Tag Archive 'mortgages'

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 [...]

The root of a cause…. Wall-E

Posted by Moonage on 14 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Idiot of the day, Opinions, People, Political Correctness

Here’s the story:
Overweight viewers are protesting the film’s depiction of a world ruined by “doughy and lazy folk who drink liquid cupcakes and can’t even really walk.”
In the film, which was fourth at the box office this weekend, Earth has been turned into a trash dump due to the Buy N Large corporation. Humans evacuated [...]

Kent Conrad is lying

Posted by Moonage on 18 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Ethics, Polls

Kent Conrad, DEMOCRAT from North Dakota, and Chris Dodd, DEMOCRAT from Connecticut, have been caught up in a bit of a mini-scandal.  It may get bigger, but I doubt it.  Now, both have made the same claim.  They both have have received very favorable loans from Countrywide while the rest of the country was getting [...]