tenant or buyer. No specifics on the details, of course (in lease or tenant laws)!
Landlord, as expected, wants open house and lockbox, and seems unconcerned about interrupting our lives, or our right to quiet enjoyment. Going to be a fun experience, I can tell!
A lockbox is for empty houses. No way on the house you are living in.
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Obamacare.
Stepping on a nail.
Dealing with a Realtor showing a house you are renting.
People who drive slow in the fast lane.
Obamacare.
Sunburn.
Being halfway down the interstate on ramp and realizing you forgot your phone (that has the address where you are going) at home.
Paying a Deadbeat LL $1,700.00 a month rent while he is not paying the mortgage.
Obamacare.
Telling a hot chick you can’t because she just broke up with your friend.
Obamacare.
Things that s#ck
O care sucks, but my acupuncture treatments are only $15 a week.
I’d make it better if I was in Congress.
I have plenty.
First, your landlord will become inexplicably hostile and cold, no matter how pleasant your relationship was up until then.
Showings are a nightmare. The agent handling the sale promises about restrictions you place on times, days will do nothing when they are ignored by buyers’ agents. Hide your valuables; gang bangers will soon be walking through your house. Maybe they’ll come back later when you’re not home.You will have people peeping in your windows after dark, because “we weren’t sure anyone was living here”. If you refuse to leave during the showings (as we did), you’ll be expected to answer questions to help sell the place. Say something negative, as I did constantly, and the agent(s) can get quite nasty.
No lockbox ever, for the reasons above. Open houses just make it harder to track who’s going through your stuff in another room.
If you choose the passive aggressive route, as I did, you may just get a year’s free rent, as I did.
I did what I did in response to the LL’s lack of respect for us as people and his ever increasing hostility and disdain for us as renters. In the beginning, I felt sorry for him and was very cooperative.
P.S. Ask for a substantial reduction of your rent and the immediate return of your deposit (while they still have the money if they’re going for a short sale.)
drumminj,
That post above was regarding our second rental here (Vegas).
Third one, we refused to show it because of our last experience, and considered buying. Decided not to. Landlord went crazy, pleasant until then. Very, very, very unpleasant until we got out, which we did in record time, keeping our promises to him. Didn’t matter.
Fourth one (now): so far has ignored repair request made six months ago (bird flew into picture window and cracked it first week we were here.) Estimates for the place are dropping precipitously, $12K last month, now dipping below what she paid (too much.) May not make it to the end of the lease (June 30, 2017) before she wants to get rid of it.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Seems to match my expectation and other stories I’ve read online.
We definitely don’t want random folks walking through the house, and will do what we can to ensure only folks escorted by agent are in the house, and we’re at the house at the same time.
Not looking forward to the drama, but not much we can do. Will be very clear about what we’re okay/not okay with, won’t be helping sell the house in any way (unless we reach a mutual agreement to do so, but don’t expect one to be offered).
Hoping we can find a new place and get current LL to agree to terminate lease early, then they can clean it up and show it to their hearts’ content.
Get on him right away about the rent, no reduction, no show.
I got my rent knocked down to $1200 from $1600 - then $1000 - then $0. After that I didn’t hear from him. A year later an agent showed up at the door on the LL’s behalf, which I made him prove. We agreed on a new month to month lease. He wanted $1200; I told him $1000 or we’re out of here. He agreed, but by that time we really wanted to move so two months later we were out of there.
I’m not sure all of this has been worth it. Maybe in some other place, but not Las Vegas.
Well, we can’t stop them from showing the house — that’s guaranteed by law with 24hrs notice. However, we don’t have to be helpful, place doesn’t need to be showable, I don’t have to be wearing clothes, etc…
Of course if they want us to be agreeable/helpful in any way, then I certainly agree this will be the first order of business…
I read online of LL’s who would give a discount/bonus to tenant for each showing, or simply refund the last month’s rent. Totally the way to do it, IMO, but clearly my LL isn’t thinking that way right now.
I don’t have to be wearing clothes
Ha
I knew someone who used to deal with Jehovah Witnesses that way when they’d come knocking. He’d generally be holding a bottle of booze in his hand, for flair.
Well, that’s true about the 24 hour thing but I found they expect you to adhere to the letter of the law, but as far as them doing it, that’s another story…
It’s not easy.
Ha
I knew someone who used to deal with Jehovah Witnesses that way when they’d come knocking.
There is an easier way to get rid of them. Just ask them if they will pray with you. AFAIK they are not allowed to pray with “heathens” and they will beat a hasty retreat, especially if you just go straight into the Lord’s Prayer.
You can also just tell them to get lost and slam the door in their faces. I’ve found that works quite well and they don’t come back. I also once had an LDS kid with an attitude come knocking. I told him to leave and he refused. I then threatened to kick his puny ass. His partner (who looked very alarmed) convinced him to leave. That was over 10 years ago and the LDS have not darkened my door since that day.
I just put up a “No Soliciting” sign, then quit answering knocks on my door. Works remarkably well. People / orgs who have legitimate business at my door know how to get me to answer.
The Rage-O-Meter hit a record high today.
Meanwhile….
Anacortes, WA Housing Prices Crater 5% YoY
http://www.zillow.com/anacortes-wa/home-values/
u do that to people.
How much have u cleared on your bogus articles from clicks this year? FRAUD!
Falling prices my friend. Falling prices.
Supreme shock: Has US court holed Paris climate deal?
Matt McGrath
Environment correspondent
10 February 2016
Have five elderly, conservative Americans stalled what President Obama called the “best chance we have to save the one planet we’ve got”?
The Supreme Court’s decision to issue a stay to a coalition of Republican states, coal industry and mining groups came as a massive shock to all sides.
“It is such a nakedly partisan, unprecedented type of action,” said Paul Bledsoe, a White House climate adviser under President Clinton.
“It is redolent of this hyper-partisanship that the US is suffering from, and the fact that it has seeped into the most objective branch of government is just remarkable.”
Despite the assertion by the White House that this was merely a legal “bump in the road”, no one really knows quite how things will now play out.
Those opposed to the Plan argued that it represented a massive overextension of the President’s executive authority at the expense of State’s rights.
The Supreme Court indicated that they wanted this issue to be resolved legally before the other elements of the Plan could be put into practice.
This is bad news for the Plan on two counts.
It is due to start in 2022, but states were supposed to submit their carbon cutting plans by this September.
That deadline will now be missed as this legal issue is not likely to be resolved before the end of next year.
The second and more important point from Mr Obama’s perspective is that by granting the stay, the Supreme Court is hinting strongly it has issues with the whole Plan.
“The stay is a signal that the Supreme Court has serious concerns with the power plan,” said Mike Duncan, president of American’s for Clean Coal Electricity.
“We’re optimistic the power plan will ultimately be rejected.”
If that happens it could be bad news for the Paris process.
“It casts an enormous shadow on the commitment’s the US made in Paris,” said Bruce Huber, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35541323 - 152k -
Possibly the president promised to give what he did not have.
Until this past Sunday.
The “save my presidency with a pillow” tactic?
Justice Scalia Dies At Ranch Resort Owned By Democrat Party Donor & Obama Award Winner
Posted on February 14, 2016 by DCWhispers
The photo below is Barack Obama shaking hands with a man by the name of John Poindexter, a Texas millionaire businessman also noted for being a donor to the Democrat Party and who also received an award from Barack Obama related to his military service in Vietnam.
Poindexter is the owner of the very Cibolo Creek Ranch Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead at earlier this week.
President Barack Obama honored Poindexter and his Vietnam War unit with the Presidential Unit Citation, the nation’s highest award for unit valor, in a ceremony last October.
It has been long-standing policy for the Obama administration to grant presidential awards to those who are among the president’s most prized political donors.
It was Poindexter who reportedly was among those who initially discovered the Justice’s body, and who then coordinated with local officials to have Justice Scalia declared dead via a phone conversation with the area medical examiner – but without an actual medical examination of the body.
Mr. Poindexter was also said to be the primary point man between the ranch location and federal authorities who were notably slow to arrive on scene.
To date, there is said to have been no request for an autopsy even though ini
Read more at http://dcwhispers.com/justice-scalia-dies-at-ranch-resort-owned-by-democrat-party-donor-obama-award-winner/#VpejMJsBWxLTw7c4.99
The Odd Death of Antonin Scalia
Scott Creighton
February 15, 2016
UPDATE: I wonder what Justice Scalia, a strict constitutionalist, thought about the TPP, the TTIP and their Investor-State Dispute Settlement provisions? Because not only do these provisions undermine US law as it stands, but they also supersede the constitution and even rulings of the Supreme Court.
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Justice Antonin Scalia appeared to lack adequate security at the time of his death, Image Source: Wikipedia
Obama and the leaders of 11 other nations signed the TPP earlier this month. Obama was granted Fast Track authority, but the corporate bill of rights passing as a “trade deal” will still have to be approved by the senate in an up or down vote. It will pass and Obama will sign it leaving just one obstacle: it will certainly be challenged in the Supreme Court on the grounds that it is not constitutional.
Scalia was apparently brought out to the ranch owned by a vulture capitalist to meet with 35 substantial business people shortly after Obama signed the TPP and Obama’s offering to take Scalia’s place is a pro-business neoliberal shill?
Interesting timing, right?
Justice Scalia was found lying with hands folded on top of the sheets. It was first reported that he was found by a housekeeper, then the story changed and he was found by the owner of the ranch and “a friend”. By the time they called anyone about the death, Scalia was already cold and they failed to inform any of the authorities of the identity of the deceased. Justices are provided security by the US Marshal Service which didn’t appear to be on the scene at the time of Scalia’s passing. The cause of death was determined to have been by “natural causes” by local officials “over the phone” based on “credible information” provided by that same ranch owner and “a friend”. At first officials said he died of a heart attack but now that official says she “misspoke”. The hearse carrying Scalia away was a “decoy” and the family has opted out of an autopsy.
Scalia was brought there to meet with 35 “substantial business people” and Obama has offered up a “business friendly” judge as a possible replacement for him on the court. A business friendly judge who defended Enron, Rio Tinto and Exxon mobile back in his days of practicing law. He’s a favorite of both sides of the One True Party, the Business Party of America.
US Marshals arresting people for not paying their federal student loans
By: Isiah Carey
Posted:Feb 15 2016 07:02PM CST
HOUSTON (FOX 26) - Believe it or not, the US Marshals Service in Houston is arresting people for not paying their outstanding federal student loans.
Paul Aker says he was arrested at his home last week for a $1500 federal student loan he received in 1987.
He says seven deputy US Marshals showed up at his home with guns and took him to federal court where he had to sign a payment plan for the 29-year-old school loan.
Congressman Gene Green says the federal government is now using private debt collectors to go after those who owe student loans.
Green says as a result, those attorneys and debt collectors are getting judgements in federal court and asking judges to use the US Marshals Service to arrest those who have failed to pay their federal student loans.
Our reliable source with the US Marshal in Houston say Aker isn’t the first and won’t be the last.
They have to serve anywhere from 1200 to 1500 warrants to people who have failed to pay their federal student loans.
http://www.fox26houston.com/news/local-news/92232732-story - 114k -
TX needs revenue!! Low oil prices are sending them into a depression.
“TX needs revenue!! Low oil prices are sending them into a depression.”
Exactly how long has the US Marshals Service been working for the state of Texas to go after people who have failed to pay their federal student loans?
If any of you deadbeat pukes get arrested for not paying what you owe and can’t afford to pay what you owe then you should cast your worries and concerns aside and come in and pay me a visit and ask about The Dotted Line Special (aka The No-Dollar-Will-Be-Allowed-To-Escape Plan).
(Bahahahahahahahaha)
For colleratal purposes bring along proof of your blood type and if you have a sweet-looking teen-aged daughter bring her along as well.
Moral of the story: don’t borrow from Uncle Sam. Borrow from Mr. Banker, you can discharge what you owe him in BK court.
“The Most Hated Dead Cat Bounce Ever? Wall Street Is Throwing Up All Over This Rebound”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-16/most-hated-dead-cat-bounce-ever-wall-street-throwing-all-over-bounce
“the trade now is to hold as much cash as possible.”
Or more eloquently stated; Get what you can get for your ____(fill in the blank) today because it’s going to be far less later.
Remember…… Nothing accelerates the economy, increases hiring and reduces poverty like falling prices to dramatically lower and more affordable levels. Nothing.
Maxwell House original blend was on sale in Canada for $US2/lb last weekend. I backed up the truck. The customs guy gave me a thumbs up.
I really like more affordable levels.
That’s a beautiful thing right there.
CHEAP@SS
Remember Az_Donk…… Falling prices to dramatically lower and more affordable levels is the only cure for a sick economy. The only cure.
Bethesda, MD Housing Prices Crater 9% YoY
http://www.zillow.com/north-bethesda-md/home-values/
anyone ready for another debt orgy?
I don’t think it’s going to do much good Az_Donk.
Las Vegas, NV Housing Prices Crater 9% YoY
http://www.zillow.com/las-vegas-nv-89147/home-values/
Without looking at your bogus link I can already tell it BS.
9% decline is not worthy of being called a crater.
Time to get a job buddy.
Stick with the data Az_Donk….. stick with the data.
San Diego, CA Housing Prices Crater 6% YoY
http://www.zillow.com/san-diego-ca-92130/home-values/
‘Who Let the Dogs Out’ - featuring Hillary Clinton - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgCP9vOUd1o - 246k - Cached - Similar pages
15 hours ago … Hillary Clinton barks along to Baha Men’s “Who let the dogs out”.
Damn it feels good to be a Clinton….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FECIYlo3KRY
lol@az_donk
http://goo.gl/VhaCig
South Carolina: “We’re voting with our middle finger” - it’s about time!
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-16/were-voting-our-middle-finger-south-carolina-explains-why-it-will-pick-trump
Why are the neocons so desperate to rescue al-Qaeda in Syria?
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/neocon-watch/2016/february/11/why-are-neocons-so-desperate-to-rescue-al-qaeda-in-syria/
Traffic - Self-Titled (full LP):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8-EFlkVTok
Some people were born to achieve, and some people were just born to …
Otis Redding live at the Whisky A Go Go 1966:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D_KEKZqtsY
Music is everything, music is the only thing.
“all the days”
Well I didn’t even have a driver’s license then. But I’ve heard this way back.
Thanks!
“Smoking Kills more people than Obama”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-16/meanwhile-russian-bus-stop
“I’m good at killing people”- Obama
LGBTQQIAAP
WTF!?
A Politically Incorrect Guide To ‘Sexual Identity’
By J. Matt Barber | December 30, 2012 | 5:39 PM EST
“It’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world.” - The Kinks
Through the secular-”progressive” looking-glass, the term “sexual orientation” has, in a few short years, evolved to accommodate an ever-expanding fruit basket of carnal appetites.
First it was “LGB” - liberal shorthand for “lesbian, gay and bisexual.” Then they added a “T” for “transgender.” That’s cross-dressing. You know, fellas like 45-year-old Clay Francis (aka, “Colleen”).
Mr. Francis enjoys macramé, long walks on the beach, wearing lady knickers and showering fully nude with 6-year-old girls.
Because it’s illegal to “discriminate based on the basis of gender identity,” and since it’s the only “tolerant” thing to do, this brave bellwether of the persecuted LGBT victim-class has secured the “civil right” for him and other men to fully expose themselves to your daughter in the locker room at Olympia, Washington’s Evergreen State College.
But slow down, Dad. According to the law, if you have a problem with Mr. Francis baring all to your baby girl, then you’re the problem. You’re a “transphobe” (”homophobia’s” evil twin sister, er, brother … whatever). Deck this sicko for terrifying your first-grader and you’re off to jail while “Colleen” is off to the “Human Rights Campaign” for a commendation as the latest victim of an “anti-LGBT hate crime.”
Rosa Parks in drag, I guess.
But to make sure they didn’t miss anyone, pooh-bahs over at Child Corruption Central added a “Q” to the “sexual orientation” mix. In case some fifth-grader in Ms. Adamsapple’s health class gets the urge to “taste the rainbow” (and I don’t mean Skittles), the catch-all term “questioning” was tacked on.
Gotta meet those recruiting quotas.
According to the “gay” activist group GLSEN, sexuality is “fluid” and “may change over time.” Unless, of course, you’re already “gay,” and then change is impossible, fixed and immutable. Like that hotel in California, “You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.”
Nobody said it’s supposed to make sense.
Still, because “progressives” aren’t progressive unless they’re progressing toward progress, this nonsensical alphabet soup of sexual deviancy has ballooned to a marvelous “LGBTQQIAAP.”
No kidding.
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No kidding.
It is sad PB. A society without accepted morals has no fabric. One that celebrates amorality is fooked.
No perversion left behind…
“Falling Housing Prices”
Tuesday, Feb 16th 2016 10PM
House prices ‘to fall 30%’
by SEAN POULTER, Daily Mail
House prices could fall by as much as 30 per cent over the next four years, it is predicted today.
That could wipe out all the increases brought by the buying boom since April last year.
The thousands of buyers currently risking 100 per cent mortgages and borrowing up to five times their salary could be plunged deep into negative equity.
The warning has extra force because it comes from a respected expert in the field rather than yet another monthly report from a mortgage lender.
Roger Bootle, managing director of Capital Economics, was formerly chief economist at HSBC and one of the Bank of England’s ‘wise men’ who advised Chancellors under the last Tory government.
He said: ‘The message is clear. Houses are now so over-valued that a prolonged period of falling prices is on the cards.’
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Will debt-funded government-provided economic support save China’s stock market?
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I visited Ben’s youtube channel. What a hoot! I only saw the Denver episode. Just fascinating to get the street level view with Ben’s commentary, which he should do more of.
Who buys a “house” in that that colorado springs mega-development?
Did anyone ever read Mr. Peck’s Purple House? In that place, I’d (want to) paint mine purple.