I personally would love a moat, but I don’t think I could get it past the town planning board. Alligators would be a bit much. Besides, I don’t think they’d take to the coastal NJ climate. Maybe a snapping turtle or three would be better. Those things can be pretty nasty, and seeing a prehistoric looking monster with huge spiked jaws sunning itself on a rock would certainly discourage uninvited swimmers.
I’d love a 15 foot high stone wall around my property as well; maybe something with parapets. You don’t see enough of that sort of thing in upper middle class suburban neighborhoods if you ask me. And this is New Jersey after all. Maybe the planning boards can be as ‘accommodating’ as the eminent domain judges if you make the right kind of campaign contribution. Well… I probably can’t afford it anyway.
So there you go president Obama, here I am… a conservative who really would like a moat. I’d like it at the end of my driveway not the Texas border – but I think that qualifies as eliminating a straw man.
You know that the President has gone into campaign mode when perfectly reasonable government policies begin to be shamelessly caricatured as if he’s running for office against Daffy Duck. This week it’s a moat with Alligators at the Texas border, next week it will be murdering old people by taking away their ‘right’ to free healthcare, and returning blacks to slavery by getting rid of affirmative action.
It’s always one long cartoon with Democrats – and Republicans are always the villains.
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i'd be interested to know your thoughts on Raj
I don't have all that much to say on it to be perfectly honest. If he really broke the law then let him rot in jail. Too many of us do this stuff the hard way, I have no sympathy for people who cheat.
But I think the cheating is much more rare than most outsiders imagine. Sure there may be someone somewhere getting hung up on some petty technicality. But by and large I think the industry, particularly the hedge fund side, is pretty honest.
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