Obscanity: You'll know it when you see it

Surely shooting the vandals was the answer. Sure this guy is no kin to McCain?

I’m white and I live in a black neighborhood, and I keep getting told everyday that I’m going to be a niggers slave. Good times. I’d shoot those punks too. Um, oh yeah Go Obama, please don’t hurt me.

Uh yeah… I believe you, “Fred.” Right. ’cause they’re all running for president, and clearly all black people are the same.

Ignorance abounds. Sheesh.

Oh please. You don’t kill people for vandalizing a lawn sign in your front yard any more than you kill people for tipping over your damned garden gnome. “You kids, get off my lawn! BANG BANG.” What?? There is absolutely NO chance that this guy had any actual physical fear for his well-being, and that is the only valid self-defense claim. You conservatives are all so freaking gun-happy – you shoot first, and ask questions later, even when you have no reason at all to think that shooting would be a good idea.

Are you kidding me? This is all happening because of economic policies set into place by Bush and his cronies, and even by Reagan back in the day – the theory behind Reaganomics is a massive failure, as we’re seeing now.

The Democrats DO NOT have control of Congress by any means – not even remotely. They have a virtual tie in the Senate, 49 and 49 with two Independents (although Lieberman might as well come out as a Republican at this point), and a slim majority in the House. That isn’t enough of a majority to get anything real accomplished.

But even if the Democrats did have a meaningful majority, which they don’t, it hasn’t even been 2 years since they won it, and everybody knew way more than 2 years ago that this crash was going to happen. Maybe you didn’t in your state, because you were too busy shooting trespassers, but EVERYBODY in California knew – everybody with an eye on the market, anyway. It was obvious. Obama himself knew, and did everything he could to alert people in Congress and in the Fed to the potential subprime mortgage collapse. It happened just like he said it would happen. Nobody listened. McCain even claimed he was “surprised” that it happened.

It takes more than two years to fix the shithole left to the Democratic “majority” by the Republican-dominated Congress that had sat there since 1995. Yes, since 1995 (that’s a lot of shit to clean up) – so don’t go trying to blame Clinton either, because it’s hard to get stuff done with a Congress full of bastards who would rather talk about your sex life. That’s eleven years of Republican-owned Congress, during which time we saw the foundations laid for this crisis. They built this house of cards. It was the REPUBLICANS that let subprime lending happen. Don’t blame this shit on the people who inherited it. Blame the people who let it happen in the first place.

Wow. Thank god I’m not a Girl Scout in your neighborhood. How many little cookie saleschildren have you shot so far? You, sir, are the reason America is a worldwide laughingstock. There was a time when people respected us for our greatness. It’s people like you who have destroyed that.

And there you have it, folks. The reason for Brandon’s opposition to Obama, in four little words. OH you think you’re so clever! National Fried Chicken Day? Why don’t you just come out and admit why you’re not voting for Obama, instead of pretending like you actually understand his policies and spouting FAUX News propaganda? And you may not like California, but 10% of Americans live here, so fucking deal with it.

You seriously didn’t hear anything about the housing bubble? As in, BUBBLE, as in, FRAGILE, and will POP? Maybe you just weren’t paying attention over the past few years; people have been SCREAMING that this was going to happen. Even I knew it was going to happen, and I don’t even OWN a home. How did you possibly miss it? I am genuinely baffled.

It was pretty simple – people were being given loans by predatory lenders who knew that their monthly payments would go up substantially in a few years, because for the first 5 years or so they would only be paying interest and not principal. Once that happened, they would no longer be able to afford to pay the bill, leading to mass foreclosures and defaulting on loans.

Everybody kept saying the housing bubble was being artificially inflated, especially by investors and speculators who weren’t even going to live in the houses. Everybody was banking on the faulty notion that the house values would continue to rise.

Economists (and Obama) kept saying, “it looks fine now, but once the mortgage payments go up in a few years, it’s not going to be fine.” But nobody listened, and look where we are now – people owe more than their houses are worth, and are unable to come up with the monthly mortgage payment. Not only are people foreclosing on their homes, but renters are being evicted because their landlords chose to pocket the money instead of paying the mortgage, without telling the tenants they were going to foreclose. It happened to the people next door to us. They had no idea the landlord was foreclosing until they got the eviction notice – he was just stringing them along as long as he could to milk the money out of them before kicking them out.

It’s a fucked up situation that was totally and entirely preventable if only the banks weren’t so damned greedy. And how did we respond? Just like they knew we would – by giving them $700 billion in socialist corporate welfare. And who asked for that $700 billion? Your conservative president and his conservative buddies. And who told Congress that armageddon would come if they *didn’t* hand over the money? See above re: conservative president and conservative buddies.

Actually, this man should never have been charged.

He was fully within his rights to shoot the youths.

1. They had repeated destroyed his sign, a clear violation of his Constitutional right to free speech.

2. They trespassed on his property for the purpose of committing a crime.

3. There were multiple individuals.

4. The cops had been notified, but were unable to stop the crime.

I don’t know if the man warned them to stop and tried to hold them for the police to get there; but they were trying to flee the scene of a crime. Personally, with a rifle I’d have shot the tires out or destroyed the engine of the car, or at last resort, shot them in the leg. But they got what the deserved.

You people are such racist hypocrites it’s not even funny. 1) there was NO way this guy felt his home or his life were in danger, and somehow I don’t think protecting a lawn sign is the same as protecting your house, as far as the law goes. 2) If this had been a black guy shooting a couple of white kids who were messing with his Obama sign, you guys would be out foaming at the mouth and rounding up a lynch mob instead of sitting here whining about property rights. 3) If just the kids had been white instead of black, the guy would never have shot them. Period.

A person’s skin color does not constitute sufficient reason to claim that you fear for your safety. But then, you guys know that. You just want to give people an excuse to shoot now and ask later.

The Right To Bare Arms. If I caught a glimps of the liberals that took my McCain yard sign I think I would use my right to bare arms and protect my proprty too. I just had my sign stolen. I too live in a very liberal community but I felt very safe until this. I pray that we get someone in the WH that can calm these Liberals down.