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Well if it's a simple issue of religion then I can understand it. The economics however just don't seem to match up from what I have seen. I've been to the south and I'll tell you per capita, it doesn't look good down there. Per my last visit to Florida, the top 20 high school in that state scored well below the 50% mark in the nation. But that was easy to understand. 45 students per teacher? How could any student learn that way? Yet Florida is a very Republican state and the school district I was visiting was very Republican and conservative. And all I could think of was, "Why are you people not voting in your own best interest?" Funny thing, I've traveled the world, and it's funny no matter where you go people will vote god above all else. You can offer them free food and free health care if you in any way question their "god" forget about it! They will kill you and burn the food they need to eat to stay alive. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

OMG! those aprons are SO cute! not sure how that would be a thank you present though. That's a little much IMO. What can I say? I'm just that good!

OMG! those aprons are SO cute! not sure how that would be a thank you present though. That's a little much IMO. What can I say? I'm just that good!

Yes. I don't get it. If your kid goes to a public school where there are 40 kids per class...why would one vote for less schools? Or lower paid teachers? If you have the cash then your kid goes to a nice private school where there are about 25 kids per teacher. If you get sick and don't have insurance then you receive free or close to free government care. So why would one vote for less government health care? if you have the cash and a job then well you just whip out your insurance card and life is golden. I'm just wondering what gives? I understand why rich Democrats vote the way they do, a well educated work force means more money in their pockets. And the same for healthy workers. So that I can see. But poor Republicans? I just don’t quite understand? Is it the guns, gays and god thing? If so then OK. That I understand. However the economics of the situation I don't quite get? Why would someone making well under $100k give a rats ass about corporate tax rates? Let alone support someone who wishes to lower them? Less corporate taxes translates to less funds available for services which these poor Republicans use every day? It reminds me a little of the book 1985's double speak? Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Well woo hoo for you. I guess that's the problem isn't it? Some people have a hard time seeing the forest for where they are at the moment. But it's ok I see it more times than I can count. I call it the "flat earth" view. A lack of perspective of the global and long term state. Why do you think people have a hard time getting their brains around such complex ideas as global warming or evolution or hell any major multiyear multi faceted concept? Most people can't envision a century let alone a billion years. And thus the situation we are in at the moment. I'm fine everyone else can go pound salt? Well that's nice if everyone else's state did not have a direct impact on your quality of life in this really convoluted and complicated thing we call our economy. Yeah you did well, but many did not. And not all bought homes they could not afford. And by afford I'm indicating making payments, not slapping down $60K+. If we could find a means by which we could free the capital being send into that black hole and divert it into goods and services....it would be a self funded self sufficient stimulus package developed and funded by the middle class for the middle class to create middle class jobs that would help rebuild our economy. But how the hell to do it? How do you free that quantity of capital? Yes you would have to ensure that those who's capital was freed up were of good credit standing and would spend it or us it to pay down debt...but how to free that capital? OK back to your name calling and accusing people, mostly me, of making poor decisions and that they should go pound salt. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

God you guys suck at this! BAM! http://www.flirtyaprons.com/ Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

I'm not getting something. I can understand Rich and well to do Republicans. They are voting in their own best interest and more power to them. Be it lower corporate taxes to lower regulations on corporations. All lead to greater return on their investments. Poor republicans, those who utilize such public institutions such as public schools and public health care.....why are they voting against their best interests? What am I missing here? Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

I use to be an atheist until I realized that it's only by the grace of god that this nation has survived this long with its inability to debate or communicate without it turning into a monkey shit fight. Pick up a few macro economics books regarding flow of capital and job creation. And with that....adios. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

1) STFU with the personal attacks, not only is it rude but rather childish. Who has $60k to throw at a home from day 1? *woldn't change things much, the condo is under well over $60k after me paying for the place for the past 4 years. Talk about throwing good money after bad. I'm glad I didn't do that! 2) It was the going rate, if you have the crystal ball and knew the market was overinflated by a solid 30% and had the power to do something.....do it. Don't sit there and be a Monday morning quarter back. 3) I make dam good money and can afford my payments. If I lost my job I would do the American thing, send back the keys with a nice little note stating "Kiss my ass!" 4) If the banks wanted to run away...hell let them! The US has been the safest place on the PLANET for your average banker! Let them go to Russia, hell let them go to China! Ever read a contract written in China? It ends with the line, "All said points in contract are open for negotiation." That is to say....no other country has the basic rules and business practices that we have here in the US. So run...no problem RUN! Find a better place to do business.....don't let the door hit your ass on the way out! Imagine China or Russia passing a TARP? HA! All that aside, it's economics. I live in the North East and I'm better off than most both in income and in loss of value. That being said there are people in the south east and south west who are now paying mortgages on homes they bought for $150k that are now worth $50k. As I stated one or two walking away is nothing, much as one or two inches of rain are nothing. But when thousands upon thousands walk away...well do you think the federal government or the American people are willing to bail out the banks again? So let's have a serious discussion, what can be done to the system to FIX the mess WE have put ourselves into? And no hanging around without thumbs up our collective asses for the next 5-10 years is not a viable solution. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Better be sober when re-assembling What can I say, I am so turned no by a girl who knows how to rock sexy shoes! Extra points if well it's fun building them! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Ah well...hum...aaahh...well.... I have no hair....sun burn is an issue. So....well I need a lid! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

If I had the cash right now I would have had my GPZ fixed and rode it today. If i had some more cash I would have picked up that nice Ducti 848 that I took for a spin last month. And so on and so no. I like 911, beautiful car, the funky physics really make it a fun car around a race track but like most gorgeous cars she will kill you if you don't pay attention. As you said DO NOT FREAKIGN TAKE YOUR FOOT OFF THE GAS! But you know how law suits are and well sadly I've driven older air cooled 911's and their modern brother and well...the older ones were just that much more raw. But what can you do? You produce a product for a given market. And in the US as it stands....the market wants automatic sports cars. And don't laugh, automatic bikes are right around the corner. Just look at the new VFR. I have to admit, I am very turned on by a girl who knows how to drive stick. It's sexy, it's nice and it indicates she perhaps enjoys driving as much as I do. But I guess maybe....I could teach a girl to enjoy the drive as well. And who knows maybe when I'm out from under this condo, I'll pick up a nice middle of the road sports car? http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/12_01/RedCar_468x278.jpg What a mans car! Two doors, two seats and the open road. Can't wait till I'm done with my MBA, condo is gone, the economy heats up and the future looks better. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

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Why are you stuck? Get unstuck!! Ah sorry man I did some dumb things when I was younger...not BASE jumping naked into a field of cactus but about the same results. Got married young, bought the girl a condo....now am stuck with a condo that is under water and am single and like a fat chick with a bad crush i just can't get away from it. I'm telling you, a single guy who can hold a good conversation and isn't in 1) a business suit or 2) Dresses as if he's the long very lost member of the Frat Pack can do VERY well in NYC. As for the ladies......aaaahhh....huuummm.....yeah....good luck with that one! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

I don't see what the problem is? Yeah I don't either? I'm not hurting any one nor my self....I just have a decent idea what I want in my life. I thought that's why people go to therapy? To be comfortable with with internalized desires and thoughts? Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Lucky god! I would kill to live in NYC, Sadly I'm "stuck" in NJ! It's a gorgeous city and if you are a guy with a pulse and aren't one of those "hipsters" you will do well with the ladies. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

1) F1 cars are semi Auto from first to sixth and clutch on the way down. Any man worth his gas tank on a bike understand that you can race up a gear box on a motorcycle with a flip of the wrist and a tickle of the toe. And that's what an F1 gear box is. A crash box transmission. And man let me tell you, god I miss my GPZ so much now it's not even funny.....but clutchless up shifting is just SEX! 2) How can it put this with out insulting all the guys in the financial world who drive around in slush-O-matic 911's...... Learn to drive like a real man! Put down your cell phone and your grande $10 coffee with a name better placed on a sofa and stoop twittering WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU! Get in, get seated, place your right hand on the only part of the heart of your car that you can touch with the hood still closed. Close your eyes and feel that heart. And drive! BROTHER DRIVE! Feel the grip of the rubber on the road, feel when it's time to shift, listen and for one god dam moment of you god forsaken day trapped in earth toned cubicles better equipped to kill lab rats than to inspire us to be more....wake up and feel! The only thing better than driving a stick.....aiming the front tire of your motorcycle and getting lost on the open road. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

I don't feel bad for those that bought houses they couldn't afford. +1 I've been away from this a bit due to work and what not. But yes, if you want to have a civil discussion you need to step away from two things. 1) predatory lending, and we all know who those guys and gals were. Hell with my income and perfect 800 credit score I had to FIGHT to get a traditional loan and not an interest only loan when I bought my condo. Why? There was more money to be made in those interest only loans and I am educated enough to read the fine print and insisted on a NORMAL TRADITIONAL loan. 2) Those who falsified their information or were just too dumb and did buy a house too big for their income. This is nothing new, has occurred in the past and will most likely happen in the future. Let's for a moment do the impossible in this thread. No pissing matches no name calling and none of this usual shit we see our elected officials do every day they are in office. Let us be civil. We have a real problem in our hands, let's take me for example. I'm "average" and "responsible". I have very good credit and take care of my bills. So let's start assuming a good number of people are like me. They keep their credit card bills to a minimum and don't go out buying new cars or homes too big for their wallets. The long and short of it is that I would love to be able to play on an even playing field with the big banks. Why can they walk away or renegotiate their debts and I have to "live with it?" I pay my loan on time, I have a stable job and am a low credit risk. Yet in the day of 4% interest I'm stuck with one loan at 6.25% and another at 8.7% (I utilized an 80/20 loan to procure my condo for I did not have $60k cash on hand as called for). I've paid down my debt and held my end of the deal. My two loans were sold off 5 times! they stated off under one lending institution but are not owned by two different banks. As such now I can no longer bundle them together. I have to deal with each bank on their own terms which is so much fun. Of the people I know, and this is just my circle of friends who bought about the same time I have, we are all "stuck" in the same situation. We are stuck with higher interest rates and can't renegotiate a lower rate for we either make too much money or our value of our property is well below what we owe. And why would someone want to renegotiate? Let's talk BASIC economics for a second. And not trickle down or any other fancy theory. BASIC ECONOMICS states an economy grows when money changes hands. And in our services based economy the key to growth is the circulation of capital. And i'm not talking bank to bank, those guys were saved by TARP. I'm talking from Joe to Jane and from Jane to Jack and so on and so on. That's what creates jobs, that's what grows our economy. Yet when our capital is effectively held hostage by the big banks in agreements in negative equity properties how do we seriously expect our economy to recover let alone grow? This is not a Republican issue nor a Democrat issue. And if you want to talk about that, google TARP and figure out who signed it into bill and then google all the stuff Clinton did when he was in charge. A pox on both their homes! THIS IS BASIC ECONOMICS! The system is BROKEN! Large institutions are FLUSH with liquid assets while your average person, who is the economic engine of our economy is paying back a loan on a property that has no equity. No bank would do this, and many haven't! they simply return the keys and call the loss on their taxes and keep going as if nothing happened. Yet your average 2.5kids and a minivan family.....they are stuck throwing money into an black hole. When they could have been taking that money and utilizing it to either lower their over all debt and or utilizing it to procure goods and services which are PROVEN practices to grow the economy. So the question is, when will the system fall apart? Yes one person sending back their keys and telling the big bank to go pound sand is nothing, but tens of thousands doing the same? And not every state has a governor that is in bed with big banks such as what we have in NJ so this is not an out of this world problem. Think about it, the nation, our society, here we sit arguing about guns and gays and god when in reality above us hangs the Sword of Damocles held up by indebted middle class who at any moment may simply wake up from their coma and say "no more". Then again who are we kidding here, your average middle class comatose citizen is as intelligent as a boiled carrot. Thus the question again, what is to be done? Most loans today are backed by the treasure of the US. As such perhaps the treasury needs to perhaps flex a bit of it's muscle and grow a bit of a spine and provide a mechanism by which those who have demonstrated fiscal discipline and have demonstrated intent of continued payment be provided a mechanism by which their outstanding debts can be reconsidered. At which point perhaps capital can begin to flow again and our economy would grow. YES the banks would loose potential income, but then again as it has become self evident with out TARP most of these banks would have either gone under or have been unable to provide lucrative compensation. As such, let's just call it "Peter paying Paul" Then again who are we kidding here.....that also will never happen. As such, as Roam fell and as the English Empire fell....so shall we. And that will be a truly sad day. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

As a very fun girl once said to me "No matter how good the toy, you just can't beat the real thing!" Sorry mate no dice! The ladies do love that take charge kind of guy and nothing says take charge like a man who knows how to properly drive his car regardless of the make or model. You know...it's the old, grab her by the hair and kiss her, methodology. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Hu.....should be just an issue of finding equipment right? And well if he ever picks up swooping.... Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

HELL NO! I'm sorry slappy paddles are even worse! That's for guy who THINK they can drive stick! Yes bla bla bla technology bla bla bla bla fast shifting bla bla bla...the only reason they are there is so that the freaking Hipster can hold a bladder buster frapamockahalfcafnofatsoychai thing! Real men...and I'm talking guys with hair on their chests and who know how to pump their own gas, check the oil and tire pressures....drive stick! And here is why. With my eyes closed, i can place my hand on that gorgeous piece of machinery and I can feel the heart of my car. I can feel the engine. And simply said we are one. No drink in hand, no texting no tweeting....man doing what a man does best! Taking charge! And don't the ladies love it! UUUH! Driving a city girl around NYC in a stick...almost a sexual experience right there! Hell even in my 02 1.8T the cute little things eyes dilated and she had a smile on her face. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Well we are circling the drain so let's dive on in! For me right now all things considered....sex. If a girl sucks in the sack...no pun intended....she is OUT! She is at all dull or not kinky enough....OUT! It is truly amazing how ballsy and picky I've become. I even amaze myself every now and again. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

An automatic sports car? That's like kissing your own sister! I don't care how freaking hot she is that's just wrong! Any guy...her person caught buying an automatic sports car should be shot on sight...TWICE! This subject gives me major issues! I know for a freaking fact that not too far from now enough well to do retards will make enough money and buy enough cars such that porsche will no longer import any sticks into the US. At which point I will have no choice but to buy a slush-O-matic! Thus the career change / figuring out how to off load the condo. So the answer would be "how cute is this girl?" And most likely no! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

I was looking up carbon fiber shoes on google, looking for pictures to show the kids how technology has changed the way we life life. I was looking for a better photo of these; http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AYwY74fDryU/Sr71ldPk24I/AAAAAAAAV-4/ucgwWDcP53E/s1600-h/strange+funny+shoes+1.jpg http://www.dezeen.com/2009/09/23/mojito-shoe-by-julian-hakes/ But then i found those flat pack shoes and thought....WOW! amazing! and gorgeous! As for the shoes of United Nudes....got to love the name....I like some of the guys shoes. I'm digging these http://www.unitednude.com/products/mens-collection/helix-mens As for price...HA PRICE! Look at their freaking name! In fact NOTHING ON the web page has a price! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

For reasons known unknown and slightly disputed and often joked about, I Shah269 am not permitted into the ladies room....probably for good reason. That and other issues aside....drum roll please! LADIES CHECK THIS OUT! HOW FREAKING AWESOME ARE THESE SHOES! http://www.core77.com/blog/fashion_design/united_nude_flat_pack_shoe_for_moon_life_19324.asp Not only do you get a pair of rather swanky funky shoes (price...do you really have to ask?) but your guy get's to put them together for you! And he will know all about them and be able to brag how swanky and sexy they are to all of your friends and people that you never met but just wanted to show up anyway! And for other unbelievably expensive shoes...they don't even show the price online and none of the products are available now...check out; http://www.unitednude.com/ *Side note, Shah does have a soft spot / hard on for the ladies who can pull off the very sexy shoe with the very sexy black pencil skirt and white shirt. Shoe size is not an issue Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!