Now smile & dance. 👻 🖐

Everytime you turn around they are trying to infringe on your rights not protect them. Then we have to try and normalize and give legitimacy to every freakazoid behavior out there. We keep lowering the bar for humanity, just look at what people watch on TV these days.

I suppose after doing my taxes and adding up every tax, user fee or whatever they want to call it and giving nearly 60% of my annual income to federal, state, county, town and other various government entities I should smile ?

I'm not buyin it, of course I don't watch the nightly news either, my mind doesn't get it's daily dose of programming.

You are pretty funny, I must admit.

Wheel happens to correct. origins are origins, and that's where it began.

I'm not in a niche industry, nor do we get government contracts. Our biz depends on confidence in the future. It was simplistic of me to lay all the credit on rental rehab and DMV in #19 was quick and correct to pounce on it. Rentals carried us across the bridge from the worst times in the economy and housing market, but as of about two years or so ago individual remodeling by owner occupied housing greatly picked up and have increased, new housing starts are picking up, developers are everywhere again (sure, they end up renting the units) but these are new construction and conversions of dead property like abandoned warehouses and mills from older cities, not just new carpets and paint in existing apartment buildings. Boston and surrounding areas are booming every night, people are actually bidding above asking price on city neighborhood condos.

We are in the process of completing a few large contracts and already have projects in the pipeline for the next year, both in moneyed neighborhoods (Chestnut Hill) and traditionally depressed areas (Haverhill area eg). Projects like the planned development of the old Boston Herald location are coming up behind the others. Not all will be rentals, many are planned condo developments.

I came into this thread with optimism and now I'm depressed. Think I'll go to my happy place...work!

You know why I watch restaurant/bar/store rescue shows? Because it gives me hope for humanity.

If I want the opposite feeling and a realization of what we're becoming, I'll peruse pawnshop/property flipper/storage-repo shows. That's just short of exploitation & capitalizing off misery IMHO.

Just a thought whiles I sits.🍺

Have a nice vacation in St. Thomas(?), Frank. Post pics.

read the history of Trans- Jordan

After capturing the West Bank area of Cisjordan during the 1948–49 war with Israel, Abdullah took the title King of Jordan and, in April 1949, officially changed the country's name to the "Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan". The following year, he annexed the West Bank.

wheel,

I'll turn off my power so you won't read anything against your will.

at least I stirred up some shyte, just turned out to be the same ol' shyte. Guess I'm just bored with it, so I went looking for trouble.

I like those reataurant and bar rescue shows too. Always wondered what happens a year later.

Clearly I am beyond ready to unwind. thanks for the well wishes. Yes, St. Thomas.

you know what, he said gaza.

Israel acquired Gaza and the West Bank through much more recent treaties with Jordan and Egypt. They own the concentration camps fair and square.

and don't forget we recently learned they also own all the land from the river to the sea (maybe more!), per the written warranty you suggested they should have received in a recent thread. I pointed out they did have that document. It's called....The Old Testament. Read it, great stuff.

Clever bait that it is to use the irony of Nazi linked terminology against the very same victims of their planned genocide merely decades later, it is a poor analogy.

Slumlords, maybe, but Neo-Concentration Camp counselors? Total fail! If the Nazis ran theirs for this poorly, there'd be countless millions more Jews alive and thriving on the planet today. Sanitized dictionary def aside, the term is used purposely here.

The showers in Gaza and the West Bank provide water, not life extinguishing gas. Sometimes I genuinely think you are brilliantly and even ironically funny, and sometimes I think you need to examine your motives if being playful isn't really one of them.

Am I your dancing monkey now? I must entertain you with new material at the drop of a little monkey hat with no warning or free bananas?

um,,

Jordan screwed over the Palestinians originally , which created the current situation...

You really should read more...

will you ever forgive me?

That's the problem with alcoholics...they come in the life of the party but when it's effects run out...well..the depressions sets in. Work is the only place a functional alcoholic can find solace in...they get rewarded with more drinking off shift!

If that's true, I just learned something new about addictive behavior.

I knew I should have used those little smiley guys to clarify sarcasm. I'm not really depressed by the gloom portrayed here.

And I certainly hope you aren't speaking from first hand knowledge.