<p>Oh and:
For the year, sales of single-family homes were down by 13 percent, the biggest drop since a 17.7 percent plunge in 1982. The median price for a single-family home dropped 1.8 percent to $217,000.</p>
<p>1.8%. Oh the horror. The stock market lost about 15% in a few months.</p>
<p>I go there so often I have been getting free refills for years. I’m working on some ideas for how they can improve service and sales. I think the retail portion is not adding much to the typical customer experience. It makes the stores look cluttered and I hardly ever see anyone buying much of the stuff except at Christmas. I would guess the theft of CDs is off the chart. Most record stores have done what anyway–gone out of business. They should move that all to online sales and use the stores as places were you can just hear ther new artists and then buy online. Keep adding more an better food items.</p>
<p>Some of the baristas have their names embroidered on their smocks. The company should make that standard. I like to get to know the names but the turnover makes that a little hard plus I suck at names anyway.</p>
<p>You stated, “If anybody thinks the republican candidates running for president have more personal integrity than the democrat candidates or vice versa he/she needs to rethink.”</p>
<p>I totally agree. As I said, integrity is an individual trait. It is bipartisan!
However, there may be some democratic candidates that have more integrity than other democratic candidates… ;)</p>
<p>(The same could be said for republican candidates.)</p>
<p>When Hillary took a stand on Dubai running the ports, Bill was knee-deep in setting the whole thing up with Dubai (Check: Yucaipa and Ron Burkle for more). It is estimated he will make $20 million. This will get messy.</p>
<p>I don’t want them anywhere near the White House.</p>
<p>“I have a feeling that some of the Clinton real estate “dealings” may rear their ugly heads if the duo wins the nomination. Do they really think that everyone has forgotten about whitewater-gate ?”</p>
<p>I don’t know. This may be a male–female issue. The whole feelings thing…</p>
<p>There is no whitewater-gate. </p>
<p>“I have a feeling that some of the Clinton real estate “dealings” may rear their ugly heads if the duo wins the nomination”</p>
<p>I am not interested in feelings.</p>
<p>Do you have any facts? Besides whitewater-gate?</p>
<p>Call me cruel, but watching the Republicans beat up on Romney is one of my favorite spectator sports. (Actually watching the Patriots beat the Giants next week will be even better! )</p>
<p>Ok 2Cakes, I already read about it. There is nothing there. I also suggest you get your information elsewhere.</p>
<p>I watch Dick Morris on O’Reilly and he is awful.</p>
<p>Bill Clinton and Burkle are close friends.
Their business relationship is ending.
There were zero crimes. Even your friend, Dick Morris said so.</p>
<p>“It was nice to see Huckabee, Romney and Paul just say in the debate that the last several years of republican economic policies didn’t work.”
They worked beautifully for Washington State. Over 200,000 new jobs. Low unemployment, high incomes, increasing property values. Check college graduate hiring the last few years–terrific. Best in a long time. As usual the Wall Street Gangs had to come in and oversupply the system with cash just because they could. Too bad only the CEO’s got canned. Every economic problem we have had in the last 25 years or so can be traced back to Wall Street getting out of control and it has happened under both parties. Somebody needs to put these boys on a short leash.</p>
<p>That’s the problem… They give plenty to both sides so they always have friends. They are not banks so they are not subject to any of the banking laws. They even usually start out with good ideas but they get lost in the ramping up and ease of raising capital. I don’t know why institutions and even countries are so quick to fund every scheme these guys think up. I never understood it even when I worked with them on deals. It just confirmed my suspicions that they were crooks in nicer suits.</p>