Thursday, December 16, 2010

The Rudov Files Vol. III

He's done it again.



Marc Rudov has posted another hard hitting piece, this tine at the American Thinker. The "Successful Failure" of the ponzi scheme called social security has been recognized.

Background Intel:

American Thinker: Social Security: Successful Failure

Monday, December 6, 2010

A 25-Year Foreclosure Fight

The eye of the storm. (HT WSJ)



As you are already aware, forclosures are in full swing. Some are fighting to keep their home. Patsy Campbell has taken the fight to an unheard of level. She's been doing it for 25 years. From WSJ.com:

"Patsy Campbell could tell you a thing or two about fighting foreclosure. She's been fighting hers for 25 years.

The 71-year-old retired insurance saleswoman has been living in her house, a two-story on a half acre in a tidy middle-class neighborhood here in central Florida, since 1978. The last time she made a mortgage payment was October 1985.

"They're not going to take this house," says Ms. Campbell. "I intend to stay in this house and maintain it as my residence until I die."

Ms. Campbell's foreclosure case has outlasted two marriages, three recessions and four presidents. She has seen seven great-grandchildren born, plum real-estate markets come and go and the ownership of her mortgage change six times. Many Florida real-estate lawyers say it is the longest-lasting foreclosure case they have ever heard of.

Ms. Campbell's foreclosure case has outlasted two marriages, three recessions and four presidents. She has seen seven great-grandchildren born, plum real-estate markets come and go and the ownership of her mortgage change six times. Many Florida real-estate lawyers say it is the longest-lasting foreclosure case they have ever heard of.

Ms. Campbell has challenged her foreclosure on the grounds that her mortgage was improperly transferred between banks and federal agencies, that lawyers for the bank had waited too long to prosecute the case, that a Florida law shields her from all her creditors, and for dozens of other reasons. Once, she questioned whether there really was a debt at all, saying the lender improperly separated the note from the mortgage contract.

She has managed to stave off the banks partly because several courts have recognized that some of her legal arguments have some merit—however minor. Two foreclosure actions against her, for example, were thrown out because her lender sat on its hands too long after filing a case and lost its window to foreclose.

Ms. Campbell, who is handling her case these days without a lawyer, has learned how to work the ropes of the legal system so well that she has met every attempt by a lender to repossess her home with multiple appeals and counteractions, burying the plaintiffs facing her under piles of paperwork.

She offers no apologies for not paying her mortgage for 25 years, saying that when a foreclosure is in dispute, borrowers are entitled to stop making payments until the courts resolve the matter.

"This is every lender's nightmare," says Robert Summers, a Stuart, Fla., real-estate lawyer who represents Commercial Services of Perry, an Iowa-based buyer of distressed debt that currently owns Ms. Campbell's mortgage and has been trying to foreclose. "Someone defending a foreclosure action can raise defenses that are baseless, but are obstacles for the foreclosing lender," he says, calling the system "an unfair burden" for lenders."

She's one tough lady, have to give her that.

Background Intel (Thanks TD for the link):

WSJ.com: The 25-Year 'Foreclosure From Hell'

Friday, December 3, 2010

Red Hot Chili Peppers

The Real Deal. (HT UK Daily Mail)



Think you know your Chili Peppers? Then check this out from the UK Daily Mail:

"It is so hot weapons experts plan to use a couple in a spice bomb to incapacitate enemy soldiers on the battlefield.

It was created by crossing three of the hottest varieties of chili pods known to man.

The result is a record breaking chili that will make your eyes stream, throat burn, nose run and much, much worse.

The Naga Viper chili packs an astonishing 1,359,000 on the Scoville scale, which measures heat by the presence of the chemical compound capsaicin.

Experts at Warwick University carried out tests on the chili and officially declared it the hottest.

It beat competition from the ferocious Bhut Jolokia pod - the previous holder - to take the title of the world’s hottest chili in the Guinness Book of World Records.

‘It’s painful to eat,’ said Mr Fowler, 52, who runs the Chili Pepper Company, in Cark-in-Cartmel, near Grange-Over-Sands. ‘It’s hot enough to strip paint.

‘It numbs your tongue, then burns all the way down. It can last an hour, and you just don’t want to talk to anyone or do anything. But it’s a marvelous endorphin rush. It makes you feel great.’"

I'd love to see the eating champs tackle one of these fireballs.

Background Intel:

UK Daily Mail: Neither Mexico nor India: The world's hottest chilli comes from a tiny greenhouse in Cumbria

Thursday, December 2, 2010

A Fondue Bar Hazzard

She killed my fondue buzz. (HT Palm Beach Post News)



Pictured above is Darnice Harrell. She was was charged with aggravated battery Tuesday night after stabbing her boyfriend with a fondue fork. I'd love to see how much jail time if any that she gets. If the genders were reversed, I'm sure the bail would be a lot more than $10k.

Background Intel:

Palm Beach Post News: West Palm Beach woman charged with stabbing boyfriend repeatedly with fondue fork

Golddigger Alert!!!

The woman all men must avoid. (HT 39thandbroadway.com)



Kudos to Wendy Page. She's taken golddigging to a new level. She dumps her husband ten years ago, and comes back on the scene when he wins the lottery. She got two million pounds after first wanting eight million.

They do have a 13 year old daughter together, but that's not the motive. From the UK Daily Mail:

"Mr Page – said to have been shocked by the legal threat – offered to put the £2million in a trust fund for their 13-year-old daughter. This was vetoed."

Wendy's motives are crystal clear. Yet many women can't figure out why so many men don't wan't to get married,or want them to sign a prenup. It's because of women like this, ladies. Do you now understand why Kanye West's Golddigger is still popular?

Background Intel:

UK Daily Mail: £56m lottery winner ordered to pay £2m to ex-wife even though she left him for another man... TEN YEARS ago