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Excellent writing, really?  His writing makes me sad.  He’s so angry and monotonous, that I just imagine his family, friends, etc. must be one step away from putting their heads in an enormous Viking oven.  It’s his obvious and redundant rants that get in the way of constructive thoughts by others.

Don’t misunderstand my point, I tend to agree with his point of view.  It’s the tone that strikes me as pathetic and poorly suited for a wider audience.

I always view David’s writing as irreverant but a bit tongue in cheek, so maybe you are taking him a bit too seriously and missing his sense of humor?

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His writing makes me sad
get in the way of constructive thoughts

Unfortunately, the truth hurts from time to time and there are those who prefer to go the easy route and stick their heads in a sand and write off the nay-sayers as negative-Nancy doom-and-gloomers who just have some kind of psychological or personal problem that prevents them from putting on the rose glasses and being a constructive glass is half-full Polyanna.

He’s so angry and monotonous, that I just imagine his family, friends, etc. must be one step away from putting their heads in an enormous Viking oven

Definitely not monotonous.  I think that you are just playing with big words today.

Sometimes people confuse anger with passion.  It could be that I am writing about something that I think is very important and select words to convey a point of view that may paint a non-pretty picture, but it doesn’t necesarrily mean that the root is some frothing at the mouth anger or that my pet kitten was stolen by a mortgage broker when I was a child.

tone that strikes me as pathetic and poorly suited for a wider audience

Perhaps a more monotonous neutered approach would work better?  Just the fact that you bothered to respond in writing to me shows that it must have been semi-effective otherwise you wouldn’t have bothered to read it.

If it were so unimpressive, you could have just read the first paragraph, huffed and puffed and moved on.  Yet you didn’t - you read every word and it even motivated you to pompously let everyone know that you weren’t impressed.

Can’t please everyone.  Keep up the good work, hater.

We should make LSD legal.

David,

It’s the venom in your postings that often makes it hard for me to agree with you. There aren’t only two sides to this debate, thankfully, so disagreeing with your tone doesn’t make me one of THEM.

Just as an example:

“their idiot kid” - necessary to your point?

Hope that “enormous Viking oven” is not electric…

Perfect.  Well said.  Was hoping someone would point out one of many examples such as this.  His comments are often overlooked by myself simply because they offer nothing.

Idiot kid is necessary.  It may sound mean spirited, but the point is that idiot parents raise idiot children.  Sorry, but look around.  The apple rarely falls far from the tree.

More venom where that came from it looks like. Doesn’t look like David can take a hint.

The world is more nuanced with more shades of grey than speculating KFC-eating home flippers and angelic visionary astute renters, in case you hadn’t noticed.

Your writing is excellent the same way that the National Enquirer’s writing is excellent.

“Sometimes people confuse anger with passion.” - AZDavidPhx

I haven’t read all of his comments but I’ve read several over the years and will comment on this latest one.  The problem I have, which allows me to enjoy his comments, is that I am passionate about the world too.

As a kid I grew up thinking that the “adults” had all the answers and always knew what to do, that statistics represented fact, that politicians were intelligent elected professionals that fairly represented their constituents, that teachers only spoke the truth, like when they told me politicians are intelligent elected professionals that fairly represent their constituents; and that the world was a fair and balanced place, except for some meanies in other countries that were bad men.

I was so OFF.  Man was I off.  As I passed through my 20’s and into my mid 30’s I realize there are a lot of dumb people, and they are breeding and raising dumb children. Not ALL of course, before you lance me…but enough to make me nervous. Hopefully the kids will self-correct on their own, but what a handicap to start with.  Sometimes I think we should let the Dolphins or Chimps have a shot at bumbling a Republic.

Why is this so socially unacceptable to say anyway?  Consider natural selection.  Nature makes sure that the strongest in mind and body survive, the genetically weak are eliminated.  Not for us though, and it’s not because every newborn is magically the strongest in mind and body every single time, it’s because we are human and we want everyone to live a good life.  That’s fine, but we also must accept the fact that by removing natural selection, we will in fact produce people who are weaker, mentally and physically.  Again, let me make clear I am not advocating some type of culling process…all I am saying is that…I see dumb people.  They do exist, let’s stop pretending.  No natural selection means EVERYONE lives.  In nature the strongest will breed, in human society anyone gets to breed.  The strongest, the weakest, and the genetic pool reflects the results of generations of that.

As these truths became self evident over the years, the wall between me and my hope for a better world with peace and freedom has been getting taller and wider.  As I learn the truth about politicians, about politics, about man and their greed and violence, about the degrading values of society, corruption and the slow dissolution of the Republic – I lose hope that any of us will unite long enough to build the ladder we need to breach it.  Revolutionaries incite the people to bring change by bringing the ugly truth to the surface, by showing the world for what it is.  Sometimes that is shocking, an affront to your sensitive sensibilities – but that is often what it takes.  Those in power will always drip feed addictive monotonous prattle of fear and government by division to reach a broader audience, to unite the masses to rally to their flag and maintain the status quo, the one where they get to stay in power.

I don’t think he wrote anything that isn’t true.  And when is the truth ever bad, no matter how it’s delivered?

One last comment regarding the Viking Stove.  Those of us who are passionate are not always so all the time.  I will do what I can to help people see the truth, but that won’t stop me from having fun in Vegas, having dinner with my friends making jokes and having fun, taking my wife on weekend trips to quiet places where she can buy new clothes that the tags will never come off of.  I will live life to have fun and to love and to be free and happy.  I will also be passionate and write a tirade of the injustices in the world and pick up a gun to defend a true Republic…  I do what is appropriate for the environment I am in.  He may well be the same.

Actually, legalizing weed would be good for California and Hawaii.

Hey, I just recently had that idea too.    I was thinking that that was one of the only things you could do that would really create a lot of new jobs and business opportunities nationwide.  As a side benefit, it would cut down a lot on the Mexican drug cartel violence (although unless they could transition into being legitimate suppliers I suppose they’d just be bucking for other illegal trades to get all violent about).  Of course you’d have to hope that the productivity-sapping powers of pot wouldn’t hurt the economy further. 

Sounds like we are in very similar situations!  I’d love to find a large un-remodeled SFR in Woodbridge that we could buy for a fair price and work on over the next few years, but we havn’t seen much.  Plus the floor plans are often a bit dated in Woodbridge and the yards can be really small.  We’ll stick to our “comfy” 2BR condo for now.  It will be very intersting to see what the next 1-2 years brings to the market!

LOL.

Yeah, “comfy” is how we describe it too…

I agree, we don’t mind buying a house that needs a little work, but not at WTF prices.

It will be interesting to see what the market brings in another year or two…one reason we don’t mind being patient…if something comes along that we like and can afford comfortably and we’ll be in for at least 10 years we’ll go for it…if not…then we wait.

Good luck finding an unremodeled SFR in Woodbridge.  I get the impression (used to walk my dog in that neighborhood every night) there aren’t too many sitting around.  I’ve been watching Woodbridge for quite a while too…mostly tiny condos on the market.

Just a little FYI, Babies and kids don’t really care where they live, they just want Mom or Dad to raise them not a nannny.  I could go back to work full time and buy an awesome house but our family is more important than a SFR 4/2 2 car attached.

It would be nice to have my wife stay home but when she’s making almost as much as I am, it’s hard to have her quit working…especially with the cost of living in O.C.

We could go buy that 4/2 in Corona and then she could stay home, but then we would have to live in Corona which is not an option.

Maybe I’ll win the lotto one of these days…

First, it’s “babies” not “baby’s”.

Second, wait until you have kids and then you’ll know the answer to your question.

I remember being 5 yrs old and not worrying about living in a 2 bedroom 1 bath house in Anaheim with my brother.

Babies don’t cry over square footage. They cry when you leave them…

You could be like my latino neighbors with five people living in a 2dr/1ba apartment. With three youngsters, it makes me snicker whenever I think about the chaos in that household. No wonder the father likes to smoke weed.

Yeah, for about 2 minutes.  Admittedly, our daycare/preschool was probably above average, but we witnessed plenty a scene of the parent leaving the kid in tears and the spawn happily playing with his/her buds by the time we finished handing off our sprog.  And she certainly learned better manners there than she would have picked up at home!