Banking Law

A Pause For Quite Reflection

As I scramble to quench fires set by flamers engaged in tense negotiations over a technology outsourcing agreement and another situation that demands repeated redrafts and a cast iron gluteus maximus, I did want to pass along a couple of tidbits. When last week I drove a certain hysterical blogger to new depths of hot-flashing hormonal rage by suggesting that home renters don't take care of their homes as well as home owners (thereby earning the epithet "elitist," perish the thought), I should have included in my post a reference to an Indiana Supreme Court decision of a week earlier that overturned a lower court ruling that found that a restrictive covenant in a declaration of covenants, conditions and restrictions that banned owners of single family homes in a development from renting their homes violated the Fair Housing Act. As the higher court stated, the lower court disregarded "undisputed evidence and expert testimony in the record showing that owners maintain property better than renters." I assume that those experts and purveyors of the relevant evidence, as well as the Supreme Court justices who found such testimony and evidence convincing are also "elitists." Elitists love company, you know, as do those off their Prozac.

Speaking of elitists, I've been mulling over the candidacy of noted elitist Barack Obama. A guy who's that dismissive of entire groups of human beings commands my attention as a potential brother-in-snark. Plus, I like the fact that he manages to sometimes make gaffes of "Bushian" proportions in public, yet comes off smelling like a rose because he's such a smooth dog. I think that once Hill finally is carried kicking and screaming into a padded cell for some well-deserved R&R, he'll hold his own in toe-to-toe nuclear combat with Ulysses S. Grant John McCain.

On the other hand, this McCain is one hard guy. As this news report show, he's not only a fearsome cost-cutter, he's the kind of guy who'd personally kick your ass and not even bother to take your name.

Full post as published by Bank Lawyers Blog on May 29, 2008 (boomark / email).