Deutsche Bank Foreclosure Sale
The young man sits at my conference table, a Sheriff’s Sale notice laid out before him.
His house, where he has lived with his kids, dog, wife and an accumulated 11 years worth of normal junk and memories the typical borrower has piled up in the garage and everywhere else, is to be sold at a Foreclosure Sale in less than three weeks. He is very nervous.
The first thing he asks me is “….whether you could call the bank and try to work it out for him. Maybe they’d pay attention to a lawyer.”
He explains that he had tried and tried, even kept a detailed record of all the calls, but never got anywhere. He had submitted papers repeatedly to get a loan modification but that did not work.
I asked him first what Bank held the mortgage. His hand is shaking as he hands me a piece of paper.
“I’m not sure” he said, a little embarrassed. “The Loan seemed to get transferred a lot.”
The paper flatly informs the reader that the home, with the kids and dog and wife and stuff, would be going to sale in 60 days. The Lender is identified as “Deutsche Bank National Trust Company as Trustee of the Home Equity Mortgage Loan Asset Backed Trust Series INABS 2005-A.”
So could I call them and work something out?
I wanted to tell him never in a million years, but it was probably more like never in a billion. The reason is that Deutsche Bank is not a bank at all. It is a “Trust”, better known as a legal device employed to shield the assets of wealthy people from their own bad investment decisions.
Designed with insane complexity by people who hold advanced degrees from places like Harvard and Yale, the “Trust” is actually designed to hold thousands of residential mortgages as “assets” for investors who make money from the stream of aggregated income derived from the “trust assets”.
My client’s mortgage was part of an investment scenario tied to the ability of a whole bunch of debt laden people to make their monthly mortgage payments faithfully. Hundreds and thousands of homeowners, their mortgages aggregating in the billions, all facing the consequences of their improvident borrowing. When a whole bunch of these people default, the investment goes bad. The borrowers lose their homes.
The pooled mortgage investments were and are rated by outfits like “Fitch Ratings”, kind of like a credit report for each investment pool. “A” ratings mean a good bet. As you go down the alphabet, the investment gets worse. It used to be easy to get good ratings, standards were lax, and the rating people said whatever they were asked to say. Things have changed, but never the fundamentals.
It is a pretty basic to axiom in investing that the investor ought to know a lot about the place their money is invested, and this is where the whole thing failed. The people who run the American financial industry have no knowledge of, or connection to, the regular ordinary people who make up middle America, like my poor client sitting waiting for an answer from me. They do not hang out with them. They do not shop where we shop. Their kids go to better schools than ours. They live in nice places like Manhattan, Washington D.C., Boston and San Francisco. They never hang out in our neighborhoods in places like Scranton, and Wilkes Barre, Pa. While they sit in expensive seats, season ticket holders, at the best sports venues, we watch at home on cable.
As a result, these financiers could never have really gauged the risk of investing in these “pooled mortgage assets” which are, in reality, normal peoples’ lives.
In 2008, this whole scam collapsed. Big lenders like Lehman Brothers failed. The government started using tax dollars to bail out banks.
So can I call and work something out?
It is more likely that aliens will land a spaceship in my yard, step onto the grass, and offer me a job as in house counsel to the galactic fleet. The divide which has been created may never be repaired.
Now how do I explain this to my young nervous client?
Eugene C. Kelley, Esquire
Kelley & Polishan, LLC
259 South Keyser Avenue
Old Forge, PA 18518
Tel: 570-562-4520
Fax: 570-562-4531
Jamie Gorelick-Button Person For Global Criminals
Of all the bad lenders who brought their crummy loan products to the subprime marketplace, Countrywide was the worst. I witnessed with my own eyes time and again as the Countrywide lending machine gave regular people very expensive loans in amounts and on terms which it knew could never be repaid. When they defaulted, Countrywide simply crushed them.
Countrywide made a lot of loans in Northeast Pennsylvania, fitting as we were subprime long before it came into vogue.
Countrywide did not lend just to poor people in Pennsylvania. You might remember it made a very famous loan to Senator Chris Dodd who, amazingly, never knew anything about it. He was apparently so poor he could not even afford to remember stuff.
Countrywide also made a whole bunch of loans to the people at Fannie Mae but these looked pretty good in terms of rates and terms. This article even names the Fannie Mae guys who got them.
One has to wonder, why would they do this?
First I felt kind of bad for these Fannie Mae borrowers. Maybe the Fannie Mae executives were poor too, or working middle class, like the people I represented who had Country wide loans. Maybe they took the loans because they were not too educated about finance. If that’s the case, I really feel sorry for them, because Countrywide might eventually have been pretty hard on them, just like it was on my clients.
But wait… the article says that these were Fannie Mae executives, some of them making as much as 21 million dollars a year. That’s not really very poor, even where all my middle class clients shop. That kind of pay should let them squeak by until the end of the month.
And wait again….these borrowers were not financial illiterates like many of my clients. Google ‘Jamie Gorelick’, one of those names I hear almost every time something bad happens. She really gets around where there is money to be found. A Harvard girl, this bad penny did a good job running Fannie Mae right into the ground and helping to costing us taxpayers 84 Billion dollars.
That’s “B” as in billions.
It’s “B” as in bribes.
If the machinations of our self appointed too deeply engrained aristocracy continue without being addressed, our country is headed to ruin. We are permitting this to happen.
April 20th Gulf Spill A Date Of Infamy For Britain
Ordinarily, governments can’t be held responsible for the actions of corporations registered in their country. The corporations are themselves responsible for any catastrophes they cause. Were it otherwise, American government officials would be held responsible for events such as the Union Carbide industrial disaster in India, a methyl-isocyanate leak that led to the deaths of 15,000 people by some estimates. To my mind, this would be unfair, since Union Carbide’s move to India was to escape the environmental, safety, and labor rights constrictions that reduced their profits in America. What the Indian government allowed Union Carbide to get away with was not the responsibility of the U.S. government.
By that same logic, the absolutely stunning disregard for the environment and enforcement of safety rules that BP (British Petroleum) displayed seems more the responsibility of the U.S. government than that of Britain’s, at least at first. After all, was not Rahm Emanuel living rent-free for years with one of BP’s top lobbyists? Did not the Obama administration give BP a safety award a month before the disaster?
It seems overly fashionable to blame the British for everything (and indeed, they have been a very busy nation throughout history), but is blaming them for BP’s incompetence and the US government’s collusion and lack of oversight a stretch?
True, the German government pays reparations for corporate actions in WW2, but Germany had nationalized their industries during the Nazi period,hence the government was responsible for their corporations and vice-versa.
However, the Drudge Report linked to an article from the London’s Evening Standard newspaper which states about the release of the man convicted in the Lockerbie bombing:
“Megrahi, who was convicted for the murder of 270 people on Pan Am 103 in December 1988, was released last year after a prisoner transfer deal with Libya was signed by former justice secretary Jack Straw.
But with BP under fire in the US, senators have also seized on claims that the prisoner deal was done in return for lucrative drilling rights handed to the oil giant by Tripoli.
Mr Straw, who could be forced to testify in front of a US investigation, has admitted that the BP deal “played a very big part” in his decision to agree the prisoner transfer plan in 2007.”
Now, Jack Straw is a very big wig in Britain, so his admission that his government was willing to release a mass murderer to further the corporate aims of British Petroleum is no small matter. In fact, it is an extremely large one. It points to collusion with BP at the very highest levels of British government. It points to a nation with an extremely large influence on the U.S. government as proven to be willing to do absolutely anything to further the aims of BP, even release a man convicted of killing 270 innocent people.
What wouldn’t the British government do for BP?
This is important. BP is already talking about splitting up the company and other various steps companies do to protect their asstes when facing huge lawsuits (consider this:Union Carbide joined Dow Chemical, and by this alchemy avoided a lot of legal threats to their money). Pretty soon, somebody is going to have to pay for all the ill effects of the Gulf Fiasco. If it is not BP or the British Government, who will pay?
One wild guess.
Oh, and BP says the continuing seepage from the area of the “capped” well is not their fault. Why drill in the first place then, when the oil was naturally leaking into The Gulf before you even started? We should have gotten an American company to drill originally. Real American oil people, smarter than BP, for instance, The Beverly Hillbillies. Granny would never have been so stupid.
Regional Reversion and Kids Cut in Half
When I was a kid the sounds of train whistles drifted over our valley at all hours of the day and night. The sound of train cars being coupled could be heard for miles as well. It was, in a strange way, comforting and indicative of home.
Hopping trains was a regional past time for many of us boys. The more daring kids claimed to have ridden as far as New Jersey, but it was hard to tell. I only saw them hop on and leave. I never rode one very far. It always felt too dangerous.
Waiting at rail crossings was a normal traffic impediment. No one seemed to think it odd for two diesels locomotives to hold cars and trucks while pulling 300 cars of freight through town.
Despite our parents repeated warning, we kids put stuff on the tracks to see what would happen, a quarter and a dime, a steel bar, a steel bolt, each would be crushed to a heated flatness no amount of milling could accomplish. We spent entire afternoons on this interesting and dangerous practice.
Climbing in abandoned collieries, and shooting at rats with BB guns in and around these structures, was considered entirely normal. I can personally attest that a sliver in your knee from hard dry wood one hundred years old, blackened with a century of coal dust is like no other. Train tracks ran right through and under these massive old structures, and we would climb from the old cars into the wooden supports. No one supervised these old sites.
Then there was the kid who got cut in half.
He and his friends were fooling around on the tracks on a summer evening. Something happened and he fell under the wheels trying to jump a train. His friends panicked and ran away. When they calmed down and came back, the kid’s body was severed at his hips. His upper body had dragged itself about 20 feet before he died.
This was the story at least, but I had it verified by guys who said they were there.
All of this occurred in what seemed to us perfect normalcy.
At some point maybe 30 years ago all train whistles died out. Whatever remained of the rail industry quietly went to sleep.
Now it’s coming back.
Once again the whistles sound all night and all day, and long trains cause traffic to back up as they pass. A new generation of kids gets to experience the danger and thrill of having massive equipment rolling by their old coal miner homes, loaded with freight and graffiti from around the country and the world.
It is not the trains I fear. They are awesome and powerful and no one could fail to be intrigued by what their size and appearance.
They are however a harbinger of new disturbances to our environment. Work underground to extract natural gas cannot but have effects on the surface. It may contaminate our water supply. Most likely it will. It will certainly have an impact on the lives of our children, especially if they learn to hop trains like we did.
Eugene C. Kelley, Esquire
Kelley & Polishan, LLC
259 South Keyser Avenue
Old Forge, PA 18518
Tel: 570-562-4520
Fax: 570-562-4531
Let’s Put The Unemployed In Work Camps in 2010
How far fetched does that headline seem, on a scale of 1 to 10? Completely ludicrous? It’s really not so very.
A simple minded fellow such as myself could never begin to comprehend the august pondering of personages such as Joe Lieberman or John McCain, President Obama, or even any of the puppeteers, I mean advisers, around him.
I was always good at basic Logic though. My Logic teacher even told me so. Logic is a very simple minded pursuit. If only all things in Life were as easily solvable as pure Logical problems, but Life is infinitely complex, and human beings are not logical, and that destroys the equation.
Just for fun, I do sometimes try to apply the basic principles of Logic to the august utterances of our esteemed personages, mainly to highlight my own abysmal ignorance, which brings me to the point of this brief (hopefully) blog.
Senator Joe Lieberman has recently spoken in favor of an Internet “Kill Switch” in times of war and national emergency. This is his belief, he has more information than I do, and while I am not a huge fan of any of his opinions, I would defend his right to express them, although, unfortunately, he apparently would not defend my right to express mine on the Internet.
Where the logical problem resides is when Joe Lieberman defends his notion by saying China has an Internet Kill Switch, therefore we should too:
“Right now China, the government, can disconnect parts of its Internet in case of war and we need to have that here too,” said Lieberman.
Today, I read that China is essentially locking their migrant workers up at night, a classic Middle Ages move historically associated with restricting the freedom of Jewish communities:
“BEIJING – The government calls it “sealed management.” China’s capital has started gating and locking some of its lower-income neighborhoods overnight, with police or security checking identification papers around the clock, in a throwback to an older style of control.”
I believe another political leader used this same technique to reduce crime and sabotage in Germany about 60 years ago. While I never dreamed Joe Lieberman would support the ideas of Adolph Hitler, the problem is, logically, he must. You see, China does it. In times of war and national emergency, shutting down the Internet would make us secure, so why not lock up certain segments of society we deem untrustworthy into camps as well? China does it, even when there’s no apparent national emergency. How cool is that?
While I’m at it, how about forced abortions and torturing people for being members of street dancing clubs, the way China locks up the Falung Gong? In fact, why don’t we all just move to China? China did. At least other countries won’t hate us for our freedom anymore if Joe Lieberman has anything to say about it.
Lebron James Shrugged
Lebron James, the erstwhile star of the Cleveland Cavaliers NBA team announced he will be joining The Miami Heat this season. Mr. James, a seven year veteran of the NBA, has never won a championship. This is not all that unusual. It took Michael Jordan about six years to win his first with The Bulls, and some players, like Charles Barkely, never won one at all even with statistically successful career stats.
There was a lot of speculation about this move. Many teams competed for Lebron James, a player who can be compared to Michael Jordan without recourse to hyperbole. Many felt that he would go to The New York Knicks, for instance. This whole process has been a crash course in state tax laws for many basketball fans, with some complaining that New York’s high state and city tax would be detrimental to The Knicks chances. To counter this, it was supposed that Lebron would be compensated by a greater number of lucrative endorsements due to being associated with such a major media market.
While there may be substance to the above points, in my view what prompted Lebron James decision was pretty simple-he was tired of losing and wanted to win. If he’d gone to The Knicks, the media there would have torn him apart and The Knicks organization would not have offered much support. As for media endorsements, I doubt James will ever be taken to America’s heart the way that smiley Magic Johnson was. I could be wrong, but Lebron James isn’t as marketable with regards to that population of basketball fans who don’t really like basketball. Nobody bought Starbury Sneakers anyway.
Lebron wants to win. The last winner The Knicks had was Pat Riley, who was sorely treated there but has won a couple more championship rings in Miami to total seven he’s collected. Riley is probably not the best NBA coach in history, but barring acts of God, Lebron James is going to win two championships in the next three to four years. However, unless he is superhuman, his career may be cut short. His style of play is a lot more physical than Jordan’s was, he gets absolutely mauled by opposing teams, and James is not marketable enough to warrant special protection from the refs.
So, even though they are burning his jersey in effigy in Cleveland, Lebron James made the right decision. The Knicks, with their track record of treachery from both players, coaches, and management, would have been the worst possible choice. There are a lot of great basketball fans in New York, but this is a franchise that blacks games out on TV in a twenty mile radius if they don’t sell out. In short, these guys are stupid. It’s as if they are saying,”Not enough people are attending the games, so I will stop marketing the games at all to my most obvious fan base”.
Some would say Lebron is being selfish. If so, good for him. Cleveland was lucky to have him, didn’t appreciate him, and would have cut him the day he outlived his usefulness. The Knicks are just looking for a scapegoat to blame for the fact that they are losers. Riley knows how to win.
So shrug yourself on out of Cleveland, King James, and let someone else pay for registered sex offenders to get free Viagra in Manhattan. Here’s hoping Lebron James finally gets some championships.
The First Turn In The Economy- Taking Out The Garbage Loans
A news article today reports that Wells Fargo is selling residential mortgages to debt buyers. It paints an extremely bleak picture of the practice. The author makes the mistake of assuming that anyone within these massive financial institutions ever cared, or ever should have cared, about the borrowers who had neither the resources nor the simple common sense to protect themselves from predatory loans with awful repayment terms.
The article quotes a housing counselor who characterizes the practice of selling loans as “cynical”. I do not mean to slight him, but is this the first time that he has become aware that it is not mere cynicism which pervades the dealings of large business with consumers but rather absolute and total indifference? Once this fact is accepted, the rest of us, who do care, can work on a cure.
The sale of these garbage loans to debt buyers for a fraction of their face value is probably the best news defaulted borrowers and our economy have had in twelve months. Debt buyers may be the last true free market capitalists. They operate at the street level, dealing firsthand with people in default, and have the ability and the incentive to make deals which will permit borrowers to remain in their homes.
Debt buyers take a terrible rap for their practices and collection techniques. The reputation has often been well deserved, but guess what? Collecting garbage debt is a dirty, low level, crummy line of work, but so is defaulting and losing a home. An epidemic of predatory lending and predatory borrowing, from loan inception to final liquidation, has created an ugly problem that requires repair. We should not be intimidated. As a wise man once said, “There are two rules for getting things done-get going and keep at it”.
Debt buyers offer something the lending industry cannot offer. The main problem with the big banks and loan modifications is the “you can’t get anyone on the phone”. The big lenders aren’t picking up the phone because they cannot make any money from these deals gone bad. The juice has been all squeezed out and only losses (incentive from the federal government aside) remain.
That is not the case with debt buyers. They buy these garbage loans for what they are worth. This gives them room to make deals and make money. They will call you, often call relentlessly. It is guaranteed that once a loan is sold to a debt buyer, you’ll be able to get someone on the phone.
Now is not the time to shy away from financial workouts. The sale of this debt presents a new opportunity. Borrowers must engage, fairly present their financial picture, and negotiate terms which will permit them to keep their homes and permit the debt buyer to make a reasonable profit.
Wells Fargo and all the other big banks should unload all of their bad loans on the open market. They should never have lowered themselves to taking out the garbage anyway. It is time for the marketplace to sort it all out.
Eugene C. Kelley, Esquire
Kelley & Polishan, LLC
259 South Keyser Avenue
Old Forge, PA 18518
Tel: 570-562-4520
Fax: 570-562-4531
Gasland and the Quiet Places
Our region is once again invaded by giant energy companies. The attention of the world, long departed, has returned to Northeast Pennsylvania. Have the lessons of 150 years of history taught us nothing? It is like the ghosts of the rail and anthracite cartels have been resurrected, and they have not changed.
In the meantime, the public outcry is almost nonexistent.
Our roads are jammed with tri axles and tractors hauling water trucks and sand for use in the operations of the Marcellus Shale Drilling. The scale of these projects is immense.
Does anyone notice?
Through our beautiful valley flows one of the largest rivers in North America. Within 50 miles there are several smaller rivers. Each of these is fed by thousands of tributaries which wind down mountainsides and fall through forests into culverts where the only sound is the ancient song of running water. Anyone who has hiked our mountains knows what it is to taste clean cold water from a deep basin on a hot summer day. These quiet places are among the most rare and beautiful in the world. To reach them, one need only follow any stream into the hills.
Should we not be outraged, even panicked, that the fracking and drilling and hauling and piping and dispersal of chemicals pose an immediate threat to the quiet unseen places deep in our mountains? It is too late for our valley, which has long been a black desert within which communities persist like outposts in a wasteland. The water here was long ago tainted. Should we not take action to protect what remains?
Some guy from Dimock made a movie called “Gasland“. Everyone in Pennsylvania should watch it He travels and interviews people in Pennsylvania, Texas, Colorado and a bunch of other places as he drives across the country. One shouldn’t have to see too many ruined creeks and tap water which ignites to get the idea that fracking will ruin the water in any of the areas it touches.
The saddest part of all of this is that any job can be done safely if enough time and resources are put into it. This gas has been in the ground for eons. It should be a small matter to wait and do the job right, if it must be done at all.
Imagine if that guy from Dimock had a camcorder in about 1880, and traveled through the anthracite region of Northeast Pa. How would he have commented on the piles of culm which were then just getting started? What would he have said about the streams and rivers which were then on their way to eternal defilement?
Could it all have been prevented?
Probably not. The forces at work to get the coal from the ground were simply too powerful. No one was allowed to voice a contrary opinion. The coal and rail companies hired the Pinkertons and had the Coal and Iron Police simply shoot miners protesting over safety and wages..
At present, government leaders who are bound to oversee public safety and the environment are looking the other way, most likely paid to do so. The single most disturbing part of the movie Gasland is how public officials stutter, doublespeak and lie about the potential for harm to the environment.
These people have never sought the quiet places and, as a result, do not know how to value them. Only those among us who have will miss them when they are gone.
Eugene C. Kelley, Esquire
Kelley & Polishan, LLC
259 South Keyser Avenue
Old Forge, PA 18518
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Widows and Orphans
Some days the insanity of the credit industry hits me harder than others.
I have a friend who lost her spouse in a war nearly 40 years ago.
She was a young girl with a child, and she had no choice but to work through all the pain and tears to take care of her family. She describes it all now with a certain detached matter of factness that makes me marvel how anyone could ever be so tough.
As the years went by she used credit cards to supplement whatever income she could generate. She does not appear to have lived extravagantly. She always intended to pay the debts back. She did whatever she had to do to help her family survive.
She came to me deeply embarrassed. She was making minimum payments on over 30,000 in credit card debt, had been for a long time, but was falling behind. She felt she was about to go under. Paying her bills was a matter of pride. With all she had been through she was being told she had to consider bankruptcy. She was distraught.
If the credit card issuers had been willing to lower the rate and stretch payments out over five years, she could probably have paid them and would have been happy to do so.
Her efforts to negotiate over the phone failed, and calls from collection agencies started in earnest, with the phone ringing from morning to night.
That was over two years ago.
Her case has not been a model of a successful turnaround but it has in fact been fairly representative of how these things work.
She hired us. We notified her creditors in writing to deal with us. The calls to her home stopped.
We talked to her creditors and asked for deals. We got a few settlements, defended a lawsuit for her, and in time we’ll work out some more.
In this morning’s mail I received a letter to her, c/o our firm as her attorneys.
It begins as follows…
“Dear__________: You have been pre-approved for a Platinum Visa card with a credit limit up to $1,500.00……”
On the back of the letter, it quotes a rate of 23.9%, and adds cash advance transaction fees, minimum finance charges, late payment fees, over limit fees, closed account maintenance fee.
This fact pattern, astonishingly, repeats itself every day.
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Eugene C. Kelley, Esquire is a partner in the Pennsylvania law firm of Kelley & Polishan, LLC with over 20 years experience in debtor/creditor law. He has substantial experience in FDCPA and consumer rights litigation, bankruptcy, commercial and collection law, with an emphasis on representing insolvent businesses and consumers. He has represented both creditors and debtors. He is a member of the Board of Directors of North Penn Legal Services, an entity dedicated to providing legal services to the poor and indigent. He received a Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude from the University of Scranton and his Juris Doctorate is from the Dickinson School of Law. He has lived in Northeast Pennsylvania for his entire life, and with his wife Janet is raising a family of four sons. To learn more, please go to http://kpws-law.com/ Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Eugene_C._Kelley |
Glenn Beck-Judas Steerer?
Back in the days when cowboys drove cattle to the Chicago slaughterhouses along the old Chisholm Trail, they learned to identify a “lead” bull along the way. This bull would be a senior member of the herd, who inspired trust in the rest. This bull would have the quality of calmness while leading the pack into the slaughterhouse.
Most of the lead bulls, termed “Judas Steerers“, were only used once, but the exceptionally good ones were spared death, and were used to lead many different herds to slaughter, sometimes over a period of years. A few of them even achieved a certain kind of notoriety.
If people have an opinion about Glenn Beck, it is usually a fairly strong one. He’s a study in contrasts. He supported George Bush’s Wall Street bailouts back in 2008, but regularly blasts President Obama for doing the exact same thing. He has come to be associated with The Tea Party movement, while comparing the supporters of the founder of what has become the Tea Party movement, Ron Paul, to Tim McVeigh, the First Iraqi War veteran who blew up a Federal building and a day care center in Oklahoma City.
A vitriolic supporter of both of the wars we are involved in now with Iraq and Afghanistan, Glenn Beck also fancies himself a champion of fiscal responsibility. I heard him on the car radio on Saturday bashing people collecting unemployment while demonizing illegal immigrants for taking all of America’s jobs. Never once, though, did he demonize NAFTA, CAFTA, or any of the bogus “Free Trade” agreements which marked America’s capitulation as a manufacturing power.
Now, in all fairness, in 1993 when NAFTA was passed, Glenn Beck was still in his pre-Mormon conversion days of alcoholism, and wasn’t really important enough, apparently, to have too much on the record concerning his NAFTA opinions. I do know he is a huge fan of Bill Clinton’s mentor at Georgetown, Dr. Carrol Quigley, who advocated a One World Economy to end global strife.
In his radio show I heard on Saturday, Glenn Beck repeatedly refered to himself as “productive”, and he thinks America would be better if styled on the same principles of productivity as the market requires of him and his show. Nothing could be further from the truth. If Glenn Beck does find a nugget of news, such as with regards to Maurice Strong, it has usually been pretty well pieced together already on the Internet by others. Glenn Beck just gets ahead of the herd and “leads” it, the same as he did with The Tea Party and the anti-bailout backlash. Glenn Beck’s popularity has a lot to do with his ability to back pedal from previously held views without much scrutiny, which is a huge political problem in this country. He’s not required to be productive, he is required to nimbly toe the Party line.
In his defense, Glenn Beck admits he is in the entertainment business, not the news business, although he really could issue some kind of a disclaimer to that effect, lest anyone be confused. If he were the odious Bill O’Reilly, the imbecilic Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, or any of the other obvious Judas Steerers on talk radio or in the Media in general, I wouldn’t dedicate a blog to him. Nor would I dedicate a blog to any popular talk radio shock jocks on the Left, even if there were any. Glenn Beck did bring to the attention of the world, briefly, and almost by accident, this story, detailing how China is receiving carbon credits from the U.S. for it’s mandatory forced abortion policies (less people, less carbon emitted). This one story compelled me to put a question mark after Glenn Beck’s name in the title of this blog.
- Deutsche Bank Foreclosure Sale
- Jamie Gorelick-Button Person For Global Criminals
- April 20th Gulf Spill A Date Of Infamy For Britain
- Regional Reversion and Kids Cut in Half
- Let’s Put The Unemployed In Work Camps in 2010
- Lebron James Shrugged
- The First Turn In The Economy- Taking Out The Garbage Loans
- Gasland and the Quiet Places
- Widows and Orphans
- Glenn Beck-Judas Steerer?
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