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Fred D Thompson is scum. Period.

csdeven on December 27, 2007 at 7:59 PM

Enough with the clever ambiguity! Do you like the guy?!

That’s right csdeven, there are some people who are just not deserving of legal counsel. /sarcasm

spacemonkey on December 27, 2007 at 5:27 PM

See, it’s asinine statements like that, that puts you in the Fredbot category. No one said they didn’t deserve representation. But if you think for one minute that regular Americans buy into that argument, you are sorely mistaken. Americans hate lawyers and lobbyists, and especially the ones like Fred who cast away principle for money. Decent folks would rather lose their job than help dictators and terrorists and they will not elect a scum bag like Fred. The Fred loons think that just because they sell their honor to support Fred that everyone else will also.

Fred D Thompson is scum. Period.

Another hurdle for Hispanics is their reliance on multiple earners, multiple jobs, and their reliance on the cash economy, defining factors which differ from the general population. The general population does not have these characteristics and systems and programs have been built without the Hispanic needs in mind.

My translation: reliance on the cash economy because they have no soc. sec. card, or use someone else’s and don’t get credit for their earnings, etc. Cash economy = no taxes, etc., of course.

Another complaint at the NHMA site says that Hispanics don’t get credit for cash remittances sent to their families in their home countries.

Common thread – no assimilation, no serious attempt to learn English, and maybe just a smidgeon of illegal aliens in their midst.

fred5678 on December 27, 2007 at 6:14 PM

Guess that makes the HHG a little SOL eh??

If Thompson had quoted the Hispanic National Mortgage Association he would have played it a little safer:

While millions of American families have gained access to a home and to all the benefits brought upon by homeownership (76% of non-Hispanic whites are homeowners), homeownership rates among Hispanics remain unexplainably low (48% of Hispanics are homeowners): only a small percentage of this difference is explained by the prevailing income differential. This difference, which we call the Hispanic Homeownership Gap is creating significant social hurdles for the Hispanic Community. Unique behavioral, cultural, and idiosyncratic characteristics of the Hispanic population have not been understood and embraced by industry players in the build-up of the different components that make up the mortgage market.

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Hispanics needs are very different from the needs of the average US consumer. Their own experiences in their home countries attest to that: experiences with devaluations, high inflation, debt defaults, confiscation of deposits, and widespread unavailability of credit lead to a general distrust for financial institutions. Immersing this population in the US mainstream credit market is like trying to push a young kid through college bypassing high school. On top of this, there are clear language barriers. The financial industry has not made the necessary investments to address this need; it may have made sense when Hispanics were less than 10% of the population, it is time to act.

My translation: Many immigrant Hispanics don’t assimilate and learn English (encouraged by sympathetic Liberals?), and Conservative mortgage lenders haven’t bothered to learn Spanish, so the HHG (Hispanic Hoemownership Gap) remains problematic.

As the others out “frenzy” themselves, FRED! continues to speak clearly, slowly, and honestly. The fact he actually has plans is a nice bonus too. Don’t be surprised as the rest of the country warms up to this ol’ “Buford Pusser”, he’s walking tall.

The truth may hurt when it’s not PC: if you can’t speak English, you are likely to be a victim of HAUS (haven’t heard that acronym before, I betcha!):

I had not. Sounds very shady. Maybe we need a silly language rule?

Fred has a bigger problem with this

Yahoo News video. Fred Thompson said Hispanics lack of English skills helped cause Morgage Crisis

William Amos on December 27, 2007 at 2:45 PM

The truth may hurt when it’s not PC: if you can’t speak English, you are likely to be a victim of HAUS (haven’t heard that acronym before, I betcha!):

Just who are these borrowers that are defaulting on their mortgage loans at a nearly a 50% rate? Leonardo Simpser of the Hispanic National Mortgage Association (NHMA) says that Hispanic first-time buyers constitute the fastest-growing segment of the subprime mortgage market. He also says that many Latinos, especially recent immigrants, have low FICO credit scores or no scores at all and are less creditworthy than they are in reality.

HNMA is the creator of the Hispanic Automated Underwriting System (HAUS) which claims to allow lenders to “eliminate the need for time-consuming manual underwriting of such applicants, and allows lenders to underwrite borrowers with no Social Security numbers and multiple income sources.”

Remember the strawberry pickers?

If you can’t speak (and COMPREHEND) English, you are at the mercy of unscrupulous lenders. Without that “time-consuming underwriting” you probably AREN’T QUALIFIED! Duh!

Why is it that I’m suddenly liking this guy more and more? I’ll tell you why…because he’s pulling off what Bush did 7 years ago. He’s telling the simple truth. The fact is, we are going to have to “just walk it”.

That’s right csdeven, there are some people who are just not deserving of legal counsel. /sarcasm

spacemonkey on December 27, 2007 at 5:27 PM

And it wasn’t even counsel on his part. He gave jurisdictional advice to a legal team that he was not part of, at least according to a Clinton supporter.

it’ll make the Fredheads shriek like teen girls at a Beatles concert

Second look at use of simile.

know it’ll make the Fredheads shriek like teen girls at a Beatles concert so here you go.

[faints]

I didn’t notice any ActiveX attempts, but there is a version of Flash that is less than 1 month old.

First things first; do you have any other sites open besides HA?

steveegg on December 27, 2007 at 4:20 PM

I think it’s a Norton 2008 thing. No biggie. I can make a quick change in my security settings. I was just curious why it started today. So much for my Hot Air-LGF-Lileks Triple Axis Of Evil (TM) conspiracy.

Now, if I only had an expert on human behavior on this thread, life would be complete.

Nothing terribly interesting here but I know it’ll make the Fredheads shriek like teen girls at a Beatles concert so here you go.

Bwahahahahaha!!! In another word…..groupies!

I had hi hopes but he will be out in a couple of weeks.

KBird on December 27, 2007 at 4:33 PM

Ain’t over till its over. McCain was all but dead not long ago. Polling on Iowa especially, has been notoriously deceptive in the past. What matters in the end is who votes and who does not and we won’t know that till they’re counted. More over, a decent showing may be all thats required.