Posts by freydi

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Why won't US media talk about what's really going on?

by dinah in

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c'mon people!.

puppy abuse and a pga golfer facing criminal for hitting an endangered bird?

gimme a freakin' break.. if you watch any news on television, you might as well just turn on e!

freydi

I remember the day I discovered that the US was basically a pagan nation, but calling itself Christian. I also remember discovering that it is also fascist but calling itself a democracy. The real powers don't want the truth disseminated publicly. So much tado is made over non-important trivial things by the propaganda tools aka the news media and their political pitchmen, while the big things are either ignored, perverted or undermined and as concepts of righteousness and justice are made a mockery of for the sake of expediency, power, profit or just plain lust by those with charisma and/or legal expertise and money that usually masquerade in sheep's clothing and say they do nice things for children.

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When is the Memorial?

by lavendar in

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#1) i don't know when the memorial is ...... and #2) i'm planning on having a family get-together dinner at the end of this month, but i don't want to choose the evening of the memorial; because our two jw relatives wouldn't be able to attend our dinner on that day.

i know they'll be going to the memorial.. thanks for letting me know the date!

lavendar .

freydi

Nisan 14 is April 19th Passover that begins after sundown the 18th. Dubs and the rest of Christendom are having their Easter organizational memorial in 2 weeks. http://dafyomi.shemayisrael.co.il/calendars/cal12-nazir.htm

"Scriptures do specifically mention the waving of the firstfruits in connection with the Passover ceremony. This tie-in is actually the only direct Scriptural basis for confirming the season of the year because the spring equinox is not referenced. To ignore the tie-in with the first grain harvest would seem to do violence to the original requirement, which becomes significant as a type of Christ’s resurrection on Nisan 16 in 33 A.D. Its omission might seem to seriously undermine the Scriptural support for the timing of the Passover celebration." http://www.heraldmag.org/2005/05ma_10.htm

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Email Carpet Bomb

by feenx in

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hey everybody

yesterday i successfully sent off an email carpet bomb to top jiffy lube execs, including the president of the company, in reference to my on going dispute with them.

according to consumerist.com email carpet bombs can be quite successful as companies dont want it reported to the public that direct contact with a top officer of a company went unresolved.

freydi

Reminds me of tactics employed back in the 60's by one Saul Alinsky. A political/group organizer and considered "the father of community organizing." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky. He always maintained that to get action all you needed were volunteers. He lived in Chicago and my favorite story was when Mayor Daley was backing down on certain campaign promises. Alinsky knew it wouldn't do any good to picket City Hall. If you wanted to get to "hizzonor", you'd have to get him where it really hurt. The best place as far as Alinsky was concerned would be O'hare Field, Daley's pride and joy that symbolized Chicago as a major international city. He got together 3000 volunteers and threatened to send them all out for a day at the airport with magazines and sack lunches tying up the restroom facilities. You can imagine the chaos. It would make front page headlines worldwide. And no one would be more mortified than Mayor Daley. ROTFLMBO The plan was leaked to city hall operatives and results were instantaneous. All were invited down to meet with the mayor and nobody could figure out how anybody could get the idea that Mayor Daley would ever back down on a campaign promise. This plan was to be known as the world's first s***-in. There were handshakes and slaps on the back and the mayor came thru.

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Book by elder urging reinstatement! Son committed suicide....

by crazyblondeb in

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i was just cruising another xjw website, and they had this posted.

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the son committed suicide after being df'd........it's just so sad they can't get what they are doing to people.. .

freydi

Agree totally MMae

Are there any jw suicide statistics resulting from df'g?

Bernake BS Home lenders told: Cut back

by freydi in

http://www.suntimes.com/business/825682,cst-fin-wallet05web1.article .

home lenders told: cut back .

mortgages | bernanke calls for reduced loan amounts, aid to borrowers .

freydi

http://www.suntimes.com/business/825682,CST-FIN-wallet05WEB1.article

Home lenders told: Cut back

Mortgages | Bernanke calls for reduced loan amounts, aid to borrowers

March 5, 2008
BY FRANCINE KNOWLES [email protected]

Local and state officials who've called on lenders to do more to help homeowners facing foreclosure, were joined in that stance Tuesday by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, who urged lenders to reduce the amount of the loans to help struggling owners.

''This situation calls for a vigorous response,'' Bernanke said in a speech to a banking group meeting in Orlando, Fla.Even with some relief efforts under way by industry and government, foreclosures and late payments on home mortgages are likely to continue to rise, Bernanke warned. Longer-term permanent solutions may work better than shorter-term and temporary ones, where the distressed homeowner could find himself in trouble again, he said.

Attorney General Lisa Madigan, who has blamed unscrupulous lenders for the crisis, welcomed Bernanke's recommendation.

"That would help a lot of people," she said, adding, "We want to see solutions that are sustainable either reducing the amount of the loan or fixing a rate that's affordable."

Bernanke acknowledged his idea might be a tough sell to lenders, whom he said, are reluctant to write down principal. ''They say that if they were to write down the principal and house prices were to fall further, they could feel pressured to write down principal again,'' he said.

But Mesirow Financial Chief Economist Diane Swonk says both lenders and borrowers would benefit from such action. She stressed it should be targeted at struggling home owners living in their homes, not speculators.

"At this point in time lenders are losing on foreclosures really dramatically," she said. "It's a loss for both lenders and borrowers alike. So if they (lenders) were willing to reduce the principal . . . for legitimate homeowners, homeowners would stay in their homes. . . . That would reduce the cost and write off to lenders . . . limiting collateral damage from the subprime fallout. It would be a win win to both lenders and borrowers."

But JP Morgan Chase, which said it has worked with customers to modify more than $675 million of subprime adjustable-rate mortgages and is in the process of modifying or refinancing an additional $3 billion of subprime ARMs, contends it doesn't have the flexibility to unilaterally reduce loan amounts.

The bank did not originate the bulk of the mortgage loans in its portfolio, spokesman Tom Kelly said.

"We're a large servicer of loans. We're servicing loans for investors," he said. "Reducing the loan amount, that requires investor input."

Investors have to decide if they are financially better of owning the house or working out some modification to keep people in their homes, he said.

Bernanke said banks were taking action, but the results are inadequate.

"Although lenders and servicers have scaled up their efforts and adopted a wider variety of loss-mitigation techniques, more can, and should, be done,'' nationally, Bernanke said Tuesday. ''Principal reductions that restore some equity for the homeowner may be a relatively more effective means of avoiding delinquency and foreclosure."

Chicago's Department of Housing launched a program in October targeting people at risk of losing their homes. Nearly 1,200 people have attended, said Molly Sullivan, spokeswoman for the city's Department of Housing. It appears roughly half of the people who've attended the sessions have been helped to stay in their homes, she said. But that means half are likely still at risk of losing them.

Contributing: Associated Press

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Identity Theft

by freydi in

watching dr phil today with a victim and rep from the ftc, who's only offer of help is to check your credit rating every few months.

of course he didn't offer any help for people who have been victimized for years, like children.

why do we live in society when victims have no recourse except to go the legal profession who made the laws that protect the criminals to begin with?

freydi

Watching Dr Phil today with a victim and rep from the FTC, who's only offer of help is to check your credit rating every few months. Of course he didn't offer any help for people who have been victimized for years, like children. Why do we live in society when victims have no recourse except to go the legal profession who made the laws that protect the criminals to begin with?

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