In a bid to stem taxpayer losses for bad loans guaranteed by federal housing agencies Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac, Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn) proposed that borrowers be required to make a 5% down payment in order to qualify. His proposal was rejected 57-42 on a party-line vote because, as Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn) explained, “passage of such a requirement would restrict home ownership to only those who can afford it.”

Criminy ... I can't leave the counry for a few days without the leftwing loonies lashing out ...

Wife of Oil Exec Wounded By Shoe Box Bomb

BOMB THREAT AIMED AT anti-illegal immigration rally.

I BLAME THE VIOLENT, EXTREMIST RHETORIC OF THIS ADMINISTRATION and its hate-speech purveying supporters in the press: Caught on Camera: Union Goon Hits, Shoves and Harasses GOP Supporter at Rally.

and on a lesser albeit no less disturbing note

Obama Stole Election Against Hillary: Voter Intimidation And Fraud

‘We Will Not Be Silenced, 2008′ — Charges That Obama Stole the Nomination From Hillary Clinton

As someone who's BEEN unemployed during the last year, THIS is disgusting. Four or five a WEEK? I was doing five a DAY before I would eat lunch. I DID take sundays off and a short break over Thanksgiving. And I took jobs that were OFFERED! From the time I left D&P and our biz failed I delivered newspapers and magazines, delivered cars and worked bottom end debt collection. Whatever it took to keep money coming in.

Even worse, I know people JUST like this. Needless to say some aspects of our conversations are … um … strained.

LOTS of stuff to get posed ... about Prague, capitalism, travel, and all the crap that's been going on since last week .... but here's one I gotta get off my chest.  With a bit of time on my hands I've been watching the highest rated movies I've never seen via Flickcharts.  Today's entry: Legally Blonde.  I've successfully avoided this movie since 2001. It's worse than I expected. It's depiction of Harvard Law … hell, of ANY Law School – was awful. The direction was bad. The directing was bad. The pacing was bad. The trial procedure was bad (and didn't NEED to be.) Please, do yourself a favor and NEVER subject yourself to this dreck. I watched it so you don't have to.

just how bad it is ... here's the picture

 From Andrew McCarthy

Included in President Obama's litany of immigration enforcement's purported demerits is the claim that crimes will go unreported. That is, fearing deportation if they come forward as witnesses, illegal immigrants will not cooperate with the police.

But as Dan reported here several weeks ago, the Obama administration has indicated that its immigration agents will not process the illegal aliens referred to them by the state of Arizona. Meantime, the Obama Justice Department dismisses a voter intimidation case that it had already won, and the president himself tells Muslims he wants to loosen restrictions on Islamic "charitable giving" (translation: stop arresting people for providing material support to terrorism through donations to charitable fronts).

What could possibly cause more crime to go unreported -- what, indeed, encourages more commission of crime -- than government signals that law-enforcement agencies will not enforce the law?

Biden was at GE's Appliance Park in Louisville, where a raft of government subsidies (and probably some gentle urging from the White House) has spurred the multinational conglomerate to begin manufacturing hybrid electric water heaters -- part of the "new foundation for a new economy," Biden said.

But later this month, 75 miles east, workers at GE's Kentucky Glass Plant get to see the other side of Big Government. About 175 workers there make glass, which is shipped to the Winchester Bulb Plant. Winchester Bulb is being shut down in September, and so the Lexington Glass Plant will be shuttered in late July.

GE explained in a press release last year, "A variety of energy regulations that establish lighting efficiency standards are being implemented in the U.S. and other countries, in some cases this year, and will soon make the familiar lighting products produced at the Winchester Plant obsolete."

These were "green" regulations that then-Sen. Obama supported in the 2007 energy bill -- as did GE. The company, you see, makes more profit off the more efficient compact fluorescent bulbs, because the company can charge more, but also because it makes those bulbs in China, with cheaper labor costs and fewer environmental regulations.

So, Obama and GE teamed up, pushed Big Government environmental regs and killed nearly 500 jobs in Lexington, Winchester, and another glass factory in Niles, Ohio.

Whole thing here.

On Monday the organization released a statement from NAACP President and Chief Executive Benjamin Todd Jealous claiming that Byrd’s life “reflects the transformative power of this nation.”

Jealous goes on to say that Byrd, who once asserted that it was an affront to dignity to ask white men to serve alongside blacks during World War II, “went from being an active member of the KKK to a being a stalwart supporter of the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, and many other pieces of seminal legislation that advanced the civil rights and liberties of our country.”

A stalwart supporter of the Civil Rights Act? Not only did Byrd vote against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he filibustered it for almost three months. He also opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

AND he's he only man to vote against BOTH black nominees for the Supreme Court!