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svelteParticipantHow can this not be a good thing?
I see no reason teacher’s jobs should be more protected than anyone else. If you do a poor job, you should be out of there.
And as far as parents forcing an unfair firing – I’m sure it has happened, but I doubt it has happened often. During my entire education and my kid’s education, I can’t think of a single parent uprising for or against a teacher.
And normal employment law will protect teachers in those cases – just like normal employment law protects other professions.
My wife and I, we hope this ruling sticks.
svelteParticipant[quote=CA renter] Gun registration has NEVER prevented a single crime; [/quote]
You have absolutely no basis for that statement!
There is no way you can possibly know what would have occurred if a criminal who was tracked down via a gun serial number had not been convicted and sent to prison.
svelteParticipant[quote=CA renter]
As flu mentioned above, you seem to be missing the fact that 50% of the victims were STABBED to death.
[/quote]If you’re gonna have a crazy approach you, which would have the crazy armed with – a gun or a knife?
It is easier to approach and disarm someone with a knife than with a gun. With a gun, you can be murdered from a distance with no opportunity to defend yourself.
I’m glad to see most people on here at least agreeing that this likely wasn’t a parenting problem as much as mental illness. As flu said, mental illness is hard to diagnose, and it’s even harder to determine which of the MI will snap. It’s just the way it is and always will be.
And of course this leads to the subject of guns.
The left and the right are very prone to making very broad statements to justify their positions.
The right: there should be no regulations on guns because of the “right to bear arms” clause. Well okay, if that’s the way you’re going to interpret that, why aren’t you upset that normal citizens can’t possess nuclear weapons and land mines? They are certainly “arms”.
The left is just as guilty by equating “global warming” with carbon dioxide emissions. Not one and the same, and a broad overgeneralization. The earth has warmed and cooled repeatedly for many reasons almost all of which are not human derived.
svelteParticipantJust checked now.
2.69%
svelteParticipantNoticed they took over the area where I used to park. Last time I stop by for a slice of pizza…I’m out…
svelteParticipant[quote=flu]
$100 to jeopardize a nice steady, stable tenant…. Imho not worth it.[/quote]Agree with this. Tenant is going to have their own perspective. If they’ve been a great tenant they are going to be fing pssed that rent is going up.
Why risk them leaving? May cause you more headache than the $100 more per month. Probably even likely cause you more headache.
Suck it up, take the hit, live life as it goes forward. You’re earning equity. Don’t worry, be happy. Every decision in life is a roll of the dice.
svelteParticipantA true story about this.
This line of thought is what caused us to buy our first place. Owner of a large apartment complex in Mira Mesa was in the office when my wife stopped in to pay rent. He said they were going to raise rent by (can’t remember amount but $100 sounds right).
That pissed us off.
We started our search and bought a condo about a month later. Went to the apartment office to give notice and miraculously the owner (who typically wasn’t around, left office duty to a manager) was there again. He was shocked when my wife said we were leaving – and disappointed no doubt as there were no better tenants that us.
He asked why we were leaving. My wife replied – as only she can do – because you’re raising the f(2!ing rent!
One of those classic moments that are burned into my memory forever.
Lessons are obvious here.
svelteParticipant[quote=CA renter]
Finally, you have the divorces that happen when the youngest reaches around 18 years of age or graduates from college. These are the marriages where both parents stuck it out “for the kids.” These are the ones where the women usually seek the divorce, most likely because they’ve been living for other people throughout the marriage and want to “find themselves.”
[/quote]We’ve seen a fair amount of this.
Looks to me like some of it is staying together for the kids, but there is another thing going on here too.
When your life revolves around your kids, then when they are gone you have much more time with your spouse and have to find new things to do, new hobbies, new things in common.
I remember going through that. It almost felt like we sat there on the couch, looked at each other and said “now what?”. It was incremental of course and not one dramatic moment, but that’s what happened. Luckily we tried many new activities and found some we both liked so it drew us even closer together as a couple than we had kids at home.
But I can easily imagine couples that go the other way…they can’t find new activities they both enjoy so they drift further apart. Not saying they are better or worse than us, it’s just what can happen as time passes and things change.
svelteParticipant[quote=spdrun]Toyota is maintaining some design offices in CA even after the move to Texas. If the move was mostly appealing to the truck-drivin’ crowd, they could as well have opened an office in TX. Since they didn’t do that, I suspect that other reasons are behind the move.[/quote]
You could be right. Neither of can prove anything…
svelteParticipant[quote=spdrun]That would be a silly reason to make a wholesale move to TX, when they could just set up a satellite design office there. Besides, not as if there isn’t a market for trucks in rural parts of the West Coast.
.[/quote]Not silly, but expensive. Why do you think many of the car companies opened design studios / satellite HQs in SoCal a couple decades back? So they could be in tune with the trendsetting market. Turns out running a satellite office in SoCal is an expense not many car companies can maintain.
Some have left (Lincoln-Mercury in Irvine 98-02, Carlsbad Chrysler design studio 83-08 ) but some remain (Nissan Design Studio in San Diego, Honda USA in Torrance, Mazda USA in Irvine).
Flu, interesting article that I agree with for the most part. And the reasons given by the Toyota rep in that article probably did play in to the decision. But I also think the reasons I gave were a big part of the decision also…they just don’t want to come out and say it. There are public and private reasons for everything… 🙂
svelteParticipantI think the real reason they are doing it is they are trying to break into the truck market. They need their employees to understand how Midwesterners think about trucks, so that’s where they are moving. Didn’t hurt that their truck factory is also in Texas.
While the coasts, especially the west coast, set the pace for the car market, the Midwest sets the pace for the truck market.
Then have Perry through boatloads of cash at them and the decision was pretty straight-forward. As Jalopnik points out, pity the poor LGTB staff members who are now being asked to move to a pretty darn intolerant state.
I don’t blame Perry, I don’t blame Toyota. I say good riddance because, as has come out time and time again on here, I like pretty much like all car companies except the big T which I loathe. Funny too cuz in my teen years I had a Toyota poster on my wall. Action by action, year by year, my opinion changed.
(my prediction: they will continue to find it exceedingly difficult to get Midwesterners to buy their product, especially trucks. Even today most Midwesterners buy American cars. Use Google Street View and see for yourself)
svelteParticipant[quote=Blogstar]I had more baggage than LAX when I was young, or at least I perceived myself that way. I had problems. It wasn’t my fault I was born into the non-family that I was with all the violence drinking bad acts of all kinds and divorce and death. I know I am the only pigg who spent time in a black head of household foster home.But that all that makes a stigma that is hard to break through. I held it against myself and It was held against me.
I had to have more years of reputable adulthood under my belt than other people did to be taken seriously. Lots of women needed life experience to figure out what was important and possibly buck their judgemental parents. It was hard. [/quote]
I can imagine an environment like yours would take awhile to shake off once you reached adulthood. It took me awhile to gain confidence in myself and I had a very good environment growing up.
Wear it like a badge, Blog. That you came out the other end and succeeded in life is a testimony to your strength, moreso than my success is mine.
Cheers, friend.
svelteParticipantOK.
I need to go out and buy my wife some flowers.
She brought no baggage to our marriage, doesn’t have any traits that bother me, and actually still excites me every time I see her after decades of marriage. It sounds like I may be the only one in this electronic room that can say that.
She had zero debt, zero prior marriages, no kids, no diseases, and no old boyfriends that came back to pester her.
She doesn’t crochet, like frilly house decorations, wear too much perfume, spend a fortune on anything, pick her nose, laugh like a hyena in heat, or have any addictions.
On top of that, she is still an extremely attractive woman – even moreso than when we met. I enjoy very much watching eyes track her as we walk through a room (she’s oblivious to it)- I should also mention she’s humble and certainly not full of herself.
Yessirree, I knew a fine specimen when I saw one and wasted no time in making her mine. You all are making me realize all over again what a brilliant move that was…
svelteParticipant[quote=zak] My wife has a great saying, “Don’t engage the crazy”. I simply remind you to not become the crazy people avoid engaging with.[/quote]
Don’t engage the crazies.
I’m stealing that line. Thank your wife for me.
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