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Call it Crazy says

Maybe to you....

Oh, sorry. I didn't know you were gay.

humanity says

Talk to us when you understand what a liquidity trap is.

Bellingham Bill says

[Now, if they just raise taxes to give us the subsidy, it's not a real cost savings.]

Depends who's getting taxed. The law taxes big business as well as conspicuous consumption, but not the middle class or the poor.

bgamall4 says

If the Russians believe that this is a false flag, watch out.

Watch out for what? What will happen, Gary? They send in their "aircraft carrier"?

The tape was doctored, asshole.
Same as 911....

Homeboy says

I mean, how fucking stupid do you have to be?

We need more wars!
Increasing profits for the Military Industrial Complex is good for our economy.

APO: "Why do you hate success?"

bgamall4 says

It all depends upon if they believe that Syria is crucial to their national interest.

So, what happens if they really-really believe that Syria is crucial? Come on Gary, spill the beans already.

Proxy versus proxy. No cheating, now.

I think we should end this thread on a positive note...

http://www.youtube.com/embed/eYN1ugv9mHo

bgamall4 says

They will first stop the UN from asking for an inspection of the areas where the gas was allegedly used.

That's it? How scary.

bgamall4 says

Straw Man says

That's it? How scary

Silly, that is a start. If they can't see if gas was used, the US cannot justify an attack or entrance into the war.

And this is bad exactly why?

If the US enters anyway, watch out. Russia will arm Assad to the teeth.

Russia is already arming Assad to the teeth. But let's not kid ourselves: if US enters Syria it will be lights out for Assad in 3 weeks tops. Probably less.

What would the US do if suddenly an ARMED army of protesters emerged, fed up with this and that, the Fed, the crony capitalism, globalization, gonzos hairdo whatever? Uh, they would label them terrorists, deploy their paramilitary forces and use ANY means necessary to squash the resistance, drones, fucking new fangled NSA weapons, maybe also some good ole bullets just gaitling gunned into everything that moves "Dorner-hunt style". Only AF & family would survive. And on what grounds do they want to police the world? Hypocrites. Four more wars! ;)

Straw Man says

Russia is already arming Assad to the teeth. But let's not kid ourselves: if US enters Syria it will be lights out for Assad in 3 weeks tops. Probably less.

The problem is that most of these leaders provided stability in the region, and once taken out clusterfuck central happens and far more basic human rights go out of the window than were missing before. The alternatives in those regions have been almost always proven to be worse, plus you have to add the count of innocent people killed during the toppling. What would US citizens & gov. do if some country declared the US an unfit regime and put boots on the ground (given they had the power to do so)?

Dubai at least have $20K French cognac shoot in restaurant, waiters have to live there as well.

mell says

Straw Man says

Russia is already arming Assad to the teeth. But let's not kid ourselves: if US enters Syria it will be lights out for Assad in 3 weeks tops. Probably less.

The problem is that most of these leaders provided stability in the region, and once taken out clusterfuck central happens and far more basic human rights go out of the window than were missing before.

No argument there. My response was to Gary "False Flag" Anderson who keeps hinting at some horrible response from Russia in case US goes into Syria. There is nothing Russia can do beyond what it already does. Which is not much, really.

bgamall4 says

Straw Man says

And this is bad exactly why?

That is good,

Why the "watch out" comment then? If anything we should embrace Russia's opposition to our involvement in Syria as a convenient cover. And pray that Samantha Power doesn't get involved, because Russia is no match to that broad.

If the US is trying to save lives they could have done a lot more with less money in Somalia this last year or two. It's all about the oil.

those jobs were bullshit anyways

jump straight to 2nd segment
http://video.pbs.org/video/2327953844/

bmwman91 says

Foreign purchases have fallen 30%, so now they make up 20-25% of all RE sales in the SFBA instead of 30-40%.

You want to document that? I'd be surprised if the number was as high as 10%.

I "served"in Iraq. Some "mission accomplished" there. Maybe for the oil companies.

They'll be hangin' from the helicopter skids in Afghanistan too, when we bug out and declare "victory".

marco says

I "served"in Iraq. Some "mission accomplished" there. Maybe for the oil companies.

They'll be hangin' from the helicopter skids in Afghanistan too, when we bug out and declare "victory".

Yup and the no bid defense companies like Halliburton-which is based out of Dubai now! I don't see why more young Americans have to die and get maimed for life, because some hellhole is trying to figure out how to live with themselves.

Speaking of going "full circle" .... how about vulture capitalism meeting up with the same result as communism? Where 1-2% at the top have and control everything, and give the stupid populace two levers to pull in elections that are meaningless. Poor George Orwell is turning in his grave, 'cause he wrote this ostensibly about communism ... never thinking ruthless vulture capitalism could eventually morf into the same result.

"Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer-
except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs."

-George Orwell, The Animal Farm

No difference between the two "parties" to speak of. Like Ron Paul said, "I'm still waiting for a second party in America". Here's what a black man (with a PHD in constitutional law) thinks of Obama:

".....we end up with a Republican, a Rockefeller Republican in blackface, with Barack Obama.... a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats.”

Dr. Cornel West
Princeton University

And here comes Hillary next. Oh I can't wait! Everyone that thought a black man could become President without being owned by criminal Banksters, criminal Wall Street thugs, and war criminal military industialists will now think that a woman who becomes President will be somehow different.

"Was there ever a people whose leaders were as truly their enemies as this one?"

-Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

"Mama, she keeps them unprepared
To meet the enemy
That's comin' unto us
Teach them that evil dwells across the sea
Lives in a mountain
Like they see on TV

Down in the heart of town
The Devil dresses up
He keeps his nails clean
Did you think he'd be a boogeyman?"

Buffy St. Marie

Using this one weird old tip!

Real estate investment funds hate her!

You are forgetting that there is not enough oil in Syria for us to actually intervene.

Look at how the British, Russians, French and USA carved up the Middle East and created countries out of tribal areas. Each still lays claim to their territory. Just a bit of jockeying here.

How do you know if a buyer is a foreign resident or not? I know lots of people with foreign names and accents who own houses in sfba. But almost all of them came as students, worked, saved, then bought houses. And have either green cards or US citizenship. I know just a handful of people who came directly from overseas and bought. (fwiw mostly from Europe - and - these people have ended up living here more or less permanently. People might perceive this as good or bad. ).

My anecdote is not data either. But my point is that just because someone is named Zhang or Krishna doesn't mean that they are "foreign bagholders" as meant here.

Is there some report on how many foreign non-residents are buying? I'm honestly curious.

bgamall4 says

Read my ebook, False Flag Murdering Neocon Crazies

I'm sorry, but these people all had valid long-form birth certificates and never lost an ambassador to Libya on their watch.

BTW: How do we know you are who you claim to be? Whom do you answer to?

The reason I ask is that I detect a pattern in your diction which suggests an east-coast education and time served in a defense/NatSec bureaucracy. Are you a mole?

bgamall4 says

What is Qataris?

Qatar is a player in funding one side aligned with their version of Islam against the other. Mucho dineros. Like the Saudis.

bgamall4 says

Thanks. So, Qatar is bankrolling a false flag against Syria?

It's a proxy war. TPTB partner with whatever side meets our goals. No morals.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/qatar/10022759/Qatar-playing-with-fire-as-it-funds-Syrian-Islamists-in-quest-for-global-influence.html

Wake me up when they protest in San Francisco because a theater there didn't show a Bill O'Reiley barkumentary.

signed
Rip Vanwinkle

My wife went to our local park yesterday, said it looked like a meetup group for Asian moms. She's half Asian herself and I said maybe you'll fit in? But she said they were all speaking some language she wasn't familiar with. I guess maybe the foreign buyers, some of them, are shipping their wives and kids here to live and go to school.
Anyway, price cuts in housing are showing up here as well. Stuff that's IMHO overpriced is just sitting.

CaptainShuddup says

Wake me up when they protest in San Francisco because a theater there didn't show a Bill O'Reiley barkumentary.

I'm not exactly sure what this gibberish sentence is suppose to say; I guess if I take a stab and read it Art Collage style, I can pull out SF and O'Reiley [sic] and draw out some sort of thinly veiled invective on liberal hipsters and hypocrisy.

What I would say is that neo-conservative gas bags make for much better entertainment (see: AM talk radio, Rush Limbaugh, et al.) with their ridiculous diatribes, deliberate obtuseness, and shell game talking points. Viewed through the lense of irony, they are a sort of Theater of the Absurd that shows us how *not* to think (as in, "use logic", not "be told what opinions to have").

La Fonda, on the other hand, is a bland mess, didn't even look that hot when she was a young Jazzersizer, and suffers from the same Boomer Hippie, boring bleeding heart airheadedness that affects the likes of Darryl Hannah (definitely hotter) and Rosie O'Donnell (appraisal redacted).

Investors started disappearing back in June. It's hard to get out of bed in the morning for 1% or negative yields.

Post 10 years of tax returns to verify identity....

HydroCabron says

BTW: How do we know you are who you claim to be?

SiO2 says

I know lots of people with foreign names and accents who own houses in sfba. But almost all of them came as students, worked, saved, then bought houses. And have either green cards or ...

...doesn't mean that they are "foreign bagholders" as meant here.

You are so right.

Those folks who said such things just don't get it.

Since they got their student visa -> H1 -> green card they are not foreigners. It's just the money from "back home" that is "foreign".

Sky's the Limit in The Fortress.

Walmart business plan is simple. Come into an area and dump products at break even or less until everyone around goes out of business.

They always hire the least skilled kind of people, (an average union worker without an IQ of a union worker to get a union job). And keep all costs as low as possible. They have enough money to take a loss for a while until others are out of business and they are the only company left on the hill... then they raise the prices.

APOCALYPSEFUCK is Shostakovich says

Alexander Kinyua Pleads Guilty But Not Criminally Responsible In Killing, Eating Of Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/19/alexander-kinyua_n_3780580.html

Housing market in freefall. No jobs. GOP shrieking their SIEG HEILS like possessed hyenas. Cannibalism breaking out everywhere. [see above]

Smells like CANNIBAL ANARCHY to me, guys!

LOCK 'N LOAD, BABY!!!!1