Darling, You give SCHURR a Bad Name...

sooo watch this.

its kind of disappointing.


but then also enraging that KTLA immediately focused the report not on the issue but the fact that one student did not know how to explain the


issue.
http://blogs.ktla.com/news_custom_eric/2008/09/when-the-protes.html

Mr. Palin's 'Deep Thoughts'

so i dont know the legitimacy of this video, but its a funny thought!!!!




Daddy's the Fisherman, Mommy is the Mayor.

Here comes the bride....

so with my sister getting married a year from today,

i've been thinkin about my own marital situation.

uhmm... who will i marry?

i am currently VERY single. and Happy!
:D
but do i ever see myself getting married in the future?

i dont know. it seems rather hazy to me.

Ive had some time to think, and if i do get married, well damn it im going to be picky about it.


and if i do get married, how many times?

i think 3 :]


they will be the following:

an Anderson Cooper 'type'


i've been watching CNN alot lately and i have recently fell madly in love with him.


i just think he is the most articulate, intelligent caring passionate and influential man.

he came from a life of luxury, and decided to make his own name stand out.

and goshdamnit, he is gorgeous!
so there are rumors he might be gay, :[ but either way.


my second marriage will be with some lord, duke, or baron. some one from royalty. or at least an Heir

i've been watching Forbes and E! specials about heirs and billionaire and royalty who are like young! well, hey, why the heck not!
most are extremely attractive and wearing a crown wont be half bad.


lastly i want to marry a Kennedy. Thats right, you heard me! A Flipin' Kennedy!

i dont think this one needs much of an explanation.

I will only marry if the man falls under that criteria.



How Romantic am I?

Thoughts on rent cotrol

rent control as a method to make housing more affordable and help the economy is one of the greatest misconceptions of our time. Many people fail to see the true harm that rent control can create. Although seen as a way to make housing more affordable, it only provides a temporary relief for few. Even though rent control was introduced to prevent inflation in the 1940’s, now with the rate of inflation continually increasing, rent control harms the land owner , thus creating less attractive homes and more slums. If we abolished rent control, we could let the market price mechanism balance the price for housing along with the help of a higher economic rent tax and the abolishment of improvement tax. Rent control abolishment will make the amount of apartments in demand meet at the equilibrium with the supply available, thus causing more competition between land owners would make homes become more affordable. Most importantly, one can not blame the high price for housing on landowners who rent their property. One must investigate why the land owner is forced to rent their property at such a high rate. You will find that the root cause of unaffordable housing is land speculation, underuse of the land and taxation on improvements.
Although rent control has the power to help some low-income families, it only serves as a temporary relief while it harms the majority. Rent control advocates have nothing to support their claims but their outrages remarks that anti-rent control is intended to suppress the poor and has overtones of racism. What is not shown in the media, are those people who take advantage of the rent control system and the landowners who are forced to find ways to compensate their expenses for the upkeep of the building when the rent on the property does not pay for itself due to rent control. Landowners need to raise the cost of property rent to match their continually rising expenses for the property. When the cost of everything in the market is rising, why should rent be any different? The landowner bought the property at a great cost to him and his is being told by rent control that he is only allowed to make so much on his return of his investment. Through regulations, landowners are discourages to improve or invest in new ones their properties because they can not get the money they invest on the improvements through the rent. These can be easily viewed as a preventative action to the building of new properties.
To really make housing more affordable, or any there business for that matter, the codes must be changed. One of the biggest taxes a land owner pays is their property tax. Property tax is the land value plus the improvements made multiplied by one percent. Land value is a tax that charges landholder a portion of the unimproved value of the site. If the government was to place a heavier charge on the land value and reduce or completely phase out improvement taxation, landowners would be more encouraged to use their land more efficiently causing the creation of more homes and business as well as revenue for the community. If a landholder only sits on his property, it would continue promoting land speculation and cause land would be treated as a collectible, and as economics teaches us, a collectible market only promotes an increase in prices. Levying a higher tax on land-value and eliminating improvement taxes, would encourage communities would flourish and be a lot more productive. There would be a lot more housing opportunities thus causing competition between landlords and driving the cost of living down. Imposing land value tax would always be certain and simple because land can not be hidden or removed. Even though it has been argued that land value tax can not raise enough revenue if taxed heavier than it is recently being taxed, it would be enough to support all the common needs of the community and every landowner would contribute to that cost equally not based on ability as it is today. Land value tax is created by the community. It is the community taking part of the true value they helped to create. Therefore we may tax land values as much as we please, without the slightest degree of lessening the amount of the land or the capabilities of the land. There are many countries that have implemented land value tax. Denmark for example, collects as much as 50% of its revenue through land value taxation. As well as in Australia where some states exempt all improvements in whole. Sydney is the largest city in the world to derive all its municipals revenues from land tax. Sydney enjoys the creation of many buildings and no slums.
In conclusion, rent control is not only a harmful idea, but it is unnecessary if we chose to eliminate the improvement taxes and raise the land value tax so more landowners would be encouraged to build and create prosperous communities.

Disgusted!

i am disguested!
so driving today, i realized yay! i have a full tank of gas. thank you dad.
but its horrible. gas was about 3.55 a MONTH AGO!now the cheapest one i saw coming home is
4.45 a gal!!!!
i dont know how anyone can get by on Min. wage and live?
i am realizing that i am paying to work.
most of my pay check goes to gas. i cant do it any more.
if i STOP working ill save some money.
i need to quit and work somewhere alot closer.
i dont know what its going to take for american society to realize that this can
not go on any longer, and that we should recontruct our methods.
eliminate improvement tax and raise land value tax. it would encourage everyone to use their land more efficantlly.
condense cities. and make everything alot better. IT REALLY IS THAT
SIMPLE!
what is it going to take?!!?!?

obama clinton 08?

now that obama has nabbed the democratic nomination i wonder....

who do u think would be the best choice? i think edwards would . to bad americans dont get it.

im not the Biggest Obama fan but... i suppose he is the less of two evil's. between all three canidates that will be on the ballot, Ron Paul would be ideal. but we all know he wont win unfortuantly. So a vote for Ron Paul would really be like a vote for McCain. it will just be a repeat of 2000 election.

now if Edwards would VP. then.... that would lead the country into some hope. He reminds me of JFK

YSL

Yves Saint Laurent Died at 71 :[



its soo sad :[at least he didnt die like Gianni Versace.we truly lost lost a visionary.Legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent dies at 71 By ELAINE GANLEY, Associated Press Writer 33 minutes agoPARIS - Yves Saint Laurent, one of the most influential and enduring designers of the 20th century, empowered women by reinventing pants as a sleek, elegant staple of the female wardrobe.Saint Laurent, 71, died Sunday night at his Paris home after a yearlong battle with brain cancer, said Pierre Berge, Saint Laurent's close friend and business partner for four decades."Chanel gave women freedom," and Saint Laurent "gave them power," Berge said on France-Info radio. He called Saint Laurent a "true creator" who went beyond the aesthetic to make a social statement."In this sense, he was a libertarian, an anarchist and he threw bombs at the legs of society," he said. "That's how he transformed society and that's how he transformed women."The Gucci Group, which acquired the Yves Saint Laurent fashion house in 1999, said the designer's death "leaves a great emptiness but also a sublime inheritance.""This genius of creation shattered the codes to create French elegance which today makes Paris a grand capital of fashion," Gucci said.Berge, speaking Monday on the France-2 TV station, stressed Saint Laurent's "profound love" for women. He used fashion to "serve women" and not "use them," said Berge, who collaborated with the designer for four decades and was his former romantic partner.In his own words, Saint Laurent once said he felt "fashion was not only supposed to make women beautiful, but to reassure them, to give them confidence, to allow them to come to terms with themselves."Saint Laurent widely was considered the last of a generation that included Christian Dior and Coco Chanel and made Paris the fashion capital of the world, with the Rive Gauche, or Left Bank, as its elegant headquarters.The designer raised the stature of fashion while making it more accessible, it is widely agreed.President Nicolas Sarkozy praised Saint Laurent for "putting his mark on a half-century of creation, in luxury as well as ready-to-wear."For Culture Minister Christine Albanel, the designer personally touched women's lives."This brilliant idea that a woman could be the most feminine possible while dressing like a man ... it seems to me decisive," she told Associated Press Television News. "Little by little, women get rid of their corset and then they live differently."From the first YSL tuxedo and his trim pantsuits to see-through blouses, safari jackets and glamorous gowns, Saint Laurent created instant classics that remain stylish decades later."Mr. Saint Laurent revolutionized modern fashion with his understanding of youth, sophistication and relevance. His legacy will always be remembered," said Calvin Klein designer Francisco Costa.Saint Laurent was born Aug. 1, 1936, in Oran, Algeria, where his father worked as a shipping executive. He first emerged as a promising designer at age 17, winning first prize in a contest sponsored by the International Wool Secretariat for a cocktail dress design.A year later, in 1954, he enrolled at the Chambre Syndicale school of haute couture, but student life lasted only three months. He was introduced to Christian Dior, then regarded as the greatest creator of his day, and Dior was so impressed with Saint Laurent's talent that he hired him on the spot.When Dior died suddenly in 1957, Saint Laurent was named head of the House of Dior at age 21.He opened his own haute couture fashion house with Berge in 1962. The pair later started a chain of Rive Gauche ready-to-wear boutiques.Saint Laurent's simple navy blue pea coat over white pants, which the designer first showed in 1962, was one of his hallmarks. His "smoking," or tuxedo jacket, of 1966 remade the tux as a high fashion statement for both sexes. It remained the designer's trademark item and was updated yearly until he retired.Also from the 60s came Beatnik chic — a black leather jacket and knit turtleneck with high boots — and sleek pantsuits that underlined Saint Laurent's statement on equality of the sexes. He showed that women could wear "men's clothes," which when tailored to the female form became an emblem of elegant femininity.Some of his revolutionary style was met with resistance. There are famous stories of women wearing Saint Laurent pantsuits who were turned away from hotels and restaurants in London and New York.Saint Laurent's rising star was eternalized in 1983, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted a show to his work, the first ever to a living designer. He was awarded the Legion d'Honneur in 1985.But bouts of depression marked his career. Berge, who lived with the designer for years, was quoted as saying that Saint Laurent was born with a nervous breakdown.When Saint Laurent announced his retirement in 2002 at age 65 and the closure of the Paris-based haute couture house, it was mourned in the fashion world as the end of an era. His ready-to-wear label, Rive Gauche, which was sold to Gucci in 1999 for $70 million cash and royalties, still has boutiques around the world.Saint Laurent had long been rumored to be ill, and Berge said on RTL radio Monday that he had been afflicted with brain cancer for the past year."He no longer liked the world of today's fashion ... he said it didn't understand him," Berge said."He had a great, immense love affair with fashion. It's true that he left the profession, but in a couple you can split up because you must do so ... and still be very unhappy," he said. "That was his case." After retirement, Saint Laurent spoke of his battles with depression, drugs and loneliness, though he gave no indication that those problems were directly tied to his decision to stop working."I've known fear and terrible solitude," he said. "Tranquilizers and drugs, those phony friends. The prison of depression and hospitals. I've emerged from all this, dazzled but sober." A funeral ceremony was scheduled for Thursday at the Saint Roch Church in central Paris, Berge said, moving the date announced earlier forward by a day.___ Associated Press writer Rachid Aouli contributed to this report.