tag:searchlightcrusade.net,2024:/mt//feed/common interest 2024-05-16T16:25:47Z Movable Type 4.21-en 107 1 107 tag:www.danmelson.com,2023://4.5487 2023-05-16T14:00:00Z 2023-05-16T15:24:06Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ I had to wait a few seconds longer than the minute and a half on the clock when I walked into Adulthood Services, which was what I expected. My number was called by a young-looking man with a vaguely Hispanic... tag:www.danmelson.com,2021://4.5347 2021-01-17T17:42:25Z 2021-01-17T18:10:22Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ I'm in the finishing stages with "The End of Childhood" It's the third "Politics of Empire" book, but once finished it will be put on hold until "Moving The Pieces" has at least a completed first draft, as they share... tag:www.danmelson.com,2020://4.5325 2020-07-12T23:45:44Z 2020-07-12T23:48:41Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ What are the essential characteristics of the government in the Empire of Humanity? 1. The people running it are very smart. 2. The people running it have a long term outlook - they expect to be around indefinitely. Not like... tag:www.danmelson.com,2018://4.5239 2018-10-24T01:34:44Z 2018-10-24T01:45:45Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ Why would someone capable of the standard brun masking be using a mindbomb instead? I asked Ghost Uncle, Do they want to be found - eventually? Good question, and a reasonable hypothesis, if we are dealing with the same person.... tag:www.danmelson.com,2018://4.5214 2018-04-05T01:58:14Z 2018-04-05T02:18:21Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ This had to be pared drastically to keep the story rolling, but this is the full paranoid passage from a point in the story where the metaphorical Yankee is still in his metaphorical Connecticut. The passage in the finished... tag:www.danmelson.com,2018://4.5206 2018-02-12T01:30:56Z 2018-02-12T02:01:36Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ "That was quite a scene," she said. I stopped dead. She was both petite and pretty, but she wasn't anyone who'd been at the King's Ball. Dressed too richly to be one of the servants, yet none of the notables... tag:www.danmelson.com,2017://4.5187 2017-10-23T17:00:00Z 2017-10-23T17:08:01Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ In accordance with M'Dorna's Hypothesis and M'Don's Equations, Imperial government is kept as small as realistically possible. The government provides military service, criminal justice, arbitration between parties in a dispute, investigative services (fee required in some instances), foreign relations, and... tag:www.danmelson.com,2009://4.4635 2009-05-17T17:00:00Z 2009-05-17T17:10:00Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ I've been letting my weekly article review slide for several weeks due to one thing or another, during which time I've done a few important new articles and republished quite a few very important older ones. Therefore, I'm going... tag:www.danmelson.com,2009://4.4557 2009-03-02T04:00:00Z 2009-03-02T03:40:29Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ Newly Written Articles Finding a Good Buyer's Agent (And Eliminating Bad Ones). Games with Mortgage Loan Rate Locks (Games Lenders Play Part 10) Talks about issues relating to the rate lock. Barack Obama's "Help For Homeowners" Proposal Like President... tag:www.danmelson.com,2008://4.4390 2008-11-23T17:30:00Z 2008-11-23T17:38:44Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ I've been working a lot of hours and allowed some of the more usual articles to fall behind. Newly Written Articles VA Loans Have Become The Magic Bullet talking about how, with everything else getting tightened and over-tightened, VA... tag:www.danmelson.com,2008://4.4231 2008-08-21T18:30:00Z 2008-08-21T18:23:18Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ This is a the another in the series on the neighborhoods of the area I primarily work, which includes La Mesa, San Carlos, El Cajon and Santee. This time I'm moving to the eastern side of La Mesa, the area... tag:www.danmelson.com,2008://4.4199 2008-08-04T14:00:00Z 2008-08-04T14:01:34Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ Let's do a thought experiment. Any market in any commodity has two components: The demand, or willingness and ability to pay for that good, and the supply of that good. Let's consider the demand half of that first. Specifically, ability... tag:www.danmelson.com,2008://4.4163 2008-07-20T14:00:00Z 2008-07-20T14:30:43Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ The tooth was taken out on Wednesday, as I said on my other site, and completely forgot to add here. Bleeding stopped Thursday, I have graduated down from Vicodin to Ibuprofen as of Thursday evening. Since Ibuprofen doesn't hit me... tag:gockel.hmdnsgroup.com,2007:/~searchli/danmelsonsite//4.3237 2008-07-03T14:00:00Z 2008-07-03T13:48:33Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ Dear Mr. Melson, I was wondering if you could offer some insight re: the other side of the equation: what to do *after* you've bought a vampire property. We bought one, quite by accident, despite a house inspection by... tag:gockel.hmdnsgroup.com,2007:/~searchli/danmelsonsite//4.3234 2008-07-01T14:00:00Z 2008-07-01T13:45:10Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ When I'm driving, and get to busy main streets, I hate turning left unless there's a light there. Traffic is coming hard both ways, usually at high speeds, and with only intermittent breaks in each direction. If you're turning left,... tag:gockel.hmdnsgroup.com,2007:/~searchli/danmelsonsite//4.3230 2008-06-27T14:00:00Z 2008-06-27T13:53:08Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ I just went out doing some general market scouting. Looked at ten properties, and at least three were of a sort that I've started calling "vampire properties." One more reason you want a good buyer's agent. Like a mythical vampire,... tag:www.danmelson.com,2008://4.4128 2008-06-25T14:00:00Z 2008-06-25T13:44:17Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ My general rule of thumb is "Remodel for your own enjoyment. If you're lucky, you'll get some of your money back when your sell." The remodeling industry has made a very large amount of money seducing people into believing... tag:www.danmelson.com,2008://4.4126 2008-06-24T14:00:00Z 2008-06-25T13:52:56Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ About a month ago, I wrote Top Ten Reasons Your Home Isn't Selling. It was well received so I thought I'd take it from the buyer's perspective. Once again, I'll try to inject as much humor as I can.... tag:www.danmelson.com,2008://4.4120 2008-06-23T14:00:00Z 2008-06-23T13:39:21Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ Over five hundred years ago in Europe, there was a con game that was more practiced than any other con game in the history of the world. It was simply the thing to try on the new rube in... tag:www.danmelson.com,2008://4.4111 2008-06-16T14:00:00Z 2008-06-16T13:42:44Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ Quite a lot of the time when I view a property, I get requests for feedback. Usually it's an automated email. Other times, it's some office assistant who wants to fax me a form which will "only take a...