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AMERICAblog: TRENDS: DC housing market slumps in suburbs, sustained in cities

  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Re: the White House faking the letter Atta trained in Iraq

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080805/ap_on_go_pr...

    Fratto says:

    "Denying the report, White House deputy press secretary Tony Fratto said, "The notion that the White House directed anyone to forge a letter from Habbush to Saddam Hussein is absurd."

    The best the White House can come up with is the notion is absurd???

    My God, the most ABSURD White House in history can't use "absurd" as a cover for ANYTHING. Almost everything this White House has done from the Iraq War to politicizing our Pentagon and Department of Justice has been absurd!
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Oh yeah, and how ABSURD was it the White House OUTTED CIA agent, Valerie Plame, then LIED about it?

    Proves the White House LIES about anything that is damaging to their reputation. You can't trust their spokesman to tell the truth about anything, and especially if the White House was involved in a scandal this HUGE!
  • Nellie Oleson · 1 year ago
    Yeah you would think they could come up with a more emphatic "NO" than the weasel word "absurd."

    Almost everything this administration has done has been based on forged intelligence, forged commission studies, show-trial Congressional hearings ... outright LIES. Even some of the people working in this administration have fake degrees they bought. Some of the more industrious Bush minions at least paid for their college degrees but it was tuition at a FAKE university (Regent).

    If the next President were the dead guy from the movie "Weekend at Bernie's" it would be an improvement. Oh wait,... I hope that couldn't be taken to mean I support John McCain. I don't.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    "If the next President were the dead guy from the movie "Weekend at Bernie's" it would be an improvement. Oh wait,... I hope that couldn't be taken to mean I support John McCain. I don't."

    Too funny.

    Hey, is that a photo of Nellie Olson or is that Cindy McCain?
  • Nellie Oleson · 1 year ago
    People often ask if that's Cindy McCain. It's a picture of the character Nellie Oleson from "Little House on the Prairie." She was my favorite character.

    Although Cindy McCain does look a bit like Nellie, it's her husband John McCain who has Nellie's antisocial, nasty personality. If I were a bit more industrious I'd take a picture of McCain and plop Nellie's curls on him. If I were even more industrious, I'd do a YouTube ad with John McCain in drag as Nellie. Time is fleeting. I'l put it on my to-do list.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Can you imagine the OUTRAGE if Obama had suggested his wife, Michelle, participate in a topless beauty contest? I can't believe McCain is so dead set on getting bikers to support him that he would suggest his wife enter a topless, and sometimes bottomless beauty pageant. Disgusting! McCain will do ANYTHING to be President, even pimp out his beer heiress sugarmama, Cindy!

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/05/mccain...
  • Nellie Oleson · 1 year ago
    See? That's the difference! Obama would NEVER suggest such a thing, nor think it.

    Plain and simple, John McCain is poor white trash... with money. Can it be any surprise he chose the Republican Party as his home? I know I'm not surprised.

    P.S. There's nothing wrong with bikers, other than the fact they let McCain appear at their events.
  • ndtovent · 1 year ago
    I hope she does, and also hope that it's all over the media... He'll lose even more fundie votes that way.
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    Yep.

    The long-term trend will be toward increased urbanization and greater population density.

    This will help the Democrats too.

    Where people need efficient and effective government services, the conservative's message of "rugged individualism" just won't fly.

    In fact, many of the older inner suburbs near my city--once Repub bastions--are now solid Dem.

    (The Wingnuts still have the far suburbs, exburbs and country, but they're starting to lose population anyway, with gas prices and the real estate disaster.)
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    Republico had an article on this too.

    They called Urban America the Dems' emerging "Solid South."

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/12182...
  • ndtovent · 1 year ago
    I don't think all those suburbanites, especially those who've had their homes for a number of years will be rushing back into the cities anytime soon. However, I would hope that this crisis begins a new trend, in that we'll see more urban style living with more mass transit, etc. in the next generation or 2. Maybe it will happen quicker in certain areas, but I don't see a national trend developing in the near future.
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    Not sure where you live, but our inner suburbs are equal to Sun Belt cities, as far as population density goes.

    It's not so much people moving from burbs to the cities, as much as people no longer moving further and further out.

    Read the post again...he says "inner suburbs and cities" are the same, while "outer" suburbs are collapsing.

    It's the outer burbs and exburbs that are getting killed, by gas prices and mortgage crisis. Many of them are losing their tax base too.

    I expect to see some abandoned developments plowed under, in fact. Which is just as well, we need the farmland anyway.
  • coolcatdaddy · 1 year ago
    I've lived in urban, suburban and rural areas and, I'm sorry, I'll take a rural area for peace and quiet. I'd be living in a small town right now if there were any freakin' JOBS outside of working at Walmart or tourism.
  • jr · 1 year ago
    kill the republican congressional districts