Archives: 2008 June

The typical American has somehow become the worse sort of yahoo who will believe just about anything if only it is repeated enough times and everyone in his fellow group of yahoos is saying it. The dumbing down of America has given the Karl Roves of the world all the material that they need to create a politics of shame that presently engulf the American presidential campaign.

The story in today’s Washingington Post sadly but accurately documents the yahoo factor at work in Flag City, USA, Findlay, Ohio. From the Internet, in their grocery stores, at their neighbor’s house, at their auto shop, Findley resident yahoos have absorbed a version of the Democratic Obama candidate’s background, one that is entirely false: Barack Obama, born in Africa, is a possibly gay Muslim racist who refuses to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

According to a report in The New Yorker magazine published online on Sunday, June 29, 2008, the U.S. is escalating covert operations against Iran. According to the article funding for the covert escalation, for which Bush requested up to $400 million, was approved by congressional leaders. The article, written by NYT reporter Seymour Hersh cites current and former military, intelligence and congressional sources.

The hypocrisy of the US government in dealing with Iran is incredible. While the US military and congressmen, and Whitehouse staff and our great leader frequently make charges that the Iranians are aiding our opponents in Iraq we have an active ongoing and escalating effort under way in Iran designed to bring about regime change.

In America, as in much of the developed and developing world, achieving a high economic growth rate has been considered the way to achieve prosperity and riches. Nations and companies compete with each other to see which can grow the fastest. Growth is so important to most of us that it is taken for granted as a goal that must be pursued.

Recently the US has been lagging behind countries like China, Russia, Brazil, and India, whose economies are growing almost ten times as fast as the revised 1% GDP first quarter growth rate released this week by the US Department of Commerce. There is great concern in the US that the US economy is already in or soon will be in a recession. The Fed is hard at work trying to prevent a recession and in fact is hoping for a faster rate of growth. Americans think that the economy should always be growing.

Payday loan express - have you heard this term screamed from billboard signs, lit up in tacky neon greens and reds, and basically flaunted at you from left to right?

The concept is to go get a loan with a quick turn-around. With this type of enticement, why not but where is this type of loan found?

Well, it may be annoying - and it might make you want to steer clear of those companies all together - but it’s true… you can get a payday loan, express means something, and yes, the money you need is within your reach.

Not Impressed?

If you’re not impressed with the ‘Payday Loan Express’ marketing kink, that’s okay. We’re not either… but we are impressed with what it means, and what you can do with your money. You can hate the phrase, but love the thing.

Are you searching for real estate deal that could save you a lot of money and at the same time provides you quality real estate? A short sale may be the type of real estate trade that you need. With the foreclosure marketplace reaching record highs and the snap of thriving towns like Denver, San Francisco, and Seattle, short sales are becoming one of the most popular real estate purchasing methods in the real estate marketplace now.

A short sale calls for the purchaser to have massive knowledge of both the real estate and the lending marketplaces. Having the appropriate tools in the real estate buyer’s toolbox can preserve time and more important money. When you take on a short sale, you are dealing with two companies that are spirited to move a deal. The foremost party is the property owner who is in danger of being foreclosed or going insolvent and the second company is the bank that wants to reduce its loses and get out of the mortgage taking at to the lowest degree any of the money back.