How Stupid Can You Get?

Now we've got a bunch of nut-ball alleged Christians giving God CREDIT for Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina walloped New Orleans just two days before the annual homosexual "Southern Decadence" festival was to begin in the town, an act being characterized by some as God's work.

Southern Decadence has a history of "filling the French Quarters section of the city with drunken homosexuals engaging in sex acts in the public streets and bars," says a statement from the Philadelphia organization Repent America.

"Although the loss of lives is deeply saddening, this act of God destroyed a wicked city," stated Repent America director Michael Marcavage in a statement. "From 'Girls Gone Wild' to 'Southern Decadence,' New Orleans was a city that opened its doors wide open to the public celebration of sin. May it never be the same."

I'd like one of these clowns to provide Biblical evidence that this is a God-directed event.
Jesus rebuked the storm; was Jesus rebuking God? That would make God schizophrenic. The only schizophrenic thing in sight is this group's theology.

God isn't concerned with nations other than Israel (and I'm not necessarily talking about the "dirt" Israel, but rather the obedient Jews). HE is concerned with individuals.

"Although the loss of lives is deeply saddening, this act of God destroyed a wicked city," stated Repent America director Michael Marcavage in a statement. "From 'Girls Gone Wild' to 'Southern Decadence,' New Orleans was a city that opened its doors wide open to the public celebration of sin. May it never be the same."

Don't you love the way this guy casts aside the loss of life like its acceptable just because New Orleans was destroyed! News Flash jerk: There were probably real Christians in New Orleans who had no control over what went on in the city.
The implication here is that if God really wanted to destroy New Orleans, He's too stupid or inept to do it without all the collateral damage.

One of the things I'm looking forward to in Heaven, is listening to God rebuke people for all the dumb things they blame on Him with which He had nothing to do.

Pass the Half & Half

Hopefully, this will shut up the Food Nazis:

Coffee is likely to contribute far more antioxidants to the British diet than fruit and vegetables.
The evidence comes from the United States where scientists measured the antioxidant content of more than 100 different food items, including vegetables, fruits, nuts, spices, oils and beverages.
Coffee - caffeinated and decaffeinated - emerged as easily the biggest source of antioxidants.

Time to go buy some Snickerdoodle!

Test-firing the "I" Word

Pat Buchanan turns up the heat on illegal immigration.

Twice, George Bush has taken an oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Article IV, Section 4 of that Constitution reads, "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion."

Well, we are being invaded, and the president of the United States is not doing his duty to protect the states against that invasion. Some courageous Republican, to get the attention of this White House, should drop into the hopper a bill of impeachment, charging George W. Bush with a conscious refusal to uphold his oath and defend the states of the Union against "invasion."

Can't argue with that, can you?
In a day and age when all you hear is security this and security that, when the media takes every opportunity to instigate a panic about the next potential terrorist attack, we have people waltzing into our country without the slightest screening taking place. We have no idea who is here. Its just as easy for alQaida to cross over from Mexico as it is for some drug trafficker from Mexico City.

The question of whether America is going to remain one nation, or whether our Southwest will wind up as a giant Kosovo – separated by language and loyalty from the rest of America – is on the table.

Where is Bush? All wrapped up in the issue of whether women in Najaf will have the same rights in divorce and custody cases as women in Nebraska.

What good is democracy in Iraq, when people sworn to uphold the laws of the land here, fail to do so, without consequences?

Duck and Cover

WALL STREET shuddered yesterday after Alan Greenspan, the United States’ central banker, warned American homebuyers that they risk a crash if they continue to drive property prices higher.

He said that the US house-price spiral had become an economic imbalance, threatening stability like the country’s trade gap or its budget deficit.

Alan Greenspan dropped the above bombshell yesterday during his 2005 Cover Your Butt Farewell Tour.

In a pre-retirement speech to fellow central bankers at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Mr Greenspan said that people were investing in houses as if they were a one-way bet, not allowing for the risk of price falls. He said “history had not dealt kindly” with investors who kept ignoring risks.

Now, these are the guys who established the policies which lead to our current conditions. If they are such monetary geniuses, shouldn't they have seen this coming?

Screw Loose

If there was ever any doubt in your mind that Cindy Sheehan is a nut case, this should put your doubts to rest.

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan is now purportedly "channeling" her slain son, Casey, from heaven.
Sheehan has referred to her son as an angel, stating in an Aug. 5 speech, Casey "became an angel while I was sleeping."
Cindy also reflected on the days immediately after Casey's birth, noting, "I looked in his eyes and it looked like he could tell what I was thinking. That's very disarming when you have like a week-old baby looking at you, and you know he knows what you're thinking.

She's also not real good at math.

On the mothers of fallen soldiers who continue to support President Bush and the liberation of Iraq, Sheehan said, “I’ve never said I speak for every Gold Star family. But I know I speak for thousands of them. But it affects our entire humanity when one country wages an illegal and immoral war on another country.”

"Thousands" means 2,000 or more.
"Gold Star Families" are those who have a family member die in the Armed Forces.
We have had fewer than 1900 casualties in Iraq.
Therefore, it is impossible for her to speak for "thousands".

I wish she would go back under the rock from which she came.

What's That Smell?

Remember the guy that was shot in the London subway the day after the bombings?
Seems like the poop is about to hit the fan:

He wasn't wearing a heavy jacket. He used his card to get into the station. He didn't vault the barrier. And now police say there are no CCTV pictures to reveal the truth. So why did plainclothes officers shoot young Jean Charles de Menezes seven times in the head, thinking he posed a terror threat?

So most of the "facts" of the initial story were fabricated. Multiple closed circuit cameras conveniently didn't work. The stench is beginning to make me woozy.

He (Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Ian Blair) insists the shoot-to-kill policy is the 'least worst' way of tackling suicide bombers and refuses to rule out other innocent people being shot in similar circumstances. 'I am not certain the tactic we have is the right tactic, but it is the best we have found so far.'

The arrogance!! 'Oh, its OK if we shoot a few innocent people if we mistakenly believe they are terrorists.'
They had the guy subdued on the ground in the subway station, for crying out loud!!
Commissioner Blair and all his cronies should lose their jobs, and the officers involved should be tried for murder.

Wasn't it just last week that I said never trust a government investigation of itself?
Assume ANYTHING a government says is a lie until proven otherwise.

Update: Now it is being reported that there is leaked video footage of the subway station, ostensibly from the cameras the cops said didn't work.

Heads MUST roll.

Worm Strikes Down Windows 2000 Systems

"Microsoft in "emergency response" as worm reported on three continents"

Tuesday, a fast moving computer worm attacked systems using Microsoft operating systems, shutting down computers in the US, Germany and Asia. But the good news comes from our own FBI:

The FBI said the computer problems did not appear to be part of any widespread attack.

Uhhh...the attacks are all over the globe, but they are not widespread. Then just what, exactly, qualifies as widespread??

When will you people learn? You pay confiscatory prices for Microsoft's mediocre products, THEN you have to spend a bunch of money to buy other software to protect your system, and hope it all works so you can keep using it.

The time to move to Linux-based operating system is NOW. There are plenty of free programs available that will perform the tasks 97% of computer users need.

Search any of these operating systems: Mepis, Knoppix, PCLinuxOS, Ark Linux, Yoper or SymphonyOS. Sure there's a slight learning curve, but they have friendly, helpful user forums to guide you through the growing pains. The cool thing is, you can install them right along with Windows (some don't even need to be installed...you can use it and learn it right off the CD!!). So, you can continue to use Windows as you get up to speed on Linux.

Soon you'll see why Penguins rule!

That Giant Sucking Sound

Seems everybody (except the main streaam media) is in an uproar over the fact

that intelligence officials reportedly ID'd hijack ringleader Mohamed Atta as part of an al-Qaida cell in the U.S. over a year before the September 11 tragedy, saying the panel was acting politically instead of factually.

"...over a year..." isn't quite accurate. It was back in 1999. Now, let's put on our Memory Caps. Who was President back in 1999? Who's administration do we have to thank for this ostrich imitation? Was it Bush2? No. Was it Bush1? Wrong again. Must have been that demon of the Republican party, Ronald Reagan. Negative.
It was Slick Willie himself! Yet we hear NOTHING from the mainstream propagandists. Had it been a Republican administration, it would be front page / lead story material for months. Calls for impeachment hearings would ring out from every media outlet in the country. But alas, nary a whimper.

Well just WHAT DID the Slickmeister consider a threat to the nation?
He allowed the FBI to murder Randy Weaver's labrador retreiver, 14 year old son, and his wife.
Under the watchful eye of Janet Reno, Clinton permited the gassing and murder of approximately 80 Americans, all without being charged with a crime, let alone facing a jury.
He conveniently ignored the middle eastern connection to Oklahoma City.
No need to bother with another innocent group of middle easterners with national security threats like that. (My tongue is firmly implanted in my cheek.)

And just how did the "extrodinary" 9-11 Commission miss this one?

"… [W]hy did [the commission] ignore the Able Danger operation in their deliberations?" asked Captain's Quarters blogger Ed Morrissey, as highlighted by columnist Michelle Malkin. "It would emphasize that the problem was not primarily operational, as the commission made it seem, but primarily political – and that the biggest problem was the enforced separation between law enforcement and intelligence operations upon which the Clinton Department of Justice insisted. The hatchet person for that policy sat on the Commission itself: Jamie S. Gorelick."
It was Gorelick who, as deputy attorney general in the Clinton Justice Department, established the wall of silence between intel and law enforcement.
One commentator specifically points his finger at former Clinton staffer Jamie Gorelick, a member of the panel who has been accused in the past of acting to protect her ex-boss from any political fallout of the commission's work.

Never believe a government investigation of itself.

Oh, that giant sucking sound? Bill Clinton's legacy going down the drain.

See, I Told You So.

Just a few more minutes of web-surfing, and I came across this beauty at Yahoo.

SAN DIEGO — When the housing market here was red-hot 18 months ago, Alex Flores could buy a downtown condominium with as little as $5,000 down and sell it six months later for a tidy profit of $200,000.

Now, Flores says, those easy-money days are over.

Flores, a self-described real estate "flipper," is trying to sell two condos. But neither has drawn an offer after being on the market for more than a month, even though he's willing to break even on one and reduce the price on the other.

Here's a little bit of free advice: if you have less that 20% equity in your home, take EVERY penny you can find and pay it towards your principal. If you took a home equity loan and bought a bunch of "cool" (albeit unaffordable) toys, sell the toys and pay back on the principal. If housing prices slip/burst, the last thing you want is to be paying a mortgage that's more than the current market value of your house.

Food for thought: Equity is equity only AFTER you sell you house. Until then, its theory.

ARM's Please Raise Your Hands

FOX News reports that for the 10th time in 14 months, the Fed has raised interest rates.

Lets see, rates were 1% in June 2004 and as of today stand at 3.5%. That's a 250% increase! If anything else went up 250% in a little over a year, there would be riots in the streets. But we hear nary a peep from the legacy media. But let plywood go up 15% around hurricane time and the media has a fit. (Just proves: 1) they don't understand economics, and 2) they don't understand the free market. But I digress.)

So... interest rates were at historic lows 14 months ago. They had nowhere to go BUT up. Please explain to me why people continue to take variable rate loans?
"Lets see...I really can't afford this now, so I'll get an adjustable rate mortgage to help me qualify. Rates can't go down, so that means they'll probably go up, so I REALLY won't be able to afford this place in 3 years."
Wizards of economics, I guess.

Tuesday's Fed decision was followed by an announcement by commercial banks that they were increasing their prime rate, the benchmark for millions of consumer and business loans, by a similar quarter-point. That would put the prime at 6.5 percent, its highest point in four years.

I rest my case.

"Core inflation has been relatively low in recent months and longer-term inflation expectations remain well contained, but pressures on inflation have stayed elevated," it added.

Almost fell off my chair laughing at this one!! Low inflation in recent months?? Guess none of these guys buy gasoline. Pump prices are up over 45 cents since this time last year. That's an increase of approximately 23%!!! And increasing oil prices increase the cost of everything you buy that gets delivered. Last time I checked, there were a lot of items in WalMart that get delivered.

Its amazing how these guys can lie with a straight face.

One final thought...as interest rates rise, don't be surprised to see the housing market flatten out, or even deflate. The exorbidant price inflation in housing has been caused by or assisted by easy money at historic low rates.