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Brahma,

the party has just started, and you want to withdraw?

Fed will stop rate hike after 1 or 2, where is the support for USD?? Our budget deficit? Our looming recession?

Oil new high, gold new high, commodities record high, USD losing ground against all major currencies in the last week, and more to go.

If you dare to take a little risk, you can buy a home expressed in a much weakened USD in a year or two, although the nominal value is not that much off. If someone has been staying largely out of USD in commodities or foreign stock market from the end of last year till now, his portfolio expressed in USD should have gained at least 10% to as much as 50% by now, which means, if he exchanges back to USD, even the same home retains its nominal USD value, he is already buying a home at a reduced price!

And we are not even reaching the beginning of the ARM reset fun which is due to start this summer. I am quite excited to see the show of the century.

Peter P,

I found the perfect image for this thread, but since you're the author, I can't add it: http://www.strangepolitics.com/images/content/101110.jpg.

We don't have the best beaches in the world, the best beaches are down under, along the eastern coast, especially up the stretch where the great barrier reef is. The water is bluer, clearer, and most importantly, much warmer! Their coastal weather is clear blue sky 80% of the time, unlike us, foggy, foggy, foggy!!

Thanks HARM!

np ;-)

back to things that will totally gross you out:

http://www.viceland.com/int/v13n3/htdocs/baby.php?country=us

warning - placenta related

Mr. Vincent,

I hope I didn't spoil your dinner :roll:

SFWoman,

"You weren’t at the barbeque I hope."

No. I was trying to trace the connection between Tom Cruise and placenta. This link came up on gawker.com and I couldn't resist. :)

I’m proud of my SoCal owners. Median prices broke $500,000 and is now at an ALL TIME HIGH!

Congrats indeed! Kalifornia Roll, banzai!

You weren’t at the barbeque I hope.

How about having it steamed with sake?

From wikipedia, "In most mammalian species, the mother bites through the cord and consumes the placenta in order to avoid predator attraction."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placenta

That condo looks awfully cheap compared to the district 7B condo SFWoman was looking at.

HITMAN is an IB turned real-estate broker. Just ignore him.

--

A man went to a brain store to get some brain to complete a study. He sees a sign remarking on the quality of professional brain offered at this particular brain store. He begins to question the butcher about the cost of these brains.

"How much does it cost for a programmer brain?"

"Two dollars an ounce."

"How much does it cost for engineer brain?"

"Three dollars an ounce."

"How much does it cost for an Ivy League MBA brain?"

"Seven dollars an ounce."

"How much for Realtor(tm) brain?"

"$1,000 an ounce."

"Why is Realtor(tm) brain so much more?"

"Do you know how many Realtors(tm) we had to kill to get one ounce of brain?"

HITMAN you are a cocksucking little maggot, why don't you just venture over to Craigslist where you belong. Your fucking postings are great, a "condo" that went for 100K over asking, and you can't have a dog. Go fuckyourself. You are correct real estate is going up and up, just like your lovers cock up your fucking fat ass. Good for you buy more RE, elbow-pads for you and knee pads for big al your loan guy.

Peter P. please delete the fucking troll.

Sincerely, California does really have something to be proud of. The more important thing is, we should make it better. And I am sure we can.

Sorry for not acting earlier. I was eating pork cutlet.

why am I always getting moderated? What did I do wrong?

nomadtoons2 Says:

California was the golden state- the state where a middle income citizen could live well within their means, get a world class education, and participate in a society that was in large more tolerant regardless of race.

While tolerance is still above the norm here, all the rest is long gone. You WILL NOT prosper as a middle class citizen here, and this is why it is losing and will continue to lose it’s future.

Sorry I’m being negative, but I travel back and forth between the SE and CA and I see what it happening, and it’s pretty much a 360 degree change of what I grew up with. Change is in the air.

_______

Unfortunately, there's a lot of truth in what he said.

I never realized how good I had it growing up in Cali. I never thought it would become too costly, so prohibitive, so taxed, so resticted.

Bummer.

Tonkatsu

Yep. Somehow I was craving it.

astrid,

could you tell me which part of the message is causing the trouble? I removed the dollar sign, it didn't help, then I thought perhaps Mr. H's handle was banned, it didn't help either.

Since you could post without a problem, perhaps my handle got banned? :-)

perhaps my handle got banned

Never.

Owneroccupier,

Sadly, no. It got stuck in purgatory too. Peter P checked in and patched them through.

So it's certainly not your handle:)

I really can't imagine why it got banned. Wordpress is so weird.

I really can’t imagine why it got banned. Wordpress is so weird.

It uses a very complex stochastic fractal hyper-uncertainty algorithm.

Peter,

I'm not sure if what you've just said is true or come out of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. :P

I think WordPress is developing consciousness. It has transformed Jukubot(tm) into the ultimate troll-fighting machine.

WordPress just called me on the phone. This is getting wierd.

Let me show you another money-losing beauty of Marina PRIME, the place in SF that never goes down!

Here is a listing on MarinaPrime's favorite MLS, of course in our favorite Marina district
http://www.sfarmls.com/scripts/mgrqispi.dll?APPNAME=Sanfrancisco&PRGNAME=MLSPropertyDetail&ARGUMENTS=-N927557355,-N186830,-N,-A,-N2933561

Listed for 1.195M, if it sells 100K above asking, don't be surprised, why?

Because accoding to zillow, its comparable (1737 sf) was sold for 1.441M in 2005. So even if it is sold for 1.3, that means the market is down.

So the next time our favorite Marinaprime shows us something selling for 100k or 200k above asking, check the zillow transaction price first before you get angry, he is just showing us in a different way how the market has already turned.

Things to be proud of:

The work culture at some companies in the valley (and probably elsewhere, too). Some random attributes I can think of:
Freewheeling, gentle, non-authoritarian, innovation-fostering, multi-cultural, unbureaucratic, energetic.

This is very, very hard to copy.

It can be overdone (and it has been at some places :-) ), but if it's done right, it's without competition in the world.

WordPress just called me on the phone. This is getting wierd.

It just synthesized a piece of sushi in front of me.

It got off your plate at 10:48pm but it appeared in front me at 10:31. It has time travel capability!

I wonder if I could have eaten it before 10:31? Creepy. Perhaps it was always destined to disappear, uneaten at 10:48, and if I'd eaten it I'd have killed my own mother before I was born.

Back to the theme, proud Californians.

The one single thing that I am most proud of is amount of brain power I met here. Joe Schmoe mentioned it before, I could have packed and headed for a place with lower cost of living, but my brain doesn't get half as much stimulation and after a while, it starts to get very boring.

This is the most diverse place on earth precisely because we have so many top talents from all around the world interacting with each other, bouncing ideas off each other. You won't meet half as many interesting and brilliant minds anywhere else.

This is the most diverse place on earth precisely because we have so many top talents from all around the world interacting with each other, bouncing ideas off each other.

This is true. We need to make sure that the system will continue to encourage this.

You won’t meet half as many interesting and brilliant minds anywhere else.

How about Boston? Brilliant minds can discuss their ideas eating steamer clams and chowdah.

Boston is a bit too old money for me. California is all about nouveau riches :-)

Plus I hate Boston weather, so damn humid in summer and so damn cold in winter, the only bearable time is foliage season in fall.

The best thing about California is... Stockton!

Come to the Asparagus Festival next weekend. But stay close to the crowds because stragglers are killed and eaten.

Every night sounds just like the fourth of July. The Talking Heads described it perfectly in the oldy Life During Wartime: "The sound of gunfire, off in the distance, I'm getting used to it now."

pretty much a 360 degree change

wouldn't it be 180°? 360° would be back to how it was. heh :lol:

Did the notorious HH get disappeared? Or just sulking?

On April 18th @ 10:24 PM Girgl said:

Things to be proud of:

The work culture at some companies in the valley (and probably elsewhere, too). Some random attributes I can think of:
Freewheeling, gentle, non-authoritarian, innovation-fostering, multi-cultural, unbureaucratic, energetic.

I'm pretty sure you're serious. I don't work in the valley -- or apparently on the same planet as you do -- so I haven't a clue. I have had a handful of great supervisors through the years. And a few flamers.

Owneroccupier: This is the most diverse place on earth precisely because we have so many top talents from all around the world interacting with each other, bouncing ideas off each other.

Peter P: This is true. We need to make sure that the system will continue to encourage this.

This gives me hope when folks decry the loss of heavy manufacturing in America. Do we really want to be China with 16 of the world's 20 most polluted cities? Building new, cleaner and more efficient factories for the products we will use in the future is easier than building an educated middle class. We don't need to be the world's leading manufacturer of horse drawn carriages.

This gives me hope when folks decry the loss of heavy manufacturing in America. Do we really want to be China with 16 of the world’s 20 most polluted cities? Building new, cleaner and more efficient factories for the products we will use in the future is easier than building an educated middle class.

There was some heavy-duty chastising (sp?) going on a few threads back when someone gleefully wished for higher gas/oil prices. Your point is exactly why higher gas/oil prices can be a good thing, as hopefully market forces will drive innovation into alternatives to carbon-based fuels. There should be more pressure on industry to innovate, and there should be more incentives for innovators to gravitate towards the energy industry.

I've seen this urban legend/statistic:

Mexico city is the only city in the world with a larger population of Mexican citizens than Los Angeles.

Just out of curiosity, can anyone conclusively confirm or deny this? I don't know what the ultimate significance is either way. But if you want to know what the Golden State is about today, we have to start here.