JayB

Such companies pay dearly for misguided risk by tanking spectacularly and dying in a poof of shredded documents. The fittest investors jump ship and elude bankruptcy at the expense of the rest. Something like that... http://www.realestatejournal.com/buysell/markettrends/20070719-carrns.html

What happens to companies that borrow money to produce something that consumers stop buying, or more likely, don't buy enough of at a price that's sufficient to pay off the loan and other expenses associated with producing/selling whatever they're in the business of producing/selling?

Good luck with that. Do us all a favor and create a thread where you post your correspondence with various environmental groups and their responses to you, as well as all of the legislative and administrative victories that you amass in your crusade to get sport climbing outlawed.

Is Quadrant selling a limited edition Bear Stearns model in the semi-custom portfolio?

Sounds like someone needs an urban loft with polished concrete floors, exposed steel beams, and lots of glass to glower and angst about the aesthetic predilections of the middle class in. [Yelling through clenched teeth, pacing back and forth before expansive view of the Seattle Nightscape out the oversized windows, gesturing dramatically with half-full wine-glass after throwing the unsolicited catalog full of semi-custom floor plans with one, two, or....three car garage options into the brushed-matte stainless steel recycling bin in disgust] "HAVE THESE PEOPLE NEVER HEARD OF LE-MOTHERFUCKING-CORBUSIER?"

If it's a one-off edit that you're looking for you're probably better off just handing it over to someone with editing software installed on their PC and asking them to do it for you, borrowing their machine for a bit and doing the editing, etc.

Stay far, far away from Lakewood, Tillicum, Parkland, and Ponders Corner...and Hilltop.

This is, without a doubt, the funniest thing you have ever posted. You should get the retard award for this one. Okay. As one who is unclear on precisely how it is that men are both in control of and responsible for how women feel about their bodies/appearance, I'd be interested in having you explain how this particular example of cause and effect works.

Might come in handy during the bike commute from West Seattle to Seattle proper and/or Redmond. You have heard of the wonders that await all who reside in West Seattle, no?

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Where does it say anything about the kind of helmet he was wearing?

Cool. I had my eye on that one but never managed to squeeze it in. I miss the Cascades. T - 363 days.....

dude get off yer fuckin high horse. man you guys get yer panties in a bunch when someone challenges your intellectual and moral superiority. ya know what, i think you're no better and no worse than anyone else. tough pill to swallow isn't it sparky? but it goes down good with all FW's jiz you guzzle. This funniest thing about this post is that it's both morally and intellectually superior to any of the contributions that you made to this thread when you were actually attempting to put forward a serious argument.

"I never said both criminal justice systems are equally flawed. I said both systems of capital punishment ought to be abolished and are morally unjustifiable." If that were really the case, you would have started with this statement and left it at that. So either you are: 1)Lying about your intentions. 2)Completely incapable of translating your thoughts into words in a manner that is consistent with your intentions.

there is nothing wrong with stretch marks alone. pregnancy is cool, so stretch marks are legit there. as are old faded ones from when a girl got thin and hott after being tubby early in life. there is nothing hotter than a chick that used to have some LBs and then lost weight and got really hott. thats just my opinion though Opinion noted. But it reminds me of people who are all, "Oh, fake boobs are so lame" until they find out the reason the woman has them is b/c she had breast disease and then its all, "Oh, that's ok". Same bullshit, different part of a woman's body that gets pointed out, graded, accepted or rejected. And as for that nastyass cottagecheesiness: Most women over 30 or 35just get that. Sure, not to the degree that an obese woman does, but most of us get it from one degree or another. So if you are looking to get laid when you get older by a woman with some life experience, you may want to relax your unrealistic expectations of us. Oh, and if you want women to stop being so hard on themselves, shy with the lights on, and stressing about diet, then you may want to stop judging them for being human. Just my opinion. Seems like having low bodyfat and big muscles is a tougher standard to live up to than simply not putting on excess weight. I also think that men have little or no impact on or responsibility for the way women perceive themselves, or their various body-image related neuroses. On the whole, I'd rank the male contribution to female body-issues right up there with the female contribution to men's propensity for violence (indistinguishable from zero).

If both systems are equally flawed, and he had a son or daugther who had committed adultery - then I'm sure it would be a matter of indifference to him whether the matter was subject to US law and the American justice system or Iranian law and the Iranian justice system. I suspect he's so sincere in these convictions that if someone proposed to settle the question of which laws would apply and where the case would be tried with a coin-flip he'd greet the proposal with cool indifference and a shrug.

Yeah we should teach them our civilized ways. You realize that you are arguing that using means explicitly selected to be both horrifying and excruciatingly painful to execute a woman for having consensual sex with a man outside of marriage is morally equivalent to using methods that were developed to minimize pain and suffering to execute those convicted of committing violent and sadistic murders. "5.March 13, 1985. Texas. Stephen Peter Morin. Lethal Injection. Because of Morin's history of drug abuse, the execution technicians were forced to probe both of Morin's arms and one of his legs with needles for nearly 45 minutes before they found a suitable vein."

I'm guessing that capital punishment in this country would be subject to much more acute consideration, on both sides of the argument, if it were implemented in similarly "hands-on" fashion as in Iran. Instead of the sterile, invisible way it is currently handled. There's also the minor distinctions between the nature of the offense for which she was convicted and the acts which typically bring about the death penalty in this country, and the manner in which the conviction was rendered, that one might also include in the said reflections. With regards to our own system, I can't support the death penalty in practice because it's too easy to convict the wrong man, and it's too expensive to carry out even in those cases in which there is no doubt whatsoever concerning the defendant's guilt. However, I have no problem with the death penalty in principal, or the notion that there are offenses for which the most just punishment is death, and would have no problem whatsoever yanking the lever, flipping the switch, or pulling the trigger in the case of someone like Timothy McVeigh.

You're just bitter because you were too young to get a guided tour of the Asarco plant before it was torn down...

When I moved to Seattle and found myself beyond the random-violence distribution range of Ponders Corner, Parkland, Tillicum, Hilltop, etc it was a very happy day. Colorado Springs was even better. Never even bothered locking my car there.

Nonthreatening, recreational, ornamental, dining-out-at-an-ethnic restaurant diversity is one thing, high-school friend's little brother having a passenger shot to death in the back of his car because he pulled over too quickly for the driver behind him's liking diversity is quite another. I could car less what the people around me look like, eat, etc so long as they obey the law.

Check this footage from the Burke Gilman Trail during rush hour... NwUIntJnBRI

You've just sealed your fate. The Kent Strikeforce will have their vengeance shortly. I think that we can all agree that Spanaway is the only way to go.

Waiting for the indignant members of the "Kent Booster's Association" to chime in with an all-caps rebuttal any second here....

I don't think I've said there's anything wrong with West Seattle, it's just not at the top of the list for places I'd recommend to certain people. I really don't understand why this is so upsetting.