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I’m back from my Qwest imposed exile, please try to contain yourselves.  Today’s topic will be Mortgage Savings from the Obama Administration (the group that abolished torture).  Since I don’t have big-time math skills or any real estate sense you can take it for what it’s worth.  So instead of diving right in I’m going to touch on a Utah Politician.

http://www.sltrib.com/Salt%20Lake%20Tribune%20Home%20Page/ci_11731577

Utah Republican Representative Chris Buttars is a total embarrassment to our State.  He is the winner, which is saying something.  I’ll let you read the article.  He basically says Gays “greatest threat to America” .  I’m not making this stuff up, he said it on videotape.    This mess will most likely end up being shown at next year’s Sundance film festival.

Here is the film-maker take by reporter Derek P. Jensen: If Reed Cowan needed extra buzz to get his documentary, "8: The Mormon Proposition," into the Sundance Film Festival, he found it in Chris Buttars.

But the openly gay former Channel 4 reporter was unprepared for both the Republican lawmaker's "hate-mongering" rhetoric and the interview's ensuing furor.

"I had no idea this would get worldwide reaction," Cowan said Wednesday from the Miami TV station where he now works.

Cowan says he sought out Buttars for the Jan. 30 interview in his Senate office since the Utah senator has long been "the wall" between gay people and legal rights as well as a former LDS bishop who played a role in excommunicating gay Mormons.

"He signed a very cogent release that gave me the right to use this in the promotion of the film and the film," Cowan said, noting that no moviemaker would turn down the opportunity to use the material. "He was on the people's time. He was at the people's desk. He was sitting in the people's building."

In a blog Wednesday, Buttars said Cowan told him he would be able to approve his part of the film before it was released. "I took Reed at his word and am disappointed."

Cowan, who says Buttars "would have had to be under a rock to not know" he is gay, rejects any notion this was a "gotcha interview."

"That couldn't be more incorrect," he said. "It couldn't be more duck and cover, and it's shameful. Any attempt to throw an arrow at me is cheap and cowardly. He said what he said."

Cowan notes the obituary for his son refers to Cowan and his partner, while a Salt Lake City magazine recently chronicled the gay filmmaker's' documentary.

Cowan plans to wrap the project this summer in time for film festivals, including Sundance.

 

Now, onto real estate, mortgages etc.  President Obama rolled out his ideas for TARP funding and how he plans to use it to help troubled American Families with their house mortgages.  If  you will remember last week, the Republicans were hammering him for not saying enough or committing enough money to the housing crisis.  This week of course, they are saying “Obama is spending too much, too much detail, too many people left out”.  Can you see the trend?

The Republicans are going to block, oppose, ridicule…everything the President does and root for him to fail, root for the Nation to fail.  Meantime they are marginalizing themselves.  They have become as stale as politician (not hero) John McCain and dim-bulb Sarah Palin. 

I told you I knew nothing of mortgages and real estate.  Talk to your lender and good luck and God Bless.  I’m rooting for you, even if the Republicans are not.  Even if you are gay.

One final laugh for you, listen to a Republican Leader, Senator Michelle Bachman of Minnesota:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/17/michele-bachmann-were-run_n_167650.html

Please laugh to avoid crying.