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In reply to the discussion: Darrell Issa has SERIOUSLY pissed off the wrong black people [View all]kwassa
(23,340 posts)38. Darrell Issa is an Eastern Orthodox "Christian", and Lebanon is religiously mixed.
Darrell is also ruthless hater of Obama.
I was shocked to look up his bio. His mom is Mormon of Czech background. Read the Wiki bit on him:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Issa
After leaving the military, Issa and his second wife, Kathy Stanton, moved back to the Cleveland area. They pooled their savings, sold their cars, and borrowed $50,000 from his family to invest in Quantum Enterprises, an electronics manufacturer run by a friend from Cleveland Heights that assembled bug zappers, CB radio parts and other consumer products for other companies. One of those clients, car alarm manufacturer Steal Stopper, would become the path to Issa's fortune. It was struggling badly, and he took control of it by foreclosing a $60,000 loan he had made to it when its founder, Joey Adkins, missed a payment. Adkins remained as an employee.[9]
Issa soon turned Steal Stopper around, to the point that it was supplying Ford with thousands of car alarms and negotiating a similar deal with Toyota. But early in the morning of September 7, 1982, the offices and factory of Quantum and Steal Stopper in the Cleveland suburb of Maple Heights, caught fire. The fire took three hours to put out. The buildings and almost all inventory within were destroyed. An investigation of the cause of the fire noted "suspicious burn patterns" with fires starting in two places aided by an accelerator such as gasoline.[9] Adkins said that Issa appeared to prepare for a fire by increasing the fire insurance policy 462% three weeks previously, and by removing computer equipment holding accounting and customer information. Adkins said that he thinks Issa set the fire on purpose. The insurance company was suspicious of arson and paid only about one-tenth the insured amount.[19]
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It looks that way, doesn't it? It's astonishing how much power Grover Norquist,
Number23
May 2013
#3
Oh, please. I am begging you PLEASE post a link to the Tweet about Public Enemy
Number23
May 2013
#8
I know. That should have been the "young" people patting him on the back's first clue
Number23
May 2013
#13
With Paul Ryan wanting to repeal the 14th Amendment, guaranteeing citizenship after the Civil War?
freshwest
May 2013
#32
Well, it's supposed to be a public hearing so hopefully there won't be a need to "leak" anything
Number23
May 2013
#19
Haha! I just noticed how Obama is helping the Marine by taking some weight off his arm there.
freshwest
Jun 2013
#40
Darrell Issa is an Eastern Orthodox "Christian", and Lebanon is religiously mixed.
kwassa
May 2013
#38