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jon wrote: That's what happens when the rest of the world shirks its responsibility and leaves the US, UK, and a few others to do the dirty work. I've read that there are fewer wars now overall than there has been at any other time. It is v…
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jon wrote: My worry is that the country is going to wakeup from its current binge and look over and see that the guy in charge of Supreme Court appointments is the one whose lifetime pattern of associations is Ayers, Wright, Resko, etc. Her…
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WestSideBilly wrote: lamont, the biggest issue I have with the bailout is that there's no discrimination in it. The bill, as I've understood it, does not discern between the WaMus of the financial world and the Wells Fargos or JPMorgans. Does th…
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I've lived in a few houses in the Seattle area, one from the 1920s (old apple orchard farm house in Wallingford), and a couple from the 40s/50s. I've also lived in a house in Issaquah built in the mid 70s and I currently live in a house built in 19…
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Lake Hills Renter wrote: It's the attitude that the people facing foreclosures are victims that gets me. Many/most were complicit in this just as much as anyone else, and now they have Congress lobbying to bail them out as well. Where's the bailou…
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Markor wrote: Why shouldn't I do CDs instead, where I can get 4% at very low risk, compared to 6% elsewhere at high risk? I think the point is that 6% growth over a long period of time in the stock market is not supposed to be a high risk p…
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sniglet wrote: Low rates might encourage people to buy homes who otherwise shouldn't (i.e. because they can get a low down-payment), and force housing prices up over-all. High mortgage rates, by contrast, reduce the number of people who are able t…
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EastSider wrote: Redmond home Sold in Sep/2006 for $532K Currently listed for $499K (6% drop since Sep/2006) ZEstimate is $528K http://www.redfin.com/WA/Sammamish/2421 ... ome/262405 I took a look at this house. It has problems: …
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Trina wrote: If the standard deduction is $10K for couples. Then I am writing off, as used in my example, $18K in interest and another $4.5K in property that comes to $22.5K in write offs. Then you can also include all of your work related expen…
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Robroy wrote: Matthew wrote: I had never really noticed just how many people wear polar fleece in Seattle until Mr. Bubble brought it up. Now that my eyes have been opened, all I can say is wow. It is the fabric of choice for the region! …
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k2000k wrote: My two friends and I were looking for three bedroom houses but the deposits, lets be real you never get your refundable deposit back, was $ 1,000 or more even in more run down neighborhoods of Seattle. I've almost always got m…
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garth wrote: The biggest one is the nature of the housing bubble itself and the drive until you quality philosophy. This David Stiff guy and his "Housing Bubbles Collapse Inward" article lays it out much better than I could: http://www2.stan…
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The Tim wrote: mukoh wrote: A bedroom per resident is not a luxury, it is a basic need, that the majority of the people strive for and work for. My family of five seemed to get along just fine in a 3-bedroom, 1,288 square-foot home throug…
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rose-colored-coolaid wrote: True, these men are discussing life in Britain, but it's still strong evidence about just what you need -vs- want. Video streaming over inter-connected networks? Luxury!
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garth wrote: Jon, We have been in an environment for 50-80 years where it was almost always cheaper and easier to push development out further out and create more suburbs and exurbs than it was to repair and renovate older areas as well as deal w…
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Matthew wrote: RCC- Oil down more than 40 bucks from its peak, gold below 900 an ounce, soy and corn way down and the dollar is at 7 month highs vs. yen. Can you say bursting bubble? Looks like I was right. Too bad I'm not a commodity trad…
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lamont wrote: And yeah, if we get viable carbon sequestration for coal plants before we get viable nuclear fusion plants, then we can use coal (monkeys will also fly out of my butt...) As long as those monkeys are carbon neutral, it shouldn…
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rose-colored-coolaid wrote: lamont wrote: The big problem with EVs are that the electrical grid is not carbon-neutral. If we build coal plants to power EVs, then we've just made the whole problem worse. If the grid is mostly solar / wind / h…
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A billion here, a billion there... Pretty soon you're talking real money.
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rose-colored-coolaid wrote: Notabull wrote: Simply declaring something as "bull crap" is easy and convenient if it happens to fit in with your world view and opinions. That's a BS position to take. I for one can always accurately and w…
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rose-colored-coolaid wrote: Isn't that just the irony of the entire GW/alternative energy/ethanol debates? We are literally on the doorstep of a complete paradigm shift and somehow the corporations seem to keep distracting us from real progress. …
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Big Mike 34 wrote: The bull crap is thinking that climate models can predict the amount of warming out 100 years and using that to bankrupt our economy in an effort to literally challenge the SUN.... Can you clarify? 1) Why can't they pr…
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rose-colored-coolaid wrote: I would imagine that we will probably find a liquid fuel we can manufacture much more efficiently than hydrogen. But we might not. It's entirely possible that most people will just switch to using EV transportation. …
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Robroy wrote: Critical Mass is to us cyclists what Gay Pride parades (or Nambla) is to homosexuals. Robroy, that's offensive. Gay pride parade is a celebration of "gayness", and a fun day out for all. Nambla is an organization that promot…
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jon wrote: They've been trying to get algae to work for 20 years. The whole idea of biofuels is an eco-religious crusade. For something as basic as converting sunlight into electricity there is just no need to put something as inefficient has a li…
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WestSideBilly wrote: What do you mean, finally? A lot of people have known ethanol (especially corn based) is a sham and uses considerably more energy to make than it yields, not to mention removing food from the food chain is always a bad idea…
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Big Mike 34 wrote: Rob: This is one more article you should read....It is titled look to Mars...It is from Notabull's link http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html? ... c7f723&k=0 Mars is warming! Earth is warming! Mars has no hum…
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Big Mike 34 wrote: Rob: Trying reading this little bit of common sense: http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html? ... ee479f&k=0 From the article: "Thanks to the intense efforts of a new generation of climate modellers, modelling…
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David Losh, you could learn something here. Take a look at how incoherent Mr "imagine" is, and hang your head in shame! While your posts have been getting increasingly *more* coherent (to the point of seeming normal), this person has come along an…
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"Exactly how it seems and how the things are going in your neighbourhoud, the world population will be soon transformed into the masses of genetically, mentally and electronically controlled objects. This is not a conspiracy, this is just a simple, …