Open House Picks
Carroll Gardens 120 3rd Place Cobble Heights Sunday 12-2 $2,095,000 GMAP P*Shark Ditmas Park 522 East 24th Street Corcoran Sunday 1-3 $1,099,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Lefferts Gardens 177 Maple Street FSBO Sunday 12-4 $950,000 GMAP P*Shark Crown Heights 1501 Union Street Brooklyn Properties Sunday 12-2 $775,000 GMAP P*Shark
Carroll Gardens
120 3rd Place
Cobble Heights
Sunday 12-2
$2,095,000
GMAP P*Shark
Ditmas Park
522 East 24th Street
Corcoran
Sunday 1-3
$1,099,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Lefferts Gardens
177 Maple Street
FSBO
Sunday 12-4
$950,000
GMAP P*Shark
Crown Heights
1501 Union Street
Brooklyn Properties
Sunday 12-2
$775,000
GMAP P*Shark
lechacal – it’s worse in san francisco. no consolation of course. it’s pretty polarized politically in our country and will stay that way for sometime i think. no use having any kind of discourse. no one’s changing their minds.
Miss Muffett, I don’t think there is very much at stake in this presidential race. In fact, I think there is very little at stake. There was much, much more at stake in the 2004 election. For the record, I voted for John Kerry.
In the middle of a crisis, the critical choice of leadership has already been made.
It’s Saturday night and I’m sitting here working my ass off on matters very directly relating to the current crisis. I would be happy to defend my choice another time. Honestly. But explaining why I don’t find Palin particularly offensive would take a lot of time, because it is not easy to do for this audience (see my post about being in the minority).
Lechacal – truly, I’m interested in hearing how you can in good conscience vote for McCain given the Palin pick. Even many conservatives are publicly proclaiming she should bow out, given how clearly out of her depth she is, and what a catastrophe she is on the campaign trail. Whatever people do and don’t like about McCain, the Palin pick seems to me a grave error in judgment which is a total deal-breaker (not to mention McCain’s other bad judgments, such as the erratic behavior he showed this past week). Picking her was the complete opposite of “country first” since it was a move that actually greatly jeopardizes the country, in an effort to purely grab some votes to win this race.
OK, I know we should be talking to houses, but I do think that this race has so much at stake that I don’t even know if I’d want to stay in this country (and hence buy an overpriced house) if we are at risk of having the totally unqualified Palin a heartbeat away from running it.
Hey thanks bxgrl that MM had us really worried despite our stellar resume. Anyway MM will do better in DC since NY is not his forte even though he grew up here. Get the logic? Did we mention we frequent Yankee games in the Bronx? Yes we didn’t neglect our beloved boogiedown.
Now bxgrl that is what I call a cabinet folks. Good ole DIBS taking care of all the money stuff with Wasder breathing down his neck..sorry no subprime loans here:) Mais c’est la vie en rose ici. Le logo ? Formidable ma chere. LOL
MM there are not that many brownstones in DC sorry buddy but guess what? Amtrak runs multiple lines to NYC so you are welcome to visit.
On a serious note lechacal we are grateful to live in a democracy so go ahead and vote as you wish. Just remember the mess and disaster we are in today rests squarely on your party and president. I find it hard to believe another republican (with a fossilized brain:) won’t do the same or even worse…name calling objectively justified here my friend.
All of your evil witchcraft will never work on Palin. She was prayed over. And I will also pray for her by speaking in tongues while holding poisonous snakes five times a day facing east after consuming a meal where meat and dairy were not mixed.
Oops, forgot- pierre, your logo will be an American flag with french….er….freedom fries for the stripes. ripple cut of course.
I know for a fact that Montrose Morris has seen a picture of washington DC and therefore certainly is qualified to be Secretary of State. In which case , pierre you can take NYC. I have your slogan- It’s all about the de tailles. But I say Biff for Boro Prez! However, THL must be head of the DOB, and BRG Head of the Department of Planning. (who has a better sense of quality housing?)and DIBS for Dept. of Finance (Wasder- you can head up Independent Budget Oversight).
I want to head up animal rescue (gotta save the polar bears from the disasta from alaska).
lechacal- you did make a good and fair minded argument on both sides, I think it’s also fair to say that the republicans raised dirty campaigning to an art form over the last 8 years. Liberals and Dems have had their patriotism questioned, their values demeaned, their candidate swift boated- if we’re pissed off who can blame us?
I can understand why people will vote for McCain and for the republican Party platform. What I don’t understand is why anyone would want to see Sarah Palin as Vice President? After watching her stumble her way through interviews that even a 15 year old could have handled better, and listening to her try to frame a coherent sentence, why anyone would want to risk this country by having a someone so inept and unqualified one step away from the Presidency is beyond me. Why any woman would want a party in office that would not allow a woman to get an abortion even in cases of rape or incest is just mind boggling.
I know why people will vote for McCain- I know why I won’t- but we need to think beyond McCain. McCain scares me- I watched a faded heroic old warrior struggling to deal with the 21st century while living in the 20th. We can’t afford that. We need new ideas, new answers, new approaches- this is a drastically different world and I honestly don’t see McCain capable of navigating it.
But Palin terrifies me. From her inability to grasp the basics of the world situation to her inability to communicate to her terrifying religious fundamentalism- she scares the bejeezus out of me. Mccain is no nutjob. He’s erratic and desperate. Palin isn’t a nutjob either- she’d be easy to dismiss if she was. But she’s a shark in babe’s clothing, and her ego stretches from Alaska to Russia (if you’re standing on that island in Alaska). She’s all style and no substance. And people like that are the worst of all. A pit bull with lipstick was a great line. It just isn’t the way to run a country.
As it turns out, I did watch the debate. There is only one television in the house, and Mrs. Jackal absolutely insisted. Mrs. Jackal, an Obama supporter, spent a fair amount of energy making noises meant to make it clear to the rest of the audience (i.e., me) that she really really really likes Obama and really really really doesn’t like McCain.
In conservative areas of the country, liberals constantly have to explain and defend their positions, while conservatives (who are already in the majority and therefore generally presumed to be right by any random group of people) instead resort to bullying and name-calling to enforce the majority opinion. The opposite is very much true in places like Park Slope. Most conservatives I know here are remarkably level-headed and well spoken about their views. Most liberals I know (that is, most of my friends and family) resort to playground bullying and name-calling rather than offering anything in the way of intelligent debate. It’s fairly basic human nature I guess — if you’re already in the majority, the most efficient way to win is just to bully the minority — but it still makes me sad to see otherwise intelligent people degrade into name-calling children every four years.
So yes, Pierre, I am just too scared to watch the debate. And there is a good chance that I will vote for the “fundamentalist nutjobs” McSame and the Disasta from Alaska. I guess that makes me a Southern Nascar fan.
lechacal
Biff,
what do you do for a living?
your postings are becoming overwhelming. and a little annoying. step away from the keyboard!