Just a matter of time TJ. She is about half Toads age and moving up. She'll be looking to trade up for a more successful model. Its in the genes.

Well good. We have a bonifide threat of violence. I hope Toad will follow thru. TJ will not only own his lure company, he will have a felony on his record, and Canada will turn him away every time.

Keep talkin tough guy.
Just another liberal emotional basket case.

You dish it out but cannot take it Todd grow up.

Yes, without a doubt I'm better off. Like Stam, I think it has more to do with what I'M doing than what any politician THINKS they are doing for me. I refuse to give them full credit or full blame. If you think that Obama (or Bush, or illegal aliens, or welfare recipients, or Obamacare, or taxes) is the reason that you aren't doing OK, you need to face the fact that plenty of people are succeeding in the same environment.

My only real fear is going from having a peachy life to being in the shitcan from an unforeseen, unpreventable medical situation with either myself or my wife. And that is WITH insurance.

Aunty,

The list is long enough to include both your first 10 and my first 10 and quite a few more. The charge is treason, putting the interests of Wall St and corporations ahead of all the people of the US. It includes politicians, former politicians, Fed Res commissioners, SEC commissioners, and the boards of directors of the financial services corporations and AIG. It'll be a blood bath like the French Revolution had! Will that do? Hate to see you excluded from the revolution.

This thread seams to be deteriorating like the other ones on here lately.

Back on topic; personally no. Where I see our country, no again. Like Salmo my income is down and my cost of living is up. Luckily I was on a good financial track when things went TU so yes it affected me but not as bad as it could have.

Thats not an answer. Its an extremely lame left wing talking point used on the weak, like a Jedi mind suggestion. Its seems all you can do is repeat the mantra, but you cannot back it up. Its would be virtually impossible for one president to preside over all the decisions made, including those home buyers who bought homes they could not pay for and took out equity loans to pay off huge credit card bills and increasing the total debt of their home loan. President George W. Bush is not responsible for the huge influx of unqualified buyers into the home market place, which just pulls future buyers into the present. When you run out of qualified buyers, you loan money to unqualified buyers. When you run out of unqualified buyers, then the market implodes and the first people to lose their jobs are those directly related to construction and home furnishings, when the market dries up. The banks created their own hell from dirivatives/ packaging underperforming home loans and selling them to investors all over the world. Banks were allowed to leverage their money in much to high a multiple incase they had bad debts. Bush did not hire lobbyists at Freddy and Fannie, that was three former clinton Adm employees, Raines, Johnson and Gorelick, who pocketed millions in bonuses, while they pushed the hell out of the subprime loans, to unqualified applicants. 'Those lobbyists targeted republicans that were capable of shutting it all down prior to the 2006 elections, when they lost the Senate. After that, Barney frank could just ridicule anyone who opposed the policies that were allowing all this to happen. He was complicit in this melt down as was the black caucus who pushed home ownership for constituents, like it was a constitutional right to have someone else pay for your home. Chris Dodd and others got special deals on financing of their own homes. Congress raise the limit on special finance considerations to home in the area of 650,000 dollars, well above what middle income workers, were buying. Dream on. Ive details some of Bushes mistakes and its always painful when people let you down. To not recognize when your guy is screwing it up, is not only dumb, its dangerous. Its obvious you didnt teach your kids anything from this experience, because you dont understand it.

In before the Nuke!!!!!!

Well with my appraised value of my home going from 692k in Dec of 2007 to 397k now I would say I am not better off....
In fact I am poorer.

I think you've rushed to judgement...again. All Todd has to do to "walk" in this case is give every juror a transcript of Tom Joad's posts and a Rvrfisher catalog. After reading a few of Joad's posts, they will have decided the homicide was justifiable and will spend the rest of the trial perusing the products in the catalog. At the end of the trial, Todd will not only have his freedom, but a fistful of new orders for fishing gear.

Cedar,

It’s people like you that create this problem. Todd believes he has more friends here so he can say and do anything he wants. He repeatedly insults anything and everything he wants but when some one does it back he cries foul because his sorority sisters come to his defense. A real friend would say “listen dood you insult everyone at will about anything and you are dumb enough to post a 7/8ths naked picture of your girlfriend on the web and expect everyone to think she is somehow off limits? You call someone’s god a sky fairy but a comment about someone hair stinking sends you over the edge, get over yourself" Secondly “as your friend its real stooped to post threats on an internet board, its equally stooped to get so bent over something you know is not true from someone you don’t even know” and lastly “if you get that bent over playground banter stay off the play ground. “

Group think and cliques are for non thinkers Cedar. Debate me on the points of my posts and don’t be a mental midget with the backhand slights. It just makes you look like an idiot and I could care less.

Chuck,

ps: making any reference to peoples family members is lame and classless. I dont care who you are.


Using the phrase JFC is just as offensive to many but that does not slow you down. Just becasue the cheer squad here thinks its funny does not make it acceptable.

I am all for posting ground rules you cannot just enforce them when they suit you.

jesus [Bleeeeep!] christ

Working harder and making less, house is worth less. Insurance costs more, stuff costs more. I will say my confidence in the market has been improving over the last 6 months. The dream of somehow getting rich and doing nothing everyday has faded towards the future a bit.

But, my life is pretty great. My wife is still hot, my kids are well behaved, and I fish/hunt or golf 2-3 times a week. A couple of vacations to places that are warm are already on the calender for next year.

The key my success is to get up every day and provide mediocre effort for 20 or 25 hours a week.

Jesus Motherfu.k.ing Christ!

Tj,

is that better?

Does not bother me at all big moobies. It however is very offensive to a lot of Christians .

Here's the definition of a pussy:

Someone who would say something on the InterWebz that they wouldn't say in person.

That pussyfuck Choad wouldn't say word one to me in person regarding my ladyfriend...he'd be choking on his dentures and pissing in his orthopedic shoes.

I, on the other hand, would call him a foolish old bitter pussy right to his face.

Someone have a problem with that?

"Can dish it but can't take it" doesn't mean you get to talk schit about someone who's not even here, and has nothing whatsoever to do with your sad and pathetic life.

Your lessening of your already dubious standards to go after my ladyfriend shows just what a pussy you are, and I'd happily cruise out to your neighborhood to tell you that right to your face.

Fish on...

Todd

Your response speaks for itself. I'd call it "stooped", but some of my best friends have scoliosis.
Why don't you do the web world a favor and write your "thoughts" on a scrap of paper; then throw them in the wastebasket. You aren't going to change a single mind with your lunatic posting.

No a pussy is someone who does one thing and then cries when someone does it back to them and when called on it continues to snivel about it. If you cannot handle someone saying your girlfriends hair might stink you need professional help. If you Are as chivalrous as you pretend take her picture down . Seriously your false indignation is pathetic.

My income is down, but it isn't stopping me from doing what I enjoy.
401K has recovered and my home continues to appreciate. Yes, appreciate.
The value isn't back to where it was at the peak, but not that far off. My neighbor just sold his house for a lot more then I expected and I have a much nicer crib then his.
My goal of retiring at 62 is still on track. 9.5 years to go.
Things could be worse......I could be dead.