tomtom

I never said I wanted Bush to run the economy; however, you probably voted for Bush twice so why are you now invoking his incompetence? It's quite simple. You keep saying that there needs to be more gov't control of the economy. Bush, as President, is in charge of the executive branch of gov't. So more gov't control means more power for Bush over the economy. Also, your speculation on my voting record is just that. You have no facts.

I didn't claim any expertise but I don't need any to know that you are trying to spin the facts: the housing bubble is just another layer to the crisis. It is in fact a gigantic castle of cards that is teetering after decades of rampant speculation and growing debt, all enabled by lack of transparency, and government credit policy. You're suggesting price controls on the sale of private property?

Why don't you stop regurgating the free market bible, and address what is being said to you? No "enforceable contracts, notion of patents, and all of the rest of it" were broken in this case, yet we have to pump trillions of dollars (in one form or another) of public money to bail out the greed pirates or they'll take us down with them. Your quasi-religious incantation to "volontary exchanges" won't change any of it, so quit pretending that this situation resulted from someone breaking the existing rules or that "helping the market function better" and getting rid of a few bad apples will take care of it. And you haven't answered the question "Why do you want Bush running the economy?" As head of the executive branch of the gov't, that would be his responsibility.

The Mountaineers are renovating one of the old Navy buildings in Magnusson Park to use as a new clubhouse. After renovation, the building will still be owned by the city but leased by the club. As part of the renovation, the Mountaineers are building a climbing plaza on the south side of the building. This will include a climbing wall as well as a free standing boulder. The climbing structures are being built by EntrePrise. This too will be owned by the city. After completion, the Mountaineers will have first right to reserve the plaza, but it will be open to the public otherwise.

If you preheat your thermos with boiling water, your drinks will stay hot longer.

A quick google of "rainer ossman" will locate a number of news articles. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004293972_hiker20m.html

I have a pretty little pic of you and was yanking off to it..... TMI

as if we didn't know you'd vote for Iosif Vissarionovich, if you could. as if we didn't know he'd vote for Hu Jintao, if he could.

j-b is correct. We need to quit this 'free market' farce and give Bush *complete* control over the economy. Let the gov't take care of it.

I know a number of Chinese folks who don't suck.

"Golly gee, if only we had known something like this could happen when we were clamoring to deregulate the financial services industry!" Wash hands, a few bad apples, business as usual. BTW, I'm under no illusion that what is playing out here is any serious collapse (in the short term), if for no other reason than that the State has proven so willing and adept at managing increasingly frequent, if less destructive, capitalist crises and bailing out individual firms when the "free-market" inevitably shits the bed. When did this "de-regulation" that you speak of occur? Clinton probably kicked this off through his initative to increase home ownership in 1994. Instead of trying to make housing cheaper, however, he decided to loosen the rules on mortgages. Making homeownership more attainable became a goal early in the administration. In late 1994, President Clinton set as a national goal to raise the homeownership rate to 67.5 percent by the end of 2000. HUD used its oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to encourage those entities to reach out to low-income borrowers and areas underserved by the private market. Finally, a revitalized Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has substantially increased lending to African Americans, Hispanics, and other traditionally underserved groups and, in doing so, has worked to increase homeownership opportunities of these segments.

So when do I get my check? I need to suck on the government teat for a while. In early May, the IRS will start sending out checks for your share of the $168 billion addition to the public debt.

Would $600 buy your vote?

Ya. We can outsource our primary education to CrazyPolishTeacher.com and save $billions$.

Take it to craigslist, will ya?

Snow Peak is a Japanese company.

wrong, 14% doesn't even offset B/O tax in WA. plus you don't have stupid city tax. plus their L&I insurance is much lower. even with 5% in sales tax difference at least they have roads you can drive on in winter. what we get in return is jack and shit. not to mention better health care. So are you threatening to move to Canada?

NO!

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Umm, yeah. We need to protect our right to this. http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web08s/wfeature-high-crimes-kodas Speaking of Lincoln, would he have supported a Chinese invasion of Taiwan the same way he supported an invasion of the South to reunite the country?

What a crock of poo. So you are trying to tell us that the fact that she was galavanting around with movie stars, spending millions of her daddies $ on dresses, cars, boys, parties, and jumping i front of every camera with a "Hilton" sign on her, is personal fortitude? No. What I'm saying is that she is generating quite the revenue stream and doesn't necessarily have to live off her parent's inheritance in the future. Some kids live off their parents money while going to college to finally start earning $50k/yr. She took a little different path. I don't see much difference in her than the guys who get paid millons each summer to run around on grass in their pajamas chasing a little white ball.

According to Forbes, Paris earned $6.5 million in '05 and $7 million in '06. The celebutante has amassed her personal fortune mainly through licensing deals. Her name is attached to a perfume, watches, nightclubs and a new videogame. She's also a reality TV fixture, B-list movie starlet and bestselling author. Call them her day jobs; at night Paris gets paid big bucks to show her face at of-the-minute clubs, commanding up to $300,000 per appearance abroad. She boasts the most Web hits of anyone else on the Forbes Celebrity 100, although she's also the only lister with her own highly publicized (and downloadable) porn tape. So, she's probably earned more money at this point than you will in your lifetime. Who's the deadbeat?

On Jan 1, 2011 the exemption drops back down to $1 million. A paid off three bedroom house in Ballard and $600k in an IRA (which represents $24k in yearly income) puts you at the threshold. If you have to pay taxes using proceeds from the IRA, the withdrawl will also be taxed at your marginal rate.