Unlike last week which was just about War, this week’s skies have more going on– although most of them are still about War. I’m going to have to read a bit more closely that I usually do for you guys, and frankly some of the signs really don’t make much sense in these modern times. I mean, there is clearly something there on Monday about a girl and a waterbed, but who has a waterbed these days?
The Mars – Jupiter Retrograde thing continues this week, so the war isn’t going to end. In fact, there will be a major even in said war on Thursday. At that point, Mercury gets involved, as it conjoins with Mars. This being in Scorpio, it’s going to be bad news, so the major event isn’t going to be a sudden reconciliation, or Taylor Swift bringing the belligerents to weeping placidity by the power of her singing or anything like that.
It’s not all badness, there is some definite romance going on, especially if you’re either a woman or interested in women. On Monday, there is what looks like a series of events with two chaos engines (Mercury and the Moon) working against each other, leading to a positive outcome for you. There is an indication that this positive outcome is romance related because of the position of Venus relative to all of this but it’s not definite. What is significantly-more definitely sex-related is on Wednesday when you have an archetypical Moon-Venus pairing happening with the moon in Pisces.
Libra: Page of Swords reversed – Watch your back.
Scorpio: 5 of Wands – Games, competition, camaraderie, bath house activities.
Sagittarius: 9 of Cups – Rising high, then something goes wrong.
Capricorn: The Hermit reversed – A problem though put in the past comes back.
Aquarius: 5 of Swords -wreaking havoc to your advantage.
Pisces: The Star – A mixed bag – very good and very bad things happening, loss and redemption, that sort of thing.
Aries: 8 of Swords – having extremely limited option for very bad reasons.
Taurus: Knight of Cups – Someone bears gifts.
Gemini: Strength reversed – Everything going right… almost.
Cancer: 9 of Swords reversed – Inflicting great distress on another.
Leo: The Tower reversed – Can we not talk about this one?
Virgo: 10 of Cups – There a lot of people, and they’re very upset with you.
I find this recording to be interesting — Perry Farrell is clearly in decline, but holy shit the instrumentalists are so solid. Navarro and Perkins are just flat better than they were in 1987.
Sagittarius: 9 of Cups – Rising high, then something goes wrong.
Sudden unplanned disassembly?
Hide the Sausage??
“Cancer: 9 of Swords reversed – Inflicting great distress on another.”
I shall smite my enemies.
Nice dog videos.
I mean, there is clearly something there on Monday about a girl and a waterbed, but who has a waterbed these days?
A friend of mine has one. I think he is down to only one girlfriend right now.
Can we not talk about this one?
Depends. Is it sufficiently shitty?
Perhaps. I enacted my own labor:
REVERSED: Personal transformation, fear of change, averting disaster
This is the hippie-dippie new age “interpretation.” Read the OG from The Key to the Tarot.
I read that as “hippie-dippie dog age”.
Got the grill warming up.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/zgNfyk9gSMycVE7a50cHqA.WEWZ3jVyVu5B6CjHTpLB0O
Too freakin’ windy to grill, but I have some plans for the week.
having extremely limited option for very bad reasons.
But maybe I won’t count on those plans.
Youth football coaching legend 3 Year Letterman. And he paid cash.
I had one for decades, then my back got old.
Holy crap. That deserves to be on a t-shirt.
I keep hearing a Vespa revving up inside my RV.
Oh, wait. That’s just a Chihuahua growling at the neighbor dogs out the window.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yM2Y5M8mGH8
So fierce!
OT: Gun shop refuses to run background check for Antifa member
Mark Iannicelli says the Florence Gun Shop won’t give him one, meaning he can’t get the gun that he bought online when he lived in Colorado. Iannicelli said a routine background check, required to get his already purchased gun — has turned into a major headache.
“It’s because I had given him this business card, and he said he didn’t feel good about it because he didn’t support Antifa, and I explained to him it’s more like a movement,” Iannicelli said, referring to a card he had presented to the gun store owner that included links to several websites about self defense, including one operated by a Portland-based Antifa group. “You know I have never actually gone up there and marched with Antifa, but he was adamant he wasn’t going to sell me the firearm.”
Bake that Cake!
Ha ha. Eat it progtard.
Why the fuck would you a) have a business card with that crap? B) give it to your gun shop? Most I’ve ever given them was cash, credit card, ID, and CHL (when that skipped to the front of the background check lime).
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store violated his 2nd Amendment rights
the state of Oregon owns the store
or
dumbass has no idea why the Constitution was framed the way it was and what it means
He is technically correct that his Second Amendment rights have been violated, but is unlikely to have the epiphany that the people who have passed laws requiring background checks are the ones who have violated them, not the gun store owner forced into being a defacto enforcer for the ATF under threat of being jailed, sued, or having his license revoked.
He bought the gun online when he lived in Colorado? What possible reason did he have for getting an Oregon gun shop to run a background check?
I was wondering the same thing. Between that and the business card, he is to stupid to own a gun.
I’m wondering how all the gun laws about residency, taking delivery, etc. work for that. If you are a Colorado resident, you can’t take delivery in Oregon. Is he an Oregon resident now? How long ago did he buy the gun? Can you buy a gun as a resident of one state and take delivery as a resident of another?
Plus, the gun store owner is just avoiding liability here by not agreeing to facilitate a gun purchase by a member of a known domestic terror organization.
It used to be, that under federal law you can only buy a gun in your state of residence, unless you are out of your own state but in one that has a reciprocal agreement with your home state; and it may have been limited to long guns. I can’t imagine that you could actually change residency mid-purchase (even assuming a waiting period between retail sale and actual delivery).
I would assume that he was staying in CO, while still a legal resident of OR, and bought a firearm online to be shipped to a store in OR, where he would pick it up.
“he bought online when he lived in Colorado”
Doesn’t sound like he was just visiting.
Online shopping. You can do it from anywhere.
But, my mother and her husband have a legal address in South Dakota, but are there only one day a year. The rest of the time they are RVing. They aren’t gun people, but if they were, they could choose something online and would have to have it shipped to SoDak, as that is what the drivers licenses say, and they have an legal address there, even though it is just a drop box at a remailer.
I read it as he moved between buying the gun and taking delivery of the gun, and then since he was not in Colorado, had it shipped to Oregon.
I bought my Tavor from a local dealer that had to order it as he had none in stock. It arrived about a month after I placed the order. That’s when I went through the background check and took delivery.
Under Federal law, if you are not a licensee (i.e. FFL holder):
– you may purchase long arms via a face-to-face transaction in any state subject to the laws of that state and your home state.
– you may only purchase handguns via a face-to-face transaction in your state of residence OR if not in your state of residence, if the handgun is shipped to a FFL01 in your home state who will then run a background check and make sure you are legal under the laws of your home state
– You may purchase any firearm in any state via a non-face-to-face transaction (i.e. through Shotgun News ad, GunBroker sale, etc.) only if the firearm is shipped to a FFL01 in your home state who will then run a background check and make sure you are legal under the laws of your home state.
During my interview with ATF and at every inspection I have endured ATF makes sure to tell you that if for any reason what so ever you feel uncomfortable with the transfer then you are under no obligation to complete it. Hell I even have a poster hanging in my shop provided by ATF that states the same.
Yep, participant in a criminal movement dedicated to the violent overthrow of established government is at least two checkboxes on the 4473. Possibly three for mental illness.
“But everyone in Portland loves us! We even have our own soccer team.”
/Portland proggie.
Lol. I’m sure that’s the thinking.
I think it was KK and Prolefeed who, int he am comments, said that proggie friends of there’s in Portland were both “nah, not much bad stuff around here”. I live an hour south on the 5 and, yes, it is a shit hole that is confined to small areas, but those areas are pretty bad. Likewise, a friend in SF will tell you that it isn’t that bad, just downtown, but not were he lives, the Outer Sunset.
In other words, if you don’t want to see it, it ain’t there.
That reminds me, I have a business meeting in SF late next year. It will be in downtown. I need to get my concealed carry permit before then.
My relations there say the same as Prole’s. I’ve work all over the area and there are pockets, but there’s also more riffraff and overflow into “good” areas. The bad areas are just awful. Nothing like it was ten or 15 years ago. I’ve worked downtown and it’s out of control. Had a brief blip a year ago where it seemed to be getting better but it totally backslid. Crazies, druggies, and bums who have no fear and know there’s no consequences. Trash and graffiti in far too many spots.
Worse, PBOT and ODOT have totally fucked up the roads and squandered millions, enabling a lot of the above.
Also fuck that cuntestain carpetbagger Kotex. This is partially her mess. And rather than being held to account, she’s using it to further consolidate power in the state under herself. Maybe the Hamas supporters will toss her off the roof of Mahonia Hall.
Nice avatar.
Whatever Fed.
Virgo: 10 of Cups – There a lot of people, and they’re very upset with you.
Lovely.
So, just another day?
They need to get in line. I’m pretty upset with most of them too.
They need to get in line. I’m pretty upset with most of them too.
Jeebus. I hate squirrels.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12659073/Trans-11-dempsey-jara-orlando-pride.html
Ok, now I want to hurt some “adults”.
I’ll help you.
Daily Mail…that is an English publication isn’t it?
DDG – Ah, yes it is, so they are prohibited by law from telling the truth. Got it.
Couple catch-up comments from the last few posts.
1. Carney’s pic is from 2018 – ships generally look like ass during deployment. We don’t have a shortage of haze grey, but unless you’re pierside for more than a couple days for a port visit, the deckhands probably aren’t going over the side to paint the hull (unless you get a directive for a very special port or something else). Now…we do have fewer deck seaman per ship who we can use for free labor than a few years ago – but if the ship isn’t doing anything, plenty of other junior sailors will get voluntold to grind/paint/etc.
2. I’ve said it before…but this gov’t shutdown stuff is always such a pain in the ass for being a military (reservist) member and working with a lot of military folks. Not knowing if you’re getting paid on time (I recall my deployment in 2011 when at least one paycheck got delayed), and our deployment got delayed several times in 2013 due to sequestration (once just a couple days prior to expected departure – which really messed up some folks who were storing vehicles or changing rentals, etc). More to the point for the moment…I don’t know that any major commands have actually released their full operational funding for this FY yet – and we’re talking about trying to fill billets/orders that should have been in place before 1 Oct (I’m still waiting to see if I might make it to Japan later in the year, but the orders were originally supposed to be in Aug/Sep for a 1 Oct report date).
….I’ll post more later when I remember what else there was I wanted to reply to.
Speaking of painting, how did yours turn out?
Does military still have brevet promotions where,say, a major can do the work of a light colonel even before his promotion is confirmed?
I don’t know about brevet but as a 1st Lt in Spain I was slotted in a major’s position, I got to be a captain and payed the captain’s pay. As an EM I was often slotted in a higher pay grade position as were the juniors that worked for me.
There are ‘acting jack’ positions but always paid as to what one’s real grade was. Could wear the acting stripes, for what’s that’s worth.
There is a process called “frocking” that is sometimes used for officers. You must already be selected for promotion and working in a position that calls for the higher rank. As set of orders can be issued allowing you to wear the higher rank, but you don’t get the pay until your promotion date is met.
e.g. A Major is selected for promotion to Lieutenant Colonel and the promotion list is published. The Major is then selected for battalion command, which is a LTC position. The higher HQ can request frocking to reflect the position occupied. The frocked officer then wears the insignia but is paid as a MAJ until their number on the list is promoted. The frocked rank is gone, and the pay upped to reflect their new actual rank. (It can take 12-18 months to promote everybody off a promotion list and a battalion command is usually ~24 months.)
And the last 6-12 months in a position is focused on the next promotion/position.
Are people still putting the stupid (P) behind their rank once the promotion lists are released and before they get the actual promotion?
I have been retired for 11 years but work supporting the military. I don’t see that particular habit much anymore.
Thank you Jesus.
The height of ridiculous was seeing a SPC (P). That’s what fucking CPL is for.
As a specialist I was an acting first sergeant for three weeks during a training deployment because there were only four of us on rear detail. My platoon sergeant was acting CO. He suggested attaching us to another company for the duration but they insisted we stay separate. We didn’t get to wear the rank.
Technically…in some cases if selected for promotion, there may also be backdated pay. I prefer the way the Reserves work where most positions are filled 1 up or 1 down. Ie. If the billet is advertised as a LCDR billet, it can be filled by a CDR or an LT depending on the nature of the billet (pending any other specific requirements).
At least in the Army Reserve, soldiers were shuffled up or down to clear a billet so someone could get promoted. We also had some double billets. Getting a billet in a prime unit was like winning the lottery.
Speaking of Austin Texas- I guess Formula Hype-brid is in town.
He bought the gun online when he lived in Colorado? What possible reason did he have for getting an Oregon gun shop to run a background check?
That jumped out at me, too. Maybe he has an Oregon driver’s license.
Thanks NA for showing the other end of puppyhood. We’ve been crashing hard at the GL household, particularly the missus. We’ve had a puppy before and thought we had it under control. Nope. I haven’t worked a full day in the office all week because it’s stressing my wife out too much. To the point where we were going to take the puppers back or rehome her before she got any older. Started puppy class three weeks earlier than we had planned and a puppy play date yesterday. Both were good and watching the McCann dog training videos on YT has helped.
Heh. My dogs are all 10+ yo. They sleep, they eat, they sleep, they shit, they sleep….God, I wish I could sleep like they do.
Anyway, no puppy drama around here.
*Paid $100 for a carry holster back in puppy days. Five minutes after I got home with it one of the puppies decided the holster would make an excellent chew toy. That was some years ago.
This year my wife bought for me a replacement holster, a very nice one.
Ouch.
I am made whole.
https://www.galcogunleather.com/uimages/2021_image_project/owb/Leather_holster_OWB_Combat_Master_1_black_b.jpg
I have the same in brown with retention snap for the G30: excellent
nobody sleeps as well as a puppy. I understand your envy.
Kidney stones have recently kept me up. Makes for a long night.
Just reminds me that I am not a writer.
Awake? Well…let’s write.
Yeah, puppy ownership has put a substantial drain on my weekday activities’, and now to help the wife out when she works from home, I am chief doggie daycare officer.
A year in, and she is still a spaz, with very little hope of a quick change.
Marta the Shepherd has, in just the past couple of months, developed destructive separation anxiety (even tho’ she’s in the company of the 2 boxers)..
I’m shopping for a new couch. But until that arrives, I just re-upped her trazadone prescription. If Jugsy (primarily WFH) has to go to one of her sites, Marta gets the Keith Richards treatment.
Marta gets a really bad hairdo?
I still need to repair my wall and kitchen floor from Lily’s puppyhood.
Reasons #426, 427, and 428 why I don’t want a dog.
I’m still coming across stuff my kitties (RIP) chewed up. Recently, a pair of flip flops and the underside of a laundry basket (that one baffles me).
To be fair, the couch had a pretty short shelf life one Jugsy made it her “home office”.
It wasn’t designed to hold a Size 24 for 18 hours at a time. It’s pretty compressed.
You are a good man defending your dog, Tres.
My pup is an old pup, (8 months now) and he is hilarious. A prob sometimes but mostly not. He just Just makes me smile.
catching up on AM lynx
for KK –
Land o Lakes makes lactose free Half and Half in a quart size. It looks the same as their usual one with a small purple banner on it. Hopefully you can request it at your supermarket if they don’t currently carry it.
Familiarity breeds contempt? Or just a bad seed?
The estranged son of Metro Nashville Police Department Chief John Drake has been confirmed as the suspect wanted for shooting two LaVergne Police officers, and is wanted on two counts of attempted first degree murder.
Dark & cynical Shpip sez: Looks like Maegan Hall isn’t the only member of the La Vergne police that can catch a load.
Chief Drake’s son, 38-year-old John C. Drake, Jr., a convicted felon
He’s been a grown-ass man for 20 years, not the responsibility of his father. That said, the old irony about sons of cops and preachers.
So, Janes Addiction. I am going to be blunt, but one of the reasons that they were so powerful back in the late-ish 80’s was the bass lines. Eric Avery laid down some of the best bass in the LA area, and that includes such wild genre divergence as Sunset Strip metal, Compton gangster rap, beachside funk, and OC Hardcore. He, as the kids say, had good flow, and conducted much of Jane’s music to were they wanted to go; namely a hard, druggy psychodelia. Once he bailed, mainly due to Farrell’s ego dominating everything, the band fell apart. Perkins and Navarro aren’t bad, by any means, but that rumbly yet languid bottom end he provided, along with songs he wrote, is so absent post Ritual. This piece not only has a failing Farrell, but no Avery. It just isn’t worth it.
Kinda like seeing Bauhaus with no David J. It just… isn’t.*
Aquarius: 5 of Swords -wreaking havoc to your advantage. I don’t know if losing tiny springs from a .22 Hornet I just acquired is to my advantage, nor do I think cancelling plans to be in Florence this weekend is great, but, on the plus side, I am learning the intricacies of a vintage Savage bolt, cleaning the heck out of my shop, and the wife is no longer sick. So, OK, I guess?
*I do have reasons for my contrarianism, most of the time.
Bauhaus w/o Peter Murphy is just Love & Rockets.
And that is why I said David J.
(he and Murphy Hate each other.)
Eric Avery and Chris Chaney are tag-teaming in and out with the band, but I don’t think Avery’s on any of the newest albums. He is currently touring (I think) with JA.
All of them have turned into adults playing music professionally, and they are getting old. Dave Navarro, who had an immune system so strong he could fuck Carmen Electra bareback in the middle of a road hasn’t toured for years because he’s got the Long Coof.
Good to hear that Avery is back in the swing.
Navarro’s “long covid” sounds more like long term damage from too much heroin.
Date with IT lady went very well, though she doesn’t do the needful on the first date.
She didn’t pick up the check?
You Mormons have weird euphemisms.
My wife didn’t help me with term papers until the fourth date.
Was her handshake firm enough or did she have that little touchy-fingers thing going on?
/tingles
She put my hard drive into a solid state.
Wait, wait, wait, you found an IT Lady who wasn’t already married? Or are you the side dude?
And works for NYS.
Divorcee.
Don’t hold it against her. She is already a unicorn.
I played https://squaredle.com/?puzzle=otherworldly:
499/499 words (+353 bonus words)
📖 In the top 8% by bonus words
I finished it.
Dayum.
I’m not worthy.
Shared with out comment.Ok,
Fer fucks sake, I was trying to share the Blumenthal episode but I guess that didn’t work. So I did indeed comment on my own comment.
The links on that site are kind of messed up; it’s not you. Each individual interview has the “share” icon and it looks like you’re getting a link to it, but it doesn’t work.
Fortunately it’s not to hard to search if you have a good search term, like Blumenthal in this case.
I hope Kirsch isn’t overselling
I just got off the phone with attorney Warner Mendenhall. He confirmed I wrote below is true and the litigation floodgates are now open.
Here is a list of 90 lawyers that you can contact if you want to sue the vaccine manufacturers:
It won’t happen.
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I’d like to see some sort of consequences for the lockdowns. At the very least there was a lot of violating of the 1st amendment: freedom of assembly, worship, speech, etc.
They put a generation of kids into a weird psychological no-man’s land, and test scores prove it. Kids regressed in their social and language development.
Small businesses and restaurants shuttered, many never to open again.
On what authority? In some cases, mayors claimed they had authority. In others, governors did. They pointed to CDC recommendations.
But because you can’t prove a direct cause and effect, there will be no consequences, and they’ll do it again for the next “emergency”.
Kids are fucked up because parents have totally abandoned any responsibility or rearing their children and given it to schools/childcare to do.
Children in previous generations and other countries had far worse psychological stress and yet still thrived, largely because of parents and extended families didn’t just throw up their hands and give up. The covid blip merely exposed another facet of a society in deep deep decline.
I wish that weren’t true. But in my heart of hearts I know you’re right.
The truly worst part was the complete capitulation of a significant portion of the population. I expect the assholes in government to act in bad faith.
I just expected more from all of us.
I learned a lot the last few years.
He needs to explain how it gets around the PREP Act liability shield or he’s full of shit. The only exception is willful misconduct.
Step up, prep up!
Willful misconduct? The whole two + years of covid insanity was willful misconduct and the vaccines the most misconduct of all. Fuck all them motherfuckers I hope they get sued to bankruptcy and oblivion so they can’t poison people ever again.
Sure I get what you’re saying about the feds, but that isn’t the kind of willful misconduct necessary to go after the pharma companies under the law.
Bullshit. Their trials where fraudulent. They lied and they knew they were lying.
The law protects the guilty.
Aussie golf course sharks
For golfers, staying out of the water could be the difference between winning and losing. At one course in Australia, it was the difference between life and death.
Because Carbrook in Queensland boasted a membership unlike any other golf club on the planet: six resident bull sharks.
From their mysterious arrival to their devastating disappearance 17 years later, this is the tale of the sport’s most hazardous water hazard.
Of course it’s Queensland.
One fewer thing to kill you is “devastating”?
Go Iggles. That is all.
It’s kind of weird that the Bills and the Fins are in the same division.
For your sake, go Iggles.
Ugh losing to that other team today was rough.
Are you back to being a Bills fan?
Been a Bills fan since I started watching the game regularly five or six years ago. I was an anti-fan growing up in Rochester and during college in Buffalo but if I’m going to pick a team to root for it has to be them.
The NYC teams never caught on with me.
Got it. Sorry about earlier today.
Agreed, go Iggles. Because Andy Reid and Travis Kelce.
I just hate Miami.
I’m a tidge salty because Tyreek Hill went from here to Miami shit-talking the Chiefs the whole time. I mean, part of why he was sent to Miami was because he was running his mouth about the team.
Ha I don’t know anything about the folks involved, it’s more they are a long-time rival. I’m glad the Bills waited to start sucking until after they beat Miami.
Blowing a 17-3 lead at home. Hurts just doesn’t seem the same this year.
I’m sorry Moj, but since I’ve seen Travis Kelce in a bunch of commercials pushing the new COVID vax, I’ve come to hate him, and by association the Chiefs (although it’s hard not to like and appreciate Mahomes).
I think most athletes are smart enough to stay away from politics—no point in alienating half the fan base, right?
Unfortunately dudes like Kelce don’t realize that Covid Vax *is* political.
Yeah, I appreciate making a buck as much as anyone but that’s just unacceptable.
“I can do two things at once!”
Suck and blow?
So my sister just sent me a picture of my 11 year old niece in her Halloween costume. She’s going as Colombo, and it’s a really good costume! Too bad almost no one in her class will have any idea who she is.
She started watching episodes with my sister a couple years ago and loved it. It’s been her favorite show since. When they were in Hollywood this spring, she had to go and get her picture next to Peter Falk’s star on the Walk of Fame. Thought you would get a kick out of that.
That sounds adorable. And, yes, her peers will be flummoxed.
That is all kinds of awesome.
I get it because it’s the covid vax, but I really don’t see his doing those commercials any differently than anybody else being paid to hawk a ware I don’t approve of.
Other wares do not have the power to fire you for non-compliance.
I’m rooting mostly for a good game, but I’ll go for Miami as I want home field advantage when the Niners play the Eagles in the playoffs.
You people are so weird.
Took you this long to figure it out?
Blarg?
And yet…you are here.
And I am glad you are.
Anyone want to be stuck on a plane between two women talking about tampons?
(Just saw a commercial where that was the premise.)
I don’t want to be on a plane, no stuck tampons or anything else.
There are some things I don’t want to know about.
Could be played for a few laughs by joining the discussion.
Are they hot?
*
PrinceKing Charles nods enthusiastically.*The seasons first batch of green chili has been made. It is glorious. I am topping a bowl of it with two fried eggs tonight. Colorado green chilis that is. Unlike those inferior New Mexico Green chilis.
Sounds good WS. what’s the general recipe?
They are just Anaheim Peppers anyway..
Shots fired!
Been flipping between the Rangers-Astros and Iggles-Fins.
Fortunately for me, my Designated Game Watching Buddy doesn’t care which is on.
Mittens and a face mask? Just to watch football?
OMG adorbs
How cute
Welp, I may just have fucked dinner up. Recipe calls for 1/8 tsp of cinnamon and I usually double that, well it looks like I quadrupled THAT.
Oh well. It is just food.
it’s not poison. You’re getting close though. HA!
Huh, not too bad actually. Georgian food, so it all works.
Recipe?
https://yulinkacooks.blogspot.com/2006/07/green-beans-with-ground-lamb.html
Much obliged! Green beans are still in season although I think I might use ground beef in place of lamb.
Oh! I’ve actually done that one. You (or someone else) linked it a few years ago. I’ve made a few other if her recipes too.
Guy’s a landlord. His mortgage on his leased property went from $1200 to almost $2000 in less than 2 years because of a property tax increase. He’s arguing house prices coming down soon. I don’t know if he also means commensurate rent prices.
https://twitter.com/stealthqe4/status/1716105242490609984?s=61&t=QqdIrr8dwcAaruCxkgnFSw
I’m just thrilled our landlord let us have a 2-year lease.
I watch a guy on YouTube whose channel is called Nobody Special Finance. He has a live half-hour show that airs weekdays at 9AM EDT, 8 in your part of the woods.
He generally looks at the overnight news, futures, Euro markets, commodities, etc. to let the viewer know what’s going on as markets open. I watch that program at the end of the day just to see if he was right-ish. He’s baffled (as am I) that residential real estate is showing no signs of having a correction — so far. With interest rates at historic
highsnorms and demand slacking, you would think that prices have to come down. But they’re not. Not yet, at least.Yeah, I don’t get it, either.
It’s literally about supply. The country, as a whole, needs a lot more houses. People with low rate mortgages are reluctant to sell which is further decreasing typical supply. The former shows no sign of easing particularly with current interest rates. The latter will change as people die, divorce, age out of their house, or are other forced to sell.
I question his premise. Maybe there are areas that are overbuilt, but that’s pretty rare. He has identified some real problems and they may have some effect, but they are going to be modest.
What is that proposition that passed in California keeping property taxes the same for people over a certain age or something?
I was thinking about that when he was talking.
(That connects in my mind, but I couldn’t tell you how.)
Probably because he told us about his massive rise in real estate taxes.
Prop 13. Basically, if I remember right, it just locks you in on property tax for the period you own the home, with only minimal increases. So, no matter if you have been there a year or thirty, it wont price you out via taxation.
Yes, it’s Prop 13. Your tax basis is established when you buy your house. Your property tax can’t rise by more than 2% per year thereafter.
Yup it’s Prop13, and even though the lefties have tired their darndest to get rid of it they have as of yet succeeded. Your property tax is basically about 1% per year (plus some minor add ons) of the price you paid for it. A minor yearly adjusted is allowed (and sometimes it can be a decrease). So if you bought your house in the 70’s (or 80’s, 90’s) you are paying pretty low or very low property taxes in California.
And I agree with Chafed. The US has a severe lack of single family housing so they’re likely won’t be massive decreases anytime soon.
Same north of the border. Missus was pissed at the tax increase and wanted to challenge the assessed value. I had to point out that our taxed value is less than half of that and wouldn’t matter if we got it knocked down $10k or $50k, our taxed value would still rise by the maximum allowed as long as we were underwater.
I miss Miami’s old logo of the surly looking dolphin wearing a helmet.
The current one looks like it belongs to an airline.
Looks like I left Bay Ridge just in time.
These protests happened all the time during my… shit… 16 years there but the open calls for genocide are something new.
I’d say you did. Maybe now we can bomb the bridges and tunnels.
Bay Ridge is on the non-Plissken side of the bridges and tunnels. Unless you want the nice people on the rest of Long Island to have to deal with those people.
I’m willing to make the outer boroughs and Long Island part of the same prison.
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LI is pretty red; they didn’t vote for this nonsense
Same all over
https://kval.com/news/local/police-man-fires-splatter-ball-gun-into-crowd-of-eugene-protesters#
Every mob are now “protestors”. Fucking pro-terrorist demonstrators.
Buried lede #1: what they were “protesting” about
Buried lede #2: multiple armed people in the mob, including long guns and whatever, no other arrest made
As an added FYTY, the guy who fired a paintball gun after his truck was vandalized by terrorist supporters, is also charged with a bias crime
Recent events have really clarified who is who, eh?
Here we have the oft-noted “Hostage” signs that leftist stormtroopers dutifully ripped down. A radical professor has “taken a leave of absence” after it became obvious that his side is losing the public relations battle.
Yeah, the news was reporting that xe apologized abjectly and claimed that xer words did not reflect xer values… somehow.
Near the local weekly outdoor artisan fair, I saw a guy holding a “Ceasefire Now” sign. There’s a lot of peace above all not matter what types around or it could have been a Pali supporter. Anyways, before the light turned, someone else had walked up and a heated discussion quickly started.
I would also accept allowing each member of Hamas one more gunshot – into their own cranium.
The Middle East is in flames…once more.
We have our military stuck in the middle of it as usual. Oh, wait. I forgot our escapades in Ukraine. And Africa. And South America. And the Pacific.
Will someone please explain to me how we are the good guys again?
My dumbass is so forgetful.
Because we are kind enough to let them flood into the US so they can bring all the same pathological hatreds with?
Good answer. I give you 400 quatloos,
Good answer. I give you 400 quatloos,
Fooking squirrels. They must die.
No!
Don’t try to talk me down. They deserve whatever comes to them.
Maybe we are going to get what coming to us….
Maharishi… 🎵
“All I want… is what I have coming to me. All I want is my fair share.”
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Maybe you really meant to give Rhywun 800 quatloos.
😀
Nope! You promised 800 quatloos!
Good morning all!
Today, we have a couple of lovely tunes from Tony Banks, A Curious Feeling. This was his first solo album, crafted during a break from Genesis.
The Lie.
After the Lie.
Share and enjoy!
Good morning, Beau, Sean, Roat, and somewhere upthread NA!
::yawns:: I stayed up too late reading last night. The hell of it is – it wasn’t even a first-time read but a reread. ::slurps more coffee::
Good morning folks!
☕😉
Let’s kick the day off with a Halloweened up cover.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EO2umpJBNwU
🎶🎶
Saw an article “Career fair for transitioning military set for next week”. Had to reset to normal mode to read as “people leaving the military”.
That’s a stupid phrase even without the politically loaded language of recent years.
Even in normal mode I’d have gone ‘da fuq?’
🤬
I hate when they reboot my computer over the weekend. Messes up my mondays.
Ugh. Every time that happens I lose some work in progress. A little heads-up would be nice.
Mornin’, reprobates!
Good morning, ‘patzie and U!
I don’t want to go to work today.
*looks around at office*
Dammit.
Time to pick up a drum kit?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Tcggo45TQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WGVgfjnLqc
🥁🥁🥁
Me neither. But I have to process payroll. And see how many employees completed our insurance open enrollment by Friday’s deadline. Friday afternoon I discovered one coworker had blithely ignored all the emails about open enrollment, erroneously thinking it was a “passive” enrollment – if you didn’t do anything, your current coverage would just roll over. I disabused her of that misapprehension, and she completed the process with minute to spare. 🙄
Ours is this year, thank goodness.
Buon giorno, signora.
Good morning, TO’G! 🙂
Need a cheers-coffee emoji. Although I just take the caffeine pills lately.
Grrr.
Malicious compliance over the weekend. Now to go through the document control rigamarole to try and fight the goldbrickers. Fortunately, the idiots picked a time close to year-end evals to be willfully stupid.
suh’ fam
whats goody
Im Georgia bound again!
You enjoy. About to wrap up with Team India and start working with Team America in an hour. Our modern times are interesting.