Politics and religion, issues not worth touching with a 100 foot poll for me. But I want to dip my toe in to the pool to make a small point. I have written and deleted this post a couple of times. It was harder to write than I thought but here’s my shot.
I got mad after I watched Food, Inc a week or two ago. In 13 states they have made it easier for food producers to sue their critics for libel. But libel laws already exist. Why do should they get an easier burden of proof than anyone else? Either we voted for the law or we voted for the lawmaker who voted for these laws.
So here it is plain and simple: Read and learn about what you are voting on. Don’t just follow your party lines. Don’t just follow your ideologies. Think it through and don’t let commercials do your work for you. Make an informed decision. A vote shouldn’t be a trivial thing.
Massachusetts had been Ted Kennedy’s state for 46 years and Elizabeth Coakley thought she could walk in to Ted Kennedy’s seat without even tryingjust because she was a Democrat and Obama had carried the state by 26 points over a year ago. Oops.
Lastly, I read an article in the Portland Magazine about a woman who felt it was her civic duty to be a juror and not try to get out of it like you hear people talk about so often. She didn’t like what she saw from the other jurors and she came away from it thinking she never wanted her fate to be in front of a jury because of what she saw.
As you make your decisions to vote, are you making them with the intent and knowledge that you would want others to have if you had written the measure?
The 4th quarter of 2008 was dismal and it continued through the 1st quarter of 2009. The fact that we sold 187 less homes in 2009 than 2008 shows that we stabilized those bad times. Time will tell if the stabilization holds but there is hope. I still don’t see a V shaped recovery.
I would love comments on the video. I want to know if anyone finds it better than just rewriting the information on a post.
If you don’t know what is going on with NBC, Jay Leno, and Conan O’Brien, you might count your self a little lucky. It is better than any “reality” show out there but it is tedious because it seems to be about a spoiled millionaire, Jay Leno, for the most part who in effect changed his mind about retiring..
So how do I tie this in to the Late Night debacle? Jay seems to be returning to 11:35 and Conan was asked to be pushed to 12:05. Conan said no and that he respected the institution that is “The Tonight Show”. There was also a belief that NBC didn’t have the right to move him otherwise it was a breach of contract and he would still get 60 – 80 million dollars.
Now there are reports that he doesn’t have that 11:35 time guaranteed in his contract – and that might be costly. Who would have thought there would be a scenario that he needed to have that in a contract. When else has “The Tonight Show” aired without being bumped by sports or breaking news? I would have never expected they would bring Jay back to the timethey forced him to leave.
Real estate is a little backwards but typically negotiations take place and then a contract is written. Contracts are to enforce what everyone wanted and agreed to do in the first place. So by leaving something out, just because it seems understood, it can bite you when someone gets desperate much like NBC is right now.
Do the drapes come with the house? How clean will the house be when possession occurs? Is there a walk through prior to close written in? If you want it, write it in.
And this is for all contracts. In my mind a contract is to enforce what everyone was thinking the day the contract was drafted. As time goes on view points change and people may become desperate it keeps everything in line. Protect yourself.
Cedar Hills is one of the most popular neighborhoods in Beaverton. Wide streets and gorgeous yards like they made back in the in the day still exist. Popular schools and quick access to Portland are just a few of the of the benefits of this great area.
To do a full map based search of the RMLS click here and see all of the homes for sale in the Portland Metro area.
