Don't let Vera or Ted read this!

[pdxkevin]

If they do they might try this as a cost cutting measure for us. After all if it fails in CA, we gotta try it here too.

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California Measure Would Align Building Rules With Feng Shui
By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN
Published: January 30, 2004

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 29 — With a budget deficit of about $14 billion, California could use a major infusion of positive energy.

So it may be appropriate timing that in this most Asian of mainland American regions, State Assemblyman Leland Y. Yee, Democrat of San Francisco, has introduced a resolution that urges the California Building Standards Commission to adopt standards that would aid feng shui, the ancient Chinese practice of promoting health, harmony and prosperity through the environment.

The resolution, which has yet to pass a committee vote before going to the full Assembly, is meant to encourage planning agencies, building departments and design review boards to provide for the use of feng shui principles, which often touch on the placement of doors and staircases, the position of buildings and the alignment of objects in rooms. It aims to help people live in harmony with nature by promoting the flow of chi, or positive energy, and neutralizing or avoiding negative energy.

"The structure of a building can affect a person's mood," the measure says, "which can influence a person's behavior, which, in turn, can determine the success of a person's personal and professional relationships." ....

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Too funny. Originally I thought this was from one of those parody websites - than I realized it was too 'California' not to be true.

[Chromaflage]

Holy smokes!!!! :shocked: It's bad enough that people buy into this in the first place. I was joking a round with a friend of mine the other day who owns a tree/landscape service company. I told him he could make more money that he'd know how to spend if he just spun his landscape biz into this Feng Shui scam. Feng Shui landscaping... The funniest thing is that it would work!!! (Only if he advertized in Willamette week, though)

I need someone to Feng Shui my garage so I feel better when I go out there. :grin:

ORS

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[willametteriveroutlaw]

Did anyone see the penn & teller show that dealt with fung sheui.. Hint it is the same as the name of the show.

[CATCH AND EAT]

Fung Shei, WAN<G chung, whatever. Please vote these people out of office. Society does not have time to waste on their wasteful ideas. Only in California....or Portland. [img]graemlins/1zhelp.gif[/img]

Huh...did'nt know W>A>N>G was a really really really bad word. learn something new every day.

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