Offering constructive criticism to the social cripples in our midst since early 2005.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Spanky
This article might interest you.

My favorite part is at the end, and very easy to miss:

[H]ere's the pisser: Even as I write this, I'm in escrow on a house I can't afford. And I know I'm not alone. The logic of a bubble defies even those who know better. I'm not trying to make money; I just want to break even -- and I am convinced I'm going to be different, that, actually, I got a good deal, a deal that if I waited only a few months, I really wouldn't be able to afford.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
If you were litigating one of those cases, and were arguing that the deal was a sweetheart deal for a developer, you would be all over that Kennedy concurrence like Bush with the 9/11 references, and it would certainly give you a hook with the trial court.

Sure. But I would be arguing a concurrence. Ouch.

[SlaveNoMore]

Tyrone Slothrop
Not so much. Kennedy has given litigants and courts something real to hang their hat on if they want to challenge a local government decision.

I want to see how it plays out.

[SlaveNoMore]

Penske_Account
Dude, in a decade I'll own the Mariners and in two I'll be challenging Chelsea for the Presidency.

You're either for me or for the terrorists!

In that case, Allah Akbar

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Why aren't you doing any of the lucrative ones so that you can leave the profession you hate so much?

Because I did something else.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Because I did something else.

Cite please?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Because I did something else.

? You are out of the law gig? Kewl.

[SlaveNoMore]

sebastian_dangerfield
Because I did something else.

Packages from Bolivia?

[Replaced_Texan]

Radosh via Technorati

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
I have a line on the first, cheap property that for a variety of specific reasons will appreciate well beyond the market for the next 5 years no matter what I do.

I have a sort of line on a combo of 2-3. Awesome commercial property. Next door to recently rehabbed commercial district that is now trendy. This is the next block that will go but it is still priced with a premium to be realized.

I have considered residential on the first cheap property, but I could always hold and just make 20% a year on my money.

Have you asked the French and Germans what they think?

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
What?

Non-disclosure agreement. I guess he doesn't want to hear about the three way for the next several years.

[Valentine]

http://www.bushflash.com/pax.html

http://www.bushflash.com/antiwar2.html

http://www.bushflash.com/liberation.html

Re saving face n Iraq, in Vietnam, by the spring of '68, it was clear to just about everyone—including our intelligence agencies—that the war was lost. I think that Iraq may be in a similar 'quagmire'. The Tet Offensive made it obvious that the combined forces of North Vietnam and the Viet Cong weren't being defeated or decimated. The United States insisted that it would never talk directly or negotiate with the communist North and their allied partisans in South Vietnam, insisting that the quisling regime in Saigon was the lawful government. So the war dragged on for another five years, killing tens of thousands more Americans and hundreds of thousands more Vietnamese.

Finally, during 1972-1973, the United States did what it had previously said it wouldn't do: it essentially abandoned its puppet government in South Vietnam and began direct talks with the Vietnamese communists. The communists were magnanimous enough to give the United States a face-saving way out, rather than forcing Washington to admit that it was surrendering. And we left. That Iraq was clearly a mistake is crystalizing as a given.

That's a given. I don't know if Bush will find a way for the U.S. to save face here. Who knows, at this point, there may be no face to save. If that's the case, Bush should just hurry up and bring our gals and boys back now. 2,000 dead for no reason is treason. The more I think about it, the more I agree that Team Bush should be impeached and tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Packages from Bolivia?

Funny, I was just listening to Nilsson's "Jump in the Fire" on the way in to work... Brought back that scene in Goodfellas where Henry Hill is melting down, driving around town looking at helicopters hovering over his Coupe De Ville. Is there a better 10 minutes in cinema?

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Funny, I was just listening to Nilsson's "Jump in the Fire" on the way in to work... Brought back that scene in Goodfellas where Henry Hill is melting down, driving around town looking at helicopters hovering over his Coupe De Ville. Is there a better 10 minutes in cinema?

Final orgy scene in Behind the Green Door?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Final orgy scene in Behind the Green Door?

Wasn't BtGD the last movie in which your mom fluffed before she reached mandatory retirement?