Wednesday, November 22, 2017

What Fresh Hell for November 22, 2017: Jackass pardons turkey, and other tales of a Northern European Thanksgiving.

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A retired Alabama police officer claims she was frequently told to keep tabs on Roy Moore during the 1980s due to his tendency to harass high school cheerleaders at sporting events.

Faye Gary, a former cop with the Gadsden Police Department, appeared on MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell earlier today and said that everyone in her department was aware of Moore’s rumored proclivity for young girls–and that such rumors were repeated on a daily basis.

She said, “We were also told to watch him at the ball games and make sure that he didn’t hang around the cheerleaders.” Gary continued, “The rumor was that Roy Moore likes young girls. It was not only in our department but at the courthouse, too.”

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As of today, Roy speaks for himself. Literally.
John Rogers has resigned as communications director from Roy Moore’s Senate campaign, according to a source familiar with the matter. 
Reached by phone on Wednesday, Rogers confirmed his resignation. He declined to comment further.
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U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee considered many important banking reforms in 2009-2010 including the Dodd-Frank Act. We show that during this period, the foreclosure starts on delinquent mortgages were delayed in the districts of committee members even though there was no difference in delinquency rates between committee and non-committee districts. In these areas, banks delayed the start of the foreclosure process by 0.5 months (relative to the 12-month average). The total estimated cost of delay to lenders is an order of magnitude greater than the campaign contributions by the Political Action Committees of the largest mortgage servicing banks to the committee members in that period and is comparable to these banks’ lobbying expenditures.

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Herbert Hoover left office in 1933, a few years after Trump’s father was arrested at a New York Klan rally.

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The *resident is at Mar-A-Lago, and chief among his thankfuls is that there are always black people to slag on Twitter.


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