Cook County Foreclosures

Cook County; the Chicago County district could top as many as 42,000 foreclosure cases this year.  That is a great number of people going back to renting (not funny).

Cook County's foreclosure court is so busy with the wreckage of the sub-prime mortgage crisis that the number of judges has been increased from 10 to 14, and guess what, they begin their new schedules on Monday (10/19/08).

Foreclosures are up in Cook County by 47.8% in just the first half of this year and are expected to pass 42K by years end.  Increasing judges isn't a sign of things are bad; but that it is only going to get worse.    As people follow the Federal government to find out where the bail-out will take them; they currently deal with everyday disastrous-life changing problems.  It's foreclosure business as usual.

This is Chicago Funnies.  We may change our name because of the way the economy is going.  We will give further details on November 5Th.

Randall Watson

Devin Harris...Duped & School

Interesting news out of London where a local Caucasian street-baller received the opportunity to play against NBA point guard Devin Harris. For those of you who do not know Devin Harris; he was popular player out of Wisconsin University and was drafted by the Dallas Mavs and played a big part in their finals appearance.

He was recently traded to New Jersey for Jason Kidd this past season. For what ever reason he has found his way in London (probably a media event), and found himself getting hustled by a street baller who was wearing jeans and a proper V neck sweater.

The kid appeared to be an average Joe off the street; but secretly he was a street ball whiz legend in London and put some pretty moves on Harris who was not expecting it. Harris took it well; but it just looked bad.

You can view it here Devin Harris vs Stuart Tanner

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Global goes our Crisis

It's now a global crisis!! First it started when I was doing a budget crunch on my Microsoft Money Manager program and I saw the budget was way off. Cut backs were in place; I laid off my 5 year old daughter as the dish washer, and had cutbacks in groceries.

I realized that I gave off terrible loans to family and friends, loans I knew financially they were just unable to pay back (I'm going to get every sent back all of y'all who owe me (in the words of Frank Lucas) and the guy who lost $200,000 and said he'd get it back slightly optimistic).

The chickens have finally come home to roost in my household. I said it's no problem and I'll make the changes and go right back to work. Then the City of Chicago said they have a budget deficit so bad more than 1,000 jobs will be cut in 2009. I brushed it off my shoulders; I skipped the state level (not even going to bother with Gov Blagojevich), and went to the federal.

I saw the $700M dollar bailout and I started to worry. I said no problem, I will go to the EU and the world accounts for help. and I see the markets world wide plummeting. Gulp (funny).

The devastating financial flu that has sent the American economy reeling is contagious making the rest of the world look sick too. To think all of this started because of my money manager program and my budgeting. Now my daughter is out of a job, my new borns will have no work unless this economy gets better.

That's the thing; this crisis actually has to start from the global level back down. When market analyst tackled in terms of experiencing a fire that was getting harder to put out, bail out on a global level is next.

Start the bail out now. Send $50 to $500 or more to antoniodannes@gmail.com via Paypal to help my small economic crisis and let's have a trickle up economy starting with me (seriously funny).

Due Daniels

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Sarah Palin / Joe Biden Debate

Who do you think won the vice presidential debates.  Sarah Palin didn't appear as ditsy as she was portrayed in the previous weeks.  I saw Governor Palin reading a lot as she spoke; but she was articulate, cute, and appeared fundamentally intellectual.  

But she didn't not look like she could be a Presidential candidate nor a vice president.  I think she can do well as a weather commentator (funny?).  

I say that because the people I watched the debates with kept saying that.  What do you think?

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Randal Watson

Sox are Inn!

You can put it on the boarrrrrrrddddd, yes!  The Chicago White Sox have clinched the playoffs in the final spot.  The Chicago White Sox are headed to the playoffs for the first time since winning the 2005 World Series after beating the Minnesota Twins 1-0 behind the bat of Jim Thome and the left arm of John Danks.

I personally didn't think they could pull it; but they did in a nail-biting fashion.  The city was filled with disgusted Cub fans; but hey let Chicago celebrate together for once.

The Sox had to work overtime, but in Game No. 163 of the 162-game regular season, they pulled out a 1-0 victory against the Minnesota Twins in the AL Central tiebreaker, not only advancing to the AL Division Series against Tampa Bay beginning Thursday, but giving Chicago baseball fans the chance to enjoy both their teams in the postseason for the first time since 1906.

The Sox are headed to the postseason for the ninth time in their history, and before the first pitch in the first game against Tampa Bay has been thrown, Reinsdorf is satisfied, that Jerry "I own all Chicago sport" Reinsdorf.  Congratulations to the Sox - now let's make it happen.

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ps: personally I'm going for the Cubs or Dodgers.

Failed Financial Crisis!

As many of you have seen on the news concerning our nations financial crisis, George W Bush's 700 Billion dollar blank check; excuse me; bail out was rejected by the House and primarily by republicans. Obviously this bill has many loop holes in it that is either not good for the men and women who voted or they were actually filled with integrity and thought it not good for the people.  

This is an excellent time to really get involved in your politics and see what the heck is going on it Washington and hope for a solid change that will help Americans.

Another thing we must think about is; who can fix the problem best between Senator McCain or Senator Barack Obama?  I remember this quote from one of my favorite movies - "you laughing now?"  Not many people are, and those who are may not be laughing on November 4th.  Vote

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Randall Watson

Government Bail Out Plan

The country is in a crisis, a deep financial crisis. So bad it can be worse than the 1929 great depression. Democrats and Republicans have made “tremendous progress” in negotiations over a $700 billion rescue for Wall Street, and a plan could be in place before financial markets open on Monday morning, according to a leading Democrat. If the problem isn't fixed banks will have no money to loan, and people won't be able to borrow money because; no one has money to loan.

Frankly, I hope the $700 million dollar bail out fails. Why? It would put everybody on an equal playing field. I see people driving cars they can't afford, yet because a thirty loan shark or even a well satisfied loan shark approved them; they go out rolling in style which makes them believe they have money. It leads to what they call in sociology, the vicious cycle. You continue to buy and buy, even though you're not really buying, till you run into a huge problem, then you need a "government bail out plan." We call it chapter 7 or 13 - bankruptcy.

I say let the bail out fail; and force people to actually buy what they can buy. Not borrow what they will pay back later periodically. Just like you can go into a store and buy a $15.99 dollar pair of jeans, you should go into a car dealership and buy a $12,999 dollar car - CASH. And if you can't you freaking don't have a car. Yeah I said it. What would people do then you ask. Catch the train, or rent a car; just as you would rent a house or apartment. Problem solved.

So I hope the bail out fails so that everyone is on the same playing level. Some folks can go into the BMW lot and buy a car cash, most can't. Save your money, juggle it, manage it well to get yourself to the next level. The government bail out plan is exactly what they called it. A bail out; not a thorough solution.

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Due Daniels

Bears Lose...Again!

CHICAGO (AP)—For one brief moment, Brian Griese acknowledged a little extra satisfaction.
He refused to take shots at his former team during the week, but landed a big one at the last moment on a day when he was off target.
“I can’t lie to you guys,” he said. “The game meant a lot to me, personally, coming back.”

Everyone feels good when they can comeback into their former teams house and beat them. It's the ole Horace Grant on Shaq's shoulders winning against the Bulls in 96. You try to be classy about it; but deep down you wanted it so bad, you almost get sick.

The Buccaneers got a 35-yard field goal from Matt Bryant with 3:11 left, and Griese orchestrated a 79-yard touchdown drive in the final 1:49, hitting Jerramy Stevens with a 1-yard pass in the closing seconds of regulation. Several key mistakes cost Chicago (1-2) in overtime.

I've heard many fans across the city giving up on the Bears already. I don't blame them; it's on thin ice with me and I'm not even a full-fledged fan. I think the CHICAGO BEARS and the Chicago CUBS need to change names...(funny).

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Due Daniels