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sj_Dude,

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goober,

I've already expressed my personal preferences on the matter and the current public sentiment and news out of Iraq supports your position. I think the US occupation of Iraq has been shown to do more harm than good.

Incidentally, that is also the position of the vast majority of congressional Democrats.

(Voting is a responsible work of citizenry, it's not a form of self expression for self expression's sake. Even beyond my personal disgust for Nader, I always vote with intent to chose the overall least bad choice on the ballot. For me, that least bad choice is almost never throwing my vote away.)

New thread: How is your local housing market holding up?

http://patrick.net/wp/?p=328#comments

"I disagree. If you were paying attention, you would know that Lucifer is a man of wealth AND taste. His ride would more likely be a black Gallardo."

Agreed. People do not give enough credit to Lucifer's intelligence and taste. After all, he was once one of the archangels.

That is a gorgeous car!

.....just this once, can I be Satan and drive that car?

OT (yeah, bite me ;-} )

but has anyone else noticed the synchronicity going on the the more-travelled HB blogs? Here we are slagging Boomers off, and over on Ben's there's a thread doing the same thing yesterday..? And of course, the revolving jamboree that is Housing Panic.

For one, your childhood contemporaries and brothers weren’t gettin’ their heads blown off in ‘Nam by the VC. Your campus wasn’t overrun by the National Guard takin’ shots at you on your way to class.

Ahhh the 'Nam argument, nice. Funny thing 'Nam, how many American Soldiers died? 58,209 when did you and your stoner buddies get the 'Nam memorial built (with federal funds of course)? (BTW 'Nam ended in 1975) that would be 1982.

Ok, so now lets take WWII, 407,300 US soldiers killed. When did the WWII memorial go in? (Oh, one more thing, the WWII memorial was paid for with private funds), 2004

Kindly take your self-serving bullshit boomer arguments to the AARP, get your Medicare drug card and get the little blue pill, because how do you know when the right time is?

Draft and killed in 'Nam, no, no you weren't, neither were most of your contempories Hmmm wasn't there college deferments then? And wasn't a college education in California free? Nice try at revisionism, but it just ain't flying. 'Nam like all following wars was fought by the poor and predominately black.

It seems the only reliable plan is to figure what Boomer will do next and position yourselves to take calculated advantage.

The herd instinct drove the dotcom bubble, and then moved on to residential real estate. When you’re talking about the numbers of people involved, it makes sense to identify the next dodge and put it to work for you.

Mrs. Burnside, do you have some insider boomer information you would like to share with the group? Honest we won't tell the AARP.

Oh, wait a minute Ed, weren't you indicating how good everyone else has it because they weren't being killed in 'Nam? Or shot on campus? Typical boomer diatribe BS.

Divide and conquer has always been the most succesful tactic for forcing this bullshit down our throats. Look at the chronological proof; white vs. black, young vs. old, boomer vs. gen-x, red vs. blue. And they laugh all the way to the bank from the sweat off our brow. I’m just sayin..

Wait a minute weren't the boomers that were "Talkin bout my ggggeneration", did you asshats invent generational divide? Funny how the group that perfected us Vs. them is now trying crying can't we all get along? No, no we can't. But hey at least you have the solice of virtually every radio station playing a fine collection of boomer rock. Rock on Ed at least your not getting shot at on campus, or dying with your buddies face down in a 'Nam rice paddy.

hey looks like Patrick.net is getting the band back together!

where's Bap?

to show what a freakin housing nerd i am...i found out i lived a few miles from one of casey's homes and i had to drive over and check it out (this was back when he still owned it years back....).

And did Peter P ever buy a home in the suburbs so he could grow his own broccoli?

DennisN says

And did Peter P ever buy a home in the suburbs so he could grow his own broccoli?

It's funny, I only joined Patrick.net's forums recently so I wasn't present for the bulk of this thread (although I've been a reader of his site for many many years), but most of my friends who rent grow more of their own vegetables/fruits than most of the people who own (one owner who grows anything vs. several renters). The justifications that start with, "you can't do..." usually are just theoretical or aren't strong enough reasons. If you really want to do something, you can almost always find a way, or else you're not being creative enough.

You know, I got to hand it to just how bad things had gotten.

My parents attitude shift in the last 3 years on classic boomer opinions;

1) College is no longer the end all answer, rather it's a financial disaster.

2) My retirement is no longer ensured, rather it's fucked.

3) I'm so proud of my daughters just because they've yet to rack up any debt.

4) If your screwed over by fate, toss responsibility to the wind and that house back at the bank.

5) I'm so proud of my daughters because they've not gotten knocked up, aka financially knocked out.

surfer-x says

Divide and conquer has always been the most succesful tactic for forcing this bullshit down our throats. Look at the chronological proof; white vs. black, young vs. old, boomer vs. gen-x, red vs. blue. And they laugh all the way to the bank from the sweat off our brow. I’m just sayin..

Wait a minute weren't the boomers that were "Talkin bout my ggggeneration", did you asshats invent generational divide? Funny how the group that perfected us Vs. them is now trying crying can't we all get along? No, no we can't. But hey at least you have the solice of virtually every radio station playing a fine collection of boomer rock. Rock on Ed at least your not getting shot at on campus, or dying with your buddies face down in a 'Nam rice paddy.

Got to agree with this - and after all, wasn't it the Boomers who demonstrated, protested, marched, petitioned, and voted for pols who gave them abortion rights to KILL OFF about 40 percent of us X'ers and Millennials?????

And NOW they want kumbaya???
And wave the flag of fear of "divide & conquer" ???

LOL

~Misstrial

Misstrial says

Got to agree with this - and after all, wasn't it the Boomers who demonstrated, protested, marched, petitioned, and voted for pols who gave them abortion rights to KILL OFF about 40 percent of us X'ers and Millennials?????

Dude, go read about something called Roe vs Wade. Read much history?