Evil is as evil does. This man filed for bankruptcy protection three times in three years, just to delay the day when something would have to be done. He FAILED TO APPEAR at two of the three Creditors’ meetings, and he FAILED TO PAY as he agreed he would in order to gain Chapter 13 confirmation and protection. Those payments, respectively, were to be $527 (2004), $740 (2005), and $1066 (2006), and he wouldn’t make those payments TO SAVE ANYBODY’S LIFE, LET ALONE HERS.

This woman had far bigger problems than house payments. She was married to a lying obstructionist, and he’s far too tough to be pushed around by The Feds.

He was $44,000 in arrears on that mortgage, and he damned well knew it, when that last Ch 13 was dismissed, as it damned well should have been. They’d only been living in that house for a few years, and he was $44K in arrears. What was he doing with his money? He was making $90 grand a year by 2006. What’s wrong with this picture?

The police may have been willing to believe this sad story about the poor lady victim of the nasty mortgage company, but it appears that Mr. Balderrama, according to news published recently, is denying that he ever filed for bankruptcy. Those shotguns were all his, and she didn’t know how to use them, let alone load them. They didn’t have a particularly long marriage at all, and I suspect that she was tired of living with a man who couldn’t attend a Creditors’ Meeting to save her life. I suspect that he was as tired of living with her as she was of him, and he’d run his clock out on delay with the help of the Federal Government.

I do not believe that this woman killed herself, at all. That house backs up to woods and a river, and I think that this whole thing was engineered by a person who believes all the garbage he feeds everybody else. He’s a liar, and a fraud, or at least he sure was to the Federal Bankruptcy Court.

I should probably start issuing a disclaimer with respect to Obama supporters, although I thought “more ardent” to be a sufficient qualifier. I know they’re not all uniformly smitten. I do think all but the most jaded have unreasonable expectations, by which I mean they expect something.

As for McCain, I’m not sure he’s healthy enough, mentally or physically, to survive two terms, and I doubt that one would be sufficient to bring on the revolution.

Also, to achieve real change, you have to have deep belief and hope that it will happen. Given the depths we have suffered, I understand why such a message attracts. Some want to believe in something again.

But, won’t he just fail us? I don’t know. The guy simply hasn’t offered a real chance to show what he will do, though he backed a few measures as a legislator that suggests he will do some good. And, is likely to attract some (like Samantha Powers, though her new hubby Cass Sunstein sometimes leaves something to be desired) good and credible sorts.

Going beyond belief, I think factually there is enough to give him a shot. I shall repeat that many of his supporters aren’t just blinded by pixie dust. And, some realize the reason for wariness.

As to McCain, he seems pretty healthy (look at Cheney — shades of Lionel Barrymore’s character in “It’s A Wonderful Life”), and will have time enough to do harm. Selling your soul to the devil for gain tends to be problematic, esp. if you don’t have Daniel Webster on your side.