More from the Department of Confirming Cynicism (see below, too!)
When the Wisconsin State Assembly passed a budget on Wednesday, they exempted the biannual plan from a provision in state law that requires its appropriations to be balanced by tax revenue and state agency income.
Why? Simple. The Legislature and Governor spend a lot of money.
...Because Republicans failed to reduce spending, and instead increased
overall state spending, and because tax cuts lowered revenue
projections, the budget does not balance at this time unless assumptions
are made about the state’s economic growth....
More State employees, more spending, more bonding.
And someone is (reportedly) running for President as a "Conservative."
Thursday, June 20, 2013
The Legislature's Big Gummint Move
Confirming the cynics.
Data from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau shows that the proposed Wisconsin state budget adds 1,777 jobs to the state government workforce as compared to the number of state jobs approved in the 2011-2013 budget. Baseline projections used for the current budget process show the Joint Finance Committee’s version of the budget, which was modified on the Assembly floor today, enacting a smaller increase in state government jobs funded through general tax revenue, segregated funds, and program revenues. Compared to Governor Scott Walker’s initial budget proposal, the JFC budget cuts 730 proposed government jobs...
Naturally, the Big Gummint folks have a convenient statistical lie available.
The LFB report prepared before full Assembly and Senate deliberations on the new state budget asserts that the 2013-2015 budget contains authorizations for 69,243 full-time equivalent (FTE) state government jobs. The baseline used for the budget was 69,263, meaning lawmakers can boast that they reduced state government jobs compared to the baseline...
But to us normal people, 69K is larger than 67.5K.
If the State was able to struggle through 2012 and 2013 with only SIXTY EIGHT THOUSAND EMPLOYEES, it should be able to make it with only SIXTY SEVEN THOUSAND EMPLOYEES in 14/15.
If it can't, the revolution has a long way to go.
Data from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau shows that the proposed Wisconsin state budget adds 1,777 jobs to the state government workforce as compared to the number of state jobs approved in the 2011-2013 budget. Baseline projections used for the current budget process show the Joint Finance Committee’s version of the budget, which was modified on the Assembly floor today, enacting a smaller increase in state government jobs funded through general tax revenue, segregated funds, and program revenues. Compared to Governor Scott Walker’s initial budget proposal, the JFC budget cuts 730 proposed government jobs...
Naturally, the Big Gummint folks have a convenient statistical lie available.
The LFB report prepared before full Assembly and Senate deliberations on the new state budget asserts that the 2013-2015 budget contains authorizations for 69,243 full-time equivalent (FTE) state government jobs. The baseline used for the budget was 69,263, meaning lawmakers can boast that they reduced state government jobs compared to the baseline...
But to us normal people, 69K is larger than 67.5K.
If the State was able to struggle through 2012 and 2013 with only SIXTY EIGHT THOUSAND EMPLOYEES, it should be able to make it with only SIXTY SEVEN THOUSAND EMPLOYEES in 14/15.
If it can't, the revolution has a long way to go.
Statist Doctor-Ninnies
What a bunch of ninnies.
Health care organizations are urging Wisconsin lawmakers to reject proposed legislation that would bar doctors from asking patients if they own guns.
The measure, unveiled last week by Rep. Michael Schraa, R-Oshkosh, “is detrimental to medical providers’ ability to educate patients and in so doing prevent injury and death,” the organizations said in a memo Monday to legislators.
Doctors have better things to do with their VERY limited time.
No surprises present on the roster of Statist Ninnies:
....American Family Children’s Hospital, Dean Clinic, Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative, SSM Health Care of Wisconsin, UW Hospital and UW School of Medicine and Public Health....
...nor the carefully-worded deception here:
...In 2010, more than 15,000 children and adolescents younger than 20 were treated in emergency rooms nationwide for firearm injuries, the academy said.
"Adolescents younger than 20" includes a boatload of gang-bangers. Somehow that fact eludes the newspaper "reporter."
Health care organizations are urging Wisconsin lawmakers to reject proposed legislation that would bar doctors from asking patients if they own guns.
The measure, unveiled last week by Rep. Michael Schraa, R-Oshkosh, “is detrimental to medical providers’ ability to educate patients and in so doing prevent injury and death,” the organizations said in a memo Monday to legislators.
Doctors have better things to do with their VERY limited time.
No surprises present on the roster of Statist Ninnies:
....American Family Children’s Hospital, Dean Clinic, Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative, SSM Health Care of Wisconsin, UW Hospital and UW School of Medicine and Public Health....
...nor the carefully-worded deception here:
...In 2010, more than 15,000 children and adolescents younger than 20 were treated in emergency rooms nationwide for firearm injuries, the academy said.
"Adolescents younger than 20" includes a boatload of gang-bangers. Somehow that fact eludes the newspaper "reporter."
Hillary's Grab-Ass Gang
Seems as though Hillary has gotten used to being around ass-grabbers, and rather likes it.
Just like she likes perjurers.
For that matter, she enjoys sending messages to whistleblowers. Kinda makes you wonder about all those dead bodies surrounding the Arkansas Governor's mansion, eh?
Just like she likes perjurers.
For that matter, she enjoys sending messages to whistleblowers. Kinda makes you wonder about all those dead bodies surrounding the Arkansas Governor's mansion, eh?
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
The Prophet deTocqueville
Egads. The quoted stuff was written more than 100 years ago.
Toward the end of “Democracy in America” he warned against the government becoming “an immense tutelary power…absolute, detailed, regular…cover[ing] [society's] surface with a network of small, complicated, painstaking, uniform rules through which the most original minds and the most vigorous souls cannot clear a way.”
Tocqueville also foresaw exactly how this regulatory state would suffocate the spirit of free enterprise: “It rarely forces one to act, but it constantly opposes itself to one’s acting; it does not destroy, it prevents things from being born; it does not tyrannize, it hinders, compromises, enervates, extinguishes, dazes, and finally reduces [the] nation to being nothing more than a herd of timid and industrious animals of which the government is the shepherd.” --N Ferguson/WSJ quoted at ColdFury
The only thing he missed was the Omnipresent Eye of NSA/IRS.
Toward the end of “Democracy in America” he warned against the government becoming “an immense tutelary power…absolute, detailed, regular…cover[ing] [society's] surface with a network of small, complicated, painstaking, uniform rules through which the most original minds and the most vigorous souls cannot clear a way.”
Tocqueville also foresaw exactly how this regulatory state would suffocate the spirit of free enterprise: “It rarely forces one to act, but it constantly opposes itself to one’s acting; it does not destroy, it prevents things from being born; it does not tyrannize, it hinders, compromises, enervates, extinguishes, dazes, and finally reduces [the] nation to being nothing more than a herd of timid and industrious animals of which the government is the shepherd.” --N Ferguson/WSJ quoted at ColdFury
The only thing he missed was the Omnipresent Eye of NSA/IRS.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
The NSA's Jobs Machine: Congress
Not to worry about whether the NSA will always have a job to do.
...senators also voted to weaken current law that requires the government to have biometric checks such as fingerprints or eye-scans for every visitor to the U.S. — a recommendation of the 9/11 commission that looked into the terrorist attacks on Washington and New York.
Senators said it is too expensive to check fingerprints at all air, land and sea ports of entry. Instead, the bill calls for photographic checks at air and sea ports, but excludes land ports....
Baldwin, who doesn't give a flying crap about national security, voted with the majority.
...senators also voted to weaken current law that requires the government to have biometric checks such as fingerprints or eye-scans for every visitor to the U.S. — a recommendation of the 9/11 commission that looked into the terrorist attacks on Washington and New York.
Senators said it is too expensive to check fingerprints at all air, land and sea ports of entry. Instead, the bill calls for photographic checks at air and sea ports, but excludes land ports....
Baldwin, who doesn't give a flying crap about national security, voted with the majority.
Is Sensenbrenner Clueless, Or Just Stupid?
At the invaluable Sykes site, we learn that Jim Sensenbrenner, who WROTE the Patriot Act, cannot figure out how NSA could be misusing it.
Here's a clue:
USA Today has published an extraordinary interview with three former NSA employees who praise Edward Snowden's leaks, corroborate some of his claims, and warn about unlawful government acts....
Read the rest of the Vox link, by the way. Snowden wasn't kidding.
Here's a clue:
USA Today has published an extraordinary interview with three former NSA employees who praise Edward Snowden's leaks, corroborate some of his claims, and warn about unlawful government acts....
- Congressional overseers "have no real way of seeing into what these agencies are doing. They are totally dependent on the agencies briefing them on programs, telling them what they are doing."
- Lawmakers "don't really don't understand what the NSA does and how it operates. Even when they get briefings, they still don't understand." --quoted at Vox Populi.
Read the rest of the Vox link, by the way. Snowden wasn't kidding.
Sunday, June 16, 2013
What Tolkien Said
Tolkien was arguably the best philologist of the 20th Century. So when he wrote the Trilogy, the name he gave the Enemy's City was significant.
One doesn't have to be a Tolkien-class philologist to get the drift; the "mor" root is familiar to people educated in German, French, and Latin, and changed only slightly to "mur" in English.
We're now seeing "Mordor" in phrases like "Mordor on the Potomac" and "Mordor on Lake Michigan".
Artful use of the name, I think.
Mordor.
One doesn't have to be a Tolkien-class philologist to get the drift; the "mor" root is familiar to people educated in German, French, and Latin, and changed only slightly to "mur" in English.
We're now seeing "Mordor" in phrases like "Mordor on the Potomac" and "Mordor on Lake Michigan".
Artful use of the name, I think.
This Guy's Not Alone in His Opinion
The principal reason that Rush Limbaugh is the single most significant radio host in history is this: he says what a helluvalotta other people think, and that draws a helluvalotta listeners.
Here's another example of saying what others think from a fellow named Bill Quick:
It doesn’t really matter who you vote for. Vote for Bush, get an attempt to shove scamnesty down your throat. Vote for Obama, get scamnesty shoved down your throat. Vote for Bush, get gigantic new entitlements, and one of the biggest spending increases in history, and a massive economic crash. Vote for Obama, and get gigantic new entitlements, the biggest spending increase in history, and the New American Depression. Vote for Bush, get a promise to sign an Assault Weapons Ban if congress sends it to him. Vote for Obama, get him sending a new Assault Weapons Ban to congress. Vote for Bush, get a vast new security state. Vote for Obama, get that security state on steroids.
We've pointed out Sensenbrenner and Ryan's complicity in the Statist regime; RoJo tries to hold the fort but is drinking the Legalization Kool-Aid.
Hmmmmm.
HT: Cold Fury
Here's another example of saying what others think from a fellow named Bill Quick:
It doesn’t really matter who you vote for. Vote for Bush, get an attempt to shove scamnesty down your throat. Vote for Obama, get scamnesty shoved down your throat. Vote for Bush, get gigantic new entitlements, and one of the biggest spending increases in history, and a massive economic crash. Vote for Obama, and get gigantic new entitlements, the biggest spending increase in history, and the New American Depression. Vote for Bush, get a promise to sign an Assault Weapons Ban if congress sends it to him. Vote for Obama, get him sending a new Assault Weapons Ban to congress. Vote for Bush, get a vast new security state. Vote for Obama, get that security state on steroids.
We've pointed out Sensenbrenner and Ryan's complicity in the Statist regime; RoJo tries to hold the fort but is drinking the Legalization Kool-Aid.
Hmmmmm.
HT: Cold Fury
"Your" Children? Think Again
The nation's Momma:
Children who don’t get a pre-kindergarten education, ideally from birth to age 5, might fall behind and “may as well drop out” by third grade, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius said on Wednesday at an event to garner support for President Barack Obama’s $75-billion proposal to increase pre-school enrollment across the country...Protein quoting CNS
As we've learned by now, the Statists never quit taking, so this isn't just some offhand inane remark.
Yes, it's inane.
Children who don’t get a pre-kindergarten education, ideally from birth to age 5, might fall behind and “may as well drop out” by third grade, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius said on Wednesday at an event to garner support for President Barack Obama’s $75-billion proposal to increase pre-school enrollment across the country...Protein quoting CNS
As we've learned by now, the Statists never quit taking, so this isn't just some offhand inane remark.
Yes, it's inane.
Saturday, June 15, 2013
About That Phone Conversation With the TEA Party...
Catholic? Pro-Life? TEA Party member? Use Windows? Remember Bill Clinton? Keep reading...
The National Security Agency has acknowledged in a new classified briefing that it does not need court authorization to listen to domestic phone calls.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, disclosed this week that during a secret briefing to members of Congress, he was told that the contents of a phone call could be accessed "simply based on an analyst deciding that."
If the NSA wants "to listen to the phone," an analyst's decision is sufficient, without any other legal authorization required, Nadler said he learned. "I was rather startled," said Nadler,...Hit and Run quoting CNet
So.
What's a "terrorist"?
More:
...Like Dr van Someren, Andrew Fernandez, chief scientist with Cryptonym of Morrisville, North Carolina, had been probing the presence and significance of the two keys. Then he checked the latest Service Pack release for Windows NT4, Service Pack 5. He found that Microsoft's developers had failed to remove or "strip" the debugging symbols used to test this software before they released it. Inside the code were the labels for the two keys. One was called "KEY". The other was called "NSAKEY".
Fernandes reported his re-discovery of the two CAPI keys, and their secret meaning, to "Advances in Cryptology, Crypto'99" conference held in Santa Barbara. According to those present at the conference, Windows developers attending the conference did not deny that the "NSA" key was built into their software. But they refused to talk about what the key did, or why it had been put there without users' knowledge...--Ticker quoting Heise Online
THAT item was dated 1999.
Think again: Nineteen ninety-NINE. Hint: BEFORE 9/11, BEFORE GWBush.
That was the Clinton Regime, remember?
The National Security Agency has acknowledged in a new classified briefing that it does not need court authorization to listen to domestic phone calls.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, disclosed this week that during a secret briefing to members of Congress, he was told that the contents of a phone call could be accessed "simply based on an analyst deciding that."
If the NSA wants "to listen to the phone," an analyst's decision is sufficient, without any other legal authorization required, Nadler said he learned. "I was rather startled," said Nadler,...Hit and Run quoting CNet
So.
What's a "terrorist"?
More:
...Like Dr van Someren, Andrew Fernandez, chief scientist with Cryptonym of Morrisville, North Carolina, had been probing the presence and significance of the two keys. Then he checked the latest Service Pack release for Windows NT4, Service Pack 5. He found that Microsoft's developers had failed to remove or "strip" the debugging symbols used to test this software before they released it. Inside the code were the labels for the two keys. One was called "KEY". The other was called "NSAKEY".
Fernandes reported his re-discovery of the two CAPI keys, and their secret meaning, to "Advances in Cryptology, Crypto'99" conference held in Santa Barbara. According to those present at the conference, Windows developers attending the conference did not deny that the "NSA" key was built into their software. But they refused to talk about what the key did, or why it had been put there without users' knowledge...--Ticker quoting Heise Online
THAT item was dated 1999.
Think again: Nineteen ninety-NINE. Hint: BEFORE 9/11, BEFORE GWBush.
That was the Clinton Regime, remember?
First They Came for the TEA Parties. Next, the Churches
Actually, the ObozoTyranny has been after the Catholic Church for a few years (see "the mandate.")
Then came the IRS' TEA Party corruption.
Now back to the churches--this time, the fundamentalists.
On Thursday the Examiner provided an exclusive report indicating that the Obama administration had implemented a covert program beginning in 2009 that was intended to spy on conservative, evangelical Christian churches.
That program involved infiltration — sending in government operatives to join churches for the purpose of data collection. The government snoops would keep their eyes and ears open for criticism of the Obama administration, talk of Tea Party participation, conversations about gun ownership, and a number of other issues.
But a special report issued today by Fox News indicates that the program went far beyond infiltration and snooping. The IRS was used to harass Christian churches if they were identified as places where large numbers of anti-Obama citizens congregated for worship. --Gateway quoting Examiner
Franklin Graham, the Biblical Recorder, Billy Graham Evangelist Organization.....
Then came the IRS' TEA Party corruption.
Now back to the churches--this time, the fundamentalists.
On Thursday the Examiner provided an exclusive report indicating that the Obama administration had implemented a covert program beginning in 2009 that was intended to spy on conservative, evangelical Christian churches.
That program involved infiltration — sending in government operatives to join churches for the purpose of data collection. The government snoops would keep their eyes and ears open for criticism of the Obama administration, talk of Tea Party participation, conversations about gun ownership, and a number of other issues.
But a special report issued today by Fox News indicates that the program went far beyond infiltration and snooping. The IRS was used to harass Christian churches if they were identified as places where large numbers of anti-Obama citizens congregated for worship. --Gateway quoting Examiner
Franklin Graham, the Biblical Recorder, Billy Graham Evangelist Organization.....
BUY. MORE. AMMO.
They Should Have Read the Bill
Ms. Pelosi shoulda read the bill. Because now the bill is coming due.
But hey, none of this has anything to do with Obamacare. It just happened.
HT: Shedlock
- Temporary hiring at Wal-Mart has gone from 1-2% to 10% in a year
- mployees face an 8-36 percent increase in healthcare premiums in 2013
- Part-time employees now need to work 30 hours instead of 24 to get coverage
- 61% of the stores in the survey were only hiring temps or were not hiring at all
- Regular employees have seen their hours cut
But hey, none of this has anything to do with Obamacare. It just happened.
HT: Shedlock
First of Many
There will be lots more of these coming. Forget what you said on a phone call? Not to worry; NSA can tell you. Forgot your password(s)? Call NSA's hotline: 1-800-WE KNOW YOU.
(For that matter, if your kid's high-school transcripts got lost, call the Dept of Ed in DC.)
Etc.
HT: MoonBattery
Protesting Too Much, and A Question or Two
This guy Snowden certainly is a narcissist lying dumb twit, eh? (But that leaves a VERY important question or two.)
...When one major institution (the Washington media establishment) so seamlessly partners with another (the U.S. government) in trashing a whistleblower, it’s not hard to understand why Americans might be jaded. The New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin wrote that Snowden is “a grandiose narcissist who deserves to be in prison.” MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell complained about Snowden’s naiveté and “maturity level,” as if only a child would believe the government should be transparent about its activity. Politico’s Roger Simon called Snowden “the slacker who came in from the cold,” with “all the qualifications to become a grocery bagger.” That people feel comfortable sneering about grocery workers—a respectable job—and writing off Snowden’s years working as a security guard as sloth tells you a bit about the culture of the nation’s capital, doesn’t it?
But he didn’t finish high school! Actually, Snowden earned a general equivalency diploma (GED), but that hasn’t stopped his detractors from spitting this accusation like an epithet. On Wednesday’s Late Show With David Letterman, Tom Brokaw dismissed Snowden as “a high school dropout who is a military washout.” On Tuesday, Sen. Susan Collins, mocked the 29-year-old man as “a high school drop-out who had little maturity [and] had not successfully completed anything he had undertaken.” Yes, if only he had gone to Harvard or Yale like our last four presidents, who have done such a bang-up job running the country....--HotAir quoting Kirsten Powers
Hmmmmm.
So here's the question: How did this critter get hired by Booz, Allen and work at the NSA for four years?
Here's another question: How many more just like him are on NSA's direct or indirect payroll?
...When one major institution (the Washington media establishment) so seamlessly partners with another (the U.S. government) in trashing a whistleblower, it’s not hard to understand why Americans might be jaded. The New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin wrote that Snowden is “a grandiose narcissist who deserves to be in prison.” MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell complained about Snowden’s naiveté and “maturity level,” as if only a child would believe the government should be transparent about its activity. Politico’s Roger Simon called Snowden “the slacker who came in from the cold,” with “all the qualifications to become a grocery bagger.” That people feel comfortable sneering about grocery workers—a respectable job—and writing off Snowden’s years working as a security guard as sloth tells you a bit about the culture of the nation’s capital, doesn’t it?
But he didn’t finish high school! Actually, Snowden earned a general equivalency diploma (GED), but that hasn’t stopped his detractors from spitting this accusation like an epithet. On Wednesday’s Late Show With David Letterman, Tom Brokaw dismissed Snowden as “a high school dropout who is a military washout.” On Tuesday, Sen. Susan Collins, mocked the 29-year-old man as “a high school drop-out who had little maturity [and] had not successfully completed anything he had undertaken.” Yes, if only he had gone to Harvard or Yale like our last four presidents, who have done such a bang-up job running the country....--HotAir quoting Kirsten Powers
Hmmmmm.
So here's the question: How did this critter get hired by Booz, Allen and work at the NSA for four years?
Here's another question: How many more just like him are on NSA's direct or indirect payroll?
"Nice Kids You Have. Yes, We Know All About 'em."
That "Common Core" thing has a totalitarian component.
...President Obama’s nearly trillion-dollar Stimulus law designates $128 billion for education, so it’s no surprise that tight strings are attached.
Buried in the fine print is an ominous requirement to build a national electronic database of all children. Any state that receives federal education funds must “establish a longitudinal data system that includes the elements described in . . . the America COMPETES Act.”
That law, passed a couple of years ago, sets out the goal of longitudinal databasing of “student-level enrollment, demographic, and program participation information” for all students from preschool through postsecondary education. This electronic database will contain “yearly test records of individual students,” “a teacher identifier system with the ability to match teachers to students,” “student-level transcript information, including information on courses completed and grades earned,” and “student-level college readiness test scores.”
Database collection on each student continues through college and into the workforce. States are required to enter “information regarding the extent to which students transition successfully from secondary school to postsecondary education.” --Gateway quoting Schlafly
It ain't just reading, writing, 'rithmetic any more. Any wonder why home-schooling is growing like topsy?
...President Obama’s nearly trillion-dollar Stimulus law designates $128 billion for education, so it’s no surprise that tight strings are attached.
Buried in the fine print is an ominous requirement to build a national electronic database of all children. Any state that receives federal education funds must “establish a longitudinal data system that includes the elements described in . . . the America COMPETES Act.”
That law, passed a couple of years ago, sets out the goal of longitudinal databasing of “student-level enrollment, demographic, and program participation information” for all students from preschool through postsecondary education. This electronic database will contain “yearly test records of individual students,” “a teacher identifier system with the ability to match teachers to students,” “student-level transcript information, including information on courses completed and grades earned,” and “student-level college readiness test scores.”
Database collection on each student continues through college and into the workforce. States are required to enter “information regarding the extent to which students transition successfully from secondary school to postsecondary education.” --Gateway quoting Schlafly
It ain't just reading, writing, 'rithmetic any more. Any wonder why home-schooling is growing like topsy?
Whooops! We're Outta Money!
This will leave a mark:
A team led by a state-appointed emergency manager said Friday that Detroit is defaulting on about $2.5 billion in unsecured debt and is asking creditors to take about 10 cents on the dollar of what the city owes them.
Kevyn Orr spent two hours with about 180 bond insurers, pension trustees, union representatives and other creditors in a move to avoid what bankruptcy experts have said would be the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
Underfunded pension claims likely would get less than the 10 cents on the dollar. --Gateway quoting AP
Think your tax-free munibond portfolio is solid? Best be reviewing its holdings, eh?
A team led by a state-appointed emergency manager said Friday that Detroit is defaulting on about $2.5 billion in unsecured debt and is asking creditors to take about 10 cents on the dollar of what the city owes them.
Kevyn Orr spent two hours with about 180 bond insurers, pension trustees, union representatives and other creditors in a move to avoid what bankruptcy experts have said would be the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
Underfunded pension claims likely would get less than the 10 cents on the dollar. --Gateway quoting AP
Think your tax-free munibond portfolio is solid? Best be reviewing its holdings, eh?
Friday, June 14, 2013
Why Atkisson's Computer?
It's no longer news that Atkisson's computer was hacked by 'extremely sophisticated' folks.
Timing is everything, folks.
[C]hecking the record, we see that Attkisson had a very interesting scoop on October 20th, relying on anonymous military sources that called into question the Obama administration’s claim that they couldn’t have responded in time to assist in the attack:
As we've said many times, Obozo was resting up in preparation for a campaign fundraiser. He didn't have either the time or the inclination to rescue the Ambassador and the others at Benghazi.
But he DID have the time and inclination to make certain that Atkisson's computer was hacked.
Timing is everything, folks.
[C]hecking the record, we see that Attkisson had a very interesting scoop on October 20th, relying on anonymous military sources that called into question the Obama administration’s claim that they couldn’t have responded in time to assist in the attack:
As we've said many times, Obozo was resting up in preparation for a campaign fundraiser. He didn't have either the time or the inclination to rescue the Ambassador and the others at Benghazi.
But he DID have the time and inclination to make certain that Atkisson's computer was hacked.
Remember the Mortgage Scandal?
Only 3 years ago, the mortgage problem morphed into a scandal.
Then came Obama's second term: Fast & Furious, Benghazi, the IRS, ....and the mortgage thing fell off the radar screen.
It shouldn't.
Attached is an affidavit of a senior loan collector for BOA that was filed in United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts under case number MDL 2193.
Simone Gordan stated the following under oath:
"Using the Bank of America computer systems I saw that hundreds of customers had made their required trial payments, sent the documents requested of them, but had not received permanent modifications. I also saw records showing that Bank of America employees have told people that documents had not been received when, in fact, the computer system showed that Bank of America had received the documents. This was consistent with the instructions my colleagues and I were given. We were told to lie to customers and claim that Bank of America had not received documents it had requested, and that it had not received trial payments (when in fact it had). We were told that admitting that the bank received documents would "open a can of worms" since the bank was required to underwrite a loan modification within 30 days of receiving those documents and it did not have sufficient underwriting staff to complete the underwriting in that time.... Site leaders regularly told us that the more we delayed the HAMP modification process, the more fees Bank of America would collect. We were regularly drilled that it was our job to maximize fees for the bank by fostering and extending the lay of the ... modification process by any means we could --- this included lying to customers. For example, we were instructed by our supervisors at Bank of America to delay modifications by telling homeowners who called in at their documents were "under review," when, in fact, there had been no review or any other work done on the file."
" Employees who were caught admitting that Bank of America had received financial documents or that the borrower was actually entitled to a permanent loan modification where discipline and often terminated without warning."
BofA is Too Big to Fail (but really, a zombie). It shouldn't fail. It should be shot to death.
HT: Ticker
Then came Obama's second term: Fast & Furious, Benghazi, the IRS, ....and the mortgage thing fell off the radar screen.
It shouldn't.
Attached is an affidavit of a senior loan collector for BOA that was filed in United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts under case number MDL 2193.
Simone Gordan stated the following under oath:
"Using the Bank of America computer systems I saw that hundreds of customers had made their required trial payments, sent the documents requested of them, but had not received permanent modifications. I also saw records showing that Bank of America employees have told people that documents had not been received when, in fact, the computer system showed that Bank of America had received the documents. This was consistent with the instructions my colleagues and I were given. We were told to lie to customers and claim that Bank of America had not received documents it had requested, and that it had not received trial payments (when in fact it had). We were told that admitting that the bank received documents would "open a can of worms" since the bank was required to underwrite a loan modification within 30 days of receiving those documents and it did not have sufficient underwriting staff to complete the underwriting in that time.... Site leaders regularly told us that the more we delayed the HAMP modification process, the more fees Bank of America would collect. We were regularly drilled that it was our job to maximize fees for the bank by fostering and extending the lay of the ... modification process by any means we could --- this included lying to customers. For example, we were instructed by our supervisors at Bank of America to delay modifications by telling homeowners who called in at their documents were "under review," when, in fact, there had been no review or any other work done on the file."
" Employees who were caught admitting that Bank of America had received financial documents or that the borrower was actually entitled to a permanent loan modification where discipline and often terminated without warning."
BofA is Too Big to Fail (but really, a zombie). It shouldn't fail. It should be shot to death.
HT: Ticker
ObamaLand
Courtesy of Belvedere.
...Live reality was treated as a perversion or caricature of “genuine” reality, believed to lurk invisible behind appearances and waiting to be set free by the Revolution. This attitude would enable the intelligentsia to accept as true propositions at total variance with demonstrable fact as well as common sense…. To understand the behavior of the intelligentsia it is imperative to keep in mind at all times its deliberate detachment from reality: for while the revolutionaries can be ruthlessly pragmatic in exploiting, for tactical purposes, the people’s grievances, their notion of what the people desire is the product of sheer abstraction. Not surprisingly, when they come to power, revolutionary intellectuals immediately seize control of the means of information and institute a tight censorship: for it is only by suppressing free speech that they can impose their “sur-reality” on ordinary people bogged down in the quagmire of facts...--D Pipes
Pipes was describing the Russian Revolution's Lefty Intellectualoids.
Has a familiar ring, no?
The concentration of Progressive Thinkers in DC (and in many State capital cities) results in this dissociation problem. It's not surprising, thus, to read of "strange new respect" afforded to solons who ran 'conservative' but in only a few years of office-holding, begin to vote--even to think-and-speak--"progressive."
Paul Ryan is becoming an example; Rubio's time-line was much shorter; but look at the really damaged goods: McCain, e.g.
...Live reality was treated as a perversion or caricature of “genuine” reality, believed to lurk invisible behind appearances and waiting to be set free by the Revolution. This attitude would enable the intelligentsia to accept as true propositions at total variance with demonstrable fact as well as common sense…. To understand the behavior of the intelligentsia it is imperative to keep in mind at all times its deliberate detachment from reality: for while the revolutionaries can be ruthlessly pragmatic in exploiting, for tactical purposes, the people’s grievances, their notion of what the people desire is the product of sheer abstraction. Not surprisingly, when they come to power, revolutionary intellectuals immediately seize control of the means of information and institute a tight censorship: for it is only by suppressing free speech that they can impose their “sur-reality” on ordinary people bogged down in the quagmire of facts...--D Pipes
Pipes was describing the Russian Revolution's Lefty Intellectualoids.
Has a familiar ring, no?
The concentration of Progressive Thinkers in DC (and in many State capital cities) results in this dissociation problem. It's not surprising, thus, to read of "strange new respect" afforded to solons who ran 'conservative' but in only a few years of office-holding, begin to vote--even to think-and-speak--"progressive."
Paul Ryan is becoming an example; Rubio's time-line was much shorter; but look at the really damaged goods: McCain, e.g.
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