Housing Bubble, credit bubble, public planning, land use, zoning and transportation in the exurban environment. Specific criticism of smart growth, neotradtional, forms based, new urbanism and other top down planner schemes to increase urban extent and density. Ventura County, California specific examples.
Monday, February 26, 2007
Top O' The World Ma
In addition to the entertaining movie trivia aspect of the picture, how in the world does someone attend their own financial funeral?
Just thinking, would this much speculation have occurred if you could not take roughly 250k tax free every two years? I don't think the sellers were as innocent as they claim. I could see both conspiring.. because with the $250K takeout w/o taxes would allow both to fit under the original purchase price with a 250K headroom before taxes.
I suspect Casey will see the foreclosure not as as one more step in his long death march, but as a glorious release from responsibility. That's one fewer property that he has to deal with owning. No more mail to open, lenders to fob off, or realtors to manage... no, losing Larchmont frees up more of his busy day for massaging and juicing the latest sweet deals. Win-win!
Losses are not tax-deductible, as in stocks. True.. but follow me here.. Two people, called: LTO = Long Time owner. SV = Specuvestor.
National prices are rising consistently: LTO puts home up for sale at $225k. SV offers to buy house, but only with a cash back. Offers some cash on side($10k). House stated sold at $325k. LTO originally purchased at $112k, so he is safe on taxes. SV then puts house up for sale in under 2 years (doesn't live in it either). Because SV has inflated the comps with prior purchase, SV gets $335 in frothy market.
LTO pockets $225k - $112k + $10k = $123k tax free (only $325 - $112k = $213k is shown against gain limit) SV pockets $335k - $225k - $10k = $100K.. virtually tax free because his original purchase costs shows up as $325k (taxible $335k - $325k - transaction costs), all with minimal risk in market (things fall apart, firsts are non-recourse in many states).
What Rob and lawnmower man said is corect, those two pinheads left smiling because to them, they are just decreasing what they owe. 330K that they borrowed, gone, and they still managed to use the 30k they illegaly obtained with cash back. The debt is erased. They haven't thgouht further into the future when lender 2 goes after them for everything they have, they haven't thought about the 1099 that is coming their way, they haven't thought about the fact that though the property is off their hands, the fraud is not and they are still liable for it.
Personally, I think Galina is smiling because Casey just told her "See honey, that debt is gone..soon we will be going to the courthouse to watch them foreclose on our credit card debts and we are off the hook!"
Either that or Galina is thinking about her divorce lawyer or the feds that she promised to help in putting Casey behind bars. She is probably wired as we speak.
That "hack" is awful. I can't believe he left himself that open.
Somebody in the thread you linked to wondered what Casey's "professional" programming work looked like. I don't have to wonder. I know. I make a good living cleaning up that kind of thing, among other work. It ain't pretty. I'd expect to see authentication bypass, SQL injection, and (given that he works in PHP) remote file include holes in Casey's own code, as well as general disorganization and unmaintainability.
@ Benoit:
VDubs is too old to be included in that recall, by about 6 years. If I was Casey I'd worry more about the sweet rims falling off than anything else.
I know this has been speculated upon and discussed here and at IAFF, but what exactly does happen to CS when the 1099s hit? He is insolvent and it has been mentioned quite a few times that being insolvent may save him from the 1099 tax bill. Is this how it works, or does the IRS just keep sitting on the bill (and accumulating interest) until he can finally pay. It also appears that CS won't get a 1099 for tax year 2006, but has to wait until tax year 2007 since any 1099s won't be generated until later this year. If the IRS sits on the bill, then CS may never want to work a 9-to-5 job again since they'll garnish his wages.
@Ogg: I'm sure you're right -- although "working" in PHP may overstate his abilities a bit.
Casey's mad IT skillz, as evidenced by his blog, don't extend much beyond configuring a Wordpress install, tweaking a stock template, and installing a plugin or two. (Remember he suggested "tricking" someone into writing a plugin for him?) The on-again-off-again comment rating experiment shows that faced with a real database issue he's lost...
View Source on IAFF is interesting -- Duane's adverts and the house raffle are still there but commented out, and also commented out is this aborted tagline:
@foreclosure partay: looks like he either wised up or pulled the comments; there were a couple of ringers on the most recent post earlier today which are gone now.
lol, those morons did let those comments thru..what a bunch of cosanguinous defects...Casey is probably frantically trying to email the both of you thanking you for your support as well as to inquire about your cousin in Oklahoma to see if he needs some input from the master real estate investor himself..
168. John February 26th, 2007 at 12:24 pm Hello Casey. I too amlike you and am the newly immigrant to this country. I have read your websight and am enjoying the informations that you provide on your sweet deals. I ca see that you are on fast track to success and you are the person who can use the leverage and the cashback to add juice to your sweet deals. Also, I am really liking the word “sweet” that you have shown to me! Sometimes I say it to my friends and then I also say “Its all good!” They laugh at me because i am the newly immigrant but it is all in the good fun.
I am listening to what you have to say because I want to make the sweet deals like you. I learn your mastakes and think that the only reason you loose the money is because you use too of much cashback leverage and not enough the equity, and this as why I will be differant. I can not wait to make my own win win “sweet” deals using the things I learn from your sight and also Robert Kiyosake sight. I have use your lessons and mastakes to make a very good business idea. Soon I will say to bank manager “let’s do it!” and he will say “sign here.” Then I will be rich and maybe i will start my own websight.
But I am not so much enjoying the comentery. The angry haters types are jealos of your deals, and they know that you someday will be thew success with millions dollar. This is why they can never be made happy. Maybe when some day we are both the rich, we will buy them the Jamba Juice to make them feel better? ha ha! Maybe when I make my first millions I will advertize on your sight, Casey.
By the way, I tryed my first Jamba Juice today. It was very good.
[Fade into the back of a Jeep—the small space behind the back seat is being loaded with equipment; a coil of rope and chains are slapped down on top of two black duffels, there is an ominous sound to them as the links clink together. Rob’s hands have oil on them from the chain; he wipes them on a rag, businesslike as he turns to look at the others around him. It’s dark—the wee hours of the morning. Everyone’s dressed in black night gear; cargos, military issue sweaters, and skullcaps.]
Rob Dawg: That should do it. [Legion, and Ogg nod gravely, and turn to look at Stephanie and Jade. They are tightening the laces of their doc martens]
Legion: How ‘bout you ladies? [The stand and nod, hands on hips]
Rob Dawg Then it’s time. Let’s do this. [They turn around and the camera shows a the true size of this force; every one of them… the haunters of EN, the darkest enemies of our fair hero and his delicate wife. They blend into the darkness; so it's impossible to see exactly how many there are.]
[A look of silent consensus is shared amongst the haters, mouths set in straight, serious lines. Stephanie climbs into the driver seat of the jeep, Akubi hops into the passenger’s seat—everyone else finishes loading the cars. They all climb into the other vehicles peppered around the parking lot. One after the other, they tear out of the parking lot in a squeal of tires—Ratlab taking point with Rob riding shotgun.]
[About sixty blocks away; Casey’s being an early riser, and busying himself deleting comments by the light of the LCD. Galina sleeps, her newly manicured fingers curled up under her chin. Unbeknownst to them; slipping through the streetlight on tires and rage; the haters are getting closer.]
@ Lawnmower Man Ha! "Selling fast." Those two words are unlikely to ever be associated with any RE venture Casey is involved with. I can see why he commented that out.
@ Legion Yeah, I was pizza pizza too. Badjer kicked my ass though, he got 150 something, I only got 120 something. I bow down to you BadjerJim, you are the fake cheerleader master.
didn't Casey plug this garbage a while back? I bet ya it's on his bookshelf, the DVD as well. Oh I see, so If I imagine myself in a BMW I get it? Yeah sure, you can always steal one since you think you are entitled to it. Just what America needs, another way to get something you want with the least amount of work. No wonder Casey spent his last 20 bux to buy the book and DVD Just think it, and it happens. If that were true, Casey would be getting pounded by bubba right about now.
"The on-again-off-again comment rating experiment shows that faced with a real database issue he's lost..."
The worst part is that I can pretty well guess why his comment rating system killed performance so badly, and it's not even a hard problem to avoid. He probably hit the database once for each comment, rather than grabbing the ratings for all the comments on the post in one shot.
ogg said: He probably hit the database once for each comment, rather than grabbing the ratings for all the comments on the post in one shot.
I think you are being too kind. I'm not sure he knows what a database is. Somebody mentioned earlier that his site is a template with some plugins. That does not require any programming experience whatsoever.
And good find! That review explains *a lot* about Casey's bizarre "what you choose to believe" statements of late:
The "secret" is the law of attraction, which holds that you create your own reality through your thoughts. [...]
Its explicit claim is that you can manipulate objective physical reality—the numbers in a lottery drawing, the actions of other people who may not even know you exist—through your thoughts and feelings. [...]
In a dramatized interlude in the film, a young woman ogles a necklace in a window, and the next thing you know, it's around her neck. A child imagines himself with a new bike, and it appears outside his door. No need to do a lot of boring chores or get a newspaper route: the universe provides.
Boy, that sounds familiar: "It’s not really a failure if I choose to not look at it that way. Its really an opportunity to learn. Controlling what I believe is a very important process of becoming successful."
Yep: that's our Casey. Never met a fad that he didn't latch onto.
Legion - the Secret is the stuff of Oprah addicts and housewives. In other words, people who need to get out of the house a little more. This is an unfortunate side effect of Casey being lazy and unemployed (unlike housewives and stay-at-home moms who actually have responsibilities). He watches drivel like this and buys it hook, line and sinker.
He needs to go for a bike ride or a hike or something, get out of the house.
I’m not sharing my passenger seat in Stephanie's jeep.
Ahem. Didn't you read the part about shotgun? Did you think that was some form of clever wordplay? [In my best Elmer Fudd] Beee vewry vewry quiet... We're huntin' dan-dee-lions! HeheeeHeheee.
I"m not sure what Casey's "Web developer" skillz consist of. I'm a namby-pamby tinkerer who has never worked in IT, and I've managed to do more with Wordpress than he has. His complaints about having to personally moderate because of spam were particularly interesting, given that the built-in spam filtering has a number of options that would have served his purposes (he could have just blacklisted the words "Galina" and "Nouveau Riche" for example), and there are plugins that would have handled most of the rest, leaving only a very few comments to personally moderate.
He's a doofus. And the whole "Oh, I like to keep my options open, that's why I say I'll *try* to do stuff" makes me want to slap him until his ears ring and his gums bleed.
I'm thinking my black skullcap with Paul Frank monkeys I recently found in the garage might be too noticeable.
@all Ok, if CS really did get the Muncy (Modesto) auction postponed -- again, why the heck is it taking so long to get the short sale through. The dandelion was talking about a short sale packet/approval LAST MONTH when Muncy was ready to go to auction.
Ooh, dandelion. I think I like that better than snowflake. But only if you mean the dandelions that have gone to seed and are all fluffy so a strong wind can disperse the different parts.
@Nicole I can't take credit for dandelion, but it is a good one. Hopefully, it's not a dandelion that disperses and germinates all over the place. The last thing CS needs to do is reproduce.
I use the word “try” because I like to give myself a way out in case something better comes up. I would commit to stuff in the past only to break the commitment. I realize i’m a “keep my options open” personality type so I have to be careful when and how I commit. Using the word “try” shows my intention, which may or may not happen. But I will definitely TRY to make it happen. I’m learning to choose my commitments carefully. Does that make sense or should I use a different word to show my “intention” to do something??
Is Galina going to try and stay married to Casey? This is until something better comes along, right? She doesn't want to break any commitments, you know?
Rob Dawg, I’m puzzled and haven’t watched Looney Tunes in ages. Please elaborate. As far as Casey and dandelions, hopefully we can at least make some decent wine out of him.
A procession of vehicles slowly drives up the street one by one and park in all the available spots next to his sweet ride.
The sun, still an hour off from its morning ritual, is racing towards them while they silently move in stealth towards their target.
A select few from B team hang back and take care of the system in the Jetta for it is to be sold and the money mailed anonymously to casey's victims.
Stephanie slowly aproaches the rear sliding glass door and it opens as if some magical force of fate is guiding her journey. Out of the darkness comes Galina.
StephanieJ: Is he still asleep? Galina: Yes we must do this quickly, the chloroform will wear off soon.
Slowly Jade and Heidi and StephanieJ make their way upstairs with their gear in hand as they have rehearsed a hundred times in preparation for this moment.
For the next two hours they ply their trade and are almost complete when casey begins to stir.
Ogg and Rob look at each other and without any verbal communication, they both nod and understand each other completely. This trust and knowing of your team has taken hours to establish and is as refined as britney spears on a saturday night bender.
Ogg quickly changes the alarm clock time to 3 pm. Casey wakes up still groggy and looks straight at the alarm clock. Everyone freezes and doesnt move. Not a breathe can be heard as he mumbles to himself.
OMG its 3 oclock in the afternoon..I almost slept through my nap. Casey quickly goes back to sleep.
The girls spend the next 20 minutes methodically going over their work to make sure they missed nothing and silently everyone leaves back to their cars.
Galina rides with CHJTS to go get some breakfast and gives him some great road head along the way. Upon the return home she confesses that once she gets pictures of the handiwork done on casey then she will finally have her grounds for divorce.
CHJTS wakes up the next morning and slowly disentangles himself from between Jade, StephanieJ, and Heidi and boots up his labtop to see the pictures that Galina posted from Operation Casey Clown.
He starts laughing that the plan went flawlessly and the end result was worth it.
There for everyone to see is casey dressed as a transvestite clown.
Akubi. I am shotgun the queen of the yellow jeep and all she surveys said so. Nothing personal, she just like me better... thpppt!
Yeah, what to do with Casey. That's a book. Oh, not -just- Casey but all the Caseys out there. Our Serindip needs to be an example. Nothing outside the law but something proportionate. There aren't enough prisons even if we declare a drug war amnesty so that's out as a general cure. They just plain old cannot repay so that's out. If we try to squeeze every drop of Jamba from thier hides two bad things happen. First their kids become state dependent and second they start discovering the ballot box. This is a fine line and as supreme leader I promise... That's a joke, My way of saying I don't have all the answers.
I had too much stuff on my plate...I pushed it all off and needed to get back to some mindless entertainment.
My stress level the last month has been about a 12 on a scale of 1-10. I had enough and decided to approach the stuff on my list 1 at a time and take my time instead of doing it all at once.
I figure if I get it all done by the end of the year then I am doing good.
and I cant believe that little pissant went to his own foreclosure auctions.....I would have been to embarrased to show my face.
I just got word that a long time family friend is leaving her husband and instantly our situation here popped in my head. The story goes that Husband was a nice guy, well liked, had his own (legit) business, yada yada. Wife was bored out of her skull while Husband poured his soul and dollars back into biz. Wife starts going to Community College. Hooks up with Professor. Everyone but the Husband saw it coming clear as day. Husband had no fucking clue at all until handed papers while eating breakfast the other morning. Guy is totaly crushed...
Rob Dawg, I assume you really meant Serindipshit... Chjts, another hilarious episode. Glad you’re back. This Casey hater thingy/stuff really is addictive. Foreclosapalooza 2007 sounds sweet and juicy. Whatever happens with KC, the haters have made me laugh in my cube far more than I have in ages.
Perhaps many of you have already come across this video, but I thought I would pass it on:
http://www.veoh.com/videos/e1336748NgyMqyG
It portrays Aleksey Vayner who, like our hero, is also from Uzbekistan. You can read more about the crux of this video and the sheer audacity of this guy from the wikipedia article on him:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksey_Vayner
Now I don't know if there is something in the water in Uzbekistan or if its proximity to Chernobyl is a factor, but it is somewhat comical that both Casey AND Aleksey are Uzbeki natives. :-)
The entertaining movie trivia aspect is Cagney/Casey (say, almost an anagram) in White Heat (1949), but I don't think Raoul Walsh would have been dumb enough to hire a layabout like the Snowflake.
So you managed to get an actual image of me offa the internet eh? Nice work
@chjts Hope things are better for ya, glad you're back
Galina is smart enough(ok who are we kidding here, but when it comes to money she'll do anything, she proved that by marrying Casey) to realize if that she plays her hand too soon, Casey will stop trying to fix her credit(already ruined) and take the blame for everything like he is trying to do now. I think once he is safely behind bars, and he asks her "Wait for me baby?"
she'll say "Sure thing baby, but you do realize it was me that put you there right? WHO'S THE DUMB BITCH NOW!!!"
Wow... I have roadside service too, but by the time they get there, you could have changed the tire yourself.
The tire doesn't look like it was slashed--the failure was on the inside. He (or the previous owner) could have hit something with it, or it could have been underinflated, or both.
Numbnuts probably doesn't realize that the roadside service will pay for the tow, but probably won't pay to fix the busted tire.
A married man who's honey dew list this morning includes three more rose bushes and get this, swapping toilets. We computer services execs live international jey set lives that's for sure. So no, I am not pretending to be a sassy PacNorWestern Jeep babe.
@LHOOQ It's much like a camel's hump--if he's deprived of too many Jamba Juice Wheatgrass shots; it will melt away. Just get him a gift card to JJ and you'll see.. he'll have a fine pair of pillows.
Well, his missing ass wouldn’t leverage many deals in either the gay male world or an aesthetically concerned hetero female world, so I guess he’s stuck with Galina for eternity ‘cause I’d prefer to give him the wheatgrass shots exactly where they belong and that isn't a special gift certificate for more manicures.
In addition to the entertaining movie trivia aspect of the picture, how in the world does someone attend their own financial funeral?
83 comments:
First MO FUs!
GETALIFE!!!!
http://tbo.com/news/metro/MGBXTU3SKTE.html
Just thinking, would this much speculation have occurred if you could not take roughly 250k tax free every two years? I don't think the sellers were as innocent as they claim. I could see both conspiring.. because with the $250K takeout w/o taxes would allow both to fit under the original purchase price with a 250K headroom before taxes.
http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/real-estate/20041018a1.asp
Just found this non-Photoshopped picture of you-know-who's situation. Nuff said. :-)
I'd be honored if this was used as a future thread pic... hehe
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~friendsofthehighlandcemetery/stone_inv/stone_photos/casey.jpg
Question: Is Casey going to fake his death and run off with the balance??
http://tbo.com/news/metro/MGBXTU3SKTE.html
http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/real-estate/20041018a1.asp
Screwed up the links...sorry.
Here's a version of that photo lightly cropped and shopped, suitable for posting on a snarky blog entry about casey:
http://www.gofrumpy.com/viewer.php?id=1172530579casey.jpg
Maybe Casey will add a ticker to the top of the page that reads:
Over $2 million stolen!
Where is Homey with the 411?
Nothing's showed up on google yet. That's why there's no Homey. In a couple weeks he'll have the 411 4 U.
@bj,
A rude awakening to real estate "investors".
Sure, 250K gains are tax-free.
The downside:
Losses are not tax-deductible, as in stocks.
I suspect Casey will see the foreclosure not as as one more step in his long death march, but as a glorious release from responsibility. That's one fewer property that he has to deal with owning. No more mail to open, lenders to fob off, or realtors to manage... no, losing Larchmont frees up more of his busy day for massaging and juicing the latest sweet deals. Win-win!
Note to self: must check before commenting that Rob Dawg hasn't already said the exact same thing; right down to the "win-win" conclusion. Damnit.
On another topic, top marks to the recent commenters on IAFF using the "post-with-Casey's pic" hack. Nice.
The bad news keeps on coming for CS:
Volkswagen to recall 800,000 cars -- Jetta sedans affected.
:-)
The downside:
Losses are not tax-deductible, as in stocks.
True.. but follow me here.. Two people, called:
LTO = Long Time owner.
SV = Specuvestor.
National prices are rising consistently:
LTO puts home up for sale at $225k. SV offers to buy house, but only with a cash back. Offers some cash on side($10k). House stated sold at $325k. LTO originally purchased at $112k, so he is safe on taxes. SV then puts house up for sale in under 2 years (doesn't live in it either). Because SV has inflated the comps with prior purchase, SV gets $335 in frothy market.
LTO pockets $225k - $112k + $10k = $123k tax free (only $325 - $112k = $213k is shown against gain limit)
SV pockets $335k - $225k - $10k = $100K.. virtually tax free because his original purchase costs shows up as $325k (taxible $335k - $325k - transaction costs), all with minimal risk in market (things fall apart, firsts are non-recourse in many states).
What Rob and lawnmower man said is corect, those two pinheads left smiling because to them, they are just decreasing what they owe. 330K that they borrowed, gone, and they still managed to use the 30k they illegaly obtained with cash back. The debt is erased. They haven't thgouht further into the future when lender 2 goes after them for everything they have, they haven't thought about the 1099 that is coming their way, they haven't thought about the fact that though the property is off their hands, the fraud is not and they are still liable for it.
Personally, I think Galina is smiling because Casey just told her
"See honey, that debt is gone..soon we will be going to the courthouse to watch them foreclose on our credit card debts and we are off the hook!"
Either that or Galina is thinking about her divorce lawyer or the feds that she promised to help in putting Casey behind bars. She is probably wired as we speak.
In Ozzie-style I'm the Dawg, The Robert Dawwwwg... The Casey HUNTAH!
@ lawnmower man:
That "hack" is awful. I can't believe he left himself that open.
Somebody in the thread you linked to wondered what Casey's "professional" programming work looked like. I don't have to wonder. I know. I make a good living cleaning up that kind of thing, among other work. It ain't pretty. I'd expect to see authentication bypass, SQL injection, and (given that he works in PHP) remote file include holes in Casey's own code, as well as general disorganization and unmaintainability.
@ Benoit:
VDubs is too old to be included in that recall, by about 6 years. If I was Casey I'd worry more about the sweet rims falling off than anything else.
I know this has been speculated upon and discussed here and at IAFF, but what exactly does happen to CS when the 1099s hit? He is insolvent and it has been mentioned quite a few times that being insolvent may save him from the 1099 tax bill. Is this how it works, or does the IRS just keep sitting on the bill (and accumulating interest) until he can finally pay. It also appears that CS won't get a 1099 for tax year 2006, but has to wait until tax year 2007 since any 1099s won't be generated until later this year. If the IRS sits on the bill, then CS may never want to work a 9-to-5 job again since they'll garnish his wages.
Hey Lawnmower Man,
Did the Casey photo trick work for a while or something? It's gone now if it did. I posted as Pied Piper.
Badjer,
Our anti-spam word posts made it through.
"CS may never want to work a 9-to-5 job again since they'll garnish his wages."
That's all Casey needs, a REASON not to work a 9 to 5 job.
@Ogg: I'm sure you're right -- although "working" in PHP may overstate his abilities a bit.
Casey's mad IT skillz, as evidenced by his blog, don't extend much beyond configuring a Wordpress install, tweaking a stock template, and installing a plugin or two. (Remember he suggested "tricking" someone into writing a plugin for him?) The on-again-off-again comment rating experiment shows that faced with a real database issue he's lost...
View Source on IAFF is interesting -- Duane's adverts and the house raffle are still there but commented out, and also commented out is this aborted tagline:
Real Estate Investing, Shady Loans, Getting Overleveraged, Selling Fast, Facing Foreclosure & Bankruptcy
@foreclosure partay: looks like he either wised up or pulled the comments; there were a couple of ringers on the most recent post earlier today which are gone now.
lol, those morons did let those comments thru..what a bunch of cosanguinous defects...Casey is probably frantically trying to email the both of you thanking you for your support as well as to inquire about your cousin in Oklahoma to see if he needs some input from the master real estate investor himself..
By the way John 168
That was hilarious, are you pizza pizza?
I know this has been speculated upon and discussed here and at IAFF, but what exactly does happen to CS when the 1099s hit?
The 1099s sit there..
Remember, bankruptcy can not discharge a tax debt.. and bankruptcy is generally for those that are insolvent..
168. John
February 26th, 2007 at 12:24 pm Hello Casey. I too amlike you and am the newly immigrant to this country. I have read your websight and am enjoying the informations that you provide on your sweet deals. I ca see that you are on fast track to success and you are the person who can use the leverage and the cashback to add juice to your sweet deals. Also, I am really liking the word “sweet” that you have shown to me! Sometimes I say it to my friends and then I also say “Its all good!” They laugh at me because i am the newly immigrant but it is all in the good fun.
I am listening to what you have to say because I want to make the sweet deals like you. I learn your mastakes and think that the only reason you loose the money is because you use too of much cashback leverage and not enough the equity, and this as why I will be differant. I can not wait to make my own win win “sweet” deals using the things I learn from your sight and also Robert Kiyosake sight. I have use your lessons and mastakes to make a very good business idea. Soon I will say to bank manager “let’s do it!” and he will say “sign here.” Then I will be rich and maybe i will start my own websight.
But I am not so much enjoying the comentery. The angry haters types are jealos of your deals, and they know that you someday will be thew success with millions dollar. This is why they can never be made happy. Maybe when some day we are both the rich, we will buy them the Jamba Juice to make them feel better? ha ha! Maybe when I make my first millions I will advertize on your sight, Casey.
By the way, I tryed my first Jamba Juice today. It was very good.
On the Young and the Useless;
Tonight’s episode: “The revenge of the Haters;”
Casey’s world is starting to cave in….
[Fade into the back of a Jeep—the small space behind the back seat is being loaded with equipment; a coil of rope and chains are slapped down on top of two black duffels, there is an ominous sound to them as the links clink together. Rob’s hands have oil on them from the chain; he wipes them on a rag, businesslike as he turns to look at the others around him. It’s dark—the wee hours of the morning. Everyone’s dressed in black night gear; cargos, military issue sweaters, and skullcaps.]
Rob Dawg: That should do it. [Legion, and Ogg nod gravely, and turn to look at Stephanie and Jade. They are tightening the laces of their doc martens]
Legion: How ‘bout you ladies? [The stand and nod, hands on hips]
Rob Dawg Then it’s time. Let’s do this. [They turn around and the camera shows a the true size of this force; every one of them… the haunters of EN, the darkest enemies of our fair hero and his delicate wife. They blend into the darkness; so it's impossible to see exactly how many there are.]
[A look of silent consensus is shared amongst the haters, mouths set in straight, serious lines. Stephanie climbs into the driver seat of the jeep, Akubi hops into the passenger’s seat—everyone else finishes loading the cars. They all climb into the other vehicles peppered around the parking lot. One after the other, they tear out of the parking lot in a squeal of tires—Ratlab taking point with Rob riding shotgun.]
[About sixty blocks away; Casey’s being an early riser, and busying himself deleting comments by the light of the LCD. Galina sleeps, her newly manicured fingers curled up under her chin. Unbeknownst to them; slipping through the streetlight on tires and rage; the haters are getting closer.]
[Fade with suspenseful music…]
@Stephanie
Damn that was good! Hey if anybody is interested in making that a reality I'm down! I might be going to Cali next month.
@ Lawnmower Man
Ha! "Selling fast." Those two words are unlikely to ever be associated with any RE venture Casey is involved with. I can see why he commented that out.
@ Legion
Yeah, I was pizza pizza too. Badjer kicked my ass though, he got 150 something, I only got 120 something. I bow down to you BadjerJim, you are the fake cheerleader master.
ha ha pizza pizza, your humor definitely has it's own distinct flavor(man, why do I feel kinda grossed out saying that?)
Anyways
I just finished reading a review of "The Secret"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17314883/site/newsweek/?GT1=9033
didn't Casey plug this garbage a while back? I bet ya it's on his bookshelf, the DVD as well. Oh I see, so If I imagine myself in a BMW I get it? Yeah sure, you can always steal one since you think you are entitled to it. Just what America needs, another way to get something you want with the least amount of work. No wonder Casey spent his last 20 bux to buy the book and DVD
Just think it, and it happens. If that were true, Casey would be getting pounded by bubba right about now.
@ Stephanie
Very nice.
@ lawnmower man
"The on-again-off-again comment rating experiment shows that faced with a real database issue he's lost..."
The worst part is that I can pretty well guess why his comment rating system killed performance so badly, and it's not even a hard problem to avoid. He probably hit the database once for each comment, rather than grabbing the ratings for all the comments on the post in one shot.
@ Steph J
I'm not riding in the yiff-wagon with Ogg and Partay.
Otherwise,
EN West Sacto Foreclosapalooza 2007 Haterz 4EVA!!
Can we all get matching tats?
ogg said:
He probably hit the database once for each comment, rather than grabbing the ratings for all the comments on the post in one shot.
I think you are being too kind. I'm not sure he knows what a database is. Somebody mentioned earlier that his site is a template with some plugins. That does not require any programming experience whatsoever.
@ Steph,
I even have the uniform picked out:
http://www.speedgraphics.net/images/blowout/Anime-Warrior-10x13-copy.jpg
Steph(?):
http://games.enet.com.cn/zhuanti/wow/images/human/warrior_female.jpg
Ogg:
http://www.markchurms.com/Merchant2/graphics/stone-l.jpg
Legion:
http://kosisland.info/images/Spartan.jpg
Casey:
http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/bbr/lowres/bbrn38l.jpg
@legion: yes, Casey watched The Secret during the Facing Foreclosure Fast.
And good find! That review explains *a lot* about Casey's bizarre "what you choose to believe" statements of late:
The "secret" is the law of attraction, which holds that you create your own reality through your thoughts. [...]
Its explicit claim is that you can manipulate objective physical reality—the numbers in a lottery drawing, the actions of other people who may not even know you exist—through your thoughts and feelings. [...]
In a dramatized interlude in the film, a young woman ogles a necklace in a window, and the next thing you know, it's around her neck. A child imagines himself with a new bike, and it appears outside his door. No need to do a lot of boring chores or get a newspaper route: the universe provides.
Boy, that sounds familiar: "It’s not really a failure if I choose to not look at it that way. Its really an opportunity to learn. Controlling what I believe is a very important process of becoming successful."
Yep: that's our Casey. Never met a fad that he didn't latch onto.
You create your own reality through your thoughts
Casey, eyes screwed tightly shut: "I do believe in corporate credit. I do believe in corporate credit. I do! I do! I do!"
Legion - the Secret is the stuff of Oprah addicts and housewives. In other words, people who need to get out of the house a little more. This is an unfortunate side effect of Casey being lazy and unemployed (unlike housewives and stay-at-home moms who actually have responsibilities). He watches drivel like this and buys it hook, line and sinker.
He needs to go for a bike ride or a hike or something, get out of the house.
here you can watch the trailer here:
http://thesecret.tv/movie/trailer.html
gag
A Concerned EN Hater,
I’m not sharing my passenger seat in Stephanie's jeep.
@ Rob
I'll have you know that I keep my loincloth much cleaner than that. Otherwise, you've just about nailed it.
I’m not sharing my passenger seat in Stephanie's jeep.
Ahem. Didn't you read the part about shotgun? Did you think that was some form of clever wordplay? [In my best Elmer Fudd] Beee vewry vewry quiet... We're huntin' dan-dee-lions! HeheeeHeheee.
I"m not sure what Casey's "Web developer" skillz consist of. I'm a namby-pamby tinkerer who has never worked in IT, and I've managed to do more with Wordpress than he has. His complaints about having to personally moderate because of spam were particularly interesting, given that the built-in spam filtering has a number of options that would have served his purposes (he could have just blacklisted the words "Galina" and "Nouveau Riche" for example), and there are plugins that would have handled most of the rest, leaving only a very few comments to personally moderate.
He's a doofus. And the whole "Oh, I like to keep my options open, that's why I say I'll *try* to do stuff" makes me want to slap him until his ears ring and his gums bleed.
@Steph J
LOL. I', waiting for the next episode!
I'm thinking my black skullcap with Paul Frank monkeys I recently found in the garage might be too noticeable.
@all
Ok, if CS really did get the Muncy (Modesto) auction postponed -- again, why the heck is it taking so long to get the short sale through. The dandelion was talking about a short sale packet/approval LAST MONTH when Muncy was ready to go to auction.
@ratlab
Ooh, dandelion. I think I like that better than snowflake. But only if you mean the dandelions that have gone to seed and are all fluffy so a strong wind can disperse the different parts.
We can only hope the same happens to CS.
@Nicole
I can't take credit for dandelion, but it is a good one. Hopefully, it's not a dandelion that disperses and germinates all over the place. The last thing CS needs to do is reproduce.
Nicole,
Dandelions are:
Weeds and hard to get rid of.
Pop up seemingly out of nowhere to annoy you.
Start off sunny and yellow but go crabby.
Quickly go to seed and spread the problem.
Long after dying they leave a hole in your yard.
Casey is a true dandelion.
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113. Casey Serin
February 25th, 2007 at 9:50 am
I use the word “try” because I like to give myself a way out in case something better comes up. I would commit to stuff in the past only to break the commitment. I realize i’m a “keep my options open” personality type so I have to be careful when and how I commit. Using the word “try” shows my intention, which may or may not happen. But I will definitely TRY to make it happen. I’m learning to choose my commitments carefully. Does that make sense or should I use a different word to show my “intention” to do something??
Is Galina going to try and stay married to Casey? This is until something better comes along, right? She doesn't want to break any commitments, you know?
Rob Dawg,
I’m puzzled and haven’t watched Looney Tunes in ages. Please elaborate.
As far as Casey and dandelions, hopefully we can at least make some decent wine out of him.
Legion said...
That's all Casey needs, a REASON not to work a 9 to 5 job.
Casey don't need no stinkin' REASON!
:)
Episode 2 The Haters Unite
A procession of vehicles slowly drives up the street one by one and park in all the available spots next to his sweet ride.
The sun, still an hour off from its morning ritual, is racing towards them while they silently move in stealth towards their target.
A select few from B team hang back and take care of the system in the Jetta for it is to be sold and the money mailed anonymously to casey's victims.
Stephanie slowly aproaches the rear sliding glass door and it opens as if some magical force of fate is guiding her journey. Out of the darkness comes Galina.
StephanieJ: Is he still asleep?
Galina: Yes we must do this quickly, the chloroform will wear off soon.
Slowly Jade and Heidi and StephanieJ make their way upstairs with their gear in hand as they have rehearsed a hundred times in preparation for this moment.
For the next two hours they ply their trade and are almost complete when casey begins to stir.
Ogg and Rob look at each other and without any verbal communication, they both nod and understand each other completely. This trust and knowing of your team has taken hours to establish and is as refined as britney spears on a saturday night bender.
Ogg quickly changes the alarm clock time to 3 pm. Casey wakes up still groggy and looks straight at the alarm clock. Everyone freezes and doesnt move. Not a breathe can be heard as he mumbles to himself.
OMG its 3 oclock in the afternoon..I almost slept through my nap. Casey quickly goes back to sleep.
The girls spend the next 20 minutes methodically going over their work to make sure they missed nothing and silently everyone leaves back to their cars.
Galina rides with CHJTS to go get some breakfast and gives him some great road head along the way. Upon the return home she confesses that once she gets pictures of the handiwork done on casey then she will finally have her grounds for divorce.
CHJTS wakes up the next morning and slowly disentangles himself from between Jade, StephanieJ, and Heidi and boots up his labtop to see the pictures that Galina posted from Operation Casey Clown.
He starts laughing that the plan went flawlessly and the end result was worth it.
There for everyone to see is casey dressed as a transvestite clown.
Akubi.
I am shotgun the queen of the yellow jeep and all she surveys said so. Nothing personal, she just like me better... thpppt!
Yeah, what to do with Casey. That's a book. Oh, not -just- Casey but all the Caseys out there. Our Serindip needs to be an example. Nothing outside the law but something proportionate. There aren't enough prisons even if we declare a drug war amnesty so that's out as a general cure. They just plain old cannot repay so that's out. If we try to squeeze every drop of Jamba from thier hides two bad things happen. First their kids become state dependent and second they start discovering the ballot box. This is a fine line and as supreme leader I promise... That's a joke, My way of saying I don't have all the answers.
@ chjts:
I knew you wouldn't be gone for long. It's totally obvious that you missed the shit out of me.
Yes T...I did miss you.
I had too much stuff on my plate...I pushed it all off and needed to get back to some mindless entertainment.
My stress level the last month has been about a 12 on a scale of 1-10. I had enough and decided to approach the stuff on my list 1 at a time and take my time instead of doing it all at once.
I figure if I get it all done by the end of the year then I am doing good.
and I cant believe that little pissant went to his own foreclosure auctions.....I would have been to embarrased to show my face.
@ Rob Dawg
I just got word that a long time family friend is leaving her husband and instantly our situation here popped in my head. The story goes that Husband was a nice guy, well liked, had his own (legit) business, yada yada. Wife was bored out of her skull while Husband poured his soul and dollars back into biz. Wife starts going to Community College. Hooks up with Professor. Everyone but the Husband saw it coming clear as day. Husband had no fucking clue at all until handed papers while eating breakfast the other morning. Guy is totaly crushed...
This is so coming to Casey. Fo shizzle.
Rob Dawg,
I assume you really meant Serindipshit...
Chjts, another hilarious episode. Glad you’re back. This Casey hater thingy/stuff really is addictive. Foreclosapalooza 2007 sounds sweet and juicy. Whatever happens with KC, the haters have made me laugh in my cube far more than I have in ages.
chjts said...
Yes T...I did miss you.
Right back atcha, brother. <3
I’ve decided to start The Murakami Zone group. Anyone care to participate?
Perhaps many of you have already come across this video, but I thought I would pass it on:
http://www.veoh.com/videos/e1336748NgyMqyG
It portrays Aleksey Vayner who, like our hero, is also from Uzbekistan. You can read more about the crux of this video and the sheer audacity of this guy from the wikipedia article on him:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksey_Vayner
Now I don't know if there is something in the water in Uzbekistan or if its proximity to Chernobyl is a factor, but it is somewhat comical that both Casey AND Aleksey are Uzbeki natives.
:-)
The entertaining movie trivia aspect is Cagney/Casey (say, almost an anagram) in White Heat (1949), but I don't think Raoul Walsh would have been dumb enough to hire a layabout like the Snowflake.
Tennis and body building bore the hell out of me. What a silly a-hole. Scary how many more of them could be created by a war in Iran.
My Jeep is *green*, Damnit Man! (with an eastern european accent)
Yikes.
Medium Fern Green, to be precise. With a light tan soft-top.
@steph
So you managed to get an actual image of me offa the internet eh? Nice work
@chjts
Hope things are better for ya, glad you're back
Galina is smart enough(ok who are we kidding here, but when it comes to money she'll do anything, she proved that by marrying Casey) to realize if that she plays her hand too soon, Casey will stop trying to fix her credit(already ruined) and take the blame for everything like he is trying to do now. I think once he is safely behind bars, and he asks her "Wait for me baby?"
she'll say "Sure thing baby, but you do realize it was me that put you there right? WHO'S THE DUMB BITCH NOW!!!"
Stephanie J. said...
Medium Fern Green, to be precise. With a light tan soft-top.
Any other guys here find that description slightly erotic?:-)
Everything Steph writes is erotic and that's why you're ENvious that I get the passenger seat
P.S. Gassolina is a beetch. Nothing worse than manicured nails in my book.
As it is I'll be lucky to trot along behind after getting the color wrong.
Rob Dawg,
Are you going to break our Steph J bubble and confess to being her?
Legion,
Electric currents are fun. I'm game.
French nails rock my world
Tony S.,
Have you ever had them up your ass? Not in the least bit rocking IMHO. Electricity is fun though.
From the Geico caveman thread:
Anon 11:59 PM
Snowflake had a flat tyre on the way! His sweet rim is damaged! Check it out http://www.flickr.com/photos/sercasey/404303723/
Ha ha ha ha!
@Anon 11:59
Nice find! You must be Euro to spell tire as tyre. :)
Soooo, the question is... why couldn't he swap out the flat with the donut?
Good thing he spent $70 or whatever for roadside service. I'm sure he'll bring that up at some point. Maybe Duane will come back now!
Idiot just outed himself as Casey Supporter on the foreclosure thread. #193. Comment has Little Dipshit's picture on it.
He's writing his own fan mail.
Idiot just outed himself as Casey Supporter on the foreclosure thread. #193. Comment has Little Dipshit's picture on it.
He's writing his own fan mail.
I just caught that in the Caveman thread. Good catch anon.
Now we know who his supporters really are.
Wow... I have roadside service too, but by the time they get there, you could have changed the tire yourself.
The tire doesn't look like it was slashed--the failure was on the inside. He (or the previous owner) could have hit something with it, or it could have been underinflated, or both.
Numbnuts probably doesn't realize that the roadside service will pay for the tow, but probably won't pay to fix the busted tire.
Awesome, 183, 187, nd 193 all have Casey's photo.
I'm lovin' it! (but hating McDonald's)
@ LHOOQ
Do you really think this level of hotness can be merely invented? I think not. ::sizzle::
Me=100% genuine Steph J... Of course, Steph J. is not my *real* name; but I have many noms de plumes.
But other than that; I'm not a married man from Southern Callie.
The Jeep, the docs, the pissy ire, the mediocre pulp-fantasy books, the attention-whoring; all real, I'm afraid.
A married man who's honey dew list this morning includes three more rose bushes and get this, swapping toilets. We computer services execs live international jey set lives that's for sure. So no, I am not pretending to be a sassy PacNorWestern Jeep babe.
Steph,
That's good to know. Now I'd like to figure out what happened to Casey's ass. It is entirely lacking.
@LHOOQ
It's much like a camel's hump--if he's deprived of too many Jamba Juice Wheatgrass shots; it will melt away. Just get him a gift card to JJ and you'll see.. he'll have a fine pair of pillows.
Well, his missing ass wouldn’t leverage many deals in either the gay male world or an aesthetically concerned hetero female world, so I guess he’s stuck with Galina for eternity ‘cause I’d prefer to give him the wheatgrass shots exactly where they belong and that isn't a special gift certificate for more manicures.
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