Now that Barney Fag & Co.'s affordable housing has cost well over $700 billion, it is easy to understand how much Obama's affordable health care will cost.
An open letter to the local daily paper -- almost every local daily paper in America:
I remember reading All the President's Men and thinking: That's journalism. You do what it takes to get the truth and you lay it before the public, because the public has a right to know.
This housing crisis didn't come out of nowhere. It was not a vague emanation of the evil Bush administration.
It was a direct result of the political decision, back in the late 1990s, to loosen the rules of lending so that home loans would be more accessible to poor people. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were authorized to approve risky loans.
What is a risky loan? It's a loan that the recipient is likely not to be able to repay.
The goal of this rule change was to help the poor -- which especially would help members of minority groups. But how does it help these people to give them a loan that they can't repay? They get into a house, yes, but when they can't make the payments, they lose the house -- along with their credit rating.
They end up worse off than before.
This was completely foreseeable and in fact many people did foresee it. One political party, in Congress and in the executive branch, tried repeatedly to tighten up the rules. The other party blocked every such attempt and tried to loosen them.
Furthermore, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were making political contributions to the very members of Congress who were allowing them to make irresponsible loans. (Though why quasi-federal agencies were allowed to do so baffles me. It's as if the Pentagon were allowed to contribute to the political campaigns of Congressmen who support increasing their budget.)
Isn't there a story here? Doesn't journalism require that you who produce our daily paper tell the truth about who brought us to a position where the only way to keep confidence in our economy was a $700 billion bailout? Aren't you supposed to follow the money and see which politicians were benefiting personally from the deregulation of mortgage lending?
I have no doubt that if these facts had pointed to the Republican Party or to John McCain as the guilty parties, you would be treating it as a vast scandal. "Housing-gate," no doubt. Or "Fannie-gate."
Instead, it was Senator Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, both Democrats, who denied that there were any problems, who refused Bush administration requests to set up a regulatory agency to watch over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and who were still pushing for these agencies to go even further in promoting sub-prime mortgage loans almost up to the minute they failed.
As Thomas Sowell points out in a TownHall.com essay entitled "Do Facts Matter?" ( http://snipurl.com/457townhall_com%5D ): "Alan Greenspan warned them four years ago. So did the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the President. So did Bush's Secretary of the Treasury."
These are facts. This financial crisis was completely preventable. The party that blocked any attempt to prevent it was... the Democratic Party. The party that tried to prevent it was... the Republican Party.
Yet when Nancy Pelosi accused the Bush administration and Republican deregulation of causing the crisis, you in the press did not hold her to account for her lie. Instead, you criticized Republicans who took offense at this lie and refused to vote for the bailout!
What? It's not the liar, but the victims of the lie who are to blame?
Now let's follow the money... right to the presidential candidate who is the number-two recipient of campaign contributions from Fannie Mae.
And after Franklin Raines, the CEO of Fannie Mae who made $90 million while running it into the ground, was fired for his incompetence, one presidential candidate's campaign actually consulted him for advice on housing.
And 30 years from now, global warming will similarly be a complete myth.
Those of us who remember the "global cooling" scare don't care how often you call it a myth. We were forced to address the issue in "science" classes. Libraries had volumes of nonfiction *and* fiction about the horrible, awful situation the particulates would cause.
Firewire has some advantages, but since USB 2.0 they look largely theoretical to me.
What is theoretical is USB 2.0's maximum transfer speeds. You will never see those speeds. While FireWire hits its mark and stays there for the duration.
FireWire is SR-71. USB 2 is MiG-25.
I like USB, it is fine for keyboards and the occasional file transfer. But moving gigabytes goes a lot faster and easier over FireWire.
I was hoping that USB 3 would have been a merger with FireWire. Now I am hoping that USB 4 is a merger with FireWire.
If Apple ever gets rid of FireWire from their pro equipment, that's the death-knell. That's when I go back to smoke signals.
And if Saddam Hussein had reinforced his contacts with al-Qaeda or started another war with Iran or restarted his dormant weapons programs, or all three plus some fresh hell....
Operation Iraqi Freedom has saved money and lives.
It's better to spend money on a constitutional requirement - "the common defense" - than on the specific welfare of Barack Hussein Obama's ACORN community (or more accurately, communist) organizers.
I guess we should have waited for Saddam Hussein (the Iraqi guy, not the pol from Corruptionland, Illinoise) to actually hit one of our patrolling aircraft, or otherwise "strike first" before we got rid of him.
Just think how many Mars rovers could have been built if the Dummycrats had not:
1) Created FNMA and FHLMC (Fascist Dictator Roosevelt) 2) Sold them to "private" interests (Lyndon Brainless Johnson) 3) Called anybody trying to fix them "racists," as Barney Frank did just yesterday.
and probably most importantly,
4) Been the racist pro-slavery KKK anti-civil-rights lily white yellow dog party in the first damn place!
There's this asinine argument that goes like this: if the government doesn't make banks loan to minorities and the poor, then those racist bastards won't give anyone who isn't a good looking WASP male a mortgage.
Then knee-jerk reactionary lefturd said,
Your argument seems to be that the government forced companies to take on loans from 'minorities and the poor'.
Look, Grampaw called it an asinine argument. It isn't his argument.
Please don't use this crisis as some sort of attack against the poor and/or minorities. It just makes you sound ignorant.
Nobody is attacking the poor or minorities over this stuff.
That is, if you can stomach working for a corporation. Eeewww, a company. Corporations are bad. They make profit and that's just awful. Companies never do anybody any good at all. They alienate the worker from his toil. And alienation makes people feel bad. And that's just awful.
Hey kids, I'm sure you've heard of "weed" and perhaps even "cheese."
Well, there is something worse. Something that will keep you awake for weeks at a time, keep you from bathing or even eating. Even after all of that you will have no money.
Yes. They will paint the Republican as an idiot war-monger and the Democrat as a genius prince of peace.
One of the worst two or three presidents, Jimmy Carter, was supposed to be some hotshot "nukuler" engineer, and his opponent was an idiot actor. Turns out President Ronald Reagan was twice or thrice as smart as Carter. The "war-monger" Reagan won the Cold War without turning it hot, the "dunce" ended Carter's stagflation.
Duh Media will say anything to get their guy elected. When Bill Clinton ran against President George Bush the Elder, Duh Media painted a World War II hero as a WIMP.
So of course Duh Media spreads crap about Senator Captain John S. McCain. Old = senile = stupid. Can't operate computer = stupid, even though operating Heinemann's Hot-Rod is much more technically challenging, and said operation of Hot-Rod resulted in injuries that leave McCain unable to use a mouse and keyboard.
It is impossible to overstate the bias.
It is my contention that had a President Gore done exactly the same things as President Bush the Younger, he would have been hailed as a military genius and lauded for keeping the homeland safe for seven full years.
We are left (pun not intended) with the sad state of affairs, where if you want accurate information about the Democrat candidate you have to Find It Yourself, and if you want accurate information about the Republican candidate the only place to go is his campaign website.
Because Duh Media is completely Dummycrat.
Vote the way you want, but don't vote the way Duh Media wants you to!
Bush & Cheney would never allow a precedent like that to be set.
The referent for "that:"
The requirement to create a new office in the White House would be a "legislative intrusion into the internal structure and composition of the president's administration," the letter said.
President Bush already allowed a legislative intrusion, the Department of Homeland Security, into the nation's administration.
To damn bad he didn't stick to his guns, too bad he let himself be rolled by the Jersey Whores.
I guess it is hard for his Democrat opposition to find some pathetic bitch or child of a has-been rock star to whine until the Department of Copyright Security gets formed.
Not counting a couple of exceptions, bullets tend to travel faster than the speed of sound. By the time your soldier had anything to hear, he would already be dead.
Now go read what Grampa actually wrote,
A very easy example: An easily frightened solider is walking in the woods. He hears something and is frightened, and immediately flinches. A bullet flies over his head, and he turns and returns fire, killing the enemey.
Grampa did not say the soldier heard a bullet, only that he heard something. The click of a safety, chambering of a round, snapping of a twig by the shooter, or maybe even something unrelated at all to the shooter. Grampa just said "something."
-- End of lesson, beginning of sermon. --
There exists a political leaning with habitually bad reading comprehension. This political leaning also excels at nit-picking (figuratively, and in many cases, literally). Those of this persuasion cannot understand context.
There is certainly a correlation between reading comprehension skills and this political persuasion.
They're the kind of people who display, "If you can read this, thank a teacher" bumper stickers. They waited until the subject was covered in class, and think that everybody else was just as stupid.
No wonder they cannot hold context. No wonder they cannot comprehend the written word. No wonder their entire intellectual abilities are focused on correcting spelling and grammar. Their thinking cannot scale.
You'll name Microsoft sooner or later. In spite of its being propped up by copyright law, I'll give you that one out of pity.
Good enough point on the copyright prop, but really you shouldn't spot them even this one.
'Cos I'd like to point out that Microsoft's monopoly came from the US anti-trust suit against IBM. The original source of Microsoft's monopoly, the reason the mountain went to Mohammed, the reason IBM went shopping for an OS, was the US DoJ would not let IBM make the whole widget.
So the Microsoft phenomenon is just another invisible foot, another evil of antitrust.
Why, yes, I am channeling the ghost of Ayn Rand at the moment. Or Helena Blavatsky. Hard to tell.
The Dummycrats were too stupid to use the punch card systems, and the Dummycrat Political Machine could not believe that its Florida Panhandle military vote suppression plan didn't work.
So they bitch and now we have easily hackable voting machines, exactly what the Dummycrat Political Machine ordered!
Every time a Dummycrat bitches about voting machines, remind them its their own damn stupid fault.
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Now that Barney Fag & Co.'s affordable housing has cost well over $700 billion, it is easy to understand how much Obama's affordable health care will cost.
The mission was accomplished.
Then the Democrat party decided to un-accomplish it.
It used to be called treason. Now treason is the highest form of patriotism.
After Obama's little test that Biden warned about, after thousands of more Americans are dead, it will be very unhealthy to be a Democrat.
As in spooky lead poisoning at a distance.
From Orson Scott Card,
>>>>
An open letter to the local daily paper -- almost every local daily paper in America:
I remember reading All the President's Men and thinking: That's journalism. You do what it takes to get the truth and you lay it before the public, because the public has a right to know.
This housing crisis didn't come out of nowhere. It was not a vague emanation of the evil Bush administration.
It was a direct result of the political decision, back in the late 1990s, to loosen the rules of lending so that home loans would be more accessible to poor people. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were authorized to approve risky loans.
What is a risky loan? It's a loan that the recipient is likely not to be able to repay.
The goal of this rule change was to help the poor -- which especially would help members of minority groups. But how does it help these people to give them a loan that they can't repay? They get into a house, yes, but when they can't make the payments, they lose the house -- along with their credit rating.
They end up worse off than before.
This was completely foreseeable and in fact many people did foresee it. One political party, in Congress and in the executive branch, tried repeatedly to tighten up the rules. The other party blocked every such attempt and tried to loosen them.
Furthermore, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were making political contributions to the very members of Congress who were allowing them to make irresponsible loans. (Though why quasi-federal agencies were allowed to do so baffles me. It's as if the Pentagon were allowed to contribute to the political campaigns of Congressmen who support increasing their budget.)
Isn't there a story here? Doesn't journalism require that you who produce our daily paper tell the truth about who brought us to a position where the only way to keep confidence in our economy was a $700 billion bailout? Aren't you supposed to follow the money and see which politicians were benefiting personally from the deregulation of mortgage lending?
I have no doubt that if these facts had pointed to the Republican Party or to John McCain as the guilty parties, you would be treating it as a vast scandal. "Housing-gate," no doubt. Or "Fannie-gate."
Instead, it was Senator Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, both Democrats, who denied that there were any problems, who refused Bush administration requests to set up a regulatory agency to watch over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and who were still pushing for these agencies to go even further in promoting sub-prime mortgage loans almost up to the minute they failed.
As Thomas Sowell points out in a TownHall.com essay entitled "Do Facts Matter?" ( http://snipurl.com/457townhall_com%5D ): "Alan Greenspan warned them four years ago. So did the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the President. So did Bush's Secretary of the Treasury."
These are facts. This financial crisis was completely preventable. The party that blocked any attempt to prevent it was ... the Democratic Party. The party that tried to prevent it was ... the Republican Party.
Yet when Nancy Pelosi accused the Bush administration and Republican deregulation of causing the crisis, you in the press did not hold her to account for her lie. Instead, you criticized Republicans who took offense at this lie and refused to vote for the bailout!
What? It's not the liar, but the victims of the lie who are to blame?
Now let's follow the money ... right to the presidential candidate who is the number-two recipient of campaign contributions from Fannie Mae.
And after Franklin Raines, the CEO of Fannie Mae who made $90 million while running it into the ground, was fired for his incompetence, one presidential candidate's campaign actually consulted him for advice on housing.
If that presidential can
Orson Scott Card has a tremendous article, http://ldsmag.com/ideas/081017light.html, which points out whose fault the current economic crisis is:
"The party that blocked any attempt to prevent it was ... the Democratic Party. The party that tried to prevent it was ... the Republican Party."
And high gas prices are mainly a result of environmentalists and other terrorists.
At least CodeWeavers's public stupidity is costing them money. I plan on downloading their shit many more times than necessary.
There exists a three word proof that Obama is much more stupid than President George W. Bush:
Windfall Profits Tax
This is a complete myth.
And 30 years from now, global warming will similarly be a complete myth.
Those of us who remember the "global cooling" scare don't care how often you call it a myth. We were forced to address the issue in "science" classes. Libraries had volumes of nonfiction *and* fiction about the horrible, awful situation the particulates would cause.
RealClimate.org is a myth.
And how much horrible deadly CO2 is needed to make the iron?
It also looks like they've hired high school editors.
Most high school papers are better than the "pros."
Well, when it comes to the War on Terror,
if it ain't .mil it's bullshit!
Firewire has some advantages, but since USB 2.0 they look largely theoretical to me.
What is theoretical is USB 2.0's maximum transfer speeds. You will never see those speeds. While FireWire hits its mark and stays there for the duration.
FireWire is SR-71. USB 2 is MiG-25.
I like USB, it is fine for keyboards and the occasional file transfer. But moving gigabytes goes a lot faster and easier over FireWire.
I was hoping that USB 3 would have been a merger with FireWire. Now I am hoping that USB 4 is a merger with FireWire.
If Apple ever gets rid of FireWire from their pro equipment, that's the death-knell. That's when I go back to smoke signals.
These tests are silly, because only an exceedingly tiny amount of human-ness can fit through a keyboard.
What emoticon carries the impact of a Walton Goggins grin?
Wake me when Asimo can solo like Miles.
Agreed. I hope she stays up there and never comes back. Can't believe she's Freeman's kid.
Congratulations on keeping your cool while explaining this to the paranoid idiots!
The soi-disant antiwar folks are the most violent shit ever to come out of a vagina.
They only strike when it's a war involving the United States.
The only real anti-war people are the Amish, Quakers, and Buddhists. The rest are useless idiots well on their way to treason.
And if Saddam Hussein had reinforced his contacts with al-Qaeda or started another war with Iran or restarted his dormant weapons programs, or all three plus some fresh hell....
Operation Iraqi Freedom has saved money and lives.
It's better to spend money on a constitutional requirement - "the common defense" - than on the specific welfare of Barack Hussein Obama's ACORN community (or more accurately, communist) organizers.
I guess we should have waited for Saddam Hussein (the Iraqi guy, not the pol from Corruptionland, Illinoise) to actually hit one of our patrolling aircraft, or otherwise "strike first" before we got rid of him.
Just think how many Mars rovers could have been built if the Dummycrats had not:
1) Created FNMA and FHLMC (Fascist Dictator Roosevelt)
2) Sold them to "private" interests (Lyndon Brainless Johnson)
3) Called anybody trying to fix them "racists," as Barney Frank did just yesterday.
and probably most importantly,
4) Been the racist pro-slavery KKK anti-civil-rights lily white yellow dog party in the first damn place!
Ten-cent RFID ear tags make sense.
Training cattle to respond to a multitude of radio commands is laughable.
But they can learn at least one useful trick. If you honk your horn every time you bring fresh hay, they learn that sound means "food."
So we already have a cow tractor beam.
The pressor beam is your dog.
I've got to wonder, has our litigious society made field trips impossible? So much "research" is done by people who have never been outside.
Time to teach a liberal how to read. Again.
There's this asinine argument that goes like this: if the government doesn't make banks loan to minorities and the poor, then those racist bastards won't give anyone who isn't a good looking WASP male a mortgage.
Then knee-jerk reactionary lefturd said,
Your argument seems to be that the government forced companies to take on loans from 'minorities and the poor'.
Look, Grampaw called it an asinine argument. It isn't his argument.
Please don't use this crisis as some sort of attack against the poor and/or minorities. It just makes you sound ignorant.
Nobody is attacking the poor or minorities over this stuff.
Since you are illiterate, you are ignorant.
How do we, the citizens get in on this?
Work for Facebook.
That is, if you can stomach working for a corporation. Eeewww, a company. Corporations are bad. They make profit and that's just awful. Companies never do anybody any good at all. They alienate the worker from his toil. And alienation makes people feel bad. And that's just awful.
Hey kids, I'm sure you've heard of "weed" and perhaps even "cheese."
Well, there is something worse. Something that will keep you awake for weeks at a time, keep you from bathing or even eating. Even after all of that you will have no money.
That horrible, horrible scourge is "I.T."
is media focus the same
Yes. They will paint the Republican as an idiot war-monger and the Democrat as a genius prince of peace.
One of the worst two or three presidents, Jimmy Carter, was supposed to be some hotshot "nukuler" engineer, and his opponent was an idiot actor. Turns out President Ronald Reagan was twice or thrice as smart as Carter. The "war-monger" Reagan won the Cold War without turning it hot, the "dunce" ended Carter's stagflation.
Duh Media will say anything to get their guy elected. When Bill Clinton ran against President George Bush the Elder, Duh Media painted a World War II hero as a WIMP.
So of course Duh Media spreads crap about Senator Captain John S. McCain. Old = senile = stupid. Can't operate computer = stupid, even though operating Heinemann's Hot-Rod is much more technically challenging, and said operation of Hot-Rod resulted in injuries that leave McCain unable to use a mouse and keyboard.
It is impossible to overstate the bias.
It is my contention that had a President Gore done exactly the same things as President Bush the Younger, he would have been hailed as a military genius and lauded for keeping the homeland safe for seven full years.
We are left (pun not intended) with the sad state of affairs, where if you want accurate information about the Democrat candidate you have to Find It Yourself, and if you want accurate information about the Republican candidate the only place to go is his campaign website.
Because Duh Media is completely Dummycrat.
Vote the way you want, but don't vote the way Duh Media wants you to!
Bush & Cheney would never allow a precedent like that to be set.
The referent for "that:"
The requirement to create a new office in the White House would be a "legislative intrusion into the internal structure and composition of the president's administration," the letter said.
President Bush already allowed a legislative intrusion, the Department of Homeland Security, into the nation's administration.
To damn bad he didn't stick to his guns, too bad he let himself be rolled by the Jersey Whores.
I guess it is hard for his Democrat opposition to find some pathetic bitch or child of a has-been rock star to whine until the Department of Copyright Security gets formed.
Do you really think that if Al Gore had won in 2000 that we'd be in Iraq right now?
Yes, absolutely. And if he had done exactly as well as President George Bush, he would be hailed as a military genius.
Not counting a couple of exceptions, bullets tend to travel faster than the speed of sound. By the time your soldier had anything to hear, he would already be dead.
Now go read what Grampa actually wrote,
A very easy example: An easily frightened solider is walking in the woods. He hears something and is frightened, and immediately flinches. A bullet flies over his head, and he turns and returns fire, killing the enemey.
Grampa did not say the soldier heard a bullet, only that he heard something. The click of a safety, chambering of a round, snapping of a twig by the shooter, or maybe even something unrelated at all to the shooter. Grampa just said "something."
-- End of lesson, beginning of sermon. --
There exists a political leaning with habitually bad reading comprehension. This political leaning also excels at nit-picking (figuratively, and in many cases, literally). Those of this persuasion cannot understand context.
There is certainly a correlation between reading comprehension skills and this political persuasion.
They're the kind of people who display, "If you can read this, thank a teacher" bumper stickers. They waited until the subject was covered in class, and think that everybody else was just as stupid.
No wonder they cannot hold context. No wonder they cannot comprehend the written word. No wonder their entire intellectual abilities are focused on correcting spelling and grammar. Their thinking cannot scale.
They nit-pick because they are nit-wits.
You'll name Microsoft sooner or later. In spite of its being propped up by copyright law, I'll give you that one out of pity.
Good enough point on the copyright prop, but really you shouldn't spot them even this one.
'Cos I'd like to point out that Microsoft's monopoly came from the US anti-trust suit against IBM. The original source of Microsoft's monopoly, the reason the mountain went to Mohammed, the reason IBM went shopping for an OS, was the US DoJ would not let IBM make the whole widget.
So the Microsoft phenomenon is just another invisible foot, another evil of antitrust.
Why, yes, I am channeling the ghost of Ayn Rand at the moment. Or Helena Blavatsky. Hard to tell.
The Dummycrats were too stupid to use the punch card systems, and the Dummycrat Political Machine could not believe that its Florida Panhandle military vote suppression plan didn't work.
So they bitch and now we have easily hackable voting machines, exactly what the Dummycrat Political Machine ordered!
Every time a Dummycrat bitches about voting machines, remind them its their own damn stupid fault.