The greatest generation went from rags to riches. Now, we are going to see peeps that expect it all, going to rags. UGLY......

Like Jeff Luers. 22 years and 8 months for torching 3 SUVs (cost of damage: $40,000). Cars later sold. No harm to any humans. Mental. On appeal, the original sentence was reduced to 10 years, which still seems absolutely insane.

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Peak Molotov's?

-G

I'm with you killJoy. Those houses were part of the Puget Sound's silly "Street of Dreams" festival and have been sitting unsold since last spring. This might have been the act of desperate builder more than a group of eco-terrorists. The mob did this back east decades ago. Buy up apartment buildings in the Bronx and then torch them for the insurance.

I use to live in one of these monstrosities in Redmond in a former lifetime; 4000 sq. ft., not counting the garage. The place had two, yes two, gas furnaces, 5 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms. My wife at the time, and I only had two kids! What a waste of material, resources and living space! It was obscene. I cringe when I look back at that period of my life. May God and my fellow man have mercy on me.

I didn't know they had been sitting vacant for a year. Thanks for the news. I was mistaken. Looks like the housing problem has finally hit Puget Sound.

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Gawd. We are in trouble, Vision-Master. And I agree that those Washington McMansions were fire insurance fraud. ELF's timing would never be so bad--they've got bigger fish to fry. Four houses by the same builder is just way too convenient.

It would be interesting to hear your story, how and why you changed, etc. If there's a thread, direct me there!



Yeah, and I be those "eco-terrorists" start getting active.

Real active.

Well, it's a very personal story and I keep it private to some family and close friends only. It stems from an event that happened to me when I was on a business trip to Europe in 1991. Suffice it to say that 4 years later I left Microsoft, ended up divorced, a born again Catholic and raising my two kids on my own. I dumped that big house and fled the Puget Sound for Eastern Washington. Since then my life has become simpler with each passing year and I'm grateful for it all.

Re: attacks on rich peoples mansions:

It certainly makes more sense to go after a large, sure-to-be-full-of-goodies house than a small-needs-paint-and-a-yard house...

Sounds like arson to me-lucky, the builder had a leftover "ELF" sign to leave in one of the yards...

Congratulations to a man who has clearly been moving in the right direction....albeit over a bumpy road, like so many of us. (All of us, maybe.)

So is that the ex-wife in the photo on your avatar? She doesn't look like the live in a McMansion type ... so I kind of doubt that's the ex!

Anyway, seriously, good on you for how far you apparently have come.

As the old Quaker song says, "Tis is gift to be simple, Tis a gift to be free."

Lumpy

They say that helps. Give jobs to angry young men. But then when you offer them minimum wage while you reap 400% a year behind the walls of the castle it only lasts so long. Things are broken and only the glut of light sweet crude kept us intoxicated enough to drunkenly go along for the ride. I heard a prophecy years ago from a man who had been persecuted for his faith in communist Romania. He told me the Lord showed him the end of America, that enemies from outside and within would conspire against her and that rebellion would finish the job. This was 20 years ago and at the time the little church where we were sitting was stone cold silent. On the one hand everyone thought he must be just a crazy old man, but then it is hard to discount the testimony of someone who had their fingernails ripped out for failing to renounce Christ and give up his Christian brothers and came through it with an even deeper trust in God.

The answer to all your questions is blowin' in the wind, like a purple heart wrapped in packing tape, and a silver coin with no nationality together with a 5 million mark postage stamp.

For all you that applaud theft and arson I hope you get the future you richly deserve!

Reminds me of the little darlin dancing on the roof in Independence Day. "Oooo such a pritty light!"

One thing I know is, when I was poor (min. wage or a little above it) I lived in a rooming house, rode an old bike, etc., it was pretty obvious I was not worth robbing, and I never had a worry about it. But my friends with a lot of "stuff" all had their burglary stories, alarm systems, etc.

In fact it seems strange to me, being worried about being robbed, since most of my life I was not worth robbing.

The Quakers are right, tis a gift to be simple, tis a gift to be free.