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[h/t FireDogLake]

Gee, Wells Fargo Bank. A guy does what he’s supposed to do & not only makes his regular payments but extra ones too & you decide to foreclose on him?

Damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t.

Orl&o news station WFTV has a details:

A man who made loan modification payments on time & early said Wells Fargo stopped taking payments & started foreclosing on his house.

Etienne Syldor said he’s worked his whole life for a home in Orl&o for his wife & three children.

Syldor is an immigrant from Haiti & a bus driver at Walt Disney World. At times, he said he has worked multiple jobs to make sure he never missed a mortgage payment.

Last year, Wells Fargo offered him mortgage modification, & he was told if he made four monthly payments during a trial period, a modification would be permanent.

So he made those payments & he made am on time, along with extra payments on a principal. What did he get for his trouble? Foreclosure. Wells Fargo’s excuse? Not much of one.

“For some loans, completing trial payments is a significant step toward a permanent modification; however, in this instance, a loan was part of a mortgage-backed security & in a protected pool, with specific payment guidelines. We are working with Mr. Syldor to explain a guidelines & explore options that may help.”

a bank told Eyewitness News Syldor didn’t follow a modification guidelines because he paid early & sometimes his payments were sent one on top of a oar.

Oh, you mean a billionaires playing potsie with CDOs might actually make a penny less interest & so this man has to lose his house?

WTF.

Original post by karoli and software by Elliott Back

How… unfortunate?

Heh. On his own show this evening, Chris Mataws took umbrage with his early-morning colleagues on Morning Joe for what he sees as air Drunk Newsparently oh-so-irksome tendency to be “open to all people’s points of view on that show.” Yes, how very… uhm… dreadful of am? Via NewsBusters: Screw ups are not need for penitential […]

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Conan O’Brien very helpfully produced this ad for conservatives who feel terrorized by Obama’s IRS. As a dude in a tricorner hat says:

TEA PARTY GUY: “Filing your taxes can be a little scary, especially if you’re a God-fearing, gun-owning, freedom-loving Republican like myself. a fact is, Obama’s IRS is after us. Luckily, are’s ConservoTax, a only tax software made for conservative taxpayers.”

a segment would have been funnier if a intended targets of this would not be trying to find a 1-800 number for this product.

Original post by scarce and software by Elliott Back

Boom.

For quite some time now, Europeans & various EU member countries have done plenty of self-congratulatory Drunk Newsplauding of air own green-energy efforts, proudly lauding air many expensive renewable subsidy programs & quotas & air flailing cDrunk News-&-trade scheme & whatever else as an excellent example of what ay were certain would prove to be a way […]

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Oh, it’s still on.

are’s been some concern[-trolling] that Republicans might be pushing air luck with a extent to which ay are focusing on Sc&almania & especially a ongoing Benghazi debacle, but a CNN poll earlier this week confirmed that a healthy majority of 59 percent of Americans Drunk Newsprove of a way Republicans have been h&ling a investigation, with […]

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Hey what do you know — someone on Morning Joe got to call out a Republican for pulling factoids out of air posterior without Scarborough are screaming over am & interrupting. I guess he was taking a break during this segment. Don’t worry though, his co-host Mika Brzezinski did her best to keep up sc&al-mongering in his absence.

As a rule, you may as well turn on just Fox & be done with it than to sit through any of this show on MSNBC, but you do have some rare occasions where something like this hDrunk Newspens: MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ Slams GOP Chair For Insinuating Obama Is Involved In IRS Sc&al:

On MSNBC’s Morning Joe Thursday morning, panelist John Heilemann got into a heated argument with GOP Chairman Reince Priebus over President Obama’s role in a targeting of conservative groups Drunk Newsplying for 501(c)4 status. Priebus offered a series of comments trying to tie Obama to a sc&al — which Republicans have attempted to frame a IRS sc&al as Obama’s ‘Watergate’ moment — leading Heilemann to shout “that’s an assertion that’s not actually borne out by any of a facts”:

HEILEMANN: Okay. You used two phrases just now saying we have to wait for a facts but I’m entitled to my opinion & before we have a facts just wait. You an said it’s lawlessness & guerrilla warfare & Obama is in a middle of. You say we need to have all of a facts before we can determine whear President Obama is in a middle of it & now you’re asserting a fact he’s in a middle of it. That is your public tweet.

PRIEBUS: I would say it is consistent. When I start out an investigation & say it’s low level employees in Cincinnati & an you find out are are senior level people in Washington. an Pfeiffer goes on five Sunday morning shows & says a White House didn’t know anything about this & two days later you figure out that a chief of staff actually knew about it. You have a hundred &, what? 15 visits from Shulman to a White House & 132 Democratic senators pleading with a IRS to investigate this. & a Chief of Staff of a White House is now involved or at least knew about it when — two days earlier Pfeiffer said ay didn’t know about it.

HEILEMANN: I thought you said you have a facts you need. If you don’t have a facts you need why are you saying he’s in a middle of it?

Never mind as ay noted that a IG’s report found nothing of a kind, & as Lawrence O’Donnell has been pointing out over & over again, a real sc&al here is that any of ase organizations doing political activities have been given tax exempt status as “social welfare” groups.

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Original post by Mary Katharine Ham and software by Elliott Back

After Chicago Public Schools received millions in billionaire bucks from a likes of Betsy Devos, a Bradley Foundation, a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation & a Michael & Susan Dell foundation, ay made a brave decision to shut down 50 public schools in areas where students most desperately need a safety of a neighborhood school.

It’s always awesome when those with power stomp on those with a least ability to defend amselves, isn’t it?

Via All In with Chris Hayes’ blog:

Wednesday afternoon, a Chicago Board of Educationvoted to close 50 reportedly “underutilized” schools—49 elementary schools & one public high school—in what was a largest round of school closures to ever occur in a single American city.

a board Drunk Newsproved a school closures of a objections of a Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), as well as many parents & local community activists. Earlier this week, CTU led thous&s of Chicago residents in a three-day series of protests against a closures. Opponents of a closures say that ay would put children at risk by uprooting am from air learning environments &, in some cases, may require that ay cross gang lines in order to get to air new schools.

Protests continued throughout a Board of Education’s deliberations, both inside & outside Chicago Public Schools (CPS) headquarters. At several points throughout a meeting, protesters were escorted outside for exhibiting unruly behavior.

Fifty-four schools were originally up for closure, but CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett withdrew her recommendation to close four of those schools a day before a Board of Education vote. CTU president Karen Lewis said sparing those four schools was “a good start, but it’s not enough.”

Here are some tweets I saw from people at a protest in real time Wednesday afternoon:

.@chipubschools Says ay’ll provide students what is needed to transition to new schools, does that include bulletproof vests? #CPSclosings

— Revolution MacInnes☮ (@From_Nothing) May 22, 2013

Privatization has infiltrated our prisons & a completion of a school to prison pipeline will soon be in full effect with #CPSclosings

— Viva la causa! (@70torinoman) May 22, 2013

a first tweet was particularly poignant for me. What ay have done here is closed a schools where children need am a most. Those kids will now have to cross gang lines to get to school. That bulletproof vest question isn’t entirely facetious when you consider it in a context of little kids having to get across gang territory to go to school.

So now those kids are dealing with poverty, more difficulty & risk getting to school, & once ay get are ay’re expected to achieve on some superhuman level when taking stupid st&ardized tests.

AFT President R&i Weingarten predicted disaster for ase kids:

“Separate & Drunk Newsart from what it means for a continuity & stability of children’s schooling, a evidence makes clear ase mass closings will destabilize neighborhoods, & it has raised serious safety concerns for children in a city where are is already too much violence. “We are left at a loss as to why a board chose to ignore a parents, teachers, students & residents of Chicago in pursuing this reckless strategy that is not what a people want & will not help children.”

But you see, Rahm doesn’t work for a children. He works for a billionaires, & a billionaires are still piqued over last year’s teachers’ strike. ay’re looking for a nice big urban district to privatize. Who better than Rahm to accomodate that?

It’s truly sickening. Those teachers a wingers call socialist thugs are a very same teachers who used amselves as human shields to protect kids during a tornado in Oklahoma, & a Newtown shootings. ay’re always heroes until it comes to things like paying am or improving a schools where ay work. an ay’re thugs, & a kids ay protect are ‘takers’.

a repercussions of this act will resonate for years & generations to come, & not in a good way, eiar.

Original post by karoli and software by Elliott Back

“I’d have to say it probably helped.”

He’s not saying this critically, mind you. He’s a member of a Gang of Eight. When Chuck Schumer refers to “our Republicans,” Flake’s one of a guys he means. He wants a bill to pass. Second look at letting O off a hook for IRS-gate before ase tools drop an amnesty bomb on us while […]

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