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The Rich Make Majority of Strategic Mortgage Defaults

So you think it’s all those ”immoral” people who got sub-prime mortgages on a house that they could not afford who are mailing the keys back to the  bank?

WRONG!

Statistically speaking, it is the wealthiest people who are making “business decisions” to walk away from mortgages when what is owed on the loan is greater than the value of the house.    And the rich are doing so at almost twice the rate of the sub-prime and owners of lower-cost homes, according to data compiled by the real estate analytics firm CoreLogic

In other words, sub-prime borrowers generally cannot make the payments, and involuntarily have to walk away; rich people can make the payments and voluntarily choose to walk away!

These are called “strategic mortgage defaults”, because the individuals do a complete cost/benefit analysis in order to determine if it makes financial sense to keep the home when it will likely never appreciate in value enough in the long run to pay for itself.

It’s not dissimilar to what health insurance companies do when denying coverage for that little bout of cancer your spouse is battling, or what BP did when deciding to take shortcuts while drilling on that rig in the Gulf of Mexico.  Hey, it might cost them more in the long run, but they are willing to take that chance given that it will certainly save them money in the short-run.  Thus giving them a better opportunity to make more money in the long run.

Amoral Capitalism. Risk/reward analysis.  It’s just business, partner; you know, it’s all about ”the bottom line.”

Sam Khater, CoreLogic’s senior economist, said it best:

“The rich are different: they are more ruthless.”

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When Human Laws Trump “God’s” Laws

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GRIM REAPER TAKES VATICAN TO COURT

How in God’s name did The Vatican ever get sovereign status?

Oh, that’s right, they got it in God’s name.

Well guess what Pope?  At least the Dutch have demonstrated that they recognize the utter farce of giving The Vatican and it’s minions sovereign immunity, when Belgium police recently raided church property to seize evidence, and then held local Catholic bishops in custody in order to interrogate them regarding sex abuse of children by it’s clerics.

Then on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court was silent on The Vatican claim that is was entitled to hide behind the shield of immunity, allowing a Federal Appellate Court’s ruling against the Church to stand.   Finally, their day of legal reckoning is near at hand.

As we like to say here in America, “See you in court, Pope.” 

Oh, and Hell is not too far behind.  

Remember: Bring your own ice.

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Bernie Madoff: “Fu@K My Victims”

                                         ”FUCK MY VICTIMS”

So after leaving thousands of trusting clients broke and devastated, Madoff adds insult to injury by telling a fellow inmate while incarcerated at the MCC [the New York city jail] that this crime was not all of his own making, and that he felt unfairly caught up in it.  

He even went so far as to tell a prison consultant which he had hired that ”People kept throwing money at me.  Some guy wanted to invest, and if I said no, the guy said, ‘What, I’m not good enough’?”  Poor Bernie did not want to insult the guy – so he “Made Off” with his money. 

But his final comment speaks volumes:

“ FUCK  my victims. I carried them for 20 years, and now I’m doing 150 years.”

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The Vatican is Damning It’s Pedophile Priests to Hell?

VATICAN CITY - a monument to religious exploitation and corruption

 

The Vatican’s Prosecutor for Clerical Sex Abuse had the utter temerity to announce that it’s pedophile priests will suffer eternal damnation in Hell for their sins.

It’s time the Vatican look in the mirror, if they want to talk about eternal damnation.  Besides, the Pope already vicariously damned humanity some ten years ago in his declaration titled DOMINUS IESUS.  Does he not now possess the spiritual courage to turn his own judgment upon himself?

Any mea culpa (apology) forthcoming – and rumors have it that the Pope is preparing one - should best fall on deaf ears.  It would be like O.J. Simpson admitting today that he murdered his wife.  We can choose to forgive.  But in situations like these, we should never forget who offered the apology; sociopathological humans are only interested in preserving their own well-being – most often to the detriment of all others.

Want further proof?  Here is another Vatican document from 2000, that serves to underscore the hypocrisy of these men and their institution – the INTERVENTION BY THE HOLY SEE DELEGATION AT THE II CONFERENCE ON THE COMMERCIAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN

It’s so pathetic, you are not sure whether to laugh or cry.  Brace yourself.  Here are some select quotes from that document:

Children are by nature lovely, innocent, and trusting of adults, yet some of them are today increasingly robbed of their very childhood . . . [they] are never consenting sexual partners; they are always victims.  The Convention on the Rights of the Child underlines this fact: the best interest of the child is always the key.”  (So why did you bury these allegations on at least one occasion, stating that “the good of the universal church” was an important consideration - as in more important than the best interest of children)?

“Sexual abuse is evil, a criminal act, and punishable.”  (So why didn’t you affirm this universally-accepted principle over the past fifty years, by ordering the clergy to immediately report any allegations of sexual abuse of children by your priests to legal authorities)?

“We must gather much more political will to combat these crimes against our weakest, and we must strengthen both international law, instruments of extradition and extra-territoriality.”  (One must then conclude that Jeffrey Lena, the U.S. lawyer representing the Pope and The Vatican, has not been apprised of this position given that he has raised the doctrine of sovereign immunity as a defense against any and all legal liability in the matter of John V. Doe v. The Holy See)?

Once we see human beings as objects, once we forget that they have been created by God with an unalienable dignity, they can simply be used and abused. Sexual abuse of children is the logical extreme of such a view of the human being.  (So after intentionally objectifying human beings for over one thousand years in furtherance of it’s agenda to wield spiritual power over mankind, and for its own financial gain, we should not be surprised that The Vatican’s tolereance of the sexual abuse of children by its own clergy was a “logical extension” of that view?  That actually makes perfect sense in this context.)

“We must foster . . . ‘the reinforcement of positive cultural, religious and moral values and practices, which protect and promote the rights and the dignity of both girls and boys’.”  (So where were those values and practices for the past one thousand years)?

Memo to the Pope and the Vatican:  Some human beings have now expressly decided to eat from the fruit of the tree of knowledge.  In our quest, we have awakened to the understanding that it is high time for the viper to slither down from the apple tree, and crawl back under the rock from whence it came. 

Metaphorically speaking, the Devil’s identity has been sufficiently revealed.

It’s time for you to go (back) to Hell . . . forever.

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Another Conservative Family Values Guy Falls Victim to the Irresistable Lure of the Forbidden Fruit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DA COOCHIE MONSTA

 

COOCHIEa term referencing part of the female anatomy located anterior to the rectum and posterior to the lower abdomen, between the upper thighs. It is an opening, varying in size and appearance, that is commonly used for the sexual gratification of the male species; or in the case of the female species, when stimulated by small appendages, mechanically vibrating devices, certain vegetables, cigar holders, or other assorted cylindrical-shaped objects (Yes, I used a little poetic license in crafting part of this definition, for all you plagiarism detectives).

Another one bites the dust . . .

What is up with these Conservative Family Values guys?  First, they go after President Bill Clinton in the 1990’s.  Hey, Newt Gingrich - do you recall leading the charge, after dumping your cancer-ridden first wife for some young coochie, and just prior to dumping your second wife for another newer piece of coochie?  Now days they just act contrite only AFTER they have been outed.  Senators David Vitter and John Ensign, as well as Governor Mark Sanford all come to mind - and those are just a few of the more recent Republican Bible-thumping philanderers.

What is even more incredulous is the fact that today’s Conservative Family Values guy – Republican Congressman Mark Souder (R-IN) – recorded a video with his little coochie-girl, advocating abstinence.  Oh yea, she was also on his Congressional Staff – obviously both literally and figuratively. 

So what I gleen from all of this is that abstaining from abstinence and abstaining from marital fidelity are not morally equivalent for these guys?  What great role models for our kids – eh, Sarah and Bristol Palin?

A few little nuggets of wisdom for all you moral hypocrites:

1)  A man is just a human being with two heads and only enough blood to run one of them at a time;

2)  There usually ain’t enough prayer in the world to resist the call of the sirens  (“wild coochie”).  Just ask Ulysses.  Approximately 3000 years ago, this dude had himself tied to the mast of a ship by his sailors so as not to succumb to the desires of the flesh brought on by the beckon call of these seductresses; in the process, he damn near lost his freakin’ mind trying to resist the temptation to throw caution to the wind – as in throw his sorry ass into the ocean -so he could swim to shore just to get in on some of that action.  Legend had it that it meant certain death (NO SH!T, geniuses – as in expensive and painfully public divorces?);

3)  Coochie Monsters are born, not made.  They are called men.

See you all in Hell!

P.S.  Bring your own ice.

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Catholic Church’s “Geographical Cure” for Priest Sex Scandal

A Picture (Chart) is Worth a Thousand Words

An Associated Press investigation has uncovered 30 separate cases where pedophile priests have been transferred out of their parish or overseas.

One American victim was raped numerous times by a priest when he was a young boy over 50 years ago in a Massachusetts parish.  The monster who raped him was quietly transferred to the jungles of Brazil – claiming that he was miraculously “cured” by divine intervention.  All while ministering to half-naked children in the jungle.

As for “cures”, the victim offered the best moniker thus far regarding the Vatican’s solution to their public relations problem these past fifty years:

The “Geographical Cure“.

I suppose that too was “Divine Intervention“?

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To The Pope: Your Silence is Now Deafening

“Joseph Carol Ratzinger”

Hey Pope, there it is in black and white.  Your signature.

In 1981, an American priest AND his superior bishop had requested in writing that you remove him from the priesthood – officially have him defrocked - because he was violently molesting young boys. 

Your belated response 4 YEARS LATER

Let’s give it some more time, noting that . . . “the good of the Universal Church” was an important aspect of the consideration in reaching a final decision.

In other words, screw your young parishoners’, and their safety and security -literally and figuratively.  You had to preserve the reputation of the Church. 

Now your lawyers respond to this new evidence with the pathetic defense claim that you acted “expeditiously” in that matter?   By what reasonable legal or moral standard?  What an absurd notion. 

What next? 

 Are your minions in the Vatican going to continue to obfuscate, this time by way of attacking the victims’ lawyers and the media for releasing this letter?   Or are you just still going to willfully avoid responsibility by standing silently with that disgustingly pious grin on your face ?

DENIAL AIN’T A RIVER IN EGPYT!

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Vatican Now Invokes Anti-Semitism in Shameless Ploy to Deflect Criticism Regarding Sex Abuse Scandal

Jews Killed Jesus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“You shall not merely be deported. You shall be killed..And this will be your punishment for your killing of our saviour.”

              – Slovakian Catholic Archbishop Karol Kmetko, responding to Jewish plea for assistance from Nazi persecution (March of 1942)
 

The Vatican has now reached a all-time low in it’s attempts to silence critics of its vain crusade to exculpate itself from any responsibility for 50+ years of a perpetual international criminal conspiracy to cover-up the widespread existence of pedophiles among it’s clergy.

This author posted several recent entries, here and here, providing undeniable proof demonstrating the Church’s willful and wanton actions to conceal evidence of these incomprehensible moral and legal crimes against children all over the world.  Moreover, the Vatican and it’s proxies further facilitated these reprehensible acts by allowing pedophile priests to continue in their vocation, thereby allowing them to further sexually molest other innocent children. 

All in the name of God.

In response to it’s indefensible and unconscionable acts, the Vatican is now comparing criticism of it’s scandalous behavior to anti-Semitism.   So like changing water into wine, I now have been miraculously converted into the likes of an anti-Semite merely because I have assisted in exposing the hypocrisy of the Catholic Church’s hierarchy?

How utterly despicable

Notwithstanding historical evidence of anti-Semitism within its own ranks, coupled with a papal apology for the Church’s contribution to the Nazi Holocaust, what is most paradoxical are the uncanny similarities in which two of the greatest crimes against humanity – the Holocaust, and now this global Catholic pedophilia conspiracy – were both denied by their respective perpetrators.  In the case of the former, by the German people; in the case of the latter, by The Vatican.

The comparisons stop there.  In the case of the German people, at least they voluntarily worked up the courage to accept responsibility when faced with the overwhelming evidence of the horrific crimes committed by their government while they idly stood by and did nothing.  Their ongoing repentance has garnered a remarkable forgiveness from the rest of the world as time has gone on.  Germany has even gone so far as to criminalize anti-Semitic behavior, as well as Holocaust denial.

In contrast, these cowardly ploys by the Vatican to demonize it’s detractors only further serves to demonstrate the deep denial that masks the manifest socio-pathological condition that envelopes this evil organization.  One can expect nothing less from such a spiritually-corrupt, and morally bankrupt institution.  The hour is now way too late for any apology.

The Vatican’s acts speak for themselves.

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Republican’s Will Repeal Health Care Reform by Supporting the “Local Ballet” and Rolling the Dice

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You know how Republicans get that insidiously evil “Obamacare” Health Reform Bill overturned?

First, you have to have a bit of a kick-off party at the Voyeur, as well as be willing to roll the dice again and take a walk on the wild side in West Hollywood.  All to the tune of approximately $2000.  And that price does not even include the $30k for hotel rooms at the Beverly Hills Hotel and the Four Seasons Beverly Wilshire. 

I mean, this is important stuff.  The future of our great country hangs in the balance.  They will spare no expense in saving this country.  Don’t you understand?  These are Republicans.  However, they do stand for fiscal restraint.  So they will make sure you got your monies worth while preserving Freedom and Liberty, as well as keeping those young scantily-clad girls with whips and chains fully employed. 

After all, even those girls are good Capitalists

And I do mean FULLY employed – don’t forget that these establishments are open all night, and the girls dance ’til the crack of dawn.   They know they have to keep “the wheels greased” and get their ”hands a little dirty” in order to keep this broken, worthless “Socialist” economy running long enough to get a Republican back into the Whitehouse.  

And surely you don’t think these good Republicans would let that opulent hotel suite go to waste on just themselves, do you?  You know that in their heart-of-hearts they believe in the theory of “trickle-down” economics . . . when they spend big, everyone benefits.  Besides, when it comes to some things, even a Republican has a little ”Socialist” deep down inside of him.  After all, charity starts at home . . . or on the road, as the case may be.

And speaking of deep down inside . . . it’s important to educate these nice young ladies from the “ballet” with some deep and meaningful conversation regarding how Obama is ruining the economic foundations and moral fiber of this country, and then give her some $100 bills for her “lobbying” efforts, and call room service for another round of  those awesome $45 Cuba Libres.

Hey, not that I object to hanging out with young, scantily-clad women.  For goodness sakes, I too am a red-blooded American male.  You see, the difference is that we Liberals don’t have the moral hangups most Conservatives do, and we don’t write it off or hide it.  We just pay for it ourselves – WITH CASH - and then we do not have to answer to anyone

Ummm . . . including our wives or significant others.   :)

P.S.  As an aside, about 10 years ago while on a week-long golf junket with my Conservative buddies, I was tossed out of one these “ballet clubs”.  All for a silly prank – nothing untoward or obscene.  In fact, that little joint on Hilton Head Island let me back in the next night with a promise from me that I would “mind my manners” – while reminding me that they could get their license pulled for my silly antics.   The dancer that I was acting up with the night before told me with a smile that I was a “very naughty boy”.  I proudly laughed, and all was forgiven.

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Pope Benedict: You May Have Damned All Mankind

Dantes Inferno [1]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DEPICTION OF DANTE’S INFERNO (HELL)

 

Unfortunately, this post is not some bad April Fools Day joke.

The Pope has now been implicated in the global sex abuse scandal that the Catholic Church has become deeply embroiled in these past few months.  And the list of these scandals grows larger as time goes on.

This author first wrote about the developing scandal in Ireland back in December of 2009 – noting the dissonance between the Pope’s willful ignorance of that problem, coupled with his ostensibly “deep concern for Christian and Family Values.”  It was all to obvious to me at that time that this blatent hipocrasy which revolves around the Pope – pun intended - might develop into the final stake in the heart of the single most corrupt institution on the face of the earth. 

The scope and depth of this issue is finally coming to light, and the Vatican is beyond criminally culpable – just look at this recently-uncovered secret Vatican document from 1960, wherein the Church explicitly instructed all Bishops around the world to cover-up the ongoing child sex abuse cases, or face excommunication.  This is explosive evidence of an ongoing international criminal conspiracy dating back 50 years. 

However, the highest moral crime committed by the Church was that the victims and their families were also threatened with excommunication if they revealed anything.  It’s right there in black and white – these are the official words of the Vatican.  For that alone, there should be a very special place reserved in Hell for all of them.

Unfortunately, the Vatican’s legal status as a sovereign state gives it absolute immunity from prosecution or civil suitsSovereign Immunity is a legal concept granted to nations – and their diplomats – that shield them from criminal liability.  It should come as no surprise that the Church has been granted this extraordinary legal status, given the fact that it is the most powerful non-govermental institution on the face of the earth.  That is how the Vatican has been able to shamefully protect former American Cardinal Bernard Law from extradition back the United States to testify before a Grand Jury in Massachusetts regarding his participation in the decades-long cover-up in this country. 

Now even the Pope is invoking immunity under the same doctrine.  However, I’ve got news for you, Pope – that WILL NOT  protect you when it’s time to meet your maker.

What is even more incredulous is that fact that the Pontiff and his pathetic minions inside the Vatican are denying that he had any knowledge of a memo authored from his office regarding re-assignment of a pedophile priest during his tenure as Archbishop of Munich from 1977-1982.   Moreover, his unbelievable claims that he was not aware of the monumental scope of this problem is betrayed by the fact that he served as the Vatican’s chief doctrinal official from 1982 until his election as pope in 2005 – during that 23 year stretch of time, it was his responsibility to oversee all priest pedophilia claims anywhere in the world.

Even Cardinal Sean Brady, head of the Irish Catholic Church, initially denied any responsibility in that scandal and refused to resign – despite the most damning evidence to the contrary.  Here is his unconscionable rationalization for not taking any action when confronted with the evidence:

I felt I did my duty, the duty that was assigned to me by my bishop. It’s not fair to judge actions of 35 years ago by the standards we are following today . . . Thirty-five years ago we were in a different world. We had no guidance, we were in uncharted territory.”

Let me get this straight:  you knew that one of your priests was screwing 10 year old boys in the ass 35 years ago, but you did not say anything about it because “things were different back then”?  

In fact, a priest that has been accused of molestations in Germany now has the audacity to claim that priests should be supervised by other priests to ensure they do not engage in sexual deviant behaviors with children.  WTF?  You are now excusing your behavior by saying “well, it would have never happened if someone had been monitoring me”? 

Are we finally getting the picture here?  These pedophile priests, as well as those who have harbored and protected them, are ALL a waste of human skin.  And the Catholic Church’s behavior these last 1000 years has given no doubt that it’s sole purpose was to use it’s power and authority to spiritually imprison countless souls for it’s own narcissistic ends. 

One apologist tried to deflect criticism of the Church, stating that ”This is far from being just about the Church: 80 to 90 percent of the cases happen in families.”  In other words, well they do it more than we do.  Notwithstanding that reprehensible “whitewashing” job, the “stench of evil”regarding the Pope’s career, as Christopher Hitchens so eloquently stated it, is both beyond palpable, as well as indefensible.

In the final analysis, the most paraxoical aspect to all of this is ironically divined from Article 1 of the Catholic Church’s Code of Canon Law:

“The Roman Pontiff . . . is the Vicar of Christ . . . ”

Under the Church’s interpretation of the Code of Canon Law, the Vicar of Christ is Jesus’ substitute here on earth – defined by serving as ” . . . someone who is authorized to act as a substitute or agent for a superior - compare ‘vicarious‘—serving in the place of someone else.”  If this man is Christ’s agent, what does that say about Jesus Christ or God?  I can already hear the rationalizations for this one . . . the same one’s that have been offered, ad nauseum, for 2000 years.

While serving as the Vatican Prefect [Cardinal Joeseph Ratzinger], on September 5, 2000, The Pope authored a document referred to as “Dominus Iesus“.  In that decree, he unabashedly declared that the Catholic Church was the sole “instrument for the salvation of humanity.”

IF that is true, with one swift stroke of the pen, the Pope damned all mankind.

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