Absolutely infuriating Palisades recovery story: My friend's mom's house burned down. His insurer asks for a copy of the blueprints, to process the claim. The blueprints were in the house and they burned --but there's a copy on file with the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety. LADBS requires a release letter from the architect to give him his blueprints, which my friend provides. Whole process takes a week. He goes to DBS to get his blueprints --but they won't give them to him. Why? Because the architect signed the request paperwork on the wrong part of the page. LADBS says my friend needs to start the whole process over. My friend objects. He says, "The instructions just said the architect needed to sign the page, and he did that." The LADBS clerk says, "But he signed over the seal. He's supposed to sign next to the seal." My friend goes, "So? He signed it." The LADBS clerk says, "But he signed the wrong part of the page." My friend pleads, "you know my mom's house burned down, and every day this gets delayed is another day she can't get her claim processed." The LADBS clerk responds, "So what?"

@_lufcsam Spot on. I've believed this for a long time. Football is not about getting good things. It's about seeing bad things happen to others.

I didn’t have sex for 5 weeks before my American embassy interview..switched off my phone for a week and I was in a white garment church… I didn’t spend 5 minutes at the presence of the consular.. I was denied like instantly 🤣 What will be, will be!

See a normal American drilling crude without NIMASA, marine police, Army, Navy, SBS, DSS there to protect him. When he computes his enterprise value and divide by the 2P reserves of that field he has developed, the estimated ultimate recovery value he generates from it is not questioned by his bankers, because in America, no one is coming to steal your oil by fixing illegal connections to well-heads to terminal, no one is wrongly calibrating your flow meters to distort the reading. Something that’s done with so much ease in other parts of the world, and even by regular joes, requires a whole Calvary in Nigeria.

Feeling something tonight that a friend once said… “You read Hayek, Mises, Bastiat, and you become a libertarian because you just want to be left alone. And then one day you realize, they’re never going to leave you alone…and you become something else.” Here we are.