My view of the world

I see by a post in the Pioneer Loan Center Blog that dear ole Babs got her way in the house, which as far as I can tell, is run by her and her pet dilettantes.
AB478 passed.

These losers are so busy saving the world that they don’t even consider the consequences of their actions.
Instead of fixing the problem they simply created an untenable situation for the consumers.
They force people to try and repay a loan in 210 days, instead if a year or more.
If they had done something reasonable about interest rates and forced the 400% + crowd to actually do installment loans, the problem could have been resolved.

As far as I can tell, their goal is to put all the loan companies, except for banks and mortgage companies out of business.

Obviously, most short term and title loans go to people the banks won’t touch, and the mythical maximum 100 and 200 dollar loans exist mostly in the egocentric, delusional world of the idealogues.
These people are so attacking the evil loan companies that they are making it impossible for the little people to borrow from anyone but the local loansharks. (If you think loansharks have disappeared then you don’t know jack about human nature.)

If it was possible to loan money out to high risk customers at a total, including any and all fees, of 40%, the banks would be all over that market.
You’ll notice who’s not jumping in.

I pulled this picture from the Las Vegas Weekly Web site.

George Knapp is going to have a special on our local CBS affiliate on Thursday, titled the house that Gates built.

Evidently our former county commissioner has built a house costing over 1 million dollars and Mr. Knapp seems to feel that there is something shady about Ms. Gates. I can’t say I really know her, but I know a couple of her defenders quite well and even they are skeptical about her business dealings.

Clark County documents show that:
Built By Yvonne, a design firm owned by Clark County Commissioner Yvonne Atkinson Gates, would build a custom 7,700-square-foot home in Summerlin for Dr. Raj Chanderraj.
Chanderraj is with a doctor’s group that Atkinson Gates had voted to award a lucrative UMC contract - without disclosing the conflict of interest posed by her design firm’s side work with the doctor.
The county records show Built by Yvonne as the contractor in spite of her saying the Doctort hadn’t made up his mind yet.
A letter has since been sent, amending the paperwork to read Dr. Raj Chanderraj, owner/builder.

LAS VEGAS Las Vegas police are investigating whether former Clark County Commissioner Yvonne Atkinson Gates illegally enriched herself with political contributions.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal says police are looking into whether Atkinson Gates hired her son and his future wife only to have them return some of their pay to her.

Gates’ name came up during the “G-Sting” political corruption trial. Michael Galardi testified he hoped Gates would drop a proposed law that would hurt his strip club business after he gave her husband, Judge Lee Gates, a $10,000 check and $10,000 in cash.
Galardi also testified that he heard Gates say “$100,000 would make any problems go away”. Galardi did not pay that money. But the proposal that was eventually passed was more strip club friendly.

She also helped friends get concessions at the airport.

This could just be some sort of smear campaign, but I doubt it.
Everything I heard in private conversation with people who know her was non-specific, but looking at the facts, the rumors and the circumstances of her resignation, I’d say she was in all probability, a good old fashion small town crook.

A prisoner in the state of Kentucky was mistakenly freed after a phoney fax ordering his release was sent from a nearby grocery store.
The fax claimed to be from the state supreme court, but had no letterhead, and enough misspelled words to give your old english teacher ulcers.
The inmate who was the subject of this fax was Timothy Rouse, 19, and was being held on charges of assault and robbery.
He was caught at his mother’s house, after prison officials figured out their mistake, two weeks after his release.
Rouse was being held at the Kentucky Correctional and Psychiatric Center near Louisville for mental evaluation when he was released on 6 April.
The prison’s director said their policies do not require them to check the source of faxes and that spelling errors are common in legal documents.
“It’s not part of a routine check,” said Greg Taylor, “but certainly, in hindsight, that would perhaps have caused somebody to ask a question.”

I guess in ole Kane-tuck ya don’t need an attorney, hell, ya don’t even have ta know how ta spell, you just need ta get one a your friends or maybe one a your kinfolk to bawrie Jethro’s new fangled fax machine, and these nice fellers will hold the door for ya.

I was reading an article in which they mentioned Mike Caro “the Mad Genius of Poker,” when I recalled another Mad Genius.

Here in Las Vegas there is a guy who drives a station wagon that is covered in little pieces of mirror and chrome that have been glued to a grey undercoat.
He’s still around town, and if you’ve lived here very long you’ve probably seen him, he’s about 5′10,” slender and usually wears a hat, dark glasses and half-gloves.
In fact, while I’ve seen him without the hat, I don’t ever recall seeing him without the gloves and glasses, it doesn’t seem to matter if it’s day or night, for all I know he sleeps in them.
He’s a nice guy, but all I can recall about him, was that he was living with or taking care of his mother, and that was some studio or other was interested in buying the car, and he seemed to think it was worth a lot of money.

Anyway, he legally changed his name from “Richard something” to “Mad Genius” many years back.

I always wondered what his genius was, besides gluing shiney bits on a car.
Hey, you never thought of it, did you…..

And you thought poker players were weird.

Babs amended the bill and it came out of committee as: Amend Do not pass

Over on the Pioneer Loan Center Blog they found something I was unaware of.

AB 428 is being amended to make it illegal to obtain an individual’s personal data or even information on any transactions without permission of the person involved.
It’s a shame that federal law usually supercedes state law or the IRS would be sol.

At Pioneer they seem to think that the customer will have to sign a waiver allowing outside collectors access to the data.
We have federal laws about such things, but they seem to be rather nebulous and appear to lead to civil actions.
This law appears to be very specific and leads to criminal actions. This is a good thing as long as it isn’t so all encompassing as to force us to sign a waiver every time we use our creditcards.
I’m not an attorney and sometimes the law says something that is different from the way I read it. So now we wait for the courts to decide what it really says.

Something I heard a senator say, went to the effect. “We passed the legislation, now we’ll have to wait for the courts to tell us what it means.”

Scary ain’t it.

Rags over at Raghand is pissed at the Whitehouse and their shenanigans.
Well he ought to look at the Gov.

Gibbons will supply a bit of comic relief.
According to several articles, little Jimmy Gibbons is letting his imagination run away with him.
Little Jimmy has been telling the world that the Democrats are bribing the Wall Street Journal to print lies about him.

The WSJ’s politics are only slightly to the right of Attila the Hun and according to one observer, no receipts for these bribes have ever been produced.

Come on Jimmy, it was bad enough when you expected us to believe that a busy parking garage had absolutely no traffic except for a cat and a security guard for over an hour, but this is just too much.
And remember Jimmy, if you don’t quit making up stories, Santa Claus won’t bring you anything for Christmas.
Now eat your veggies and get to bed early, you’ve had a long day.

According to the Washinton Post.
Since Gibbons took office, his troubles have only increased. The FBI is investigating gifts from a friend to whom Gibbons steered business while he was in Congress.
In March, Gibbons revealed he had established a legal defense fund last fall, raising questions about whether he used unreported money from his campaign.
And last week the Wall Street Journal reported Gibbons’s wife was a consultant to a company that Gibbons helped to get a federal contract.

When asked about his new energy chief, Gibbons told a reporter he did not know her name, but “she’s from India.” Hatice Gecol is originally from Turkey.
Gibbons has tried to minimize the damage by avoiding the press.
He hired Washington lawyer Abbe Lowell, who represented lobbyist Jack Abramoff, to guide him through dealings with the FBI.

And while I still think he’s a better choice than Titus, a strictly personal dislike, I wish somebody would put this loony back on his leash and muzzle him.
He’s too funny to be taken seriously, but he has become an embarrassment.

By now I’m sure you’ve heard that our beloved Senator, Harry Reid , has co-sponsered a bill that would force a pull out of our troops. The only problem is, King George will veto it and the Dems don’t have enough votes to override.
This makes it as much of a dog and pony show as the nonbinding BS earlier this year.
I know it’s about appearences, but why do they waste the time and money, when they already know the outcome.

Have you noticed that the Dems haven’t kept any of their promises about big oil or the power of committee chairs?
For Harry’s stance on big oil go to the Las Vegas Business and Politics blog.

As much as I hate to agree with the President, to set an exact date for our pull out is to give our enemies in the middle east a very convenient timetable and to kill any chance at all for compromise. Not that you can expect compromise from zealots, but, it’s still nice to dream.

I hear people say that this rolling cluster fuck is nothing like Vietnam, but both were started by lies, (Google for the Gulf of Tonkin), neither could be won because of the nature of the enemy and the unrealistic ideas of the idiots running the war, and finally, we are about to say that the losers we put in power can now handle the situation and run like hell for home.

Good men and women have been killed and maimed for nothing.
It’s a soldiers job to die for his country, but where is it written that they should die for Haliburton?