It is a good investment right now. My parents are considering buying a second down in Florida for rental income.
Thank youUzique The Lesser wrote:
congratulations.
It's actually terrible right now. A year ago, yes, but now the market is flooded and rents are dropping while home prices are rising.Macbeth wrote:
It is a good investment right now. My parents are considering buying a second down in Florida for rental income.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
After all the admissions by banking and wall street execs about knowingly selling, approving and bundling bad loans and securities and you still want to pretend it was the CRA that caused the GFC? Really? You can't be that ignorant, jay.Jay wrote:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/ … story.htmlThe Obama administration is engaged in a broad push to make more home loans available to people with weaker credit, an effort that officials say will help power the economic recovery but that skeptics say could open the door to the risky lending that caused the housing crash in the first place.
President Obama’s economic advisers and outside experts say the nation’s much-celebrated housing rebound is leaving too many people behind, including young people looking to buy their first homes and individuals with credit records weakened by the recession.
In response, administration officials say they are working to get banks to lend to a wider range of borrowers by taking advantage of taxpayer-backed programs — including those offered by the Federal Housing Administration — that insure home loans against default.
Housing officials are urging the Justice Department to provide assurances to banks, which have become increasingly cautious, that they will not face legal or financial recriminations if they make loans to riskier borrowers who meet government standards but later default.
Officials are also encouraging lenders to use more subjective judgment in determining whether to offer a loan and are seeking to make it easier for people who owe more than their properties are worth to refinance at today’s low interest rates, among other steps.
Here we go again!
Earl's is a really swanky placeRTHKI wrote:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/the-albino-rhino-is-no-more-earls-rebrands-beer-after-human-rights-complaint/article8834872/
the invisible hand pets him gentlyKEN-JENNINGS wrote:
After all the admissions by banking and wall street execs about knowingly selling, approving and bundling bad loans and securities and you still want to pretend it was the CRA that caused the GFC? Really? You can't be that ignorant, jay.Jay wrote:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/ … story.htmlThe Obama administration is engaged in a broad push to make more home loans available to people with weaker credit, an effort that officials say will help power the economic recovery but that skeptics say could open the door to the risky lending that caused the housing crash in the first place.
President Obama’s economic advisers and outside experts say the nation’s much-celebrated housing rebound is leaving too many people behind, including young people looking to buy their first homes and individuals with credit records weakened by the recession.
In response, administration officials say they are working to get banks to lend to a wider range of borrowers by taking advantage of taxpayer-backed programs — including those offered by the Federal Housing Administration — that insure home loans against default.
Housing officials are urging the Justice Department to provide assurances to banks, which have become increasingly cautious, that they will not face legal or financial recriminations if they make loans to riskier borrowers who meet government standards but later default.
Officials are also encouraging lenders to use more subjective judgment in determining whether to offer a loan and are seeking to make it easier for people who owe more than their properties are worth to refinance at today’s low interest rates, among other steps.
Here we go again!
Dumb cock in front of me is chatting about the 'war we are going to be in' with North Korea in the next few days with some blonde.
He is reading her shit from a Fox news article and making her worried. God damn Americans.
He is reading her shit from a Fox news article and making her worried. God damn Americans.
"Technically we are safe. The shortest range missles they have can reach South Korea. The second one Japan. The longest Ottawa."
"Oh my God."
"Oh my God."
Afghanistan and Iraq were so simple, I'm sure a nuclear capable enemy would be even easier.Macbeth wrote:
Dumb cock in front of me is chatting about the 'war we are going to be in' with North Korea in the next few days with some blonde.
He is reading her shit from a Fox news article and making her worried. God damn Americans.
Especially one with an army, and not just insurgents.
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aussiereaper posts like dibert now. what is it with that island and proud-to-be-retarded debating.
A small town in north Georgia unanimously passed an ordinance that requires every household to own a gun and ammunition.
But the new law, which goes into effect in 10 days, seems to be more in reaction to talk of gun control rather than to crime.
"People ask me if we're like Mayberry," said Heath Mitchell, who has been the police chief of Nelson, Ga., for a little over three years and is currently the town's only police officer. "I tell them we're quieter than Mayberry. They've got a lot more going on then we do."
Nevertheless, the Nelson City Council approved the Family Protection Ordinance last month by a vote of 5-0. The new law requires every head of household "to maintain a firearm, together with ammunition."
Councilman Jackie Jarrett said the measure, to deter criminal activity and make a statement to show the town's support of the Second Amendment, which grants U.S. citizens the right to bear arms.
"It's just saying if you plan on doing us harm, then be warned, we'll be armed," Jarrett said. "By us saying you all gotta have [a gun], any criminal with half a brain will think 'chances are, these people are going to have a weapn, let's bypass this house.'"
Failure to own a gun, however, will not be prosecuted. Residents of the town, which covers about 2.5 square miles and is about 50 miles north of Atlanta, can opt out of the ordinance if they have "personal objections" to gun ownership, according to the council's meeting records.
The measure also exempts convicted felons, those who can't afford to own a gun, and those who suffer from certain physical or mental disabilities.
Nelson is the kind of town where everybody knows everybody, which isn't hard to do when the population is only about 1,300 people.
Mitchell spoke in favor of the ordinance at the City Council meeting. He told ABC News he thought the measure was a "good thing" and hopes it will make the town safer.
When asked how much crime Nelson has, Mitchell said, "very minimal." "I couldn't even give you a percentage," he said. And the troublemakers are almost always "out-of-towners."
"It's a Norman Rockwell painting. That's what it is to me. It's rare that you find a town like this these days," Mitchell said.
The town is budgeted for several more officers, Mitchell said, and they have had a few in the past, "but there wasn't enough for them to do."
Mitchell said the council approached him with the proposal a few months ago and at first he said he had concerns that the measure would cause a rise in accidental shootings in homes. So he asked for advice from a friend, Police Chief William Westenberger of Kennesaw, Ga., a town with a population about 20 times larger than Nelson and that had passed the same ordinance in 1982.
Mitchell said Westenberger told him that there had been no reports of accidental shootings in homes since the measure was passed in Kennesaw, and after their conversation he "felt a lot more comfortable about it."
Other small towns are considering similar laws, like Byron, Maine, a town with a population of about 145. The City Council in Spring City, Utah, which population is just shy of 1,000 people, considered a similar mandatory gun ownership resolution, but the council voted to make it a recommendation rather than a requirement.
Mitchell said the Nelson proposal was met with wide support. He can "count on one hand" the number of people who opposed the ordinance, he said, and those that did complained that the proposal was the government telling them what to do. But the chief wasn't fazed.
"Look, 95 percent of the people already have a gun in their home," he said. "Even the guy who is complaining about it, even he has a gun."
Macbeth wrote:
I am cool with fracking because it makes gas cheaper and ruins the lives of rural people especially in the south and Midwest.
criminals are ordinarily stupid.Uzique The Lesser wrote:
aussiereaper posts like dibert now. what is it with that island and proud-to-be-retarded debating.
Yeah but Dilbert is a pom though.
I liked it better when you thought I got all my posts from 4chan, then decided it was Reddit.Uzique The Lesser wrote:
aussiereaper posts like dibert now. what is it with that island and proud-to-be-retarded debating.
Most of your posts are condescending to people who you perceive as being in a lower 'class', the previous post included.Uzique The Lesser wrote:
i was actually referring more to a rich tradition in music, in art/literature, and in popular expression. all of which has benefited the UK in multiplicand ways. the working-classes' cultural contributions are a huge part of british image and international 'cool'. it wasn't a bunch of little englanders with PPE degrees that made britain a shorthand for rock and roll cool.
you only make this seem like a 'condescending' comment because you automatically adopt an adversarial and 'assault mode' approach to class. as soon as i talk about it, you feel under attack or personally affronted. me just talking matter-of-factly about something that patently exists (whether or not i'm a hand-wringing liberal or a bleeding heart redshirt socialist) really should not be twisted to be negative by default. it's dishonest of you.
Fuck Israel
nothing about that post was condescending, thanks. talking about working class culture being an important and constitutive part of british life is 'condescending'? you only make it that way. that's your value judgement. as a matter-of-fact statement, it just is. european societies in general have a lot less anxiety and embarrassment over their working class/industrial cultures; they don't try to hide it. lots of great art and lots of great movements have come from unashamedly working-class backgrounds. i don't see anything lowly or 'negative' about it. again, please stop putting your prejudices on me, just because i can talk about the term without feeling uncomfortable or 'guilty' or whatever silly emotion it is you feel that makes you post such irrational bilge.Dilbert_X wrote:
Most of your posts are condescending to people who you perceive as being in a lower 'class', the previous post included.Uzique The Lesser wrote:
i was actually referring more to a rich tradition in music, in art/literature, and in popular expression. all of which has benefited the UK in multiplicand ways. the working-classes' cultural contributions are a huge part of british image and international 'cool'. it wasn't a bunch of little englanders with PPE degrees that made britain a shorthand for rock and roll cool.
you only make this seem like a 'condescending' comment because you automatically adopt an adversarial and 'assault mode' approach to class. as soon as i talk about it, you feel under attack or personally affronted. me just talking matter-of-factly about something that patently exists (whether or not i'm a hand-wringing liberal or a bleeding heart redshirt socialist) really should not be twisted to be negative by default. it's dishonest of you.
oh, you've really got me there! damn! such a big difference between someone who copy+pastes images from 4chan all day and someone who gets all their political 'opinion' and 'intellect' from a sub-reddit. please impress us some more.Aussie wrote:
I liked it better when you thought I got all my posts from 4chan, then decided it was Reddit.
Encouraged by whom? I can't think of anything much more patronising. Its bollocks anyway.Uzique wrote:
working class people are encouraged to take pride in their identity and celebrate their folk traditions
Fuck Israel
in the sense that everyone is encouraged to express their place and identity. why is that bollocks? i really don't see why you're being so cynical about it. i mean it in the best possible spirit. and not just 'the little proles', as you are trying to twist my words, but everyone. there's a pluralism and it's quite healthy, in my opinion. a giant and generic 'middle-brow' culture, or its even worse variant, 'mass culture', is a hideous soylent green-esque future. a monoculture represents nothing but stasis and decadence. so yes, i do welcome a rich and varied cultural heritage, deriving from all classes. i welcome dialogue between them, also. the best works of art encapsulate this social reality. not ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist because the authors are irritated by their rank/status. thank goodness you're not in charge of anything.
is it true exxon have have made the FSA declare a no-fly-zone over the arkansas oil spill? omg tyranny. land of the free? land of the OIL MEN.
FAA*
and yes, it is true.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-hor … 10620.html
http://rt.com/usa/faa-zone-exxon-employee-306/
http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2013/04 … pill-site/
nothing on any other msm outlet about this.
and yes, it is true.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-hor … 10620.html
http://rt.com/usa/faa-zone-exxon-employee-306/
http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2013/04 … pill-site/
nothing on any other msm outlet about this.
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lol FSA. free syria! no idea why i typed that
yeah i thought you were going to develop a palestinian dilbert-esque obsession with syria.
lol I was like Arab rebels shooting down our planes over arkansas? wtf
http://www.insideedition.com/headlines/ … e-outburstINSIDE EDITION is learning more about the terrifying road rage incident caught on tape that is shocking the nation.
An enraged Marine Sergeant punched the window, kicked the door, and threatened to beat up the guy behind the wheel after a fender-bender at Camp Pendleton near San Diego.
There is now speculation that the Marine’s nuclear meltdown might stem from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD, says psychiatrist Dr. Gail Saltz.
Dr. Saltz said, "This symptom of explosive anger, and not being able to manage it or contain it, can be a symptom of PTSD."
The Marine's name has not been revealed, but he's on active duty and is the recipient of the Purple Heart. He served honorably in Afghanistan
Road rage like this is also known by a medical intermittent explosive disorder.
Online viewers of the disturbing video are blasting the Marine. One person wrote, "Wow, that crazy maniac needs to be in solitary confinement."
But another said, "I wonder how many tours of Iraq and Afghanistan the Sergeant has made. PTSD is real and has consequences."
The woman recording the video, said to be a disabled Marine combat veteran herself, and her brother behind the wheel, are being hailed today for remaining cool and calm in this explosive situation.
Dr. Saltz said, "I think it is to the credit of the driver and the passenger, because obviously it would be very frightening to be in the car."
Second Article
OCEANSIDE - A Camp Pendleton Marine Sergeant was detained after being caught on camera in a violent road rage incident. The subject is a Purple Heart recipient, whose name is being withheld until formal charges are made.
According to the victim, the Marine cut them off Monday and repeatedly slammed his brakes. After stopping, the suspect allegedly got out of his vehicle and began kicking the side of the victim's car, screaming obscenity laced demands.
The victim's passenger claims to have been traumatized by the erratic behavior of the Marine and wants their identity concealed.
A Camp Pendleton spokesperson said the Marine was detained and cited for communicating threats.
http://www.sandiego6.com/news/local/Pen … 78511.html
Here is the video:
So should this guy get a 'free pass' because of his military service and possible condition?
Last edited by 13/f/taiwan (2013-04-04 22:45:10)
Military people want to be treated better than everyone else and respected because "they have skills, training, and learned respect, honor, and discipline". If they want to be treated so highly because of their training then they should be held to a higher standard and not cuddled when they do something wrong. Prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law.