Yes!

(Momma said "When answering questions, be succinct.")

"All generalizations are false, including this one.” Mark Twain

Like John McCain says: Its all in our heads.

Chucky Schumer helped cause the IndyMac bank run. Of course, like all good "liberal" Democrats, he denied his hand in the debacle. Dems will do anything to hurt our president, even to the point of destroying the nation's banks. Cry treason!

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

Citi has already been reinforced by a socialist bailout for what should have been a bank failure once in my lifetime, and it looks like they're headed for #2. A Drudge-link today says Citibank & various other banks are keeping 2 different sets of books for "exotic" things like CDOs. IMO that means trouble for an entity that has already been declared "too big to fail" in an era of increasingly-obvious socialism, which is naturally leading to even more dollar inflation. At a bare minimum, assuming any of these troubled banks survive, various troubled banks are likely to be facing big shareholder lawsuits even if they're bailed-out, IMO.
JMR

The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.

Drive bys disparately trying to change the focus from the energy supply problem and drilling ... Most people know the problem with the economy is an energy supply shortage.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are just the Enron's of the mortagage business with a twist, they use their "cookie jar accounting" to fake their books and fund leftist causes, a two-fer. When the mortgage collapse started in the scandals of 2004, the drive bys just drove by, no coverage is good coverage. Government thought ADDI 2003 would pump new money into the Enrons, filling the gaps, restocking the cookie jar. Well it didn't. The mortgage clientel that ADDI pumped in had a flaw, they weren't credit worthy. For a while it worked ... like flipping, it works for a while, then everyone knows the scam.

The government forced mortgages to be made without credit chacks, income checks, citizenship checks and other important information regarding applicant's ability to repay -- And now we have a problem which requires government bailout of the government caused problem, which forces a bailout, I'm getting dizzy.

You want to know the full scoop on the mortgage mess, it's called ADDI 2003, which took effect in 2004. And what does ADDI stand for, American Dream Downpayment Initittive. Like most things government, it spells disastor for the tax-payers.

The dollar implosion is caused by the self inflicted energy crisis, $700 billion a year in oil payments to terrorist states is just stupid.

EVERYTHING is caused by global warming...

More Americans are likely to suffer from kidney stones in the coming years as a result of global warming, according to researchers at the University of Texas.

The MSM is built on the premise that the only news worth reporting is bad news.  They take great delight in reporting upon the horrendous, the hideous, and the grotesque.  They will go out of their way to report this if it directly involves the Right or someone on the Right.  They will work very hard to link it to the Right or someone on the right no matter how little evidence there is to show that linkage.  They will work very hard to make a mountain out of a molehill if it suits their purpose (sell their media and support the hand in their sock puppet masters, the DNC).  And anyone who doesn't believe this is either trying to breath through the sand or shouldn't be allowed to handle sharp objects.

A gene has been found to explain why young men in rough neighborhoods (read: non-white) turn to a life of crime.

THANK GOD, it's a GENE and we don't have to talk anymore about raising children with morals and complete family structures including a present mother and father.  It's a GENE, so we don't have to take responsibility.  It's a GENE, they can't help being born criminals.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080714/hl_nm/delinquents_genes_dc

I am sure this topic will be covered elsewhere in some fashion. However, I just watched a real gagger on CNN. Around 2PM on CNN's Newshour they presented a story on the poor detainee in Gitmo who killed an American soldier with a hand grenade in Afghanistan. His lawyers released a tape of the boy, aged 16 years when jihading, being interrogated by the Canadians. The CNN reporter said this: "This tape does not show any threats from US officials, doesn't show Omar Kadar being tortured or mistreated. (At this point I knew a big BUT was coming) But he was very young and clearly very distraught, he is shown uncontrollably crying on the tape, showing his interrogator his battle wounds and insisting that no one cares for him." I found it hard to control myself. Poor little terrorist! So young, crying, distraught. BUT! Old enough to kill  our guys. Foxnews showed a more balanced report on this tape, including a Heritage Foundation comment on the purpose of releasing the tape. They had no drivel on the littlest terrorist.

BTW, Fox also showed an interview with Diane Feinstein on oil prices and such. Between  her and Barbara Boxer I don't know who is more of a dumbass. She said, twice, that demand for gas in this country is down over the past six months, but the price is up. Ignoring worldwide demand and everything else that influences prices, she said "something else is going on" and demanded investigations (of everyone, everything?) I think they have beaten to death the story of the 68 millions acres Exxon has hidden, they can't find the right speculators (that might include union pension funds!), so they have been reduced to a very non-specific, aspersion-casting phrase of pathologist Dr. Henry Lee: Something wrong

Is GM on the way out? Will we have to bail them out like we did Chrysler? I love NASCAR as much as anybody from the South but if they are in such finical straights why do they continue to pump dollars into it? Growing up the adage was win on Sunday and sell on Monday was true but not anymore. Let's face it at one time NASCAR did a lot of development on engines and aerodynamics. Nobody wants a small block V8 and the bodies are pretty much the same.

Be kind to your kids. They'll be choosing your nursing home.

Democrats can't repeal gas tax for the summer, but they can hand out $600 checks again?

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a5P_x5HfhQA0&refer=worldwide

 William Arkin needs to be strung up. The sooner the better.

Has anyone checked out the latest crap headline on CNN.com, please do now, you will get a HUGE laugh.

But you probably should read it anyway. And be thankful that at least so far, the 3rd party options are more tempting to a doorstep-babe like me than Obama is. And before you get to the outrage I'm sure I'll see if there are comments, try to see the moral of the story. That moral might sound something like: "Ignoring libertarians entirely  is crappy politics."
JMR

The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.