Posted on 12/07/2008 11:14:58 AM PST by PlainOleAmerican
The amount of so called ‘forced’ loans was a mere drop in the bucket...you can’t blame this on all on Congress. Nope, you have to understand the magnitude of what happened.
What a small potatoes piker he is, then...
The Fan & Fred CEOs made off with 100's of millions.
The "financial sector" was simply responding to incentives and threats from the DEMOCRATS in gov't to make loans to people who didn't have the means to pay them back.
You know-the a few lives lost talk is reminiscent of terrorists. You have the right to die for your beliefs. You do not have the right to kill other Americans for your beliefs.
The governor is a Republican. Look it up.
History was made in Hawaii on November 5, 2002 as Linda Lingle, former mayor of Maui County, was elected as the sixth governor of the State of Hawaii. Lingle is the first female governor elected in Hawaii and the first Republican to hold that office since the State’s first governor, William F. Quinn, in 1962.
I guess I check out my facts more carefully than you...it was a very big deal to elect a Republican in Hawaii.
Look-Fannie and Freddie are the least of our worries believe me. This is a huge problem. You are thinking as a Republican who wishes to blame the Democrats. It’s not that I don’t admire this sort of thinking. But it is not true and won’t work. Everyone acknowledges that while Fannie and Freddie were problems...they in no way caused this catastrophe. You have to assign blame where it belongs-Wall Street bankers. Now they need to change their behavior. Thus must be held accountable.
Also, Merril already received tax payer money...so our taxes pay this bonus.
Again, the union bogeyman-wrong. Unfair trade policies and very bad government regulation helped in this matter and bad management. The union is broken. The union could leave tomorrow and nothing would change except of course we will all pay for the GM retirements. If GM defaults, the taxpayers take over.
FROM Leo http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/
DONOFRIO APPLICATION DENIED - WROTNOWSKI APPLICATION STILL PENDING
Posted in Uncategorized on December 8, 2008 by naturalborncitizen
My application was denied. The Honorable Court chose not to state why.
Wrotnowksi v. Connecticut Secretary of State is still pending as an emergency application resubmitted to the Honorable Associate Justice Antonin Scalia as of last Tuesday. I worked extensively on that application and it includes a more solid brief and a less treacherous lower Court procedural history.
After six days, it’s interesting that Scalia neither denied it nor referred it to the full Court.
My case may have suffered from the NJ Appellate Division Judge having incorrectly characterized my original suit as a “motion for leave to appeal” rather than the “direct appeal” that it actually was. On Dec 21 I filed official Judicial misconduct charges with the NJ Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct, and I updated SCOTUS about that by a letter which is part of SCOTUS Docket as of Dec. 22. The NJ Appellate Divison official case file is fraudulent.
On the chance that SCOTUS was looking at both my case and Cort’s case, I must stress that Cort’s case does not have the same procedural hang up that mine does. It may be that without a decision on the Judicial misconduct allegation correcting the NJ Appellate Division case file, SCOTUS might have been in the position of not being able to hear my case as it would appear that my case was not before them on the proper procedural grounds.
I did file a direct appeal under the proper NJ Court rules, but the lower Court judge refused to acknowledge that and if his fraudulent docketing was used by SCOTUS they would have a solid procedural basis to throw mine out.
I don’t know if it’s significant that Cort’s case was not denied at the same time as mine. His case argues the same exact theory - that Obama is not a natural born citizen because he was a British citizen at birth.
All eyes should now be closely watching US Supreme Court Docket No. 08A469, Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz.
If Cort’s application is also denied then the fat lady can sing. Until then, the same exact issue is before SCOTUS as was in my case. Cort’s application before SCOTUS incorporates all of the arguments and law in mine, but we improved on the arguments in Cort’s quite a bit as we had more time to prepare it.
I was in a rush to get mine to SCOTUS before election day, which I did do on Nov. 3.
Cort’s case has a much cleaner lower court procedural history.
I’m not trying to play with people’s minds here. SCOTUS has not updated Cort’s docket and until they do there can be no closure. I was expecting, if they didn’t grant certiorari, that they would deny both cases at the same time so as to provide closure to the underlying issue. I hate to read tea leaves, but Cort’s application is still pending. That’s all we can really say with any certainty.
Congress caused this problem, Fannie and Freddie turned it into a business.
You have to assign blame where it belongs-Wall Street bankers.
Wall Street bankers playing by the rules set up by Congress turned the subprime fiasco into a (temporarily) profitable business. A business not possible without Fannie and Freddie turning piles of subprime mortgages into (fake) AAA paper.
If the union left and the PBGC took over the pensions, maybe some of the employees could keep their jobs.
If GM defaults, the taxpayers take over.
It would be a cheaper (and more permanent) solution if the union went away.
The unions are broken in GM. They have no power. This has nothing to do with unions.
See this is the problem. There are no rules on Wall Street. They have no way to value a company properly. The short traders routinely drive stocks up or down almost on a whim. Don’t get me started on hedge funds. The truth is coming out. Do you watch the financial news. Even the pundits can’t deny the breadth of bad behavior in this sector. You can try to blame the recession the Democrats. It won’t work. People are furious and blame Pres. Bush. I don’t say this is accurate, but this the perception.
If true, it's only because they broke GM first.
They have no power.
So GM can reduce their healthcare benefits for workers? For retirees?
No rules on Wall Street? ROFLMAO!
People are furious and blame Pres. Bush. I don’t say this is accurate, but this the perception.
Bush deserves a huge chunk of the blame.
Don't worry, Obama will make sure all your buddies in Ohio get great paying jobs.
Why? There is nothing illegal about an American holding multiple citizenships or passports.
But he is inelligible to be president.
My son is a natural-born American citizen. He is also, from birth, the citizen of at least two other countries (maybe 3). In addition to an American passport, we will get him at least one more passport when he gets older.
None of this will in any way prevent him from some day serving as President.
I acknowledge that Obama has been elected President by the American people. But help him? Hell no.
You work with him in areas that are good for the country...like the economy. It’s the American way or used to be.
Maybe his step-father thought Barry was an Indonesian citizen. Or, maybe he fibbed on the forms to eliminate red tape. Do you really consider school records to be determinative of citizenship?
2. America does not allow dual citizenship for the office of president either, for obvious reasons of dual loyalties. Do some homework and use your head.
Can you show me where is says that in COTUS, Federal law or case law?
3. He returned to be raised by his grandparents in Hawaii as a citizen of Indonesia, with an Indonesian passport, issued under the name Barry Soetoro. He held and traveled to Pakistan under that passport as late as age 21, while a "foreign" student at Occidental.
How do you know this? What is the source. But, even so, so what?
4. His posted BC has been reasonable challenged as fraudulent. The burden on proof is upon Obama to prove his legal citizenship, as has been posted on this thread many times already.
I think, until someone with legal power compels him to provide proof, he is not going to do anything.
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