AS IT STANDS

Thursday, October 23, 2008

CALIFORNIA HOME FORECLOSURES HIT RECORD HIGH

Over the last 3 months, 79,511 homes were taken back by lenders. This represents

a 228% increase from last year. Experts predict the numbers will get worse.

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LAME CHIMP BUSH REFLECTS UPON HIS PRESIDENCY...

Now that Dubya's presidency is coming to a merciful end we can look to the future

while he rides off into the sunset on one of the Bin Laden family camels!

What did he do for posterity? I'm going to let my visitors answer that.

TARGET STORES TAKEN TO TASK FOR OVERCHARGING!

Target management has been very bad. Now their paying nearly $2 million dollars for overcharging customers after an investigation in five California counties. The civil penalty is supposed to make Target take notice that they can't get away with fraudulent business practices.

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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

MEDIA HAS TO PAY UP TO COVER OBAMA'S BIG NIGHT!

Media organizations will have to pay up

if they want a prime spot to cover Democrat Barrack Obama's election night party.

I have to agree with Fred Brown, a former national president of the Society of Professional Journalists, who said, "The Obama campaign's fee list is a "mercenary way" to approach coverage."

"It seems to needlessly create ill will," said Brown, a retired capitol bureau chief for the Denver Post who still writes regularly for the newspaper.

Click here to see how much it's going to cost the media to cover Obama.

PUMPKIN PUPPY VS PUKIN PUMPKINS

This cute little guy

is going to try to compete with the popular Pukin Pumpkins post. The "hung over" gourds made a real impression across the country. Let's see what this fluff ball with pumpkin attire can do. Let me know if he's more entertaining than those orange boozers! It looks like this guy could use some love, don't you think?

Some foreign visitors today...

I was looking at some foreign visitor's to this blog today and was surprised to see someone in Tigrisnet, Iraq stopped by for a peek at my Sarah Pallin post.

I wonder if it was someone in our military? Or could it have been a lusting Iraqi who thinks Pallin's pretty hot?

Canada rang in again today with three new visitors from: Burnaby, British Columbia, Toronto, Ontario, and Prince Edward Island. They all wanted a peek at the now famous Pukin Pumpkin photo I posted a while back.

Cheerio oh! to some bloke from London, England who stopped in to see an old post titled Recycle or Else!

Meanwhile you Pukin Pumpkin fans continue to check in from all over America today!

Hopping Horned Frog Picks Pumpkin for Halloween

THIS SURINAM HORNED FROG IS READY FOR HALLOWEEN AS HE PERCHES ON HIS GOURD THRONE.

Readers of this blog have recently demonstrated an interest in PUMPKINS (See Pukin Pumpkins Post) lately so I am unabashedly playing to this interest by providing this fine frog, and his pick from a pumpkin patch, for their previewing pleasure!

OOPS! McCAIN CAMPAIGN ASKS RUSSIAN ENVOY FOR MONEY!

McCain's desperate and cash poor campaign handlers really pulled a stupid, when they asked Russia's U.N.envoy for a contribution to his campaign! Now that's erratic...

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