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Irvine Single Mom: If you were hanging out at the Alex's in Goleta for happy hour, then I know: that you were a lot of fun; and a little bit dangerous! I remember being there one night right after happy hour, and the worst bar fight I have ever seen broke out. I saw one of the security...

La Cumbre Plaza is right between Hope Ranch and where I grew up (other side of State). When I was a kid, Five Points (the other side of La Cumbre) was the prototypical atomic era strip mall, anchored by a Thrifty's with a lunch counter, where the ice cream was $.05 per scoop. It got it's...

Why did I leave? As they say in the old country "Santa Barbara is for newly weds and nearly deads.". Not a lot of economic activity - although it would be a pretty good place to raise kids, eventhough the dynamic has changed a bit. When I was growing up, one next door neighbor was a...

http://sbhousingbubble.blogspot.com/2008/03/hillside-whore.html (no offense, IR and Graphrix)

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A couple ideas: 1) One of the largest collection of architectural plans is at my alma mater - UCSB. They may have the plan, or at least an idea how to research. 2) Local historical society. 3) Local public library. 4) Building and Permits Department the early 50's...

In regards to courtyards, if you are ever able to go Alhambra (the real one, not in the SGV), or Sevilla, you cansee what the Moors did with the courtyard idea. Also, when I was in Bali in January, I did see that the traditional Balinese family "compound' is based on a courtyard - and every...

Hey Graphrix, DataQuick noted a drop in completed foreclosures for the month of March (Month over Month), but that was noted with the dreaded "*" ("Permission to Revise and Extend"). What are your thoughts on the numbers, and what do you think DataQuick is looking at as a cause to...

Hey graph, How about some completed March TS, NOD, and NTS numbers? ;) We're jonesing for our fix!

I think there is one other thing that will affect pricing, and that is the return to rational demographics. When prices were accelerating 20% per year, everone wanted in, and things such as association fees and Mello-Roos be damned. Incomunities such as NC, those fee's and assesments are...

kaos, It looks like you found the infamous Cazadero tract. I think this tract had the highest percentage of Option ARMS in Talega. Even though appears that there are some deals right now, there are more distressed properties on the way. Portomarin, Vittoria, and Catania also are creeping...

My wife and I have been out to Talega several times, and have talked toa number of people out there. Right know there are about 100 homes in a stage of foreclosure, with more to come (the builders pushed option ARM's, and the mortgage brokers came in behind them while prices were going up to...

lending maestro: We did offer support to Saddam when he was fighting Iran. We also (with the British) lent the technical know how that allowed Japan to build a modern fleet (and help contain Russian aspirations in the Pacific), and they eventually used that know how against Pearl Harbor and...

IR, The countries that you mentioned all have their challenges, but I think that you would agree that there is one key differnce betwenn them and Saddam's Iraq: He used WMD, and they haven't. In regards to North Korea, I believe that our actions in Iraq helped forward the types of...

In regards again to T!m's comments regarding the need for perfect intelligence, Saddam's own generals believed they had WMD. In regards to taking pre-emptive action without perfect intelligence, we live in a world where our opponents do not give us warning before striking. The Japanese...

T!m, Everyone knows that the American carriers were not at harbor in Pearl on December 7th. In fact, Halsey's force was headed back to Pearl at that time. If his scout planes had encountered the Japanese fleet the evening of the 6th, in international waters, in striking distance of Pearl...

Re: Katrina Not only is there an issue of Federalism (and if you had asked Democrats before Katrina if a Republican President had the executive authority to mobilize the Military for action supplanting state and local governments, the first word out of there mouths would have been...

I think that one of the problems that Obama has preached such a high standard of inclusiveness in his rhetoric. Yet, his actions seem to bely a different standard for himself. He renounces politics of division, yet he attends a church for 20 years where the senior pastor (on what I hear...

IR, I am a member of the GOP, and we do have a lot of party problems. However, general elections are more often than not about the candidate, rather than the party. If you need evidence of this, look no further that California. Every trend since '90 has favored Democrats in the...

I think McCain wil win. The Democrats have too many problems. There is no way that Hillary can get enough pledged delegates at this point. However, she will likely win Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana, Kentucky and Puerto Rico. Do the Democrats give the nod to someone who forgot how to...