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SDR-

“While Jim beleives you can follow trends of flawed data, my experience with complex market research studies and statistical analysis does not let me beleive this (nor would the 2 former marketing executives of Fortune 50 companies that I have directly reported let me). I have found that my gut intuition is a far accurate and reliabel predictor of what is coming than the data.”

Phew – where to begin…? First of all, you say you respect Jim the realtor, and then you say he follows “flawed data”. So, you are saying he is not smart enough to know the difference? Not as experienced as you are? Or what?

Secondly, I can hardly understand what you are saying in the above sentences. Please reword – especially the part about “the 2 former marketing executives of Fortune 50 companies that I have directly reported let me.” Huh?

Thirdly, I cannot believe you made that comment about “Hispanic” last names. What the heck are you insinuating?

Finally, I’ve pointed out before (only because you use this word so often) that your spelling of ‘believe’ is wrong every time. It is B-E-L-I-E-V-E.

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Josh – Definitely comes with!!!

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I dont think there are any RE bulls around here!

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Well, we HAD a strong military – but now it is weakened. And for what?

We’ve spent way in excess of what we have… now our children will all pay and pay and pay… You cannot say we were provoked by Iraq – that did not happen this time.

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Ooops, duplicate.

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I dont agree. Politics certainly plays a role in most of these topic discussions.

It isnt so terrible if we have differing views and it also is not so bad if we debate them heatedly.

Isnt it intersting that PS and PD, who agree so completely on most things, differ on politics? This is the BEAUTY of America – that we can freely discuss our differences of opinion. I am proud of both powayseller and PD for sticking up for themselves so vehemently although I agree with Pseller politically and wasnt impressed with PD’s link to an article “proving” her theories about bullying… The link came from a pro-gun website… Go figure.

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I spent last summer in the water on Coronado… developed the most disgusting skin infection after a day of surfing. I know it was that day, because the water was particularly stinky, and i was wearing a wetsuit and alot of crud got trapped inside my bkini top and wetsuit. I woke with the infection the very next morning…. on the underside of my boob! It was so painful I could hardly lift my arm – even though it was nowhere near my armpit. I ended up on antibiotics. I am just thankful it wasnt the flesh-eating bacteria, but whatever it was – it was WRONG… I made my mind up that day that Coronado’s pollution had become too much for me or for my kids to be swimming in. Nasty. If they dont fix the problem somehow, tourism will certainly take a hit. If I didnt have family there – I’d probably never go back at all.

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Coronado and Imperial Beach both are going to have increasing problems with businesses adversly affected by water pollution. See this article:

http://www.coronadonewsca.com/articles/2006/06/08/news/news02.txt

One business owner in IB is saying he wants to seek disaster relief. I know I’ve written this before, but the stench from the water has become unbearable in Coronado. So much so, that we have decided not to spend our summer there this year. Others we met were saying the same last year. Top it off with a real estate downturn & decreased spending … and seriously bad times are ahead.

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PerryChase-

I am sorry about my tone in my post to you. Just reread it and it sounds awful! I agree that the spending could come from other areas of the current budget(including defense) and would be better spent on education… I only disagreed about the comment about financing “other people’s children’s educations”… I think there is value in education that reaches far beyond the individual. The rewards of innovation by future adults Americans educated in public schools will benefit us all.

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This is why everyone is leaving CA:

Here in NY my kids attend small elementary schools – we have only two classes per grade, K – 6 in our building. At our school, we have a full-time orchestra teacher. She runs a 4th grade orchestra, a 5th/6th grade orchestra, and teaches semi-private string lessons throughout the week — no more than 1-3 kids at a time.

We also have a full-time band instructor. Same format as above. 4th grade band, 5th/6th grade band, and semi-private lessons for all brass/wind/percission throughout the week.

We also have a full-time “Music teacher” who runs three seperate choirs, 4th, 5th, and 6th, the school plays, and also teaches all grades to sing and read music.

We have two art teachers, one full-time, and one who splits her time between our school and another in the district, but is a full-time employee.

We have two PE teachers, same as above, one full-time, one who splits their time.

We have full computer lab, excellent library, etc etc etc… I could go on and on.

My oldest started Jr High this year, and all the small elementary schools get funneled into one campus. I was bracing for the worst having only my experience with schools in Del mar and Coronado for reference. I was pleasantly surprised at what I found this year:

Excellent course selection.
Regular and advanced course offerings in all areas, even in music and art!

Excellent science labs, and seperate science lab and science class times allotted during the week (like college).

My daughter plays in three orchestras since she takes private lessons elsewhere and does not need the private lessons they offer at her school throughout the school day. They have one full-time orchestra teacher (so many kids have dropped out by this level in the strings – but the orchestra is still huge). He runs the 7th grade orchestra, 8th grade orchestra, a “chamber orchestra” for kids who have outside private lessons, and an ‘audition only’ orchestra for 7th/8th combined.

Band instruments are more popular, so there are TWO full-time band instructors. One who does all of the above for 7th grade, except they run an “A” band and a “B” band because so many kids are involved, and another instructor who spends full-time doing the same for the 8th graders. each band teacher stays with his same group for both years that the kids are at the jr high…

This is not a hige jr high either. Only five of these small elementary schools funnel into the jr high… I could go on and on and on about the programs here, but just this insight into how they run the music program alone should give you an glimpse of how they run the academic programs as well…

Yes, this is public school, and yes, our taxes are the highest in the nation (and yes, we are cold in the winter!). However, housing is less expensive, so it is a wash. Actually, it is a wash only financially – we feel that we are ahead otherwise….

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PerryChase-

You said, “Personally, I refuse to vote for any kind of tax increase. And, yes, I’m not happy to pay for other people’s children’s education. Most people are not qualified to have children.”

Educating the entire population of a nation is for the greater good of the society, which, in the end, is for your own good as well. I do not understand your point of view at all.

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I would go too, but wont be in SDiego until mid-July.

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Lickitysplit –

Thank you for that link to the Basics of Shorting Stock!

MUCH appreciated.

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Bugs – I think the inventory # would be compounding monthly while the sales % for May is just for one month.

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True – you would appear that way.

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