Now here’s a victims’ fund we can all get behind: delinquent borrowers being foreclosed upon by wicked bank executives. The WSJ:
‘Fund in works for victims of foreclosure mess,” announced the Washington Post’s front page yesterday. Sorry to report that the Post was not referring to taxpayers who have already spent hundreds of billions of dollars cleaning up this mess.
So who exactly are the victims in this story? The Post describes “homeowners who were wronged,” but the writers are also not referring to the roughly 90% of mortgage borrowers who are paying on time. As for the proposed compensation fund, the Post compares it to those set up for victims of the Gulf oil spill, the shootings at Virginia Tech and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Readers may begin to suspect that one of these funds is not like the others. For starters, we’re not aware of any delinquent borrowers being killed by bank executives. In fact it’s not easy to find any injury at all. The Post doesn’t name anyone who’s been harmed, and neither did Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd as he opened Tuesday’s Banking Committee hearing on the problems in the mortgage servicing industry. Don’t expect any further clarification at Thursday’s House Financial Services headline hunt.
Readers will recall that the foreclosure mini-scandal began in September with revelations that “robo-signers” at mortgage firms were signing foreclosure documents that they had not personally reviewed. Instead, they had improperly relied on the work of colleagues.
“[I]f a settlement transfers more wealth from investors and taxpayers (who now stand behind most mortgages) to delinquent borrowers, the least the attorneys general could do is stop calling them victims.”
A manifestly malevolent stranger gropes, feels, and frightens this reporter’s small little girl. And the attack bitch does not let up; she persists in the futile exercise. The little girl has the healthier attitude. She screams bloody murder and doesn’t stop, even as her mother tries to subdue her. I would not subdue her.
Why doesn’t an infantile American people listen to the sounds coming out of the mouths of babes?
I will not be flying anytime soon. I urge you all to do the same.
Good-to-be-groped: This is the Tribune reporter’s impetus; help parents turn their kids into malleable little sheep.
I see that the newspaper has blocked the shocking YouTube in which Mandy, its reporter’s daughter, is frisked, groped, pawed by a TSA agent who only gets more aroused and adamant with each yelp from the tiny terrorist.
All Big Daddy aims at is to help make groping a game. Perhaps Myron, who was kind enough to send the clip, can locate the transcript of the actual newspaper report.
UPDATE I: Some state politicians are tabling objections. This via New Jersey’s Back Room:
State Sen. Diane Allen (R-Edgewater Park), state Sen. Michael Doherty (R-Washington Twp.) and other legislators will join Deborah Jacobs, executive director for the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, at the Statehouse on Monday to discuss their opposition to the new Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) screening procedures at United States’ airports and the nationwide reports of passenger abuse.
Doherty, Allen, and Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle, Assemblywoman Alison McHose, Assemblyman John DiMaio and Assemblyman Erik Peterson will announce the introduction of a resolution urging Congress to immediately review the new TSA screening procedures and the reports of passenger abuse occurring at airports.
The problem I foresee is with backroom deals, whereby the bastards develop a certain system of what I call sectional privileges and rights, based on professional need and proximity to power. That’s the problem. The new Tea Party pols have been silent so far. Or, as far as I know.
UPDATE II (Nov. 16) JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS. After a day of radiating and rogering innocent men and women, One TSA agent urged WND, “to remind people that the policies come from Washington, including … President Obama. The individual agents, including Christians, the agent said, are as helpless and upset as the passengers.”
“‘Over the years TSA has certainly become more invasive in its SOP procedures. First the changes regarding liquid carry-ons, and now the implementation of Standard Pat-Downs along with the roll out of Advanced Imaging Technology. As each and every change has been handed-down and implemented I would cringe anticipating an understandable negative reaction from the general public (not to mention myself),’ the agent said.”
“‘Attack the system,’ the agent asked. ‘Out the misguided bureaucrats … but spare our Christian brothers.'”
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Where have we heard the “I was just following orders” excuse? Damn this brother to hell. If he were a true Christian he’d quit his cushy job rather than abuse other human beings.
UPDATE III: PENILE PAT-DOWN. That was the lot of radio host Owen JJ Stone of “The Alex Jones Show.” “Stone [noted] how the TSA thug directly patted down his testicles, penis and backside while his hand was inside Stone’s pants. Stone was initially embarrassed to reveal the full scope of the groping but related the details of what amounted to nothing less than outright sexual molestation.”
As the lede in “Congress: Call Off Your TSA Attack Dogs!” details, I was touched inappropriately. The “touching” caught me by surprise because my molester did not utter a murmur, just did her thing. What’s more, I did not know that these proceedings had been put in place. As a news person, I would have known had they been widely reported at the time. I didn’t because they were not.
I don’t intend to fly. That piece of dreck Janet Napolitano says that the traveler who doesn’t submit should seek alternative means of traveling. Does the deranged dodo not know that people fly for business and work-related purposes? How are you supposed to get to DC from, for instance, where I live? Embark on a two week train odyssey? She’s messing with livelihoods.
Predictably, some statists on Fox News such as Bill O’Reilly and his blond Squad don’t seem particularly perturbed.
Did you know that the nation’s airports are not required to have Transportation Security Administration screeners checking passengers at security checkpoints? The 2001 law creating the TSA gave airports the right to opt out of the TSA program in favor of private screeners after a two-year period. Now, with the TSA engulfed in controversy and hated by millions of weary and sometimes humiliated travelers, Rep. John Mica, the Republican who will soon be chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, is reminding airports that they have a choice.
There is no substitute for intelligence (as in IQ). The Examiner again:
many security experts have urged TSA to adopt techniques, used with great success by the Israeli airline El Al, in which passengers are observed, profiled, and most importantly, questioned before boarding planes. So TSA created a program known as SPOT — Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques. It began hiring what it called behavior detection officers, who would be trained to notice passengers who acted suspiciously. TSA now employs about 3,000 behavior detection officers, stationed at about 160 airports across the country.
The problem is, they’re doing it all wrong. A recent Government Accountability Office study found that TSA “deployed SPOT nationwide without first validating the scientific basis for identifying suspicious passengers in an airport environment.” They haven’t settled on the standards needed to stop bad actors.
“It’s not an Israeli model, it’s a TSA, screwed-up model,” says Mica. …
UPDATE: “Jennifer Hawke-Petit’s father, Reverend Richard Hawke, told reporters, ‘There are just some people who do not deserve to live in God’s world,’ in reaction to the death penalty sentencing.” Via Inside Edition.
It would be a great blessing if one of the Petit relatives or friends took up self-defense and Second-Amendment activism. Someone very close to me in South Africa watched two men enter his home on a Sunday afternoon, when the family was beside the pool, relaxing. He saw his wife flee, as in slow-motion. He rushed to the safe, where the gun had been kept. Then aimed at the invaders and yelled, “Get the hell out of my home.” They fled like the cowards they were. From then on, this man has carried his piece on his ankle. (The family also needed therapy.)
The sadistic letter the Connecticut killer and rapist Joshua Komisarjevsky wrote from prison makes clear that this is just what he and his accomplice, Steven Hayes (placed on death row today), needed.
UPDATE: “Jennifer Hawke-Petit’s father, Reverend Richard Hawke, told reporters, ‘There are just some people who do not deserve to live in God’s world,’ in reaction to the death penalty sentencing.” Via Inside Edition.
It would be a great blessing if one of the Petit relatives or friends took up self-defense and Second-Amendment activism. Someone very close to me in South Africa watched two men enter his home on a Sunday afternoon, when the family was beside the pool, relaxing. He saw his wife flee, as in slow-motion. He rushed to the safe, where the gun had been kept. Then aimed at the invaders and yelled, “Get the hell out of my home.” They fled like the cowards they were. From then on, this man has carried his piece on his ankle. (The family also needed therapy.)
The sadistic letter the Connecticut killer and rapist Joshua Komisarjevsky wrote from prison makes clear that this is just what he and his accomplice, Steven Hayes (placed on death row today), needed.
