Property For Sale In Saint Lucia 14 Acres Price Reduced

PROPERTY DEAL OF A LIFE TIME IN SAINT LUCIA!

DESTINY VILLAGE PROPERTY

This 14.06 acre parcel of flat land is located along the Castries- Gros Islet Highway towards Cap Estate and from the main junction into the Causeway leading to Pigeon Island.

The land is bounded to the North by the main road into the Causeway and to the Landings and the junction from the Castries- Gros Islet Highway, to the east by the Castries - Gros Islet Highway towards Cap Estate, and to the west and south by private lands.

The flat extent of this parcel of land along with its proximity to the Landings, Sandals Grande, and the proposed Casino site directly across the road from it makes this property ideally suited for a touristic/commercial development.

Services such as water, electricity, sewer are along the property and this coupled with easy access from Cap Estate and Rodney Bay makes it a prime piece of real estate.

As at 22nd June, 2010 the asking price moved from US$ 5,250,000.00 to US$ 3,300,000.00 which represents a price of US$ 5.47 per sqft.

We are pleased to provide the information on a property at Pigeon Island which can be considered a deal of a lifetime.

The current price of US$5.47 per sqft for a touristic and commercial property at Pigeon Island is set against residential property price at US$ 13.00 - 20.00 per sqft in areas in close proximity.

This is a time sensitive offer as many Realtors are in receipt of this information. It offers very good prospects for flipping or maximise returns by subdividing the property.

Edward A. Harris
Broker/Realtor
Mailing Address:
P.O.Box: CP5480, Castries
Office: Rodney Bay, Gros Islet
St. Lucia
Tel: Office 758-452-8790
Int. Tel: 716-804-8278
Mobile: 758-485-1456
Websites: www.stluciasimplybeautiful.com
www.stluciapropertydeals.com

Obama Gives Part of Arizona to Mexicans

William Styron and Darkness Visible

Dear William Styron,

I write to you today knowing that you died in the Autumn of 2006. Hopefully you will not resent my intrusion into your long and much deserved rest.

After talking for many years about the shortest book of your extinguished writing career, you should be pleased to know I have just finished reading "Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness" and it is clear to me, perhaps much to your undeserved distress, that we have been brothers in the arms of the Devil named depression.

Being somewhat younger now than you were when you passed on, I came to know you in likely the least admirable way from your perspective, by the motion picture "Sophie's Choice" via Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline, followed by reading the book, and then your other books "The Confessions of Matt Turner" and "The Long March.

I see by your admission in Darkness Visible that you might believe that depression was in your soul from childhood. This I do not dispute but we do not share similar backgrounds.

The monster that I have come to call "the hole" came to me in 2003 and eventually swallowed me up by July. As I look back, as you did in your book, what was besetting me day by day for 6 or 7 months was a mystery to me, a surprise over time from an unexpected and most unwelcome visitor. I really did not understand what was happening or where I was headed.

Like you, I eventually came as most depression sufferers do to the wall of death aka suicide, and like you, but for apparently different reasons, I was able by the grace of God, or luck, or total accident to retreat and save myself.

Round two came several years later. Previously hardened by wrestling with this monster, even though the ideation of doing myself in was a daily companion, I made an oath to my soul and to those who love me even at my worst that suicide was a bad joke I would laugh at for the rest of my days. Feel like dying? Oh yes. Suicide? Not on my to do list.

Lucky me, I have climbed out of the hole again and life is better and richer and more creative and more interesting today than it has ever been. I am confirmation of your postulation that there can be a "shining world" upon recovery.

I lost my great friend and brother I never had, James Travis Cackler, to depression induced suicide in April of the year of your death. I was the eulogizer at his funeral, the hardest job I have ever had to do. I loved this man so much.

To you Sir William, I say thank you for exposing the bare and tender underbelly of your soul, your dreadful fall and triumphant rise from the suicidal grips of this insidious disease.

And to those of you who are in this dreadful state of mind and body, and to those of you who are falling but do not yet know to what depth you will descend, I can tell you that depression is Hell. But, you can and most likely will escape and recover. But, if you choose to kill yourself - and it IS a choice - all hope is lost.

We who have been to the far side of Hell and back, and in many cases more than once, can tell you better than anyone why suicide is a very bad idea. Because we have suffered as you are suffering and returned and did not do ourselves in, we are proof of something that is hard to imagine, especially the first time you are in the hole.

The old theme song from the TV series "MASH" says that suicide is painless? Perhaps you can turn your lights off permanently without too much suffering, but you will NEVER in Heaven or Hell be able to undo the pain you cause to those who love you and fellow sufferers of depression who love you even though they have never met you.

By hook or by crook or by luck or by miracle of miracles, find yourself a brother or sister who has been in the same hole you are in and has survived. William and I are both able to tell you that there is light at the end of the tunnel and it is not an oncoming train.

Hope is your reward earned by enduring unimaginable pain. You can be whole again and you can honor your good fortune by helping others survive and prosper, as our colleague in suffering William Styron has done in his most eloquent and excruciating book. Read, live and prosper. After all you have been through, you more than anyone deserve this.

Thank you so much, William, for helping us help ourselves. I love and salute you. And to my fellow compatriots, 5000 IU of a good quality vitamin D-3 per day is what works for me. I have never taken pharmaceuticals for depression, and I never will.

If you are a fellow sufferer, or if you know someone who is, read Darkness Visible, save a life.

A Letter from the Governator Re Illegal Aliens

Dear Ron,

Thank you for sharing your thoughts with me about Arizona's immigration law. I value your input about this important issue.

As an immigrant, I can identify with the desire to come to this country. The United States - a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws - is the most generous nation in the world, but our generosity cannot come at the expense of the American people or the security of our international borders. The federal government's failure to pass comprehensive immigration reform is a reality we live with everyday in our schools, workplaces and hospitals. We need federal action that secures our border, protects taxpayers and creates a forward-looking policy to meet the labor needs of our economy.

It is encouraging that President Obama is committed to providing more resources to secure the border, and I look forward to seeing the final proposal. Previous federal programs to provide additional resources to the southwest border states have been successful, and I've been lobbying the federal government to restore the funding needed to provide more security along our border. We must find a permanent solution to our broken immigration system, and I will continue to call on the federal government to take action on comprehensive immigration reform. Our borders must be secured, and our businesses must have the employees they need but have been unable to find in our existing workforce.

Thank you again for adding your voice to this issue. Please know that I will keep your thoughts in mind.

Sincerely,

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Is Ralph Bristol A Renewable Energy Bigot?

I love radio, was a radio show host and engineer in college, and enjoy talk radio when it is well done.  As an early riser, I frequently listen to 99.7 FM WWTN in Nashville and the early morning host is Mr. Ralph Bristol, a native of the great state of Nebraska and a product of the home of the Cornhuskers, the University of Nebraska and the United States Air Force.

Ralph is a couple of years younger than I, a liberitarian conservative and a mostly good thinker.  Even when I disagree with Ralph, I enjoy most if his arguments.

Ralph is a self proclaimed expert researcher on all of the subjects he discusses on his 4 hour program five days a week, and I have no reason to doubt that Ralph spends a lot of time researching.  But, as a staunch conservative, Ralph has apparently missed researching good information about our current energy situation and our energy future.  I am an energy futurist and understand what's coming.  A good source of information would be to read any of Richard Hinebergs books, visit the Post Carbon Institute to learn more.

I use and sell renewable energy products.  Visit http://www.nealcreekfarm.com/ and http://www.sunshineworks.com/ to see what we are doing.

A couple of weeks ago I ordered Ralph a copy of my friend Lester Brown's book Plan B 4.0 which includes a couple of chapters about our energy future.  If you are a thinker, a writer, a researcher, a human resident of Planet Earth or a radio talk show host, you should read this book.  Lester is a stellar researcher and deep thinker.  His "agenda" is to educate with fact based research, fully footnoted, followed by a workable plan to save human civilization.  Lester's book is likely a real shocker to folks whose vision does not go beyond their televisions or neighboorhoods or even the borders of our great and most fortunate nation.  Most Americans really don't know what is happening outside our borders because we have lousy media and a self centered opinion of our place in the world.  The way the human part of the planet is going is not sustainable.  We are at war with the rest of life on the planet as noted by disappearing forests, depleted fisheries in the oceans, depleted fresh water resources and on and on.  Ralph does not believe in global climate change so I won't go there.  Perhaps he does not know anyone who lives in the Seychelles or Tuvalu, islands in the Pacific being submerged by rising sea levels?

Last week when I called Ralph to talk about his discussion on his show that the only good energy is cheap energy (oil, coal, natural gas, etc.) and his belief that Americans will not buy anything other than cheap energy, my mention of renewal energy INVESTMENT and the harmful effects of carbon emissions set Ralph off on a diatribe that obviated conversation.  When Ralph finally came up for air, my plea for Ralph to "take a breath" was the last phrase on the air; Tommy the engineer cut me off.

This morning I called Ralph and kibitzed about women political candidates being a good thing for our future, followed by a question if Ralph has looked at Lester's book.  His reply?  More or less:  I have it, I have not looked at it and will not because I already know everything there is to know about energy and will not likely learn anything from an environmental whacko.  I explained that Lester is a meticulous researcher, his book is extensively footnoted and that Lester is a highly respected thinker, not a whacko.  I then asked Ralph if he is a renewable energy bigot.

Ralph responded that he is not and that if I keep bringing up this subject I could be banned from future participation in his show.  He believes that I am only calling to promote my renewable energy business for free.  Ralph may not know that 90 percent of my business is export, mainly to developing nations where renewable energy is the least cost longest lived opportunity to have electricity that does not rely on diminishing and polluting fossil fuels.  There is also a sardonic aside to their thinking - most of these nations do not have stringent environmental regulations like most developed economies.  If they want to burn old tires to make electricity, there are no regulations to prevent them from so doing.

I got the last word this time.  I asked Ralph if I could tell him about a sign that has been hanging on the wall of my office for almost 40 years and he said yes.  The sign reads "STUPID IS FOREVER.  IGNORANCE CAN BE FIXED."

Ralph is I think a good guy and has an opportunity to redeem himself from his closed mindedness.  But when you get to the point that you think you cannot learn something from people with different knowledge and experience than you have, the end of your usefulness regardless of your vocation, is near.

Just like all the other egotistical radio talk show hosts you know - Rush et al - Ralph may be falling into his own ego trap.  When you reign as radio king 4 hours a day 5 days a week, perhaps this is a natural digression?

So, my opinion is that Ralph Bristol IS a renewable energy bigot - he refuses to discuss the subject intelligently on his show and has apparently decided that he knows all there is to know about energy.

Caveat emptor radio listeners: when you are suspect on one subject, you may be suspect on all the others.  Close mindedness while running off at the mouth is a certain path to incredibility, regardless of the subject.

Arizona Message to Illegal Aliens

A Letter from the Governor of Tennessee Phil Bredesen

June 2, 2010

Dear Ron:

Thank you for writing my office concerning illegal immigration, which certainly is a complex problem in Tennessee and across the country. While this is primarily a federal issue, I believe that our state has a role to play in combating illegal immigration. I favor tough and practical state-level responses that will make a real difference for Tennesseans.

For instance, I signed a measure into law that gives the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development the authority to investigate any business which is suspected of employing illegal immigrants. Under this law, complaints must be submitted in writing from any state or local governmental agency. The first violation results in a suspension of a business license until the person shows there are no longer any violations; a second or subsequent violation occurring within three years of the first offense results in a one year license suspension.

I also signed a law that requires companies doing business with the state to ensure their workers are here legally. In addition, I am proud to say that Tennessee was one of the first non-border states to deploy National Guard troops to help secure the border between the U.S. and Mexico.

All of these actions are steps in the right direction, but I realize we must continue to find additional policies to deal with this issue. Whatever approaches we consider should make sense for Tennessee and reflect our state's values. I look forward to working with our federal government and other states as we collectively determine the most effective ways to protect our nation and meet the needs of our citizens. Again, thank you for sharing your comments and concerns.

Warmest regards,

Phil Bredesen