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July 14, 2007 at 10:15 AM in reply to: HOA includes Cable, Insurance and Exterior Building Maintenance #65820
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ParticipantTemeculaguy – What’s next – people were seen in their front yard talking?
I thought we lived in a free country. Guess not.
July 14, 2007 at 10:15 AM in reply to: HOA includes Cable, Insurance and Exterior Building Maintenance #65883ParticipantTemeculaguy – What’s next – people were seen in their front yard talking?
I thought we lived in a free country. Guess not.
ParticipantIt is the company that is raising the rent.
There’s your answer. Not really surprising once there’s the layer of a storefront that is added between you and the person making the decisions about what you’ll be paying.
ParticipantIt is the company that is raising the rent.
There’s your answer. Not really surprising once there’s the layer of a storefront that is added between you and the person making the decisions about what you’ll be paying.
ParticipantI’m not sure of the exact phrase in Mandarin, but Americans are typically referred to (translated) as ‘white devils.’ Not sure why this isn’t more commonly known – but it’s absolutely the truth.
ParticipantI’m not sure of the exact phrase in Mandarin, but Americans are typically referred to (translated) as ‘white devils.’ Not sure why this isn’t more commonly known – but it’s absolutely the truth.
Participant[quote=JG] Let’s just let them park their bomb-filled Mercedes’ anywhere and everywhere that they want in our home countries.
Pull your head out of the sand, man. We’ve got to kill those vermin over there so that we don’t have to fight them over here. [/quote]
Since the fanatical right-wing obviously can’t understand the concept of inference, I’ll spell it out more clearly although everyone knows that they’ll never stray from their talking points – even when everyone else sees how wrong they are.
Looks like JGs post quite literally shows that the ‘fight them there so we won’t have to fight them here’ strategy has clearly failed. If that strategy worked, THERE WOULD NOT BE A BOMB IN A CAR IN GREAT BRITAIN.
THE TERRORISTS THAT WERE TRAINED TO KILL BY OUR WAR IN IRAQ HAVE TAKEN THE WAR FROM IRAQ TO THE WEST AND THEY WILL BE IN THE UNITED STATES SOON.
BUSH AND THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS/SENATE DID ALMOST NOTHING TO IMPROVE BORDER SECURITY AFTER 9/11 AND IT REMAINS A CHILD’S TASK TO GET PEOPLE ACROSS THE BORDER.
The logic error can be likened to trying to treat systemic sepsis with a topical antibiotic cream. No doctor in his right mind would ever try that unless someone had a gun to his head – forcing him to do the senseless and criminally wrong thing to do.
Cheney is obviously willing and happy to shoot his friends in the face – what could possibly stop him from pointing a gun at a general’s head and tell him to do exactly what the general knows is the wrong thing to do. The current rate of early retirement of generals from our military is historically unprecedented (wonder why?) and this is clearly because they’re tired of this crooked BS.
The ultra-right is responsible for this mess.
The solution to the problem is simple – IMPEACH CHENEY AND THEN BUSH. Then, have the next election immediately, not in Nov 2008. (Pelosi doesn’t want the job, in spite of the incessant fearmongering of the ultra-right) Get new blood into the hiteHouse and Congress. Start listening to our generals and policy advisers – there are a LOT of career folks out there with the right ideas. Get new ideas on the table – I’d suggest starting by getting our military out of a country that doesn’t want us there and use our military strength more productively to secure our airports, sea terminals, borders and coastlines.
We have to do something.
Participant[quote=JG] Let’s just let them park their bomb-filled Mercedes’ anywhere and everywhere that they want in our home countries.
Pull your head out of the sand, man. We’ve got to kill those vermin over there so that we don’t have to fight them over here. [/quote]
Since the fanatical right-wing obviously can’t understand the concept of inference, I’ll spell it out more clearly although everyone knows that they’ll never stray from their talking points – even when everyone else sees how wrong they are.
Looks like JGs post quite literally shows that the ‘fight them there so we won’t have to fight them here’ strategy has clearly failed. If that strategy worked, THERE WOULD NOT BE A BOMB IN A CAR IN GREAT BRITAIN.
THE TERRORISTS THAT WERE TRAINED TO KILL BY OUR WAR IN IRAQ HAVE TAKEN THE WAR FROM IRAQ TO THE WEST AND THEY WILL BE IN THE UNITED STATES SOON.
BUSH AND THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS/SENATE DID ALMOST NOTHING TO IMPROVE BORDER SECURITY AFTER 9/11 AND IT REMAINS A CHILD’S TASK TO GET PEOPLE ACROSS THE BORDER.
The logic error can be likened to trying to treat systemic sepsis with a topical antibiotic cream. No doctor in his right mind would ever try that unless someone had a gun to his head – forcing him to do the senseless and criminally wrong thing to do.
Cheney is obviously willing and happy to shoot his friends in the face – what could possibly stop him from pointing a gun at a general’s head and tell him to do exactly what the general knows is the wrong thing to do. The current rate of early retirement of generals from our military is historically unprecedented (wonder why?) and this is clearly because they’re tired of this crooked BS.
The ultra-right is responsible for this mess.
The solution to the problem is simple – IMPEACH CHENEY AND THEN BUSH. Then, have the next election immediately, not in Nov 2008. (Pelosi doesn’t want the job, in spite of the incessant fearmongering of the ultra-right) Get new blood into the hiteHouse and Congress. Start listening to our generals and policy advisers – there are a LOT of career folks out there with the right ideas. Get new ideas on the table – I’d suggest starting by getting our military out of a country that doesn’t want us there and use our military strength more productively to secure our airports, sea terminals, borders and coastlines.
We have to do something.
ParticipantWhat is more likely to affect a larger number of Piggingtonians – estate tax reform or tort reform.
I’d posit that Bush’s biggest blunder is abandoning the cause of tort reform. If ANYTHING would help turn this country away from it’s entrenched nanny-state ways – keeping the lawyer’s filthy mitts off our cash would be a great place to start.
How many of us pay too much for medical care, car insurance and other necessities? How many will be in the position of needing to be concerned with estate tax? I think the second number is dramatically smaller – but it does seem to have the effect of making a lot of people feel a lot more important when they bitch about it.
ParticipantWhat is more likely to affect a larger number of Piggingtonians – estate tax reform or tort reform.
I’d posit that Bush’s biggest blunder is abandoning the cause of tort reform. If ANYTHING would help turn this country away from it’s entrenched nanny-state ways – keeping the lawyer’s filthy mitts off our cash would be a great place to start.
How many of us pay too much for medical care, car insurance and other necessities? How many will be in the position of needing to be concerned with estate tax? I think the second number is dramatically smaller – but it does seem to have the effect of making a lot of people feel a lot more important when they bitch about it.
ParticipantAsh – I think the idea is to minimize inevitable losses, not to play shell-games with profits.
ParticipantI just got into engineering grad school at UCI two years ago. If they let a twit like *me* in there… 😀
Seriously though, it’s kinda like this. A kid that’s determined pretty much is going to get where they’re going. Everyone notices ambition and, for the most part, they respect it. Universities WANT people to succeed, and will work with those doing their level best to get them where they’re trying to go.
I also believe that the careers of many of the best students never really go anywhere because they lack social skills needed to succeed in the real world. Working hard is ALWAYS required, but it’s almost always more important to be people smart than to be book smart.
Another thing that I think many kids these days lack is hands-on ability. How many kids build models anymore? How many kids watch their father tinker in the garage? I’m always amazed at how frequently I observe blank ‘what’s that?’ stares when I hand a crescent wrench to a degreed mechanical engineer.
Kids need a lot more than video games, piano lessons, soccer practice and math tutors to develop into useful people, but you won’t get very many Irvine parents to accept such a simple truism when it’s so easy to pay someone else to do everything for them.
ParticipantIrvine’s a very nice place to live but definitely has it’s own form of pathology. You kind of have to experience it to understand – anything or anyone that is in any way unique is simply intolerable.
A horticulturalist friend got hassled by her HOA because she had ‘unacceptable’ flowers (rare orchids) in containers on her back deck. The couple next door found them to be ‘visually obscene’ and lobbied the development until my friend was forced to sell her home. All of her neighbors conveniently overlooked the fact that one had to LOOK OVER THE FENCE to see them in the first place! I felt like that was a pretty egregious situation, but it turns out that brute-force pressure to conform is ubiquitous in Irvine. Some love that, I can’t take it.
Lots of other decent places nearby also. Look around…you might be surprised. Many areas in Tustin are very nice and often more reality based. I quite like Costa Mesa, but there is definitely a less tidy appearance here and some funky locals.
Areas closer to the airport tend to be more expensive, as a reward for the shorter commute to the majority of the jobs that are nearby.
Hope this helps…
ParticipantHow many successful exporters like Boeing are there in the USA? Sounds like Americans better hope that other people keep buying their planes.
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I’d be more willing to accept the viewpoints of the majority of posters to this thread if they were equally indignant towards ALL who could have done better. Singling out any of the players as the root cause of the problem is a pretty clear example of foolishness. There’s clearly a lot of blame to go around.
It’s most important to put energy into ensuring that the markets work properly by fixing the whole problem than falling prey to the temptation of pursuing the quick fix. Isn’t that what got us into this mess in the first place?
First to go should be the ‘new-economy’ belief that homeownership should be higher than the low-mid 60% range. As long as people believe the number should be well into the 70% area, the system will try to find ways to keep it that way. It wasn’t that way ten years ago and I don’t see why it should be that way now.
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