Anonforthis

When I was a kid every telephone pole had a cardboard sign offering free puppies to a good home. Vet bills were $50.

Today puppies are thousands and many vets have been rolled up by private equity. Now bet bills are eye watering and pet insurance is a necessity for many.

Shrug.

People will often forgive you for lying to them, but rarely for telling them the truth.

A few comments.

1. Stretching to pay for a home is not the end of the world assuming that you are in the military or have some type of unionized government job. Layoffs, downsizing, and right sizing can hit at any time as anyone who has been paying attention for the last few decades can attest. With AI coming, a number of people with well paying jobs might become unemployed. The only thing worse than paying $500,000 for a starter home that needs work 40 minutes from your office is losing your job.

If you lose your house because you lost your job, greater than 50% chance your wife will be gone too.

2. The hard costs associated with the permits and studies and wetlands, etc.., that accompany a new house ensure that only an expensive one will have the profit that builders require. I have heard estimates of $40,000 for hard costs after the land is purchased but before the ground is broken for a foundation.

I’m older and doing well but do agree with the young folks.

1. Nobody builds smaller starter homes anymore. I’m sure that many people here grew up in a home smaller than 1,200 square feet. Nobody has build those homes for 30 years unless you include beach homes.

2. Half the homeowners in the country have a mortgage of 3.4% or less. Even if Charles Manson moves next door they ain’t going anywhere. Half of the alleged inventory is illusory.

3. Growing up there were many poor but safe neighborhoods. Our shameful immigration policies have ended that. Every realtor knows what the phrase “good schools” honestly means.

The Starbucks and avocado toast assholes suffer from a bad memory. In their day it was them buying 2 compact discs of music a week or VHS tapes.

Show the kids some love.

The Republican Congress and Newt had Bill on a string. Bill didn’t have core beliefs concerning government, he just wanted to be liked.

Three retired politicians or cabinet officials have stated that Newt was pressing Bill hard to can social security and move to some kind of 401k program (details were not provided). In fact they had a final meeting in the Oval Office and agreed upon the structure of the system and how they would sell it to the people.

48 hours later the Drudge Report posted their story and the plan died on the vine.

Yeah Ladybugs surely has a lot of stuff around his house that the government wouldn’t want publicized.

You know. The usual reams of blank NDA forms for his male escorts, hard drives of gay porn, etc….

I have not written anything insulting about southerners or blacks. My intent was to seek opinions about whether Jim Crow laws were driven by poor whites (the majority of the population) 20 years after the end of the civil war or by a wealthy minority who feared a multiracial populist political block that was gaining power.

This isn’t a white vs black or Yankee vs southerner thing.

I would imagine that poor whites (the majority of the population) had more in common with poor blacks than rich white. The poor were all farmers. They lived next to each other, met with each other, ate with each other. Obviously the southern aristocracy could not abide with that so Jim Crow laws were enacted to divide and conquer.

Here is what I have read about the case and believe.

Seth was a Bernie supporter and very upset about the Democrats stealing the 2016 primary from him.

Seth has a brother and Seth either worked with him on the data theft (it was theft) or involved him after the fact. Wikileaks adjacent sources have stated that Seth originally contacted them and wanted to sell the data to them. They were in negotiations and Seth sent them part of the files to give them a taste. Wikileaks was then able to get the remainder of the files (not sure if Seth sent the whole thing by accident or Wikileaks hacked the hacker.

Anyhow, Seth was killed and some independent folks started looking into it and asking questions. The family made a public statement asking for privacy and respect in the time of grief and everything ground to a halt.

Here is the kicker. The family was approached by the government to make that statement. They agreed because otherwise Seth’s brother, their sole surviving son, would be charged as an accessory. Add in that the parents are democrats and revealing the truth would throw the election to Trump and their reticence was understandable.

So here we are. Seth did it and worked with his brother on the Wikileaks part of the crime. Seth was murdered by powerful people and the family clammed up to save their remaining son from 30 years in prison and half the country hating them forever.

Sounds plausible to me. Your thoughts?

First things first.

I love sports but must admit something. These dime a dozen, undifferentiated sports talk shows are nothing but grown men who make a living gossiping about other grown men who make a livings bouncing a ball.

This tard in question came out a week ago against black culture during the Karmelo Anthony trial. Inevitability he got some blowback and is now over correcting the other way. Nothing more, nothing less.

Television, the news media, and politics are professional wrestling in a suit.