Piggy wasn’t able to return fire.

The clip above and below shows 46 non-bows / non-nods from every other recent world leader, and one deep groveling bow from Obama.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U6fL7Y4BZA

please enlighten us. the limit for essex county fha loan is $729,750

Those oversized paychecks fueled the fire of the entitlement generation. Worse even, legitimized it. For the rest of the proletariat, it turned reckless gambling into an acceptable strategy. The outcome being a bifurcated society with one half expecting to be handed success, and the other half one roll away from it.

well said. scary as hell, but well put.

The Secret Service was not the agency involved in the surveillance of Moshe at his home in California. This was done by the FBI, who had orders to detain him, or “bring him in.”

Moshe did not send a threat to the White House. Rather, he communicated that he intended to go public with information he had regarding the flu vaccine that is being prepared by Baxter Labs, an Austrian company.

The information is this: The vaccine is being manufactured in Ukraine. It is not a vaccine at all, but rather an engineered genetically mutated bio-weapon meant to cause sickness and death. Moshe informed the White House he intended to go public with this information. When he became aware that the FBI was about to detain him, he packed some belongings in his car and set out for the Israeli consulate, located in close proximity to the federal building where the standoff took place. FBI pursuit kept him from reaching his destination.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giavJC7Q-TM

We keep passing dead deer. On Sunday morning, we were driving past some soccer matches – lot’s of MA and NY plates – on the polo fields here, and saw a doe, new dead. I told my husband to stop so I could cut a steak. I knew it was fresh, because it wasn’t there on Saturday, and there were no birds circling anywhere South on Saturday.

Haven’t had a good venison steak in a long time.

So he tells me no way, hit the gas, no proof it’s a new kill.

He’s getting there.

HOW IT WORKS

Short sale flipping operations often appear under the banner of a foreclosure-rescue “consultant.”

These consultants, often Realtors or real estate investors, approach homeowners who owe more on mortgages than they can hope to repay and offer to negotiate with the bank for a short sale.

The investors know they can boost profits if they can convince lenders to unwittingly drop prices below the actual market value. That involves convincing bank representatives that low-ball offers are the best they can hope to get.

“These people are doing exactly what they did during the run-up,” said Tim Mattingly, who owns an Orlando mortgage brokerage and title agency. “They are getting inflated appraisals. They are selling to straw buyers and they are hiding terms of their deals from lenders. It’s amazing that after all we’ve been through, these people are still at it.”

Overwhelmed with distressed properties and desperate to cut costs, banks are prone to mistakes.

Instead of hiring appraisers to value distressed real estate, banks often use computer programs to estimate values or turn to Realtors who provide what are known as “broker price opinions,” or BPOs, at a relatively inexpensive $60 each.

The Realtors hired to estimate a property’s value sometimes end up as the listing agent on the house, said Chrissi Rhea, a Tennessee mortgage banker and outspoken critic of short sale flips.

Rhea, president of Mortgage Investors Group, said she has discovered about 15 short sales where banks accepted one sale price and the house was immediately flipped for at least $20,000 more.

In almost every case, the Realtor who performed the BPO for the bank became the listing agent, she said.

Such agents are in a unique position to artificially deflate what the bank gets paid, Rhea said.

On behalf of a friend, business partner or straw buyer, the agent starts by reporting a low value to the bank, allowing the related party to buy the property for less than the fair-market value. While the bank considers the offer, the agent can put the property “on ice, ” ignoring higher bids or turning away potential buyers.

“The more the bank loses, the more the ‘short sale consultant’ can make,” Rhea said.

Details of specific cases are hard to come by because lenders typically will not publicly discuss their clients’ loans even when they suspect fraud.

But enough mortgage lenders are reporting cases within the industry that Fannie Mae sent out a warning in July citing a trend of short sale buyers secretly lowballing banks.

“We have been advised of instances where the perpetrator is the listing agent, and the agent presents his/her offer as the ‘best’ offer, even though the agent has received other, higher, arms-length offers,” the advisory states.

In one deal uncovered by Rhea’s mortgage company this year, a distressed homeowner was about to walk away from a Maryville, Tenn., house for $231,000 less than he owed.

The short sale consultant representing the owner planned to buy the house at the discounted amount then resell it to an outside buyer 30 minutes later for a $100,000 profit, Rhea said.

Rhea’s company discovered the flip deal when that outside buyer applied for a mortgage on the house. Rhea refused to approve the mortgage. She contacted GMAC and CitiBank, the original lenders, and warned them that they were about to lose more than $100,000 if they allowed the deal to go through. Then she contacted the FBI and asked agents to investigate.

Rhea said she told the buyer she would approve the mortgage only if he arranged a sale directly from the distressed property owner. Instead, he asked to have his mortgage application forwarded to another lender.

Rhea said she asked the second buyer why he wanted to work through the short sale consultant. The second buyer “admitted he was getting a kickback of part of the $100,000 short sale profit.”

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20091115/ARTICLE/911151083/-1/NEWSSITEMAP

As I smack myself in the face for selling out of the rest of my SLW and GDX.

“No one wants to hold dollars in their hands if they can exchange them for yuan and benefit from the potential appreciation,” said Shi Lei, a Beijing-based analyst at Bank of China, the nation’s biggest foreign-exchange dealer. “Companies prefer to borrow dollars now to meet overseas payments with a view to repaying the loans once the yuan has risen

http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aRejPDcPi43o&pos=15

So its a meritocracy to get in and you have to be a genius have a say on how it will be run.

Me thinks that “Piggy might be losing his glasses” when TSHTF.

you mean:

Putting his red oozing chopped beef too close to her silky tofu.

*vomits*

sl

gave me a dirty look for putting my chopped meat too close to her tofu

John?

Check this bust out!

9 Whitney Dr Oak Ridge NJ 07438

Sold 8/06 $595,000
Sold 11/09 $415,000

$180,000 loss in three years!!!

How about Junior getting shot up with some bubonic plague?

Brilliant.