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Posted by -Chuck
Saturday, 04 October 2008
Louisville, Ky - I am a little cranky this morning. If I actually listed all the things currently irritating me...we'd be here all day. And surely you have better things to do. I start each morning with coffee/news/not-news. When I finish my 'not-news' I take my dogs out for their walk. They're great walkers and behave well. This allows me to think about the things I have just read and put them through my little filters. And man, I don't have as many as you do. I guess my threshold for abject bullshit is a lot lower than the average person. To test this, I sat through another viewing of the Biden/Palin debate. What strikes me most about this 'debate' is how little debating actually took place. This is something symptomatic of a Republican party who will do anything to keep power over the United States and its people. Sarah Palin isn't really ready for the Alaskan prime-time, let alone the national stage. She is uneducated. She is not curious. She sees herself as "the woman in charge". In my opinion, her entire career has been the reverse of anything "pro-woman". One only has to look at her voting record. Palin is trying to make an even bigger name for herself, and she just might be doing that. The people who are taken with her are basically people who can't think for themselves. If you watch Fox News, I am talking to you. In the 'debate' on Thursday, Palin only decided to respond to 60% of the questions, and not a single piece of truth fell from her lips. Does she think she's special because she has a child going off to fight in Bush's war? Absolutely not. She's no different than the rest of the families waiting for their loved ones to come home. So she doesn't get extra-room to run her mouth on this. I honestly wish that only the children of those that started the war in Iraq had to fight it. I wish that those who joined up to protect the United States of America were kept out of this unnecessary quagmire of a war. It would be nice if the Palin kids, and the Bush kids, and all the rest...it would be great if they could be the first ones to feel the impact of their parents bad decisions. The average joe-soldier didn't start this conflict. And it's not the children of the rich whom are dying: It's the poor. Palin also has a number of other problems: Cheating on her husband, is the baby "hers", the public failure of abstinence-only education within her own home, a husband who wanted to lead Alaska into succeeding from the Union, Abject abuses of power involving the firing of her former brother-in-law...have these people no respect for the basic props of our Democracy? If you watched the Biden/Palin 'debate' what you saw was an exercise of "not answering questions", "side-stepping", and some things that I have only seen low-class strippers do. If you've ever been into a seedy night-club, the ultra-friendly dancer, the winker, the aww-shucks girl....that's the one you see for drugs, paid sex, and probably a disease. I submit to you that Sarah Palin is said stripper. I bet she's still "working her way through school".
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Bush economy: Woman, 90, shoots self inside foreclosed home

The Sections - U.S./World News
Posted by -Chuck
Friday, 03 October 2008
(CNN) - A 90-year-old Akron, Ohio, woman who shot herself as sheriff's deputies tried to evict her from her foreclosed home became a symbol of the nation's home mortgage crisis Friday. Addie Polk is being treated at Akron General Medical Center after shooting herself at least twice in the upper body Wednesday afternoon, her city councilman said. U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, mentioned Polk on the House floor Friday during debate over the latest economic rescue proposal. "This bill does nothing for the Addie Polks of the world," Kucinich said after telling her story. "This bill fails to address the fact that millions of homeowners are facing foreclosure, are facing the loss of their home. This bill will take care of Wall Street, and the market may go up for a few days, but democracy is going downhill." Neighbor Robert Dillon, 62, used a ladder to enter a second-story bathroom window of Polk's home after he and the deputies heard loud noises inside, Dillon said. "I was calling her name as I went in, and she wasn't responding," he said. He found her lying on a bed, and he could see she was breathing. He also noticed a long-barreled handgun on the bed, but thought she just had it there for protection. He touched her on the shoulder. "Then she kind of moved toward me a little and I saw that blood, and I said, 'Oh, no. Miss Polk musta done shot herself,' " Dillon said. He hurried downstairs and let the deputies in. He said they told him they found Polk's car keys, pocketbook and life insurance policy laid out neatly where they could be found, suggesting she intended to kill herself. "There's a lot of people like Miss Polk right now. That's the sad thing about it," said Akron City Council President Marco Sommerville, who had met Polk before and rushed to the scene when contacted by police. "They might not be as old as her, some could be as old as her. This is just a major problem." In 2004, Polk took out a 30-year, 6.375 percent mortgage for $45,620 with a Countrywide Home Loan office in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. The same day, she also took out an $11,380 line of credit. Over the next couple of years Polk missed payments on the 101-year-old home, which she and her late husband purchased in 1970. In 2007, Fannie Mae assumed the mortgage and later filed for foreclosure.
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