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Government Mortgage Plan Aids 12 Percent Of Borrowers. That seem high to you? When you actually read the article, it’s that 12% of borrowers who applied for help were actually helped. Doing the math: 116,000 borrowers helped / 48,394,000 mortgages * 100 = .24% 12%, .24%, what’s the difference?… [...] Just a reminder, but the various RSS feed options at “walls of the city” are currently located at http://www.wallsofthecity.net/feed and http://www.wallsofthecity.net/feed/atom. Please update your reading software / bookmarks / whatever appropriately – yes, the old addresses do still work, and should continue working, but I make no guarantee that … [...] Obama presses GOP on nuclear energy expansion. You know, because Republicans are the ones always blocking Nuke Plants with environmental lawsuits.… [...] Now that Better Half and I have forked over some megabucks yesterday, you can be guaranteed that she and I will be taking full advantage of the First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit. Granted, $8,000 is merely a drop in the bucket compared to what we are spending to … [...] First of all, you know it’s going to be a good meeting when the MC says, “Are there any more people running for office or elected officials in the room?” We had several state reps and local politicos. Anyway, Ramsey is a funny guy. You should probably go see him … [...] In the next hour, we will start on the closing process of our new house, and everything should be done, signed, and turned over within the next few hours. Damn. That is a lot of money. … [...] …in the TN House Criminal Practices and Procedures Subcommittee. The full list of bills they will be talking about is here. There are bills on restaurant carry, park carry, converting your Handgun Carry Permit into a Weapon Carry Permit, and extending the time period you have to notify TDOS … [...] Tonight at the Nashville TFA Chapter meeting, Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey will be the speaker. Meeting officially starts at 7pm at the Golden Corral in Hermitage, but get there early if you want a seat.… [...] Bob S. has his “Troll of the Day”, and I might have to institute an “idiot of the day” category here at “walls of the city”. If such a category existed (and it might, if I got off my lazy arse and went through previous posts to pull out … [...]
First, let me congratulate Exile Machine for designing the Hammerhead stock adapter to fill an obvious niche – the market for AR-15s in AWB-limited states has been … [...] What with the whacky-assed weather we have been having recently, a big-screen view of it might be useful, especially if that view is fairly slick, seamless, and shiny. (Courtesy of Lifehacker.) … [...] Why do I oppose anti-rights advocates at every available opportunity? If they had their way, moments like this could never happen:
[...] In my partial-snow-day browsing around the internet, this was not the news story I was expecting to find:
[...] So in 2009, the Tennesssee State Legislature passed a law that would allow permit holders to carry in places that serve alcohol. Instead of posting a legally binding sign, several owners challenged the law based on the fact that they were breaking liqour licensing laws. Regularly. Without much consequence. They … [...] And that science shows that “anthropogenic global warming” is full of gos-se:
[...] [pedanticpetpeeve] If you are faced with a situation offering two options other than the option of “nothing”, and neither of those options are pleasant, desirable, or anywhere close to what you wanted, that situation is not a “Hobson’s Choice”. The phrase “Hobson’s Choice” supposedly originates from apocryphal stories … [...] … or, at least, internal-404-free. Thanks to the efforts of the Broken Link Checker for WordPress, I was able to go through the site and isolate any HTML-related 404 errors. Image-related errors may still be in existance – I am simply too lazy to correct those – but any … [...] Here we are, just a little over a year after the Commercial Appeal started its campaign invading the privacy of hundreds of thousands of law-abiding citizens throughout Tennessee, and my documentation of those disgusting actions finally has its own, separate, undated page. It has been a little while since … [...] Couples Retreat [...] If one is an honest student of history, it becomes readily apparent that registration invariably leads to confiscation. However, along the way, registration can also lead to blatant sexism, legally-mandated financial and social obligations, and the interminable, forced delay of a natural right. I would definitely … [...]  |
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successfully proves that his biggest single defect as an actor – his complete and utter unwillingness to let a joke go even though the joke in question is beaten, dead, and decaying – is also his biggest single defect as a writer. …
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