tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post189515591832308123..comments2024-03-29T06:35:11.321-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: All That Glitters Should be GoldDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger136125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1303626265351853142010-11-09T00:31:59.063-05:002010-11-09T00:31:59.063-05:00.
I've posted on this story in the past.
Some....<br />I've posted on this story in the past.<br /><br /><b>Some judges chastise banks over foreclosure paperwork</b><br /><br /><i>A year ago, Long Island Judge Jeffrey Spinner concluded that a mortgage company's paperwork in a foreclosure case was so flawed and its behavior in negotiations with the borrower so "repugnant" that he erased the family's $292,500 debt and gave them the home free.<br /><br />The judgment in favor of the homeowner, Diane Yano-Horoski, which is being appealed, has alarmed the nation's biggest lenders, who say it could establish a dramatic new legal precedent and roil the nation's foreclosure system.</i><br /><br />However, I had to post this one because of the following paragraph:<br /><br /><i>In his November 2009 ruling, Judge Spinner of Suffolk County blasted OneWest for <b>negotiating with an "opprobrious demeanor and condescending attitude."</b> He also cited the bank's "duplicity" in offering a forbearance agreement with a deadline that had already passed and for presenting contradictory paperwork claiming different amounts for what the family owed.</i><br /><br />"Opprobrious demeanor and condenscending attitude."<br /><br />Ya gotta love it.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/09/nyregion/09christie.html?hpw" rel="nofollow">Banks Worried About Forclosure Rulings</a><br /><br />.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-81030492720058554982010-11-09T00:27:53.221-05:002010-11-09T00:27:53.221-05:00A former key financial adviser to entertainers Pau...<i>A former key financial adviser to entertainers Paul Hogan and John Cornell is planning to give adverse evidence about the pair's tax arrangements, the Federal Court heard today.<br /><br />...<br /><br /> The relationship between Cornell and Hogan and Mr Gibb "has broken down completely", said Noel Hutley, SC, representing the two celebrities and Tony Stewart, who took over from Mr Gibb as the pair's financial adviser.<br />Advertisement: Story continues below<br /><br />The three men have been the subject of a five-year investigation by the Crime Commission into allegations that they avoided paying millions of dollars tax to the Australian Taxation Office by channelling the enormous profits from the Crocodile Dundee films into offshore companies.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/business/exadviser-to-testify-against-hogan-20101109-17lix.html" rel="nofollow">Testifying Against Hogan</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-46684349483214013272010-11-09T00:15:50.699-05:002010-11-09T00:15:50.699-05:00.
U.S. Report Faults Christie, as Prosecutor, on ....<br /><br /><b>U.S. Report Faults Christie, as Prosecutor, on Hotel Stays</b><br /> <br /><i>When he was a top federal prosecutor, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey routinely billed taxpayers for hotel stays whose cost exceeded government guidelines, according to a report the Justice Department released on Monday. <br /><br />As a United States attorney, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey often exceeded government guidelines on travel expenses without adequate justification, a new report by the inspector general of the Justice Department indicates.<br /> <br />The report, by the department’s inspector general, examined travel expenses for all 208 people who served as a United States attorney from 2007 to 2009. It spoke of five who “exhibited a noteworthy pattern of exceeding the government rate and whose travel documentation provided insufficient, inaccurate or no justification for the higher lodging rates.” <br /><br />While the report did not identify any prosecutors by name, the travel patterns of an official called “U.S. Attorney C” — the one “who most often exceeded the government rate without adequate justification” in terms of percentage of travel — match records about Mr. Christie that were released in the 2009 campaign for governor by his Democratic opponent, the incumbent, Jon S. Corzine...</i> <br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/09/nyregion/09christie.html?hpw" rel="nofollow">We Report. You Decide.</a><br /><br />.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-12554086162768632732010-11-09T00:07:02.965-05:002010-11-09T00:07:02.965-05:00US president Barack Obama has backed India's q...<i>US president Barack Obama has backed India's quest for a seat on the United Nations Security Council.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Momentum built in 2005 to reform the Security Council on the United Nations' 50th anniversary, with Brazil, Germany, India and Japan launching a joint bid for new permanent seats.<br /><br />...<br /><br />China, the only Asian nation in the Security Council, strongly opposed Japan's membership by accusing it of not atoning for World War II.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/11/09/3060806.htm?section=world" rel="nofollow">Council Seat</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-58342139203007397152010-11-09T00:04:03.945-05:002010-11-09T00:04:03.945-05:00.
Save Florida Homes Inc. and its owner, Mark Guer....<br /><i>Save Florida Homes Inc. and its owner, Mark Guerette, have found foreclosed homes for several needy families here in Broward County, and his tenants could not be more pleased. Fabian Ferguson, his wife and two children now live a two-bedroom home they have transformed from damaged and abandoned to full and cozy.<br /> <br />There is just one problem: Mr. Guerette is not the owner. Yet. <br /><br />In a sign of the odd ingenuity that has grown from the real estate collapse, he is banking on an 1869 Florida statute that says the bundle of properties he has seized will be his if the owners do not claim them within seven years...</i><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/09/us/09foreclosure.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp" rel="nofollow">Adverse Possession in Florida</a><br /><br />.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-39345243375681238042010-11-09T00:02:33.772-05:002010-11-09T00:02:33.772-05:00.
Oprah to fly her entire audiance to Australia f....<br /><br />Oprah to fly her entire audiance to Australia for her shows at the Sydney Opera House.<br /><br /><i>Meanwhile, Oprah's Harpo Productions has held urgent talks with Qantas over the future of her December trip...</i><br /><br />Don't mess with Oprah Quantas.<br /><br />.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-34809935830506141472010-11-08T23:51:17.693-05:002010-11-08T23:51:17.693-05:00The airline was hit with a further setback on Mond...<i>The airline was hit with a further setback on Monday night when a violent storm grounded some flights out of Sydney airport.<br /><br />A Qantas spokeswoman said three international flights were diverted, 13 domestic flights cancelled and seven diverted.<br /><br />Qantas, which last week said an engine design flaw could be to blame, said on Monday it was investigating oil leaks that might have caused the engine explosion on a Sydney-bound flight.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Qantas-says-too-early-to-measure-costs-on-A380-tro-pd20101108-AZ7Z7?OpenDocument" rel="nofollow">Flying Technique</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-2122641272252279492010-11-08T23:37:04.855-05:002010-11-08T23:37:04.855-05:00.
From Sam's post:
The Oklahoma ballot measu....<br /><br />From Sam's post:<br /><br /><i>The Oklahoma ballot measure orders judges not to consider Islamic or international law when deciding cases. <br /><br />But Rick Tepker, a law professor at the University of Oklahoma School of Law believes the "Save Our State" constitutional amendment may have the unwanted side effect of preventing judges from referencing the Ten Commandments. Tepker called the measure "a mess."<br /><br />"Many of us who understand the law are scratching our heads this morning, laughing so we don't cry," he told CNN. "I would like to see Oklahoma politicians explain if this means that the courts can no longer consider the Ten Commandments. Isn’t that a precept of another culture and another nation? The result of this is that judges aren’t going to know when and how they can look at sources of American law that were international law in origin."</i><br /><br />And this is supposed to be a bad thing?<br /><br />The definitions of murder, theft, or spousal abuse aren't dependent upon the ten commandments or the Koran.<br /><br />The judge should rule based on the law as written not on how some Muslim or Christian or Brit interprets the law based on his faith or natioanality. Were the judge to do that there would be no objective law merely a series of laws based on each individual's subjective moral compass.<br /><br />We've already seen how that would work out with the case of the judge in New Jersey who said it was ok for the Muslim guy to beat his wife because it was allowed by Sharia law.<br /><br />.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-18024452119666444912010-11-08T23:22:41.389-05:002010-11-08T23:22:41.389-05:00U.S. District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange ruled Mon...<i>U.S. District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange ruled Monday morning in Oklahoma City following a brief hearing. It prevents the state election board from certifying the results of Tuesday's general election in which the amendment was approved by 70 percent of the voters.<br /><br />The order will remain in effect until a Nov. 22 hearing on a requested preliminary injunction.<br /><br />It was issued in a lawsuit filed by the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Oklahoma. Muneer Awad said during the hearing that the law stigmatizes his religion.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/oklahoma-banned-ten-commandments-sharia-law/" rel="nofollow">Islamic Law</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-36713037401975012232010-11-08T23:15:03.038-05:002010-11-08T23:15:03.038-05:00Christians read it, but do not follow the precepts...<b>Christians read it, but do not follow the precepts of it.<br /><br />Why would the Islamoids be different?</b><br /><br />The real difference is when they do follow the precepts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-542781871264301202010-11-08T23:13:16.549-05:002010-11-08T23:13:16.549-05:00It is likely to occur, demographically, throughout...It is likely to occur, demographically, throughout Europe also.<br /><br />I saw some very interesting numbers showing the correlation between Islamic populations and the virulence of the 'criminal enterprise.'<br /><br />Once it gets up near 10%, the 'criminals' begin to exert themselves under the pretense of religion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-16376097441016538582010-11-08T23:11:55.575-05:002010-11-08T23:11:55.575-05:00.
If we left the Islamic Arc, they'd wallow in....<br /><i>If we left the Islamic Arc, they'd wallow in their own despair, without the "Great Satan" to blame...</i><br /><br />Charmingly amusing.<br /><br />.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-40600551106460192072010-11-08T23:08:11.494-05:002010-11-08T23:08:11.494-05:00So does the Bible, bob.
Christians read it, but d...So does the Bible, bob.<br /><br />Christians read it, but do not follow the precepts of it.<br /><br />Why would the Islamoids be different?desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-78545862065982591812010-11-08T23:07:05.574-05:002010-11-08T23:07:05.574-05:00A pretense, exactly.
Not a cause for war, but a p...A pretense, exactly.<br /><br />Not a cause for war, but a pretense for criminal enterprise.<br /><br />Exactly correct.<br /><br />Islam is a tool used by politicos.<br /><br />Not a driving force of their societies. But part of their culture. <br /><br />But the enemies are geographic and historical.<br />The Libyans took Spain, when they were called Carthaginians. Italians did when they were Romans and the French did, when they were Vandals.<br /><br />That some Islamoid in Pakistan calls for the conquest of Spain, that is like wi"o" calling for the destruction of "the rock".<br /><br />Comedy.<br /><br />That they call for the destruction of Israel, as a Jewish State, unnerving to some Israeli, but unlikely to occur, militarily.<br /><br />It is likely to occur, demographically, though.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-48954080790714002492010-11-08T23:01:56.804-05:002010-11-08T23:01:56.804-05:00Since we agree on that, my work is done for the ni...Since we agree on that, my work is done for the night. I was happy to be of assistance.<br /><br />Good night, Trish, wherever you are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-39765560088501024492010-11-08T23:01:04.683-05:002010-11-08T23:01:04.683-05:00ah, so you haven't read it.
It tells 'em ...ah, so you haven't read it.<br /><br />It tells 'em what to do, how to behave.<br /><br />I got to get to bed.<br /><br />Over and out.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-46324534222701754922010-11-08T22:58:57.229-05:002010-11-08T22:58:57.229-05:00They have no Armies, whit.
Not a single division....They have no Armies, whit.<br /><br />Not a single division.<br /><br />Not even a battalion.<br />Pablo Escobar could field a larger combat capable force.<br /><br />You buy into the propaganda.<br />The Islamoids, the Israelis and some of ours.<br /><br />Why read the Koran, bob, it is only literature. <br />Bad literature, at that.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-58030950637124661162010-11-08T22:58:51.248-05:002010-11-08T22:58:51.248-05:00The religion is an excuse, not a cause.
The relig...<b>The religion is an excuse, not a cause.</b><br /><br />The religion is a cover. It's been said that Islam is as much a form of government as a religion. The fundies (many not so militant) themselves claim that you can't separate Islam from government. Islam means submission and Sharia is "Allah's law" which we all know is a joke. Excuse is not quite the right word. A better word is pretense. Islam is the pretense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-18877577512154001372010-11-08T22:58:03.231-05:002010-11-08T22:58:03.231-05:00Maurice Strong, heh, I had to look that up.
Yep, ...Maurice Strong, heh, I had to look that up.<br /><br />Yep, looks like Maurice is the guy to turn to.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-39596944781901100202010-11-08T22:55:17.874-05:002010-11-08T22:55:17.874-05:00Pablo Escobar, the premier example of a criminal c...Pablo Escobar, the premier example of a criminal campaign that could have been classified as a war.<br /><br />But after his death, the civil insurrection in Colombia diminished, but the crime cartels continued.<br /><br />Whether the FARC insurrection was a war or a criminal enterprise, best left for trish to tell us.<br /><br />I lean to criminal enterprise, but it is debatable.<br /><br />Same is true in Oaxaca, Mexico. Are the Zapatistas merely criminals or revolutionaries funded by drug profits.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-55470739238622223252010-11-08T22:54:36.840-05:002010-11-08T22:54:36.840-05:00Osama bin Laden did what any sensible boy scout wo...<i>Osama bin Laden did what any sensible boy scout would also do; he moved to China.</i><br /><br />Somebody should talk to Maurice Strong.The Cleaning Ladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03885132374422274213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-28384942517822217182010-11-08T22:54:11.436-05:002010-11-08T22:54:11.436-05:00Tenth-grader Afzal welcomes the impending changes....<i>Tenth-grader Afzal welcomes the impending changes. She comments, "We appreciate if the old courses are replaced with new ones.<br /><br />...<br /><br />But there are voices of caution as well. Says Ayub Khan, a father of three: "Change is good, but it should be within Islamic context.<br /><br />Anything against Islam will flare up protests against the government. The government must avoid deleting Islamic verses from the courses."</i><br /><br /><a href="http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52570" rel="nofollow">Crossing Extremism Out</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-50925305259607250602010-11-08T22:53:25.089-05:002010-11-08T22:53:25.089-05:00Good God rat, go read your koran.
But, it's t...Good God rat, go read your koran.<br /><br />But, it's too much to ask you to make sense.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-30698474286210083952010-11-08T22:52:14.426-05:002010-11-08T22:52:14.426-05:00Trish (Up and R-U-N-N-O-F-T)
On behalf of Trish a...Trish (Up and R-U-N-N-O-F-T)<br /><br />On behalf of Trish and Allen I'm boycotting this year's "Bosco" awards.<br /><br />And who appointed Quirk to judge posts anyway?<br /><br /><br /><br />g'nite, I've got a trying day tomorrow.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-386704725013409592010-11-08T22:51:37.207-05:002010-11-08T22:51:37.207-05:00What difference does it make whether we call it cr...What difference does it make whether we call it crime or war? You call it crime, the fundies call it war on the infidel. Jihad. To them it's a religious war. You insult them by casting them as mere criminals. They cut off the hands of criminals.<br /><br />If they had superior armies they would go ahead and use them for Allah. Since they don't, they use whatever weapons are at their disposal. Knives, bombs, guns, airplanes. "It don't matter."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com