Something To Keep In Mind.................

Franklin Raines, the former CEO of Fanny Mae, is one of The Obama's economic advisers, and is on the short list for his Treasury Secretary cabinet post. If you recall Raines is the man who had financial documents forged so that he could receive he's windfall bonuses. Now it looks like that the federal government is getting into the mortgage business. This should end well.

This "crisis" was caused by a number of things, but mainly political correctness. Laws were passed that made it illegal to ask a potential home buyer, how much money they made. The government, used many leftest groups like Acorn
to act like it's muscle to threaten banks and mortgage companies to lend money to people that they knew would not be able to pay back. The government in turn, threatened to investigate institutions that did not follow these practices.

The bottom line is, people were buying houses they knew they could not afford. Loans were made over 100% the value of the property. The value of homes corrected itself from overinflated values. People were getting 100% or more mortgages on homes that were, in reality only worth about half of the listed value.

There is a lot of blame to go around. From the government, forcing the lenders hand, to the lenders "cooking the books" to show profits, as well as the borrowers that knew they could not afford to buy a house in the first place. You could also add the people who got on the flipping band wagon over the past decade into the equation. since over half of the foreclosures were on second homes or homes bought just to be flipped. (This trend also added in the falsely over inflated prices of homes.)

In the end, it is the people that the government claims to want to help that get hurt. As well as the people like me and you that the government doesn't give a shit about that will have to pay off this mess.

Throw a presidential election in the mix and it doesn't matter who wins because we all lose.

How The Canadians Keep the Cost of Socialized Medicine Down

Here is an example of the "great" Canadian health care system. This is what we can expect when the socialists take over. From Canada.com

Man dies after 34-hour stay in Winnipeg ER waiting room

Gabrielle Giroday, Winnipeg Free Press

Published: Monday, September 22, 2008

WINNIPEG - A head official at this city's Health Sciences Centre said Monday workers were shocked by the revelation a man sat in the hospital's waiting room for 34 hours without medical help before dying there.

Brock Wright, the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority's chief medical officer and Health Sciences Centre chief operating officer, confirmed Monday that the 45-year-old man was reportedly dropped off by vehicle at the hospital around 3 p.m. local time Friday - before he was found dead in the ER Sunday after midnight.

Wright said health officials are still trying to figure out why the man never saw a doctor."

More "Great" Community Organizers In History

Here is a list of some other "great" community organizers the world has seen.

Adolf Hitler
Karl Marx
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Stalin
Jim Jones
Fidel Castro
Robert Mugabe
Idi Amin
Vernon Howell
Pol Pot
Charles Manson

Obama is in good company.

RIP Richard Wright

Richard Wright died today at age 65. He was a founding member of Pink Floyd.




To hear some of his best work buy Pink Floyd: Live At Pompeii.

ACORN And The Obama

There are some disturbing questions that must be answered about The Obama's early association with radical Marxist organization ACORN. With ACORN's history of voter fraud over the years; what was The Obama's role in the fraud? Is this what he refers to when he talks proudly about his years as a community organizer? Will ACORN work to over throw the will of the people with this type of fraud this year? We may not find out till it's to late.

The scary part is how entrenched this group is in a lot of important states. Hopefully the media will do some digging around, and find out the truth about his roll in the corrupt Chicago political machine, because The Obama is certainly not going to answer these questions.

The Speech

Palin's speech last night was good, not as many fire works as I would have like to have seen though. She seems to have the base excited and that was her orders. The real test will be the VP debate. Her learning curve will be on foreign policy. But I think the people behind the scenes will be able to get her up to speed enough so she will have a good showing. Heck if The Obama can fake it on his "knowledge" of foreign policy then someone with actual intelligence should have no problem.

I watched MSNBC last night after the speech, Chris Matthews and Keith Olberman just looked and sounded dejected. Just not a lot of "umph" in there delivery. I think they are starting to realise that It is starting to look like a done deal for the Obama campaign.

Fred Thompson Last Night

Fred Thompson gave a stirring account of John McCain's military service last night. If you missed it I'm sure it is on YOU TUBE. Fred was my choice for the nomination. I still think he would be a good president, with his Kill the Terrorists, Secure the Borders, and Punch the Hippies platform.

My Friend Jeff over at Elements Of Acrobat Has a slightly different take on the VP nominee Sarah Palin. Jeff leans a little to the left. I think he has the infamous white liberal guilt syndrome. But with good reason, back in the early to mid 1990's he actually owned slaves. Just kidding. but if you need a daily dose of leftist propaganda give his blog a look.

I hope to have my thoughts on the palin speech tomorrow. Until then, may the road rise to meet you, and may it be littered with the corpses of your enemy's.

RIP Jerry Reed

Jerry Reed died today of complications from emphysema, he was 71. Jerry Will mostly be remembered for his co-staring role in the Smoky And The Bandit trilogy as well as the music from the movie. But he was also an superb musician, perfecting the "chickin pickin" style on the Guitar. He was also a pretty good actor. A great quote from him when asked about his acting was: "I used to watch people like Richard Burton and Mel Gibson and think, 'I could never do that.'
"When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: Money."
One role that stood out for me was in the 1983 film The Survivors. It stared Robin Williams and Walter Matthau. Jerry played a psychotic survivalist and played it to a T. Check out some of his early work with Chet Atkins If you really want to hear his true talent.

And The Sign Said...........

I encounterd this sign over the weekend at Stone Mountian State Park in Georgia. If any one can figure out what it means please let me know.