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Participantflinger,
Great post. Balanced, fair, level headed, non-partisan. Nuanced, even. We get so much noise and rhetoric and bluster, it’s good to see clear thinking for a change. Keep it coming.
ParticipantWow, jg, I’m amazed that you, someone who can think for himself, can’t see through this charade. Do you think that if terrorists really wanted Americans to vote Democratic that they’d say, “we want Americans to vote Democratic?” No, they’re not that stupid. If they want Americans to vote Republican, they say, “vote Democratic.” And then we say, well, if the terrorists want us to vote Democratic, we’d better vote republican.
Of course they want us to vote Republican. The republicans are providing them with thousands of targets in their own back yard and spending trillions of American taxpayer dollars. The Republicans are weakening our country tremendously, which fits in perfectly with their goals. Of course the terrorists want the Republicans to win. And of course they’re going to exhort us to vote Democratic.
Participant“An 18 year old “kid” from a traditional family is a lot more mature than a 45 year old liberal college professor. Senator Kerry started to insult the military, you guys just keep adding to this crap, proving, liberalism sucks.”
What?
If you start out with the assumption that “an 18 year old “kid” from a traditional family is a lot more mature than a 45 year old liberal college professor,” then you can draw all sorts of conclusions. But that’s a pretty big assumption to start out with. Please explain how you figure that an 18 year old “kid” from a traditional family is a lot more mature than a 45 year old liberal college professor. And, also, please explain what “adding to this crap” means and how it proves that liberalism sucks.
Participant“…he sobbed as he was driven away in the animal control van.”
Fanciful and funny. I got a chuckle out of that.
November 2, 2006 at 10:27 AM in reply to: Reductions in price per square feet in Carmel Valley #39029ParticipantQuote from a guy who ran some comps on Jim’s blog (before he saw the sales price): “So they might have given up a couple of hundred square feet for free, but if they got anywhere above $1.3M I’d say they got full retail.”
Well, turns out they gave about a 25% discount from full retail. Full retail in today’s market, that is, as the comps all closed in September. So that’s somewhat more than 25% off peak full price.
Of course, he had to sell, and he had to sell fast. So it’s not really a typical sale. But as we get more people who have to sell, and have to sell fast, it might be typical.
Participant“zk, I dunno, my work on predictors of future housing prices, correlation between home price increases and church attendance, quantification as to why we deserve a depression, etc. seemed pretty good, and were original work; I was impressed.”
Fair enough. Some of that stuff was pretty interesting. I was talking about politics, though. I mean, it seems to me that partisan people rarely cross the line to the other side of the aisle. Why is that? Do you disagree with the conservatives on anything? If you can come up with the above ideas, why does it seem that you can’t think on your own when it comes to politics? Why the automatic attack on anything or any person non-conservative? Why the automatic support of anything or any person conservative? Why the automatic discounting of anything that speaks poorly of the Bush administration?
For instance, Woodward’s book. He says that the Bushies, behind closed doors, regularly mocked the religious activists that they regularly claim as their base. I’m sure you can explain that away, because it can’t be true, because that would mean that bush et.al. are hypocrites. I’m sure that no matter what example I give, you’ll find some way to twist it around so that the conservatives come off seeming to be right, whether they are or not. That automatic search for any way possible to discredit the other side, regardless of whether they may be right or have a point is what bothers me so much about the extreme partisanship that defines politics today.
If you do have your own ideas, I’d like to hear some examples of where your philosopy differs from the conservatives’. Just for my own curiosity.
November 1, 2006 at 4:26 PM in reply to: Reductions in price per square feet in Carmel Valley #38958ParticipantThanks for the info, r271828.
“So I think that in some instances lower transaction prices in Carmel Valley are being realized, but these are still mixed in with sales prices that are often considerably higher on a per sf basis and even accounting (subjectively) for differences in quality of the property.”
Exactly. PS and I discussed this about 2 months ago, calling it a “two-tier” situation. It’s still a two-tier situation, but the “new” tier pricing for “solds” is starting, finally, to outnumber the “old” (peak or near-peak) tier pricing.
And no, I don’t have a link to the listing. I’ll try to get the address or mls number when I get home if you want.
ParticipantJES,
I asked him some questions. Questions he hasn’t answered, but to which the answers are pretty obvious.
He calls us wild-eyed, and I ask him if he has any ideas of his own, and I’m the emotional one. Get a grip.
November 1, 2006 at 2:33 PM in reply to: Reductions in price per square feet in Carmel Valley #38937ParticipantA 4,000 sf+ house sold last week on White Emerald Drive in Carmel Valley for 1,050,000. He was originally asking 1,800,000+. Obviously the asking price doesn’t mean much, but 4,000sf for a million fifty?
sdrealtor, can you find out if anything was wrong with that house, or if the seller was just “motivated?” That price is far below anything that’s sold in CV in the last few years. Prices have been coming down, to be sure. But that’s cliff-like.
ParticipantThat is a damn funny picture, indeed.
For the record, you didn’t “get my goat.” Those weren’t rhetorical questions. I’m actually curious whether you have any ideas of your own.
Participant“PC, dz, zk and other wild-eyed libs/progressives,”
jg, I’m curious about something. Do you have any idea what an ignorant fool you sound like to reasonable people when you talk like that? Partisanship of the type that you and Rush Limbaugh routinely display is an indicator of a lack of ability to think for yourself. Can you think for yourself? Are there any areas in which you don’t agree with Rush? Or are you just a simpleton who can’t come up with any of his own ideas?
Participantjg, your challenge to defend Kerry is typical of the narrow-minded, extremely partisan approach that is all too common today. Just because you defend all conservatives, regardless of how screwed up they are, doesn’t mean that a person who can think well would do the same for their side. Just because I think Bush and the republicans are destroying our country and needlessly killing thousands of Americans doesn’t mean that I like or will defend John Kerry. I think Kerry is a very poor excuse for a politician. I think that to say what he said (in prepared remarks, no less) shows a fantastic ignorance of a)how the right would respond and b) how ordinary people (voters) would respond.
Take PD’s, “Kerry just spit in the eye of all service members, current, past and future” comment. That’s the typical response of someone who wants to ignore what Kerry was so incredibly feebly trying to say, and focus on what partisan gains can be obtained by slamming him. Kerry didn’t spit in his own eye. He was attempting to point out that, for many Americans, the only route to college or decent pay is the military. And that for those Americans, Bush may very well get them killed or maimed. But he did it in such an amazingly inept way that only one response could be expected. And the typical such response was PD’s. Kerry deserves what he gets for being such an idiot.
As BuyerWillEPB said, “I see more honor, respect, and goal oriented teamwork from the vets, and more cut-throat, individualistic weakness, and arrogance from the pampered rich kids.” Which may explain the cut-throat, individualistic weakness and arrogance so common in the Bush administration. Most of them are spoiled, pampered rich kids and very few are combat vets. Kerry was a spoiled, pampered rich kid who went to combat anyway. Either way, there’s no excuse for saying something so stupid.
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Participant“I appear to be “frustrated” and “uncomfortable.” Please explain to me how my analytical comment about a possible link between this thread and reduced posting projected these emotions.”
Well, to be honest with you, it appeared to me that your comment that “I do not think discussions like this are good for Piggingtons” indicated that you would prefer to no longer have this discussion. I took that, along with your changing your comments from a semi-reasoned debate about Iraq to comments like “the fall of our society is coming” as a sign of frustration. I took it as a sign that you’d run out of logical counterpoints to our arguments and were therefore frustrated. I apologize for assuming that it was frustration. I was actually trying to be nice and give you some credit for standing up for what you think is right despite being outnumbered.
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