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"Real Financial Heroes" needed in CA!


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2007 May 10, 9:30am   25,375 views  246 comments

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Housing woes to continue, expert says
Economist says downturn could weaken state's financial future
Contra Costa Times 05/10/2007

“The malaise in California home building will hound the state for a while longer, a top state government economist told an East Bay gathering Wednesday. Even worse, California is particularly vulnerable to ripple effects because the state depends on housing and home building for a greater share of its economic activity than other regions, said Howard Roth, chief economist with the state’s Department of Finance.”

“‘I see no signs that the housing downturn will abate any time soon,’ he said during an interview after his speech.”

“...Roth warned that the weakness could be even more severe based on the first-quarter home building activity. ‘To keep us out of recession, we need for consumers to continue to spend through the rest of 2007,’ Roth said.”

Have YOU been doing your part for Clownifornia's economy? How many bidding wars have you "won" lately? How many plasmas, boats, RVs or spousal "enhancements" have you bought with the house ATM this year? None?!? Why do you hate Amerika...?

Do we really need to make renting and saving a criminal offense? Enough already --stop your whining and get out and start spending, dammit!!

Uncle HARM

#housing

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236   HARM   2007 May 14, 9:41am  

I wrote Robert a couple weeks back and suggested he consider legal action, but he never replied. Insulting and slandering RC personally is bad enough, but involving his wife & kids doesn't just cross the line, it tramples it.

237   HARM   2007 May 14, 9:49am  

Wait... this just in: Robert Cote has posted a new thread about Nigel's latest attack on his daughter. He filed a complaint with Blogger, and they...

... simply made Nigel remove the home phone numbers. That's it. Apparently the blurred photo of RC's daughter along with the spurious "testimonial" about her f**king Mexicans is A-ok with them.

239   Peter P   2007 May 14, 11:33am  

I’m being threatened with libel and slander

How? Did you get SLAPP-ed?

240   HARM   2007 May 14, 11:58am  

Sorry, that was in really poor taste...

241   HARM   2007 May 14, 12:09pm  

On a strangely related note: States seek sex offender data from MySpace

242   Malcolm   2007 May 14, 12:54pm  

Randy, if you are telling the truth, they are probably full of crap. Is it the founder or is it a user that objects?

243   Malcolm   2007 May 14, 12:55pm  

How does Myspace know who is or is not a sex offender on their site?

244   Randy H   2007 May 14, 2:46pm  

I'm not certain. If it's just a user fanboi, then there is obviously nothing to worry about. Lots of times the fanbois go around trying to scare critics by bullying/baiting lawsuits and such. Pathetic.

But there's a chance this particular person was actually an employee of the company. Linden's new employees often spend a good deal of time trawling the blogs and evangelizing the cult. They are also often very defensive to actually find out there are a goodly number of people out there who think it's all a bunch of shit.

Even in this case it's probably nothing to worry. I'm sure if it's an employee (s)he sent an email to their in-house and cried about some meanie on the internet writing bad things.

I still have two little things on my side:

1. The First Amendment
2. The Truth

I'm being accused of lying about my claims. It just so happens that not only am I not lying, but I have a whole folder full of screen shots (of in-game search-engine ads along with clearly provocative imagery) which I had intended to write a blog article on a while back (but someone beat me to it so I never did).

Ironically, I probably have a better libel against them for calling me a liar. lol.

245   Peter P   2007 May 14, 3:07pm  

2. The Truth

You will have to prove the truth though. First Amendment is probably your best friend. I actually think any social-networking site would be with you on this. They probably have more to lose.

Randy, does it worth your time?

Not legal advice. I am not a lawyer.

246   Randy H   2007 May 14, 3:59pm  

Peter P

I doubt anything will come of it, to be honest. Just pointing out how libel works.

I don't have to prove I'm telling the truth so much as they have to prove I'm lying. That's why libel is very hard and seldom pursued. The truth is absolute defense against libel. Reasonable interpretations of the what one honestly believes to be the truth are usually pretty tight also.

They'd have to convince 12 jurors that I was intentionally lying with the goal of causing harm to their organization. All I'd have to do is show my screen-shots and those 12 jurors would exonerate me and call for the company's management to be sent to the gallows.

People have zero tolerance for child exploitation -- that is unless they are sicko f-ck fanbois in love with their own hand-mouse-keyboard autoerotic addiction.

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