- Hamas gets $50 Million from Iran, then a suicide bomber strikes Israel, and Hamas says it's the Palestinians right of self defence. Iran/Hammas now joined at the hip and simply executing their strategy. I hear Qatar may also be ponying up. Oh, the axis of oil (I mean evil) is spreading quickly
- The Exxon guy gets paid $400 Million on his way out the door, while you're all filling up with $3 gas. My question is - why not organize a selective boycott of Exxon stations? At least hurt one of 'em (but not ConocoPhillips please!)
- Gold, Silver and Oil all hit fresh highs today. Anyone think inflation isn't going to get out of control?
- China's head honcho is heading over to Bill Gates place for dinner. Now we really know who's running the world today
- More deaths and destruction in Iraq, with still no government or exit strategy
- The dollar is selling off big time, the start of the meltdown?
- Phoenix touching 43,000 listings today. Wow.
The connection?
Oil + Pissed Arabs + Exxon + Bush + Gold + Dollar + China + Housing Bubble = We're F*cked. Even Kevin Bacon would know that. But what would Brian Boitano do?
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from http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/
Subprime lender Acoustic Home Loans goes under....
What are the subprime lenders trading on the exchanges that we can short?
Closing cost scams
Blaming game started!!!
http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/13/
real_estate/
closingcosts_money_0603/
index.htm
citation:
" ... You always thought those mysterious fees at closing were a total scam. Congrats! You were right. Here's what you can do to avoid paying through the nose."
Don`t forget REAL ESTATE PROPERTY price REVALUATION and surges in Property taxes !!!
Do not worry...move to china and start new career as male Geisha!
Good article about the closing cost sham. Title insurance - phhtt! Has ANYONE here heard of a claim being paid? When I bought my current home, it was just completed by the builder, yet I had to purchase title insurance. WTF?!? Like someone ELSE might own it????
Buh-bye realtors, appraisors, lenders, etc. FU all!
yeah. Like when we refinanced, we had to do another title search. Hello? I'm pretty sure I was the only owner between purchase an re-fi. Maybe I'm wrong - maybe my schizophrenic half did something without telling me.
We should have GRABBED the money and RAN when Alan DID...NOW they're ON TO US !
No greater gift than to give ones life for another.
Found this story while surfacing the net.
Thomas Mouch
Sr. Mgr., Int?l. BD, Asia-Pacific
Raytheon Company
Last week, while traveling to Chicago on business, I noticed a Marine sergeant in Dress Blues traveling with a folded flag, but I did not put two and two together. After we'd boarded our flight, I turned to the sergeant, who'd been invited to sit in First Class (and was seated across the aisle from me), and inquired if he was heading home.
"No sir" he responded.
"Heading out?" I asked.
"No. I'm escorting a Marine home."
"Going to pick him up?"
"No. He is with me right now. He was killed in Iraq. I am taking him home to his family."
The realization of what he had been asked to do hit me like a punch to the gut. It was an honor for him. He told me that, although he didn't know the soldier, he had delivered the news of his passing to the soldier's family and felt as if he did know them after so many conversations in so few days. I turned back to him, extended my hand, and said, "Thank you. Thank you for doing what you do so my family and I can do what we do."
Upon landing in Chicago, the pilot stopped short of the gate and made the following announcement over the intercom. "Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to note that we have had the honor of having Sergeant Steeley of the United States Marine Corps join us on this flight. He is escorting a fallen comrade back home to his family. I ask that you please remain in your seats when we open the forward door, so as to allow Sergeant Steeley to de-plane and receive his fellow soldier. We will then turn off the seat belt sign."
Without a sound, all went as requested. I noticed the sergeant saluting the casket as it was brought off the plane, and his action made me realize two things: I am proud to be an American, and I will continue to fly on American Airlines because it respects what our soldiers do every day.
So here's a public thank-you to our military for doing what they do, so we can live the way we do.
And if there are no tears in your eyes now, you could use a heart transplant.
It's very sad and horrifying. However, live by the sword, die by the sword. Most of us don't want to be in a costly war for the wrong reasons, but we have to pay for it anyway! We who don't support it don't have a choice! Yes, it's terrible, but most people seem to completely miss the fact that it never should have started in the first place.
Double axel, Triple Lutz. Then I'd switch to Spice! channel and stop watching men ice skate.
The transported body story has been around since 2003.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/johnson.asp
Here's an early version, copied verbatim, from snopes.com:
"I want to tell you of an experience I had last night flying home from Atlanta. The pilot came on the intercom and went through the usual announcements telling us that "we're just east of Montgomery cruising at 28,000 feet" and "you've picked a beautiful night for flying, just look at the gorgeous southern sunset out of the right side of the plane".
"He then, however, said this: "Please bear with me as I deviate from the script, but I want you all to know that simply by coincidence you have been granted both the privilege and honor of escorting the body of Army PFC Howard Johnson, Jr. home tonight. PFC Johnson was killed in Iraq defending the freedoms we all enjoy, and fighting to extend those freedoms to the people of Iraq. We are also accompanied by PFC Johnson's cousin, Marine Major Talley, who has been chosen by the family to escort PFC Johnson home. Semper Fi!"
"The plane quickly became very quiet, but soon erupted in thunderous applause that lasted for several minutes. It was quite moving, to say the least. As I sat there thinking about what the pilot had said, and visualizing PFC Johnson's dead body riding below me in the belly of that plane, I noticed a couple of things. Two rows in front of me sat a father holding his daughter, an infant, and they were practicing "ma-ma" and in the row behind me was another young boy, probably 2 or so, learning to count to 10. Now obviously both are too young to realize we're at war, or that one of our dead was with us, but it made me think, and this is the point: These warriors, mostly young, all volunteers, everyday are prepared to give their lives for our future, for a safer, more secure future for people they don't even know, all based on the principle that fighting and dying for this country is worth it. You all know and agree with this, but not everyone does, so I would ask that if you meet anyone that's not "on board" with this philosophy, i.e. the protesters, that you "correct the situation".
"By the way, the flight ended with all of us deplaning only to line the windows of the gate house to watch PFC Johnson's body, draped in the American flag, be rolled out of the plane and into a waiting hearse that was surrounded by his family members. Please pray that our soldiers' sight is acute, their aim is true, and that as many come home as God can spare."
According to snopes.com, "Howard Johnson was a 21-year-old Army PFC from Mobile, Alabama. He was assigned to 507th Maintenance Company, Fort Bliss, Texas, and he was killed in action during an ambush near Nasiriyah, Iraq, on 23 March 2003."
"Since PFC Johnson was from Alabama (and was buried on 6 April 2003 at Gethsemane Cemetery in Mobile), it's not improbable that his body was carried on a commercial flight from Atlanta to Alabama, that the pilot of that flight made an announcement to that effect, and that many passengers on the flight responded to the announcement with reverence and appreciation. (The message quoted above often carries the signature block of an Andy Nelson, but he was merely a forwarder of the message and not its originator.)"
However, the new version, complete with elaborate embellishments and changed names, suggests that the earlier version is also bogus. In that one, somebody uses a real name of a real fallen soldier, but there is no evidence that anything else in the story is true. The new expanded version is definitely fictitious.
I have a cousin who constantly mails out Internet urban legends like this one (and worse) to everyone in her address book, so I guess the need to believe in and spread dramatic rumors is fairly common.
Whether the war should have started or not is a point of contention. Knowing what we do now, I would say no. The point is we should not trash the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The majority of them are great and brave people. As an immigrant from Vietnam, I was horrified to find out that American soldiers were treated so badly after that war. The majority of Vietnamese loved the soldiers and backed them. Most of the baby-killer horror stories were lies spread by the Communists. If it was true, then millions of Vietnamese would not have risked their lives after the war to hop on little boats and try to head off for America. I just wish the people in Vietnam would have shown more support for those brave men who were fighting for us back then. It's sad seeing their work being undermined by corrupt and self-serving politicians. Just my two cents.
All the horror stories were not false. Remember Lt. William Calley and the My Lai Massacre?
I agree the most returning veterans should have been treated better.
I'm glad you're a fan of ConocoPhillips. It has a warm place in my heart.
Thanks 41cadillac for the story. I don't care if it has been around since 2003. It's still worth repeating. Can't believe how many America Haters (in America) there are on this site.
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