A Real Man for Change (not just one who talks of it)

In 2005, it is a matter of national record that one candidate predicted that without regulation, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could bring about the downfall of our economy.

And no, it's not the alleged face of "Change" and "Hope", it is the man that needs to be President of the United States, the man you need to vote for on November 4th, John McCain.

Sen Charles Hagel, Sen Elizabeth Dole, Sen John McCain, and Sen John Sununu co-sponsored a bill for reform.

Here is the text available via govtrack.us of John McCain's introduction; please note highlighted portions

John McCain :"Mr. President, this week Fannie Mae's regulator reported that the company's quarterly reports of profit growth over the past few years were "illusions deliberately and systematically created" by the company's senior management, which resulted in a $10.6 billion accounting scandal.
The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight's report goes on to say that Fannie Mae employees deliberately and intentionally manipulated financial reports to hit earnings targets in order to trigger bonuses for senior executives. In the case of Franklin Raines, Fannie Mae's former chief executive officer, OFHEO's report shows that over half of Mr. Raines' compensation for the 6 years through 2003 was directly tied to meeting earnings targets. The report of financial misconduct at Fannie Mae echoes the deeply troubling $5 billion profit restatement at Freddie Mac.
The OFHEO report also states that Fannie Mae used its political power to lobby Congress in an effort to interfere with the regulator's examination of the company's accounting problems. This report comes some weeks after Freddie Mac paid a record $3.8 million fine in a settlement with the Federal Election Commission and restated lobbying disclosure reports from 2004 to 2005. These are entities that have demonstrated over and over again that they are deeply in need of reform.
For years I have been concerned about the regulatory structure that governs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac--known as Government-sponsored entities or GSEs--and the sheer magnitude of these companies and the role they play in the housing market. OFHEO's report this week does nothing to ease these concerns. In fact, the report does quite the contrary. OFHEO's report solidifies my view that the GSEs need to be reformed without delay.
Quick Info
S. 190 [109th]: Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005
Last Action: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Status: Dead
I join as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole.
I urge my colleagues to support swift action on this GSE reform legislation."

So... Mr. Obama... what was that you said about John McCain being partially responsible for this crisis? Ms. Pelosi, I don't see any democrats co-sponsoring this bill??

Facts are facts people. Don't let the media spin fool you.

A Letter From The People

This is an email one of my co-workers, that I have great respect and admiration for, sent to Nancy Pelosi. I hope more of you will take the initiative. And thanks to him, you won't need to search for her email address.


"From: Senseless Jewels friend
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 4:09 PM
To: Nancy Pelosi (nancy@mail.house.gov)
Subject: SAD SAD SAD

What else can be said about Speaker Pelosi but SAD, SAD, SAD! It is amazing that she thinks the American people are so stupid, or worse yet idiots, and will believe whatever she and others say to us. Does she really think that we believe the financial mess is all the Republicans fault? If it were not for the actions of Ms Pelosi, Barney Frank, Harry Reid and Chris Dodd we would not be in this terrible mess. Shame on all of you! I join the millions of Americans who are furious with you! Resign the Congress and go home to San Francisco! RESIGNATIONS: that is what the American people deserve from all four of you – Pelosi, Frank, Reid and Dodd."


AGREED

Democrats Fannie and Freddie Cover Up

This is a video my friend Victoria posted recently on her facebook. Hard to ignore this.

My own personal "fact check";

There was a moment I found both touching, yet unsettling in Friday’s debate. John McCain, when attacked on the war in Iraq mentioned he was wearing a bracelet for Cpl Matthew Stanley, who lost his life in Iraq. Not to be outdone, Obama reversed to school yard antics and displayed his own soldier’s bracelet for Sergeant Ryan David Jopek.

Now, there are reports (I’d say “breaking news”, but we all know what a joke that would be), hidden deeply and not discussed by our “media”, that this was not a decision supported by Jopek’s family. The mother had emailed Barack Obama to not publicly discuss her son, as the father would later discuss in a radio interview.

“Shockingly, however, Madison resident Brian Jopek, the father of Ryan Jopek, the young soldier who tragically lost his life to a roadside bomb in 2006, recently said on a Wisconsin Public Radio show that his family had asked Barack Obama to stop wearing the bracelet with his son's name on it. Yet Obama continues to do so despite the wishes of the family.”

That interviewed where these statements of Mr. Jopek were heard in APRIL, .. I’m sorry.. so the debate took place in September.. maybe Mr. Obama hasn’t had time to get to his email.

One of Obama’s aides was on FOX news (the only media outlet readily reporting this story), this morning saying that FOXnews didn’t have their facts straight “as always” and should read the AP report. Here’s how that turned out;

“This afternoon the Associated Press was at last able to contact Tracy Jopek, mother of Sergeant Ryan David Jopek, the KIA soldier on the bracelet that Barack Obama is using on the campaign trail. Ryan's Mother is confirming that she gave the bracelet to Mr. Obama, but is also confirming that she asked him to stop using her son's name on the campaign.”

Maybe the AP reports are the ones that need to be “fact checked.”

“But, we have another little mystery with these AP reports. The original headline for this report was "Soldier's mother 'ecstatic' about Obama's bracelet," released at about 7PM the evening of the 28th. But a few hours later, the AP changed it to "Soldier's mom defends Obama's mention of bracelet."
Apparently, Jopek's mother did NOT say she was "ecstatic" about Obama continuing to use her son's name on the campaign trail even after she told him to stop. The AP had to change its headline to reflect the truth.
The fact remains, the woman has repeated that she asked Obama not to mention her son on the campaign trail and this AP report confirms that. Will Obama stop using her son, now that we are sure she said she wanted him to stop?”

Still think the press is fair? Still think Obama is the best man for the job? If so, please refer to blog below entitled “My Dad – Still The Genius.”
Read article in it’s entirety here:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/09/28/family-told-obama-not-wear-soldier-sons-bracelet-where-media

My Dad - Still the Genius

I was talking on the phone to my father yesterday, concerning the election and the candidates, the media bias, etc. After watching the debate on Friday night, while I did not think it was a "take away" win for either candidate, I certainly didn't think Obama performed "well."

I asked my Dad, "how in the world are people believing CNN and MSNBC's spin on this? How can anyone just take this spin at face value"

To which my ever brilliant father replied;

"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American People"

Fine Print in the Democrats "Bailout re-write"

Is the media going to let this one go too? Are we, the American people, so naive and blind to the actions going on on Capitol Hill that we just accept what we are told?

I'm not one to quote music but I am thinking of John Mayer's "Waiting on the World to Change"

"When you trust the television,
what you get is what you got,
cause when they own the information,
oh, they can bend it all they want"

WAKE UP!!!

The Democrats coming back with a small "re-write" to Bush's bail out proposal has one tricky little sentence that for some reason, the media seems to be "skimming" over.

“Directs a certain percentage of future profits to the Affordable Housing Fund and the Capital Magnet Fund to meet America’s housing needs.”

What does this mean? What are the democrats trying to pull? well - They want it funneled to left-wing groups like ACORN, under investigation for voter fraud. In the midst of crisis, they still have their slimy hands in the cookie jar that got us here.

ACORN ( The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). "They have been caught turning in hundreds of thousands of fake voter registration cards in an effort to stuff ballot boxes with fake voters and pump up Democrat vote totals."

Information found at :http://www.stoptheaclu.com/archives/2008/09/26/dems-bailout-proposal-redirects-paulsons-profits-to-left-wing-groups/

Red (or should I say Pink?) Flag People!!!!

If I, a 26 year old in Texas, can find all of these FACTS readily available, where the hell is the media? I'll tell you where, they are up Obama's you-know-what.

New article to check out. One of Obama's "bundlers", someone who collects money for his campaign, and a co-founder of the awful "Codepink" raised between $50,000-$100,000 for his campaign. And guess where she was Wednesday night? With the leader of Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, that's where. The woman who said THIS about the 9/11 horrifying attacks ;

Jodie Evans:"We were attacked because we were in Saudi Arabia, that was the message of Osama, was that because we had our bases in the Middle East, he attacked the United States.”

Paul A. Ibbetson: “Do you think that’s a valid argument?”

Evans: “Sure. Why do we have bases in the Middle East? We totally violated the rights of that country. Why do we get to have bases in the Middle East?” Also in that interview, Evans said Code Pink’s goal is to “undermine the war effort (of the United States") and that she wished Saddam Hussein was still in power.

Did I mention Ole Jodie and Obama are "buds" ??

Check out the complete article here

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/260293

Frightening stuff people, frightening stuff.

All you have to do is look...

I am appalled by the Main Stream Media. I guess they want our country to be in jeopardy, that is, after all, how they will make more money as the people will be more dependent on them. This article scares the crap out of me. It's amazing how people are being flown to Alaska to look under every housemat of Palin's, yet no one is reporting the scary facts that this reporter found in the Ilinois public library. I fear and pray for our great country daily. Entire article here http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122212856075765367.html Here are some excerpts;

Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools
By STANLEY KURTZ


"Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience. From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001. The group poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists."

"The CAC was the brainchild of Bill Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground in the 1960s. Among other feats, Mr. Ayers and his cohorts bombed the Pentagon, and he has never expressed regret for his actions. Barack Obama's first run for the Illinois State Senate was launched at a 1995 gathering at Mr. Ayers's home.
The Obama campaign has struggled to downplay that association. Last April, Sen. Obama dismissed Mr. Ayers as just "a guy who lives in my neighborhood," and "not somebody who I exchange ideas with on a regular basis." Yet documents in the CAC archives make clear that Mr. Ayers and Mr. Obama were partners in the CAC. Those archives are housed in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago and I've recently spent days looking through them."


. Ayers is the founder of the "small schools" movement (heavily funded by CAC), in which individual schools built around specific political themes push students to "confront issues of inequity, war, and violence."

"The Obama campaign has cried foul when Bill Ayers comes up, claiming "guilt by association." Yet the issue here isn't guilt by association; it's guilt by participation. As CAC chairman, Mr. Obama was lending moral and financial support to Mr. Ayers and his radical circle. That is a story even if Mr. Ayers had never planted a single bomb 40 years ago."

Creepy McCreeperson Update

The super creepy guy… who is .. MY NEIGHBOR (yea..awesome..) has come over twice and knocked on my door. Once within ONE MINUTE (yep 60 seconds) of me arriving home from work. Nothing like being a prisoner in your own home, apparently he has a straight view of my car and sidewalk, fabulous.

Now – I must say I am a little perturbed when I tell people he came to my door.. people who KNOW me, and ask the question “What did he say?” Really people? REALLY?!?! How stupid am I? Well he said that he was just a nice guy and then I invited him in for wine... HELLO!!!!!! I didn’t open the door!! Give me some credit.. I watch Law and Order.

Eventually one of our HOA members went and told him that my (fictional) boyfriend was upset and that he should leave me alone. Apparently creepy guy wanted to apologize to me, to which the HOA member said “I think it’s better if you don’t.”

So I am on Day 3 of no stalker sights or notes and tonight – my neighbor(my friend – not the crazy one) are hanging up some privacy curtains just in time for the new season of Law and Order. There will be no episode based on this true story.

Creepy McCreeperson

This morning when I arrived at my car I found this note taped to the driver side window along with a long stem red rose. This is a copy, the font was all red with the handwritten portions being in Sharpie.

This is just plain scary. I may have to move. Any advice out there?

I Never thought I'd Say....

I AGREE with Kid Rock... of all people. But I do, I really do, in this instance. The Hollywood Elite need to shut it or run for office themselves...

"I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics. Because at the end of the day, let me tell you what I 'm good at: I'm good at writing songs and singing. What I'm not educated in is the field of political science. And so for me to be sharing my views and influencing people of who I think they should be voting for … I think would be very irresponsible on my part. So I'll just keep my mouth shut on that. I think celebrity endorsements hurt politicians. Because as soon as somebody comes out for a politician, especially in Hollywood, when they all go, 'I'm voting for this guy!' — I go, 'That's not who I'm voting for!'
- Kid Rock

The Pajama Effect Part 2

It still haunts me - I thought I had escaped it, but it is still present. (For background please see blog, The Pajama Effect http://senselessjewels.blogspot.com/2008/05/pajama-effect.html)

I was running work errands, one of which requires me to get Starbuck's gift cards. Upon pulling into the parking lot I saw a familiar car.... RIGHT when I walked in the front door... there sat my good looking (actually been downgraded to decent to good looking but for sake of the story.....good looking will work) neighbor. We exchanged the "oh hey how are you" 's that one does and I went about my business.

On the way out I decided to talk about, as I was in my work attire, and for once NOT pajamas!! Wahoo! So after some fun, witty convo I go to walk out the door.....

And push the wrong side... that's right... typically you can't open doors when you push on the side they are freaking hinged to the doorway with...

Oi....

This just in

It has been confirmed Barbra Streisand will perform at a fundraiser for Obama next week in California...

Reportedly she's opening with "Send In The Clowns"

Friday Night Craziness – and the bruises to prove it

Friday night was good times. I had some girlfriends over and we began with some wine, vodka, and cheese (aka the essentials). There was typical girl talk, music, etc.

Around 9:30 one of my friends thought it would be a good idea to go just put our feet in the pool… good in premise.. not so good in execution. As we ended up IN the pool, fully clothed, good times however… good times.

After bringing a good amount of the pool back to my condo I showered, and upon getting out made my dismount. That’s right. I flipped my head to put on the towel and continued in a full somersault into the bathtub.

I have a bump on my head along with a bruise or two, and have lost some respect for myself.. but I’d say all in all the somersault was ATLEAST a “9.2”, with room for improvement on the landing.

Politics in the Media

Never have I been more aware of an election, and I believe the same can be said for a great deal of people in my age group. However, I am frustrated and tired of having to seek the facts and information on my own. What are reporters and the "American Broadcast Networks" for? Apparently they are merely there for personal commentaries and agendas, not to inform the American public. This is why I feel the need to search for the facts in black and white on my own accord.

I enjoy some commentaries, but only when they are addressed as such, and not hidden behind the veil of "breaking news." Gustav is news. The economy is news. Our military in Iraq is news. A 17 year old girl being pregnant that did not ask to be in the spotlight, is not news. People make mistakes, let those that haven't cast the first stone.

I really enjoyed this COMMENTARY I came upon by Peggy Noonan for the Wall Street Journal, favorite quote

"Dig deep into Sarah Palin, get all you can, talk to everybody, get every vote, every quote, tell us of her career and life, she may be the next vice president. But don't play games. And leave her kid alone, bitch."

It explores both sides, and is an enjoyable read.
http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html

Not your average TP job...

I am impressed.

Christina and I were picking her dog up at her parents house and in her neighborhood, came across a great sign that kids today DO in fact finish what they started.

If this isn't completion and follow through I don't' know what is. A definite A for height and amount.

Job well done kids, job well done.