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"If everyone would stop making their mortgage payments for a few months the banks would really feel the crunch and do what they need to do--lower interest rates or restructure loans immediately--to keep people in their homes, property values, and the market moving again. It's very simple. Countrywide wouldn't lower my interest rate or restructure my loan, so now they're giving me time to try and sell the property via a short sale, which will take them many months to approve."

Wow. How irresponsible ARE you? Your bad decision should not become mine, or anyone else's. Suck it up and don't force your problem on anyone else. My three (FIXED RATE, FULL DOCUMENTATION) mortgages are doing fine, thank you.

"The desk, together with a matching 4-foot-long peninsula, cost $15,736.20, an expenditure that might make UNR President Milton Glick jealous. Glick’s desk in Reno cost just $2,681."

A university president has an image to uphold as part of his job. whether these particular desks further their mission or not is subjective.

That said, if we are calling our university presidents to task for the price of their desks, then $2,681 is just as outrageous.

Random anonymous comments on the Internet are drivel. And libelous.

The City of LV should pull REI's gaming entitlement on the parcel and require any buyer(s) to renegotiate it. Oh, that's what the for-sale offer says? Then, really, who cares?

"They're the ones who convince us to buy this stuff."

And I have some swampland in Florida, real cheap. How about taking some personal responsibility?

"I saw Las Vegans as, well, Rebels, folks who worked that much harder than the next guy, who did things a little differently, who were creative and open-minded and tireless. "

This is the side of Las Vegas that has sadly been lost in the last 20 years. The pioneer rebel spirit is still alive in the minds of those of us who have been here since those days, but the newcomers just don't get it.

Is living itself worth the risk of slowly dying? Sheesh - if we stop doing everything except eating exactly right, exercising the precise amount, and minimizing ALL self-inherent risk, we might live an extra five years ... Or we might get hit by a bus today. Everything in moderation, folks, because immortality is an impossible goal to chase.

Hey, Uddeboda:

1) Take an English lesson. Your spelling and grammar is embarrassing.

2) The ENTIRE EARTH will eventually succumb to environmental issues -- namely, the expansion of the sun into a red giant, swallowing up the first three planets of the solar system -- so what is your point?

Oh, I know ... Just another anonymous Las Vegas hater or clueless Internet troll with too much time to stir the sh*t but no time to edumacate yourself.

"Cigarette smoking is an irresponsible and a very inconsiderate act of selfish individuals. Proctecting (sic) their civil freedoms to smoke denies many of us that choose not to smoke our civil freedoms as well."

This is the most passive-aggressively self-centered slippery-slope argument for banning smoking in PRIVATE BUSINESS that I have ever heard.

THIS IS NOT A CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE. First, tobacco is a legal product. Second, and critically, in cases of legal activity, civil rights apply only to PUBLIC PLACES and a restaurant or bar IS NOT A PUBLIC PLACE.

Anyone, including government or any of you, telling a business owner what LEGAL ACTIVITY they may or may not permit within the walls of their PRIVATE BUSINESS is akin to the government or any of us choosing to visit your home and demanding, for the few hours I may spend there, that you are COMPELLED to make it more comfortable to ME. It may be more "civil" for you to do so, but do you want a law forcing you to do so?

I am a non-smoker who watched my father die of lung cancer. But tobacco is a legal product, and restaurants and taverns are private legal businesses. If you do not like the food, the wait staff, the music they play, the alcohol consumption, the crowd they serve, the smoke ... GO ELSEWHERE. You do not have the right to visit "Tavern A" just because you like it, and then compel the owners to make it more hospitable for YOU. The only way you can compel them to do so is to stop going there and vote with your money.

Please, take responsibility for your own needs and choices, perhaps by patronizing some of the many fine restaurants that do not permit smoking by policy, not law. Otherwise, you look terribly desperate in your need to control others.

Alternatively, you should put your energy into trying to ban tobacco, because until that happens, you are all going to be terribly uncomfortable that some people still choose to live their lives in ways you wish they wouldn't. And that, friends, is a metaphor for the entire history of Las Vegas and America's view of it at large.