Election 2010: Teabaggin' the Ds & Rs

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Adder

What criteria are you looking at to decide what "works?"



Amazing.

Also, I do not think DC is expensive as you think.

I'll be there this weekend and let you know how much lighter my wallet is for the trip (removing travel expenses, of course).

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Cletus Miller

Of course not, but your leverage adjustment would have happened with the move, regardless of the market direction.

Actually, the leverage adjustment primarily has to do with my decisions about financing.

Also, you bought a bigger, newer place, didn't you?

Yes. Cheaper too, but not that much cheaper.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I'll be there this weekend and let you know how much lighter my wallet is for the trip (removing travel expenses, of course).

Let me know if you need any tips on where to lighten your wallet.

[Cletus Miller]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

It was but compromise should have meant moving it north.

Should have proposed it as three bills and put the cut for over $500k to vote first, then for over $250k, then for under $250k. Could have tied the "D" issues to either of the first two pieces. Just get everyone actually on record where they stand on the individual pieces--oh, you say no one likes that because it makes it harder for everyone to get re-elected?--yeah, because that, and not the good of the country, is priorities 1, 2 and 3 on Capitol Hill.

Illinois passed the civil union bill *ONLY* because enough D members of the State House weren't re-elected--they wouldn't have had the courage to vote their conscience if they might have to defend the vote TWO YEARS from now. Feckless, spineless, self-interested fucks.

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

(NOTE: If someone wanted to marry their pet, shouldn't we allow that? What better way to remove an idiot from the gene pool?)

it's not the right time to be sober
now the idiots have taken over
spreading like a social cancer, is there an answer?

Mensa membership conceding
tell me why and how are all the stupid people breeding
Watson, it's really elementary
the industrial revolution
has flipped the bitch on evolution
the benevolent and wise are being thwarted, ostracized, what a bummer
the world keeps getting dumber
insensitivity is standard and faith is being fancied over reason

darwin's rollin over in his coffin
the fittest are surviving much less often
now everything seems to be reversing, and it's worsening
someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool
now angry mob mentality's no longer the exception, it's the rule
and im startin to feel a lot like charlton heston
stranded on a primate planet
apes and orangutans that ran it to the ground
with generals and the armies that obeyed them
followers following fables
philosophies that enable them to rule without regard

there's no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated
political scientists get the same one vote as some Arkansas inbred
majority rule, don't work in mental institutions
sometimes the smallest softest voice carries the grand biggest solutions

what are we left with?
a nation of god-fearing pregnant nationalists
who feel it's their duty to populate the homeland
pass on traditions
how to get ahead religions
And prosperity via simpleton culture

the idiots are takin over

[Cletus Miller]

Originally Posted by Adder

Actually, the leverage adjustment primarily has to do with my decisions about financing.



Yes. Cheaper too, but not that much cheaper.

You mean you put more $$ down? Because lower rate =/= less gearing.

Also, what did that have to do with the 10% off on each side of your exchange? Which is where I got the idea from.

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Cletus Miller

... tehgays ...?

Speaking of autocorrect, here this the U.S. as created by Google's autocorrect function.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Cletus Miller

You mean you put more $$ down?

Actually, for the moment anyway, I paid cash. Already had two mortgages on the old place, and was technically unemployed at the time of purchase, and had the luxury of having the cash.

Once the DC sale happens, I plan to change that.

Also, what did that have to do with the 10% off on each side of your exchange? Which is where I got the idea from.

Nothing. I didn't mean to imply anything. Two separate thoughts.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Adder

Let me know if you need any tips on where to lighten your wallet.

My sister and her husband are pros in that arena. I fear going out with them. Thankfully, Sat night is a birthday party for a friend, so aside from the cost of a bottle of Johnny Green* to lubricate ourselves beforehand, that evening is covered.

*I have yet to enjoy this in a condition in which I can truly, accurately claim to have appreciated the flavor.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

My sister and her husband are pros in that arena. I fear going out with them. Thankfully, Sat night is a birthday party for a friend, so aside from the cost of a bottle of Johnny Green* to lubricate ourselves beforehand, that evening is covered.

*I have yet to enjoy this in a condition in which I can truly, accurately claim to have appreciated the flavor.

Green sucks. seriously. get a good single or go with black (or gold/blue if "splurging is in order) but never ever buy green.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Green sucks. seriously. get a good single or go with black (or gold/blue if "splurging is in order) but never ever buy green.

I'm tired of Black and Gold and Blue's too much. Green's the member of the family I don't know well. I feel like I owe it a roll in the hay. (Not that my family rolls in the hay with one another... just that that I've such severely damaged short term memory I can't manage to keep a metaphor straight.)

[Cletus Miller]

Originally Posted by Adder

Actually, for the moment anyway, I paid cash. Already had two mortgages on the old place, and was technically unemployed at the time of purchase, and had the luxury of having the cash.

Once the DC sale happens, I plan to change that.

Then, at the moment, your gearing is much higher, having dumped your liquidity. Also, are you *certain* you can get a cashout (re-)fi? Underwriting is a lot tougher, esp. for condos--if you aren't totally approved already, there's a meaningful risk you won't get a conforming loan.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

it's not the right time to be sober
now the idiots have taken over
spreading like a social cancer, is there an answer?

Mensa membership conceding
tell me why and how are all the stupid people breeding
Watson, it's really elementary
the industrial revolution
has flipped the bitch on evolution
the benevolent and wise are being thwarted, ostracized, what a bummer
the world keeps getting dumber
insensitivity is standard and faith is being fancied over reason

darwin's rollin over in his coffin
the fittest are surviving much less often
now everything seems to be reversing, and it's worsening
someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool
now angry mob mentality's no longer the exception, it's the rule
and im startin to feel a lot like charlton heston
stranded on a primate planet
apes and orangutans that ran it to the ground
with generals and the armies that obeyed them
followers following fables
philosophies that enable them to rule without regard

there's no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated
political scientists get the same one vote as some Arkansas inbred
majority rule, don't work in mental institutions
sometimes the smallest softest voice carries the grand biggest solutions

what are we left with?
a nation of god-fearing pregnant nationalists
who feel it's their duty to populate the homeland
pass on traditions
how to get ahead religions
And prosperity via simpleton culture

the idiots are takin over

Born To Run hypothesizes that our ability to distance run was the evolutionary advantage that pushed us past the Neanderthal. The clearest proof that evolution has been removed as an equalizer can be seen if you look at a distance road race. One goes right by my house- the strides are 50% terrible, like these people would not survive, or should not survive, if running was still a survival requirement, and for that matter that was 50
5 of those that run. Imagine what percentage of people run in races, and assume the rest are also bad runners. sheeesh.

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I'm tired of Black and Gold and Blue's too much. Green's the member of the family I don't know well. I feel like I owe it a roll in the hay. (Not that my family rolls in the hay with one another... just that that I've such severely damaged short term memory I can't manage to keep a metaphor straight.)

I like the Green, but when are they going to sell the Swing in the U.S.?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I'm tired of Black and Gold and Blue's too much. Green's the member of the family I don't know well. I feel like I owe it a roll in the hay. (Not that my family rolls in the hay with one another... just that that I've such severely damaged short term memory I can't manage to keep a metaphor straight.)

try it. you owe that to yourself. but if you like it, then you are ignorant of scotch- (hi Less!)