major malfunction.......

sure...why not...oh wait ..... let me guess ...

i'm a racist..right? ha!! dem's are 2 funny......



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WASHINGTON -- When Rep. Barney Frank was looking to aid a
Boston-based lender last fall, the Massachusetts Democrat urged
Maxine Waters, a colleague on the House Financial Services
Committee, to "stay out of it," he says.

The reason: Ms. Waters, a longtime congresswoman from California,
had close ties to the minority-owned institution, OneUnited Bank.

Ms. Waters and her husband have both held financial stakes in the
bank. Until recently, her husband was a director. At the same time,
Ms. Waters has publicly boosted OneUnited's executives and criticized
its government regulators during congressional hearings. Last fall,
she helped secure the bank a meeting with Treasury officials