Lawmakers
New Homestead Act of 2008
Proposal:
Enact legislation enabling (not requiring) lenders and state and local laws to allow and keep the current occupants in homes that are go through foreclosure. Foreclosure does not stop. The mortgage is exchanged for a Homesteaders Agreement between the Lender and the Occupant
Who Stays:
Current Occupants
CENSUS BOONDOOGLE RAISES COSTS TO $14 BILLION
UPS can put thousands of delivery-drivers on the streets everyday each carrying a hand held gadget to track millions of packages but the U. S. Census Bureau failure to build an effective hand-held computer will cost taxpayers an extra for $1.3 billion – no, you are not seeing things that’s a $1,300,000,000,000 boondoogle.
So, it is turning instead to 600,000 temporary workers to do a paper and pencil census in 2010 just like 1910. Another massive federal bureaucracy run amuck. The $1.3 billion hi-tech gadget glitch will add $2.2 to $3 billion to the 2010 census costs that are now expected to total a mind numbing $13.7 to $14.5 billion.
World Ends With A Whimper Not A Bang.
The National Policy Institute estimates what the world will look like in 2060 – about 50 years hence.
According to an article in Human Events authored by Pat Buchanan and published on May 2, 2008 in 1950 whites were 18% of the world’s population and Africans accounted for 9%. By 2060 the percentages will be about the same but the colors reversed. Two hundred million whites will vanish by then. Arabic people, counted among whites, will rise ten-fold to 743 million and account for 75% of whites.
Iran’s population will rise from 71 to 100 million. Pakistan will grow to 300 million from about 71 million today. Afghanistan will triple to 79 million and Iraq will leap from 29 to 62 million. In America Hispanics will triple to 127 million while Mexico will grow to 130 million.
Last October PEW RESEARCH asked 45,000 people in 47 countries what they thought and majorities in 46 countries expressed fear about loss of their national culture. Sixty-two percent of Americans said more must be done to protect “our way of life.” Three-fourths wanted stiffer immigration laws and restrictions. Asians, Africans and Middle Easterners appear, by simple weight of numbers appear to be poised to inherit the earth.
“This is the way the world ends, “wrote T. S. Eliot in his closing couplet of “The Hollow Men,” “Not with a bang but a whimper.” It begs the question of whose world to which he referred.
McCain’s 12th Amendment Mêlée - Maybe, Maybe not.
Imagine the disruption if McCain is elected, and sworn in as President and then he is declared ineligible because of the 12th Amendment, and Hillary Clinton finagled her way to the Democrat nomination, and demands to be seated – what a fracas.
Wednesday night the Senate unanimously declared John McCain a natural-born citizen, eligible to be president of the United States. But, the resolution has no legal standing and is only opinion. At least three pending cases are challenging McCain’s right to be sworn in as president. McCain was born to U. S. parents in a U. S. military hospital, on a U. S. base while serving in the U. S. Navy assigned to the then U. S. Panama Canal Zone.
Article II of the Constitution states that “no person except a natural born citizen . . . shall be eligible to the office of president.” The problem is that the Founding Fathers never defined exactly what they meant by “natural born citizen,” and the matter has never been fully tested in court. The same question bubbled up in 2000 but when he failed to get the GOP nomination it fizzled and disappeared.
According to an article in the May 2nd Washington Post, “Curiously enough, there is no record of McCain’s birth in the Panama Canal Zone Health Department’s bound birth registers, which are publicly available at the National Archives in College Park. A search of the “Child Born Abroad” records of the U.S. consular service for August 1936 included many U.S. citizens born in the Canal Zone but did not turn up any mention of John McCain.” There is a copy of a birth certificate citing his birth in the Coco Solo “family hospital.” Coco Solo was where his Dad’s submarine was based.
McCain’s case hasn’t been the only one. Hoover’s Vice President Charles Curtis was born in the territory of Kansas in 1860, a year before it became a state. The 12th Amendment requires that vice presidents possess the same qualifications as presidents. Barry Goldwater, who was born in the territory of Arizona in 1909, three years before it became a state was nominated but didn’t win. Mitt Romney’s father, George Romney, ran for President in 1968, even though he was born in Mexico. Since neither Goldwater nor Romney won the presidency, the “natural born” clause was never tested.
A 1986 Supreme Court ruling states that the United States “exercised sovereignty” over the 10-mile-wide area between 1904 and 1979, when it was handed back to the Panamanians and most think that settles the issue. But, not everybody agrees.
My Candidate: None Of The Above
A lot of potential voters are feeling the strain of the current primary battle going on between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Of course, Obama’s supporters are up in arms about the Clinton camp’s apparent racial comments, not to mention the apparent “slips of the tongue” that seem to be a regular part of Hillary’s stump speeches.
As well, Clinton’s supporters are up in arms about the apparent misogynistic comments coming from the Obama camp. Many even argue that Clinton deserves the Democratic nomination simply because she’s a woman (their argument is that sex should trump race in this election).
Then, there are those Democrats and Progressives who aren’t keen on either candidate, for whatever reason. Of course, they wouldn’t dream of ever voting for a Republican, particularly not John McCain. Many voters are also not keen on voting for relatively or veritably unknown third-party candidates, either.
Many people believe that voting for either a Democrat or a Republican is a sell-out vote, no matter how you cut it. They call it “voting for the lesser of two evils” and of course, that means, no matter how you vote, you are still voting for “evil”. And, there are a lot of people who are not down for voting for “evil”, but they still want their vote to be heard. Instead of “voting for the lesser of two evils”, they prefer to vote “None of the Above” or “NOTA”.
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
Ah, Monday! It’s like the weekend never happened. Rest assured, today’s Ten Post Round-Up will shake those weekend cobwebs from your brow:
1: A few things the MSM neglected to report on…
Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report–The Huffington Post
2: As the cost of food soars, so do the lines at local food banks…
3: Just for kicks: Join the Million Blog List…
Welcome to Million Blog List - A blogosphere experiment–Million Blog List
4: Just who will benefit most from those “rebate checks”?…
$100+ BILLION giveaway to the oil, credit card and retail industries–My Three Cents
5: Americans are coming up with creative ways to save a few bucks…
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
It’s almost the weekend, so before you go bask in the sun, bask in today’s Ten Post Round-Up:
1: Something to look forward to? Collection calls from New Delhi…
Another growing industry being outsourced to India–Brilliant at Breakfast
2: Sign of the times: Less lattes and Lasik…
And the Latte Indicator Says…Economy Screwed–The Huffington Post
3: There comes a time where you have to decide to take care of business for yourself…
4: Someone came up with a gadget to drive kids crazy and keep them from hanging around…
5: Will the third time be the charm for an actual conviction?…
Six Suspects Will Be Tried a Third Time in Sears Plot–New York Times
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
So, what happened in Pennsylvania, last night? Did the groundhog see its shadow? Rest assured that today’s Ten Post Round-Up makes no mention of the shenanigans going on in Pennsylvania, but the rest of the world is fair game:
1: South Dakota tries one more time to outlaw a woman’s right to choose…
2: Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are being denied the care they need to recover from the scars of war (physically and mentally)…
New Doubts About Health Care for US War Vets–CommonDreams.org
3: Worst.President.Ever? That’s some legacy…
Bush’s disapproval rating worst of any president in 70 years–Democratic Underground
4: Cool: Hope for some blind folks to be able to see…
5: (Groan): Colorado’s “favorite” Republican makes national headlines…
6: The War on Tourism…
7: Family composition may be the blame for poor behavior in kids….
Low grades, bad behavior? Siblings may be to blame, FSU study says–Signs of the Times
8: More VA lies about how our troops are being treated/cared for…
VA Conceals Vet Suicide Figures From CBS To Downplay ‘Epidemic In Suicide’–Think Progress
9: Oops! If your landlord defaults on his mortgage, you could end up on the street and then you could be in competition with your landlord for a new rental!…
Renters can’t escape housing foreclosure crisis–USATODAY.com
10: And this is why I never go to a doctor’s appointment without my own surrogate, if I can help it…
271 días al final de un error…
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
I slept the day away in hopes that I would feel better, but, today’s Ten Post Round-Up tells me I probably should crawl back into bed:
1: Shameful: US servicewomen more likely to be raped by fellow soldiers than killed by enemy fire…
At War With Ourselves: Battling Sexual Violence in the Military–AlterNet
2: Not A Surprise: Teenage girls adopting eating disorders from healthy eating messages at school…
3: ACLU comes out in defense of polygamist ranch…
4: Florida fire hydrants to begin multi-tasking as spyware…
5: Smart: Bush sneaks into New Orleans, Not So Smart (?): To discuss expanding NAFTA…
6: Grandma’s weird Depression-era recipes are beginning to look good, now…
7: Oh, but flip-flops are so comfy, aren’t they?….
McCain: That was then (flip). This is now (flop).–Hypocrisy.com
8: Un-frak-ing-believable…
Judges deny some crack convicts legal help on sentences–McClatchy
9: Put this in perspective: The Army and Marines are recruiting individuals who would otherwise not be able to purchase or possess guns as civilians or be able to live in neighborhoods with a school nearby…
Army doubled felony waivers for recruits in year of Iraq surge–Raw Story
10: Oklahoma sheriff (D) works to up the ante of sexual predators vs (R)s…
272 días hasta el final de un error…
Peace.
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
Yes, today’s Ten Post Round-Up is as cold as the Colorado mountains:
1: thepoetryman has something to say about the FLDS Church…
2: More “supporting the troops” by the Bush Administration…
3: A case where “what happens in Vegas…” won’t be staying in Vegas…
4: You thought your health care plan was expensive before, wait until you get sick with a serious illness…
5: Not able to find enough diplomats to volunteer for duty in Iraq, the State Dept. will now start drafting them to go…
State Department warns diplomats of compulsory Iraq duty–Minstrel Boy
6: Another school kid calls out the big dogs on their errors…
German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA’s asteroid figures: paper–PHYSORG.com
7: Japan has joined in the war against fat people….
8: McCain wants to suspend the gas tax for the summer…
9: There’s a problem with your cereal and it’s ten years old…
Marler Clark Sees Pattern in Malt-O-Meal Salmonella Outbreaks–Signs of the Times
10: This is so typical of our politicians, these days, it comes as no surprise that they would start off with a bill to help homeowners and end up giving the bulk of the “help” to big business, instead…
277 días hasta el final de un error…
Peace.
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
(Programming note: I’m going to keep the round-up, short and sweet. But, I will continue to post a video for the day and make my usual commentary on my own crazy blog.)
Have cuppa? Prepare to traverse today’s Ten Post Round-Up:
1: Many Americans are avoiding movies and documentaries based on the Iraq War, regardless of their personal stand on the war, itself…
2: This just in: Presidential candidates are people, too!…
3: Novel idea: Army attempting to lure new recruits via amusement park and Xbox 360…
4: Captives for the war on terror…
U.S. May Not Release Guantanamo Prisoners: Even If Found Innocent of Charges Against Them–Global Research
5: 74-million-year old baby dinosaur for sale!…
Blackfeet Tribe’s premier fossil up for bid–Great Falls Tribune
6: We’re a little closer to hell in that ol’ handbasket…
7: Lawmakers considering lowering drinking age for members of the military…
Bills to Lower Drinking Age Filed in Seven States–Join Together
8: Creepy: Landlord refusing to let fiance’ out of lease for apartment his girlfriend was murdered in…
Murdered UW Student’s Fiancee in Lease Dispute–Newsradio 620
9: I wonder if he just considered voting NOTA (none of the above), instead? It’s probably a bit better for the digestion….
10: “Dr. Phil” must be desperate for better ratings…
280 días hasta el final de un error…
Peace.
Thousands of Karina “Victims” Collected As Much As $150,000 Undeserved
As many as 5,000 Katrina victims may have received tens of thousands of dollar more than they were entitled to due to what appears to be incompetence of a private contractor charged with dispensing taxpayer monies to them. The average amount of overpayment is estimated to be approximately $35,000, but in some cases may be as high as $100,000 to $150,000. In the rush to pay residents the $11 billion program almost inevitably ran afoul. Now the government wants those over-payments back amid cries, moaning and more than a little political posturing.
Some of the recipients have spent the funds on extravagance and collecting the misappropriated taxpayer money will be fraught with charges of mistreatment and unfairness. This is a boondoggle of epic proportions and it is likely that the U. S. taxpayer will be the ultimate victims once more as “victims” enjoy exotic vacations and Cadillacs paid for by the real victims.
Governors Switzer, Paterson and McGreevy In Sex Scandals
New York’s brand new Governor David Paterson set an all time record for a sex scandal admitting less than one day after taking office that he and his wife both have had extramarital affairs that continued for years. His predecessor, Eliot Spitzer. resigned after his ten year $80,000 use of high priced prostitutes was exposed. The Patterson’s say they successfully took marriage counseling and have ended those sexual liaisons.
Dina Matos McGreevy, the former New Jersey Governor’s soon-to-be ex-wife, set the standard for the grieving wife standing by your man when he announced to the world that he was homosexual and was cheating on his wife. She said she had no idea he was “gay” but now hypocritically newspaper reports say she participated in weekly three-way gay sex escapades they named Friday Night Specials. Dina has denied the three way sex parties so it looks like it will be her word against the two men.
MARCH MADNESS OFFICE POOL COULD LAND YOU IN JAIL.
California Assemblyman Kevin Jeffries reminds you – if you run a MARCH MADNESS pool you’re breaking the law and could go to jail. Hypocritically California runs a lottery, allows card clubs and horse racing and casino gambling on Indian reservations just OK-ing 17,000 more “one-armed bandits” but would punish you if you run an five dollar office pool. Jeffries has introduced a bill not to legalize such pools but make running one punishable by a fine but no jail time. A grand irony and stunning hypocrisy is that California (and other bureacracies) has trouble making its lottery profitable, and may lease it even though the organized crime run “Numbers” paid out better than the lotteries do but was criminalized because it took advantage of the poor. Of course no other egal forms of gambling do.