dirty_juheesus wrote:

The Tea Party's main goal is accelerating economic disparity and therefore concentrating power.

That's an amazing leap. QE1&2 increased economic disparity, and the Tea Party purports to be against that sort of thing. Do you have any actual facts that indicate that they are in fact actively working towards greater economic disparity and concentration of power? Being manipulated doesn't count, since the same argument can be made vis-à-vis the & cohort...

Pearl wrote:

help to keep housewives off the streets--where they can rabble-rouse and cause all sorts of trouble.....

is this the data base? probably keep hermits off the streets too,you think?
State Index Searching - Real Estate Index

Architects always get the short end of the stick.

maybe they have a Death Wish?

Doc Holiday wrote:

74 links in 9 hours ... that's so inefficient!

Especially when I can delete them all in 5 seconds.

Juvenal Delinquent wrote:

Has the USA ever had a single syllable first and last name president?

why you trying to make me think so early in morning?

kcoop wrote:

Doc Holiday wrote:

74 links in 9 hours ... that's so inefficient!

Especially when I can delete them all in 5 seconds.

Curiously there's no "Ban Hammer" icon....
Karl Denninger 

Well, look who should ride in...

YouTube - The Master's Call - Marty Robbins

Al Gore, almost.

OUTRAGE OF THE DAY: Do You Realize That The Government Is Still Paying Banks Not To Lend...?

One of the most outrageous "open secrets" of U.S. government policy these days is that the Federal Reserve is still paying big banks not to lend money. And it's doing that while screwing average Americans who have been responsible and lived within their means.

Obligatory Lunch Post

Stracoto with pasta and buffalo mozzarella.

gruntled wrote:

Al Gore, almost.

Almost, because Al is short for Albert?

kcoop wrote:

Especially when I can delete them all in 5 seconds

Great shoot'n!

We now return to our previously non-thought-out programme: YouTube - The Jezabels - Endless Summer

The Shaw I know is the name of a small southern US town.

km4 wrote:

OUTRAGE OF THE DAY: Do You Realize That The Government Is Still Paying Banks Not To Lend...?

I'm not saying it's necessarily good policy, but banks giving out cheap money again will only create more bad loans.

Albert Brooks real name was Albert Einstein, imagine the pressure that came attached to that moniker?

Scrambling To Sell Properties: Wenzhou Edition

-looks like the China Real Estate Bubble ponzi is just about ready to bust the shoemakers and cigarette lighter assembly line millionaires. It's fixin to get really messy folks.

burnside wrote:

I've been curious about that, in that Richard Meier or Rem Koolhaas conduct international practices.

AFAIK they generally "partner" with a front man on the ground who does most of the actual work, and who then hands off to local project managers. The big celebrity archies don't do any detailing anyway. They are "concept" people who add value with the cachet of their brand. Stupid, I know, but there it is.

*Architects always get the short end of the stick.
maybe they have a Death Wish?

Sigh. Nobody gets my jokes.*

Hey, you're a regular Mike Brady, you are.

Juvenal Delinquent wrote:

Albert Brooks real name was Albert Einstein, imagine the pressure that came attached to that moniker?

Interestingly enough, my real name is that of a very famous baseball player. No pressure...

Chico Escuela?

Give me leverage or give me debt!

Those all cash sales gotta show up somewhere.

Vonbek777 wrote:

Mysterious Cat Disappearances In Lakewood

“We have raccoons, coyotes and foxes. Sometimes larger animals like lions and bears do come into town,” Jennifer Churchill with Colorado Parks and Wildlife said.

==> I'll keep my eye out at the fashion shows this Fall... (no offense intended for cat fanciers)

black dog wrote on Wed, 8/17/2011 - 9:26 am
Give me leverage or give me debt!
Those all cash sales gotta show up somewhere.

Craigslist Nation.

There was a SAR in the National Park yesterday, a car camper picked and ate some local wild mushrooms, wandered off onto the trail and got way sick.

scone wrote:
3D Home Architect
thanks. Actually, we're also going to rip out the kitchen and move some walls around. I know nothing about what's available. If you have any additional suggestions, I'd appreciate your advice.

That's a good choice. For 3D models, try Google Sketchup. For an actual (and free) Autocad clone, try Draftsight (that would be for 2D drawing).
Note that there are significant learning curves.

Here is an Autocad 'cloud' product that will let you put in furniture, finish materials and do 3D renderings. (Also no cost):
Autodesk Homestyler Free Home Design Software - Design Your Home Online with Autodesk Homestyler

burnside wrote:

I've been curious about that, in that Richard Meier or Rem Koolhaas conduct international practices.

States generally recognize reciprocity, but it can be a pain to deal with unless you have an NCARB file. Many countries have less restrictive licensure requirements than the U.S. does, so practicing abroad can be done. And, those high-profile firms generally partner with an in-country practice to do the actual working drawings, whereas the "starchitect" firm does the design.

EDIT: oops, scone beat me to it.

Juvenal Delinquent wrote:

Chico Escuela?

No hablo español...

Cinco-X wrote:

Do you have any actual facts that indicate that they are in fact actively working towards greater economic disparity and concentration of power?

1. This is not an organization bent on redistributing wealth either directly through taxes or indirectly through regulation. Hence, increased economic disparity is the end result.
2. This is not a political party focused on regulating economic activity. There is enough recorded economic history to show that without obvious efforts at restraining economic activity, the end result of deregulated markets is political corruption and monopolies and all of the follow-on harmful effects to the society.
3. If the Tea Parties actually had the interests of the bottom 50% in mind AT ALL, they'd be characterized as criminals or whisked off into the media corn fields like Ron Paul's Iowa success at Fox News.

wally,
thank you

sum luk wrote:

thanks. Actually, we're also going to rip out the kitchen and move some walls around. I know nothing about what's available. If you have any additional suggestions, I'd appreciate your advice.

Don't get AutoCAD unless you want to make a career out of it. It's a vast labyrinth, a twisty maze of little passages. You don't need an atomic hammer, just a simple pencil and paper. You'll learn more if you draw it by hand. Also, get the Graphic Guide to Frame Construction by Rob Thallon-- his books are really good. You can pretty much copy his details, if you know what you are looking at.

But there's the rub-- you need to know something about Western platform framing methods and details. If you don't, you are screwed. Like, move a bearing wall, house falls down.

Infinite praise: Google Doodle Celebrates 410th Birthday of Mathematician Pierre de Fermat | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

New Goog patent .. hmmmm?

Abstract
A system provides a periodically changing story line and/or a special event company logo to entice users to access a web page. For the story line, the system may receive objects that tell a story according to the story line and successively provide the objects on the web page for predetermined or random amounts of time. For the special event company logo, the system may modify a standard company logo for a special event to create a special event logo, associate one or more search terms with the special event logo, and upload the special event logo to the web page. The system may then receive a user selection of the special event logo and provide search results relating to the special event.

**Ok, no one can tell visual stories anymore... sorry.... **

Lobbyist Ben Dover wrote:

The future will be in designing motor homes so Americans can drive away instead of walking away from debt. Laughing out loud

Faster motors on the slide outs and leveler jacks, quicker PM move alongs.

km4 wrote:

We don't think GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry should have threatened to kill Ben Bernanke the other day, but we can certainly understand his frustration.

God, it's great to be a banker.

Boy, does it suck to be an average responsible American.

David Stockman: Rick Perry Is Right, the Fed Is “Totally Wrong” | Daily Ticker - Yahoo! Finance

Tom in AZ wrote:

Lobbyist Ben Dover wrote:

The future will be in designing motor homes so Americans can drive away instead of walking away from debt. Laughing out loud

Faster motors on the slide outs and leveler jacks, quicker PM move alongs.

Hah! My home state of Alabama has been decades ahead of THAT curve...
...if you house has wheels and your car doesn't, you MAY be a redneck....

EvilHenryPaulson Select ratingCancel ratingIgnoredOkayGoodGreatCancel ratingIgnoredOkayGoodGreat wrote:

Steve Jobs' biography is being released early, and his health had taken a turn for the worst last I heard

If he was healthy, I would vote for him. Even then, he's done a better job with his problems than most healthy CEOs.

scone wrote:

But there's the rub-- you need to know something about Western platform framing methods and details. If you don't, you are screwed. Like, move a bearing wall, house falls down.

thanks again. The running joke in my family is that my adopted brother got all the mechanical genes in the family. I'll be stimulating the economy to get the work done. I just need to develop more concrete plans ~ I hate winging it.

Cinco-X wrote:

km4 wrote:
We don't think GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry should have threatened to kill Ben Bernanke the other day, but we can certainly understand his frustration.
God, it's great to be a banker.
Boy, does it suck to be an average responsible American.
David Stockman: Rick Perry Is Right, the Fed Is “Totally Wrong” | Daily Ticker - Yahoo! Finance

Yup and Ron Paul has been saying this for 30 yrs

Vonbek777 wrote:

Mayor's gift to ex-wife? A 20-ton boulder on her lawn, wrapped in ribbon & note - Winnipeg Free Press

My wife would love a large boulder, especially with a ribbon.

km4 wrote:

Yup and Ron Paul has been saying this for 30 yrs

Mentioned in the piece...worth a listen....or read...

Cinco-X wrote:

So the answer is no?

... good reasoning though.

Mortgage Refinance Activity Graph

sum luk wrote:

thanks again. The running joke in my family is that my adopted brother got all the mechanical genes in the family. I'll be stimulating the economy to get the work done. I just need to develop more concrete plans ~ I hate winging it.

If you're going to hire a builder, get him or her to draw it. He'll likely want to do that anyway, because your stuff will be full of beginner mistakes-- no offense. If it's not an owner-builder project, it's a waste of time for you to do this-- just sketch what you want and let him take it from there.

Isn't it a little unseemly that Count Formaldehyde is picking an in/deflation battle with ZH?

km4 wrote:

Boy, does it suck to be an average responsible American.

its a hard job but someone has to do it,so it is I ms average hermit in doublewide cave do the very best i can

MaryAnn wrote:

The Shaw

in georgia?

Vonbek777 wrote:

Mayor's gift to ex-wife? A 20-ton boulder on her lawn, wrapped in ribbon & note - Winnipeg Free Press

I was waaaay better about doing mean things to my ex-husband than he was about doing mean things to me (well--at least after that whole leaving me for my old college friend while I had a newborn and a 4 year old....)

But.......I digress...... the one thing he did that was pretty funny--was that he started sending the child support payments drafted on checks that had an illustration of a man being pecked to death by a vulture.

I had to hand it to him on that one. That was pretty funny, for him.

Rob Dawg wrote:

Give me leverage or give me debt!

What about leveraged debt?

gabyjan wrote:

what secret,pearl?

Secret? I know of no secret.....

And the Shaw I was referring to was in DC. I thought DC was the location that Mary was talking about--but I guess I was wrong. DC is the only place I know of with a "beltway,"--but I'm sure there are plenty of others.

Okay. I better go now. I thought the Architecture thread would be short--and when it started it, I promised I would only stay for this one last thread! I am sooooo bad!

Bye Miss Gaby!

km4 wrote:

Ron Paul has been saying this for 30 yrs

but he's not cute

Cinco-X wrote:

So the answer is no?

Those are facts. Maybe I've got those jokers all wrong though..

Please show me Tea Party proposals that actually redistribute wealth. Deregulation and a lower tax burden is not it.
Please show me Tea Party proposals for strengthening (and funding) regulatory agencies.
Show me a current society where there is broad wealth distribution and no regulated economic activity.

I need all three. Not one and done.

Later on, after this day is long forgotten you'll discover none of the claims they make come true. Perhaps you'll even accept you were made a fool by whomever is funding the Tea Party.

some investor guy wrote:

Steve Jobs' biography is being released early, and his health had taken a turn for the worst last I heard

If he was healthy, I would vote for him. Even then, he's done a better job with his problems than most healthy CEOs.

It seems to me there are already enough of his kind in politics already. The guy has some dreadful skeletons in his closet.

Pearl wrote:

dilbert dogbert wrote:

A friend told me a very large number some years back. What is the yearly maintenance cost?

Yeah. That's what I liked about Rob Dawg's avocado ranch. It was already producing a ton of avocados.

But I think Rob Dawg decided against becoming an avocado baron, after all....

Had a couple up at the undisclosed location this summer and the husband told of being NAFTAed out of his avacado ranch in Morepark. He is the guy who is in Glod and Treasuries.

sum luk wrote:

scone wrote:

most residential is done by draftsmen, builders, interior designers, and amateurs like me.

... my senior partner and I are planning to add a 300 sq ft porch w/ shed roof. Any chance you could recommend a good drafting program ~ I'm probably using the wrong term too.

All you need is a good craftsman. If you live in Reno I can get you a recommendation.

burnside wrote:

I've been curious about that, in that Richard Meier or Rem Koolhaas conduct international practices.

Somebody on staff has a stamp.