[Dukehorn]

I don’t understand the point of going out unless it’s for ethnic fare that you can’t cook at home (certain Chinese dishes, pho, duck, Phil’s BBQ, etc.).

Just throw down $20 for 2 lobsters, boil them at home, make a nice white wine/cream/clam seafood soup, and buy a nice bottle of wine. Or throw down some money for some nice steaks. Yeah, it might not be Ruth Chris quality steaks, but it’ll be a 1/4 of the cost. It’s amazing the number of professionals nowadays that hate to cook. It’s not like steaks and steamed broccoli are time consuming…..

Heck, you live in SoCal, get a nice smoker, hang out outside, drink a couple of beers while feeding wood chips and charcoal. Just had 20 people over a few weekends ago and tossed around 15 lbs of meat onto the smoker. Made a mango white wine sangria and some california rolls, and then just chill in the sun. Probably less than $50 in total food costs to entertain.

But for $6, I don’t think the Olive Garden soup and salad promo is that bad.

[Dukehorn]

Hmmmm, lots of variables to consider

9% return, a bit optimistic unless you’re cherry-picking the better mutual funds or getting lucky on your stock picks (but possible).

What ever happen to school loans? I mean your typical JD, MD should be 140k in the hole coming out of school (not counting undergrad debt) and they will be in their mid to late 20s. Not that easy to pay that back in a chunk when you’re buying everything to start your post-school life (new car, new furniture, new wardrobe, etc.).

Frankly, I know LOTS of Asian Americans (and non-Asian Americans) that have received substantial (>100k) help from their parents. Plenty of parents buying 400k+ townhomes for their kids to live in (kids ranging from residents at Stanford, to grad students at UCI, to law students at Santa Clara)–heck my sister and most of my cousins. I’m the most Americanized of my extended family so I’ve bought my two homes by my lonesome (granted in Texas and in DC).

[Dukehorn]

Hmmmm, lots of variables to consider

9% return, a bit optimistic unless you’re cherry-picking the better mutual funds or getting lucky on your stock picks (but possible).

What ever happen to school loans? I mean your typical JD, MD should be 140k in the hole coming out of school (not counting undergrad debt) and they will be in their mid to late 20s. Not that easy to pay that back in a chunk when you’re buying everything to start your post-school life (new car, new furniture, new wardrobe, etc.).

Frankly, I know LOTS of Asian Americans (and non-Asian Americans) that have received substantial (>100k) help from their parents. Plenty of parents buying 400k+ townhomes for their kids to live in (kids ranging from residents at Stanford, to grad students at UCI, to law students at Santa Clara)–heck my sister and most of my cousins. I’m the most Americanized of my extended family so I’ve bought my two homes by my lonesome (granted in Texas and in DC).

[Dukehorn]

Hmmmm, lots of variables to consider

9% return, a bit optimistic unless you’re cherry-picking the better mutual funds or getting lucky on your stock picks (but possible).

What ever happen to school loans? I mean your typical JD, MD should be 140k in the hole coming out of school (not counting undergrad debt) and they will be in their mid to late 20s. Not that easy to pay that back in a chunk when you’re buying everything to start your post-school life (new car, new furniture, new wardrobe, etc.).

Frankly, I know LOTS of Asian Americans (and non-Asian Americans) that have received substantial (>100k) help from their parents. Plenty of parents buying 400k+ townhomes for their kids to live in (kids ranging from residents at Stanford, to grad students at UCI, to law students at Santa Clara)–heck my sister and most of my cousins. I’m the most Americanized of my extended family so I’ve bought my two homes by my lonesome (granted in Texas and in DC).

[Dukehorn]

Hmmmm, lots of variables to consider

9% return, a bit optimistic unless you’re cherry-picking the better mutual funds or getting lucky on your stock picks (but possible).

What ever happen to school loans? I mean your typical JD, MD should be 140k in the hole coming out of school (not counting undergrad debt) and they will be in their mid to late 20s. Not that easy to pay that back in a chunk when you’re buying everything to start your post-school life (new car, new furniture, new wardrobe, etc.).

Frankly, I know LOTS of Asian Americans (and non-Asian Americans) that have received substantial (>100k) help from their parents. Plenty of parents buying 400k+ townhomes for their kids to live in (kids ranging from residents at Stanford, to grad students at UCI, to law students at Santa Clara)–heck my sister and most of my cousins. I’m the most Americanized of my extended family so I’ve bought my two homes by my lonesome (granted in Texas and in DC).

[Dukehorn]

Hmmmm, lots of variables to consider

9% return, a bit optimistic unless you’re cherry-picking the better mutual funds or getting lucky on your stock picks (but possible).

What ever happen to school loans? I mean your typical JD, MD should be 140k in the hole coming out of school (not counting undergrad debt) and they will be in their mid to late 20s. Not that easy to pay that back in a chunk when you’re buying everything to start your post-school life (new car, new furniture, new wardrobe, etc.).

Frankly, I know LOTS of Asian Americans (and non-Asian Americans) that have received substantial (>100k) help from their parents. Plenty of parents buying 400k+ townhomes for their kids to live in (kids ranging from residents at Stanford, to grad students at UCI, to law students at Santa Clara)–heck my sister and most of my cousins. I’m the most Americanized of my extended family so I’ve bought my two homes by my lonesome (granted in Texas and in DC).

[Dukehorn]

I attended the CA State Democratic Convention this weekend and I think it’s getting ugly and frustrating.

First off, the superdelegates need to get off their @#$@ and make a decision. As party insiders, what else do you need to know in order to decide one way or another.

Second, what the hell was Carville thinking? This loyalty stuff is total BS. I didn’t know blind loyalty was something we prized in our government. I’m pretty sure the “loyalty” mantra under the Bush administration has shown the failure of that doctrine. “Loyalty” was the reason we gave those inane contracts to Halliburton. I still haven’t gotten a great sense of why we outsourced part of the war. I didn’t know that the Iraq War was suppose to be a profit center for some Americans.

These Hillary supporters are turning into Ann Coulter clones. I love the constant chatter of Obamabots and of Obama supporters being brain-washed. Considering that Obama has a much higher percentage of the college educated Democrats supporting him. I’d say that the labeling is incorrect. You don’t see many (or any) bloggers talking about the femi-Nazis or white trash component of Hillary supporters (oops, did I just let that out?).

A lot of us are fed up with the politics as usual crap. For those Clinton supporters that threaten to withhold money from the DNCC, do you see how much money Obama is raising grassroots-wise?

He’s upsetting the status quo and that scares some people. I’m not naive enough to state that this couldn’t turn into an Animal Farm situation with Obama, but I don’t see how the next 4 years with him can be any worse than the last 16 years of bickering partisanship.

[Dukehorn]

I attended the CA State Democratic Convention this weekend and I think it’s getting ugly and frustrating.

First off, the superdelegates need to get off their @#$@ and make a decision. As party insiders, what else do you need to know in order to decide one way or another.

Second, what the hell was Carville thinking? This loyalty stuff is total BS. I didn’t know blind loyalty was something we prized in our government. I’m pretty sure the “loyalty” mantra under the Bush administration has shown the failure of that doctrine. “Loyalty” was the reason we gave those inane contracts to Halliburton. I still haven’t gotten a great sense of why we outsourced part of the war. I didn’t know that the Iraq War was suppose to be a profit center for some Americans.

These Hillary supporters are turning into Ann Coulter clones. I love the constant chatter of Obamabots and of Obama supporters being brain-washed. Considering that Obama has a much higher percentage of the college educated Democrats supporting him. I’d say that the labeling is incorrect. You don’t see many (or any) bloggers talking about the femi-Nazis or white trash component of Hillary supporters (oops, did I just let that out?).

A lot of us are fed up with the politics as usual crap. For those Clinton supporters that threaten to withhold money from the DNCC, do you see how much money Obama is raising grassroots-wise?

He’s upsetting the status quo and that scares some people. I’m not naive enough to state that this couldn’t turn into an Animal Farm situation with Obama, but I don’t see how the next 4 years with him can be any worse than the last 16 years of bickering partisanship.

[Dukehorn]

I attended the CA State Democratic Convention this weekend and I think it’s getting ugly and frustrating.

First off, the superdelegates need to get off their @#$@ and make a decision. As party insiders, what else do you need to know in order to decide one way or another.

Second, what the hell was Carville thinking? This loyalty stuff is total BS. I didn’t know blind loyalty was something we prized in our government. I’m pretty sure the “loyalty” mantra under the Bush administration has shown the failure of that doctrine. “Loyalty” was the reason we gave those inane contracts to Halliburton. I still haven’t gotten a great sense of why we outsourced part of the war. I didn’t know that the Iraq War was suppose to be a profit center for some Americans.

These Hillary supporters are turning into Ann Coulter clones. I love the constant chatter of Obamabots and of Obama supporters being brain-washed. Considering that Obama has a much higher percentage of the college educated Democrats supporting him. I’d say that the labeling is incorrect. You don’t see many (or any) bloggers talking about the femi-Nazis or white trash component of Hillary supporters (oops, did I just let that out?).

A lot of us are fed up with the politics as usual crap. For those Clinton supporters that threaten to withhold money from the DNCC, do you see how much money Obama is raising grassroots-wise?

He’s upsetting the status quo and that scares some people. I’m not naive enough to state that this couldn’t turn into an Animal Farm situation with Obama, but I don’t see how the next 4 years with him can be any worse than the last 16 years of bickering partisanship.

[Dukehorn]

I attended the CA State Democratic Convention this weekend and I think it’s getting ugly and frustrating.

First off, the superdelegates need to get off their @#$@ and make a decision. As party insiders, what else do you need to know in order to decide one way or another.

Second, what the hell was Carville thinking? This loyalty stuff is total BS. I didn’t know blind loyalty was something we prized in our government. I’m pretty sure the “loyalty” mantra under the Bush administration has shown the failure of that doctrine. “Loyalty” was the reason we gave those inane contracts to Halliburton. I still haven’t gotten a great sense of why we outsourced part of the war. I didn’t know that the Iraq War was suppose to be a profit center for some Americans.

These Hillary supporters are turning into Ann Coulter clones. I love the constant chatter of Obamabots and of Obama supporters being brain-washed. Considering that Obama has a much higher percentage of the college educated Democrats supporting him. I’d say that the labeling is incorrect. You don’t see many (or any) bloggers talking about the femi-Nazis or white trash component of Hillary supporters (oops, did I just let that out?).

A lot of us are fed up with the politics as usual crap. For those Clinton supporters that threaten to withhold money from the DNCC, do you see how much money Obama is raising grassroots-wise?

He’s upsetting the status quo and that scares some people. I’m not naive enough to state that this couldn’t turn into an Animal Farm situation with Obama, but I don’t see how the next 4 years with him can be any worse than the last 16 years of bickering partisanship.

[Dukehorn]

I attended the CA State Democratic Convention this weekend and I think it’s getting ugly and frustrating.

First off, the superdelegates need to get off their @#$@ and make a decision. As party insiders, what else do you need to know in order to decide one way or another.

Second, what the hell was Carville thinking? This loyalty stuff is total BS. I didn’t know blind loyalty was something we prized in our government. I’m pretty sure the “loyalty” mantra under the Bush administration has shown the failure of that doctrine. “Loyalty” was the reason we gave those inane contracts to Halliburton. I still haven’t gotten a great sense of why we outsourced part of the war. I didn’t know that the Iraq War was suppose to be a profit center for some Americans.

These Hillary supporters are turning into Ann Coulter clones. I love the constant chatter of Obamabots and of Obama supporters being brain-washed. Considering that Obama has a much higher percentage of the college educated Democrats supporting him. I’d say that the labeling is incorrect. You don’t see many (or any) bloggers talking about the femi-Nazis or white trash component of Hillary supporters (oops, did I just let that out?).

A lot of us are fed up with the politics as usual crap. For those Clinton supporters that threaten to withhold money from the DNCC, do you see how much money Obama is raising grassroots-wise?

He’s upsetting the status quo and that scares some people. I’m not naive enough to state that this couldn’t turn into an Animal Farm situation with Obama, but I don’t see how the next 4 years with him can be any worse than the last 16 years of bickering partisanship.

[Dukehorn]

Some of the revisionist history here is truly amazing. I guess you have long term memory amnesia and just store up what FoxNews says the last few weeks.

Certain people must have just blocked out all the interviews given by Cheney in 2003.

“We will be welcomed as liberators.”
“We will not be in Iraq for any significant period of time.”
“Iraq has WMDs.”

Some of you forgot that Rumself vetoed the commanders that said that post-War Iraq would require more troops than the administration was going to send.

Did you forget that the “Surge” happened in 2007? 4 years after the recommendation made by our military, which was initially vetoed by this administration.

If there are malcontents, it’s because they’re astonished in how things have gone to @#$@ since 2001 when we (a) had a good economy and (b) had allies all over the world.

For a bunch of guys that never served in combat, they’ve done a pretty good job of getting our military bogged down and of not listening to guys who have served.

All that being said, I’m not willing to withdraw from Iraq at this juncture due to my foreign policy beliefs (I’m a pragmatic militarist) so there is a chance that I will support McCain. But to pretend that Bush and Cheney need to get plaudits for the sad state of our country is amazing.

[Dukehorn]

Some of the revisionist history here is truly amazing. I guess you have long term memory amnesia and just store up what FoxNews says the last few weeks.

Certain people must have just blocked out all the interviews given by Cheney in 2003.

“We will be welcomed as liberators.”
“We will not be in Iraq for any significant period of time.”
“Iraq has WMDs.”

Some of you forgot that Rumself vetoed the commanders that said that post-War Iraq would require more troops than the administration was going to send.

Did you forget that the “Surge” happened in 2007? 4 years after the recommendation made by our military, which was initially vetoed by this administration.

If there are malcontents, it’s because they’re astonished in how things have gone to @#$@ since 2001 when we (a) had a good economy and (b) had allies all over the world.

For a bunch of guys that never served in combat, they’ve done a pretty good job of getting our military bogged down and of not listening to guys who have served.

All that being said, I’m not willing to withdraw from Iraq at this juncture due to my foreign policy beliefs (I’m a pragmatic militarist) so there is a chance that I will support McCain. But to pretend that Bush and Cheney need to get plaudits for the sad state of our country is amazing.

[Dukehorn]

Some of the revisionist history here is truly amazing. I guess you have long term memory amnesia and just store up what FoxNews says the last few weeks.

Certain people must have just blocked out all the interviews given by Cheney in 2003.

“We will be welcomed as liberators.”
“We will not be in Iraq for any significant period of time.”
“Iraq has WMDs.”

Some of you forgot that Rumself vetoed the commanders that said that post-War Iraq would require more troops than the administration was going to send.

Did you forget that the “Surge” happened in 2007? 4 years after the recommendation made by our military, which was initially vetoed by this administration.

If there are malcontents, it’s because they’re astonished in how things have gone to @#$@ since 2001 when we (a) had a good economy and (b) had allies all over the world.

For a bunch of guys that never served in combat, they’ve done a pretty good job of getting our military bogged down and of not listening to guys who have served.

All that being said, I’m not willing to withdraw from Iraq at this juncture due to my foreign policy beliefs (I’m a pragmatic militarist) so there is a chance that I will support McCain. But to pretend that Bush and Cheney need to get plaudits for the sad state of our country is amazing.

[Dukehorn]

Some of the revisionist history here is truly amazing. I guess you have long term memory amnesia and just store up what FoxNews says the last few weeks.

Certain people must have just blocked out all the interviews given by Cheney in 2003.

“We will be welcomed as liberators.”
“We will not be in Iraq for any significant period of time.”
“Iraq has WMDs.”

Some of you forgot that Rumself vetoed the commanders that said that post-War Iraq would require more troops than the administration was going to send.

Did you forget that the “Surge” happened in 2007? 4 years after the recommendation made by our military, which was initially vetoed by this administration.

If there are malcontents, it’s because they’re astonished in how things have gone to @#$@ since 2001 when we (a) had a good economy and (b) had allies all over the world.

For a bunch of guys that never served in combat, they’ve done a pretty good job of getting our military bogged down and of not listening to guys who have served.

All that being said, I’m not willing to withdraw from Iraq at this juncture due to my foreign policy beliefs (I’m a pragmatic militarist) so there is a chance that I will support McCain. But to pretend that Bush and Cheney need to get plaudits for the sad state of our country is amazing.

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