You know how so many of the corporate CEOs and bankers and just about anyone else who got bailout money used a chunk of it for pygmy giraffes small enough to keep as pets and ride around the house, or whatever it is you spend money on when you've got more of it than God, and how this righteously pissed off every taxpayer? We're not saying anything like that's going to happen at the U.S. Central Federal Credit Union in Lenexa, but considering today's news we'd like it if
Photo by Angela C. BondMike CopelandHousingwire.com reports that the Office of Thrift Supervision has sent examiners to Olathe in order to determine the safety and soundness of Security Savings Bank. The money-losing thrift sought federal bank bailout money last fall, a move at odds with the right-wing political activity of its patriarch, Don Bell.The examination is a long time in coming. Governance issues emerged in 2004, when the then-president of Security Savings and the board's audit committ
Despite all my rage, I am still just a salivating dog in a cage: Here's how I know that President Barack Obama's first term is going to be -- well, I was going to say "a cakewalk," but I have no idea what that is. Maybe it's actually something really difficult, like factoring equations! Plus, "a cakewalk" sounds like something from 1900 that an old person like Harrison Ford could tell you about. So, here's how I know that Barack Obama's first term is going to go down smooth, like lightly carbo
