Ever since I started using this website to try to hawk my book, Neighbors At War, I’ve been told by well-meaning friends and relatives, don’t ever attack Oregon. That state is so Blue it has a built-in guilt complex. Personal guilt hangs so heavy in the air in Oregon that these blue state leftists walk around in their hair shirts (see self-abuse by Monasteries) and lash their own backs with whips. It’s not the rainy weather that depresses them, it’s the load of guilt on their shoulders. I was promised I would never find a case of embezzling from neighbors in an Oregon Homeowners Association.
editor’s note: as a reporter I’ve been exposing massive abuses in the VA for thirty years, and nothing has ever happened to change the plight of our soldiers. Do I have a dog in the fight? Of course, with several family members currently being abused by this system it’s maddening to see the abuses continue. Please study the paper below by Col. Frank.
The following is being posted on a dozen of the most active LinkedIn military and veterans groups with a combined total of over 50,000 readers. But, much more social media exposure is needed by those more expert than I.
Time was, you couldn’t get a journalist anywhere to listen to your rants about crooked HOAs. Calling the local TV station or newspaper was a loser’s game. The average person just didn’t have the clout to get a story out there.
Well, Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the Internet. Traditional media used to spit and hiss when they thought of all those “pajama-clad bloggers” out there mucking up the sewer pipes of information distribution. Now those journalists who wouldn’t listen to the hoi paloi are spitting into the wind as we just blow them away like so much dry chaff. Now, more people are reading websites like ours than are reading many big-city newspapers.
How the heck do you keep finding such wonderful stories?!? I’m only a pajama-clad blogger sitting in my bedroom at night trying to find stories here and there that might amuse you. But you folks are so much better than I.
Wow!
A Statue of Liberty with glowing eyes!
An embarrassed and angry HOA!
And a new round of stupidity for the terminally stupid.
Lon Neuville, homeowner in the Debary Plantation HOA got permission from his HOA to put up a replica of the Statue of Liberty. “Whatever,” the HOA said.
You know, you’ve gotta start feeling a little sorry for Las Vegas crime boss Leon Benzer right about now. Gosh, dang! Another four of his co-conspirators have now pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering and conspiring to steal massive amounts of money from Las Vegas homeowners. But Bobo Benzer hasn’t been able to keep his organized crime mob together. Gone are the days when a spaghetti-eating garlic-spitter could fire a .32 shell into the face of an adversary to shut him up. These days, you just can’t get good help.
The following is being posted on a dozen of the most active LinkedIn military and veterans groups with a combined total of over 50,000 readers. But, much more social media exposure is needed by those more expert than I.