Scientists have found that genes located on a single chromosome are responsible for the development of early male-pattern baldness.
According to a study published in the Nature Genetics, six gene variants, all located on chromosome 20, are linked to male-pattern baldness, also known as androgenic alopecia. Findings revealed that these genes increase the risk of developing early baldness by seven-fold. Previous studies had reported that the androgen receptor gene on chromosome X, inherited from the mother, is the only gene responsible for male baldness.
The study showed that chromosome 20, however, has both maternal and paternal origins, indicating the cause of same hair loss patterns between fathers and sons. Scientists are optimistic that the early detection of these genes can help individuals seek treatment and tackle the condition in its early stages.
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Obama has landed, not a ufo, but another prime endorsement! I will forego further snark here, since this definitely speaks for itself:
The following is a transmission channeled through Commander August Stahr from Commander Ashtar on 9.30.08 explaining how the "desire for sightings" has triggered the Planetary Shift you have all been waiting for.
The October 14, 2008 prediction about the "Sightings in the Skies" was a false prediction from the Dark Forces masquerading as the Ashtar Command and the Galactic Federation! This was a "possible" time line designed to cause havoc with your election and cause Bush to extend his power in the White House under a declared "state of emergency" for national security reasons. That reality is no longer an option and instead was the trigger for the Collective Christ Forces of Light to implement a long awaited rescue plan on the inner levels.
The plan allowed for the evacuation of the "planetary negative consciousness" and replacement with an all inclusive re-alignment with the Christed Divine Plan of raising and re-directing consciousness back to the Light of Original Mother/Father Creator Source and the Divine Plan for Earth's Ascension into the 13.13.13 Solar New Earth Reality. This has be done this day 9.30.08
In the days, months and years ahead, mankind will look back on this day as a turning point for humanity that finally redirected mankind in the right direction. Your financial markets will stabilize. Your governments will "govern" for and by the people. Countries will make peace with each other around the world. The "terrorists" will have a change of heart and lay down their weapons as they choose to participate in the new democratic process. The U.S. will again be the beacon of hope and ideals to strive for. Peace and prosperity will reign on Earth and human creativity will be unleashed to usher in the true Golden Age meant for Earth's future.
How can this be? True change comes from within and the "change of guard" on the inner levels is complete. Each person will be guided in new directions for the betterment of themselves and mankind as it was always meant to be. This time in the Earth's history will be remembered as Earth's wake up call, the decision point for moving in a new direction which will bring about changes for the better in all areas of your life. Barack Obama is the right man for this moment in Earth's history. He will be elected to the U.S. Presidency and he will go on to two terms which will fully anchor in the new direction the U.S. and the World will embark upon.
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Now, when I think about it, there is something profoundly unnatural about Lightworker's body language---kind like he is not really used to operating a human body.
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Stop fooling around and just bring in the Borg. We all need to be part of a collective anyway to bring universal peace and understanding anyway. Use the pros and stop messing with the amateurs.
(AKI) - A Filipino worker was beheaded by sword on Tuesday in the coastal city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia after he was found guilty of killing a Saudi citizen in the Islamic holy city of Mecca by suffocating the man and piercing his neck with a pen. Somehow I'm not feeling real sorry for the dear departed...
The worker, Jenifer Bidoya, also known as Venancio Ladion, was found guilty by Saudi Arabia's highest court, the Supreme Judicial Council. The first sentence was issued in April 2007 by a Sharia (Islamic) law court in Jeddah.
The execution was carried out despite appeals by Philippine President Gloria Arroyo to Saudi's King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud. The family of the victim also refused to forgive Bidoya. Sharia law has both public and private liability, thus even if the king would have pardoned Bidoya, the family's insistence on carrying out the execution means it had to be carried out.
Authorities also said that a Saudi man, Fahd al-Shadoukhey, was beheaded on Tuesday after being convicted of theft and rape while under the influence of alcohol.
There are hundreds of thousands of Filipinos that work in Saudi Arabia, one of the first countries to accept immigrant workers from Manila in the 1970's. The execution comes amid reports by rights group Amnesty International claiming that the number of executions in the kingdom has sharply increased and that a disproportionate number are foreigners from Asian and African countries.. Picked right up on that, didn't they?
AI says the way in which the death penalty is imposed is unfair, secretive and harsh. Not much gets by Amnesia International, does it?
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Should've run that "I'm too fat" excuse by them.
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If you are "not feeling real sorry for the dear departed.." then I am. And who could tell the world that the so called back-door Sharia decision is right based on the honest decisions, situation and evidence? I am a Canadian citizen who have live in the kingdom for many years. I have witnessed the large number of Human Rights violations made by Saudi Arabian authorities on its expatriates. The world must have forgotten to realize that some of those that were beheaded are people like you who happen to be in the wrong place at a wrong time. I kept a diary of all atrocities made during my years of stay in the kingdom.
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The worker, Jenifer Bidoya, also known as Venancio Ladion
Jenifer is a female name, Venancio appears to be male, so I'm a bit confused. Not to mention that, as Henry Fisher points out, often enough foreigners -- and even local Saudis -- are punished on trumped-up charges. The only fact we can be sure of is that someone, probably from the Philippines, was publicly beheaded on Tuesday. Quite probably a Saudi citizen was murdered by someone. Possibly he deserved it, as Filipinos are often hired as house servants, and very often overworked, abused, and the females raped. No doubt Henry remembers a few years ago when several Westerners (one was British, as I recall) were arrested, tortured, and convicted as alcohol runners, although they were innocent as the day. The international outcry was such that the King magnanimously expelled them from the country instead of putting them to death.
SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean court on Wednesday convicted a North Korean woman defector charged with extracting state secrets from military officers in return for sexual favors and sentenced her to five years in jail, a court official said. Wow. Five whole years... Won Jeong-hwa, 34, was arrested in August on suspicion of posing as a defector and sleeping with South Korean military officers in exchange for classified information on weapons systems and the locations of key military installations. Dubbed Korea's Mata Hari by local media, Won was trained in the North to infiltrate the South's military and assassinate key figures with toxic chemicals, including North Korean defectors who have been critical of the communist state.
Won's lawyer said the five-year sentence was tougher than expected and he and his client are considering an appeal. Sure ya wanna push that, counseler? They have gullible judges there same as here ...
The Suwon District Court south of Seoul found her guilty of breaking the anti-communist National Security Law for stealing classified material, keeping a line of communication with the North and publicly showing banned materials that glorified Pyongyang's communist leaders, the court official said. Prosecutors said Won would strike up relationships with soldiers in key positions, seduce them and ask them for military secrets in exchange for sexual favors. Hey, baybay! Me so haaaawny. Me so haaaaaaawny...
Won, who had faced up to life in prison, had admitted in court to her guilt. She spoke in a soft voice at hearings and asked for leniency so that she can be reunited with the 7-year-old daughter she had with a businessman in China. Ah. It's...for the children.
But prosecutors said she is hardly the meek woman who appeared in court. They submitted pictures showing scars they said she received in commando training in the North. Wow. Just like Demi Moore in that SEAL movie...
South Korean media said Won tried to assassinate a South Korean military officer in Hong Kong using an aphrodisiac laced with poison but failed. She also tried but failed to meet and assassinate Hwang Jang-yop, former North Korean communist party ideology chief and the highest-ranking North Korean to defect, reports said. I not so good at it...
The North's official media denounced her as a traitor for leaving the country and said: "(Won is) human scum crazy for money, vanity and swindling." Remember it well. One of KCNAs last good ones.
But despite the sensational details of attempts to subvert South Korean society and the defectors' community, Won's mission went largely unaccomplished, according to media reports. She was a helluva ride though. Just ask what appears to be the whole ROK army.
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Ala GOLDENEYE movie opening sex scene > during the Cold War, a number of Commie female operatives were surgically altered in order to use their "professional" coital = sex activities as efficient methods of assasination, LITERALLY KILLING NATO BOYZ WID LOVE!?
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Photographs released by Pyongyang over the weekend showing North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in seeming good health appear not to have been taken recently, a US defense official said Tuesday.
The photographs aired on Saturday by North Korean state television were the first of Kim, 66, since he disappeared from public view August 14 after reportedly suffering a stroke. They showed him inspecting a women's artillery base, wearing sunglasses and looking as he has in the past with chubby cheeks and boufant hair.
But the US defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Pentagon analysts concurred with South Korean reports that the dark green foliage in the background suggest the photographs were taken in July or August, not in autumn.
Moreover, it was not clear what year the photographs were taken. "The biggest key is the vegetation," the official said, adding that "we see nothing that would dispute what the South Koreans are saying." The official declined to comment whether anything in Kim's physical appearance in the photographs indicated that the photograph was old or inconsistent with the intelligence about his health.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency on Sunday said South Korean intelligence officials said they believed that the photographs were taken before Kim suffered a stroke in mid-August. An unidentifed government source told Yonhap the 10 still photographs were apparently released to show Kim's regime is "in good shape" both at home and abroad.
Only a small portion of revenues from Ukrainian arms exports in the last four years was passed on to the state budget, the former head of a parliamentary ad-hoc investigation commission said on Friday.
"In the past four years, Ukraine exported over $2.5 billion in arms, but only about 1 billion hryvnias ($200 mln) was paid into our state budget. This is 12 times less," Valery Konovalyuk, from the opposition Party of Regions, said during a Kiev-Moscow video conference.
He also said his commission had obtained documents from Ukraine's State Treasury confirming the discrepancies. "On instructions from the prime minister, a probe into the financial activities of Ukrspetsexport [the state arms exporter] has been launched," Konovalyuk said.
The parliamentary commission was set up after Russia accused Ukraine of supplying Georgia with heavy weaponry prior to a brief military conflict between Moscow and Tbilisi in August.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on October 2 that he considered alleged Ukrainian arms supplies to Georgia during the recent war over South Ossetia "a crime." "I don't think there is a graver crime than supplying arms to a conflict zone," Putin told his Ukrainian counterpart, Yulia Tymoshenko, during their meeting at the Russian premier's residence near Moscow.
Ukraine's State Council on Security and Defense immediately dismissed Konovalyuk's allegations, calling them "absurd."
I'd check his pockets first ...
Konovalyuk earlier suggested that the recent dissolution of the Ukrainian parliament could have been designed to hamper his committee's investigation into the illegal arms sales. "I do not rule out the possibility that the dissolution of parliament may be partially caused by the desire to hamper the work of the commission, but we will certainly finish our investigation and make the results public," the former MP said.
However, with the dissolution of Ukraine's parliament the activities of the commission have effectively been ended and the future of the investigation remains vague.
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we all know Russia has never supplied arms too a region in conflict. hypocrite bastards
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Graver crimes then selling arms to a sovereign democratic nation? How about actual crimes, you journalist-assassinating tyrant?
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The Party of Regions has their lips firmly locked on Putin's bunghole. They are the successors to the Communists and they sparked the Orange Revolution by trying to steal, with a side order of dioxin, the 2004 elections.
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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the first major world leader to face voters since the global financial meltdown, led his Conservative Party to victory in Tuesday's election but was forecast to fall short of a majority in Parliament.
The election agency reported on its Web site that the Conservatives had won or was leading in races for 143 of Parliament's 308 seats, an improvement over the 127 seats the party had in the previous Parliament. But, based on results obtained directly from election officials, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. predicted the Conservative Party would not win the 155 seats needed to govern on its own. That would force it to again rely on opposition support to pass budgets and legislation -- as it has had to since a 2006 election victory.
Liberal Party leader Stephane Dion conceded to Harper early Wednesday. "I have talked to Prime Minister Harper to offer him congratulations and my full cooperation in these difficult economic times," Dion said.
Harper had called elections early in hopes of getting his party a majority, but the Conservatives sought to put a good face on the results, pointing to their increased number of seats.
"Every other incumbent government in the Western world is in serious political trouble with the economic situation," Conservative legislator Jason Kenney said. "Ours is probably the only one that could be re-elected -- let alone with an increased mandate."
The Liberal Party, long Canada's top party, suffered a severe drubbing, dropping about two dozen seats from 95 in the previous Parliament, according to the election agency. Bloc Quebecois led for about 50 seats, the New Democrats just under 40 and independent candidates 2. Election figures gave the Conservatives about 37 percent of the total vote, the Liberals 27 percent, Bloc Quebecois 10 percent, New Democrats 18 percent and others 8 percent.
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Harper, Sarkosy, Merkel - one might almost think the world is turning in a different direction. It would be both ironic and unfortunate if the US Prez ended up being the biggest Socialist of the bunch.
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Thanks TW... It sure is looking like the US is on track to OUT-SOCIAL Canada... I don't think universal Heath Care is such a bad Idea, but Universal Banking does not sit to well with me... I would be pissed if I was American.
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Always a pleasure to share the victories of our friends, mac w only. (Welcome to the conversation! I look forward to seeing more of your thoughts, as well as of the many who've spoken up recently.) But, given how deeply biased the media and the pollsters are, I give no credence to their pronouncements -- they were wrong about wins for Kerry in 2004 and Gore in 2000, after all. Dr. Steve posted a useful link in the O Club that says it better than I seem to be able to. ;-)
At any rate, Mr. Wife, trailing daughter #1, and I will do our bit on election day, and in the meantime the full Ohio court of appeal ruled that all new voter registrations must be checked against driver's license or Social Security records to ensure validity before those votes can be counted, and the program must be running by the end of the week. ACORN has lost another round -- isn't it wonderful when the system works as it ought!!
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vote related note: sent Little Sister (in Battle Creek MI) a link to the Michell Nobama phone call to the API denoucing all that question The One's motives as well as a cheap shot regarding the activities of ACORN up that a way and her reply was that the Democratic gov'nor has hacked off so many people that the only ones pulling the 'D' lever are drowning in the kool aid. Her tone sounded like there may be a bit of a surprise for the pollsters from the Mitten State. (hope so)
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The Conservatives increased their numbers so that even though they will still be in a minority position, they will have a lot more "OOMPH" in their decisions.
The Liberals, the biggest single opposition party, are now flat broke and are in a terrible mess financially and facing the prospect of going bankrupt. They definitely will NOT want to have another election soon. No other opposition party will want another election soon, either. That means that the Cons, with Stephen Harper at the helm, will be steering the ship of state for the next few years.
Going to be interesting up here in Canuckistan . . . and funny.
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heard voter turnout was the lowest ever. Not sure what that means other than that the liberal voter is even more disenchanted than the conservatives.....
Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) -- When Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper called today's election six weeks ago, he complained that opposition calls for more spending were putting the economy at risk, and parliamentary gridlock had stymied his agenda, including longer sentences for criminals.
After a campaign that saw him almost lose his lead in opinion surveys and then recover ground amid the global financial crisis, Harper may end up back where he started once the ballots are counted. Polls point to Harper beating Liberal Party rival Stephane Dion without the ruling Conservatives winning majority control of Parliament. That would put Harper at the head of Canada's third consecutive minority government in four years and leave the legislative impasse unbroken as the country grapples with its sharpest economic slowdown in at least 16 years.
``Minority governments typically lead to paralysis on the big issues,'' said Nikita Nanos, an Ottawa-based pollster. ``The government tends to deal with small items and tinker as opposed to dealing with fundamental problems.''
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``Minority governments typically lead to paralysis on the big issues,''
Which is the number one reason to want McCain to win here. (It's a feature, not a but.)
The parties, the issues, the mainstream media even farther to the left than in that big country south of the border. Go read the whole thing. Tomorrow we'll find out if the Conservatives got their majority in Parliament at last.
Something smells at 2885 Brownlee Avenue in Columbus, Ohio.
I strongly recommend that the Ohio Republican Party get on the case before its too late. Todays the last day to challenge voters who registered early in Ohio before the run up to Election Day.
Heres the stench: An entire houseful of young, non-Ohioan Democrat activists have used the Brownlee Avenue address to register themselves to vote in the Buckeye State and secure absentee ballots under extremely shady circumstances all while mobilizing a large effort to register thousands of others for absentee and early voting. The activists are leaders of a group called Vote From Home 08. The group is self-identified as having extensive experience with political organizing, election administration, and Democratic politics. They were hailed as the Justice League by a Daily Kos blogger. Their Facebook page brags: Want to turn the Presidential election blue in a key swing state? Vote from Home is a political organization that was founded by a team of young people for the purpose of assisting, aiding, and tracking voters to elect progressive candidates to the White House. Encouraged by the excitement of the 2008 elections and the movement around the Democratic candidates, Vote From Home will be in Ohio seeking to deliver 10,000 votes to Democratic candidates statewide.
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OREGON, Ohio Barack Obama for the first time on Tuesday addressed the ACORN controversy that Republicans are seeking to attach to his campaign, minimizing the impact of alleged voter registration fraud linked to the activist group and stressing ACORN is not advising his campaign.
Weve got the best voter registration and turnout and volunteer operation in politics right now, and we dont need ACORNs help, he told reporters at the secluded leafy resort outside Toledo where he is preparing for Wednesdays debate.
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, which registers low-income and minority voters who tend to favor Democrats, is under siege for allegedly falsifying voter registrations, and Republicans have sought to taint Obama with the allegations. Obama in the 1990s represented the group in a lawsuit, and on Tuesday, he said that as an elected official, Ive had interactions with the Chicago branch of the group, which he said has been active, according to a pool report.But they are not advising our campaign, stressed Obama, who himself worked as a community organizer in Chicago before attending law school.
Nevada authorities last week raided ACORNs state headquarters after the branch submitted voter registrations with the names of celebrities including Dallas Cowboy stars Tony Romo and Terrell Owens, and other voters came forward alleging they were asked by ACORN employees to submit multiple registration forms.
Obamas Republican rival John McCain pounced on the controversy, releasing a statement last week asserting that given ACORNs recent efforts to engage in voter fraud and to disrupt our political system, Obamas affiliation with this group raises serious questions about his judgment and ability to lead this nation. McCains campaign has also called for an investigation of Obamas ties to ACORN.
ACORNs political action committee endorsed Obamas campaign, which paid $832,598 to a consulting firm affiliated with ACORN for get-out-the-vote efforts, though it initially miscategorized the purpose of the payment. Obama has a responsibility to rein in ACORN, said McCain running mate Sarah Palin, during an interview Tuesday with conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh.
Obama posited Tuesday that the alleged fraud likely was the result of a few bad actors, wouldnt impact the election and shouldnt be used by the GOP to try to bar voters from casting ballots on Election Day. Ah. A few "bad actors". And it's the Republicans fault...
My understanding in terms of the voter fraud because having run a voter registration drive, I know how problems arise this is typically a situation where ACORN probably paid people to get registrations, and these folks, not wanting to actually register people because thats actually hard work, just went into a phone book or made up names and submitted false registrations to get paid, he said. Move it along, nuthin to see here...
So theres been fraud perpetrated probably on ACORN, if they paid these individuals and they actually didnt do registrations, but this isnt a situation where theres actually people who are going to try to vote, cause these are phony names, and its doubtful Tony Romo is gonna show up in Ohio to vote, so this is another one of these distractions that gets stirred up in the course of a campaign." Can't ya see? ACORN's the victim here.
"But, what I want to make sure of is that this is not used as an excuse for the kind of voter suppression strategies and tactics that weve seen in the past. Lets just make sure everybody is voting, everybodys registered. Lets make sure that everybodys doing it in a lawful way, he concluded. Sounds like he blames Karl Rove...
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"But, what I want to make sure of is that this is not used as an excuse for the kind of voter suppression strategies and tactics that we've done in the past.
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The FBI Director should give a national address on the potential of substantial vote fraud as a result of the more than 1 million man hours per month by those employed by acorn. Justice working with forensic accountants should work to uncover the entire chain of Acorn finance activity, using extensive interviews of those already identified as engaging in attempts to commit vote fraud. infrastructure and forensic audits of all Acorn activities should begin at once.
A delay in the election is in the interest of the electorate of both parties. Simple fact is, the budgets supporting electoral influence have been extensive and require audit to ensure electoral integrity.
The math of potential vote fraud is understood by the person hours devoted to the practice and ingenuity required to support the expenditures paid;
13,000 voter registration workers
working 5 hours per day produce 65,000 man hours of work product per day.
per week 325,000 man hours
per month 1,300,000 man hours per month of potential labor applied to the purpose of subverting this and future elections.
Anyone who does not support a delay in this election, is probably just bought and paid for.
Acorn has 13,000 paid employees focused on voter registration..........employees are paid by the hour and while they dont have set quotas, a spokesperson for Missouri acorn; said today on a KMBZ raido interview, "that we cannot keep anyone on the payroll that is not doing thier job."
this election should be delayed, and all local election boards should purge all fraud within the electoral system....give them until April 09.... let FBI and Justice, work directly with local points of interest, to remove the possibility of election fraud.
this will weed out local as well as collusive arrangements with extensible service organizations to sustain political interests in power through vote fraud.
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Cases are being investigated an filed at the local, state and federal levels against ACORN. These people are going to be in court for years over the 2008 election; their lawyers will have very little time for community activism. According to an article in today's Cincinnati Enquirer, which also details criminal and civil actions against ACORN,
In Ohio, illegal voting is a fourth-degree felony punishable by a fine of up to $5,000 and six to 18 months in state prison. Getting caught for voter fraud in a federal election can result in five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
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They're betting the house. If they win, all the investigations will go away. If they lose, you'll start to see the entire enterprise start to implode from people copping a plea and testifying for leniency. Bill and Hillary will be like the Cheshire Cat as they mop up the remains of the Donk hierarchy.
Less than 24 hours after a U.S. Representative Tim Mahoney addressed allegations that he paid a former mistress hush money to keep her quiet reports of a second affair surfaced.
So Patricia Allen believed him when he told her that she was the only one, that his wife didn't understand, etc., etc., etc. ...
Speaking with the media Tuesday morning Mahoney, 52, did not directly address the allegations of adultery first reported by ABC News, but did apologize to his family and say that he had done nothing illegal. In the ABC report Mahoney allegedly began his affair with Patricia Allen in 2006 while he was campaigning for Congress. When the tryst ended, Mahoney reportedly paid Allen $121-thousand to keep her quiet and avoid a sexual harassment lawsuit.
Later that day a person close to the congressman's re-election campaign told The Associated Press that Mahoney also had an affair with a second woman around the same time. The unnamed source said the woman in question was a high-ranking official in Martin County. While having the alleged affair, the source said Mahoney was also lobbying the Federal Emergency Management Agency for a $3.4 million reimbursement for Martin County for damage caused by hurricanes in 2004. FEMA approved the money late last year. What's the over/under on there being yet another other woman?
The Trunks have a pretty devastating ad running against him:
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My wife would kick my ass for the cheating. But she would actually kill me over the 121 grand...
Sen. Barack Obama, with a donation of nearly $1 million, and a son of Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi were among the biggest contributors to the presidential campaign of controversial Kenyan leader Raila Odinga, according to an internal document obtained by WND.
The memo was prepared by the head of Odinga's campaign finance accounting section, Shakeel Shabbir, as an official report delivered to the national treasurer for Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement party, or ODM.
Among the 72 individuals and organizations that contributed money to Odinga's 2007 presidential run in Kenya, Shabbir lists "Friends of Senator B.O." as having donated 66,000,000 Kenyan schillings, about $950,000.
Saif el-Islam Gadhafi, the Libyan strongman's second oldest son, reportedly donated 53,450,000 Kenyan schillings, about $765,000.
According to several highly credible ex-ODM sources WND interviewed in Kenya, the $950,000 raised for Odinga's campaign came from a series of private meetings arranged for Odinga by Mark Lippert, a foreign policy adviser in Obama's U.S. Senate office. The meetings with top-dollar Obama fundraisers and donors took place during Odinga's 2006 trip to the U.S.
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To be honest, the place-of-birth thing is just an asinine distraction. But if it distracts the assholes in the Obama campaign, go for it, clowns.
Just don't file fucking lawsuits in my goddamn state that have *already* disrupted the prompt distribution of absentee ballots in my home county. Crippled little old ladies won't be able to vote because of idiot lawsuits filed by blowhards and morons like Berg.
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I think it might be worth looking into.
"Wrote Langbert, "Mr. Obama has refused to produce a physical certified, stamped copy of his birth certificate. An electronically displayed imaged displayed by his official campaign website has alleged to have been a forgery. We request that the FEC require Mr. Obama to authorize the FEC to obtain an official copy of his birth certificate."
Ted Moran, who said he wished to be contacted at brotherbear@solomonsstables.org, said he also was launching a campaign to discern the truth about Obama's birth certificate.
"I am looking for 50 brave men or women from 49 states and the District of Columbia to join me in suing the secretaries of state in our respective states to prevent them from posting the name Barak H. Obama on the November 2008 ballot until he presents incontrovertible proof that he is a U.S. citizen," he said. "The secretaries of state are the ones who by placing a person or initiative on the ballot certify that the candidates or initiatives meet the legal requirements to be on the ballot.
"The office of the president is simply too important to trust to someone other than a person whose loyalties are 100 percent American, and while it is impossible to read into the heart of a man or woman we do have the test our forefathers gave us. Which is this office is not to be entrusted to anyone but a natural U.S. citizen," he said.
Multiple requests over a period of several days by WND to the Obama campaign for a comment or explanation of the birth certificate issue did not generate any response.
The Israel Insider said, "The revelation that [the birth certificate] of Obama's own sister was evidently used to create the electronic forgery represents what supporters of this analysis claim is a 'smoking gun' that appears to implicate Sen. Obama directly. Hawaii law limits access to vital records to family members only, a fact which slowed down the ability of researchers to compare the purported Obama 'birth certificate' which displayed from the start a peculiar provenance and inexplicable features to genuine specimens. Therefore, it would seem that either Maya K. Soetoro-Ng (as she is now called) supplied the document or its image to half-brother Barack or his campaign, or Obama/his campaign used it without her permission.
"The stakes couldn't be higher. Even the Snopes anti-rumor site acknowledges that Obama's constitutional fitness to be president depends solely on his being born in the United States, because his mother not yet 19 at the time of his birth would not have had a sufficient number of years as an adult citizen, according to the laws prevailing at the time, to pass on 'natural born citizenship' automatically," the report said.
"There have been reports, so far unconfirmed, that Obama was born outside the country, either in Kenya, his presumed father's native land, or in Canada. The fact that the Obama campaign has been touting as genuine a forgery since June 12 will likely increase pressure to not only account for the fake but produce a genuine paper birth certificate. Obama, in his book 'Dreams from My Father,' specifically mentioned having such a document in his possession, but it has not been submitted for public inspection or analysis if it in fact exists," the report said.
The forensic computer investigators interviewed by the news publication concluded there are two obvious possibilities for the birth certificate image: A real certificate was scanned and digitally edited or a real certificate was scanned for the graphic layout, then blanked by soaking the document in solvent to remove the toner.
The certificate was published by the Daily Kos June 12 following initial reports questioning Obama's place of birth. He's stated he was born in Hawaii, but if that was not the case, his citizenship could be uncertain, since his father was not a citizen and his mother was not old enough to pass along American citizenship automatically.
The issue originally was raised by Jim Geraghty, reporting on the Campaign Spot, a National Review blog. He cited the "unlikely" possibility that Obama's 1961 birth was not within the U.S.
At the time, he wrote, "If Obama were born outside the United States, one could argue that he would not meet the legal definition of natural-born citizen because U.S. law at the time of his birth required his natural-born parent (his mother) to have resided in the United States for 10 years, at least [f]ive of which had to be after the age of 16.'"
He then pointed out Ann Dunham, Obama's mother, was 18 when Obama was born, "so she wouldn't have met the requirement of five years after the age of 16."
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Mrs. Obama's opinion about her husband's status is meaningless. This is a court case "of fact", in which Obama either has the documents he needs, or he does not.
All Obama has to do is present between one and three very specific notarized pieces of paper to the judge, which unless challenged on substantive grounds, would mean immediate dismissal of the case.
This is required of every American who gets a State drivers license. Ironically, unless Obama produces these documents, to at least indicate that he is a *naturalized* US citizen, he would also, automatically, lose his drivers license and possibly even be subject to deportation.
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spread rumours created by American bloggers and other racist media outlets in their efforts to damage a black mans name, saying she hopes African Media was mature enough to be in the front to give unwavering support to her husband, a man Africans should identify themselves with.
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While I give this story a huge mountain of salt, some things are troubling. Why, when McCain's citizenship was questioned, he immediately released all original documents, but when Obama's is he just releases one crappy photocopy. All it would take is a couple original documents to make this go away, and Obama is stalling. Why? It just makes no sense if he is a full American citizen.
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OK. I just read this article and my first impression is that we need to take it with a grain of salt. I mean, did Michelle Obama really call these people and talk to them like this? Really? She's saying that everybody who has legitimate concerns about the existence or non-existence of a valid birth certificate is racist? Just for asking? I'm a racist just for asking a question? And then she demands that API and other African media outlets support BO just because he is a black man? Isn't that kinda like...well...racist? Did she really do this? She has better sense than to talk to MSM this way. How about MSM picking up on this? How about ABC, NYT, WaPo, CNN, or CBS asking her if she really said these things? National Enquirer? Ain't gonna happen, is it? Another thing that, sadly, ain't gonna happen is McCain raising this issue in tonight's debate. This whole issue is gonna get swept under the rug just like Rev. Wright, William Ayers, Tony Rezko, Fanny Mae, Freddy Mac, Vera Banks, etc., etc., etc. because He is the One.
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He also refuses to produce his passport records. Besides befriending a Pakistani, he reportedly traveled there several times. His mother worked for an NGO there for several years, too. Being a little forthcoming would end all this but the stonewalling just fuels it.
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People are assuming his mother flew with him shortly after he was born to the mainland. One possibility no one has considered is that Obama was born onboard a ship from Hawaii to the mainland (many people would have travelled from Hawaii by ship at that time). This wouldn't affect his citizenship, but being born in international waters would make the natural born clause problematic.
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This is on Sirius Patriot right now; here's my observations:
Obama Sr as per being Kenyan was a Brit subject (he was never a U.S. immigrant). Obama Jr as per Brit law of 1948 was also a Brit subject *if* his mom did not assert her rights as a mother that he be a U.S. citizen (IIRC she was underage at the time of birth). Then, Sotero (not a U.S. citizen whose home country does not have a dual citizenship agreement w/the U.S.) adopts Barack and he moves out of Hawaii and does school abroad. Question is: did the mom assert her rights and keep him as a U.S. citizen or was he considered a Brit subject or even a citizen of his adopted father's home country? More importantly, why not just release the original and be done w/the speculations?
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Another theory:
He was born in Hawaii and is therefore eligible, but the name his mother gave him was Barry Obama or maybe Barry Dunham.
He legally changed his name to Barack Hussein Obama, after his father, later as an adult.
It would explain why he's so touchy about "Hussein" ...
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To partially echo what Broadhead6 touched on....would his adoption by Soetoro mean that he would have had to give up his American citizenship, since Indonesia did not recognize dual citizenship?
If so, he would have had to go through some procedure to get his American citizenship back....and therefore regardless of where he was born, he wouldn't qualify as a "naturalized" American, right? (I don't think that the US guvmint takes into account the fact he was a minor and may not have consented....he would still be considered naturalized.)
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My other assertion is that he was probably born illegit - why that would be an issue I don't know - unless it was just an embarrasment for him & therefore he doesn't want to release the originals - though in this day and age I don't think many folks would care.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered Ohio's top elections official to set up a system by Friday to verify the eligibility of newly registered voters and make the information available to the state's 88 county election boards.
The full 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati upheld a lower court ruling that Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner must use other government records to check thousands of new voters for registration fraud. A three-judge panel of the 6th Circuit had disagreed last week. The full court's ruling, in which nine of 16 judges concurred, overturns that decision.
Ohio Republicans had sued Brunner, a Democrat. Her spokesman had no immediate comment Tuesday.
About 666,000 Ohioans have registered to vote since January, with many doing so before the contested Democratic presidential primary election last March between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton. The presidential election is Nov. 4.
Since the primary, Ohio Republicans have filed a series of challenges to the registrations and Brunner's administration of election rules. They have helped voters file lawsuits against local boards of election over registration rules, absentee ballot requests and a weeklong period that allowed registration and voting on the same day.
All outside the Ohio constitution which is pretty specific about registration and voting. Ms. Brunner's treatment of the state constitution portends how Democrats will treat the US constitution after January 20th ...
Brunner previously said sufficient systems exist to verify new voter registrations and there was no way to set up the court-ordered system with such speed.
Last week, the three-judge panel of the 6th Circuit had sided with Brunner, but the full panel sided with the GOP and U.S. District Judge George C. Smith in Columbus after hearing an appeal. Smith had ordered Brunner to develop a way to verify voter registration information and make it available to local election boards. The federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the current system "is essentially useless -- not unlike asking for a drink of water and being given access to a fire hose at full volume -- and will do nothing to address the anti-fraud objective."
Brunner argued that it would take two to three days to create the necessary computer programs, and said nothing in the federal Help America Vote Act required her to do what the district court ordered.
Tuesday's order directs Brunner to verify new registrations by comparing that information with data from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles or the Social Security Administration. "As far as we can tell, the problem with the current system is not that it is insufficiently user-friendly but that it is effectively useless," the majority said in its ruling.
Ohio Republican Chairman Bob Bennett accused Brunner of pursuing a partisan agenda and said "her delay in providing this matching system leaves little time for election officials to act on questionable registrations."
Bennett said Brunner was destroying the public's trust in Ohio's elections system. "Her shameful actions to disenfranchise Republican absentee voters, block the transparency of early voting and refuse the proper verification of newly registered voters have rightfully damaged her credibility as a nonpartisan election administrator," he said.
Polling in the state shows Obama, now the Democratic presidential nominee, slightly ahead of Republican challenger John McCain. Both campaigns have worked hard in the state, which has 20 electoral votes and gave President Bush a second term in 2004.
Elsewhere in the state, the state GOP has requested information on voters in Licking County, in central Ohio, who registered and cast an early ballot on the same day during a weeklong period. The request is similar to one made last week by the Republican sheriff of Greene County that infuriated Democrats and voting rights groups, and was withdrawn a day later. The GOP has said it is concerned that the same-day voting period could have made it easier to commit voter fraud.
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...I'm beginning to think that those 'Obama up by 10' polls were relying on a whole bunch of fraudulent votes.
Mike
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Mike,
It's part of the MSM's voter suppression effort. To demoralize the opposition. We've seen the effect here at the 'burg with the hand wringing and moaning. The object in war is to destroy your opponents will to resist. Give them credit, it does appear to be working to a degree. Me, I'll be voting whether they like it or not. And I don't need John McCain to lead me or do the fighting, I'll do that myself.
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Mike, the polls are structurally independent from the fictitious registrations. If the pollsters call a fictitious voter, she isn't going to pick up the phone, because she don' exist. Trust me, I've been making campaign calls. The rolls are full of dead numbers and wrong numbers.
The polls *might* be queered by their theory of the composition of this year's electorate. In fact, they probably are. But it's not an easily-gamed problem, unless the pollsters are deliberately thumbing the scales. The "the-polls-are-all-wrong" tack wasn't exactly fruitful in 2006, after all.
They're still giving us the "our internals look nothing like the published polls" line in the campaign office, and I appreciate the morale-boosting for what it is, but I'm not really convinced.
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The polls *might* be queered by their theory of the composition of this year's electorate
You mean the polls that had Obama in the lead, then McCain, then Obama suddenly up by 10. The ones that vary from pollster to pollster by margins of greater than 7%. Tight is not a term I'd used for this years performance by them. The only science that could be is the one in SWAG.
There is one U.S. naval shipbuilding program, however, that is not just meeting but exceeding all its objectives in terms of time and cost. This is the nuclear-powered Virginia-class attack submarine.
Although only four submarines have been built, the program already is delivering them eight months ahead of schedule while reducing costs by a half billion dollars per boat. The efforts to reduce costs have led to innovative design work that improved both the way the Virginia-class is being built and the capabilities of the finished product.
This program has been so successful that, starting in fiscal year 2011, the U.S. Navy can afford to build two submarines every year.
What makes this story even more amazing is that each new submarine is being built at two shipyards: Electric Boat in Groton, Conn., and Newport News in Virginia. The submarines are built in several large segments and then joined together. The teaming arrangement between Electric Boat and Newport News is working well and contributing to the cost reductions. The Virginia class is so well built that they are fully mission-capable upon leaving the shipyard, something unheard of with previous classes of attack submarines.
The Virginia is the first new ship class delivered with post-Soviet requirements. It is designed to support Special Operations forces. The ship control system is fly-by-wire for better depth control and hovering capability. This allows improved handling in littoral waters. It has a more robust sensor suite than its predecessors and eight mast holes, two for the new photonic masts and six that are mission configurable.
Even now, the Virginia-class carries weapons for a variety of missions. In the near future this could include unmanned undersea vehicles, anti-aircraft missiles and ballistic missile defense systems.
The Virginia class is the right ship for an era of strategic uncertainty. Yes, it can address the unconventional warfare threat. But that is not the only potential challenge the United States may face in the decades to come.
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Yep, one more sign the good ol' US of A is a "fading superpower." Heh...
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ION REDDIT > UK UAV BOMB CAN STAY ALOFT FOR TEN YEARS??? + FOR THE LAST TIME, ITS JAPAN, NOT CHINA, WHICH CONTROLS US FOREX RESERVES.
HMMMMM, LR PERM-STAT GLOBORBIT STRATEGIC UV BOMBERS for the USAF > Taken collectively wid this artic [+ CVN21-Class] again goes to show that HYBRIDIZATION + ROBOWAR is the wave of the future, ala the OWG "1000-Flags/Nations" GLOBAL NAVY = TASK FORCE concept.
The Thai army decided Tuesday to retain troops in the disputed area near the Preah Vihear temple despite an ultimatum by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen for a pullout of Thai troops.
Thai army said in a statement that it was prepared for a confrontation with Cambodia if the spat escalated. The statement said the armed forces reaffirmed that all three armed forces -- army, navy and air force -- are ready for confrontation in the area and are confident in the potential to defend Thailand's sovereignty. "The Thai army will neither start fighting or invade into Cambodia first, but we will surely act in self-defense if Cambodia invades into our territory," the statement said.
Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen issued an ultimatum on Monday threatening to open wars if Thailand failed to withdraw its troops from an area near Preah Vihear Temple.
The Thai army said it will maintain its troops in the disputed area near Preah Vihear Temple despite Cambodia's ultimatum for Thailand to withdraw the troops.
Meanwhile Thai Foreign Minister Sompong Amornwiwat said, all 80 troops will remain in the disputed area because Thailand has overseen that area for 20 to 30 years. Sompong said of those 80 troops deployed to the area, 20 of them are mine clearance workers and the rest offer protection for the mine clearance troops. Thailand insists it has not encroached in any territory, he said.
In July, tensions ran high after the ancient Preah Vihear Temple was awarded world heritage status by UNESCO, angering nationalists in Thailand who still claim ownership of the site. The tension later turned into a military confrontation, in which up to 1,000 Thai and Cambodian troops faced off for six weeks. In mid-August, most troops evacuated and just a few dozen soldiers stationed near the temple.
In October at the border area, at least two Thai troops and one Cambodian soldier were wounded during an exchange of gunfire, and two other Thai soldiers were seriously injured after stepping on a landmine.
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Tehran has rejected recent reports released by Arab media that a senior Iranian official has apologized to Egyptian scholar Qaradawi.
"Publishing false reports... will never tarnish the close ties and the brotherhood that exists among officials and scholars of Islamic countries. Such reports contradict the principles of Muslim unity and lack any value," read a statement released by the Iranian embassy in Riyadh.
"Iranian officials regularly hold discussions with religious and political figures in the Muslim world with the aim of strengthening views on Islamic unity ... and countering the ever-increasing plots and threats of the Zionist regime," the statement explained.
The statement came after several Arab media outlets claimed that the Foreign Policy Advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ali Akbar Velayati had apologized to Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi over articles published by an Iranian website.
The website criticized Qaradawi's stance after he launched attacks against Shia groups and organizations, accusing them of trying to spread their teachings in Sunni states.
Velayati met the President of the International Association of Muslim Scholars, Yusuf Qaradawi, at the sixth conference on Al-Quds in Doha.
According to an IslamOnline report, there was a warm exchange between the two officials, who sat next to each other during a special reception.
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IO(N IRAN, IRNA > IRAN PROTESTS AMERICAN TROOPS' ACTIONS/HANDLING OF IRANIAN MUSLIM PILGRIMS IN IRAQ; + ISLAMIC COUNTRIES SUPPORT IRAN'S BID FOR UNSC MEMBERSHIP, + REGIONAL PEACE NOT POSSIBLE WITH PRESENCE OF FOREIGN FORCES.
Also from IRNA > PRESIDENT ADVISES NATIONS TO SAVE THEIR ECONOMIES FROM THE DETRIMENT OF CAPITALISM [end of Capitalism is nigh] + IRAN ON VERGE OF SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS. Islam + World had seen the COLLAPSE OF MARXISM, and now the ANNIHILATION OF LIBERALISM vee US Crisis. IRAN + WORLD AT A CROSSROADS = U-TURN > IRAN's MISSION IS NOW "GLOBAL".
It's because he or she might actually be in India.
With her flowing, hot-pink Indian suit, jangly silver bangles and perky voice, Bhumika Chaturvedi, 24, doesn't fit the stereotype of a thuggish, heard-it-all-before debt collector. But lately, she has had no problem making American debtors cry.
For the past three years, Chaturvedi has been a top collection agent at her call center, phoning hundreds of Americans a day and politely asking them to pay up. As the U.S. financial crisis plunges Americans into debt, her business is one of the fastest-growing sectors in Indian outsourcing. It is also one of the few sectors of outsourcing in India that is still hiring aggressively.
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when has a credit card taken a small payment without really slamming your ass on the next one? bet she has learnt a few new curse words too
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Making no payment at all screws your ass even more... and really, really screws your credit report. And yes, I'm sure Miss Chaturvedi has added new words to her vocabulary, as my mother did when she went to work as an occupational therapist at the VA hospital during the Korean War, and as I have done since finding Rantburg. ;-)
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Considering the current economy and the huge amount of consumer debt...
It really would be a great idea for the FCC and Government to delay the switch to HDTV broadcasting for a few years.
It would save a lot of regular folks from bankruptcy.
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It might easier for these overextended Americans to pay their debts if they had a decent job, like debt collecting, in the USA.
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3dc--I'm curious about this too. I understand the upcoming switch to digital, but that's not HDTV per se. I haven't seen anything about a switch from standard to HDTV however.
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The gov was/is giving out $40 coupons to buy converter boxes that receive HDTV channels for display on your standard TVs. Since it's digital, no more snow or ghosting on your old analog TVs.
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Dar, the digital TV broadcasts are HDTV. The converter boxes decode and resize the HDTV broadcasts to display on old NTSC TVs.
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The gov was/is giving out $40 coupons to buy converter boxes that receive HDTV channels for display on your standard TVs. Since it's digital, no more snow or ghosting on your old analog TVs.
Cheapskate that I am, I actually used it instead of buying a new TV. Got myself a Zenith box that gets 24 broadcast channels in the tristate area. The picture is way better than analog cable.
My apologies for the shock, dear Ebbang Uluque6305. Here, I made you a nice, calming cup of chamomile tea to settle your nerves. I went back and looked at chris's post, and it's really "slammed your ass", new phrase for me; I'll have to practice until I get it right. *sigh* Rantburg really has been a broadening experience for me.
"I did note but only as an aside that the easy access to consumer credit had been fuelled in part by galloping house price inflation, which, "conveniently, does not appear on the government's official inflation index".
Does anyone here at RB know if this applies in the US as well? Have housing prices been removed from the calculation of inflation?
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Housing prices -- A concept called "Owners Equivalent Rent" is what is used to figure the CPI. It's supposed to account for all the costs of home ownership. See this link for a start. There's a lot more to read on this with Google.
Personally, I place little store in government statistics such as CPI. It's in the interest of the gov't to underestimate inflation, since it must increase payments such as Social Security when the cost of living goes up.
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The "new approach" is not all that new: The Treasury is buying non-voting shares, drawing only 5% interest, no limits on dividends to common stockholders, etc. This is very unlike what the UK is doing on their banking intervention and very unlike what Warren Buffet did when he recently invested in Goldman Sachs and drove a much harder bargain. The fix is in. The media is cooperating by averting its gaze and chattering about the irrelevant. From crony capitalism to crony socialism.
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"Have housing prices been removed from the calculation of inflation?"
AFAIK, NO. housing prices are included in the CPI in two ways. The first is the cost to buy a home, but the multiplier for this is VERY small because most people who buy a home do so but a few time during their lives. The CPI, in any monthly figure does include housing prices, but the effect is small. The second way housing prices are included is by way of rental equivalences. I hope this helps.
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MFW, look at AH9418's link. It's more complex and uglier. The inflation numbers from the Govt are BS.
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Unless you are actually looking to buy or sell a home NOW, the going "housing price" doesn't really matter. (unless the tax assessor is coming around) Neither do changes in mortgage interest rates. Like most people paying a fixed mortgage, my P&I payments NEVER change! That, for me, is zero inflation over the last 11 years. So the CPI rather overstates my housing inflation by quite a bit.
Of course, I was responsible and purchased a home that I could afford without gimmicks.
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Thanks for the feedback.
the more I read the more it seems as though ecomomists and environmentalists have similar attitudes toward math.
The more complicated the better to confuse the masses and to hell with anything approaching honesty.
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zero inflation over the last 11 years Apparently you have paid nothing for home maintenance and taxes. You have also ignored the possibility that you could have bought less house (or rented) and invested the remainder for a profit. Home ownership has costs beyond P&I.
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Alan, each of us has their own personal CPI that varies based on the weighting of the a personal basket of goods and services consumed. The official CPI, with its fixed market basket, will understate inflation for some just as it will overstate inflation for others. I prefer GDP deflator because it is based on what is actually bought and sold.
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AH. It's a new house so there's not a lot of needed maintenance yet and believe it or not, my property taxes are actually a bit lower now than they were a few years ago!(still too high) On the other hand, paying for heating oil is a bitch.
I own a home so I worry: well, septic tank, bugs, foundation etc etc etc. But my housing payment hasn't budged in 11 years.
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Minister, I understand on a macro-level the CPI individual vs. general etc. etc.
I remember well the Carter days when there was much talk about changing the "basket of goods/services" to alter the inflation rate numbers. Also a lot of talk about underestimating the real rate.
My personal CPI is immaterial to any discussion of the economy as a whole. BUT, if the CPI deliberately misses a large spike in housing prices it seems that it must have an effect as the CPI is factored in to interest rate calculations. So I was wondering if there was a large bubble being missed.
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You have also ignored the possibility that you could have bought less house (or rented) and invested the remainder for a profit.
Or live in a cardboard box under a bridge and become really rich.
(lest you think I'm being sarcastic, there was one very nice Polish couple who did just that: camped out most of the year and rented a cheap room for the winter. Their estate disbursed a low-seven- figure sum among several charities.)
Feverish buying in Japan on Tuesday replaced last week's market panic, as the benchmark Nikkei stock index soared to its largest-ever percentage gain in a single day, up 14.15 percent -- part of a global rally in stocks that continued throughout Asia and Europe.
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See also IRNA [long]> ACADEMIC > ONLY BY WORKING IN UNISON CAN THE ASIA AND PACIFIC REGIONS AVOID THE WORST OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS.
* TOPIX > UK: WORLD BANKING AND FINACIAL SERVICES SYSTEM NEEDS TO BE REFORMED.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Scientists have found that genes located on a single chromosome are responsible for the development of early male-pattern baldness. 
(AKI) - A Filipino worker was beheaded by sword on Tuesday in the coastal city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia after he was found guilty of killing a Saudi citizen in the Islamic holy city of Mecca by suffocating the man and piercing his neck with a pen.
SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean court on Wednesday convicted a North Korean woman defector charged with extracting state secrets from military officers in return for sexual favors and sentenced her to five years in jail, a court official said.
Won Jeong-hwa, 34, was arrested in August on suspicion of posing as a defector and sleeping with South Korean military officers in exchange for classified information on weapons systems and the locations of key military installations. Dubbed Korea's Mata Hari by local media, Won was trained in the North to infiltrate the South's military and assassinate key figures with toxic chemicals, including North Korean defectors who have been critical of the communist state.
Only a small portion of revenues from Ukrainian arms exports in the last four years was passed on to the state budget, the former head of a parliamentary ad-hoc investigation commission said on Friday.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered Ohio's top elections official to set up a system by Friday to verify the eligibility of newly registered voters and make the information available to the state's 88 county election boards.
