Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Who would live in a house like this????

Somebody please please tell me this is a joke!!!!

Reply to: mailto:pers-964514051@craigslist.org?subject=All%20the%20tenants%20I%20interview%20aren [?]
Date: 2008-12-19, 6:05PM PST

I am a born again Christian. Why is this a problem for people????! I have a house that's MINE and I PAID FOR IT. I also have a basement apartment for rent. It's a great space for I'm charing very little for it, $480 monthly, for the right tenant. I know it's ILLEGAL to require a Christian in the apartment, against the human rights. That's why I NEVER put this in my ad. Why then does it keep getting taken down?
HERE IS THE AD I POSTED, AND THE AD THAT KEEPS GETTING REMOVED:
Available Immediately – Broadway and Commercial – Showing Saturday and Sunday – Email for directions and additional information.
What kind of apartment is it?
• One bedroom basement apartment with separate entrance
• Tastefully decorated with modern décor
• Approximately 650 square feet
• There is even a window! Security bars installed for your safety and to prevent unauthorized activity
• Closed circuit camera installed for security and safety. One in your suite, one at the entrance, and one in the exercise yard
Rent:
• $480.00 per month
• First month’s rent + ½ month security deposit due at move in
• Small pet allowed with approval and payment of additional ½ month pet damage deposit
• One year lease permitted, option to renew lease at end of the term with no increase in rent
LANDLORD’S SPECIAL! Move in before January 1st and don’t pay for the remainder of December! That’s significant savings.
Included in the rent:
• Electricity
• Heat – Maintained at 21 degrees with lock box to prevent unauthorized tampering. Additional heating available for $20.00 per extra degree of heating per month. You may not use your oven to heat the apartment. If you do, you will be fined $50.00 per occurrence.
• Air conditioning – Maintained at 25 degrees during the summer with lock box to prevent extra cooling from being dispensed. Additional cooling for sale for $20.00 per degree of cooling requested per month.
• 25" Zenith color television set with basic cable service - INCLUDED IN RENT!
• Wireless internet (with content filter applied to block forbidden/immoral websites) - INCLUDED IN RENT!
• Provision of coin laundry services - You will have your own personal coin laundry washer and dryer machines. Washers and dryers are paid using a token system. Tokens can be purchased through the landlord. Washer tokens cost $4.15 each and dryer tokens cost $3.60 each. You are not allowed to use foreign
currency or slugs in the washer and dryer. Violators will be fined $100.00 per infraction.
About us: (Landlords)
We are conservative, bible believing, God-fearing, born again, evangelical Christians. We interpret the bible literally in every way possible. We live a strict moral code and observe God’s laws in our everyday life. My wife stays at home and teaches our home-schooled children. I work as a pastor at a local congregation and am active in the faith community.
About you: (Tenant)
• You are employed
• You do not participate in lascivious deviant sexual behavior
• You do not choose alternative lifestyles as your lifestyle
• You do not have any criminal history
• You must have excellent character references
• You do not smoke, drink or take drugs. Mandatory drug screening required.
Additional Rules/Conditions:
CLEANLINESS: You are responsible for the cleanliness and orderliness of
your apartment. Beds are to be made before leaving your suite,
countertops must be wiped down, and you must remove all trash. Upon
inspection, if the tenant's basement suite is not clean, the cost of
cleaning services plus a fine of $100.00 will be levied.
LIGHTS: The lights in your basement suite and in the day room are not to
be tampered with. If a light needs repair, report the condition to the
Landlord.
WAKE-UP: Wake up will be at 5:30am each morning. All ceiling lights in
the suite will be turned on automatically.
LIGHTS OUT: Ceiling lights in the suite will be turned off at 11:30pm.
CONTRABAND: The following items are considered contraband – alcohol, illegal drugs, tobacco, weapons, lock picking equipment. If any contraband is discovered to be in your possession, you will be subject to a minimum $1,000.00 fine. In addition, your items will be confiscated permanently. Second offense – you will be evicted without notice. A bailiff will escort you and your belongings off the premises. Your security deposit will not be returned.
SMOKING: The basement suite is non-smoking. Anyone in possession of
tobacco products of any kind or any lighter or matches, will have their
contraband items confiscated and will be fined $100.00.
INSPECTIONS: The Landlord will conduct unannounced inspections to ensure
that these rules and regulations are being followed.
VISITATION: Visitation periods will be on Saturdays and Sundays from
1:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m. All visitors and their vehicles are subject
to search while on landlord property. Refusal to allow a search can
result in their being barred from all future visitation privileges. All
visitors must sign the Visitor's Log. Unauthorized visitors will be
escorted from the property, and the tenant will be fined $250.00.
I.D. BRACELETS: Each tenant will be issued an I.D. bracelet with his/her
photograph. It must be worn at all times. If you lose your I.D.
bracelet or it is broken, you will be required to purchase a new one at
the nominal cost of $5.00.
EXERCISE YARD: The tenant will have access to the exercise yard in the
area to the back of the property for 2 hours per day from 4:00 pm to
6:00 pm. The tenant is not allowed to bring any personal property to
the exercise yard. Once the tenant leaves the exercise yard on a
particular day, he or she may not return. No boisterous behavior is
allowed in the exercise yard. There is no smoking allowed in the
exercise yard. Minimum fine for exercise yard infractions is $50.00.

  • Location: Broadway and Commercial
  • it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

PostingID: 964514051

http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/rnr/964514051.html

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Loan Shark ministers; Lockerbie remembered; No divorce for 8 yr old......

Loan shark ministers.......
Apparently they have backed down on the idea of charging interest on loans made to Crisis Loan applicants - good for them!
But on further reading of the 'back down' article - they may still be planning on handing over the running of Social Fund loans to Credit Unions or similar organisations - who DO charge a minimum of 2% up to as much 26.8% !!

The social fund has been a way for those on benefits to be able to obtain a loan - repayable weekly from benefits - in order to obtain the bigger things each family needs.

The hypocrisy displayed by a Government that bitch and moan about the interest rates charged on certain services by banks - to then want to do it themselves to people trying to survive on benefits is astonishing - but then again - hypocrisy and this Government seem to go hand-in-hand. So they spend billions bailing out banks - the unemployment rate is raising alarmingly - but hey - we'll stiff them by charging as much - if not more - than banks would - because they are not going to be able to get a loan elsewhere when unemployed?!?!?!

Well done Brown - when you are out of power - and Lord that cannot be soon enough - you have a very promising career as a Loan Shark!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5378561.ece

Lockerbie remembered...........
Hard to believe it is 20 years since this happened! 270 people killed - 259 on the plane and a further 11 people on the ground below.

Services and the prayers of millions around the world are being held/said in remembrance today.

No divorce for 8 yr old..........
She must wait until she reaches puberty....
She was 'sold' by her father for a £4000 dowry - the marriage not to be consummated for 10 years - the contract being signed by the groom and the girl's father!

I cannot understand what the hell any parent can be thinking to do this to a child - or should I say a female child as there are never any reports of this being done with male children.
I try to be tolerant as possible of various religions and their beliefs - but there are some instances when tolerance cannot be found!
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Saudi-Girl-Aged-Eight-Married-Off-By-Father/Article/200812315190418?f=rss

Company logos in a recession.........

This is done so well - how company logos look in a recession!

Silly - maybe - but it tickled me!

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/wmliu/3121970551/sizes/o/

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Entendre from the war..........

The following was written during the war from the British Ambassador
to Moscow to Lord Pembroke in 1943. Released a couple of years ago under the Freedom of Information Act.

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The eloquence in the entendre is just pure class!

http://www.strategypage.com/militaryforums/532-269.aspx

Sunday, December 14, 2008

A little spooky........

Fuelled by anger from a life past
Craving revenge for a life unattainable
Lived too long to the lure of Satan's tune
A distant beat heard only by me.
Dreams of writhing bodies seducing the mind
Thriving on the pain of others
As I lay out of sight - in wait
With a yearning need for what a victim can provide.
Unsuspecting you walk in the dark
Becoming terrified of the invisible footsteps you can hear
Madness crawling to life as I appear and take you
Looking at me with pleading eyes
And soon they scream with mercy as I drag you back to my lair.
The hypnotic melody of your pulse as your heartbeat quickens
My attack frenzied and vicious
Ripping out flesh and tissue - pieces littering the room
Bathing in ecstasy as the warmth of your blood splashes on my skin
Ending your desecration and calming as your blood cools and thickens
Sated - I taste you on my fingertips
Loneliness of spirit leading to the destruction of others.

manananggalhs8

Saturday, December 06, 2008

Watched - Tom Tancin

myspacewatched-1 Detective Lindsey Scott makes a very much welcome return in 'Watched'. The 'solver of the unsolvable' is also a mom - and she needs to touch base with her kids again and spend some quality time with them - which of course gets cut short when bodies start mounting up in various parts of the country.

It soon becomes apparent that there is more than one killer - all with different personalities - but all with one common link - they target their victims through a webcammer site.

Being the 'solver of the unsolvable' she gets close but is then thrown a bit further left field than she expected when one of the killers targets her son. Personally I think if you have a woman with brains who knows how to use a gun the last thing you want to do is bring out the Momma Bear in her - but it does add a little more spice to a story that was enticing me more and more with each turn of the page - especially as Lindsey's work and home life were now inextricably entwined as she rushes to save her son.

The story line is truly gripping and has the reader guessing at possible suspects and invariably guessing incorrectly.

Tom has kept Lindsey 'real' - keeping her as personable and likeable as she was in her first outing in 'The Man In The Moon' - yet new readers will not be thrown off by reading 'Watched' first then going to her first outing afterwards - something that can be difficult to achieve and keep the flow of the main character going.

This is another exciting, enthralling page turner that I again found very difficult to put down. The strength of the main character is extraordinary - the use of turn of phrase excellent yet keeping the story flowing and a gripping storyline are putting Tom at the top part of my 'must read' list each time.