# Omen? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 13, 2014, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omen/690711 "2014-06-13T17:04:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lorene89095](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@Lorene89095](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorene89095)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omen/690711/1 "2014-06-13T17:04:12Z")
It’s Friday. The 13th. There is a full moon. I ran over my black cat with the powerchair. (she is ok,but stupid.This is the 5th time.) We just got word that the rent for some of us in Housing will be raised 80%. This was in an ammendment signed by the Prez,snuck by Congress! HUD ---
**Author:** ![Bozuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@Bozuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bozuit)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omen/690711/2 "2014-06-13T17:32:34Z")
> [@Lorene89095](#): > > snuck Ugh. Not much else to say about this OP. ---
**Author:** ![RadioWave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@RadioWave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadioWave)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omen/690711/3 "2014-06-13T17:36:45Z")
Seems like kind of a waste to change the Constitution just to raise housing prices. I mean, freedom of speech, outlawing slavery, giving women the right to vote, raising rent… One of these just doesn’t belong. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omen/690711/4 "2014-06-13T18:06:25Z")
**Lorene** , I’m sorry this is happening to you. I know it must be frightening to think you may lose your home. **Bozuit, RadioWave** a grammar lesson, really? ---
**Author:** ![RadioWave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@RadioWave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadioWave)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omen/690711/5 "2014-06-13T18:18:54Z")
Hmmm. Perhaps I’m being overly cynical. Joined 2 days ago, starts an anti-Obama thread with no content and no cites… Suspicious However, if this isn’t a drive by, then welcome and hope it all works out for you. Remember that there are lots of people who try to spread deliberate misinformation to keep people scared and it’s very unlikely anyone’s rent will be raised 80% ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omen/690711/6 "2014-06-13T18:20:34Z")
The rent won’t go up 80%. The rent will be based on 80% of local Fair Market Rents, but not increase by more than 35% in any one year. Also, if the rent is already at 80% of the FMR, it won’t change. [http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/documents/huddoc?id=pih2014-12.pd](http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/documents/huddoc?id=pih2014-12.pdf)f ---
**Author:** ![Osiris\_the\_1st](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9de0a6/32.png) [@Osiris\_the\_1st](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osiris_the_1st)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omen/690711/7 "2014-06-13T18:25:40Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > The rent won’t go up 80%. The rent will be based on 80% of local Fair Market Rents, but not increase by more than 35% in any one year. Also, if the rent is already at 80% of the FMR, it won’t change. > > [http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/documents/huddoc?id=pih2014-12.pd](http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/documents/huddoc?id=pih2014-12.pdf)f I love when folks respond to scare tactic numbers by finding the real numbers. And with a cite! You are awesome sauce. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omen/690711/8 "2014-06-13T18:29:49Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > **Bozuit, RadioWave** a grammar lesson, really? What grammar lesson? ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omen/690711/9 "2014-06-13T18:37:31Z")
My grammar can beat up your grammar. ---
**Author:** ![Bozuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@Bozuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bozuit)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omen/690711/10 "2014-06-13T18:51:29Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > **Lorene** , I’m sorry this is happening to you. I know it must be frightening to think you may lose your home. > **Bozuit, RadioWave** a grammar lesson, really? Did you actually read the OP? That’s as seriously as I can take it. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omen/690711/11 "2014-06-13T19:16:06Z")
> [@Lorene89095](#): > > It’s Friday. Correct > [@](#): > > We just got word that the rent for some of us in Housing will be raised 80%. No, it won’t. > [@](#): > > This was in an ammendment signed by the Prez No, it wasn’t. > [@](#): > > ,snuck by Congress! No, it wasn’t. > [@](#): > > HUD So you’re bashing the agency that is providing vouchers so you have a place to live? If you hate HUD, perhaps you should pull that hand back in so the tax dollars can go elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omen/690711/12 "2014-06-13T19:53:13Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > **Bozuit, RadioWave** a grammar lesson, really? You’re right. They missed a perfect opportunity for laughing at the woo. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omen/690711/13 "2014-06-13T20:41:13Z")
I walked under a ladder while picking up pieces of a broken mirror. My fortune cookie was empty. The leaves at the bottom of my teapot read, “TEA CAUSES CANCER.” …oh wait, this is a politics-bashing thread? I thought it was a share-silly-trivia thread. Count me out, then… ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omen/690711/14 "2014-06-13T20:42:41Z")
My breakfast egg had two yolks this morning. ---
**Author:** ![Lorene89095](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@Lorene89095](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorene89095)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omen/690711/15 "2014-06-13T22:25:48Z")
> [@Bozuit](#): > > Ugh. > > Not much else to say about this OP. I will tell you this one time. How I talk is how I write. You don’t like it,don’t read my posts. I have beat cancer twice and am fighting stage 4 colon cancer. Your opinion means very very little. Sit down and hush! ---
**Author:** ![Lorene89095](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@Lorene89095](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorene89095)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omen/690711/16 "2014-06-13T22:31:19Z")
And I gotta tell you,I am scared. Not for me,but for my neighbors. Also,every pain starts the dark thoughts. “Is IT coming back?” Chemo again? Do like my daughter? ---
**Author:** ![Bozuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@Bozuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bozuit)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omen/690711/17 "2014-06-13T22:36:02Z")
> [@Lorene89095](#): > > I will tell you this one time. How I talk is how I write. You don’t like it,don’t read my posts. I have beat cancer twice and am fighting stage 4 colon cancer. Your opinion means very very little. Sit down and hush! I’m not sure what cancer has to do with your silly political views. And if we’re talking about opinions, I’m not the one who started this thread, am I? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2014, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omen/690711/18 "2014-06-14T14:23:15Z")
> [@Lorene89095](#): > > And I gotta tell you,I am scared. > Not for me,but for my neighbors. You have yet to provide any sort of source for your claim that this has happened. While there is an item in a _proposed_ budget that will set a $50 minimum rent for those getting USDA rural rental assistance, it’s not yet law. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2014, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omen/690711/19 "2014-06-14T18:05:04Z")
> [@Lorene89095](#): > > I will tell you this one time. How I talk is how I write. You don’t like it,don’t read my posts. I have beat cancer twice and am fighting stage 4 colon cancer. Your opinion means very very little. Sit down and hush! You are posting on our message board. We are entirely free to discuss any aspect of your posts, including the silly talk about omens, the lousy typing, and the unsubstantiated claims. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2014, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omen/690711/20 "2014-06-14T18:18:40Z")
> [@Lorene89095](#): > > Do like my daughter? I like you daughter long time. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omen/690711.md?page=2)