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Sen. Barack Obama Graces BankUnited on the Day it Fired Over Half its Compliance Staff, Gave New Duties to Regional Manager Recently Arrested for Drug Possession and Possibly Planned to Cancel Quarterly Interest Payments to SeniorsBankUnited is America’s most liberal bank. It may also be America’s nastiest. The bank is well known as a proud and repeated sponsor of South Florida’s Pride Festival, an event for which they pressure employees to volunteer. So it would seem natural that Barack Obama would choose the BankUnited Center for his grand appearance in South Florida last Friday. But given the flurry of negative...

The Clinton administration has turned the Community Reinvestment Act, a once-obscure and lightly enforced banking regulation law, into one of the most powerful mandates shaping American cities—and, as Senate Banking Committee chairman Phil Gramm memorably put it, a vast extortion scheme against the nation's banks. Under its provisions, U.S. banks have committed nearly $1 trillion for inner-city and low-income mortgages and real estate development projects, most of it funneled through a nationwide network of left-wing community groups, intent, in some cases, on teaching their low-income clients that the financial system is their enemy and, implicitly, that government, rather than their...

To be honest, I've pretty much been worn down by this whole Ross Avenue/Industrial Boulevard name-changing brouhaha. What a mess. The ruckus is making our fair city look petty and unsophisticated, incapable of even reaching a consensus on what to name a signature street that will define the largest public-works endeavor in city history. Riverfront Boulevard was catchy. Hold on, I thought we were calling it César Chávez. No wait, it's still Industrial. Good grief, the name is still up for grabs, the victim of a knee-jerk and misguided political reaction that's revealing, once again, that Dallas can't move beyond...

PHOENIX — Local and national business groups are paying for a media campaign — launched Wednesday in Arizona — to convince voters this country has done enough to secure the border. Instead, backers say the U.S. now needs to legalize the 12 million or more undocumented immigrants already here and consider allowing more foreigners into the country. The group, Mexicans and Americans Thinking Together, plans to spend "several hundred thousand dollars" on TV ads in four states. Jim Pignatelli, president and chief executive officer of UniSource Energy Corp., the parent of Tucson Electric Power, said it's time to move the...

New video of Obama call me reference from yesterday's response to McCains call back to washington.

The "Go" of Relationship " Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two" —Matthew 5:41 Our Lord’s teaching can be summed up in this: the relationship that He demands for us is an impossible one unless He has done a super-natural work in us. Jesus Christ demands that His disciple does not allow even the slightest trace of resentment in his heart when faced with tyranny and injustice. No amount of enthusiasm will ever stand up to the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His servant. Only one thing will bear the strain, and that...

Slipping in the polls? Concerned that Americans may be paying more attention to the declining economy -- and even supporting economic regulation again -- than to your own stellar leadership abilities? What's a Republican presidential nominee to do? If you're named John McCain, the answer became apparent yesterday afternoon -- make the solution to the economic crisis all about you. Suspend your campaign. Pull out of tomorrow's debate -- a trivial exercise merely allowing Americans to judge the two candidates side by side. Change the terms of the nation's economic discussion from the course we should take, and the defects...

Honestly. A clean bill as requested by Treasury man Henry Paulson, along with John McCain's oversight board, can help fix the credit-crunch problem. It needn't be this hard. According to the Paulson plan, distressed assets will be sold by banks through a reverse auction (the low bid wins) to various investment funds, hedgies, private-equity boys and other banks. And taxpayers will have a strong ownership position in these asset sales. When the assets are worked out over time -- as they will be once housing and the economy recover -- taxpayers will actually make money on the deal. This is...

Can Mccain use the 'no time for a novice' line on Obama?GB's Gordon Brown said there is no time for a novice (in these difficult times). BBC NEWS | Politics | No time for a novice, says Brownhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7630567.stm Can Mccain use it regarding 'novice' Obama?

DEFENDANT DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEES AND DEFENDANT SENATOR BARACK OBAMAS MOTION TO DISMISS Pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(1) and 12(b)(6), defendants Democratic National Committee and Senator Barack Obama respectfully move the Court for an order dismissing the Complaint on the grounds that this Court lacks subject-matter jurisdiction over the claim asserted and that the Complaint fails to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. Pursuant to Local Rule 7.1, accompanying this Motion is a Brief in Support of Motion to Dismiss and a proposed Order. The Motion has not been Granted by the Court. http://www.flds.ws/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/obama-motion-to-dismiss.pdf

A grainy YouTube video surfaced Wednesday showing Sarah Palin being blessed in her hometown church three years ago by a Kenyan pastor who prayed for protection from "witchcraft" as she prepared to seek higher office. The video shows Palin standing before Bishop Thomas Muthee in the pulpit of the Wasilla Assembly of God church, holding her hands open as he asked Jesus Christ to keep her safe from "every form of witchcraft." "Come on, talk to God about this woman. We declare, save her from Satan," Muthee said as two attendants placed their hands on Palin's shoulders. "Make her way...

List of Nations Banning Chinese Milk Products Grows By VOA News 25 September 2008 South Korea is the latest nation to ban imports of Chinese dairy products after discovering Chinese-made snacks contained a chemical that has sickened thousands of children who consumed contaminated milk. The Korean Food and Drug Administration, KFDA, says tests on more than 100 products found the chemical melamine in two biscuit-type snacks. Officials ordered the products to be removed from store shelves and destroyed. More than a dozen governments in Asia, Africa and Europe have either banned or recalled Chinese dairy products since the scandal broke...

I have had a long standing suspicion that the problems with our strategy in Iraq were not the fault of George Bush. Bush is not a micro-manager. His willingness to accept compromise solutions (take the current increasingly flawed economic bill) is the hallmark of his administration. His administration has been marked by getting along with congress in its spending priorities and with the largest entitlement increase in history; a sop to Liberals. The only thing that he has been unwilling to cave on is the war in Iraq. He has fought congress and some in his own party to win....

DALLAS -- Dallas police are looking into a shocking crime against an Iraq War vet that took place on a college campus. Overnight Tuesday, someone took vandalized 23-year-old Army veteran Viktor Whitlow's vehicle while it was parked at Dallas Baptist University. Ironically, the mascot at DBU is the Patriot. The vandals used a box cutter to destroy the inside of his jeep, they slashed five tires and smashed through the windshield. Perhaps the most shocking detail to the vandalism was the message spray painted on his hood. In red paint the vandals spraypainted the message, "Soldiers are murderers.".... Dallas police...

Note: For those of you who are missing TM; the webmaster, admin mod, and nwctwx has been notified. The files from April to September 2008 are missing. FR had a malfunction and the webmaster is working on bringing the system back up to speed. Meanwhile, I'm posting my stuff here until it's back up. http://www.truthusa.com/september12.html

"Fearing a political backlash against Democrats," Roll Call reported, "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has told the White House that it must serve up support from Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) if it hopes to ensure bipartisan backing for a massive economic bailout package by week's end." Falling for this trick by Sen. Reid and the other Obama supporters in the U.S. Senate could severely damage Sen. McCain's campaign. McCain should reject the plan and use the issue to draw a distinction between himself and President Bush for good policy reasons. Wall Street is in trouble because...

Why should we believe them? Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson, that is. What have they done to earn our trust? Nothing they have done has seemed to work, and their policies allowing the dollar to weaken drastically in recent years quite arguably played a big role in causing the current economic troubles. But let's look at their crisis management. First they bailed out Bear-Stearns. A very wise man who is "in the know" told me about six weeks ago that all the government should have done with Bear was to step in just long enough to stop the panic, while...

Guess what the Philadelphia cop killers all have in common? http://www.thebulletin.us/site/index.cfm?newsid=20136673&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=8

The 2008 Republican Platform, Values section, topic Preserving Traditional Marriage; with comments from readers. ... cont.

Derivatives Pose New Wrinkle in Lehman Case 'A Huge Amount of Uncertainty' By JULIE SATOW, Staff Reporter of the Sun | September 25, 2008 http://www.nysun.com/business/derivatives-pose-new-wrinkle-in-lehman-case/86595/ Bankruptcy lawyers and law professors are preparing for a journey into uncharted territory as the credit default swaps market gets dragged into the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy proceeding. "The courts have dealt with credit default swaps very infrequently, and certainly not at the scale they are now out there," a lawyer at Washington, D.C.-based Caplin & Drysdale, James Wehner, said. "We have a new law and a new financial phenomenon, so there is a lot of...