#3
Not so sure, gorb. We had a home within an HOA in North Carolina back in the early 90s and at least at that point the courts took the view that you signed onto the contract, you lived with it.
#5
If there were government-mandated watering restrictions, the HOA could not over-ride them. For one thing, the local water department would be justified in simply shutting the development off. For another, no court would override emergency provisions in favor of a contract.
I guess I'm lucky; my HOA has no problem accepting the brown turf we have right now. Everybody around here has brown grass, with the odd exception of athletic fields. They also don't get their tits in a bind over weedy flower beds. Hell, they even went around and cut down all the ornamental pear trees that started dropping lumbs every time the wind picked up.
I suspect there's likely an economic class difference here; a more middle-class HOA is more likely to accept that you can't fight mother nature, while a more up-scale HOA would demand the world bend to their will.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
09/09/2007 10:19 Comments ||
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#6
Dopes that include the grass under my mobile home propped up on cinder blocks?
Posted by: ed ||
09/09/2007 11:23 Comments ||
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#7
Cheez, Ed, get real, there's no such thing as grass under a mobile home.
Posted by: Steve White ||
09/09/2007 11:35 Comments ||
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#8
Astroturf in a wide choice of school colors, my high falutin' friend.
Posted by: ed ||
09/09/2007 11:37 Comments ||
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#9
I'll bet Marty Seinfeld wouldn't have stood for this at Del Boca Vista...
#10
HOAs are even more prone to takeover by lunatics than are school boards. The best thing that can happen in such a circumstance is for someone being oppressed to SLAPP suit the HOA board, and its board members as individuals.
The idea is either to win a large judgment, or drive up attorneys fees so high, that the HOA board has to fold.
Deported Muslim scholar Mr Mohammed Sheikh Osman returned home, courtesy of official pardon by President Kibaki.
Osman, a Kenyan, was extradited to the Comoros on suspicion of links with terror groups. He returned Saturday morning to a warm reception from family and friends at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. Upon arrival, the scholar thanked the President for the amnesty and insisted he had no links with terrorists as alleged by the police.
The Muslim community, including the Muslim Human Rights Forum, expressed joy at the clerics return. The Muslim community asked the Government to ensure no Kenyans suffers political humiliation as a result of their faith. If Mr. Osman's name ever turns up in Rantburg again, it'll probably mean that Kibaki made the wrong decision.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Osaka University have been working together to develop a device which converts sunlight into laser-light with four times the efficiency of previous attempts.
According to a report out of Tokyo, the team is working on Space-based solar power systems which can collect sunlight in space and convert it into laser light, which is then transmitted to Earth and used for electricity... or to power a massive Death-Ray.
The project works by storing sunlight-based energy in plate made from a sintered powder of metals like chromium and neodymium. When weak laser light is shined onto the plate, the stored energy is transferred to the laser where its strength is amplified by a factor of four. In one test, a 0.5-watt laser was amplified to 180-watts by the plates. Scientists have thus far been able to garner 40-percent of the solar energy produced, and they hope to have a system ready for satellite mounting by the not-too-distant year 2030. Huzzah!
#4
No, this is more like PIRATES OF ROSIANTE. Lasers powered by "dragon scale mirrors" on space habitats in the asteroid belt.
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#5
Actually we saw something more like this in "Man With the Golden Gun". And I stopped paying attention when both Maud Adams and Brit Ecklund came in. Grrrrrowl!
#6
While beams coming down from the sky and chasing people is fun and amusing, I still prefer microwave beam weapons. Nothing truly says Zionist Death Ray (TM) like people exploding at random. Like during one of those big Iranian Soviet-style parades. Imagine the fun if a wide focus beam swept down the parade route, exploding all the people and ordnance on the road. No planes in the sky, none of the sound of artillery, just the sound of people exploding.
I say it's time we show our enemies what real /terror/ is.
The decision to exclude the brother of a pilot killed in the Sept. 11 attacks from ceremonies marking its anniversary has set off a political firestorm in Massachusetts.
Jim Ogonowski, who is a Republican candidate for Congress in the heavily-Democratic state, was not asked to speak, as he had for the past four years. Ogonowski's brother John was the pilot of American Airlines Flight 11, one of two planes that was flown into the World Trade Center.
While Jim Ogonowski was not invited, speaking will be ex-Congressman Martin Meehan, whose wife is chairing Democrat Niki Tsongas' campaign against Ogonowski.
"I never really thought about this as a political situation," Ted Livingston, executive director of the Massachusetts 9/11 Fund, told The Boston Globe. "We didn't seek to include or exclude anyone because of party lines." However, in the past, Ogonowski was asked by then Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, to be part of the ceremony. Current Gov. Deval Patrick's chief of staff was a formerly a political consultant for Tsongas.
Ogonowski still plans to attend the ceremony. "He has been honored to speak in the past, and would have been honored to have been asked this year," campaign manager Dustin Olson told the newspaper.
Ogonowski and Tsongas are in the midst of a hotly contested race for Massachusetts' Fifth Congressional District, a race that Republicans see as their best chance in years to win.
#1
Well, if Marty's involved, you can probably be assured that something sleazy is going on in the background. Nothing major league sleazy, since Marty's such a light weight, but sleazy nonethe less...
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
