Does Speech Continue to Signify in the Era of Obama?
Does Obama’s Over-Use of Speeches Give a Bad Name to Speech Itself?
When I was growing up significant discourse was considered to be the central focal point of the cultivated life. It was what the dinner table was all about. Later this became the seminar table. Still later it became the counsel table. Significant discouse is purposive, it is concise, it is intending real conduct that actually does occur and that leads to outcomes that make a difference. It is not like rhetoric of no consequence or babble of no meaning. It is more like strategic planning and orders of battle.

In my little town, people are highly suspicious of speech already. To them, speech is mere vanity. For them life is about hands to work hearts to God. They are functionally aphasic by choice. It’s like living in a Fransciscan monestary. They do work very hard. They have no time for talk. They hate prattle, or useless speech that benefits nobody. They are not big on improv either, I can tell you from painful experience. They are mainly agrarian people — farmers, builders, lawn care people, home repair people. They don’t want shilly-shally, they want to "git er done". Most of their talking they do at Lowes and Home Depot. It’s about pipes and electrical fixtures.

Me, speech is my abode. My only habitat. It’s my little part of the tree. It guess it’s where the chattering class lives. So, I am sensitive when somebody devalues speech to the point where it becomes an object of general ridicule. Obama has done that. He’s given speech a bad name. He’s made "significant discourse" and object of contumely. By making 8362 speeches with zero outcomes he has become a laughingstock himself, but more importantly he has left little room in his wake for anybody to speak in a way that would be deemed significant. It’s a scorched earth effect, like after a meteor hits.

If speech goes, what happens to Western culture? What happens to me? Quo vadis?

This is the question on which I seek your knowledge and information. Please answer my question.

Well it started out being just the tv turning off and on, and know it’s changing channels. The other night a light bulb fell from the fixture in the bathroom a I might add the other half is still in the socket. Well when it hit the vanity I thought oh my god. So about 15 min later I went to look and it was in the sink it was unbroken. We hear very strange noises at night. We feel as we are being watched. It like’s clothes for some reason alot of my clothes will come up missing for a couple of week’s with no sign of them anywhere then one day they will just turn up. It like’s to fold laundry. Aslo another weird thing is that my dog’s will just look at the staircase late at night and just bark and bark non stop. So Im really not sure It seem’s as though it likes to stay upstairs nothing much has happened downstairs. My niece and I have both seen this lady at night she likes to come and stand by the bed. Aslo Im wanting to know do they talk?? Are they mean?? Will they hurt me or my family

I want to paint my master bath in my new(to me) condo, I got the ugly Wallpaper off and the walls were painted this awful yellow color prior. Its a pretty small bathroom, no window. Just a one sink vanity, shower/tub, commode. I’m getting rid the nasty faux gold colored fixtures and replacing them silver(towel rack, tp paper holder,light). The Floor is vynal flooring that’s white with a neutral colored pattern. Since I’m doing this on kind of a shoe string budget I was thinking about just painting it white and doing a couple little things for now until I decided to totally re-do it someday but I kinda think that would weird.

We painted the rest of the place in Neutral colors. Its a 2br 1.5 bath condo.

I currently live in a small apartment and wouldn’t mind just a little more space.
I could buy an older mobile home on a rented lot for 5K.
It seems like the plumbing and electrical is in order, so everything is cosmetic. (looks like the 70’s)
I have good enough credit to get another 5K or so and fix it up.
IE: add instillation, drywall, better fixtures, etc.
Most large jobs will need to be done by a friend in construction (for a friends discount) and he says his guys can do it in 2 weeks max. I can do the small stuff like hanging lights, installing toilet and vanity, etc.
Do you think this is more trouble than it’s worth and should I just rent a bigger place?

I currently live in a small apartment and wouldn’t mind just a little more space.
I could buy an older mobile home on a rented lot for 5K.
It seems like the plumbing and electrical is in order, so everything is cosmetic. (looks like the 70’s)
I have good enough credit to get another 5K or so and fix it up.
IE: add instillation, drywall, better fixtures, etc.
Most large jobs will need to be done by a friend in construction (for a friends discount) and he says his guys can do it in 2 weeks max. I can do the small stuff like hanging lights, installing toilet and vanity, etc.
Do you think this is more trouble than it’s worth and should I just rent a bigger place?

We want to put our house up for sale but our bathroom upstairs is in sad shape. The shower liner is yellowed and old (and we have a window with a wood frame in our shower). The tub is aqua. The vanity is crumbling and the sink top’s finish is worn off so it always looks dirty. The light fixture is outdated, ugly and broken. Above the sink is just a huge mirror. The toilet is actually two put together. The base is original (aqua) and the tank is white and doesn’t have a lid (there is a board that goes across and actually makes a nice shelf. The wallpaper is falling off and dirty. There is a large hole in the wall where a towel bar use to be. The floor is pretty bad too. Both the door and linen closet door need to be replace. We really don’t have much money (and by that I mean we have hundreds not thousands) to put into this. We don’t know anyone in the trades and aren’t handy ourselves. I don’t even know where to start with this. Any suggestions?

We want to put our house up for sale but our bathroom upstairs is in sad shape. The shower liner is yellowed and old (and we have a window with a wood frame in our shower). The tub is aqua. The vanity is crumbling and the sink top’s finish is worn off so it always looks dirty. The light fixture is outdated, ugly and broken. Above the sink is just a huge mirror. The toilet is actually two put together. The base is original (aqua) and the tank is white and doesn’t have a lid (there is a board that goes across and actually makes a nice shelf. The wallpaper is falling off and dirty. There is a large hole in the wall where a towel bar use to be. The floor is pretty bad too. Both the door and linen closet door need to be replace. We really don’t have much money (and by that I mean we have hundreds not thousands) to put into this. We don’t know anyone in the trades and aren’t handy ourselves. I don’t even know where to start with this. Any suggestions?

I need help with decorating my bathroom. Our bathroom fixtures are rose pink… Not by choice, it’s an apartment. How can I decorate (colors, towels, etc) to accent the pink and not look too “pink”?

* The vanity is a light wood with pink, red, brown sink (newer).
*Tile is pink, cream, and brown.
Didnt mean to put it in this section.. hit the wrong one.. answers would be great though.. thanks

me and my fiance just bought our first house and we also got a loan for ,000 to do renovations. the house has 3 bedrooms, two bathrooms, one large livingroom, a diningroom, a kitchen and also a extra large room for whatever we choose. we plan on putting all hardwood floors through the house besides the kitchen and bathrooms we will tile.. also we are re-painting all the walls to colors we like, putting in new bedroom/bathroom doors, a dishwasher, crown molding, two new vanities with vessel sinks, a stand up shower as well as a soaker tub, and new light fixtures. and if we have any left over we’d like to put in new cabinet doors. is this doable with only 10 grand? if we shop smart that is… =))
& when i say hardwood floors i mean laminate harwood lol =)

We are looking to buy a townhouse. Its in really nice condition but there are three things I am concerned about with our FHA financing and the appraisal (in Minnesota). First there is a light fixture in the kitchen that is missing. The wiring is there but no light fixture. Second, the hand rail leading to the unfinished lower level is missing (they started finishing it but its not finished yet). Third, the bathroom vanity in the second bathroom upstairs is missing. The house was lived in so I know the water works, but for some reason they either took the vanity or were replacing it and never finished.

The house is a foreclosure so the bank doesn’t want to make changes but we want to put in an addendum to have them allow us to make changes needed to get it to pass FHA…which of these three are going to be hangups for us that we need to fix beforehand??
We were thinking about having an addendum on our offer that we’d get them fixed PRIOR to the initial appraisal with the banks permission. Should we follow through on that or let the appraiser go in as is and say what needs to be changed and then change it??