RANT: Where’s the bank regulators? Oh yeah, in the Bank’s pockets!

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

http://www.click2houston.com/news/29554808/detail.html?taf=hou

Bank Forecloses On Home Destroyed By Ike
By Amy Davis
UPDATED: 6:32 pm CDT October 28, 2011

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HOUSTON — Hurricane Ike destroyed dozens of homes in Seabrook. Many families are just now rebuilding, but when Brad Gana tried to pick up the pieces, he learned that Bank of America was trying to take what little he had left.

“I was shocked when they said they were foreclosing on it,” Gana told investigator Amy Davis.

Gana was working overseas when the hurricane hit, destroying his home. But even then, he said he never missed a mortgage payment. It took him days to figure out why Bank of America was foreclosing.

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Why is BoA allowed to get away with this?

Clearly the bank regulators can’t do the job. Or won’t do it.

“Too big to fail” really means “too big to care”.

Solution seems easy.

(1) A cap by the Gooferment on the absolute size a “corporation” can be. “Too big to fail is too big to exist.”

(2) Mortgages can be sold, but if they go bad, they are the responsibility of the originating entity. No more sell it and forget it.

(3) Triple damages for “foreclosing in error”; punitive damages for fiscal malpractice. (As we cap, medical malpractice awards which have become like lottery tickets, “we” should put the Trial Lawyers on this problem.)

(4) Since bank regulators seem to be unable to regulate, let’s eliminate the regulations and sale all those costs.

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RANT: BHO44 has a tin ear; mikes are always on

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4145266,00.html

Report: Sarkozy calls Netanyahu ‘liar’

Microphones accidently left on after G20 meeting pick up private conversation between US, French presidents. Sarkozy admits he ‘can’t stand’ Israeli premier. Obama: You’re fed up with him? I have to deal with him every day!

Ynet Published: 11.07.11, 23:53 / Israel News

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INTERESTING: Prohibition and Drugs

Monday, November 7, 2011

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/KenBur

Prohibition, Civility, and Political Discourse
Ken Burns
National Press Club | Luncheon Speech

Ken Burns talked about his PBS series, Prohibition, which chronicles the ratification, implementation, and eventual repeal of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as well as the era in which the movement took place. He also responded to questions from the audience.

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An outstanding discussion of Prohibition and how it relates to our current state with the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs”. While I was aware of the relation between the Women’s Rights Movement, I was unaware of of the relation between the Progressives with the Income Tax and the Dry’s who wanted to eviscerate the reliance of the Federal Government on the booze industry taxes. Worth an hour and you can see that past is prologue.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Yeah, the Lucky Leprechaun is the reason that children are fat!

Monday, November 7, 2011

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Lucky-Leprechaun-may-be-fired-from-Lucky-Charms-cereal-133319873.html

Lucky Leprechaun may be fired from Lucky Charms cereal
Famous icon sends wrong message on child obesity say critics
By FRANK O’BRIEN, IrishCentral.com Staff Writer
Published Sunday, November 6, 2011, 8:03 AMUpdated Sunday, November 6, 2011, 8:03 AM

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New federal guidelines are in the works and General Mills, owners of Lucky Charms and other breakfast giants may be forced to drop commercials that attract kids to their products.

It is a $10 billion a year market and the stakes are very high.

“The guidelines would be one of the most important ways for the food industry to improve children’s health,” said Mary Story, a University of Minnesota public health professor and expert on child and adolescent nutrition told the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

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The fact, that Gooferment Skrules have turned children into mind numbed robots with heads full of mush, doesn’t come up in conversation.

Parents are being replaced by Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats!

They can’t educate their children and can’t control what they eat.

Argh!

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INTERESTING: Unalienable versus Inalienable

Monday, November 7, 2011

http://dumpdc.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/what-are-unalienable-rights/

What Are Unalienable Rights?

by Russell D. Longcore

Owner and Editor, DumpDC.com

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I don’t think I’ve ever seen an expansive article about unalienable rights. We all seem to just refer to the Declaration of Independence and what Jefferson wrote, and then defer to it. But natural law and unalienable rights are where it all starts.

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“Unalienable: incapable of being alienated, that is, sold and transferred.” Black’s Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition, page 1523. One cannot sell, transfer or surrender unalienable rights.

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Inalienable rights can be transferred, sold or surrendered if you give your consent. Inalienable rights are not bestowed by the Creator or inherent in humans. ”Persons” have inalienable rights, and the word “Person” is a legal term¹. Inalienable rights can be bestowed to persons by government, and can be likewise removed from persons by government. At times, government itself can be considered a “Person” in a legal sense. Most state constitutions recognize only inalienable rights.

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* The Right of Life

* Right of Personal Security

* The Right of Labor

* Right to Acquire and Enjoy Property

* Right to Contract

* Right of Free Speech

* Right of Beliefs or Conscience

* Right of Personal Liberty

* Right to the Pursuit of Happiness

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And, I always thought old Thom was just careless.

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POLITICAL: Bank of America lost money

Monday, November 7, 2011

http://ncc-1776.org/tle2011/tle643-20111106-01.html

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The Market has spoken

About a month ago Bank of America announced it was going to charge a five dollar monthly fee for using a debit card issued by them to make purchases. This led to an uproar. People closed their accounts with BofA and moved their money to credit unions and bank which did not charge this fee. Other people decided not to open accounts with BofA. Bank of America lost money.

Bank of America decided to not charge people for using their credit card. Congress passed no law. No one was sued. No injunctions were issued. No executive orders were given, no bureaucrats regulated. Free people simply applied the pressure of the market place and BofA changed its policy in response to their customers’ needs.

The Market spoke and the government was not involved. Free market capitalism worked perfectly.

And the government wasn’t involved.

A.X. Perez

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And, don’t forget that the Gooferment created the problem in the FIRST place.

Gooferment is the root of ALL evil.

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INSPIRATIONAL: Coach Summitt, one tough lady

Sunday, November 6, 2011

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/womens-basketball/news?slug=ap-t25-summitt-raisingawareness

Summitt’s diagnosis raises Alzheimer’s awareness

By BETH RUCKER, AP Sports Writer

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP)—Tennessee coach Pat Summitt hopes her public battle with dementia raises awareness about the disease and inspires people to do more.

Kentucky associate head coach Kyra Elzy is one of many whom Summitt has already touched.

After making a New Year’s resolution to do more volunteer work in 2011, when the 59-year-old Summitt made her announcement in August, Elzy saw a perfect opportunity to honor her former coach and her grandmother, who had Alzheimer’s.

Elzy volunteers at Best Friends Day Care in Lexington, Ky., an adult day care for people who require supervision.

“My coach, Coach Summitt, she is very courageous, very strong and a very giving person, so for her to come out in public with the type of platform she brings, everybody takes notice, everybody listens,” Elzy said. “It was so courageous of her to want to help others. She’s a face and a voice that people respect. It’s just breathtaking.”

Summitt, who revealed in August that she’d been diagnosed with early-onset dementia, Alzheimer’s type, isn’t the only famous person fighting dementia and Alzheimer’s.

Many public figures who have faced Alzheimer’s, such as former president Ronald Reagan and actor Charlton Heston, were diagnosed late in life and privately faced the disease.

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One can only pray that a cure is found for this disease that robs one of their memories and takes their dignity.

Donna Nobis Pacem

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TINFOILHAT: BHO44 first trip to France as a college student or as a 26 year old?

Sunday, November 6, 2011

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=364149

Obama went to France while in college?
Posted: November 04, 2011 3:14 pm Eastern

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On Thursday, while in Cannes for the G-20 Summit, President Barack Obama casually said the following: “The last time I was in the South of France – or the first time, rather – was as a college student, and I’ve never forgotten the extraordinary hospitality of the French people and the extraordinary views that are available here.”

To Obama followers, this comes as news. In his 1995 memoir, “Dreams from My Father,” Obama gives the distinct impression that his first trip to Europe came in 1988 when he was a 26-year-old community organizer.

As told in “Dreams,” Obama spent eight weeks on this 1988 journey, an inexplicable luxury for a chronically broke young man. Europe was allegedly his first stop.

I say “allegedly” because most of the specifics sound like they were pulled from a Michelin Guide. The one exception is a sojourn to the Spanish boondocks that even Obama’s worshipful biographer David Remnick concedes is “not an especially convincing sequence.”

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A liar can never keep his facts straight.

Watch any cop show on TV. They keep the suspect talking. And, then compare the stories. If the story is different, they study the contradictions. If it’s too identical, they suspect it’s fabricated memorization. Either way, just listen to the suspect. Eventually they will trip themselves up.

Personally, I have no idea what “the truth” is. All I do know is that where there is smoke there’s fire.

Why doesn’t BHO44 release his records?

What would his passport show?

From his own words, he brings this suspicion on himself.

Liar, liar, pants on fire.

This statement cast doubt on BOTH his book and his “travels”.

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RANT: Never forgive, never forget, never spend — stop corporate welfare cold!

Sunday, November 6, 2011

http://knappster.blogspot.com/2011/10/ok-clean-slate-time.html

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2011

OK, Clean Slate Time

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It was a really bad thing. The Cards’ owners had an aggregate net worth of something like $15 billion, but wanted the taxpayers of St. Louis City, St. Louis County, and Missouri to pick up the stadium tab.

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Next year, I think I’ll go see a game in that stadium I paid for.

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Say it isn’t so. The only two weapons that an advocate of the NVP are: ostracism and spending. By not standing forcefully against that Stadium deal, you’ve forgone one. By going to a game next year, you’ve given up the other. It’s tough to find one’s principles. It’s even harder to stick to them. And, it’s all to easy to just cave. Be strong for all of us little L libertarians who read this blog and follow you for inspiration. If you cave, why should the rest of us hold the line?

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SERVICE: LISTSERV shutting down

Saturday, November 5, 2011

AOL To Discontinue LISTSERV

by Soulskill

alphadogg writes “On December 1, AOL will shut down its free LISTSERV-based mailing-list hosting operations, the company has told mailing list administrators. ‘If your list is still actively used, please make arrangements to find another service prior to the shutdown date and notify your list members of the transition details,’ an email notice sent out by AOL stated. At the peak of the service’s popularity in the late 1990s, AOL was the third-largest provider of mailing lists, serving more than a million users.”

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Still want to bet on “the cloud”?

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