Who could have known the economy would be like this?

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The New York Times, that’s who. Back in 1999, it reported: (emphasis mine)
[Fannie Mae] will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. [...]
Fannie Mae, the nation’s biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to [...]

Dad gets 18 Months for Forcing his Daughter to Kill Their Cat


Danield J. Collins was arrested and given 18 months in jail after he admitted to forcing his seven-year-old daughter to kill the family cat by taking a knife and stabbing the pet.

Police to Track All Vehicles into New York City

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Police to Track All Vehicles into New York City, writes David Theroux at the Beacon. Under a new federally-funded program, “Operation Sentinel”, myriad closed-circuit cameras and license-plate readers would collect data on every vehicle entering Manhattan to check for what they deem suspicious behavior.
The first real point here is that the New York City police [...]

Obama is not the Antichrist!

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Rejoice, all ye believers, for Obama is not the Antichrist!
That is the proclamation Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, authors of the Left Behind series, have rendered unto us. Christian Newswire:
I’ve gotten a lot of questions the last few weeks asking if Obama is the antichrist,” says novelist Jenkins. “I tell everyone that I don’t [...]

Water was once “widespread” on Mars


Data from a NASA Spacecraft shows that water was once widespread on Mars, making it more probable that the planet could once support life.

Lies, damn lies and statistics

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The New York Times has conducted a poll (hat tip: Democracy in America) on race in America. Its results? According to the accompanying article,
Americans’ perceptions of the fall presidential election between Mr. Obama, Democrat of Illinois, and Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, also underlined the racial discord that the poll found. More than 80 [...]

McCain Discovers the 21st Century?!


Presidential Candindate John McCain has announced he has made a great leap forward for mandkind… he discovered… the internet.

The Italian language police

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Silvio Berlusconi, the intractable, obstinate and stupid Italian prime minister, has thrown a tantrum over the fact that EU meetings use the languages that most Europeans speak, not Italian. He has “advised his ministers to walk out of EU meetings in which they are forced to speak another language, and boycott those for which there [...]

I knew ads would be a bad idea!!!

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Due to a recent lack of donations, I’ve thrown up two banner ads on the site. One of them is ours, which helps to support us, and the other is Link’s, to help support both us and D-Pad. Now, I was set on thinking this was a pretty good idea… you know, make some money [...]

Iraq wants a Deadline for US Withdrawl

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Man, I just love how we can go in and try to fix the government in Iraq but we make no effort to do anything in places that need the help more. The world is seriously an embarassment to itself. I can’t wait to see the human race just tear itself to shreds or for [...]

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