From the Record:
Job growth lifts housing outlook for 2016
Buoyed by strong job growth, the housing market in the new year will continue to climb out of its worst downturn in generations.
As the unemployment rate has dropped to 5.3 percent in New Jersey and 5 percent nationwide, people are increasingly getting the confidence to move into their own places or trade up to more expensive homes. Mortgage rates will rise, but not precipitously, experts predict. And builders will ramp up activity to help meet the demand — though new home construction will continue to fall short of long-term averages.
“Given the continuing economic recovery, this year will be a good year for housing,” said Jeffrey Otteau, an East Brunswick appraiser who tracks the housing market statewide.
On the downside, many people will struggle to afford apartments or houses, as home prices and rents continue to grow faster than incomes.
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Housing prices are expected to continue recovering from the 25 percent to 30 percent plunge they sustained in the housing crash. Most predictions for home price increases this year are in the neighborhood of 3 percent to 5 percent — not huge, but still ahead of inflation.Along with higher mortgage rates, these price increases will make homes less affordable. That’s expected to create special challenges for first-time buyers, who have been missing from the housing market’s recovery.
As young households are priced out of cities, they will increasingly look to inner-ring suburbs, especially those with walkable neighborhoods and downtowns, said Svenja Gudell, chief economist for Zillow.
Even with the affordability issues, there’s a lot of pent-up demand for homes because many people delayed setting up their own households in the years when unemployment was high, analysts say.
“This hesitancy has begun to diminish as the economy has shown a more consistent improvement and jobs are being added,” Crowe said.
Millennial households are expected to move into homeownership in larger numbers, as they begin to marry and have children.
“There’s a heavy correlation between marriage and homeownership and an even stronger correlation between having children and homeownership,” Crowe said.
On the seller side, as values rise, more homeowners who have been underwater on their properties — that is, owing more on the mortgage than the home is worth — will be able to sell without suffering a loss. That is expected to loosen up some of the gridlock in housing sales activity, by bringing more inventory to the market.
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Rents nationally are expected to rise by 4 percent to 5 percent this year, continuing recent trends. Demand for rentals is on the rise as more people become confident enough about their jobs to move into their own places, but either prefer the flexibility of renting or can’t afford to buy homes.In North Jersey, a number of new apartment buildings have been constructed to meet the growing demand for rentals. But most are high-end properties with monthly rents that can start at $2,000 and up, offering little relief to low- and middle-income households in the region, which has always been a high-rent market.
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Nationwide, the worst of the foreclosure tsunami has passed, but New Jersey is still dealing with a backlog of distressed properties that built up while the mortgage industry answered accusations of abusing borrowers’ rights.That overhang of distressed properties put downward pressure on prices, because foreclosed properties tend to sell at a discount, O’Keefe said.
As the state continues to resolve more foreclosure cases this year, distressed properties will be less of a weight on the market, O’Keefe predicted. That will allow home values to rise, which in turn will enable more homeowners to sell without taking a loss.
Good Morning New Jersey
Nuts…
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/01/see_how_much_time_christie_spent_out_of_nj_in_2015.html#incart_river_home
@salon
Tamir Rice is deemed an imminent threat. A heavily armed white militia is not. America.
The actions taken by Ammon Bundy, Ryan Bundy, and their supporters in Oregon are the very definition of terrorism and armed insurrection.
Hmm….still doubting the pumpkin about wage inflation and a new upward cycle in real estate forming? Roaring 20’s are coming, but this time it’s in the 2020’s.
“Millennial households are expected to move into homeownership in larger numbers, as they begin to marry and have children.
“There’s a heavy correlation between marriage and homeownership and an even stronger correlation between having children and homeownership,” Crowe said.”
These are the facts about Tamir Rice. He was running around a park with a weapon in hand. The weapon was a toy gun until the food stamp abusing, obamaphone using family he borrowed the phone from filed off the orange tip so it would look like a real gun. At the same time, gunshots were reported in the proximity of the park. The cops, arriving at the park, see a kid running around with a weapon in his hands. If that kid shot your kid while he was swinging on the swings or hanging on the monkey bars, you would be cursing the lack of police coverage in the park and asking for the electric chair for the juvenile. Now shut the F up already.
Obviously the solution is more bike lanes.
The solution is to arm everyone to the teeth, then step back and watch the strongest survive.
I’m confused why the left has their hackles up about this Oregon story, I thought they were cop haters. And one of the main gripes is the mandatory minimum sentence which is also a big lefty cause.
Obviously for anon someone on twitter told him what to think.
BB Guns and pellet guns are not required to have an orange tip.
In my youth, I did far worse and far more irresponsible things with BB guns and 22 cal rifles. My dad still says the cops should have shot me.
“I’m confused why the left has their hackles up about this Oregon story, I thought they were cop haters. And one of the main gripes is the mandatory minimum sentence which is also a big lefty cause.”
You forgot one of their founding precepts, The Hypocrisy of the Left.
There are no principles on that side of the aisle, only political expediency.
It’s how the Predator-in-Chief garnered support to remain in office in 1999, and why they continue to support him to this day. If the tables were reversed and it was a corporate CEO getting hummers from an Oberlin intern in the executive suite they would have had his head in a nanosecond.
They also have an affinity for totalitarianism, it makes them feel warm and snuggly inside. I think they may view this as an affront.
The Real “Ferguson Effect”
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-real-ferguson-effect-increased.html#links
Over the past year, police union-generated media alarmism over the so-called “War on Police” and its kindred “Ferguson Effect” has reached saturation levels. The latter phenomenon supposedly consists of a spike in violent crime on account of the reluctance of police to risk their careers by being “pro-active” in enforcing the law.
Leaving aside the fact that “pro-active” law enforcement is something no sensible person can support, the idea that police have been reduced to petulant paralysis because of public criticism is a telling institutional indictment of the profession. Assuming this to be true, we’re left with the fact that there is no measurable national increase in violent crime.
We shouldn’t expect police apologists to recognize this fact and adjust their opinions accordingly: They are as irrationally invested in the “Ferguson Effect” other collectivists of a slightly different school are attached to the idea of anthropocentric climate change. Perhaps under the authoritarian administration likely to be enthroned in 2017 we will see prosecutions of people accused of “Ferguson Effect Denial.”
As 2015 expires, the year that supposedly found police under siege ends with fewer on-duty violent officer deaths than the previous year, a greater number of citizens killed by police during the same period, and expanded efforts on the part of prosecutors to preserve police impunity. Taken together, those trends constitute the real “Ferguson Effect.”
“BB Guns and pellet guns are not required to have an orange tip.”
Even better. Everyone go buy your kid a bb/pellet gun. Drop your kid off in the middle of Mogadishu (Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, etc.), and then scream bloody murder when he gets shot.
Libturd,
I don’t recall the story including someone reporting gunshots in or near the park. If I’m wrong, I’m wrong. If we’re listing the facts of that story, we need to also include at a minimum: (1) the person who called 911 said they thought the gun was fake, and (2) the cops shot the kid in less than 2 seconds after arriving (with the cops unoriginally claiming they barked all kinds of orders to the kid before shooting, as if that’s even possible in that amount of time).
In my opinion, blame rests with multiple people for that terrible incident.
I’m not out to defend police here either, but I blame the parents of the victims more than anything.
In just about every case of police brutality, the victim has been an asshole. I’m not saying the cop wasn’t an asshole too. But it does seem to me that if your kid is not an asshole, he’s not going to be shot by an asshole cop.
Smith and Wesson up 7.5% pre-open in a flat market.
“But it does seem to me that if your kid is not an asshole, he’s not going to be shot by an asshole cop.”
The kid is dead… and the cop is free. Doesn’t seem equitable. If the cop went to prison for a long time, it would still be a tragic unnecessary killing… but it would be better. The takeaway lesson from incidents such as this cannot simply be “teach your kid to not be an asshole.”
Joyce and anon should go live in gun-free, cop-free zones.
Problem solved. Everyone is happy.
And I think the left should deny the Ferguson Effect. It’s a localized phenomenon, and to try to address it wastes my tax dollars. We should ignore it.
Comrade,
I agree if I grew up with a cop for a father who helped me I might have a different opinion today.
Louis Navellier (sp?) (no right wing loony although anyone to the right of Che is one per anon) on CNBC this morning was asked for a growth stock and he replied “Sturm Ruger”.
When asked why, he said “because Obama is the greatest gun salesman ever.”
Princeton and Columbia are biased in favor of Jews (since the 1960’s)…….Columbia’s student population is attached……. 65% white and asian…… 25% black and latino…. EXTREMELY skewed in their favor given academic credentials…..
https://undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/classprofile.pdf
No Billionaire Left Behind (the good one) says:
January 5, 2016 at 7:41 am
Ivys never accepted Jews, blacks, women, minorities . to this day legacies rule the day
right wingers should stick to right winger skools
[20] Joyce,
I admit I got help from time to time with the occasional ticket, but I also knew not to be an asshole to cops.
If I was one, the cops wouldn’t have beaten me senseless but that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t have been beaten senseless.
Lib is right. Don’t be an asshole to cops and you won’t have a problem.
Also…..note this sickening reference…not in itself, but because they tout it as a badge of honor……Students who self-identified on the Common Application as being of color: 57%
https://undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/classprofile.pdf
Hey Joey. Daddies going deer hunting with his buddies. Here’s a set of antlers and a beige coat to wear.
[22] chi
Don’t hit anon with facts so early in the morning. He can’t process until circle time.
I’m glad you have no problem saying that someone who breaks no laws will receive (and you imply they deserve) punishment up to a death sentence, potentially … while simultaneously absolving the person that actually broke the law of any wrongdoing.
Stupidity as a defense seems to leave much to be desired.
The takeaway lesson from incidents such as this cannot simply be “teach your kid to not be an asshole.”
I agree and the cop in the Tamir Rice incident was no angel himself and was not properly vetted. But I have as much faith in the government as I do with the TSA. The last four times that I’ve flown, I’ve had a lighter in my carry on bag. I still have that lighter.
Are there bad cops? Absolutely. Are their bad Muslims? Absolutely. Are they all bad? Nope. Do you have to put your faith in the government to deal with the bad ones among both groups? Absolutely. I have no faith in the government.
Yup
For Police, Ignorance Excuses
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-12-15/for-police-ignorance-excuses
I also think you have to look at each case individually. As a society, we love to group everything together. Herd mentality.
29
Yes
If I was driving a car with drugs in it, I’d be damn sure all of my lights were working. I probably wouldn’t speed either and would drive extra carefully. Even so, I find that police ignorance defense abhorring.
24. Chi
No joke, with all the self identification going on at application time around Jenner and the NAACP woman my kid and I seriously discussed whether he should check a box other than Caucasian.
I don’t believe the 57% are showing a badge of honor. I believe it is people like me with more ba11s who see what is going on in academia. My guess is a rather large portion of those self identified would burn their creamy freckled skin to a crisp in 20 minutes on a sunny day on the shore.
[34] Left,
This sort of thing was predicted to happen decades ago and I wonder now how much “self identification” has gone on in order to game the system? Interestingly, rather than clamp down on what seems to be abusive, the left wants to open the floodgates.
Well, if the trough is filled, I’m gonna eat. My kids will be self-identified as native american. There’s a scintilla in there somewhere.
I wonder if those Ancestry DNA kits will help. My mother wants to do this and I’m thinking perhaps I don’t want the evidence. Or maybe I do.
Libturd, while you are at it -how about making sure the car is registered, insured, does not have tinted windows and a fart can on the muffler that screams “look at me”
I just read the article Saturday on the guys in Wyckoff that robbed a CVS? Anyhow, the two crooks were caught as they locked themselves out of the getaway car. One had a coat hanger trying to open the doors.
Interesting thought on one of Pumps signature bugaboos:
“For all the intense focus on the roots and extent of income inequality today, most academics are leery of any easy solution. At the same time, they acknowledge that their traditional tools are inadequate for the task.
“There’s no reason the free market will solve this,” Mr. Bloom said.
He believes inequality is being magnified by technological change and what’s known as skills bias, where workers with a particular expertise reap the biggest reward. Neither is amenable to quick fixes.
. . . .
The trend was especially pronounced among the most successful enterprises in the American economy, creating a divergence between the highest-paid people at companies that employ more than 10,000 people and the rest of the work force. In this rarefied circle, overall pay jumped 140 percent versus a 5 percent drop for the typical employee at these corporate behemoths.
The split in compensation between executives and everyone else was much less pronounced at smaller companies, according to the research by Mr. Bloom and his colleagues. At these firms, between 1981 and 2013, top salaries rose 49 percent, while median pay rose 30 percent.
In addition, Mr. Bloom and his team also found a sharp divergence between pay at the most successful companies and also-rans in the same field — think Apple versus BlackBerry. The highest-paid workers cluster at the winners, heightening income disparities in the overall work force. . . . ”
So, Pumpkin, you now have to regulate who can work where. you will need some sort of talent draft so that the skilled workers and winners cannot all gravitate to the same companies. Just like affirmative action, you will need to assess talent and if one company has too much, reassign them to a lesser performer or make that company hire dolts instead.
Or just go all Harrison Bergeron so that we don’t have higher performers. Or in the words of Buddy, “when everyone is super, no one will be.”
LOL – missing poster for our MIA governor.
http://tinyurl.com/z9p7def
Lib, I believe it is less about being an a$$hole and more about the ability to follow directions in a critical situation.
If the police can’t take talk back from a traffic stop or teenager without throttling them they shouldn’t have a badge. Quite frankly, I think a little comeuppance for some of these guys within the Constitutional limits is warranted and healthy.
What I don’t understand, and see on a much lower level in my businesses, is how certain segments react when situations go critical. There is a strata that won’t engage until a situation is critical and at that time react in a way that is contrary to their best interests. Stated more simply, if someone (especially someone with a badge) has a weapon leveled at you it is beyond me how you would not comply with every instruction precisely. Not run, not try to talk your way out, not approach. STFU, get on your knees, and lock your fingers behind your head. Simple.
36 – Pretty sure that generally, it’s the stupid criminals that are caught, not the smart ones…
I had a friend identify as Puerto Rican on the SATs back in the day, as her step father was from the island. Worked she ended up in an IVY
Here is another example of what is wrong with government. All over our print plant we have eye wash stations, similar to the ones that existed in your chemistry class. In my 17 years here, only one has been used and used only once. Outside of the slight alcohol content in press wash, there are no other deep acids or bases in use. Even the chemistry used to develop the metal plates used in printing is only a base of 8.
Well, OSHA is now requiring us to put the eyewash fountains on a heated water line (they have since 2009, but haven’t been enforcing their own rule since even they know it’s pathetic). Now it can’t be the regular hot water line since that would be too hot. It actually has to be lukewarm (tepid). Since one does not have time to adjust the temperature when their pupils are on fire, we need to install an instant hot water heater at each station. This also means, we have to run electricity to each station too. But it get’s better. You still need to supply cold water to eyewash station in case the heating element fails and overheats the water above 100 degrees F. And a mixing valve for when that does happen.
The Great Pussification of America continues. I’m surprised we manufacture anything here whatsoever.
42, Lib
And your company will be shouted down as an unpatriotic, tax avoiding, offshoring piece of trash when management finally says ‘enough of that garbage’ and decides to pack up and leave.
9 DFENS,
Times are different. When I was a kid it was common to walk around with a bb gun and shoot in the woods. Not today. You get shot or go to jail. I get the “safe space” jokes old goats make on this forum also–but the old goats had a chance to get away-the problems were in the schools, written on the bathroom wall, not texted to the entire school population in seconds along with high quality video. Can’t run now. Old goats when they were young goats could get in a car and not be bothered by their employers-no way to text a young goat back then.. Young goats today have to be on call 24/7. Beer old goat- you were driven home to your mommy and daddy and got a spankin’ – not a $3000 fine and one year revocation of your license. Old goats dish out punishments 1000x the punishments they received.
They also dish out bennies to themselves at the same 1000x rate-they gave themselves pensions, S. Security, Cadillac Medicare benefits, etc, then deny a bathroom break for an employee.
Old goats may complain, but they had and still have the best grazing pastures the Americas ever had. Then with greed, they continue to sell off the rest to foreign entities in order to continue to profit.
http://mobile.philly.com/beta?wss=/philly/business&id=364178531
http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=4336423
The school, not the applicants……
leftwing says:
January 5, 2016 at 10:19 am
I don’t believe the 57% are showing a badge of honor.
I had a friend who was Greek with the last name Anninos who seriously considered placing a tilde on the last “n” and self-identify as Spanish to help on college apps….
42. Lib and 43 LW
These are management decisions, made by educated old goats, with degrees from prestigious colleges making these decisions. What is the motivation behind this eyewash debacle? Money would seem to be the obvious motivator- maybe their employer must require them to come up with new ideas each year to pad their employee reviews-then you come up with outlandish ideas like “heated eyewash” and self cleaning toilets….
I was given a great fellowship at Rutgers in graduate school. The proposal’s main theme was to help women and minorities in science and engineering. They ended up selecting me as one of the recipients. Funny part was, they thought I was Hispanic. Once I was filling out the year end paperwork, the secretary asks me why I didn’t check off Hispanic. I told her, “I’m not”. This was a problem because me not doing so put them below their threshold target for grant renewal. I have a feeling that they checked it off for me prior to final submission.
The next year, they couldn’t find enough people to fill their quota, so they brought in visiting students from the University of Puerto Rico and they used them as their minority students.
@42 Maybe just get a portable eyewash station and call it a day. Don’t remember how long the sealed bags are good for but it may be cheaper alternative. Also you are required to test the eyewash monthly to prevent stagnant water which Im sure you are doing.
BTW NFPA 70e is the one that will get you thinking about moving to mexico.
LW,
Packing up and leaving is not the answer. It is for old goats that have their head in the troughs. The adults need to man up and fix the problems they have created.
Oh wait, it’s much easier to dump it on the new guy…..
I’m pretty sure old goats were not shooting out street lights from the sunroof of a moving honda accord or shooting pedestrians in the butt with their bb guns.
Or playing mailbox baseball. Or hiding a cinder block in the leaf piles in the street so when kids ride their bikes through them…endo time.
Old goats…I recall same conversations when I was in my late twenties in the later 1980’s…white guy anger, Social security screwing us, old guys taking care of themselves, minority status on job/college applications…I find it interesting that about 25 years later…not much has changed…
51. D Fens,
I agree. No Honda Accords with sunroofs-you could not get one back then. You had to buy American. And the American old goats gave the other American old goats a job when they purchased Fords, Chevys and Dodges. Both became greedy, the workers, stock owners, corporations.
#35 [CNDP]
I thought you had to be at least 50% Native American to get any kind of preferential treatment.
One of my great-great grandmothers was 100% Mohawk. Counts for nothing. Well, not really as my mom and I had (both gone gray a long time ago) oil black strait hair while the rest of the family are blondes and redheads.
*I have a picture of the squaw and her husband. Damn she was ugly! Must have been a good cook.
53. 1987,
From Wiki, yeah, I know…
Two-tier systems became more common in most industrialized economies in the late 1980s.
The two-tier system of wages is usually established for one of three reasons: 1) The employer wishes to better compensate more senior, ostensibly more experienced and productive workers without increasing overall wage costs; 2) The employer wishes to establish a pay for performance or merit pay wage scheme that compensates more productive employees without increasing overall wage costs; or 3) The employer wishes to reduce overall wage costs by hiring new employees at a wage less than incumbent workers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-tier_system
52 – Lib, speaking of cinder blocks, another amusing game was to run down empty trash cans on garbage day with your car. Rumor had it, when you hit the plastic ones with your car at a certain speed, they shattered.
One homeowner decided to fight back and fill his with bricks rocks and concrete and whatnot. My friend really fcuked up his mother’s minivan when he hit it.
Funny how those who blame unions the most are the ones who were more likely to have been in one or would have had a much easier time of becoming a member of one..
Union membership 2013 11.3%
Union membership in the private sector is 6.6% — levels not seen since 1932.
Union membership 1954 35%- wow, a WHOPPING 35 percent.
If you don’t like unions at 11%, you must really love them at 35%.
So let’s get this straight- 11 percent of the workforce, not the population, is the whole problem in the USA? What about the other 89% of the workforce. Are they the problem? Where is the logic?
Only thing that makes sense would be if you include the Union membership from 1954 to NOW. There are so little union members left, and none of them get the same bennies as the OLD GOATS.
Is it the current members-or the past ones…..
#44 [RR]
During the 70s-80s we/I used to walk down the road with all kinds of guns (no pistols – BB, .22 and shotguns). Cops only stopped to question us if we were carrying a dead animal and then it was “So, where’d ya get it?”.
*Got my first BB gun at 6 years old. It was a gift from one of my grandfathers (WWII combat vet). Though we had numerous chickens, ducks and sometimes cows (veal) and pigs the rats and mice were never numerous…yeah, became an expert rodent (and other animal) sniper.
Flash forward a few years…father and I used to use a high powered rifle (legal back then don’t know now) to exterminate groundhogs/woodchucks on farms. We’d clip the tails off (just about all that was left after getting hit) and bring them back to the farmer. Sometimes as payment for ridding the property of the varmints the farmer would give us a piglet or calf as payment (livestock would break legs stepping in their holes). Had to deliver a calf once! Disgusting! Rode home (50 miles) holding it down in the bed of a pickup truck! Noone cared. Now? A parent would be arrested! (I was 13).
Those were the days…
Americans used to make a good car-then, with a good finance background, they realized-hey, why do physical labor and build a car, when I can get someone else to do it, make more money, and wear a hole in my leather chair while doing it. Soon they no longer fit in that chair and needed a bigger one, along with a bigger house, bigger car, bigger steak, man cave, and Lipitor to control it all.
I remember reading a story in the paper about the WTC,
3 guys huddled up in the burning building until a fireman put his finger through the sheetrock wall and showed them the safe way out. Sheetrock became the cardboard box……
“So let’s get this straight- 11 percent of the workforce, not the population, is the whole problem in the USA?”
A little dramatic.
“Union membership in the private sector is 6.6%” – zero problem
re # 57 – re” run down empty trash cans on garbage day with your car.”
Ah the good ole days when old cars still had chrome bumpers. We made it a point to run down the full garbage cans, driving up lawns if necessary to do so. Picture a speeding 1970s Pontiac Grand Prix full of High School kids blasting some Guns n Roses, driving up on your lawn and taking out your metal garbage can… Take me down to the Paradise City, Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty, Oh won’t you please take me home…
59. NJT,
My point exactly. And you are still here. No one hurt. Today it’s all about money-tickets, fines, penalty. Pay someone to get no points on your license. They don’t care about the points- they want money.
The youth is reacting to the world the adults created for them-
Marketing and Advertising foreign made garbage that they are mentally groomed to think they need.
Authoritarian extremes- put a tack on someone’s chair today and that would be terrorism.
In Chester, NJ, they sent a helicopter to watch a beer party- old goat, would some beer in the woods have required defcon 4?
The police are doing the job they are paid/trained/taught to do. Not their fault. It is the laws that the old goats put into place they are following…. Laws, Lawyers, and lawsuits are gradually strangling the USA.
http://www.nj.com/morris/index.ssf/2013/02/helicopter_scours_chester_town.html
Wow, didn’t think there were so many mailbox and garbage can hit men out there back then!
*Siphoned gas out of a car (not mine or friends) ONCE. Floodlights come on and a fat guy in his fifties come bursting out the front door of the house barefoot in tighty whities. He was a lot faster than we thought and almost got a hold of us! Whew! Never tried that again!
NJT,
Neither did D-FENS.
“Wow, didn’t think there were so many mailbox and garbage can hit men out there back then! “
64,
Even if you did get caught, he probably would not have shot you… Big difference.
Today’s old goats have Mad Cow disease….. cross breeding I guess.
re # 64 – They are still around, some neighborhood kids took out a few mailboxes two years ago. None however have had to balls to take out the garbage cans, we have those big 95 gallon plastic toters that you even have to put out on the street for the truck to pick it up, no driving up on the lawn even needed. If I ever get a weekend car it will have a chrome bumper, and the garbage cans will pay the price again…..
64, NJT
Today that scene would have been videotaped on an Iphone 6 and put on you tube for all to watch by your friend. The look on your face (in 1080p) would have been priceless.
Enough hits, you may have even turned a profit……
“My point exactly. And you are still here. No one hurt. Today it’s all about money-tickets, fines, penalty. …The youth is reacting to the world the adults created for them”
Agree with all your rantings about then v now, and how now is a sham. Am one of the older goats on here so I lived it.
Don’t agree we old goats created the current nanny state. As I think you can see by the comments most of us abhor it.
It’s the current generation putting these ludicrous rules in place, not me.
Oh and by the way the Lecturer-in-Chief just jumped the shark in his Exec Order news conference on guns.
Started crying at the podium. Unbelievable.
So, I guess the point of my story is that, is it not a tragedy that Tamir Rice is dead? How can anyone argue that it isn’t? Like we were, he was a child, still learning how to make good decisions.
Boo-hoo. Whatcha going to do about that Phoenix?
Stand up for your (and your kids’) right to not have outlying behavior by a miniscule fraction of the population used for a political cause to further tighten the strap around your legal behavior?
Or fall in line under the altar of PC you created and then blame all us old goats?
Your call. Grow a pair.
Anon, however, gleefully exploits that tragedy to his own political ends and blames his political opposition.
I read the press releases for the upcoming exec. actions. As expected, they are much ado about nothing, except this:
“Quantity and frequency of sales are relevant indicators. There is no specific threshold number of firearms purchased or sold that triggers the licensure requirement. But it is important to note that even a few transactions, when combined with other evidence, can be sufficient to establish that a person is “engaged in the business.” For example, courts have upheld convictions for dealing without a license when as few as two firearms were sold or when only one or two transactions took place, when other factors also were present.”
What does that mean? It means that the feds will come down on private sales and try to argue that these sellers are “in the business” whether they are or not. Picture that you inherited Grandpa’s hunting rifle and a shotgun but you don’t want them. So you decide to sell them on eBay. Someone answers the ad, engages you in some small talk and learns that you have these guns but never shot them and want to sell them. That person turns out to be an ATF agent and you are under arrest.
Eventually the charges get dropped and you ask for the guns back. They tell you that the guns were either destroyed or seized, and if you want them, sue.
That’s how it plays out now. All the president is promising is more of this.
72.
Each generation adds to the pile. None of this happened overnight. It came in layers and piled on. The generation after yours added it’s part, and so forth.
I did not create an altar of anything, PC or otherwise.
I will always stand up for my child’s rights, and other children’s rights- they were here without any choice of their own, to parents they cannot choose, in an economic/social/financial condition that happens to be in place at the time they were born.
Maybe you don’t care, I don’t know. Maybe you only care about yourself and your children and grandchildren. Your choice. Perfectly well within your rights. Maybe you donate millions to charity. Don’t know, don’t care, does not matter. This is not personal.
I care about America. Adults make the changes, and of all age groups, the adults the politicians pander to the most are the oldest generations. Bottom line. Follow link, or do your own research if you don’t like mine. Question, why exactly do you think Barak was voted in-not only once, but twice? How exactly did we get to this point, and what part did the older population have a part in shaping that future….
http://www.people-press.org/2006/10/18/who-votes-who-doesnt-and-why/
I dont read any big deal
Gun Violence Reduction Executive Actions:
1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system.
2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.
3. Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system.
4. Direct the Attorney General to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks.
5. Propose rulemaking to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun.
6. Publish a letter from ATF to federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to run background checks for private sellers.
7. Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign.
8. Review safety standards for gun locks and gun safes (Consumer Product Safety Commission).
9. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.
10. Release a DOJ report analyzing information on lost and stolen guns and make itwidely available to law enforcement.
11. Nominate an ATF director.
12. Provide law enforcement, first responders, and school officials with proper training for active shooter situations.
13. Maximize enforcement efforts to prevent gun violence and prosecute gun crime.
14. Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.
15. Direct the Attorney General to issue a report on the availability and most effectiveuse of new gun safety technologies and challenge the private sector to developinnovative technologies.
16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.
17. Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities.
18. Provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers.
19. Develop model emergency response plans for schools, houses of worship and institutions of higher education.
20. Release a letter to state health officials clarifying the scope of mental health services that Medicaid plans must cover.
21. Finalize regulations clarifying essential health benefits and parity requirements within ACA exchanges.
22. Commit to finalizing mental health parity regulations.
23. Launch a national dialogue led by SecretariesSebelius and Duncan on mental health.
It does not appear that any of the executive orders would have any impact on the guns people currently own-or would like to purchase- and that all proposals regarding limiting the availability of assault weapons or large ammunition magazines will be proposed for Congressional action. As such, any potential effort to create a constitutional crisis—or the leveling of charges that the White House has overstepped its executive authority—would hold no validity.
#42. HOLY SHIT
chicagofinance says:
December 10, 2015 at 11:11 am
Dropping my kids off at school this morning……local teachers are working without a contract…….message to Union reps……you look like entitled and clueless a%%holes when you put huge placards on your car dashboards with harsh comments about how you are working without a contract and the school Board is screwing you ……when your fcuking car is a brand new Mercedes station wagon which is MUCH nicer than either one of my cars…….and frankly is the nicest car in the entire lot…….
Essex says:
December 10, 2015 at 11:50 am
Ben,
Come on man. Interjecting reality into knee- jerk stupidity.
P.S. I may be shallow, but I don’t trust financial advisors who drive crappy cars any more than I would a salesman who tools around town in a rusty minivan.
chicagofinance says:
December 10, 2015 at 4:01 pm
Do you understand my point? Don’t be a representative for a class that is supposedly suffering when you clearly are not…….it is pure lack of self-awareness…..which implies lack of empathy…….which implies they don’t give a sh!t how it looks….which implies they don’t give a sh!t about the town…..I’m not saying it is true; it just looks unseemly…..
and now………………………
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#72, I LOVE YOU!
Good stuff. Thanks for the share. Appreciate it.
Comrade Nom Deplume, Right Wing Extremist (per anon) says:
January 5, 2016 at 10:49 am
Interesting thought on one of Pumps signature bugaboos:
“For all the intense focus on the roots and extent of income inequality today, most academics are leery of any easy solution. At the same time, they acknowledge that their traditional tools are inadequate for the task.
“There’s no reason the free market will solve this,” Mr. Bloom said.
He believes inequality is being magnified by technological change and what’s known as skills bias, where workers with a particular expertise reap the biggest reward. Neither is amenable to quick fixes.
. . . .
The trend was especially pronounced among the most successful enterprises in the American economy, creating a divergence between the highest-paid people at companies that employ more than 10,000 people and the rest of the work force. In this rarefied circle, overall pay jumped 140 percent versus a 5 percent drop for the typical employee at these corporate behemoths.
The split in compensation between executives and everyone else was much less pronounced at smaller companies, according to the research by Mr. Bloom and his colleagues. At these firms, between 1981 and 2013, top salaries rose 49 percent, while median pay rose 30 percent.
In addition, Mr. Bloom and his team also found a sharp divergence between pay at the most successful companies and also-rans in the same field — think Apple versus BlackBerry. The highest-paid workers cluster at the winners, heightening income disparities in the overall work force. . . . ”
So, Pumpkin, you now have to regulate who can work where. you will need some sort of talent draft so that the skilled workers and winners cannot all gravitate to the same companies. Just like affirmative action, you will need to assess talent and if one company has too much, reassign them to a lesser performer or make that company hire dolts instead.
Or just go all Harrison Bergeron so that we don’t have higher performers. Or in the words of Buddy, “when everyone is super, no one will be.”
Powerful post! Just wow.
That’s what you call powerful propaganda. Blaming 11% of the population for all the problems. When you break down the stats, you have to question how can 11% of the population be responsible for all the problems that are claimed.
Nice job pointing this out.
Raymond Reddington formerly Phoenix says: says:
January 5, 2016 at 11:35 am
Funny how those who blame unions the most are the ones who were more likely to have been in one or would have had a much easier time of becoming a member of one..
Union membership 2013 11.3%
Union membership in the private sector is 6.6% — levels not seen since 1932.
Union membership 1954 35%- wow, a WHOPPING 35 percent.
If you don’t like unions at 11%, you must really love them at 35%.
So let’s get this straight- 11 percent of the workforce, not the population, is the whole problem in the USA? What about the other 89% of the workforce. Are they the problem? Where is the logic?
Only thing that makes sense would be if you include the Union membership from 1954 to NOW. There are so little union members left, and none of them get the same bennies as the OLD GOATS.
Is it the current members-or the past ones…..
You are seriously a good guy. Too bad people like you never get to be in charge and make the rules of the game.
Raymond Reddington formerly Phoenix says: says:
January 5, 2016 at 12:58 pm
72.
Each generation adds to the pile. None of this happened overnight. It came in layers and piled on. The generation after yours added it’s part, and so forth.
I did not create an altar of anything, PC or otherwise.
I will always stand up for my child’s rights, and other children’s rights- they were here without any choice of their own, to parents they cannot choose, in an economic/social/financial condition that happens to be in place at the time they were born.
Maybe you don’t care, I don’t know. Maybe you only care about yourself and your children and grandchildren. Your choice. Perfectly well within your rights. Maybe you donate millions to charity. Don’t know, don’t care, does not matter. This is not personal.
I care about America. Adults make the changes, and of all age groups, the adults the politicians pander to the most are the oldest generations. Bottom line. Follow link, or do your own research if you don’t like mine. Question, why exactly do you think Barak was voted in-not only once, but twice? How exactly did we get to this point, and what part did the older population have a part in shaping that future….
http://www.people-press.org/2006/10/18/who-votes-who-doesnt-and-why/
79 looks like you got a secret admirer
“Question, why exactly do you think Barak was voted in-not only once, but twice?”
White guilt. It won’t happen again. Plus, humans have always been suckers when it comes to smooth speakers. Trump is another smooth speaker.
Have you guys heard his first commercial? I had to check to see if it was a parity.
78. Puleeeaz.
no, we go way back on here. I like his or her brain. They say what I want to really want to say better than I could type it. I have so many people on here who think like me, the PA guy, Anon the good one, its so hopeful!! It makes me almost want to move to Asheville so I can get my blood pressureand head to explode again. Its so unusually to live in a place where people think like you. So I come on here to get my Blood pressure up . But there a few on here who do think like me.
but remember , I LOVE YOU ALL. OZZY
sober me another year. 2016, boring but simple.
My secret admirer is Pumps.
shoddy record keeping, nothing intentional
Chicago lawyer resigns after judge finds he hid evidence in fatal police shooting of black teen
By MICHAEL TARM, Associated Press
Posted Jan. 5, 2016 at 10:57 AM
CHICAGO (AP) — A top city of Chicago lawyer stepped down after a federal judge accused him of hiding evidence in a fatal police shooting, the latest allegation of wrongdoing amid ongoing scrutiny of how the city deals with such cases.
Separately, the city agency that investigates police shootings vowed greater transparency, saying Monday that it would start divulging some details of active cases as it tries to bolster public confidence in the process.
Since November, Chicago has been dealing with fallout from the release of a video showing a white officer fatally shooting black teenager Laquan McDonald. The video prompted protests and led to a wide-ranging civil rights investigation of the entire police department by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Monday’s 72-page opinion from U.S. District Judge Edmond Chang was part of a civil lawsuit brought by relatives of Darius Pinex, a black man, who was shot and killed by police during a 2011 traffic stop in Chicago.
The officers, Raoul Mosqueda and Gildardo Sierra, said they opened fire as Pinex refused orders and put his car in reverse. The officers had said they stopped Pinex because his car matched a description they heard on their police radio of a car suspected of involvement in an earlier shooting. But records emerged after the trial began that officers weren’t listening to the channel broadcasting the radio traffic about the suspect’s car. The judge said a city lawyer “intentionally concealed” that evidence.
The judge on Monday tossed a jury’s finding in April that the police shooting was justified, ordered a new trial and instructed the city to pay attorney’s fees to the plaintiffs.
“Attorneys who might be tempted to bury late-surfacing information need to know that, if discovered, any verdict they win will be forfeit and their clients will pay the price,” the judge wrote. He said Jordan Marsh, a senior corporation counsel, also later lied about when he was aware of the evidence.
The judge also accused the law department, which defends city employees accused of wrongdoing, of shoddy record-keeping, saying it contributed to the problem in the Pinex case.
#86..as a proud parent of a now NCSU alum and another child going into the UNC system…”Asheville”..I get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOY housing prices
State12-month price changeAlabama2.9%Alaska1%Arizona5.9%Arkansas1.8%California7.4%Colorado10.4%Connecticut1.6%Delaware3.3%District of Columbia2.9%Florida7.9%Georgia6.2%Hawaii6.3%Idaho8.5%Illinois2.4%Indiana3%Iowa3.5%Kansas2.8%Kentucky2%Louisiana-1.6%Maine3.2%Maryland1.1%Massachusetts4.1%Michigan4.1%Minnesota4.2%Mississippi-3%Missouri5.3%Montana4.4%Nebraska4.9%Nevada7.7%New Hampshire3.6%New Jersey2.3%New Mexico-0.7%New York6.3%North Carolina4.9%North Dakota6.7%Ohio3.5%Oklahoma2.4%Oregon9.0%Pennsylvania1.4%Rhode Island5.2%South Carolina6.6%South Dakota6%Tennessee5.7%Texas7.0%Utah6.7%Vermont1.8%Virginia1.6%Washington10.2%West Virginia2%Wisconsin4.1%Wyoming3.4%U.S.6.3%
#90, I do plan on picking up a nice little vacation cabin in Western NC!! Lets be honest the nature is beautiful in Asheville so its worth a little spin. Your really were lucky to have some great vacation spots!! Congrats to your kids, you did well!!
Watch out bad mouthing OSHA Stu – you might get branded a sweatshopper because your eyewashes aren’t 98.6 degrees.
Just wait until you piss off one of your employees, and they rat something out to OSHA. You know, like being able to have a drink within 25 feet of those press chemicals. BOOM $30,000 fine for unsafe work conditions.
You are lucky, surprised you don’t need safety showers too. Which, by the way, also need to be tempered.
“Maybe you don’t care, I don’t know. Maybe you only care about yourself and your children and grandchildren. Your choice. Perfectly well within your rights. Maybe you donate millions to charity. Don’t know, don’t care, does not matter. This is not personal. I care about America.”
I care about much more than my family, however, I could give a sh1t about America right now.
Saying this in a very serious, non-emotional, not satirical tone:
It is broken, and has likely passed a point beyond which it can return.
Like any thriving, vibrant being the death throes will be long. But make no mistake, the trajectory is down and it is in a dive from which it cannot escape. The combination of relatively inert social, political, and economic elements have formed a volatile compound which endpoint is ‘boom’.
Who blamed what on union members?
Criticizing laws that mandate union membership and give special favors to union organizers is different from blaming union members.
In general I feel sorry for union members. I certainly felt sad for myself when union membership was mandatory for my job.
The only people I’ve ever seen who were enthusiastic about the union were the low performers, the pinko types, and the union elites. I’m talking about unions in the US. It’s possible that in other countries unions aren’t as aggressively anti-individual-performance as they seem to be in the US.
It is broken, and has likely passed a point beyond which it can return.
“Like any thriving, vibrant being the death throes will be long. But make no mistake, the trajectory is down and it is in a dive from which it cannot escape. The combination of relatively inert social, political, and economic elements have formed a volatile compound which endpoint is ‘boom’.”
Not sure what period in American history since the 1850’s really were much better..when you peel back the “veneer” of history and delve into the actual day to day lives of the “average” American….I’ll go with the thought
that we are actually better educated, more culturally aware and better positioned for the future than ever before….
[76] yome
You have the luxury of being ignorant of the law and how it would be implemented. I don’t.
“It does not appear that any of the executive orders would have any impact on the guns people currently own-or would like to purchase”
False. In my earlier post, which commented directly on the words written by the White House which I quoted, indicate that they are looking to step up enforcement and deem individuals, who were never intended to be licensed dealers, as such.
” all proposals regarding limiting the availability of assault weapons or large ammunition magazines will be proposed for Congressional action.”
You need an executive action for that?
As for no validity that there is a constitutional crisis, then you must accept the fact that there was no constitutional crisis when Nixon sicced the IRS on his political opponents. or when the Bush administration (allegedly) spy on people within the United States for possible terrorism. Because that is what’s going to happen here, the Obama administration is going after political opponents and trying to chill the market for private firearms sales by threatening prosecution for anybody who they deem to be a dealer.
The rest of the executive order provisions were fine. I see no constitutional infirmity and no basis to allege that they contravene law.
As for Obama statement that “I’m not coming after your guns”, that is true in a very strict, technical sense. That would require him to pay for them and would result in years of litigation in the court of Federal claims or other courts over 5th amendment takings. Instead, what the left is doing, what they have always been trying to do, is what we call “inverse condemnation”. It’s the same reason that Obama, while a state legislator, supported a 500% tax increase on ammunition. In short, Obama and left will say “you can keep your guns, but we’re not going to let you ever use them.”
97
Allegedly? really?
In Ohio it is 100% legal to walk around in public with a gun openly in your hand, no permit necessary. So Tamir Rice was doing absolutely nothing that afternoon that the good citizens of Ohio didn’t already approve of when they passed their gun laws. Unfortunately he was black while doing it. Whether or not his toy gun looked real is immaterial. But thanks for posting your racist, poor bashing tirade, it’s fun watching ignorant trash such as yourself attempt reason.
Libturd supporting the Canklephate says:
January 5, 2016 at 8:50 am
“These are the facts about Tamir Rice. He was running around a park with a weapon in hand. The weapon was a toy gun until the food stamp abusing, obamaphone using family he borrowed the phone from filed off the orange tip so it would look like a real gun. At the same time, gunshots were reported in the proximity of the park. The cops, arriving at the park, see a kid running around with a weapon in his hands. If that kid shot your kid while he was swinging on the swings or hanging on the monkey bars, you would be cursing the lack of police coverage in the park and asking for the electric chair for the juvenile. Now shut the F up already.”
Shh! I don’t want clot showing up at my door with a shotgun in a jealous rage.
Libturd supporting the Canklephate says:
January 5, 2016 at 3:04 pm
My secret admirer is Pumps.
Without unions there would have never been a middle class. It’s also fun watching morons such as yourself defend the good moral fiber of the super wealthy and their free market. Thousands of years of slavery and pollution thanks to the pursuit of profit never happened, right?
Ragnar says:
January 5, 2016 at 4:36 pm
Who blamed what on union members?
Criticizing laws that mandate union membership and give special favors to union organizers is different from blaming union members.
In general I feel sorry for union members. I certainly felt sad for myself when union membership was mandatory for my job.
The only people I’ve ever seen who were enthusiastic about the union were the low performers, the pinko types, and the union elites. I’m talking about unions in the US. It’s possible that in other countries unions aren’t as aggressively anti-individual-performance as they seem to be in the US.
“Thousands of years of slavery and pollution thanks to the pursuit of profit never happened, right?”
I would think the thousands of years of slavery derive more from the totalitarian control nature of rulers from your side of the aisle.
[99] footrest
“In Ohio it is 100% legal to walk around in public with a gun openly in your hand, no permit necessary.”
So why do you lefties get freaked out by open carry rallies?
“it’s fun watching ignorant trash such as yourself attempt reason.”
It sure is. You are a constant source of amusement
Can you walk around with a gun in your hand in Ohio? or does it have to be holstered?
[104] Joyce
Don’t get sucked in. It’s a poor, fallacious argument. Sadly, it’s also the best he can do.
RE: how to treat cops, practical experience from a serial offender (me)
I grew up with no “in” with cops (no relatives that were cops, no PBA card, etc.), and I also had a bad habit of driving fast…not just on the highway, everywhere. I got pulled over and ticketed early and often from 17-24 years old, even had my license suspended. The benefit to me of all this police interaction was I got good at it. I learned how cops acted and, more importantly, I learned how not to act. The most valuable advice I can offer is that you can throw just about any cop back on his heels a bit with one key trait: be honest. Think about what a beat or traffic cop experiences each and every day when they encounter an offender…they get lied to…badly…each and every freakin’ day after day. I choose the opposite approach. If I was caught speeding, I look them in the eye and tell them exactly how fast I think I was going. If I had a drink or five I’ll tell them exactly how many drinks I’ve had. They have always been so floored with my honesty that they cut me a break each and every time. Psychologically I think they place me on the right side of the blue line by acting this way. Who are the only people who are honest with cops? Answer: other cops. My last ticket was in 1996 and I’ve been pulled over at least a dozen times since then with no tickets. If you want to up your game: 1. Don’t drive a ghetto car. 2. Have short hair. 3. Be older than the cop that pulls you over. If you are a woman, just be hot.
Expat,
You’ve said that or very similar multiple times already… and I’ll refrain from repeating my previous responses, but I will still call bullsh!t on this:
“If I had a drink or five I’ll tell them exactly how many drinks I’ve had.”
1) awful advice
2) I dare you
Meh. Asheville is for retirees and hipster craft beer sippers.
pumps (100)-
If I show up at your door with a shotgun, best you bend over and kiss your ass goodbye. I got a woman already.
“Shh! I don’t want clot showing up at my door with a shotgun in a jealous rage.”
Geezus Trump is hitting all of the hot buttons in NH.
The man is going to Trounce.
106. Cops are an interesting bunch. Lately the one’s who’ve pulled me over have been basically just looking to score revenue.
Pretty good article. It also is a good sign of an improving labor market when they are putting out articles like this.
“First, we need to understand the nine worst things that managers do that send good people packing”
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/8870074
109- lol..nice comeback!
My heart’s a little broken, but hey, still have my libturd.
Meanwhile in real estate news just saw a posting from a real e d Tate team in brigadoon ( the original) that stated that area estate values are up 22 percent in the last 24 months!! Yes you read that right!! That’s what they posted!! Amazing they could post such a shocking falsehood!!
Selling real estate involves promulgating a slowly rotating carousel of lies.
Sorry I don’t feel your white guilt Otto. Last I checked Gitmo was still open for business.
3b (114)-
It’s just ‘puffery’. Or so several state Supreme Courts would invite you to believe.
I swapped out white guilt for broken glass as my breakfast of choice about three decades ago.
Cankles. Cankles. Goddamit, that should get gluteus to show his nancy ass here…
Check out this article, it takes a pro stance for renting as opposed to buying. Then check out these comments totally rip his argument to shreds. You have to be naive to think renting is better than owning. Very naive.
“You know, I looked everywhere in the article, and didn’t see a single spot that counts the $50,000 in direct tax savings from mortgage interest deductions (in the 15% bracket – more if in a higher bracket), nor do I see the computation considering that entire amount of capital gain is excludable for a couple, and almost all of it excludable for an individual, which saves another $100,000 in tax. Is there a capital gain exclusion for the investment income that the author is aware of that none of the rest of us are? And there’s also nothing in the article indicating the benefit of deducting property tax, which the renter pays directly on behalf of the landlord monthly, while giving a deduction to the landlord on top of that annually.
I’m thinking that either someone is trying to sell us something here, or they’re just really plain bad at financial analysis. Either way, article gets an “F”. Sorry. Go back and do it right.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-get-rich-renting-instead-of-buying-a-home-2015-12
“Sounds good, but a conservative 7% yearly return is simply a gamble as we’ve seen people lose hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past decade from the economical collapse. I’ll also add the fact that the average 33 year-old does NOT have anywhere near 45k to put down on a home or savings. As a homeowner, you have to take into account that a $235k home is worth $485k at 3% appreciation after 30 years, and $649k at 4% appreciation. For a better example, I purchased my home with fixed rates in 2012 at age 26 for 160k and right now it’s valued at 208k. Lastly, you have to consider that in 26 years at the latest, I’ll be mortgage free meanwhile the renter is forever paying whatever the current market rates are which rises 3-5% each year on average and they are not allowed any property/interest deductions via taxes, whereas homeowners are. So unless the renter plans to earn a salary increase each year forever at some point they are going to experience a increase of expenses which could cause problems in retirement because most are on fixed income. Owning the home allows me more freedom to live mortgage free, rent a room out if I desired, rent the home out and travel at retirement, or sell the home entirely and move, a renter doesn’t have these options.”
#103 TinPotMcCarthy
In Ohio it is 100% legal to walk around in public with a gun openly in your hand, no permit necessary.”
So why do you lefties get freaked out by open carry rallies?
post hoc ergo propter hoc?
#119 Clot
I was being nice and staying away from you.
Here are my predictions for this year. Gooners win the league, Wenger retires and Pep replaces him. Toon and the Mackems for the drop. Mikey doesn’t sell. We beat Barca in the Champions League and go on to win it.
“9. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.”
He11 Yea!
Finally, trace the guns from the factory and people better be accountable. Yes some people will be burglarized, but if you are losing guns on a regular basis, you better have a good explanation. I would like this expanded to laser etch ammo.
Fabius Maximus says:
January 5, 2016 at 10:37 pm
#103 TinPotMcCarthy
In Ohio it is 100% legal to walk around in public with a gun openly in your hand, no permit necessary.”
So why do you lefties get freaked out by open carry rallies?
post hoc ergo propter hoc?”
You keep using that phrase. I don’t think it means what you think it means.
Otto.
Your opinion of me is about as valuable to me (and others here) as a used condom. Actually, perhaps I shouldn’t say that? After all, a used condom can be valuable when evaluating Democratic presidents facing impeachment over fukcing everything and anything with two legs. As for your oft repeated and simple and immature implication of my alleged racist nature and ignorance. I can only offer a commonly used expletive still used frequently in the section eight homesteads that nearly seventy years of liberal social policies have systemically, and some may argue, have intentionally been maintained…Nigga please!
“But thanks for posting your racist, poor bashing tirade, it’s fun watching ignorant trash such as yourself attempt reason. “
[123] Narcisstic Brit
Compensating for something again? As long as I’ve known you, you’ve lived vicariously through your gooners. Still angry about the shift you have to work, or is it something a little more personal?
FWIW, my friends were curious about my antipathy toward the Gooners. I tell them “well, there was this one guy … “
[126] lib
Surprised you used that much text on him. If it wasn’t for voice recognition, I wouldn’t reply to him at all. Not worth the effort.
I just want to know how North Korea was able to order a Hydrogen bomb without a background check.
#closethehydrogenbombloophole
Simply check how much Kim Jong-un donated to the Cankle Foundation.
From the Brady campaign against gun violence? #stopbadappledealers
Last year, President Obama was the number one weapons dealer in the world
http://rare.us/story/last-year-america-was-the-worlds-biggest-arms-dealer/
Half-witted Aaron Sorkin TV show rants aside, the United States is number one in plenty of global categories. Unfortunately, one of those is weapons sold to other countries—and there’s very little competition. The New York Times reports:
Foreign arms sales by the United States jumped by almost $10 billion in 2014, about 35 percent, even as the global weapons market remained flat and competition among suppliers increased, a new congressional study has found.
American weapons receipts rose to $36.2 billion in 2014 from $26.7 billion the year before, bolstered by multibillion-dollar agreements with Qatar, Saudi Arabia and South Korea. Those deals and others ensured that the United States remained the single largest provider of arms around the world last year, controlling just over 50 percent of the market.
The luckiest recipient of our ordnance largesse was South Korea, which is looking to beef up its military capacity after increased aggression from the north. But note those other clients: Saudi Arabia and Qatar. These are our purported allies, but recently they’ve acted against our interests, deserting the fight against the Islamic State to blow apart Yemen and arming Syrian rebels groups that include unabashed Salafists. They’re also some of the biggest supporters of terrorism in the world, with extreme Wahhabist Islam integrated into the Saudi government and Gulf donors funneling money to everyone from the Islamic State to al-Qaeda.
Yet the weapons continue to flow.
This is par for the course. Over the past 60 years, Saudi Arabia has built one of the most lethal militaries in the Middle East thanks to the generosity of the United States. The Kingdom struck $80 billion in arms deals with Washington between 1950 and 2006, and an additional $90.4 billion has been approved since 2010 under the purview of our Nobel Peace Prize-winning, gun control-loving president. The Obama administration has also announced that it will begin selling drones to our Gulf allies. Today, Saudi Arabia is the biggest arms importer in the world, and many of those weapons come from American vendors.
It’s also an archaic monarchy with no conception of democracy and an abysmal human rights record. That shouldn’t rule it out for American friendship—sometimes we need to work with unsavory characters—but its aforementioned record of poking us in the eyes should. How difficult would it be to impose prohibitions on arms sales to the Gulf states until they crack down on terrorism and rejoin the fight against the Islamic State? We’d need to corral other nations that deal with the Saudis, particularly France, but if we can enforce sanctions on the Iranian economy then why can’t we limit weapons sales to Saudi Arabia?
One final question. As the New York Times points out, the United States is responsible for half of the global weapons market. As al-Nusra steals our equipment in Syria and ISIS drives our Humvees around Iraq, is the dubious honor of “#1 arms dealer” really something we want?
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