This is made of awesome (NSFW - language) :
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Tuesday Open Thread
Submitted by 66chevelle on Tue, 2008-09-30 09:53.
at my neighbor's house. His dad was pastor of the local Unitarian Church...man, some things never change.
Submitted by Jack Serious on Tue, 2008-09-30 10:04.
Orwell’s 1984
David,
I think this is what they were drinking (sorry, couldn’t get the img to post here—here’s the url. - that’s okay - done for you - simpson)
Media Bias Destroys Informed Electorates & Healthy Democracies
Submitted by Jack Serious on Tue, 2008-09-30 10:22.
Navigating around the great info here is sooooooo fast -- fantastic!
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Media Bias Destroys Informed Electorates & Healthy Democracies
Submitted by speciallist on Tue, 2008-09-30 16:33.
"40 million American households that read TMR are generally happier
than those people in households that don't read TMR."
Submitted by Brian Simpson on Tue, 2008-09-30 10:03.
I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world. ~ Mark Twain
Submitted by Steve Foley on Tue, 2008-09-30 10:20.
Via Instapundit
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CREDIT CRUNCH?
Quote:To test Nancy Pelosi’s hypothesis that after eight years of President Bush the economy is in far worse shape than it was under President Clinton at a time of “budget surpluses,” I went to Lending Tree to see what kind of mortgage terms I could get to buy my first home today. . . .So what kind of offer did I get today in the midst of this horrible financial crisis? I got four offers, the lowest of which was a 15-year fixed-rate VA mortgage of 6.0%, zero points and zero down, yielding a monthly payment of $948.20. Yes, that’s right, as bad as everyone says the economy is today, I can get the same mortgage as I had twelve years ago for about $250 a month less than I was paying 12 years ago in the midst of a “great” economy.
But what about the rise in prices of real estate, you might argue? Good question. So I checked Realtor.com to see what my old house might cost today. While that particular home isn’t currently on the market, another home with the same floorplan and in the same division is listed at $139,000. Plugging that amount into the 6.485% effective annual percentage rate of the mortgage I was offered today and I could buy my old home again today for $1,209.69 a month–about a dollar less than what I was paying for the same home in 1996.
Yeah, but try getting a 120% no-doc interest-only loan now!
UPDATE: Reader Todd McLaren writes: "I'm not all that surprised that this guy could get a good mortgage at a great rate and payments... but I was SHOCKED that he could buy a house for 139,000." Todd was emailing from California. Houses are a lot cheaper elsewhere.
Submitted by Steve Foley on Tue, 2008-09-30 10:27.
...and as Ace graceful put it:
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Oh, God: Andrew Sullivan Shocked to Learn Governorship is Not a Part-Time Minimum Wage Job; Frets Palin's Money Could Intimidate a Hospital Into Covering Up a Fake-Pregnancy Changeling-Baby ConspiracyYou know, if any of you do subscribe to gay gossip site and antisemitic newsletter and soap-opera fantasia diary The Atlantic, right about now would be a good time to cancel your subscription, and inform them of the reason.
Agreed!
Submitted by streetwise on Tue, 2008-09-30 18:46.
long before Mr Sullivan graced their pages, uh, website.
Submitted by David Hinz on Tue, 2008-09-30 16:21.
Why isn't it the "Global Crossing" scandal? Why isn't it the "Tyco" scandal? Why isn't it the "WorldCom" scandal?
Ya think it has anything to do with the politics of the top execs at those other companies, and the fact that Ken Lay was a friend of President Bush?
Submitted by DocJ on Tue, 2008-09-30 16:24.
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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
Submitted by David Hinz on Tue, 2008-09-30 16:36.
three times.
The first was when he tried to nominate Harriet Myers for the highest court in the land. She was so obviously obama-qualified that the base rebelled -- and the President backed down and nominated an excellent choice.
The second time was when he tried to ram McAmnesty down our throats. The American people reared up on their hind legs and rebelled again. The President backed down, Congress gave some money for building the fence and ICE has begun rounding people up in raids and sending them back to their native lands.
This is the third rebellion! This bailout has UNITED the American people behind the Republican base -- I have DEMOCRAT friends that are beginning to listen to me about how this fiasco began -- and they were already against the bailout as Corporate Welfare. This time around, the President has nothing to lose -- he will be returning to Texas in January. Let us hope that we can still influence him to change direction on this bailout and force the government to seek private industry solutions.
Submitted by Jaded on Tue, 2008-09-30 16:41.
anyone who knows me will have to agree that I have supported, defended and admired this President. He has turned on me and for that I no longer support him.
Whoever has his enemy at his mercy & does not destroy him is his own enemy
Submitted by David Hinz on Tue, 2008-09-30 16:49.
but when he is wrong -- he is fatally wrong.
He has already presided over the greatest expansion in the size of government in history -- we cannot allow him to do it again.
Submitted by speciallist on Tue, 2008-09-30 17:42.
You can tell how it went..
"40 million American households that read TMR are generally happier
than those people in households that don't read TMR."
Submitted by speciallist on Tue, 2008-09-30 17:43.
"40 million American households that read TMR are generally happier
than those people in households that don't read TMR."
Submitted by Steve Foley on Tue, 2008-09-30 18:29.
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Every word that Governor Sarah Palin utters is flyspecked by the mainstream media, in hopes that they can find something wrong with it. As a result, almost every day we see a news story about some alleged misstatement by her. Today the Associated Press headlined, "Campaign tries to explain Palin's Putin comment," the implication being that Palin has once again put her foot in her mouth, and the McCain campaign is engaged in a futile effort to "explain" her error.
Praise for The One™ via Gateway Pundit:
I wonder how many of these kids will look back to this point in their lives and say: That’s why I’m in therapy.
I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world. ~ Mark Twain