Landlords rights

What are a landlord’s rights? I don’t know what rights they have exactly it seems that the character Michael Keaton was playing basically pulled a squatter move and just took up the space with no real agreement and the landlords has pretty much no rights. It seems like total B.S. I don’t know what they were thinking. The second I found out he was in there and we had no signed agreement I would have called the cops and had him removed immediately. I thought people in San Francisco were smarter than that. I don’t know if this is accurate but it seemed like when the cop or the lawyer told them that now that he is in there he is their tenant and their problem? He is clearly breaking some law. I don’t know I too much about the law as a landlord. I have rented pretty much all y life and I like to think of myself a good renter and I never really have an issue to take up with the owners. I don’t know if the film we watched was before or after the whole squatters right stuff that went down. I cant really remember when it happened or what it was really about but I remember a lot of east bay punk and hardcore bands talking about it and how the lazy squatters need to get jobs and stop making S.F a slum or something like that. I don’t really like punk, I was raised on death metal. My mother has been in the real estate business for a long time maybe I should ask her. But about the film I sure they had to be more that they could have done to get Michael Keaton’s character out. It’s funny because when he got angry at his partner he sounded like Beetlejuice.

Supreme court case

Ron P. White vs South Carolina

Ron p. White a Tattoo artist, preformed a live tattoo on local television in South Carolina to demonstrate his objection to the ban of tattooing. After the broadcast Ron White was arrested and charged with a 2,500 dollar fine and put on probation for 5 years for breaking the anti-tattoo law. Ron White then claimed that his arrest and prosecution was against is first amendment right of free speech .The Ban contends that the art of tattooing has many health risks and is hard to regulate.

THree

Three Names I have been called: Joey, Joseph, Jose
Three Jobs I have had in my life (include unpaid if you have to): Starbucks Barista, Guggenheim Museum retail sales, Old Navy stocker
Three Places I Have Lived: Las Vegas,NV, Pamdale, CA, Oceanside, CA
Three TV Shows that I watch: Weeds, Defying Gravity, The Big Bang Theory
Three places I have been: The Alamo, The Hollywood Bowl, Lego Land
People that e-mail me regularly: My mom, my wife, Gamestop
Three of my favorite foods: Pizza, French Bread, Almonds
Three cars I have driven: Toyota Highlander, Ford Focus, Dodge Neon
Three things I am looking forward to: Call of duty: Modern Warfare 2, ODST, NHL 10

Greed es bueno? Que?

GREED IS GOOD? I do not agree with this at all. It has been common knowledge since the beginning of time that greed is not good and greed in essence is evil, take Judas for an example. As Americans I think we are probably the most greed ridden people on the face of the earth. Look at our economy, look at how our money is spent and look what it has done to this earth and its entire people. For example let’s look at meat industry. The meat industry buys up and destroys rain forests to make more room to raise more cattle, and the reason they have to raise so much cattle is because around 60% of all the meat they harvest 40% or more is never sold or is not consumable, yet every year the industry expands and destroys for the all mighty dollar. In the United States alone we have countless industries that prey upon us and we accept it and give to them. Right here in Nevada we had a huge housing boom and houses flew off the shelves like hot cakes, also the same term my father used when I asked him “why do all these other countries have nukes when we basically invented them?” he told me “we sold them like hotcakes”, ok well the housing craze was insane houses were cheap then BAM houses were expensive people who couldn’t even afford to pay rent got houses, and some people bought them as investment properties. People from California were buying houses to rent out here or turn and sell and it was insane. Well we all know what happened and the bottom fell out and slam house prices went higher than ever for insanely small lots and people still bought them. A big source of greed was in the mortgage and loan business. People started getting their loan officer licenses and then using shady practices got banks to approve terrible loans because the borrowing laws were bullshit. But thanks to them we now have better laws I hope will keep people from being so greedy. Right now I‘m actually renting a house that was supposed to be an investment flip but I guess people got smart and decided that the house wasn’t worth the 450,000 the owner wanted and now he can’t sell it and it sat empty for a long time and no one has ever lived in it until we rented it. It’s a really nice house.
If I had to choose a WHACK-A-SOMETHING I would make a Frank Pinto doll. I think he deserves it because of what he said about Used Cars. After the class I went to hang out with my brother and I told him we watched s piece of it in class and he agreed with me that it was a classic and amazing. Then I told him Frank Pinto called it a “Piece of Trash”. I think that deserves a whack. I guess not really but I know he loves the attention. I don’t know what it would look like though.

Midterm: what my classmates thought about the law...

While I read through what my fellow classmates had to say about the way the felt about our wonderful government I took the time to read an observe this quote “I think that all drugs should be made legal and it should be a matter of personal responsibility, not a matter of law. If a person decides to be addicted to drugs, and is able to buy those drugs on the open market like alcohol, tobacco, or pharmaceuticals, it would reduce the huge number of subsequent drug related crimes. I think it's an issue of personal responsibility and not something the law should have any bearing over, besides making rules and regulations like they do for alcohol or pharmaceuticals. And luckily there are already agencies in place to do so”- Jonathan Boyer. While I don’t fully agree with this statement I do find it to be a just statement. Its true our government tells us what we can destroy ourselves with and how much and it seems like there is a serious double standard with what is legal and what is not, such as alcohol and tobacco products. On the other side I have to disagree because let’s face it people are stupid. This also runs into an argument that I have with others about the lack of education, but I won’t get into that. It’s true a lot of Americans are dumb sheep who love being told what to do how and how to do it. They need to be told how to do things constantly and with force because they are sheep. That’s why we have speed limits, and traffic lights and retaining walls on the free way, a lot of people are stupid and need to be guided so allowing these people to have full access to buy hardcore drugs is a horrible idea. I then took the time and read Dianne’s blog entry it was short but I did agree with her on this that also makes me mad “I understand that we have to have laws for everything but it seems that every law has an exception to everything so if you have a good attorney those exceptions will come in handy” -Dianne Polo. I hate that there are criminals that slip through the cracks of the justice system and get free just because of the loop hole or some minor detail. Just like that O.J murder trial from the 90’s, we all knew he was guilty but yet because of some minor discrepancy he walked free. I found this wuote next that stated something I believe in very strongly. “The legal Officials need more training on how to carry out the law. There are always complaints. Whilst you cannot please everyone, there still should be some form of strict recourse to the ones who corrupt the system and place a bad reputation on the system as a whole.” -Stacia Woody. It seems way too often you hear about some government official or some judge doing something above the law and just getting the smallest of punishments. Of politicians committing horrendous crime and getting the tisk tisk finger wagged at them. That is some bullshit. If you are a law maker or enforcer and you feel so above the law that you can break it and you get caught, you should be punished to the full extent of the law. They are making our country and our justice system look bad and we can’t have that anymore. No one is above the law. I believe that the system is getting to where it needs to be, we are a young country with a new system and it takes time to work it out. But it seems like some of these corrupt law makers are setting us all back and hurting the system.

I dont care what you think Frank, I loved Used Cars!

Team Members-Jackie H,Joseph De Motte and Anton.

1. No smoking –tort
2. Battery-crime
3. Illegal gambling-crime
4. Vandalism- crime
5. Bribery- crime
6. Perjury-crime
7. No contract over $500- tort
8. None license drivers driving- crime
9. Passengers in the bed of truck- crime
10. Tampering with video- tort
11. No seat belts- crime
12. Destruction of private property- tort
13. Breaking speed limit- crime
14. Leaving the scene of accident- crime
15. Driving off road- crime
16. Driving unauthorized vehicle-crime
17. Assault with chain- crime
18. Cursing over radio waves- crime
19. Illegal railroad crossing- crime
20. Fraud- crime
21. Pulling a firearm in public- crime
22. Force full restrain- crime
23. Loitering- crime
24. Sexual assault- crime
25. Illegal towing- crime
26. Drug trafficking- crime
27. Didn’t stop for cop-crime
28. Reckless in danger- crime
29. J-walking- crime
30. No registration- crime

Jackie H,Joseph De Motte and Anton.