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svelteParticipantGeorge Hamilton gets my vote.
Liked the story about Brock too.
Told my wife about this thread. She reminded me about our cat named Dusty. Fluffiest cat I’ve ever seen, did look a lot like a duster. Jet black from head to toe and 3/4 fur.
Cat had some very odd accidents but survived them all. Really did have 9 lives.
svelteParticipantWe had a cat with only 3 legs that adopted us once. She was a tiny thing. We named her TLC (three legged cat) and she lived to be a rip old age.
Had a Siamese when I was a wee lad. We drew names from a hat to decide its moniker. I had put Corvette in the hat. I won. Seemed to fit her…she got hit by a Mustang once but recovered nicely.
Another cat we had was named Tuppence by its prior owner. We left it at that. But it didn’t roll off the tongue so we ended up calling her kitty…we had little kids at the time so that probably encouraged the transition.
Come to think of it, all other cats that have been ours or sorta ours we always called ‘cat’ or ‘kitty’. Guess we didn’t take the time to hang a better handle on them.
Another name we liked: our son’s GF named her Chihuahua George Michael. I liked that name a lot. Fit the dog pretty well. He wanted to get custody of the dog after they broke up. Didn’t end up that way though.
svelteParticipant[quote=FlyerInHi]Amazon is not building a distribution center. They already have many.
They need to find an area where executives and professionals would like to live.
[/quote]True, but having production and/or distribution within an hour or two of the headquarters has many advantages…keeps executives and professionals grounded as they can visit the other arms of their company on a routine basis.
Many examples of this in the corporate world: GM, Ford, 3M, Brunswick, Tesla, Delta, American, Southwest, FedEx, on and on.
svelteParticipantWest states will be out of luck, will need to be back east. Perhaps the FedEx hub of Memphis? That metro area is just over the 1M mark.
Atlanta would be another good guess – large well established commerce area.
Maybe Chicago, but weather starts being an issue…
svelteParticipantYou’d be hard pressed to find an area of SD that didn’t have wildfire risk – there are open space canyon walls from top to bottom of this county. that’s what makes SD feel more open than places that are totally flat allowing for all open space to be built upon (read: LA).
In a prior house we called a well known insurance for a quote while we were in escrow. The company wanted to know if the house was within [can’t remember distance…a mile?] of an open field. I said yes, virtually every house in SD county is! They refused to give me a quote. So yes, policies include wildfire coverage.
svelteParticipant[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=svelte]
[quote=Escoguy] Back in 1979 it once rained 43 inches in a day in Alvin.[/quote]
Didn’t know that! I’ll use that as a talking point next time my liberal friends spout off saying the Houston deluge was due to global warming. :-)[/quote]
“It happened before” is not a convincing argument. The frequency of 100-year events is clear evidence of man-made climate change.
[/quote]Ha ha! Keep’em coming FIH! You’re making me giggle!
svelteParticipant[quote=FlyerInHi]
Would you say that George Soros is a leftist? To me, he’s just a real capitalist who wants a progressive open world, not a inward looking small minded world.[/quote]I don’t really follow Soros so I have no opinion, sorry.
svelteParticipant[quote=harvey]
Lol, if you asked any high school history teacher…[/quote]
I don’t give a flying eff what a high school history teacher thinks.
[quote=harvey] I don’t need an excuse from you in order to have ethical standards.
[/quote]Cool. You pointed out what you thought of my folks. I just pointed out what I think of you. Turnabout’s fair play.
September 1, 2017 at 3:56 PM in reply to: Rural Urban Divide, Millennial Lifestyles & City of the Future #807807svelteParticipant[quote=Essbee]I remember checking out some of the Del Mar Highlands model homes back in early 1986. … I was in 5th grade and we had just moved to San Diego from the Midwest. I recall that an attached townhouse or duplex was $109,000. That seemed way out of reach for us at the time.[/quote]
We moved here in 1987 and I remember new homes in Mira Mesa going for $100K at that time, which being from a small burg up north I thought was outrageous.
svelteParticipant[quote=Escoguy]Went to grad school in Houston in the early 90s. My grandfather was City Manager there in the 1960s-1970s.
Many of the flooded areas shown in the news are known flood zones. Especially some of the highway shots.
Some of the new subdivisions should have never been built as the drainage infrastructure put in place wasn’t adequate.
These were known issues during Rita (2005).
My sister’s house flooded then, she went out of her way to buy a house in a non flood zone this time. (no damage) in spite of being in Spring Texas where some new homes are up to the 2nd floor with water.
It is very tragic what has taken place. I’m not really sure most will recover, this will drag down property prices in flooded areas, increase insurance costs, taxes will likely also go up to pay for better infrastructure. A dirty little secret about Texas is the property taxes (+2%/year is not uncommon. They basically combine what we pay in income tax+property tax into one item.
This may bring about the end of 70M dollar football stadiums as communities may realize they just don’t have the funds for necessary infrastructure plus “Friday night cathredals”
On a more positive note, the Texas spirit will come through and neighbors will help each other out. The sense of community is quite strong there. On balance, I’d probably rather have small town Texas neighbors in a cataclysmic event like this.
My aunt will likely go back to work at FEMA for this one too. but eventually when you’ve seen so many disasters, one has to wonder, when will we learn and just not build in certain areas.
Houston has always been known for sprawl but we can’t throw common sense out the window.
Longer term, this may be a foreshadow of what can happen in coastal areas over the next century if the more extreme climate scenarios take place. That at the very least should make anyone living in an area that is less than 20 feet above sea level pay attention to what might happen.
One grandmother lived in Alvin for almost 97 years, her first house was up on cinderblocks (3 1/2 feet above the ground). Back in 1979 it once rained 43 inches in a day in Alvin. Needless to say, her house never flooded. It wasn’t that we even talked about why her house was different.
My great grandmothers house was used to house survivors of the great Galveston hurricane of 1900 when 6,000-12,000 people died.
It was built in Victorian style so the downstairs bedrooms were also raised at least four feet off the ground. It stands to this day.[/quote]
Great post, Esco!
[quote=Escoguy] A dirty little secret about Texas is the property taxes (+2%/year is not uncommon. They basically combine what we pay in income tax+property tax into one item.[/quote]
When my conservative friends start huffing “I’m moving to Texas with no income tax!”, I like to point out that prop taxes are 2-3 percent in most Texas cities. They usually go quiet after that. Can’t get somethin for nothin folks!
[quote=Escoguy] Back in 1979 it once rained 43 inches in a day in Alvin.[/quote]
Didn’t know that! I’ll use that as a talking point next time my liberal friends spout off saying the Houston deluge was due to global warming. 🙂
August 30, 2017 at 6:26 PM in reply to: OT Mini Cooper extended warranty….buy or self insure? #807774svelteParticipantAnd you might chose to think of it this way. Even if you don’t buy the warranty and get stuck with $3k worth of bills to replace seals over the next three years, you’ve STILL saved $$ over buying the Porsche! 🙂
August 30, 2017 at 6:24 PM in reply to: OT Mini Cooper extended warranty….buy or self insure? #807772svelteParticipantRolling the dice either way, which way do you want to bet?
I can tell you I’ve lost money on every extended auto warranty I’ve purchased. But then we are very easy on our cars, too.
If you think about the odds a bit deeper, the companies offering the insurance have done their homework and you can be absolutely sure that they didn’t set the price where they’d lose money, on average. Therefore the odds say don’t buy it.
So the question becomes – how much is peace of mind worth to you?
svelteParticipant[quote=SK in CV][quote=poorgradstudent]Since Trump got rid of Bannon I think his odds of surviving his whole term have improved greatly. He’s pivoting to more of a mainstream Republican, and end of the day he will only be removed if the Republicans want him gone.[/quote]
Exactly where was his pivot? Certainly not in his Phoenix speech last week. EO banning transgender people from the military in opposition to the recommendation of the Pentagon? Pardoning someone convicted of violating the constitution? Is there a mainstream Republican here that agrees with those two moves?
Trump is who he is. He has no policy. None. There will be no pivot. Ever.[/quote]
Yeah I don’t think he’s pivoted.
But I do think there is more stability in the Trump Administration now – I think that happened when Kelly became Chief of Staff, not when Bannon left. Bannon leaving is a result of Kelly.
I agree with dude that the odds are still much greater that Trump stays 4 years that he’s out before then. And actually the odds of him leaving dropped further when Kelly came aboard as CoS. I’m just not convinced that a man of Kelly’s caliber will be able to tolerate Trump for long and therefore the odds of Trump getting into a serious bind and leaving will increase yet again after Kelly leaves. Probably after the start of the year.
svelteParticipant[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=flu]Oh CNN is totally left. At least the website is and the majority of the editorials they choose to run. If you can’t see that, you are blind.
BBC is much more centered imho.[/quote]
What standards are you using? CNN in relation to Breitbart?
[/quote]Brian it is not surprising you can’t see how left CNN is because you are as far left as humanly possible. Full Tilt left.
Therefore, everything from your perspective looks either center or right.
But CNN is definitely left. I think it used to be more centered back in the CNN Headline News days, but not any more.
As I said before, at the gym I watch CNN and Fox side-by-side. I see how each presents the news for an hour each day. CNN is very very much the left point of view, Fox is very very much the right point of view. Neither even comes close to middle ground.
There are things that pop up on Fox that I would never even hear about if I just watched CNN – CNN doesn’t report it because it doesn’t fit their narrative. I could make an identical sentence with the works “Fox” and “CNN” switched and it would be equally true.
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