For example, can anyone remember the last FEDERAL prosecution of dogfighting before Michael Vick? But while the feds were all concerned about mistreatment of animals in Virginia a criminal gang operating out of Langley is kidnapping people off the street and flying them to secret locations where they are tortured and sometimes murdered.

The Rethugs are racist bastards who keep generating show trials against black men for propaganda purposes. I guess that they had to move against Bonds because the OJ in Vegas show wasn’t getting the expected ratings.

PLovering @ 88

Federal Judge Boyko dismissed 14 foreclosure actions brought by Deutsche Bank National Trust for lack of written ownership records.

So, who does own these properties? How many parties own these properties? Were these assets leveraged more than once? Twice? More?

WTF

It’s the ownership of the loan. Buy from the bank, the bank sells the mortgage, the buyer lumps a bunch of mortgages together and sells pieces of the bunch. The judge is saying “Whoa asshole, show me you actually bought the mortgage on this house”.

Federal judge. Clearly not a Bush appointee.

The judge ruled that there was no proper recording with local government offices of the property titles, mortgage contracts and assignments of Deutsche Bank’s claimed ownership, in writing, per requirements of the pertinent law.

Hey all.

Anybody tried calling the regional offices of Target / WalMart / KMart etc. to put their store managers on alert to be on watch for Darryl’s fraudsters and run ‘em off?

Not sure if the can do this. The assumption is that they are supposed to be acting legally…what one needs to really do is catch them and taint the signature collecting process as fraudulent. Catching them in the act with video and having it on TV is great.It informs people that these people are slime balls, and alerts them to the possiblity that they may have been fooled as well. More complaints to the newspapers, TV, State AG and the Secretary of State the better.

Federal Judge Boyko dismissed 14 foreclosure actions brought by Deutsche Bank National Trust for lack of written ownership records.

So, who does own these properties? How many parties own these properties? Were these assets leveraged more than once? Twice? More?

WTF

Deutsche Bank is a big Trust Fund…major supporter of John Edwards ($45,000) and Hillary Clinton ($20,000) by bundling employee contributions.

Lea (no uh) @ 46

Is OldCoastie still around? I’m not blonde and not all that terribly young, but I do have 2 small kids and live near a Target!

Where do you live approximately, Lea? I’m thinking I’ll go to my closest Target, pretend like I’ll sign, and walk away with the clipboard and all…with no fingerprints. This is the most blatant attempt to screw American voters yet. Stupidity of the highest order! Who would have thought they’d be that dumb? But, if you’re close enough, I’ll take pictures while you “sign”. This needs to be perfectly documented.

Don’t interfere with the process LooHoo. There are laws against preventing a signature collector from obtaining signatures. You can’t harass or threaten them, and you definitely can’t take the petitions “for evidence”.

Simply document the illegal acts, and you can notify those tricked that they have recourse to challenge their being misinformed. Try to get any recording number that might be on the petition and the date.

One strategy is to make sure that you go up early and see if they have the rubber band around the clip board, note the time, and then, have someone else go by later and see if they are following the same procedure and note the time. All the signatures between your name and your colleagues names very likely would have been illegally obtained, having not demonstrated the actual name and summary of the Initiative. Maybe have your friend see how many names have accumulated since you signed.

This should give the DA evidence of the extent. And indicate that the collection was tainted and repeatedly so.

Also important is the fact that others may have been using the same “collection technique” across the State. Thus the collectors appear to be “briefed” on how to actually violate the law…there seems to be a pattern. This could occur in two ways. One is that the company hired to collect the signatures (Arno Political Consulting of Sacramento) are informing their collectors how to do this. The other possibility is that those recruited for the collecting are actually members of a political group such as College Republicans or Young Americans for Freedom and that someone else, perhaps a well-known politician who supports the initiative has “supplemented” their training with advice.

I just sent an email to Old Coastie to tell her about another curious similarity between her experience and another case of Arno Initiative malfeasance up in Willamette, Oregon.

http://wweek.com/editorial/3017/4853

OldCoastie mentioned that one of the Signature Gatherers droned on about how one initiative was about “Imminent Domain”…and this caught my eye from the ABOVE incident from 2004

In the first instance, the circulator at the corner of 10th Avenue and Yamhill Street told us the measure would prevent the government from devaluing your land, then taking it over using the courts–a process known as eminent domain.
“So this is about eminent domain?” the Rogue operative asked.
“Yeah,” said the circulator.
That’s not true. The misinformation was repeated by two other signature gatherers we interviewed and, according to Daily, several others near Pioneer Courthouse Square.

Oregonians In Action, the group sponsoring the measure and paying Arno, wasn’t pleased to hear about this. “It absolutely concerns me if the signature gatherers are misrepresenting the measure,” says OIA director Dave Hunnicutt. “I don’t see a connection between this measure and eminent domain. If [misrepresentation] is happening, we will stop it.”

Bill Arno, co-owner of Arno Consulting, told WW the “eminent domain” line isn’t coming from his shop. “We actually give people written pitch sheets that say nothing about eminent domain,” Arno says. “If they are saying anything about eminent domain, then they have independently arrived at that conclusion and we’ll take corrective action in our crew.”

Hmmm!

Delivered in connection with the Jerry Jones firing of Jimmy Johnson after last the Super Bowl that they won together. Followed closely by some maunderings on how the trouble with giving to get is trying to get back at least the yards that you gave to get.

I guess he’s ok with me, as long as they keep the telestrater away from him.

wigwam @ 292

I need some help. From the late sixties through the seventies and perhaps into the eighties, I remember newspaper articles mentioning T. Boone Pickens winning major p*ker championships, big moeny stuff in Las Vegas. This was back in the days when five-card stud was the players’ game, well before Texas hold ‘em.

During the big merger play that started in the eighties after the election of Reagan, I saw his name prominently mentioned among the “corporate raiders” and said to myself that he had simply move from a small-stakes game to a big-stakes one.

Where I seem to need help is that on the web I’m having difficulty finding evidence of his p*ker successes. I swear I’m not crazy … I swear it … I really remember it … ;-)

(edited)

this does ring a bell wigwam

Thank you, Suzanne. I was starting to doubt my sanity, when Google was turning up nothing, even in the Wikipedia. If you can find something concrete, I’d appreciate it.

Hmmm. @ 230

Hey all.

Anybody tried calling the regional offices of Target / WalMart / KMart etc. to put their store managers on alert to be on watch for Darryl’s fraudsters and run ‘em off?

That’s a great idea, we’re already calling them Target Petitions, how do Target feel about it? And how about shopping centre managements? How do they feel about their premises being used for deceptive political purposes? I think this iss(a)ue might just have legs.

OTOH, they may be there with top management’s blessing. Politics being what it is.

Alberto Gonzales’ Advice For Mukasey: “Follow The Law. That Was My Lodestar.”
from Huff Po by The Huffington Post News Editors

Yesterday, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales spoke at the Corpus Christi Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, giving his views on “immigration, education and public service.” The event drew approximately 1,000 attendees, as well as a few protestors who greeted Gonzales outside the venue.

He dodged questions about waterboarding by local station KIII-TV, but did give some words of advice for his successor, Michael Mukasey:

To do the right thing. And I have every confidence that Mike Mukasey will do the right thing. Always do the right thing. Follow the law. That was always my lodestar, my guiding principle, and I’m sure that will guide General Mukasey.