Housing… the Intent, And the Result

Bank of America buys up Merrill, AIG’s looking for cash to stay afloat, and Lehman is basically dead on it’s feet. I’m no more worried now than I was a few months ago about our financial sector.

Why? Look, people,

“1982. John McCain goes to Washington. Things have changed in the last 26 years, but McCain hasn’t,” says a voice-over in the ad against shots of a Rubik’s Cube, a disco ball, a massive cell phone and an old computer.

Numbers will be fouled for a while, but it’s working now.

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They are now backing out the upgrade and returning to the old system. More at

We’re back. Despite the rain that popped up form time to time, things went very well indeed. Turns out it didn’t rain nearly as much as they thought. I’ll be posting pictures tonight or perhaps tommorow. I have a few

Well look who landed at the Weekly Standard:

Obama Reinforces McCain Campaign Talking Points

The campaign should really start sending out carbon-offset and organic soap gift baskets because every time a Democrat talks, things seem to get a little

Classy Cassy Fiano links maybe the most classless, and for sure the most clueless, political ad of the season:

I think, with the selection of Joe Biden as his running mate, Obama may have inherited foot-in-mouth disease. Here we have

Color me confused.   If you listen to most leftards and were so stupid as to actually believe them, you’d think that humans had one of five genders and could change at will by simple virtue of which restroom they choose

Bit rambled:

I’ve not seen it yet, but I gather the interview with Palin and Gibson went pretty well.  From the clips one gets the impression that Gibson was a little on the stiff side.  Here’s some of it.

• By the time you read this, I’ll already be soaking up the outdoors by the lakeshore, and soaking, is the word.  Remember that 30% chance of rain? We’re now to 70%. and as of noon, the whole of upstate NY

I think the media so far has been the biggest loser in this race. And they continue to have growing credibility problems

Mark Penn, via Jonan Goldberg, National Review..

• Looks like we’re going to get the camper out this weekend. The weather models are saying a 30% chance of showers Saturday and Sunday, so we’re going to take off early on Friday night and run to Golden Hill State

08:37am— 

I’d come into work just like any other morning.

Where I was working at the time is closed, now, and so is the department that I was working for. But I can see he layout of the place in

It looks like Nedra Pickler is another reporterette sho spent too much time in gender study classes and no time studying military tactics.  If Pickler had the military sense of a PFC she would realize that she is reporting that

• Does anyone on the planet doubt that Obama book was written to advance the cause of his presidential candidacy? Why, then, is it so hard to understand that Oprah Winfrey having him on to promote that book, is a direct

So, when I saw Pete Abel’s tirade against Sarah Palin, I took it in stride. After all, The Moderate Voice isn’t, I reasoned. I’ve pointed out the serious lack of moderation there (To say nothing of the rolling waves of