Best Wedding Dance

These people were really into it! Funny!

The President's Visit

President Bush came to town a while back for a campaign fund raiser for Aaron Schock. It is going to cost the tax payers quite a bit for that visit.

"In a council communication issued Wednesday, the costs were shown to be $13,195, of which $12,868 was for police overtime. An additional $1,700 was spent on the overtime costs of the Peoria County Sheriff's Department."


Click on the title if you want to read the whole article.

CNN Campbell Brown:

Loved this! She needs to be able to stand on her own if she will ever be VP.

Anything Can Be Perverted!

Home Loans

I found the above article to be interesting and scary at the same time. "more than 7.5 million people — almost 15 percent of American homeowners with a mortgage — are spending half of their income or more on housing costs, according to 2007 data released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau." Over half of their income! How do you live?

"The data underscore the serious affordability problems in this country and highlight how the slightest financial problem — from a lost job to higher gas prices or insurance premiums — can put a family behind on their mortgages and into the realm of foreclosure.

When home prices fell in the early 1990s, borrowers had more equity in their homes, and were able to escape foreclosure. But now, an estimated 10 million homeowners owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth, according to Moody's economy.com." If you are interested in reading the rest of this article, click on the title.

Fact Check

I don't know about you but I feel like my inbox is over run with propaganda. I have found what I think is a good site to fact check things that seem outlandish. www.FactCheck.org seems to be a non-partisan check for some of these claims. As one of the articles wrote:

"It seems that no matter the facts, the desire to believe some of this stuff is just too strong. Emery, too, has come to believe that there's not enough proof in the world to stop certain political propaganda. "I have come to the conclusion that especially where political rumors are concerned, most people are so locked into a particular world view that they tend to reject any information, no matter how well supported, that contradicts their cherished assumptions," he says. "It's scary, actually how polarized we have become."

In a 2004 report on this topic, our director, Brooks Jackson, called for an end to the e-mail madness, saying, "This cyber-sickness should stop. All it takes is a little bit of common sense and skepticism, some curiosity and a few keystrokes. Nailing these lies can even be fun."

Apparently, lots of Americans didn’t heed the call. If you don't find checking out these e-mails to be fun, or just don't have time, I suggest an easier alternative: a healthy use of the delete key."

I RECOMMEND THAT WE ALL JUST STOP SENDING THE MADNESS. IT CAN'T BE AN ISSUE IF WE ALL JUST STOP. Click on the title if you want to go to this great fact checking site!

John McCain

I thought he had a good speech. If he would stay moderate, I think he could win. He did have a weird smile sometimes though. I couldn't believe how many protesters with signs got in though. He did get distracted by one outlandish woman. It is too bad that it happened. The people didn't accomplish anything really accept give the pundits more to talk about.

Sarah Palin

I kept waiting for her to say, "Gee Whiz" or "Golly" but other than that, I can see why she has energized the republican base. She really came out strong so we will see.