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Get your facts straight.

The guy was continuing a family ranch that existed for a very long time.

Later, the Feds claim his activity was fucking up the land. They started to charge him fines and extra fees to "remediate" his "damage". They claim he hurt the desert tortoise somehow.
Conveniently, the Chinese want to use his land for a bullshit solar/wind farm which will rip off the energy customers and taxpayers.

This piled up and now the story goes he owes "back rent to the Feds." Not quite and it's a bullshit deal.

clambo says

Get your facts straight.

The guy was continuing a family ranch that existed for a very long time.

On land that didn't belong to him.

The end.

Say Good Night, Gracie!

CDon says

I got to say, it is nice seeing some people step up and take some measure of accountability about how wrongheaded this site has been for a while now. Unfortunately, it had a very large effect on my SIL & her family who are now worse off because of it.

Yep. It had influenced my thinking too much...I *almost* missed the boat because of it. I was fortunate to find something that fit the bill and was fairly priced...but if I step back I was about 12-18 months late...almost got bit.

I take comfort in the fact, this guy probably already has enough money power and resources, and probably has been enriched by all of this, somehow.
He should go on a shit talking tour. "Blah blah blah, the crazy Liberals did this, and the Militant fascists tried to do that, I'm telling you they are crazy!"

I'd go!

If his retirement funds don't hold up, he can always eke out a living posting Fox and WorldNutDaily articles here day after day after day.

Put him in touch with Call It Crazy.

Medical science is studying him as a freak of nature. How can a fat guy who doesn't exercise have talking muscles that never get tired, all on a single big mouthful of spit.

They are thinking of making cell cultures of his masseters to treat muscular dystrophy.

The worst thing you could do to him is drive chopsticks into his ears so he can't hear himself talk anymore.

So wall street is just as capable of slumlording as private individuals. This is news?

Get me in close enough range to the monster and I wouldn't be part of the problem.

Call it Crazy says

Don't say 'recovery'

aka are you better off today then 4 years ago... clearly alot worse..

Iosef V HydroCabron says

oh how we have forgotten...

Newt Gingrich and company — for all their faults — have received virtually no credit for balancing the budget. Yet today’s surplus is, in part, a byproduct of the GOP’s single-minded crusade to end 30 years of red ink. Arguably, Gingrich’s finest hour as Speaker came in March 1995 when he rallied the entire Republican House caucus behind the idea of eliminating the deficit within seven years.

http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/no-bill-clinton-didnt-balance-budget

I don't know, the world needs at least one leader who knows how to dispose of annoying, power hungry relatives by feeding them to starving hirsute lesbians and wild dogs.

Wasn't Rush some drug addict who was going to leave the country if Obama became president? Why is he still here?

Call it Crazy says

jazz music says

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/18/1293043/-Rush-Limbaugh-Is-In-Ruins-Bad-News-Coming-From-Every-Direction-Including-The-Right?detail=email#

Daily Kos.... enough said...

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Happy Easter!
Aren't you supposed to be in church?

They should fund some funny shows.

The way to people's political heart is to make them laugh. "Aye Liberals?"

Why with Kochs money I bet they could fund a funny man, (hell why stop there?) a whole fucking network of funny people. Using comedy and snarky spin on the news, to win over young voters. Now I know what you're thinking. That's a terrible Idea, there's not one funny bone, in the GOP as whole.
Well I thought about that too, now hear me out.

They don't need to be funny, they could just read the Liberal news, the comedy would practically write its self.

Heraclitusstudent says

There is a lot of money because the fed created it

I don't know. More accurate to say a lot of credit available (to some) because the fed created it.

Most wealth that comes from invested capital is simply due to the concept of exponential growth. This can be contrasted with the wealth that accumalates to labor which doesn't cover enough over the cost of living to allow most people to accumulate all that much in a short life time.

The fed is like a catalyst for wealth creation, but it is a two edged sword. Back in 1981, when the fed was pushing hard in the other direction, double digit bond yields were a great boon to those who already had capital and were looking for something to do with it.

The policies now which create money that goes on the books of the fed or on to bank balance sheets are not directly inflationary. But making leverage cheap does help asset prices get bid up.

marcus says

The fed is like a catalyst for wealth creation,

The Fed does not create wealth, it transfers wealth from the middle-class to the uber-wealthy by levitating stocks and other assets with exorbitant valuations and bringing inflation that the wages cannot match, while creating a massive balance sheet of debt that is nothing but a forward promise on future labor from future wage slaves, aka the children, who are getting fucked over without having any say in it.

Call it Crazy says

Strategist says

Call it Crazy says

jazz music says

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/18/1293043/-Rush-Limbaugh-Is-In-Ruins-Bad-News-Coming-From-Every-Direction-Including-The-Right?detail=email#

Daily Kos.... enough said...

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Happy Easter!

Aren't you supposed to be in church?

There's church in Hell???

I told you you're in the wrong place.

Ceffer says

The worst thing you could do to him is drive chopsticks into his ears so he
can't hear himself talk anymore.

He already took care of that for us, thanks to his doctor shopping of "legal" drugs.

I figure he lost 1/500 decibel of hearing for every time he uttered the phrase, "Long haired, dope smoking, maggot infested hippies." This calculation led me to finally consider the possibility that maybe, just maybe, there is a god after all.

Funny how Rush bothers some liberals.

The media is liberal with the exception of Murdoch ones: WSJ, Fox, NYPost. Everything else is liberal.

Talk radio is not liberal.

What I can't figure out is how Rush makes any money, since the ads on the radio are generally for weird companies you haven't heard of, dog vitamins, computer backup, identity protection, etc.

"..notorious REALTOR Kim Jong Un.."

Now that's funny.

So, now WS dumps the tech band wagon is getting into slumlordship? or they figured RE is the best investment?

clambo says

What I can't figure out is how Rush makes any money....

It's like payola: groups sponsored by the Koch brothers use that $ to pay him for favorable mentions during his show.

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

HEY YOU says

"..notorious REALTOR Kim Jong Un.."

Now that's funny.

Oh, you think I am making this up?

Link! Link! Link!

Sadly, the inability actually to use their Obamneycare policies is unlikely to cure patients of their delusional support for the legislation.

But but but... they were on line first.
curious2 says

Sadly, the inability actually to use their Obamneycare policies is unlikely to cure patients of their delusional support for the legislation.

They'll be cured if they get to see a Doctor then get the bill.

CaptainShuddup says

But but but... they were on line first.

If you're referring to the California provider lists, they were pulled offline when too many people figured out the providers didn't actually take the insurance.

This happens in medicaid too...before we had a black president. Not a new problem

JH says

This happens in medicaid too...before we had a black president. Not a new problem

I really don't understand what you are trying to say with that comment?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N54gSI4Aft0

The American Healthcare system is a joke and sinking. If you have any regard for your health or finances, just avoid insurance and spend your hard-earned money on education about self-healthcare.
Is that still legal?

Good advise.
If you pay off your balances in full each month, the freebies and rebates from credit cards can easily add up to hundreds of dollars each year.
If you carry balances, you are in danger of trapping yourself in a never ending cycle of high cost and high interest.
If you can't control your spending, blame yourself, not the bank or the mall.

I use my CC's all the time. At the end of the billing cycle, they are all paid off. My latest score: 807.

Call it Crazy says

I don't know HOW you could have listened to this website.... I still haven't found the audio controls on the pages....

Well, didn't listen to this site but still comes to this site every single day. I wonder why?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-purchase_rationalization

What moron doesn't pay off their balance every month???

Call it Crazy says

Credit card companies, which attract new customers with zero percent teaser rates and more rewards, have raised rates while their costs remain historically low, industry observers say.

I get them all the time.
I'll use one pay it off in 18 months, but by then another company sends me another 0percent offer, so I've never ever, had to actually use one after the 0% introductory teaser rate expires.

Which truth be told, if it wasn't 0% we would never use put anywhere near what we put on it, or use it for the things we purchase with them.

In fact, I've always been against them, but my wife is the manager, comptroller, accountant, and she's the one that recommends I use this card or that card, when I buy things like new computers, or other electronics.

BUT you really need to be careful, and for reasons these bank cheerleader fluff pieces never mention.

One stern word of advice though, well two actually.

1) You better pay the damn thing off before that 0% introductory period ends. It's not because you'll be stuck paying that higher percent interest, but because you'll be stuck by the micro writing in the agreement, and their abusive unaccountable twisted logic accounting, that you agreed to.

2) Don't use ANY CARD drawn by that same back during that period. NONE!!!! If you're using a Best Buy buy now, and no interest for 18 or 24 months, on Citi bank.

Then do not use any other Citi Bank cards that you have, also do NOT buy another product at Best Buy until you've fully paid of the first item.

Trust me on this, or 19 months later when you think it was all paid, you'll be hit hundreds of dollars($400ish) on a $1200 purchase.

When you call up, the lady on the other side, will keep trying to confuse you, to justify charging you full interest of those 18months on that $1200 purchase, by keep referencing "Other Promotions".

What promotion, lady, I just used the card, I get two separate bills for those Citi bank bills, one is from Best Buy and the other is a regular Citi bank card. I don't get two best buy bills for each purchase.

Also if you use you Store credit card after your initial purchase say some months later, then use it again. The bank will bill you separately so that you will think they are separate. Pay off the first one in full, but have that $79 hard drive on the other, that you didn't pay off yet. Then you'll get that hefty bill after the 18 months expired.

I had to spend hours on the phone with Citi and Best Buy to work that abuse out. After hours of getting no where, I asked for Best Buy senior account manager, then asked her to look at our Best buy purchasing history, (From that rewards points card, not the credit card) my Wife will use a coupon or a rewards card to buy anything. I hate them because I don't like my purchases being tracked. But thanks to my Wife's miser ways, I was able to convince that person, that almost every electroic device our house hold has bought for the last 20 years has come from Best Buy, and I will be taking it to HHGregg, so they finally reversed that $400.

My take away, is 0% Credit cards are trickier, than regular worded Credit cards. And with new CFPB rules, they can do what ever they want, just as long as it's written in their rules. Even if those rules leaves a lot to be assumed by the consumer, who will be dead wrong if they take those agreements by face value.

Oh and get this, another account representative called up to collect the $400 again a few weeks later. Because it seems that that last person that claimed they took care of it, left .38 cents on the balance. Boy did I go ballistic, it didn't take as long to work it out. I just informed him, that I recorded my last phone call, and my next call would be to the CFPB.

Which that stopped him in his tracks. Like I said, they are free to do what ever they want, just as long they don't agree to something. Then that's where they can get in serious trouble.

No now I remember how they confused the two introductory purchases at different times.

In December of last year, we knew the introductory period was expiring in January on a Laptop I bought my wife last year.
So my Wife and I called up, and asked for a settlement to pay off the Best Buy card in full.

They told us $650. We paid it and thought that was that. Then in February we THEN got that bill with the $400 interest on it. That's when we called livid, because we just called and settled a few months before.
Well that's when the lady started getting Cute with "This promotion" and "That promotion". So when we called to settle up, the first lady on picked on promotion, and intentionally left the other behind. Because there is no language in any of CFPB legislation that prevents that kind of dishonest behavior.

This is sill on top of them calling us back again for interest left on that .38 what I thought was the second and final settlement.

On second thought, I think I'll go back to cash only for all of my purchases.

zzyzzx says

What moron doesn't pay off their balance every month???

Those that can't afford to,,?

Why do you assume they are morons?

I have not paid a single cent of interest in my life to credit card companies. Pay off balance in full every month. Get 1% back in cash outs when I choose to do that. Unfortunately even with all that, I feel that merchants raise prices because the fact that people are willing to use credit cards artificially increases the affordability matrix of customers. I believe that for example if restaurants would not accept credit cards that going out to eat would be at least 20% cheaper. So even if someone pays off their balance in full every month, there are still certain unavoidable costs that are baked into the price. The ultimate problem is the id-oriented hedonistic "customer" who is either unwilling to accept the reality of what they can/cannot afford or is unwilling to delay gratification.

That's private insurance for you.

Gotta love those $5000 deductibles. They're laughing all the way to the bank, a big subsidy for minimal service.