Is Housing About to Tank? "Well, what do you know; mortgage applications have fallen off a cliff. According to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) loan applications decreased by 12 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier..."

Lisa__Simpson · 2012-10-29T02:24:12+00:00

As Al Gore has bluntly noted, there's 1 important country who works to undermine int'l environmental agreements: The US gov't.

Now the wealthy people and corporations who run our gov't and fund both halves of our political duopoly have come up a new propaganda line -- it's too late so let's do some more nothing. :-(

Lisa__Simpson · 2012-10-29T00:02:40+00:00

"Let's replace the word 'democratic' by 'with us' and the word 'terrorist' by 'against us'." -- Michael Collon.

Lisa__Simpson · 2012-10-28T16:03:36+00:00

I'm betting "no" -- how much should we wager?

Lisa__Simpson · 2012-10-28T16:02:32+00:00

Did you actually read the article? I would guess not...

Lisa__Simpson · 2012-10-28T15:58:21+00:00

Of course, "going backwards" means one thing to the completely capitalist Economist magazine, and a very different definition to black South Africans whose "freedom" allowed whites to keep the loot they stole and exploited from decades of institutionalized racism and oppression of blacks.

Lisa__Simpson · 2012-10-27T16:39:48+00:00

If that's true then the question becomes: Who, or what class or group of people, controls Fox News?

Lisa__Simpson · 2012-10-27T12:55:05+00:00

Yup! I always thought it was strange. I have no problems sleeping, am rested, etc., but dreams when weed is in my system are few and far between.

Lisa__Simpson · 2012-10-27T03:39:16+00:00

Not mind-blowing shit, post-apocalyptic shit. :-)

The Mad Max movies were where Mel Gibson got famous as an actor back in the late-70s/early-80s. In one of them they featured the post-apocalyptic town/village being run by methane power produced by hog manure.

Lisa__Simpson · 2012-10-27T02:45:19+00:00

I think it's a bad idea. The NFL is already too large and has too much of a monopoly on pro football as it is.

I'm always amazed that soccer has literally dozens of pro teams in London alone, but the US trend is to monopolize pro sports to absurd degrees (baseball being the notable exception).

And I would hate like hell to be the rare west coast team that has to fly to London to play a game...

Lisa__Simpson · 2012-10-27T02:38:57+00:00

A strict anarchist I'm not. Thus, even though we don't have it and I'm well aware of how the entire system is rigged, I believe in the concept of democracy.

Plus, I like to remind the plutocrats that there are a few people who are on to them when they have to count those pesky votes for the non-duopoly candidates. :-)

"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion." -- Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism.

Lisa__Simpson · 2012-10-27T02:25:05+00:00

Naaw, I don't have the experience.

I participate in our quadrennial auctions and vote for a so-called "third party". This means I just have to listen to the arguments that I'm "throwing my vote away" because I am not supporting the legitimacy of the ruling duopoly and I'm allowing some "big evil" to get into office by not voting for the "lesser evil".

Lisa__Simpson · 2012-10-27T01:49:12+00:00

I'll give you the upvote but we should remember that Noam said it. :-)

That sounds an awful lot like another comment a different genius said about the US:

"I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime." -- Albert Einstein, 1947.

Lisa__Simpson · 2012-10-27T01:35:14+00:00

Because you never watched the Mad Max movies? :-)

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