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>straight line WFP, obviously…
Exactly – except they only had 3 judges out of 4 on their ticket (why?), and were missing a few others elsewhere.
Most important – turn your ballot over for 2 questions on City Charter revisions. Convenient how they removed from possible amendment this time that all “supportive” or “transitional” housing facilities, regardless of their funding source, must be counted in calculating a neighborhood’s “Fair Share.” Charles Barron gets this lack of distinction (if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…) and that’s why he got my vote (that, and I know Cuomo will win regardless).
Agree with donatella’s 11:14 and DCB’s 11:21 . . . hmmmm, maybe they’re the same person, as in Donatella Cat Bounce . . . posts about Sarah Palin. Well said. I’d add, though, that in addition to her lack of intellectual curiosity, she shows contempt for intellectuals and those with intellectual curiosity, as if being an intellectual is a bad thing in and of itself.
Liberal women are so threatened by Palin. Cracks me up every time. Part of the girl-on-girl hate thing that I’ve never totally understood. They get super duper personal about it. All they are doing when they attack her like that is confirming that she is relevant (and that they are threatened by her).
In any event, I already listed the humans I voted for. Mixed ticket. There were reasons for each one (other than Gillebrand, that was just a shot in the dark, should have just left it blank, and judges, but judgeships are the only category where I admit to blindly voting by party affiliation). So I’m done voting, back to work.
Palin could be a good, and possibly superb VP for Mitt Romney. Because whereas most people who would vote for Romney would not not vote for him due to Palin, whereas many conservatives who would not vote for Romney would with Palin: to keep him conservative-honest; and to put Palin in a position for Palin to vote for Palin to run in 2020.
DIBS, according to the engineer,the work done was “childlike”. According to him, when new work gets done, as it will have to be, it is likely that the DOB will end up on the site, realize no plans were filed, and start opening up every can of worms they can find.
I don’t have experience with renovation in NYC, but this seems plausible.
Arkady–it would appear that Toomey and Angle are going to win, although in the case of Angle I am still holding out hope that the Dem ground machine will pull this one out. The polling in Alaska, with the write in candidacy of Murkowski, is almost impossible to decipher so the possibility that the truly heinous Joe Miller gets elected is impossible to predict. I would say again that its possible that three of those really unfortunate candidates gets defeated is about the only glimmer of hope I am looking at. Buck seems to be in a 50/50 type situation with Bennett in Colorado.
“She is my worst nightmare as a politician but we need to be careful in the way we talk about her lest we enable the kind of backlash off which she feeds.”
Great point donatella. We do ourselves no favors by calling Sarah Palin outlandish names. She will make herself look foolish on her own and we don’t need to help her by giving her a sympathy backlash.
D-Cat, absolutely. Everything I said gets trumped by your engineer’s report. HOWEVER, many many things can be fixed. I had a support beam put in my basement to support my parlor floor, I had floor joists reinforced by the clowns which dug into the support joists for plumbing 50+ years ago, leading to the bowing of the floors. Most of these houses were owned by people without much money doing everything on the down low (I believe your owners too) so
your concern is what is the true state of the building. I can’t go into the whole story here but most things are fixable, but getting the whole story or as much as possible is important — AS IS getting a contractor who can “see through walls”, i.e. has been through this with one of these old places and anticipate what is there.
Also, as just one example of the kind of things you find with a wreck renovation…..I figured out what the “stink” was in the place when we took down walls….unvented sinks in the kitchen and bathroom. The other factor is….and this is serious…..do you want a real big renovation job? If ever you want to get my take on that, I can tell you in more detail off line. It can be pretty taxing.
>straight line WFP, obviously…
Exactly – except they only had 3 judges out of 4 on their ticket (why?), and were missing a few others elsewhere.
Most important – turn your ballot over for 2 questions on City Charter revisions. Convenient how they removed from possible amendment this time that all “supportive” or “transitional” housing facilities, regardless of their funding source, must be counted in calculating a neighborhood’s “Fair Share.” Charles Barron gets this lack of distinction (if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…) and that’s why he got my vote (that, and I know Cuomo will win regardless).
Agree with donatella’s 11:14 and DCB’s 11:21 . . . hmmmm, maybe they’re the same person, as in Donatella Cat Bounce . . . posts about Sarah Palin. Well said. I’d add, though, that in addition to her lack of intellectual curiosity, she shows contempt for intellectuals and those with intellectual curiosity, as if being an intellectual is a bad thing in and of itself.
Liberal women are so threatened by Palin. Cracks me up every time. Part of the girl-on-girl hate thing that I’ve never totally understood. They get super duper personal about it. All they are doing when they attack her like that is confirming that she is relevant (and that they are threatened by her).
In any event, I already listed the humans I voted for. Mixed ticket. There were reasons for each one (other than Gillebrand, that was just a shot in the dark, should have just left it blank, and judges, but judgeships are the only category where I admit to blindly voting by party affiliation). So I’m done voting, back to work.
Palin could be a good, and possibly superb VP for Mitt Romney. Because whereas most people who would vote for Romney would not not vote for him due to Palin, whereas many conservatives who would not vote for Romney would with Palin: to keep him conservative-honest; and to put Palin in a position for Palin to vote for Palin to run in 2020.
DIBS, according to the engineer,the work done was “childlike”. According to him, when new work gets done, as it will have to be, it is likely that the DOB will end up on the site, realize no plans were filed, and start opening up every can of worms they can find.
I don’t have experience with renovation in NYC, but this seems plausible.
Re Dibs, 11:22, totally agree.
Wasder – Which two?
Arkady–it would appear that Toomey and Angle are going to win, although in the case of Angle I am still holding out hope that the Dem ground machine will pull this one out. The polling in Alaska, with the write in candidacy of Murkowski, is almost impossible to decipher so the possibility that the truly heinous Joe Miller gets elected is impossible to predict. I would say again that its possible that three of those really unfortunate candidates gets defeated is about the only glimmer of hope I am looking at. Buck seems to be in a 50/50 type situation with Bennett in Colorado.
“She is my worst nightmare as a politician but we need to be careful in the way we talk about her lest we enable the kind of backlash off which she feeds.”
Great point donatella. We do ourselves no favors by calling Sarah Palin outlandish names. She will make herself look foolish on her own and we don’t need to help her by giving her a sympathy backlash.
D-Cat, absolutely. Everything I said gets trumped by your engineer’s report. HOWEVER, many many things can be fixed. I had a support beam put in my basement to support my parlor floor, I had floor joists reinforced by the clowns which dug into the support joists for plumbing 50+ years ago, leading to the bowing of the floors. Most of these houses were owned by people without much money doing everything on the down low (I believe your owners too) so
your concern is what is the true state of the building. I can’t go into the whole story here but most things are fixable, but getting the whole story or as much as possible is important — AS IS getting a contractor who can “see through walls”, i.e. has been through this with one of these old places and anticipate what is there.
Also, as just one example of the kind of things you find with a wreck renovation…..I figured out what the “stink” was in the place when we took down walls….unvented sinks in the kitchen and bathroom. The other factor is….and this is serious…..do you want a real big renovation job? If ever you want to get my take on that, I can tell you in more detail off line. It can be pretty taxing.
M4L, I got discouraged and gave up looking at lis pendens.