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May 27, 2008

al Qaeda Calls for use of WMDs against Civilians

Filed under: War — admin @ 5:32 pm

Just remember, there is no threat. There never was. 9/11 was an inside job, Bush knew all about it. Go about your normal lives because this is obviously a strategically timed release by America’s CIA operatives Osama bin Laden and al-Zawahiri. Or maybe, just maybe, there is a real threat from a real terrorist organization that is really trying to destroy modern life.

Intelligence and law enforcement sources tell ABC News they are expecting al Qaeda operatives will post a new video on the Internet in the next 24 hours, calling for what one source said is “jihadists to use biological, chemical and nuclear weapons to attack the West.”

“There have been several reports that al Qaeda will release a new message calling for the use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) against civilians,” FBI spokesman Richard Kolko told ABC News in an e-mail.

“Although there have been similar messages in the past, the FBI and [Department of Homeland Security] have no intelligence of any specific plot or indication of a threat to the U.S.,” the e-mail said. “The FBI and U.S. intelligence community will review the message for any intelligence value.”

While there is no evidence of any direct threat, the FBI sent a bulletin to 18,000 law enforcement agencies across the country, out of an abundance of caution.

BigT

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Obama’s Great Uncle Liberated Jews - Grandma is Another Story

Filed under: Elections, Executive Suite — admin @ 3:47 pm

Obama’s Great Uncle liberated Jews during WWII. But I guess his grandmother still hated Jews, and blacks, and probably Hispanics and gays.

Barack Obama’s campaign says the candidate made a mistake when he said a great uncle helped liberate the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz during World War II.

Obama said Monday that his uncle was among the first U.S. troops at Auschwitz. But Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet forces.

The campaign said Tuesday that he named the wrong camp. They said it was actually Buchenwald.

Aides said his grandmother’s brother, Charlie Payne, helped liberate a Buchenwald sub-camp in April 1945 as part of the 89th Infantry Division.

Critics had been questioning Obama’s original comment mentioning Auschwitz.

Is this the brother of the grandma whom Obama threw under the bus to protect Rev Wright? I hate to break it to all of those Obama cult members but the guy is just one really slick politician. He is going to throw you and your special interest group under the bus when he has to.

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Good News, Bad News for the Housing Market

Filed under: Economics — admin @ 9:38 am

First, a story about how the price of homes in America have fallen, sharply.

U.S. home prices dropped at the sharpest rate in two decades during the first quarter, a closely watched index showed Tuesday, a somber indication that the housing slump continues to deepen.

Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller said its national home price index fell 14.1 percent in the first quarter compared with a year earlier, the lowest since its inception in 1988. The quarterly index covers all nine U.S. Census divisions.

Prices nationwide are at levels not seen since the third quarter of according to Maureen Maitland, a S&P vice president. However, the index is still up 60 percent versus 2000.

I know things aren’t good right now, but we’re up 60% since 2000. Can it be all that bad?

And here’s another story about how sales of new homes have actually increased month over month from March to April.

Sales of new homes across the United Statesrose an unexpected 3.3 percent in April from the prior month, to aseasonally adjusted annual pace of 526,000 homes, a government reportshowed Tuesday.

The spike in sales confounded most economists forecasts of a sales decline last month.

New home sales in March, however, were revised lower to 509,000properties compared with an initial tally of 526,000, according to theCommerce Department survey.

Although activity rose over themonth, sales of new homes in the 12 months to April have dived a hefty42 percent in the midst of a persistent housing market slump.

Turnover of new homes has fallen steadily in the past two years,excepting some month-on-month gains, amid one of the worst US housingmarket downturns in decades.

All I know is that a couple of years ago me and many others were thinking it would be impossible to buy a home in SoCal. And that was a bad thing. Now home ownership is leaving the realm of fantasy and actually coming into focus a little bit. But that’s really bad for most people because it means they have lost what probably amounts to most of the equity they have built up over their life. All I know is that there are cycles in the market and that before another decade speeds by I will be writing about increasing housing costs. Well, probably.

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