DERRY, N.H. – Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday called for penalties against mortgage brokers who engage in predatory lending and a $1 billion federal fund to help homeowners avoid foreclosure.

Good for Hillary. I wonder if she suggested these ideas first or if Edwards did. If she was first it would be…a first.

Dee, 118. I couldn’t link to it at first, but I kept trying and finally got through. Maybe they are having heavy traffic. Astounding information.

This is the error message I keep getting:

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Click here to go back to previous page.

Carol at 26,

The CIA printing its own money to finance all kinds of nasty stuff? Sadly there was a time when this would have shocked me. Those days are long gone. Information that is considered widely circulated in Europe never gets through the “Iron Curtain.” My daughter, an expat, is always telling me things that never make it to the American news outlets. We are too busy watching Brittany and obsessing over Hillary’s cleavage.

Carol@26 second thought:

The second link does not work, and it’s the KEY to your post . . . trying it find it at DU where I can’t find a SEARCH button is frustrating.

Can we get a fixie here, please? This is really interesting methinks . . thanks in advance.

But, as PW infers, I’ll take ANY good news at this point.

Thanks PW for sharing this . . . ‘preciate a glimmer here and there! *G*

“You are basically asking people to certify, with big penalties, that nobody has lied on their expense accounts,” Mr. Van Scoyoc said, marveling at the complexity of policing such casual contact between lobbyists and Congressional aides. “These are people who are sharing apartments together, playing on the same softball teams, dating each other—young people with active social lives.”

Excuse me. EXCUSE ME. LIVING TOGETHER? SHARING APARTMENTS? I THINK NOT!

Jeebus!!!!

Boarding now and off to the Black Sea.

Keep things in order ’til I get back, please.

dakine01 View this users Facebook profile says:
August 7th, 2007 at 10:22 am

OldCoastie @ 4

with all the food offered, it makes you wonder how it is the recipients aren’t having trouble with their waistlines…

You mean like Denny Hastert?

Hastert the Unspeakable?

God, Tom DeLay must have strong forearms, to have to support all that weight with his hand up Denny’s ass.

Did you mean hand or head ?!!

(bold mine)

The thing that struck me reading this piece is that a LOT of DC resteraunts are gonna go outta business.

Littleprop and I are heading to DC for a little vaca next week (I know, what kind of lunatic vacations in DC in the summer? The kind with a kid who is fascinted by the Library of CCongress)

and we willhave hit all the good resteraunts cause they may not be around next year.

Need rcommendations

It’s been ages since I ate in DC. Here’s a quick guide from the WaPo:
WaPo

Try dropping loudonlib a line…she’s from Northern Va. and I’m sure Jane has some ideas.

Good luck and have fun. (I hope you’re not driving…DC will make you batshit crazy trying to drive).

dakine01 View this users Facebook profile says:
August 7th, 2007 at 10:22 am

OldCoastie @ 4

with all the food offered, it makes you wonder how it is the recipients aren’t having trouble with their waistlines…

You mean like Denny Hastert?

Hastert the Unspeakable?

God, Tom DeLay must have strong forearms, to have to support all that weight with his hand up Denny’s ass.