Also, if Bush and Cheney are both impeached in 2007, will President Pelosi pardon them? I think the housing crash will be far enough along that it'd be a zero-sum on price declines... But sure fun politics!
President Pelosi. Say that a few times out loud - and then perhaps a few of you would be joining me on the expat route
Papers: Cheney Aide Says Bush OK'd Leak
AP - WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney's former top aide told prosecutors President Bush authorized the leak of sensitive intelligence information about Iraq, according to court papers filed by prosecutors in the CIA leak
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US 30-, 15-year mortgage rates rise second straight week
WASHINGTON, April 6 (Reuters) - Average interest rates on U.S. 30- and 15-year fixed rate mortgages rose for a second week, according to a survey released by mortgage finance company Freddie Mac on Thursday.
Rates on 30-year mortgages rose to an average of 6.43 percent from 6.35 percent last week, while 15-year mortgages increased to an average of 6.10 percent -- their highest since June 2002 -- from 6.00 percent.
One-year adjustable rate mortgages averaged 5.57 percent, also up from 5.51 percent a week earlier.
A year ago, 30-year mortgages averaged 5.93 percent, 15-year mortgages 5.48 percent and the one-year ARM 4.23 percent, Freddie Mac said.
"There is concern that the continued high level of energy costs may lead to inflation in other sectors of the economy. And fear of inflation leads to higher mortgage rates, like the ones we see this week," Frank Nothaft, Freddie Mac vice president and chief economist, said in a statement.
"Our forecast for the year as a whole is for economic growth of 3.8 percent in 2006, above the 3.2 percent in 2005, which may warrant even more Fed (Federal Reserve) rate hikes than previously expected. If that is the case, mortgage rates may continue their gradual upward trend," he said.
Last week the Fed raised interest rates for a 15th straight time, lifting the benchmark federal funds rate to its highest level since April 2001 at 4.75 percent.
Lenders charged an average of 0.6 percent in fees and points on 30-year mortgages, up from 0.5 percent last week. They charged 0.5 percent on 15-year mortgages, unchanged from last week, and 0.7 percent on the one-year ARM, down from 0.8 percent.
The hybrid "5/1" ARM, set at a fixed rate for five years, then adjustable each year following, averaged 6.11 percent, up from 6.02 percent last week and also up from 5.33 percent a year earlier, Freddie Mac said.
Freddie Mac is a mortgage finance company chartered by Congress that buys mortgages from lenders and packages them into securities to sell to investors or to hold in its own portfolio.
Anyone who still supports Bush after all that we know now is most certainly a traitor to the country. Anyone who still supports that ass-clown in Al Gore's house is guilty of treason.
Reports are all over the news and the internet. Bush guilty of treason. Will he resign or be impeached? I'm hoping he will be stripped of his citizenship and sent to Iraq to stand trial with Saddam. Which prison should serve his time in, I'm voting for Abu Ghraib.
"DemocRATS". Wow, you're so original.
The federal government needs to be trimmed down by about 99%.
Republicans, YOU'RE FIRED!
Democrats, YOU'RE FIRED!
Congressman Ron Paul of Texas, want a new job as president of a government 1/100th the size? I thought so!
President Rice and Vice President Watts will hold a ceremony in Crawford on Jan 21st 2009 officially pardoning any and all Bush administration crimes. After balancing the budget and securing world peace for all time she will then devote the remain 3 years 11 months and 3 weeks of her first term to saving wildlife.
Nancy Pelosi? Welcome to the Peoples Republik of Amerika
Who was Mark Rich's council when Clinton pardoned him?
Clinton-Pelosi '08. Prepare for the end of civilization as we know it.
I quote;
Liberals like to portray their pet political party, the Democrats, as "the party of inclusion" or "the big-tent party," while denouncing Republicans as anti-minority and anti-women. Historically, nothing could be further from the truth. It's just another Liberal lie.
The first woman in Congress was Jeanette Rankin, a Republican from Montana elected in 1916. Her platform included universal suffrage, Prohibition, child welfare reform, an end to child labor, and staying out of World War I. Does that sound like the anti-woman, warmongering Republican Party the Liberals like to describe? Not to me.
The first black Congressman was Joseph Hayne Rainey, a Republican from South Carolina and a former slave. Rainey's father purchased the family's freedom and became a barber. Rainey was one of the more conservative black leaders during Reconstruction; he favored a poll tax as a requirement for voting, with the revenues devoted to public education (the measure didn't pass). Elected to Congress in 1870, he supported an amnesty bill to remove remaining liabilities on former Confederates while simultaneously promoting a civil rights bill. Does that fit the Liberal profile of Republicans? No.
The first black Senator to serve a full term was also a Republican, Blanche K. Bruce of Mississippi. (Technically, the first black Senator was Republican Hiram Rhoades Revels. He was elected to serve the remainder of Jefferson Davis' term, but did not run for re-election.) Born a slave, he escaped at the beginning of the Civil War and tried to enlist in the Union Army. He was elected to the Senate in 1874, encouraging the government to be more generous in issuing western land grants to blacks and favoring distribution of duty-free clothing from England to needy blacks. Senator Bruce also worked for the desegregation of United States Army units. Again . . . does this fit in with the view of Republicans the liberals force-feed their adherents? Hardly.
The first woman to run for President on a major party ticket, as well as serve in both houses of Congress, was Margaret Chase Smith, a Republican from Maine. Elected in 1940, she supported appropriation for childcare and helped women in military service by establishing WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service) and the Army-Navy Permanent Nurses Corps. She worked for retirement benefits, equal pay, and equal rank for women. She then ran for the Senate in 1948 and won, serving for 24 years. During that time, in 1964, Senator Smith ran for President on the Republican Party ticket and received 27 nominating votes at the Republican Convention. Is that the anti-women Republican party the Democrats like to portray? Nope.
After the Democrats blocked the passage of the Republican-backed civil rights bills of 1957 and 1960, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was finally passed despite a Democratic filibuster led by Senator Robert Byrd (D-WVa), a former Klansman and still a US Senator. It was the Democrats who fought against civil rights, not Republicans. In the House, 79% of Republicans and 63% of Democrats voted in favor of the bill, while in the Senate, 21 Democrats and only 6 Republicans voted against it.
Which political party is really the party of inclusion, and which pigeonholes people based on race, creed, or sex? Which party promotes people based on their individual merits, and which sees people only as representatives of a group? When you look fairly at the facts, the "big tent" the Democrats claim to be under is just a circus tent
This President is way past impeachment. When will the American people wake up. It does not take much education to understand the implication of the President's web of lies: Valeria Plame, WMD, the energy bill, etc., etc., etc.
I would say enough is enough.
There's nothing worse than the partisianship in the USA...that's direct at you FooChumpa.
This has nothing to do with partisanship. It is not about Democrats or Republicans. This is about the integrity of the person we have leading our country.
I know plenty of Republican leaders and Democratic leaders with integrity. Any of them would be a hundred times better than the current President, and Vice President for that matter.
Who do we want to lead our nation? What are the qualities of a good leader?
Skytrekker...come down out of the trees and bang the rocks together.
He he he...I just love how some of you folks gets so impassioned about Republicans and Democrats...there is not a dimes worth of difference bewtween them...silly sheeples, when will you ever learn.
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The illegals are going to take over before all of this impeachment and such can occur.
Bush Co. knows the shit has hit the fan and they are hell bent on destroying the nation before they can be punished for that they have done. Why else do you think the GOP (who LOVES illegal labor) would vote to give illegals rights?
Kennedy and Reid are just limo liberals who think it is rightious for them to help poor people from the leather chairs in their estate homes.
We need a new constitutional convention.
You bet! Trim gov't by 99%, then we might be part of the way there.
The illegals are here to take care of rich folks homes & landscaping, to staff the fastfood restaurants, and to surpress the wages offered in the USA at the low end of the economic spectrum.
We are all doomed in 20 years this will be a Turd World country full of filth and diseases as hundreds of millions of illegals are emboldened by the new amnesty plan. If you were eating flies in Africa or Asia, wouldn't you want to come here and have free guvmint housing and food? This is our last stand. Let your traitorous Senators know how you feel or else your children and grandchildren will be living in a cesspool. Trust me, it can get 1000 times worse than it is right now. What legacy will you leave behind for your future generations?
I'm ready to give up on this country. It is importing too much poverty and crass third-worldness.
If you have enough savings, Canada will accept you an a business-starting emigree. (Otherwise you need to be young, and speak both English and French.)
OK, maybe I won't really do it. But I am socking away what I can, so that I'll at least have the option.
Sorry guy, Canada basically signed away it's rights to it's own natural resources with NAFTA...Canada's fate is intrisically tied to the U.S.A's fate.
The masses will invade Canada once they are through raping America. Head for Australia or New Zealand. It's not so easy to invade an island
The AP article jumped the gun. This is all going to be a molehill misrepresented as a mountain by Democrat reporters hoping for a scandal. Ho hum. Tit for tat, I guess, in honor of Clinton.
Chris Mathews is trying to be melodramatic, as usual, but didn't he used to be a speech writer for that incompetent boob Jimmy Carter, who still has both feet planted firmly in his big fat mouth?
Who cares. The general public will never rise up, because Americans don't like rocking the boat. No legislation concerning illegal immigrants will improve anything. If the existing laws are not honored, there is no reason to think new laws will be. Illegals will continue pouring in.
Both parties are sell-outs.
On the bright side housing will get real affordable in Mass. The legislature there just passed a real turd of a socialized medicine plan. They're promising universal coverage by forcing everyone to buy their own coverage (at $8000 + a year). Or they'll increase your income tax by like anount. Rather than 25,000 people a year leaving the Commonwealth, I'd wager that number will double leaving squatting right on all those empty condos.
Unfortunately, they'll all head to Florida (as usual).
Are your sure about the 8,000+ a yer per person? This doesn't sound believable. My insurance doesn't cost a third as much.
Everybody screams about socialized medicine, but it actually works very well in most countries, and is far less expensive in the long rong, because it cuts out the middle man (the insurance industry). Australia and Germany have great socialized medicine. The Isle of Man does too, and has a maximum income tax rate of 10% that covers everything, including medical care. If American doctors weren't so appallingly greedy (who do you think is buying all those MacMansions?), and insurance company stock holders weren't milking the system, the price of medicine would drop dramatically. It has nothing to do with malpractice insurance premiums, and everything to do with the insurance companies that deliberately set them outrageously high, and make bigger and bigger profits every year.
Please forgive the typos above. Also, I need to double-check the Isle of Man figure. The maximum tax may be a little higher, but not much, even though the Isle of Man is considered part of Great Britain.
Who knows what the hell will go down. I'm 27 right now and while I am basically happy with life I'm scared shitless as to what life will be like in the future.
I don't know if getting married and having children will be the best thing to do.
While I can provide for them I do not make the kind of money to send kids to a private $20K per year tuition school. I cringe at what public schools must be like these days. Kids raised on TV, illegals, gangs in grade school, etc.....if I had a daughter I'd go insane worring about her all of the time.
The really funny thing is that just 9 years ago in 1997 as a senior in high school my outlook on life was so positive. I miss that pre-terror hysteria, pre-post peak oil, and pre-fake wealth created by a housing bubble era. Life was so simple back then. Gas was around $1 and my biggest decision of the week was what movie to see.
I miss the good old days (1997).
Keith,
I see you have whipped your idiotic lackeys into a frenzy yet again. You see, the President has the supreme authority to classify and declassify all materials concerning national security, the CIA, FBI, DoD etc...
Therefore, if Bush gave the OK, then the material was not leaked. It was declassified and there is nothing wrong with that legally. You could say it was unethical depending on the circumstances, but there is nothing impeachable in those actions.
I'm no Bush supporter. In fact I think he is a big dumb turd, but the media whipping people into a frenzy over nothing is just disgraceful. You are in the same class. I don't know if it's being done out of partisanship or pure ignorance, but it's pretty sad.
Ah 1997, what a year. Back then I was a happy crack head whose only worry was burning my fingers on an all too small crack pipe. Fast forward nine years, two DUI's, four OD's and ten days in the hospital, things have definitely gone down hill :(
Not all private schools cost $20k/yr.
Back in 1997 I was broke and scaping together coins to buy a 99 cent Whopper at BK. Now I have a degree and have some money. Things are looking better for me.
Peak oil? Maybe, maybe not. Everyone knows at some point there will be a shortage of oil unless we can go to alternative fuels pretty soon.
The terrorism was there all through the 1990's. You were just too young to care about it.
1993 WTC bombing
1995 Khobar Towers bombing
1995 OK City bombing
1998 US Embassy bombings
2000 USS Cole bombing
In between, there were attacks on US government workers in Pakistan and Washington DC. Don't forget about all the school shootings too.
You're just grown up now and actually give a damn. Yeah the world is fcke dup, but it has been that way all along.
President Pelosi? Sounds great to me!
The president so it must be legal? The last defense of
every criminal government.
42,000 deaths on our highways
year after bloody year ...
decade after decade. Who's
the moron worried anout terrorism?
"The president so it must be legal? The last defense of
every criminal government. "
So if Congress passes a law it must be legal?
So if the Supreme Court makes a ruling it must be legal?
Who do you think decides what is classified and what isn't? It's called the Executive branch of government. They classify and declassify all documents. LBJ sealed the Kennedy assasination files. Any sitting President can declassify those files. Try learning something before spouting off stupidity.
This moves this country of extreme political polarization to a country of super-duper extreme political polarization.
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The more I look at what's going down in DC, the more I expect '07 will be payback time for what happened to Clinton in '08. Just as Clinton's impeachment was largely payback for what the Dems did to Nixon, Bush will be impeached if the other side gets ontrol of the House in November. If they take the Senate too, there is a good chance we'll have President Pelosi for 18 months.
Will any of this help? Of course not, only 25% of the people living here give a sh*t anymore, the rest just want their bread and circuses.
yo dawg evbuddy know bush be cauzin hercane curtrina cuz he be wuntin to be killin black folk. bush be sent curtrina to new orluns to get us black folk.
whitey izda debel. mairca izda debel. dey be stolunz da lan frum indans
DemoRat plan for America:
1. Raise taxes.
2. Stop offending al Qaeda
3. Get more people on the welfare rolls and dependent on the DemoRat plantation
4. Give Halliburton more billion dollar no-bid contracts for Clinton's illegal Bosnia War
So DemoRats failed from 1960 to 1995. The Repugs are falling apart. Where's the third party?
which retards here think the government can take care of them? look at the mess with social security and medicare. do you really want your health and well-being put in the hands of some fat stupid government bureaucrat? they'd rather let you die. you'll just be another expense to them. get a clue, you dumb suckers.
talking about "free" dental care, look at the UK. their teeth are gawd aweful. that's what you get when something is "free". you pay the government, they take about 50% for expenses and fees, then use the other 50% to give you "free" benefits. i bet you suckers think that social security is also free. LMAO
Saddam is gooood
Bush is baaaad
Saddam is gooood
Bush is baaaad
duh, how does this here budderfly balut work? duh
hey those republicans are reely stupit. huhuhuh
hey i wus dithenfrangized!!!
Goerge bushs asswhole sure does taist good!
osama's jizz sure does taste good!
Who needs Hillary to change their diaper?
Ya'll shut up and get to work. Who's going to pay for my free housing, welfare and healthcare? I got 15 kids you have to support.
Where do I get in line for the free stuff. I don't like to work that much, as long as I get cable TV, internet( DSL or faster ONLY) and government cheese, I don't give a shit if its lib or puke in office.
I know what you mean, the welfare townhouses that went up in my neighborhood all had top of the line air-conditioning, a big deal in my semi desert town. Their homes are a much nicer than I'm willing to pay for, so I'm actively trolling for one of the fertile young ladies to knock up and thus earn my spot in the welfare townhouse paradise. Don't fight them, join them or how I learned to stop worrying and signed up for welfare bennies.
After watching the government fock up for the past 40 years, I can't believe people are stupid enough to want ot put their lives in the hands of bumbling government drones. Just take a look at the lazy rejects working at any government office. We're all as good as dead if you put those people in charge of your medical needs.
Is this a housing site or one for twisted and retarded child Republicans???!!!
Comrade Keith, you must stop slandering Beloved Leader like this! You are beginning to sound like an imperialist running dog! Please abstain from the unpatriotic remarks, or else it will be necessary to send you to the re-education facilty!
All hail Beloved Leader and the Glorious People's Revolution!
In 1986 we moved from the city to the country. Then the McMansion crowd moved in and we found ourselves surrounded by as*holes with Hummers and 12 credit cards. Developers built 3X as much retail as any sane person would need and paved nearly evey inch of land to handle the traffic for these consumin' fools.
In '01 we moved to a tiny town out west seeking some sanity. Now the as*holes from Kolyfonia are coming here in droves with pockets full of money and their fu*ked-up politics, fully intent on recreating the same sh*thole here that they just left.
The wife and I are now looking at emigrating out of the U.S. before the sh*t hits the fan and the bullets start flying.
Yes, people always turn the new place into the one they desperately wanted to leave.
I've seen it twice. Once was a beautiful little college town in Mississippi. It was a place right out of Norman Rockwell, and also very friendly and inexpensive.
Then yuppies from a nearby city discovered it, along with northern retirees. They began tearing down the beautiful old homes and replacing them with vulgar McMansions that covered the entire lot--so much for the century-old oak trees. Then they began whining that we didn't have all their favorite chain businesses (which I considered one of the nicer features of the town).
There are now subdivisions where there used to be woods, and the traffic is astoundingly bad. It's no longer a friendly place, since it is so crowded with outsiders. There's a six-lane road running through the middle of town, lined with hamburger joints, WalMart, Home Depot, Applebee's, etc.
Awful place now, but only five years ago it was a totally different place. It doesn't take long for yuppies to wreck a town, does it?
I'm now watching the same process take place on the Gulf Coast. We used to have very beautiful beaches here, but now there's a wall of condos running for miles, blocking any view of the beach for any but those rich enough to buy a condo. It's nearly impossible even to get to the beach, and when you do fight the traffic and make your way past the concrete wall, you are treated to the sounds of heavy construction.
In short, we went from idyllic beaches to a concrete jungle.
Like I said, people always make the new place into the one they wanted to get away from. Then they move on and fuck up some other place.
Have the brain-dead DemoCrap turds slithered back into the sewers?
yeah, what did Bosnia ever do to us? They didn't fly planes into our buildings. Clinton's illegal war.
>>>yeah, what did Bosnia ever do to us? They didn't fly planes into our buildings.
Neither did Iraq.
So why didn't the Libtards protest in the streets and call for Cliton's head on a platter during the Bosnia War?
I guess they're only anti-war when it suits their purpose
So why didn't the Libtards protest in the streets and call for Cliton's head on a platter during the Bosnia War?
The A.N.S.W.E.R. crowd is still fuming over our military action in the former Yugoslavia and demanding that "Cliton" (LOL) be tried for war crimes.
I guess Rush forgot to tell you about that.
As if the "A.N.S.W.E.R. crowd" gives at rat's ass about truth or justice. Like every other beltway bandit, they exist to line the pockets of their numerous directors and staff (in accordance with IRS regulations) while pretending to champion some cause dear to the hearts of "the little people".
Read the book "Black Star Safari" -- it'll open your eyes to the real motivations of these do-gooder organizations pretending to help as they cruise around in their Mercedes sedans.
As for Rush Limbaugh, in the past five years he's morphed from a satirist and commentator to a paid tool of the Republicans. His contract has a few more years left, but after that I hope he retires gracefully. No one can deny his legacy, but IMO he lost most of his credibility years ago and neads to leave the scene.
I'm no fan of A.N.S.W.E.R. -- I think that they are apologists for the likes of Milosevic and I hate their tendency to hijack the antiwar movement and bend it to their purposes. They do the same thing every time--announce an anti-Iraq War demo, and then when people opposed to the war turn out, they harangue them with their usual Israel-is-evil-free-mumia- down-with-amerkia routine. I think they're nuts.
But it's simply not true to say that no one on the left opposed the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo.
As for Limbaugh, you're right, but he's not alone. The whole Republican Party has become a personality cult centered around Bush. What is right is whatever Bush wants, and what is wrong is whatever Bush opposes. It's like Peron in Argentina or Franco in Spain.
Not very long ago, when I was a kid, the Republicans were a sober, responsible bunch. They believed that we should not spend money that we did not have and that we should avoid foreign entanglements.
Now they believe in forcibly converting other countries into democracies and they claim that deficits do not matter.
What happened to the old Republicans? It's enough to make one miss Nixon and Ford.
Anonymous said...
"Yes, people always turn the new place into the one they desperately wanted to leave.
"I've seen it twice. Once was a beautiful little college town in Mississippi. It was a place right out of Norman Rockwell, and also very friendly and inexpensive.
"Then yuppies from a nearby city discovered it, along with northern retirees. They began tearing down the beautiful old homes and replacing them with vulgar McMansions that covered the entire lot--so much for the century-old oak trees. Then they began whining that we didn't have all their favorite chain businesses (which I considered one of the nicer features of the town).
"There are now subdivisions where there used to be woods, and the traffic is astoundingly bad. It's no longer a friendly place, since it is so crowded with outsiders. There's a six-lane road running through the middle of town, lined with hamburger joints, WalMart, Home Depot, Applebee's, etc.
"Awful place now, but only five years ago it was a totally different place. It doesn't take long for yuppies to wreck a town, does it?
"I'm now watching the same process take place on the Gulf Coast. We used to have very beautiful beaches here, but now there's a wall of condos running for miles, blocking any view of the beach for any but those rich enough to buy a condo. It's nearly impossible even to get to the beach, and when you do fight the traffic and make your way past the concrete wall, you are treated to the sounds of heavy construction.
"In short, we went from idyllic beaches to a concrete jungle.
"Like I said, people always make the new place into the one they wanted to get away from. Then they move on and fuck up some other place."
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This is the problem of unrestrained capitalism. Developers would turn the Vatican into condos if they could get away from it.
Grotesque Yuppies and Yuppie wannabes and rich old farts have destroyed Florida, Georgia, and Alabama with their trashy strip malls and "upscale" chain stores, and their flashy, pretentious houses and condos intended to impress relatives and enemies back home (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, etc.). For some reason, they've never heard of minimalism or good taste, and couldn't care less about the environment.
Developers would turn the Vatican into condos if they could get away from it.
I can just see it now: a gargantuan concrete box covered with multicolored prefab "architectural details" standing in St. Peter's Square.
We can call it "Olde Vatican Place."
And the architectural details would be made of styrofoam, and sprayed over with stucco, the way they make them here (in Florida).
And it would probably be:
"YE Olde Vatican Place" with sub-names involving "Harbour," and "Theatre," and "Centre" (not to mention my favorite "Orthopaedic"), because British spellings are so chic with white trash social-climbing Yuppies.
No one should be allowed to collect welfare.
That's why we farmers much prefer agricultural subsidies that provide us with hundreds of thousands of dollars to sit around and not grow anything.
Vote Republican so we can collect even more next year.
Rich red state farmer is right.
In my line of work, we prefer to get no-bid sweetheart contracts. Then we can save money by not doing what we were supposed to be doing, kinda like when we were serving spoiled food and dirty water to the troops in Iraq. Even so, we always manage major cost overruns, and guess what? Uncle Sam always pays them!
Is this a sweet deal or what? But don't you dare call it welfare!
rich red state farmer said...
"No one should be allowed to collect welfare.
"That's why we farmers much prefer agricultural subsidies that provide us with hundreds of thousands of dollars to sit around and not grow anything.
"Vote Republican so we can collect even more next year."
Actually, these ridiculous farm subsidies have been going on for generations under both Democrats and Republicans. It's how politicians of both parties legally buy votes, and get big donations back (the farmers "donate" from the monies they receive). It's all a racket. I want the government to pay me for not piloting ships, building skyscrapers, practicing medicine, or performing as an exotic male pole dancer. I figure a hundred million a year should do it, from which I promise to donate ten million back to the politicians who approved the deal.
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