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To: Road Walker who wrote (440355)	12/14/2008 8:22:17 AM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572611

lol I can't wait until Murdoch buys the NYTimes...

To: Road Walker who wrote (440355)	12/14/2008 3:12:16 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572611

Our next president, like his predecessor, is promising “a new era of responsibility and accountability.” We must hope he means it. Meanwhile, we have the governor he leaves behind in Illinois to serve as our national whipping boy, the one betrayer of the public trust who could actually end up paying for his behavior. The surveillance tapes of Blagojevich are so fabulous it seems a tragedy we don’t have similar audio records of the bigger fish who have wrecked the country. But in these hard times we’ll take what we can get. All so true........I wish DC's scoundrals were less duplicitous.......more like Blago.......so their crimes were more visible. But you have to admit, Blago brings a comical flair to the whole business of corruption......like having ministers come over first thing Friday AM to pray for him before he went to the office and insisting that inspite of the very indictable tapes, he will be proven innocent in the end. It definitely has a midwestern feel to it. ;-)

To: Road Walker who wrote (440355)	12/14/2008 11:42:39 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572611

BOOM AND BUST Percentage change in the average selling price of existing homes during the housing bubble and its aftermath. Metro area Jan. 2000-July 2006 July 2006- Sept. 2008 Miami 178% -36% Los Angeles 174% -33% Washington, D.C. 150% -24% San Diego 149% -34% Tampa 138% -28% Las Vegas 134% -37% Phoenix 127% -39% San Francisco 118% -33% New York 115% -11% Seattle 80% -4% Portland, Ore. 80% -6% Boston 78% -9% Minneapolis 71% -18% Chicago 68% -12% Denver 40% -7% Atlanta 35% -9% Charlotte 28% 2% Dallas 25% -3% Cleveland 23% -11% Detroit 23% -27% 20-city average 107% -22% Source: S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index usatoday.com