{"id":15040,"date":"2011-09-02T09:55:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T16:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=15040"},"modified":"2011-09-02T09:55:47","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T16:55:47","slug":"some-black-real-estate-humor-for-friday-we-have-to-destroy-the-village-to-save-it-no-save-it-first-then-destroy-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15040\/some-black-real-estate-humor-for-friday-we-have-to-destroy-the-village-to-save-it-no-save-it-first-then-destroy-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Some black real estate humor for Friday: We have to destroy the village to save it? No, save it first, then<\/em> destroy it."},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of real estate headlines from the you-have-to-laugh section of the news-nets:<\/p>\n

From the New York Times,<\/em><\/a> when a bank is too big to fail, you have to rescue it so you can sue it later. Missing, for some reason, from the list of parties to be sued: Barney Franks, Christopher Dodd, Andrew Cuomo, the NAR — and FannieMae and FreddieMac. Given that crony-“capitalist” Warren (tax-me-more-please) Buffett just dumped billions into the Bank of America, I’m thinking we can look forward to this lawsuit ending with a whimper.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in bucolic New London, CT, the land that the city fought all the way to the Supreme Court for the “right” to steal in the famous Kelo case is now — wait for it — a dumping ground.<\/a> Nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of real estate headlines from the you-have-to-laugh section of the news-nets: From the New York Times, when a bank is too big to fail, you have to rescue it so you can sue it later. Missing, for some reason, from the list of parties to be sued: Barney Franks, Christopher Dodd, Andrew Cuomo, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,13,29,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-big-mother","7":"category-casual-friday","8":"category-group-therapy","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2844,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2844\/gary-vaynerchuk-technology-has-finally-been-like-the-steel-chair-that-goodness-needed-to-destroy-and-beat-badness\/","url_meta":{"origin":15040,"position":0},"title":"Gary Vaynerchuk: “Technology has finally been, like, the steel chair that goodness needed to destroy and beat badness”","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 28, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Wine Library TV's Gary Vaynerchuk: \"Everything you do will be exposed and unraveled.\" Technorati Tags: blogging, disintermediation, real estate, real estate marketing, technology","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1461,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1461\/watermark-play-ten-samples-for-proof\/","url_meta":{"origin":15040,"position":1},"title":"Watermark play: Ten samples for proof","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 22, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Using PicMark for the Macintosh, I built a watermark that satisfies my objective: To put a proprietary mark on photos that does not destroy the beauty of the image. 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