It's Tea Time

If you're here because you happened to read an in game email, nice! I don't have anything special I can give you, but I can say you are one of few who actually bothered to check on the domain name "Covenantplayground.com".

Big thumbs up to you my friend, and may you continue to kick ass through out your life...even if it only ends up being virtually.

Hey, nobody's perfect.

But while you're here, might as well leave a comment, especially if you're the first! Then get back to blowing shit up...or stealthing shit up.

It's official, Casey Anthony will be free next Wednesday, July 13th.

Finally, justice is served. I think it was obvious to most people through out the course of this case that Casey was innocent. She was a good mother who got caught up in a bad situation, and her obviously dysfunctional family was never much of a help.

While her behavior might not have been exemplary in the weeks after Casey went missing, you don't really know how you're going to react to tragedy until you're in it. Everyone reacts and copes differently, and her choice for coping was to drown her sorrows.

All of that is moot now, because the jury made their decision. Luckily they were an understanding bunch who could see through the holes in the prosecution's circumstantial case.

God bless you Casey, I hope you can transition back into your normal life easily. Given what she's been through, it should be simple for her to get a book deal of some kind. With that it should be much easier for her to get back on her feet and hopefully make dealing with the ignorant masses, who will likely give her a hard time, easier.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

- Andrew Carnegie

In 2003, Barney Frank said this in opposition to oversight changes to Fannie and Freddie that could have minimized the damage done over the next four years:

These two entities – Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.

Even if Fannie and Freddie were to fail, the government doesn't bail them out.

Then in October of that same year he stated he worried the Treasury Department "would sacrifice activities that are good for consumers in the name of lowering the companies’ market risks."

Now in 2010, after it has become completely obvious that those he opposed seven years ago were completely right, he says this:

"Going forward it is clear we have to abolish this notion that there is a private shareholder corporation that also has a public mission, that’s clearly a mistake. The one thing I am sure of is that the kind of hybrid of a private shareholder company with a public mission doesn’t work and we have to separate the various functions.

And also this:

"Not everybody can or should be a homeowner. I think we should particularly stop this assumption that you put everybody into home ownership ... we have public policy [that] has been too much to try and push people into home ownership."

This last quote in particular, for anyone who's been paying attention the past ten years, is particularly contemptuous. The man who played a huge role in creating the assumption that everybody could, and should, be homeowners is now saying we should dispel it? And trying to take credit as if it was his idea all along??? My head is about to explode on this one.

If you put together a room of ten people that could be blamed for what happened to our housing market, he's in that room. And here he is, trying to take hold of the reigns again, leading the charge on something he obviously does not understand.

Barney: Get the hell out of the way bud. You drove the country into a ditch, you should be ashamed of yourself. Now let those who could see it coming, the people you mocked for their insight, let them take control so the good folks of this country can get back to work.

Oh, and bite me.