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Its seems the Climate Change Community are conspiring liars who kept extensive records of their lies and conspiracies.

And guess what? They got hacked and their data and emails have been exposed.

If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabites of confidential files onto the internet. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That)

When you read some of those files – including 1079 emails and 72 documents – you realise just why the boffins at Hadley CRU might have preferred to keep them confidential. As Andrew Bolt puts it, this scandal could well be “the greatest in modern science”. These alleged emails – supposedly exchanged by some of the most prominent scientists pushing AGW theory – suggest:

Conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more.

They lie, that’s all they do. They are also hating death wishers.

One of the alleged emails has a gentle gloat over the death in 2004 of John L Daly (one of the first climate change sceptics, founder of the Still Waiting For Greenhouse site), commenting:

“In an odd way this is cheering news.”

Oh, and they manipulate and suppress evidence.

But perhaps the most damaging revelations – the scientific equivalent of the Telegraph’s MPs’ expenses scandal – are those concerning the way Warmist scientists may variously have manipulated or suppressed evidence in order to support their cause.

Here are a few tasters. (So far, we can only refer to them as alleged emails because – though Hadley CRU’s director Phil Jones has confirmed the break-in to Ian Wishart at the Briefing Room – he has yet to fess up to any specific contents.) But if genuine, they suggest dubious practices such as:

Manipulation of evidence:

I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.

Private doubts about whether the world really is heating up:

The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.

Suppression of evidence:

Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4?

Keith will do likewise. He’s not in at the moment – minor family crisis.

Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same? I don’t have his new email address.

We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.

Fantasies of violence against prominent Climate Sceptic scientists:

Next
time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I’ll be tempted to beat
the crap out of him. Very tempted.

Attempts to disguise the inconvenient truth of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP):

……Phil and I have recently submitted a paper using about a dozen NH records that fit this category, and many of which are available nearly 2K back–I think that trying to adopt a timeframe of 2K, rather than the usual 1K, addresses a good earlier point that Peck made w/ regard to the memo, that it would be nice to try to “contain” the putative “MWP”, even if we don’t yet have a hemispheric mean reconstruction available that far back….

They also seek to squeeze out and neutralize dissenters. Rules for Radicals…....

And, perhaps most reprehensibly, a long series of communications discussing how best to squeeze dissenting scientists out of the peer review process. How, in other words, to create a scientific climate in which anyone who disagrees with AGW can be written off as a crank, whose views do not have a scrap of authority.

“This was the danger of always criticising the skeptics for not publishing in the “peer-reviewed literature”. Obviously, they found a solution to that–take over a journal! So what do we do about this? I think we have to stop considering “Climate Research” as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal. Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal. We would also need to consider what we tell or request of our more reasonable colleagues who currently sit on the editorial board…What do others think?”

“I will be emailing the journal to tell them I’m having nothing more to do with it until they rid themselves of this troublesome editor.”“It results from this journal having a number of editors. The responsible one for this is a well-known skeptic in NZ. He has let a few papers through by Michaels and Gray in the past. I’ve had words with Hans von Storch about this, but got nowhere. Another thing to discuss in Nice !”

Hat Tip to James Delingpole at telegraph.co.uk

This is worth re-visiting since congress honored this certified democrat bigot for almost 6 decades in office today. The longest serving bigot KKK democrat in US history.

How proud the democrats and all the lefty loons who post on SAB must be of their most senior man.

by Michelle Malkin (March 8, 2001)

Ex-Klansman Robert Byrd, the senior senator from West Virginia, casually used the phrase “white nigger” twice on national TV this weekend. Enraged civil rights groups organized a protest campaign against Sen. Byrd and demanded that he undergo sensitivity training ... not.

The party of acceptance and inclusion would never censure one of there own.

The ex-Klansman, you see, is a Democrat. Democrats can join hate groups and utter the ugliest racial slurs and get away with it because they are Democrats. They belong to the party of racial tolerance and understanding. They’re paragons of virtue, and the rest of us are bigoted rubes.

The ex-Klansman’s admirers praise his historical knowledge, mastery of procedural rules, and outspokenness. They refer to the Senate’s senior Democrat as the “conscience of the Senate.” They downplay his white-sheet-wearing days as a “brief mistake”—as if joining the Klan were like knocking over a glass of water. Oopsy.

This ex-Klansman wasn’t just a passive member of the nation’s most notorious hate group. According to news accounts and biographical information, Sen. Byrd was a “Kleagle”—an official recruiter who signed up members for $10 a head. He said he joined because it “offered excitement” and because the Klan was an “effective force” in “promoting traditional American values.” Nothing like the thrill of gathering ‘round a midnight bonfire, roasting s’mores, tying nooses, and promoting white supremacy with a bunch of your hooded friends.

The ex-Klansman allegedly ended his ties with the group in 1943. He may have stopped paying dues, but he continued to pay homage to the KKK. Republicans in West Virginia discovered a letter Sen. Byrd had written to the Imperial Wizard of the KKK three years after he says he abandoned the group. He wrote: “The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia” and “in every state in the Union.”

The ex-Klansman later filibustered the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act—supported by a majority of those “mean-spirited” Republicans—for more than 14 hours. He also opposed the nominations of the Supreme Court’s two black justices, liberal Thurgood Marshall and conservative Clarence Thomas. In fact, the ex-Klansman had the gall to accuse Justice Thomas of “injecting racism” into the Senate hearings. Meanwhile, author Graham Smith recently discovered another letter Sen. Byrd wrote after he quit the KKK, this time attacking desegregation of the armed forces.

The ex-Klansman vowed never to fight “with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”

If this ex-Klansman were a conservative Republican, he would never hear the end of his sordid past.

You have to hand it to the democrats. They have hypocrisy down to a science.

Thanks for the memories, Michelle Malkin

It appears that this administration makes decisions that effect your health and the environment based on politics rather than science.

You’re probably aware that the H1N1 swine flu vaccine supply has fallen dangerously short of the level required to protect the most vulnerable among us. In the spring Federal officials predicted that as many as 120 million doses would be available by now, as opposed to the 16 million doses that actually arrived.

However,

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the Federal Government refuses to allow the use of adjuvants that can be used to produce twice as many doses from the same vaccine stock? This despite the fact that over 40 million doses of flu vaccine containing adjuvants have been dispensed in Europe over the past dozen years without any indication of a safety issue. Some people denied shots because of this decision are going to die. Does this policy sound scientific or political?

You are also a pollutant that should be rubbed out…....

Have you looked at the background and track record of the chief scientist the president chose to advise him? In a book co-authored earlier in his career with Population Bomb alarmist Paul Erhlich, Presidential science advisor John Holdren discussed the merits of adding a sterilant to public drinking water supplies to reduce population growth. The book goes on to note that “compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution.” You see we, dear readers, are not citizens meant to be served by our government. We are pollutants. Does this policy sound scientific or insane?

Obama and his Orwellian administration of radical crazies are a scary bunch. Can the USA survive them until 2012? (more...)

When the MSM stops propagandizing for Obama, like right now, the end is not far away.

WASHINGTON (AFP) – A year on from a historic election, the spirit of popular goodwill that yielded America’s first black president has retreated to tepid support for Barack Obama as he presses his change agenda.

Since the November 4 poll, Obama’s visage has been everywhere, conspicuously on the streets of the nation’s capital where millions of foreign and domestic tourists have visited over the past year, many of them snatching up poignant souvenirs.

A quick look around downtown Washington confirms that Obama trinkets are still on sale, but several street hawkers have found little point in displaying the t-shirts, posters, and “Yes We Can” buttons bearing the new president’s image.

“They stay in the truck,” grumbled a vendor who identified himself as Dick, as he pointed to a rusty vehicle behind him. “They don’t sell any more.”

Indeed, Obama’s honeymoon with the American people lasted less than six months.

No one with a lick of sense has any confidence in Obama or his gang of Chicago thugs.

It would be best for America if Obama admitted he is in way over his head and resigns.

(Author Unknown)

On July 4th, 1776, fifty-six men signed a document declaring
their views and beliefs on how a people should be governed.
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men
who signed the Declaration of Independence?

Five signers were captured by the British as traitors,
and tortured before they died.
Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.
Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army,
another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died
from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War.
They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes,
and their sacred honor.

What kind of men were they?
Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants,
nine were farmers & large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.

Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader,
saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy.
He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.
Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced
to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding.
His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.

Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer,
Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.
At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted
that British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home
for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington
to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.

Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed.
The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.
John Hart was driven from his wife’s bedside as she was dying.
Their 13 children fled for their lives.
His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste.
For more than a year he lived in forests and caves,
returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished.
A few weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart.

Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates.

Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution.
These were not wild eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians.
They were soft-spoken men of means and education.
They had security, but they valued liberty more.
Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged:
“For the support of this declaration,
with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence,
we mutually pledge to each other,
our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.”

They gave us a free and independent America.
The history books never told you a lot of what happened
in the Revolutionary War.
We didn’t just fight the British. We were British subjects at that time
and we fought our own government!
Some of us take these liberties so much for granted…
We shouldn’t.

So, take a few minutes this 4th of July holiday
and silently thank these patriots.
It’s not much too ask for the price they paid.

We owe these men so much and can never repay our debt to these long gone heroes. But we can honor their memory by preserving the liberties they bestowed to us by continuing to fight the tyranists that seek to foist their liberal marxist nightmare dream of a socialist utopia upon us.

Remember, Freedom isn’t Free. It has to be fought for constantly. God Bless, and have a wonderful Independence Day.

Moving as quickly as he can to gut the USA and then divide its body parts amongst like-minded globalists, the USA’s Supreme Leader Barack Hussein Obama used the G-20 conference to begin his turnover of USA sovereignty to said internationalists and start the move toward a one-world government. 

On FNC’s Greta Van Susteren’s program, author and columnist Dick Morris noted “literally from April 2nd of this year, that is, today, it’s a whole new world of financial regulation in which, essentially, ALL of the U.S. regulatory bodies and ALL U.S. companies are put under international regulation, international supervision. It really amounts to a global economic government.”

Called the Financial Stability Board (FSB), the pending international body’s legislation—which will of course override the US Constitution—states:  “We agree to a framework of internationally agreed upon high standards. We will set up a financial stability board with a strengthened mandate to extend regulation and oversight…......The international community will now be able to determine the salaries and compensation of us all.

During this same conference, Obama officially announced the reduction in US nuclear weaponry, so that Iran will be more amenable to sitting down to talk with the US.  In other words, he’s again announced to the world that the USA is no longer a threat to anyone—let alone terrorists.  Never before in our soon to be short-lived history has the United States of America had this sort of a leader who has now announced—in no uncertain terms—that it is his plan and duty to dismantle and destroy the country he represents.  He, his administration members and his Congress (with extraordinary assistance from most notably Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd and their friends) have devastated the US economy, are in the process of eliminating the First and Second Amendments—and the entire US Constitution—have ended free enterprise, established his national youth indoctrination—if not police—force (via the GIVE—Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education—Act) and have begun the process of taking over virtually all private companies. 

In not yet 100 days, Obama and Company have almost destroyed this country.  Under this constant and increasing onslaught and devastation from within—by our “leaders”—can the USA stand much longer?...........

The signs were there before the election for those who paid attention. When elections are bought by billionare globalists this is what can happen. Is it too late to turn back?

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Obama Named NRA Gun and Ammunition Salesman of the Year

In recognition of the unprece­dented demand for firearms by nervous consumers, The Outdoor Wire, the nation’s largest daily electronic news service for the outdoor industry, has named President Barack Obama its “Gun Salesman of the Year”. With the selection, Outdoor Wire publisher Jim Shepherd says it is time the firearms industry recognizes the fact that without President Obama’s frightening consumers into action, the firearms industry might be suffering the same sort of business slumps that have befallen the automotive and housing industries.

“It’s credit where credit is due,” says Shepherd, “Mr. Obama has consistently voted against individual rights to firearms, appointed a re-tread Clinton administration full of gun banners, and made it plain to anti-gun groups that despite what he might say to the contrary, he’s on their side.” That history, along with the unquestioned support of anti-gun organizations, Shepherd says, has spooked consumers into a buying frenzy for firearms that could be outlawed in another Assault Weapons Ban.

Choosing President-elect Obama as the Gun Salesman of the Year, says Shepherd, is a lot like a good-news, bad-news joke. “His election has driven gun sales into the stratosphere,” Shepherd says, “but his opposition to guns and gun ownership may be the biggest threat the industry has ever faced. If he puts scoring political points with anti-gun groups ahead of economic realities, he will be deliberately putting thousands of people out of work. I don’t see that as an economic stimulus plan with much of a future.”

“Today, however, the facts are indisputable,” Shepherd says, “Barack Obama has spurred gun sales in a time when the entire economy seems to be tanking. If that doesn’t make him the gun salesman of the year – if not the decade – I don’t know what would.”

Our Teleprompter-In-Chief, Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Clinton have all gone on record recently stating that they essentially have no respect for 2nd amendment rights. Now, through the Law of Unintended Consequences there are hundreds of thousands more of the very weapons they would like to ban in private ownership. Ammunition Sales are far outstripping manufacturing capabilities. This has to be making liberals very nervous.

Obama is choosing a statistics professor, Robert M. Groves, to re-design the way in which the US Census is performed. The goal is to use statistical sampling instead of actual count data to determine population in certain urban districts with high minority populations. The Obama administration says they will not use this to redraw congressional district boundaries, which is Orwellian newspeak meaning that is exactly what they will do.

“This is an incredibly troubling selection that contradicts the administration’s assurances that the census process would not be used to advance an ulterior political agenda,” said Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the top Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. “Mr. Groves will have every opportunity to address these concerns during the confirmation process.”

When he was the bureau’s associate director, Groves recommended that the 1990 census be statistically adjusted to make up for an undercount of roughly 5 million people, many of them minorities in dense urban areas who tend to vote for Democrats.

But in a fierce political dispute that prompted White House staff to call advisers to the bureau and express opposition, the Census Bureau was overruled by Republican Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher, who called the proposed statistical adjustment “political tampering.”

The Supreme Court later ruled in 1999 that the use of statistical sampling cannot be used to apportion House seats, but indicated that adjustments could be made to the population count when redrawing congressional boundaries.

Commerce Secretary Gary Locke has made clear that sampling will not be used for apportionment. He stated during his confirmation hearing that there are no plans to use sampling for redistricting, while indicating that sampling could be used to measure census accuracy or collect a wider range of demographic data.

Given Gary Lockes penchant for lying and Obama’s for obfuscation it is obvious they plan to use the census to aid their political agenda of a permanent Democratic majority.

Odd that that reuters and ap both neglected to run a piece on this major faux pas by TurboTax Timmy. Guess who ran it. Fox. Where real people go to get real news.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Wednesday the U.S. dollar remains the main global reserve currency and he does not see a change in that status in the foreseeable future. Earlier this week, People’s Bank of China Gov. Zhou Xiaochuan called for a new international reserve currency to replace the dollar. Speaking in New York, Geithner said that Zhou was “a sensible man” and that “everything he said deserves consideration.” The dollar fell sharply after those remarks, prompting a clarification from Geithner.

Nah, the MSM isn’t leftist at all, is it?

Last Tuesday, as President Obama got off the helicopter in front of
the White House, he was carrying a baby piglet under each arm.

The squared away Marine guard snaps to attention, salutes, and says:
“Nice pigs, Sir.”

The President replies: “These are not pigs. These are authentic Arkansas Razorback Hogs. I got one for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and I got one for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.”

The squared away Marine again snaps to attention, salutes, and says:
“Excellent trade, sir.”

For those who still think Obama is the most articulate man ever, with inspiring soring oratory galore.

Obamas Brain

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A Friend emailed this to me. I share it with you:

On a Saturday afternoon, in Washington, D. C., House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s aide visited the Cardinal of the Catholic cathedral.

He told the Cardinal that Nancy Pelosi would be attending the next day’s sermon, and he asked if the Cardinal would kindly point out Pelosi to the congregation and say a few words that would include calling Pelosi a saint.

The Cardinal replied, “No. I don’t really like the woman, and there are issues of conflict with the Catholic Church over certain of Pelosi’s views.” Pelosi’s aide then said, “Look. I’ll write a check here and now for a donation of $100,000 to your church if you’ll just tell the congregation you see Pelosi as a saint.”

The Cardinal thought about it and said, “Well, the church can use the money, so I’ll work your request into tomorrow’s sermon.” As Pelosi’s aide promised, House Speaker Pelosi appeared for the Sunday sermon and seated herself prominently at the edge of the main aisle.

And, during the sermon, as promised, the Cardinal pointed out that House Speaker Pelosi was present.

Then the Cardinal went on to explain to the congregation—“While Speaker Pelosi’s presence is probably an honor to some, she is not my favorite person. Some of her views are contrary to those of the church, and she tends to flip-flop on many other views. Nancy Pelosi is a petty, self-absorbed hypocrite, a thumb sucker, and a nit-wit. Nancy Pelosi is also a serial liar, a cheat, and a thief.

Nancy Pelosi is the worst example of a Catholic I have ever personally witnessed.

She married for money and is using it to lie to the American people. She also has a reputation for shirking her Representative obligations both in Washington, and in California. She simply is not to be trusted.”

The Cardinal completed his view of Pelosi with, “But, when compared to Senators Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid, and John Kerry, House Speaker Pelosi is a saint.”

One of the people you won’t find here is Richard Nixon. Despite his well known transgressions, Nixon didn’t line his own pockets.

1. William “Boss” Tweed. Boss headed Tammany Hall is NYC During the Civil War and was convicted in 1873 for his role in a corruption ring that stole at least $1 billion in today’s dollars and given a 12-year sentence.

2. Ray Blanton.

A former member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, Blanton was elected Governor in 1975. He came under significant pressure after he pardoned a convicted double murderer whose father was later found to be a county chairman for Blanton.

Blanton pardoned 24 murderers and 28 other convicts for money.

3.Budd Dwyer.

A Republican politician from Pennsylvania, Budd Dwyer was a member of the state House of Representatives from 1965 to 1970 and spent the following decade in the state Senate. Dwyer was then elected state Treasurer.

Dwyer took a $300,000 bribe in exchange for a 400 million dollar contract.

Dwyer was also accused of five counts of mail fraud, four counts of inter-state transportation in aiding racketeering and one count of conspiracy to commit bribery. Dwyer faced a maximum of 55 years in prison and a $300,000 fine.

At a press conference the morning of January 22, with TV cameras rolling and reporters watching, Dwyer pulled out a loaded .357 Magnum from a manila envelope and took his own life.

4.Edwin Edwards. A Democrat Governor from Louisiana, Edwards was found guilty of extortion, fraud, racketeering and conspiracy related to selling Riverboat Gambling Licenses.

5.Spiro Agnew. Agnew was Vice-President under Nixon.

After Nixon won re-election, Agnew was targeted by a U.S. Attorney investigation for tax fraud, bribery, extortion and conspiracy related to his earlier political career in Maryland. He was formally charged with accepting bribes of more than $100,000.

6.Carrol Hubbard.

Carroll Hubbard served in the Kentucky Senate from 1968 to 1974 before winning election to the U.S. House of Representatives in the state’s 1st District. After a failed bid for Governor in 1979, Hubbard was re-elected to the House six more times before being defeated in the 1992 primary.

Hubbard was indicted for misusing government property and personnel as part of the 1992 Rubbergate House Banking Scandal, in which House members were found to have overdrawn their House checking accounts. Hubbard’s wife was also put on probation for five years for illegally using the congressman’s aides for her own failed run for Congress.

To lessen his punishment, Hubbard worked as an FBI informant with the name “Elmer Fudd” although he ultimately proved useless to the agency. In 1993 Hubbard complained about this job to the Washington Post and certain news programs. The following year he pled guilty to three felony charges of violating federal campaign spending rules, conversion of federal property, theft and obstruction of justice. He was sentenced to three years in federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas and fined $153,794.

7. George Ryan.Ryan was a Governor of Illinois who was involved in the Licenses For Bribes Scandal. He is in prison for racketeering, bribery, money laundering, extortion and tax fraud.

8. James Traficant. A Democrat Ohio Congressman who was convicted of ten felonies including bribery, tax evasion and racketeering.

9. Randy Cunningham. Cunningham took 2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors. The former Republican Congressman is still in prison.

10. Huey Long, the “Kingfish”. Long was Governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932. Long had a long history of corruption and was known to extort anyone he could.

Long was known to intimidate his opponents by firing their relatives from state jobs. He sought to establish a tax on newspapers to forbid them from publishing material he deemed slanderous. In 1934 Long sought further control of Louisiana state government by nearly eliminating local government, giving himself the power to choose all state employees.

Long was shot in the Louisiana Capitol in September 1935—one month after announcing his candidacy for president.

My only question is, which one of these corrupt politicians will have to be removed from the Top Ten List to make room for Barack Hussein Obama?

I saw this on “Huckabee” on Fox.

There is a Dr. John Meny in New York City that is charging his patients a flat rate of $79.00 per month for medical services. He has five state of the art clinics.

The government has told him he must raise his rates or they will shut him down. Huckabee was interviewing Doctor Meny and he is having to fight the government.

This is government out of control, trying to regulate everything even when it will clearly not benefit anyone.

My neighbor is a lot smarter than I am. I saved and paid 20% down three homes ago and am finally in my wife’s dream home that we owe about 5 years more of payments on. We’ll have it paid off just in time for retirement.

My neighbor bought his first home in our neighborhood with 3% down. Right away he hired a landscaper to tend his grounds so he could take Hawaiian Vacations and have the time to enjoy his new 4 wheel drive pick up, ATV’s and Harley that he bought with a big home equity loan. He waved to me all the time when he drove by while I mowed my grass.

Now that the economy is not so hot he’s been around a lot more because he lost his job. He has his toys out with for sale signs on them, too. His wife came over and told my wife that they had been foreclosed, but the stimulus would bail them out. Apparently, they also have several credit cards that are maxed out and they aren’t making the payments on those either. Now they plan to get a stimulus grant to pay off their credit cards.

The really good news is that they have also been cheating on their taxes for several years. Now they don’t have anything to worry about because he has been asked to be on Obama’s cabinet.