Hilarious Gregory Brothers Music Videos

Now that I've featured a few of their videos on this blog, I thought I'd give credit to an extremely talented group, the Gregory Brothers.  I consider this music brilliant because it acts as a bridge between rap and music using people's unscripted words in normal speech by converting their natural voice inflections into melodies.   Maybe this is a way out of the rap dredge into a new means of converting everyone's voice into what the Gregory Brothers refer to as "unintentional singers".

The Gregory Brothers can turn anything into music and make anyone famous such as what happened to Antoine Dodson who appeared on the news talking about a local rapist.  The song video, Bed Intruder, (see below) has had 39 million views since  August, 2010 and the song has reached top Billboard R&B #3 and iTunes top hits.

Wikipedia's description of the news broadcast of Dodson:

Dodson was interviewed on July 28, 2010, by NBC affiliate WAFF-48 News after the alleged attempted rape of his sister by an intruder in her bedroom, in the "projects" of Lincoln Park.

A frame from the viral "Bed Intruder Song" music video, which sourced its footage from an interview NBC affiliate WAFF-48 News conducted with Antoine.

The video of the interview caught attention due to the passionate and flamboyant style of his delivery, speaking directly to the camera, in which he directly addressed the people of his neighborhood as well as the would-be rapist, and his use of street vernacular.

How the song was created:

The pitch contour of Antoine Dodson's voice was manipulated to make him appear to sing. Michael Gregory told Wired Magazine, "For this one, I really wanted to listen to the contours of [Antoine Dodson's] voice, and the way that he was emoting. I’ve done this enough so that when I heard him talk, I could hear the melody, and that melody kind of changes connotation depending on what key I put it in. Then I do the instrumental track and put it on top." - Wikipedia



I've since ciphered through several of the brother videos and came up with my favorites:

• Gregory Brothers on Wikipedia
• Antoine Dodson on Wikipedia

When Airlines Go Belly Up Our Holograms Will Travel

I guess I'm a bit unusual because I have a $50 Virgin Airways credit I know I won't be using in spite of the fact there are many low ball fares for as little as $39 to Los Angeles, Las Vegas and even $125 to New York. One of the reasons I won't be flying is because I don't want to be molested at the airport by strangers as is the new protocol.  Airport personnel are stepping up the intensity of body searches, groping and squeezing people's crotch and breast areas for those who opt out of body scanners.  Body scanners essentially show your bare body to complete strangers and give you a high dose of radiation.

Yesterday I was talking with a retired airline stewardess from US Airways.  The lady said she got out of flying after 25 years due to all the intensity after 9/11's new security laws.  We got to speculating the future of air travel was about to radically change.  We both agreed that in the near future when gas and oil costs rise, this will be the final nail in the coffin for inexpensive civilian air travel.  Many airlines simply won't survive.

Here are some ideas we came up with of how people will overcome the limitations of no air travel since only the wealthy will be able to afford it.

1.  People will use video conferencing
2.  People will use more advanced 3D holographic technology to meet or attend speaking engagements
3.  People will harness the Internet to share information digitally and in virtual meeting rooms.

Here's a recent presentation and example of how people can appear virtually in another place for a meeting or speaking engagement.

This is the first hologram of someone on television:

Back in the 1990's I envisioned people using holograms to communicate.  My particular unique idea was in the area of entertainment however. I had envisioned hologram nightclubs of top musicians recorded in holographic images performing as if in real life.  In a sense, it's a musician's dream to have a clone of one's self that makes money while one sleeps and tends to real life matters.  For instance,  I think they should now be able to record people like Barbra Streisand today as a 3D hologram to perform her songs for people to see her in concert in the future.  Imagine if we had a hologram of Aretha Franklin to last forever for future generations to enjoy?

At the time of my ideas I was friends with an Intel chip designer from Portland Oregon. He told me I could submit my idea to Intel for consideration of funding.  That was before the dot com bubble burst however so I since gave up the idea to submit a proposal.  It's always easy to come up with ideas for the future but it's very difficult to implement them. I had ideas of GPS pet finders back in the mid-1990s.  Most all of my ideas exist in some form today. 

The thing with this holograph and 3D technology is that as kids of the 1950's and 1960's era most of us were introduced to it through the Wizard of Oz (the Wizard's appearance in 3D technology) and at Disneyland's Haunted House.  3D and hologram's have been around a long time and now it's finally turning into a viable industry with the advent of such 3D films as Avatar.  Going one step further, some scientists even speculate in theory our universe is really one big hologram. What's up with that?


Primitive versions of the future 3D holographic world environments can be found in www.SecondLife.com.  Another example is www.LegalTech.com where people attend classes in a conference environment.  Essentially the envisioned hologram environment will be similar to Star Trek Next Generation's holodeck where people have trouble deciphering what is real and what isn't.

Today we have the computer power to record holograms all over the world. We should begin to record holograms of the great artists of today before it's too late. 

• Telstra's 3D Hologram Party Trick
• Are We Living in a  Hologram? - Discovery News

The REAL Reason Why NASA's Banned Moonwalking

If you really think about it, it's kind of strange NASA's never been back to the moon with a manned mission since the late 1960's. By now many thought with all of our great new technologies we would have had tourist flights to the moon and back. Clearly there was an industry for people who wanted to visit the moon, if not just a flyby trip. Better yet, why not build something on the moon as a stepping stone to other planets? According to a few former NASA employees, there's a good reason why we've never been back to the moon.

According to these excellent videos, the reason why we haven't gone back is because the moon's swarming with scary and aggressive extraterrestrial life forms!  It's even alleged in NASA photographs that massive alien bases and structures exist on the moon.

This is eyewitness testify of a former NASA employee being shown top secret photographs.

This video goes through history of strange objects and phenomenon on the moon up to NASA landing.  It shows NASA footage an purported evidence of massive extraterrestrial structures.


Then there's this recent article on AOL News, Some Say Moon Photos Show Signs of Alien Life:

"What NASA did not tell the American people is that it discovered the remains of an ancient lunar civilization, and to this day, that data and those artifacts have been withheld from the American people," claims Richard C. Hoagland, founder of The Enterprise Mission, an extensive private space research analysis website.

One interesting theory I've read about the moon is that it's allegedly hallow.  What's that all about?  A few scientists have been perplexed  to the extent they've even suggested that the moon's an artificial object:

Astronomy data indicates that the internal regions of the Moon are less dense than the outer, giving rise to the inevitable but outrageous speculation that it could be hollow. The eminent and late scientist Carl Sagan, a typical sceptic, had made the statement, "A natural satellite cannot be a hollow object." But meaning here that if it is hollow, it is not a natural satellite -- and therefore artificial.

Possibly the strongest evidence for it to be a 'hollow object' comes from the fact that when meteors strike the Moon, the latter rings like a bell. More specifically when the Apollo crew in November 20, 1969 released the lunar module, after returning to the orbiter, the module impact with the Moon caused their seismic equipment to register a continuous reverberation like a bell for more than an hour. The same effect occurred with Apollo 13's third stage which caused the Moon to ring for over three hours. So what's going on with the Moon?

Two Soviet scientists, Mikhail Vasin and Alexander Shcherbakov, have spent much of their careers examining the facts compiled on lunar phenomena. Their conclusion is that the Moon is artificial, possibly a hollowed-out planet, and that it was steered from some distant region of the galaxy into a circular orbit around our planet (hence the extraordinary mystery of rock and Moon-dust age variations). They claim that intellectual life has existed in the Moon for eons. - Earth's Moon and Human Evolution - The Canadian National Newspaper

UFOs imprints on moon from long ago?

Sometimes one can deduce facts from the illogical absence of something, such as why the astronauts haven't gone back to the moon. Everyone knows the moon could have been a lucrative venture for the United States to use for its various experiments and operations.  Considering NASA recently announced Mars is the next destination for human travel (See Journeying to Mars on a One-Way Ticket - Discovery News), you've just got to wonder why the moon's out of the picture.

If one really thinks hard about it, there's just got to be a serious reason why NASA hasn't sent another manned mission to the moon.  It's not for lack of technology, practicality or for a lack of anything that could be gained from it.  Obviously something very serious has prevented human beings landing on the moon, especially since doing so had great commercial and economical value on earth.  All the other countries have also withheld visiting.  Some thing's really out there and it doesn't appear they have any sense of humor or we would have been back by now.

New Evidence of San Francisco Superior Court Judge Corruption

On October 29, 2010 in a SFGate.com article, Ulmer vs. Nava and the Independence of the Court, a former Vice President of the State Bar of California Peter Keane unleashed a huge red flag on what was happening in the San Francisco Superior Court system among judges.  The article was about Judge Richard B. Ulmer, a 30 year Partner attorney with Latham & Watkins LLP who was up against Michael Nava to retain his bench. The article described that the entire San Francisco judicial community was up in arms about the judicial election.

Judge Ulmer had recently been elected to the bench by Governor Schwarzenegger but his seat was being challenged, most likely due to his being a Republican in a liberal town.  Not only was he being challenged as a Republican, mind you, but as a highly political man who lacked sound judge skills as stated in my former post Judge Ulmer Whitewashed My Evidence!  Didn't Care!.   In my post I stated my experience was that Judge Ulmer played politics with an attorney and overlooked and whitewashed my evidence against a defendant in a restraining order hearing.  As a result I endorsed Michael Nava on this blog.

The race is tight and the media hardly covered it, except for a few very appalled members of the legal community including Peter Keane. A San Francisco Chronicle writer Susan Gluss (see Partisan Politics Threatens Judicial Freedom also made mention in her column of the problems arising in the judicial system due to elections.

Here are a few insightful quotes from their articles about the Ulmer vs. Nava tight race:

Peter Keane's comments:

"First, put aside whether you favor incumbent Superior Court Judge Richard Ulmer or challenger Michael Nava. Whoever the voters choose is qualified and will be a fine, capable judge. I voted for Ulmer in the primary. But then I switched to Nava because I became appalled by the borderline ethical (if not downright unethical) campaign tactics by San Francisco judges to elect Ulmer. 

With lockstep unanimity, the judges of the San Francisco Superior Court have savaged the democratic process and cheapened the important principle of protecting the independence of the judiciary. To their personal discredit, they have done this out of a self-serving fear that potential competitors will run against them and that the voters might legitimately and democratically decide that others are better qualified to serve.

One shabby illustration of their disgraceful actions should suffice.

I am a former president of the Bar Association of San Francisco. Last summer, all former bar presidents and I received a cryptic e-mail from Presiding Judge James McBride speaking for the entire court. It urgently summoned us to a meeting in the conference room of a prominent downtown law firm for the evening of July 7. When I responded asking what was up, I was ominously informed with a clear sense of hush-hush secrecy that "independence of the judiciary" was at stake.

At the meeting, McBride and a delegation of other judges, announced that they spoke for all of the judges of the San Francisco Superior Court. They proclaimed that a Nava victory would be the destruction of judicial independence in San Francisco.

They prophesized this Apocalypse with all of the Jeremiah-like intensity of Dick Cheney somberly forecasting weapons of mass destructions and mushroom clouds unless drastic action was taken

But that was not the most distressing part of the meeting. The bar presidents were then given marching orders by the judges to raise $350,000 to defeat Nava."  Peter Keane, Former VP of State Bar of California

"The perils of these expensive, politicized judicial contests are underscored by a new report by the Brennan Center for Justice. The report shows the extent that politics and special interests are infecting judicial races - and the resulting threat to judicial independence and impartiality." - Susan Gluss, San Francisco Chronicle

This is flat out evidence from insiders that judges in San Francisco have been corrupted by the election politics of the system!  Let there be no mistake, judges are often highly political in the court room.  Consequently, judicial decisions are not always based on the law, especially when a judge has much discretion.  Politics often involves an attorney a judge prefers that has nothing to do with the plaintiff or defendants.  What this all means is that if you hire an attorney the judge doesn't like having a history with, you will most likely lose your case in San Francisco.

I imagine with such a strong backing of the entire San Francisco judicial community, Judge Ulmer will retain his seat (**update** has retained his seat). Michael Nava would have been the people's judge.  How sad. 

Is California Governor Jerry Brown a Time Traveler?

I don't know about anyone else, but it's freaking me out that Jerry Brown's been elected the California Governor 30 years after he was elected way back in 1975-1983.  I think it's down right spooky if you ask me.  I've got the heebie jeebies and my skin's got goose bumps.  Imagine how it feels for someone who was in high school as a 15 year old, a sophomore when Jerry Brown was elected as Governor.  I was 23 when Brown left office!  Michael Jackson's Thriller had come out the previous year.  Now Brown's back again and it's like deja vu!  What is this guy a time traveler or something? 

Can someone please tell me something?  Why is Jerry Brown back!!?  Most people retire after being in political office. This is unbelievable!  I thought there was a law he was allowed two terms and that was it.  This is scary, but the alternative of Meg Whitman was even scarier to contemplate. 

All I remember from what I retained in my former undeveloped teenage mind from Jerry Brown's former governorship was that he dated Linda Ronstadt and was a fairly good looking man.  Brown was one of the few politicians to hang around with the rock and roll crowd.

I still don't know much about Jerry Brown but I'm glad Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's going to be leaving soon. Governor Schwarzenegger appointed some really screwed up highly political Republican judges.  I'm also glad Pelosi's been dethroned, but am very disappointed marijuana wasn't legalized in California so I could celebrate her departure.  The state could really use the revenue and to lift what amounts to a prohibition against a drug that will never go away.  

The sad thing about this election is that politicians aren't the answer to any of this country's problems. They're all merely puppets for a large monster called the Federal Reserve that's been strangling the country ever since the Federal Reserve Act was passed on Christmas Eve in 1913.  Former President Woodrow Wilson said it was the worst mistake of his life and that he deeply regretted allowing private bankers to take over the U.S. money printing.  The Federal Reserve masks itself in a government associated name and prints out money, but there's a catch.  The Fed gives the money to us as debt we owe it.  We pay towards that debt with Federal taxes. Essentially money = debt.  Surprise! 

When one looks into the details of how the system's been set up since 1913, one can see how America's been doomed to collapse economically.  The bankers are strangling us all and want to usher in a one world banking and governmental system.  No politician can save us, and Obama was merely a pipe dream for many. 

So Jerry Brown the time traveler's back!  He's projected himself 30 years into the future to be Governor of California again.  Speaking of time travelers, what follows is an interesting video about some person, appearing to be a man in drag, in a Charlie Chaplin film with what appears to be a cell phone he's talking into.   Wait, maybe its Jerry Brown!  What has he done?

This film maker explains his shock at discovering a man in drag in a Charlie Chaplin film allegedly talking on a cell phone.  The video's had over 4 million views in the past two months.

All Across the U.S. People Are Blood Boiling Angry at Traitor Politicians

In a recent UPI poll, it was reported a whopping 50% of Americans are angry at politicians. That percentage is really misleading because the details of the poll are far more revealing:

An Angus Reid Public Opinion poll asked 1,011 American adults whether they were personally angry at six different individuals or groups. The poll indicated almost four-in-five respondents report feeling "very angry" or "moderately angry" at the federal government and Congress.

Key findings show 79 percent are angry with the government as a whole while 78 percent of those responding are angry with Congress."

Though I'm not particularly into Christine O'Donnell, whose running for U.S. Senate in Delaware, this music video's really cute. Creatively stitched together from an original speech, O'Donnell's singing about not being a witch.  In a few days this video's had 1.5 million views. 

New York Governor candidate Jimmy McMillan's viral The Rent is Too Damn High video's had 4.5 million views in just two weeks.

All over the U.S. people are really pissed off at politicians who promised change such as Obama who obviously conned the American people to get into office.  People are hopping mad and about to do a little house cleaning today.  I'm particularly fuming at Nancy Pelosi for she and Obama's idiotic health care program.  If everything goes as planned, Pelosi's whorish political career as House Speaker ends tomorrow.



This video depicting the future rule of the Chinese over America was so controversial that it's been discontinued from major networks. It's brought to you by Citizens Against Government Waste at www.CAGW.org

Banks Foreclosure Fraud: "Whoops You Caught Me! Take This Paperwork Instead"

A Wall Street Journal article recently reported how banks are attempting to correct the fraudulent affidavits regarding their foreclosures by replacing them with new ones.  Ohio's attorney general  Richard Cordray released two letters criticizing banks claiming they're trying to practically white out fraud committed in foreclosures as temporary fixes that don't address the real problems.

"It is not acceptable for a party who believes they submitted false court documents to merely replace those documents. Wells Fargo and any other banks are not simply allowed a 'do-over,'" he wrote in the letter to Wells. The other letter was sent to Ohio judges, who were asked to notify Mr. Cordray when banks file substitute affidavits."

The Wall Street Journal reported that "on Oct. 28, Wells Fargo announced it was resubmitting affidavits for 55,000 pending foreclosures, suggesting that some of the paperwork might be flawed. In March, a Wells Fargo employee said in a sworn deposition in a Florida foreclosure case that she signed between 300 and 500 foreclosure documents a day, without reviewing the numbers on the loan files for accuracy." 

General Cordray demanded banks vacate any court order or motion that was based on fraudulent paperwork while recommending banks would be "well-served to work out a settlement with the borrowers to modify the loans and work out payments."

Two weeks ago a 50 state probe of bank fraud regarding foreclosures began in response to reports of widespread errors in foreclosure filings. General Cordray's strategy provides clues as to the goals of such probe which is being led by Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller. 

"The banks are committing fraud on the court, essentially perjury, and then saying 'Whoops! You caught me! Here's some different evidence and use that instead,' " Mr. Cordray said in an interview Friday. "I know a lot of judges are not going to take kindly to that."- Attorney General Cordray, Ohio

 Foreclosure Crisis: Banks Told Not to just 'Fix Foreclosure Fraud

Pumpkin Sculpting Treat From Ray Villafane

These photos that follow are some of the best pumpkin carvings I've ever seen in my entire life.  Apparently they've had a lot of recent exposure after having recently being featured on the Food Network in a pumpkin carving contest.  Ray Villafane's a sculptor of enormous talent.  It must be fun for Villafane to work with pumpkin material rather than tough materials although he claims to be allergic to the vegetable.

The carving to the left is of David Letterman because Villafane recently appeared on the show for a pumpkin carving segment.   For those interested in Villafane's other works that include sand, you can visit his site at www.VillfaneStudios.com. A funny video of Letterman's pumpkin sharing the top 10 worst Halloween parties is at the end of this post.

I'd personally like to unleash Villafane on some marzipan, one of my favorite gourmet candies. The candy's usually shaped and spray painted like fruit. Others have gotten more creative with pink pigs and even cigars.

Scary Embezzlement on the Rise in the United States

Beware of your company's bookkeeper, accountant and anyone who handles money because people you never would suspect could be robbing you blind!  Stories and related convictions among such highly respected professions such as that of pastors, nuns, priests, accountants, school principals and city government officials are growing.  Blogs like Fraud Talk are sprouting up to report on the growing fraud trend.  

The stories are scary because it's clear the people who stole hundreds of thousands of dollars, and sometimes millions, seem to be just your every day good type of people caught up in greed.  Many of the convicted criminals seem to have just wanted to experience what it's like to live the good life regardless of the consequences.  I imagine many of them knew they'd be caught and thought living the high life for a few years was worth it.  Others convicted are obviously addicted to money or gambling.

Marquet International Ltd., an investigate corporate intelligence and due diligence consulting firm, prepares yearly reports on the major embezzlement in the United States.  Marquet's latest report, The Marquet Report on Embezzlement  was released in January, 2010 reporting for the year 2009, only a few months after the 2008 mild economic collapse.  The report confirmed a rise in white collar crimes:

"Employee misconduct and internal corporate fraud will be a continuing and growing problem as the U.S. economy continues to struggle. The seeds of future major embezzlements, yet to be discovered, are being sown in the current market environment. That having been said, the revelation of so many major embezzlements in the US in recent years is in part due to the downturn in the economy beginning in 2008. As the saying goes, 'when the river runs dry, the jagged rocks are revealed.' Corporate fraud schemes tend to reveal themselves when organizations pay more attention to their finances. Other white collar crimes, such as investment frauds, simply collapse on themselves in economic downturns." Report link.

For any writer looking for a nitch market to write for, fraud and embezzlement stories are booming! Here are just a few samples from the Marquet site.  There's a new conviction or prosecution trial listed on major embezzlement schemes every day to report on.  Here are just a few of the most outrageous stories listed on the Fraud Talk Blog within the last two months.

Lori Lockman Julian, 48, of Casselberry, Florida, was sentenced to 57 months in prison for embezzling more than $7.3 million from the William C. Webb Co. and its related business, Industrial Park Development Corp., where she had been employed as a bookkeeper. According to authorities, Julian forged company checks written out to herself and others as well as made online payments to personal vendors and credit cards. The scheme, which netted Julian a total of $7,345,050.13, spanned more than 4 years, from August 2005 through October 2009, according to prosecutors. Authorities said she used the misappropriated funds to finance a lavish lifestyle including a second home, Orlando Magic season tickets, vehicles, boats, designer handbags and other personal luxury items. Julian pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud in a plea agreement. She must also pay restitution. Link to Video on YouTube

Karen F. Floyd, 49, of Salisbury, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to charges she misappropriated more than $1 million from Southern Community Bank & Trust, where she had served as a Senior Vice President & Regional Banking Executive. According to authorities, over a 3 1/2 year period, from March 2006 through November 2009. Floyd created at least 11 fraudulent loans made out to "straw" borrowers totalling $1.08 million. She faces up to 30 years in prison, plus fines and restitution on the one count of theft/embezzlement/misapplication by (a) bank officer.

Edward Peter Fiszer, 40, of Newhall, California, pleaded not guilty Friday to charges he embezzled more than $1.4 million from the New Academy Canoga Park Charter School, where he had served as principal. According to authorities, in 2008 and 2009, Fiszer obtained at least 12 cashiers checks from school accounts and deposited them into a personal stock trading account. He has been charged with 31 counts of embezzlement, money laundering, forgery and tax fraud. Nevertheless, an audit by the Los Angeles Unified School District found that Fiszer had misappropriated or misused as much as $2.7 million. Sadly, as a result, the school is being considered for closure. Fiszer faces up to 44 years in prison if convicted on all counts.

Lisa Ann Castro, 46, of Torrance, California was charged today with embezzling about $100,000 from the Halldale Avenue Elementary School in Torrance and an associated PTA. Castro is a former administrative assistant with the Los Angeles Unified School District under which the school falls. Prosecutors have charged Castro with four felony counts of forgery, three counts of embezzlement and two counts of misappropriation of public funds. Castro is alleged to have forged two principals names and two PTA officials on more than 100 checks over a period of approximately four years, from 2005 until 2009, using the funds for her own benefit. She is reported to have had treasury responsibilities on the two school accounts and two PTA accounts from which she allegedly stole.

The Rev. Samuel Ciccolini, aka Father Sam, 68, of Akron, Ohio, admitted to embezzling about from $1.2 million Interval Brotherhood Home Foundation, a non-profit he founded and ran since 1970. According to authorities, over a period of at least four years, from 2002 through 2006, Ciccolini engaged in an "elaborate subterfuge" by submitting fraudulent invoices purportedly for construction work and equipment that had been donated and receiving reimbursement. He then allegedly falsified records to cover up the fraud. Ciccolini

The Ohio State Auditor's Office released an audit report about its findings in the case involving Erie County's former deputy treasurer, Tamara J. Holeton, 41, of Sandusky, Ohio, who plead guilty this past August on charges she misappropriated $146,592 in funds that were meant to be deposited into county coffers. Holeton plead guilty to theft in office and record tampering charges. The audit report made 7 specific management recommendations to improve controls. According to reports, Holeton misappropriated the funds over a five year period from 2005 until 2010

David A. Thompson, of Canal Winchester, Ohio and believed to be in his late 40s, was found guilty today of embezzling more than $1 million from his church, The World of Pentecost Church in Columbus, where he had served as pastor. Specifically, Thompson was found guilty on charges of theft, money laundering and tampering with records by a Franklin County Common Pleas judge. Prosecutors alleged that Thompson misappropriated funds from the church over a 9 year period from 1998 to 2007. He was charged with the thefts in 20 felony counts in late February 2009 and was alleged to have stolen funds from the church's building and assistance funds which he spent to support a lavish lifestyle, including expenditures on luxury cars, a pool, a boat and hair treatments. Thompson became pastor in 1995. He faces nearly 90 years in prison upon sentencing, scheduled for December 1, 2010.

Source: These people listed above are featured on the Fraud Talk blog. Please note that a couple of the people listed above haven't been convicted, only charged, two of whom have pleaded not guilty. 

Other sample stories can be found here on the Marquet site..

J.P. Morgan Chase Sending Letters To Customers With Home Loan Refinance Offers

I've been so busy lately that for the first time I had to turn down loan signing work today.  I was actually too exhausted to do a refinance loan closing at the Presidio in San Francisco last evening. Under normal circumstances I would have jumped at the chance.  I'm exhausted because for the past two weeks I've been running around the city like a chicken with my head cut off due to a surge in refinances of home loans.  Apparently the banks need to meet a government quota of loans so  J.P. Morgan Chase's been sending out offers to its customers to refinance their homes. People are snatching up the refinance offers like hot cakes.  I've since been meeting some very interesting people.

The first day of the World Series in San Francisco I actually did a loan signing near the AT&T ball park for a UPI photographer who flew in from Washington DC.  He also does photography for White House events (he described as very boring work).  Amazingly, a few days ago I did a signing for the California Supreme Court's research attorney and her husband.  When the nice lady told me the kind of work she did my jaw nearly dropped.  Yesterday I did a signing for a couple in a really large mansion in the Pacific Heights part of San Francisco who are in advertising and marketing.  The lady represents many top photographers' and their prestigious portfolios.

I meet such a wide variety of professionals, this is the perfect job for me.  Whenever I go into my home office, which is really the Regus business lounge and kitchen lounge areas, I've gotten to know several professionals there as well.   Attorneys like to bring up the "robo signer" fiasco to me because I'm a notary public.  The past few days I've spoken with two attorneys who brought it up to me at the Regus Halloween party.  These attorneys are very upset and believe people should be up in arms over millions of people being ripped off by the banks for fraudulent mortgage practices. (See my post No Trick or Treat!  Foreclosure Crises Scary As Hell!)  One attorney even suggested all the sports being in the news may be a conspiracy to hide the real estate crisis!  I personally think it's more of a coincidence due to the timing of the playoff season for baseball and football.

A few weeks ago there was a great article in the Wall Street Journal about specialty attorneys like Dustin Zacks and boutique law firms such as Ice Legal who deal with defending foreclosures.  Yesterday the Alex Jones Show did a large segment interviewing one of the Ice Legal attorneys, Dustin Zacks that was very interesting.  Check it out.

Attorney Dustin Zacks from Ice Legal was Interviewed on the Alex Jones Show and explains how his law firm specializes in successfully helping defendants in foreclosure disputes with banks.

I kind of think this surge of refinancing won't last and that my line of work in this area will eventually dry up when already insolvent banks go belly up.  Last night I also had my first offer to perform an electronic notarization I think will be the wave of the future.