Godless UnAmerican God Hater Number N suggested the fun of

Mercy James thought she had lost her rental property here to foreclosure. A date for a sheriff’s sale had been set, and notices about the foreclosure process were piling up in her mailbox.
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So imagine her surprise when the City of South Bend contacted her recently, demanding that she resume maintenance on the property. The sheriff’s sale had been canceled at the last minute, leaving the property title — and a world of trouble — in her name.

“I thought, ‘What kind of game is this?’ ” Ms. James, 41, said while picking at trash at the house, now so worthless the city plans to demolish it — another bill for which she will be liable.

City officials and housing advocates here and in cities as varied as Buffalo, Kansas City, Mo., and Jacksonville, Fla., say they are seeing an unsettling development: Banks are quietly declining to take possession of properties at the end of the foreclosure process, most often because the cost of the ordeal — from legal fees to maintenance — exceeds the diminishing value of the real estate.
[ cf Banks Starting to Walk Away on Foreclosures ]

WHAT????

Clearly More Proof that teh CRA caused the Icelandic to become Zionist Bolishiviki Banking Konspirikii Darkies with some Crazy New Hip Hop Disco Dance Fever!!!

Now More Than EVER we must Support the War President and the Heroic Mission Accomplished Dancers, as they Rave Against the RINO's of the Evil Liberal Wall Streeters...

I mean...

Uh, does meaning still really matter in this clearly post Surrealist Moment?

Oh yes, THEY ARE BAD! WE MUST STOP THEM!!!!

Or the Terrorists Win!!!

At least someone got something out of the Bernie Madoff affair.

Ralph Amendolaro of Queens, New York, used the confessed Ponzi schemer's prison number to play the lottery, after seeing it on the front page of the New York Daily News earlier this month. And a few days later, that number -- 61727-054 -- came up, winning the lucky construction worker $1500.
[ cf Madoff's Prison Number Is A Lottery Winner ]

You see...

The problem is that the Excessive Brutal Governmental Regulation of the Free Trade In Free Markets soooo clearly and totally distorted the Market, by given a Prol a Big Win on the Back Of A Persecuted Minority!!!

That's Right boys and NonPerkin, The Repressed Wealthy are the New Poor.

So you should not be allowed to PICK on innocents like Madoff, who are merely being CRUSHED under The Iron Fist of the Steel Jack Boot Of DickCheney Regulators!!!

And Americans DO NOT support these EVIL COMMUNIST ARMED AGGRESSIONS!

Sir Fred Goodwin death watch: Part 1.

Clearly if the Royal Bank Of Scottland Tanked, it must be because of the Darkies and the Community Reinvestment Act of 1978, since how could it be caused by anything else...

Besides, who can doubt that THEY are evil:

The line about the "dagger at the heart of capitalism" is purpler than what I would have used, but what Hempton is getting at is that if you expropriate investors' holdings without following a clear, transparent process, you risk scaring away future investors for years and years. The clearest case of this in the past year was at Washington Mutual, where the FDIC seized the bank and largely wiped out its unsecured creditors even though WaMu was not obviously insolvent.Hempton wrote a long screed about what a disaster this was, because the "capricious" nature of the seizure made it impossible for creditors at other banks to know whether they'd be protected or not. His point is not so much an emotional one as a practical one: If we're going to nationalize some big banks, it's important that we at least try to follow a clear process for determining who gets nationalized and how different stakeholders are treated. Right now, all the big banks are healthy according to the standard capital adequacy measures that regulators use. We know that's not right, but it would be useful to have a straightforward means of showing that it's wrong. The Treasury's planned "stress tests" could be part of that, and so could a process to set market prices for currently untradable toxic assets.
[ cf Paul Krugman: Smart economist, or all-knowing being? ]

Clearly the fact that there was Federal Stuff there shows that it had to be because of the CRA, and all of that Gay Stuff Too.....

Clearly it is all caused by Evil and Darkies and Pooh...

Yes, that must be the real solution here, we round up Pooh and all of his friends, and send them to the Wall!!!

That way all children will know that they are safe from the Evil and Sinister Pooh...

I was just SHOCKED to see COMMUNIST DOGERAL in the SF Chronical:

The rate of tuberculosis in San Francisco has been dropping over the last decade, but health officials say they are seeing a new type of TB patient, someone who isn't poor or homeless or a newly arrived immigrant.

Rather, the disease is now being found in low-risk settings that don't usually harbor TB - at an affluent high school, a law office, bars, even at a venture capital firm.
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"Everybody breathes," he said. "It isn't just a disease for immigrants, it is a threat to everybody."

TB is a bacterial disease that is spread in the air from one person to another. It can attack any part of the body, but usually centers on the lungs, and generally requires extensive antibiotic treatment. Last year, nearly 13,000 cases were reported in the United States, a 4 percent dip from the previous year.
[ cf Study finds a different type of TB patient (emphasis mine) ]

WHAT????

That's like saying that Disease is NOT God's Punishment upon the Evil Doing Evil Doers!!!

Can there be any doubt that this is just one more Step down the path to DOOM!!! That the Divine Judgement will make the stock market crash, and the value of one's Home drop below the MortGuage....

I mean we have to stop these GOD HATING AMERICA BASHING SECULARISTS before doom comes...

Ah yes...

An invitation to soldiers and peace officers across the United States to pledge to refuse illegal orders – including "state of emergency" orders that could include disarming or detaining American citizens – has struck a chord, collecting more than 100,000 website visitors in a little over a week and hundreds of e-mails daily.

Spokesman Stewart Rhodes of Oath Keepers told WND his organization's goal is to remind military members their oath of allegiance is to the U.S. Constitution, not a particular president.

He said the organization deliberately does not collect the names of those who subscribe to Oath Keepers' beliefs because of their status mostly as active duty soldiers.
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The U.S., Rhodes noted to WND, was launched as a natural law republic, meaning the founders recognized all rights come from God, not the government.

The founders, many of whom ended up active militarily in the revolution, rebelled "against the principle" that a king or parliament could rule them.
[ cf Soldiers pledge to refuse disarmament demands
Campaign urges members of military to 'steel resolve' to 'do the right thing']

Funny, how not that long ago, the WND was not willing to concieve that it was possible to have unlawful orders...

Since of course, all torture is good torture...

And now... now what is this...

Besides who can miss the clear argument in the US Constitution that the government is a gift of the one true god....

Are you doing your part to keep us safe from the UnBelievers?

Evil God Hating America Basher III noted to webby things:Wired for War ( The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century ) and the cnet call out Q&A: The robot wars have arrived.

But what I found most disturbing was his kvetch:

No real answer to what war is, but some interesting points about what will probably happen in future wars.

It makes Watchmen look slightly more relevant, not in terms of the Cold War MADness, but the new new madness. I still think meme war solutions are the only way to reduce physical war. And obviously there are complex quality constraints on the memes involved.
( Super Sekret Memo From Evil Liberal Kabal 2/32b )

Yikes...

Replacing warfare with the Life And Death Struggle for the Dominant Meme!!!!

Or should that be a concern about what, if any, constraints should be placed on memes - especially in their life and death struggle.

Oh hold it, there is a Meme Domination Struggle already;

But the deeper problem here isn't that a few conservative pointy-heads are getting their egos bruised by Rush's broadsides; it's that conservative politicians seem to be spending an awful lot of time looking over their shoulders these days, worried about what Limbaugh and company have to say about them. (Bobby Jindal's much-panned response to Obama, for instance, could have been ghost-written by Rush, and sure enough, Rush was the only one who liked it.) And this is something that reformers should be worried about: The GOP's leaders desperately need some space in which to experiment a little, on policy and otherwise, and they don't seem to have it at the moment. Maybe criticizing Limbaugh isn't the best way to open up that space - but at the very least you can see where the impulse comes from.
[ cf A Final Word On Rush ]

Oh yeah, as if we can really expect the DEFEATIST Kut undr Run Kapitulationist Appeasers such as David Frum and the new kid Ross Douthat, who are so clearly stabbing our Welfare Queens in the armed force in the back for being... uh, welfare queens, that Rush hates, because rush believes in the moral purity of the free trade in the thingus and pooohs...

Hum...

Remind me again, which is truly more fearful? A badly working definition of 'warfare', or one where there is a real threat that it might leak out of word slinging in the Meme-o-sphere, and into implementation specific details....

What if it were time for americans to take serious the war in the meme-o-sphere as a critical part of the problem, and that there is a need to find ways to work with the issues there, before they get messier.

The odious members of the equally odious Westboro Baptist Church went to the University of Chicago (my alma mater), apparently to protest the existence of Barack Obama, and found themselves pwned by 100+ students, who among other things created signs that both mocked WBC’s own hateful screedings, and were naturally far more clever. Good on ya, Maroons. Good on ya.
( cf Maroons Vs Morons )

and if you look at the sign it says

Cthulhu
Hates
Chordates

Any question that this is more about Imposing God Hating Capital gains taxes...

Thus, as best as I can tell, Luigi Zingales's argument comes in four steps:

1. Our problem is in the banking system.
2. Keynesian deficit spending will not fix the banking system.
3. Keynesians say that even though Keynesian deficit spending will not fix the banking system, it will keep unemployment from rising much higher while we do other things to fix the banking system.
4. The weakness of this Keynesian argument is--LOOK!! THERE IS HALLEY'S COMET!!!!

So it is kind of hard to figure out how to respond.
[ cf The Intellectual Bankruptcy of the Modern Chicago School, Part LXXIV (emphasis mine)]

Well, There it is.

They sooooo do not care that Keynesianism causes Komets to come hurtling at america!!!

Obviously this is a clear cause of Iranqianist Flying Saucerisms!!!

That and the Gay HomoZeXual Marriage AgendaNistaIsm!!!!

Thus we see that Liberals are Bad.

For example, Luigi Zingales:

With zero personal saving and a large budget deficit the Bush administration has run one of the most aggressive Keynesian policies in history. Not only has adherence to Keynes's principles not averted the current economic disaster, it has greatly contributed to causing it. The Keynesian desire to manage aggregate demand, ignoring the long-run costs, pushed Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke to keep interest rates extremely low in 2002, fuelling excessive consumption by the household sector and excessive risk-taking by the financial sector.
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As you all know by now, I have four problems with this:

The first problem, of course, is Zingales's characterization of Bush administration economic policy as "Keynesian." John Maynard Keynes would certainly not The essence of Keynesian policies is not running big budget deficits--Keynesians call for big budget surpluses in boom years. The essence of Keynesian policies is using monetary policy and the government deficit as balance wheels to try to keep the flow of total nominal spending stable. And, yes, it does surprise me that Luigi Zingales does not seem to know what Keynesianism is.
[ cf The Intellectual Bankruptcy of the Modern Chicago School, Part LXXIV ]

Well, There it is.

Liberals hate freedom, and can not accept that everyone has known that Herbert Hoover was a communist engaged in radical red propoganda and attacks on america that caused the Great Depression, which he did on the Orders of the CommIntern.

Just like Little Kommunist Doctrinaire Dude Dubya, whom we have all known was a part of the hard left.

Which is why he has always been stabbing the troops in the back!

Anyone who would have supported Dubya was Killing Innocent Christian White Babies!!! For Terrorists!

And gays!

And Ikky Pooh!

Uh dudes, you do understand that Algiers was considered Metropolitian France, and not merely some overseas colony....

To paraphrase Mauriac, I love France, but I don’t want there to be two of them, least of all if one is in the United States. … I think President Obama’s counter-revolution goes in the right direction. … Still, the $3.6 trillion Obama budget made me a little queasy. There is a touch of France in its “étatisme” — the state as all-embracing solution rather than problem — and there’s more than a touch of France in the bash-the-rich righteousness.... Americans, at least in their imaginations, have always lived at the new frontier; French frontiers have not shifted much in centuries. Churn is the American way. … If America loses sight of these truths, it will cease to be itself...
( cited from Let Us Rally to Protect the Delicate Flower of Rugged Individualism! )

So...

Uh, the loss of algiers, which occurs under dugal after da great wwII, uh was like uh centuries ago....

Uh, then uh, like this whole slip stream things is slippy and streamy....

So if we were to say lose South Carolina, something that has not occurred to the USofA in a billion years or so, it would be sorta like be more french?