New York Times Magazine runs a pictorial titled Ruins of the Second Gilded Age. The images by Edgar Martins capture evidence of the real estate collapse throughout the country.
Two of the photographs in the montage are of Arizona properties. The first is Chateaux on Central, a downtown Phoenix project that was to include nearly two dozen luxury homes, priced between $2.8 million and $4.5 million. But by early 2007, the city’s high-end condominium market — which was among the country’s hottest — had become over-saturated. Prices declined, and Chateaux on Central’s developer declared bankruptcy. It is still unfinished and unoccupied.
In Chandler, Arizona more than a dozen subdivisions remain unfinished due to the economic downturn. The developer of Charlevoix Homes, intended to turn a 35-acre former alfalfa farm into a community of 92 luxury houses, with prices starting around $500,000. The developer ultimately filed for bankruptcy protection, listing $118 million in debts.
“The response [to her unexpected resignation speech] in the main stream media has been most predictable, ironic, and as always, detached from the lives of ordinary Americans who are sick of the “politics of personal destruction.”
How sad that Washington and the media will never understand; it’s about country. And though it’s honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make. But every American understands what it takes to make a decision because it’s right for all, including your family.”
The press corps laughs as Barack Obama entertains. Remember when President George W. Bush was mocked for saying “I’m the decider.”
POLITICO notes the startling omissions during Obama’s press conference. Among the surprising words missing from President Barack Obama’s 55-minute news conference: “Iraq,” and “Afghanistan.” Also MIA: “Korea,” “Pakistan,” “soldiers,” “surge” and “war” — as well as the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines.
The omissions were partly a result of the short attention span of the press, which did not ask about those topics after the president did not mention them in his opening statement, they write.
The omissions can also be attributable to the fact that the MSM are Obama’s willing and gleeful lapdogs, even in view of the critical issues facing the world and the impact they portend for the United States, as Korea threatens missiles at Hawaii and Iran erupts after questionable elections with demonstrators killed for protesting against what are considered flawed results.
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) has agreed to ban its member stations from airing any new religious TV programs, but permitted the handful of stations that already carry “sectarian” shows to continue doing so.
The vote by PBS’s board was a compromise from a proposed ban on all religious programming. Such a ban would have forced a few stations around the country to give up their PBS affiliation if they continued to broadcast local church services and religious lectures, the Washington Post reports.
The decision allows Brigham Young University’s KBYU to keep broadcasting Mormon devotionals.
Public TV stations owned by Catholic groups in New Orleans and Harlingen, Texas, also will be able to continue their existing religious broadcasts while maintaining their PBS affiliation.
The vote also means that WHUT, operated by Howard University in Washington, D.C., will not be required to drop its telecasts of “Mass for Shut-Ins,” a weekly Catholic Mass that has aired on the station since 1996 and locally in Washington for more than 50 years.
Inept Federal Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman was stunningly unable to answer questions posed to her by Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla) when she appeared before the Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
Rep. Grayson: It’s your responsibility to conduct and supervise audits and investigations related to the programs and operations of your agency. Your agency has extended $9 trillion in credit — which by the way, works out to $30,000 to every man, woman and child in this country — if you’re not responsible for investigating that, who is?
Inspector General Coleman: “In terms of who’s responsible for investigating…would you mind repeating the question one more time….”
Seeing Red AZ encourages you to watch this video. The hearing took place last month, but demands our attention. What do Arizona’s Congressional representatives have to say regarding such incompetence at this level? Although we have differences with Congressman Grayson, he did an exemplary job of grilling the incompetent federal Inspector General, who was unable to tell him what kind of losses the Fed has so far suffered on its $2 trillion portfolio.
Wouldn’t you just guess that the Arizona Republic, taking a leaf from the Keith Olbermann book of leftwing nuttiness, would use its editorial page to lay blame on the pro-life community for the shooting death of George Tiller, the Kansas doctor specializing in gruesome second and third trimester abortions. Watch Olbermann’s shocking video in which he blames the shooting on FOX News and Bill O’Reilly.
Blame should rightly be placed squarely on the unhinged shooter, 51-year-old, Scott Roeder.
But the editorial proclaims that the entire pro-life community is insincere when issuing “condemnations” while “barely cloaking their glee.“ It goes on to state: “If genuinely pro-life opponents of abortion are to retain the stature they deserve, condemning the violence does not suffice. They need to start condemning the radical, bloody-minded activists among them.”
The editorialist deplores the fact that Randall Terry described Tiller as “a mass murderer and, horrifically, he reaped what he sowed,” and so concludes that Terry’s words infer that those who value life can “barely hide their bloodlust, and by a tone of voice that barely conceals their enthusiastic approval of murder, extremists at the fringe of the pro-life movement are inciting violence. They are mocking the very virtue they claim to celebrate: the sanctity of life.”
Murderers don’t hang signs around their necks declaring their intentions. The same can’t be said of abortionists who advertise their skill at infanticide.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney appeared on Right Now, a new series in the FOX News Sunday lineup – and inspired again.
Romney expressed confidence that the GOP will regain its strength.
“There have been other times when our party has been written off,” he told Fox News. “And what typically happens is that the party that gets all the power starts thinking good about themselves and overreaches, and the American people say they’ve gone too far. I think you’ll see the Republican Party come charging back.”
Asked if he would consider a 2012 presidential run, Romney said. “I’m not going to close that door, but I’m not going to walk through it either.”
Former AZ Congressman and radio talk show host, J.D. Hayworth discussed this issue yesterday. After doing some checking, Seeing Red AZ confirmed these facts:
On the seventh day after his January 20, 2009 inauguration, President Barack Obama issued and signed Presidential Determination No. 2009-15, — the Unexpected Urgent Refugee and Migration Needs Related to Gaza — which allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to the radical Hamas to resettle in the United States. It was signed on January 27 and appeared in the Federal Register on February 4 — garnering virtually no attention as it flew safely under the radar.
Since it was passed by executive order and without fanfare, and American taxpayers are funding it to the tune of $20.3 million, you might want to acquaint yourself with its provisions. The expenditure of millions are to facilitate “migration assistance” of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees and “conflict victims” in Gaza.
Few on Capitol Hill, or in the media, took note that the order provides a free ticket replete with housing and food allowances to individuals who have displayed their overwhelming support to the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the parliamentary election of January 2006.
Barack Obama’s first call to any head of state, as president, was to Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the PLO and leader of Fatah party in the Palestinian territory. His first one-on-one television interview (view video clip) with any news organization was with Al Arabia television.
The Canada Free Press reported on the millions for resettlement here.
Sean Hannity’s discussion board has vigorous debate on the subject here.
Deputies supplied with protective gear for arrests of illegals
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says it is estimated that over 90% of all illegal aliens arrested by his Anti Human Smuggling Unit come from areas south of Mexico City where the swine flu has already killed nearly 150 people.
In order to better protect his deputies, Arpaio will supply hundreds of protective gear kits and will strongly recommend that his 750 deputies use face masks and gloves in the field when they encounter and arrest illegal immigrants coming in from Mexico.
In addition, beginning today, ICE-trained Sheriff’s detention officers in the jails will begin screening all incoming inmates for swine flu symptoms. To better safeguard jail staff and inmates, anyone suspected of being exposed will be flagged for further medical evaluation and placed in isolation cells if necessary.
The Sheriff says his deputies and jail staff may be at a far higher risk of exposure to this virus, considering the thousands of suspected illegal immigrants they come in contact with on a weekly basis in the field and in the jails. Tuberculosis and chicken pox have already presented health concerns in the jails, and both diseases are primarily brought in by illegal immigrants
The entire three-page news release is available here.
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