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svelteParticipant[quote=spdrun]Sure, on sellers with the IQ of a potted plant. Any seller with 1/4 of a brain will sell to whoever comes firstest with the mostest money.
The only paper that matters is the green, hard-to-fake kind.[/quote]
Not always true. Here is a true example from last twelve months.
A close friend was shopping for a house so we recommended our friend, an excellent realtor. The realtor found our friend an excellent home (half of a duplex) and wrote the seller a very nice offer letter, introducing my friend’s young family and stating they would treat the home well. They got the house in a multiple offer situation.
After they moved in, they found out the other half of the duplex was also owned by the seller and his daughter lives there still! So the seller had a vested interest in getting a very decent buyer in the place he was selling.
In a multiple offer situation with close bids, it is very possible the offer letter makes the difference.
svelteParticipantDidn’t this happen about the time Delta canceled hundreds of flights back east due to weather around Atlanta? It could be that all other flights were totally full and the passengers already knew that…they may not have wanted to deal with getting another flight that may actually be several days out, not just a few hours later.
In any case, the proper solution was to just keep upping the amount offered to give up a seat – they were sitting in their rightfully assigned and purchased seat, if the airline wants it back let them buy it back at the market rate at the moment. After all, they charged the market rate at the moment when they sold it, right?
I have no sympathy for United. They were arrogant and deserve exactly what they are getting. Even if they didn’t drag the dude from the seat themselves, they were the ones who decided he needed to vacate that seat. Deserve exactly what they’re getting…
svelteParticipantWhat housing crash?
I deny it ever happened!
March 25, 2017 at 8:47 PM in reply to: Rural Urban Divide, Millennial Lifestyles & City of the Future #806138svelteParticipant[quote=FlyerInHi]Steven K. Bannon, now the White House’s chief strategist, complained at a meeting with European conservatives three years ago. “And they have more of this elite mentality that they’re going to dictate to everybody how the world’s going to be run.”[/quote]
Oh give me a break. Rural folks think they are going to dictate also. They want to dictate who we can marry (anti-gay marriage). They want to spread Christianity and enforce it through law. They want to dictate what we put in our body (anti-MJ). And they want to dictate what medical procedures we have access to (anti-abortion).
No different that urban folk, just different issues. So don’t feed me the BS that it’s only the urban folk with a grand view on how the world should be….absolute rubbish.
svelteParticipantReally this has to be one of the funniest thing I’ve ever seen politically.
They’ve railed against Obamacare for SEVEN YEARS. They’ve had SEVEN YEARS to develop a plan that Republicans like.
The best they can do is say it’s the Democrats fault that they can’t even get enough Republicans to vote for what they’ve come up with!
Awesome!
svelteParticipantU-T has a great write-up on the Trumpcare Failure.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/us-politics/ct-house-health-care-vote-20170324-story.html
It was a stunning defeat for the new president after he had demanded House Republicans delay no longer and vote on the legislation Friday, pass or fail.
His gamble failed. Instead Trump, who campaigned as a master deal-maker and claimed that he alone could fix the nation’s health care system, saw his ultimatum rejected by Republican lawmakers who made clear they answer to their own voters, not to the president.
He had “never said repeal and replace it in 64 days,” a dejected but still combative Trump said at the White House, though he had repeatedly shouted during the presidential campaign that it was going down “immediately.”
The bill was withdrawn just minutes before the House vote was to occur, and lawmaker said there were no plans to revisit the issue. Republicans will try to move ahead on other agenda items, including overhauling the tax code, though the failure on the health bill can only make whatever comes next immeasurably harder.
Trump pinned the blame on Democrats.“With no Democrat support we couldn’t quite get there,” he told reporters in the Oval Office. “We learned about loyalty, we learned a lot about the vote-getting process.”
The Obama law was approved in 2010 with no Republican votes.
What an imbecile.
And welcome to the next four years.
February 27, 2017 at 4:09 PM in reply to: OT: First real rains in years, time to check your ceilings and walls. #805774svelteParticipantI don’t think you’ve torn out enough sheet rock yet. I bet if you go to the right you’ll find even more severely damaged wood.
All fixable it just takes $$. And I agree that damage has been going on for some time.
svelteParticipantI’ve always wondered how the roads would handle an emergency evacuation for a wide area. The earlier floods were due to levee failures so the evacuation covered much fewer people.
Looks like the government is now aware they are going to have to do something much better to prepare for an Oroville Dam failure…
http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/transportation/back-seat-driver/article133485154.html
svelteParticipantnever in my wildest dreams did I think I’d yearn to have the Bush years back, but here we are…
svelteParticipant[quote=FlyerInHi]
I watched the whole news conference while making dinner las night. OMG, all the stuff Trump says. it’s incredible! The guy is a whackjob.
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There was a point – I think it was late Dec or early Jan – where he started acting Presidential. I started to believe he had just been putting on an act during the campaign.
Well, it didn’t take long for the real Donald to re-appear.
Does anybody know what the procedure is to declare a president mentally unfit? I know we aren’t there yet, but I am really concerned it may come down to that. We’re only a month into his term and look what has transpired so far.
On a side note, one of my Republican friends posted today a photo of Lucy from “I love Lucy” making one of her classic stunned faces with the caption “the moment you realize this IS your circus and those ARE your monkeys”. It may be starting to dawn on some folks what a mistake they’ve made…
svelteParticipantI’m beginning to wonder if Howard Stern is right – the office will be terrible for Trump’s mental health. Stern submits that Trump has a strong desire to be liked and all of the darts that are shot at the President – any president, R or D – will send him tumbling over the edge.
What Stern says kind of makes sense. It would explain the ultra bully persona and love of rallies surrounded by his faithful and adoring fans.
svelteParticipantwhat I usually do is overlap my cars…I keep the old one long after I buy the new one. That way if I end up hating the new one (doesn’t happen often), I can always sell it and go back to old faithful.
svelteParticipant[quote=zk]
I do watch sometimes. It’s getting harder, though. It’s so disappointing to know that so many people are so gullible.
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I hear ya.
My long-term theory that education fixes everything ignores that the neurons don’t connect in some folks no matter how many classes they take.
It’s quite sad that becoming prez has come down to a game of The Biggest Liar.
svelteParticipant[quote=FlyerInHi]I feel that the Trump presidency will be a disaster.
Hundreds of well qualified Republicans won’t serve Trump, and hundreds more have been blacklisted for criticizing Trump before. Without capable people, Trump can’t run the government. So much for being a good executive. Running a family business like a mafia boss is not the same as running the country. [/quote]
One thing for sure the first month hasn’t gone too great.
I’m going to watch this rewrite of the immigration order carefully. If he can get a much better version this time, it will help convince me that he listens and learns. If it is just as effed up as the first, well I’ll stick with my original opinion that this can’t end well.
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