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svelteParticipantI would be interested to know how much of that all cash activity comes from Chinese nationals.
svelteParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic][quote=svelte][quote=svelte]
Also I just ordered the Toohey book based on your comment. Let’s just hope I find the time to read it. :)[/quote]
I’ve tried reading the “Boredom” book three times now…can’t get past the 1/4 mark. It’s just too, well, boring.[/quote]
ah. sorry about that. not everything captures the imagination. maybe at the right time.
for some reason CITIZEN CANINE has me enraptured. i feel a need to understand why people are so into dogs and cats. this book explains a lot…[/quote]
No worries.
Everyone has different things that pique their interest.
svelteParticipant600 out of 30K. About 2%. Yawn.
svelteParticipant[quote=svelte]
Also I just ordered the Toohey book based on your comment. Let’s just hope I find the time to read it. :)[/quote]
I’ve tried reading the “Boredom” book three times now…can’t get past the 1/4 mark. It’s just too, well, boring.
svelteParticipantI was never really around anyone Jewish until I moved to San Diego. NorCal, Midwest, not many Jewish folks and I don’t even remember meeting one there.
But immediately upon arriving in SD I met several and have continuously had many in my circle of friends ever since.
A small sign that didn’t even register: my company stocked my home with food for me when I moved here, and in my fridge was my very first package of bagels. I had never had one before.
Now they are a part of my diet.
The Jewish population intrigues me and we get along very well – not sure why. I don’t exactly have them figured out yet, going on 20 years now. One thing I have noticed is that they are very open and in tune with their sexuality. That’s a trait I had not anticipated. I always hear about the stereotypical money and doctors aspects, but no one talks about their open-ness with their sexual side.
Not sure why.
svelteParticipant[quote=SK in CV][quote=svelte]It is terrible that he died yes, but he was certainly not cooperating.
I don’t care if you’re white, black, yellow or orange if you don’t cooperate with police then they should be able to use force to make you cooperate.
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Cooperate or die? Really?[/quote]
Twisting my words? Really?
svelteParticipantshould say “more than a local issue”
svelteParticipant[quote=Hobie]How is this not a local issue that should be discussed on NY forum, perhaps.
Are you not trying to tag this onto the Fergesen upheaval.[/quote]
I saw the video of this on the monitors at the gym here in San Diego last night, so at least the national news (Fox and CNN) think it is more than a national issue.
I had been hearing he had his hands up, but when I watched the video (no sound as I was at the gym) he was waving his hands and the only reason they were up for short periods of time was because he was trying to keep them from the officer’s reach. That’s not raising your hands to surrender!!!
It is terrible that he died yes, but he was certainly not cooperating.
I don’t care if you’re white, black, yellow or orange if you don’t cooperate with police then they should be able to use force to make you cooperate.
To me, the Rodney King cops were clearly using too much force and should have been charged. In NYC, it didn’t appear to me they were. I’m sure if they had to do it over again they would, but the NYC incident was an unfortunate accident and no indictments necessary. That’s my opinion. I would say the same thing if it was a huge white guy that died.
svelteParticipantI hated Fat Albert, refused to watch it even.
But I did like some of his comedy.
I’m not one to convict someone in my mind without having it confirmed in a court of law, but when you start going north of a dozen women saying the same thing, it certainly does give me pause. Let’s just say I wouldn’t leave him alone in a room with my wife…
Better safe than sorry.
svelteParticipant[quote=moneymaker]”If I were a rich man” I would show off my wealth with well maintained grass. Isn’t that how the whole grass thing started anyway? During feudal times a land owner would plant grass instead of food plants just to show that he didn’t need to.
[/quote]Grass was an analogy to give a concrete example of a similar situation. Not sure why you wandered into your like of grass and why grass came into existence?
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When times are tough for a company then I totally understand it, it is just not a good thing to lay off people to maximize profits in my opinion.
[/quote]I have no idea why a company would keep an employee they don’t currently need and don’t expect to need in the future. Companies are not charities.
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Replacing unions with contract labor and legal workers with illegal is just taking us one more step closer to “soylent green”.[/quote]That’s a totally different situation. Your original statement did not discuss hiring contract labor or illegal immigrants to replace laid off employees. The conversation just drifted.
svelteParticipant…pleads guilty to felony stalking, now awaiting sentencing on Jan 9th…
svelteParticipantSeems like I’ve seen quite a few “all the taxpayers are leaving Cali!” threads over the years on this site.
On a tangential note, my oldest graduates in May from a California university and has already received TWO job offers in state – six months before graduation!
The economy must be doing pretty good out here at the moment.
svelteParticipant[quote=moneymaker]When profitable companies layoff people is it basically corporate greed at work? [/quote]
If you replaced your grass with rock and tore out all the shrubbery, would you keep your gardener?
Why would anyone expect a company to keep someone on the payroll if the company felt they no longer needed their services?
svelteParticipantMy wife and her friends have all missed shows because of dvrs…apparently dvrs fail to record correctly sometimes. With roku the shows are always available so there is no need to record. Just drill down the menu to the show you want and watch! A whole different mindset.
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