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[quote=SD Realtor]Agreed that breaking stories can become broken stories. I don’t think it would behoove the security agencies for “more reporting” as opposed to less reporting of a sleeper cell. As we have witnessed over the past decade in pretty much every terrorist plot that has been detected prior to that event, those stories died within a day or two as well.

As you and many others may deride Glenn Beck, I find it interesting that nobody has actually refuted what he has said. I guess they don’t feel it is important.

While to you it is not important that someone with a student visa is living in Boston and is at the crime scene while on a student visa to go to school in Ohio, to me it is important. The 9/11 attacks had several terrorists that were also here on student visa’s. So the non story to you is important to me and I would like to know more details about it. Since nobody else is reporting about it, where else can I find out about it but these outlets.

It is just our different perspectives. We have different opinions on the media. My guess is that you believe that if the mainstream media doesn’t report about it, then it is not an issue and that outlets like Fox and people like Beck are right wing crazy’s. You may very well be correct. Mine is that the mainstream media is steeped in political correctness and is almost fearful of the current administration. I don’t bite on everything that Fox or Beck report on but don’t ignore them or laugh them off like everyone else does. Perhaps the truth is in between.[/quote]

Adam, most news sources don’t refute Glenn Beck in the same way they don’t refute Stella Tremblay when she asserts the government is run by Queen Elizabeth.

They don’t refute it because its FUCKING RETARDED.

Here is a fun example:
http://news.yahoo.com/glenn-beck-conspiracy-theory-whats-evidence-202312996.html

Fox News is not crazy.
However it is partisan.
In the same way that MSNBC is partisan.
Thats part of the reason Beck isn’t on Fox News anymore.

They have a perspective (which isn’t mine) but they don’t run about alleging the Muslim Brotherhood is front for Code Pink.

I disagree with Fox News but actually disdain Glenn Beck (and his dittoheads).

This reminds me of that movie Barcelona where everybody in Spain is fighting the AFL-CIA conspiracy. Whenever the Americans try to explain how that makes no sense, they are accused of being a part of it.

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[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Dan: Speaking of history, isn’t a non-representative authority (in the form of a tyrannical monarch like George III) a tautology?

Also, can the Sons of Liberty, in your example, be considered “Constitutionalists”, given that the Constitution hadn’t even been written yet?[/quote]

Re tautology:
Lots of authorities are powered by representative democracy.
Prior to colonial establishment, most British subjects were represented through their MP.
The colonies were the exception.
Nobody really cared until the crown started throwing its weight around.
It lost that argument.
Britain lost the Americans colonies.
And the crown was so weakened that it fully lost any real authority shortly thereafter.
Nor was that isolated to the hypercalcemic King George.
Its the same way the glorious revolution, the English civil war, and gelding of King John went down.
Ambitious monarch gets checked by players in the broader power base after failing to read “the Prince” (film at eleven).
Also, King George was foolish in his application of force but not much of a tyrant in my opinion.

Re Tea and Boston:
And no, I did not mean to say that the SOL were constitutionalists but that their rebellion had become a big part of the mythos underpinning this new wave of deified constitutional fundamentalism.

I strongly doubt they would identify with the Tea Party (which complains about taxation WITH representation).

Re Wes Clark:
So….you really think the NATO supreme commander was that much of a doofus?

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[quote=paramount]

Well I’m glad you found the humor in that post, well then I’ll go on and say that in addition those things you are no doubt a socialist/communist who worships the collective ideologies inculcated by our current central planners.[/quote]

So in addition to being a socialist communist marxist fascist I am also a socialist/communist?

Well your rhetoric is improving certainly but my point remains the same.

Yes.

I cannot help but see the humor in a business owner and capitalist being called a socialist (which I am not) slash a communist (which is a very different thing). And I am fairly certain I worship nothing (except possibly PJ Harvey ).

Also, my business turns a profit and employs several.

How many do you employ?

I don’t know you personally (other than my deep longing for you, you beautiful creature) but I am guessing you are not a business owner.

Most (not all) people who deify the constitution and capitalism and Ayn Rand are worker bees. Often working for gov’t, gov’t contractors, or subsidized industries.

Think about the SAIC engineer with the Ron Paul sticker or the Realtor who holds forth about the gold standard.

Its pretty fucking funny really when you think about it.

But still not as good as your “history” lessons.

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[quote=paramount]

Spoken like a true socialist communist marxist fascist.[/quote]

Paramount, I have missed you soooooo much!

You forgot to call me a Nazi.

Or a Muslim-lover.

Or a homo.

Yer lozin yer edge man.

But you remain as reasoned, well-read, and intelligent as ever.

Kisses for you my sexy brown beast.

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So your proof is from the mainstream media?

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[quote=SD Realtor]Interesting you imagine this to be a tea partier.

So there are instances of tea partiers killing people?[/quote]

Not per se (as far as I am aware).

There are instances of terrorist acts committed by anti-government fundamentalists who claim constitutional justification.

The tea party movement does fall under the rubric of anti government constitutional fundamentalism.

And most fundamentalist movements have common threads.

People use a religious text that explicitly forbids killing and suicide to justify suicide bombings.
Similarly, people use the US constitution to justify militant violence in some sort of defense of the constitution (eg: OKC). Mind you the government systems being attacked have been upheld by the SCOTUS whose authority is explicit in article 3.

The original tea party (as committed by the sons of liberty) was a violent uprising against non-representative authority.

So its not a big leap to half-expect anti-government violence from a fundamentalist group that glorifies past anti-government violence.

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[quote=desmond]I was wrong on those two. Hard to understand what motivation they would have. I have for a long time thought that more people would start doing more desperate acts because of the economy. But I never thought bombings from terrorist would happen on the streets. Sucks. I am not a worry wart, but this is troubling.[/quote]

Personally, I see it as 2 disaffected youths who were bitter and depressed and grew up listening to uncle Yuri’s stories of freedom fighting for Chechnya.

I would be happy to be wrong.
I would imagine this to be a tea partier or an extremist muslim.
However, it feels very loserish and bitter.

More like Columbine than 911.

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I think you have to have a flag (or some indicator) to be a false flag.

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866-944-1031

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1031 Exchange Advantage.
David Greenberger.

I used to be senior exchange consultant there.

Very easy to work with.

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Remember, Rich is the destroyer.
He giveth.
He taketh away (eth).

Woooolverines!!!!!!!!!!!

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[quote=EconProf]This program is a wonderful example of what happens when the local government interferes with the natural outcomes of the free market. In this case, five out of ninety buyers get a 20% break on the purchase price. The initial impact is a slightly higher price for the other 85, since the developer has to spread the discount among the other buyers.
That should only amount to a $5000 bump to their price. But with the “cloud over the title” that has been described, the hit to future values upon resale is unknown, and could be much more. Knowlegeable buyers will steer clear, thus hurting prices and costing the developer an unknown amount.
So the government manages to cost the vast majority of buyers much more than the subsidy to the lucky few poor families who get to buy, who, by the way benefit little in terms of future appreciation. The developer is forced to do this in order to get permission to build to satisfy local housing activists (and I believe to get higher densities), and politicians get to claim they are doing something to lower housing costs. And the few buyers that are helped are a tiny fraction of the needy population. Net net society as a whole loses far more than it gains.
We could lower housing costs far more efficiently by removing silly barriers to growth that local governments erect.[/quote]

Amazing.
You frame your arguments with sufficient partisan vitriol that I need to re-think my positions every time you agree with me.
I am also glad that you agree.

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ACTIVATE!!!!!!

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You have 2 problems here.
1: The entity has to be consistent.
EG: John Smith is not Smith LLC is not Smith Partnership is not Smith, Inc.
If you sell the downleg as Smith LP, you need to buy the upleg as Smith LP.

2: You need to buy for as much as you sell for.
EG:
Smith LLC sells for $500k (which it originally bought for $200k).
The proceeds are $100k cash and $400k of loan payoff.
The subsequent purchase needs to be for $500k.

How do I know this?
I am the former senior exchange consultant for 1031 Exchange Advantage (aka Prudential 1031).

Things that don’t matter:

-The size of the profit (unless it is small enough for a 1031 to be irrelevant).
-The percentage of ownership of each of the members
-The type of property. Real property is real property and personal property (like stock certificates or ownership documents) are not.

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