Bailouts Predicted by the New York Times in 1999
Jimmy Carter signed the Community Reinvestment Act in 1977. This required financial institutions to make loans to lower-income individuals in the communities they served. Non-compliance with this Act would prevent a bank or savings and loan from being able to expand within the states it was currently in and beyond. It’s interesting to note when the current housing and financial crisis, the above statement is often ignored. Even the New York Times in 1999 predicted a possible bailout, here is an excerpt from that paper: In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders. The action, which will begin … Read entire article »
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Baltimore Colts Memorabilia Found
My dad must have been one of those that never threw anything away, but he didn’t leave it out in the open either. Many years since he passed away, we are still finding treasures that he kept, almost hidden away! This past weekend, Enric and I were in the shed and found these ashtrays and mug that looked like the front page of the Baltimore Sun December 30, 1968 with the headline: Colts Rout Browns, 34-0, For … Read entire article »
Bengy and the Zipper
My sister sent me this. It starts out slow, but gets very funny. Imagine a man and wife in an argument as they are getting ready and are late for a formal affair. She asks him to pull up her long zipper in her dress. He does, and breaks it. The rest is hilarious. … Read entire article »
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Embers For Ashes Recher Theater
Last night Embers for Ashes played Recher Theater. This was my third time seeing them at this venue. All the shows there have been very good, but last night they connected with the crowd, and with each other, and it made for a great show. … Read entire article »
Flax Seed Oil
Tonight at the party, Chrissy mentioned the health benefits of Flax Seed Oil, which led me to look up some information on it. I don’t know if all the claims are true. Here are a few of the things that was said: Flax Seed Oil contains omega-6 and omega-9 essential fatty acids, B vitamins, potassium, lecithin, magnesium, fiber, protein, and zinc and also provides approximately 50% more omega-3 oils than what you could get from taking fish … Read entire article »
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Cameron’s Third Birthday
Today we went to Cameron’s birthday party! It was also a treat for Silas! Laura (one of his babysitters) holds him in the kitchen. Silas gets chased by a girl with a gun! Cameron opens presents. The cake! A kiss for mommy. … Read entire article »
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Where Is It Written That Congress Can Regulate Health Care?
Judge Andrew Napolitano gives a speech from the heart about freedom and from where our rights come. The Judge explains the hard core truth about the Constitution and why we must fight to regain and retain our freedoms. He says: Medicare, broken. Social Security, broken. Medicaid, broken. Amtrak, broken. Post office, broken. Who in their right mind – with that track record – would give health care to the same people that have broken everything they have tried to manage? … Read entire article »
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Drawing Heaven
A young self-taught painter with a lot of talent. A video from CNN, and it’s amazing! … Read entire article »
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World’s Richest Man – Not a Santa Claus
Mexico’s Carlos Slim, named the world’s richest man on Wednesday, first showed a talent for business as a 10-year-old kid when he filled his pockets with pesos selling drinks and snacks to his family. As a youngster he also kept accounting ledgers of what he earned and spent and bought a government savings bond from which he learned valuable lessons about compound interest. More than half a century later Slim, 70, has amassed a fortune … Read entire article »
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Obama Health Care: Soprano Tactics?
I am only one of many, a majority of people, who recognize that the health care system in the USA needs help, but are totally against the one Obama has ready for us. For those who still favor the idea, perhaps they should ask themselves, is it a good bill? If so, then why did it take so many sweetheart deals to get it pushed through this far, and that STILL might not be enough? Why can’t this bill stand on its own merit??? From the New York Post: President Obama’s attempts to ram health- care reform through an increasingly reluctant Congress are starting to resemble a really eventful episode of “The Sopranos.” Whether or not you believe former Rep. Eric Massa’s bizarre accusations of locker-room confrontations and conspiracies … Read entire article »
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Pride…Secretly Fears All Competition and Dreads All Rivals
An article from Chuck Norris: Obama’s Oscar by Chuck Norris I am no pinnacle of humility, and I’ve learned my fair share of hard lessons from the camps of conceit. But I’m not sure the former Chicago politician occupying the White House ever has been schooled with a primer on the perils of pride. It’s one thing (though still distasteful) to be boastful in a sports or fighting ring; it’s quite another in the Oval Office. We were promised change, but it seems to me this White House’s smug swagger and strut rival the great taunts and bluster of Muhammad Ali in his heyday. In fact, if I were handing out awards, President Barack Obama would win hands down the Oscar for overconfidence and arrogance. Here are a few examples of his Oscar-worthy political … Read entire article »
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Kinder Park Farm
I often speak of Kinder Park, but I often forget one of the things that is so precious about it…FARM. Kinder also has a farm on its land, and it makes it really special. Before that though, we took Silas to the playground. We first had a bit of a walk to get there, Laura took her bike. Silas hardly knew where to start at the playground. A try walking on the ropes? Laura forgot she is way too old … Read entire article »
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Crocus Signals Spring
We were so pleased to see one tiny flower in bloom today as we walked out the front door. … Read entire article »
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Grandma Buried Alive
Keep in mind as you read this, that China makes up the people that own most of our economy these days. From Fox News Grandma in China Fighting Property Developers Reportedly Buried Alive Wang Cuyun from Hubei Province was struggling with workers trying to tear down her house and was allegedly beaten by a worker wielding a wooden stick. She was dumped in a drainage ditch that ringed her property and a bulldozer covered her with earth, burying her alive. Witnesses said three policemen were present to supervise the eviction but did nothing to intervene or protect her. Her son joined other relatives trying to rescue her. It took more than half an hour to pull her free from the ditch, by which time she was dead. Wang’s son moved her … Read entire article »
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Silas Gets a Taste of Spring
Ok, so it’s not yet spring, but the weather has indeed been springlike. He started on the trampoline… He then became very fascinated with the lock on the barn door. Frolicking in the sun. Then Silas rather likes the bar that we used to use as a device to lock the steering wheel of our car… But to Silas, it’s not a security device for a car, it’s a trumpet! … Read entire article »
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Pelosi Wants to Pass it So You Can Know What’s In It.
If you ever had a doubt that our representatives read the bills they sign into law, spending trillions of dollars, or if they really care about transparency about what is IN the bills they sign, let Pelosi answer this for you. In answer to the Health Care Bill, she says, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” … Read entire article »
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Back to the B&A Trail
Today the good weather took Laura and I to the B&A Trail. It seems like forever that we had been there. The trail has about an 8-foot wide paved surface and is in good condition. The total length is 13 miles between Annapolis and Glen Burnie, MD. Once you reach the northern terminus, a short connector path will take you over to the recently completed BWI Trail. The southern half of the trail … Read entire article »
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Health Care Gets Ugly
It’s getting ugly this health care thing… To push his health care bill through, Obama has been trying to vilify the Insurance companies. ABC’s Z. Byron Wolf reports: President Obama and Democrats launched a campaign to vilify insurance companies in the final stretch of their health reform effort.Republicans, meanwhile, pointed out that those very same insurance companies would get huge checks from the government if health reform is enacted. “(Health Insurers) will keep on doing this for as long as they can get away with it. This is no secret,” the president said. “They’re telling their investors this – ‘We are in the money. We are going to keep on making big profits even though a lot of folks are going to be put under … Read entire article »
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Back to Kinder Park
With the nice change of weather in the upper 50’s, Laura and I decided to go to Kinder Park. The fact that it is technically still winter was still there, with snow from our last blizzards still in scattered places around the park… Because of the winter, not much was “alive” at Kinder today. Some berries… …some ducks too. Of course, the ever present silos were still there. Laura got to try out her new bike! And before we left, we saw … Read entire article »
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There’s A Communist Living in the White House
I didn’t know what to make of this. Victoria Jackson from Saturday Night Live strumming a ukulele and singing, “There’s a communist living in the White House.” … Read entire article »
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One Way to Get Fit
US Naval Academy Performance Kings Firecrackers … Read entire article »
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Choices
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about choices. We make them each day, and we’re accountable for them… today this was a story read in church: Michael is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, “If I were any better, I would be twins!” He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Michael was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation. Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Michael and asked him, “I don’t get it! You can’t be a positive person all of the time. … Read entire article »
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Entice Travel to the U.S. Charge $10?
Apparently travel to the U.S. is down. So to help this we will charge visitors $10? I don’t get it. According to Breitbart: The US Travel Association industry group estimates that a 10-year drop in US tourism — much of it after the September 11, 2001 attacks — has cost some 440,000 jobs and a half-trillion dollars in related spending. Yahoo posts: President Barack Obama has signed a bill creating a program to promote the U.S. as a premier tourism destination for international travelers.The U.S. Travel Association calls it a major step in addressing the drop-off in such visits to the U.S. during the past decade. The association says the U.S. welcomed 2.4 million fewer overseas visitors last year than in 2000. And that, the group … Read entire article »
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Desktop Independent
As I ponder whether or not to get a new desktop (the one I have, an HP, is over 8 years old and acting it’s age, and I already have a laptop), I stumble upon this article: “Desktops dead in three years” A charming young buck by the name of John Herlihy of Google Europe believes, like most people in the Western World that desktop PCs will be dead in the next few years. … Read entire article »
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Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine
From the 1961 Operation Coffee Cup Campaign against Socialized Medicine as proposed by the Democrats, then a private citizen Ronald Reagan Speaks out against socialized medicine. There is no video because this was an LP sent out by the American Medical Association. It’s almost prophetic… … Read entire article »
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John Stossel says Get Government Out of Energy Game
John Stossel says free markets, not politicians, should lead way on energy research. … Read entire article »
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Chasing a Moth
Daily, our cat Jasper reminds us that even though he is growing up and getting to be full sized, there is a lot of kitten left in him… … Read entire article »
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Bogus Green Jobs
‘Anti-Lobbyist’ Obama Administration Recruited Left-Wing Lobbyists to Sell Bogus ‘Green Jobs’ From Pajamas Media: After two studies refuted President Barack Obama’s assertions regarding the success of Spain’s and Denmark’s wind energy programs, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request reveals the Department of Energy turned to George Soros and to wind industry lobbyists to attack the studies. Via the FOIA request, the Competitive Enterprise Institute has learned that the Department of Energy — specifically the office headed by Al Gore’s company’s former CEO, Cathy Zoi — turned to George Soros’ Center for American Progress and other wind industry lobbyists to help push Obama’s wind energy proposals. The FOIA request was not entirely complied with, and CEI just filed an appeal over documents still being … Read entire article »
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