“It didn’t make financial sense for me to keep paying a mortgage on a home that was basically owned by someone else.”

Former major league baseball player Jose Canseco…”said on Thursday he had lost his California mansion to foreclosure — one of the first celebrities to publicly admit being a statistic in the U.S. housing crisis,” the Associated Press said.

In comments to the TV show “Inside Edition,” Canseco says, “It didn’t make financial sense for me to keep paying a mortgage on a home that was basically owned by someone else.”

More from the Associated Press: “Canseco, 43, one of the most flamboyant U.S. baseball players until his retirement from the major leagues in 2001, told the celebrity TV show ‘Inside Edition’ that it did not make financial sense to keep his 7,300-square-foot home in the Los Angeles suburb of Encino. ‘Inside Edition’ said it had foreclosure documents showing Canseco owed a bank more than $2.5 million on the house.

I am extending this invitation to you, my friends at Linkfest Haven Deluxe, in the hopes that you will join in this conversation on illegal immigration. It is my hope that we put the name calling aside and have an honest open debate about a very important issue that our nation faces. It is my wish that we put the proverbial sword down and take an honest look at the situation. Where are we, where do we need to go, how are we going to get there..

Thank-you!

Pam

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I have my two neices this week. A 3 year old and her 1 year old sister! Great fun, lot’s of running, and did I mention that my house looks like a tornado went through it?

Use this for topics I miss!

GUESS WHICH COLLECTIVIST SAID IT…

… and find out on which side of the gulag fence you’ll be tomorrow.
(Warning: some questions are more equal than others, and some answers will make you want to slap yourself upside the head with a shovel).

PEGGY NOONAN: Over the Top
What the Democrats lost this week was the chance to paint the ‘08 campaign as a brilliant Napoleonic twinning of strategy and tactics that left history awed. What they have instead is a ticket to Verdun. Trench warfare, and the daily, wearying life of the soldier under siege. The mud, the cold, the dank water rotting the boots, all of it punctuated by mad cries of “Over the top,” bayonets fixed.

KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL: Earmark Nation
Newly minted presidential nominee John McCain stepped into the Rose Garden this week to receive President Bush’s blessing. What the cameras didn’t catch were pork-addicted congressional Republicans blowing raspberries from their offices.

With all the talk about how Mr. McCain needs to unify his party, lost has been the question of whether some people will let him. Washington Republicans know he’s their best shot at retaining the White House. Yet many remain ambivalent about him — not because they question his conservatism, but out of resentment that he may get in the way of their earmarks.

Take the quiz and let me know how you score. I got 28 out of 30! I missed questions 23 and 29!

Some great columns to read:

Like Michelle Obama, I am a “woman of color.” Like Michelle Obama, I am a working mother of two young children. Like Michelle Obama, I am a member of the 13th generation of Americans born since the founding of our great nation.

A recent New York Times report suggests the leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination misled the public about his history of drug use — by making it seem more impressive than it really was.

Sen. Barack Obama’s star appeal is causing physiological reactions in his supporters. Which is to say, they’re fainting.

There is a joke going around Washington to the effect that Hillary is the senator from New York who was born in Illinois, while Obama is the senator from Illinois who was born in a manger.

FormerArmyOfficer has added some new items to his store:

Please visit his store

Visit LGF by Noon Pacific time today to cast your vote:

2007 Fiskie Award, for the year’s most useful Idiotarian and 2007 Fallaci Award, for the year’s most exemplary Anti-Idiotarian.

I wanted to give you a list of some very interesting posts that I have read today. I’ll post excerpts, but please take the time to follow the links. If I missed one that you liked, link to it in the comments:

Bryan: The Pentagon’s Muslim tug-of-war:

The fact that our agencies are so inept that they keep finding themselves linked to groups like the ISNA, and the fact that there seem to be apologists for those groups who also advocate taking a soft line on extremism within the agencies while purging those who advocate knowing more about these groups, all point to a dark fact: We’re screwed. If we can’t even take the most cursory look at Islamic doctrine or what Islamic groups that operate here in the US do with the millions of dollars they raise here every year, we can’t understand who is and isn’t an enemy and we therefore can’t win the war.

I can not believe that it is Christmas 2007. As I look back on this year, I have much to be thankful for.

As much as I miss my Mother and wish that she could be with us this Christmas, I am thankful that she is finally at peace. Her struggle was long and painful, but never a complaint. I wish her everlasting peace. I am thankful for our friends and family that got us through her death. We asked that no flowers be sent, please find it in your heart to make a donation to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. The flowers overfilled the funeral home, church and my father’s house, yet the donations far exceeded their costs. I am thankful that our Mother taught us the importance of “Finding cures. Saving children”, and I am thankful that her family and friends remembered this.

Noel brings up a great point about Scott McClellan’s book:

Without peeking, do you think the now infamous excerpt from White House press secretary Scott McClellan’s not yet written book specifically referred to Valerie Plame Wilson, or anything to do with that scandal?

While you ponder, it is quite conceivable that this entire media frenzy is not only much ado about nothing, but an example of what happens when today’s so-called journalists see what they believe to be Republican blood in the water despite the presence of red dye #2.

As cleverly pointed out by Lee Hempfling Thursday (emphasis added): (follow the link guys and gals..hhere is another clue though

Do you see Valerie Plame Wilson’s name anywhere in this excerpt?

No.

So, why were media outlets - in particular, MSNBC - so quick to conclude that this had anything to do with her?

Are you ready for atheist Sunday school?

Save the planet: Have an abortion

Former NYT Bureau Chief: I Won’t Pay Taxes If U.S. Battles Iran -

Can You See Me Now?

Newspapers Are Guardians of Truth, so say ‘Journalists’

Bush has destroyed the universe

Religion of Peace Strikes Again in India

Robert Redford Bashes Al Gore as Greedy Opportunist

Democrats party of rich, study finds

Returnees Find a Capital Transformed

And that’s not all:

The sister-in-law of the indicted fugitive owner of the La Shish restaurant chain got sensitive jobs at the FBI and CIA, despite being an illegal immigrant, federal prosecutors said in court documents unsealed today in Detroit.
The woman, Nada Nadim Prouty, 37, of Vienna, Va., also tapped into a sensitive FBI computer to find out what federal investigators knew about her, La Shish restaurant owner Talal Chahine, and her sister, who is married to Chahine.
Prosecutors said she took an unknown quantity of classified information home with her. It’s unclear what happened, or what she did with the information, prosecutors said.
The information pertained to a federal investigation of Chahine and his possible involvement with Hizballah, which has been declared a terrorist organization by the U.S State Department…
Prouty hired an unemployed U.S. citizen to marry her in 1990, a year after she entered the country and overstayed her student visa.

Here is a re-cap of some of the latest news:

Breaking: University of Delaware terminates its indoctrination program.

Wow. The combination of FIRE + blogs proved to be too much for the University of Delaware. The university president’s note here

Hillary Plays the Victim Card in New Campaign Ad

Video here

Poor Hillary gets the pile on! Boo freakin hoo! After you finish watching her play the victim, head over to Ian’s and watch her play the ‘woman’ card.
She’s asking her campaign for more money to fight back now. Allahpundit says, call the waaaambulance! When she can’t answer a simple question in straight forward manner at a debate, she blames everyone except herself.

Captain Ed:

The debate broke Hillary’s double-talking dishonesty out into the open. Despite what Penn thinks, an army of Norman Hsus couldn’t get enough money to put the genie back in the bottle.

The Anchoress:

Here’s the the link to FAO’s store at CafePress.com. His motto is Points 2 Ponder…Simple Questions and Answers to Offset the Propaganda! Great stuff!

Tons more to see, so please visit his store!

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