The Free Parking jackpot is a common "house rule," that applies because all the players agree to it. The bit about four houses is written into the rules and if it's ignored, it's usually because nobody is aware of how it's written. Once you show them the written rule and have them read it, most people will agree that what you're doing is legal. Of course, they might make up a house rule for the future changing it, but that's their privilege.

That's true if, and only if nobody's willing to trade. If you know which properties are landed on the most often and which groups have the best return on investment when that's taken into account (Hint: it's not Boardwalk/Park Place.) you can often swap high rent properties that aren't landed on very often for lower rent locations that people land on frequently and nickel-and-dime your opponents to death because it doesn't cost as much to build them up.

And, of course, there's always the strategy of the artificial housing shortage. The cost of a hotel is the cost of a house plus four houses. That is, you can't go from three houses to a hotel if there aren't any houses to buy. And, as you can't have more than a one house difference in a set of properties, if you have (let's say) three houses on all of the Greens and there's only one house left, you can't upgrade any of them to a hotel. Smart players know the rules, and use them to their advantage.

No, Mr. Anonymous Fool, I demonstrated that not all galaxies are billions of light years away as the OP seems to think. Reading for comprehension; what a concept, and such a shame that you don't understand it.

So what you're saying is that all galaxies are precisely as far away as the Andromeda galaxy? Yeah no.

Stop putting words in my mouth, asshole. There are galaxies at all sorts of distances. I picked the Andromeda Galaxy as an example because I happen to know how far away it is. My point is, for the clue-impaired, that it doesn't take billions of years for light to get here from another galaxy unless that galaxy is billions of light years away, and there are a lot of them much closer. I suppose you also think that it takes billions of years for light to reach us from the Sagitarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy, even though it's only 70,000 light-years away.

Don't be silly. Not only did I eat a very well-balanced diet aboard ship, I didn't develop Type II for almost 30 years after I was discharged.

It's commonly accepted that the most distant galaxies we can currently see are up to about 14 billion light years away...

Yes, I know. However, the claim you quote doesn't refer to the most distant galaxy, but to "a different galaxy," which is both quite different and clearly incorrect as I explained.

Space is so big that BILLIONS of years will pass before we even see the light shining from a sun in a different galaxy.

No. The time it takes for light to reach us from another star is exactly equal to the distance from here to the star measured in light years. (Remember, a light year is the distance light travels in one year.) As an example, the Andromeda Galaxy is 2.5 million light years away, so we're seeing it by light that started its journey here 2.5 million years ago, not billions of years as you so ignorantly state. Please learn something about what you're talking about before you make a fool of yourself. Again.

Damned if I know. I was overweight at the time, but not spectacularly. It may have been traces of Agent Orange in debris clouds that my ship steamed through in Tonkin Gulf back in '72 but I never had "boots on the ground" so the VA won't test me for it. And, I'll admit that at this point I have other issues that are more important, including keeping my blood sugar under control without obsessing on it too much.

My one and only resolution is to gain at least a pound a month during the next year. I'm badly underweight with no insulation or padding and the nights are cold enough where I live to make things very unpleasant. And, as I'm Type II, the obvious route of eating lots of carbs isn't an option.

I used to wish the same thing for the same reason. Then, my wish came true at about 4:30 AM and I learned a very important lesson: Be careful what you wish for, because you might get it.

Actually, given the time period, it might have been Mr. Coward who said it.

Judging by how you refer to various presidents, I'm sure you would have thought different if the parties were reversed. For the record, I think that the GOP should be ashamed of itself for letting this happen in the first place.

BO and the Democrats have had six years to change the policy and return proper congressional oversight and done nothing. Yes, the GOP was responsible for creating the situation, but the Democrats have nobody but themselves to blame for letting it continue.

That still doesn't answer the question of why "the most transparent administration in history" allowed this to go on for six years.

You've got it right! BO has been president for six of those ten years and done absolutely and positively nothing about it but the OP still blames the GOP. What happened to "the most transparent administration in history?" Typical liberal hypocrisy.