From the Asbury Park Press:
Developer buys Asbury beachfront site
Asbury Partners, the city’s waterfront developer, has bought the unfinished Esperanza high-rise site from Capital One Bank, which had foreclosed on the project, a company official said Friday.
The beachfront site on Ocean Avenue between Third and Fourth avenues is considered a key development parcel and central to the overall waterfront landscape.
But it has been jinxed. For 17 years, the former unfinished high-rise known as “C-8” sat abandoned, a symbol of the earlier failed waterfront redevelopment of the 1980s.
Then, Metro Homes bought the site and imploded the skeleton highrise in the spring of 2006. The Hoboken developer set out to build the dramatic 224-unit Esperanza full of flair and wavy architecture. But the national mortgage crisis set in and in December 2007, Metro Homes closed down the construction site.
“This property is critical to putting the larger waterfront redevelopment back on track,” said Brian Cheripka, a vice president with iStar Financial Inc., which took over ownership of Asbury Partners in December 2009 when the former Asbury Partners’ principals could not repay $70 million in loans.
…
“I think it’s a great step forward and an exciting development, especially for that parcel of land which has just had so many false starts,” Mayor Ed Johnson said Friday. “I remain hopeful and confident that this is its final start, and we will begin to see development start on that site and throughout the waterfront.”
Come on rise up!
Xanadu will be finished before this mega-mess.
Blow the mf’er up, I say.
was out last night with a group. one guy says ,oh great time to buy its bound to come
back. I ask when, also point out taxes in NJ continue upward. He talks about great
schools, I got into the flight of people leaving NJ and being replaced with
illegals etc. The conversation dropped off when I ask what basis he had for housing coming back .
tick… tick… tick… tick…
Any questions?
Bitch!
BYW, its Bergen County where prices never go down,
I think that select towns will thrive. They’ll be the ones that are established and suit the mindset of the myriad of people that do work and spend here in NJ. His basis for optimism is based on his gut feeling much like your pessimism. Neither of you really know anything for sure except that today you live and tomorrow you may die.
In the words of Bob Dylan:
When she said,
“Don’t waste your words, they’re just lies,”
I cried she was deaf.
And she worked on my face until breaking my eyes,
Then said, “What else you got left?”
It was then that I got up to leave
But she said, “Don’t forget,
Everybody must give something back
For something they get.”
.
I stood there and hummed,
I tapped on her drum and asked her how come.
And she buttoned her boot,
And straightened her suit,
Then she said, “Don’t get cute.”
So I forced my hands in my pockets
And felt with my thumbs,
And gallantly handed her
My very last piece of gum.
This one sold for 230K in 2000 and current asking is 539K. A healthy 4% appreciation over 10 years would’ve brought this house to a 350K benchmark. So, why do these fat b@stards think they deserve more? Oh well… the seller sits, the realtor starves and Gary and his fellow cohorts stay solvent.
http://www.trulia.com/property/3060508971-23-Anton-Ct-Woodcliff-Lake-NJ-07677
I was in this house… very clean, at the end of a cul de sac but no central A/C. One problem: the Parkway is about 75 feet beyond the trees to the left. The sound is just not dampened enough nor far enough away. It has a great yard, too. This one has been on and off for about 2 years now. I suspect they declined a few lowballs.
http://www.trulia.com/property/1082011370-20-Stratford-Ct-Woodcliff-Lake-NJ-07677
I wonder if anyone approved her for a 30 year mortgage…
The Now-or-Never Apartment
AT last, Lee Zegar was ready to upgrade to a one-bedroom.
“When I turned 80,” she said, “I thought: I can’t wait.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/realestate/the-now-or-never-apartment.html?src=me&ref=realestate
pretty much sums up the situation.
“What if decades of a lousy education system have left us with a workforce that has too many members with no really useful skills for a globalized economy? What if way too many college students majored in liberal arts and entering the workforce looking for jobs that will never exist? What if the massive housing bubble got Americans to condition themselves to work in an economy that’s never coming back? (How many realtors are unemployed right now?) What if we have good workers who can’t move to take new jobs because they’re underwater on their mortgage and can’t sell their house?
I heard a similar sentiment from the Taiwanese-born, 30-something CFO of a U.S. Internet company. A gentle, unpretentious man who went from public school to Harvard, he’s nonetheless not terribly sympathetic to the complaints of the American middle class. “We demand a higher paycheck than the rest of the world,” he told me. “So if you’re going to demand 10 times the paycheck, you need to deliver 10 times the value. It sounds harsh, but maybe people in the middle class need to decide to take a pay cut.””
Jamil you sounds like an idiot yourself. Why don’t you wow us with your intellect and insights instead of parroting the party line that public education is bad and we should all be genuflecting to Ronald Reagan. It is really this mentality, the servile and sell-out mode that will kill the country. If we stand firm, protect our own, and work with the myriad of brilliants kids and adults that reside here, we’ll be fine.
Know your history people and quit trying to re-write it to serve your needs. This is the greatest country in the world and I will feel that way until the very end. I love owning a home here, I take what I need and I let the rest go by.
The only thing that I’ve been wrong about is my initial condemnation of the BMW M series. Once I got into my current ride which sports a V8, I remember that you can really never have too much horsepower.
By current ride I mean an American car.
Essex, “Know your history people and quit trying to re-write it to serve your needs.”
This reminds me of the latest history rewriting. Our Smartest President in History, in prepared speech, made a embarrassing gaffe about Lincoln. So what should government-funded PBS do with the transcripts? Rewrite history and change the speech so that no gaffe? Leave it there and make it major news story showing how idiot the person is ? Yeah, just kidding.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/09/pbs_alters_transcript_to_hide_obama_gaffe.html
It’s not called State Media for nothing. Had Palin or Bachmann made this, it would have major news story. So shut up about this history rewriting Essex.
Essex, “Jamil you sounds like an idiot yourself. Why don’t you wow us with your intellect and insights instead of parroting the party line that public education is bad and we should all be genuflecting to Ronald Reagan”
That quote is from the Atlantic, the left-wing lunacy paper, the fishwrap where Andrew Sullivan spends his time demanding to see medical records of Palin’s uterus. Yeah, I know know. That’s where I take my talking points blindly (when I’m not getting secret instructions from Koch Brothers or Vast Right Wing Conspiracy).
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/01/the-rise-of-the-new-global-elite/8343/5/
Jamil you sounds like an idiot yourself. Why don’t you wow us with your intellect and insights instead of parroting the party line…
I think Jamil does wow us with intellect and insight. It’s always backed up by something contrary to the liberal talking points and utopian dreams.
I was reminded a couple of weeks ago that the only real hope for the economy is that more kids are exposed to a true liberal arts education (not of the “Womens’ Studies” variety) that teaches them how to think instead of regurgitate facts.
The problem isn’t liberal arts education. The real problem is that it’s been dumbed down, just like most other aspects of modern life.
It also occurs to me that dumbing-down is a sort of stealth inflation of the intellect. A greater price is extracted from the consumer for a dwindling asset in return. If that isn’t inflation, I don’t know what is.
Jamil seems to me to be like most true believers on the right and the left: correct diagnosis of the disease…but the prescription for every illness under the sun is radical amputation.
A truly educated population is dangerous to TPTB. Remember what Jefferson, Washington and a ragtag army managed to pull off. The most conscious and educated are also more apt to engage in violent means to an end once they are convinced it is justified, too.
19. It’ll never happen. Piss a parent with just one mention of something the least bit controversial or even look at kid wrong today and the schools will be under lockdown. They are so afraid of anything of substance, not that most teacher even have the knowledge to give that perspective. See the book “lies my teacher told me” for other points of view on history.
Very few people reside on the true left and those that do often are disrupted by the hunger pangs of poverty.
NY Times real estate section had an article about trying to sell homes with basement flooding, and mentioned Grim’s home renovation project with admiration. Did it keep the wet out?
I’ve got some slightly moist wall concrete bricks on a small part of my unfinished section of basement. Floor stays dry. After normal rains, no wetness, but after hurricanes or torrential rains, it appears, and the damp goes away in a couple days. Should I worry, and if so, what should I do about it?
Downspouts and grading would be the first places to look.
http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/090811_canada_jobs/americans-flee-north-border-jobs/
“TORONTO, Canada — Usually, you hear stories of people fleeing to America, not the other way around.
But the jittery state of the U.S. economy is driving an increasing number of its citizens to seek better prospects north of the border.
Americans are the latest economic refugees, and they’re heading to Canada.”
Sign of O’s first term: Americans sneaking into Canada looking for jobs.
I’m afraid the sign of the second term would be Americans sneaking into Mexico looking for jobs and freedom.
clot: “seems to me to be like most true believers on the right and the left: correct diagnosis of the disease”
Can you remind us what is that diagnosis according to the true believers on the left ? As far as I understand what their diagnosis is, it is that US is not spending enough, US is too friendly towards job creators, US is not borrowing enough and Government does not have enough power to micromanage every aspect of life.
Good read for anyone looking to refi.
Why Aren’t Mortgage Rates Getting Lower as Fast as Treasuries?
“In short, the PRICE and YIELD of MBS are the basis for mortgage rates. This equates to the raw pricing that lenders are dealing with in order to lend you money. But lenders can’t simply offer mortgage rates based on raw MBS pricing because they wouldn’t make any money, and they gotta make some if they’re going to keep offering mortgages! This is where a subjective component enters into mortgage rates. There are several factors that affect profitability which lenders attempt to account for in deciding the ideal amount of cushion between raw MBS and mortgage rates (also known as primary/secondary spread).
Actually, we could probably write a whole series on those factors but we’ll focus on a few of the “biggies” for today. First of all, we’ve already been mentioning VOLATILITY as a reason for a discrepancy in rates from lender to lender. Bottom line: volatility makes things more expensive for lenders. They absorb some of that cost with lower profits and you absorb some with higher mortgage rates than you might otherwise see in a lower volatility environment.
Beyond volatility, this whole rally in the fixed-income world (bonds, Treasuries, MBS, etc…) has been very fast and abrupt. That has created capacity constraints for lenders who can only really raise rates in order to deter the new business they can’t handle. Additionally, if rates get low too quickly, lenders may lose commitments from borrowers who now seek a lower rate. But the lender has already “accounted for” that new mortgage in their pipeline when you locked your loan (meaning they’ve promised to sell into the MBS market using your loan as part of that MBS). When that happens, it costs them more money to readjust and consequently will cost future borrowers more money in the form of slightly higher rates.
These are just a few of the reasons why you’re not seeing mortgage rates fall as quickly as Treasury yields. It’s a whole different world-a deep dark rabbit hole of financial complexity. Today’s post only begins to scratch the surface, but if it’s helpful, let us know and we’ll do more. Or let us know if you have questions about this one and we’ll follow up on those.”
http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/consumer_rates/228272.aspx
9.
Gary,
Thats one serious crap shack there. Circa 76 bilevel. Those pieces of crap litter the state. Nothing you can do to upgrade that into something nice. Even the plastic colums on the front porch dont work.
Better off buying a POS cape.
jamil [26]
It’s worth reading what you are planning to post before posting it – the point the article makes seems to be opposite to your thinking…
…”“I’m looking for a quiet, calm, sane, civilized society to start the next phase of my life,” said Michael, an out-of-work, white-collar professional from Michigan who is seeking a temporary visa to come to Canada.
Like several others interviewed for this article, he did not want his full name used for fear of drawing unwanted scrutiny to his application.
Though he describes himself as both patriotic and a conservative, Michael says he’s lost faith in U.S. leadership — “on both sides of the aisle” — for failing to stem the excesses that led to the collapse of Wall Street, and for the current political brinkmanship over the debt ceiling.
“I’m looking for a country where the first role of the government is to protect its citizens,” he said.”…
and this one
… ““It’s important for us to live in a place with a lot of diversity and a good cultural sector,” said the woman, who asked that their names be withheld to avoid compromising their residency status in Canada. She says she was surprised at how quickly and efficiently they were able to qualify for Ontario health care. “…
Essex #13,
No offense meant, but I think you may be the idiot in the thread. You are wasting time you could be spending with your kid in arguing with someone that may be smart but completely dishonest and extremely cheap. You are not even going to win a small point with such people even in person, let alone winning a whole game or set over internet boards. Such people make very good public prosecutors that will always eke out a win even in cases where they horribly screwed up.
When one side plays pretend play, the score will always be 6-0, 6-0, 6-0. Always!
31. none taken.
Jamil is the default idiot on any thread here that he joins.
Too bad jamil is some kind of political necrophili@c, looking to continually bang the dead bones of Reagan and his fantasy Amerika.
34,
Meat,
People dont know the truth about Reagan. He had a homosexual past. Bohemian Grove b_tchez!
Moss,
A lot of people don’t know even more horrible things Reagan had done. He raised taxes, and he negotiated with democrats! Truly horrible stuff.
I will admit that Jamil’s posts do wow me sometimes. Like this doozy….
“It’s not called State Media for nothing. Most people don’t find this the details, only see headlines. Non State controlled media consist only of Fox News and few Internet blogs”
Wow.
36,
Prof,
He also signed the executive order allowing the presidential working group on financial markets in 1988. You sit here and cry about manipulated markets but cant look reality in the eye.
Executive Order 12631,[1] signed on March 18, 1988 by United States President Ronald Reagan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Group_on_Financial_Markets
Theres an old saying we used to have in Brooklyn. Dont try to b_llshit a b_llshit artist son.
cobbler “It’s worth reading what you are planning to post before posting it – the point the article makes seems to be opposite to your thinking…”
The point is that Americans are now sneaking into Canada looking for a job. It wasn’t like that before. In O’s second term people are probably sneaking into Mexico.
31 clot “with someone that may be smart but completely dishonest and extremely cheap.”
Sure sign that hard-core leftist has run out of arguments is that he takes the “otherside is dishonest” argument. You forgot the republithugs and nazis comment. Yeah I know I know. Higher taxes lead to prosperity and job growth! Obama’s policies are working! Black is white!
Don’t look now, but the ultra-violence is sparking up in Greece again.
Too bad the real violence is what Greece’s paper is doing to SocGen’s balance sheet.
jamil (40)-
I didn’t even say that to you.
BTW, in case you were wondering, you have become tedious again.
Just got back from a full day of sailing, snorkeling and kayaking on the waters off Key West. Rained a little but there was rainbow and we ended the sail with a beautiful sunset.
NJE,
Sure, you have sunshine and blue water. And you have a laid-back lifestyle and snorleling, and whatnot; however, your proximity to NY sucks. AND, when it comes to hurricanes your damage is far, well, uh, nevermind.
jamil [39]
First, they are not sneaking but getting legit temporary work visas. Second, they number only about 30K which is a very small number compared to the workforce of either country. Third, they are happy to be working in a “country where the first role of the government is to protect its citizens” and where “quickly and efficiently they were able to qualify for Ontario health care”.
44,
Esapee,
I have Florida on my top 3 list of places of doom so dont be so cocky. Florida is a sh_thole with nice weather. It will implode faster than building 7.
Any questions?
44,
Esapee,
I have Florida on my top 3 list of places of doom so dont be so c_cky. Florida is a sh_thole with nice weather. It will -mplode faster than building ?.
Any questions?
47. Gee whiz Al, Florida should be the state closest to your heart in terms of low taxation, homestead laws, and gun owners’ rights.
sx (48)-
I think that would be Texas.
Don’t forget speedy capital trials and executions.
Meat, Last year, I wrote a workbook, “30 Days to Better Critical Thinking.” I had wanted to call it The Effective Thinking Skills Workbook but one editor thought the former was more jazzy. Most reasoning skills books are hopelessly airy, speaking in self-evident platitudes. What I did was take more than 100 patterns of reasoning, some valid, some not valid, and use programmed learning techniques to help the reader/student recognize them in everyday situations. As a D list celebrity, I promoted the book on numerous radio shows. I sold a couple hundred copies. You can read a number of chapters on Amazon. com I’m very cynical about the prospects for Americans to become independent thinkers. As a nation of grifters and morons ( Kunstler), we’re basically doomed.
Speaking of speedy capital trials and executions…
Statistically, You Have a Better Chance of Being Executed by Rick Perry Than Dying in an Airplane Crash
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/663741/statistically,_you_have_a_better_chance_of_being_executed_by_rick_perry_than_dying_in_an_airplane_crash/
#51: Funny how the mouth-frothers who attended last week’s “Tax Tax Tax Tax Cuts Reagan Reagan Ronald Reagan” debate applauded loudly at Rick Perry’s murderous rampage as governor of Texas, but were curiously silent at the killing of Osama bin Laden. I guess 9/11 isn’t THEIR day too anymore.
As far as towns an prices, they are and will drop in all towns even the most expensive ones. Towns like Bergenfield, Dumont and New Milford in prestigious Bergen county have asking prices today that are at late 1990’s pricing.
In fact in Bergenfield today you can buy houses at late 1980’s levels. The towns that will do better than others price wise are the towns that do not have large rental units in the them. Those units traditionally had singles, young couples, and Seniors living in them.
Today many are housing families with children, and many of them immigrants, which puts pressure on the towns schools and town infrastructure.
That is the reality of the suburbs today;even in prestigious Bergen county.
new (51)-
You present this as though it’s a bad thing.
soccer (50)-
I think you are basically right. However, there’s still plenty of time left to drink before the inevitable Gottendammerung.
“As a nation of grifters and morons (Kunstler), we’re basically doomed.”
As far as towns and prices, prices are and will fall in all towns, even in prestigious Bergen county. Towns like Bergenfield, Dumont and New Milford already have asking prices at late 199o’s levels. (To document that all one has to do is be familar with the area, and compare to mls listings).
In fact in Bergenfield you can buy houses today at late 1980’s sold prices. The towns that will do better, price wise, are the towns that do not have large rental complexes in them. Traditionally these units were inhabited by singles, young couples, or Seniors who had traded down in the town from their single family homes.
Today many of these units are inhabited by famileis with children, many of them immigrants. This fact puts pressure on the towns infastructure including the schools.
This is a fact of life today in many suburbs;including prestigious Bergen county.
Drinking one to the victims of 9/11 today.
cobbler [46],
There are no precise figures but the number of US citizens residing in Canada is far far above 30k. It’s more like 600-1000k. See, for example, http://www.vancouversun.com/news/citizens+living+Canada+face+risk+massive+penalties/5277590/story.html. The US consulate in Vancouver estimates 90k US citizens alone in and around Vancouver. (And Uncle Sam wants them all.)
Clot [55],
We are all victims. You will be drinking a fair bit.
punch [56]
I’ve been citing the article jamil brought up. I think 30K is the number of the temporary work authorization visas issued to the U.S. citizens. Obviously, many more people have permanent residency status (married to Canadians, long-term jobs, etc.) – the same as tons of Canadians have greencards over here, but very few have H1B.
50. My thought is that we need more tough love like that which guided me through my early years. Everyone is so concerned with being their kids’ best friend (and yeah it feels great to be a pal to your kid sometimes) but at other times they require some mental toughening and actual home schooling. Regardless of where they attend school, if they are not being taught how to think at home there won’t be any how.
BTW, chifi already has his kid’s college picked and has selected an appropriate nursery school with the credentials to get the kid there.
You should write an article about where people can watch football online. This is a popular topic and an article listing all the places like http://www.watchfootball.org or espn.com would be a popular article.
Hey Meat, I just learned that my girl’s Flight 1 soccer team plays Branchburg on its last game of the season.
Mini-GTG?
Essex,
Saw the southern dem quip. That clears up a lot. Hate to say it, but I thought it was schizophrenia when you shifted positions like that.
Dare I ask which southern state? I promise not to make too many jokes.
First game of the travel season is in Monroe. Where the fcuk is Monroe?
The girls played Millburn last night, the team we were supposed to play in Bridgewater before the league moved us from Flight 2 to Flight 1. Poor Millburn girls were outmatched from the start. A total beatdown. By halftime, I was feeling sorry for them.
Next up: Summit. Last of the train town games. Got to toughen my girl up by Saturday. No way I want to lose to them.
62…..Kentucky and Florida. (You promised)
I’m seduced, like anyone, by slick talk of freedom and country. I love America.
But the truth is that we’ve sent a series of f_ckwits to DC now since Eisenhower.
Amen Essex
Njc,
I just stopped by the cabanna.
#56 In mod please un mod.
#67 Essex: No offense, but most people in the real south do not consider Kentucky to be in the south. One reason of course being that it was not in the confereracy, but also simply because it is too far north.
As one southeener said well yeah Kentucky has Hillbillies, but they are Yankee Hillbillies.
#73 Oh and unless you are from up around the pan handle of Fla or near the GA. border, Fla is not the south either, culturally speaking that is.
Just to show where things have and continue to go both here and in Europe. Talk Talk a UK based Tele-Com company just announced that they were closing their 700 person operation in Ireland;with the loss of 700 jobs.
The average salary was around 30K Euro per year. These jobs are being outsourced to India and the Phillipines, where the equivalent salary will be about 2,400 EUro per year.
And in a real touch of class the employees were not notified by the company, until after they hard about it on the radio and social networking sites.
70. But they do have democrats.
Anyhow, if it makes you feel better my dad’s side of the equation is from Nashville. My grandparents went into the hinterlands to make $$ selling clothing to miners. It worked pretty well for them for about four decades. They had the Levi’s franchise in the county.
The deep south is of course another animal. However, I think that you will find that the sensibility and identity of said species of “redneck” can be found just about anywhere. I’d rather simple consider myself a hybrid. My mom’s side was German aristocracy. Go figure.
plume (61)-
Only problem is, I’m never near Branchburg anymore. Might still be able to come over if my son’s team is not out of town on that day. Send me an e-mail with the date!
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plume (64)-
Start feeding her Red Bull, whiskey and hot sauce. Worked wonders for me.
sx (66)-
Those fcukwits are a reflection of ourselves.
I think #77 was the same stuff Michael Vick fed to his dogs.
Interesting!
Krauthammer: People finally realizing Obama ‘is a mortal who is in over his head’
By Jeff Poor – The Daily Caller | The Daily Caller – Sat, Sep 10, 2011
As President Barack Obama’s approval rating reaches new lows with seemingly every tracking poll, the question of how he is going to win re-election is a high priority for the president and his administration. However, based on Thursday night’s address to a joint session of Congress, it appears Obama could be attempting to mimic former President Harry Truman’s 1948 campaign against a “do-nothing Congress.”
But on this weekend’s broadcast of “Inside Washington,” Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer was doubtful that would be an effective strategy because the so-called independents that voted for him in 2008 are realizing he isn’t all that he was marketed to be.
“[B]arack Obama is no Harry Truman,” Krauthammer said. It’s not that complicated. Obama is over his head. He is a great orator. He came out of nowhere. He dazzled America. He [has] never run anything. He never actually enacted anything even in the legislature. He hadn’t run a state. He hadn’t run a city. He hadn’t run a business. He is running the biggest enterprise in the world and he has not succeeded. And that is why all of these independents, all of those who believed in a soaring rhetoric, including probably a couple who swooned in the aisles as he spoke in 2008, are now waking up and realizing he is a mortal who is in over his head.”
“He is a great orator, he is a very smart man and would be a good professor,” Krauthammer said. “But run the United States, he can’t.
#76 Nashville? Well now you are more southern, although eastern Tennessee was very sympathetic to the Union, and not the Confederacy.
#77 You can find you rednecks in Ringwood and even Mahwah.
I disagree with Kraut. I don’t think O would make a particularly good professor. He likes to lecture, but has no interest in educating people. That makes for a bad class.
Will someone please define redneck? Just want to know where I fit on the continuum.
You’re probably a redneck if:
You believe you got a set of matched luggage if you have two shopping bags from the same store.
You think the last words to The Star Spangled Banner are “Gentlemen, start your engines.”
You think Sherlock Holmes is a housing project down in Biloxi.
You think a stock tip is advice on worming’ your hogs.
You’ve been married three times and still have the same in-laws.
You think TACO BELL is the Mexican Phone Company
Your state’s got a new law that says when a couple get divorced,
they are still legally brother and sister.
Your house still has the “WIDE LOAD” sign on the back.
You got stopped by a state trooper. He asked you if you had an I.D.
And you said, ‘Bout What?’
You think Gen-italia is an Italian airline.
Your sister is the third generation of women in your family to conceive
a baby as a result of an alien abduction.
If you can burp and say your name at the same time, you’re shur’nuff a redneck.
You think Possum is “The Other White Meat”
You carried a fishing pole into Sea World.
You hooked up with your present girlfriend as a result of a message on the wall of
the mens’ room at the Flying J Truck Stop.
The centerpiece on your dining room table is an original signed work
by a famous taxidermist.
You think a quarter horse is a ride out in front of the Wal-Mart.
You lit a match in the bathroom and your house exploded right off it’s wheels.
Your huntin dawg had a litter of puppies in the living room and nobody noticed.
You think safe s-ex is a padded headboard.
You think subdivision is part of a math problem.
You think there’s nothin wrong with in-cest as long as you keep it in the family.
You may be a Redneck if …You and your dog use the same tree.
You think God looks a lot like Hank Williams, Jr., and heaven looks a lot like Daytona Beach, Florida.
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2. She’s Lookin’ Better with Every Beer.
And the Number One Country & Western song is…
It’s Hard To Kiss The Lips At Night That Chewed My Ass All Day
You were acquitted for murdering
your first wife after she threw
out your Elvis 8-tracks.
You think watching professional
wrestling is foreplay.
The people on Jerry Springer’s show
remind you of your neighbors
Your front porch collapses
and four dogs git killed.
Your grandfather died and left everything to his widow.
But she can’t touch it until she’s fourteen.
Your kids take a siphon hose to “Show and Tell.”
You’ve ever had to scratch your sisters
name out of a message that begins,
“For a good time time call…”
You know yer a redneck when you take a load to the dump and bring back more than you took
Your whole family is Democrats
‘cept little Mary.
She lernt how to read.
You think fast food is hitting a possum at 65 mph.
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You can get dog hair from out of your belly button.
You have a bumper sticker that says,
“MY MOTHER’S AN HONOR STUDENT
AT SOUTH LITTLE ROCK JR. HIGH.”
You take a six-pack cooler to church.
Your family tree has no forks.
You have refused to watch the Academy Awards since “Smokey and the Bandit” was snubbed for best picture.
You had to remove a toothpick
for your wedding pictures.
You use a weedeater in your living room.
You consider your license plate personalized because
your dad made it in prison.
You have a rag for a gas cap.
The blue book value of your truck goes up and down
depending on how much gas it has in it.
The third grade teacher says little Bubba
could be a mathematical genius
because he’s got thirteen fingers.
Fifth grade was the best six years of your life.
You have to go outside to get
something out of the ‘fridge.
A seven course meal is a bucket of KFC and a sixpack.
One of your kids was born on a pool table.
You have spray painted your
girlfriend’s name on an overpass.
Your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.
Someone asks to see your ID and you
show them your belt buckle.
Your dad walks you to school because
you are both in the same grade.
Mailpouch sends you Christmas cards.
Down where you come from reruns of
Hee Haw are called documentaries.
Your house doesn’t have curtains,
but your truck does.
You need one more hole punched in your card
to get a freebie at the House of Tattoos.
You have flowers planted in a
bathroom fixture in your front yard.
On your first date you had to ask your
Dad to borrow the keys to the tractor.
You think the Mountain Men in Deliverance
were just “misunderstood”.
If you refer to the fifth grade
as, “your senior year”.
Three quarters of the clothes you
own have LOGOS on them.
The Halloween pumpkin on your front porch has more teeth than your wife.
Your `huntin dawg’ cost more than the truck you drive him around in.
Your belt buckle weighs more than three pounds.
You’ve been to a funeral and there were more pick-ups than cars.
You just bought an 8-track
player to put in your truck.
You’ve ever climbed a water tower
with a bucket of paint
to defend your sister’s honor.
It’s easier to spray weed killer
on your lawn than mow it.
You think the three primary colors are
John Deere Green, Ford Blue, and Primer Gray.
Your pickup has a two-tone paint job
— primer red and primer gray.
Ya can’t get married to yer sweetheart
’cause there is a law against it.
You’ve been on TV more than 5 times
describing the sound of a tornado.
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The beer can collection in the
town museum is the big tourist attraction.
You dated your daddy’s current wife in high school.
Your aunt and your grandmother went to the funeral and had a fight over who gets to be the widow.
You can tell your age by the
number of rings in the bathtub.
You may be a redneck if you ever
used a toilet brush as a back scratcher.
You can change the oil in your truck
without ducking your head.
During your senior year you and
your mother had homeroom together.
You’re a lite beer drinker ’cause you start drinkin beer when it gets light.
You think the stock market
has fence around it.
Your stereo speakers used to belong
to the Moonlight Drive-in Theater.
You own a homemade fur coat.
Your entire family has ever sat around
waiting for a call from the Governor
to spare a loved one.
Your wife has ever said,
“Come move this transmission
so I can take a bath.”
You think loading the dishwasher
means getting your wife drunk.
YOU REFER TO THE TIME YOU WON
A FREE CASE OF MOTOR OIL AS
“THE DAY MY SHIP CAME IN.”
The FBI surrounded your trailer park
twice so far this year.
You use a NASCAR credit card.
Your brother-in-law is your uncle
AND your grandfather.
you might be a redneck if….
Your parents met at a family reunion.
You believe that beef jerky and Moon Pies
are two of the major food groups.
You stare at an orange juice container
because it says, “CONCENTRATE”.
YOUR IDEA OF HIGH-QUALITY ENTERTAINMENT
IS A SIX-PACK AND A BUG-ZAPPER.
You wonder how service stations
keep their restrooms so clean.
Anyone in your family died right
after saying, “Hey, y’all watch this!”.
You couldn’t learn to swim
because
your gene pool is too small.
Your wife’s job requires her
to wear an orange vest.
You have the local taxidermist’s
number on speed dial.
On Thanksgiving Day you have
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Your school fight song is”Dueling Banjos”.
You think “taking out the trash”
means taking your in-laws to a movie.
Your coffee table used to be a cable spool.
You got Clapper devices controlling
the appliances in your house.
You think a hot tub is
a stolen bathroom fixture.
The gas pedal on your car
is shaped like a bare foot.
They just raised the drinking age in your state to 32 on account of they wanted to keep alcohol out of the schools
You hammer bottle caps into the
frame of your front door to make it look nice.
The Home Shopping operator recognizes your voice.
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The taillight covers of your car
are made of red tape.
You have every episode of Hee-Haw on tape.
You’ve ever been involved in a
custody fight over a hunting dog.
The KKK kicked you out for being a bigot.
You think a turtleneck is
a key ingredient for soup.
You think the French
Riviera is a foreign car.
Your toilet paper has page numbers on it.
You no longer drink wine ever since
the screw cap got caught up your nose.
You think that Dom Perignon is a mafia leader.
That billboard that says,
“SAY NO TO CRACK”
reminds you to pull up your jeans.
Your wife’s hairdo was once ruined
by a ceiling fan.
You go to your family reunion
looking for a date.
You think a Volvo is part of a woman’s anatomy.
Your Junior/Senior Prom had a Daycare.
Your high school basketball game got rained out.
You’ve got more than three cousins
named ‘Bubba’.
You have a close relative named “Cletus”.
You ever won first prize in a tobacco spittin contest.
You wish your outhouse was as nice
as those at the state park.
Last year you hid yer kids’
Easter eggs under cow pies.
Your family always goes to the movies in groups of 18 or
more ’cause they were told 17 and under are not admitted.
Jack Daniels makes your list
of “Most Admired People”
Your dog can’t watch you eat
without getting sick.
You think the winter olympic sport of curling
is part of the “Big Hair” competition.
When you was little, your front yard got toilet papered
and your momma thought it was a gift from God.
You’ve painted a car with house paint.
You’re banned from the Memphis Zoo because you disturb the monkeys.
You ever named a child after a dog.
You have more belt-buckles than pants.
You removed the back seat from your
car so all yer kids could fit in.
You think taking a bubble bath starts
with eating beans for dinner.
Your child’s first words were
“Attention K-Mart shoppers!”
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You’re probably a redneck if:
You believe you got a set of matched luggage if you have two shopping bags from the same store.
You think the last words to The Star Spangled Banner are “Gentlemen, start your engines.”
You think Sherlock Holmes is a housing project down in Biloxi.
You think a stock tip is advice on worming’ your ho-gs.
You’ve been married three times and still have the same in-laws.
You think TACO BELL is the Mex-ican Phone Company
Your state’s got a new law that says when a couple get divorced, they are still legally brother and sister.
Your house still has the “WIDE LOAD” sign on the back.
You got stopped by a state trooper. He asked you if you had an I.D. And you said, ‘Bout What?’
You think Gen–italia is an Italian airline.
Your si-ster is the third generation of women in your family to conceive
a baby as a result of an alien abd-uction.
If you can bur-p and say your name at the same time, you’re shur’nuff a redneck.
You think Po-ss-um is “The Other White Me-at”
You carried a fishing po-le into Sea World.
You ho-oked up with your present girl-friend as a result of a message on the wall of
the mens’ room at the Flying J Truck Stop.
The centerpiece on your dining room table is an original signed work
by a famous taxidermist.
You think a quarter horse is a ride out in front of the Wal-Mart.
You lit a match in the bathroom and your house expl-oded right off it’s wheels.
Your huntin dawg had a litter of puppies in the living room and nobody noticed.
You think s-afe s–ex is a padded headboard.
You think subdivision is part of a math problem.
You think there’s nothin wrong with inc–est as long as you keep it in the family.
You may be a Redneck if … You and your dog use the same tree.
You think G–od looks a lot like Hank Williams, Jr., and heaven looks a lot like Daytona Beach, Florida.
Your father exe-cutes the “pull my finger” trick during Christmas dinner.
You’ve got more than one brother named ‘Darryl’.
You think watching professional wrestling is for-eplay.
The people on Jerry Springer’s show remind you of your neighbors
Your kids take a siphon hose to “Show and Tell.”
You know yer a redneck when you take a load to the dump and bring back more than you took
You think fast food is hitting a possum at 65 mph.
“You think Po-ss-um is “The Other White Me-at””
I can state from prior experience that possum is dark and nasty.
#85 You forgot: if you’ve ever cracked open a cold one during a eulogy, if you’ve ever climbed a water tower with a bucket of paint to defend your sister’s honor, and, the most disgusting one: if you’ve ever advised a buddy to spend a little extra to get the good quality c0nd0ms because “you can’t rinse out them cheap ones more’n once or twice.”
I’m not a Cowboys fan (except today), and I cannot believe I saw what I saw from them today. Jets didn’t win; the Cowboys lost. What an ugly game.
[65] Essex
Florida isn’t really “the south”, and I dated a Smithie from near Park City, KY, so I have fond memories of Barren County.
Actually, there were a bunch of Smithies that were from Kentucky, and I think I dated nearly all of them.
[76] meat,
Okay. We also play Flemington, which if memory serves, is further out.
[75] essex
Funny. My mom’s side was Irish aristocracy. Neat coat of arms and everything. But that and 4 bucks will get you a venti latte.
Ouch
From Barro’s op-ed in the NYT (which, curiously, is no longer there but is on taxprofblog):
“New York Times op-ed, How to Really Save the Economy, by Robert Barro (Harvard University, Department of Economics):
Today’s priority has to be austerity, not stimulus, and it will not work to announce a new $450 billion jobs plan while promising vaguely to pay for it with fiscal restraint over the next 10 years, as Mr. Obama did in his address to Congress on Thursday. Given the low level of government credibility, fiscal discipline has to start now to be taken seriously. But we have to do even more: I propose a consumption tax, an idea that offends many conservatives, and elimination of the corporate income tax, a proposal that outrages many liberals. …
The lesson is that effective incentives for investment and employment require permanence and transparency. Measures that are transient or uncertain will be ineffective. And yet these are precisely the kinds of policies the Obama administration has pursued: temporarily cutting the payroll tax rate, maintaining the marginal income-tax rates from the George W. Bush era while vowing to raise them in the future, holding off on clean-air regulations while promising to implement them later and enacting an ambitious overhaul of Wall Street regulations while leaving lots of rules undefined and ambiguous.
“Is there a better way? I believe that a long-term fiscal plan for the country requires six big steps.
Three of them were identified by the Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction commission: reforming Social Security and Medicare by increasing ages of eligibility and shifting to an appropriate formula for indexing benefits to inflation; phasing out “tax expenditures” like the deductions for mortgage interest, state and local taxes and employer-provided health care; and lowering the marginal income-tax rates for individuals.
I would add three more: reversing the vast and unwise increase in spending that occurred under Presidents Bush and Obama; introducing a tax on consumer spending, like the value-added tax (or VAT) common in other rich countries; and abolishing federal corporate taxes and estate taxes. …
I had a dream that Mr. Obama and Congress enacted this fiscal reform package — triggering a surge in the stock market and a boom in investment and G.D.P. — and that he was re-elected.
This dream could become reality if our leader were Ronald Reagan or Bill Clinton — the two presidential heroes of the American economy since World War II — but Mr. Obama is another story. To become market-friendly, he would have to abandon most of his core economic and political principles.
More likely, his administration will continue with more of the same: an expansion of payroll-tax cuts, short-term tax credits, promises to raise future taxes on the rich, and added spending on infrastructure, job training and unemployment benefits. The economy will probably continue in its sluggish state, possibly slipping into another recession. In that case, our best hope is for a Republican president far more committed to the principles of free markets and limited government than Mr. Bush ever was.”
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