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Possible.. I believe that China will be having their own economic problems in the not too distant future. I was reading an article about China’s growing internal bad debt where the authors estimate Chinese banks carrying around 911 Billion US in bad loan debt, one third of that Real Estate debt.

It reminds me of Japan in the 80’s when everyone thought they were financial genuises. Time showed what happened to a government subsidized banking system it imploded and is finally starting to come back around.

China in the event this happens, the results will be far uglier than Japan. the government will do everything and anything to remain in power….

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I’ve been told that there are some really nice areas in Chula Vista, still, when I hear “wealthy” or “well to do” and Chula Vista I always default to the Bonita area. I imagine it’s a combination of proximity to the border and still cheaper than Coronado, Downtown or La Jolla.

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The Fed will try to pull

I agree, it’s time the fed stopped trying to postpone the inevitable and let the market(s) run their course which will be an Al Bundy size toilet flush. I just don’t have that much faith in the Fed to look farther forward than the next two to four quarters…

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All are welcome when they come legally, integrate into our society, and come to learn and respect the laws and culture of their new home.

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Darn, if we were stayed off topic then after all this the most obvious main question still can be asked;
Is ps a hot babe or not?

Kidding!

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That is a possibility and I’d agree for the most part with your historical reference. IMHO I think that there will be a lot of folks who won’t be able to lock in lower rates and (even if they could) will be even more hard-pressed to hold on to their property – in an inflationary market, so I don’t think if it came to pass it would be too much of a wrench. I’ll throw another caveat into that with job security, if inflation keeps going up and some of the proposed tax increases that are floating around congress at the moment come to fruition, that will be a serious issue.

I think that in a lot of market places around the country the initial statement holds true with little modification but, I feel San Diego is different this time as far as it’s housing values and income disparity compared to previous cycles.

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Another good argument against those promoting the “reconquista” of the Southern US.

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I stand corrected!
If I was speaking as to only the content of color (which I guess could be intpreted that I did imply as much but did not mean) then this would be accurate;

White light contains light of all frequencies. In that sense, white is a combination of all colors. Black objects absorb light of all frequencies. This means that very little light is reflected from them. Black is the absence of light.

As far as the absence of color is concerned… you know that if you combine pigments or dyes of different colors, you don’t end up with white. Dyes and pigments work by absorbing light in certain frequency ranges, and
transmitting or reflecting light of other frequencies. If two different dyes are combined, the mixture absorbs light characteristic of BOTH dyes, and transmits light of the remaining frequencies. If you mix togtether dyes that are truly complementary, the mixture will absorb light of all
frequencies, and thus be black. (In practice the best you can do is get a muddy brown, because the different dyes are only approximately complementary.) So it depends on what you mean by “absence of color.”

We perceive colors because we have three types of “cone” cells in our retinas, each of which is most sensitive to certain frequency ranges. These ranges correspond pretty much to red, green, and blue. Our brain interprets the different intensities of the signals from each type of cone
cell to decide what color it sees.

I said “white is the absence of color, Black is all colors and gray is a muddy combination” or something to that effect. My fault for not implicitly stating it as a metaphor

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Very, very briefly, the blame would be on a paranoid king fearful of his throne. There is sooooo much history about this that is never ever mentioned in most texts..but if you are afraid of christians, especially catholics dz I can see grasping at straws.

In 1483 Ferdinand appointed Tomas de Torquemada as inquistor-general for most of Spain. It was Torquemada’s job to establish rules of evidence and procedure for the Inquisition as well as to set up branches in major cities. Sixtus confirmed the appointment, hoping that it would bring some order to the situation.

Unfortunately, the problem only snowballed. This was a direct result of the methods employed by the early Spanish Inquisition, which strayed significantly from Church standards. When the inquisitors arrived in a particular area, they would announce an Edict of Grace. This was a 30-day period in which secret Jews could voluntarily come forward, confess their sin, and do penance. This was also a time for others with information about Christians practicing Judaism in secret to make it known to the tribunal. Those found guilty after the 30 days elapsed could be burned at the stake.

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mainly that he is such an amoral man. Hey PC, pop quiz, if PC goes in front of a Grand Jury, lies, gets caught where do you think PC would be spending the next few years? Maybe it doesn’t bother you when you are flat out lied to by your president. Don’t jump on the Bush lied bandwagon either, it been beaten into the ground and is a false argument.

I don’t think of myself as a conservative nor a liberal. I don’t follow any party lines as what I deem in my best interest and my family and country’s isn’t set by any party but the rare individual who seems to grasp the intent of our constitution.

So, you would cut off your nose to spite your face. Vote for Hillary? I find her every bit as amoral as her husband.
What does she represent that you respect? Infidelity? Higher taxes? More government interference in your life? (it takes a village to raise a child, sound familar?) If you think Iraq is the biggest foreign mistake in modern foreign policy well… you must be pretty young.

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LOL, so much for living in color!

The holy land was originally jewish christianity was then founded there. It was looted by the muslims. So it’s not bullshit, if it’s too hard for you to actually investigate it just look at the chronological order… judiasm, christianity, islam.

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I take it this is directed toward me. Sometimes in life you don’t have the luxury of time for experience, you need to make a hard and fast decision. Black or White, Yes or No. Live or Die. Integrity or Shame. It’s a metaphor for making decisions, taking responsibility for them, good or bad.
If I was born in Iraq, so what? If that is all I know then thats all I know – it has a different reality behind the black and white but it’s still black and white.

Fighting for a better life, I find different than fighting to impose your religous views on others and imposing your interpretation of life on them.

You chose to live in color. I don’t have a clear understanding of what that means, I can only assume. From my assumptions it’s a noble place, from my experience far beyond the majority of humanities consciousness, certainly my own.

Regardless, I marvel daily at the sunrise and sunset, at the complexity of human physiology, of the colors and textures of nature, thousands of different things. Still, I have decisions to make, responsibilites to carry out to my self and others.

Fear? Yes I have fear, fear of my own death however, isn’t one of them, if you have no fear then, IMHO you are either dead or a fool (well perhaps a very young child but that is a gift of youth and innocence).

In the end if you are happy, healthy and feel complete. Then I congratulate you and wish you that always.

White is no color, Black is all colors. Gray is a muddy mix of both.

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Yes, I have. They crusades were a result of Muslim aggression.

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The weapons were there, that is documented even by the lame UN. So what? Now they are in Syria. Seek information beyond your comfort level otherwise…. you are just as much of a chimp.

Gee, Under Clinton they had no nuclear weapons.. hey, they didn’t have any under Nassar either, or when Mohammad roamed the desert, thats a invalid argument. However, both Iraq and Iran were in the market for nuclear technology, I don’t know where you got your degree but, it takes more than six years to start a nuclear program. Before I forget, the several thousands of gallon of pesticides buried in a remote desert outpost (two to date I might be wrong) weren’t there for crop dusting the local farms, oh wait! there were no local farms, but coincidently are a primary ingredient for chemical weapons.

Islam is a religion of conquest, it has no comparision to the relatively peaceful Christian religion. It is based on conquest through warfare and subjugating(forgive my spelling) the populations. It is/was only a matter of time before the world got so small they could focus on us. The will never accept even you unless you convert to their religion but even then since you aren’t an Arab you really aren’t safe. I won’t touch on the sectarian butchering.

Actually, yes, Al Qaeda was, even the lame 9/11 commission report acknowledges that. And if you read the letters of the late Zarqawi, Iraq was one of the few chances Al Qaeda had for revitalizing their movement and gaining a base, his downfall was he butchered Iraqi citizens trying to do so. The religous equivilant of Che Guevera.

I guess the IED’s just “exist” right? No one goes out of their way to actually build them. The manner of the attack is moot, thats like arguing that tanks, artillery and missles aren’t tools of the enemy.

The world, if you have convictions and beliefs often is black and white. Those who live in a gray world stand for nothing and no one, except possibly themselves (even then who knows, akin to the white american male who apologizes for being white, male and american but I digress). Sometimes the lines may blur but that should be the exception. To you, in the case of Bush the world is black and white you use your points to contradict yourself.

Our war is with Islamic fundamentalism an ideology, like Communism or Nazism. The fundamentalists aren’t event radically deviating from the teachings of Mohammed, they are actually “good” muslims. Read the Quran and the hadiths and suras, it is a religion spread by violence and warfare. That is a world where it is black and white. There are no borders and their soldiers for the most part wear no uniforms. It will be fought all around the world for a long time. If you live in a gray world you have nothing to stand for, nothing to fight for, you are doomed to death or slavery.

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According to the New York Times, Clinton removed $2 billion in trade with China from national security scrutiny. Among the results: 77 supercomputers – capable of 13 billion calculations per second – that could scramble and unscramble secret data and design nuclear weapons. These were purchased by the Chinese without a peep stateside. At least some of them would be used by the Chinese military.

With the transfer of the Panama Canal, four of Panama’s ports ended up being controlled by a company partially owned by Hutchison-Whampoa Ltd., which in turn was owned by Li Ka-Shing, a billionaire so close to the Chinese power structure that he was offered the governorship of Hong Kong.

Another owner of the Panamanian ports was China Resources Enterprise, called an “agent of espionage” by Senator Fred Thompson. CRE was also a partner of the Lippo Group, owned by the Riady family that played a central if mysterious role in the rise of William Clinton. According to congressional testimony by ex-JCS [Joint Chiefs of Staff] chief Admiral Thomas Moorer, Hutchison-Whampoa won the right to pilot all ships through the Panama Canal, including U.S. naval vessels.

President Clinton signed national security waivers to allow four U.S. commercial satellites to be launched in China, despite evidence that China was exporting nuclear and missile technology to Pakistan and Iran, among other nations. One of these satellites belonged to Loral. Nine days later a Chinese Long March rocket carrying a $200 million satellite belonging to Loral failed in mid-flight.

A subsequent lawsuit charged that the circuit board from the highly classified encryption device in the satellite was found to be missing when the Chinese returned debris from the explosion to U.S. authorities, even though a control box containing the circuit board was recovered intact. After the crash, NSA reportedly changed the encoded algorithms used by U.S. satellites because of the apparent release of highly classified information.

President Clinton approved a waiver allowing the launch of another satellite on board a Chinese rocket, despite a recommendation by the Department of Justice that the waiver would have a significant adverse impact on any prosecution arising from its pending investigation of Loral.

The New York Times reported in 1998 that the Defense Technology Security Administration said Loral’s unauthorized release of sensitive technology to the Chinese gave rise to at least three “major” violations of U.S. national security, three medium violations and 12 “minor” infractions.

Throughout these dealings, the CEO of Loral, Bernard Schwartz, contributed at least $1.5 million to the Democrats, making him the single largest contributor to these groups during the period in question.

Softwar newsletter reported that that some of the radios and cell phones being used by Chinese police in their campaign against dissidents were those sold to the Chinese by Motorola after Clinton overrode human rights objections by the State Department.

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