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Israel and Bahrain have signed an agreement on establishing diplomatic ties
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Economy
Pandemic reduces demand for homes with open floor plans
[Washington Examiner] The pandemic may have killed open floor plans in homes as buyers opt for walls over easily conversing as one person sits in the living room while the other cooks in the kitchen, according to real estate experts.

"They want more rooms instead of open space," said Joseph Zoppi, managing partner of Templar Real Estate in Princeton, New Jersey, which restores homes and then sells them.

His firm routinely used to tear down walls, such as the ones separating dining rooms from kitchens, because open floor plans were a big seller. Now, clients want walls.

"Everybody pre-COVID was looking at open spaces in terms of the floor plans. Now, they want privacy," he said.

Michael Rossi, CEO of New York City-based residential brokerage firm Elegran, told the Washington Examiner via email that open-concept floor plans, which have been "heavily favored in the last 10 to 15 years," no longer work for most homebuyers.

"The old adage ’location, location, location,' may change to ’space, space, space,’" he said.

Buyers want that space to accommodate additional rooms, said Michael Nourmand, president of Nourmand & Associates, a real estate brokerage firm located in Beverly Hills, Brentwood, and Hollywood, California.

"This [pandemic] has translated into increased demand for homes with a pool, gym, home office, guest house, game room, and screening room," he said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/19/2020 07:14 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It would appear home builders and buyers in Cherokee County, GA. still haven't received the word. Thank you Messrs. Zoppi and Rossi.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/19/2020 7:23 Comments || Top||

#2  I never understood the "open concept". It's a lot easier to heat or cool a house if you can isolate rooms that don't need to be heated or cooled. And, if the rest of the family is watching something on TV that you don't like, you can go to another room and watch something else. And, if there are dirty dishes in the kitchen, you don't want that to be the first thing people see when they walk through your front door.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/19/2020 13:24 Comments || Top||

#3  In hot climates a high ceiling and an open floor plan have advantages as far as "natural cooling".
Posted by: magpie || 10/19/2020 16:09 Comments || Top||

#4  House looks a lot bigger with an open floorplan.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/19/2020 17:10 Comments || Top||

#5  So when I'm in the kitchen and the kids are playing Monopoly, I know when to start hiding the sharp objects and bludgeons.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/19/2020 17:51 Comments || Top||

#6  I prefer a separate kitchen. I've grown quite tired of hearing the fridge--let alone the dishwasher--run while I'm in the front/living room.
Posted by: Clem || 10/19/2020 18:36 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Huge Jews for Trump rally in Florida!
[Twitter]


Posted by: 3dc || 10/19/2020 01:48 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Funny, he doesn't look Jewish
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/19/2020 2:21 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Jiling Gravitch9209 || 10/19/2020 7:39 Comments || Top||

#3  He's definitely not huge, either
Posted by: KBK || 10/19/2020 18:58 Comments || Top||


Robert Reich: We Need A Truth and Reconcilation Commission
Mr. Reich was Secretary of the Treasury during the Garfield administration, but since then has come up short. As I imagine it, he now sits around typing "orangemanbad orangemanbad orangemanbad" on his computer until it's time for his medication. This proposal is batguano crazy, but he raises an excellent point: Right now the OrangeManBad Industry probably employs several hundred thousand people, if you include journo-lists, corrupt officials, all employees of FaceBook and Twitter, and several departments of the Chinese Communist Party. What are these folks going to do for a job if Trump loses? Yeah, they can probably spend a couple of months preaching Dire Revenge, but Dire Revenge just doesn't sell that many newspapers, and would get killed in the ratings by reruns of "Petticoat Junction." So Mr. Reich comes to the rescue with a proposal for a new organization that will endlessly investigate Trump and everyone who voted for him. Jobs for the boys! Perhaps we could even persuade Hillary to be the head of the commission.
When this nightmare is over, we need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It would erase Trump’s lies, comfort those who have been harmed by his hatefulness, and name every official, politician, executive, and media mogul whose greed and cowardice enabled this catastrophe.
Posted by: Matt || 10/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Robert Reich: Like Democrats treated this Republican at a Republican Free Speech Rally?

Oh and twitter banned the man who tweeted this.
So twitter needs to go before the commission as a guilty part of the violence.
Posted by: 3dc || 10/19/2020 0:58 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: 3dc || 10/19/2020 1:14 Comments || Top||

#3  America needs a Truth and Reconciliation committee to investigate the coup attempt by the Deep State Against President Trump and American Democracy.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/19/2020 4:52 Comments || Top||

#4  A Truth and Reconcilation Commission

I thought that was the job of DoJ in covering up the failed coup.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/19/2020 6:36 Comments || Top||

#5  "Truth and Reconciliation Commission.'

I don't think many folks understand where this type of thing will end up.

Wiki Truth and Reconciliation: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was a court-like restorative justice[1] body assembled in South Africa after the end of apartheid.[2] Witnesses who were identified as victims of gross human rights violations were invited to give statements about their experiences, and some were selected for public hearings. Perpetrators of violence could also give testimony and request amnesty from both civil and criminal prosecution.

The TRC, the first of the 1003 held internationally to stage public hearings, was seen by many as a crucial component of the transition to full and free democracy in South Africa. Despite some flaws, it is generally (although not universally) thought to have been successful.[3]

The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation was established in 2000 as the successor organisation of the TRC.

Posted by: Besoeker || 10/19/2020 6:48 Comments || Top||

#6  Complete with CCP "self-criticism" sessions before they put you in front of the wall.
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/19/2020 8:48 Comments || Top||

#7  Reich: non-albino pygmy
Posted by: Frank G || 10/19/2020 8:51 Comments || Top||

#8  Reich's logic comes up... short.
Posted by: Raj || 10/19/2020 8:57 Comments || Top||

#9  Pains me greatly, but I'll have to agree with Musk on this one.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/19/2020 9:01 Comments || Top||

#10  If he thinks an honest Truth and Reconciliation commission won't put a bunch of Democrats in prison he's really been pounding the Kool-Aid.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/19/2020 9:25 Comments || Top||

#11  We needed one of these after the Cold War.

Imagine if Ayers and Dohrn had had proper justice meted out to them nearly 30 years ago.

Maybe the Kenyan Candidate wouldn't have been President.

If he thinks an honest Truth and Reconciliation commission won't put a bunch of Democrats in prison he's really been pounding the Kool-Aid.

He's counting on it being the opposite of honest.


Posted by: charger || 10/19/2020 12:16 Comments || Top||

#12  The whole point of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission is *NOT* truth and reconciliation.

And since when are we looking at South Africa as other than an example of what not to do?
Posted by: SteveS || 10/19/2020 12:52 Comments || Top||

#13  And since when are we looking at South Africa as other than an example of what not to do?

2008 or so, although we've been sanctifying and canonizing black criminals long before then.
Posted by: charger || 10/19/2020 12:59 Comments || Top||

#14  Well RBG prefered their constitution over ours
Posted by: Frank G || 10/19/2020 13:09 Comments || Top||

#15  more like Tooth [for a Tooth] and Retribution
Posted by: Gomez Flavimble2594 || 10/19/2020 13:27 Comments || Top||

#16  Robert Reich might do well to study the life and times of Maximilian Robespierre.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/19/2020 13:35 Comments || Top||

#17  It's frightening how obsessed they are with nullifying Trump. Not just get him out, but completely erase the fact that he ever existed.

And erase us, too. That's who he's really after. The American people.
Posted by: Elmung Hatrack5948 || 10/19/2020 13:45 Comments || Top||

#18  The first rule of Communism, is there is no history before the rule of Communism.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/19/2020 14:50 Comments || Top||

#19  we dont need another 'commission' we need to put people in jail!!!
Posted by: irish rage boy || 10/19/2020 14:54 Comments || Top||

#20  It's frightening how obsessed they are with nullifying Trump. Not just get him out, but completely erase the fact that he ever existed.

And erase us, too. That's who he's really after. The American people.


As Trump has said, "They're not after him, they're after us, he's just in the way."
Posted by: AlanC || 10/19/2020 17:51 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Why Iraq's PM should heed Al-Sistani and disband Iranian militias
[THEBAGHDADPOST] Iraq’s top holy man, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, last month called for the disbanding of all militias. This would involve the state disarming the Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
Militia in Iraq and Syria (IMIS). In turn, this would neuter Tehran’s most reliable partner in Iraq, Kataib Hezbollah, the most dangerous alternative to state power in the country. Such then is the importance of al-Sistani’s call for the integrity of the Iraqi state. Indeed, the prime minister, now provided cover by the religious leadership in Najaf, should act with haste. Yet all we have witnessed so far is an exhibition of inertia.

Kataib Hezbollah has been busy building a "statelet" within Iraq. If the government does not act quickly, it will soon become stronger than the Iraqi state itself; it will dominate Iraq in the way Hezbollah dominates in Leb
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Posted by: Fred || 10/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2020-10-19
  Israel and Bahrain have signed an agreement on establishing diplomatic ties
Sun 2020-10-18
  Hundreds of Antifa Attack Conservative Free Speech Rally in San Francisco, Punch Organizer’s Teeth Out, Assault Several Others
Sat 2020-10-17
  Millions of $ of farm equipment burned possibly due to Trump Flag in central Nebraska - I-80
Fri 2020-10-16
  Trump Wants US Troops Out Of Somalia: Report
Thu 2020-10-15
  Lavrov: Russia does not consider Turkey a strategic ally, despite the partnership between the two countries
Wed 2020-10-14
  Denver Local News Bodyguard Who Killed Trump Supporter Bragged About Harassing and Confronting Conservatives in the Past
Tue 2020-10-13
  Vatican to open refugee reception centre in Rome
Mon 2020-10-12
  Osama bin Laden's ex-London spokesman is ‘freed early from 25 year US jail term because he is at high risk from Covid due to his obesity' and 'will return to the UK within weeks'
Sun 2020-10-11
  Iraq reshuffles military chiefs amid escalation of ISIS groups
Sat 2020-10-10
  Elon Musk and the U.S. military plan to build a reusable 7,500mph cargo rocket
Fri 2020-10-09
  US hits Iran’s entire financial sector with sanctions
Thu 2020-10-08
  International mediation meeting on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict set for Geneva
Wed 2020-10-07
  BLM rioters in Los Angeles are breaking into buildings & smashing the glass
Tue 2020-10-06
  Baku demands apology from France after Macron claims Syrian jihadists deployed to Nagorno-Karabakh
Mon 2020-10-05
  DC Antifa ‘Ringleader’ Jason Charter Arrested Again at WalkAway Rally

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