(05-29-2015 02:23 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(05-29-2015 02:21 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  

(05-29-2015 12:20 PM)fsquid Wrote:  the bank has to report a SAR if they see someone withdrawing a regular amount of money right under the limit. FBI investigates and find him not being honest.

Already read the LATimes article about what the issue was. Wonder if the gays and libs will come out to defend Hastert? My guess is no. Hypocrites.

Anyway, not sure what an SAR is (I'll take a stab and say "Suspicious Activity Report?) My question is: if they have a required limit for reporting, and then they have to report even under that required limit, what the heck does the limit mean? It seems like it's kinda BS to have a required limit that you don't then pay attention to.

They could lower the limit. But, more rationally, seeing as how inflation keeps making everything more expensive, it would seem more reasonable to raise the limit for required reporting, not lower it. To wit-- they raised FDIC insurance from $100K to more than double at $250K, so should this "Required reporting Limit" be raised accordingly, from $10,000 up to $25,000?

If I regularly take $10 out of my account to go buy cat litter for my cat, is that suspicious? Is it the regularity or the amount? If it is the regularity, then everybody is potentially suspicious, as we all regularly withdraw money. And if it is the amount, why does the limit not seem to mean anything? It just seems like BS from that aspect. I wish the government had better things to do instead of getting involved in the minutia of every citizen's lives. That's not what the country was founded for.

Why would we defend accusations of sexual abuse by a teacher/coach involving a student?

That's indefensible.

Not according to Kevin Jennings, Obama's safe school czar..

(04-11-2016 02:43 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(04-11-2016 02:40 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  FFS, I was once offered a date with a hot chick on the staff of a developer if I could help the developer get a railroad trestle repainted.

Perhaps they should have offered Hastert a date with her baby brother.

Sorry, this whole thing is simply disgusting. Pretty much the Barney Frank of the right.

Frank molested young boys?

(05-29-2015 08:19 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  

(05-29-2015 07:42 PM)boss man Wrote:  With Hastert being an ex-wrestling and football coach from 1966 - 1981, I suspect he was very similar to the Penn State pedophile Sandusky that Paterno helped cover up all those years. I just heard that a second person is now claiming being a victim of Hastert. I bet Bill Cosby is glad, too.

Owl69 is right - $3.5mm in hush money is a HUGE AMOUNT to pay over the years to keep the lid on your crime(s). Damn. Did Hastert play hide the salami with the entire starting defense or what?

I'm concerned for the people who might have been victims. I also wonder, is not extortion and blackmail a crime? How convenient if they gave immunity to "Individual A." Is he not also a criminal? Hard to feel as sorry for someone to the tune of blackmailing $3.5 million. The whole thing is a mess, and is apparently only getting started. Wish we could get some values back in this country. Oh, wait. That's against the law. There is no God. Do whatever you want. All that jazz.

A person who does whatever they want (a Relativist) will eventually find themselves in a place they never wanted to be, doing what they never intended to do.

That's a perfect example why having some objective truth and morals makes society better, and relativism makes it worse. As Louis CK said on Sat Night Live Finale monologue: "I'm sure they didn't even think what they were doing was wrong." If you don't have objective truth, and promote 'do whatever you want that feels good', no surprise that it leads here. Objective truth has to come from somewhere outside of where you are. Objective truth used to help stop most people from doing what was wrong, even if they had some desire. There used to be more of a stronger and more or less coherent objection to destructive behaviors that left unchecked could threaten society and bring it down from within. Today, not so much. But in a society that says "Everything you want to do is good, do what feels good to you, there is no God, you are just acting like who you are, you deserve to be happy" what is to give people more pause?

People make fun of religion, particularly Christianity, and most specifically Catholicism, like it's just some made up set of rules to keep people from having fun. Now, it's not always easy or fun to follow these objective truths and the rules that come from them. In today's society, there is an inherent conflict. Too many people give up and walk away because they think it will ruin their fun and freedom. Yet they make their lives worse, not better, by not sticking with the sometimes difficult objective truth.

Some say: the Law is the objective truth. This statement belies a childish misunderstanding of what the Law is. The law is neither true nor false, right nor wrong. It is merely the law: the currently agreed upon and (sometimes, but not always, especially depending on who you are and how much you and others have to gain or lose from it) always changeable list of rules man has made up for himself. If it is based on whims, with no objectivity in it, then it is worthless (and oftentimes is).

The Founders of America certainly weren't perfect. But there never would have been an America without an understanding of God. Especially without a Judeo-Christian understanding. "We hold these Truths to be self evident" Not 'We hold these Laws or these Rules or these Regulations or these Policies to be self-evident.'

People have gotten so far away that they don't even know where the idea of America, of a country that would someday be truly free, came from. It's not perfect, but it is based upon the idea that there is an objective, unchanging, divinely granted Truth. Yes, we tolerate the idea that some hold there is no God. But when we are ruled by the idea there is no God, then who's to say what is really right or wrong? It's just whatever the majority wants, or even whatever some clever special interest subset of elites want (cough, ACA, cough) and can sneak into the laws by clever and disingenuous political maneuvering.

Without a clear understanding of a Judeo-Christian God, and His objective Truth, you can't have America the way it was set up to be. Look at Isis. You think that's religion? No it's a bunch of crazies. That doesn't come from any God of free will. Freedom is the freedom to freely choose against, and there is none of that in Izzydom. You atheists, go try living over there and saying there is no god and see if your head stays attached to your body for long. That is what comes from nut-jobs doing whatever they want, given enough time, without an objective truth. There is no free will. And truth requires free choice. They kill their own. You could never get the idea of America, much less the actual implementation of it as a country from the cult of Izzylame. That's the truth. Lest you say, "those are just radicals, there are peaceful Izzys, you are dead wrong. The truth is Isis are actually faithfully implementing what their cult says to do. And the so-called "peaceful' Izzys are all marked for death before non-believers are, because they are apostates.

This is probably best left to another thread, but here's a very important link to really understand the difference. Before you click, be sure you have a little time to read and digest the whole thing. While it classifies this nonsense as a religion, and has some other shortcomings, it is the best explanation I've seen so far that really shows you what's going on in the world, but most people won't read every word, or even past the first few paragraphs. It fails the twitter test. Truth about things often does not fit in twitter, sorry, but it's true. Another minus -1 for smartphones.

Here's the link, and I'll start a new thread and come back and link it for discussion for those who wish to: What ISIS Really Wants.

and here's the new thread for discussing it for those who wish, so we don;t derail this one from the Hastert discussion:
http://csnbbs.com/thread-738889.html

Otherwise, a group can get any law passed and make it stick. Who knows, maybe in the future what Hastert did will be [perfectly legal. Lest you doubt it, there are already strong and increasingly growing movements to make this the next big liberal cause for equality. To me this is obviously objectively sick. Hard to believe, but they have learned from and are piggy-backing on the whole gay-marriage movement, who learned from and piggy-backed on the anti-life, anti-baby movement.

Look up "post-birth abortion" and you will see this is also a real thing. It used to be called infanticide. But what's so special about passing through the birth canal anymore? It's unwanted. Kill it. Then you can get to genocide. And then they came for me...and there was no one left to defend me. History repeats, my friends, it just takes a long enough time horizon. Put away your smartphone, get you brain working.

Do you speed?

(04-11-2016 03:01 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(04-11-2016 02:43 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(04-11-2016 02:40 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  FFS, I was once offered a date with a hot chick on the staff of a developer if I could help the developer get a railroad trestle repainted.

Perhaps they should have offered Hastert a date with her baby brother.
Sorry, this whole thing is simply disgusting. Pretty much the Barney Frank of the right.

Frank molested young boys?

He had a prostitution ring operating out of his house. If you want to split hairs to make that seem somehow better, have at it.

he diddled boys on his wrestling team. Remember all the stones he cast while impeaching Clinton.......great joke.

I hope he suffers horribly for what he has done.

(04-11-2016 05:09 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(04-11-2016 03:01 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(04-11-2016 02:43 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(04-11-2016 02:40 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  FFS, I was once offered a date with a hot chick on the staff of a developer if I could help the developer get a railroad trestle repainted.

Perhaps they should have offered Hastert a date with her baby brother.
Sorry, this whole thing is simply disgusting. Pretty much the Barney Frank of the right.

Frank molested young boys?

He had a prostitution ring operating out of his house. If you want to split hairs to make that seem somehow better, have at it.

You really need a better understanding of what splitting hairs means. The ring was not run by him. And it did not involve underage boys being molested against their will.

Disgraced ex-Congressman Reynolds arrested again

Quote:CHICAGO- Former U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds was taken into federal custody Monday morning in Atlanta after a judge in Chicago ordered his arrest because he didn't appear for a hearing in a tax case last month, federal officials said.

Reynolds was arrested Monday at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport when his flight arrived from Johannesburg, U.S. Marshals Service spokeswoman Belkis Cantor Sandoval said. He has pleaded not guilty on a misdemeanor charge of failing to file income tax returns from 2009 to 2012.

An arrest warrant was issued for Reynolds on March 31 when he told a judge he wouldn't appear in court as ordered because he was in South Africa with his 23-year-old daughter, whom he says has scoliosis and may also have cervical cancer. The Illinois Democrat had asked the judge "to show some compassion and understanding."

Reynolds' attorney, Richard Kling, said Reynolds would appear Monday afternoon in Atlanta before a federal magistrate who would decide if Reynolds would receive bond or be detained. Kling said he was working to get Reynolds back to Chicago "as soon as possible."

This isn't the first time Reynolds has faced federal charges.

A Harvard graduate and a Rhodes Scholar, Reynolds resigned his 2nd Congressional District seat in 1995 after being convicted of statutory rape for having sex with a 16-year-old campaign worker. He served 2 ½ years in state prison.

Later, he was convicted in federal court for concealing debts to obtain bank loans and diverting money intended for voter registration drives into his election campaign. He was sentenced to 6 ½ years in federal prison and had two years left when then-President Bill Clinton commuted the sentence in 2001.

In 2012, Reynolds launched a failed bid to replace disgraced former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who resigned after being re-elected just two weeks prior, amidst his battle with bipolar disorder and a federal investigation into misuse of campaign funds.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/disgraced-ex...ver-taxes/