The end is in sight

"Paul Hovnanian P.E." wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@hovnanian.com:

But who would rely on the Court to uphold that?

Particularly after Oblama seats more activist Justices that IGNORE the Constitution,and cite what other countries do.

than

It'll be interesting to see if all the wingnut paranoia about Obama ends up being justified.

than

Now that Specter has switched sides, they do.

... Franken.

Jon

I presume this is happening in Washington state? Considering that Washington and Oregon are crawling with leftist weenies I would suspect it's a state agency doing this, or that the local BATF is (as would be expected from the locale) infested with leftist weenies??

We don't have any such problems here in AZ.

...Jim Thompson

You obviously haven't followed the history, or seen the several reform attempts Democrats blocked.

Google up some of Barney Frank's 2005 YouTubes, where he argues shrilly against restraining the lending, and calls those in favor "racists."

Bush was the first to speak up about it, timidly, circa 2001 and then in 2003 IIRC, but he got shouted down by Barney & crew.

Cheers, James Arthur

Oh, feh. The government was actually PUNISHING bank that didn't make enough bad loans to meet their Affirmative Action quotas. The government wanted to ensure that EVERYONE had a house, whether they were qualified or not, so to comply with the government's demands the banks started writing loans to people that everybody _knew_ they couldn't afford to pay, but Uncle Sugardaddy said, "Don't worry, if it tanks. we'll bail you out." The problem was compounded by people riding the bubble, buying houses that they and the banks KNEW they couldn't afford, because they had intent to flip them and make a bundle, screwing the next guy up the line.

The bubble popped, and they all went broke, now Uncle Sugardaddy is using your money to cover their gambling losses.

Hope This Helps! Rich

Why are you so addicted to regulation? What makes you think that some Washington bureaucrat can manage _your_ money better than you can?

Thanks, Rich

Democrats and Republicans are essentially indistinguishable these days - they're just the two wings of the same Statist bird.

Thanks, Rich

The whole damned bureaucracy belongs at the end of a rope, twisting in the wind. Every single one of them is a Traitor to the Constitution.

Thanks, Rich

He's the kind of slimeball that, if you shake hands with him, you'd better count your fingers.

He's an even smarmier snake oil salesman than Al Gore, chief high muckety-muck of the Church of Warmingism.

Thanks, Rich

than

1. It's not "wingnut paranoia"
2. It's already been shown to be justified.

Thanks, Rich

All I can think of is that 1980's-ish SNL sketch: "Vote for me, Al Franken - you'll be glad you did "

Thanks, Rich

Obviously, it's time to start electing sane people:

Cheers! Rich

The income tax caused the great crash of 1929, and FDR's socialism parleyed that into the Great Depression. Or was that Hoobert Heaver? (of course, the Dust Bowl helped a lot with that.)

Thanks, Rich

Other than being strip-searched at the airports and having your phone tapped without a warrant.

Thanks, Rich

The only thing the state can do is respond to crime scenes and clean up the mess, and hope they'll catch the perp sometime.

The way to _prevent_ crime is to arm yourself, and shoot the perp on the spot.

Unless you want enough armed Gestapo to follow every citizen 24/7. It'd be cheaper to hire your own, civilian, armed guards.

Thanks, Rich

You could probably call international information and get it.

But these days, "terrorism" is nothing more than boogeyman du jour. The US lost the "war on terror" the day they started strip-searching American Citizens.

There's no threat to the US from "terrorists" - they're too busy sitting in their yurts, watching international satellite news on their i-phones, rolling on the floor laughing their asses off watching Washington, DC do more damage to America than any number of "terrorists" could even _dream_ of doing.

Cheers! Rich

You sound like you _like_ being strip-searched.

Thanks, Rich