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POPS With a Wink and a Smile by Mark Steyn But, on Debate Night, the official Obama website was still boasting that he would meet Ahmadinejad “without preconditions”. “My friend John McCain voted 422 times against tax cuts for the middle classes. Let me repeat that so the American people are clear on this. My friend John McCain voted 673 times against tax cuts for the middle classes.” The problem was that it all sounded drearily senatorial. When Regular Joe Six-Pack Bluecollar Biden tried to match her on the Main Street cred, it rang slightly wacky. “Look,” he said, “All you have to do is go down Union Street with me in Wilmington or go to Katie’s Restaurant or walk into Home Depot with me, where I spend a lot of time.” As for Katie’s Restaurant, ah, I’m sure it was grand but apparently it closed in 1990. In the Diner of the Mind, the refills are endless and Senator Joe is sitting shootin’ the breeze over a cuppa joe with a couple other regular joes on adjoining stools while Betty-Jo...
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POPSA real jewel: The 50 greatest arts videos on YouTube Many more inside like: Vladimir Nabokov discusses Lolita, 1950s; David Lynch interviewed on Scene by Scene, 1999; Jackson Pollock drip paints outside his East Hampton home, 1951; Andy Warhol's Blow Job, 1963 Maria Callas in Zeffirelli's Tosca, 1964 and more...
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POPSPaulson, the bailout, much more reading stuff like this just makes me sick. i think it was very slick of the republicans to vote against the bill for long enough for wall street to fail so they could then justify voting for it as they wanted to do all along. sucks that we fell for it, or did we? well it got passed and our voices were once again ignored.
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POPSFannie/Freddie Trouble Seen 9 Yrs Ago
In addition, banks, thrift institutions and mortgage companies have been pressing Fannie Mae to help them make more loans to so-called subprime borrowers. These borrowers whose incomes, credit ratings and savings are not good enough to qualify for conventional loans, can only get loans from finance companies that charge much higher interest rates -- anywhere from three to four percentage points higher than conventional loans. ''Fannie Mae has expanded home ownership for millions of families in the 1990's by reducing down payment requirements,'' said Franklin D. Raines, Fannie Mae's chairman and chief executive officer. ''Yet there remain too many borrowers whose credit is just a notch below what our underwriting has required who have been relegated to paying significantly higher mortgage rates in the so-called subprime market.'' Demographic information on these borrowers is sketchy. But at least one study indicates that 18 percent of the loans in the subprime market went to black
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POPSEBM når DN:s musik-recensent! Så lyckades en galen finne bevisa att det inte bara är goth-rockare som ägnar sig åt skolmassakrer. Synthare kan också. Cue the moralpanik. Även om finnen var inspirerad av EBM, så brukar ju dårar alltid hitta nåt att inspireras av; röster i huvudet, SMS från Jesus, nån gammal lärare som aldrig frågade dem när de rack upp handen eller Bankomater som uppmanar dem att stoppa in en katt i sedelfacket. Endast folk med mekanisk människosyn letar dylikt långsökta förklaringsmodeller.
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POPSPsychic Medium Marie Here is a section of Marie's biography. It sounds like a case of posession. Psychic Medium Marie's background is a bit creepy....
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POPSChocolate Lovers Click on link for more recipes (then click photos). Note: I've made cookies from the original Neiman Marcus cookie recipe that circulated in the early 1990's and this is not that recipe (although I'm sure this one is good).
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POPSNew York Times - Collapse Smoking Gun ''Fannie Mae has expanded home ownership for millions of families in the 1990's by reducing down payment requirements,'' said Franklin D. Raines, Fannie Mae's chairman and chief executive officer. ''Yet there remain too many borrowers whose credit is just a notch below what our underwriting has required who have been relegated to paying significantly higher mortgage rates in the so-called subprime market.''
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POPSAbortion In Decline When Women Have Support Women who have at least some economic assistance are less likely to have abortions. Women who have economic power over their own destiny have less children. So more equal rights for women economically will result in less children and abortions.
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POPSEuropean Ignorance about America "The majority of Britons believe that since the Second World War, the United States has more often sided with non-Muslims than with Muslims. In fact, in 11 out of 12 major conflicts between Muslims and non-Muslims, Muslims and secular forces, or Arabs and non-Arabs, the United States has sided with Muslims and/or Arabs." "But Britons are not the only Europeans who hold unbalanced views of the United States. Take Germans, for example. The majority of them believe that America poses a greater threat to world peace than does Iran. This after the United States helped Germans rebuild their country after World War Two and then provided for their defense during five decades of the Cold War." "according to a recent poll of Berlin youth, only one-third of the city’s 15- to 17-year-old students know who built the Berlin Wall. Almost 14 percent think it was built by the Allies; two percent believe it was built by the United States."
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POPSDemocrats: Fannie, Freddie And The Housing Crisis
and Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are GSEs. The GSEs give to Democrats primarily. Republicans tried to reform it, but got out lobbied every time. In 2005, Republican Mike Oxley, then chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, brought up a reform bill (H.R. 1461), and Fannie and Freddie's lobbyists set out to weaken it. The bill was rendered so toothless that Card promised to oppose it and Oxley pulled the bill instead. When there was a Republican Congress, Congressional leadership tried to do the right thing, but Fannie and Freddie's lobbyists picked off some weak Republicans. With a Democratic Congress, Fannie and Freddie just feed at the trough. Third, these guys are some of the most powerful figures in the Democratic lobbyist-operative firmament. Obama was forced to fire James Johnson, his first VP Vetter. Johnson had been CEO of Fannie Mae. Johnson, while a consultant for Fannie and Countrywide, was passing out below market loans to Senator Dodd among others.
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