Monday, November 3, 2008
The Home Stretch
There will be many problems at the polls tomorrow. Voting machine malfunctions, people trying to commit fraud, as well as just plan ignorance of the process. Thousands of lawyers for both sides of the battle are already hunkered down and ready to litigate. Riot cops in some inner city ghettos are preparing for the worst.
We should know who the Supreme Court will decide should be the next president by Thanksgiving.
We will possible be entering a new chapter in the history of the United States. This chapter starts out with "change" and "hope" and ends with us swimming in a cesspool of third world socialism.
Over the past year I have yet to make an endorsement for president. I have just been vehemently against Obama. I would now like to encourage everyone to vote for Bob Barr for the next president of the United States. Or if you have the option write in a candidate of your choice.
This is the United States, the greatest country on earth, we deserve better the these two candidates. Arm yourselves America it's going to be a dangerous four years.
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)
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Obama, Barack H. (Illinois)
FH-IL-0011-7500 | FH-IL-0011-7501 | FH-IL-0011-9000
Wickert, John Henry (Illinois)
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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
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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Monday, September 29, 2008
Something To Keep In Mind.................
This "crisis" was caused by a number of things, but mainly political correctness. Laws were passed that made it illegal to ask a potential home buyer, how much money they made. The government, used many leftest groups like Acorn
to act like it's muscle to threaten banks and mortgage companies to lend money to people that they knew would not be able to pay back. The government in turn, threatened to investigate institutions that did not follow these practices.
The bottom line is, people were buying houses they knew they could not afford. Loans were made over 100% the value of the property. The value of homes corrected itself from overinflated values. People were getting 100% or more mortgages on homes that were, in reality only worth about half of the listed value.
There is a lot of blame to go around. From the government, forcing the lenders hand, to the lenders "cooking the books" to show profits, as well as the borrowers that knew they could not afford to buy a house in the first place. You could also add the people who got on the flipping band wagon over the past decade into the equation. since over half of the foreclosures were on second homes or homes bought just to be flipped. (This trend also added in the falsely over inflated prices of homes.)
In the end, it is the people that the government claims to want to help that get hurt. As well as the people like me and you that the government doesn't give a shit about that will have to pay off this mess.
Throw a presidential election in the mix and it doesn't matter who wins because we all lose.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
ACORN And The Obama
The scary part is how entrenched this group is in a lot of important states. Hopefully the media will do some digging around, and find out the truth about his roll in the corrupt Chicago political machine, because The Obama is certainly not going to answer these questions.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Sara Plain And Tall
John McCain has picked Alaska Governor Sara Palin as his VP pick. Palin's star has been rising in the republican ranks for a while now. This is not really a surprise, and will do nothing but help McCain in the run up to the election.
Not to mention that she is smoking hot for a 44 year old mother of 5. She will also make mince meat out of Biden on the issues in the debate. You can bet she will be ready.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Buying Votes
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Who Won? Who Knows?
The picture is not so clear on the democratic side. Obama had a decent showing among cracker men, (aka honkies, aka “the man”) especially in the south. If it wasn’t for the Latino vote the night would have been a disaster for Clinton. I have not seen a truly accurate delegate count, but it looks like the difference is going to be about 150 to 200 in Hillary’s favor. Not a lot coming out of Super Tuesday, and nothing Obama cant over come.
Monday, February 4, 2008
No Soup For You Tuesday
According to a friend of mine who keeps up with the polls more than I do California is totally up in the air. This is not surprising of course. This is the biggest of battle ground states. http://www.usaelectionpolls.com/2008/california.html
According to some polls I have looked at Clinton and Obama are in a statistical dead heat. And on the Republican side Romney has a slight edge. In both cases it looks like it will come down to the undecided voters.
I still remain hopeful that we will be swallowed up by a black hole between now and November, so that we may be spared the indignity of having to choose between two idiots who want control of our great nuclear arsenal.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
The Republican Mess
I believe we might be looking at a repeat of 92 if anyone but Thompson gets the nomination. He is not afraid to say, elect me and I will steer this ship back to the right. Thompson seems to be the only candidate that actually takes the same positions of the party platform on issues of immigration, lower taxes, cutting spending, and limiting the power of the federal government.
If you close your eyes and listen to the other candidates and knew nothing about them you might think they were running for the Democratic nomination. I actually saw a quote from a democratic strategist that suggested McCain was the strongest liberal voice in the race. Romney seems to be the bait and switch candidate, his rhetoric changes based on his audience. My god the man was elected as a Republican in Massachusetts. As far as I can tell a Massachusetts Republican is still to the left of Joseph Stalin. Huckabee might be the only white Baptist preacher who is liberal. His favorite political power is the power to tax. But come on, after 12 years of “Dubya” do we really want an ordained Baptist preacher in the white house? Giuliani wants to take my guns away from me, so he should not be allowed to even breath the same air as us, much less be elected president.
Fred Thompson appears to be the most fiscally conservative of the bunch. Like I said before, it's a choice between the lesser of (in this case) 5 evils.