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ParticipantI’m not sure if we can bomb another country
(short of killing everyone and letting G-d sort them out) without at least inadvertently picking a side.ParticipantI’m not sure if justice has existed ANYWHERE in the Middle East in the last 100 years, sad to say.
ParticipantThey’re like a bunch of high-school kids looking for a bar fight. “You don’t back me up, we’ll all look like pussies. C’mon, be a man, you’re making us all look bad.”
Congresspeople need to show some sanity, put their foot down, and nix the strike. Maybe if there were more women in Congress…
ParticipantThe defining line is whether it works solely on the nervous system.
No it isn’t — I recall reading about WW I, where mustard gas was used. It wasn’t neurotoxic, just produced deep, slow-healing skin (and internal) burns. Definitely considered a chemical weapon.
ParticipantFlyerInHI – mostly agreed. But in the former Yugoslavia, we had clearer goals (separate the combatants, arrest the ringleaders of ethnic violence). In Syria, we kind of really don’t want Assad out but we want to give them a slap on the wrist.
And remember that former Yugoslavia required ground troops, not just missiles and a few bombs here and there.
ParticipantNot to mention chemical weapons. What do you think that Napalm and Agent Orange were in all but name?
Participant“Targeted strike” — meaning we kill a few hundred more civilians and give Assad a new scapegoat to blame his failures on. Color me skeptical.
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Exactly. And I’m not sure whether an intervention in Syria will make things there better or worse.
ParticipantWe won’t countenance use of chemical weapons except by ourselves. We used white phosphorus (which is a toxin as well as a incendiary) against civilians in Fallujah in 2004. How quickly we hypocrites forget.
ParticipantAnother thing is that I normally don’t provide a rental application on site. I offer to drop it off at their current home to see what kind of condition they live in. That’s another way I gauge my tenants.
I do differently:
First I talk to the tenant, to establish job, time they need the place, number of pets if any, etc. Then I give them my email address and tell them to email me a couple personal refs, a former (not current, since current ll’s will say anything to get a bad tenant to move on) landlord, and a work ref or two.
Slobs and lazy-asses will generally not take the initiative to contact me back. Self-selection.
ParticipantInterestingly, residential property taxes in the city are actually cheaper than CA. Seem to be about 1% of value per year for condos and co-ops, MUCH less for 1-3 fam houses. Higher for commercial property.
It’s actually based on market rent, not on sale value, but that’s what it comes out to.
Participant3/4 bdrm (1600-2000 sf) rent-controlled apts (flats) in SF typically rent for $2000 – $2500 mo. That is the cheapest I’ve heard of and SF’s rents are probably on par with Manhattan (NY, NY’s) rents.
There are two levels of rent control in NYC (not just Manhattan). “Rent stabilized” units fetch the kind of rents that you mention, up to a max rent of $2500.
“Rent controlled” units are much, much cheaper, but they’re also rare, since they stopped “making” new ones in the 70s, and only units that have remained continuously in a family are allowed to continue being controlled.
ParticipantI’ve heard stories of people renting a 3 bdr apartment for $400/mo. Generally this is pretty rare though.
ParticipantDid I accidentally click on http://www.anorexicpr0n.com?
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