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Man's throat cut in Scottsdale argument

Yet again, Scottsdale's news headlines are nothing but crime, crime, crime.

This time a guy got his throat slashed in a minor argument with another Scottsdale scumbag.

Nice classy "upscale" town you got there.

California "greenhouse" standards denied by EPA

California's request for tougher emissions standards on cars, in response to the "global warming" sham, has been denied by the EPA.

I only post this here because your governor Napolitano has jumped on Schwarzenegger's bandwagon and wants the same anti-greenhouse standards implemented for Arizona.

My point? I'm tired of hearing Arizonans tell me they live in a "red state."

Sorry, but it just ain't true anymore.

Arizona and California government are the same. Accept it and get over it. Arizona lost "red state" status and it ain't coming back. That was part of why I moved - if I have to deal with that s*it either way, I'd rather live in a state that offers a much higher quality of life.

Scottsdale described to a tee

This was posted on HousingPanic today. It is directed at all of America but it especially describes housing-bubble Scottsdale to a tee. In 2005 Scottsdale was full of bling, Rolexes, big houses, Bentleys, etc. (Granted in Scottsdale they drive the entry-level Bentley GT, made by Volkswagen in the Volkswagen factory, but hey, they only care about status and name recognition in Scottsdale.) Restaurants were always packed and you didn't even try going out on a weekend without an advance reservation.

Now?

Everything is dead. The Housing ATM is shut off, and the restaurants are shuttering too. All those blingy cars are being repossessed by the banks. The steak dinners at Mastro's are being replaced by 10-cent top ramen.

A house should never have been an open wallet. A house should never have been an ATM or a no-limit credit card. A house should never have been a retirement account. A house should never have been a lottery ticket. A house should not have been a replacement for a job.

A house should have been, and should always be, a home.

Everyone thought they were rich (or getting rich) these past few years. They ignored what was happening to America (manufacturing? who needs manufacturing? habeus corpus? ah, that's silly!) because the price of their home was going up and they could suck out the 'equity' and go blow it however they saw fit.

No more.

Now, people are behind on their payments on that mortgage they can't really afford. Millions have lost their jobs. The housing ATM is out of order. And money really doesn't grow on trees.

Federal Reserve passes "safeguards" for lazy deadbeats

Scottsdale will love this one since it applies to most of them: The Federal Reserve is instituting protections and safeguards for subprime borrowers.

In other words, subprime borrowers - people with bad credit who are generally lazy deadbeats who don't pay their bills - will now get special protections and preferential treatment from the government regarding their mortgages.

I have a question: Why the f*ck did we even give loans to deadbeats with bad credit in the first place?

This is just another example of our government punishing those who produce and rewarding those who don't produce. And I'm sick and tired of it.

But at least maybe some of Scottsdale's subprime scum "homeowners" - the ones who fueled the boom - won't get completely wiped out. They'll get to keep their Escalades and H2s and continue with the Botox treatments.

Newsflash: 74% of 30-something American women will marry for money

Guys: Think your American, and particularly Scottsdale girlfriend is "different"?

74% of 30-something American women say they would marry for money

I wonder what the number would be if the survey were taken in Scottsdale alone? 95%? 98%?

This is just another example of the cancer that is destroying this country.

Here's my solution to this problem: Let's get the government out of marriage. Why the hell do marrying couples need to sign and file a legal document with the government, practically guaranteeing that the man will be wiped out financially if his wife turns out to be a scheming gold-digger?

Marriage was started as a religious ceremony and sacrament. You don't file paperwork with the government for communion or confirmation, for example, so why with marriage?

Like a quote I saw on another website says: "If I cheat on my wife, she gets half my s*it. If she cheats on me, she still gets half my s*it. Why the hell, then, should I get married?"

Let marriage return to a ceremonial and religious institution, like it once was, and this endless gold-digging, looting, and financial plundering that goes on, causing a 60% divorce rate, will stop once and for all.

(No, this is not off-topic. Just look around Scottsdale for support as to why marriage should return to ceremonial status and stop being a binding government contract. Besides, if you need someone to sign a legal contract to "prove" their love to you, you don't love and trust that person enough to be with them in the first place.)

Arizona Real Estate CRAAASSSSHHHHHH!

I just came across this website showcasing the massive losses happening in Arizona real estate. The Scottsdale and Paradise Valley properties are especially amusing considering the massive attitudes and snobbery those people had regarding the money they thought they "made" on real estate from 2004-2006:

http://phoenixflippers.blogspot.com/

I'm guessing most of those houses have payments converting and will soon be in foreclosure now that the "owners" can't make the new payments. If you're one of those people who walked around with your nose up in the air, here's a message from Keith at HousingPanic:

The funny thing is that people who put no money down call themselves (and think of themselves) as "homeowners".

They are not.

Their rent money simply goes to a bank (or CDO holder), whereas "renters" money goes to the landlord (who is likely sending money to a bank)

People need to get beyond this "homeowner" lie. Until you make your last payment, the house is NOT yours. Nobody "deserves" to live in a home. A house cannot be "lost" if is not theirs to lose.

The media and our politicians promote this "ownership" disinformation, for the benefit of their banker masters.

It's our job to make people see the truth. Even though it may disappoint them and piss them off.

Scottsdale's heavily biased Wikipedia page

It's been about a year since I last looked at the Scottsdale page on Wikipedia. At the time the page was marked as disputed because it was clearly pro-Scottsdale and painted an image of Scottsdale as a super high class town, which is clearly a lie.

Today, the disputed mark is gone. Did the realtors take over Wikipedia too?

Here's my favorite quote from the page:

"Scottsdale is known for its affluent culture and high society."

Ha - that's laughable to anyone who's spent any time there and knows it's a bunch of low-class white trash who only appear rich thanks to easy credit, easy no-money-down mortgages, and easy no-money-down BMW leases.

Here's a photo from the page - does anything say "depressing desolation" more than this?

Does your Scottsdale HOA allow Christmas lights?

One of the most sickening things about Scottsdale HOAs and the miserable losers who run them is their policy of banning seemingly anything that residents want. This was epitomized after the 9/11 attacks when Scottsdale homeowners were being fined for flying American flags and the Arizona Legislature had to step in to put a stop to it. Pathetic. F*cking pathetic. And Scottsdale residents have no one to blame but themselves for their continued indifference in just sitting back and taking it.

When I first moved to Scottsdale I was shocked and disappointed by the total lack of decorations on houses. Then I moved to Phoenix, and was pleasantly surprised by the amount of decorating I saw.

So, if you live in Scottsdale, does your HOA allow lights? And if it does not, are you laying back and taking it like the typical lazy indifferent Scottsdale resident, or are you fighting back - including suing for your freedoms of speech and religion?

I'm happy to report that the decorating in my new town of residence is completely in the spirit and over the top, more so than even in the Northeast where I grew up! I mean, the quality and quantity of lights on houses around here is just insane. (Granted, a lot of people here simply call a service to come decorate their homes, but hey, at least they're doing it!)

Scottsdale: Is FAKE a bigger status symbol than RICH?

I was browsing the posts on Dirty Scottsdale for the first time in about a month and couldn't believe some of the people on there, especially the women. It used to be that Scottsdale phonies were all about the BMW, Rolex, and other "normal" status symbols.

Now it appears that they're mutilating themselves to an extreme degree with plastic surgery, and wearing clothes and makeup that are downright clown-like.

What's going on here? Looking like a mutilated clown doesn't make anyone think you're rich. So, has Scottsdale's obsession with image shifted from "rich" to just plain "fake"?

I really don't get it, folks.

What's worse - renters or sub-prime "owners"?

There is a long-standing attitude in many areas that renters bring a community down. This may have been true once upon a time, but consider the situation of the last few years, particularly in bubble areas like Phoenix, Vegas, San Diego, and so on:

- So-called "owners" were able to "buy" homes with bad credit, no money down, and no income verification.

- Renters, on the other hand, have always been required to pass a credit check and put up a security deposit.

In fact, I've read about several true stories of bad-credit deadbeats who "bought" homes on subprime liar's loans, simply because they couldn't pass credit on a rental house or apartment. In other words, we've gone from a situation where, in the old days, if you had bad credit, you were excluded from buying and were forced to live in an apartment. In modern-day Arizona, we have a very ironic situation where bad credit excluded people from renting but allowed them to "buy" on liar's loans.

This would certainly explain the extremely rapid decline in the Phoenix area's quality of living in the last 5 or so years, particularly in Scottsdale where this nonsense seemed to be concentrated.

I find it hilarious that arrogant Scottsdale a-holes walk around with noses up in the air and Tommy Bahama shirts on their backs bragging about their "ownership" when those same people would've been laughed out of the room had they tried to rent even a small apartment with no credit check and no income verification.

(Seriously, try it. Walk into any rental office and tell them you want to lease a place, but refuse to demonstrate any proof of income or submit to a credit check. Try it.)

In a lot of neighborhoods, very affluent people are renting, while the "owners" in the communities are the deadbeats with trash all over the yard and bill collectors banging on the door.

Thoughts on this? Who else has experienced this in their neighborhoods? I saw it going on constantly when I lived in north Scottsdale and this was even before the housing fraud bubble got into full swing!