Happy President's Day.
The snow continues to fall this afternoon, but most of the accumulation from this storm is done. Looks like a little over a foot at my place, a half a foot more just a little ways south of me. Enough to give us a record snowfall for February, a record for snowiest February, and vault this season up to second or third snowiest, depending on which TV channel you believe. Looks like there could be more on the way this week. I'm going to have to bite the bullet and borrow a snow rake for my roof I think. Regardless, the last couple of days have been good ones to just hunker down at home.
I did pick out a new mattress this weekend and it should be delivered late this week. I don't think I have ever gotten anything on one of those President's Day sales before, so that's one thing off my checklist. Every American should get something at a President's Day sale before they die. Kind of the way the Hajj is for Muslims.
At trial, Wells Fargo didn't send anyone to represent themselves, so Patrick got a default judgment against them for $1,173. They eventually sent him the amount, but they had still had not responded to his letters or agreed to fix his premiums, as required by law. So he filed for a sheriff's levy. This directs the sheriff to seize and sell the debtor's property to pay up. In this case, it was the local branch office of Wells Fargo mortgage, the ones who had been ignoring him all these years.
To get the levy, he presented the court clerk with his default judgment and got the Writ of Execution and the Instructions for Levy which he delivered to the sheriff's office. He paid them a $50 deposit to cover their administrative costs. A local sheriff then went into the Wells Fargo branch office and took an inventory and posted notice that nothing could be removed. The court also gave him several posters which he was expected to xerox and post around town.
Most likely Wells Fargo will not actually have that office seized, but I like how the man got their attention.
So we have apparently admitted that the US citizen being held in Pakistan on murder charges was a contractor working for the CIA. I still don't get how there could be any confusion about his diplomatic status. You don't just show up at another country and say, "Yo, I'm a diplomat and, dude, I got full immunity." Host countries like to know who such people are before they grant them a diplomatic visa and let them in. I thought they also were very clear about the diplomat's immunity status as well. As I've said before, I smell a screwup on the part of the US here. Was somebody was doing something that should have been reserved for a "diplomat" who was "covered"?
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