Greedy lending doesn't have a bad ending in this case.

I'm not absolving the home owner of not understanding the terms of the new loan, but I am glad that such a blatantly bad mortgage did not make this lady lose her home.

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Citizens Against Government Waste has released their annual review of pork. Thanks to our wonderful congressional leaders for helping to solve the problems this country faces by giving $98,000 for a walking tour of Boydton, VA, $7.9 million for movie theatres, $1,950,000 for the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service (that's some service!) and letting Robert Byrd take $386 million to WVa.

Hillary Clinton is a fucking whore according to Randi Rhodes. (Are we allowed to use profanity on this blog or do I need to put a few punctuation marks in the word to disguise it?)

Anyway, it's not like we've forgotten about Bill's shenangians--we still have folks asking daughter Chelsea about Monica.

Does any of this advance solutions to problems we face in the world?

A judge banned the use of the word rape in a trial. The witnesses are not allowed to use the word rape, but the jury has not been told the word is banned. While I'm not sure if the woman was or wasn't raped, she should be able to describe the event using her own words.

Gordon Brown, the UK PM with a weird breathing pattern, has decided to try to reclassify cannabis as a class B drug. The argument is that "super" strains of pot are causing some people to go schizo. The problem with this argument is that as the amount of "super" pot seized has increased, the levels of psychosis have dropped in the UK. The article does not mention if the right honorable Gordon Brown has undergone any mental health evaluations.

... from watching network television. I made the mistake of buying an antenna for my television so I could watch, sweet, free HDTV content. Unfortunately, I'm paying for the pleasure with my hearing.

Every single time the network breaks away from the wonderful surround sound of, say, The Office, to a commercial THE SOUND IS DEAFENING! I get it, you want me to buy your shit. Try a little subtlety. Buy me dinner first.

Am I the only one that thinks a class-action lawsuit for hearing loss should be in the works? I don't want the money as much as I want them to pay for making me deaf!

What do you think?

WHAT!?

Apple designs fairly idiot-proof interfaces, so I guess it makes sense they think we're all morons who would get the Apple logo confused with the Green NYC logo. Let the lawsuits commence!

Queen Rania has launched a channel to address Arab stereotypes.

Dialog about Islam and the Middle East with a woman?

I think someone got an "A" in diplomacy class. Hopefully, the answers she provides won't show she got an "A" in propaganda as well. Or that she gets a fatwa for Ramadan.

Everyone knows the gov taxes for a couple of reasons:

1. It's got a real bad spending addiction. (Diagnosis: Incurable.)

2. It's really really concerned about how citizens behave. And if you tax an activity, you get less of it.

So, NYC is going to implement a congestion charge to reduce traffic. London was contemplating this when I lived there and I was opposed. Until I visited the city after it had gone through. The reduction in traffic made it so much better to walk around (or stumble, depending on the time of day).