Off to a great start is this year called 2008

Today's headlines

Citigroup loses billions and will lay off workers

mr 24% can't get his Saudi buddies to produce more oil to help keep our prices down

Retail sales are not dong well

so of course the stock market took another BIG hit

Great economic policy you have mr 24%

and remmbr that mr 24% has an MBA - from Harvard no less....

[makes you wonder about Harvard's MBA program doesn't it?]

More bad news about foreclosures

CNN news had an article today about an area of Cleveland where the number of empty houses due to foreclosures are being looted for the siding, plumbing and anything that can be sold quickly.

Full CNN Cleveland article: http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/16/real_estate/suprime_and_crime/index.htm?postversion=2007111908

And just so you know - this is happening all over the country - even in wealthier enclaves like Northern Virgina. All thanks to mr 24% and the go-along-to-get-along Congress... The empty houses can be used by criminals or for dumping garbage, thus making the neighborhoods less appealing and of course then values go down and nothing sells - making it harder for the remaining homeowners to leave as they can not sell and making it very unpleasant for them to stay.

So the subprime mortgage mess is affecting many communities - and reading the market news - it's causing problems in financial markets as the banks are reeling from the bad loans....

Gee - whoda thought voting for mr 24% would have had this effect? [she says sarcastically]

Bad for my TV

Learned during Nixon's tenure to shut off the TV rather than to start yelling at it...or worse - toss something at it : - )

So that's exactly what I did when Steve King, a republic from Iowa got his allotted 1 minute and put up a chart that had the letters SCHIP going down the left and it read thusly:

Socialized,
Clinton-style
Hillarycare for
Illegals and their
Parents

Figured then that the real issue was not about health care or insurance for children - it was another TV op spot for republics to show their hatred of the American people.

And those republics voted to stick with mr 24%...

Even tho that ship is going down - and many are leaving - the rats that voted to uphold the veto are staying with their "man."

Mr. 24%

Okay - not surprising - the shrub now has a 24 % approval rating...

I keep asking myself who are those 24% who still approve of this war-mongering, dry drunk who thinks vacations are the best use of his time.

It seems to me that the religious right wingnuts have moved away from him as he disappointed them by not catering to their religious agenda. He said the right things to get their votes but did not move any legislation to make them happy. So they are not in that 24 %.

The "real" conservatives - those Republicans who think the government should spend less and conserve money - well - at the rate the shrub spends - not only are they not in that 24% - some actually have become Democrats and more are thinking about a party switch.

So we are left with the neo-cons - those who want endless war and endless profits for their corporations. Good thing it's only a portion of that 24% of the population but I'm guessing they are in control of a majority of the companies here and elsewhere in the world and they have ties to all those dictators who also love money more than their countries.

Who are the others in that 24%? I fear it's the psychopathic/sociopathic personalities for whom hate, fear, terror and torture are uppermost in their minds. The shrub and his party have unleashed the darkness of these persons and they feel they have a right to kill, torture and maim - in in the name of protecting the shrub.

Look what has happened this week with the S-CHiP legislation. The 24%ers are stalking, urging mayhem, murder and all sorts of nastiness on children whose families dared to say they made use of S-CHIP.

Scary. These 24%ers are persons without a conscience - no empathy and no feelings - just like their "leader."

It's why we need a rational, emotional being in the presidency - psychopathic leaders create an atmosphere wherein psychopaths feel free to operate.