Today’s proof that public employee/educators are some of the most out-of-touch tax revenue suckers causing our California paradise to sink into oblivion:

Five UC San Diego academic leaders are among three dozen of the University of California’s highest-paid executives to threaten a lawsuit unless they receive a boost in pension benefits they say was promised to them.

Their demand is outlined in a Dec. 9 letter to the UC Board of Regents obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle.

“We believe it is the university’s legal, moral and ethical obligation,” to increase the benefits for employees earning more than $245,000, the executives wrote. “Failure to do so will likely result in a costly and unsuccessful legal confrontation.”

Remember that quote the next time educators bemoan the rising cost of college and beg for more money to reduce tuition costs for students. Because it isn’t actually about education…it’s about gettin’ theirs.

The university system estimates that the pension hike would add $5.5 million yearly to its $21.6 billion unfunded pension liability. In addition to that, UC would be on the hook for a one-time $51 million cost to make the increases retroactive to 2007.

To date, pensions are calculated as a percentage of the average of the last three years of pay, capped at $245,000. For a 30-year employee, the maximum pension is therefore $183,750 — whether their final salary is $245,000 or much more.

If the cap is lifted, someone making $700,000 could make a pension of $525,000.

Disgusting. “Educators” like these dweebs have spent their entire lives sucking their living out of taxpayer pockets. Example…UCSD Rady School of (Business) Management Dean Robert Sullivan…current salary $331, 373. From his University profile, let’s see what actually qualifies Dean Sullivan to know anything about “business management”…other than how to steal funds from the government:

Prior to his arrival at UCSD, Dr. Sullivan served as dean of UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. Under his leadership, Kenan-Flagler rose significantly in the national rankings. He initiated a weekend executive MBA Program that was ranked 5th in the world by Business Week magazine in 2001. He also launched the OneMBA executive MBA program, the first truly global program delivered in partnership with four other top-tier international business schools.

From 1995 to 1997, Dr. Sullivan served as director of the University of Texas at Austin’s IC2 Institute, a nontraditional international center for research and education on innovation, creativity, capital and commercialization. He held the J. Marion West Chair for Constructive Capitalism in the university’s Graduate School of Business. Dr. Sullivan served as dean of the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University from 1991 to 1995. During his tenure, the school’s rankings rose dramatically. He led a complete reengineering of the school’s educational programs, including integrating advanced technology into the field of finance and creating experiential and international distance-learning opportunities for students.

From 1976 to 1991, Dr. Sullivan served in a variety of posts at the University of Texas, including the Joe B. Cook professor of management and associate dean for research and academic affairs in the Graduate School of Business. He was co-director of the Center for Technology Venturing, director of the Bureau of Business Research and director of the Manufacturing Systems Engineering Program in the College of Engineering. Dr. Sullivan was a Peace Corps volunteer in Ethiopia from 1968 to 1970, where he worked as a lecturer in production management in the College of Business Administration at Haile Selassie I University in Addis Ababa (now Addis Ababa University).

Well…he WAS a Peace Corps volunteer. Did he actually ever run a business?

No.

But he has built his career entirely on taxpayer dollars…so it’s understandable that despite running a business school, he hasn’t a clue as to how the greed of public employees like Sullivan is driving business out of California. In his little world, the State has unlimited funds to give to him and his fellow shake-down artists:

Sullivan, the UCSD management dean, said he and his colleagues are not expecting widespread sympathy for their fight. He said the issue at hand is about ethics, and keeping promises, rather than money.

“We know that benefits packages and health care have to be reined in,” Sullivan said. “We are aware that the issue of the day — salaries and retirement packages — may influence this. Opponents will not be sympathetic.”

Oh. Dean Sullivan IS aware that public employees are draining the public coffers. But heck…that’s for OTHER public employees to worry about…just give him HIS money. Because when Dean Sullivan retires, you really cannot expect him to live on a measley $245,000 a year.

Speaking of entitled “educators”, I was sad to see this letter to the editor from a teacher at my high school alma mater:

In response to “Educator pension crunch looms” (Dec. 28): The article fails to mention that public educators earn at or below median income, especially in California. Few jobs that require postsecondary education are so limited in compensation. Thus, the percentage received in pension (58 percent) may seem high, but the story connects the percentage to an abysmally low rate of pay for highly qualified and educated employees. I am in my fifth year of teaching, with a master’s degree, and I gross $53,000. A first-year California Highway Patrol officer is estimated to make about $87,000, according to the agency’s website.

If the goal is to help destroy the CalSTRS program, then realize that the lack of attractiveness of teaching will diminish from an already very low level. One of the few consolations for our meager paychecks is the promise of stable employment (already dashed by budget cuts), holiday vacations (proposed to be diminished by the White House) and a pension. Sure, most educators teach because we love what we do and that it’s rewarding. But the personal cost is becoming prohibitive to continuing a career in public education.

Chris Fanning

Valhalla High School

El Cajon

Chris Fanning is whining about a “meager” paycheck of $53,000 a year. For a job that he works 9…perhaps 10 months out of the year, has healthcare costs paid for, and a pension paying him 90% of his final salary if he retires at 55. But…he’s not in the job for the money.

Of course he could apply for jobs teaching at private schools…but oops, there would go that taxpayer funded/teacher’s union safety net.

Or better yet, he could direct his career path to university administration…so he can get the big money.

Update: I forgot to add that our President’s admonition here can never apply to a tax-sucking public employee:

Wishing all of our Buffet friends and even some liberals a very Merry Christmas.

And to those of you who protect our freedom to celebrate our holidays….

Thank you.

Do you lack common sense? Are you total a-hole with no qualifications to get a job in the private sector? Do you want to feel powerful and control other people’s lives?

The TSA has a job opportunity waiting for you…

I am traveling with a group next week to Phoenix. The original plan back in September was for us to all fly Southwest Airlines (it’s a 45 minute flight). Instead, at considerable additional expense, we are chartering a bus.

Thanks to Stacy.

You just can’t have an intelligent conversation with open borders morons:

WHEREAS it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favour; and Whereas both Houfes of Congress have, by their joint committee, requefted me “to recommend to the people of the United States a DAY OF PUBLICK THANSGIVING and PRAYER, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to eftablifh a form of government for their safety and happiness:”

NOW THEREFORE, I do recommend and affign THURSDAY, the TWENTY-SIXTH DAY of NOVEMBER next, to be devoted by the people of thefe States to the fervice of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our fincere and humble thanksfor His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the fignal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpofitions of His providence in the courfe and conclufion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have fince enjoyed;– for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enable to eftablish Conftitutions of government for our fafety and happinefs, and particularly the national one now lately instituted;– for the civil and religious liberty with which we are bleffed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffufing useful knowledge;– and, in general, for all the great and various favours which He has been pleafed to confer upon us.

And also, that we may then unite in moft humbly offering our prayers and fupplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and befeech Him to pardon our national and other tranfgreffions;– to enable us all, whether in publick or private ftations, to perform our feveral and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a bleffing to all the people by conftantly being a Government of wife, juft, and conftitutional laws, difcreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all fovereigns and nations (especially fuch as have shewn kindnefs unto us); and to blefs them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increafe of fcience among them and us; and, generally to grant unto all mankind fuch a degree of temporal profperity as he alone knows to be beft.

GIVEN under my hand, at the city of New-York, the third day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand feven hundred and eighty-nine.

(signed) G. Washington

(In light of everything that’s going on with the TSA right now, I thought Woman of Abomination wouldn’t mind if I re-posted this.  We’re tight.  We agree we shouldn’t  let people in uniform seduce us into blind obedience.  Outside of the bedroom that is. )

Beloved, didn’t you know that your God is just a myth created by feudal lords to keep the serfs in line when they couldn’t be directly monitored? The idea of a soul, the belief in hell, this dream of salvation, these notions of good and evil, all emerged from a collection of stories and traditions created to send men off to war to die for the empire du jour? Please, my love, do not be fooled by ancient propaganda. It makes you weak. We live in an enlightened and civilized society now. You are a free man. Here, let me loosen the buckles of your chainmail suit. Let me remove your helmet with it’s ridiculous embellishments. Let me see what’s beneath this armor of God.

Oh, my sweet. I was praying that under that garish costume, there would be something more provocative than a gray business suit. Don’t tell me you’ve bought into the corporate ladder lie. You’ll spend your life constantly treading water, reaching for some imaginary shore, but you will be expending your very life force like a rat on a wheel. Do you see how you are just fuel for their greed machine? Why should you slave away? You are a free man. Let me slip my hands beneath your lapels and get this dreadful sport coat off of you. It’s so unnatural.

And is this a wallet? What do you need all of this money for? Look at my slaves, they have nothing. Aren’t you ashamed of your affluence in this world where rich and poor are so sharply divided? Did you not learn to share? Free yourself from materialism. Here, I will take this money and find a charitable use for it.

What was the other thing I felt in your pocket? Oh, of course you are happy to see me, but not doubly so. Is it a weapon? How can we have a peaceful society when men run around with guns blazing? Only rednecks cling to these obvious phallic symbols, and it’s due to their ignorance, fear, and hate. You should be free of these troubles. You strike me as an intelligent man. Why must you wield such an instrument of murder? Here, let me unfasten this holster.

When you placed your hand on my wrist my love, I noticed your ring. Have you a wife? A family? Why do you feel that you must be beholden to these leeches who steal your money and your time, who challenge your independence? Family is so restrictive. Your parents steal your childhood telling you who to be and how to live, then when you have children of your own, they steal your adult years with their noise and demands. How can you be a free man with family? The little parasites should never be born. Give me your hand. Let me take this little trinket of absurd romanticism from your finger.

And why must you wear those glasses? Don’t tell me that you’ve been spending your time reading independently; discerning things for yourself; meddling with that computer and getting your information from the unschooled fools in their underwear who live in their mother’s basements.

Or are you looking at art in the museums? All of those gaudy romantics with their pretty women? Don’t you know that’s passe? Ugly is the new beautiful. And for music, loud is the new lullaby. You’re a free man. I know I keep saying it. But I must remind you that you should not let tradition dictate to you what you should read, see, and hear. I think those glasses are superfluous. Let me see your eyes.

Look at you before me. Down to your shirtsleeves. You’re actually quite sexy. Now that I’ve removed your ring, and established that there is no soul, I hope I’ve removed the notion that sex is somehow sacred. It’s really just physical after all. We should fornicate to our hearts’ content. Let’s just remove the rest of your clothes my Love. Be a free man with a free woman.

Doesn’t it feel good to be free; free because now you have no God? Free because now you are not burdened by the desire to be good or the fear of being evil? Free because you are moving toward a utopian society where nobody gets shot? Free because now your future will somehow be handled for you? Free because now you don’t have to waste your life pursuing wealth and property? Free because you are not drowning under the weight of old traditions like family? Free because now you are able to abdicate all forms of personal responsibility, and hand them over to me? Free because you are naked and empty?

Because you are so wise and you haven’t fallen for all of that old propaganda, you have earned me. I will be the bed you will lay in.

After you’ve had your shower of course.

See that numbered hook over there? That’s where I’ve hung your armor, and your clothing, and beneath which I have cleverly placed your gun, wallet, and ring. Be sure to remember that number so that you can retrieve them when you come out.

Because you are a free man.

For now.

I don’t agree with Penn Jillette all of the time (he’s TOO libertarian for me), but that line just made me a permanent fan of his. HIS experience with TSA morons:

Last Thursday I was flying to LA on the Midnight flight. I went through security my usual sour stuff. I beeped, of course, and was shuttled to the “toss-em” line. A security guy came over. I assumed the position. I had a button up shirt on that was untucked. He reached around while he was behind me and grabbed around my front pocket. I guess he was going for my flashlight, but the area could have loosely been called “crotch.” I said, “You have to ask me before you touch me or it’s assault.”

He said, “Once you cross that line, I can do whatever I want.”

I said that wasn’t true. I say that I have the option of saying no and not flying. He said, “Are you going to let me search you, or do I just throw you out?”

I said, “Finish up, and then call the police please.”

When he was finished with my shoes, he said, “Okay, you can go.”

I said, “I’d like to see your supervisor and I’d like LVPD to come here as well. I was assaulted by you.”

He said, “You’re free to go, there’s no problem.”

I said, “I have a problem, please send someone over.”

Go here for the rest…

No, really:

BERLIN, Nov 16 (Reuters) – Climate change could lead to colder winters in northern regions, according to a study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research on Tuesday.

Vladimir Petoukhov, lead author of the study, said a shrinking of sea ice in the eastern Arctic causes some regional warming of lower air levels and may lead to anomalies in atmospheric airstreams, triggering an overall cooling of the northern continents.

“These anomalies could triple the probability of cold winter extremes in Europe and northern Asia,” he said. “Recent severe winters like last year’s or the one of 2005/06 do not conflict with the global warming picture but rather supplement it.”

In COMPLETELY UNRELATED news…

Because President Obama is a REPTILIAN…or something:

Oh…and Pleiadian aliens shot an ICBM out of the sky…that explains that “missle” off the coast of California.

YOU’D BETTER TAKE COLLEEN THOMAS SERIOUSLY! BECAUSE NUCLEAR ATTACKS AND EMPs ARE COMING WHILE PRESIDENT OBAMA IS OUT OF THE COUNTRY!:

This one cut deep.

I live in the most beautiful state with the best weather and some of the friendliest people. Everyone wants to live here…er…everyone ONCE WANTED to live here.

Alas, my state has just overdosed yet again…and this time there will be no intervention:

Listen up, California. The other 48 states—your cousin New York excluded—are sick of your bratty arrogance. You’re the Lindsay Lohan of states: a prima donna who once showed some talent but is now too wasted to do anything with it.

After enjoying ephemeral highs and spending binges, you suffer crashes that culminate in brief, unsuccessful stints in rehab. This cycle repeats itself every five to 10 years, as the rest of the country looks on with a mixture of horror and amusement. We’d feel sorry for you if you didn’t constantly flip us the bird.

Instead, we’re making bets on how long it will be before your next meltdown. Oh, wait—you’re already melting down.

You’ve racked up nearly $70 billion in general obligation debt, and that doesn’t include your $500 billion unfunded pension liability. Your own analysts predict you’ll face a hole of at least $80 billion over the next four years.

Your government’s run by a brothel of environmentalists, lawyers, public-sector unions and legislative bums. When they’re not taxing or spending, they’re creating regulations and commissions like the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology and the California Blueberry Commission. Many businesses would leave if it weren’t for your sunny climate.

Which may explain why you’re so obsessed with climate change. If your climate changes, no one, including your Hollywood friends, would tolerate you anymore. So you’ve created a law to tax carbon emissions—no matter that it will kill jobs.

Payback is a bitch, isn’t it?

Behold…the best of Keith Olbermann:

Update: Turns out we WILL have Keith Olbermann to kick around after all!

As posted here...I am pissed at the Tea Party Express because of their wussy “we failed” stance on a recent fundraising email.

Nobody there has responded to my email to them asking them, basically, “WTF?”. But I did get another one:

YES! WE’VE TURNED FAILURE INTO SUCCESS FOR ELECTION NEXT TUESDAY

“We had failed. All of us. Originally, only 250 people responded to our request for help to reach the $1 million mark. Now an additional 1,200 people have responded so we are on track to meet our goal – if you our supporters keep stepping forward with more contributions.

This had been one of the greatest failures we here at the Tea Party Express have ever had in terms of raising money for a campaign push, and this is the worst possible time for us to fail: just 1 WEEK out before Election Day.

We told you that we MUST do better. And so far you all are doing much better. But we can’t stop now, we’re still well short of our goal, but we’re making up ground rapidly each hour!!!

Because if you don’t, our children will starve. Obama will tax our kids’ college funds, piggy banks and lunch money. Harry Reid will shut down their lemonade stands and Nancy Pelosi will send her flying monkeys out to snatch them as they walk home from school. So you MUST open your wallet again, or you don’t care about our country’s children.”

(OK, it’s possible that last paragraph was NOT in the e-mail)

Guilt is a lousy motivator.

You know what is a much better motivator?

Fear and intimidation. And Chris Christie can bring it:

I live in California and I’m thinking about hopping a plane this weekend to Illinois to help Bill Brady. Now if we can only get Christie here to California to throw his weight behind Carly…

Well, best TWO paragraphs anyway…courtesy of Shelby Steele in this morning’s Wall Street Journal:

But there is a limit to bad faith as power, and Mr. Obama and the Democratic Party may have now reached that limit. The great weakness of bad faith is that it disallows American exceptionalism as a rationale for power. It puts Mr. Obama and the Democrats in the position of forever redeeming a fallen nation, rather than leading a great nation. They bet on America’s characterological evil and not on her sense of fairness, generosity or ingenuity.

When bad faith is your framework (Michelle Obama never being proud of her country until it supported her husband), then you become more a national scold than a real leader. You lead out of a feeling that your opposition is really only the latest incarnation of that old characterological evil that you always knew was there. Thus the tea party—despite all the evidence to the contrary—is seen as racist and bigoted.

I just got an email from the Tea Party Express.

Turns out I’m a failure.

I’ve let them down.

I haven’t done my part.

I HAVE to do better, or I am personally responsible for the socialist takeover of the US.

My question…has the Tea Party been co-opted by union thugs or something?:

This morning we put a call out to 400,000 patriots across this nation – including yourself. Our plea was to get constitutional conservatives such as yourself to pitch in to our final election push as we are just 1-week away from Election Day.

Our goal: to raise $1 MILLION so that we could push the best constitutional candidates in the country over the top to victory. We’d then with the House, and perhaps even the Senate.

But we failed – all of us. As of this evening only 250 people made a contribution.

This is one of the greatest failures we here at the Tea Party Express have ever had in terms of raising money for a campaign push, and this is the worst possible time for us to fail: just 1 WEEK out before Election Day.

We MUST do better.

The Email title was “We FAILED”.

You know what? We are SIX freakin’ days out of the election. If the Tea Party STILL hasn’t gotten its message out…well perhaps they haven’t been fiscally responsible with the funds they have been given.

I know that campaign funds are crucial, but guilting your base into donations is a very poor strategy for fundraising.

Or maybe it isn’t. I don’t know…because when I donate politically I usually do it because:

1) I believe in the candidate and
2) I have the funds to do so.

I don’t do it because some political organization emails me to tell me what a pile of crap I am because I haven’t given them enough money.

For the record, I have already given money this campaign season to:

Sean Bielat
Christine O’Donnell
Joe Miller
Nick Popaditch
Ruth McClung
Michele Bachmann

I’m done. And if the Tea Party candidates lose…well then I guess I suck.

Funny…he kind of sounds like his character in this video:

H/T: B.D. via email.

I wish I lived in CA-51 just so I could vote for Nick Popaditch:

The rest of this debate is here…if you have an hour to watch a libtard get repeatedly body-slammed…good family fun.

Background on Filner…he’s the Congressman who helped a woman steal half a million dollars from Union Bank.

He’s the Congressman who is too good for airport security, though he wants to make sure we all get frisked and body-scanned.:

The report went on to say that later Filner asked a detention officer, “Are you going to stop me, big man?” and to another, he asked, “Are you going to shoot me, are you going to arrest me?”

A short time later, Ramirez wrote, “I saw Congressman Filner force his way into control area.” Ramirez and seven other officers tried to persuade Filner to return to the foyer.

“I am a congressman and can do whatever I want,” Ramirez quoted Filner as saying.

We’re sick of attitudes on Capitol Hill like Filner’s. Go here to throw Popaditch a few bucks...and here’s more Popaditch:

She’s worked SO hard:

Call Me Madam Joe from RightChange on Vimeo.

Not being the wordsmith B-Mac is in creating Blog headlines, that was all I could come up with today.

First up…I believe that James Cameron has become a bigger global warming “tool” than Al Gore (via Yiddish, who is too damn lazy to figure out how to post it his damn self):

Next, Andrew Klavan sorts out media confusion about the Tsunami that is about to hit Washington in about two weeks:

Watch. Enjoy. Comment.

Update…here’s a 3rd from Stephen Crowder, who exposes the evil fat-cat corporations and their greed:

Meggy Mac, the “progressive republican” is opening her…uh…fat mouth again. I’ll not link to her blog, though Hot Air does:

On Sunday, I appeared on the D.C. news show This Week with Christiane Amanpour. By the time I had left the show and eaten breakfast at a nearby restaurant, my appearance was already creating an uproar on the Internet. What had I said that had been so blasphemous? Just my statement on the Republican senatorial candidate for Delaware: “My problem is that, no matter what, Christine O’Donnell is making a mockery of running for public office,” I said. “She has no real history, no real success in any kind of business… [the message] that sends to my generation is: One day you can just wake and run for Senate, no matter how [much of] a lack of experience you have. And it scares me for a lot of reasons.”

Maybe all of these things do not bother other Republicans, and it certainly doesn’t bother the Tea Partiers—but I am not a Tea Partier. After what I said about her lack of experience, many on the far right threw back at me that I also lacked experience to run for office…

Uh no Meggy…I haven’t heard ANYONE say you lack experience to run for office. In fact, you are as qualified to run for office as our current President was before he ran for office.

Still, many conservatives are sick of her. She speaks as a “26 year old woman” and constantly reminds us of that fact.

But she writes and speaks LIKE an 8th-grade valley girl, only with less intellect or authority. Really…who takes Meggy McCain seriously? Except for this guy:

Anyway, the Dirty Sexy Meghan McCain doesn’t influence anyone…with the possible exception of other vacuous bimbos who aren’t likely to vote anyway. So I’m all for more Meggy Mac on the Sunday morning news shows…we can all enjoy watching her blow up until she takes up the entire screen.

Relaxing and watching TV with the wife and I saw this on the Food Network:

The guy collects…

MACARONI AND CHEESE BOXES?

Seriously?

Hey…he has a passion for it.

The reason I feel so lousy? The guy seems totally nice and sincere…and all I can think is…WHAT A LOSER.

Hey, who am I to judge? I have a Larry Craig bobble-foot doll and a Barack Obama commemorative plate.

(Maybe I’m the loser).

I OWN one of these

And I’m sure this video will be all over CNN shortly:

Stupid redneck tea party thugs…

(Update): Oops. Guess I should have watched the video before I posted it. Doug Giles from Townhall Magazine made the same mistake:

I’m sorry, I got that wrong. Stupid me. I’m never going to make it in this business. It was actually a big black liberal woman who whaled on a petite white conservative female reporter last weekend.

Whew, thank God I corrected myself because we all know that if a hulking honky Tea Party mama with dragon nails had smacked down a svelte progressive black female reporter (and on film, no less) it would have caused a media firestorm that would have escalated into:

1. Daily front page coverage by the New York Times

2. Watts-like riots across the nation

3. Non-stop bit**ing from Al Sharpton

4. The end of the Tea Party as we know it

5. And a drunk Kanye would’ve surfaced on a quickly-cobbled, specious Hollywood telethon against racism sporting white Levolor shades and a red leather Michael Jackson jacket and somehow pin all this Tea Party violence on George W. Bush’s primal hatred for black people.

This pisses me off when I see this stuff.

No, I’m not pissed at the DRIVER.

Look closely. Boys throwing rocks at the driver…and oh LOOKY…there JUST HAPPENS TO BE a high resolution digital camera rolling AND an AP Stringer (allegedly) with a camera at the ready:

How convenient.

Giving these young boys rocks and telling them to go jump in front of a car.

If you have the time, go here for the most egregious example of Palestinian slime using their kids as human shields.

Still, do I feel bad for the kid who got smoked?

No.

Dumb enough to jump in front of a speeding car to throw a rock at it?

Sucks for you.

Because as someone who is ALL about womyn’s rights, I am SURE Gloria will be behind a podium about this in 3…2…1:

Gloria?

Oh…GLORIA?

(Update…response from Allred)

* Gloria really did respond. WOW! Can’t you just feel her feminyst indignation?

Speaking of whores…

But at least the National Organization of Womyns denounces the Brown campaign for the slur…er…nevermind.

Awesome video find by Buffet friend Stacy formerly and occasionally of Still Stacy (via her facebook post):

Well…technically the woman hasn’t “stolen” the money…she just borrowed it and now refuses to pay it back. Or to turn over the collateral she used to borrow the money.

And now she’s enlisted a congressman to help her keep her half-million dollar booty.

Well…isn’t that just like stealing?:

The events that led a U.S. congressman to Luz Maria Villanueva’s doorstep before dawn Tuesday, proclaiming that he would be arrested before she would be evicted, began with little drama in 1993.

That year, Villanueva bought a five-bedroom house in Bonita for $280,000. The property appreciated in value and in 2007, she borrowed $539,000 against the home to help facilitate a divorce and pay off debt. In 2009, she stopped making payments on the loan, and in May, Union Bank threatened to sell the dwelling.

That’s when Villanueva did what thousands of others in foreclosure have done. She sought the help of her congressional representative.

Luz Villanueva proudly stands outside her stolen house...photo stolen from San Diego Union Tribune

Enter…Big Bad Bob Filner. Bob’s been known to get a little cranky and “throw down” when he doesn’t get his way. Union Bank representatives better look out:

Rep. Bob Filner, D-Chula Vista, tried but couldn’t help her modify the loan. That led to a sit-in this summer at a Union Bank office. Tuesday, it led to Filner and dozens of supporters going to Villanueva’s house to prevent a planned 6 a.m. eviction.

Sheriff’s deputies never showed up, and Filner proclaimed victory for now. He and Villanueva said afterward that recent talks with the bank had left open the possibility of calling off its eviction.

Filner said unusual demonstrations like his could spur Congress to pass laws to protect homeowners and to compel banks to modify more loans. His office is working with 100 to 150 people facing foreclosure, he said. Filner added that he is personally involved in 30 to 40 compelling cases.

Public records show that Union Bank foreclosed on this house in June and is the owner. No matter. It’s not THEIR house. Especially if Filner hires these goons:

Update, courtesy of commenter “Ray”: Filner’s doing this as a political stunt? NO!