I guess the Obama administration is trying to keep the momentum from its health care ‘victory’ going. This morning, it announced new initiatives to help troubled homeowners, with the goal (hope?) of easing the foreclosure crisis that has impacted millions of Americans. There are a few things being proposed, but the three major points seem [...]
Posts Tagged ‘doom’
Oh Yeah, The Housing Crisis
Posted in Lawmaking, tagged doom, housing, Obama Administration on 03/26/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in Economy, Homelessness, tagged doom, Economy, housing on 02/24/2010 | Leave a Comment »
HAPPY WEDNESDAY: Yes, the housing crisis is still going on, bleak as ever. According the latest report by First American CoreLogic, the research firm that monitors housing equity, 11.3 million homeowners – that’s 24% of all homes with mortgages – were underwater at the end of 2009. That number is up from 10.7 million borrowers [...]
Stimulus Working, But For Whom?
Posted in Economy, Lawmaking, Politicking, tagged death, doom, Economy, jesus h. christ, some package you got there, Stimulus on 02/17/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Despite the NY Times’ and Joe Biden’s claims that OF COURSE the stimulus has been successful, MoJo (thankfully) reminds us that this is only part of the picture. According to a report by the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, many of the employment gains from the $787 billion American Reinvestment and [...]
Fact: Americans Hate ‘Homos’ More Than They Hate Gay Men & Lesbians
Posted in The End of the World, tagged doom, gays in the military, good god, semantics, this is ourrrrr country, USA!, wtf on 02/11/2010 | Leave a Comment »
JESUS H. CHRIST: A new CBS News/ New York Times poll reveals that while 58% of respondents are in favor of allowing gay men and lesbians in the military, only 44% of respondents are in favor of allowing homosexuals into the military. What this means is 14% of Americans respond favorably to the idea of [...]
Road To Economic Recovery Beset On All Sides By Failure And Doom
Posted in Economy, The End of the World, World News, tagged doom, economic recovery, Economy, finance, unemployment, USA! on 02/05/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Oh looksy, the January jobless data report is out! And, just like it’s been the case for most months over the last year and a half, more jobs were lost. Something like 20,000 was it? And analysts and economists and the administration fear that economic recovery might be slower than anticipated. Again. I mean, at [...]
Poverty In Suburban America On The Rise
Posted in Economy, tagged abject poverty, disasters, doom, the economy, USA! on 01/21/2010 | Leave a Comment »
An analysis of the location of poverty in the States’ largest metro areas in 2006, 2007, and 2008 reveals the following scary facts: – By 2008, suburbs were home to the largest and fastest-growing poor population in the country. Between 2000 and 2008, suburbs in the country’s largest metro areas saw their poor population grow [...]
Department Of Homeland Security Issues Warning: ‘Never Leave The House’
Posted in Terrorisms, The End of the World, tagged death, doom, kingdom of fear, national 'security', The End of the World on 09/23/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Those gossip-goblins of cryptic ambiguity, the Department of Homeland Security, along with the FBI, have issued their latest security bulletins nationwide, with regards to TERRORISM. Yes friends, I’m afraid The Terrorists will STRIKE everywhere AT ONCE, possibly! And soon! This much we know for sure. Stadiums, arenas, hotels, subway systems, as well as other places [...]
Hemingway Was Wrong: The World Is Not A Fine Place, And It Is Not Worth Fighting For
Posted in Terrorisms, The End of the World, Traveling to the Foreigns, War, World News, tagged China, death, doom, Uighurs on 07/29/2009 | Leave a Comment »
DID CHINA ‘DISAPPEAR’ 10,000 OF IT’S UIGHUR POPULATION? Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer believes Chinese police opened fire in the Muslim region of Xinjiang on July 5th, after dark, killing thousands, and she has called out the United States for its tepid response to the regional violence. [Yahoo News]
Welfare Nation
Posted in Economy, tagged doom on 04/03/2009 | Leave a Comment »
We knew good news couldn’t last for too long . . . . . . According to our gubbment, a record 32.2 million people – that’s 1 in every 10 Americans – received food stamps at latest count (that would be January). This on top of the announcement that 663,000 job losses were reported in [...]
Legendary Investigative Journalist Talks About Bush/Cheney Covert Assassination Teams
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged death squads, doom on 03/13/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Seymour Hersh is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who first came to prominence exposing the My Lai Massacre and cover-up during the Vietnam War. A long-standing contributor to the New Yorker, he has more recently reported on the abuse of Abu Ghraib prison detainees and U.S plans for nuclear bombing Iran off the face of [...]
End Of The World Updates
Posted in Economy, World News, tagged doom on 02/27/2009 | Leave a Comment »
In what reads like a reproduction of the European Revolutions of 1848, Michael Klare’s sobering op-ed piece over at Salon.com discusses the rampant, violent protests and riots breaking out throughout the world, as economies collapse, governments fail, and unemployment, food shortages and social unrest rise. This is his lead: “The global economic meltdown has already [...]
