Because those people with the sign up sheets may want to steal your identity and get credit cards in your name.
So says Delegate Jeffrey Frederic, chairman of the Virginia Republican party.
Of course, a lot of this has to do with fact that it’s black people that are being target by the Democratic party for registration.
Bankruptcy, filing for liquidation, not reorg.
It appears that something happened to their credit line with GE Capital, and had to shut down.
One of the funny bits of the current mortgage market is that even when the banks hold the loans, they don’t generally handle the money.
They pass this off to loan servicing firms, who send out the bills, collect checks, handle escrow, etc.
Well, it appears that they have to make payments of interest and principal to the loan holders for accounts up to 90 days delinquent, in addition to handling property tax payments, and as a result, they are taking a beating from the skyrocketing rate of delinquencies.
H/t HousingWire
It was passed in 1913, and forbade marriages to residents of a state where the marriage would not be legal, but now the House has passed the repeal, following the lead of the Senate, and it’s going to the desk of Deval Patrick, who says he will sign it.
Two snaps up, particularly for caterers on Cape Cod who will doubtless see a surge in business..
The Bush administration is now, finally, predicting a slowing economy, with a GDP growth rate of 1.6%…though with a higher prediction of inflation at 3.8%, it’s a net contraction, which is why they are also predicting an increase in the unemployment rate.
Given this environment, it is unsurprising that home prices fell in May by 0.9%, 15.8% year over year, which is grim.
What is surprising is that Consumer confidence was up a bit, to 51.9 from 51.0, but even 51.9 is very pessimistic.
We may be seeing a bottom of consumer pessimism, which is different from seeing a bottom to the credit crisis.
The slowdown seems to be driving the price of oil down, as well as the price of retail gasoline, and falling energy prices seem to be bolstering the dollar versus foreign currencies, though the bad news on Japanese unemployment, a 2 year high, may have contributed to this.
Still, the banks are buying lots of money from the Federal Reserve to deal with the liquidity problems, $75 billion this time, so we ain’t out of the woods.
For your amusement, a cartoon:
Item 1: an increasing reliance on air strikes to achieve tactical goals, as is the case in Afghanistan.
Of course, that attack on the forward base indicates that things are not well either.
Brent Wilkes, who was convicted of bribing Randy “Duke” Cunningham, has been told that if he has a friend who wishes to post the $1.4 million for bail, his name must be made public.
This person, referred to as a former business associate, whoever he or she is, has made it clear that they would lose their job if their name became public, so I guess he stays in jail pending appeal.
If anyone has an idea who this person is, I want to know.
I’m not sure whether this move is smart or stupid.
It requires 60 votes to make the amendment, and that means 11 Dems or 10 Dems + Lieberman, because McCain won’t be casting another Senate vote until he’s done with the presidential campaign, and I do not see the votes there.
They yanked his invite because he was demanding that the audience show up two hours early and not have access to bathrooms as a result.
Seriously, even George W. Bush isn’t this cowardly about meeting crowds….what is with this guy.
I’ll avoid the “tubes” and the “incredible hulk” jokes, as most of the ‘net does snark better than me.
In any case, he has been indicted on 7 counts related to concealing income from gifts from lobbyists and their firms, once again proving that it’s the cover-up that will get you.
Interestingly enough, the Republicans in Alaska are so corrupt they don’t have a replacement, with the most likely replacement, Sarah Palin, who is under investigation about misuse of power to get her ex-brother-in-law fired from the State Police.
Also note that the party can replace Stevens up to 48 days before the general election, so he could drop out.
That being said, I’ll enjoy some Schadenfreude, and you can donate to the Democratic challenger, Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich at my ActBlue page.
There is a study by David Deming and Susan Dynarski that seems to indicate that delaying entry into first grade actually reduces academic achievement.
This is interesting,since the, “Boy Crisis” crowd, is aggressively holding boys back a year to deal with the delay in language development of young boys vs. young girls.
My, admitted anecdotal, information would suggest not to red-shirt.
My son, Charlie, is an Asperger’s child, and as such, he is socially delayed, and has issues with social issues with rules and conflict resolution, though he is performs at least one grade level above his age academically.
According to the red-shirting folks, his entry into first grade should have been delayed, which would have been a disastrous.
While he can be a handful when upset or frustrated, when he is bored, he’s like Plutonium.
We have two more resignations of senior staff at the USAF, Ken Miller, special assistant for Air Force acquisition, and William Anderson, USAF logistics chief.
I think that the military in general, USAF specifically, need adult supervision to ensure that their procurement does not become too incompetent, and that their interactions with other services are too hostile, and this is blowback from Rumsfeld not giving a damn about this.
TPM has a nice takedown of Randy Scheunemann, who in addition to being corrupt, he’s tied into the guy who sold access to the White House, is also an absolute horror show in terms of his policies.
Go read.
Less than 2 weeks ago, Merrill Lynch declared huge quarterly losses, and now they are planing another $5.7 billion write down on CDOs (Collateralized Debt Obligations)
So many shoes have dropped at Wall Street that these companies resemble centipedes.
It looks like many of the contracts they secured were as a result of Blackwater fraudulently claiming to be a small business.
I’m stunned…not.
Allegedly non-cancerous, but this is at least the 2nd procedure he has had done for something like this in 2008.
The Department of Homeland Security is declaring a Period of Heightened Alert (POHA) for the election season.
This means that Bush and His Evil Minions™ will take the smallest rumor of a terrorist threat, inflate it beyond all credibility, and then try to scare the general public into voting Republican.
It looks like the “F$#@ Coburn Omnibus” failed to get the necessary votes to end debate.
OK, fine. Stop letting the Republicans filibuster without talking. You already did that to Chris Dodd on civil liberties, so do it to Senator Tom Coburn.
Make them do a real filibuster.
What has happened to the golden boy of the press corps?
Have we entered a good sort of Bizarro world where the media starts to realize how much they are in the tank for McCain?
This time, it’s “Covered Bond”, and Sec Treasury Paulson is clarifying regulation to make them more attractive in the United States. (They are more common in Europe, particularly, according to the Wiki, Germany)
The difference between this and more common mortgage backed securities is that the banks have to keep the mortgages on their books, and the bonds are specifically secured with these bonds.
I don’t think that this will make much of a difference.
Until house prices bottom out in absolute dollar terms, which means that inflation might save us, the housing market will remain sluggish to frozen.