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I agree Dead. I think it does appeal to a lot of transplants who come from big cities though.

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I’m interested to know, Speeding.

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I agree too. It’s the lack of critical thinking ability, and poor writing skills that confound me. How did some of these people get jobs?
Did you know journalists don’t even need a masters degree?

In fact, Poway, the link you added to this thread – at the bottom of the article are two statements by people interviewed by the journalist that appear to agree, yet they are presented as opposing statements. I started to post a question when I read it the other day, but it was too difficult to start probing more deeply when the actual report was so confusing!

I just want data, some analysis, hard questions, and then clear expression of it all. Why is that so hard?

I partly think it’s because as a society we don’t expect accountability, and that just seems to permeate everything, right down to the reporting of the daily news.

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mixxalot, I’m sorry to hear that. Do you have any leads?

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As a community here at Piggington, we should think about how we can create the kind of city we want going forward.

Certainly after Kroll’s report yesterday, we’re going to see some changes in leadership.

We are all fairly well like-minded indviduals. On some things we disagree, but those are mostly small details. We all seem to really care about our city.

Public transport, the airport, affordible housing, more jobs – look how much time we spend discussing and learning about these issues.

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In my ideal world, the airport is completely torn down at the harbor, and replaced with a beautiful park, that is open space for all the city dwellers packed in around that area; the airport is moved down towards the border; and a high-speed train is built from downtown to take people out to the airport so they don’t have to drive. That drive currently takes me 15 mintues from Hillcrest, so a train that could get you there in the same amount of time, would be terrific.
Can you imagine how property values would increase in Pt. Loma, OB, Mission Hills, Banker’s Hill and downtown if we got rid of airport noise? Can you imagine how traffic would be reduced with high-speed transport in and out of downtown? Can you imagine how beautiful the city would look with a park instead of a run-way in it’s center?

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I can see it.

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I could find no such PR firm in google, but you can see references to it being discussed in various forums.

Amazing how the web works.

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From a marketing perspective, they are advertising them, but might not actually sell those particular loans once they get the client in the door.

But yeah, I think we’re going to see quite a bit of this type of thing as we move into Fall. Like you say, it’s a “last dash,” before the tide turns.

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anx,
I have not laughed so hard in a while!

I seriously hope it never gets like that.

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you are an expert! 🙂

Exactly – volumne of oil going in one end = same vol. of oil coming out the other.

So that’s what makes me think this is either a test, or they are rolling in that much money, that a few thousand missing gallons via a leak, don’t mean a thing.

I think they probably did know they were leaking, but decided they can afford to go down.

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Here is a link. (Do not know how to post an audio file.)

The main point is that it is cheaper to rent than the buy during the height of a bubble.

She advises investing the savings, rather than losing equity. Irvinesinglemom, have a listen if you can.

“House prices are… completely out of line.” She says.

She gives advice to first-time buyers, and long-time owners. Scenarios are slightly different, and you have to run the numbers for your own case to see if it’s better to rent. While she herself, was a longtime home-owner, when she ran the numbers, it made sense for her to sell.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4531732

From March 11, 2005.

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Yes, I actually remember an interview with the one of the editors of The Economist on NPR last year. She advised people to sell their homes if they wanted to capitalize on their equity gains, and rent until the bubble collapsed.

Maybe I can try and find the interview on the NPR website.

That report made me dig around online, and soon I found you, Rich.

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speeding – love your posts!

Ok, VCJIM, we’re both in business. Don’t you know what’s going on with all your equipment at all times? And, don’t you make contingency plans based on orders so you can fulfill?

If they can build the line in the first place, surely they can get to it to inspect it. A maintainence schedule is part of any operation. Surely.

Plus, I’m no chemist, but isn’t corosion a given aspect of metal pipes? Isn’t there some kind of time period that you’d expect a pipe to last? Sort of like cars in the midwest. You know they’re not going to survive that many winters, so you save up to buy a new one, based on common sense, and experience. BP pays a lot of people to apply their experience and common sense. They all dropped the ball?

It’s late in the day. I’m so irritated by this oil news. The bottom line is I’m worried my big customers will say to me, ‘well, let’s just start producing offshore.’ They can go thru me, but they might just go direct themselves.

Ugh.

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I think you’re right LA_Renter. Everything keeps going up and up because of the cost of oil. I’m in manufacturing, and everything is affected. I’m getting ready to tell my two biggest customers to expect an increase.

Question: how come corrosion of pipes wasn’t noticed earlier? And how come the supply has to completely stop? Aren’t there contingencey plans in place? Or do big oil companies making big bucks not care if production goes down for a while? Corrosion takes ages to form. Wouldn’t field inspectors notice corrosion before it got to a point that the whole spigot has to be turned off?

It’s almost like CA is being tested to see how much shock we can absorb to our economic system. Based on how we do, they can roll out higher oil prices to the rest of the country. Geez, I’m getting so cynical.

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