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barnaby33ParticipantEconProf, are you trolling? Do you believe Jeebus is putting more dinosaurs under the dirt for you? Global conventional oil production has peaked. It actually did so around 05. It seems mighty disingenuous to ask a leading question, put a number randomly extracted from some orifice, then throw in some jingoistic non-sense as evidence or proof. What kind of econ do you teach?
EROEI is a bitch, and non conventionals are expensive. Peak Oil was never about the alarmism you are attempting to attribute to it. Rather the sure and certain knowledge that as a planet we are over the hump on the cheap stuff. It was however a way to plan for a less energy dense future. Unless of course that PhD of yours will allow you to defy the laws of thermodynamics, then all bets are off.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantYou might get a dip here or there but TPTB will do “ANYTHING and EVERYTHING” in their power to avoid it (for very good reasons BTW).
I’d love to here what “good” reasons those are. Not just so I can have a good chuckle, but so we can start the education cycle on piggington anew!
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantSomewhere indexed in the bowels of google, there is an answer. Probably even a good one. It is not here.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantI’ve gleaned only one thing from this thread. I want to rent from FLU.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantI have had as many as 20 bicycles or so.
You bastard, you’re stealing mine aren’t you?
JoshAugust 22, 2014 at 11:03 AM in reply to: Best way to Communicate With Owners and Effect Change in HOA #777540barnaby33ParticipantI’ve actually had a neighbor (female) tell me that if someone knocked on their door, they wouldn’t answer. Lots of people buy in a Condo/Townhouse project for exactly that level of privacy. We get about 5% participation at mine and I’m certainly not helping things.
The fact that the board is willing to sue isn’t surprising as normally the most activist of one’s neighbors run for the board. You might try just talking to your immediate neighbors, people who at least know of your existence, to get them to come with you to a board meeting. That would give your objection more weight.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantTijauna!
barnaby33ParticipantArraya, I don’t think it (any other conflict) justifies and I don’t think Israel is ethnic cleansing. I wanted to call attention to something I see as salient, the fact that this one conflict draws so much more attention than others, conflicts much bloodier. I wasn’t excusing the violence, but I was contextualizing it.
I have a good friend, she too thinks that Israel is conducting genocide. I don’t agree with her, not even close. Problem is I do think the Israelis have ignored their problem, in much the way you say the strong ignoring the weak.
The fact that you talk about the existence of Israel as an anachronism, that we rock, they suck. I like it, it’s simple, it’s got a certain Fox news truthiness to it. Ultimately it ignores why Israel came into existence in the first place. The cold hard fact that the Arabs didn’t want the Jews there. The fact that Jews never felt accepted in Europe. Those facts plus American and European money to back it.
You can dislike those reasons, I won’t disagree. The world has only pretended to move on. However those other ethnic conflicts you dismiss so out of hand give clear indications that the world hasn’t moved on. People still kill each other for being the wrong skin color or tribe. The Arabs have never given any indication that Jews would be safe, so the ugly cycle continues and ugly it is.
How about we all talk about putting massive foreign policy pressure on the Israel to integrate the Palestinians at the same time we put the exact same pressure on the Saudi’s, Syrians, Jordanians and Lebanese to make real peace with Israel? You can defang the Violence of the Israeli’s faster by guaranteeing their safety than by condemning them. That would however take real work. The Arab world is large and it’s grievance about Israel’s existence seems intractable.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantHow does a democratically elected govt allow another govt to attack it’s citizens and not respond?
I’ll admit my bias, I’m pro Israeli, though that has been slipping over the years. However this latest war hasn’t really hurt my already lowered opinion.
Hamas didn’t have to attack Israel, it just refuses to negotiate in good faith for what it wants, opening of borders and sea access. So if you are an Israeli politician who has to run for re-election, do you wait till the rockets kill a few more people, or do you shoot back? If you shoot back, how hard?
I find that all the anti-Israel pushers out there are strangely silent on all of the other horrible conflicts in the world, but this one gets them going. Congo, South Sudan, Syria. Soft bigotry of low expectations, or just letting the availability of grisly images delivered effortlessly to your tv tug at your heart strings?
Can anyone here propose a solution, maybe a difficult one, where Israel doesn’t cease to exist as a Jewish state and a democracy in a few generations? Because if you can’t you are either anti the existence of Israel or you should be ok with the bloody status quo.
Until an actual two state solution is possible this is as good as it seems to get. The Israelis took land in war, none of which they started.
No state in the middle east has voluntarily offered to give up land it conquered, not the Syrians, not the Jordanians, not the Egyptians. Several of these states by the way took land that was to be the Arab part of Palestine. Why if the Israeli’s are so blood thirsty are they willing to, if they can be guaranteed peace. The problem is none of the Arabs seems to actually want peace. They just want to use Israel for their own domestic deflections.
As I said, the Israelis are and have been losing the moral high ground for a generation. They’ve done some stupid and nasty things. However they are still a democracy and there is no comparison for how nasty they are compared to the Arabs they are squaring off against.
JoshJuly 17, 2014 at 11:14 AM in reply to: OT: Battle Ground Zero: Murrieta: Invasion of America #776758barnaby33ParticipantThis isn’t about me per se and though I’m frustrated about what happened, I know why it happened. Writing a long post attempting to re-direct the discussion about my issue was strange to say the least.
I wrote a much longer response but I realize that you have your position, it’s based on your experiences and I have mine.
Unless you believe in unlimited immigration, which you may, at some point you must say, “no mas.”
So by all means lets give the kids all a chance to make an asylum case, and send those home that fail to make it. After all, that’s our law.
barnaby33ParticipantFlyer, you make a point, much like a Jesuit. You pick a minor case and use it to make a major point. There are as far as I know only two types of citizenship, right of place, or right of blood. America happens to be a right of place citizenship. If you are born in the woods or a remote Indian tribe you are still entitled to documents. The people in question are most assuredly not. The proof is in the fact that they do not obtain them before coming.
I actually have real world first person experience in this as I tried to get a lovely woman a visa to come visit me. A woman I’ve been dating off and on for two years. Recently she was denied that visa. I can either accept that, or import her, “ILLEGALY.”
barnaby33ParticipantAnd before anyone stands on the “but they are illegal” dogma, well I would be more sympathetic to that argument if Boehner would let immigration reform come up for a vote. But by blocking reform, all goodwill I have for the “illegal” argument evaporates.
So you only respect laws that are up for change? Going all Hobby Lobby on us?
They are illegal. Being here without documents is breaking the law. A set of laws we’ve had for a long time, though sadly not well enforced.
The situation is Central America is as complex as here and the coyotes who sell passage are feeding off of a change in policy and the violence is driving more people to leave.
I’d be a lot more open to immigration “reform” ie letting in more people as long as the birth rates in all of our population donor countries were brought down to replacement rates.
We are a nation of former immigrants. However we’re over capacity and so is everyone else. How does admitting large groups of low skilled people because their countries are unstable make the world better? Why is it that because a century ago America was filled with immigrants this must always be so?
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantNyMom, San Diego is a desert. That barren feel is San Diego. Honestly you are just not being realistic. Everyone likes to recommend areas on the coast like Del Mar, but there is no way you’ll get what you want in the price range you are looking.
Olivenhain would be a good area to look for the down to earth feel, but there is no village.
I’d recommend some of the areas around La Mesa. Not La Mesa proper, or even Hillcrest. You’d probably have to send the kids to private school though as both those areas are in San Diego City Unified. Those areas are much more down to earth and have a wide variety of housing stock.
3000+ square feet is gigantic. Only the newer cookie cutter stuff will be in that size, or it will be a very, very expensive area.
Compromises are key. What’s more important, house, neighborhood feel, or schools. Once you nail which is the biggest deal, the others are pretty easily winnow-able.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantMy thought exactly. Pics or it didn’t happen.
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