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Archives for July 2009
Malware in the Ad Feeds, Two
Only comment if you are still seeing malware warnings, or if you were experiencing the warnings but no longer are.
Malware in the Ad Feeds
Got an email claiming there is malware in the ad feeds. I have taken down all the project wonderful ads. Are we still having the malware problem?
*** Update ***
All ads are now down except for google. Are we still having malware issues?
I wonder What She Thinks About Tire Gauges
Meghan McCain states the obvious:
“Joe the Plumber — you can quote me — is a dumbass. He should stick to plumbing.”
I wonder, if in a future unguarded moment of candor, Miss McCain will blurt out the name of the person responsible for elevating all of these “dumbasses” to the national stage.
I believe she calls that person “dad.”
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A Tale of Two Economies
For many, it is getting worse:
The foreclosure plague is not going away — it’s only getting worse.
A record 1.53 million properties were in the foreclosure process — default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions — during the first six months of 2009. That was 9% more than the previous six months and 15% more than the same period of 2008, according to a report released Thursday by RealtyTrac.
There were a total of 1.91 million filings resulting in 1 out of every 84 U.S. properties receiving at least filing in the first half of the year. Banks repossessed 386,800 properties.
“What this means is, despite the intensity of the efforts on the part of government and lenders we don’t have a handle on foreclosures yet,” said Rick Sharga, a spokesman for RealtyTrac.
Remember the freakout over the handful of billions to be spent fighting the foreclosure disaster? In other news:
The Federal Reserve expects the economy this year will sink at a slower pace than it previously thought, but that unemployment will top 10 percent and remain high for the next few years, according to a new forecast released Wednesday.
The Fed now predicts the economy will shrink between 1 and 1.5 percent this year, an improvement from its old forecast issued in May. At that time, the Fed projected the economy would contract between 1.3 and 2 percent.
The upgrade — which helped major stock indicators jump about 3 percent and the Dow Jones industrial average to add 257 points — comes from the expectation that the economy’s downhill slide in the first half of 2009 wasn’t as bad as previously thought. The Fed said the economy should start growing again in the second half of this year, although the pace is likely to be plodding.
On the other hand, if you spend trillions propping up an industry, they can survive and thrive:
Even as it weathers the worst economic downturn in decades, J.P. Morgan Chase on Thursday announced a $2.7 billion second-quarter profit from stellar trading and investment banking results.
The strong showing may put to rest some worries that the bank was allowed to pay back its $25 billion taxpayer investment too early, after it passed the U.S. government’s stress test in May. But along with Goldman Sachs, its quick resurgence is bound to raise fresh concerns about soaring pay levels and growing clout in Washington.
Priorities.
The Moon, Too
Answering DougJ below, yeah, I already wrote a couple of posts about how the manned Mars program is worse than pointless. It also starved other programs that NASA has picked up over the years with real human value like monitoring global warming. I know guys doing fantastic work with real human value who lost their funding four years ago because Bush’s Moon/Mars glory projects soaked it all up.
Look, there isn’t any Soviet Union threatening to put its boots on Mars first. The Chinese have a crash program to, uh, accomplish what we did in 1969. Frightening! Other than that everyone else’s space program is sensibly focused on robot exploration, satellite monitoring and keeping that affordable-but-still-expensive orbiting vanity habitat going.
Big Mistake
So I turned on Morning Joe, and I can honestly say that anyone who watches this show will be dumber after viewing. For the last fifteen minutes, they have done nothing but concern troll the notion of health care reform, and Mika has complained about the troops smoking for the bulk of it.
Also, yesterday, I found it amusing that the WaPo talked about something other than excusing torture when they came out with an op-ed attacking the millionaire surtax proposed by the House. In case you are wondering, there is never an issue in which Fred Hiatt and company will side with the weak over the strong, the poor over the rich, the have nots over the haves. That is their purpose- the raucous defense of the status quo.