[Apologetics] FW: Actual Letters Between the FHA and a Lawyer in Louisiana

[Dianne Dawson]

This is GREAT!  Thanks for the laugh Art.
   
  Dianne

Art Kelly <akelly at americantarget.com> wrote:
  Please read both letters.

Art

-----Original Message-----
From: David Franke [mailto:dfranke00 at comcast.net]
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 12:10 AM
To: dfranke00 at comcast.net
Subject: have you heard the one about the lawyer and the bureaucrat...


(Forwarded)
>
>Part of rebuilding New Orleans causes residents to often be
>challenged with the task of tracing home titles back potentially
>hundreds of years.
>
>With a community rich with history stretching back over two
>centuries, houses have been passed along through generations of family,
>sometimes making it quite difficult to establish ownership.
>
>>A New Orleans lawyer sought an FHA loan for a client.
>He was told the loan would be granted if he could prove satisfactory
>title to a parcel of property being offered as collateral.
>The title to the property dated back to 1803, which took the lawyer
>three months to track down.
>
>After sending the information to the FHA, he received the following
>reply.
>
>
>(Actual letter):
>
>"Upon review of your letter adjoining your client's loan
>application,we note that the request is supported by an Abstract of
>Title. While we compliment the able manner in which you have prepared
>and presented the application, we must point out that you have only
>cleared title to the proposed collateral l property back to 1803.
>Before final approval can be accorded, it will be necessary to clear the
>title back to its origin."
>
>Annoyed, the lawyer responded as follows
>
>
>(actual letter):
>
>"Your letter regarding title in Case No. 189156 has been received.
>I note that you wish to have title extended further than the 194
>years covered by the present application. I was unaware that any
>educated person in this country, particularly those working in the
>property area,would not know that Louisiana was purchased, by the U.S.,
>from France in1803, the year of origin identified in our application.
>For the edification of uninformed FHA bureaucrats, the title to the
>land prior to U.S. ownership was obtained from France, which had
>acquired it by Right of Conquest from Spain.
>The land came into the possession of Spain by Right of Discovery made in
>the year 1492 by a sea captain named Christopher Columbus, who had been
>granted the privilege of seeking a new route to India by the Spanish
>monarch, Isabella.
>The good queen, Isabella, being a pious woman and almost as careful
>about titles as the FHA, took the precaution of securing the blessing
>of the Pope before she sold her jewels to finance Columbus' expedition.
>
>Now the Pope, as I'm sure you may know, is the emissary of Jesus
>Christ, the Son of God, and God, it is commonly accepted, created
>this world. Therefore, I believe it is safe to presume that God also
>made that part of the world called Louisiana. God, therefore, would be
>the owner of origin, and His origins date back, to before the beginning
>of time, the world as we know it AND the FHA. I hope you find God's
>original claim to be satisfactory.
>Now, may we have our damn loan?"
>
>
>The loan was approved.
>

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