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[Bay Area developer Rick Holliday] explained it to laypeople like this: If a car company built cars the way a real estate developer built housing, the way it would work is that the developer would hire a contractor to come over on a Monday with four tires. The next day, a subcontractor would bring four rims and wrap the tires around them, then wait for a subcontractor whose job was to put the wheels on the car. The next day the transmission would show up and a new crew would weld it together. Finally, after two years of piecemeal assembly, there would a $600,000 car in the driveway.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Liberals tend to assume that disputes are attributable to misunderstandings and therefore resolvable with better communication. All too often, disputes are due to genuine disagreements. There is no misunderstanding. Each side understands the position of the other. They knowingly disagree.

Oy! I’ve got a pain. I don’t know. Could be gas; could be death.

He’s all hat and no cattle.