I used 'glean' all 3 times to mirror you and use a word you're obviously comfortable with... :)

Me? One-upsmanship? Nah, never happen... more than a few times a day or per visit to a blog/comment site... just like many others here and elsewhere... heat and kitchens, y'know?

And if, somehow, you got the idea that I 'admire the Clintons' you could not have possibly read OR understood any of the things on my site or in any of my posts.

I hate Hillary. Bill was pretty good, though between him and Congress and Barney Frank, I believe they all set the fuse on the mortgage lending crisis and Housing Bubble. Fortunately for ME, I sold my Silicon Valley house about 3-6 months before the peak of that bubble, and for about nine times what I'd paid for it back in '79. Love those CA zoning laws that ruin the supply side of a market in an extremely desirable place to live. But, UNLIKE the CLINTONS, I'm a free-market libertarian capitalist, so if someone is going to do something stupid to the economy that I can take advantage of, I thank them all the way to the bank. And complain about their stupidity that takes money out of my pocket for 'no good reasons.'

Me? Admire the Clintons? Surely you jest!

Actually those lines come from Freddie Jones, as Sir Kenneth Aubrey KCMG, head of the British SIS, in "Firefox" (1982)

The answers are the same unfortunately.

Nope, home every day and check my mail box every day. Had I been gone for a week I would not have made the comment.

Expect the worst and pray for the best. I think the Doobie Bros. did a song about that.

Careful observation somehow missed your <ironic font>. I also notice that you became attached to glean after I used the word. My guess is that you want to play oneupsmanship rather than deal with what you said and your trying to justify it with your challenge to read all of your other comments and visit your site. You must admire the Clintons.

Smaug

Why do I think that you would get back an agreement to pay it back in equal payments with a nominal interest rate? I can just see some bureaucrat sitting them and not seeing the game you would be playing with them.

I agree. I was stupidly thinking that they would be competent to do what they were formed to do rather than to be just another government money harvesting machine.

I appreciate your thanks but I have to admit that I really liked the Army and wanted to stay in but was advised by my wife that if I stayed in she would divorce me. I should have taken her up on her offer as I got out and she still divorced me.

Sorry you didn't recognize the <ironic font> I was using.

I'm quite disgusted with the way government agencies run at just about every level I've ever had to deal with them or read about them in the newspaper or see reports on TV.

I'm not bored, nor do I consider any of this to be a waste of time, but thanks 'anyway' for your 'observation.'

Read some of my other posts to Glean a Picture of 'how I really feel about the subjects' or hit my personal site at plusaf.com to Glean an image of how "transparent" I am about my positions, views and attitudes.

And if you note the little $ next to MY name, you might also glean a tiny insight into me and my relationship with the ideas shared and commented on here at The Gulch.

But if you also step back a few feet and look at the attitudes expressed in damned near every one of the other posts in this thread, you MIGHT notice that just about all of them are war stories about 'how bad life has been to me thanks to the bumblement' or some other bitching and moaning.

None of which goes to uncovering Root Cause of why the hell folks like us are being punished by all those folks In Office who are allegedly there 'to help and serve us.'

Now go reread through this thread and see how many posts even come close to 'looking for root cause.'

Looking forward to your Objective Analysis...
:)
[note: minor use of irony in this post.]

How many times has he lied?

That will happen if the box is stuffed full. Might you have been away for a week? If not, maybe they tried to deliver to someone else's apartment.

Now there's scandal that I hadn't thought about for a while! (I think that since the taxpayer must bear the burden for their free mail privilege, the congress people should be required to PERSONALLY sign each franked letter. Think of what we'd save, and what a boost to the economy when all of these pogues would have to buy Bic pens by the trainload! But I digress...)

What the heck does 'franking' mean anyway?

We need a Government-to-English dictionary. We also need to start a thread compiling a list of the malfeasences of these government miscreants, preserving the historical record for posterity!

By George, I'm going to go start them right now!

Might be worth a try. Heck, he might invite you to the next State of the Union. How many times has he promised to fix the problems at the VA?

Their mistakes are your fault and problem.

I live in an apartment complex and each apartment has a mail box for the postal service to leave your mail in. I got an email from a buddy asking if I had moved because a card he had sent me was returned with the yellow USPS official sticker on it saying that I was not at home. I wonder how they knew that from just looking a my mail box which is three hallways from my apartment.

If you had paid it they would send you a couple of letters telling you that you did not pay the interest penalty which was due a payable two weeks ago so the interest on the interest was accumulating and was due and payable.

That reminded me of the franking account money that was being stolen by the congress. Funny they had taken the money but when caught they all anted up and were able to pay what they were stealing.

The VA I went to as instructed by the staff of my Representative told me that it was the higher ups at the VA here in Texas. I guess that makes them innocent of the hose job they did on me. Maybe just for S & G's I'll write Barry and ask for his help.

Always glad to get a little smile from the ones that get the point. I'd be happy if some non educated about Billery picked up the hint. Thanks.

Yes indeed they went after him

The VA should be one organization the government should get "right". Our veterens should get the best care and attention possible. Thank you for your service and I hope you get this straightened out. Unfortunately the higher ups only seem to care if a story makes the national news.