Minister’s home purchases questioned in state mortgage case

A Valley preacher with a worldwide ministry and his wife bought multiple upscale homes with deceptive loan applications, according to a state case accusing a mortgage firm of illegal practices.

Clint Rogers, head of Mesa-based Clint Rogers Ministries, and Angela Faith Rogers are not accused of any wrongdoing in the complaint filed by the Arizona Department of Financial Institutions, which seeks to shut down Scottsdale-based Global Mortgage. The mortgage company handled many of the couple’s purchases and is accused by the state of using illegal and improper procedures.

But the couple’s purchases of more than two dozen homes in Arizona over two years are documented in records turned over by the state to federal investigators charged with looking at mortgage improprieties.

Property records show that they bought homes that the sellers had purchased hours, days or weeks earlier for thousands of dollars less than what Clint and Angela Rogers had paid for them.

That generated hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits for the sellers.

Of 26 homes bought by the minister and his wife, at least 23 went into foreclosure. All were sold for less than what banks lent to the couple, mostly through trustee sales.

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Kill The Apostrophe

This website is for those who want to remove the apostrophe from the English language, on the basis that it serves only to annoy those who know how it is supposed to be used and to confuse those who dont.

WHY KILL THE APOSTROPHE?

First, apostrophes are redundant. The number of cases where they make a semantic difference is absolutely minuscule (see below).

Second, they are wasteful. Tremendous amounts of money are spent every year by businesses on proof readers, part of whose job is to put apostrophes in the ‘correct’ place – to no semantic effect whatsoever. And the rest of us sit there clicking thru with Microsofts grammar checker, trying to work out if its telling us the truth or not about whether we really need an apostrophe there.

Third, they are just one more tool of snobbery. People who imagine that nonstandard apostrophe usage represents a ‘falling of standards’ tend also to assume that means they can look down on ‘illiterate’ people who dont follow the rules. You know, illiterate people like Shakespeares editors.

Fourth, current technology (text messaging in particular) makes it timeconsuming to use them. Why give ourselves this stress when itll make no difference anyway?

Fifth, they actually impede communication and understanding. Since so many people these days arent certain about how apostrophes work semantically its hardly going to help even if a proof-reader puts them all in the ‘correct’ places in some text.

Sixth, they are a distraction for otherwise reasonable and intelligent people. If youre the kind of person who does know and care about the ‘correct’ usage of apostrophes, think how much time you waste fretting over examples of ‘misuse’ when the very fact that you spotted the error means that you knew what they were trying to say in the first place. Are you a teacher who has marked a student down for apostrophe misuse? Shame on you, if so, for prioritising form over content.

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Posterous

Posterous lets you post things online fast using email. You email us at post@posterous.com and we reply instantly with your new posterous blog.

If you can use email, you can have your own website to share thoughts and media with friends, family and the world.

I’m thinking for those that want to share photos, but aren’t really sure how to do it or intimidated by photosharing websites, this is a pretty good way to start.  Just send the pictures to their Posterious email address, and then send the link to friends.  I think it would also be a good place just to stash a bunch of potapouri.

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