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discocrisco01's JournalNude Man Crashes Pickup Truck into Mall
WFAA reports
RED BIRD - Dallas police identified Arthur Walker, 35, as the nude man who drove a pickup truck through Southwest Center Mall Friday morning.
Police said he drove through the double doors, straight into several kiosks and then took a right and drove straight through the pulled down gates of a Champs Sports store.
“He hit the door, backed up, and came back with full force again, and that’s when he came on in here,” said Delcina Avery, who watched from the parking lot as the man sped into the glass doors.
“I guess he was just crazy -- it never dawned on me that it was Friday, the 13th,” she said.
The man then got out of the truck and started dressing himself in clothes from the store, including putting on socks and a brand new pair of Nike Jordan sneakers
The question what moviated the guy to be naked and to drive around us naked. He had to be on something. Probably high on meth or bath salts.
A sane person would not do this act.
Last chance at life as Montana governor meets with Ronald Smith’s family
Source: Associated Press
Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer met on Friday morning with the family of the Alberta man whose fate is in his hands.
Schweitzer has the final say in whether Ronald Smith’s death sentence will be carried out or whether he will grant Smith’s clemency bid that would change his sentence for two murders in 1982 to life in prison.
A spokesperson for the governor said Schweitzer met with Smith’s sister Rita Duncan, father Nelson Smith, daughter Carmen Blackburn, grandson Myles Blackburn and granddaughter Nycole Blackburn in the governor’s reception room.
The meeting lasted an hour.
According to the local CBS television affiliate, Schweitzer told the family members, “Damn him to hell for forcing the state of Montana for making them sentence him to a state-assisted suicide death,” referring to Smith originally asking for the death sentence before changing his mind
Read more: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/alberta/Last+chance+life+Montana+governor+meets+with+Ronald+Smith/6931554/story.html
BofA Give-Away Has Few Takers Among Homeowners: Mortgages
Bloomberg reports
"When Bank of America Corp. sent letters to 60,000 struggling homeowners offering to slice an average $150,000 off their loans, the lender got an unusual response from most of them: silence.
Homeowners who fell behind on their payments began receiving the mailings in May, part of the bank’s effort to meet terms of the $25 billion industry settlement over foreclosure abuses. More than half haven’t responded as “borrower fatigue” causes them to tune out the offers, said Dan Frahm, a spokesman for the Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank.
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Bank of America Corp. loan negotiators help homeowners with terms of mortgage restructuring in Los Angeles. Photographer: Patrick Fallon/Bloomberg
“The number of customers responding is lower than we expected, given the significant assistance available,” Frahm said in an interview. “We are working very hard to determine why response rates are lower than expectations.”
Bank of America, which pledged almost half of the fines and assistance in the February settlement with state and federal officials, is critical to determining how many U.S. homeowners are helped by the landmark deal. Housing advocates say that relying on the same companies that committed loan servicing abuses to avert foreclosures may result in yet another program that helps fewer people than intended
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I guess people do not trust of Bank of America. They were just did not trust the bank and decided to give up Why trust Bank of America when they have lied and cheated you in the past?
Is Small Business Dying
Thom Hartmann writes
"While small businesses have certainly taken a hit following the Bush Great Recession, the evidence shows that American entrepreneurs have been getting pummeled for more than thirty years. According to a new study released today by the New American Foundation, the number of entrepreneurs per capita has dropped by 53% since 1977. And since 1991, the number of Americans who are self-employed has dropped by more than 20%. In other words, Americans who use to be able to start their own businesses are increasingly being forced to join the ranks of the working poor.
That's because our nation has forgotten how to foster an entrepreneurial class over the last thirty years. With massive tax cuts for the wealthy and for transnational corporations - the rich are getting richer and the big corporations are getting bigger. It doesn't help that we no longer enforce the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and have jumped head-first into so-called Free Trade either, which has given way to giant transnational corporations that small business upstarts simply can't compete with. Not only that, we've destroyed the social safety net in the country, which used to give Americans a chance to take risks and try new jobs because they had a net of security to fall in if they failed.
Today if they fail, they're condemned to indefinite poverty - so no one can afford to take risks to start small businesses. This is the consequence of thirty years of Reaganomics - and it's what Republicans today are doubling-down on.
Is small business is going to die? We don't know. The Republicans claim that liberal policies are making small business die, but Thom Hartmann is making the claim that the conservative policies are doing the opposite. Who is right? Food for thougt.
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