I feel like a parent leaving his 16 year old at home by himself for the first time.
Crack and hookers? Or a study group and tea? I guess we'll see... Just keep it clean, please, and ignore the trolls.
I'm off to a Mozart concert series at the Vatican for four nights. Might post from a 'net cafe if something big breaks, or might not.
I'm interested to see the remnants of a society who once dominated the known world militarily and culturally, only to implode, weighted down by its own hubris, gluttony and overconfidence.
Sound familiar?
November 15, 2006
HP is off to Rome for a few days - use this thread to talk amongst yourselves, post articles, have a good chat. The blog is in your hands HP'ers.
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Richard's in charge bitches!!
....Richards in charge bitches!!......"
I thought you were dead.
HP'ers - Richard is in charge as your substitute blogger.
Do me proud Richard.
Hope Al Qaeda will strike Rome while you are there! Enjoy!
Lets talk about iPods and talk up a fucking storm of fucking shit, dick, pussy and ass!
Let's talk about housing.
Hey Keefer need the user name and password bro!!
Actually I am off to Dubai for a few days.
I leave you one last post to ponder.
dude... richard... couldn't ya just have posted the link?
For F*cks sake!
keith said...
HP'ers - Richard is in charge as your substitute blogger.
Do me proud Richard.
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If being an annoying retard makes you proud, Keith, I'd say Richard's well on his way already.
Otherwise, he most definitely will not make you proud. Of course, you know this already. Have fun in Rome. Bill O'Reilly is saying the War on Christmas has already started this year, so try not to get hit with any shrapnel while you're in the home of Catholicism.
Page two on bubble talk.
or go to
lifeaftertheoilcrash.net
Richard - I'm still here for a bit, had to delete your 100,000 word essay
get the message - tinyurl, don't post an entire article
jeesh
Perhaps "The Stinker" should be left in charge
Hem wrote:
“Housing? Is this a housing bubble blog? I thought is was a place to come and read the rantings of lunatics.....wait I rant about the housing bubble .... oooooops...... never mind.”
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Best post of the day! Laughed so hard at that one, that I nearly blew snot out of my trunk.
Ok, here goe - in September I wrote a post about a new manager at work who moved here from Florida and had put his old house (in Coral Gables) on the market. Well, the house found a buyer and closed this week. The asking price was 344K; he is getting 332K for it. That’s only a 3.5% decrease. When he told me the news, my jaw hit the desk.
To give this blog credit, the manager said his agent told him he was very lucky to have sold the house, even though it was priced lower than the comps.
But I still believe there is a housing bubble and that the ‘you-know-what’ is going to hit the fan.
-Mammoth
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Mammoth, "comps" mean little. The subject property could be in a neighborhood full of cookie cutters identical to each other, yet if the value needed is not supported by the previous sales (even if it was the house next door that sold yesterday) the appraiser will just go outside the area (but stay close enough that it will still be considered "urban" or "suburban" distances) for "comps". This is how sales prices get inflated, it's also how people extract "equity" out of their homes when doing a refi. Any other questions about how the bubble got started? Just ask your friendly anti-semitic former mortgage loan officer. I've been talking about the bubble for about two years, though it has yet to hit where I live. Kinda makes me want to start writing loans again.
People are still buying in my Immediate area in Missouri. The house across the street just sold for $25,000 more than I paid for mine roughly a year ago. The lake front mansions seem a little slower, but a 7,000 sq ft one looks like it will sell @ $2,350,000 here pretty soon. We've got a mixed bag here as I've said in the past.
Ok, I admit that I hate Jews, but I have a good reason! When I was 15 my first girlfriend was Jewish and she broke my heart when she left me. Now I devote my life to holocaust denial.
That's not me, funny though.
A few years ago, while browsing around the library downtown, I had to take a piss. As I entered the john a big beautiful all-American football hero type, about twenty-five, came out of one of the booths. I stood at the urinal looking at him out of the corner of my eye as he washed his hands.
He didn't once look at me.
He was "straight" and married -- and in any case I was sure I wouldn't have a chance with him.
As soon as he left I darted into the booth he'd vacated, hoping there might be a lingering smell of shit and even a seat still warm from his sturdy young ass. I found not only the smell but the shit
itself. He'd forgotten to flush. And what a treasure he had left behind. Three or four beautiful specimens floated in the bowl. It apparently had been a fairly dry, constipated shit, for all were
fat, stiff, and ruggedly textured. The real prize was a great feast of turd -- a nine inch gastrointestinal triumph as thick as a man's wrist.
I knelt before the bowl, inhaling the rich brown fragrance and wondered if I should obey the impulse building up inside me. I'd always been a heavy rimmer and had lapped up more than one little
clump of shit, but that had been just an inevitable part of eating ass and not an end in itself. Of course I'd had jerkoff fantasies of devouring great loads of it (what rimmer hasn't), but I had never done it. Now, here I was, confronted with the most beautiful
five-pound turd I'd ever feasted my eyes on, a sausage fit to star in any fantasy and one I knew to have been hatched from the asshole of the world's handsomest young stud.
Why not? I plucked it from the bowl, holding it with both hands to keep it from breaking. I lifted it to my nose. It smelled like rich, ripe limburger (horrid, but thrilling), yet had the consistency of cheddar. What is cheese anyway but milk turning to shit without the benefit of a digestive tract?
I gave it a lick and found that it tasted better then it
smelled. I've found since then that shit nearly almost does.
I hesitated no longer. I shoved the fucking thing as far into my mouth as I could get it and sucked on it like a big brown cock, beating my meat like a madman. I wanted to completely engulf it and
bit off a large chunk, flooding my mouth with the intense, bittersweet flavor. To my delight I found that while the water in the bowl had chilled the outside of the turd, it was still warm inside. As I chewed I discovered that it was filled with hard
little bits of something I soon identified as peanuts. He hadn't chewed them carefully and they'd passed through his body virtually unchanged. I ate it greedily, sending lump after peanutty lump
sliding scratchily down my throat. My only regret was the donor of this feast wasn't there to wash it down with his piss.
I soon reached a terrific climax. I caught my cum in the cupped palm of my hand and drank it down. Believe me, there is no more delightful combination of flavors than the hot sweetness of cum with the rich bitterness of shit.
Afterwards I was sorry that I hadn't made it last longer. But then I realized that I still had a lot of fun in store for me. There was still a clutch of virile turds left in the bowl. I tenderly fished them out, rolled them into my handkerchief, and stashed them in my briefcase. In the week to come I found all kinds
of ways to eat the shit without bolting it right down. Once eaten it's gone forever unless you want to filch it third hand out of your own asshole. Not an unreasonable recourse in moments of desperation
or simple boredom.
I stored the turds in the refrigerator when I was not using them but within a week they were all gone. The last one I held in my mouth without chewing, letting it slowly dissolve. I had liquid shit trickling down my throat for nearly four hours. I must have
had six orgasms in the process.
I often think of that lovely young guy dropping solid gold out of his sweet, pink asshole every day, never knowing what joy it could, and at least once did, bring to a grateful shiteater.
It was the Christian Cult that destroyed Rome.
Visit some of the original Christian burial grounds and you will understand the evils of modern religion especially Catholics and Christians and Muslims.
Christianity did oversee the decline of Imprerial Rome but Rome still rules the world in one fashion or another. The Vatican is still the spiritual headquarters for hundreds of millions of catholics. What was the Roman Empire still is the basis of Western civilization and it still is here and still a power in the world.
I know everyone on this blog think that I hate Jews, but truth be told, I have nothing against those dirty Jews. It's those blacks, mexicans, italians, irish, greeks, chinese, and no-good arabs that I hate.
...but I certainly have nothing against the homosexuals, in fact some of my best friends are gay... some of my BEST friends ;)
hello
long time lurker, first time poster.
this made me laugh so hard:
http://tinyurl.com/yj5hka
They didn't read this:
http://tinyurl.com/yz22xh
good news from New Zealand, property prices are only rising at under 10% per anum. If you could be arsed reading the second article our reserve bank said this:
'The report again outlined the risk that house prices may yet decline as the increases over the past five years had run ahead of household incomes and population growth.'
thats 100% increases in house prices in 3 years and average wage increases of 3-4% population growth around the same.
puts the 'mental' into fundamentals dosn't it. I missed out on RE and have not been able to match savings with price increases. bugger, missing all the fun. as you were.
Andy
Has anyone noticed when using a credit card for a store purchase, there now is an option to get cash back?
I was in (I hate to say it) Walmart and noticed for about two weeks now that their slider machine has a cash option on a purchase when using a CC!
I spoke with the clerk about it, and she just said it's "something new"
Yeah, new alright, just another way of separating people from their money if they arent paying attention.
What is most surprising, is that people in general have no idea the interest rate is alot higher on cash outs which creates a separate balance with an new higher interest rate...
Credit card companies are evil I tell ya...
Bake Mcbride posted: NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Shuffling its investments in consumer-oriented stocks, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said Tuesday it raised its holdings in Lowe's Cos. and Nike Inc., Anheuser-Busch Cos. and Target Co.
I can understand holding beer stock, but Lowe's and Nike? I don't get it.
Did WB dump all his silver he purchased afew years ago?
...but I certainly have nothing against the homosexuals, in fact some of my best friends are gay... some of my BEST friends ;)
Ok, Honica, we get the message, lets not go there...
Have you listened to this Jack Murtha FBI ABSCAM Tape - Uncensored
After the FBI does his introductory spiel, Murtha and a few agents saunter in. The very first thing they do is start kvetching about the price of real estate both in DC and Florida. It's too funny. It's 1980, probably at the top of that real estate cycle.
Arnold should sell So. Cal. to the Mexicans. Why not! They are in the majority? If you don't believe me just try to order a big mack at McDonalds in english. Don't even bother! Just say-
Por favor, dame un mack grande con fries frances y un shake cocolate! Gracias! Tienes una hermana?
with Keef gone for few days, i think it's our chance to talk about the housing bubble.
i like little boys
Anyone visiting DC over the holidays might want to see the oft-overlooked National Building Museum. I want to check out this exhibit on sustainable "green" houses:
http://tinyurl.com/yhfwv8
Unfortunately, Someone has taken to posting under my name. Anyone with any intelligence should be able to decipher who's who, and maybe even who's jew.
Jews like to fly flase flags.
Anon 9:15:50 wrote:
“with Keef gone for few days, i think it's our chance to talk about the housing bubble.”
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Edmonds, WA is a quiet bedroom community nestled alongside Puget Sound, just north of Seattle. It is fairly affluent with lots of retirees, and cute knick-knack shops lining its downtown streets.
There was a condo for sale there; every day I walked past it on the way to work. It started out at $460K back in June. I’d thought about contacting the agent, evaluating the place and then offering her ½ the asking price, but never had the time for this.
The price stayed there for a long while, then dropped to $410K. Still no takers. Then the price dropped to $399K, then to $395K. One day last month, surprise surprise, the sign was gone! Usually RE is posted with a “SOLD” sign attached to the “for sale” sign, but not in this case.
So either the place finally sold, or the seller just took the condo off the market. In other words, either the buyer got (at least) 14% shaved off the asking price, OR a 14% price cut still didn’t move this condo.
Looks like housing in the Seattle area has passed it’s peak.
-Mammoth
Anyone want to discuss the 2008 Democratic Presidential Candidacy?
http://democraticcandidates.blogspot.com/
Meh, jew puppet A, or jew puppet B. It is irrelevant.
Hey - any motorheads out there? Yes there is a relationship between autos & housing. Keith said he hates cars; maybe that’s why he’s ignored past hints to put up a thread about them. But he is away right now, so all you car nuts c’mon out in force and let’s start our own thread right here.
During the Bush1 recession, prices for classic & muscle really took a pounding; could this happen again? During the past few years, though, prices for these old cars have really shot up. What I remember as $400 cars years ago, are now going for $4,000 and up!
I have a ’66 Pontiac LeMans - a rare “Sprint-6” model - anyone out there remember these? Anyway, I bought it for $2400 back in ’97, and it has just sat in the barn for the past 5 years getting crapped on by the swallows. It runs & drives fine.
So I am thinking of advertising it for $7,900 and seeing if there are any bites. My rationale is that if the economy really does tank in the coming months, there will be a lot of other pretty machines on the market then, and prices could get hammered again.
But there is also the possibility that this car will be worth over $10K if I hang onto it another couple of years. After all, they aren’t making ‘60’s classic cars any more. So how about looking into the crystal ball and saying which way these old cars are going to go?
Start your motors and chime in!
-Mammoth
I wondered when the blaming of racial and cultural groups would start. Sometime in the near future the financially overextended homemoaners of America will have to come to terms with the billions of dollars of non self-liquidating debt and have to reduce their consumption. Of course, it won't be due to their own shortsightedness and stupidity - it will be the fault of those blacks, Mexicans, Italians, Irish, Greeks, Chinese, Arabs - dammit, it's gotta be somebody elses fault that I gotta eat Top Ramen instead of take out pizza.
Honica, what's your theory or impression of those who convert to Judaism?
Guadelupe Hildago is in the dessert trying to sneak into Texas. When he moves into his McMansion in Phoenix, with 20 other relatives, he will get the net back amd start posting on HP again.
Mammoth, I'm a gearhead. Just built a 383 W/AFR heads, 224 degree @.050 Hydro-roller cam. It's going into a third generation F-body.
Anon 5:36, I could care less what religion people follow. It's the racial jews and their genetic predispositions I have a problem with.
Anon 6:00, Don't worry, I hear there are some good patriots that have been poisoning the watering stations the criminal invaders use in the desert. These are mapped out and given to the invaders in mexico.
To Mammmoth:
You need to visit my website at:
http://www.e-tabitha.com/
Click the links for Plastic Ozone Daydream, Timeline of America, and Tiddlerosis. The Sprint 6 is discussed in Timeline, and Plastic Ozone Daydream is a complete wallow in classic Corvettes and other musclecars!
Now we are off on a worthy topic.
So, what do you see happening with the classic & muscle cars? Since they aren’t being used much as daily drivers anymore, perhaps their values will not be affected by higher gas prices. These are basically now toys, and people always seem to find money for their hobbies.
But when that ARM adjusts up on a massive scale, is that going to cause financially-stressed homedebtors to deluge the market with these beauties, depressing their values? Or do you believe their prices are going to continue to climb?
Tabitha I followed your links but didn’t find anything about the Sprint-6. Will look again later, as I was in a rush. GM, Mopar, Ford - let’s dispel with the rivalry here - after all we’re all car nuts.
Cheers,
-Mammoth
To the shit eater about 20 posts up: I wish Al Qaeda had it out for sick fucks like you instead of normal folks like me.
Uhh, any of you "enthusiasts" build/restore your own?
::Anon 5:36, I could care less what religion people follow. It's the racial jews and their genetic predispositions I have a problem with.
Huh?
Aren't a lot of Jews of Slavic origin?
So wouldn't that also make numerous Orthodox Christians racially Jewish?
Uhh, how about organized racing? Do any of you "enthusiasts" do anything at all with any of your cars?
Anon 8:06, I'm not even going to validate that as a question by responding to it.
"I'm not even going to validate that as a question by responding to it."
Ok, so what is a racial Jew? I only know of it as a religion composed of various ethnic groups.
::racial whites
Racial whites are caucasians of Anglo, Irish, German, Slavic, some fair skin mediterranean (excluding olive to dark toned Muslims but not light olive Greeks and Armenians) backgrounds who tend to be of one or more Christian type of backgrounds. These persons can also be from white diasporas in South Africa, Zimbabwe, or even Hong Kong where 18th/19th century Imperialists like the British or French set up colonies to take advantage of the natives of colour.
Racial jews, however, were probably once white who'd married into Jewish families, converted, and had children who were then excluded from Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant social circles and thus, evolved as a subnationality away from mainstream British, Russian, Polish, or even Persian ethnics. The result of this is that the Jewish faith is practically a nation w/o borders in many countries of the world.
Hem, that may be what happened with the one in Edmonds I mentioned in my earlier post.
No “sold” sign may just mean the condo’s owners pulled it off the market, with the expectation of a better home sales climate in the spring.
Yes - did a frame-off on a ’64 goat convertible, ½ by myself; what I couldn’t do I ‘farmed out.’ No fear of skinned knuckles & grease here.
Man, that car would accelerate faster going uphill than most cars can, going downhill. No wonder why so many of these were wrapped around telephone poles in the ‘60’s!
But I was a college student when I restored that car; ran out of money in my senior year and had to sell it. Got $11K for it back in ’95; what do you think one of these would fetch today?
No, haven’t done any racing. Car shows are fun though.
-Mammoth
A pretty nice one? What about $40k?
A flawless one???????????
Rhoid are you a non-white, or just a self-loathing white? And are you really saying that there is no such thing as the jewish race? Say that to a talmudic jew sometime!
Just to give you guys a bit of an ed-jew-(k)shun..... There are two types of racial jews today. The sephardic jews and the ashkenazi jews, they are both different racially than whites, this has nothing to do with religion make no mistake. If you want proof, do your own research it's out there in abundance, or just ask a jew, believe me he will tell you all about it.
Yes rhoid, my genetics are severely flawed. I had a hell of a time getting laid by women that most can only dream of when I was single, and could only manage to wed a drop dead gorgeous doctor for a wife........ Inbred hillbilly indeed.
I can play a banjo though. Hey, maybe I'll write a few songs with it and define a new type of music...... Something like "bluegrass hate rock" lol.
Rhoid, whats the deal with all the anal obsession, we all know you are the "shiteater" who posted above. Were you ass-raped as a kid?
Right rhoid.....riiiight.
Hey Honica, the Ashkenazi did mix with a lot of Slavs and Germans. If they'd dropped their faith, a few centuries ago, they'd have been integrated into the Catholic or Orthodox churches in eastern Europe which I believe, some did, so I don't see them as non-white, just non-Christian and a part of a nation within a nation model of existence. America, as a nation, has integrated every single white group sans the Jews, since they'd kept their traditions instead of adopting a bland USA denomination like Unitarianism which BTW, has taken in a lot of former Europeans who didn't fit into the ways of the old countries.
Have you ever seen an Ashkenazi? And do you even know how they came to be?
:Have you ever seen an Ashkenazi?
Like my next door neighbor, a Russian/Lithuanian Jew with some British parentage, on the dad's side, as well. And guess what, he looks like a lot of Catholics and Orthodoxs I know.
I think your getting the race/religion confused......... What does a "catholic" look like? Hell, a somalian bantu can be a catholic, as well as a blond/blue Swede.... Do they look alike to you?
:race/religion confused
Ok, a middle European with a pinkish undertone, relatively fair skin [ w/ ability for a tan or burn if overexposed ], an eagle nose (or straight), straight (sometimes wavy) hair, round eye (the lids sometimes have folds but not prominent ones like east Asian epicantic folds), dark brown hair. Doesn't that sound like a typical eastern Europeaner who're mainly Orthodox or Catholic?
That sounds like it could be anyone..... Whether they were Buddhist monks or satanists would make no difference.
"That sounds like it could be anyone..... Whether they were Buddhist monks or satanists would make no difference."
Which means that there's no real racial Jews, just a nation within a nation based upon religion.
Okie dokie, if you say so........... But again, try telling that to a talmudic jew sometime, really, try it.
:try telling that to a talmudic jew sometime
And that's the problem. For all intensive purposes, this person should be another "Unitarian" who basically gets along with everyone but instead, behaves like his grandparents who don't see themselves as fellow Americans but as a host in a Christian majority nation. That's where all the problems come from, a nation within a nation instead of a denomination sharing the same nation. It's not about race as it is about control freak parents and grandparents who don't want their children to be integrated when most caucasians get easily assimilated into the American mainstream w/o any problems.
Who's talking about America? Do you acknowledge that there are any different races? I really don't want to type this out for you, try a wiki on racial antisemitism.
:Do you acknowledge that there are any different races?
Of course.. white, black, and east Asian. And within the groups, there are subgroups like Slavic, Nordic, Gaulic, etc. And among Asians, Malay, Altaic, etc.
The Talmudic Jews are white, but having some Arabic (semitic - mix of light African and white) heritage, living a separate existence from other whites in many nations including the USA. Steal a baby from a synagogue, raise him in a Unitarian household, and you get an ordinary bland, white American since many American doctors circumsize anyways.
Another 'car guy' here. My biggest interest lies in roadcourse racing, which I do when I can afford to. But I like any car (or truck) that is performance oriented.
As far as older car values go, there is a fad right now that is pushing those values up. Lots of guys that want to be 'hotrodders' and such. The housing bubble helped dreamers become buyers with all that free money out there, and prices have went up, up, up. I think that market will follow the housing market down at least to some extent.
I pleasure myself to the follies of mankind.
Nothing beats a suede or teflon glove and a willing hand....
Welcome Garyk 3:31:57. Now we’re back on a topic that (hopefully) most of us can agree on.
So, that classic ’64 GTO went from $11K to $40K in eleven years. Looks like a ~360% increase in value.
Isn’t this what homes have done, in the boom areas? While we’ve hit the price peak for housing, what about classic & performance cars? If the stock market turns sour in the coming months, investors will prpbably start loading up on gold. Perhaps some people will view these automobiles as investments?
It’s hard to figure out what’s going to go up in value next, and there’s a lot of discussion & disagreement about this here on HP, but one thing is certain - car nuts aren’t going to stop enjoying their hobby.
But will we be seeing Mustangs going for $50K in a few years? Or is their current value set for a plunge along with housing?
-Mammoth
No Corvinus, I'm not. Just a guy who is able to recognize trends more often than not.
Mammoth, I know a guy that owns an exotic car dealership here in Missouri. All they deal in are Porshes, Ferraris, Lamborginis etc. This has been an EXTREMELY profitable business for him for several years........Not this year, last count I heard he was some $100,000 in the red for the year. He has a super nice place though, so overhead is probably around $10,000 a month, maybe more.
Well here we go - another parallel between housing & cars. The ultra high-end home sellers are getting hammered now, and it sounds like the same is true with the high-end exotic cars.
Anyone else out there seeing this? Well, here in the Seattle area it seems nearly everyone is driving around in a car that’s between new & 3 years old. The appearance of affluence is right there on the surface for everybody else to see, but how many of these are paid for?
-Mammoth
http://www.sfgate. com/cgi-bin/ article.cgi? file=/c/a/ 2006/11/16/ MNG6AMDKM41. DTL
USDA drops 'hungry' from annual report
Lack of food will be labeled as 'very low food security'
Elizabeth Williamson, Washington Post
Thursday, November 16, 2006
(11-16) 04:00 PST Washington -- The U.S. government has promised that Americans will never be hungry again. But they may experience "very low food security."
Every year, the Agriculture Department issues a report that measures Americans' access to food, and it has consistently used the word "hunger" to describe those who can least afford to put food on the table. But not this year.
Mark Nord, the lead author of the report, said "hungry" is "not a scientifically accurate term for the specific phenomenon being measured in the food security survey."
Nice Richard, Buy your ammo now, and lots of it!
Mammoth, I wonder the same thing looking at all the luxery sport futility vehicles driving around. I also wonder how many of these morons cash out refi'd to buy them in cash. Though, in some places in the states, maybe homes are depreciating faster than brand new cars lol.
I agree completely Corvinus, The brain-washed and brain-dead American no longer has any forsight or ability to plan for a rainy day. It's always spend, spend, expand, grow. How do you think people have become so mindlessly greed stricken?
Buy ammo? Better buy & stash away some food while you’re at it. If TSHTF, you’d better believe that those with the foresight to provision food & water “just in case” will also have the ammo to protect it.
Wasn’t there an incident during the Hurricane Katrina aftermath, when a hoard of people exiting the city was stopped by a group of gun-toting people who lived in the neighborhood they felt was being invaded?
A little knowledge about producing your own food, and some land to grow/raise it on, may come in handy too. I have mentioned this before on HP but have seen little response.
Imagine living in St. Louis when the New Madrid fault decides to produce another massive shaker like it did in the winter of 1811-1812. Or LA, Portland or Seattle - all potential earthquake targets.
Suddenly there would be no water, and the food would run out quickly. How many people are prepared for this? Time to get ready.
On the bright side, those with cash would have the opportunity to snap up some cheap housing!
-Mammoth
ON HUMAN NATURE
by Jay Hanson – 12/05/05
http://tech. groups.yahoo. com/group/ killer_ape- peak_oil/ files/on_ human_nature. txt
In order to understand our collective future, one must understand
individual human nature. Our individual behavior derives entirely from
genes and environment (lifetime environment, but mostly present
environment) . Our present genes are the product of earlier genes and
earlier environments. We are born with different genetic programming
for self, family, and social group ("tribe").
The human mind is optimized for "politics" [1]. Although few of us are
consciously aware of it, we swim in politics like a fish swims in water:
"In fact, telling primates (human or otherwise) that their
reasoning architectures evolved in large part to solve problems of
dominance is a little like telling fish that their gills evolved in
large part to solve the problem of oxygen intake from water."
-- Denise Dellarosa Cummins
I hear ya mammoth, growing your own is always a good idea. Having land is necessary for more than just this. Ammo, well, I think it's possible that this may be hard to come by here shortly. Another "terrorist" attack should be enough for the fed gov to collect all the guns and declare marshal law. Get it while you can, you can make food with it as well.
And as far as being in St. Louis when the next big one hits...... Whoah, with all the third-world savages, can you imagine the raping, robbing, looting and shooting that would go on there! Anyone know if St. Louis is still the murder capital of the world?
Martial Law
M - A - R - T - I - A - L
Thank ya sir.
But will we be seeing Mustangs going for $50K in a few years? Or is their current value set for a plunge along with housing?
-Mammoth
Right year, right model, you can ask that NOW for an antique mustang. I used to satisfy my old car (and parts) habit on Ebay, not any more! Items that cast $5 a year ago are going for $100. Totally nuts! Antiques and collectables of all types will be the new bubble. The stock market still leaves a bad taste in most investor's mouths (a la DotCom crash,) and housing is now doing the same.
Gotta put that dough somewhere before it burns a hole!
Stuck,
You are right about collectables! Two years ago I sold my childhood Hot Wheels collection (~45 cars) for $750. Could’ve probably gotten a lot more if I had sold each piece individually over EBay, but I don’t have the time for that.
Now we are coming up on the best time of year to snap up an old car & parts on the cheap.
Wait until a week or so after New Year’s, then pick the coldest, wettest, most miserable day, dress yourself up comfortably, and drop a visit to the seller of whatever items you desire.
As the car or parts are typically either outdoors or in an unheated garage, you will be able to carefully & slowly examine everything; again, slowly. Then dicker over the price - say - first try for 50% off the asking price.
Often this technique works. The seller becomes quite cold and uncomfortable, and may just throw in the towel, say “f*ck it” and sell it at your price just to get rid of it and to get back indoors where it is warm & cozy.
This same technique may just also work with a FB who is going the “sell it by owner” route!
-Mammoth
Neato, Do you have starwars collectables too?
Please don't feed the trolls. . . even if they are feeding us shit. :)
Your right, sorry man.
Thanks for the buying tip Mammoth. I have a few leads in mind, and i just might try that.
Stuck
Iran is playing a clever game in Iraq using US occupation forces to crush the Ba’athist-led resistance while expanding their influence via the Shiite militias. This is a “lose-lose” situation for the United States. American troops must continue to focus on one enemy while they inadvertently strengthen the other. How long will it be before the Bush administration sees that they’ve been supporting the very group which is most hostile to American interests?
Who could have imagined that US forces would be acting as security guards for Iranian-backed militias?
In fact, members of the Iranian political establishment like Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh are now openly calling “for the US to REMAIN in Iraq until it has established a strong, stable central government capable of providing adequate security.” (Kim Murphy LA Times)
http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/229/
For what this is worth - the last several years of crop circles in England have replicated Mayan art and the Mayan calendar. This one appeared on August 15, 2006.
The Mayan long calendar ends 12.21.2012
I think in 2012 things will be very different on planet earth...maybe the 4 guys in the VW with boards and ropes should tell us where they get their news from, as they seem to be spot on - (in my mind of course.)
http://tinyurl.com/k3eux
"In The Mayan Factor by José Arguelles, we understand that LAMAT marks the beginning of the final AHAU cycle which includes all 13 Katuns. This final cycle is a culmination of the Baktun of the Transformation of Matter and began in the year 1756 to be completed in the year 2012. The energy of LAMAT is to ‘Seal [the whole mind of the world] with the Star-Seed Harmony’. LAMAT heralds a new way of living on Earth and a new experience and understanding of material life, including our own bodies. This is certainly reflected in the beautiful and elegant symmetry of this crop circle. "
Well, I don't know about the crop circles Richard, But the jewish wars.... Yeah, it's pretty apparent that the jews are aiming for total chaos and anarchy in all arab nations in the middle east. Afterall, a strong and orderly government equals a threat to israhell.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061117/pl_afp/usmilitarycongress_061117180629
$127,000,000,000 more........ Thats what the jews demand, thats what they will get. Now, who's ready to foot the bill for another jew war in Iran?
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