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Jimbo Says:
> I think FAB is wrong in his characterization of what “liberalsâ€
> in San Francisco are like. But what he would probably call a
> liberal, I would call part of the far left. People like Chris Daly
> are hardly liberal. Even they would deny it.
I would call Chris Daly a “Liberal/Progressive Politicianâ€. Liberal/Progressive “Politicians†differ from other “Liberal/Progressives†in San Francisco in that they change their position on issues depending on how much money they get (both legally and illegally)…
As much as I hate Chris Daly I have to give the guy a hand since he was able to get re-elected despite the fact that he is not only the biggest asshole to ever hold public office in SF but also the most corrupt person to hold public office (in the past 30 years) in SF (and that is saying a lot since Willie Brown was elected twice in the past 30 years)…
Fun with Shiller and roller coasters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUldGc06S3U
Thats cause bricks crumble during an earthquake.
Yes, I would say thats a east coast bias.
Well bricks are one aspect - but here the interiors of some of the places are just weird: It looks like heat registers were added willy nilly, as an afterthought. The default doors are of the worst quality, walls tend to be cracked, or crooked.
Things really seemed to be built slapdash - especially the 60's stuff I've seen in San Jose.
These days I don't know the difference between a Democrat and a Republican. It seems shocking but true that Democrats are more fiscally conservative than we used to stereotype them as, and you don't have to always hear the annoying bible bashing from them either. They are normally very nice people except for the fact that they think they have a right to tell everyone how much is enough for them to have, that's my only problem with liberals.
I qualify myself as a liberal republican or a conservative democrat.
I'm all for :
Gay Marriage.
Guns for people.
Mandatory registering said guns and holding owners to manslaughter charges even if they didn't pull the trigger.
Abortions.
No public money for abortions.
Public money for condoms on campuses/highschools.
Sex ed in school.
Stem Cell Research.
Limiting stem cell lines to ones harvested from donated extra fertility treatment eggs.
Reducing greenhouse emissions.
Passing cost on to consumer for reducing emissions.
Passing horrifying tarrifs against polluting countries.
Bombing the shit out of terrorist countries, and then not giving them a dime to rebuild. Rebuilding them = more terrorists.
Pulling the army out if Iraq. (And every dime.)
Pulling Haliburton's federal contracts as they are no longer an american country. Also, penalizing them for all the contractual obligations they've missed.
Sending Dick Cheney hunting with himself and himself only. And with no cell phone.
Reducing welfare expenditures.
Reducing military spending, preferrably by cutting 'pork' from 'old boy network' of military contracts.
Reducing dependancy on oil, foreign or otherwise.
Balanced Budgets. (Or rather, budget surplusses for a good long time.)
Paying off the deficit.
Once the deficit is paid off and we're running a surpluse, reducing taxes.
Term limits for Senators and congressmen/women.
A monkey in every garage, and an elephant in every pot. Or was that the other way around?
They are normally very nice people except for the fact that they think they have a right to tell everyone how much is enough for them to have, that’s my only problem with liberals.
Conservatives are nice people too. They just look mean sometimes.
I do not usually pay too much attention to the fiscal issue. I worry more about hopeless programs like welfare and overt market distortion.
SF, more and more people that I talk to who label themselves one or the other all seem to have that sort of similar ideology. The lines are so blurred now I don't recognize them anymore. I used to be the biggest ditto head out there and then I wrote my masters thesis on public private partnerships, go figure.
Everyone my age (35) with almost no exception is pro individual freedom, anti welfare, and very environmental. Your list that you just put up only has a couple of things I would even debate you on without necessarily even disagreeing on.
I always considered myself conservative, then I would listen to my peers' points of view and I started not liking conservatives. God I've got to forward this stupid anti gay/ABC emails from one of my red neck friends from Poway, CA just sent me. It's the typical, 'you liberals in the media keep promoting ...... I'm not going to watch you anymore and I'm going to tell my other 3 friends not to either.'
It's like, give it a freaking rest already.
Everyone my age (35) with almost no exception is pro individual freedom, anti welfare, and very environmental.
Because our Pluto is in Libra.
Oh, and very anti union. I don't think there has been a time in this country where unions were so despised.
I’m a leo.
Perhaps your Sun is in Leo? If you are 35 your Pluto should be in Libra. If you were a bit older you Pluto would be in Virgo.
Gay Marriage. (sure why not?)
Guns for people.
Mandatory registering said guns and holding owners to manslaughter charges even if they didn’t pull the trigger. (only when clearly negligent)
Abortions. (Only through constitutional amendment for federal protection, otherwise state by state issue)
No public money for abortions.
Public money for condoms on campuses/highschools. (Or the 3 month shot for the girls)
Sex ed in school.
Stem Cell Research.
Limiting stem cell lines to ones harvested from donated extra fertility treatment eggs.
Reducing greenhouse emissions. (Without the politics, let's start with calling it smog)
Passing cost on to consumer for reducing emissions.
Passing horrifying tarrifs against polluting countries.
Bombing the shit out of terrorist countries, and then not giving them a dime to rebuild. Rebuilding them = more terrorists.
Pulling the army out if Iraq. (And every dime.)
Pulling Haliburton’s federal contracts as they are no longer an american country. Also, penalizing them for all the contractual obligations they’ve missed.
Sending Dick Cheney hunting with himself and himself only. And with no cell phone.
Reducing welfare expenditures.
Reducing military spending, preferrably by cutting ‘pork’ from ‘old boy network’ of military contracts.
Reducing dependancy on oil, foreign or otherwise. (E85 and Toyota will practically eliminate it.)
Balanced Budgets. (Or rather, budget surplusses for a good long time.)
Paying off the deficit. (I can't believe Republicans were against this)
Once the deficit is paid off and we’re running a surpluse, reducing taxes. (Don't confuse debt and deficit. The debt is 6 trillion, the deficit is 300 million.)
Term limits for Senators and congressmen/women.
A monkey in every garage, and an elephant in every pot. Or was that the other way around?
FLAT TAX!!!
Legally valid civil unions for gay people.
Guns for people.
Discourage abortions without valid reasons.
Notify parents for underage abortions.
Teach abstinence in high schools but provde condom anyway.
Stem Cell Research.
Eliminate gasoline subsidies, pass on costs to consumer, allow the market to take care of the environment.
Bombing the shit out of terrorist countries, and then not giving them a dime to rebuild. Rebuilding them = more terrorists.
Eliminate most welfare programs.
Eliminate gasoline subsidies, pass on costs to consumer, allow the market to take care of the environment.
That is actually a clear free market failure requiring regulation.
That is actually a clear free market failure requiring regulation.
Perhaps. I would recommend an electronic toll road system that charges motorists based on emission, speed, weight, and distance.
Fun with Shiller and roller coasters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUldGc06S3U
I wait for the sequel.
Many free-market failures occured because real costs have not been fully passed on to consumers.
Perhaps. I would recommend an electronic toll road system that charges motorists based on emission, speed, weight, and distance.
Too complicated, adjust the gas tax and you get the same result without the extra system needed. You also create an incentive for people to clean it up, I just leased a new Prius and I can tell everyone here that this is the way of the future. When they improve the battery storage for overnight plug in, our national consumption of gasoline will drop 80%, and what is left over should be easily produced with the E85 organic fuels.
These a$$holes want to “save†these idiot FBs who got themselves into this mess? Screw them.
Painful to watch but God almighty you have to draw the line somewhere, otherwise every debtor will call themselves victims.
I keep getting invited to join a class action lawsuit every time some stock drops significantly. These idiots haven't figured out that I was the guy shorting the stock...ha ha ha ha.
Too complicated, adjust the gas tax and you get the same result without the extra system needed.
True. But with the toll road system it is possible to incentivize privatized road construction as well. With GPS it should not be too difficult to implement.
You also create an incentive for people to clean it up, I just leased a new Prius and I can tell everyone here that this is the way of the future.
I agree. My only worry is the recycling of the battery. Will that cause pollution?
EPAs are duplicated at state and federal levels also. It's retarded.
I do think schools should meet national guidelines though so I partially disagree.
One more thing: I think divorces should require court approvals.
Can we just eliminate marriage altogether? It is a pointless concept. I've been with my girlfriend for 15 years, and we have seen some couples marry and divorce two or more times. People change.
I do think schools should meet national guidelines though so I partially disagree.
The only guideline should be the official language of education.
I say privatize all schools. They will then self-regulate according to the specification set forth by national universities.
Can we just eliminate marriage altogether? It is a pointless concept. I’ve been with my girlfriend for 15 years, and we have seen some couples marry and divorce two or more times. People change.
I have great faith in the institution of marriage. It is by-definition a life-long committment. People change but something should remain the same.
I say privatize all schools. They will then self-regulate according to the specification set forth by national universities.
You're the man, I am all for vouchers. I think everyone should start out on the same foot, with equal access to education, and the choice to get in to the best schools.
Eveyone telling me to get married has a divorce under their belt. It is has to be the stupidest thing I hear directed personally.
Eburb writes:
"Things really seemed to be built slapdash - especially the 60’s stuff I’ve seen in San Jose."
Hey orange was a groovy color back in the 70s just look at a Brandy Bunch episode... I have seen recent construction that is much to be desired for. Just back designs out there. I went to a new dev. and saw half of the homes looked great (Interior) but the other half was crap. But the exterior was all the same. Some had reverse floorplan. Kitchen and living rooms were upstairs while the bedrooms were downstairs. WTF.
I think everyone should start out on the same foot, with equal access to education, and the choice to get in to the best schools.
YES! Education is one of the few things that should be subsidized.
Every old house I have owned has a bathroom that was once solid pink!
Thank God for Nancy Reagan telling people to just say no.
Education, and a healthcare safety net. We keep going round and round in this country, if we would just bite the bullet we would be a little richer.
Like everything else in my ideal world, you have a choice. Buy private insurance, or get covered by some government program.
Peter P
Microsoft is being sued left and right for stealing copyrights/trademarks/Patents.. there is a AT&T suit for billions right now. A company down the street from me won $1B in court from MSFT. They proved MSFT copied their Patents. There are plenty others.
"The person who created the market for DOS is much more significant than the person who created DOS itself. If DOS was not created, Bill Gates could just have bought something else and made it great. Buf if Bill gates was not there, we will be asking “DOS what?†now. "
CPM is what we be saying and DOS is CPM ... Gates never created a market for DOS (PC) nor did he make it. IBM made the market for DOS, Gary Kindall created it. Gates benefited. Othes like Lotus and Wordperfect made the market for Business to start using PC in business. It too ran on CPM. All this spilled into homes today. And yes Microsoft benefited because they are evil.
All that Bill Gates did was to undercut everyone in the most evil way to gain in the markets. Even today they are ripping designs and ideas off others.
All that Bill Gates did was to undercut everyone in the most evil way to gain in the markets. Even today they are ripping designs and ideas off others.
So long as the end-result is beneficial, who cares?
My wife just remineded me that Jupiter will retrograde into Sagittarius tomorrow. Perhaps it is time to me to make a change.
TOS says:
1- a$$holes, idiot, screw them…Skibum, Tell me, how high is your EQ??? or is it at least higher than mine?
2- And by the way, how come I did not ear from you when I was being abused as Casey, a troll, a realtor, or when DinOR mention the width of my a$$ or worse ….
3- In any case, it seems that the level of abuse is greater when I say something that is true but too painful for the JBRs to ear (like your reaction to the proposed moratorium on foreclosure )… so I am willing to put up with it
4- Anyway, I am willing to stop the abuses if I can expect the same treatment in return…
TOS,
1-I'm not comparing EQs. Just stating a fact - your EQ clearly sucks. Maybe mine sucks too, maybe not. I don't see why you care.
2-I'm not here to defend you. You can (try) to stand up for yourself-I'm not stopping you. My point is that if you are here to subvert or prostelytize, your attitude is hindering your efforts.
3-You can try to draw a correlation between the level of "anger" and your perceived telling of the "truth," but all I would say to that, is keep dreaming.
4-Again, I don't care if you are abused or not, or if you dish it back. You're just not doing your job of winning over converts to "the other side" with your attitude and approach. Just a little unsolicited "EQ" advice.
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http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,915445,00.html
Sound familiar? Yet another story from 2005? Nope... the publication date of this article was September 12, 1977 - nearly 30 years ago.
Let's look at some other snippets from this time capsule:
Does anyone know what happened to the housing market in California after 1977? Or was the impact of Prop 13 too influential in the resulting statistics?
And finally, the social impact:
So... this was in 9/1977. Now, it's hard enough predicting what 9/2007 will be like - but what do you think September 12, 2037 will be like?
Already, both parents are working, realtors are spinning the Bay Area as a place so great that you don't need to take vacations - what's next? Will child labor make a come back? ("Monta Vista High School and Fireworks Factory #88"?) How much more special can it get here?
(Bonus points for including Peak Oil in your prediction...)
#housing