Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Fearing The Woman President

So, I've heard a number of arguments against having a woman president. The most common one is related to sanity. Well, not directly sanity, but mood swings. "what if the russians make a bad move on the wrong day and she decides to nuke the world???".

Personally, I'd think that's some kind of exaggeration. I doubt a woman would let a bit of impatience allow her to forgo all reason and responsibility and initiate Armageddon.

Of course, I often expect the best from people, and find that a bad day goes much further than one would reasonably imagine. Then there are the people that bring up the woman that went crazy and killed her children or the woman that (supposedly) got mad and ran her husband over in the driveway with a steam roller.

I guess nuking the world would be possible if a person had gone crazy enough to kill their kids or flatten their husband. However, there are people constantly surrounding the president. If she started getting sketchy, I'm sure somebody would notice long before she started picking up the big red phone and telling people to bomb something.

I'm not myth busters, but it would seem that we're reasonably safe from a mood swing induced nuclear war. However, if Hillary in particular were to be President, I wouldn't be surprised if cheating husbands were given some pretty harsh treatment. Federal prisons for cheaters?

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The Mortgage Crisis

The mortgage crisis could not have been an accident. The people that "approved" the mortgages KNEW that:

  1. Were going to have prohibitive payments in 12 to 24 months
  2. Were going to be on property worth far less than what they sold for within 12 to 24 months
  3. Would be forclosed on because they couldn't sell for the amount of the mortgage

Bankers blame it on homeowners making bad decisions or not having foresight. However, those bankers get very uncomfortable when you point out that these mortgage were all approved by bankers that get PAID to know the market and it's trends.

When you point out that regular people like you and I saw this coming back in 2004/2005, they start to tap their fingers and look around nervously.

The short answer is that they set us up and we don't know "why".

Mortgages traditionally require people prove they can make the payments even when the market is not headed down. The banks knew exactly what they were doing...

The Media On It's Knees

Why is it that the mainstream media is clamoring on their knees in front of Obama as if their unwarranted affection will somehow lower his zipper and give them what they so desperately seem to want?