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"SQT: It goes to show that housing has a bigger impact on the whole economy than most people want to admit."
Right. Some people believe the housing market is the only thing that has kept the consumer going during the past few years.
hey Allah
WOT way off tangent !
chill out grab some sushi enjoy!
I am just making my last attempt to prove my point....probably will fail again though.
"That’s the p-p-p-p-Power of Love!
Can you feel it?"
((shudder)) I need to go take a shower now.
"you, but I didn’t because it seemed that you probably didn’t even read it…..That is why I said “whateverâ€â€¦.. see for yourself……..:
I did read it.
"The article was about Mothers having a problem getting back into the workforce….The article has comments from REAL Mothers who describe exactly what happened when THEY went to interviews"
I know plenty of examples of women in my real life who have not suffered discrimination re-entering the work force. So I'm was speaking from personal experience. I've also dealt with businesses while going through pregnancy and having kids, and the fact that I'm a mom has not caused them to discriminate against me in any way that I can see.
And yet I don't deny that it's true women suffer such discrimination. I just believe that insisting things are ONE way and only one way--that there aren't a zillion individual examples that prove any point imaginable--is ridiculous.
"Sarcasm is a form of anger…"
I don't consider it a form of anger. I will admit it's an unfair argumentative tactic, and for being sarcastic when you find it offensive, I apologize.
shud·der
intransitive verb (past and past participle shud·dered, present participle shud·der·ing, 3rd person present singular shud·ders)
Definitions:
1. shiver violently: to shake or tremble uncontrollably from a reaction such as cold, fear, or disgust
2. vibrate: to vibrate rapidly and heavily
Which one? 1. Cold, fear, disgust or 2:vibrate
:) :) :) This has been a joke and nothing but a joke :) :) :)
stop being so hard on Huey.
Yeah...Huey was very cool for his time!
"I am just making my last attempt to prove my point….probably will fail again though. "
This is why we don't get along. Because I've asked repeatedly that we just agree to disagree, and you keep trying to prove your point. I disagree with you. Period.
He basically said that if it was taken away the housing market would go bust and that would be so catastrophic for the economy we could have a full scale depression.
Yeah because he loves his huge deductions and if he can admit that there is a bubble and that it will do severe damage to the housing market as a result of losing that deduction, he will.......... When Donald talks people listen!
:) :) :) (some smileys, especially for Jamie) :) :) :)
"(some smileys, especially for Jamie)"
Please, don't bother now, not for me. Just pretend I don't exist! Please! I'm getting tired of you even mentioning my name.
Please, don’t bother now, not for me. Just pretend I don’t exist! Please! I’m getting tired of you even mentioning my name.
:) :) :) Don't be sad :) :) :)
SQT..... I am SINCERELY trying to be nice... I really am. I don't want to be known as morosely serious. I am using the smileys to show that I am not. Without the smileys, I am morose to ____, with them I am being insulting.....I can't win! I'm sorry :( but I want to break the morose habbit and make my tone a little more pronounced....I'll cut down on them ok :)
Peter P
2005 Nov 8, 8:34am
PolishKnight Says:
HARM’s point about Carly Fiorina, Oprah Winfrey and Stewart, for example, is interesting because these women as far as I know are unmarried. Overall, successful women tend to not marry or have few children which is made up through immigration or “red stater†women having more children.
Actually Carly is married, her husband is Frank Fiorina. I don't understand why marriage excludes a career (notice, I didn't mention successful). I didn't see many folks here question men who can have both a successful career and lead a happy family life?
Not Peter P, btw, just posing as him...
This is why we don’t get along. Because I’ve asked repeatedly that we just agree to disagree, and you keep trying to prove your point. I disagree with you. Period.
Just one last thing :) I never expected you to agree with everything or anything I said, just that you understand what I was trying to tell you instead of taking it like I'm making a sexist statement or sounding like a Women hater. That is all....
Peter P
2005 Nov 8, 10:48am
When searching for “bubble blog,†patrick.net is now listed ahead of Ben’s blog, does this reflect the audience is watching us more because of these verbal tangents?
Ben does not have threads with more than 2000 comments.
We don’t make widgets any more.
_politely applauds_
Isn't it unfortunate that we reward so heartily the people who produce so little?
_shrug_
Cheers,
prat
"Jamie, you’ve been added to my roster of People Who Contribute Here That I Really Like. It’s a growing list, but I thought I’d let you know specifically just because it’s hard to do battle in the trenches of misunderstanding."
Aw, thank you, flak. I'm touched. No, really, I am! I needed some kind, non-back-handed words right about now. It's nice to know that one whole person understood me. Yay. I'm not a complete failure at communicating. You rock. We should, like, develop a secret handshake now or something. :-P
Someone will probably accuse you of being me now, posing as "flak." That happens nearly every time anyone says anything nice here. :-)
"narrow version of hypothesis: there are more engineers here (and like occupations, those who rationalize the non-social world - economists, by contrast, try to rationalize the social world) than one would expect to meet at a random gathering of overeducated, decently paid folk."
Interesting theory, and you're probably right. I've often wondered how the demographics of this blog differ from that of the everyday world. I'm not sure how many engineers we have here. Roll call? Me--not an engineer.
Oh great, Jack has retired to the shed with his wireless connection and may never come out again.
You're being awfully...something-or-other Jack. Not your usual self. Whassup with that?
Now you're sounding slightly more like yourself...but still something's missing.
Hmmm, you see what I mean, SQT? He sounds, dare I say, "morose."
Sit down. Tell Dr. Jamie all about it.
I think we've got too many conversations going in too many places. I keep forgetting all the places I"m supposed to check. :-P
Sorry to hear you're sick, SQT. We had that cold last week. Don't delete the crap! Resist! :-) Good for you slogging through it anyway.
"Im just saying I wanted you to have your day."
My day to what? Talk to the wall? Please. As if I did anything but waste my time, waste everyone's time, and waste valuable blog space.
"I used a sitcom line on the “huh†thread because I wasn’t feeling clever enough to come up with my own line."
I just saw that and LOL'd. But I had to hurry back here for fear of upsetting Jack.
"God try to be polite around here and get nothing but FLACK!"
Sorry, I like when you're being completely impolite. No, really.
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Many of us have been here awhile, and while we think housing is an important topic (we wouldn't all gather her otherwise) we do digress quite a bit.
One topic that has come up time and time again is the issue of dual income families, and the rise in housing costs that have occured because so many familes now have two incomes instead of one.
We've discussed the role of the woman in the workplace and at home, so perhaps it's time to digress a little more.
-- Have dual incomes been a big factor in housing prices?
-- Do those of us who live on one income end up renters as a result?
--Are we better or worse off now that the majority of households have two incomes?
--Have the cost of other goods and services risen due to the extra income, or can that be blamed on inflation?
In other words, are we as a society in the same place economically as we would be if we stayed in a predominantly one income society?
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