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Fortunately, the voting seats on the Board of Governors are actually going more conservative as a whole come January 2014.

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Too transparent — if you want to mess with them, I suspect you have lead them on.

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More like a Wall Street pimp.

This being said — end game today. Dow +15, NASDAQ -36, everything else negative. Flu’s beloved FB down to 45…

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There doesn’t appear to be any mechanism to easily report PM spam — can you set that up like you did for public posts?

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Depends where — in suburban NY, prices are probably down since 2010, owing to the rush of foreclosures being kicked into the pipeline recently.

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First of all, i wasnt refering to homosexuality, just your consistent anti-having kids viewpoint.

I’m not anti-kid, I’m anti having more than two kids.

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You miss my point — in primitive, tribal societies, people not procreating could make or break a clan. Nowadays, we have enough people to go around, so the 10% of homosexuals that happen to exist (and not breed “naturally”) aren’t a huge survival risk.

And actually, recessive traits that don’t permit procreation don’t disappear … think of Tay-Sachs Disease or anything that causes children to die young. I do realize that homosexuality is more complicated than that, but it’s not as simple as you make out either.

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Just because it’s “innate” doesn’t make it good or useful in industrialized society ca. 2013. Homophobia seems like a dumb thing to waste one’s energy on.

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Why — the world is overpopulated as it is. Fewer breeders would be a good thing.

(OK, maybe not for the R.E. market, but places like CA will always be desirable.)

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Paramount… Come on, it’s a hell of a jump from “consenting adults of the same gender sometimes get married” to condoning child abuse.

If you’re going to argue, don’t weaken your position with irrational arguments like that.

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I wouldn’t say ANY level — look at Detroit, Stockton, Camden, or Harrisburg.

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^^^
Exactly. The buck stops at the decision-makers, or should anyway.

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You can still buy cheaply if you buy in a neighborhood that’s “changing.” And foreclosures have actually gone up 50-75% since the sequester began, so prices aren’t really going up anymore for the time being.

“Following the gheys” isn’t always profitable — there’s a little city on the NJ coast, Asbury Park, which is sort of a ghetto. Think Oceanside with an even less nice downtown. About 10 years ago, everyone said, “buy there, the gays are moving in” — well 10 years later, it’s still improving but hasn’t improved much apart from one tiny area 🙂

DC is more of a case of following the govno-mint workers. Much of the rise actually happened under Dubya Bush, who massively scaled up the size of government.

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No different than trading on a bear market, except that the bearishness is local.

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Last year they were giving kids military rankings based on how they were progressing with state test milestones. Of course, there was a strong socio-ecomnomic relationship. I put a stop to it.

I’ve never heard of anything like that out here — do they do it as a cute way to relate to the kids, since there are probably a lot more kids from military families in SD than in NJ (where I grew up)? I personally don’t think that the military ranking system is inappropriate in itself, but the fact that test results were made “public” is a bit inappropriate.

Out of curiosity, do they “track” in SD-area public schools? i.e. are there tests for admission to “honors”, AP, or IB classes?

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