Life with Monkeys

Bill Maher is a World-Class Douche

How Do Ya Like Him Now, Code Pink?

Pakistan: Obama Orders Air Raid on Defenseless Villagers, 7 Killed.....

WAR CRIMINAL!......

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A missile strike believed to have been launched by a U.S. drone aircraft killed at least seven militants, including foreigners, in a tribal region of northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, intelligence officials and Taliban sources said.

The strike occurred in Makeen, an area of South Waziristan known as a stronghold of Pakistan Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud.

"Two missiles struck two vehicles carrying militants and from information we have received, some guests were among the dead," an intelligence official in the region told Reuters using the common euphemism for foreign fighters.

ZIP

WAR CRIMINAL!......

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A missile strike believed to have been launched by a U.S. drone aircraft killed at least seven militants, including foreigners, in a tribal region of northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, intelligence officials and Taliban sources said.

The strike occurred in Makeen, an area of South Waziristan known as a stronghold of Pakistan Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud.

"Two missiles struck two vehicles carrying militants and from information we have received, some guests were among the dead," an intelligence official in the region told Reuters using the common euphemism for foreign fighters.

ZIP

Obama Rewards "Reckless and Greedy" AIG Board Member With A JOB ON HIS TAX REFORM TASK FORCE!!!

AIG Board Member Named to Obama's Task Force on Tax Reform

President Barack Obama attacked AIG last saying the insurance giant was in financial straits because of "recklessness and greed." Obama announced that he intended to stop AIG from paying out millions in executive bonuses.
The AP:

But, that didn't stop Obama from naming one of AIG's board members to his task force on tax reform.
CNN reported:

One of the people named this week to President Obama's new Task Force on Tax Reform is a member of the AIG board of directors.

Martin Feldstein, a professor of economics at Harvard University, has been on the board of American International Group since 1988. He also was a prominent economic adviser to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.

Asked about the AIG connection, a senior administration official said Friday that the White House declined to comment on the story.

(WHAT? 'Declined to comment'? Where is my transparancy?)

Obama's Foreign Policy Blunder of the Day

And again I ask you; can you imagine if George Bush had done this?

Obamateurism of the Day

posted at 8:05 am on March 27, 2009 by Ed Morrissey

Michael Ledeen noted this blunder by President Barack Obama earlier this week. Obama promised to improve relations with our allies if elected to the White House. Unfortunately, it appears Obama understands multi-party democracies as well as his Secretary of State:

He also sent a letter to Italian President Giorgio Napolitano (a member of the now defunct Communist Party), expressing confidence that the United States and Italy would work together “to overcome the current global political and economic hardships and build a safer world.” The only problem with the letter was that the Italian president does not make policy; that power resides with the prime minister and his cabinet. Perhaps the White House czars have issued an ukaz stipulating that the American president writes only to his peers, and thus instead of addressing himself to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, President Obama wrote to a man who holds an almost entirely ceremonial position.

The Second American Revolution

More Corruption from the Narcissist in Chief

EXCLUSIVE: At the core of Obama's controversial cap-and-trade carbon reduction plan is a Chicago-based carbon-trading exchange he helped fund years earlier. (AP photo).
(Does this man do ANYTHING that is in the best interest of the country?)

Obama Years Ago Helped Fund Carbon Program He Is Now Pushing Through Congress

By Ed Barnes

In 2000 and 2001, while Barack Obama served as a board member for a Chicago-based charitable foundation, he helped to fund a pioneering carbon trading exchange that is likely to fill a critical role in the controversial cap-and-trade carbon reduction scheme that President Obama is now trying to push rapidly through Congress.

Is There ANYONE More Stupid Than Joe Biden?

Biden Goes Full Retard: Thanks Spain's PM For His Help in Iraq (Same Guy Who Withdrew His Troops Immediately After Winning Office).....

Gaffe-tastic!....

During his meeting with Spain's primer minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in Chile yesterday, Biden thanked Zapatero for his effort... in Iraq  (link in Spanish, haven't found this detail in any English-language media).

As everybody knows, the first decision Zapatero made after his unexpected win in 2004, right after the Madrid train terrorist attacks, was to abruptly and unilaterally pull out from Iraq. So either Biden made a gaffe, or he was thanking Zapatero for angering Bush...

When I wrote the post I didn't remember to add this, which makes things even worse: shortly after ordering the withdrawal of Spanish forces from Iraq, Zapatero called the other countries to follow the example. Some help, Biden.

Rest here>>>

ZIP

Obama Channels The Wimp Stuart Smalley

FOXNews.com

In contrast to Bush's 'cowboy diplomacy,' Obama administration's apologetic foreign policy tone seems to be based on Stuart Smalley: 'Doggonit, people like me.

Call it your daily affirmation. 

The Obama administration over the past several weeks has developed a certain conciliatory style of diplomacy, striking a hard contrast between this White House and its predecessors. 

While George W. Bush drew charges of "cowboy diplomacy" for his unilateral style of doing things, the Obama team might just be the Stuart Smalley counterpart to Bush's John Wayne. 

Smalley, you may recall, was Al Franken's lovable alter-ego on Saturday Night Live -- an uncertified gusher of self-help advice who often needed that advice more than his guests. 

"I deserve good things. I am entitled to my share of happiness," he used to recite to himself. "I refuse to beat myself up. I am an attractive person. I am fun to be with." 

Maybe President Obama's daily sessions with senior advisers don't begin with a daily affirmation, but the similarities are there. 

Smalley often had his guests repeat his mantras. 

"I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and, doggone it, people like me."

(Guess what UhBama? Lots of people don't like you! They are burning Obama effigies in the Middle East, Iran had a good laugh over your pathetic video, France's prez called you naive and the prez of the EU, declared that your proposals will lead us to hell!)

Meet My New Boyfriend, Daniel Hannan MEP

On a tip from my reader Christopher

Thin-Skinned UhBama

Well, I guess he's heard about how much is being made of his teleprompter dependency. (do you think they have a rehab for that?) So, at the press conference tonight, instead of glass teleprompters, he read off of a giant television monitor in the back of the room. Say it with me friends, "ARE YOU KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW?" I mean, what exactly is the difference?
How much do I love this? A lot. Tell you why. He cares soooo much about public opinion, he will HAVE to stop using these at some point. Which brings me to the most delicious consequence, he will say stupid things. And since he can't go around saying stupid things, he will stop appearing everywhere. Without his face and smooth, empty rhetoric on TV every other minute, Obamatrons will (I hope) begin to come out of their stupor. After all, these geniuses probably have the attention span of hummimgbirds.

The Criminal Perspective on Gun Control

Can You Imagine If President Bush Had Done Something This Stupid?!?

Obama Upsets Sarkozy With Letter to Jacques Chirac

(Friends, our genius president DOES NOT KNOW WHO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT OF FRANCE IS!!!)

In his latest faux pas Obama managed to pi$$ off France...
President Obama wrote Jacques Chirac saying he was looking forward to working with the former French president in the coming four years(?)
Monsters and Critics reported:

US President Barack Obama has indirectly praised former French president Jacques Chirac's fierce opposition to the US-led invasion of Iraq, the online edition of the daily Le Figaro reported on Thursday.

In a letter described by Chirac as 'very nice,' Obama wrote, 'I am certain that we will be able to work together, in the coming four years, in a spirit of peace and friendship to build a safer world.'

The use of the word 'peace' was taken to be an indirect reference to Chirac's stance against the US intervention in Iraq, which Obama had also opposed as senator.

(So Obamateur has now offended a THIRD world leader! Do you suppose this snub is revenge for Sarkozy calling Obama's foreign policy "utterly immature" during the campaign?)

Obama, With a Gun and NOT A Teleprompter? Sooooo fake!

Japanese Barack Obama ‘Action Figure’

March 21st, 2009

As if the Bad Obama paintings and the Michele Obama comic book were not enough, the inscrutable orient brings us the Obama action figure.

From the DiD US Presidential Election 2008 website: YOU HAVE TO CHECK OUT THE WEBSITE;THE DOLL EVEN HAS HIS GIANT MOLE!!!

  

 

 

Socialist agenda sold separately.

If This Doesn't Scare You, Nothing Will

Appeaser in Chief Gets His A** Handed To Him

Iranian Leaders Ignore Obama's Outstretched Hand

Iran's supreme leader snubs President Obama in response to a warm video issued by the White House seeking a "new beginning" with Iran.

Iran's supreme leader said Friday that world powers had been persuaded they could not block Iran's nuclear progress -- making no mention of a warm new-year's message sent by President Obama to his country, Reuters reported.

Neither Ayatollah Ali Khamenei nor Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad noted Obama's attempt to make a "new beginning" with their country in recorded messages they issued to mark the Iranian New Year.

(But Obamateur was going to make everything better and heal our relationship with Iran and we would all sing Cumbaya and form a circle of healing to show the world that the US is actually quite lovable)

Is Anyone Besides Me Sick of Being Embarrased by the Idiot in Chief?

President Obama Jokes About Being a RETARD: 'It's Like the Special Olympics'

March 19, 2009 8:56 PM

The first appearance by a sitting president on "The Tonight Show" may well end up being the last.

President Obama, in his taping with Jay Leno Thursday afternoon, attempted to yuk it up with the funnyman, and ended up insulting the disabled.

Towards the end of his approximately 40-minute appearance, the president talked about how he's gotten better at bowling and has been practicing in the White House bowling alley.

He bowled a 129, the president said.

"That's very good, Mr. President," Leno said sarcastically.

It's "like the Special Olympics or something," the president said.

(maybe it it hasn't occurred to him but there is a reason NO OTHER SITTING president ever went on these show. Obama is so busy playing rock star and campaigning that he doesn't seem to realize he is actually supposed to be running the most powerful country in the world. DURING AN ECONOMIC CRISIS? Can you imagine if this were a Republican?)

Obamateur's Homeland Security Secretary Doesn't Know Anything!

Change you can count on

Via The People's Cube, on a tip from Gregory of Yardale.

I Miss President Bush

Bush refuses to criticize Obama in Canada

Mar 17, 7:03 PM (ET)

By ROB GILLIES

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) - Former President George W. Bush said he won't criticize President Barack Obama because Obama "deserves my silence," and said he plans to write a book about the 12 toughest decisions he made in office. Bush declined to critique the Obama administration Tuesday in his first speech since leaving office. Former Vice President Dick Cheney has said that Obama's decisions are threatening America's safety.

"I'm not going to spend my time criticizing him. There are plenty of critics in the arena," Bush said. "He deserves my silence."

Bush said he wants Obama to succeed and said it's important that he has that support.

"I love my country a lot more than I love politics," Bush said. "I think it is essential that he be helped in office.

Read the rest here...

(President Bush is a true Christian and has far more class than those who have insulted and derided him for the past 8 years.  I remember the sight of his welcoming and generous smile when the Idiot in Chief, Obama and his miserable wife, showed up at the White House after the election. I always wondered, how can he ignore the insults they leveled at him during the campaign? The truth is, he is a far better and bigger person than the Uhbamas and the libs who revile him.)

AIPAC and Me

So, I have a friend who was chairing the committee organizing the huge AIPAC luncheon, in Orange County. I have never been involved with AIPAC before and I was pretty unaware of how big and important this organization is. AIPAC stands for American Israel Political Action Committee. Keynote speaker was to be Peter Beinart, contributing editor to the New Republic and foreign policy expert, who spoke at length about the Jewish community and their political leanings since coming to the USA. Interesting anecdote he told, that I had never heard before, was about the Jews in President Lincoln's time. Apparantly, some politician decided that Jews were to blame for cotton smuggling in Kentucky and Indiana and drafted some sort of bill to prevent Jews from living in those states. When the bill landed on President Lincoln's desk, he promptly killed it and proclaimed it ridiculous. Just another reason to love and honor his memory, no? In any event, Peter Beinart was an interesting and entertaining speaker. When I arrived at the event, I had the opportunity to speak with him, at some length. We discussed his recent appearances on CNN, and I commented that I can hardly bear to watch CNN. I said this to prepare him for my next questions! Knowing a bit about him, I knew that he is decidedly liberal. I asked him, "As a foreign policy expert, were you disappointed by Obama's treatment of Gordon Brown and more recently, his treatent of Brazil's president?" Beinart was taken aback though his smile never left his face. He replied that no, he was not disappointed and that he thought entertaining Brazil's president so early in his presidency was actually a great show of respect.  Okay, maybe. I then asked, "Is there ANYTHING Obama could do, to cause you to be disappointed in him?" He thought for a moment and then said that well, maybe, if he doesn't get the banking situation under control. I was not convinced.  I was, however, charmed by his demeanor. He remained very friendly though I clearly was of a very different opinion than he. By then, we were asked to take our seats and since alas, I was not at his table, I took my leave. While I enjoyed my interaction with him, I will say that the absolute highlight of the day for me, came at the very beginning of the event. We were asked to stand and we were led in singing our national anthem and then, we were led in singing Israel's national anthem, Hatikva. There were nearly one thousand people present, all singing these beautiful and meaningful songs. It was moving beyond measure.

Frankly, I Think It's An Insult to Monkeys

Iranian TV Show Scrapped After Child Calls Ahmadinejad a Monkey On the Air

A children's program in Iran was cancelled this week after a child called his toy monkey "Ahmadinejad" live on the air.
The Telegraph reported:

When the presenter of Amoo Pourang (Uncle Pourang), a programme watched by millions of Iranian children three times a week on state TV, asked the name of the toy the boy had been given as a reward for behaving himself, the child replied: "Well, my father calls him Ahmadinejad." (how much do you love that guy? of course, he's probably dead by now and his family has likely been imprisoned)

The father's likely unease at his son's honesty was matched by the programme makers after the state broadcaster, IRIB, immediately responded by removing the show from viewing schedules, The Guardian reported.

The popular show has been running for a very successful seven years but is now due to screened for the final time next week, the paper added.

Jahan News, a conservative website, said the decision was sparked by "the high financial and spiritual damage" caused by live broadcasts.

Alluding to the naming of the monkey, the statement highlighted an incident in which "a child in a live telephone line compared its doll to one of the well-known authorities and managers".

Hat Tip Banafsheh Zand Bonazzi

Let's Face it, Obama's an Idiot

Is Obama snubbing another foreign leader?

Fri, 03/13/2009 - 10:40am

After the Gordon Brown debacle, you would think the White House would put a little more thought into planning for visits by visiting heads of state. But Brazil is already grumbling about the treatment of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who will sit down with Obama this weekend and is the first Latin American leader to visit the White House under the new administration.

Silva aides said the trip was pushed forward from Tuesday because of the St. Patrick's Day holiday - making Latin America once again look like an afterthought. Then, the White House announcement misspelled his name as "Luis Ignacio" and put "Lula" - a nickname that decades ago became a legal part of the Brazilian leader's name - in quotes.

I'm sure he'll feel better when he gets his DVDs.

Ari Fleischer Spanks Chris (Tingles) Matthews

from the brilliant Don Surber

52 days, 52 mistakes

Let me count them up, in no particular order. Some are big. Some are small.

We all make mistakes. Here’s his:

1. A do-over on the oath of office.
2. Tim Geithner.
3. Bill Richardson.
4. Tom Daschle.
5. Eric “Nation of Cowards” Holder.
6. Leon Panetta.
7. Arne “Cappuccino” Duncan.
8. Hilda Solis (OK, her husband has the tax liens).
9. Nancy Killefer.
10. Charles Freeman Jr.
11. Ron Kirk.
12. Adolfo Carrion.
13. Banning offshore oil again.
14. Letting Nancy Pelosi write the $787 billion “stimulus’ plan.
15. Relying on Tim Geithner to explain it.
16. It is a $13-a-week stimulus, or as his wife said of Bush’s plan: “You’re getting $600. What can you do with that? Not to be ungrateful or anything. But maybe it pays down a bill, but it doesn’t pay down every bill every month.”
17. Going to a press conference without a TelePrompTer. I… Uhh… Umm… Could you repeat the question?
18. Using a TelePrompTer at a press conference. Big boys don’t need training wheels.
19. “Good evening, everybody. Please be seated. Before I take your questions tonight, I’d like to speak briefly.” 1,228 words later he took his first question.

Read the rest here...

h/t Zip

Flashback: Carville Wanted Bush to Fail

The press never reported that Democratic strategist James Carville said he wanted President Bush to fail before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. But a feeding frenzy ensued when radio host Rush Limbaugh recently said he wanted President Obama to fail.

By Bill Sammon

FOXNews.com

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, just minutes before learning of the terrorist attacks on America, Democratic strategist James Carville was hoping for President Bush to fail, telling a group of Washington reporters: "I certainly hope he doesn't succeed."

Carville was joined by Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg, who seemed encouraged by a survey he had just completed that revealed public misgivings about the newly minted president.

"We rush into these focus groups with these doubts that people have about him, and I'm wanting them to turn against him," Greenberg admitted.

The pollster added with a chuckle of disbelief: "They don't want him to fail. I mean, they think it matters if the president of the United States fails."

Minutes later, as news of the terrorist attacks reached the hotel conference room where the Democrats were having breakfast with the reporters, Carville announced: "Disregard everything we just said! This changes everything!"

Read the rest here, if you have the stomach...

Courtesy of the lovely pianogirl

Purim is one of the most joyous and fun holidays on the Jewish calendar. It commemorates a time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination. My favorite thing about the holiday is that we are commanded to give gifts of food and one of the foods that is traditional is the pastry you see here called Hamentashen. The villain of the Purim story is Hamen and these pastries resemble Hamen's three cornered hat, thus the name Hamentashen.  I baked these all weekend and filled them with a variety of fillings; chocolate chips, Nutella, and jam. They are like snowflakes; no two are alike! The other tradition that I love is that Purim is a holiday where people dress up in costumes. When I was little, I always dressed up as Queen Esther; I mean, what little girl doesn't want to be Queen Esther, right? This year, our synagogue had a Purim party and the theme was the 60's. Easy and I must confess, my very favorite part of my costume was...the false eyelashes! Seriously, I wish I could wear them every day without looking like a cougar or mental patient! They were very Cher in the 60's and Liza with a Z, in her 60's! Ironic that the Purim story deals with a foiled attempt to exterminate the Jews. Four thousand years later, people still want to exterminate us. I don't think it says as much about the Jews as it does about those who hate us. No matter; it's Purim and time to party!

This comes from the fabulous FrontPageMag.com

By: Robert Spencer
A 14-year-old stands against jihadist thuggery on Facebook.

FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, March 06, 2009

The jihad against Israel rages not just in Gaza, but worldwide, including on the Internet -- and even on Facebook, as a 14-year-old American Jew named Todd Snider recently discovered. In July 2008, Snider started a Facebook group called “I Wonder How Quickly I Can Find 1,000,000 People Who Support Israel.” This group quickly grew to become the largest pro-Israel group on Facebook, with over 180,000 members. But then, unexpectedly, this group gave this enterprising and dedicated young man a lesson in jihadist intimidation and thuggery -- including an unpleasant taste of how Western bureaucrats abet that thuggery, whether out of indifference or complicity.

This is just a sample of what these hacker-thugs posted;

DEAR ADMINS,

DON’T WASTE MY AND YOUR TIME , LEAVE THIS GROUP ITS BETTER FOR BOTH THIS IS THE LAST TIME ILL EDIT YOU INFO , NEXT TIME

AND IN A COUPLE OF HOURS YOU WILL LOOSE EVERYTHING RELATED TO THIS GROUP.

IM TIRED NOW I WANT TO GO TO SLEEP AND ILL PUT THAT BANANA IN YOUR MOTHER’S ASS AND AGAIN I RECOMMEND YOU TO LEAVE THE GROUP TOMORROW I MAY ERASE EVRYTHING .

GOOD NIGHT ASSHOLES

Read it all here>

 
In 1929, the  Soviet Union  established gun control. From 1929 to
1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were
rounded up and exterminated.

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In 1911,  Turkey  established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5
million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated.

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Germany  established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a
total of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend
themselves were rounded up and exterminated.

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China  established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, some 20
million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were
rounded up and exterminated.

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Guatemala  established gun control in 1964.  From 1964 to 1981, some
100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up
and exterminated.

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Uganda  established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000
Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated.

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Cambodia  established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one
million 'educated' people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded
up and exterminated.

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Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century
because of gun control: 56 million.

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It has now been 12 months since gun owners in  Australia were forced
by new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by
their own government, a program costing  Australia  taxpayers more
than $500 million dollars. The first year results are now in:

Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2 percent

Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent

Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)!

In the state of  Victoria  alone, homicides with firearms are now up
300 percent. Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in,
the criminals did not, and criminals still possess their guns!

It will never happen here? I bet the Aussies said that too!

While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in
armed robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in
the past 12 months, since criminals now are guaranteed that their prey
is unarmed.

There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of
the ELDERLY. Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how
public safety has decreased, after such monumental effort and expense
was expended in successfully ridding Australian society of guns. The
Australian experience and the other historical facts above prove it.

You won't see this data on the  US  evening news, or hear politicians
disseminating this information.

Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes,
gun-control laws adversely a affect only the law-abiding citizens.

Take note my fellow Americans, before it's too late!

The next time someone talks in favor of gun control, please remind him
of this history lesson.

With Guns.............We Are 'Citizens'.
Without Them........We Are 'Subjects'..

During WW II.. II the Japanese decided not to invade  America  because
they knew most Americans were ARMED !

Note: Admiral Yamamoto who crafted the attack on  Pearl Harbor  had
attended Harvard U 1919-1921 & was Naval Attache to the. U.S. .
1925-28. Most of our Navy was destroyed at Pearl Harbor  & our Army
had been deprived of funding & was ill prepared to defend the country.

It was reported that when asked why  Japan  did not follow up the
Pearl Harbor attack with an invasion of the U.S.  Mainland, his reply
was that he had lived in the  U.S. & knew that almost all households
had guns.

If you value your freedom, Please spread this anti-gun control message
to all your friends!

Way to Go, Bill!

Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending

By STEVEN A. HOLMES
Wall Street Journal
 Published: September 30, 1999

In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders.

The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets -- including the New York metropolitan region -- will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. Fannie Mae officials say they hope to make it a nationwide program by next spring.

Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits.

In addition, banks, thrift institutions and mortgage companies have been pressing Fannie Mae to help them make more loans to so-called subprime borrowers. These borrowers whose incomes, credit ratings and savings are not good enough to qualify for conventional loans, can only get loans from finance companies that charge much higher interest rates -- anywhere from three to four percentage points higher than conventional loans.

''Fannie Mae has expanded home ownership for millions of families in the 1990's by reducing down payment requirements,'' said Franklin D. Raines, Fannie Mae's chairman and chief executive officer. ''Yet there remain too many borrowers whose credit is just a notch below what our underwriting has required who have been relegated to paying significantly higher mortgage rates in the so-called subprime market.''

Demographic information on these borrowers is sketchy. But at least one study indicates that 18 percent of the loans in the subprime market went to black borrowers, compared to 5 per cent of loans in the conventional loan market.

In moving, even tentatively, into this new area of lending, Fannie Mae is taking on significantly more risk, which may not pose any difficulties during flush economic times. But the government-subsidized corporation may run into trouble in an economic downturn, prompting a government rescue similar to that of the savings and loan industry in the 1980's.

''From the perspective of many people, including me, this is another thrift industry growing up around us,'' said Peter Wallison a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. ''If they fail, the government will have to step up and bail them out the way it stepped up and bailed out the thrift industry.''

Under Fannie Mae's pilot program, consumers who qualify can secure a mortgage with an interest rate one percentage point above that of a conventional, 30-year fixed rate mortgage of less than $240,000 -- a rate that currently averages about 7.76 per cent. If the borrower makes his or her monthly payments on time for two years, the one percentage point premium is dropped.

Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages, does not lend money directly to consumers. Instead, it purchases loans that banks make on what is called the secondary market. By expanding the type of loans that it will buy, Fannie Mae is hoping to spur banks to make more loans to people with less-than-stellar credit ratings.

Fannie Mae officials stress that the new mortgages will be extended to all potential borrowers who can qualify for a mortgage. But they add that the move is intended in part to increase the number of minority and low income home owners who tend to have worse credit ratings than non-Hispanic whites.

Home ownership has, in fact, exploded among minorities during the economic boom of the 1990's. The number of mortgages extended to Hispanic applicants jumped by 87.2 per cent from 1993 to 1998, according to Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies. During that same period the number of African Americans who got mortgages to buy a home increased by 71.9 per cent and the number of Asian Americans by 46.3 per cent.

In contrast, the number of non-Hispanic whites who received loans for homes increased by 31.2 per cent.

Despite these gains, home ownership rates for minorities continue to lag behind non-Hispanic whites, in part because blacks and Hispanics in particular tend to have on average worse credit ratings.

In July, the Department of Housing and Urban Development proposed that by the year 2001, 50 percent of Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's portfolio be made up of loans to low and moderate-income borrowers. Last year, 44 percent of the loans Fannie Mae purchased were from these groups.

The change in policy also comes at the same time that HUD is investigating allegations of racial discrimination in the automated underwriting systems used by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to determine the credit-worthiness of credit applicants.

obama's Mistake-A-Day Presidency

from the brilliant Don Surber

52 days, 52 mistakes

Let me count them up, in no particular order. Some are big. Some are small.

We all make mistakes. Here’s his:

1. A do-over on the oath of office.
2. Tim Geithner.
3. Bill Richardson.
4. Tom Daschle.
5. Eric “Nation of Cowards” Holder.
6. Leon Panetta.
7. Arne “Cappuccino” Duncan.
8. Hilda Solis (OK, her husband has the tax liens).
9. Nancy Killefer.
10. Charles Freeman Jr.
11. Ron Kirk.
12. Adolfo Carrion.
13. Banning offshore oil again.
14. Letting Nancy Pelosi write the $787 billion “stimulus’ plan.
15. Relying on Tim Geithner to explain it.
16. It is a $13-a-week stimulus, or as his wife said of Bush’s plan: “You’re getting $600. What can you do with that? Not to be ungrateful or anything. But maybe it pays down a bill, but it doesn’t pay down every bill every month.”
17. Going to a press conference without a TelePrompTer. I… Uhh… Umm… Could you repeat the question?
18. Using a TelePrompTer at a press conference. Big boys don’t need training wheels.
19. “Good evening, everybody. Please be seated. Before I take your questions tonight, I’d like to speak briefly.” 1,228 words later he took his first question.

Read the rest here...

Funny. They look at Obama the same way Shrillary looked at General Petraeus!

h/t Zip

Forget What I Said, Forget What I Said!

Flashback: Carville Wanted Bush to Fail

The press never reported that Democratic strategist James Carville said he wanted President Bush to fail before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. But a feeding frenzy ensued when radio host Rush Limbaugh recently said he wanted President Obama to fail.

By Bill Sammon

FOXNews.com

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, just minutes before learning of the terrorist attacks on America, Democratic strategist James Carville was hoping for President Bush to fail, telling a group of Washington reporters: "I certainly hope he doesn't succeed."

Carville was joined by Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg, who seemed encouraged by a survey he had just completed that revealed public misgivings about the newly minted president.

"We rush into these focus groups with these doubts that people have about him, and I'm wanting them to turn against him," Greenberg admitted.

The pollster added with a chuckle of disbelief: "They don't want him to fail. I mean, they think it matters if the president of the United States fails."

Minutes later, as news of the terrorist attacks reached the hotel conference room where the Democrats were having breakfast with the reporters, Carville announced: "Disregard everything we just said! This changes everything!"

Read the rest here, if you have the stomach...

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Courtesy of the lovely pianogirl

Happy Purim!

Purim is one of the most joyous and fun holidays on the Jewish calendar. It commemorates a time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination. My favorite thing about the holiday is that we are commanded to give gifts of food and one of the foods that is traditional is the pastry you see here called Hamentashen. The villain of the Purim story is Hamen and these pastries resemble Hamen's three cornered hat, thus the name Hamentashen.  I baked these all weekend and filled them with a variety of fillings; chocolate chips, Nutella, and jam. They are like snowflakes; no two are alike! The other tradition that I love is that Purim is a holiday where people dress up in costumes. When I was little, I always dressed up as Queen Esther; I mean, what little girl doesn't want to be Queen Esther, right? This year, our synagogue had a Purim party and the theme was the 60's. Easy and I must confess, my very favorite part of my costume was...the false eyelashes! Seriously, I wish I could wear them every day without looking like a cougar or mental patient! They were very Cher in the 60's and Liza with a Z, in her 60's! Ironic that the Purim story deals with a foiled attempt to exterminate the Jews. Four thousand years later, people still want to exterminate us. I don't think it says as much about the Jews as it does about those who hate us. No matter; it's Purim and time to party!

Facebook Jihad

This comes from the fabulous FrontPageMag.com

By: Robert Spencer
A 14-year-old stands against jihadist thuggery on Facebook.

FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, March 06, 2009

The jihad against Israel rages not just in Gaza, but worldwide, including on the Internet -- and even on Facebook, as a 14-year-old American Jew named Todd Snider recently discovered. In July 2008, Snider started a Facebook group called “I Wonder How Quickly I Can Find 1,000,000 People Who Support Israel.” This group quickly grew to become the largest pro-Israel group on Facebook, with over 180,000 members. But then, unexpectedly, this group gave this enterprising and dedicated young man a lesson in jihadist intimidation and thuggery -- including an unpleasant taste of how Western bureaucrats abet that thuggery, whether out of indifference or complicity.

This is just a sample of what these hacker-thugs posted;

DEAR ADMINS,

DON’T WASTE MY AND YOUR TIME , LEAVE THIS GROUP ITS BETTER FOR BOTH THIS IS THE LAST TIME ILL EDIT YOU INFO , NEXT TIME

AND IN A COUPLE OF HOURS YOU WILL LOOSE EVERYTHING RELATED TO THIS GROUP.

IM TIRED NOW I WANT TO GO TO SLEEP AND ILL PUT THAT BANANA IN YOUR MOTHER’S ASS AND AGAIN I RECOMMEND YOU TO LEAVE THE GROUP TOMORROW I MAY ERASE EVRYTHING .

GOOD NIGHT ASSHOLES

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Steven Crowder Speaks the Truth

A Little Gun Control History Lesson

 
In 1929, the  Soviet Union  established gun control. From 1929 to
1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were
rounded up and exterminated.

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In 1911,  Turkey  established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5
million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated.

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Germany  established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a
total of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend
themselves were rounded up and exterminated.

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China  established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, some 20
million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were
rounded up and exterminated.

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Guatemala  established gun control in 1964.  From 1964 to 1981, some
100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up
and exterminated.

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Uganda  established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000
Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated.

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Cambodia  established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one
million 'educated' people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded
up and exterminated.

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Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century
because of gun control: 56 million.

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It has now been 12 months since gun owners in  Australia were forced
by new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by
their own government, a program costing  Australia  taxpayers more
than $500 million dollars. The first year results are now in:

Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2 percent

Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent

Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)!

In the state of  Victoria  alone, homicides with firearms are now up
300 percent. Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in,
the criminals did not, and criminals still possess their guns!

It will never happen here? I bet the Aussies said that too!

While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in
armed robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in
the past 12 months, since criminals now are guaranteed that their prey
is unarmed.

There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of
the ELDERLY. Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how
public safety has decreased, after such monumental effort and expense
was expended in successfully ridding Australian society of guns. The
Australian experience and the other historical facts above prove it.

You won't see this data on the  US  evening news, or hear politicians
disseminating this information.

Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes,
gun-control laws adversely a affect only the law-abiding citizens.

Take note my fellow Americans, before it's too late!

The next time someone talks in favor of gun control, please remind him
of this history lesson.

With Guns.............We Are 'Citizens'.
Without Them........We Are 'Subjects'..

During WW II.. II the Japanese decided not to invade  America  because
they knew most Americans were ARMED !

Note: Admiral Yamamoto who crafted the attack on  Pearl Harbor  had
attended Harvard U 1919-1921 & was Naval Attache to the. U.S. .
1925-28. Most of our Navy was destroyed at Pearl Harbor  & our Army
had been deprived of funding & was ill prepared to defend the country.

It was reported that when asked why  Japan  did not follow up the
Pearl Harbor attack with an invasion of the U.S.  Mainland, his reply
was that he had lived in the  U.S. & knew that almost all households
had guns.

If you value your freedom, Please spread this anti-gun control message
to all your friends!

Yes they can and yes they did

Payback's A Bitch, Bill!

Say Goodbye to the US as we know it

The Truth About Who Really Caused The Housing Crisis. Shocker! It wasn't Bush!

Way to Go, Bill!

Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending

By STEVEN A. HOLMES
Wall Street Journal
 Published: September 30, 1999

In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders.

The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets -- including the New York metropolitan region -- will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. Fannie Mae officials say they hope to make it a nationwide program by next spring.

Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits.

In addition, banks, thrift institutions and mortgage companies have been pressing Fannie Mae to help them make more loans to so-called subprime borrowers. These borrowers whose incomes, credit ratings and savings are not good enough to qualify for conventional loans, can only get loans from finance companies that charge much higher interest rates -- anywhere from three to four percentage points higher than conventional loans.

''Fannie Mae has expanded home ownership for millions of families in the 1990's by reducing down payment requirements,'' said Franklin D. Raines, Fannie Mae's chairman and chief executive officer. ''Yet there remain too many borrowers whose credit is just a notch below what our underwriting has required who have been relegated to paying significantly higher mortgage rates in the so-called subprime market.''

Demographic information on these borrowers is sketchy. But at least one study indicates that 18 percent of the loans in the subprime market went to black borrowers, compared to 5 per cent of loans in the conventional loan market.

In moving, even tentatively, into this new area of lending, Fannie Mae is taking on significantly more risk, which may not pose any difficulties during flush economic times. But the government-subsidized corporation may run into trouble in an economic downturn, prompting a government rescue similar to that of the savings and loan industry in the 1980's.

''From the perspective of many people, including me, this is another thrift industry growing up around us,'' said Peter Wallison a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. ''If they fail, the government will have to step up and bail them out the way it stepped up and bailed out the thrift industry.''

Under Fannie Mae's pilot program, consumers who qualify can secure a mortgage with an interest rate one percentage point above that of a conventional, 30-year fixed rate mortgage of less than $240,000 -- a rate that currently averages about 7.76 per cent. If the borrower makes his or her monthly payments on time for two years, the one percentage point premium is dropped.

Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages, does not lend money directly to consumers. Instead, it purchases loans that banks make on what is called the secondary market. By expanding the type of loans that it will buy, Fannie Mae is hoping to spur banks to make more loans to people with less-than-stellar credit ratings.

Fannie Mae officials stress that the new mortgages will be extended to all potential borrowers who can qualify for a mortgage. But they add that the move is intended in part to increase the number of minority and low income home owners who tend to have worse credit ratings than non-Hispanic whites.

Home ownership has, in fact, exploded among minorities during the economic boom of the 1990's. The number of mortgages extended to Hispanic applicants jumped by 87.2 per cent from 1993 to 1998, according to Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies. During that same period the number of African Americans who got mortgages to buy a home increased by 71.9 per cent and the number of Asian Americans by 46.3 per cent.

In contrast, the number of non-Hispanic whites who received loans for homes increased by 31.2 per cent.

Despite these gains, home ownership rates for minorities continue to lag behind non-Hispanic whites, in part because blacks and Hispanics in particular tend to have on average worse credit ratings.

In July, the Department of Housing and Urban Development proposed that by the year 2001, 50 percent of Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's portfolio be made up of loans to low and moderate-income borrowers. Last year, 44 percent of the loans Fannie Mae purchased were from these groups.

The change in policy also comes at the same time that HUD is investigating allegations of racial discrimination in the automated underwriting systems used by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to determine the credit-worthiness of credit applicants.

Looks Like There's Hope for the Future of the Conservative Movement