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jojo says

Yep, ur chicken.

I feel for you. :)

Ceffer says

Must have mistaken him for Fred Phelps.

In America, Putin fucks Obama in the ass on a horse. In Russia, horse fucks you! ~ Yakov Smirnoff

Other than rhetoric that is silly and intellectually weak shorthand for "Democrats" suck, I don't even accept the premise.

If Carter sucked (and I don't accept that he did), by what metric would you not judge George H. W. Bush as "Carter", or George W. Bush as "Carter"? I say Reagan was a two-term version of Nixon, what..with all the ass-fucking they both gave the constitution.

Both Bush Presidents had approval ratings equal to or below Carter's at their lows. Carter never had a massive terror attack on his watch, either.

"He kept us safe!!!". If he were a Republican, the convention would have howled with delight, chanting that slogan like a Buddhist monk.

You picked the wrong county.
You should have bet on Modesto.

Who knows how many gay Billionaires want to live in Santa Clara?

Two-thirds of those who live paycheck to paycheck aren't poor, they are just plain stupid!

Unless you have a lot of self-control, it's easy to let the spending go way, way up. I know because I used to be there and it took some personal Shock Doctrine to ratchet down my needs.

However, it's oh so easy to get sucked down the drain. Case in point, my son visiting from college. I usually take him shopping for clothes when he periodically visits. However, while I myself shop at Wal*Mart, he wants stuff from the department stores. Last time, he gathered up a few multicolored shirts (not far from t-shirts) at Macy's and with a few other things, cologne, it ended up being $600. That's an extrodinary sum for me. I just bought my years wardrobe of t-shirts and sweatpants for under $100.

The only way that house prices go down in SFBA is if rents go down. What I can tell you is that exact same floor plan that I rented in my last year as a renter (mid 2010 - mid 2011 lease) is now 41.9% higher than it was back then. The rental rates are sticky even despite the tax cut on social security tax going away. So, rental rates have increased on average by 10% a year since 2010. Now, I don't think that this type of annual rental increase is sustainable in the long run but at the same time rents show no signs of declining in upper tier apartment complexes, most likely driven by demand of tech workers. So why would house prices decrease since I am sure that most people have some type of annual rent ratio in their minds when they make buy vs rent decisions?

jojo says

Bigsby says

No, it isn't. The median list price is 829k.

http://www.redfin.com/county/345/CA/Santa-Clara-County

If you click the link it shows the pagw at the top of this thread. Sale prices are the only real measure. People can list at anything.

Oh right, Santa Clara, not the county. Don't you think 157 houses is a rather restricted range to set your price point from? Why not pick a larger catchment area for a more realistic picture?

jojo says

Ok. I will look for an escrow service.

No escrow in their right minds will take this on.
It's illegal betting.

jojo says

Strategist says

jojo says

Ok. I will look for an escrow service.

No escrow in their right minds will take this on.

It's illegal betting.

No one needs to know its a bet of any sort. We just need a third party.

Escrow needs a contract. How will they know who won?

Strategist says

jojo says

Strategist says

jojo says

Ok. I will look for an escrow service.

No escrow in their right minds will take this on.

It's illegal betting.

No one needs to know its a bet of any sort. We just need a third party.

Escrow needs a contract. How will they know who won?

Robber baron the banker will be glad to hold it - for ever.

Thats low information planning. So typical of you.
We declare war on Ukraine instead over unpaid loans with the indiginious ruskkies becoming collaterial damage.
lostand confused says

Does one really think we can declare war on Russia?

Call it Crazy says

Go back and ask the people in the 2007 to 2009 date ranges if they liked the 3% annual climb they had in prices....

Sure. But it's a question of whether we are more like 2004 or 2006.

Heraclitusstudent says

Call it Crazy says

Go back and ask the people in the 2007 to 2009 date ranges if they liked the 3% annual climb they had in prices....

Sure. But it's a question of whether we are more like 2004 or 2006.

Why does it have to be a boom or a bust?
It could be a slow moving boring market for years.

John Bailo says

Last time, he gathered up a few multicolored shirts (not far from t-shirts) at Macy's and with a few other things, cologne, it ended up being $600

Then perhaps you should take him shopping at WalMart instead.

Call it Crazy says

Place your bet... Which one is it??

I have no idea.

I would bet the market would be lower in real terms in 2024.

Call it Crazy says

What about in the next year or two?

I have no idea.

zzyzzx says

you should take him shopping at WalMart instead

You don't have children do you?

maybe when he gets out of office, he can ride in the back of a work truck with Jimmy on the way to a Habitat for Humanity home build.

zzyzzx says

Wouldn't drones be well suited to search for the wreckage over open ocean?

Most drones don't have the kind of range needed. They are long-endurance and low-speed to loiter over combat zones. The infamous Predator for example:

Range: 675 nmi (675 mi or 1,100 km)

A nearby ship could do lots of detailed searching I suppose, but ship-launched is more complex. The X47-B could do it, but it's not operational yet.

Well everyone knows Obama is an empty suit, and wears Mom jeans. Obama also knows EVERYTHING thanks to the NSA and is an iron-fisted dictator. Just like Jimmy Carter.

Vicente says

Well everyone knows Obama is an empty suit, and wears Mom jeans. Obama also knows EVERYTHING thanks to the NSA and is an iron-fisted dictator. Just like Jimmy Carter.

Kind of like Reagan was a simpleton mastermind. That always made us on the left seem illogical too. :)

CL says

Kind of like Reagan was a simpleton mastermind.

Ah but Reagan WAS a mastermind.

http://screen.yahoo.com/president-reagan-mastermind-000000075.html

He just acted the simpleton.

RIP Phil Hartman

Straw Man says

Iosef V HydroCabron says

The toppling of the pro-Russian regime was a consequence of CIA and other U.S. government backing for the opposition and the protesters.

What a steaming pile of crap.

Someone had to finance that operation, it was not a cheap job. Don't know if it was us or someone else, but we do have a history of doing that with other countries.

We did the same thing in Egypt recently after elections didn't go the way we wanted them to.

Vicente says

Ah but Reagan WAS a mastermind.

Yes he was, and he was damn good at it too!

Yeah if a doctor has membership at 40 wineries and lives "check to check" then they are poor by choice.

sbh says

What is "recent" is scalable, and recency bias or normalcy bias is easily used by those who oppose trend.

The recency bias from the past 1200 yrs is that we are 'recovering' from the fall of the Roman Empire.

When SHTF, and cannibal barbarians arrive, this will be revealed as one big illusion.

WOW! The UNtrustworthy are certainly in control of what information is apparent to the people!

Say hey! This was in the Wall Street Journal on March 30, 1999. Note "... how much it will buy."

Holy cow/interesting/compelling ...!

And where is it up to date??? Right here ... see the first chart shown in this thread.
Recent Dow day is Friday, March 21, 2014 __ Level is 103.8

WOW! It is hideous that this is hidden! Is there any such "Homes, Inflation Adjusted"? Yes! This was in the New York Times on August 27, 2006:

And up to date (by me) is here:
http://patrick.net/?p=1219038&c=999083#comment-999083

WOW! The UNtrustworthy are certainly in control of what information is apparent to the people!

And http://patrick.net/?p=1230886

I'm not sure whether or not this is an outrage, as I don't know whether the kid was black.

I'm not racist.

Why waste taxpayer cash on this?

If Malaysian Airlines continues to crash planes, people will stop buying tickets.

Let the free market take care of it.

Well, I guess this is pretty close to the last we will be hearing from the troll who calls himself "jojo."

That guy is going to be using a different identity soon.

Call it Crazy says

Two-thirds of those who live paycheck to paycheck aren't poor

If you don't have 6-12 months of living expenses in front of you: you're poor.

jojo says

Ok. I will look for an escrow service.

Patrick should be trustworthy.

Carter wasn't a baaaaad President, he just didn't know how to be a good President. His brother was an embarrassment, and by time the failed Iran hostage rescue, the Elitist Democrats distanced them as far as they could from Carter. In contrast to Obama ever fuck up is obscured in unaccountable secrecy shrouded in unsubpenable misinformation.
Had Carter had the spin team Obama has, or even Regan for that matter, history would blamed Nixon and Ford.

Call it Crazy says

The study, released at a Brookings Institution event, found that these so-called wealthy-hand-to-mouth are older than their poor paycheck-to-paycheck counterparts, have higher incomes (about $50,000) and hold substantial illiquid assets (also around $50,000 on average), like real estate. The poor who live paycheck to paycheck have median incomes around $20,000.

Hey they've got more LET'S GITTEM!!!!
YEAH!!!

This is fun. :-)

Call it Crazy says

The study, released at a Brookings Institution event, found that these so-called wealthy-hand-to-mouth are older than their poor paycheck-to-paycheck counterparts, have higher incomes (about $50,000) and hold substantial illiquid assets (also around $50,000 on average), like real estate. The poor who live paycheck to paycheck have median incomes around $20,000.

Making $50,000 is not wealthy. It's below average.
Affluent is described as having $1 million to invest.

I would still like to see a comparison between Carter's record and the Presidents after him. I doubt I will.

And really? Making fun of his work for Habitat for Humanity? The other presidents retire in elitist splendor, and Carter lives a modest life, while he and his family donate their money and time to extremely wonderful charity groups, and that's a reason to make fun of him?

I'm still waiting.

In the 80's you could have retired with just 100K in the bank.
And lived off the interest.

A million today wouldn't last very long in the bank.