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[quote=CONCHO]The verb conjugation error in the title of this thread always makes me chuckle.[/quote]

Yes, yes. Should be
“How BE CV schools compared with Del Sur ?”

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I agree that parent involvement and parent expectations of kids and teachers can make or break a school.

I think the Asian thing is just numerology. You see the numbers and try to read something into it. People’s ethnicity matters little. What matters is how hard-working the kids are, how involved the parents are, and the expectations that the parents have for the kids.

It would be interesting to see test scores of the parents at these schools …

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Speaking of Mish …

He always looks at things from a different perspective from the rest of the world.

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/02/petroleum-3-month-rolling-average-turns.html

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[quote=Ren]I went to slab city recently as part of a road trip. It’s basically a garbage dump with bad weather. There are MUCH better places to park a solar powered RV.[/quote]

Probably none with more character, though.

Character, and characters.

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poorgrad student –

When I first read your post I thought it said “bullshit” instead of “bullish” and I was going to say – it’s alot more than two.

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What’s an ESC program ?

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[quote=markmax33]Kcal – There are two types of business in America.

1. Crony Capitalism – where people get sweetheart GOV contracts, manipulate the GOV for business advanatages, etc. Haliburton is crony capitalism. The banks are crony capitalism.

2. Real Capitalism – that doesn’t prey on the taxpayer. Apple, Google, Facebook, etc are examples of real captilism. They created a product everyone wanted with ingenuity.

They should outright tax the crony capitalism companies 100% and they should leave the tax rate at 0 for the real capitalism companies. Unfortunately there is a push and pull to put everyone in these groups into the same tax bracket because they are making money. I see why the democrats and republicans are so split on this notion. The democrats see people getting rich off of BS loopholes and want those rich people to share what they effectively stole from every tax payer and the rich that made money legitametly don’t want to be taxed because they will have to kill jobs and won’t be able to compete as well at a higher tax rate.
The democratic position’s flaw is that they want to expand the GOV power which will eventually expand GOV contracts to the crony capitalism crew. This will reduce the competitveness of other businesses as regulations are added because the democrats feel they are getting ripped off and need more taxes. It’s quite a trap.

I’m not defending the republicans either, just explaining why the democrat mentality is flawed.[/quote]

I think you’ve hit it on the head, there mm.

Crony capitalism and union thuggery are the same thing in a different costume.

FLU – just because those companies are improperly valued by the market doesn’t meant they aren’t born from true capitalism.

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This is just awesome. If my wife leaves me for the gardener and takes the kids, I’m all over it.

Would be really fun to build a quaint little house, paint it pink with a picket fence on one of those slabs.

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I feel a whole lotta nuthin’ in either direction. Economy is plodding along – that’s what I feel.

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[quote=desmond]All excellent and well thought out reasons, nobody mentioned that with such low listing and lower selling prices many cannot even afford to sell their homes, and many are probably waiting for “better prices”, just a thought. I would imagine when prices “heat up” inventory will adjust.[/quote]

That’s a good comment. I’m seeing in Carmel Valley that sellers have definitely started to cave-in to the low offers. The homes that are on the market are there because they have a reason to sell, with a few high-priced exceptions that have no hope of selling anyway. Other would-be sellers are, as you say, waiting for higher prices.

Seems that buyers expectations of lower prices have started running into sellers that are willing to concede.

Take a peek over at the little Redfin chart to the right, with the red and blue lines. Tells the same story.

In order for prices to pick up, pricing expectations and willingness to pay on the demand side has to pick-up as well. There’s little that I see to suggest it will.

This means a continued slow decline in prices, with occasional bounces. Like a ball bouncing down a gentle slope.

I agree there is no tsunami coming but we don’t need one for prices to dip a bit. Then again, it is coming into the selling season. We’ll see if the Spring brings buyers, sellers, both or neither.

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I initially thought “you are screwed,” basically. Anywhere progressive will be a crappy school district. Maybe UC Gal knows something, though. She’s good like that. I’d consider private school or rolling the dice of “choicing” into a school within the district.

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You need to hire a cross between an architect, a lawyer and a politician. Seriously. Find someone who deals with this stuff all the time and knows how to negotiate a deal with the city.

Jacarandoso is correct – there are ways around it that the government workers will never tell you about.

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I have a new acronym: GYOFB

Can you guys guess what it means ?

sdr will buy the winner a decent bottle of wine …

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[quote=walterwhite]New mexico lobos basketball.

fans are berserk.

It was almost a little scary.

College basketball is pretty intense[/quote]

From what I’ve heard, The Pit is every bit as crazy as the east-coast fans if not the absolute loudest in the country.

I went to a final 4 several years ago between AZ, Duke, MD, and MI St. The Maryland fans did themselves proud. And, after losing to Duke in the first game, they were just as boisterous cheering against Duke in the Duke / Arizona.

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Yep. I’m a college hoops fan from way back. I have always felt that college basketball is the best live sporting environment in the US. Nothing compares to the energy. At a college hoops game, the student fan section is the key to the environment and the SDSU student fans are great. I have only been to 1 game this year and it was great fun.

Still hoping Beckham buys San Diego a Major League Soccer team, though. Until that happens, SDSU hoops is the best game in town.

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