Oren writes:

On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:13:39 -0500, wrote:

Oren writes:

On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:22:04 -0500, wrote:

"HeyBub" writes:

wrote:

Yeah, I noticed that on my visits to Houston.
You're driving through a residential neighborhood and you come to
some house decked out in Xmas lights and it has a sign that says
"Nude Dancing".

Well, that's one way to define freedom but probably not a good
way to protect property values.

We, in lesser affluent neighborhoods, have more subdued methods of dealing
with those who offend our sensibilities. These methods usually involve
firearms in some fashion

Yeah, I encountered a lot of that false bravado down in Texas.
I was down there fixing up a completely broken computer system and
the plant owner told us that if the system didn't work the way he
wanted, there could be gun play.

Up north we have a name for that kind of talk.
We call it idiocy.

Like I said, drive down a residential street and there is a whore house
sitting right in the middle of it. I learned something today.
The guy owning the whore house must have had more guns.

The Mustang Ranch brothel moved from Texas to Nevada. After legal
problems the government took it over and tried to operate it.

They ****ed it up and lost money.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/gov...tang_ranch.htm

Status FALSE.

But go on, keep repeating it. Lots of people will believe
that the Federal government tried to operate a whore house.

Dan,

"...It's true that the feds had planned on keeping the business going
until the brothel could be sold at auction (a scheme that became the
butt of numerous jokes on late-night TV), but a U.S. judge refused to
allow the bankruptcy trustee to assume the Ranch's business license.
Instead, the IRS foreclosed on the property and auctioned it off a few
months later."

In my view, they DID try to operate it.

Wikipedia, Snopes and Urban Legends all say no.
Do you have any evidence at all?

Of course the claim is that they failed to run it.
The closest you might get is that they had the intent.
I can't find any support for that other than the judges
ruling.

But since they never even tried, the claim is an out and out lie.

--
Dan Espen