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Thursday, September 25
Mama's milk ice cream cone, anyone? Not a joke...
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 25 Sep 2008 09:05 PM EDT
Mooove over, Holsteins. PETA wants world-famous Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream to tap nursing moms, rather than cows, for the milk used in its ice cream. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is asking the ice cream maker to begin using breast milk in its products instead of cow's milk, saying it would reduce the suffering of cows and calves and give ice cream lovers a healthier product. More>>>
Solar wind weakest since beginning of space age
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 25 Sep 2008 07:13 PM EDT
The intensity of the sun's million-mile-per-hour solar wind has dropped to its lowest levels since accurate records began half a century ago, scientists say. The solar wind "inflates a protective bubble, or heliosphere, around the solar system," which protects the inner planets against the radiation from other stars, said Dave McComas, Ulysses' solar wind principal investigator and senior executive director at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. "With the solar wind at an all-time low, there is an excellent chance the heliosphere will diminish in size and strength," said Ed Smith, NASA's Ulysses project scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "If that occurs, more galactic cosmic rays will make it into the inner part of our solar system," added Smith. (Would this not be an EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY to test the solar wind/cosmic ray theory as it relates to AGW? Hello? Anyone? -Roland) More>>> Global warming alarmists face yet another challenge to their predictions of an inferno of doom. The solar wind is losing power, and is at a fifty year low, according to NASA. More>>>
They Gave Your Mortgage to a Less Qualified Minority
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 25 Sep 2008 07:09 PM EDT
Threatening lawsuits, Clinton's Federal Reserve demanded that banks treat welfare payments and unemployment benefits as valid income sources to qualify for a mortgage. That isn't a joke -- it's a fact. When Democrats controlled both the executive and legislative branches, political correctness was given a veto over sound business practices. In 1999, liberals were bragging about extending affirmative action to the financial sector. Los Angeles Times reporter Ron Brownstein hailed the Clinton administration's affirmative action lending policies as one of the "hidden success stories" of the Clinton administration, saying that "black and Latino homeownership has surged to the highest level ever recorded." Meanwhile, economists were screaming from the rooftops that the Democrats were forcing mortgage lenders to issue loans that would fail the moment the housing market slowed and deadbeat borrowers couldn't get out of their loans by selling their houses. A decade later, the housing bubble burst and, as predicted, food-stamp-backed mortgages collapsed. Democrats set an affirmative action time-bomb and now it's gone off. More>>>
Reuters on the financial crisis
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 25 Sep 2008 01:08 PM EDT
China banks told to halt lending to US banks-SCMP More>>> Lawmakers near bailout deal; economy stumbles More>>> Era of U.S. financial dominance at an end: Germany "He said the world would no longer be able to solve financial problems without including countries like China and Russia. Neither China nor Russia are part of the Group of Seven (G7) forum that meets on economic policy, although Russia is a member of the broader G8 grouping that discusses political issues." More>>> "Dangerous gulf" opens between Russia and West More>>> North Korea seen putting nuclear squeeze on U.S. More>>> U.S. says Pakistani forces fire on helicopters More>>> Chavez to deepen military ties with Russia H/T to our man Steve! More>>>
THIS is the man McCain wants to head the SEC?
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 25 Sep 2008 11:44 AM EDT
Andrew Cuomo, the youngest Housing and Urban Development secretary in history, made a series of decisions between 1997 and 2001 that gave birth to the country’s current crisis. He took actions that—in combination with many other factors—helped plunge Fannie and Freddie into the subprime markets without putting in place the means to monitor their increasingly risky investments. He turned the Federal Housing Administration mortgage program into a sweetheart lender with sky-high loan ceilings and no money down, and he legalized what a federal judge has branded “kickbacks” to brokers that have fueled the sale of overpriced and unsupportable loans. Three to four million families are now facing foreclosure, and Cuomo is one of the reasons why. What he did is important—not just because of what it tells us about how we got in this hole, but because of what it says about New York’s attorney general, who has been trying for months to don a white hat in the subprime scandal, pursuing cases against banks, appraisers, brokers, rating agencies, and multitrillion-dollar, quasi-public Fannie and Freddie. It all starts, as the headlines of recent weeks do, with these two giant banks. But in the hubbub about their bailout, few have noticed that the only federal agency with the power to regulate what Cuomo has called “the gods of Washington” was HUD. Congress granted that power in 1992, so there were only four pre-crisis secretaries at the notoriously political agency that had the ability to rein in Fannie and Freddie: ex–Texas mayor Henry Cisneros and Bush confidante Alfonso Jackson, who were driven from office by criminal investigations; Mel Martinez, who left to chase a U.S. Senate seat in Florida; and Cuomo, who used the agency as a launching pad for his disastrous 2002 gubernatorial candidacy. More>>>
Gore urges civil disobedience to stop coal plants
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 25 Sep 2008 11:33 AM EDT
"If you're a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration," Gore told the Clinton Global Initiative gathering to loud applause. More>>>
Amazing Beer Can Art
by
Riley Jones
on Thu 25 Sep 2008 11:13 AM EDT
Sequel News: Disney and Depp return to the Caribbean. Again.
by
Riley Jones
on Thu 25 Sep 2008 11:09 AM EDT
More sequel news announced: We apparently haven't seen the last of Captain Jack Sparrow. Disney has announced plans for a fourth film in the highly lucrative "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise, with Johnny Depp agreeing to reprise his role as the swaggering pirate. More>>>
Florida congressman/convicted racketeer points to Palin to rally Jews to Obama
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 25 Sep 2008 11:08 AM EDT
Rep. Alcee Hastings told an audience of Jewish Democrats Wednesday that they should be wary of Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin because “anybody toting guns and stripping moose don’t care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks.” More>>>
London's Olympic Park toilets to turn away from Mecca out of respect for Islamic law
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 25 Sep 2008 11:04 AM EDT
Toilet facilities are being built at London's Olympic Park so Muslims will not have to face Mecca while sitting on the loo. The Olympic Delivery Authority has said it wants to produce an ideal venue for people of all cultures, faiths, ages and abilities for the 2012 Games and beyond. The Islamic religion prohibits Muslims from facing the Kiblah - the direction of prayer - when they visit the lavatory. More>>>
The Mortgage Mess? Thanks Democrats for Wrecking the Economy
by
Riley Jones
on Thu 25 Sep 2008 09:07 AM EDT
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