As a matter of fact, with the new skin, spoiler boxes don’t work very well. Note, when someone quotes a post with a spoiler box, the spoiler in the quote is open by default.
I bet he pays HOA fees, too.
Can confirm that it’s closed by default when using old skin (the way it should work).
No not really. Teach it to me, please!
Thank you, I thought it was all me, jeez!!
News ticker this morning had an update on RP’s injury. Turns out it was not five but SIX broken ribs!
Thank og for this sort of intrepid reporting. I was going to send a $50 Get Well flower arrangement but now I’m upgrading it to the $60 option.
And he “appears to cast doubt” on the landscaping skirmish theory with a couple of passive-aggressive retweets of Breitbart and Washington Examiner articles, neither of which I shall link to directly nor read.
I condemn the attack, but he doesn’t make it particularly easy to sympathize.
I’ve always thought he has a face made for punching. And he and I aren’t even neighbours.
According to the following story, Rand Paul was a real thorn in the side for the HOA.
*"While there’s no official word on what caused the fight, Skaggs (the developer) suggested it might have stemmed from Paul allegedly blowing lawn trimmings into his neighbor’s yard.
There have been disagreements in the past, Skaggs said, over lawn clippings or who should cut down a tree branch when it stretched over a property line. The two men live on different streets but their lots join and their homes are 269 feet apart, according to Google Maps.
“I think this is something that has been festering. I wanted to build a place where everyone could get along, but I guess that’s just impossible.”
Jim Skaggs, developer of the Rivergreen gated community in Bowling Green
Skaggs described Boucher as a “near-perfect” neighbor, but he said the libertarian politician is a different story.
Paul “was probably the hardest person to encourage to follow the (homeowner’s association regulations) of anyone out here because he has a strong belief in property rights,” said Skaggs, who is the former chairman of the Warren County Republican Party. "*
The dispute about lawn trimmings blowing into the yard seems bizarre. Who could object to free fertilizer?
*a one-time neighbor of mine back when I rented a small house, had tizzies when a few leaves from our small front yard tree would blow over onto their lawn. I guess I was supposed to install a tree bra.
Unconfirmed reports, of course, yet it’s not exactly hard to imagine Rand Paul being an HOA scofflaw and Neighbor from Hell who’d try to carve out his own little Galt’s Gulch inside someone else’s gates.
HOAs are for assholes. That being said, its always best to be a good neighbor.
This report casts doubt on the ‘landscaping dispute’. See the update at the bottom of the article.
According to the article the neighbor was “was aggressively anti-Trump and anti-GOP in his social media,”. It’s not like Paul is all that pro-Trump and pro-GOP himself, but this is no longer looking an argument about grass clippings.
Now the guy has pled not guilty in court. This is gonna be interesting.
The Neighbor may be anti-Trump but that doesn’t mean he tackled Paul because he hates Donald Trump. I mean, how does that make any sense? Even if you hate the GOP - and I bow to no one in that club - what does randomly tackling GOP members get you, other than a stay in Club Fed? How does that help?
I don’t know. It just sounds too personal to be a political thing. We’ll see, I guess.
I do wish Rand Paul a smooth recovery. It sounds like it could be months, though. As much as I hate the GOP, I don’t approve of assaulting Congresspersons.
Paul has been one of the biggest thorns in Trump’s side. They’re playing nice lately, but I don’t think that means that he has become a Trump ally.
Also, this quoted for posterity. HOAs suck, most of the time.
People were shot on a baseball field because someone hated Trump. What makes you think a person cannot be blindsided and attacked for the same or similar reason!??
Certainly could be. I don’t remember the demographics of the ballfield shooter, but when I think of a person likely to carry out a violent attack on a politician, “middle-aged anesthesiologist living in a gated community” doesn’t really fit the profile.
Just hard to imagine that anyone would think that assaulting a sitting US Senator was likely to achieve ANY desirable result!
Rebelling against an HOA is about the only positive thing I’ve heard concerning Rand Paul. Still, how on earth did a staunch libertarian wind up a member of one in the first place?
I’d sooner have neighbors who left deer carcasses in their yard or imported large snakes to keep the outdoor vermin down*, than live in an HOA.
*I’ve had neighbors who did both of these things.
I’ve heard many horror stories, but unless the HOA formed after he moved in, he knew what the expectations were when he chose to live there.
“Anesthesiologist leaves practice, citing injury, then turns extremely violent” screams “drug problem” to me.