In Texas, it’s against the law for anyone to have a pair of pliers in his or her possession.

In Philadelphia, you can’t put pretzels in bags based on an Act of 1760.

Alaska law says that you can’t look at a moose from an airplane.

In Corpus Christie, Texas, it is illegal to raise alligators in your home.

In Miami, it is forbidden to imitate an animal.

It is against the law to mispronounce the name of the State of Arkansas in that State.

In Illinois, the law is that a car must be driven with the steering wheel.

California law prohibits a woman from driving a car while dressed in a housecoat.

In Memphis, Tennessee, a woman is not to drive a car unless a man warns approaching motorists or pedestrians by walking in front of the car that is being driven.

In Tennessee, it is against the law to drive a car while sleeping.

In New York, it is against the law for a blind person to drive an automobile.

In West Virginia, only babies can ride in a baby carriage.

In Georgia, it is against the law to slap a man on the back or front.

A barber is not to advertise prices in the State of Georgia.

In Louisiana, a bill was introduced years ago in the State House of Representatives that fixed a ceiling on haircuts for bald men of 25 cents.

In Oklahoma, no baseball team can hit the ball over the fence or out of a ballpark.
In Rochester, Michigan, the law is that anyone bathing in public must have the bathing suit inspected by a police officer !

In Kentucky, it’s the law that a person must take a bath once a year.

In Utah, birds have the right of way on any public highway.

In Ohio, one must have a license to keep a bear.

In Tennessee, a law exists which prohibits the sale of bologna (sandwich meat) on Sunday.

In Virginia, the Code of 1930 has a statute which prohibits corrupt practices or bribery by any person other than political candidates.

In Providence, Rhode Island, it is against the law to jump off a bridge.

In the State of Kansas, you’re not allowed to drive a buffalo through a street.

In Florida, it is against the law to put livestock on a school bus.

In New Jersey, cabbage can’t be sold on Sunday.

In Galveston, Texas, it is illegal to have a camel run loose in the street!

In North Carolina, it is against the law for dogs and cats to fight.

In Singapore, it is illegal to chew gum.

In Cleveland, Ohio, it is unlawful to leave chewing gum in public places.

In Virginia, chickens cannot lay eggs before 8:00 a.m., and must be done before 4:00 p.m.

In New York, it is against the law for children to pick up or collect cigarette and cigar butts.

In Massachusetts, it is against the law to put tomatos in clam chowder.

In Washington State, you can’t carry a concealed weapon that is over 6 feet in length.

In San Francisco, there is an ordinance, which bans the picking up and throwing of used confetti.

In Kentucky, it is illegal for a merchant to force a person into his place of business for the purpose of making a sale.

It is against the law in Connecticut for a man to write love letters to a girl whose mother or father has forbidden the relationship.

In Michigan, married couples must live together or be imprisoned.

In the state of Colorado, a pet cat, if loose, must have a tail-light !

In Phoenix, Arizona, you can’t walk through a hotel lobby with spurs on.

In California, a law created in 1925 makes it illegal to wiggle while dancing.

In Utah, daylight must be visible between dancing couples.

In Michigan, it is against the law for a lady to lift her skirt more than 6 inches while walking through a mud puddle.

In North Carolina, it is against the law for a rabbit to race down the street.

In Georgia, it’s against the law to spread a false rumor.

In West Virginia, one can’t cook sauerkraut or cabbage due to the odors and the offence is subject to imprisonment.

In Missouri, a man must have a permit to shave.

The law states that more than 3000 sheep cannot be herded down Hollywood Blvd. at any one time.

In Texas, it is still a “hanging offense” to steal cattle.

A homeless contractor known as the “mole man” dug a multi-room 200-square foot home underground in Fresno that surprised police when they recently stumbled upon a hidden entrance. Police said Bruce Tracy dug the underground home in an area near Roeding Park in Fresno.

Tracy said it is no big deal and he is already looking for a new location for his next underground home.

Tracy said he has built several underground homes.

Good for this guy. He is finding a way around the system and the blood sucking land owners that try and take every penny just to put a roof over your head.

So this is what really happened. Someone found out this guy was living for free and not paying any rent and they got pissed off. How dare someone live for free, don’t you know you have to pay out your ass to exist in this world. They use the excuse of safety concerns. Yeah, like they really care about the safety of this guy, they care so much that they just threw him out on the street. They call him homeless, yeah, now he is thanks to them!

Wall Street rebounded Tuesday after the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority said it will invest $7.5 billion in Citigroup Inc. — a vote of confidence for the nation’s largest bank, which has suffered severe losses amid the ongoing crisis in the mortgage market.
 
The Dow Jones industrial rose more than 200 points in yet another volatile session as investors were hopeful the financial sector can remain healthy despite the ongoing credit crisis. The banking industry has been battered in recent months as defaults on home loans have risen and rendered some mortgage-backed securities essentially worthless.

Major financial institutions, including Citi and its competitors, have had to book some $80 billion of writedowns on those holdings — a trend that has left the markets nervous about the full extent of the damage from soured loans. Citi’s ability to secure a capital injection raised hope others might be able to do the same.

So, they are saying this is a good thing. I guess America doesn’t care that they are selling off their assets to foreign countries, just as long as you can get your i-pod or your wii for Christmas.

Most American’s are clueless to what is going on in our financial markets at the moment. The best thing for America to do would be to go through a recession and weed out all of the bad credit and investments and then start off fresh, but will they let that happen, nope! They would rather sell out your future than to have any discomfort in their lives.

Way to go America!

U.S. home prices fell 4.5 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier, the sharpest drop since Standard & Poor’s began its nationwide housing index in 1987 and another sign that the housing slump is far from over, the research group said Tuesday.
 
One of the index’s creators also predicted that there’s a significant chance of a recession as the economy contends with falling housing prices, spiking foreclosures and turmoil in the financial markets.

“Over 50 percent,” said MacroMarkets LLC Chief Economist Robert Shiller, giving his odds for a recession. Other economists have put the chance of recession at one in three.

“We’re in the aftermath of the biggest housing boom in history, so how do we use historical data to judge the outcome?” he said. “We’re out of the range of the normal variation in the data and I take that as very significant.”

Yeah, no SH#@ you are out of the normal variation in the data. This is the biggest financial bubble in the history of the earth. Everything was normal when you idiots were bidding up the price on a one bedroom cape cod that should not have sold for more than three times a persons annual salary, but now when things are returning to normal there must be something wrong!

This issue goes far beyond the housing prices, this is just the beginning. I here allot of people trying to explain what kind of mess we are in but they just don’t seem to explain it right or should I say simple enough for the average American dumb-ass. That is what I will try and do.

In the past when you needed a loan for a house you went to your local bank and asked for a loan. Then they would either approve or deny you. If they approved you, they would loan you the money of the other local residents that had money in the local bank. Your neighbors money. They would charge you say 10% on the loan and pay the other local residents a percentage for loaning the bank the money in deposits. OK, good, sounds right.

In the past ten years Americans stopped saving, so the banks had no money to loan people for loans. They came up with an idea. Let’s approve the loans and package them all up and sell them to wall-street, like a bond, which is just a loan. These bundles of loans were rate as triple AAA, that means something as good as gold, the value never goes down.  The hedge funds and other institutions bought these bonds thinking they will never lose value. Say they bought 1 million dollars worth of these bundled loans, then they wanted to buy 2 million dollars of something else, like stock. So they need a loan. They ask a bank to give them 2 million dollars to buy this new stock. The bank says where is your collateral, they say here, I have 1 million dollars worth of these bundled up loans which are rated triple AAA. The bank goes ok, great, if I need my 2 million I am loaning you  back, you can always cash in these bundled loans that are worth 1 million dollars and that never lose value.

Well, guess what, the bank wants their 2 million dollars they borrowed and they are trying to cash in these loans that are supposed to never lose value and they can’t get what they paid for them and there are a trillion dollars worth of this garbage out there.

So the base was built on sand and we are just beginning to tip over. This should be very interesting. This is going to have ripples around the whole world. Recession? We should be so lucky!

Oprah Winfrey will join Democrat Barack Obama again on the campaign trail, this time visiting the early contest states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.

The popular talk show host and media mogul plans to visit Iowa on Saturday, Dec. 8, with stops in Des Moines and Cedar Rapids. The following day, she’ll travel to Columbia, S.C. Later that day, she’ll visit New Hampshire, but a location hadn’t been announced Monday morning.

Everybody, it is over! If Oprah Winfrey backs a candidate I guess we all have to support him too. Give me a break. Like this is any different than any other Hollywood actor backing a political candidate. What makes Oprah so special that she thinks we all care what she thinks or who she supports for president.

I personally think every one of these presidential candidates are idiots and do not deserve your vote, Barack Obama especially. Who is this tool? I don’t even know how he is able to run for the president in the first place. Wasn’t this guy born in Indonesia? I thought the president had to be born in America not just to American parents living overseas.

What does it matter anyway. This country is going down the drain faster than the dollar can lose more of it’s value. Can you imagine the leaders of other countries meeting this Obama character as the president of the United States? What do you think they will be thinking in the back of their minds? I’m sure the rest of the world will be having a good laugh on our expense.

Oh, the picture up top is Barack Hussien Obama’s half brother holding up a picture of him and his brother.