Statistics Don’t Lie; Liars Love Statistics

That reminder is always timely.

This complaint to the FTC about everyone’s favorite real estate porn site, Zillow, is a bit baffling.

The information contained therein is free for all to use. Consumers do, and apparently love it. Zillow hasn’t solicited commercial business just yet, and it remains to be seen if they will. If insurance and mortgage companies rely on it for judging loans (no evidence suggests they do), they due so at their own risk.

Zillow claims the algorithm they use contains no demographic information, and that makes sense- how would they know?

Zillow’s data comes form a constantly a shifting landscape (in California, that happens literally on occasion), and is not (or claimed to be) accurate. Used simply as a guide, it is helpful. And fun.

This coalition claims that:

“(an) improper appraisal could force a homeowner to borrow more than the value of the home and put money invested in the home at risk, according to the group. It urged the F.T.C. to start an investigation and permanently restrain Zillow from providing home value estimates.”

Caveat Emptor.

But really, what are they saying? Do folks in poor areas who decide to cash in on their equity overextend themselves past the value of their domicile?

Are they suggesting all disadvantaged people (or people living in ‘disadvantaged’ areas) are prone to max out their credit, and spend beyond their means?

That sound’s like a racist stereotype.

Folks, we gotta learn the proper use of the tool. Educate!

And, ultimately, who is to say what any property is worth?

Too Obvious to Comment On

Federal Reserve Bank assisting illegal alien lawbreakers

WTF?

Yes, and it’s being kept really quiet. The main stories taking up column inches today lack any real depth or meaning (Tom Foley, puh-lease), and simply serve to titilate (“sexy stories”); AKA a red herring. The important ones (“boring stories”), like this, are freakin’ terrifying, because of implications further down the road for this country as an autonomous and sovereign state.

This certainly tells you that your government (I didn’t vote for the fuckers, and I consider myself <ahem> libertarian) is seriously going against what you might expect to be the intentions of ‘financial conservatives.’

Goes to show most Americans, who couldn’t give a flying fuck how their government is, um, governed, that as soon as they take their eye off the ball, see what happens.

Can I see a show of hands: who out there voted for “Son of A New World Order?” Heh.

Are we really in control of our government? Or are they (the non-elected e.g. Karl Rove, James Baker, Ben Bernaenke, et al) rapidly increasing the amount of countol they have over us?

Do you even have to think about that before answering?

Of course you do, you are were an American.

Yeah right.

Stoned?

Is it me, or is this cunt a toke too far?
(F-FWD ahead to 1:08 for her appearance to begin)

I didn’t know this cunt was such a turd licker

Patrica Heaton got a little fleeting fame for being on a sitcom and in Albertson’s commercials (that’s like all really important stuff, and makes her a substantial person).

Now this expert in biology has a thing or to to say about stem cell research.

This talentless crone should keep her fucking mouth shut unless (as unlikely as it is) something intelligent comes out of it. Cunt.

Thanks be to April.

I Know, I Know, Easy Target

Vicodin addict and right wing shock-jock Rush Limbaugh accused Michael J. Fox of faking his Parkinsons symptons for an advert supporting stem cell research.

If they lost $1 Billion (with a ‘B’)…

…how did Robert C. Trosten wind up profiting handsomely to the tune of $48 million when just a short time later the company for which he was CFO, Refco, declared bankruptcy? And now this ass-wipe stands accused of fraudulently hiding losses that (probably) bumped up his compensation when the company was sold a year before it folded. Man, we’ve seen this play out time and again recently- it’s becoming rampant.

Is anyone in the SEC or Justice Depratment paying attention?

HELLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

<fx echo: hellllooooooo!>

Will Robert C. Trosten get to keep it?

Should he? Is that right?

You can equivocate all you want, but this money was stolen from you.

When Refco filed for bankruptcy on Oct. 17, 2005, it was one of the largest filings in United States history.

It’s like the politburo elite all over again. I’m starting to see less difference between those bushy eye-browed scalawags in charge of the Soviet Union and their privileged looting of the coffers to live the life of Riley (mass centralization made this easy at that time, but looks like when the government is lured to turn it’s back, well, that works too).

I think Robert C. Trosten should have to give it back, every fucking red cent.

As customers lost money in the 1990’s through 2005, Mr. Bennett would have the firm’s parent, Refco Group Holding Inc., assume those debts. Rather than write off those losses, Mr. Bennett then transferred them to Refco Group Holding. By all appearances, Refco appeared to be owed money by its parent.

It’s all very Enronian in it’s scope and execution. Who’s bean-counter was talking to who? I cannot help but wonder. Hey, these are not so isolated as anecdotal evidence would suggest.

The scheme allowed Refco to appear healthy, setting the stage for the private-equity buyout and subsequent public offering, prosecutors said. Insiders also received more than $1 billion in cash after the sale of the stake to Thomas H. Lee.

& Don’t get me started on his boss…

Human Trafficking

Does this idiot of an asshole think anyone is still interested in her attention whore stylings? This whole debacle has erupted like anal warts on her face. Not to mention the poor kid and his father in the middle of it all.

Adopting a kid who isn’t an orphan (perhaps you genuinely didn’t know, but did you bother to find out? Or did you just think this would never surface?) simply to get publicity in your twilight years is no way to show your humanity.

You are just another celebutard asshole, manipulating Malawi officials to spirit away your little bundle of publicity joy to England, apparently without remorse.

This poor kid’s suffered enough! Africa has suffered enough. Do they need someone who’s sole intention is to climb a majestic floater in the public cesspool, in an effort to one-up one of their celebutard rivals?

But with Madonna, I guess the end justifies the means.

Score!

Little Difference

This guy actually killed an entire family. He believes he is a prophet, and  has conversations with God. Heh.

“I profess my love for God, my family, for my children, for Kathy (his wife). I am because you are,” Lundgren said in his final statement.

Change that last bit to read “I was because you are.” Heh. What an asshole.

He tried to stall his execution
due to his weight (275 lbs- that’s one fat mother fucking murderer) and diabetes. Which just proves what a coward he really is, as murder is the action of cowards (I’m talking to you Mr. Bush, and to you to, Ayatollah What’syourface). I thought you had friends in high places?

So I wondered aloud, what separates him from Pat Robertson, a man with an un-xtian like zeal  of murder in his heart, other than a small matter of committing an actual mass murder? Patsy called for the assassination of Hugo Chavez, which is not a whole lot different from some mullah telling his followers to kill Americans.

Liar.

There’s a New Tax

Call it the don’t carry around large amounts of cash or it will be confiscated tax.

Anyone else sick of being assumed guilty? Like the way you get treated at the airport?

The average citizen now is assumed to be guilty or up to no good by the state. The state exercises intimidation tactics in lieu of fighting crime or terrorism effectively because they really (really!) don’t know what else to do.

Let’s make it look like we’re doing something, by creating the greatest public works project since Roosevelt! Look busy everyone!

This is what it’s like now, to live in Amerikkka.

First we read about the Mexican truck driver whose cash for a new tractor he was using to purchase was seized by the state. Then there was the recent story where Western Union funds were seized by the state of Arizona. Now this in Florida.

Are these legitimate means of controling crime, or are they a vast shakedown using the color of authority? The abuse of power has never been so blatant as it is at this time in history.

Where will it end?

What a country!

Give it back, Dick

With Dick Grasso appealing his right to keep $100 million of unearned compensation the court decided he had to return, hopefully Eliot Spitzer has nailed another coroprate fuck crook with a sense of entitlement.

At the very least give the money back, fucker.

What I’d like to know is, how did you earn it? What exactly did you do? Did you add value in some way? How, exactly? Can you take credit for something besides being a titular head with no real power or influence, and just a lot of cronies victims buddies?

If he actually did anything other than tread water, please, tell us, we all want to know if you actually earned it. Otherwise, fork it over, clown! All $139 million pal. And don’t complain, ‘cos your ass should be grass.

And while were at it, Eliot, nail the fuckers who let him tie his pay not to his performance, but to some alien metric of performance.

All CEO’s take note.

As for his claim that he was due severence of an additional $95 million: pure chutzpah. You fucking resigned, you asshole you.

Too bad Eliot hasn’t looked further into proving theft or fraud by this grease ball. A conviction would slap his ass in the pokey Martha Stewart style, for at least a couple of years.

That would send the right kind of message: DON’T FUCK WITH AMERICA, ASSHOLES!

You go, girl

Like Tabasco on a Hemorrhoid

Can you spot the asshole here? Be quick, as they move as fast as a hemorrhoid on Tabasco sauce.

People emulate their leaders. Is this NJ town a microcosm for the Bush- Cheney- Crony personal enrichment program?

They’re throwing around lawsuits like the GAO is throwing around no-bid contracts.

That singular incident — and the endless enmity it spawned between Beck and the school board she used to sit on — has plunged this Hunterdon County township of 6,400 people into a series of ethics charges and legal actions that have cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.

And this is at the local level. Mama Mía!

Who is keeping score?

… of the number of convictions, resignations in the Jack Abramoff influence peddling scandals?

I’d like to see it broken down by party, crime, jail time, and whether they are elected or appointed.

Yet another elected official- Bob Ney (hey!) of Ohio was just convicted today. (His frozen in time web site here.) I thought about ‘another one bites the dust’ but it’s already sounding trite, and there are many more to come.

Interestingly, he blames alcohol for his failing moral compass, just like Foley.
PaaaAAAaaartaaaaay!

Save the drama for yo mama

Will somebody get us some good governin’ here, puh-lease!?!

The LAUSD School Board- a collective of turd chompers if ever there were one.

The retiring Supe, one Roy Romer, has not been the sterling motive force of change his initials might suggest.

Instead he was an insipid, uninspired bureaucrat who toed the heels of each and every school board member; who proclaimed progress while showing absolutely none. An act of deceptive toadying unequaled since Bush 43 sucked the hairy anus of the xtian vote (oh wait, he’s still doing that isn’t he?).

According to this article, his replacements’ all but been selected.

There has long been a power struggle between the mayor and the Board. The LAUSD board is famously ineffectual and detached from reality.

And a money pit. The LAUSD budget is higher than the budget for the entire city- that’s like all other LA city services combined.

That the mayor wasn’t even asked to participate in the selection process is indicative of the recent travails of his success against this do-nothing, know-nothing LAUSD Board. Haters!

And thus, the entire system is in place for the new Supe to fail.

Geez, here we go again! The spirit of Zacarias lives!

The LAUSD School Board doesn’t like to play ball, or play nice. That’s clear simply because in this latest escapade, the Board has been meeting secretly (out of view of not just the mayor, but the public too) and considering candidates for replacing out-going Supe Romer (a failure, who should have been shit-canned long before he could actually fucking retire from this fucking job, which tells you all you need to know!)

The chosen one is an ex-Admiral with 35 years in the military, who had 8,000 men under him (ahem). FYI, the USD is several magnitudes greater, plus the added complexity of several layers of government, not simply one fascist hierarchy with a chain of command (that’s fucking easy).

Oh, and get this: he has absolutely no experience as an educator.

None. Zip. Nada. Zilch.WTF?!?

One has to wonder: what kind of person would accept this job, based on the dynamics here?

Especially when it’s plainly clear the board is trying to slip the new person in under the wire- come January 1, the mayor has the power to hire and fire the Supe.

This new role should have the blessing of the mayor, and legally he will have that power, in a few short months. Why the rush, eh?

Well, it’s a fairly typical move for these self-dealing board members. Based on this and many other actions, it is clear they don’t believe they serve the city or the electorate (or the students).

Once in office, they only serve themselves.

A person of character would stand down as a candidate (one did) for a few months until he can gain the mayor’s endorsement. If not for the good of the city, then to set an example of good governance, and genuine concern and respect for the student body.

If he is the best person for the job, why try and sneak him past? And do we want someone who wants to squeak by?

Is the Admiral really a viable candidate? Who knows. But the borad short changes the constituency in the process, because they want what they want- “fuck you voters, we know what’s best.”

So to sum it up, the position of Supe is skewed to be screwed.

He must really need the job!

Maybe it’s time the board members bend over and meet the Board of Education!

LAUSD Supervisor: where old soldiers go to die! (when they can’t get a cushy job as a Pentagon contractor because they’re either incompetent or never learned how to play ball).

I guess he’ll be a perfect fit for the dysfunctional LAUSD family.

Here’s a Toast That She’ll Soon be Toast

This asshole of a Republican pig (the resemblance, as you can see, is uncanny) should lose her seat to someone worthy of the districts consituents.

Hopefully Murtha’s appearance at her opponent’s rally can can help to unseat this Coulter wannabe.

Hey! Mel! Over here!

Laughing off your foibles is the practiced skill of the negligent alcky. Mel’s apparently gotten a lot of practice, he’s so smooooooth.

But a dickhead is a dickhead, and this one’s a real asshole.

I don’t care if you put yourself at risk, but the real offense (besides the legal infraction) is he could have actually injured or killed someone. PCH is notoriously dangerous because of the curves, speed, and inherent danger to not just other autos but bicyclists and pedestrians too. Mixing alcohol into this equation is a potentially volatile act but is of one’s free will, and so I have no sympathy for Mel, who, obviously knowing all of this, chooses to drink and drive of his own volition.

Throw the fucking book at ‘em, I say. Pricks and assholes, every last one of them. Including you, Melvin.

That the drink driving aspect of this is being glossed over by just about everybody in favor of a few of Mel’s choice words and phrases shouldn’t surprise anyone. But, instead of slanderous or hate speech, how about we focus on the attempted murder aspect of Mel’s negligent actions?

Ooh I forgot, that would be responsible journalism.

On a note of sociological importance, what comes first: wealth and fame, or the oversized ego/arrogance of being a large turd-emitting asshole?

From a patriot

Not those who label themselves that today (to the tune of the Great Pretender), but a real one:

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”

-Samuel Adams

Kegger in Chief

Who would win?

If Jesus had an ultimate fight to the death with Freddy and Jason, I wonder who would win?

Predator! (Nobody saw him coming).

Has this country gone Chuy mad?

Enrollment in xtian ‘colleges’ is up by 70%, and xtian music sales are up 300% in the last decade.

Religious camps have been set up to train a new generation of crusaders.

There’s a Dead Rabbi Jesus Camp in North Dakota where young children are taught to speak in tongues and worship a photo of George W Bush fer xssakes. Head freak Pastor Becky Fisher says, “I want to see them as radically laying down their lives for the gospel, as they are in Pakistan, in Israel and in Palestine.” One of the young trainees agrees, saying, “We are kinda being trained to be warriors.. only in a much funner way.”

Worship Bush?

FUCKINGASSHOLES! (wait, it’s some kind of joke, right?)

For all you clueless fucking asshole xtian idjits out there, no actual being would win that fight to the death, because they’re all fictitious. Crikey, you’re such ignoramii (correct or not, I like that spelling).

With this cancer affecting an ever increasing part of the body politic, we all lose.

Mark Foley (is an asshole) Update

Alright, the best part of this is the inherent humor of a sad paedo (allegedly) trolling for unsuspecting teenagers (if there is such a thing).

Some of the highlights:

• Former Fox News White House spokesman Tony Snow dismissed it as “naughty emails” in which Foley was “over-friendly”. Heh.
• Funniest IM exchange between Foley and boy: Foley describes his masturbating technique and encourages the boy to get his cock out… until the boy interrupts with “Oh, my mom is yelling”.
• Foley received major political support from the Church of Scientology. The very anti-gay Church of Scientology.
• Congress’s Ethics committee knew for more than a year, did nothing and “forgot” to tell the only Democrat on the committee.
• Internet Republican suckdog Matt Drudge-packer has been putting about the story that Foley is just an innocent – its all the fault of the boys.

See the Foley IM transcripts.

Ona related topic, do you know what is cited as the biggest cause of paedophilia today?

Sexy kids.

Three cocks on the strut for some kiddy poon.