What happened to all of the doom and gloom economic threads?

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[mercury14]

You squeak like a swimming pool butt fuck.

No straight man would ever make that post.

 

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[mercury14]

Only a gay person would think that anal sex was confined to men, twinkie.

Oh so your last 353 posts referring to liberals' butts, anal sex, cocks, and ejaculate were completely heterosexual in nature.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Oh so your last 353 posts referring to liberals' butts, anal sex, cocks, and ejaculate were completely heterosexual in nature.

Vetty can't come out of the closet because they'll kick him out of the Marine Corps League, and the San Diego branch doesn't have a Marine Faggot Auxilliary.

 

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[mercury14]

Booty is in the eye of the beholder, behold our Merc a Colonel in the heterosexual Rump Rangers.

Fixed your post so that nobody thinks you just made another homosexual comment.

 

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[Busybody]

They LEARNED NOTHING

Its DEJA VU all over again


DOJ Brags About Holder Burning 3,000 Racist Bankers At The Stake…


Of course they failed to mention the prosecutions were a sham, the DOJ even admitted in court they didn’t consider all the factors in the lenders decisions… like credit scores.

Via IBD:

In an end-of-year press release — posted under the banner headline “Accomplishments Under the Leadership of Attorney General Eric Holder” — the Justice Department boasts of charging “nearly 3,000″ bankers with lending discrimination and fraud.

If all of them were guilty, this would be quite an accomplishment. Few would argue that prosecuting racists to the fullest extent of the law would be something worth crowing about.

But none of the race-bias cases highlighted by the administration was litigated in court. Evidence was never presented or tested, nor guilt ever proven. What’s more, no incident of discrimination was ever specified, and no individual complainants or victims of discrimination were ever identified.

All the major defendants — Bank of America, Wells Fargo and SunTrust Mortgage — settled while strongly denying Holder’s allegations that they charged blacks and Latinos a “racial surcharge” for mortgages simply because of the color of their skin.

In court documents, they argued that if Holder’s civil-rights prosecutors conducted an “appropriate analysis” of their loan data and loan-file documentation, it would have shown no disparate impact in product placement against African-Americans or Hispanics. They argued that any differences in loan pricing were attributable to legitimate, nondiscriminatory factors, such as poor credit.

When one defendant recently fought back in court, the administration admitted in a little-noticed court filing that, indeed, it had not considered all the credit factors that went into the lender’s decisions to charge higher rates for loans to minorities whose credit history left them unqualified for prime loans.

 

[Busybody]

When one defendant recently fought back in court, the administration admitted in a little-noticed court filing that, indeed, it had not considered all the credit factors that went into the lender's decisions to charge higher rates for loans to minorities whose credit history left them unqualified for prime loans.

GFI Mortgage Bankers Inc. last summer asked a federal judge to dismiss a lending discrimination complaint filed by Holder. The New York-based lender argued that the government failed to establish a link between its policies and lending disparities outlined in the suit.

When Justice opposed GFI's motion, it revealed a serious flaw in its "statistical regression analyses" used in almost every race-bias case filed against lenders under this administration.

It acknowledged that its models do not account for all factors related to borrowers' credit risk and loan characteristics — factors that could explain disparities in loan pricing by race.

In the court filing, Justice Department official Thomas Perez, chief of the civil-rights division, said the sum total of the government's proof was "statistical evidence" that did not include all elements of creditworthiness. But he argued that the government did not need to control "all measurable variables" to prove discrimination, that it "need not prove discrimination with scientific certainty."

In other words, Holders' diversity police relied on incomplete statistics as evidence to prove intentional discrimination. They failed to compare apples to apples. There could have been legitimate business reasons for what they construed from the limited data as racism. Yet they didn't bother to look further.

GFI's attorney Andrew Sandler complained that Justice has been using an overly broad and "now discredited interpretation" of civil-rights law known as "disparate impact." But GFI happened to draw an Obama-appointed judge to hear its motion to dismiss what looked to be groundless charges against it.

With that judicial leaning in mind, GFI agreed to settle the case. It will fork over more than $3.5 million to as-yet unidentified black and Latino victims of alleged mortgage discrimination and also "qualified organization(s) that provide programs targeted at African-Americans and Hispanic potential and former homeowners."

It also agrees to implement over the next 4-1/2 years a "fair lending monitoring program" to make management and its employees more sensitive to the "credit needs" of the minority community.

Only in the race-obsessed Obama administration is a racist "witch hunt" worthy of celebration.



Read More At IBD: http://news.investors.com/ibd-edito...ut-witch-hunt-against-banks.htm#ixzz2Gv7H6m4C

 

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[richard_daily]

Straight from the lipsticked lips of the swine's paper asshole.

You're not really helping your case here.

 

[Beco]

More Americans than forecast filed claims for unemployment insurance payments last week as the closing of some state agencies during the holidays prompted the government to estimate figures.

Applications for jobless benefits increased 10,000 to 372,000 in the week ended Dec. 29, the Labor Department reported today in Washington. Economists forecast 360,000 claims, according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey. A report from the ADP Research Institute showed companies added more workers than projected in December.

 

[mercury14]

Boehner tells GOP he’s through negotiating one-on-one with Obama
By Russell Berman - 01/02/13 05:04 PM ET

Boehner can't negotiate with the president or his own caucus. What use is this guy to the Republican party?

 

[ivantheterrible]

any thoughts on what might happen if europe consolidates its banks?

 

[Beco]

Boehner can't negotiate with the president or his own caucus. What use is this guy to the Republican party?

If you believe everything you read or hear, this isnt turning out so well for Boehner. But after seeing him cry like a bitch on 60 minutes, good riddance.....never liked him after that

 

[mercury14]

If you believe everything you read or hear, this isnt turning out so well for Boehner. But after seeing him cry like a bitch on 60 minutes, good riddance.....never liked him after that

And on the House floor. Twice.

 

[Beco]

And on the House floor. Twice.

Anyone that breaks into tears so easily, weird.....

 

[mercury14]

Anyone that breaks into tears so easily, weird.....

http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Politics/images-3/boehner-crying.jpg

 

[Busybody]

Soon all the COMMIEZ in HollyWeird

Will really become COMMIEZ


Comrade Depardieu: France's Most Famous Millionaire Expat Granted Russian Citizenship
Thirty years ago, the USSR was better known as the "Evil Empire." Fast forward to today, when its successor Russia, is apparently the "Tax Free Empire", and less socialist than France, at least to infamous millionaire expatriate Gérard Depardieu, who as reported previously has paid €145 million in taxes over 45 years, and who demonstratively decided to give up his French passport in the wake of France's socialist 75% millionaire tax (subsequently ruled unconstitutional), and as of today, has just been granted Russian citizenship.
From AFP, pretty much in its hilarious entirety
Gérard Depardieu, the French actor who has waged a battle against a proposed super-tax on millionaires in his native country, has been granted Russian citizenship.
A brief announcement on the Kremlin website revealed that President Vladimir Putin signed the citizenship grant on Thursday.
The former Oscar nominee and star of the movie “Green Card” has been vocal in his opposition to French President François Hollande's plans to raise the tax on earned income above €1-million ($1.33-million) to 75 per cent from the current high of 41 per cent.
“I have never killed anyone, I don't think I've been unworthy, I've paid €145-million in taxes over 45 years,” Mr. Depardieu wrote in an open letter in mid-December to Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, who had called the actor “pathetic.”
“I will neither complain nor brag, but I refuse to be called `pathetic,” Mr. Depardieu wrote in his response.
A representative for the former Oscar nominee declined to say whether he had accepted the Russian offer and refused all comment. Thursday was a holiday in Russia and officials from the Federal Tax Service and Federal Migration Service could not be reached for comment on whether the decision would require Mr. Depardieu to have a residence in Russia.
Mr. Depardieu said in his letter to Mr. Ayrault that he would surrender his passport and French social security card. In October, the mayor of a small Belgian border town announced that Mr. Depardieu had bought a house and set up legal residence there, a move that was slammed by the newly-elected Socialist government.
Though the two-year tax was struck down by France's highest court Dec. 29, the government has promised to resubmit the law in a slightly different form soon. On Wednesday it estimated that the court decision to overturn the tax would cost it €210-million in 2013.
Mr. Depardieu has made more than 150 films, among them the 1991 comedy “Green Card” about a man who enters into a marriage of convenience in order to get U.S. residency. Most famously, Mr. Depardieu was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as Cyrano de Bergerac in the 1990 film by the same name.
The Kremlin statement gave no information on why Mr. Putin made the citizenship grant, but the Russian President expressed sympathy with the actor in December, days after Mr. Depardieu reportedly said he was considering Russian citizenship.
“As we say, artists are easily offended and therefore I understand the feelings of Mr. Depardieu,” Mr. Putin said.
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And now we have a new goal in life: to see the day Warren Buffett hands over his US passport and becomes a resident of Nizhny Novgorod, dressed in a shuba and driving a Lada 1600.

 

[Busybody]

We need FREE STUFF

We cant afford ONE DOLLAR

We are all Julia!


When Americans Can't Afford A Dollar
Today's market moving news (or at least what should be market moving news) comes from hyper discounter extraordinaire, Family Dollar, whose stock is getting clobbered on what is merely the latest downward outlook revision (because as much as the Fed would like, reality, and cash flows, still do matter). Yet, while earnings not only for the $0.99 store but for the entire S&P will be atrocious something that apparently only selling copious amounts of VIX and buying up the ES in hopes of lifting all sinking boats can fix, it is the comments on the conference call that are most disturbing. To wit:

FAMILY DOLLAR QTR DISCRETIONARY SALES SLOWED MORE THAN EXPECTED
FAMILY DOLLAR SEES NEAR TERM CHALLENGES IN DISCRETIONARY ITEMS
FAMILY DOLLAR SEES 2Q GROSS MARGIN PRESSURE MORE VS 1Q
FAMILY DOLLAR SEES 1H13 MORE CHALLENGING THAN EXPECTED
FAMILY DOLLAR QTR AVG DISCRETIONARY INVENTORY PER STORE DOWN
FAMILY DOLLAR SAYS BUSINESS CLIMATE REMAINS UNCERTAIN

In any other universe, when Americans can't afford a dollar, literally, on purchases, this may be cause for alarm. But not in this one: here, courtesy of Bernanke's central planning, all shall be well. After all: instead of buying "stuff", America's 50 million food stamp recipients should just buy AAPL stock, and retire happily in a few short months if not weeks.
Worst case, they can always convert their stocks into fruity paraphernalia.

 

[Busybody]

How DUMB are the DUMZ?

In the face of EFFECTIVE leadership.....like in Indiana and Wisc

They ATTACK it

They prefer to DROWN IN CRAP


Mitch Daniels leaves Indiana the fiscal envy of the Midwest

Eight years ago, Mitch Daniels took office facing a $600 million budget deficit, cash-strapped public services and a promise to turn the state around.

He will leave Indiana the fiscal envy of the Midwest, with a sterling AAA credit rating, a more than $500 million budget surplus and $2 billion in reserves.

But such a dramatic turnaround has its costs. While he ushered in reforms, nearly every area of government, including education and child services, faced Daniel's hefty financial ax. He also cast his cost-cutting gaze to limit the ability of local governments and schools to increase property taxes, thus keeping rates low but leaving communities searching for money to pave roads, hire police officers and keep teachers.

Supporters say Daniels made hard choices to streamline government during the toughest economic meltdown in eight decades. Critics say he cut too deeply and should have done more to protect the most vulnerable.

"The fact that a few years out of a recession ... Indiana has a surplus, a balanced budget and has reduced taxes in several areas puts it in an enviable fiscal position," said John Ketzenberger, director of the nonpartisan Indiana Fiscal Policy Institute.

"But that does not come without pain, frankly."

While the debate over the governor's decisions remains, one thing is indisputable. Thanks to Daniels, Gov.-elect Mike Pence will take office with a much different predicament as a first-year governor: Is it wiser to cut taxes or restore some government spending?

Daniels already has arranged to return $360 million to Hoosier income taxpayers in 2013. But he will leave future conversations on the state's fiscal options to others, trading in his state budget book to focus on making college more efficient at Purdue University. He is expected to start his job as university president later this month.

"The next legislature, the administration, will come into a situation with the most flexibility Indiana has seen in a long time," Daniels said. "I'm trying to be studiously silent about suggesting what they ought to do. I would just say that I think Indiana's priorities are about right at this moment

 

[IrezumiKiss]

You squeak like a swimming pool butt fuck.

You're having a bad year so far, ain'tcha?

Poor poor widdle conservative old guy.

Go take a break for five minutes and drive out to McDonald's for your breakfast.

 

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Stocks slip after Fed report