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SeattleMoose wrote: Charles Dean? As is "Charles Dean Sausage"??? You realize that an attack on Tim coming from someone who sells sausage for a living is pretty weak. Sympathy factor = maybe I'll flip him a quarter (from my ever growing savi…
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I early voted on Friday, since my election place and work are a long ways apart (and I didn't figure the GOP was going to find anything of substance to change the game). Lot of people waiting 80-90 minutes to vote, I heard Saturday the line was 3-4…
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delusional landlord wrote: SEATTLE MAGAZINE(JULY ISSUE)-"DELRIDGE WAY IS THE 3RD BEST NEIGHBORHOOD IN SEATTLE"
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Ubersalad wrote: The whole story is about simple minded people looking for get rich quick schemes. What, you mean like buying a house, polishing it a bit, and selling it for a 10% markup 3 months later?
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That article is only about the P-8A. The replacement for the 737 is likely going to show up in the 2015-2020 time frame. The big question for Renton is if it'll be built there, or if the line will become special-order only like the 767 line.
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Why do people want sympathy for when they gamble and lose?
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Yeah, the overall levels are still down, but we've had about 1200 points in the DJIA in the last two days. Today's reaction was especially odd to me. 1) The fed cuts their rate 1/2 percent, to 1 percent, meaning there is almost no wiggle room …
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rose-colored-coolaid wrote: lamont wrote: WestSideBilly wrote: Well, Obama is definitely half black. And maybe half Muslim. You can't be half-Muslim any more than you can be half-Christian. And if religion is genetic, what am I …
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More bad news today, as well. Consumer spending dropped for the first time since '91. The nimrods on wall street reacted by running up stock prices. I am thoroughly convinced the psychology of the market is now completely out of sync with real…
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rose-colored-coolaid wrote: Robroy wrote: I will tell you right now that I think there is a possibility that Obama is a black Muslim. I would not bet the farm on it - yet - but whenever the subject of Christianity comes up his answers are seve…
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Robroy wrote: I do not agree with everything this guy says, but at a high level, this touches on what I think is going on: http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/wil ... 282008.htm You seem like a well read guy, so I'll assume you're familiar …
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The Tim wrote: dls wrote: I looked at the No-Ma condos in Ballard a couple of times a year or two ago and am still on their email list. I recently got an announcement that they are closing out the last 2-Br units for $399,950. They say that th…
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In all fairness, he did mention he felt like a Jew leaving Germany in 1934... Unless my memory is hazing this morning, some of the things you posted didn't start until the late 30s.
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ProVega wrote: http://www.redfin.com/WA/Bellevue/10044-SE-8-St-98004/home/253189 Bought in 2007 for $750k Flipped and started asking $950k It is now down to $620k WOW - Just wow... Hilarious! Super deal! in downtown Bellevue wit…
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jon wrote: Not sure if you are aware of this, but "drill, baby, drill" doesn't mean really on oil only. It means use oil in the short term while development continues on the other processes. While there are many promising candidates, they need …
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Charles, you beat me to the punch. One point of clarification - "Drill, baby, drill" inherently includes ANWR, which moves the 200k BBL/day up to about 800 BBL/day in a 7-10 year window. Which is still barely a blip on the map in terms of global…
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jon wrote: Oil taxes amount to about $60 billion in tax revenue each year, not including income taxes. How many billions of revenue are there in solar taxes? Since that money notionally goes into roads, that money will have to be raised some other…
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Charles Dean wrote: Anyone ever read much on Brazil and how they became energy independent? Price fixing gasoline and ethanol, cutting down huge chunks of rain forest to grow sugar cane for ethanol, and heavily subsidizing the national oil …
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Just by living in Seattle you're paying a premium for a particular lifestyle. Obviously a lot of people are willing to pay that premium. My personal example: I make about 15% more here than I did in the midwest, but total costs are closer to do…
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Something I've been mulling over for a few days: What's the effect on down ticket races if Obama is called the winner for Virginia (likely) and North Carolina (possible) by 8pm EST? If he wins those two states, there's basically no scenario for …
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No. You can point to the first unread post, but this varies on the person clicking the link.
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I have some friends whose HELOC was closed a month ago (maybe a bit longer). They were always current and used it twice to help buy houses for their kids. Haven't heard of any CC limits being dropped. Although mine have ludicrous limits so even…
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Charles Dean wrote: I can see why people would think of it as a scam, since you are essentially paying for an insurance policy that protects the lender and not you. But if you didn't have PMI on your house, then what would end up happening is tha…
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EastSider wrote: Bellevue Condo Sold in May/2006 for $865k Currently listed for $825k (a discount of 5% from the 2006 price) ZEstimate is $780k http://www.redfin.com/WA/Bellevue/177-1 ... home/19029 $813/month HOA! :shock:
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Thanks for the clarification. I've always self-identified as an agnostic but never really thought of the different shades of gray that that encompasses. To the point, I often wondered if an openly atheist major party presidential candidate would…
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Isn't 14 another term for agnostic?
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PMI always struck me as a scam. Or at the very least, a completely illogical service fee, as mentioned. It didn't make sense to make the lender pay more to hedge against the lender defaulting during the time when the lender is most likely to defau…
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I went back to 1990. Using the same axis, the data is fairly steady from mid 1990 until 1997, hovering around 0.2. There's a pretty steady climb from 1997 until 2001 (housing prices increased, gold stayed flat), at which point Seattle diverges f…
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I went from Jan 2000 to July 08 (C-S data) and used the monthly gold average, and the correlation isn't very strong, at least not for the national composite. It starts at about 0.35 housing units / $ of gold, peaks at 0.5 units/$, and falls to belo…
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I have an immense amount of respect for Colin Powell and I think he's summed up the situation very well. All the other "cross party" endorsements, like William Buckley Jr, mean next to nothing especially at this late hour. But what Powell said sho…