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OK. 479.5 years in prison, but he can be out in 325.75 years with good behaviour. My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.

Mostly just cessna's. A beach aircraft, and one or two similar sized flying things. My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.

I actually just looked that up on utube.com. It looked like it was a HQ type building. Either way she risked innocent civilian lives. I still stand by my original position that there is a distinction between collateral damage and targetting civilians. You're right though, it is human nature to input some self serving bias into our interpretation of our actions versus theirs (ie we cut ourselves a little more slack). I cannot put all enemy forces in Iraq into one category. I'm not likely going to be the one here to come up with a difinitive answer or distinction. I can only offer an opinion on this one. My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.

Indulged in some BC Gold back in the day? I can't remember the scene (the movie was so long ago), but I guess the distinction would be collateral damge when hitting a military (or military support/infrastructure) target vs deliberately targetting civilians. I guess with any insurgency there are no POW facilities available to he insurgents so holding prisoners may not be feasible. That was my take on it. My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.

I do not recall the wolverines setting off bombs in crowded markets, kidnapping journalists for beheading videos, torturing and executing any local officials who happened to try to help at all with keeping order (where is the line drawn at for collaboration?). I acknowledge that anyone can be understandably motivated to fight back when thier homeland is invaded, so I cannot say that every tribal elder who fights against US forces is a terrorist. Many are just simple peasants who are responding to foreign troops in their land while some are imported Al Qaeda types. I don't think it is that black and white. The ones in Red Dawn would not have qualified as terrorists I don't think. My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.

Whenever I speak to any muslims I know and the topic goes to politices (aka war on terror, bush, 911..etc), I find that not only is there an unwillingness to condemn terrorist acts, they usually go on a tirade about all the western wrongs and spend a great deal of time trying to get me to see it from the terrorists perspective, without any concession of wrongdoing on the part of terrorists. Now I am by no means saying that we (the west) have a great track record nor do I deny that others have reason to be angry with us. My point is that pretty much any time I speak to a muslim, while they don't say it overtly, the impression I am usually left with is that they see islamic terrorism against the west as being somehow justified. My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.

Once saw a street hooker ( I think she was a hooker)that had some sort of overdose. She was on the ground twitching as a crowd stood around and some weird shit was coming out of her mouth. I do not have formal CPR training but I have been shown how. I was thinking "Pleeeeaaaase keep breathing". I know it sounds shallow but I was really not looking forward to putting my mouth there. I also did not not want to watch a person die. Fortunately my dilemna was resolved and the ambulance pulled up. Fucking saved by the bell. My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.

Agreed My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.

Please can one of you lawyers on this forum explain to me how this can possibly be ethical/moral/right. If you cannot then please assure me that this goof will not win. Please tell me that somewhere within our system there is enough common sense that a judge will throw this crap in the garbage and tell him what a fucking shitbird he is (using more professional language of course). It would be lovely if some really high priced lawyer felt charitable enough offered his services to these poor people for free so they can countersue this idiot for legal fees and their own mental suffering. My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.

That is why I do not find UFC exciting, and prefer boxing. My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.

Ssshhht.......Quiet. My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.

Somewhere between rare and medium rare. I like it red in the centre, with a fair amount of blood. As it has already been mentioned there does not seem to be universal definitions, so often when I have ordered rare I got blue steak which was not to my taste. That is why I am often cautious and order medium rare (of course then they often serve it medium). My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.

I agree that the choice of location is strange. Sorry if the comment on social workers was taken the wrong way. I just find that often here in ontario (or canada as a whole) there seems to be an "in your face" nature to the anti-poverty industry/advocates. Rather than come up with workable compromises they seem to almost like setting up scenarios that will result in conflict between homeowners and street people. It seems they feel that by agrivating people they can bring attention to the issue, while gleefully martyring the homeless for their agenda. Many of the decisions seem to have no basis in reality and seem to be designed to force people to not ignore the homeless..."Don't want to see it; fine, we are putting it right in your backyard". While people on this thread on both sides of the debate seem to be offering pro/con based opinions and fair arguments, most of the OCAP (Ontario Coallition Against Poverty) types just live for confrontation. OCAP types seem more interested in being able to get indignant about "heartless greedy selfish fat-cat homeowners" when faced with needless confrontations they did not need to create, than they are about constructive solutions. My experience is that this usually hardens the hearts of otherwise compassionate people who get frustrated. It almost seems to turn the public against the whole homeless industry. Anyways, I apologise if I rambled on there. I do appreciate your input on this, sorry if I come across as a bit frustrated, I have just seen how these type of scenario's can pan out and do not have a good feeling on this. Anyway, thanks for your advice, Cheers My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.

Hard to say really. Gastown is very unique in that it is a tourist trap withinga couple of blocks of skid row. Unfortunately if we turn around and try to sell it right now it might raise some red flags to potential buyers. I am hoping that the small buffer of other condos and restearent/clubs between us and them is enough to absorb it, long enough for the area to hopefully prosper. My other plan is to work with any locals to make our neighborhood a very unfriendly place for panhandlers and vagrants (unless of course by some miracle the local pressure might get the city to reverse this ridiculous idea). My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.

We definitely need stricter laws on spyware. Some consequences that pack a punch would help enforce. My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.

I maight have not explained myself well. When I say investment, I realised that the possibility of the home not appreciating (other than for inflation), was a distinct possibility. What I meant was simply having a chunk of it paid off so we actually qualify for a bigger mortgage since we now have more equity (down payment + principle paid off). Even if there is no appreciation we would have some equity to move to a better home eventually where we could start a family. We intended to live really frugally (remain in a temporary state of born-again-whuffo) and make the additional principle payments so we could have enough for a better place. This could potentially drive down the price to the point where the devaluation of the price eclipses the equity from the down payment and principle depletion. In effect we would be in less of a position to be buying a home than we were when we picked our current place. My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.

It has been proposed for a fairly short time. We signed the contract quite a while ago and only took posession about two months ago. The isuue was proposed shortly after we had signed on the dotted line, so it was too late to back out. After that all we could do was hope that the public pressure would prevent it. They just recently confirmed that they were going to go ahead with it. Meticulously. We turned down several appearingly good deals because through independant investigation we found out about things the developers were trying to hide from us. We did our homework on this area, and looked at all the planned investment in the area. Given the choice of location most people were astonished that the city would suddenly do this because it was clearly zoned for residential condo development and new business yet with no local social services, and not a big homeless problem. They are importing the problem into a new investment area. My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.

We dould live here forever so long as we have no desire to have children. To have kids we will need to move into something bigger, no ifs ands or buts. This place is for a bachelor or a couple, that is it. In Toronto housing prices are ridiculous and even highly paid professionals often have to start with a one bedroom condo. There is no other way into the market here so it is structured so that you have no choice but to treat your first home as a starter home investment. There is no other way in this city for most workers. This will be devastating to the resale, and we would like to have kids someday while we are still young enough. It worked for you. What I have seen is that in the other neighborhood this happened to, the residents were driven out, and couldn't resell so now expensive victorian homes are being rented out as low rental and the neighborhood is falling to crap. Cheers My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.

It would be nice if the city compensated owners financially for their loss , or at the very least drastically adjusted our property taxes and utilities costs to help keep our resale competitive. My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.

There are no social services near our neighborhood. A little further north or east would have put them close to a hospital, a meth clinice, substance abuse counselling centres. There are no such facilities near us. I would not be against the idea of some sort of halfway house for people who are assessed as hard luck cases who are trying to get on their feet actually looking for work. In this case they are putting in one that is aimed more at substance abuse cases (there will be some sort of rehab service offered there). These are not going to be hard luck cases. These are going to be the kind who have no inclination to change their lives and will walk around the neighboorhood stoned/drunk and urinating/deficating wherever suits their fancy, while they aggressively seek sources of funds to feed their addictions be it by aggressive panhandling (even new yorkers up here have commented on how aggressive our panhandlers are) or stealing. THis would be better suited well to the east of here where there is a hospital, several related social services and not a new investment community which even without the shelter could have gone either way. This will bring the drunks/druggies from the bad neighborhood directly into ours. When the demand (for drugs) moves into our neighborhood so will the supply (drug dealing gangs) and thus so will violence. What will not be moving into our neighborhood is any kind of new positive investment. We paid a fortune to move into a very small condo but we accepted that because it was a neighborhood that was expected to appreciate in value. If you were looking to buy, and you came to check out our home and saw drunk people passed out in the streets, litter everywhere and general filth, were aggressively panhandled while entering the building with your real estate agent, and stepped in vomit/urine while walking in and then got hassled again on the way out would you buy our condo? So what do you think happens to our value. Our own mortgage/debt doesn't adjust to reflect this devaluation. We will be up to our ears in debt paying to live in a place that we cannot sell for anything but dolar store prices. My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.

It's not that black and white. Putting a shelter is fine, but everyone even the media have agreed that the choice of location is a disaster. It is smack dab between the clubs/restearents and a new development area. Putting it several blocks away where it is outside of either residential or consumer/commercial would make it just as attainable to the homeless without the degree of friction. Have you ever lived near one? The other one I see has so completely fucked up the neighborhood that the residents who had nice expensive homes now cannot sell them. They now rent them out ( low rental) because that is all they can do with them. Is it critical to destroy someones life investment to do this? People simplify this to a case of "Oh the big meany hates poor people". When you cannot step out your front door without having to step over some drunk guy and/or a pool of vomit, without being aggressively panhandled that is ridiculous. Imagine drunks pissing in the steets which they do around these shelters. Since many (seemingly most) are addicts their suppliers go where the demand is which is right in your neighboorhood. THen follows the crime. My wife and I saved for years and still had to borrow for a down-payment to be able to afford a one bedroom condo. Our plan was to buy it, make as much of the additional principle payments as possible and hopefully if the market did not turn, get a little equity with which we could turn around and maybe move up to a 2-3 bedroom which would allow us to start a family (something that would not be feasible in our current location). Due to our income vs housing costs in the city we had no choice but to take a 35 year mortgage. With that sort of payment plan the amount of principle we could pay off in 5 years would be almost zip so we would have to wait about 8 years and make additional payments before we could afford to move up. With this new shelter it is highly that our property value will decrease by a much greater amount than our principle depletion thus leaving us with negative net equity. Is that a good thing? Hard working people who waited for years saving (staying away from skydiving) to be able to afford their first home now have their investment destroyed? This shelter could have gone six blocks away in an area where they would have not been right in the new residential area. This would have mitigated friction, allowed them an area to panhandle outside of a tourist area (bad for the tourism industry) and not fuck up peoples investments. If a 2 year old was a city planner they could have seen that the current choice of location is a disaster. My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.

The other one that I know of is bigger than the one going in here but the neighborhood which looks like it once was pretty nice (old well designed victorian homes), now looks like a cesspool. He basically found that almost every morning when he left for work, he had to step over a random homeless guy who for whatever reason did not sleep in the shelter that night. When he started rousing them off his porch at all hours so as to send a message, they retaliated by deficating on his porch every-time he wasn't around. Lose-lose so he left. I was trying oh so hard to remain positive about this but you are right. My investment is going to get hurt. I have never agreed with moving them into residential neighborhoods. All you do there is randomly pick some unfortunate homeowners and tell them "sorry, your property values just took a hit" I am all for helping the poor but this is ridiculous. With clubs and restaurents nearby, and all kinds of residents (who carry spare change) the neighborhood may go to shit. When I look at the locations that seem to get picked for these, I almost feel that the social worker making the decision is some anti-establishment type who derives pleasure from creating an obvious conflict which will hurt a neighborhood so he/she can "stick it to the man" My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.

My wife and I recently bought a condo in one of those rezoned areas where they are changing the look to condo developments. Ours is one of several fairly unique buildings that have been put up in an area that is expected to have more condos built.We were very meticulous about looking into the surrounding neighborhoods to be sure there was nothing that could potentially lead to high crime or poor resale value (meth clinics, shelters, subsidized welfare projects being put up...etc). Anyway, very shortly after we signed on the dotted line the city announced that they were going to put a fairly big homeless shelter fairly close to our building. Doh!! It was battled by several home-owners and business's and it looked as though the city was reconsidering but then they just recently confirmed that they will go ahead with it. I am obviously concerned about this as we saved forever to be able to make a down payment on a small condo primarily just to get into the market, so we could build some equity and hopefully upgrade. While I worry about potential crime ; More importantly I am concerned about how much impact this will have on the resale of our home. I had had a coworker who lived near one and the neighborhood turned into a cesspool (he was a bit closer than we are), but since he was renting he had no info on change in housing prices. It seems like the city planners could not have picked a worse location since this is supposed to be a new investment area and many of the new developers they hoped to bring in might back out. What goes in instead when the expected condos don't go up? Subsidized housing? Rehab centers? This could be disastrous for our investment. Does anyone have any real stats on the impact of new homeless shelters on real estate prices? I am doing some research now but am only finding opinions and usually from partisan sources. Looking for any first hand experience anectotes and preferably some statistics from a non-partisan source. My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.

Hey congrats! My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.

Hey, we are likeminded heroes. I usually would do something similar but also lose control of the bladder, and start crying. My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.