was a major part of our world leadership
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From working on a bank fraud criminal case long ago, my guess is that they’re using bank fraud to go after enemies because the statute is broad and sorta vague. It basically says don’t commit bank fraud, and if you do, we can send you to jail.
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Yeah, that’s what I figured. Another sad entry in “What do we get by following the laws” written by Democrats …
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"The WaPo obtained from an anonymous administration official a confidential Fannie Mae memo address to Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte: “The memo said that on May 12, Fannie’s financial crimes investigations unit received a document demand from FHFA’s inspector general concerning Schiff’s home, including requests for loan files and other documents.”
We all know what’s going on here.
For decades politicians have been abstruse about their residencies. Most (all?) states have some level of residency requirements to qualify as a Senator or Rep from that state. Because of that, the declared address of record is your “primary” residence. Then many have homes in or near DC. They have vacation residences. Hell, a lot of them own multiple residences. IANAL, but most of what I read indicates a lot of favorable lending terms hinge on the attested status of what you’re buying. If claiming a home as your primary residence gets you help on terms or down payment, whatever, it should be where you mainly reside, right? And if you are a Senator from CA you probably should have a primary residence in CA. And if you apply to buy a property in another state, and tell the bank or a State/Federal lending partner it is your primary residence, in order to get favorable terms, I suppose that constitutes some sort of mortgage fraud. I have no idea if Schiff did this. But if he did, targeted treatment or not, didn’t he bring this upon himself? Is the public supposed to want him left alone, because “everyone does it”?
One could credibly argue that the Republicans hold a quadrafecta. After all, they are soundly in control of the Supreme Court as well.
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The decision marks the first time a federal appeals court has allowed a state to strictly limit the drug, teeing up a key test of states’ powers to ban medication approved by the Food and Drug Administration,”
It will be very interesting to see how the Six Supreme Nazgûl manage to rule that states like WV have the right to ban medications that are widely regarded as safe, but states like CA do not have the right to control pollution that is generally regarded as harmful.
Oh, who am I kidding? They won’t even bother trying to justify the contradiction; they’ll just rule as they please, with a snotty “suck it, libtards” concurring opinion from Sam and Clarence.
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" Publish and be damned."
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Hey. When your old jalopy gets to a certain point, you just slap any old paint on it to cover the rust.
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Scientific research… particularly medical, climate and computer science (surely there’s a 21st century term, I just can’t think of it at the moment) is a global, collaborative effort. US researchers and students will migrate to where their collaborators are and the work will go on. The US just won’t be part of it. As an aside, trying to envision a payment mechanism whereby the US will be surcharged for the products of research they did not help fund.
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Yup. Blur the victims, drop everything else unedited, should’ve done that years ago.
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They’re supposed to get sweetheart rent deals (which I doubt are reflected in income tax returns) from lobbyist landlords, like Republicans do.
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*unless you’re a Democrat, particularly named Hillary. 
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I can’t ponder that too long because it makes me want to strangle something and there’s nothing conveniently located.
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Especially if their job is representing the people of their home state.… as opposed to operating a golf resort?
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Leaving aside the fact that the resident Arabs didn’t want them there, what the Jews wanted after centuries of persecution and the horror of the Holocaust was what everyone else on the planet wants: a homeland, with safety and self-determination in a sovereign state. With the added wrinkle of a specifically religious state, where government laws would be modeled on Judaism.
That goal was incompatible with simply buying land and living alongside the resident Arabs. In the aftermath of WW2, the winners of that war were able to make it happen. Badly, as it turned out, in the division of territory, subsequent wars and the Nakba (Palestinian eviction from their homeland). But it’s how we got here.
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Some of the between-the-wars Zionists did exactly that.
Those pre-WW1 bought from Ottoman landlords, so they were also displacing people who had no legal rights to the land they had been living on for generations.
And if you read Exodus, the Israelite conquest of the Promised Land was not exactly bloodless, so not a good precedent.
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Rainy morning here in Tucson. Rained all night. And thunder & lightning.
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Today’s heather and Paul:
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Try a straight neck squash. Later make a soup.
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