Meet your new thread, same as the old thread.

Originally posted by sgtclub
Wow. Do you know her age? I can't think of any other hot politicians, but maybe I'm not thinking. Can we start a top 10?

She's in her fifties, I think.

I read this article in the New Yorker before the election - it profiles all three of the candidates in some depth.

[Shape Shifter]

Caption, please.

[Gattigap]

Nothing leaps to mind.

I like this one, too.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Spencer Ackerman reads George Tenet's book so that Hank doesn't have to:

• Tenet is absolutely right about a central claim in the book: The intelligence wasn't determinative of the war. The Bush administration opted to invade Iraq because of a mélange of strategic reasons, for which the public case about weapons of mass destruction was merely, in Paul Wolfowitz's words, "the one issue that everyone could agree on." The proper word for this is "deceit."

[Cletus Miller]

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
Um...like they weren't diligencing or looking at the target before then, right.

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.

[Shape Shifter]

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.

If you drilled down to a greater level of granularity, more time would be baked in.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

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

Force de frappe indeed.

Originally posted by Gattigap
Nothing leaps to mind.

I like this one, too.

Not even the all-purpose "Weee are not amused"?

But I've seen that look before, in a nursing home from the random old lady in the hallway who thinks you might be someone who did them wrong back in 1923. They hate you, but they can't really be sure why.

[Diane_Keaton]

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.

This is just too much information about shopping center transactions and I needed coffee mid-read, thank you. Anyhow, the point is -- look at the resume big picture. He's waxing poetic (and in detail) about his employment at a job he was at for only 7 months. Figure the first month of learning the phones, computers, which secretaries put out and which partners to avoid, and then take off a month at the end of the 7 months for whatever bullshit went down to end the employment and now you have 5 months at a job. I think a sentence or two should suffice on a resume for that stint.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by ironweed
Not even the all-purpose "Weee are not amused"?

But I've seen that look before, in a nursing home from the random old lady in the hallway who thinks you might be someone who did them wrong back in 1923. They hate you, but they can't really be sure why.

Oh, c'mon. He doesn't look that old.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
This is just too much information about shopping center transactions and I needed coffee mid-read, thank you. Anyhow, the point is -- look at the resume big picture. He's waxing poetic (and in detail) about his employment at a job he was at for only 7 months. Figure the first month of learning the phones, computers, which secretaries put out and which partners to avoid, and then take off a month at the end of the 7 months for whatever bullshit went down to end the employment and now you have 5 months at a job. I think a sentence or two should suffice on a resume for that stint.

wouldn't weekly travel to anti-war rallies take up some time too?

[Cletus Miller]

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
This is just too much information about shopping center transactions and I needed coffee mid-read, thank you. Anyhow, the point is -- look at the resume big picture. He's waxing poetic (and in detail) about his employment at a job he was at for only 7 months. Figure the first month of learning the phones, computers, which secretaries put out and which partners to avoid, and then take off a month at the end of the 7 months for whatever bullshit went down to end the employment and now you have 5 months at a job. I think a sentence or two should suffice on a resume for that stint.

Agreed. Listing each of the docs from the closing book index was my favorite.

[Cletus Miller]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
If you drilled down to a greater level of granularity, more time would be baked in.

I wanted to drop from the 40,000 foot level and get down to the short strokes.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Cletus Miller
Agreed. Listing each of the docs from the closing book index was my favorite.

His resume reads like one of those overwhelming five page menus at a restuarant that makes everything from gyros to sushi. It's varied as hell, and all shit.

I notice he's soon to be listing the Hair Club for Men on it as well.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by ironweed
Not even the all-purpose "Weee are not amused"?

But I've seen that look before, in a nursing home from the random old lady in the hallway who thinks you might be someone who did them wrong back in 1923. They hate you, but they can't really be sure why.

I am baffled as to why we kiss her ass the way we do. She's a doddering irrelevant novelty from a shotglass-sized gene pool.

If I'm going to worship for its genetic pedigree something that's sole job is standing around looking bored, it's going to be a supermodel.