Stupidity in the ranks

From the NY Times, Describing Alberto Gonzales....
"Mr. Gonzales came across as a dull-witted apparatchik incapable of running one of the most important departments in the executive branch"

of COURSE he is....haven't we noticed a very strong theme for all of Bush's appointees? This is truly a broken record. Rumsfeld, Chirtoff, Brown, Gonzales, wolfowitz....on and on it goes....less than 2 years to go....let us pray we make it across that finish line with SOME resemblence of the great nation that America once was.

Reasoning with Dementia?

Yahoo headline: Va. Tech shooter was laughed at

SO???!!!!! Who the heck cares if this complete phsycopath was laughed at? I've been laughed at, EVERYONE has been laughed at!! Are we trying to find out why this guy did what he did through these simple headlines? I have breaking news...he was not right in his head, that's why he did it....not because his mother didn't love him, a girl broke his heart, people laughed at him....he was NOT RIGHT. this is a hell of a lot more complicated to explain than what the news tries to portray. it takes someone who is SERIOUSLY deranged to do something this horrible.

Let's stop trying to figuring out why. let's greive and accept that we as a society and a people must treat life as a special gift. you never know when it will end. love the people around us, appreciate the wonder and beauty that is life. cherrish it. You never know when your life, or the life of someone you love, will be taken from you.

Housing bubble blowup

From Fox 40. “Home foreclosures are rising across the country and there is no worse place than the Sacramento region. The latest figures show four of the top ten metro areas are Sacramento, Stockton/Lodi, Modesto and Yuba City.”
“Netta Savage believes she was scammed into her home loan, and that she is not alone. Savage said, ‘Under duress, you do dumb things. So I accept my responsibility. I should have said, ‘I’m not signing nothing. We need to take this home, and let me get with someone.’ But he’s saying sign it, sign it. It’s what we agreed on. It’s what we agreed on. Sign it, sign it, sign it. And I’m like…okay.’”
“Now into the second year of her loan, Savage’s mortgage payments exceed her monthly fixed income of $2,000.”

The housing market is due for a lot more stress over the next year/year and a half in my opinion. too many people got in over their heads. they can blame whoever they want but the truth is they were foolish and now it's time for a reality check. No doubt I could have made a foolish move as well, and there were times when I strongly considered it (can you say interest-only on a 850k fixer-upper in San Mateo?). but I'm glad I did the right thing. the fact remains I would have NO ONE to blame but myself if I had made a foolish move.
hang tight and love where you live. it's a HOUSE, not a means to get-rich-quickly. everyone got caught up in that mentality and now we are where we are. it needs to play itself out, and it's not going to be easy.

Lee Iacocca tells it like it is

All I can add is THANK YOU LEE...

"Am I the only guy in this country who's fed up with what's happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we've got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can't even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, "Stay the course."
Stay the course? You've got to be kidding. This is America, not the damned Titanic. I'll give you a sound bite: Throw the bums out! "
-Lee Iacocca

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