Dammit. Wrong pseud from Firefox's suggest-o-matic. I hate computers.
I don't think you get to be a Republican Senator or Representative if you let a little cognitive dissonance get in the way of useful rhetoric.
This is probably the easiest question I'll have an opportunity to answer today.
Mike Pence is still the odds-on favorite to claim the trophy for dumbest Representative, but Steve King is serving notice that he's not going to let Pence just take it home without a fight.
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The Apocalypse was announced today in Mass
With increasing desperation, banks along with their enablers in Washington are going to try to jerry-rig a way out of this problem. Unfortunately for the banks, ex post facto laws are strictly forbidden by the Constitution, which is now being treated with new-found reverence by the Congress. It may be impossible to construct a law that solves problems like this that already exist. Perhaps the banks will get lucky, and some courts will begin to find in their favor, though that is certainly not the trend at the moment. Maybe the US Supreme Court will accept the banks' argument that the securitization process in itself established a valid foreclosure claim even though mortgages were not properly assigned as required by state laws. This, however, would require the Supreme Court to make up a legal doctrine out of the blue (as the banks have done), thereby overturning all state laws and court rulings going back well over 100 years. Only a Supreme Court bought and paid for by bank lobbyists, and willing to prostitute itself publicly to its paymasters, would issue such a ruling.This means that the likely progression of events - the path we are now on - will lead to a near complete collapse of the housing market, because the big banks and the two government enterprises responsible for supporting the housing market will be fatally crippled wards of the state. The US government itself, including the Federal Reserve, will be equally crippled. Try as you might, you will find no words in the Bible - no phrases applicable to The Flood or to the destruction of whole cities at the hands of a vengeful God - that appropriately capture the financial gravity of this situation. But if we are forced to come up with some metaphor, Financial Armageddon will have to do.
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Calculated Risk says "No Sweat, just a Late Assignment Problem"
Mass Fraudclosure says "Wait a minute there"
I suppose Konczai is still reading. Funny this ruling came out Friday afternoon.
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Felix Salmon is more worried than before and has advice: Don't Buy a House! Don't do it! Call your Lawyer!
This is fun. But I know lawyers will find a way to serve the vampire squids.
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If you can find a way to support the forces pod reaction, why shouldn't the lawyers have the option too?
AAA should be here in 15 minutes thanks to my ever helpful CHP (seriously, super nice) officers. I am live blogging to distract myself from increaing grumpiness. Seriously, FML.
Hooray, liveblogging! Booooo, Parenthetical's life!
I am glad the CHP are waiting with you, P.
Now I'm *really* bummed the carpool didn't work out, Paren.
Ok. In the tow truck. Closest mechanic is 65 miles in Fresno, so definitely not making it tonight. All safe and everything, so no need to worry. Have a great time guys, and yeah, I should have caught a ride with you, Josh.
But I know lawyers will find a way to serve the vampire squids.
Personally, I'd serve them over a roasted tomato pilaf with a nice carmenere.
heh heh.
always time for a bit of moonlightin', darlin'.. 99 overpass style
eh, rubia......como mucho
I'm just gob-smacked that I live in a country and time where the majority party in the House introduces a bill called "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act". It will never get past the House of course, but in the event I would want the Dems to respond with "Repealing the Poopy-Headed Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act Act"
I'm just gob-smacked that I live in a country and time where the majority party in the House...
We do seem to have a wee bit of a problem on our hands, don't we?
Am also gobsmacked that I chose to hyphenate "gobsmacked".
"Joint Resolution Declaring That a State of War Exists Between The Imperial Government of Japan and the Government And the People of the United States and We Are So Going to Kick Ass, 8 December 1941"
And in Wyoming "The Health Care Choice and Protection Act" has been introduced. One of the key parts:
Enforcement of federal laws prohibited; offenses and penalties.
Any official, agent, employee or public servant of the state of Wyoming as defined in W.S. 6-5-101, who enforces or attempts to enforce an act, order, law, statute, rule or regulation of the government of the United States in violation of this article shall be guilty of a felony punishable by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), imprisonment in the county jail for not more than two (2) years, or both.
Any official, agent or employee of the United States government or any employee of a corporation providing services to the United States government that enforces or attempts to enforce an act, order, law, statute, rule or regulation of the government of the United States in violation of this article shall be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than five (5) years, a fine of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), or both.
shoot me a line if you need some asssistance in kern, or la county. serio.
The news relayed in the link in 8 had me in the throes of a silly streak this afternoon. "Mendacity"! He said "mendacity"! Oh my god, he said it again!
It may be because I'm kind of exhausted for the last few days, but I couldn't stop laughing, even when I found five dollars.
I assume 26 was directed at me? Anyway, I'm going to be living it up in my hotel room in Fresno tonight. Be jealous, MLALA'ers, there won't be any alcohol and it'll be a party of one. You know you wish you were here.
28: The Kettleman Hills are a low but nice outlier of the Coastal Range. You were probably not in the mood to appreciate that at the time, however.
You know you wish you were here.
Sounds tawdry.
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... Unfortunately for the banks, ex post facto laws are strictly forbidden by the Constitution, ...
Ex post facto criminal laws are forbidden. Ex post facto civil laws are ok (at least in some cases).
"Mendacity"! He said "mendacity"! Oh my god, he said it again!
What's so funny about the word "mendacity"?
