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Gulf Oil Spill: Rick Steiner Got BP Disaster Right From The Beginning, Warns Crisis Is Far From Over

Wednesday, August 25, 2010


Did you know that the photo the other day of Obama & his daughter swimming "in the Gulf of Mexico" (so that people would travel to the Gulf states and spend their vacation dollars there, that the water was safe), that Obama & Sasha weren't actually swimming in the Gulf of Mexico? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/president-goes-for-a-swim-in-the-gulf-ndash-or-does-he-2053567.html



Few know this because this story about the building of a m0sque in NYC has obliterated all other news in the media.
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Gulf Oil Spill: Rick Steiner Got BP Disaster Right From The Beginning, Warns Crisis Is Far From Over


Stop the BS.



Americans use gas/oil/coal/nuclear because the Corporate-owned government has set it up that way.



All 306 million of us could be environmentally conscious and want to use alternative types of energy, but if it's not there we're going to use what is there.



Until the government makes it happen, it won't.



I think it's too late to change course (and has been too late since the Sixth Great Extinction began), and what's happening now is the "thinning of the herd".



There's no way that pro-non-regulated capitalists intend to repair the economy (or any of the damage done to the US economy & environment in the last 40 years) aside from 'growth' (using shared national resources, e.g., lumber from national forests, minerals, water, etc., to manufacture products for sale). Growth also means building more houses, shopping centers, etc., and that means more people. We don't need more people. We're in this fix because the planet has too many people, and too much growth.



So hunker down, batten the hatches, because it's going to be a bumpy ride.



P.S. Obama's a fraud. He's in office to serve the Elites, preserve and save their fortunes and keep capitalism intact, and keep the People from rioting in the streets and marching on Washington with torches and pitchforks.
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Elizabeth Hurley Swears By 'Almost Nothing For Breakfast'


Or to quote Roseanne Barr on the secret to how she lost weight, "Eat less, move more. Who knew?"
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Existing Homes Sales PLUNGE To 15-Year Low


Sure, but everyone has to live somewhere. So if you're selling your home to relocate for a new job, someone else is looking to buy a home where you are selling yours, perhaps for the same reason?



"Neighborhood decay"? Is that a euphemism for "white flight" due to "the wrong people (minorities)" moving in next door?



You can never tell how a neighborhood is going to evolve, or what your city's government is going to do over the course of a lifetime to affect your property's values, which is why it's a good idea to be active in your city's local political scene. I've lived in cities where those who weren't active saw their neighborhoods (& lives) destroyed by redevelopment (the Fillmore-Western Addition in San Francisco - http://harlemofthewestsf.ucsc.edu/redevelopment.html / New York & Robert Moses - http://books.google.com/books?id=Oy3rUgKAWrYC&pg=PR17&lpg=PR17&dq=%22redevelopment+in+the+1960s%22+%22new+york%22&source=bl&ots=Pm4gbmfFVn&sig=Re42fHzn539pDDNg07x1m6UAWPU&hl=en&ei=HQV1TLX7IYPCsAP87OSgDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22redevelopment%20in%20the%201960s%22%20%22new%20york%22&f=false ).



I'm currently living in a city that has been transitioning from rural agricultural to dense single family suburban developments ("little boxes made of ticky tack"). Hold-outs who refused to sell to developers have forced the developers to build around them. Only time will tell if their homes appreciate in value or will ultimately be sold to the developers by the heirs for land value alone. Or if the homes (late 19th/early 20th century Victorian farmhouses) merit preservations as historical registered landmarks.
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Existing Homes Sales PLUNGE To 15-Year Low

Tuesday, August 24, 2010


I think you may be missing the point.



Obama supporters assumed that Obama would be working to stabilize and improve economic conditions for the People (poor and middle classes), because that's generally what Democrats claim to stand for. By Obama's choices to run the US economy, he's shown that he's interested in stabilizing and improving economic conditions for those at the top. Obama's is a hodge-podge of policies -- Rhetoric for the People and tangible assets for the rich.



Remaining quiet about this only lets the robber barons continue their raid on the American middle class.



And Obama's most ardent supporters are either paid political operatives or just too ig.no.rant to realize that what Obama is doing is NOT in their best interests. The ig.nor.ant Obama supporter comes to believe in him by process of elimination -- If Republicans are accusing him of being a socialist, then Obama must be doing something anti-Republican. He's not. Obama is DLC to the bone. A Republican in Democrats' clothing. And that is not good for the average ordinary working American. It's also not good for all other Americans, because it leads to instability of the whole culture.
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Existing Homes Sales PLUNGE To 15-Year Low


A lot of people double paid to pay off in 1/2 the time, or bought their homes outright from savings (buying modest homes in modest neighborhoods).

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If you've got figures to support that, I'd like to see them.



I don't think anybody likes to be in debt, but that's now how our economy has functioned. Our economy has required people go into debt.
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I figured that you weren't married w/kids.



Moving every 2 to 5 years isn't a lifestyle that works for married w/kids. I don't think that moving every 2 to 5 years is a lifestyle that very many single people would choose either. If it works for you, it works for you, but most people like and need to put down roots, and enjoy a sense of security that owning their homes gives them.



Home ownership has benefits that extend far beyond the person owning the home, but on the whole of the society.
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