The federal government is about to spend billions of U.S. tax dollars on a massive mortgage modification program with many of the very companies that regulators have cited in recent years for abusive mortgage practices. The firms, known as mortgage servicers, have been cited for badgering, manipulating or lying to their customers; sticking them with bogus fees, and/or improperly foreclosing on them. To make matters worse, the Government Accountability Office says that the Treasury Department has not done enough to oversee the companies.
COMMENTS:
Americans, how much more of this horse shit are we going to take from Washington, anyway?
TODAY’S QUERIES & ANSWERS:
Q. What kind of games is China playing with its recent display of major military power? (Agnes – Moscow, ID)
A. Chinese checkers.
Q. Obama has prohibited federal employees from texting while driving. What about cleaning your fingernails while driving? Aren’t these kinds of laws ridiculous? (Boyd – Corning, CA)
A. As a matter of fact, and I’m being serious when I say this, when you get enough laws enacted, then a lawyer should be able to successfully argue that, since there was no law against doing a particular thing, no one could be held negligent or liable for doing it. Here’s a case in point: If a lady gets into an accident while cleaning her fingernails and kills somebody, why shouldn’t she be able to say there was no law against it? At some point, we have to come to the conclusion that we cannot possibly create enough laws to regulate stupidity.
Q. Do you think Mt. Shasta or Mt. Lassen will ever erupt again? (Tommy – Stroud, OK)
A. Lassen last erupted in 1915, Shasta about 200 years ago. Scientists say you can expect them to erupt every 800 years on the average. Both are likely to erupt at the same time if Obama wins a second term.
TODAY’S QUOTE:
“Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.” - Jimmy Wales, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
TODAY’S VIDEO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lQk27hPzZs
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