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ParticipantI just wanted to share something I read. I’m too girly for squats. I’m going for Y shape and sticking with pull ups/chin ups.
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I understand about the fear and I sometimes use a bar on vertical slide rails with down limits set. [/quote]Smith machine can be bad for you
http://stronglifts.com/smith-machine-squats-power-rack-free-weights/Participant[quote=carlsbadworker]
Flips: more folks are putting money into homes before selling. Architect billings are at a two-year high.
[/quote]I just finished with a remodel/addition. The price of lumber went up over 20% between May and September and everyone (plumber, roofer, painter, drywall hanger) is saying they have not been this busy since 2006-2007. A painter who did some work in September returned my calls after few days just to tell me that he would not have time for me until after the end of the year.
Participant[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
Craptcha: We’ve got China and Russia now. Plus, Obama has been beating the war with Iran drum for quite some time now, along with waging a quiet war (think Stuxnet and assassination of Iranian physicists) there.
Oh, and don’t forget North Korea. While Kim Jong-Dumpling has been off banging his new bride, I’m sure he’ll lose interest shortly and come back to rattling his saber at the US and Japan.[/quote]
China and Russia where US companies buy influence and make more money than domestically. It’s kind of hard to see China as mobilizing threat while complaining about Chinese plastic being delayed at LA port.
North Korea is relatively small and poor country perceived as annoyance at best. Vietnam caliber of enemy, at best. Not really a mobilizing force.
Iran could be good. I don’t think an average person here understands that Iran is not Afghanistan (i.e. sparsely populated country of 17 century peasants armed with 20 century weaponry), so there is potential to develop that threat. 75MM people, fairly advanced technology, globally influential… it’s not really clear why they hate us, but ‘because they are jealous’ worked before.
Participant[quote=FormerSanDiegan][quote=enron_by_the_sea][quote=flu]
It doesn’t quite work that way enron…When you rent out a house to someone else, you can deduct the mortgage as an expense but you also have to report the rental income.However, if you rent someone else’s house, you can’t deduct your rental cost (unless your poor..And in that case, you probably can’t qualify to buy a home)…
So I’m not sure how this would be beneficial for you…Seems like a lot of paperwork to report a $0 gain.[/quote]
Oops. That is probably why this does not work. Nevermind.[/quote]
Don’t give up so easily.
I think it can workIf your goals of owning are:
1. To lock in monthly housing costs long term
2. To participate in future capital appreciation of property
this strategy works.
The rent you pay will track the rent you charge… so the amount you pay will remain fixed. At some point.in the future the interest and other costs will.be less than the standard deduction and you might actually come out ahead.[/quote]This would apply if you just stay in your house on fixed 30y loan, no?
Participant[quote=Allan from Fallbrook] His Interstate Highway program was one of the largest military/defense program in US history. It contemplated an all-out war with the USSR and the need to move men and materiel quickly throughout the US.[/quote]
That’s why you need big and powerful enemy – it forces you to develop interstate highway, TCP/IP and race to the moon.
You don’t need to go to Mars in order to fight drugs and terror, you just need low radiation body scanners.
ParticipantI got this at Fry’s online for $450 last Thursday
If you are in no hurry you can like Fry’s FB page and monitor ads over the next few weeks for B&M deals. Slickdeals is good, but the best deals will expire by the time you learn about them.
You can get ‘smart/wifi’ brand name (lg/samsung) blue ray players or roku for $60-70 or Apple TV for $100.
ParticipantI went to Walmart in Poway and took some pictures around 8pm. It was packed. I left 10 minutes later and there was 200+ people in line waiting to get in.
Target had about the same number of people waiting in line around 8:30pm.
Sports Authority was not that busy. I got there around 11:30pm and there were 20-30 people in the line already. 10 minutes to check out.
Best Buy around 1am was not that busy except for the ‘premium’ checkout line. They sent everyone buying computers/tablets through dedicated checkout in order to push upsells. There were maybe 50 people in the line ahead of me. I gave up 30 minutes later after I realized that it took them that long to process 5 people. Best Buy joined Staples on ‘do not bother with on BF’ list.
The line at Fry’s around 4am had 200-300 people (they opened at 6am). The checkout line there gets super long, but they have 50-60 cashiers open and they generally do a good job on BF. The parking lot at Lowes was empty at 7am and the store was not busier than usual.
I got most of the gifts (by number, not by $$) through Amazon. They had some very nice lightning deals.
November 28, 2012 at 8:04 AM in reply to: OT: Luckily we taxed Amazon so they bring jobs here! #755384Participant[quote=bearishgurl]
Hooray for them and maybe this means we consumers in SD will get our orders in a more timely manner![/quote]
They already have one in San Bernardino, 750 full time workers, according to one of the comments.
ParticipantMy kids liked his silver-plated ax.
ParticipantI always delete and I never mind.
ParticipantA friend of mine is a trucker. He used to spend weekends at home and go coast to coast during the week. He now spends one week at home then three weeks on the road. He has a wife and two daughters.
Another guy I know came here with his wife and two sons about 10 years ago. The wife and the kids went back to their home country after few years. He spends 8-9 months trucking in the US (lives in the truck) and 3-4 months with his family.
A cousin of mine has been working on oil drills (Middle East, Africa, Northern Sea) for almost 30 years. 2 months at home, 2 months in the field since more than 20 years ago. They have one kid. They wanted to have more but he lost fertility along the way.
November 12, 2012 at 10:56 AM in reply to: OT: Attention Walmart Shoppers. Black Friday starts on Thanksgiving Day 8pm this year! #754474ParticipantI usually start at Frys to get my annual serving of electronics, stop by Lowes for tools, Big 5 for sports gear and get home as the rest of the family is getting out of their beds. I kind of like spending a couple of hours standing in line in blistering cold of 35-40 degrees, probably because I don’t have to do it.
November 9, 2012 at 8:10 AM in reply to: Post Election Blues: Dow -176pts, Nasdaq -39, S&P500 -21 #754223Participant[quote=flu]Looks like we’re gonna close down close to 100 puts on the dow.
Wall Street 2, Main Street 0
[/quote]I don’t think Main Street is affected by the daily fluctuations in stock. Outside Wall Street, maybe the sliver between the two. Maybe we could call it Mall or Vain Street?
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