It's hard sometimes but far from a bad thing ya know...she's always in my heart and mind, which is better than nowhere at all.

"Every night you carry away my sordid past in your beautiful hands.." (Which I'm sure she does..)

What's the heat all about?  Oh, just a little thing like him being president of the NY Fed at the time the LIBOR interest rate-rigging was going on.  

Did Timmy know about it?  Did he do anything about it?  Well, seems the House Banking Committee's kind of interested in getting some answers to those - and other - questions.  A big problem may be the memo he sent to the Bank of England.

From the WSJ:

Timothy Geithner in 2008 sent a private memo to Bank of England Governor Mervyn King calling for six changes that he said would improve the credibility and integrity of the London interbank offered rate, a key interest rate that is now at the center of a international banking scandal, according to documents reviewed by the Wall Street Journal.

At the time the memo was sent, Mr. Geithner was president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the financial industry was about to enter one of the darkest periods of the financial crisis. Mr. Geithner is now U.S. Treasury secretary. As Mr. Geithner sent the memo to London, U.S. regulators also began conferring about concerns related to possible distortions of Libor and what the impact might be, people familiar with the matter said.

From Scarecrow over at the FDL News Desk:

Geithner passed the documents around to anyone who wanted them last night. If there can be something less than the bare minimum, a two-page document to the Bank of England - not the banks implicated in the rate-rigging over which the NY Fed has control, but some other regulator - would be it. He didn't speak out publicly, he didn't use his regulatory power over the banks he had authority and in defense of the stateside financial products calculated using the Libor benchmark rate, he just wrote a memo.

The memo says that the Bank of England should "eliminate the incentive to misreport" Libor on the part of the banks. So there's no doubt in the minds of the regulators that there was misreporting going on.

Geithner suggested that the British Banker's Association, which sets the Libor, increase the number of banks submitting their interest rates, and randomly select a subset of the interest rate numbers it received from banks, so that no bank would know if the number they submitted would make it into the calculation. This isn't a bad idea, but here's the thing; nobody carried it out. Geithner knew of wrongdoing and sent his memo, and didn't get anything in the way of follow-up. And how did he respond to THAT? With nothing.

Will Timmy suddenly realize he needs to spend more time with his family?  Or will this all get whitewashed and glossed over?

Seriously, even Politico is starting to showbsome jitters.  Who knows...other than to say Mr Romney & associates are notngoing to be able to ride this out without some proof to the contrary.  Perhaps, opening up the financials a bit more?  My guess:  there may be more of a "China" connection than his 1998 investment in the outsourcing-directed operation , a tie that could be a big political setback in the electoral-rich manufacturing states in the upper Midwest.  

I'm afraid, jbindc, that the SEC imbroglio is more than an idle threat to Romney's goals.  For one thing, the media now have a big story to pursue...and, the doubts that will be left in that wake.... Well, as you know, that's an example of the hardball politics that you touch on from time to time.

Since then some other reporters have weighed in on Obama's side. Articles in Mother Jones magazine and the Talking Points Memo website, and most recently a front-page Boston Globe story on July 12, all cite documents filed by Bain with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The TPM piece noted that in documents from July 2000 and February 2001 Romney listed his "principal occupation" as "Managing Director" of Bain, for example. And the Globe story reported that Bain repeatedly listed him on government filings as the man in charge.

On a media conference call about the Globe story, Stephanie Cutter, Obama's deputy campaign manager, said the story proves that Romney had "full control" of Bain during this time and "therefore directly responsible" for decisions made at companies in which Bain invested. "Either Mitt Romney, through his own words and his own signature, was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the SEC, which is a felony. Or he was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the American people to avoid responsibility for some of the consequences of his investments," Cutter said.

But we see little new in any of these SEC filings, and a University of Pennsylvania Law School professor we spoke to sees no basis for the Obama campaign's claim that Romney committed a felony.

Jeebus - there's enough to go after Romney for on real honest-to-goodness bad things.  Why do they keep trying to throw spaghetti against the wall and seeing what sticks?

You can see the downslope from the houses that back up to the "T" (like the Teacher's)

I think they are significant because they were taken in late March, after the FDLE took over. So the choices of photos may be a clue to the story they want to tell. For example, there are several closeups of the break between houses at 1251  TTL, showing the path one would take from the front side of the houses to the shared backyard at 1251 Twin Trees Lane. In an early video interview with Tracy Martin, he said he thought Trayvon came in through the front gate (not the shortcut) turned down the front of Twin Trees Lane and then cut over at the break between houses to the shared path. (The question then, would be which way did Trayvon go when he reached the shared path: to the right which would take him home or the left which would take him back up to the T. I wrote about that possibility here .

There's a lot of photos of the Teacher's house at the top of the T, and some of what seems to be the back of either 2841 (W#1 and 2) or 2831 Retreat View Circle which shows a heavily enclosed patio making it hard to see anything from it unless one went outside.

So the photos may show a clue to their thinking. The photos are so large (some 3,000 pixels, the rest over 2,000 pixels) that I don't have a place to upload them all to.

I always get the impression that these institutions - like corporations - like government institutions - like religious institutions - function on the theory that they are above the law. Or at least that they are subject to a more lenient application of the law than the average citizen. They are somehow more noble, more sacred, than the average lowlife predator.