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[quote=FlyerInHi]BG, trump won the Hispanic vote within the Republican Party in Nevada. But Hispanic republicans are a very small portion. Hillary will win Nevada because of Hispanics and blacks.

20% of Hispanics identity as whites. That’s because among hispanics, white is higher status. All you have to do is watch telenovelas to see that. Subliminal and overt racism within Hispanics. I have friend who says he’s Italian, but I know he’s Mexican because of his last name; and he pretends not to understand Spanish. He lied about his background and can’t escape the lie.

My observation is that immigrants of all races who are hoomers or older and came earlier, tend to side with Whites because Whites were historically higher status. Survival instincts cause humans in ingratiate with the higher status/power.

Since globalization took hold in the 90s and other countries became wealthier and had access to the same consumer products we had, the attitudes changed. Immigrants who come here with an education and some money don’t view Whites with the same deference of the past. They see themselves more as global citizens who take advantage of global opportunities (more like an American expat who works in Brazil or China).

American Whites better learn the ways of a globalized world if they are to thrive. Discontent won’t solve anything.

People’s feelings about race, power, status can be exploited easily. Whenever there is a shift in politics and economics that upset the status quo people feel discontent, never mind that they should be happy because the tides lift all boats.

The whole Southern Strategy was about discontent at the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy%5B/quote%5D

This is the ultimate bullshit excuse people make. The loudest complainers of h1-b’s are also the ones complaining the loudest about illegal aliens.

When the hell is someone who is looking for a job cross shopping between a high paid tech job and a low skilled low pay day labor job? People are just pissed and want to an explanation of why they are falling short.

OK fine, take away all the foreign students… Let’s drop affirmative action and reverse quotas and let things be completely based on merit for all us citizens. If that means 60%+ of top rank med school and engineering schools end up being Indians and Asians with u.s. citizenship, so be it. You really think Trump support ers would be OK with that? Nope. Of course not. You know what Trump supporters really want? Crudely said, affirmative action for non colored people who can’t get on based on merit by quota limiting anyone else that does better.

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[quote=flu][quote=outtamojo][quote=flu]Well. he definitely seems to have the personality of getting people to hate and get others to feel it’s ok and excusable. There is one other person that was able to do that.

Hitler.

White people have nothing to worry about. Lucky you.

God help the rest of us.[/quote]

Actually no, Hitler and Trump are not the only ones able to get people to follow and hate. This ability in fact is quite formulaic- google research authoritarian personalities and their followers.
I finally figured out Trump’s one redeeming quality- he is opposed by the Koch brothers.[/quote]

The biggest problem I have with Trump isn’t Trump himself. It’s with a good percentage of his supporters that are itching to ship people who aren’t white “back home”.

I also have a big problem with Trump playing into the hands of people who are just mad and don’t want to future themselves and want to look for a scapegoat for all of the social and economic plight.

And I’m not even talking about illegal aliens. There’s this current of backlash against tech workers, specifically Indians and to a lesser extent, asians. Part of this is animosity against H1-B programs. The problem is many of these Trump supporters blame indians and to a lesser extent asians as the source of all their joblesness problem. I don’t get it.

This country really haven’t “progressed” as are misled to believe. When in doubt, when your in a financial rut, blame someone that isn’t white on all of your problems.

That seems to me to be a very effective platform for winning votes in this country. No one seems to really care about working hard toward achieving something anymore. And this comes from both “progressives” and “conservatives”. I really don’t see a difference in how both parties and politicians from both parties operate.

To say the least, I’m somewhat disillusioned and disappointed with the direction this country is headed. Everyone is a victim, and it’s never one’s own fault or one own’s life choices anymore.

I find there is a sense of irony. When “progressives” were running around this country beating the drum about how african americans had a severe social and economic disadvantage in this country, a lot of the folks from the conservative states would say something like “it’s not because your black, it’s because you lack education/skill/training etc” and “stop playing the victim card”.

Now fast forward to the current environment. They are the same people that now saying, the reason why I can’t get a tech job is because I’m white, and all the damn indians and asians are stealing “our jobs”…Trump do something about that…Ok, who’s playing the victim card now?

This country is now run by fear and hate. Both parties have discovered it’s a much better way to get votes than actually trying to do something productive to move the country forward. That’s why our political landscape swings so far to the left and so far to the right every 8 years or so. Because one party’s agenda is to stroke extreme fear and hate on the other side when the other side is in charge, that the next election cycle, the pendulum swings widely in the opposite direction the next cycle.

There are no moderates, there are no sane people left who can influence the direction of people in this country, which exactly what this country needs to move forward.

It’s quite disappointing, actually.[/quote]

by the way, yeah I know it’s “you’re” not “your”… stupid tab completion

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[quote=outtamojo][quote=flu]Well. he definitely seems to have the personality of getting people to hate and get others to feel it’s ok and excusable. There is one other person that was able to do that.

Hitler.

White people have nothing to worry about. Lucky you.

God help the rest of us.[/quote]

Actually no, Hitler and Trump are not the only ones able to get people to follow and hate. This ability in fact is quite formulaic- google research authoritarian personalities and their followers.
I finally figured out Trump’s one redeeming quality- he is opposed by the Koch brothers.[/quote]

The biggest problem I have with Trump isn’t Trump himself. It’s with a good percentage of his supporters that are itching to ship people who aren’t white “back home”.

I also have a big problem with Trump playing into the hands of people who are just mad and don’t want to future themselves and want to look for a scapegoat for all of the social and economic plight.

And I’m not even talking about illegal aliens. There’s this current of backlash against tech workers, specifically Indians and to a lesser extent, asians. Part of this is animosity against H1-B programs. The problem is many of these Trump supporters blame indians and to a lesser extent asians as the source of all their joblesness problem. I don’t get it.

This country really haven’t “progressed” as are misled to believe. When in doubt, when your in a financial rut, blame someone that isn’t white on all of your problems.

That seems to me to be a very effective platform for winning votes in this country. No one seems to really care about working hard toward achieving something anymore. And this comes from both “progressives” and “conservatives”. I really don’t see a difference in how both parties and politicians from both parties operate.

To say the least, I’m somewhat disillusioned and disappointed with the direction this country is headed. Everyone is a victim, and it’s never one’s own fault or one own’s life choices anymore.

I find there is a sense of irony. When “progressives” were running around this country beating the drum about how african americans had a severe social and economic disadvantage in this country, a lot of the folks from the conservative states would say something like “it’s not because your black, it’s because you lack education/skill/training etc” and “stop playing the victim card”.

Now fast forward to the current environment. They are the same people that now saying, the reason why I can’t get a tech job is because I’m white, and all the damn indians and asians are stealing “our jobs”…Trump do something about that…Ok, who’s playing the victim card now?

This country is now run by fear and hate. Both parties have discovered it’s a much better way to get votes than actually trying to do something productive to move the country forward. That’s why our political landscape swings so far to the left and so far to the right every 8 years or so. Because one party’s agenda is to stroke extreme fear and hate on the other side when the other side is in charge, that the next election cycle, the pendulum swings widely in the opposite direction the next cycle.

There are no moderates, there are no sane people left who can influence the direction of people in this country, which exactly what this country needs to move forward.

It’s quite disappointing, actually.

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Well. he definitely seems to have the personality of getting people to hate and get others to feel it’s ok and excusable. There is one other person that was able to do that.

Hitler.

White people have nothing to worry about. Lucky you.

God help the rest of us.

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Lol. I just saw this… It’s pretty funny actually…

http://sfglobe.com/2015/01/01/idM/

To: All Employees

From: Human Resources

RE: Layoffs

As a result of the reduction of money for department areas, we are forced to cut down on our number of personnel. Under this plan, older employees will be asked to go on early retirement, thus permitting the retention of the younger people who represent our future. Therefore, a program to phase out older personnel by the end of the current fiscal year, via retirement, will be placed into effect immediately.

This program will be known as SLAP (Sever Late-Aged Personnel). Employees who are SLAPPED will be given the opportunity to look for jobs outside the company. SLAPPED employees can request a review of their employment records before actual retirement takes place.

This phase of the program is called SCREW (Survey of Capabilities of Retired Early Workers). All employees who have been SLAPPED or SCREWED may file an appeal with the upper management.

This is called SHAFT (Study by Higher Authority Following Termination). Under the terms of the new policy, an employee may be SLAPPED once, SCREWED twice, but may be SHAFTED as many times as the company deems appropriate. If an employee follows the above procedures, he/she will be entitled to get HERPES (Half Earnings for Retired Personnel’s Early Severance) or CLAP (Combined Lump sum Assistance Payment).

After getting HERPES or CLAP employees will no longer be SLAPPED or SCREWED by the company.

Management wishes to assure the younger employees who remain on board that the company will continue its policy of training employees through our Special High Intensity Training (ST). This company takes pride in the amount of ST our employees receive. We have given our employees more ST than any company in this area. If any employee feels they do not receive enough ST on the job, see your immediate supervisor. YOUR SUPERVISOR IS SPECIALLY TRAINED TO MAKE SURE YOU RECEIVE ALL THE S**T YOU CAN STAND.

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[quote=moneymaker]Ok just made a trip to Costco for cat food and what do you know they actually had a kirkland brand of jam that was not organic, also realized while I was waiting in line that most of my cars have Costco tires so if I cancel my membership I will have to go elsewhere for rotations and flat repair (Discount Tire would be my second choice). So for now I guess I’ll keep it. On the way home stopped at Walmart for the salad and for half as much salad it was almost $1 more than Costco used to charge when they carried it. Salad causes flatulence so I guess I can just stop eating salad I suppose.[/quote]

What I do for tires is I buy them from tirerack.com and have them drop shipped to my installer, C2 Motorsports of Kerny Mesa. I don’t trust Costco as a tire installer and they only stock Michelin tires which IMHO are a ripoff or bridgestone which is so-so. Tirerack usually had a better price than Costco when tirerack has their specials.

Also, most tire places locally will match Costco prices. You just need to ask. Also, if you actually go to a tire place, some places throw in a free alignment.

Getting tires from Costco is a pain for me on a beater car because you have to go there for tires and then go to an alignment shop after that isn’t near the Costco

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For all you that insist on organics, trader Joes.. Or Henry’s/Sprout.

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[quote=bibsoconner]Flu, Carlsbad Costco? That’s the one I go to from work. Or should I say, used to go to before they started construction on their gas pump area. Now the long lines are completely unbearable. In general I agree with the original poster: Costco is not the great deal it once was. I’ve noticed that the meats have all gone up (they’ve gone up everywhere, but more so in Costco) and there aren’t as many deals. And the amount of folks that stand in the middle of the aisle thereby blocking all the other shoppers has gone up considerably. Luckily for them, they still have cheap kitty litter so I’m there for now![/quote]

Yup. I think they are adding an additional row of pumps. It isn’t bad around 830am… Beyond gas, I stopped shopping there. Plus I am boycotting their tire center after they effed.up my wheels last time over at Carmel mountain.

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Hey, quick question… Why do people prefer coins versus bars?

It seems like the markup over spot price for gold bars is tiny compared to coins. For example, this one is only $8 over spot prices…

http://www.ebay.com/itm/121826620158

Are bars generally less popular?

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I’ve been filling gas there early in the morning, that’s about it.. Last week @the Carlsbad location: $2.28/gallon for 91…(beater cars of course.). That’s a $30cents/gallon difference from others. I figure 15 gallons a week on average, that’s $4.50/week in savings… More than enough to pay for an executive membership. Also doesn’t factor in the cash rebate on the costco amex card (or soon to be visa card)

That in alone is more than an executive membership.

Some have raised concerns about how Costco gas might be crap gas.. I was initially concerned about generally using it for my better cars…But then again, I foung out my buddy has an E92 M3 has been getting costco gas there for about 7 years. No issue with his E92 M3. So I figure if it’s good enough for a tracked M3, it’s probably good enough for my beaters and my X5. Afterall, it’s not like I have a porsche or ferrari. Plus i dump a can of techron cleaner in my tank every 2-3 months or so anyway, regardless of where i go get gas.

Filling up an 21 gallon X5 @ $2.28 is much better than previously filling up a 21 gallon X5 when it was $4.65/gallon, lol.

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[quote=spdrun]You’re assuming that such a tenant would give a flip about legality.[/quote]

Someone with a pretty high credit score probably would, which is probably also why I don’t generally consider people with a credit score less than 740. As an added bonus, if the person works at a large employer, things get a lot more interesting once you start to really get into legality.

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[quote=spdrun]Even if AirBnB did, what would stop someone from pimping the place on Craigslist or whatever? Glad the OP dodged that one.[/quote]

Legality. I believe If you approved of the sublet, you really don’t have any recourse. If your lease specifically said no subletting, and your tenant did sublet, I believe you can terminate their lease immediately and sue for damages. Then again, I’m not a lawyer, so hopefully I never have to have a need for one.

Also, this opens a whole new ball game wrto liability. Your homeowner’s insurance probably excludes subletters, and even if your tenant carried renter’s insurance, I doubt that it would cover the subletters too.

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I think this is available and gives ebay bucks back.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/121841185635

Currently $1247

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[quote=mike92104][quote=flu]The turbo if it is an issue would be surprising considering I only run synthetic for the past 16years and the car has a turbo timer that leaves the engine running for two minutes after turning off the ignition so that the oil can cool without cooking the turbo. I was running a boosted chip though. The KO3 aren’t exactly known to last that long under a lot of boost. Car has about 110k miles.

And Brian, most cars these.days are moving towards turbo to meet cafe emission rules. So forcing people to drive newer cars is forcing people to go more from an n/a engine to those that are turned and as you say less reliable.[/quote]

What model of turbo timer are you using? I’ve been thinking about adding one to my car. I’m too impatient to wait for it to cool down.[/quote]

Old one made by Greddy…I think they went out of business. You probably don’t need it. I don’t know a single BMW with a turbo that has one . And even after 16years of ownership of religiously cooling down the turbo for 2 minutes before shutting the motor, my turbo looks like it did fail.

Ah well. I got bigger problems now. I think really effed up my miata at an autocross today. I think I was down to 3 cylinders with the supercharger. And then the harmonic balancer wobbled and my supercharger belt broke. It was a fun course. And I should have stopped once the car started to misbehave. But I figure the motor was going to die soon anyway.

Two cars down, 3 to go…Lol…

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Thanks all for the comments. I never had an interest in allowing any sort of subletting, and I thought I was pretty clear initially when I talked to all tenants to be. But this one was interesting because he first started out asking me if it was ok if he occasionally has business associates stay with him. I didn’t think anything of it and thought it was fine. I did find it weird that he’s a techie for a big company, and that he would have so many business associates that he would want to live with him.

Another thing. He tried to assure me that he would find a cleaning person and gardener every week and keep the place pristine (also, this was odd because I was including a gardener already).

And finally when I sent him a draft lease agreement, out of all the things I think he might have objected to, the only thing he objected to was my clause about subleasing was prohibited. He wanted me to change it, because according to his words, even though he doesn’t consider what he was going to do a sublease, he wanted to make sure it wouldn’t conflict with the lease. I objected and said the sublease clause I never removed, ever and that I I won’t change that.

That got me thinking that if he really wanted to do it, he probably could do it without telling me…So I was curious why was he asking me explicitly for consent.

I’m guessing the reason why is because, in order to be able to run a short term rental/AirBNB business for a home that doesn’t belong to, he probably needed to provide proof from the landlord that it was ok to do this. I’m guessing that’s one of the conditions of AirBNB rentals. And I’m guessing that in order to get a mandatory permit in the city to have a short term rental, part of the application for that license requires the person to provide proof that the landlord approves.

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