southsider2k5

The Mreye Contrafund

That ought to be interesting. They love Babchuk and Seabrook as being future #1 line Dmen. And they need all of the help that they can get!

After watching the way Nebraska handles themselves, I hope Callahan falls flat on his face.

yeah wait til you get back to PA then.

See that is the fun thing, is I know how much the car costs within $100-200 just off of the monthly payment and interest rate. They did kind of piss me off because they didn't take much off of the sticker price last night, and so now I am doing some internet surfing to do some dealing.

Hey I might not be able to spell, but I am a whiz with numbers. I was really pissing off the sales manager last night at the car dealership when they kept only giving me part of the price and I kept saying how little that was off of the sticker price, and how he wasn't changing the price at all, just manipulating terms, interest rates etc...

that too. 1% sales tax gap is a difference of $100 on a $10k automobile.

I heard this on the radio yesterday. I guess another thing they said after asking if they wanted a combo meal was "Too bad, your getting a f***ing combo meal"

Quick point of advice, which state has the lower sales tax rate and by how much?

I came about that close to doing just that a few years back, but ended up not being able to get enough money together. I am going to open a trading account hopefully within this next year. I have been in the business 5 years now and am really anxious to see how much I have learned.

Exactly what I was thinking. Matrix 2 wasn't quite as bad as the rest, but oooh the rest of them suck.

I think we have decided against the lease. Too many unknows such as mileage, wear and tear etc... We are going to try to nail them down on a good price for a 5 year loan it sounds like. If all does right this weekend, we should have a brand spanking new 2k4 Impala.

Well you can order a Cadillac also... Didn't you get your how to be a Texan handbook? I'll bet you order Pinto beans with your chili don't you

He wants me to send his ass $25 before I judge him? Oh the Dowd report wasn't good enough? He word swearing up and down he didn't gamble wasn't good enough for 14 years, why should I send that asshole $25 before I judge him, when their is plenty of evidence that shows he is guilty, without accepting anything that liar says. :fyou Pete

Ordinarily that isn't a bad idea, but I would be very careful in the real estate market for now. The market has been great because of low interest rates, but I would bet the market collapses pretty good when interest rates start to ratchet up, because people have really bought up the market pretty good.

Do you really need an SUV?

I just heard on WBBM today that the woman admitted her claim to the ticket was a fraud afterall, she just wanted the money sooooo badly

My honest advice would steer you away from individual stocks (high risk, high reward) and into one of the index stocks at the AMEX that mirror what the markets as a whole do. They have ones the mirror the SP, Dow, and Nasdaq.

Good to see another familiar face come back. Now we need to see LDF, HSC, and Brando come back!

Has anyone here done one? We got a pretty good offer on a lease, but aren't sure about what the bad points of leasing are. I would be curious to hear everyones experiences good bad or indifferent.

Where are these guys rated? Are they anywhere near Indiana's recruits for next year?

Busch stadium is a hole. It sucks. Out of all the stadiums I have been to, I liked it less than any others I have been to.

No, I wasn't on you at all. Just in general, I sick of the drama of Kobe.

Yeah, poor Kobe The thing is, even if he is guilty as hell, OJ Simpson taught us that a good lawyer trumps all.

You have heard my theory on our "recovery" so far, but I will share it with everyone else. Essentially this "recovery" is a figment of our imagination. What is carrying the economic figures thus far is the wars and increased defense spending. Because of Iraq and the war on terrorism we have pumped in nearly $.5 billion extra into the economy (in one form or another) this year. This is what has made all of those pretty growth numbers that you see on CBNC. Net defense spending when you include the wars and terrorism has basically doubled from we GW took office. Military spending is about 20% of our budget. So you double spending on 1/5th of our budget, it can cover the other short falls in the economy. Realize that hiring is essentially at a zero sum figure right now. For every person that this economy is hiring, someone else, somewhere, is losing their job. There has been no recovery in the job market. Wages have begun to creep up, but most of that is paying people for the increased work loads of covering for people who have been laid off. Most of the "reduction" in unemployment is from people who have run out of unemployment benefits, or have accepted lesser work because they can't find anything to replace their former wage, or have simply gave up looking for work. For the unemployment #'s all of those people are either considered "employed" or they are not counted as unemployed, because they are not looking for work. (working 1 hour a week is considered "employed" no matter what wage you make) Finally there is the stock market. Most people don't realize that the market is essentially a crystal ball that looks 6 months to a year into the future. And most of that forward looking is all in peoples heads. The tax cuts have made up profits that companies lost during the downturn. Also starting to be felt are all of the cost cuttings (ie layoffs) that companies have made. The economic figures look great because the military sector is making the entire economy look great. Without dissecting these numbers it really gives the impression that the entire economy is recovering. Which is enough pshycologially to get people to dive back into stocks, because they are also recovering based on these new found profits. The key to this recovery is to dupe enough companies into thinking this recovery is for real, that they start to believe it is real enough to start hiring. If this starts to happen, then it will become self-fulfilling prophecy. If enough people believe, it will become so.