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To: mishedlo who wrote (53417)	2/10/2006 2:27:10 PM
From: ild	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

Fewest in O.C. on record can afford a single-family house Only 10% earn $171,000 a year, enough to buy a $702,290 home, Realtors report. By JEFF COLLINS The Orange County Register Only 10 percent of Orange County residents could afford to buy a house here at the median price or higher in December, the lowest level ever, new figures released Thursday show. Buyers would have to earn more than $171,000 a year to afford a median-priced single-family home in Orange County at the end of 2005, according to the California Association of Realtors. Just 10 percent of local households earn that much. That figure assumes that buyers used a 30-year fixedrate loan, made a 20 percent down payment and paid the $702,290 that the association determined to be the median single-family home price. Early January figures from DataQuick Information Systems show the median price for an Orange County home, including condominiums, fell to $582,000, down from December's record median price of $621,000, because of a decrease in median new-home prices in that period. DataQuick analyst John Karevoll has previously said such fluctuations in new-home prices likely are caused by home shoppers switching from houses to condos, which are less expensive. Financing the purchase became more costly. Fixed-rate mortgages rose above 6 percent for the first time this year, and adjustable-rate mortgages, or ARMs, hit their highest level in three years, according to the National Financial News Services. The region's average rate for a 30-year fixed loan with a one-point fee was 6.03 percent this week, the service reported. A one-year ARM with a two-point fee was just under 4.2 percent. ocregister.com

To: mishedlo who wrote (53417)	2/10/2006 2:37:07 PM
From: NOW	Respond to of 110194

The Minds of Madmen After the President’s conveniently-timed revelation about a foiled attack on Los Angeles, I contacted a few friends in the intelligence community and was able to get my hands on this IM conversation between Al Qaeda’s number two guy and Bin Laden’s second-in-command (on that org chart, everyone’s a VP). OsamaMama : u there? 72Virgins : yeah, sup? OsamaMama : martyr 4 life, bitch! 72Virgins : lol 72Virgins : OsamaMama : turn on fox 72Virgins : k OsamaMama : shes hot 72Virgins : who? the angry blonde? OsamaMama : yup 72Virgins : dude, she looks like barney fife with a wig OsamaMama : whatever. anns my gril OsamaMama : girl OsamaMama : i cant tpe today OsamaMama : type today OsamaMama : ARRGGGGGHHHH!!!! 72Virgins : nice. OsamaMama : where you wanna hit the infidels? 72Virgins : i dunno. sears tower OsamaMama : las vegas 72Virgins : space needle OsamaMama : disenyland 72Virgins : disneyworld OsamaMama : i just said that 72Virgins : no, you said land, I said world OsamaMama : aren’t they the same? 72Virgins : no, dumbass 72Virgins : the white house OsamaMama : the washington monument 72Virgins : brb 72Virgins : im back 72Virgins : the tallest building in texas OsamaMama : the tallest building in los angeles 72Virgins : i got skills OsamaMama : what? 72Virgins : nunchuck skills 72Virgins : bowhunting skills OsamaMama : it’s a liger 72Virgins : flippin sweet Seriously though, it’s hard to know what to think about all of these vague threats when the President is so blatant about politicizing them and mum on the details. Where these guys stopped at the airport or was this “plan” just something jotted down on a bar napkin? If revealing the existence of a spying program undermines our ability to fight terrorism, what are we to make of the President’s self-congratulations being on the cover of every newspaper? If it was so important to keep this incident a secret then, what were the changes that made it perfectly acceptable to blab about it now? tom tommorw