Welcome to ECCIE, become a part of the fastest growing adult community. Take a minute & sign up!

Welcome to ECCIE - Sign up today!

Become a part of one of the fastest growing adult communities online. We have something for you, whether you’re a male member seeking out new friends or a new lady on the scene looking to take advantage of our many opportunities to network, make new friends, or connect with people. Join today & take part in lively discussions, take advantage of all the great features that attract hundreds of new daily members!

Go Premium

Go Back   ECCIE Worldwide > Texas > Austin > The Sandbox - Austin
test
The Sandbox - Austin The Sandbox is a collection of off-topic discussions. Humorous threads, Sports talk, and a wide variety of other topics can be found here. If it's NOT an adult-themed topic, then it belongs here

Most Favorited Images
  • Thumb
  • Thumb
  • Thumb
  • Thumb
  • Thumb
  • Thumb
  • Thumb
  • Thumb
  • Thumb
  • Thumb
  • Thumb
  • Thumb
  • Thumb
  • Thumb
  • Thumb
Most Liked Images
  • Thumb
  • Thumb
  • Thumb
  • Thumb
  • Thumb
  • Thumb
  • Thumb
  • Thumb
  • Thumb
  • Thumb
  • Thumb
  • Thumb
  • Thumb
  • Thumb
  • Thumb
Top Reviewers
cockalatte 646
MoneyManMatt 490
Still Looking 399
samcruz 399
Jon Bon 396
Harley Diablo 377
honest_abe 362
DFW_Ladies_Man 313
Chung Tran 288
lupegarland 287
nicemusic 285
You&Me 281
Starscream66 279
George Spelvin 265
sharkman29 255
Top Posters
DallasRain70793
biomed163231
Yssup Rider60927
gman4453294
LexusLover51038
offshoredrilling48646
WTF48267
pyramider46370
bambino42577
CryptKicker37215
The_Waco_Kid37006
Mokoa36496
Chung Tran36100
Still Looking35944
Mojojo33117
View Poll Results: Are you better off than you were four years ago ?
Yes 52 57.14%
No 31 34.07%
The same 8 8.79%
Voters: 91. You may not vote on this poll


Reply
 
Thread Tools
Old 07-12-2011, 05:07 PM   #31
F-Sharp
Valued Poster
 
Join Date: Jan 1, 2010
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 641
Encounters: 8
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy_Saul View Post
facts are a foriegn concept to F-Sharp
Let's talk when you start presenting some. I welcome a challenge.
F-Sharp is offline   Quote
Old 07-12-2011, 05:49 PM   #32
NipLover
Valued Poster
 
NipLover's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 4, 2010
Location: Austin
Posts: 732
Encounters: 8
Default

I am still waiting on Billy Saul to explain why his situation is exceedingly worse.
NipLover is offline   Quote
Old 07-12-2011, 05:49 PM   #33
Guest020916
Account Disabled
 
Join Date: Mar 8, 2010
Location: oar yonder
Posts: 418
Encounters: 11
Default

Last 4 years has been good to me, financially.
Lost a kick-ass gf though. I did meet some interesting, fun people from here after my break-up.

Neither are a result of Obama.

It really depends on how you are set up for 2008. Fortunately, I had less $ in the market and decided to buy up ETF before the crash in late October 2008 and buy equities after March 2009.

Trends or the data shared may show some indicators depending on what kind of context given. I'd have to say Obama had a lot of crap passed to him from Bush Jr. In one sense, 2008/2009 is the bottom so it can only look better in the next few years. Or you can say that at least Obama didn't let the US economy go into a tailspin in 2009. Maybe it'll set up the next recession since we've spent and printed so much money. Odd that USD is up now. Still can't believe that CAD actually caught up and went a tad higher than USD.
Guest020916 is offline   Quote
Old 07-12-2011, 08:08 PM   #34
KosherCowboy
Valued Poster
 
KosherCowboy's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 12, 2009
Location: AUS , Essen
Posts: 991
Encounters: 28
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by F-Sharp View Post
Facts can and will generally be skewed by those with an agenda. If you want unskewed facts, you need to go to the source and stay away from propagandinistas like Fox and MSNBC. I avoid pulling my information from such sources.
Kosher understands, its why I'll watch both. Both have agendas, CNN I enjoy too.

I am curious ( not in a konfrontational way) which news source you consider to be accurate, more facts than fabrications, equal coverage to both sides and so on?? What truly is the best ' source' out there to pull these unskewed facts from?
KosherCowboy is offline   Quote
Old 07-12-2011, 08:30 PM   #35
Guest040616
Account Disabled
 
Join Date: Dec 23, 2009
Location: Central Texas
Posts: 15,047
Encounters: 8
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by KosherCowboy View Post
Kosher understands, its why I'll watch both. Both have agendas, CNN I enjoy too.

I am curious ( not in a konfrontational way) which news source you consider to be accurate, more facts than fabrications, equal coverage to both sides and so on?? What truly is the best ' source' out there to pull these unskewed facts from?
www.politico.com
Guest040616 is offline   Quote
Old 07-12-2011, 08:36 PM   #36
budman33
Valued Poster
 
budman33's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 30, 2009
Location: Houston
Posts: 1,648
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by KosherCowboy View Post
Kosher understands, its why I'll watch both. Both have agendas, CNN I enjoy too.

I am curious ( not in a konfrontational way) which news source you consider to be accurate, more facts than fabrications, equal coverage to both sides and so on?? What truly is the best ' source' out there to pull these unskewed facts from?
I havent found one yet. Fox masterminded news for profit as a business model. In the past news was a loser that networks did, because they always did. now they are all playing catchup slanting the news based on dollars.

sad. I tend to google the news, read 10 articles, and know I have been told 9 lies.. then i go about my day. not really 100% sure if i believed the correct one.
budman33 is offline   Quote
Old 07-12-2011, 08:40 PM   #37
budman33
Valued Poster
 
budman33's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 30, 2009
Location: Houston
Posts: 1,648
Default

what guides my news following was a quote from John Locke I wrote a paper about in highschool

"he who says he knows is a fool shun him, he who says he knows not not is a wise man, follow him"

whenever I hear some jackass telling me they know everything? I'm out, sorry you fool.
budman33 is offline   Quote
Old 07-12-2011, 09:02 PM   #38
F-Sharp
Valued Poster
 
Join Date: Jan 1, 2010
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 641
Encounters: 8
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by KosherCowboy View Post
Kosher understands, its why I'll watch both. Both have agendas, CNN I enjoy too.

I am curious ( not in a konfrontational way) which news source you consider to be accurate, more facts than fabrications, equal coverage to both sides and so on?? What truly is the best ' source' out there to pull these unskewed facts from?
I generally don't trust the big news sources if there's a better place to go, and I if I do use one of them, I always make a concerted effort to back up any position I am defending with multiple sources. I'll usually try and post the least biased I can find, unless I am just trying to make a quick point. You'll notice most of what I do post is the source organization for whatever it is. I actually like Wikipedia too, mostly because the information there is policed by everyone and is for the most part citable. As for news sources, I would say your big two, MSNBC and Fox are the most biased, and everyone else tries to present a balanced picture, though they don't always succeed. I am sometimes shocked at just how biased some legitimate news sources can be. Case in point is something Billy posted in another thread recently:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...pinion_LEADTop

You'd would expect the Wall Street Journal to be a little right bent, but notice how they wrote this particular article...trying to scare everyone in to believeing the big bad Obama demon is coming to tax everyone to death! If you've ever read the healthcare bill in detail, you know as I responded, that most of those miniscule percentage of taxes are being placed on less than 2% of the population and foriegn importers of medical devices. They managed to skip over people who tan for some reason, who are also being taxed for this healthcare legislation.

"so many middle-class families will soon be considered rich", the author says when referring to households making over $250k a year. Reallity is that less than 1.5% of American households pull in that kind of dough. Bet Joe the Plumber is pissed off after reading it though, mainly because Joe can't be bothered to look elsewhere for the facts. And of course Joe can only dream of ever hauling in that much cash a year.

I encourage people to try and prove anything I post as inaccurate or untruthful. Being wrong is always a great learning opportunity, and I welcome the challenge! I think people have a tendency to read me wrong in these forums. You wouldn't guess it from most of my posts, but I am not an Obama supporter. I simply am forced to go where the facts lead me. He wouldn't get my vote today against just about any socially liberal candidate, and I would be happy to vote Republican if Abe Lincoln were to rise from the grave. I've said in previous posts I don't even consider Obama a liberal or a Democrat. If anything, he's a moderate Republican and big compromising pussy. However, I don't let my personal opinion of him cloud my judgement, and it certainly doesn't change the facts.

Guess I am just rambling now....
F-Sharp is offline   Quote
Old 07-16-2011, 09:30 AM   #39
RALPHEY BOY
Valued Poster
 
RALPHEY BOY's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 7, 2010
Location: Central Texas
Posts: 4,793
Encounters: 28
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by F-Sharp View Post
Since when? Not since Obama took office as the question was posed. Take another look at your chart. Home prices nose-doved at the end of Bush's term in 2008. Obama took office Jan. 2009. Home prices have been relatively flat since that time, and overall, up. Take a look here at the pre-bubble trend, the graph continues to go up and it's pretty clear home prices have avg. about 160k - 175k since Obama has been in office.

You and GFE stand corrected once again.

http://www.jparsons.net/housingbubble/



ok how about we do this, ask Kosher Cowboy if prices in Austin are flat, increasing or decreasing???

Kosher?
RALPHEY BOY is offline   Quote
Old 07-16-2011, 10:00 AM   #40
theaustinescorts
Pending Age Verification
 
Join Date: Jan 10, 2010
Location: Austin
Posts: 1,249
My ECCIE Reviews
Default

In times of recession it's hard to start growth when you're firing public workers.

What got Hitler elected was the austerity program of Chancellor Bruning, who responded to the depression of 1930 by slashing public spending. This deepened the depression and by 1932 the public was panicing. The Nazis had been marginalized by the economic recovery of the 1920s and were all but a footnote, but they re-bounded as result of the depression and Bruning's austerity program.

We should reduce the size of government.....BUT NOT NOW.

ps...

The way out of this is to keep expanding the money supply through credit so investment will be ample, and tax the rich to balance the budget. We don't need investment from the wealthy for investment, and taxing the non-rich will reduce badly-needed agregate demand.
theaustinescorts is offline   Quote
Old 07-16-2011, 10:12 AM   #41
KosherCowboy
Valued Poster
 
KosherCowboy's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 12, 2009
Location: AUS , Essen
Posts: 991
Encounters: 28
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by RALPHEY BOY View Post
ok how about we do this, ask Kosher Cowboy if prices in Austin are flat, increasing or decreasing???

Kosher?
Although things are better in TX than many parts of the nation; prices sure are not up. Deals to be had.

And just about every seller who does sell is getting bent over and having to take it up the tushy. Low ball jokers everywhere, mainly .....

well REB knows the rest.

At best in some places flat, decreasing areas far outnumber increasing ones...

No one can get a loan these days kompared to years past.

Mr. President, can you help? What happened to Hope and the American dream? On second thought BHO, don't answer as we know if your lips are moving you are lying and the housing market needs action to bounce back, not more rhetorical bullshit
KosherCowboy is offline   Quote
Old 07-16-2011, 10:21 AM   #42
theaustinescorts
Pending Age Verification
 
Join Date: Jan 10, 2010
Location: Austin
Posts: 1,249
My ECCIE Reviews
Default

The only reason why unemployment is low in Texas is because the price of oil is over $90. a barrell.

When oil prices are high it's impossible for the Texas economy to be weak....impossible no matter how hard people like Gov. Perry try to drag us down.*

*Perry was formerly the Texas Campaign manager for Al Gore, and a cheerleader. Personally I believe he is a Marxist.
theaustinescorts is offline   Quote
Old 07-16-2011, 06:53 PM   #43
F-Sharp
Valued Poster
 
Join Date: Jan 1, 2010
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 641
Encounters: 8
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by KosherCowboy View Post
Mr. President, can you help? What happened to Hope and the American dream? On second thought BHO, don't answer as we know if your lips are moving you are lying and the housing market needs action to bounce back, not more rhetorical bullshit
I simply don't understand this logic. Look at that chart I posted and it's very clear that the AVERAGE home price is up from just ten years ago. People became very spoiled and did some VERY stupid things with this bubble that occurred, those prices were simply unrealistic and no way sustainable. Speaking as a former California resident; who in their right minds thought they could afford a $400,000 - $750,000 home making $60k a year? Most of those fools that lost their homes couldn't even make the interest payments with a subprime loan, much less pay anything on the principle. Hence my reason for ultimately coming to Texas and buying something I could actually afford with a low fixed rate...but I digress.

Consider how many people have lost their homes..I wasn't able to find an exact number but some of the data said over two million foreclosures last year alone. Tell me this, what do you expect our President should be doing that he hasn't already done? Seems to me you conservative types should not be suprised with the outcome and be perfectly content that people who made bad decisions are now paying for it. Free markets, and fend for yourself and all that crap. Now you're complaining that Obama doesn't step in with yet another "socialist plot" to fix all your troubles. Do I dare call you a bunch of hypocrits? There's just no winning with you is there? Fixing shit cost money folks, money we don't have due to oppressive tax cuts, two wars, and a debt limit none of you wants raised. Sorry, but you made your bed, now you're gonna have to lie down in the dirty sheets on it for awhile.

You might as well get it in your heads now, it'll be DECADES before this little experiment in deregulation and free markets fixes itself, not one Presidential term.
F-Sharp is offline   Quote
Old 07-16-2011, 08:10 PM   #44
Charlie Drake
Premium Access
 
Charlie Drake's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 3, 2010
Location: FL, NC, PA, TX, London, Germany
Posts: 368
Encounters: 72
Default

Politics...religion...anything else you guys want to get into that have no acceptable responses/answers that aren't emotionally charged? Move on....and I don't mean the ".org"
Charlie Drake is offline   Quote
Old 07-16-2011, 08:32 PM   #45
rockerrick
Account Disabled
 
Join Date: Jan 22, 2011
Location: Texas
Posts: 18,470
Encounters: 63
Default

I'm doing the same,hard to get ahead with an endless line of morons running this pit,all looking to spend our money on BS.
rockerrick is offline   Quote
Reply



AMPReviews.net
Find Ladies
Hot Women

Powered by vBulletin®
Copyright © 2009 - 2016, ECCIE Worldwide, All Rights Reserved