Military Members Getting Hosed – Homes Taken, Exposed to HIV

Of the following two stories, which do you think is worse:

1. 1,800 Veterans at a VA Hospital in Missouri may have been infected with HIV after going to the hospital for dental work.

2. Or the Texas Hose ‘Em: Military member loses home for failing to pay Home Owner’s Association fees under an incredible Texas law that allows HOA’s to foreclose on homes for failure to pay fees. And oh yeah, by the way, they don’t have to have a court hearing to do it, either. And, oh yeah, the legislators in Texas can’t get reform passed because the HOA lobby is so powerful.

I gotta go with the HIV thing, but that’s only because the guy in Texas can actually challenge the foreclosure of his home in the courts. Of course, if you ask some of the people over on Daily Kos they might disagree with me.

I posted over there yesterday that I didn’t think a gun rights group should try to overturn a federal law that bans people convicted of domestic violence from owning guns. There were actually some people, on Daily Kos no less, who disagreed with me. They called into question my moral character (really) and suggested that I was a terrible attorney. The attorney thing may be true, but I call sheesh on the moral character question. I gotta get thicker skin if I’m going to express my opinions!