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This Super Bowl Rocket Mortgage commercial seemed to be aimed at regulators and politicians as much as borrowers. It was vaguely reminiscent of George W. Bush’s speech at the 2002 White House Conference on Increasing Minority Homeownership and Angelo Mozilo’s 2003 Harvard address about how Bush’s regulators should get the message that old-fashioned standards on down payments and documentation are old-fashioned downers.
Still, it was interesting that 13-years ago, Bush and Mozilo played the race card a lot harder in arguing for hog-wild lending as necessary for racial equality, while this time Quicken used old postwar Keynesian “Good for the Economy” rhetoric in arguing for 8-minute mortgages.
On the other hand: the fact that a side effect of the White Death is constipation didn’t seem to cause the makers of a pill for opioid-induced constipation any worries about political reaction:
The actor in that ad is James Waterston…son of Sam, to coin a phrase. His son is a classmate of my son’s, and James is a really pleasant guy. It was pretty funny to have him pop up like that.
Small world....
Old Glory Insurance. For when the metal ones decide to come for you.
To clarify, James Waterston stars in the drug ad. My immediate reaction to the mortgage ad was the same as Steve Sailer’s, by the way, which in turn required me to explain to my 11-year-old daughter how the mortgage meltdown led to the Global Financial Crisis. Fun times on Super Bowl Sunday!
The constipation ad was complete garbage -- "OIC" is one of those fake conditions invented by drug companies so they can get a unique indication for an old drug in a new market. Yes, opioids are famously constipating, but you treat that constipation with all the exact same drugs you treat any constipation with. Though maybe they should have run the ad with the animated walking intestines right afterwards -- warn people what might happen if you get too stopped up, or something.
that's not 100% accurate, it was really control fraud.....blatant fraud, from borrower, to the appraiser to the mortgage lender and everyone in between committed fraud.
He was in Dead Poets Society back in the day too.
Small world….
I liked the constipation add, though I thought the chap looked a bit young for the love-and-laxatives generation. On the other hand, it struck a wonderfully false note with the guy emerging from the loo and preening himself on having shat.
One of the most bizarre camera shots of the game caught the Manning clan ecstatic about the Broncos and Payton winning. Except for one notable exception, Eli. I wasn’t alone in noticing this.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/02/08/eli-manning-didnt-look-too-thrilled-about-brother-peyton-winning-the-super-bowl/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_1_na
Hey, why not just start WW3? That’d really get the economy rockin’!
For those who enjoy playing with TurboTax, try upping the amount of mortgage interest you “pay” as you do your taxes. Did you notice that, of all the items on Schedule A, only mortgage interest is essentially unlimited? You can deduct as much of it as you want (I think interest on mortgages over $1million is limited). It would seem that the government, doing the bidding of the elites, wants you to take out as much mortgage debt as you can.
The CEO/founder of Rocket Mortgage/Quicken Loans is Detroit billionaire Dan Gilbert. He owns the Cleveland Cavaliers, and is best known nationally for the blow up he had after LeBron James took his talents to South Beach.
Steve, you will be interested in reading about his mortgage companies, which have been very aggressive. In fact, the DOJ has filed a complaint, and here is a summary from the DOJ website:
Quicken participated in the FHA insurance program as a direct endorsement lender (DEL). As a DEL, Quicken had the authority to originate, underwrite and certify mortgages for FHA insurance. If a DEL such as Quicken approves a mortgage loan for FHA insurance and the loan later defaults, the holder of the loan may submit an insurance claim to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), FHA’s parent agency, for the losses resulting from the defaulted loan. Under the DEL program, neither the FHA nor HUD reviews the underwriting of a loan before it is endorsed for FHA insurance. HUD therefore relies on DELs to follow program rules designed to ensure that they are properly underwriting and certifying mortgages for FHA insurance. And, to that end, a DEL must certify that every loan endorsed for FHA insurance is underwritten according to the applicable FHA standards.
The government’s complaint alleges that, from September 2007 through December 2011, Quicken knowingly submitted, or caused the submission of, claims for hundreds of improperly underwritten FHA-insured loans. The complaint further alleges that Quicken instituted and encouraged an underwriting process that led to employees disregarding FHA rules and falsely certifying compliance with underwriting requirements in order to reap the profits from FHA-insured mortgages. For example, Quicken allegedly had a “value appeal” process where, when Quicken received an appraised value for a home that was too low to approve a loan, Quicken often requested a specific inflated value from the appraiser with no justification for the increase– even though such a practice was prohibited by the applicable FHA requirements. Quicken also allegedly granted “management exceptions” whereby managers would allow underwriters to break an FHA rule in order to approve a loan.
He attempted to file a “pre-emptive” lawsuit against the DOJ, but it was dismissed.
Perhaps some of the armchair warriors here ought to run for Congress to carry out their jihad against Wall Street.Replies: @Mike1, @Mr. Anon
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2015/03/jews-and-moneylending-a-contemporary-case-file-part-2-of-3/Read the whole thing...
My second thought after watching Lady Gaga’s rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner was: “Did Trump just win?”
Like everyone else in the world, I was dreading the thought of her massacring the National Anthem. To my surprise and delight, what she delivered was dignified and beautiful. Her slow tempo emphasized the words, and she relied on the strength of her voice, with only a token use of those moronic fluctuations all the contemporary singers use. She was dressed glamorously, but tastefully.
Trump should use the performance in a commercial. A lot of people can’t envision him as president because of his past antics. But if Lady Gaga can clean up her act to do justice to the National Anthem, then why should it be hard to believe that Trump could deliver a serious turn as president?
Clean up her act in what regard?
"Like everyone else in the world, I was dreading the thought of her massacring the National Anthem."
I wouldn't say everyone. Her fans, for example, knew exactly what they were in for. She's not my cup of tea, but she does have a tremendous voice.
the guys who had to hump the rack-full of vocal-sweetening boxes into the stadium's backstage are having a good laugh about you.
The game featured the wrong Manning, so we paid no attention in our house. But we were treated to the same ad– on YouTube. Right before the planet-teaching lullaby video I pulled up for my four-year-old.
We don’t give him opioids!
(Which sounds like The Andy Griffith Show redone as science fiction.)
Anyway, constipation has its upside. Prince Ali in Aladdin had “the strength of ten regular men”.
The Eight-Minute Mortgage…an economic laxative for our constipated society.
This ad reminds me that we justify so many things in the name of economics; but when I look around, economics gets trumped by politics.
We’re supposed to lend housing money in the name of economics, but the political nature of the thing gives us the mortgage meltdown.
We’re supposed to import everyone in the world because it is economical for us; but economics doesn’t work in the home countries ’cause it has been co-opted by politics. So why should I bow and scrape to the gods of economics when it’s ass gets kicked by politics at every turn?
Did you guys see this one from Paypal? New money = Non-whites, GOOD!; Old Money = “These people,” dead white guys.
It’s right up there with those Washington Mutual ads from right before the housing bubble burst.
I had to explain to my wife why I was flipping off the TV after that.
There seems to be some push-back. The astronaut re-experiencing an Apollo mission is one example.
Unsuspecting non-whites think they are being empowered by using such supposedly anti-white-male services when, in fact, it's the white males(especially Jews) who are making money off them.
The etymology of the word mortgage is indeed similar to those words associated with death. Even in modern French, death is la mort. Mortgage is from Old French and means “the pledge of death.” A mortgage is actually a conveyance of property from the borrower to the lender, in security for a loan, but in modern English it is now essentially a synonym for “loan associated with real estate.” Perhaps if people understood it better (make the “pledge of death”) they’d be less likely to sign on for one. Advertisements like this should have a warning like:
But I’m not holding my breath.
Recklessly taking on debt and popping pain pills: the picture of America in 2016. Which are we addicted to more: easy credit or opioids? I laugh that I may not weep!
The Dodd-Frank Act has made it incredibly difficult for banks to loan money. Banks are now required to have a separate loan processing department. Gone are the days when the bank president would walk you back and ask the loan department to have your stuff ready to sign after lunch.
Need a quick loan? Don’t bother pledging land as collateral. It takes two weeks now to process a loan with land as collateral. If you pledge a note receivable you can still get a loan overnight.
The solution to all this mess is the same as it was eight years ago: force the big banks to downsize dramatically so that no bank is too big to fail. Then allow them to offer whatever type of loan they wish.
Same here, slumber_j! Only it was my 11-year-old son I got to explain that to.
The constipation ad was complete garbage — “OIC” is one of those fake conditions invented by drug companies so they can get a unique indication for an old drug in a new market. Yes, opioids are famously constipating, but you treat that constipation with all the exact same drugs you treat any constipation with. Though maybe they should have run the ad with the animated walking intestines right afterwards — warn people what might happen if you get too stopped up, or something.
Off topic: Steve I think you may find this useful: http://theshitlordhub.blogspot.co.uk/. This blog aggregates a plethora of RSS feeds from Alt Right sites and blogs and allows you to check their latest updates in a fast, time-saving way. Your own blog, the Unz Review and Taki’s Mag are also there. Cheers.
Easy mortgages, Beyonce, Peyton Manning, Lady Gaga…it was like the early- to mid-2000s all over again.
Pretty much, but, unless I am mistaken, weren't Beyoncé's legs a lot better looking back then? Apart from that, not much change.
I wonder if the DEA is checking up on people who get prescriptions for Amizita and similar drugs?
One of my chess students appeared in https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153941600412996&set=a.409119357995.180692.745467995&type=3&theater
Toyota’s Super Bowl commercial…..
Why would a mortgage company want, in any way, to equate mortgages with death, especially in light of the 2007/2008 mortgage crisis?
That opioid one was this years version of the ad from last year super bowl with the kid who would have ran it with lynch, but he died. Just a total WTF moment
“On the other hand: the fact that a side effect of the White Death is constipation didn’t seem to cause the makers of a pill for opioid-induced constipation any worries about political reaction:”
What a very strange ad. It’s unbelievable that it features three very white-looking people having bathroom issues – the main guy, the guy coming out of the bathroom in the beginning, and the white woman with toilet paper attached to the bottom of her shoe at the end. Meanwhile, the many diverse people in the background seem to be getting along with their lives fine.
The Brave New World propaganda throughout the Super Bowl was pretty strong from what I saw (I didn’t see the whole thing) – the rainbow half-time that featured a disproportionate representation of black performers (though not surprising) and concluded with the smaltzy, pro-gay marriage message “Believe in Love”, many of the commercials that were pro-multiculturalism pro-globalization, or related to White Death, and I think some other things that I can’t remember
Stir up the American people to watch the Super Bowl and then use it as an opportunity to feed them propaganda.
Wow, who know there were so many three letter medical conditions. OIC is the newest one to be trotted out. My favorite throw out line in all of these Pharm Ads is, “Be sure to tell your doctor about any medical conditions you have and any medicines you are taking.” I would think my doctor would know all that, but hey, maybe people switch doctors a lot. Best ad in my opinion, Willem Dafoe in the Snickers ad.
The point is that it doesn't, in fact, trot out.
A major factor is the phenomena of "Robotripping" among Hip Hoppers, the combining of drinking copious amounts of DXM based cough syrups with very high THC content pot.
In large doses DXM by itself causes a strong dis-associative hallucinogenic high similar to PCP. DXM & PCP are both linked to violent self destructive behavior. That is why the pharmaceutical industry mixes over the counter DXM with ingredients like sorbitol. Sorbitol is a complex sugar found naturally in prunes. The idea being that take too much of it and you will get a bad tummy ache combined with powerful flatulence and loose bowels. Besides lots of young people find prunes/Sorbitol disgustingly sweet. That discourages all but the most determined DXM abusers. Problem is smoking pot tends to give one the munchies. The last thing you should do is combine large doses of Sobitol with overeating. The rapper Lil Wayne is famous for promoting "Robotripping" (abusing DXM cough syrups like Rubitussin). Lil Wayne is also famous for numerous emergency visits due to critical intestinal issues. Wayne was interviewed by Katie Curric about almost dying from his Robotripping habit.Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and numerous other "Dead Dindus" were know to be robotrippers. Trayvon had lots of social media posts about abusing both Promethazine(a known anti-psychotic anti-nausea drug) and DXM (a psychosis inducing hallucinogen) based cough syrups, often while posing with guns, money and bottles of cough syrup. Trayvon also had lots of comments about how to avoid the side effects of DXM abuse and posed holding up bottles of Pepto-Bismol.Perhaps Trayvon was walking around outside in the rain because he got kicked out of the condo in the past for having severe gas. Remember the Skittles and Arizona Watermelon juice , not "Ice Tea" he bought at the 7/11 earlier is a common formula for dealing with the sickeningly sweet taste of sorbitol.Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @Buffalo Joe
http://beforeitsnews.com/politics/2016/02/feminists-vs-the-super-bowl-commercials-2776972.html
Not that you probably didn't see it coming, though.Replies: @Buffalo Joe
The opioid induced constipation commercial (“Talk to your doctor about a different kind of constipation”), but there were several. Another, related, one featured the “cute” little pink bundle of intestines (I forget what was being marketed, I think another elimination product). I suppose the next stage in the marketing will be making stuffed toys of pink intestines for kids. I wonder how many will be getting them for their birthday this year.
BTW, does that little bundle of intestines have a name?
A lot of the commercials were stupid and/or gross. Budweiser trying to be cutting edge with the horses. All of those “My parents f***ed after our team won the Super Bowl!” commercials. The car commercial where the guy is wearing a device with flashing lights all through his life. However, the Doritos commercials (Dorito induced birth, dogs Doritos) were pretty good. Considering.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/02/abortion-rights-group-attacks-doritos-super-bowl-ad-for-humanizing-fetus/
The black power stuff at the halftime show wasn't even subtle.
I noted those two commercials as the most bizarre of the evening too.
it’s almost as if the mass media gets its income from corporate profits (via corporations using profits to buy ads in the media)
…and so it is almost as if the mass media seems to favor ideas and ideologies that increase the GDP, economic growth and increase corporate profits…hmm….
The sad thing is that after Dodd Frank eight minutes is plenty of time to approve or deny a mortgage. The entire process is this:
– Do you have a corporate job?
– Have you kept it (or a similar job) for two years?
– Do you have 3% down payment?
– Is your credit somewhat OK?
The sad part is that if you don’t tick these boxes you wont get a mortgage. Have 50% down but inconsistent income? Denied. Have 50% down but bad credit? Denied.
Virtually no one understands that banks are just sales channels these days. No one at a bank is making a decision about approving or denying a mortgage. They are just ticking boxes. Even if they know that a mortgage with 50% down have virtually zero chance of default the law makes it an automatic no.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/02/08/eli-manning-didnt-look-too-thrilled-about-brother-peyton-winning-the-super-bowl/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_1_naReplies: @Front toward Enemy, @Warner, @yaqub the mad scientist, @Anonymous
I noticed it also and thought it interesting. I don’t know why, but I just did.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/02/08/eli-manning-didnt-look-too-thrilled-about-brother-peyton-winning-the-super-bowl/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_1_naReplies: @Front toward Enemy, @Warner, @yaqub the mad scientist, @Anonymous
Allegedly, that wasn’t the end of the game but a moment of scoring close to the end. The fat lady hadn’t sung yet.
Like everyone else in the world, I was dreading the thought of her massacring the National Anthem. To my surprise and delight, what she delivered was dignified and beautiful. Her slow tempo emphasized the words, and she relied on the strength of her voice, with only a token use of those moronic fluctuations all the contemporary singers use. She was dressed glamorously, but tastefully.
Trump should use the performance in a commercial. A lot of people can't envision him as president because of his past antics. But if Lady Gaga can clean up her act to do justice to the National Anthem, then why should it be hard to believe that Trump could deliver a serious turn as president?Replies: @Front toward Enemy, @Corvinus, @CromwellForever, @Karl
“moronic fluctuations” yes, another good term for “urban yodeling”.
And apparently those are the only things that Republicans, as the nominal conservative party, think are worthy of conserving.
Speaking of the mortgage meltdown, has anyone seen the new Poppy Loans?
Up to 100% LTV on the purchase price on homes in the Bay Area.
Seems legit.
In the fine print of the commercial it said his name was “Gut Guy”, I shit you not.
The funny thing about the ad is that it is marketing a drug to treat the side effects of another drug, sort of like those pills you are supposed to take for reflux when you eat too much spicy food, when normally what happens is that people start avoiding spicy food.
Everyone knows that chronic painkiller use will constipate you because it slows down the spasms of the gut that keep things moving down there. At the same time, chronic painkiller use can also damage other internal organs. So, it seems to me that if you are taking a lot of opioids and you get constipated that might be your body telling you to knock off the pills for awhile. But, no, instead they tell you to just take another pill. And what are you going to do when you get liver, etc. failure?Replies: @Steve from Detroit
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/02/08/eli-manning-didnt-look-too-thrilled-about-brother-peyton-winning-the-super-bowl/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_1_naReplies: @Front toward Enemy, @Warner, @yaqub the mad scientist, @Anonymous
To say it once more: “Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dF9t_xQGks
It's right up there with those Washington Mutual ads from right before the housing bubble burst.Replies: @Desiderius, @bomag, @AndrewR, @Anon, @Clyde, @Jim Christian
That one came right after the one where everyone was not great except the two savvy young single chicks and the obligatory smart young black man. The young white guy’s mother thought he was great, but of course she was wrong.
I had to explain to my wife why I was flipping off the TV after that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/02/08/eli-manning-didnt-look-too-thrilled-about-brother-peyton-winning-the-super-bowl/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_1_naReplies: @Front toward Enemy, @Warner, @yaqub the mad scientist, @Anonymous
I wouldn’t put too much into that. Eli’s general expression is that of a mildly retarded guy, even though he’s normal.
I noticed the opioid constipation ad too. There are so many drug ads on TV, especially on cable news channels, but they’re all for heart disease, diabetes, ED, etc. First time I saw an ad for treating opioid use.
I was amused when the mortgage ad mentioned “wooden leg makers” and showed a group of heritage Americans working in an American factory.
The puppy baby monkey was the most WTF commercial of the night. The constipation and diarrhea ones were gross and I don’t appreciate getting lectured to by Helen Mirren and Budweiser. The Doritos ultrasound was the best. The Prius getaway car was pretty good.
I found the “Opioid Induced Constipation” ad utterly appalling. Not the subject but the reason for it.
Back in the 90’s, a long-time heroin addict told me the drug is so constipating that some addicts use their fingers to claw out weeks worth of fecal matter from their bodies.
I’m guessing this ad is aimed at opiate addicts, in whatever form they ingest the opiates. Instead of encouraging addicts to deal with their addiction, this drug makes it easier for them to continue using.
Nice message to send, especially during one of the most-watched televised events of the year.
Healthy? I looked around the car.
It reminded me of an old Drake Sather joke: "I haven't been feeling well. I'd go see my doctor but he'll just say what he always says (in whiny voice) 'Stop shooting heroin.' Sheesh. He's like a broken record."Replies: @Kylie, @Buffalo Joe
The pro-choice groups don’t seem to agree. They might switch the Doritos for Fritos.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/02/abortion-rights-group-attacks-doritos-super-bowl-ad-for-humanizing-fetus/
The black power stuff at the halftime show wasn’t even subtle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dF9t_xQGks
It's right up there with those Washington Mutual ads from right before the housing bubble burst.Replies: @Desiderius, @bomag, @AndrewR, @Anon, @Clyde, @Jim Christian
Yeah, that was pretty blatant.
There seems to be some push-back. The astronaut re-experiencing an Apollo mission is one example.
“OIC is the newest one to be trotted out.”
The point is that it doesn’t, in fact, trot out.
The problem is not with the regulations, but with those in charge of ensuring that the regulations are followed through. Now, does anyone truly believe Trump, if elected, is going to make it his mission to ensure that corporations play by the rules?
Perhaps some of the armchair warriors here ought to run for Congress to carry out their jihad against Wall Street.
Perhaps you should decamp to that website where anyone gives a damn what you think (this isn't it). Good luck with that, nitwit.
Both Steve and I commented last night that much of the rise in “OIC” is linked to prescription drug abuse among working class and young suburban whites. Remember “OIC” is what killed Elvis. He died largely from a constipation induced heart attack.
Meanwhile, emergency rooms are seeing lots of young people especially black men showing up with severe gastro-intestinal distress.
A major factor is the phenomena of “Robotripping” among Hip Hoppers, the combining of drinking copious amounts of DXM based cough syrups with very high THC content pot.
In large doses DXM by itself causes a strong dis-associative hallucinogenic high similar to PCP. DXM & PCP are both linked to violent self destructive behavior. That is why the pharmaceutical industry mixes over the counter DXM with ingredients like sorbitol. Sorbitol is a complex sugar found naturally in prunes. The idea being that take too much of it and you will get a bad tummy ache combined with powerful flatulence and loose bowels. Besides lots of young people find prunes/Sorbitol disgustingly sweet. That discourages all but the most determined DXM abusers.
Problem is smoking pot tends to give one the munchies. The last thing you should do is combine large doses of Sobitol with overeating.
The rapper Lil Wayne is famous for promoting “Robotripping” (abusing DXM cough syrups like Rubitussin). Lil Wayne is also famous for numerous emergency visits due to critical intestinal issues. Wayne was interviewed by Katie Curric about almost dying from his Robotripping habit.
Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and numerous other “Dead Dindus” were know to be robotrippers. Trayvon had lots of social media posts about abusing both Promethazine(a known anti-psychotic anti-nausea drug) and DXM (a psychosis inducing hallucinogen) based cough syrups, often while posing with guns, money and bottles of cough syrup. Trayvon also had lots of comments about how to avoid the side effects of DXM abuse and posed holding up bottles of Pepto-Bismol.
Perhaps Trayvon was walking around outside in the rain because he got kicked out of the condo in the past for having severe gas. Remember the Skittles and Arizona Watermelon juice , not “Ice Tea” he bought at the 7/11 earlier is a common formula for dealing with the sickeningly sweet taste of sorbitol.
I remember people getting high in the 70s from cough syrup, but I thought that was a thing of the past.Replies: @SPMoore8, @Reg Cæsar
Like everyone else in the world, I was dreading the thought of her massacring the National Anthem. To my surprise and delight, what she delivered was dignified and beautiful. Her slow tempo emphasized the words, and she relied on the strength of her voice, with only a token use of those moronic fluctuations all the contemporary singers use. She was dressed glamorously, but tastefully.
Trump should use the performance in a commercial. A lot of people can't envision him as president because of his past antics. But if Lady Gaga can clean up her act to do justice to the National Anthem, then why should it be hard to believe that Trump could deliver a serious turn as president?Replies: @Front toward Enemy, @Corvinus, @CromwellForever, @Karl
“But if Lady Gaga can clean up her act to do justice to the National Anthem…”
Clean up her act in what regard?
“Like everyone else in the world, I was dreading the thought of her massacring the National Anthem.”
I wouldn’t say everyone. Her fans, for example, knew exactly what they were in for. She’s not my cup of tea, but she does have a tremendous voice.
People are slowly waking up to the reality of the depraved Super Bowl and all of its crap. It’s a giant psy-op and the commercials are a key component.
The anti-white drumbeat is thumping louder and louder but it took a hit with Cam Newton’s implosion.
The game was an omen. Black Power crashed and burned on the field, at the halftime show.
Beyonce and Bruno repeat performances are like Sailer’s observation on blacks now needing to be showcased every year at the Oscars. Coldplay was too white and that is why they were required to share the stage obviously.
God–“…and so it is almost as if the mass media seems to favor ideas and ideologies that increase the GDP, economic growth and increase corporate profits…hmm….”
Welcome to consumerism. Wouldn’t have it any other way.
Anonymous–“Stir up the American people to watch the Super Bowl and then use it as an opportunity to feed them propaganda.”
First, it’s not propaganda, just ideas that a number of people subscribe to. Second, would you say the same thing if the commercials were of a neo-reactionary flavor?
I’m disappointed to see no commentary on the thinly veiled Beyonce nods to Black Panthers, Malcolm X, and black power militancy.
Probably because you are seeing something that doesn't actually exist. Now, unless you are willing to describe exactly what those instances were...Replies: @Massimo Heitor, @Mr. Anon
I saw a newspaper story that said that Beyoncé was proud of her blackness while showing a photograph of her with blond hair. Those poor writers at The Onion, how can anyone write parody any more?Replies: @BB753, @Massimo Heitor, @boogerbently
“I’m disappointed to see no commentary on the thinly veiled Beyonce nods to Black Panthers, Malcolm X, and black power militancy.”
Probably because you are seeing something that doesn’t actually exist. Now, unless you are willing to describe exactly what those instances were…
It happened, nitwit. It's a matter of public record.
Idiot.
The biggest time and trouble items on my last mortgage application involved meeting the Patriot Act requirements to document what accounts we got the down payment from, so the government could be sure that a late-middle aged couple, American born of European descent, was not laundering money for terrorist purposes.
which is odd since money laundering via real estate has been the choice for the Chinese trying to hide cash for years now.....i guess some people have more rights than others
Kevin MacDonald’s Occidental Observer on Daniel Gilbert
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2015/03/jews-and-moneylending-a-contemporary-case-file-part-2-of-3/
Read the whole thing…
OT: World War T gets reputed gender dysphoria psychologist fired and his clinic closed for not being “gender affirmative” enough.
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/02/fight-over-trans-kids-got-a-researcher-fired.html
Not too long ago, Fannie Mae changed their rules and now allow you to claim room/housemates’ income in assessing whether you can get a mortgage loan.
Link: http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/government-wants-to-lend-more-to-high-risk-immigrants/
I can this the Coyote Rule. It’s not aimed at blacks. It’s intended for Mexicans and other Hispanic immigrants. It allows coyotes–those guys who make ‘arrangements’ to sneak in illegal immigrants–to get their paws on houses. The coyotes then stuff the house full of young men and demand X-amount of money paid to them per head per month. If you have 15 guys in a house paying 500 a month each, that will generate 7500 a month. You can easily pay the mortgage with that and make a profit on top. Anyone who doesn’t pay gets kicked out and replaced with another illegal.
Or you can give Chinese ‘birth tourists’ a nice place for a temporary stay, and keep funneling them in and out.
Housing illegals in apartments is hard to keep hidden. Their neighbors will call in the immigration authorities or the landlord if the illegals living only a few feet away make a nuisance of themselves with crime, vandalism, loud parties, and music. But it’s easier to hide illegals in a house that is owned by one of their own number, namely a legal immigrant who’s a coyote. A landlord can kick out bad tenants. But the cops can’t easily kick a legal property owner out of his own house, or find out what’s going on inside it. All the owner has to do is lie or tell his ‘roomates’ to hide when the authorities show up.
You see, a lot of real estate industry people learned their lesson back in 2008. They learned blacks were worthless and unreliable at paying back loans, so they’re trying to replace them with Hispanics, who are much better at it–under the right circumstances (see above). This process is going to flip a lot real estate in big cities by forcing out a lot of blacks and replacing them with Hispanics. It will also re-inflate the real estate bubble, make the present property owners very rich, real estate agents rich, and REITs of all sorts stinking rich. If you want to understand why these liberal home owners on the coasts tend to be pro-immigrant to the point of lunacy, now you know. And if you’re anti-immigrant, you are THE ENEMY. They have to make sure you don’t prevail if they want to make themselves rich when they sell their house–that’s how a lot of ordinary homeowners intend to help fund their retirement.
REITs, by the way, can be compared to corporate farms. Family farms have a tendency to end up in the hands of corporate farms, and private property has a tendency to end up in the hands of REITs. They have massive capital and the ability to hose up both business and private property any time the market experiences a downturn, and they’re in the process of making themselves into the permanent landlords of big cities.
Here’s a sample link about San Francisco, which is one of the most expensive places to live in America: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2013/11/the-reits-that-ate-san-francisco.html
Of course, the poor dumb sap of a white couple, wanting their cheap starter house and 2.0 kids, are going to be priced right out the market even more so than they were before. They will not be able to afford housing prices that soar so high that the mortgage reaches 7500 a month, whereas the coyote above will–for a time, at any rate.
The new Fannie Mae rule is going to screw the middle class royally.
Like everyone else in the world, I was dreading the thought of her massacring the National Anthem. To my surprise and delight, what she delivered was dignified and beautiful. Her slow tempo emphasized the words, and she relied on the strength of her voice, with only a token use of those moronic fluctuations all the contemporary singers use. She was dressed glamorously, but tastefully.
Trump should use the performance in a commercial. A lot of people can't envision him as president because of his past antics. But if Lady Gaga can clean up her act to do justice to the National Anthem, then why should it be hard to believe that Trump could deliver a serious turn as president?Replies: @Front toward Enemy, @Corvinus, @CromwellForever, @Karl
I’m no Gaga scholar, but I recall at least as far back as her second album (which was released with a very short period of time after her first) I was seeing videos of her doing acoustic torch singer versions of all of her songs. That, combined with her seeking out Tony Bennett to sing with, leads me to believe she always really wanted to be Marlene Dietrich, not Madonna
She's spoken dismissively of Madonna several times, and Iron Maiden is her favorite band.
James Waterson needs to follow in his father’s footsteps and do another commercial:
Old Glory Insurance. For when the metal ones decide to come for you.
Then you should now that some people are calling the Snickers ad “transphobic.”
http://beforeitsnews.com/politics/2016/02/feminists-vs-the-super-bowl-commercials-2776972.html
Not that you probably didn’t see it coming, though.
The side effects of opiates are no joke. I had a terrible accident and took them regularly for about 6 months. I never understood the appeal at all, which I am thankful for, and have never watched House the same way.
Elaborate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dF9t_xQGks
It's right up there with those Washington Mutual ads from right before the housing bubble burst.Replies: @Desiderius, @bomag, @AndrewR, @Anon, @Clyde, @Jim Christian
Holy shit. They’re not even trying to be subtle anymore.
I didn’t pick up on this while I was watching the half-time show, but I’ve seen mention of it elsewhere today. I’ve also seen Beyonce’s performance described as a nod to Black Lives Matter.
I’d like a half-time show that I feel comfortable watching with my young son. I don’t want him watching Beyoncé and her minions twerking or prancing around defiantly in their ugly, skimpy costumes. It’s just so degenerate. Can’t we do better than that?
Lastly, when Beyoncé was younger she looked pretty, but she seems to have developed a rather hard look. I don’t think her husband helps in this area. You’d think he’d want the mother of his daughter – and his wife – looking a bit more demure and respectable instead of looking like an angry and bitter prostitute.
The eight-minute mortgage ad was even creepier than the “Puppymonkeybaby” Mountain Dew ad.
Give instant mortgages to anyone with a pulse and it will all work out great? Hey, didn’t we already try that?
Do they really think the American people are that stupid, and have such short memories?
Could they be right?
no, they don't think, they know they are.
iSteve readers are much too sophisticated to watch Superbowl halftime drivel. They turned off the TV and picked up Proust for the interval between the two halves.
I saw a newspaper story that said that Beyoncé was proud of her blackness while showing a photograph of her with blond hair. Those poor writers at The Onion, how can anyone write parody any more?
I see the Beyonce Black Panthers, black power, and Malcolm X reference on the top of my Google News feed. I didn't watch any of the actual superbowl myself.
The ultrasound baby, Doritos commercial won.
Isn’t that basically the policy of pretty much all of the candidates for the presidency in 2016?
It really creeped me out.
My answer were on that stage would be that I really don't know how to respond to North Korea without access to the intelligence briefings (that I intend to study much more seriously than some claim the current President does), and as President, in protecting American lives and the American homeland, all options are on the table, they are always on the table, but I am certainly not telling you, Ms. Raddatz, what actions I would take in front of a world audience that includes all of our adversaries listening intently.
My biggest concern about the President is he talks and talks and talks and then talks so more, and it seems that the current crop of Republicans seems to want to out do him in not blabbing about something that should not be blabbed about.
I thought the best answer was from, yes, Donald Trump who said something to the effect that he would hold China to account to rein in their North Korean client, but being "on a roll" with that remarked he had to segue to saying something stoopid about "the trillions of dollars they are draining from us."Replies: @Harry Baldwin
That, combined with her seeking out Tony Bennett to sing with, leads me to believe she always really wanted to be Marlene Dietrich, not Madonna
She’s spoken dismissively of Madonna several times, and Iron Maiden is her favorite band.
“how the mortgage meltdown led to the Global Financial Crisis”
that’s not 100% accurate, it was really control fraud…..blatant fraud, from borrower, to the appraiser to the mortgage lender and everyone in between committed fraud.
The dude from Coldplay was hunched over with his hand dangling between his legs the whole time. We figured he had to go potty. At least, that’s what I told my little guy.
The chick singing troupe looked like something from an 80’s Bob Fosse revue. That look was obscene when it came out and hasn’t improved with time.
Enjoy this ballet-loving woman’s semi-informed opinion.
I guess I missed the Black Power thing. I just thought Beyonce was boring, and Bruno Mars a second rate Michael Jackson dancer. Even Coldplay, with Chris Martin doing the hunched over thing which was weird was more entertaining. Martin seemed to LIKE the fans while Beyonce and Mars obviously didn’t. If it was a Black power thing or Black Lives Matter thing it went over me because all I saw was boring.
The montage of past half time entertainers: James Brown, the Rolling Stones, U2, Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson, just made me wish one of THEM were on stage. Literally the half time show was boring.
As far as the White guy not being great but the White women and Black guy? Women (read: White women) make or influence about 85% of consumer purchases. The rotten-ness of modern Western life is directly proportional to the length and power and reach of mass female driven consumerism. The ads would not knock White men while praising White women and Black men if White women (a substantial proportion) didn’t like that message and other White women who were not approving did not disapprove, and were at best, neutral to that message.
Meanwhile White men buy too little stuff for marketers to care about offending them. That’s the downside of a market economy running a social culture.
I agree. I'm not really a Cold Play fan, but I enjoyed them (I like their first song a lot because their is a cute Minecraft video parody of it that my son likes, and I do too - probably lame, I know). Bruno Mars and Beyoncé were both boring - that kind of music and dancing never seems very original or entertaining to me. The Beyoncé dancing troupe was definitely vintage 1980s Paula Abdul/Janet Jackson crap, updated a bit with "twerking". But why? Is that supposed to represent some kind of progress?
“was not laundering money”
which is odd since money laundering via real estate has been the choice for the Chinese trying to hide cash for years now…..i guess some people have more rights than others
What was the deal with moderator Martha Raddatz egging all the Republican candidates on regarding preemptive bombing of North Korea in response to a rocket launch just hours prior to the debate? As as soon as a candidate would start to warm up to the suggestion, this debate-clock gong would go off, and then the candidate would start flapping their arms like George C Scott describing Slim Pickens’ flying skills to evade the Soviet air defenses trying to ward off a rogue American attack and prevent Armegeddon. And when one candidate would finish, she asked the next candidate the same question in an effort to get them to outdo the prior response?
It really creeped me out.
My answer were on that stage would be that I really don’t know how to respond to North Korea without access to the intelligence briefings (that I intend to study much more seriously than some claim the current President does), and as President, in protecting American lives and the American homeland, all options are on the table, they are always on the table, but I am certainly not telling you, Ms. Raddatz, what actions I would take in front of a world audience that includes all of our adversaries listening intently.
My biggest concern about the President is he talks and talks and talks and then talks so more, and it seems that the current crop of Republicans seems to want to out do him in not blabbing about something that should not be blabbed about.
I thought the best answer was from, yes, Donald Trump who said something to the effect that he would hold China to account to rein in their North Korean client, but being “on a roll” with that remarked he had to segue to saying something stoopid about “the trillions of dollars they are draining from us.”
CARSON: Well, thank you. You know, I was hoping to get a chance to talk about North Korea. I was the only one who didn’t get to do that, and I’ve got stuff to say about it, let me tell you.
I was thinking the same thing when I saw that ad, but it likely candy-coats what is likely the same intrusive post-approval ordeal everybody actually deals with.
Give instant mortgages to anyone with a pulse and it will all work out great? Hey, didn't we already try that?
Do they really think the American people are that stupid, and have such short memories?
Could they be right?Replies: @interesting
“Do they really think the American people are that stupid”
no, they don’t think, they know they are.
Yeah- we refied with Quicken, and they’ve been a better lender than the original issuer of our mortgage, but it was pretty crazy when we were thinking about moving this past summer and went ahead and prequalified for another mortgage, they called us constantly, asking when we were going to close, yadda yadda yadda, for months. At one point, the supervisor of the nice young woman who had been calling us began calling us himself to ask if she’d been doing something wrong that we weren’t moving ahead with the loan. I said, “no, like we’ve been saying, we don’t even have a house we want to buy, stop calling us,” but they kept calling us until the loan expired. There’s a lot of money sitting there that they are desperate to loan out to someone with decent credit and a verifiable income, but there aren’t that many such people these days who aren’t already carrying their maximum possible debt load.
The solution, if the money doesn’t find a more congenial home, will probably just to encourage people to lie, the way they did last time- I’m not sure if you wrote about Atif Mian’s recent fraud papers, that use the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago as a case study- it seems like perfect ISteve bait but maybe I missed it:
http://www.chicagobooth.edu/capideas/magazine/summer-2015/how-fraud-fueled-the-housing-boom-and-increased-poverty
It really creeped me out.
My answer were on that stage would be that I really don't know how to respond to North Korea without access to the intelligence briefings (that I intend to study much more seriously than some claim the current President does), and as President, in protecting American lives and the American homeland, all options are on the table, they are always on the table, but I am certainly not telling you, Ms. Raddatz, what actions I would take in front of a world audience that includes all of our adversaries listening intently.
My biggest concern about the President is he talks and talks and talks and then talks so more, and it seems that the current crop of Republicans seems to want to out do him in not blabbing about something that should not be blabbed about.
I thought the best answer was from, yes, Donald Trump who said something to the effect that he would hold China to account to rein in their North Korean client, but being "on a roll" with that remarked he had to segue to saying something stoopid about "the trillions of dollars they are draining from us."Replies: @Harry Baldwin
I loved it when Ben Carson belatedly got his chance to comment on North Korea. (Read it out loud in his somnolent, Mr. Rogers voice.)
CARSON: Well, thank you. You know, I was hoping to get a chance to talk about North Korea. I was the only one who didn’t get to do that, and I’ve got stuff to say about it, let me tell you.
I saw some over at The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/08/beyonce-black-panthers-homage-black-lives-matter-super-bowl-50
I was hoping Sailer would have something clever and funny to say about it.
The montage of past half time entertainers: James Brown, the Rolling Stones, U2, Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson, just made me wish one of THEM were on stage. Literally the half time show was boring.
As far as the White guy not being great but the White women and Black guy? Women (read: White women) make or influence about 85% of consumer purchases. The rotten-ness of modern Western life is directly proportional to the length and power and reach of mass female driven consumerism. The ads would not knock White men while praising White women and Black men if White women (a substantial proportion) didn't like that message and other White women who were not approving did not disapprove, and were at best, neutral to that message.
Meanwhile White men buy too little stuff for marketers to care about offending them. That's the downside of a market economy running a social culture.Replies: @Anonymous
“Even Coldplay, with Chris Martin doing the hunched over thing which was weird was more entertaining. Martin seemed to LIKE the fans while Beyonce and Mars obviously didn’t. If it was a Black power thing or Black Lives Matter thing it went over me because all I saw was boring.”
I agree. I’m not really a Cold Play fan, but I enjoyed them (I like their first song a lot because their is a cute Minecraft video parody of it that my son likes, and I do too – probably lame, I know). Bruno Mars and Beyoncé were both boring – that kind of music and dancing never seems very original or entertaining to me. The Beyoncé dancing troupe was definitely vintage 1980s Paula Abdul/Janet Jackson crap, updated a bit with “twerking”. But why? Is that supposed to represent some kind of progress?
Quicken Loans Super Bowl Ad: No, This Isn’t Housing Apocalypse 2.0
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/02/07/quicken-loans-super-bowl-ad-no-this-isnt-housing-apocalypse-2-0/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dF9t_xQGks
It's right up there with those Washington Mutual ads from right before the housing bubble burst.Replies: @Desiderius, @bomag, @AndrewR, @Anon, @Clyde, @Jim Christian
What’s really funny is white guys own companies that peddle stuff like this.
Unsuspecting non-whites think they are being empowered by using such supposedly anti-white-male services when, in fact, it’s the white males(especially Jews) who are making money off them.
I saw a newspaper story that said that Beyoncé was proud of her blackness while showing a photograph of her with blond hair. Those poor writers at The Onion, how can anyone write parody any more?Replies: @BB753, @Massimo Heitor, @boogerbently
Those are blond wigs she’s wearing. A cultural appropriation of the first order!
What I find most depressing is that the intellectual level of the commercials is so low. Idiocracy low.
I saw a newspaper story that said that Beyoncé was proud of her blackness while showing a photograph of her with blond hair. Those poor writers at The Onion, how can anyone write parody any more?Replies: @BB753, @Massimo Heitor, @boogerbently
iSteve readers such as myself are political junkies that skim the news regularly and are obsessed with race politics. I wouldn’t claim that to be sophisticated…
I see the Beyonce Black Panthers, black power, and Malcolm X reference on the top of my Google News feed. I didn’t watch any of the actual superbowl myself.
Probably because you are seeing something that doesn't actually exist. Now, unless you are willing to describe exactly what those instances were...Replies: @Massimo Heitor, @Mr. Anon
Put Beyonce into a Google News search? It’s all over the news on most major news networks. I didn’t see any of the halftime show myself.
I read the Guardian drivel you linked on the Beyonce political stunt and their take on black power, and the Black Panthers, and BLM.
I was hoping Sailer would have something clever and funny to say about it.
My immediate reaction was that it an add aimed at the industry on how to scam the chumps again and “keep hope alive”.
I think it’s already underway .
A major factor is the phenomena of "Robotripping" among Hip Hoppers, the combining of drinking copious amounts of DXM based cough syrups with very high THC content pot.
In large doses DXM by itself causes a strong dis-associative hallucinogenic high similar to PCP. DXM & PCP are both linked to violent self destructive behavior. That is why the pharmaceutical industry mixes over the counter DXM with ingredients like sorbitol. Sorbitol is a complex sugar found naturally in prunes. The idea being that take too much of it and you will get a bad tummy ache combined with powerful flatulence and loose bowels. Besides lots of young people find prunes/Sorbitol disgustingly sweet. That discourages all but the most determined DXM abusers. Problem is smoking pot tends to give one the munchies. The last thing you should do is combine large doses of Sobitol with overeating. The rapper Lil Wayne is famous for promoting "Robotripping" (abusing DXM cough syrups like Rubitussin). Lil Wayne is also famous for numerous emergency visits due to critical intestinal issues. Wayne was interviewed by Katie Curric about almost dying from his Robotripping habit.Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and numerous other "Dead Dindus" were know to be robotrippers. Trayvon had lots of social media posts about abusing both Promethazine(a known anti-psychotic anti-nausea drug) and DXM (a psychosis inducing hallucinogen) based cough syrups, often while posing with guns, money and bottles of cough syrup. Trayvon also had lots of comments about how to avoid the side effects of DXM abuse and posed holding up bottles of Pepto-Bismol.Perhaps Trayvon was walking around outside in the rain because he got kicked out of the condo in the past for having severe gas. Remember the Skittles and Arizona Watermelon juice , not "Ice Tea" he bought at the 7/11 earlier is a common formula for dealing with the sickeningly sweet taste of sorbitol.Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @Buffalo Joe
Dude. How do you know so much about this? Fascinating.
I remember people getting high in the 70s from cough syrup, but I thought that was a thing of the past.
There's a product called Not Your Father's Root Beer, made in LaCrosse, Wisconsin-- a red flag right there. I assumed it was, well, root beer, and gave some to my kids at dinner.
Well, at least they'll go right to sleep tonight...Replies: @Buffalo Joe
Whitney – House was not a bad show but that fantasy aspect (the “super-smart” grizzled baby-boomer doc taking all the pain meds he felt, in his anti-authoritarian way, he really needed) was extremely unrealistic. I would not be surprised if there are hundreds of people who died from painkiller abuse who would not have died if they did not watch that show with its charismatic and mostly unrealistically side-effect-free hero. The side effects of narcotics abuse, to save anyone who reads this the trouble of simple Googling, often include catastrophic intestinal failure caused by the intestines (in their typically low-IQ way) thinking one too many times they could have multiple druggy holidays, just like the guy (high-IQ, low-IQ, makes no difference) who took the drugs. Catastrophic intestinal failure is not good for one’s health. That show (“House”) reminds me of Beverly Hills Chihuahuas – funny movies, maybe, but all the entertainment value has to be outweighed by the bad results for the thousands of chihuahuas temporarily taken into sentimental low-future -orientation homes before the inevitable abandonment to animal shelters which just couldn’t put out enough successful “here is a little dog who loves to cuddle and just would jump for joy to find a forever home” ads to keep the majority of the little guys and gals from the Gas Room known as THIS DOG IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE. Don’t get me started on Dalmatians. If I had a website I would do a series of posts on this issue (the painkiller issue a.k.a. why did this person die aged 45 to 70 instead of 70 to 85 issue – everyone already knows about the unloved dogs issue….)
Thanks for this. I note the linked-to article also mentions that people are asking for plush toys of L’il Gut Guy already, as I predicted. I suppose they will have to do it in different colors, pink for the girls, blue for the guys — problem is, how do we market him to black kids? Black intestines? Well, maybe brown …… verisimilitude rules ……
The funny thing about the ad is that it is marketing a drug to treat the side effects of another drug, sort of like those pills you are supposed to take for reflux when you eat too much spicy food, when normally what happens is that people start avoiding spicy food.
Everyone knows that chronic painkiller use will constipate you because it slows down the spasms of the gut that keep things moving down there. At the same time, chronic painkiller use can also damage other internal organs. So, it seems to me that if you are taking a lot of opioids and you get constipated that might be your body telling you to knock off the pills for awhile. But, no, instead they tell you to just take another pill. And what are you going to do when you get liver, etc. failure?
All of this, instead of doing something simple (exercise) and/or avoiding something else that is equally simple (types of food, excess consumption).
I remember people getting high in the 70s from cough syrup, but I thought that was a thing of the past.Replies: @SPMoore8, @Reg Cæsar
No, ingesting large amounts of Robitussin (dextromethorphan is the target ingredient) is still fairly common and you don’t have to drink a lot of it to get high. I know a elderly person who self-medicated with a cold by buying a large bottle of it and basically got high from just drinking out of the bottle of the bottle; it was completely totally unintended. I ended up having to snatch it away from him and explain what was happening.
Need a quick loan? Don't bother pledging land as collateral. It takes two weeks now to process a loan with land as collateral. If you pledge a note receivable you can still get a loan overnight.
The solution to all this mess is the same as it was eight years ago: force the big banks to downsize dramatically so that no bank is too big to fail. Then allow them to offer whatever type of loan they wish.Replies: @Mike1
Banks are not lending on land at all. If you have any examples to prove me wrong I would like to see it but I don’t come across any land loans anymore.
- Do you have a corporate job?
- Have you kept it (or a similar job) for two years?
- Do you have 3% down payment?
- Is your credit somewhat OK?
The sad part is that if you don't tick these boxes you wont get a mortgage. Have 50% down but inconsistent income? Denied. Have 50% down but bad credit? Denied.
Virtually no one understands that banks are just sales channels these days. No one at a bank is making a decision about approving or denying a mortgage. They are just ticking boxes. Even if they know that a mortgage with 50% down have virtually zero chance of default the law makes it an automatic no.Replies: @Desiderius
Perhaps some of the armchair warriors here ought to run for Congress to carry out their jihad against Wall Street.Replies: @Mike1, @Mr. Anon
The regulations are that someone with 90% down and low documented income (to pick one example) can’t get a mortgage. This makes sense to you as sane regulation?
Seriously, wow. Like, what do people in the city do, each other’s wash?
http://beforeitsnews.com/politics/2016/02/feminists-vs-the-super-bowl-commercials-2776972.html
Not that you probably didn't see it coming, though.Replies: @Buffalo Joe
njguy73, I actually saw the humor in the ad, as you probably did too. But whiners got to whine.
You made a statement, was asked to elaborate on that statement, and all you can muster up is “it’s on most major news networks”. On top of it all, you admit you did not even see her perform at halftime. Pro-tip –> Offer analysis when requested to back up your claim.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2016/0208/Beyonce-s-black-pride-moment-at-the-Super-Bowl
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/02/08/rudy-giuliani-beyonces-half-time-show-was-an-outrageous-affront-to-police/
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/beyonce-delivers-politically-charged-super-bowl-halftime-performance
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/08/beyonces-halftime-show-inspires-ridiculous-criticism/
I love the NYT comment,Wow, the black panthers were no more racist than today's Chicago police, according to the NYT. They boasted that rape of white women was a valuable political tool, planned first degree murders, and all kinds of horrific stuff.Replies: @Dirk Dagger
Wow, I didn’t realize that was because of the Patriot Act. Now I know what to blame for the stressful situation me sand my wife found ourselves in a few years ago. We had found our dream house, and already had a contract to sell our old house, which I had told the lender would be the source of our 20% down payment. Unfortunately, the appraisal on our old house came back low, so I was faced with either lowering the price of my old house, or just finding another buyer. I thought, well I have enough in emergency savings to cover to the down payment, I’ll just get the down payment from there and find another buyer for my old place. I was told I would have to resubmit my entire loan application if I wanted to do that. That was out of the question, as we risked losing the new house if we delayed too long. In the end, I came to terms with buyer of my old house and agreed on a price that would cover my new down payment. We had to delay buying new furniture for at least a year, however.
Goddamn gov't taking over the entire residential mortgage racket.
A major factor is the phenomena of "Robotripping" among Hip Hoppers, the combining of drinking copious amounts of DXM based cough syrups with very high THC content pot.
In large doses DXM by itself causes a strong dis-associative hallucinogenic high similar to PCP. DXM & PCP are both linked to violent self destructive behavior. That is why the pharmaceutical industry mixes over the counter DXM with ingredients like sorbitol. Sorbitol is a complex sugar found naturally in prunes. The idea being that take too much of it and you will get a bad tummy ache combined with powerful flatulence and loose bowels. Besides lots of young people find prunes/Sorbitol disgustingly sweet. That discourages all but the most determined DXM abusers. Problem is smoking pot tends to give one the munchies. The last thing you should do is combine large doses of Sobitol with overeating. The rapper Lil Wayne is famous for promoting "Robotripping" (abusing DXM cough syrups like Rubitussin). Lil Wayne is also famous for numerous emergency visits due to critical intestinal issues. Wayne was interviewed by Katie Curric about almost dying from his Robotripping habit.Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and numerous other "Dead Dindus" were know to be robotrippers. Trayvon had lots of social media posts about abusing both Promethazine(a known anti-psychotic anti-nausea drug) and DXM (a psychosis inducing hallucinogen) based cough syrups, often while posing with guns, money and bottles of cough syrup. Trayvon also had lots of comments about how to avoid the side effects of DXM abuse and posed holding up bottles of Pepto-Bismol.Perhaps Trayvon was walking around outside in the rain because he got kicked out of the condo in the past for having severe gas. Remember the Skittles and Arizona Watermelon juice , not "Ice Tea" he bought at the 7/11 earlier is a common formula for dealing with the sickeningly sweet taste of sorbitol.Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @Buffalo Joe
Anonymous-Antimarxist, Thank you for the information, very revealing insight into abuse of OTC meds.
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/02/fight-over-trans-kids-got-a-researcher-fired.htmlReplies: @Reg Cæsar, @Hhsiii
In Canada. And Bernie wants to copy them.
Probably because you are seeing something that doesn't actually exist. Now, unless you are willing to describe exactly what those instances were...Replies: @Massimo Heitor, @Mr. Anon
“Probably because you are seeing something that doesn’t actually exist. Now, unless you are willing to describe exactly what those instances were…”
It happened, nitwit. It’s a matter of public record.
Idiot.
Perhaps some of the armchair warriors here ought to run for Congress to carry out their jihad against Wall Street.Replies: @Mike1, @Mr. Anon
“Perhaps some of the armchair warriors here ought to run for Congress to carry out their jihad against Wall Street.”
Perhaps you should decamp to that website where anyone gives a damn what you think (this isn’t it). Good luck with that, nitwit.
I remember people getting high in the 70s from cough syrup, but I thought that was a thing of the past.Replies: @SPMoore8, @Reg Cæsar
I remember an older German immigrant telling the audience at a German cultural festival about his first encounter with root beer. Of course he thought it had some connection with real beer. Instead, he found that it tasted like “a mixture of cough syrup and floor-cleaning chemicals”. (True enough; I won’t drink it without cream and/or booze.)
There’s a product called Not Your Father’s Root Beer, made in LaCrosse, Wisconsin– a red flag right there. I assumed it was, well, root beer, and gave some to my kids at dinner.
Well, at least they’ll go right to sleep tonight…
I made a simple request for comment on a widely reported news story. You replied and said I was “seeing something that doesn’t actually exist.” Backing up the existence of a widely reported news story is silly and seems like a waste of a comment thread. However, since you insist, here are a few links:
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2016/0208/Beyonce-s-black-pride-moment-at-the-Super-Bowl
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/02/08/rudy-giuliani-beyonces-half-time-show-was-an-outrageous-affront-to-police/
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/beyonce-delivers-politically-charged-super-bowl-halftime-performance
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/08/beyonces-halftime-show-inspires-ridiculous-criticism/
I love the NYT comment,
Wow, the black panthers were no more racist than today’s Chicago police, according to the NYT. They boasted that rape of white women was a valuable political tool, planned first degree murders, and all kinds of horrific stuff.
“On the other hand: the fact that a side effect of the White Death is constipation didn’t seem to cause the makers of a pill for opioid-induced constipation any worries about political reaction:”
Fitting, give that the superbowl and all the other manifestations of sportsball are an opioid.
I saw a newspaper story that said that Beyoncé was proud of her blackness while showing a photograph of her with blond hair. Those poor writers at The Onion, how can anyone write parody any more?Replies: @BB753, @Massimo Heitor, @boogerbently
We recorded the game and fast-forwarded thru football, to the new commercials.
The ultrasound baby, Doritos commercial won.
AHHH. That’s what happened to us. We found a steal of a fixer-upper in a hot neighborhood and were going to get a great deal but then the mortgage company said “WHERE DID THIS MONEY COME FROM?” Uh, my mother-in-law gifted it to us? “SORRY DUDE IT NEEDS TO BE IN YOUR ACCOUNT FOR LIKE EVER SO, UHH, NO LOAN FOR YOU!”
Goddamn gov’t taking over the entire residential mortgage racket.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2016/0208/Beyonce-s-black-pride-moment-at-the-Super-Bowl
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/02/08/rudy-giuliani-beyonces-half-time-show-was-an-outrageous-affront-to-police/
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/beyonce-delivers-politically-charged-super-bowl-halftime-performance
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/08/beyonces-halftime-show-inspires-ridiculous-criticism/
I love the NYT comment,Wow, the black panthers were no more racist than today's Chicago police, according to the NYT. They boasted that rape of white women was a valuable political tool, planned first degree murders, and all kinds of horrific stuff.Replies: @Dirk Dagger
Massimo, nobody gives dos mierdas what Core-whine-us thinks. You don’t got to justify nothin’s. School’s out, hombre, relax.
It was only a few months ago that Quicken Loans was reported to be partnering with Fannie or Freddie (I forget which) to offer loans requiring only 3% down and allowing people to pool their incomes in order to qualify. In other words, Great Recession 2.0. I posted an off-topic link on it here on one thread or another.
Credit and employment history mostly matters at the micro level (unless you start lending to lots and lots of people with weak histories of both). The requirement for 20% down, though, matters not only at the micro level but at the macro level. Having “skin in the game” is what keeps people from walking away when they’re under water. If the entire market falls by 10% or more then millions of people with only 3.5% down payments and who are disproportionately likely to have lost their jobs will find it very easy to walk away from their mortgages. How easy is it for a market to fall by 10%? Well the Dow has fallen by that much just in the last few months.
You can put together all the fancy Powerpoint presentations you want. At the end of the day the only way to avoid a giant housing bubble is to have a realistic minimum down payment. It’s possible that 20% is unnecessarily high – you could probably make a convincing argument for 15% or even 10% – but it’s undeniable that 3.5% is far, far too low.
Anyway, here’s a picture of Quicken Loans’s super-respectable founder/CEO (and Chris Christie donor), Dan Gilbert. If that doesn’t scream used car salesman to you, I don’t know what does. I’m not always a fan of judging people based on appearances, but in this case I make an exception.
On the other hand comparing Dan Gilbert to a rabbi who is fond of the Yiddish proverb “Interest on debts grows without rain" is a both honest, accurate and a "Hate Fact".
Please read all three parts. Dan Gilbert is mentioned numerous times.
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2015/03/jews-and-moneylending-a-contemporary-case-file-part-1-of-3/
Just wanted to give you more stuff to roll your eyes at.
Grazie il ragazzo Caldera 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dF9t_xQGks
It's right up there with those Washington Mutual ads from right before the housing bubble burst.Replies: @Desiderius, @bomag, @AndrewR, @Anon, @Clyde, @Jim Christian
Thanks for posting the video because I missed it during the game. It goes against how I do things. But it is well done and highly effective. I liked it. Another plus is no stoopid special effects which hi-IQ high school students can pull off these days. This Paypal advert is semi old school with the dramatic text insertions. It got me thinking that Paypal sees itself as an leader-innovator into the coming cashless economy. Take this as a warning.
Then here comes cashless society, run (mostly) by Paypal, where Paypal won’t let you use their services to pay for Chick-fil-A sandwiches or Confederate flags. But it’s ok because Paypal has one competitor – which also won’t let you buy Confederate flags or Chick-fil-A sandwiches.
Comparing Dan Gilbert to a used car salesman is both politically correct and an insult to used car salesmen.
On the other hand comparing Dan Gilbert to a rabbi who is fond of the Yiddish proverb “Interest on debts grows without rain” is a both honest, accurate and a “Hate Fact”.
Please read all three parts. Dan Gilbert is mentioned numerous times.
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2015/03/jews-and-moneylending-a-contemporary-case-file-part-1-of-3/
Real property purchasers in the U.K. are warned that they face very intrusive questioning about the sources of funds for real estate, in order to minimize the chance of money laundering. Just one of those benefits of diversity and a “borderless world.”
I saw an ad on the subway “wanted healthy heroin users for a three week study.”
Healthy? I looked around the car.
It reminded me of an old Drake Sather joke: “I haven’t been feeling well. I’d go see my doctor but he’ll just say what he always says (in whiny voice) ‘Stop shooting heroin.’ Sheesh. He’s like a broken record.”
Healthy? I looked around the car."
It's not just their health they put at risk. This same heroin addict also told me that he routinely drove home high so in the mornings, he'd check the front grill of his car for blood to see if he'd hit anyone or anything. He also traded in his cars every couple of months just in case.
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/02/fight-over-trans-kids-got-a-researcher-fired.htmlReplies: @Reg Cæsar, @Hhsiii
Steve is one of the commenters. Interesting article.
The funny thing about the ad is that it is marketing a drug to treat the side effects of another drug, sort of like those pills you are supposed to take for reflux when you eat too much spicy food, when normally what happens is that people start avoiding spicy food.
Everyone knows that chronic painkiller use will constipate you because it slows down the spasms of the gut that keep things moving down there. At the same time, chronic painkiller use can also damage other internal organs. So, it seems to me that if you are taking a lot of opioids and you get constipated that might be your body telling you to knock off the pills for awhile. But, no, instead they tell you to just take another pill. And what are you going to do when you get liver, etc. failure?Replies: @Steve from Detroit
You’ve just accurately encapsulated modern medicine, as a reflection of our American society. You take a pill for a certain condition, then another to counteract the first, then another, etc.
All of this, instead of doing something simple (exercise) and/or avoiding something else that is equally simple (types of food, excess consumption).
“Easy mortgages, Beyonce, Peyton Manning, Lady Gaga…it was like the early- to mid-2000s all over again.”
Pretty much, but, unless I am mistaken, weren’t Beyoncé’s legs a lot better looking back then? Apart from that, not much change.
Looks like the child of Bill Murray and Harvey Keitel.
Surprised no one mentioned the Marine Corps ads so I’ll chime in: it warms my heart to learn that the Marines (and presumably the other branches of the armed forces) are deployed to combat chaos, tyranny, injustice and despair. I feel much better now.
Am I jumping to the wrong conclusion when I suggest that all the previews and promotions for CBS shows indicated that the network had trouble selling all their commercial minutes?
If the $5m per minute (or 30 sec?) rate was correct, CBS spent the GDP of a small country promoting their unwatchable crap.
Healthy? I looked around the car.
It reminded me of an old Drake Sather joke: "I haven't been feeling well. I'd go see my doctor but he'll just say what he always says (in whiny voice) 'Stop shooting heroin.' Sheesh. He's like a broken record."Replies: @Kylie, @Buffalo Joe
“I saw an ad on the subway ‘wanted healthy heroin users for a three week study.’
Healthy? I looked around the car.”
It’s not just their health they put at risk. This same heroin addict also told me that he routinely drove home high so in the mornings, he’d check the front grill of his car for blood to see if he’d hit anyone or anything. He also traded in his cars every couple of months just in case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dF9t_xQGks
It's right up there with those Washington Mutual ads from right before the housing bubble burst.Replies: @Desiderius, @bomag, @AndrewR, @Anon, @Clyde, @Jim Christian
Credit cards, debit cards, Mobil Speed Pass. Oil. Gold. Silver. It’s all dollars and cents in the end.
There's a product called Not Your Father's Root Beer, made in LaCrosse, Wisconsin-- a red flag right there. I assumed it was, well, root beer, and gave some to my kids at dinner.
Well, at least they'll go right to sleep tonight...Replies: @Buffalo Joe
Reg Caesar, Bought a six pack to go with the ribs and potato salad at my daughters birthday, but she’s 25. I thought it was garbage, too thick, too sweet. If you want root beer with a kick, throw in a shot of vodka. They now have Adult Ginger Ale and Cream Soda, and that’s why kids get shit faced.
njguy73, My eyes are all rolled out.
Like everyone else in the world, I was dreading the thought of her massacring the National Anthem. To my surprise and delight, what she delivered was dignified and beautiful. Her slow tempo emphasized the words, and she relied on the strength of her voice, with only a token use of those moronic fluctuations all the contemporary singers use. She was dressed glamorously, but tastefully.
Trump should use the performance in a commercial. A lot of people can't envision him as president because of his past antics. But if Lady Gaga can clean up her act to do justice to the National Anthem, then why should it be hard to believe that Trump could deliver a serious turn as president?Replies: @Front toward Enemy, @Corvinus, @CromwellForever, @Karl
>>> she relied on the strength of her voice
the guys who had to hump the rack-full of vocal-sweetening boxes into the stadium’s backstage are having a good laugh about you.
Healthy? I looked around the car.
It reminded me of an old Drake Sather joke: "I haven't been feeling well. I'd go see my doctor but he'll just say what he always says (in whiny voice) 'Stop shooting heroin.' Sheesh. He's like a broken record."Replies: @Kylie, @Buffalo Joe
Hhsii, Today Erie County, NY, where I live, declared a health emergency. 23 opiate related deaths in the last 10 days. I don’t ever remember anything like this before ans I’m 70.
Notice that there were no Patriots babies in the NFL ads? Is anyone smaller and more petty than the NFL?
My nurse girlfriend, who spent the first 4 years of her career on a spinal cord injury floor, says the official medical term is digital stimulation, or dig stim. Nurses and aides digging the waste out of their patients, living without the ability to defecate, every day. Literally the shittiest part of the job.
Finally, my answer to everyone congratulating Lady Gaga and her magnificent anthem, I tell them the girl who serves me my coffee every morning could do a better job:
That she makes minor ducats teaching voice and working at the local coffee shop doesn’t matter. She loves voice.
Ugh, yes, I read about this on the blog if the quadriplegic, Christina Symanski, who starved herself to death rather than live with the degradation of her condition.
My girlfriend says that even though she’s a caregiver and a devout Catholic, she has no problem with giving these people the option to end their wretched lives if they so choose.
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