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Where does that come from and does it include alcohol?

It was an article in the LA Times last year, which has since been removed from their website. A copy is here: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/101005G.shtml

On vehicles: I bought a Toyota truck in 3/1993. Next month I celebrate my 13th year of driving it. It's probably not very safe in a crash, but it kills me to think of spending money on something new when I have something that works. Original engine. When I see the flashy new vehicles around me in traffic I don't think "they have money" I think "they have debt."

On frugality: When I go to Walmart I often have 4 or 5 discount coupons clipped from the Sunday paper. The other day, when I handed the clerk the coupons (almost $4 off total) she remarked that people hardly ever use coupons there. That kind of blew me away.

Question: Beyond "shorting the market" and buying RE at the bottom, in what other ways can one profit from the ruptured bubble?

One women told me she doesn’t need to have an sexual orgasm, she’s having a perpetual orgasm with her prozac. I wasn’t sure what she meant but I knew it wasn’t good.

Huh?

Holy mackerel, and I thought I was off thread.

Yes, yes...the nation is having a perpetual orgasm on Real Estate.

I expect opportunities like this to start happening at regular intervals. I got a killer deal on the bike.

Buy his plane, and then his nice boat. :)

New thread: Google and Bay Area real estates

“My life was saved because I was driving a BMW” stories are numerous, you can probably say the same about Mercedes and Volvo. but to me, BMW is the way to go.

Yes, there is a "Volvo saved my life" club. :)

Calling all software designers…Why hasn’t the entire Real Estate process been put online, Buying & Selling, from start to finish ?

Have you tried condoflip.com? :)

My husband read that statistically speaking (I know, I know, probably made up like most stats are) 1 in 4 drivers on the road at any given time are drunk. I don’t know how accurate that is, but it’s probably best to assume it is.

This is unbelievable. Drunk drivers pose much more danger to the society than drug abusers. Also, I think the punishment for DUI is not severe enough because drunk driving is terrorism.

_Must stop the digressions, bad SQT_

Huh?

Where is Jack, Kurt, and Jamie?

A 40 ft wave does have a way of bringing you back to ‘reality’.

The 40ft wave of foreclosure and bankruptcy may perhaps brink homedebtors back yo reality. ;)

"As to the Paxil/Prozac nation, read Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique, she just passed away this month, but her book might give y’ all a peak into why boomers are parting from this world in drug induced comas. I didn’t read Friedan’s book until I was 40, but I understood better the choices my mother had, and the cultural wall that trapped her in her kitchen."

Wendy McElroy at FoxNews.com writes a coumn called ifeminists. Her last column was about Betty Friedan, and essentially she concluded that she was a fraud. Betty Friedan was a dedicated Marxist, and her survey of "Average American Women" and their choices was really a survey of Wellesly graduates--not middle class women. As such, according to Ms McElroy, Betty Friedan failed poor and middle class women with radicalism that did nothing to address their real problems. The article was an interesting read.

I urge anyone with children or anyone attending an American university to read "Who stole Feminism" by Christina Hoff-Sommers of the American Enterprise Institute. It is frightening that people who preach hate receive federal funding and teach our children.

--Deo Vindice

If Betty Friedan is a fraud, then why are so many American suburban/urban women still doing drugs to cope? I am no Marxist, nor a fraud, but her description fits my mother and mother-in-law, intelligent women who never felt fulfilled. Certainly, they had their happy days, but I would not throw out everything she has to say about the role of women. Nor do I throw out everything Marx has to say about power and the working class.

Friedan is was no more a fraud than Bush I would propose.

And DinOR,
even the drugs of today, are not as strong as those in the 70's, my daughter did a research paper in college and told me her results.

Maybe the need or appetite for more and more drugs, and thus overdose, somehow parallels the need for more and more equity, and thus the bubble. Maybe our country so promotes consuming it is an obsession of one kind of object or another (trying to relate this to housing without dwelling on boomers).

Maybe what is national about the bubble is the consumption,
of doors,
windows,
dinner plates,
just the right rug,
matching glasses,
etc, etc, etc,
a national addiction.

And The Yellow Wallpaper, that is by Charlotte Prekins Gilman. A fraud too? perhaps, but she was 19th c. and spoke from familiar ground.

DeoVindice

I am not a purist,
I am a poet,
I borrow from everyone.
A verb here,
a noun there,
to form a whole thought.

We do not live in isolation,
Marx or Friedan,
or even the Shrub,
we are influenced by them all.

SQT, it is indeed a sad story.

My wife's family (both male and female) were early supporters of Women's rights since the earlyt 19th century. As upper-class Virginians, this was quite rare, and quite controversial. It also came without the hatred and academic fraud of New England gender feminists. Given that they had reasonable and prcatical goals, they were quite influential.

The idea that womens rights should be linked with hating men and "un-gendering" children is abhorrent. The fact of the matter is that women should be free to choose a career or stay at home as mothers. My wife is a UVA graduate, and is at the same time thrilled to be a stay at home mom.

Unfortunately modern feminism claims that the "sex gender system" has so corrupted women that their choices to be mothers are "unauthentic" because they were raised in the corrupt system. They lifted this idea from Lenin, and it explains why they are elitist and yet clalim to speak for all women at the same time.

In other words, modern feminists are mysogynists as well as misandrists. They are also centered primarily in the Ivy League Universities. If feminists want to hate men, hate women, and harm children at the same time, they should do so without federal funding.

Let me please re-iterate my recommendation for "who stole feminism" by Christina Hoff-Sommers. The reviewers who reject it are no doubt radical gender feminists.

Sorry to be OT yet again, but this is a topic that offends me deeply as a Husband, the father of a young daughter, and an American. There is a good reason why 75% of American women refuse to delcare themselves feminists.

--Deo Vindice

Deo Vindice, may great^7 grandfather (a quaker) wrote the first treatse on the wrongs of slavery and women's rights. The bullshit 60's woman's rights feminists are an artifact of that drug hazed environment. I think the best spokesperson on woman's rights is SQT, that chick has got balls.

even the drugs of today, are not as strong as those in the 70’s, my daughter did a research paper in college and told me her results.

Ok you boomer fuck, here's a fact for you Pot, weed, reefer, KGB, the kind, in the 60's, you remember the 60's right? You were getting fucked by strangers in the park, remember? Ok, back on track, in the 60's mary jane was ~ ( that means approximatly) 2-4% THC, (that's the active ingrediant of marijuana, otherwise known as tetrahydrocannabinol) modern pot, perhaps as a result of your influence ;) is ~ 15-25% THC.

Shit I forgot everything was better in the 60's

Anyone knows if you have an ARM, but fixed for the first 10 year, what is the risk of this type of loan?

One risk is that interest rate may be higher on the 11th year. On the other hand, if you sell before then, the proceed may not cover the loan principal. It all depends on your cost basis, of course.

Also, if interest rate goes up within this 10 year period, fewer people will be able to afford your house at a given price.

There is no particular risk if you intend to pay off the mortgage by the end of the 10-year period.

And can anyone comment on the Las Vegas housing bubble? $300K for a 2000 sq ft. new home, good investment?

Hard to say. I love LV, but I am not familiar with the market. Ask ptiemann.

And can anyone comment on the Las Vegas housing bubble? $300K for a 2000 sq ft. new home, good investment?

Can you obtain positive cashflow without using Option ARM?

Something was wrong with the Google thread, it would not scroll down to the bottom, nor did it include the submit comment box. Is that my computer or the thread?

Hmm, strange. Try refreshing the page.