Tag Archive 'housing'

Keith Ellison’s Utopia

Posted by Moonage on 17 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Fun with Numbers, Idiot of the day

Representative Keith Ellison submitted this letter to The Hill blogs:
We have to consider the 30 years of stagnant wages that your average Americans have had to face. That fact is that the reason we have people refinancing their homes, getting home equity loans, getting high rate interest credit cards and petty loans is because wages [...]

Nancy Pelosi Condemns Rangel for dissing Mississippi

Posted by Moonage on 10 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Shock and Awe

The Democrats haven’t even officially taken over the government yet, but they are already tossing out anything Republican as fast as they can.  Along with that, I guess we can totally dismiss Bush’s "conservative compassionism":
€œIt€™s not just committees our influence within the House Democratic caucus will grow enormously,€ Mr. Rangel said in an interview.
To [...]

My 2006 election day prediction

Posted by Moonage on 07 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Politics

I am basing this not on polls, because polls are just as often wrong as they are right.  I am basing this on things that matter, that are really happening.  The stock market has moved up strongly today.  Wall Street LOVES a useless split House.  When there’s no chance of significant legislation being produced for [...]

John Kerry doing it again

Posted by Moonage on 31 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: National Politics

In 2004, President Bush’s ratings were totally in the basement. John Kerry was trashing Bush in the polls, and the media was laughing at Bush’s ineptitude. John Kerry then went to war with some former Vietnam vets that he absolutely would not get over. He hounded and hounded and hounded that one [...]

10 Most Polluted places in the world

Posted by Moonage on 19 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: International Issues

Livescience ran a fairly brief article on the 10 Most Polluted Places in the World.  Without further ado, here they are in alphabetical order by country:

Linfen, China, where residents say they literally choke on coal dust in the evenings, exemplifies many Chinese cities;

Haina, Dominican Republic, has severe lead contamination because of lead battery recycling, a [...]

Washington Post can’t get it right either

Posted by Moonage on 10 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: The Media

Five years ago, President Bush warned us that there were some bad guys out there. He’s been pretty much dead on target with his warning. Iran, Iraq, and North Korea have all been issues that have caused problems within the US, and given the United Nations major headaches. North Korea has gotten [...]