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Merrill Paying $10M to Settle SEC Fraud Charges
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=12758446
Ga. man awarded $404,000 for libelous Internet postings
By Rhonda Cook
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In just a few days, Gene Cooley lost his fiancee, his job, his future in-laws and his home.
After Paulette Harper was murdered by her ex-husband in 2008, Cooley was anonymously faslely accused in a series of Internet postings. On Jan. 13, 2011, a jury in Union County awarded Cooley $404,000 in damages from Denise Ballew, a Blairsville woman who barely knew Cooley and had posted libelous statements under Internet pseudonyms.
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Internet privacy not so private in court
It started with the murder of Cooley's fiancee by the woman's ex-husband. While still reeling from that loss, he became a target of Internet postings from someone he barely knew. The anonymous poster went on a community website for Blairsville, where Cooley lived at the time, and accused him of being a pedophile with a criminal record and a drug addict. None of it was true.
A Union County jury last week said the damage those postings did to Cooley was worth $404,000, the largest award ever handed down in this North Georgia county. The poster was identified through her computer's numeric IP address.
"She absolutely ax-murdered this boy's life," said Russell Stookey, Cooley's lawyer.
Cooley barely knew his web attacker, a woman who worked at a Blairsville store where he sometimes shopped. Had it not been for the willingness by the website, Topix.com, to out Sybil Denise Ballew, her identity may never have been known.
Stookey took an infrequently used route to find Ballew's identity. He used a subpoena to get the IP address, which is something unique to every computer, behind the libelous postings on Topix.com. The website, which acts as a news aggregator for local communities, readily complied.
"She [the poster] might have said these things in the past, but you write it down and it can be traced back to your computer," said Topix.com CEO Chris Tolles. "People are going to find it's hard to have complete anonymity."
Cooley's saga began with the murder of his fiancee, Paulette Harper, at the hands of her ex-husband in September of 2008. A few days later, the postings on the Blairsville page of Topix.com started showing up.
The poster wrote Cooley was a "pervert" and drug addict with a lengthy criminal record, a man who had been in prison and rehab. Harper’s daughter, who was 9 at the time, must be protected from Cooley, the poster wrote.
“I didn’t really even know the woman. I knew her in passing,” Cooley, 44, told the AJC. “She worked at two places [where] I was a customer.”
Cooley had a criminal background check run on himself showing that he had no such past, but people didn’t seem to care. Eventually he had to leave Blairsville, where his mother, sister and two sons lived, to find another job. He now lives in Augusta and works as a hairdresser.
Ballew is the woman who wrote the posts under the pseudonyms Mouth, Calvin, Bugs, Yuck, Rebel and Slim. She admitted in court that she also had conversations with herself, posting her concerns on the site under one name and then agreeing with the posts under another persona.
When asked in court why she wrote those things about Cooley, Ballew answered, “I watched him and I can tell a pervert. Every time a pretty girl walked by, he would look at them. I get a feeling.”
Even after the jury of five men and a woman ruled in Cooley's favor, he knows he's unlikely to collect much of the $404,000. Stookey, the lawyer, says he is now researching Ballew's assets in hopes of getting some of the money for Cooley.
Ballew could not be reached for this story. Calls to phone numbers that public records have connected to her name were unsuccessful.
Ballew never hired a lawyer, according to records, even though Stookey and the judge in the case, Union County Superior Court Judge David Barrett, urged her several times to hire one.
“This young man was getting his life ruined because this woman didn’t like him. She went out of her way,” Stookey said.
It began Sept. 11, 2008, when Harper and her ex-husband were found shot to death in her home on Marie Way in Union County. Police ruled that Steven Harper had first shot his ex-wife, firing a gun under her chin, and then himself.
Days later, Cooley took Paulette Harper's body to South Florida so she could be buried near her parents’ home.
The first night he was there, Cooley said, Harper’s father asked him about a drug addiction.
“I’ve never had a drug addiction. I’ve never been in rehab,” Cooley said. “Then he was wanting a [criminal] background check. So I … got a background check and it came back with a clean bill of health.”
Cooley said he has never owned a computer, so he was unaware of the Topix site. Then his sister called with news of the postings, and only then did he know why Harper’s parents were asking such questions.
They asked him to leave their house and to come to the funeral only at the end of the service. They also wanted him to sit in the back of the church.
Cooley said he slept in his rental car for two nights before returning to Georgia.
Once home, the owner of the hair salon where Cooley worked fired him because “all this stuff had come into the salon. A woman that fit the description of Denise Ballew came in and said if ‘Gene Cooley’s here, I’ll never come back in here again.’ "
He got a similar reception around town.
"I wasn’t able to find anywhere to work in Blairsville,” he said. “What little shred of anything I had left she [Ballew] took.”
A Sept. 18, 2008, exchange on Topix.com started with “Calvin” asking if anyone knew Gene’s last name because he wanted to warn Harper’s family of his past.
“Keep that creep away from the children,” wrote “Mouth,” who was Ballew.
Ballew responds as “Calvin,” -- Thank you very much!!! I cant thank you enough. I will notify the family as soon as possible. If you know or have any more information, please let me know… Mouth -- If you don't mind me asking, how do you know all this about Gene???”
Moments later, “Yuck,” also Ballew, writes, “keep gene away from that little girl!! hes not even qualified to have the children hes got. yes, he is a boozer and a pot user, and a nutcase. he has gotten fired from every salon hes worked at...he is so gross!!”
Others tried to defend Cooley but then another Ballew persona, “Slim,” posted, “sometimes the truth hurts. … I am not one to sugar coat anything. If people get mad at me [for] what I think , then they certainly have that right. .. Everyone on this earth has a decision how they're going to live their life. If it 's not right then they will pay for what they done as we all will when we stand at judgement.”
And the posters who defended Cooley were insulted.
“you stupid a$$...you are a few bricks shy of load… GROW UP YOU LITTLE TWIT,” Mouth wrote.
Cooley said after last week's verdict, he got calls from others who feel they have been targeted. “She has trash-talked them,” he said.
Stookey, the lawyer, said he and the local district attorney and a legislator were drafting a bill to make this kind of libel a crime and not just a civil matter. In the meantime, he will look for others who anonymously post false allegations.
“We’ll find them, we’ll get them,” Stookey said. “Mean and dumb is a bad combination. I will catch them and I will put them into bankruptcy.”
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http://www.ajc.com/news/ga-man-awarded-404-809868.html
E-mails Suggest Bear Stearns Cheated Clients Out of Billions
Jan 25 2011,
Lawsuit alleges the bank took extreme measures to defraud investors, and now JPMorgan may be on the hook
Former Bear Stearns mortgage executives who now run mortgage divisions of Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Ally Financial have been accused of cheating and defrauding investors through the mortgage securities they created and sold while at Bear. According to e-mails and internal audits, JPMorgan had known about this fraud since the spring of 2008, but hid it from the public eye through legal maneuvering. Last week a lawsuit filed in 2008 by mortgage insurer Ambac Assurance Corp against Bear Stearns and JPMorgan was unsealed. The lawsuit's supporting e-mails, going back as far as 2005, highlight Bear traders telling their superiors they were selling investors like Ambac a "sack of shit."
They were selling investors like Ambac a "sack of shit."
News of internal whistleblowers coming forward from Bear's mortgage servicing division, EMC, was first reported by The Atlantic in May of last year. Ex-EMC analysts admitted they were sometimes told to falsify loan-level performance data provided to the ratings agencies who blessed Bear's billion-dollar deals. But according to depositions and documents in the Ambac lawsuit, Bear's misdeeds went even deeper. They say senior traders under Tom Marano, who was a Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Mortgages for Bear and is now CEO of Ally's mortgage operations, were pocketing cash that should have gone to securities holders after Bear had already sold them bonds and moved the loans off its books.
Mike Nierenberg, who ran the adjustable-rate mortgage trading desk at Bear and is now the head of mortgages and securitization for Bank of America, was a key player ensuring the defaulting loans Bear was buying would move off their books right after they bought them, with little concern for the firm's due diligence standards. He was joined in this scheme by Jeff Verschleiser, his peer and Senior Managing Director on the mortgage and asset-backed securities trading desk and head of whole loan trading. He is now an executive in Goldman Sachs' mortgage division.
According to the lawsuit, the Bear traders would sell toxic mortgage securities to investors and then sell back the bad loans with early payment defaults to the banks that originated them at a discount. The traders would pocket the refund, and would not pass it on to the mortgage trust, which was where it should have gone to be distributed to the investors who owned the bonds. The Marano-led traders also cut the time allowed for early payment defaults, without telling the bond investors. That way, Bear could quickly securitize defective loans, without leaving enough time for investors to do their own due diligence after the bonds were sold and put-back any bad loans to Bear.
The traders were essentially double-dipping -- getting paid twice on the deal.
The traders were essentially double-dipping -- getting paid twice on the deal. How was this possible? Once the security was sold, they didn't have a legal claim to get cash back from the bad loans -- that claim belonged to bond investors -- but they did so anyway and kept the money. Thus, Bear was cheating the investors they promised to have sold a safe product out of their cash. According to former Bear Stearns and EMC traders and analysts who spoke with The Atlantic, Nierenberg and Verschleiser were the decision-makers for the double dipping scheme, and thus, are named as individual defendants in the suit.
Bear deal manager Nicolas Smith wrote an e-mail on August 11th, 2006 to Keith Lind, a Managing Director on the trading desk, referring to a particular bond, SACO 2006-8, as "SACK OF SHIT [2006-]8" and said, "I hope your [sic] making a lot of money off this trade."
It's this blatant internal awareness inside the Bear mortgage trading division that the Ambac suits says led Bear to implement an across-the-board strategy to disregard its contractual promises and conceal the defective loans. By JPMorgan taking over Bear, it became the successor of interest in Bear Stearns. As the lawsuit lays out, JPMorgan is responsible for the flagrant accounting fraud started by Bear designed to avoid, and has continued to avoid, recognition of vast off-balance sheet exposure relating to its contractual repurchase agreements. This allowed executives to reap tens of millions of dollars in compensation from a bank that wouldn't have been able to buy Bear without tax payer assistance.
80% of Loans Went Bad Almost Immediately
In 2007, when Ambac started to realize something was very wrong with its high-rated bonds, it demanded Bear provide loan-level detail and reviewed 695 non-performing loans in its portfolio. Ambac's audit concluded that 80 percent of the loans showed an early payment default. This meant they should have never have been packed in the bonds Bear sold and were required to be repurchased. Bear refused, and of course had already been pocketing buyback money for itself from the originators. Bear also never told investors that its auditor Price Waterhouse and Coopers submitted an internal review in August 2006 that this repurchase process was not in-line with its due diligence standards and not typical for the industry. By January 2007, a Bear internal audit also reported the firm had collected $1.7 billion in repurchase claims -- a 227% increase over the previous year. Yet Marano's group of traders continued their double-dip payment scheme and kept selling the toxic loans with full awareness of the poor quality of the due diligence.
Jeffrey Verschleiser even said in an e-mail that he knew this was an issue. He wrote to his peer Mike Nierenberg in March 2006, "[we] are wasting way too much money on Bad Due Diligence." Yet a year later nothing had changed. In March 2007, Verschleiser wrote to Nierenberg again about the same due diligence firm, "[w]e are just burning money hiring them."
Then in November 2007, Verschleiser wrote to his risk committee that he knew insurers for mortgage securities were going to have big financial problems. He suggested they multiply by ten times the short bet he'd just made against stocks like Ambac. These e-mails show Verschleiser's trading desk bragging to firm leadership that he made $55 million off shorting insurers' stock in just three weeks.
Eventually, as Ambac kept demanding a repurchase of the bad loans, Bear acknowledged in late 2007 it would have to buy some back. The lawsuit lists over $600 million in claims with $1.2 billion in damages from the soured mortgage securities it invested in and insured against. But according to the lawsuit, in the spring of 2008, JPMorgan dismissed an outside audit review of the loans' need to be repurchased and once again refused to pay Ambac. The suit asserts JPMorgan knew a repurchase would result in a huge accounting liability that would put their balance sheet in serious trouble at that time.
The [put-back] issue is "not that material" for JPMorgan. -CEO Jamie Dimon
Last week, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said it will take years to get through mortgage litigation risk the bank inherited and had set aside around $9 billion for litigation-related risk. Yet in the bank's January earnings call, Dimon suggested that the bank may not have to buy back any soured mortgages from private investors and said that the issue is "not that material" for JPMorgan. Still, Ambac recently won a court order in December to add accounting fraud against JPMorgan to its suit, which can double or triple lawsuit awards. So it's hard to tell whether America's largest bank is prepared to pay for the sins of Bear. JPMorgan did fight tooth and nail for the Ambac suit not to be made public, however, because the firm argued it could damage the reputations of senior bank executives currently working in the industry. Individuals named as defendants in the amended complaint include: Jimmy Cayne, Alan "ACE" Greenberg, Warren Spector, Alan Schwartz, Thomas Marano, Jeffrey Mayer, Mary Haggerty, Baron Silverstein, Jeffrey Verschleiser, and Michael Nierenberg. But the court chose to fold these individuals into the charges against JPMorgan as the case goes through appeal.
Ambac's lawsuit is led by Eric Haas of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP. Depositions show internal Bear executives saying Nierenberg and Verschleiser were responsible for deciding how much risk to take when acquiring loans and for aspects of the securitization process. They reported up to Marano. Testimony shows Marano would have known about the decisions his head traders were making. When asked about these accusations, Nierenberg's, Marano's, and Verschleiser's current employers had no comment. The defendants' lawyers at Greenberg Traurig LLP failed to respond to calls for comment.
A public hearing is currently scheduled to be held by the New York State assembly regarding whether legal action should be brought against banks for misleading insurers about mortgage related securities. If approved, the New York Attorney General will likely be asked to bring criminal fraud charges against these banks. Now we must wait and see if JPMorgan will settle or go to trial -- or if the bank tries to claw back tens of millions of dollars in pay from the former Bear executives.
Note: This post was updated to reflect the fact that, as this case goes through appeal, the individuals named in the 12th paragraph have not currently been accepted by the court as individual defendants so are folded into the charges against JPMorgan. However, on Tuesday afternoon sources told The Atlantic that the Denver office of the SEC is now looking into the individuals involved in these charges.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/01/e-mails-suggest-bear-stearns-cheated-clients-out-of-billions/70128
theres no fraud in the markets unless made by some pinksheets companies, right? LOL
uh huh, just check the posts above....
this is a premium board, stop removing my posts that link to news articles!
The Forgotten Employer
Jul. 20 2010 - 3:39 pm | 957 views | 0 recommendations | 15 comments
Posted by Rich Karlgaard
http://blogs.forbes.com/digitalrules/2010/07/20/the-forgotten-employer/
Everyone agrees the American job picture is a disaster. Unemployment estimates from June stretch from the official 9.5% to 16.5% to a sickening 22% by the most inclusive definition.
Economists, politicians and pundits debate the reasons. You’re familiar with the arguments.
–Those on the right look at the $1.8 trillion of cash reserves held by American companies–and those are just the publicly traded ones– and conclude that business has gone on a capital strike. Business is refusing to invest aggressively in the future, including hiring more people, in an atmosphere of rising taxes and regulations, not to mention overt rhetorical attacks on business by President Obama.
–Those on the left point to weak demand, overcapacity and banks that won’t lend. Some, fearing deflation, argue for massive quantitative easing so as to force cash off the sidelines of corporate balance sheets and into the game of investment and hiring.
What’s lost in these arguments about jobs, especially by those on the left, are the voices of the jobs’ creators themselves. Those would be the employers. Let me repeat: In a national debate about jobs and job creation, hardly anyone is talking to job creators about jobs!
For example:
John Harwood, The New York Times, “Where Did the Jobs Go?”
Harwood: “[The question] which reclaims center stage in Washington this week, is this: Why is unemployment so high? The whodunit has flummoxed economists in both parties for a year. In 2009, as the new Obama administration grappled with the financial crisis, joblessness rose nearly two points beyond customary recession forecasts.”
In 788 words, Harwood does not quote a single employer.
Paul Krugman, The New York Times, “The Problem for Business Isn’t Obama”
Krugman: “All the buzz lately is that the Obama administration is “antibusiness.” And there are widespread claims that fears about taxes, regulation and budget deficits are holding down business spending and blocking economic recovery. How much truth is there to these claims? None.”
“None” also happens to be the number of employers quoted in Krugman’s piece.
Barbara Kiviat, Time, “The Uncertainty Excuse Needs to Come to an End”
Kiviat: “Maybe it’s time to stop blaming the government for the state of the economy and job creation. Maybe, instead, it’s time for business leaders to–ahem–lead and make some decisions about the futures of their companies.”
Kiviat talked to no employers for her piece. She does briefly quote GE Chief Executive Jeff Immelt, from a CNBC interview.
Daniel Gross, Slate, “Poor Little CEOs”
Gross: “The notion of these guys [e.g, employers, as represented by the Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Businesses] holding a jobs summit is a little like BP holding a deepwater drilling safety summit. … The CEO class exhibits an unseemly combination of myopia and ingratitude.”
Gross hacks away at straw CEOs throughout his 718-word piece. What he can’t be bothered to do is actually talk to one.
I understand the left’s reluctance to talk to employers directly. Talking to employers about jobs, and lack thereof, would wreck the left’s narrative. What do you hear when you listen to employers? You hear stories like this one, from the comments section of a recent Mort Zuckerman piece:
I am a building designer, used to have employees and wanted to grow my firm to about 8 people. No longer. I will be more likely semi-retired by choice from this point on because:
Cost of Employees way up: Workman’s Comp, Unemployment insurance, Health Care is up by nearly $ 8 per hour over 3 years. Health care alone now costs $4 an hour if they are young, over $5 per hour if over 50.
Business Regulation – every purchase over $ 600 needs a 1099 form, meaning I have to get the address and the tax ID of the power company, the insurance company, Office Depot, etc. I will be going from 4 1099’s to over 100.
Health Care – I will now have to track where my employees go in the event of HazMat exposure. Did the government office they measured in for a few days contain lead or asbestos. Duh – yes, but it is supposedly safe for government employees why not mine.
Security – I must have lots more records on my employees keyed to their SS#, but if somehow I lose my laptop I am a crook.
I could go on and on, but my reward is:
My marginal tax rate jumps in 2011, about 30% more than before.
the FICA income limit keeps rising, that is 15% of net for the self employed on the marginal increase.
It is obvious that there will be a lot more taxes coming. So my risk is way up, but the government now TAKES over half of any marginal increase. I would rather fish.
Multiply “I would rather fish” by a few hundred thousand small business owners and you get a jobs crisis. You get 9.5%, 16.5% or even 22% unemployment when the models say it should be 8% at this point in the rocky recovery.
The forgotten man in this crisis is the employer. We forget him at our danger.
i wonder if anyone who supports this speaker actually heard the rest of those audio clips, or paid close attention to just what Glenn Beck said....and how it was twisted for the liberal machine....sigh
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=57695336
and im the 'wacked out' one....lol pitiful
ok liberals....youve torn down europe. keep going, america is next
and it makes for a great volatile marketplace for me to trade in. bring it on!
Its very quiet in here. No noise to worry about.
ah yes, the old hang out....nice and quiet in here
hey buddy! nice and quiet mostly LOL
east and i just hang here and do mostly nothing
No. That's the board I normally pull the charts off of( I just steal the properties) and then change the symbol when I get ready to post them. I had missed changing the symbol on that one.
Thanks for the head up. :)
LVLT nice pincher....did you mean to put in DRYS in the middle ?
Dividend paying stocks Finviz numbers:
BGR
6.29% yield (.405 p.Q or 1.62 year)
NOV
.86% (.10 p.Q or .40 year)
MA
.27% (.15 pQ or .60 year)
V
.67% (.125 pQ or .50 year)
BX
2.96% (.10 pQ or .40 year)
EVOL
2.61% (.05 pQ or .20 year)
HIMX
10.73% (.25 yearly)
PBR
.43% (.1497 yearly) (does not include special div's)
well, enjoy the new day before you and the rest of the week as well
the day was quiet. didnt trade due to volume. (ETFs)
but overall, nice day. beautiful outside, got a good workout in, did some cleaning, going to relax
how was your day?
Sure ya could. LOL. And Thanks. ;)
How was your day?
yes ma'am! i had no idea i offended you so! it will not happen again.
especially since i could hear the angry tone in your words!
let me rephrase....way to minimize the risk on your stocks, and an excellent job taking profits!
Playing with house money is when a player gambles with the money they have won from a casino.
The whole subliminal idea behind the word 'house money' is to convince one to believe their winnings are not as important as the money they walked in with. Then they are more apt to risk it because of that perception.
And that, my friend, is exactly how a casino gets it back.
(Gambler - remember?)
What a person needs to realize is It's their money NOW.
So, there is no house money, Side.
Don't you ever say that to me again. LOLOLOL!
I will slap ya silly, I swear.
if you took out your initial investment and some cash for dinner, then sure there is!
House money?
There is no such thing.
so far so good, especially if you are on house money
Thank you - but I won't know that for sure until I sell the rest of them. ;)
beautifully played!
oh that would explain it. very nice job there miss!
Casino stocks up on Nevada revenue growth
1:05 pm ET 10/08/2010- MarketWatch Databased News
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Shares of casino operators traded sharply higher Friday, gaining after Nevada regulators released one of the most robust reports on monthly gambling revenue in years.
Silver State casinos took in $945 million from bettors in August, according to data from the Nevada Gaming Control Board, good enough for an increase of nearly 12%. But on the Las Vegas Strip -- which accounts for more than half the total -- gambling revenue spiked a whopping 21% to $544 million on brisk table volumes and stabilizing slot-machine play.
That helped push shares of MGM Resorts -- the dominant entity in Sin City -- more than 8% to $12.67.
The stock was also helped by Penn National Gaming agreeing to buy up all the M Resort bank debt, plus $160 million of paper held by MGM, for a total of $230.5 million.
big time! what caused the spike?>
LOL spying on me now? dang! and i thought we were friends!
LOL. I don't want you to leave.
I just gathered that was the master plan from what I have read.
I make a good spy.
awesome year!
once upon a time you didnt want me to leave.....
hmmm
I love this time of the year. Awesome day!
Can I have this board when you move to the Den?
CNN getting it 'right' for a change? wow, im shocked!
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Beer in the fridge for you all!
GET YOURSELF A LAUGH!!!!
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Get yourself some Tequila! haha, pull up a Lounge chair and join us wont you? Or possibly a Jager Bomb?
FACTS ABOUT IRAQ!!!!!!!!!! IMPORTANT READ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Liberal, Conservative, or Southerner?
Are you a Liberal Democrat, Republican or Southerner? Here is a little test that will help you decide. The answer can be found by posing the following question:
You're walking down a deserted street with your wife and two small children. Suddenly, an Islamic Terrorist with a huge knife comes around the corner, locks eyes with you, screams obscenities, praises Allah, raises the knife, and charges at you. You are carrying a Glock cal 40, and you are an expert shot. You have mere seconds before he reaches you and your family. What do you do?
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Liberal Democrat's Answer: Well, that's not enough information to answer the question! Does the man look poor! Or oppressed?
Have I ever done anything to him that would inspire him to attack?
Could we run away?
What does my wife think?
What about the kids?
What does the law say about this situation?
Why am I carrying a loaded gun anyway, and what kind of message does this send to society and to my children?
Does he definitely want to kill me, or would he be content just to wound me?
Should I call 9-1-1 ?
Why is this street so deserted?
We need to raise taxes, have paint and weed day and make this happier, healthier street that would discourage such behavior.
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Conservative's Answer: BANG!
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Southerner's Answer: * BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! Click..... (Sounds of reloading) BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! Click
Daughter: "Nice grouping, Daddy! Were those the Winchester Silver Tips or Hollow Points?
Son: Can I shoot the next one!
Wife: You Ain't Taking That To The Taxidermist!
VIDEO ON WELFARE AND WHAT IT MEANS!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GklCBvS-eI&feature=related
Fascism: “a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition”
Lets not allow the country to head down this tyrannical path, please
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