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[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Cletus Miller
The acquisition of a small shopping center (say 200,000 square feet or less, with one anchor tenant) can easily be handled, soup to nuts, including entity formation and loan documents, by a single competent real estate associate in less than 300 total hours. This assumes a professionally-run real estate operating company client using off the rack corporate documents and a lender with an ongoing relationship with the operating company (i.e., the typical situation for clients buying smaller shopping centers). Throw in a couple of leases (extensions or renewals included) and add maybe 50 hours. One could handle 4 of these in 7 months without any help; add a junior associate to do the monkey work, and twice or three-times as many would be realistic.

When you put it that way, I really, really miss law.

Even at, say $3-4... even $5 hundred K a year, how in the fuck do you not blow your fucking brains out?

[Cletus Miller]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
When you put it that way, I really, really miss law.

Even at, say $3-4... even $5 hundred K a year, how in the fuck do you not blow your fucking brains out?

I'm half way out--not in a firm, but still in a jd-required job. That sort of practice is only tolerable if you have decent, semi-reasonable clients.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I would rather look at her for the next seven years than Sarkozy.

So she'll be over 60 by the end of those seven years? Cu-coo-ca-choo!

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Caption, please.

Hello, Mrs. Robinson.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Hello, Mrs. Robinson.

Interesting choice. If I were going the S&G route, I would have gone with "The Boxer."

All lies and jest.
Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Lie-la-lie
Lie-la-lie lie lie-la-lie
Lie-la-lie
Lie-la-lie lie-la-lie lie lie
Lie-la-lie lie lie

[sgtclub]

http://player.clipsyndicate.com/play...resize=1&cpt=8

[spree: fight in Taiwan legislature]

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Lifted entirely from The Volokh Conspiracy, here's a post by David Kopel:

"France will not abandon the women who are condemned to the burqa"

President-elect Nicolas Sarkozy's first speech to the French nation concluded with a wonderful endorsement of human rights. (Video here.)

Sarkozy spoke from a prepared text, which appears on his official campaign websites. If you read the text while listening to the speech, you will find various minor ways in which he deviated from the text, such as by inserting an extra word. The text of the speech as actually delivered is on Le Figaro's website.

In the prepared text, the penultimate paragraph is:

• Je veux lancer un appel à tous ceux qui dans le monde croient aux valeurs de tolérance, de liberté, de démocratie et d’humanisme, à tous ceux qui sont persécutés par les tyrannies et par les dictatures, à tous les enfants et à toutes les femmes martyrisés dans le monde pour leur dire que la France sera à leurs côtés, qu’ils peuvent compter sur elle.

In English: "I want to launch a call to all those in the world who believe in the values of tolerance, of liberty, of democacy and of humanism, to all those who are persecuted by the tyrannies and by the dictators, to all the children and to all the martyrized women in the world to say to them that the pride, the duty of France will at their sides, that they can count on her."

(The italicized words were in the speech as delivered, but not in the prepared text.) Pretty good so far. Then, Sarkozy delivered a paragraph which did not appear in the prepared text, and his rising passion matched that of the audience:

• La France sera aux côtés des infirmières libyennes enfermées depuis huit ans, la France n'abandonnera pas Ingrid Betancourt, la France n'abandonnera pas les femmes qu'on condamne à la burqa, la France n'abandonnera pas les femmes qui n'ont pas la liberté. La France sera du côté des opprimés du monde. C'est le message de la France, c'est l'identité de la France, c'est l'histoire de la France.

In English: "France will be at the sides of the Libyan nurses locked up for eight years; France will not abandon Ingrid Betancourt; France will not abandon the women who are condemned to the burqa; France will not abandon the women who do not have liberty. France will be by the side of the oppressed of the world. This is the message of France; this is the identity of France; this is the history of France."

The speech concludes:

• Mes chers compatriotes, nous allons écrire ensemble une nouvelle page de notre histoire. Cette page de notre histoire, mes chers compatriotes, je suis sûr qu'elle sera grande, qu'elle sera belle. Et du fond du coeur, je veux vous le dire, avec la sincérité la plus totale qui est la mienne au moment où je vous parle: Vive la République et vive la France.

"My dear compatriots, together we will write a new page of our history. This page of our history, my dear compatriots, I am sure that it will be grand, that it will be beautiful. And from the bottom of the heart, I want to say to you, with the most total sincerity which is mine at the time when I speak to you: Long live the Republic and long live France."

If Sarkozy can govern as he spoke, if he can lead France in leading the worldwide fight for human rights, if he can energize 21st century France with the eternal truths of liberty that are the best elements of France's tradition, then Nicolas Sarkozy--like Charles de Gaulle and Ronald Reagan--will earn a place in the pantheon of the most important democratic leaders, who took a tired and timid nation in decline, and led it to a new era of greatness.

French political rallies often conclude with La Marseillaise. It is inspiring to listen to the Marseillaise among the huge crowd at Sarkozy's victory speech at La Place de la Concorde.

• Allons enfants de la Patrie
  Le jour de gloire est arrivé.
  Contre nous, de la tyrannie,
  L'étandard sanglant est levé...
  Liberté, Liberté chérie,
  Combats avec tes défenseurs !

Arise children of the nation
The day of glory has arrived.
Against us, tyranny's
Bloody banner is raised...
Liberty, dear Liberty,
fight alongside your defenders!

Aux armes citoyens!

All links are Kopel's.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Interesting choice. If I were going the S&G route, I would have gone with "The Boxer."

All lies and jest.
Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Lie-la-lie
Lie-la-lie lie lie-la-lie
Lie-la-lie
Lie-la-lie lie-la-lie lie lie
Lie-la-lie lie lie

W's more a "You Can Call Me Al" kind of guy.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
W's more a "You Can Call Me Al" kind of guy.

If we're going with the solo stuff, I'd go with "Still Crazy after All These Years."

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
If we're going with the solo stuff, I'd go with "Still Crazy after All These Years."

I. like most people, have always found Jon Voight the most straight thinking, intelligent and unbiased of our major international superstars. That is why I've wondered why he has been silent about politics the last few years. well the great man finally let his views be known, and i must say they are as insightful as I had dexpected:

• My heart is very heavy, and I‘m really terrified by what is happening to our great nation. Our country is being divided by extremists who really believe all the propaganda that they are being fed on a daily basis by very cunning professionals.
  
  I mean, here we have American people in this country, in this city, in D.C., defacing our president, calling him unthinkable names. And what is the agenda for which they are doing this? And I find it‘s just to bring their party to power.
  
  And these people that—and I‘m stepping way into something now—but these people who are wanting to rule with this aspect of technique have no real answer as to how they‘re going to do it, as witnessed by Nancy Pelosi‘s trip recently. And the real sad part is that they don‘t realize that they‘re feeding the enemy all the nutrients that they need to destroy us.

http://newsbusters.org/node/12633

Some damning points, and i now understand why most of you have been brain washed.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I. like most people, have always found Jon Voight the most straight thinking, intelligent and unbiased of our major international superstars. That is why I've wondered why he has been silent about politics the last few years. well the great man finally let his views be known, and i must say they are as insightful as I had dexpected:

• My heart is very heavy, and I‘m really terrified by what is happening to our great nation. Our country is being divided by extremists who really believe all the propaganda that they are being fed on a daily basis by very cunning professionals.
  
  I mean, here we have American people in this country, in this city, in D.C., defacing our president, calling him unthinkable names. And what is the agenda for which they are doing this? And I find it‘s just to bring their party to power.
  
  And these people that—and I‘m stepping way into something now—but these people who are wanting to rule with this aspect of technique have no real answer as to how they‘re going to do it, as witnessed by Nancy Pelosi‘s trip recently. And the real sad part is that they don‘t realize that they‘re feeding the enemy all the nutrients that they need to destroy us.

http://newsbusters.org/node/12633

Some damning points, and i now understand why most of you have been brain washed.

You can quote all the Hollyweird loonies you want, but don't expect it to carry much weight around here.

Do you think he and Ratso ever hooked up?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I. like most people, have always found Jon Voight the most straight thinking, intelligent and unbiased of our major international superstars.

I prefer not to pay much attention to what celebrities think about current events.

[Gattigap]

I was somewhat startled to see, while driving through West LA recently, a building carrying the signage, "Iranian Jewish Senior Center."

I do not know if this retirement community is designed to attract the largest definitional demographic, or instead is tailored to that tiny area where the Venn Diagram overlaps.

If the latter, why?

If the former, my money says that the nightly bingo games are somethin'.

Carry on.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Gattigap
I was somewhat startled to see, while driving through West LA recently, a building carrying the signage, "Iranian Jewish Senior Center."

I do not know if this retirement community is designed to attract the largest definitional demographic, or instead is tailored to that tiny area where the Venn Diagram overlaps.

If the latter, why?

If the former, my money says that the nightly bingo games are somethin'.

Carry on.

The Persians who live here call your city Tehrangeles. If the subset exists, that's the likely place on the planet it'd be found.

Or maybe Paris.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
The Persians who live here call your city Tehrangeles. If the subset exists, that's the likely place on the planet it'd be found.

Or maybe Paris.

There's a bunch of them in Montreal. In fact, I think there's even an Iranian Jewish Congress-type organization there.