By Jerry Markon,

Anyone care to wager whether she'll get her $400 filing fee back?

I don't bet with lawyers about fees. I don't see much of a chance of actually collecting if they are any kind of competent!

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waiting for the first to poo poo her since she is from Idaho and certainly a white seperatist....

What? Idaho's part of the United States? When did this happen?

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“Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, "and then everything burst into flames.”
― Brian P. Cleary, You Oughta Know By Now

Uh what? Hope this is sarcasm; just because you had a few asshats like Randy Weaver (who, regardless of being an asshat, he and his family were treated abominably by the ATF and friends) doesn't make it OK to judge the entire state on that basis.

Idaho is a big and gorgeous state wherein reside many fine people. It also has some wide open, remote spaces where people looking to explore semi-weird, sorta-dropout lifestyles are sometimes moved to explore.

Oh well . . .

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And what's wrong with that? Just because the pigs tell you that you should be a good little American, work 50 hours a week, commute 3 hours each way to your McHouse from your McJob, take your week's vacation every year on bended knees thanking your boss-pig that you have any at all, consume, consume, consume, a new iToy every year, a new leased car every three (think of the ecoooooonomy and the poor union-scum in Detroit), ending is better than mending, doesn't make it so...

Same deelio in Vermont (with more hippies and probably fewer racist dbags). Lots of dropouts and semi-anarchical types, which is why I plan to buy property there sooner than later, so if TSHTF, I can join 'em.

Geez, angry man. Nothing wrong with it but some such people are sometimes sort of 'misfit' like. My point was trying to describe all Idahoans thusly is weak.

And your talk of 'pigs' is tiresome.

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If you're not angry, you're not G-d damned paying attention. Hope this country ends up going the way of Turkey (or Chicago ca. '68) in the next five years ... it's overdue for a high colonic.

I'm lucky, since I started my own business, and have enough rental property to be basically free of housing expenses in NYC. But the situation that 95% of Americans are in is tragic. And it's being made worse by dirt like Bernanke, who are attempting to inflate housing and commodity prices to keep the average American on the treadmill and make life even less affordable. Good on everyone who drops out after realizing that the latest Chinese electronic geewgaw and leased car isn't the pinnacle of human life. To misquote Star Wars: "the more you clamp down, the more will slip through your fingers."

But you yourself, who apparently makes money on other people not being free of housing expenses, are free of all blame, the one honest man in all of creation.

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I bought at very reasonable prices, do the work 90% myself, and am renting at a reasonable price as well. And will continue to do so -- I have no interest in profiting from a bubble or flipping, merely to have a very predictable/boring income source. I'm not a speculator (with exception of some stocks), but rather a true investor in the old-school sense of the term.

I'm also renting to one person who found it difficult to find a place elsewhere nice because of his ethnicity, I may add as well.

Some folks have said that Zimmerman ought to sue everyone involved in bringing his case to trial, but Zimmerman is as out of luck on this as this lady is in her lawsuit. The principal of Sovereign Immunity is why.

In Nixon v Fitzgerald it was established that the President of the US has Absolute Immunity from lawsuits arising from his duties as President. Clinton cited this case when he was sued by Paula Jones, but the Court ruled against him and said since the suit arose from actions said to have been taken by him while he was Governor of Arkansas Nixon v Fitzgerald did not apply.

(Clinton had agreed to the suit but wanted to wait until he was out of office. The Court said no.)

While she is at it she should also sue G. W. Bush since he started the program, but she would have just as much luck with that lawsuit as this one.

Precedents don't have an indefinite lifetime, and who knows, there may be other parties to the case as well.

A friend of mine does the same thing with houses in the Dallas area. He was really tempted to sell during the bubble but he was scared off by the high Capital Gains tax he would have had to pay.

Now he is glad he held on to his houses since they are providing him with a steady source of income.

He says it pains him to say it, but his fear of high Capital Gains taxes might have saved his investment. I told him maybe, but perhaps he just got lucky.

And... I asked him how low would these taxes have to go in order for him to sell and he said 'zero'. He used to back Republicans since he figured they would do away with the CG tax, but since they have controlled the House for five years and done nothing in the way of ditching this tax he has given up on them.