Mormon Rand Con gets no bump

Usually, for normal prez candidates in the US (what's that, Ned?)
their convention brings a boost in the polls. Not for Romney.
Maybe it's because his ticket is Creep 1 and Creep 2.



At least McCain was a vet, shell-shocked, but a vet. Romney
was just set up to fail because the Reps couldn't pay him to
go away and he wouldn't take "f%^&k off, you Utah harem
geek cracker" as an answer.

The only Mormon thing that goes bump in the night is the
husband looking for a wife who ain't on the rag. Accidents
can happen when the wives are younger than the daughters
and he doesn't know the names of either bunch.



but, I digress.Vultures sometimes die by their own methods.
Bennie Nunu had his heart set on a Romney romp through
the mid East (no, not Boston). He left his heart in Tampa.


checkit: the Daily Beast

Yikes-Poll: Romney Loses RNC Bump

But what about Clint Eastwood’s popularity? A Reuters/Ipsos poll on Saturday showed that Mitt Romney’s bounce in the polls during the Republican National Convention has already evaporated. According to the latest installment of the four-day rolling poll, Romney was ahead of President Obama by two points on Thursday, and then by one point on Friday—but by Saturday, Obama led Romney 44 percent to 43 percent. Romney campaigned in Ohio on Saturday on the first day of the college-football season, saying Obama’s record is “zero and 23 million” since there are an estimated 23 million people out of work or under-employed. Meanwhile, Obama blasted the convention while campaigning in Iowa, calling it a “rerun” and something “you might have watched on black-and-white TV.”

Read it at Reuters

September 1, 2012 7:40 PM

Hackers at News Corp may change the US election

No, thank you for leaving the planet.

I've been watching in stunned amazement at all the sh*t
Rupert's boys and gals have been pulling.

Please stop! I always thought the media was corrupt, but just stop.

I finally found an angle, though.
If it blows up in the US as well, then the Republicans are in trouble,
which may indeed be the plan to get Obama 4 more years.

If News Corp is tainted by transgressing

against the holy 9-11 pseudo-religious construct
then Fox News is going to be severely curtailed in its role
promoting the Republicans, and so they could lose the presidency
and both houses of Congress.

I can't live on 4 million pounds. whatamagonnadoo?

Pounds of what, potatoes? or as we say :"badaydas"

Another sad Brit chick star is all wobbly about having to give up half her money to stoopid
public services that don't work.

She's right. The banks and big stores that offshore their profits guarantee that public
services will always suck, until they stop.

[the Guardian was kicking the piss out of her today]

checkitout:

Guardian Rob Fitzpatrick
Adele's tax grievances won't resonate with fans
The singer claims she wanted to 'buy a gun and randomly open fire' when she saw her recent tax bill – but her gripes are as tired as the most moat-friendly Tory grandee
Tax needn't be taxing, the advert simpers, and while that might be true, coughing up your hard-earned will never be anything less than grievously unpleasant. Yet hearing Adele complain about being taxed on the great tidal wave of cash generated by her multi-million selling albums, it's hard to feel much sympathy.

Speaking to Q magazine, the Rolling in the Deep singer said, "I'm mortified to have to pay 50%! [While] I use the NHS, I can't use public transport any more. Trains are always late, most state schools are shit, and I've gotta give you, like, four million quid – are you having a laugh? When I got my tax bill in from [the album] 19, I was ready to go and buy a gun and randomly open fire."

Now, I love Adele. But that doesn't exactly endear you to her, does it? Let's look at it again.

"I'm mortified to have to pay 50%!" The Beatles had to pay 95% - as did all the highest earners under two successive governments (Wilson and Heath) in the mid-60s. George Harrison wrote a song about it, can't remember what it's called, sorry.

"I use the NHS." Keep paying your taxes then or it'll be gone.

"I can't use public transport any more." The rest of us plebs still have to. Adele, however, will never be short of the sponds for a private car to Shoreditch House from now until the end of time.

"Trains are always late." What does that matter when you don't use them? And they're not anyway.

"Most state schools are shit." Actually, according to the most recent Ofsted report for the UK, "Just over two thirds of schools at their most recent inspection were providing a good or better education for their pupils. Pupils' behaviour was good or outstanding in 86% of schools." Of course, if rich people stop paying their taxes then they will become shit.

"When I got my tax bill in, I was ready to go and buy a gun and randomly open fire." Now, you have to assume this was a joke rather than the first bitter taste of a full-blown psychotic episode, but it's still upsetting to hear this musician I admire seems as greedy as the most moat-friendly, port-stained Tory grandee.

consider that a divorce

Arnie takes on the Kennedy clan: His wife (Du-uh)
The last guy to do that was Onassis.

Let's watch.



In case anybody's been in a coma, the former Governator was divorced by his wife,
and the Old Dogg stories are coming out of the woodwork.
Apparently, Arnie had the CHiPs cops' Dignitary Detail ferry
hookers to him at a hotel. REGULARLY
[copyright Joe Heller]

checkitout: Zerohedge
California AG Launches Criminal Inquiry Into Schwarzenegger's Misuse Of Taxpayer Funds To Cover Up Affair
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/25/2011 23:32 -0400

And just as Wednesday appeared it would be (mostly) surreal news free. Radar online has just broken that "The Californian Attorney General will conduct what’s being termed an “inquiry” into former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s alleged misuse of tax payer funds to cover up sexual liaisons. In a bombshell exclusive, RadarOnline.com has learned the Office of the Attorney General, a branch of the Department of Justice, is conducting a preliminary evaluation into the scope of Schwarzenegger’s double life, which allegedly included using his state-funded security details to cover up women being escorted into his hotel room." That's good news: following the earlier S&P report that massive state debt overhang is not really helping economic growth, the funds saved from not buying hooker hoodies will go straight to the state's already broke educational, infrastructure and every other system.

More from Radar:

Veteran hotel security officer William Taylor said he witnessed the “Governator” using California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers and vehicles to ferry scantily-clad women in-and-out of his suite at the Sacramento Hyatt Regency where he and wife Maria Shriver often stayed.

“It makes me very angry just to think of what was going on at that time,” Taylor, who passed a polygraph test about his claims, told the latest edition of the National Enquirer.

"On three differed occasions after the governor arrived alone at the Hyatt Regency, CHP Dignitary Protection Services arrived in their official vehicles, black Ford Crown Victoria sedans - about one to two hours later with one or two young females.

"They'd hurriedly escort the women through the service entrance on the second floor parking garage to the elevator that went to the governor's private wing... the women would usually stay for two to four hours and either leave through the hotel's main entrance or be driven away by the CHP in the same official vehicles."

The Attorney General's office told RadarOnline.com "there will be no comment" about the probe, a criminal matter, however multiple department sources have confirmed the decision.

Taylor was head of security at the hotel and is almost certain to be interviewed.

New gameshow: Bank or Dare

[Now, testify!]
Reminder of my 'free houses for everybody', and 'death of a thousand cuts' story, where I said that banks should be sued to death. It's all coming true! and I was just bullshitting,er, um, prognosticating.

Follow me into an alternate universe, won't you?

Voiceover guy:

"It's the new gameshow, Bank or Dare, where we challenge bankers to dare....
and act like human beings,
show guilt and let the Public off the hook,
as a gift to humanity.

Fat chance, you say? Just watch."

Contestant number 1: Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan
Prize behind door number 3:

House in suburban Baltimore,
valuation $500 000 (pre-2008)*hint*

Gameshow host: "Alright. We have this home. 85% is owed on it."
Contestant 1: "Foreclose!"
Host: "Just a sec, son. The family with 3 kids haven't paid a penny in 15 months"
Contestant 1: "Foreclose, foreclose, godammit!"
Host: "Hold your horses, my friend" "The parents were both laid off, a teacher and and plant manager."
"Chances of the house selling for $250 000 are..."
Overdub: "15% over the next 5 years."
Contestant 1: "I'm bound by my shareholders to foreclose."
Host: "If you don't listen, you'll be bound and they'll have your hide. Okay?"
"Monthly bill for water, electricity, lawn upkeep, police protection, civic taxes...."
Overdub guy: "$2 000 per month"
Contestant 1: "If I foreclose, I get a commission."
Host: "You'll get committed alright, if you don't shut it."
"Or you could let the family have it free and clear for $80 000, its 1980 value"
Overdub guy: "which is what the price would be if it weren't for the housing bubble."
Contestant 1: "but, we are too big to fail. TBTF!"
Host: "Look, if you crash the economy again, and you will, it will be a sovereign crisis."
"Then you'll get zero, and people will hunt you to put your head on a trophy."
Contestant 1: "enough, enough""what do I get for all this niceness?"
Host: "Life.the mob, that is, the audience, will let you live."
Contestant 1: "I'll take it.""can I go now?"
Host: "we're not done with you yet" SHOUTS:"release the sled"
Host (to an old lady in the audience): "who are you betting on?"
Old Lady: "anybody who will whup that contestant's butt. He tried to foreclose on me!"


or http://youtu.be/7KQVmUTwx2k (the sled part)

Remember those houses with fraudulent mortgages (without papers) that were
cut up into 10 000 pieces?
Well, now! It's come to be that the housing market is so bad, because of banker malfeasance,
that banks see it's not worth their while to break the law, to
get their hands on a house. In the end they will be paying municipalities
for the taxes and upkeep of the properties. So, they'll be losing money.
The houses will not be sold for a good 5 years. So, they're walking away.
Those municipalities are themselves often close to bankruptcy, largely because
of the death of private credit markets, and fraudulent derivatives
that they bought from many of those same banks.
The banks are trying to get their money back by signing a deal with the federal gov.
They want to pay $5 billion for this (borrowed money) when it's worth $30 billion.
Nice try.
and this is just the beginning of their legal problems. They're a "litigation sinkhole", and they
can't cover their losses.

Epilogue:
I was wondering when all this blogging and networking was going to start paying off.
Now the mainstream media gets its reporters to occasionally steal a story
from the new media. Not me, but the sites I cite. I'm just a spinner.

I've been busting my skull wondering how it is that the banks can always win.
Well, Matt Taibbi from Rolling Stone just wrote the article that may have
turned the tide. I heard on Keiser today that Goldman's stock lost $6 billion TODAY!
This guy named Bovey in NY has told his clients to sell their Goldman stock!
People seem to think that it will become an embarrassment to the government
if they don't get their fat arses off their banker-funded chairs, and put one of the
big sharks in jail, even for a year. Look, DSK is in Rikers.

checkitout: 1 Dateline Bloomberg
Foreclosures Prompt Four U.S. Cities to Sue Banks for Mowing, Home Repairs
By Thom Weidlich - May 12, 2011 5:00 AM GMT
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-12/foreclosures-prompt-four-u-s-cities-to-sue-banks-for-mowing-home-repairs.html
Four major U.S. cities that pay for the upkeep of foreclosed properties are trying to recoup the costs of services including lawn mowing, repairs and security by suing banks they claim contributed to their “urban blight.”
A federal judge in Memphis, Tennessee, on May 4 and another in Baltimore on April 22 denied Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC)’s request to dismiss the predatory-lending lawsuits brought against the bank. A lawsuit by the city of Cleveland against JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and Ally Financial Inc. is also pending before an Ohio judge.

In one case, Deutsche Bank AG, described by Los Angeles City Attorney Carmen Trutanich as one of the city’s “major slumlords,” may be found liable for hundreds of millions of dollars, including restitution for current and former tenants, according to a statement by the city.

“We started out looking to sue as many as 16 lenders,” Webb Brewer, a lawyer who represents Memphis, said in a telephone interview. “It’s a tall order to fight all those banks at once. We never alleged that Wells Fargo was alone in employing these practices.”

The cities’ lawsuits invoke various legal theories, and some have targeted the banks as bundlers of mortgages into securities rather than as lenders. The cases brought by Baltimore and Memphis, which will now shift to pre-trial evidence gathering, are similar. They both accuse San Francisco- based Wells Fargo of violating the Fair Housing Act by so-called reverse redlining -- targeting black neighborhoods for predatory lending.
Buildings in Disrepair

Los Angeles sued Deutsche Bank May 4 as trustee of mortgage-backed securities and is seeking reimbursement for costs of property repair. The city accused the bank of buying more than 2,200 properties through foreclosure and letting vacant buildings fall into disrepair. The day before, the U.S. government alleged in a lawsuit seeking $1 billion that the Frankfurt-based bank lied to qualify thousands of risky mortgages for a government insurance program.
......
[GET THE WHOLE STORY, IT'S GREAT]
2 Reggie Middleton on Zerohedge: [27 April, this year]
I have warned of this event. JP Morgan (as well as Bank of America) is literally a litigation sinkhole. See JP Morgan Purposely Downplayed Litigation Risk That Spiked 5,000% Last Year & Is Still Severely Under Reserved By Over $4 Billion!!! Shareholder Lawyers Should Be Scrambling Now Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011. [I'd put more of the text, but frankly, I don't understand it. Thankfully Reggie, Keiser and some others do.]

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/there%E2%80%99s-something-fishy-house-morgan

Just yesterday, he was the most feared man

I was just doing like the American SEC (SEX), and watching French-Maid porn,
but now it turns out that one poor Mexican maid, didn't not want to get made,
French-maid style.
Unfortunately, she ran into the latest little Gallic potentate.

Just yesterday, DSK made goverments sh*t their pants,
giving Sarko a tick, because he wanted to become

le President de la Republique.

and today,
he's just another Napoleonic-style bureaucrat with a Clinton itch.

I'm mainlining this sh*t.
Check this ode, below and the Strauss Kahn song, further below.



UPDATE:
As with all fun things in the schadenfreud game, this event may end up making things worse. Even though the IMF looks as rapacious as ever, apparently DSK was trying to encourage it to behave as a fair arbiter between governments, capital and workers. And apparently this has caused some animosity.
Apparently, DSK is the other nice guy from the evil IMF. Joseph Stiglitz was so nice, the IMF kicked him out. Now, he lectures on how to solve the crises. Unfortunately, he still thinks that money markets are basically a good thing, but nobody's perfect. Check the London School of Economics podcasts (it's an easy search).
Mike Whitney seems to think that the maid may have been a stitch-up job. It's been done before. Search Elliot Spitzer, former NY attorney general who was set up by the banks, with 'help' from the police.
ANOTHER UPDATE: THE FRENCH CONNECTION
Posted on May 17, 2011 by maxkeiser| 31 Comments
* IMF chief ‘feared political opponent would pay a woman more than $1m to allege rape’
The first person to break the news of Strauss-Kahn’s arrest was an activist in Mr Sarkozy’s UMP party – who apparently knew about the scandal before it happened. Jonathan Pinet, a politics student, tweeted the news just before the New York Police Department made it public, although he said that he simply had a ‘friend’ working at the Sofitel where the attack was said to have happened.

The plot thickens

-Cos67 ¬(%^D>
checkitout:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=WHI20110516&articleId=24784
and here are a couple of paragraphs: by Mike Whitney
....
That push had been advocated by Western financial markets – and the Western finance ministries that serve them so loyally. Financial deregulation in the United States was a prime cause of the global crisis that erupted in 2008, and financial and capital-market liberalization elsewhere helped spread that “made in the USA” trauma around the world....The crisis showed that free and unfettered markets are neither efficient nor stable." ("The IMF's Switch in Time", Joseph Stiglitz, Project Syndicate)
So, Strauss-Kahn was trying to move the bank in a more positive direction, a direction that didn't require that countries leave their economies open to the ravages of foreign capital that moves in swiftly--pushing up prices and creating bubbles--and departs just as fast, leaving behind the scourge of high unemployment, plunging demand, hobbled industries, and deep recession.
....
Here's Stiglitz again, this time imparting the "kiss of death" to his friend Strauss-Kahn:
"Strauss-Kahn is proving himself a sagacious leader of the IMF.... As Strauss-Kahn concluded in his speech to the Brookings Institution shortly before the Fund’s recent meeting: “Ultimately, employment and equity are building blocks of economic stability and prosperity, of political stability and peace. This goes to the heart of the IMF’s mandate. It must be placed at the heart of the policy agenda.” [heart? I hear bankers puking- Cos67]
....
Strauss-Kahn broke ranks and ventured into no man's land. That's why he was set up and then crushed like a bug.
(Note: Strauss-Kahn has been replaced by the IMF's number 2 guy, John Lipsky, former Vice Chairman of the JPMorgan Investment Bank. How's that for "change you can believe in"?)
the end

Kaup Thing II: the Bribe of the Tchenguiz

If you remember, the Kaup Thing attacked London, in the form of the Tchenguiz Real estate moguls.
They inflated the already inflated real estate market with a few billion from
the Kaup Thing.

Now the Tchenguiz brothers have been confined by the cops for interrogation,
their houses have been checked.
Hey boys!

I'll tell you what they're looking for. I wrote about it last week.
They want some of that Iceland money.
You know.
that cash you keep in your deep freezer.
Iceland Krona. Kaup Thing food.
They want to see if you boys wouldn't mind
becoming MI5 spies so that you can
get some incriminating stuff on the Kaup Thing
that the Brits can use to blackmail or extort
the Iceland government.

Are you game, boys?

checkitout:

[the 'nice' story]
Tchenguiz brothers arrested in Kaupthing investigation

Property tycoons Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz are among nine detained in connection with the collapse of the Icelandic bank
o Share190
* Simon Bowers
* The Guardian, Thursday 10 March 2011
The Mayfair investment tycoons Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz were among nine people arrested in dawn raids by the Serious Fraud Office on Wednesday as part of its probe into the collapse of the Icelandic bank Kaupthing. London-based former bosses of the bank were also targeted.

More than 130 police swooped on two business properties and eight homes, arresting seven men aged between 42 and 54. They were being interviewed in central London. Two further arrests were made in Reykjavik.

Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz issued a joint statement, confirming they had been detained. "We were arrested earlier this morning and are being questioned with regard to matters relating to our relationship with Kaupthing Bank. Both of us are co-operating fully with the investigation and are confident that, once concluded, we will be cleared of any allegation of wrongdoing."

The brothers - who have both made substantial donations to the Tory party - had been expected to host a party on board Vincent's 40-metre luxury yacht Veni Vidi Vici in Cannes on Thursday....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/mar/09/tchenguiz-brothers-arrested-kaupthing-collapse-iceland

Mubarak stays, reshuffles, calls election, gets out of town, is barred from leaving

[man of the people- check the jowls. butt chin of the people]

Hosni: "You got the people's gold?"
Guard: Ya
Hosni: "let's move it. Let's quit town!" "Yulla, imshi!"
Guard: keep your pants on, gramps!

Mubarak owns much of the Sharm El Shakey Sharkey resort.
Lots of sharks nearby. Some in the water, some on land.
Here's a video of Mubarak, interacting with the foreigners/kafirs:

OOOOHhhhhh. He gets barred from leaving the country!
I guess he'll have to stick around to face the music.
If you remember, I was tearing apart one of the Wikileaks back in November
that portrayed Mob-arak as a determined, successful man,
and others that said the whole Mid East wants the US to 'bomb bomb Iran'?
Well, a middle eastern commentator on the Guardian was quick to respond
that the common folks over there hate their American-puppet leaders
and if they could, would kill them.

Let's watch.

Cos67 ¬(%^D>
checkitout:

Defeated Mubarak adjusts to solitary life in Sharm el-Sheikh

High security at former Egyptian leader's home amid calls for
international action to freeze Mubarak family assets

* Harriet Sherwood
* guardian.co.uk, Sunday 13 February 2011 21.14 GMT
At the end of a palm-lined drive in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, guarded by dozens of armed security officers and sniffer dogs, a defeated ex-president was this weekend contemplating his past, his present and his future.
After steering the destiny of 80 million Egyptians for 30 years, Hosni Mubarak could now gaze out over the blue waters of the Red Sea and consider how and where to spend his remaining days.
The Mubarak villa is not the grandest in the neighbourhood, nor as flamboyant as the nearby home of Bakr bin Laden, Osama's half-brother and scion of the Saudi construction clan.
The entrance to the former leader's compound, next to the lush golf resort of Jolie Ville, has no nameplate but was easily identified by the security detail.
A checkpoint leading to the resort was manned by surly plainclothes officers, inspecting passports and asking questions before allowing cars to pass.
At the entrance to the Mubarak compound, a thick-set officer wearing jeans and sweatshirt, a pistol holstered at his waist, confirmed the 82-year-old was at home. Then, perhaps fearing he had said too much, reduced his responses to one or two words.
Would Mr Mubarak like to speak to the press? "No." Was his family with him? "No comment." Was he receiving visitors? "No comment." Could I take a photograph? "No." Could I hang around for a bit? "No."
A pick-up truck with a box of bottled water was waved past the first barrier. A few yards on, an official ran a mirror underneath the chassis and a large Alsatian dog sniffed around its wheels.
Then it was the Guardian's turn to answer questions. Name, nationality, media organisation, hotel. Two security officers simultaneously relayed the information down their phones. Time to leave: Egypt may be liberated from tyranny but there was a chance the message hadn't got through to Sharm el-Sheikh.
As Mubarak considers his options, there were growing calls for a full investigation of his family's wealth. The true value of the Mubaraks' fortune remains unknown. US officials dismissed a rumour that the family is worth up to $70 billion as a wild exaggeration, telling the New York Times that the true figure was between $2 billion to $3 billion.

Cowen steps down, backs out, gives back the keys, and bows out, all in one day

HAHAAHhahhhhahhhh 8^D

The prime minister who was stupid enough to hand over Ireland's pension money
to the banks, has managed to do the three-stage moonwalk, exiting stage left.

Yesterday, he was the prime minister, and he stepped down.
He was leader of his party, and he is no longer. His party might disappear too.
He shut parliament, because one man can only do so much damage.
He gave up his seat in County Miyarse'is'Fat, and will not run again.

That's quite the bowing-out, for such a monumental fl%$&*ck-up. He didn't miss a step.

Enjoy a good laugh, but don't relax. Two things are certain.
1 Cowen was told to destroy his country. (The puppet-masters are the ones to watch.)
2 The next guy will be even worse.

-Cos67 (%^D>