Friday, October 24, 2008
Now they want to take over my 401K
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
The Obama Voter Close Up.
And from 20/20:
A vote for Obama should also come with a free sterilization so these people cannot breed and polute the gene pool any further.
Monday, October 20, 2008
The European Health Care Model
"Family doctors are receiving cash bonuses not to send patients to hospital despite National Health Service research that suggests incentive payments can reduce the quality of care.
GPs are paid £1 per patient to spend time reviewing their decision to send someone to hospital and a further £1 for every name on their surgeries’ list if they reduce their previous year’s referral rate. An average surgery with 10,000 patients will receive up to £20,000 for taking part in the scheme."
Friday, October 10, 2008
Thursday, October 9, 2008
The Evidence Keeps Poping Up............
This from Media Circus:
Posted on 03 October 2008
Do you remember how we told you that the Democrats and groups associated with them leaned on banks and even sued to get them to make bad loans under the Community Reinvestment Act which was a factor in causing the economic crisis (see HERE and HERE ) … well look at what some fellow bloggers have dug up while researching Obama’s legal career. Looks like a typical ACORN lawsuit to get banks to hand out bad loans.
In these lawsuits, ACORN makes a bogus claim of Redlining (denying poor people loans because of their ethnic heritage). They protest and get the local media to raise a big stink. This stink means that the bank faces thousands of people closing their accounts and get local politicians to lobby to stop the bank from doing some future business, expansions and mergers. If the bank goes to court, they will win, but the damage is already done because who is going to launch a big campaign to get the bank’s reputation back?
It is important to understand the nature of these lawsuits and what their purpose is. ACORN filed tons of these lawsuits and ALL of them allege racism.
Case Name
Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank Fed. Sav. Bank Fair Housing/Lending/Insurance
Docket / Court 94 C 4094 ( N.D. Ill. ) FH-IL-0011
State/Territory Illinois
Case Summary
Plaintiffs filed their class action lawsuit on July 6, 1994, alleging that Citibank had engaged in redlining practices in the Chicago metropolitan area in violation of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), 15 U.S.C. 1691; the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. 3601-3619; the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; and 42 U.S.C. 1981, 1982. Plaintiffs alleged that the Defendant-bank rejected loan applications of minority applicants while approving loan applications filed by white applicants with similar financial characteristics and credit histories. Plaintiffs sought injunctive relief, actual damages, and punitive damages.
U.S. District Court Judge Ruben Castillo certified the Plaintiffs’ suit as a class action on June 30, 1995. Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank Fed. Sav. Bank, 162 F.R.D. 322 (N.D. Ill. 1995). Also on June 30, Judge Castillo granted Plaintiffs’ motion to compel discovery of a sample of Defendant-bank’s loan application files. Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank Fed. Sav. Bank, 162 F.R.D. 338 (N.D. Ill. 1995).
The parties voluntarily dismissed the case on May 12, 1998, pursuant to a settlement agreement.
Plaintiff’s Lawyers Alexis, Hilary I. (Illinois)
FH-IL-0011-7500 | FH-IL-0011-7501 | FH-IL-0011-9000
Childers, Michael Allen (Illinois)
FH-IL-0011-7500 | FH-IL-0011-7501 | FH-IL-0011-9000
Clayton, Fay (Illinois)
FH-IL-0011-7500 | FH-IL-0011-7501 | FH-IL-0011-9000
Cummings, Jeffrey Irvine (Illinois)
FH-IL-0011-7500 | FH-IL-0011-7501 | FH-IL-0011-9000
Love, Sara Norris (Virginia)
FH-IL-0011-9000
Miner, Judson Hirsch (Illinois)
FH-IL-0011-7500 | FH-IL-0011-9000
Obama, Barack H. (Illinois)
FH-IL-0011-7500 | FH-IL-0011-7501 | FH-IL-0011-9000
Wickert, John Henry (Illinois)
FH-IL-0011-9000
This from the NY Post:
THE seeds of today’s financial meltdown lie in the Community Reinvestment Act - a law passed in 1977 and made riskier by unwise amendments and regulatory rulings in later decades.
CRA was meant to encourage banks to make loans to high-risk borrowers, often minorities living in unstable neighborhoods. That has provided an opening to radical groups like ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) to abuse the law by forcing banks to make hundreds of millions of dollars in “subprime” loans to often uncreditworthy poor and minority customers.
Any bank that wants to expand or merge with another has to show it has complied with CRA - and approval can be held up by complaints filed by groups like ACORN.
In fact, intimidation tactics, public charges of racism and threats to use CRA to block business expansion have enabled ACORN to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in loans and contributions from America’s financial institutions .
The Woods Fund report makes it clear Obama was fully aware of the intimidation tactics used by ACORN’s Madeline Talbott in her pioneering efforts to force banks to suspend their usual credit standards. Yet he supported Talbott in every conceivable way. He trained her personal staff and other aspiring ACORN leaders, he consulted with her extensively, and he arranged a major boost in foundation funding for her efforts.
And, as the leader of another charity, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Obama channeled more funding Talbott’s way - ostensibly for education projects but surely supportive of ACORN’s overall efforts.
This man should never be allowed to hold any public office every agian much less be President. He is nothing more than a criminal thug who should be ostracized. Obama was just part of a organized crime ring in Chicago disguised as a community redevlopmet orgianization. He will destroy our country.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
By The Numbers
Rezko Is Sqealing
This from the AP and the Greenville News. (And please notice that there is no mention of the millions of dollars that this scumbag raised for Obama.)
Oct 8, 10:20 AM EDT
Federal judge grants delay in Rezko sentencing
CHICAGO (AP) -- Convicted political fundraiser Tony Rezko's sentencing is officially on hold in Chicago.
U.S. District Judge Amy J. St. Eve on Wednesday granted prosecutors' request to strike Rezko's scheduled October 28th sentencing date.
St. Eve set a status hearing for December.
Earlier this week, prosecutors filed a motion to delay the sentencing "while the parties engage in discussions that could affect their sentencing postures."
The request all but an acknowledges Rezko is talking to investigators about what he knows about corruption in state government.
He was convicted on charges of launching a $7 million scheme to use his clout with Governor Rod Blagojevich's administration to pressure a contractor and firms wanting to do business with the state for kickbacks.
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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Throwing Stars
I have decided to take a break from all the political hoopla and focus on a more important subject. Throwing Stars. Yes the shiny pieces of metal that my friends and I played with as youths. Apparently in the hands of a skilled Ninja they can be deadly. But in my hands I was lucky if I got one to stick in a tree. I guess my ninja skills were a little rusty. Here is a kicker, we used to take these discs of death to school with us and play with them during recess. Today I imagine that we would be led off campus in handcuffs and be the top story on the 11 o clock news. "4th grader busted with deadly ninja weaponry". Our parents would be castigated as unfit for allowing their precious little snowflakes to get a hold of such weapons of mass disruption. Shallamar II and The Treasure Box in the old Greenville Mall would have been protested and shut down for endangering the lives of the public.
I have since moved on to a little better means of self defense. No longer do I feel the need to train in the ancient arts of the Ninja. I have traded in my old throwing stars for a nice Taurus PT24/7 40 cal. (Although i do have my eye on an awesome pair of nunchucks, if anyone is interested we will meet behind my dads garage and practice).
Friday, October 3, 2008
Palin And Biden
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
And The Smelly Hippies Of The World Rejoiced
Hippies of the world are twirling in place in the streets today as the Band Phish anounces it is going back out on tour. If in the next few months you get a whiff of the distinct smell of body odor mixed with patchouli, then your town could be the next stop on the tour. wheres Eric Cartman when we need him?