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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Swellesley
Published Letters: 45 Editor's Choice: 1
you got a few things backwards.
The arab world was not made so defensive by westerners gunning for their oil that they enslaved the arab women. The arab nomadic culture had already enslaved the women. Long before they ever knew they had oil underneath the sands, or met westerners, they had enslaved their women under the abaya and in the harem. Maybe it is the heat, the lack of natural resources, but it wasn't the westerners. They had it down pat before we showed up.
Tenant law varies WILDLY from state to state. For instance I'm in NYC and I've seen friendships torn asunder by rental disagreements because 99% of the law is on the tenants side in New York. I saw one person literally wait out an eviction not paying rent for nearly two whole years, thats how long it took for the system to remove him from the property. One subletter was written up in the New York Times for taking over the apartment for over a decade (agreement was for a year) as the nightmare tenant from hell.
In other cities I've heard that eviction and legally having stuff removed can happen start to finish in as little as two days.
You may have been naive letting them in to the apartment in the first place, but they are doubly naive thinking that they can just waltz in and legally take over the apartment.
The landlord has the right to vette any prospective tenant, if their credit is bad the landlord is probably under no obligation whatsoever to sign a contact with them. The landlord may not want to have his/her/it arm twisted into a contract period and this new happy family might find themselves being evicted either way. Or they might not. If I were you I'd contact my landlord and spell it all out in gruesome detail, your landlord may disagree with your roommates, and if that is the case then you are no longer the one with the problem
I agree with all the other letter writers who said that whoever's name is on the lease is the one that has all the power and the liability (unless you live in NYC, in which case, you're all royally screwed).
Call a lawyer. And stop feeling bad about this.
This couple is trying to make their problem (a need for privacy and more space) into your problem. They are the one's with the problem, if they had approached you asking nicely you probably would have tried to work something out with them since you seem like a nice reasonable (if not a little gullible) person. They've made it hostile, and giving you an informal eviction notice suddenly with no financial help is DAMN hostile.
They seem determined to make their own problems bigger than they need to be, I don't see any reason why you should stand in their way. Baby or no baby, the only way these kids will grow up is if they face consequences for their behavior.
Find out what your liability is before you act, and base your actions on that.
I wish I could tell you something more positive, but I think it is just as simple as the Larry Craig fiasco. Liberals do it too but it looks different when they do it.... You get a very motivated person with a "rich inner fantasy life" projecting what they think life should be on to all of the rest of us. Who knows maybe she has some cognitive dissonance leading her to crave the strong male archetype that should exist yet eludes her or some strong pushy women in her life that she thinks need to be taken down a rung. Kind of the same way Craig was so vehemently anti-gay anything and called Bill Clinton "a very naughty, NASTY, boy" on Chris Matthews and propositioned men in bathrooms on the sly.
I went through a masculine crave when I was younger, I grew out of it when I realized that men wouldn't ever give me the stability I craved, and that they were all fallible people themselves. But hey that’s what our crazy teenage years are for right? Then we grow up, become the parents, accept life's idiosyncrasies, and move on....or not.
She was parodying her the whole time, if you'd seen Sex and the City it would have been very obvious.
"Sue the living $#!^ out of Halliburton, not for millions, for billions"
I think he's right, we need to make this war unprofitable for them if we want it to end.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow what a christmas huh?
I'm with thornwolf and stellaa on this one. We have a city that needs rebuilding, infrastructure everywhere thats falling apart, and god knows what else going on that the newspapers haven't gotten to our attention yet... And we're sending all our tax dollars to Iraq and Halliburton. I'm not saying Iraq doesn't need our help to rebuild since we're the ones that broke everything. But, sweet jesus, they could spread it around a bit?!?!?! A 300$ check won't go nearly as far as a slew of new construction jobs to fix some roads and bridges and the city of New Orleans. Lets see, groceries for a month, or groceries for the next two years plus rent and everything else..... Bernanke had a bit of a slow start, but I'm inclined to cut him a little slack as he was an academic for so long, this call for congressional action was appropriate and clearly non-partisan.
I have to say I saw the building-sized banner on the side of MSG on my way to work yesterday and the only two words that popped into my head, reflexively, were:
"f#ck you"
I don't care if it is good sci fi (which I'm betting it probably isn't, good sci fi makes us think). I don't plan on seeing the movie because it will probably upset me for no good reason.
ps: nobody cares about Cleveland, get over it.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
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