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I felt compelled to respond to the comment, but the article is interesting too.

http://realestate.aol.com/blog/2011/06/01/video-family-lives-in-320-square-foot-shotgun-shack/?ncid=webmail#aolc=A1CQ8g

You "home eded" your kids? I hope their spelling, grammar, punctuation and phrasing are better than yours.

Also, the lot rent they're paying exceeds what I pay for my mortgage on a house 5X that size. They don't actually "own" a home. They own a trailer on someone else's land.

Then, the new laws on child products may put their little business under. I disagree with these laws, but compliance is something all businesses have to deal with. They may be in a world of hurt shortly.

I also wouldn't allow the kid to stay up there for "2-3 days at a time." As someone else said, he's living like a squirrel. Also, fire code in almost every jurisdiction requires two escape routes from all sleeping areas. He seems to have one ladder entrance only, and that directly over an ignition source.

As a cabin for a summer camp, it's smaller than either of my tents. As a house, it's smaller than my garage and of questionable safety.

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http://www.alternet.org/rights/151108/why_the_democratic_party_has_abandoned_the_middle_class_in_favor_of_the_rich/?page=entire

Snark: For people who don't care about money, the "left" sure spends a lot of time worrying about money--other people's money, and how to get their hands on it.

If rich people own most of the businesses, generate most of the GDP and pay most of the taxes, it's hardly a surprise that the politicians respond to them.

The unions shot themselves in the head repeatedly in the 70s, insisting that the US should just practice isolationism and pay semi-skilled workers a "living wage" that in some areas is more than that earned by degreed professionals--doctors, engineers. A decade later, Japan owned the steel, auto and electronic industries because they had the work ethic without the greed.

This is not to say we should emulate Japan. But that was the threat at the time, and the unions failed to even acknowledge it, much less respond.

I worked at FedEx during the UPS strike, when the Teamsters spent 6 months trying very hard to convince FedEx employees to unionize. They offered a deal that was actually LESS beneficial than FedEx already delivered. Then they made their power grab on the freight industry, only to harm UPS's market share and employees, while empowering FedEx and several small, now large, trucking firms, who responded to the crisis.

A decade later, I found out the key bargaining point was control of pension funds, which is possibly a good idea. However, that's not what they presented, not what they fought, and not what they accomplished.

The unions have failed at least as much as the parties.

In the meantime, American Idle is sure raking in the bucks from the morons, isn't it? How many of those viewers can name a single Senator or Justice?

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And this is on top of the numerous naive elements of the "Story."

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From: Haris Moore <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:33 AM
Subject: MY ORDER
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hello am haris moore by name and and My son  Birthday is coming up on the 20th of june so I will  like  to place an order  for,100 chicken and salad  so can i get the total price and i am making the full payment of the order now with my credit card now and it will be picked up by a private carrier agent on that date by 5 pm and i will like  you to calculate the total cost now plus the tax

I  am hearing impaired a deaf and the best way for me to contact u is by my e mail address and via text msg and i will like u to give me ur cell phone number now so that i am going to  send u a text on ur cell phone now and make sure uu be with it now okay
thanks
haris moore

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This is a decent enough song, with a better than average video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXpdmKELE1k&feature=topvideos_music

So in the comments, we find:

Dog spelt backwards is God.

Only God can save the world.

Yes, because rather than say, "God," it's so much easier to show a dog, and hint deceptively (how, exactly?) that "god" did it.  Nevermind that the band is Swedish, and in Swedish, the words are "Hund" and "gud."  (Pause while the twit runs off to chant "god is gud!")

I have no problem with faith, but it is possible to ascribe way too much to it.  Especially as there's nothing on the band's site to indicate any religious affiliation at all.

And then we have:

Fucking Marxist propaganda

Really?  I'm afraid I'm not following that, either.  Dogs are marxist?  Well, if they take down criminals in pain, I'm okay with that.  And it's nice to see some artists who don't push the hippie myth that criminals are just misunderstood and only need a hug.  It was nice to see a beat down.

I guess I see it more as "be like a dog, not like a sheep."

Because, you know, there were DOGS in the video, representing loyalty and strength.

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