Category Archives: Corruption

Homeowner Forecloses On Bank

Heh. That is accurate.

Ever hear of a bank trying to foreclose on a homeowner that didn’t have a mortgage with them?

Well now you have. Taken to court, losing, refusing to pay costs to homeowner. Sweet Justice indeed.

Financial Future For Who?

Us? China?

There is way too much in the way of articles, essays, opinions to opine about here.

Instead, here are a few links to whet your whistle, or increase your angst:

China has dropped 97 percent of its holdings in U.S. Treasury bills, decreasing its ownership of the short-term U.S. government securities from a peak of $210.4 billion in May 2009 to $5.69 billion in March 2011, the most recent month reported by the U.S. Treasury. . . .”

29 Months into the most Left Wing U.S. Presidency and we are heading into an economic disaster.

More bad economic news.

I have one question:

How can one man, such as our President, solve this crisis when it is Congress that has helped him more than triple our indebtedness (and waants to spend even more) and our primary lender is separating itself from our poor financial dealings?

Predator Did It

Top al Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri killed in US Predator strike

The US has killed Ilyas Kashmiri, one of al Qaeda’s most dangerous military commanders and strategists, in a Predator airstrike yesterday in South Waziristan.

Kashmiri is said to be one of nine members of the al Qaeda-linked Harkat-ul Jihad Islami, or HUJI, who were killed in yesterday’s Predator airstrike that leveled a compound in the Wana area of South Waziristan. A Harkat-ul Jihad Islami spokesman told Dawn that Kashmiri was killed in the attack.

Read the whole thing.

FB No Like TP

Censorship, sounds like. Doesn’t matter how incremental it is accomplished.

If FaceBook chooses to implement policies that eventually restrict politics from their (his) site, then when does it stop being a social platform?

And isn’t the Tea Party exactly a social body? Yes? Bueller?

Retirement Plans

At risk? At colleges and private plans?

Not good. Not. Good. At. All.

UPDATEx8: Epic Failure

I was hoping I would outlast the Weiner-gate monotony. Guess not.

After reading this Hot Air article and watching the last CNN video (over 9 minutes of distraction), I can’t hold back anymore.

If the elected representative was honest about having his internet Twitter account hacked by someone else, there would be no reason to NOT have proper authorities investigate, find and prosecute the criminal. At the end of that last video, it was said there is still no notification, from him or his office, to authorities to investigate the Government’s internet security breach of a national elected official of Congress.

This elected representative, as he points out this topic is now into its third day, cannot and will not answer simple questions that would settle this.

If he were my representative, I could not in good faith vote for him.

I cannot trust him. How many others trust him to do right?

It’s up to his constituents, looks like.

CNN? You are wasting your time with him.

UPDATE: It appears someone has experimental evidence that gets Weiner off the hook. I’ll let you figure that out as you wish. But I still have some misgivings considering everything so far. We shall see.

UPDATEx2: Yeah, Publius voices the same concerns I have.

UPDATEx3: This just gets better and better. Apparently, Jim Hoft at GatewayPundit also says more of the same AND that Cannonfire is wrong.

UPDATEx4: Uh oh. He’s in real trouble now.

UPDATEx5: Apparently, Weiner’s office called the Capitol Police on a reporter who was never asked to leave the office yet was not in the office when the reporter was approached by the police.

Glad he’s not my Congressman.

UPDATEx6: With a head of DNC like this, I would think Weiner would tell her he doesn’t need her help. Ditz.

UPDATEx7: Oh, how about a little trip by way of the time machine to see what little Debbie had to say back in 2006. And there’s a bit more history on Weiner.

UPDATEx8: Today (6/6/11) Weiner held a press conference between 4 and 5pm declaring his apology and admitting lying to everyone. Yet, unwilling to resign his office. An office his constituents put him in because of their unwavering trust in him.

How’s his trustworthiness now? How about his morality, his ethics? Still think he deserves to keep that job?

I do not.

Very Bad Policy

And I would say idiotic in addition to being acknowledged, finally, to being THE reason our government’s agencies do a poor job of managing our country’s needs.

Pitiful, just pitiful. Get rid of this agency or fix it to be economical for itself AND the rest of us. The debt clock is ticking waaaaay too fast.

EPA Says It’s ‘Prohibited’ From Considering Costs When Issuing Air-Quality Regulations

DNC – Is This the Best You Can Do?

I mean, really, shouldn’t you vet your candidates for heading up your party, or something?

Sheesh. Get a grip.

Oh, and here’s something from tweedledumber.

New Book Explains A Lot

A brief description of Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon:

In Reckless Endangerment, Gretchen Morgenson, the star business columnist of The New York Times, exposes how the watchdogs who were supposed to protect the country from financial harm were actually complicit in the actions that finally blew up the American economy.

Drawing on previously untapped sources and building on original research from coauthor Joshua Rosner—who himself raised early warnings with the public and investors, and kept detailed records—Morgenson connects the dots that led to this fiasco.

Get it at Amazon.

Time for Self Education

Ballooning deficit spending and projected insurmountable national debt was known waaaaay back in 1986.

Don’t believe it? Watch the videos in this article. One was refused by all the national TV news networks at the time.