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Aw, thanks CalGal. Eff....yeah, I finally kicked that old buzzard awgee off ! (But I'll be going on vacation in 2 weeks....so it won't last for long)
 
I saw a commercial for this <a href="http://www.thingswebuy.com/">thingswebuy</a> and I thought I might tell some friends. They buy watches like Rolexes and Cartier.
 
"Send your diamonds to us"...THEN they give a quote ? Whoa...doesn't sound very smart to me. This thing sounds like a glorified pawn shop...so all the local thiefs can "mail" your stolen crud to nowheresville and get paid. We check pawn books here believe it or not (bad guy has to provide photo ID and right thumbprint) and cross reference the names and items pawned, against local burglary loss sheet. No way we can track anything if it's mailed away.... (or sold on ** cough** eBay....)
 
<strong>October 01, 2007</strong>



<strong><a href="http://dianecohn.blogs.com/reno/2007/10/reno-real-estat.html">Reno Real Estate Market Update</a></strong>





<a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://dianecohn.blogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/01/balloons_mom_house_055.jpg"><img title="Balloons_mom_house_055" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" height="75" alt="Balloons_mom_house_055" width="100" border="0" src="http://dianecohn.blogs.com/reno/images/2007/10/01/balloons_mom_house_055.jpg" /></a> Sales slowed in September, most notably in the over $500,000 range, with overall activity off 39% from the year prior. Meanwhile, the median price slipped to $275,000. Months supply of inventory in the $500K-$1 million range is now approaching three years, with five years supply in the $1-2 million range and an infinite supply of homes over $2 million. Honestly it’s a pretty dramatic slowdown... Perhaps the day of reckoning for our luxury market in Reno Sparks has finally come. <a href="http://realtytimes.com/rtmcrcond/Nevada~Reno~dianecohn">full report</a>





<strong>Check out the high end inventory problem in Reno ! Whoa. (Info from RenoRealtyBlog.com)</strong>




 
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/10/05/appendix.purpose.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview">Purpose of appendix believed found - CNN.com</a>
 
Is this <a href="http://www.irvinehousingblog.com/2007/10/06/has-ihb-impacted-the-market/#comment-22492">guy being a bit smug</a> or have I just dad too much coffee this morning?
 
Donkey Kong in real life <a target="_blank" href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/jackass/real+life-donkey-kong-shows-human-stupidity-in-8-bits-302203.php">time-waster</a>.
 
<p>Hmm, no HELOC, credit card's maxed out, maybe this $1 million bill I got in church will work... :)</p>

<p>Man jailed after trying to pass $1 million bill


Police: Suspect flew into rage when clerk in Pa. refused bogus currency


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21202403/?GT1=10450<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21202403/?GT1=10450"></a></p>
 
<p>Hey Troop -</p>

<p>This wouldn't be you, would it?</p>

<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh5a_uemynU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh5a_uemynU</a></p>

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It really is great to visit this thread while waiting for database queries to return. Donkey Kong, FTW! And the DUI guy is a better dancer than me!
 
<p>Doctors save poisoned tourist using vodka drip


With treatment, Italian visitor made successful recovery in Australia</p>

<p>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21219366/


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<p>New Orleans scales back rebuilding plans


Short of funds, city now proposing more modest $216 million initial effort


<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21258937/">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21258937/</a></p>

<p>The plan — the general outlines of which were approved by the City Council earlier this year — is not the radical remaking of the city urged by some urban planners who wanted to see a New Orleans with a much smaller footprint, and with people moved out of flood-prone areas.



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<p class="textBodyBlack">Instead, it largely embraces Mayor Ray Nagin’s settle-where-you-will philosophy, while also endorsing the removal of blight and the creation of parks, affordable apartments and vibrant communities.</p>

<p class="textBodyBlack"><strong><strong>Details of proposal</strong></strong>


Under the plan, work would begin in the next few years on green space, health clinics, community centers, housing and libraries. Shopping centers would be redeveloped and streetscapes and storefronts spruced up.</p>

<p class="textBodyBlack">Among other things, Blakely also eventually wants to see the mostly poor, mostly black Lower Ninth Ward become an Afro-Cuban version of the French Quarter, with music and art, architecturally diverse homes and restaurants.</p>

<p class="textBodyBlack">By one estimate, rebuilding New Orleans could cost $14.4 billion in private and government money and take at least a decade.</p>

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<p><em>Some have theorized that insecurity in the "New Economy" will place many in a state of, effectively, perpetual adolescence, and that the rampant and competitive consumerism of the 1990s and 2000s indicates that this is already taking place.</em></p>

<p>Is the <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter-life_crisis">quarter-life crisis</a> a component of the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.irvinehousingblog.com/2007/04/08/southern-californias-cultural-pathology/">Orange County cultural pathology</a>?</p>
 
Favorite recent CR comment (emphasis mine):<em> <img class="gravatar" title="Gravatar" style="PADDING-RIGHT: 1px; PADDING-LEFT: 1px; FLOAT: right; PADDING-BOTTOM: 1px; MARGIN: 2px; PADDING-TOP: 1px" alt="Gravatar" src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=eecb9cb8343c09bbae07b6dded9e3a11&default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&rating=PG&size=28" /> The new economics, known as neo-conomics, says that recessions are a good thing because they lead to rate cuts and rate cuts mean the Dow goes up.





Neo-conomics teaches that the Dow goes up when things are bad because it indicates future rate cuts and the Dow goes up when things are good because, <strong>duh</strong>, they are good and that means up.





Basically the Dow always goes up now. So everybody can buy stock and get rich. This is similar to the neo-conomics theory of 3 years ago that everybody could buy an investment house and get rich because real estate always goes up.





The <strong>dumb liberals</strong> screwed up the neo-conomic housing boom with a bunch of reality-based negative talk and worry. But, theory indicates that the Infinite Up Dow Effect is immune to reality. So buy stocks now and get rich!! Hurry, 'cause <strong>they aren't printing any more stock certificates</strong>.


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<p>Gore, UN Climate Panel Share 2007 Nobel Peace Prize (Update4)</p>

<p><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=adR014fq7e9s&refer=home">http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=adR014fq7e9s&refer=home</a></p>

<p>But personally, I think this guy has a much better shot at actually solving the problem - nothing like the solution also being more profitable than the polluting buisnesses to get the job done</p>

<p>http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_42/b4054053.htm?chan=search</p>
 
<p>California’s top tax debtors listed</p>

<p><a href="http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=6664">http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=6664</a></p>
 
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