"What a long.....drawn out....bunch of governmental bureaucratic bs,"
No, no, no, no, no no, no no, no no, no no, no no, no no, no... NO!
This is not typical govt BS. Typical govt incompetent BS is that FEMA sent my emergency habitation [travel trailer] to the wrong address, where the contractor broke the frame while trying to level it, and the plumbing contractor managed to install a sanitary drain to a sewer lift line [which flooded the trailer with waste water]. That's how a typical govt operation goes about trying to 'do good'.
The FTC's actions seem much more akin to purchased acts of official malfeasence. Five commissioners swept away months of concientious legal investigation and analysis by the chief adminstrative law judge of the FTC with the stunningly brilliant phrase: 'we disagree...'
Bureaucratic bs and incompetence is what we now EXPECT from the govt [think Agriculture, IRS or Homeland Security]. The FTC has brought us something special: criminally inspired incompetence.
Rammax