Isn't that a wee bit like one crackpot saying another crackpot is, well, about to crack?!
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Windmills Tilted, Scared Cows Butchered, Lies Skewered on the Lance of Reality ... or something to that effect.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Just a thought ...
Isn't that a wee bit like one crackpot saying another crackpot is, well, about to crack?!
And I Quote
From a P.R. standpoint, it wasn’t good news for Coleman that the legal challenge he initiated ended up (so far) handing more votes to Franken.
~ First Read
Read the entire piece here
Pentagon preps for economic warfare
The Pentagon sponsored a first-of-its-kind war game last month focused not on bullets and bombs — but on how hostile nations might seek to cripple the U.S. economy, a scenario made all the more real by the global financial crisis.
The two-day event near Ft. Meade, Maryland, had all the earmarks of a regular war game. Participants sat along a V-shaped set of desks beneath an enormous wall of video monitors displaying economic data, according to the accounts of three participants.
“It felt a little bit like Dr. Strangelove,” one person who was at the previously undisclosed exercise said.
But instead of military brass plotting America’s defense, it was hedge-fund managers, professors and executives from at least one investment bank, UBS – all invited by the Pentagon to play out global scenarios that could shift the balance of power between the world’s leading economies.
Their efforts were carefully observed and recorded by uniformed military officers and members of the U.S. intelligence community.
With Advocates’ Help, Squatters Call Foreclosures Home
Ms. Omega, 48, is one of the beneficiaries of the foreclosure crisis. Through a small advocacy group of local volunteers called Take Back the Land, she moved from a friend’s couch into a newly empty house that sold just a few years ago for more than $400,000.
Michael Stoops, executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless, said about a dozen advocacy groups around the country were actively moving homeless people into vacant homes — some working in secret, others, like Take Back the Land, operating openly.
In addition to squatting, some advocacy groups have organized civil disobedience actions in which borrowers or renters refuse to leave homes after foreclosure.
The groups say that they have sometimes received support from neighbors and that beleaguered police departments have not aggressively gone after squatters.
They have no voice
While there's no realistic hope that they'll be more involved in some upcoming policy decisions.
They still have a long way to go before the public see them as constructive and cohesive rather than obstructionist and unruly.
Read more here.
What your gold jewelry will sell for now
Many sellers have been pleasantly surprised by what their old accessories are worth.
What will it sell for now
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Cities where rents are dropping
You can spend as little as 12 percent of your income on rent in these metro areas.
Rent droppings ... its better than rat droppings, anyway!
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Wildfires leave path of destruction
Fires in Texas and Oklahoma have destroyed more than 100 homes, half of which have been linked to arson.
Wildfires
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Don't let allergies force you indoors
In the runny, drippy, sneezy spring allergy season, you may feel like giving up, but experts say there are many treatment options.
Allergies
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Deadly storms wreak havoc in Southeast
A series of storms lifts homes, rips off roofs, and dumps hail in the Southeast.
Storms in the Southeast
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Tennis player attacks man for running lawn mower
Theys a lunatics a'playn' it
A Croatian man was hospitalized after he was attacked by a tennis player for running a lawn mower near the court during his set.
China's birth limits create dangerous gender gap
Camera catches fish's amazing changes
The "chameleon of the sea" cuttlefish shows off its special trick on tape.
Fish's amazing changes
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It's A Blond thing ...
He asks "What do you mean ?"
So she showed him what she meant
She touched her knee and said, "Ouch!"
Then she touched her chest and said, "Ouch!"
Then her shoulder, "Ouch!"
The doctor looks at her and asks, "You're really blond aren't you?"
She replies, "Yes, as a matter of fact I am, How did you guess?"
"Your finger is broken"
$2.7 Million Lawsuit as White Woman's Body Cremated Instead of Black Man's
Well, I'll have to admit that it's easy to mix up a white woman's body with a black man's body, isn't it?
Right?!