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 Republican radicalism increasing -- Politics
By iwog Tue 15 May 2012 748 views 43 comments, latest 52 seconds ago
In Lafayette CA 94549 |
| Steve Vaillancourt, New Hampshire Lawmaker, Ejected From House After Nazi Salute http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ Michele Bachmann issues complete and total fiction about redistricting http://news.yahoo.com/bachmann Tea Party members now bought and paid for by........big banks. (great revolution there eh trout?) http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ |
 California's financial apocalypse -- Link Submissions
By Patrick Wed 16 May 2012 7 views posted 5 minutes ago
In Menlo Park CA 94025 |
| http://theweek.com/article/ind |
Stockton still tops nation’s foreclosure list -- Link Submissions
By tvgnus Wed 16 May 2012 4 views posted 8 minutes ago |
| http://www.centralvalleybusine |
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 Title Insurance
By EastCoastBubbleBoy Wed 16 May 2012 57 views 1 comment, latest 8 minutes ago |
| What exactly do you look for in a policy? |
Any advices for refinancing rental property?
By Zorb Wed 16 May 2012 166 views 8 comments, latest 18 minutes ago
In tracy CA |
| I am not particularly bullish on real estate but I am not feeling any better looking at other type of investments, and 1% return on cash is not for me. So I privileged diversification and bought 2 rental properties back... |
Still waiting for a bottom?
By iwog Wed 02 May 2012 8,191 views 265 comments, latest 22 minutes ago
In Lafayette CA 94549 |
| Not a good idea. |
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 11007 Colt Isle, San Antonio, Texas 78254
By jvolstad Tue 15 May 2012 107 views 1 comment, latest 15 hours ago
In San Antonio TX 78254 |
| http://www.zillow.com/homedeta A real gem of a property. Former model home. Builder no longer in the area. Property in a flood zone with fixed (?) foundation problems. Let the bidding begin. Submit your highest offer! Will go fast!!! (I should have... |
319 Thompson Ave, Mountain View, CA 94043
By jvolstad Sat 28 Apr 2012 970 views 12 comments, latest 17 hours ago
In Mountain View CA 94043 |
| http://www.zillow.com/homedeta $830K for an older house with weird ceilings on the inside. Another $500+ per sq foot Bay Area Property. You got more money then common sense? Then this is your house! |
26 acres, 3 homes and $2.195MM
By Tom Stone Sat 12 May 2012 185 views posted 4 days ago
In Sebastopol CA 95472 |
| it's 12500 "A" Dupont Rd and worth a serious look if you want a compound. Two of the homes have been renovated, one has not. Very good landscaping, smaller homes but the renovations were done well. There's some slope to... |
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 Silver
By Goatkick Sun 13 May 2012 635 views 16 comments, latest 1 hour ago
In Clarendon Hills IL 60514 |
| Anyone have any old/new ideas of where it's headed this week/month/year? Predictions don't offend me. Thanks |
Is it time to SHORT AAPL and Tech?
By suziclue Sun 11 Mar 2012 11,101 views 214 comments, latest 2 hours ago |
| Been searching around and talking to other investors in chat rooms and there's a growing number of folks thinking it's a good time to start shorting Apple. They may have reached their peak and the decline is beginning. A recent... |
Need help with the math
By rocketjoe79 Wed 16 May 2012 119 views 2 comments, latest 8 hours ago
In Lake of the Pines CA 95602 |
| My son tells me to buy into stocks using the following scheme: if the market drops 5%, put 5% of your portfolio into the market. Likewise, I guess when the market rises, I should sell. This would be using my... |
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GT500 or a Prius?
By jvolstad Thu 26 Apr 2012 1,862 views 41 comments, latest 28 minutes ago
In San Antonio TX 78254 |
| http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/m I was going to get a Prius C in 2013, but many this might be a better fit for me. :-) |
Windows 8. Another Vista?
By jvolstad Tue 15 May 2012 249 views 7 comments, latest 2 hours ago
In San Antonio TX 78254 |
| http://news.cnet.com/8301-1080 I don't get Windows 8. For a tablet, yes. Desktop or traditional laptop, no. I plan to use my three year old HP laptop until it finally dies. Windows 7, 8GB RAM, 500GB 7200 rpm HDD, Blu Ray optical... |
Clear Voyager 4G hotspot review
By CaptainShuddup Tue 15 May 2012 77 views posted 1 day ago |
| I bought my Gal a new laptop for mother's day. While we were at Best Buy, I decided to look into a hotspot device. They had a chart, and Clear was the only company that had an unlimited option for... |
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Should health insurance cover all vaccines?
By burritos Tue 15 May 2012 146 views 6 comments, latest 5 hours ago
In Newbury Park CA 91320 |
| Say you're rich enough to travel the world. Should you pay for vaccines like typhoid and yellow fever? or should your insurance(thus the rest of the policy holders) pay for those vaccines? Insurance usually don't balk at paying for malaria... |
Demand All Medical Bills In Advance!
By Patrick Tue 08 May 2012 1,348 views 44 comments, latest 11 hours ago
In Menlo Park CA 94025 |
| So I made an appointment for a physical exam because I haven't been to a doctor in more than 5 years, and I had a bunch of accumulated worries. I went in for my physical exam, knowing that it would... |
 YUM! Poison KFC ordered to pay $8.3m
By MoneySheep Fri 27 Apr 2012 753 views 6 comments, latest 1 week ago
In San Diego CA 92115 |
| Monika Samaan fell ill with salmonella poisoning after eating a "Twister" wrap at a KFC restaurant near Sydney in 2005. A judge of the Supreme Court of the state of New South Wales awarded the A$8m damages after ruling last... |
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Republican radicalism increasing
By iwog Tue 15 May 2012 748 views 43 comments, latest 52 seconds ago
In Lafayette CA 94549 |
| Steve Vaillancourt, New Hampshire Lawmaker, Ejected From House After Nazi Salute http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ Michele Bachmann issues complete and total fiction about redistricting http://news.yahoo.com/bachmann Tea Party members now bought and paid for by........big banks. (great revolution there eh trout?) http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ |
 Why do we have to pay cap gain taxes at all?
By dunnross Mon 14 May 2012 923 views 64 comments, latest 16 minutes ago
In San Jose CA 95120 |
| The FED is royally screwing an average citizen of this country. They create inflation, and the only way to fight it is to take risks, and buy inflation-safe securities. Yet, as soon as you sell them, you have to pay... |
 Obama's fictional 'GOP War on Women' a flop
By MarsAttacks! Tue 15 May 2012 332 views 20 comments, latest 58 minutes ago
In CA |
| President Obama’s claim that the GOP is mounting a war on women has proven to be a failure. A month into his assault on the Republicans and Mitt Romney, the new CBS-New York Times poll shows that the GOP... |
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How to Make an Atheists Head Explode
By CaptainShuddup Sat 12 May 2012 986 views 49 comments, latest 2 hours ago |
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 What happened to Judas?
By thunderlips11 Tue 08 May 2012 711 views 41 comments, latest 3 hours ago |
| Matthew 27:5-9 And he [Judas] cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself. The chief priests picked up the coins and said, “It is against the law to put this into the... |
The Nazis of Israel
By thunderlips11 Wed 16 May 2012 116 views posted 12 hours ago |
| Wow. A town founded by German "Templars" was established in Israel around the turn of the Century. It attracted the first Nazi members, and at one point the "Templars" had almost 20% Nazi Party membership. They were later interned by... |
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 Mayans...
By wthrfrk80 Thu 10 May 2012 379 views 13 comments, latest 9 hours ago
In Corning NY 14830 |
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 This is why hard-working Americans can't get jobs. Cheap, cat labor.
By Dan8267 Sat 28 Apr 2012 870 views 8 comments, latest 1 day ago
In Boca Raton FL 33433 |
| And I always thought cats hated water. |
 Funny picture thread
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Grand Prix (1966)
By jvolstad Thu 10 May 2012 165 views 1 comment, latest 27 minutes ago
In San Antonio TX 78254 |
| I just got the Blu Ray version. Pretty cool watching this classic in HD. My Dad abd I saw this movie when it first came out in 1966. I wouldn't say how old I was at the time. LOL. |
 X-Men First Class
By Vicente Mon 23 Apr 2012 631 views 4 comments, latest 4 days ago
In Davis CA 95616 |
| Big thumbs up from me! I didn't read the comics as a kid. So cannot address the "purity" of the movie. But it was great fun to watch! Particularly the big showdown at Cuba. Mrs. Vicente likes Magneto (Fassbender) and... |
Anyone catching Duck Dynasty?
By CaptainShuddup Wed 02 May 2012 380 views 2 comments, latest 1 week ago |
| If we can do TV shows in this forum? It's a show on A&E on Wed nights about the Robertson family, that became red neck millionaires by making and selling duck decoys and duck calls. I don't care for reality... |
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 California is the worst State to do business in the US?
By American in Japan Tue 15 May 2012 1,039 views 13 comments, latest 19 minutes ago |
| Has anyone read this article? http://ncwatch.typepad.com/med This one lists California #1 for business in 2 categories. http://www.cnbc.com/id/4166588 How can the trend be reversed? |
 America is going nuts
By Roidy Sat 05 May 2012 772 views 40 comments, latest 3 hours ago |
| Our country is insane. Pertussis - Whopping Cough - is in epidemic in Washington State because parents won't get their children vaccinated for it. I keep hearing that many believe vaccinations causes Autism even though this has been disproven. Some... |
Hefty salaries, perks for union leaders raise eyebrows
By zzyzzx Mon 14 May 2012 115 views 4 comments, latest 7 hours ago
In Baltimore MD 21230 |
| http://www.mcclatchydc.com/201 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — First-class travel. Six-figure salaries for half the 132 officers and staffers. Plenty of plum jobs for family members. |
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California's financial apocalypse
By Patrick Wed 16 May 2012 7 views posted 5 minutes ago
In Menlo Park CA 94025 |
| http://theweek.com/article/ind |
Stockton still tops nation’s foreclosure list
By tvgnus Wed 16 May 2012 4 views posted 8 minutes ago |
| http://www.centralvalleybusine |
Real Estate Crash in China Underway
By Patrick Wed 16 May 2012 37 views posted 1 hour ago
In Menlo Park CA 94025 |
| http://globaleconomicanalysis. |
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Letting Users Pick Newslinks
By Patrick Tue 15 May 2012 73 views posted 1 day ago
In Menlo Park CA 94025 |
| I haven't sent out the newslinks in two days because I'm re-working it to have users vote on links directly. See the up and down arrows on the home page. So then what should get mailed out? Links with net... |
Emails of "likes" now enabled
By Patrick Wed 09 May 2012 175 views 1 comment, latest 4 days ago
In Menlo Park CA 94025 |
| Now when someone "likes" your comment, you'll get an email saying which user liked it. The email also includes a link to the spot in your profile where you can turn that feature off: http://patrick.net/forum/inclu There is no email of... |
Applying lessons from Facebook to Patrick.net
By Patrick Tue 17 Apr 2012 1,452 views 24 comments, latest 1 week ago
In Menlo Park CA 94025 |
| I just read an interesting article about Facebook's growth: http://www.startup-review.com/ How do I apply each of these Facebook lessons to Patrick.net? Really just thinking out loud to myself here, but happy to get comments. "It's easier to piggyback off a... |
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