The Over/ Under on the BIG GAME

While I am a big college football fan, as I know many of you are… this is not about football… and as my veins bleed Orange and Blue [cough] Go Gators [cough], the players in this ‘game’ have colors of their own.

The question is… who are the players?

Is it the Green Tycoons of Wall St vs. The “White-robed” Senators

[I use the color selection quite loosely.]

Or is it the  more simply the

Reds of Washington vs. their across the aisle rivals, the Blues of Washington?

Now that the Bailout Bill has passed and will soon be less of a front-page-news item, there is likely going to be many MORE articles as to who/what is to blame for all of this mess we find ourselves in.  The ‘righteous’ in Washington D.C. are saying that the free markets are to blame and that it was pure greed that drove us to the brink.  Well, like so many times that the stakes are big, the loudest seem to be the ones that need to looked at just a little deeper.

Is that the case?  Did ‘runaway free markets’ cause this?  Well the over/ under is more aptly called the over regulation/ under regulation argument.  Someone whom I personally follow as a forward thinker in the industry, Brian Brady, wrote a post on BloodHound Blog, Deregulation is the New Regulation.  Brian, I believe, summed it up quite succinctly in three bullet points.

1. Borrowers that can’t meet Prime…
2. When gov’t regulates private industry…
3. When you move down the…

Read the article here

In light of the already-heated political climate, I will not make this a political post and the only names I will point out are: Barney Frank, and Chris Dodd, both Senators.  Do your own research to determine their influence.

At the end of the day, I continue to remain bullish on America.  Americans have been down, but we have never been out… current circumstances notwithstanding.

We will survive.

TOXIC Corporation SUES Real Estate Blogger… FOR REAL!

Lawyers being what they are, it was just a matter of time before something like this grew legs somewhere. [Not that lawyers have legs…]

The problem is that it simply becomes a freedom of speech issue.

Finally, this seems to be getting a groundswell of support. High profile places like Bloodhound and Wanna Network’s real estate networking site have even picked it up. Bloodhoundblog has even set up a legal defense fund for Vlad Zablotskyy.

If you are unfamiliar witht he case finding a lot of the ‘smoking gun’ material will be tough as much of it has been censored and removed by legal bullying.

Here are a few ways to get a drift of what is going on:

• Chilling Effect: How A Behemoth Company Can Silence A Blogger – Vlad’s own posting on the topic

• ePerks Pulls The Trigger: I am being Sued. – No longer a threat, Summons copy in this blog

• You CAN get sued for blogging – Wanna Networks input

• Don’t Hang Vlad out to dry – Bloohoundblog’s steppin up – If you scroll to the bottom of the Bloodhound page, you will see even more links for the back story.

If you value your ability to blog without having to look over your shoulder, contribute! Just $1 [more if you can.] But a buck… if it just gets you to do SOMETHING!

Rick Grant, a Member on Wanna Network, had this to say, “if you want to protect yourself you’ll go buy a copy of The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual.”

If you want a direct link to donate, here it is, but I would recommend reading some of the content here first.

Chris the Implementer

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