Where Are My Keys?

Imagine that..

The Denver City Council votes (9-4) to ban homeless camping.  Wow, enforcing the law, who would have thunk that to be such a difficult decision to make!

The law, which would forbid unauthorized camping on public and private property in Denver, would go into effect May 30 — giving authorities time to train for enforcement.

Denver Police Chief Robert White said he expects police to have a "light touch" and that arrests would occur only as a last resort.

Councilman Albus Brooks, who introduced the bill, read into the record new standard operating procedures for police that promise no homeless person will be arrested if shelter space is unavailable.

I see this as a tool to help businesses along the 16th Street Mall by clearing the sidewalks of sleeping bags, and thus encouraging tourists and customers to spend more time there.  I'm sure they will also use the ordinance to clear out the "Occupy" camp in Civic Center Park.

Long overdue. 

How will he explain this to Malia and Sasha?

Top Obama donor accused of fraud:

The New York donor, Abake Assongba, and her husband contributed more than $50,000 to Obama's re-election effort this year, federal records show. But Assongba is also fending off a civil court case in Florida, where she's accused of thieving more than $650,000 to help build a multimillion-dollar home in the state — a charge her husband denies.

Obama is the only presidential contender this year who released his list of "bundlers," the financiers who raise campaign money by soliciting high-dollar contributions from friends and associates. But that disclosure has not come without snags; his campaign returned $200,000 last month to Carlos and Alberto Cardona, the brothers of a Mexican fugitive wanted on federal drug charges.

Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt declined comment to The Associated Press. He instead referred the AP to previous statements he made to The Washington Post, which first reported the allegations against Assongba in its Sunday editions. LaBolt told the paper 1.3 million Americans have donated to the campaign, and that it addresses issues with contributions promptly.

Has the President called to check on the McClain family yet?

I'm guessing the answer is "no", because we would have heard all about it from our esteemed Media.

For those of you keeping score at home, the President will call you if you are a 30 -year old woman who wants free birth control, and a Republican talk show host hurt your feelings by calling you a name; but hasn't called a family that had to go into hiding because a Democrat filmmaker tweeted their address to an angry mob out for "justice".

Got it?

I hope the McClain family sues Spike Lee into the poorhouse.

Why is Jon Corzine not in prison?

Facts are pesky things..

 

Lawbreaker!!

Ok, now is it time for Holder to go?

Lies, murder, bribery..  it's the Chicago way!

A U.S. Justice Department source has told The Daily Caller that at least two DOJ prosecutors accepted cash bribes from allegedly corrupt finance executives who were indicted under court seal within the past 13 months, but never arrested or prosecuted.

The sitting governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands, his attorney general and an unspecified number of Virgin Islands legislators also accepted bribes, the source said, adding that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is aware prosecutors and elected officials were bribed and otherwise compromised, but has not held anyone accountable.

The bribed officials, an attorney with knowledge of the investigation told TheDC, remain on the taxpayers’ payroll at the Justice Department without any accountability. The DOJ source said Holder does not want to admit public officials accepted bribes while under his leadership.

That source said that until the summer of 2011, the two compromised prosecutors were part of a team of more than 25 federal prosecutors pursuing a financial crime ring, and at least five other prosecutors tasked to the case were also compromised by the criminal suspects they were investigating, without being bribed.

Maybe at the next GOP debate, a moderator could ask about this, and not what Romney's tax rate is?

Just sayin'.

DOJ leadership has been fretting internally, the source said, about how to handle the story when the news breaks because it represents a new level of corruption in the Obama administration. The Holder Justice Department is concerned about the appearance that it lacks the competence to enforce the laws in which Obama has shown political interest, including those related to corruption and other financial crimes.

“MF Global is in its strongest position ever,”..

That came from an e-mailsent to S & P a week before MF Global went belly-up.

A week before MF Global Holdings Ltd. collapsed, its chief financial officer told Standard & Poor’s in an e-mail that the futures broker had “never been stronger.”

S&P provided the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations with an excerpt of the e-mail from MF Global CFO Henri Steenkamp. S&P also informed the panel that Jon Corzine, then MF Global’s chief executive officer, met with its analysts on Oct. 20 to reassure them that his $6.3 billion bet on European sovereign debt was no threat to the firm, according to a Jan. 17 letter obtained by Bloomberg News.

U.S. lawmakers will turn their attention to the role of the ratings companies in the failure of MF Global at a Feb. 2 hearing after summoning Corzine, the former governor of New Jerseyand Goldman Sachs Group Inc. co-chairman, to two hearings in December. S&P ranked MF Global as investment grade until its failure, while Moody’s downgraded it to junk status four days earlier.

You know what we need?  Regulations to prevent things like this from happening.  What's that?  There are already regulations in place?

Regulators are considering how to implement portions of the Dodd-Frank financial regulation overhaul that instruct them to remove credit ratings from rules. Lawmakers may push for a stricter interpretation of the law after the MF Global hearing, Atorino said.

MF Global, which had been building its European positions since June 2010, first disclosed them in regulatory filings last May, according to a memoby the subcommittee’s staff dated Jan. 27. Ross, the lawyer for Moody’s, said in the letter that “nothing stood out” in those filings for its analysts. Parmelee didn’t say how S&P’s analysts reacted to the disclosure in his letter.

Huh.  So regulations and rules already existed, yet somehow this one was able to slip through the cracks?  How can that be?  It's almost as if someone that wanted to circumvent the regulators somehow found a way to do that.

Imagine that.

Criminals will always find a way to break the law, regardless of how many rules, regulations, and laws are put into place.

Nope, no reason to require ID when you vote..

Because we have all sorts of checks and balances to prevent voter fraud, right?  Make sure to skip ahead to the 8:20 mark, where the Ward Moderator explains how dead people get purged from the voting rolls.

 

I totally thought the article was going to be about a mishap at an 80's reunion concert..

Police: Man Drove Into Flock Of Seagulls.

 

They bring a gun to a fight, you bring a stuffed monkey..

It's the Des Moines way.

Preston James Phipps, 24, of Des Moines, was arrested late Saturday night after allegedly causing problems at the Git-N-Go convenience store at 2601 S.W. Ninth St. in Des Moines.

Police Officer Andrew Pirtle said in a report that he saw a man carrying two stuffed animals leaving the store about 10:20 p.m. Moments later the officer was flagged down and informed that the man had just made a mess in the store.

Officer Pirtle stopped the man near Southwest Ninth and Loomis Avenue. As they talked, Pirtle noted the man’s mood switched quickly from passive to aggressive. When Pirtle tried to take Phipps into custody, Phipps allegedly swung around and hit the officer in the face with a stuffed monkey.