No Runny Eggs

The repository of one hard-boiled egg from the south suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (and the occassional guest-blogger). The ramblings within may or may not offend, shock and awe you, but they are what I (or my guest-bloggers) think.

Archive for April 21st, 2008

More Mortgage Mangling

by @ 7:02. Filed under Politics - National.

I wrote earlier  about  a study  by the NYFED, that provided insight as to what the average subprime loan looked like.   The study laid out the horrific terms of these subprime loans but didn’t talk about the people or circumstances that caused the subprime loans to be enticing.   Sunday’s Star and Tribune chronicles one such circumstance.

Bradley Collins Jr.  is a painting contractor.   He averages an income of $60,000/year and supports his family of 5 on that income.   According to the article, about 3 years ago, Collins and his wife thought they would take advantage of the real estate boom occurring in the NW part of the Minneapolis metro.   With the encouragement of two salesman from a “property management company,” they bought 4 houses for a total price of $1.2M.   The story as we all know, continues with the real estate market busting, the resales of the homes not occurring, the owners failing as landlords and the homes falling into foreclosure.
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A solution in search of a problem

by @ 7:00. Filed under Miscellaneous.

Is it just me or does it seem that the government spends more time trying to create problems than focusing on  the problems that are right in front of them?  

In Saturday’s Star and Tribune the Minnesota Department of Health is raising a specter of lead poisoning from eating gun  shot venison.

I’ll admit to not being a deer hunter.   However, I’ve eaten my share of fowl shot with lead over the years.   Other than that third arm I have growing out of my back, I’ve seen no impact of a little lead in my diet…KIDDING!  

Lead shot has a history going back to the mid 1500’s.   I did some Google searching and while information for the 1600’s and late 1500’s was a little difficult to parse (Darn, if only Al Gore had been born during the Dark Ages we would have had the internet so much earlier), I wasn’t able to find any epidemic of death certificates that listed “lead poisoning from venison ingestion” anywhere.

The MSM wails about how President Bush and the Republicans use “scare tactics” to motivate voters.   Apparently “scare” is perfectly acceptable to the MSM when they want to further their “man is a pariah on the planet” agenda.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a nicely baked pheasant awaiting my arrival.  

Bon Appetite!

The Morning Scramble – 4/21/2008

by @ 6:46. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

I’m out of time because I have to fly to Madison, and dummy me enjoyed the weekend instead of doing Scramble prep, so there won’t be links added until (likely) this afternoon. Hopefully I won’t suffer the same fate as the plane….

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSLqbl2Xshs[/youtube]

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