Texas Home Owners Association Steals Soldier's home

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Friday May 28, 2010 · 11:51 AM PDT

2010/05/28 · 11:51

This floored me when I picked it up off Huffington Post. I didn't see that it has been diaried here and there isn't much information (I can only find a couple of articles, one in the local news and the other by Nick Baumann on Mother Jones Blog.) I would certainly be interested if anyone else has more information regarding this incident or Texas Home Owners Association laws.

The basic story is that a Texas Home Owners Association essentially stole a soldier's home while he was deployed and he is now fighting to get it back. Their excuse? $800 in overdue HOA fees.

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Thursday December 28, 2006 · 11:21 AM PST

2006/12/28 · 11:21

From AP News comes an interesting article that reveals what most of us in Iraq know: many troops disagree with the surge (AKA escalation) idea.

In dozens of interviews with soldiers of the Army's 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment as they patrolled the streets of eastern Baghdad, many said the Iraqi capital is embroiled in civil warfare between majority Shiite Muslims and Sunni Arabs that no number of American troops can stop

There were a fair number of comments regarding the breakfast the new SECDEF Gates had with several lower enlisted troops at Camp Victory in Baghdad last week. The short version of that 15 person meeting was that the troops agreed with the idea of bringing more troops to Iraq.

Now we hear the other side of the story.

This becomes even more timely as we have news of the 82nd Airborne Division's 2nd Brigade being deployed out of schedule to Kuwait (and likely soon thereafter to Iraq).

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Thursday March 02, 2006 · 10:20 PM PST

2006/03/02 · 22:20

I haven't seen this diaried here yet- maybe I am just too far behind the times though.

ABC News is reporting that Tom Delay's golf trip just happened to be charged on Jack Abramoff's credit card. Talk about a smokin' gun.

The American Express bills of lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who pleaded guilty to fraud charges in January, show he footed the bill for the tickets, in an apparent violation of House ethics rules.

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