Priorities

Down under:

A Northern Territory driver has been fined by police after he strapped a seatbelt around a carton of beer but left a five-year-old child to sit on the floor of his car.

Understatement

A California man who has defaulted on nine homes and expects banks to foreclose on all of them, forcing him into bankruptcy, says he now considers it a mistake to have invested in the real estate market.

Visitor of the Day: The Tell-Tale Heart

Among the Google searches that brought visitors to W.C. Varones today:

lying about owner occupied on loan application

Someone getting a little nervous about the consequences?

Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?

Greenspan's Body Count

Today's episode of Greenspan's Body Count is a truly tragic story sent to us by Independent Accountant, the story of a hard-working immigrant who killed his whole family:

An immigrant in dire financial straits apparently killed his wife and three young children before turning a rifle on himself at the family's run-down house in northeast Houston, authorities and neighbors said Saturday.

[...] Foreclosure notices were seen posted on some parcels of land in the neighborhood Saturday, but it wasn't clear whether the family's property was among those auctioned last week.

Alan Greenspan, are those $100,000 speaking fees you get from the bankers you enriched worth it?

Greenspan's Body Count now stands at thirty:

Salvador X
Lupe X
Jade X
Little Boy X
Little Girl X
Kashmir Billon
Bill McMurtry
Lisa McMurtry
James Hahn
Raymond Donaca
Deanna Donaca
[redacted]
[redacted]
Michel Veillette
Nadya Ferrari-Veillette
Marguerite Veillette
Vincent Veillette
Mia Veillette
Jacob Veillette
Maurice Pereira
Natasha Pereira
Mark Achilli
Raed Al-Farah
Andrew Kissel
Rufus Shaw Jr.
Lynn Flint Shaw
Mr. Pierce
Walter Buczynksi
Marci Buczynski
Jason Washington

Downfall

For those of you who haven't seen the original Downfall, put it on your Netflix.

HT: Ang.

English chicks are better...for now

According to the Los Angeles Times:

In the Netherlands, great tits are on the decline because...winters in the Netherlands remain cold longer....

Walter Jetz, a UC San Diego ecologist who was not involved in the research, cautioned that the new analysis offers little assurance that the great tits of England will endure the accelerating temperature rise predicted over the next 50 years.

What were you thinking about?

What would you do for several million dollars?

Would you create the biggest financial bubble in the history of the world to enrich bankers who would then pay you $100,000 speaking fees as the bubble crashed down wreaking havoc on the lives of millions of ordinary citizens?

Greenspan would.