House votes to outlaw 'liar loans'

The House voted Thursday to outlaw "liar loans," ballooning mortgage payments and other bank practices that lawmakers say preyed on consumers who couldn't afford their homes.

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House votes to outlaw 'liar loans'

The House has voted to outlaw so-called liar loans, ballooning mortgage payments and other bank practices that lawmakers say prey on consumers.

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Believe it or not: A list of the top lies of 2008

The Burlington Liars Club in Burlington, Wis., revealed its 2008 Champion Lie on Monday as part of an annual contest.

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Fabulous fib is named Wis. club's top lie of 2008

A whopper about a devious baby and his diapers is the top lie of 2008, an organization of champion fibbers declared Monday. The Burlington Liars Club bestowed its top award for this line: "My grandson is the most persuasive liar I have ever met. By the time he was 2 years old he could dirty his diaper and make his mother believe someone else had done it."

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Wis. Man Named 'World Champion Liar'

A bit of funny math helped James Wilberg win the title of top liar. His winning quip: "There are three kinds of people in the world: Those who are good at math, and those who are not."

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In the end, the budget's going to be very ugly -- in form and in impact. The Legislature and governor should just get it over with quickly, without the usual scapegoating, spatting and stubbornness that sicken voters. California is sinking faster each day!

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Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said higher-income Americans should be taxed to pay for additional troops sent to Afghanistan and that NATO should provide half of the new soldiers.

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Gold prices climbed for the sixth straight session on speculation that the dollar will decline, boosting demand for the metal as an alternative investment.

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In October, the Hong Kong bankers discovered some gold bars shipped from the United States were actually tungsten with gold plating. This is the exact same Modus Operandi as the silver clad zinc dimes from 45 years ago.

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As I've commented on other seeds and articles on NV, this whole "read the bill" crap from Republicans is nothing more than their usual bamboozlement. I'd bet good money that three-fourths of congressional Republicans have not read any of the bills so far presented in both houses.

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By Walter Brasch It wasn't unusual that Rush Limbaugh went ballistic on his show, Nov. 13. He does that several times a day.

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Participation in the Internal Revenue Service's amnesty program was "unprecedented" and the final number was nearly double the agency's estimate in October, U.S. Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Douglas Shulman told reporters in a telephone briefing.

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So the gist of this is, the "pimp/prostitute" bit used to paint ACORN as a bunch of criminal-enabling socialists is a crock. ACORN was set up by a team of liars funded by a fanatical RW organization. Gee, we're all shocked.

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Never fails. The very people hysterically warning of government intrusion into our very most private affairs are the very same people who actually perpetrate it. If Republiscum were capable of feeling shame, none of them would be seen in decent society.

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Democratic leaders promised when their party regained control of the House three years ago that lawmakers would work five-day weeks, but that plan apparently didn't work.

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Two articles: Cavuto Asks If This 'Is Now The Bush Recovery' The opening segment of yesterday’s Your World (10/15/09) focused on the Dow reaching 10,000.

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How did California overestimate its tax revenues for the coming year? Part of the answer is political. By overestimating income tax revenues, the legislature allowed itself to avoid further budget cuts, or for that matter, tax increases.

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Therefore be it Resolved that the California Democratic Party supports the establishment a 1% Tobin Tax on all derivative financial transactions, including speculation in oil futures, credit derivatives, commodities, foreign exchange, and mortgage-backed securities, whether as a …

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Cases of autism amongst children have doubled since 2003 according to a government survey out today, highlighting once again the direct link between vaccines containing mercury and the brain disorder, as millions more parents give the green light for their kids to be injected wit …

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As Congress lurches closer to a decision on an enormous overhaul of the American health care system, pressure is mounting on legislative leaders to make the final bill available online for citizens to read before a vote. Lawmakers were given just hours to examine the $789 billio …

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Whatever the wisdom of ballot initiatives that protect some programs from cuts, they are not the root cause of California's fiscal disaster. That cause is the government's spending addiction. From 1990 to 2008, California's revenues increased 167%, but total spending soared 181%.

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What a hypocritical, lying, two-faced douchenozzle.

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excerpt: "" Michele Bachmann, one of the sickest members of Congress that we've ever seen, keeps up the crazy talk when she lies about what's in the SBHC. ""

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The U.S. recovery will falter as banks continue to curb lending to small companies, said Meredith Whitney, whose 2007 prediction that Citigroup Inc. would cut its dividend triggered a plunge in the bank's stock. 'Accelerating Pace'

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Whitney said in the Journal commentary she believes the U.S. is in the early stages of the second half of this credit cycle.

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Did ACORN chicanery elect Al Franken? That's the import of this tactfully phrased Minneapolis Star Tribune column.** Franken won by 312 votes. ACORN claimed to have registered 48,000 new Minnesota voters.

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The government has secured six guilty pleas so far in its effort, including one Friday, where a New Jersey man pleaded guilty for failing to report about $6.1 million he had held in a UBS AG Swiss bank account.

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CREW's fifth annual report on congressional corruption includes 15 members of Congress, significantly fewer than last year's report. While corruption has remained a significant political issue, many elected officials seem to be taking greater care to avoid unethical conduct.

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Americans cannot get any truth out of their government about anything, the economy included.

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