PhotOh! NY bomber suspect lists home with "Habitat BOOM"

By GottaLaff

Faisal Shahzad tried to sell his house at the ironically named HabitatBoom.com:

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Listed by: Faisal Shahzad (Realtor Listing)

Did you notice the reason for selling? Maybe it should have said, "Moving to a prison. He won't last long!"

H/t: RWRenfrew

Sarah Palin can't write, can't speak, and now, can't add: $100K = $0

By GottaLaff

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Leave it to The Mudflats to come up with more point-and-laughitude at Mathless McTaxFree and her complete lack of simple elementary school academic skills:

You’ll recall that the Palins have for years been claiming a $12,000 property value for the parcel of land itself, but a $0 building value for the cabin that sits on the land. But after first reporting on that finding here, the Matanuska Susitna Borough assessors did a fly-over of the cabin and have now reported its actual value at just shy of $100,000. [...] Pretty fancy for a lowly recreational cabin and outbuildings that the owners reported as worthless just the year before. And the year before that. And the year before that. [...]

As an example of how seriously the ex-almost-one-term governor holds the paying of one’s property taxes, and how much she scorns those who shirk their civic duty, we are reminded of an incident that happened several years ago.

In 2004, it came to light that Republican Rep. Vic Kohring owed the borough $2,277 in unpaid property taxes on property he owns off Knik-Goose Bay Road, according to borough records. “That bothered former Wasilla Mayor Sarah Palin enough that she declined a campaign request to do a pro-Kohring TV commercial. As a former mayor, Palin said, it made her uncomfortable to back someone with unpaid taxes when the city relies on property taxes.” [Anchorage Daily News (Alaska), 10/28/04]

If only Mathless had learned a little something about arithmetic by picking up a book-- oh, never mind. Okay, a Highlights for Children magazine that-- not so much. A pamphlet? Read her own hand notes?

Then again, what could she have possibly read that would have taught her about hypocrisy?

Oh, I know. The Bible.

Sarah Palin's property tax problem; ‘I am so sorry I’m such a weasel’

By GottaLaff

The Mudflats does it again:

When the Democrats were finished with her, they had a 63-page document. There were lots of interesting things in the document, including this.

Pg. 48/63 Palin Declined to Appear in Ads for A Candidate Because He Had Not Paid His Property Taxes.

In 2004, it came to light that Republican Rep. Vic Kohring owed the borough $2,277 in unpaid property taxes on property he owns off Knik-Goose Bay Road, according to borough records. “That bothered former Wasilla Mayor Sarah Palin enough that she declined a campaign request to do a pro-Kohring TV commercial. As a former mayor, Palin said, it made her uncomfortable to back someone with unpaid taxes when the city relies on property taxes.” [Anchorage Daily News (Alaska), 10/28/04]

Admirable, huh?

Not so fast:

Recently, Sarah Palin gave an interview to Bill O’Reilly and said her favorite vacation spot was “The middle of nowhere at our cabin in Petersville,” Alaska.

And now we get to the envelope. Inside the envelope was an unsigned letter which read:

Todd and Sarah are now millionaires, but they shirk their responsibility to pay local property taxes.

One more nugget:

She talked to the Anchorage Daily News.

Pg. 15/63 Palin Called Herself “Such a Weasel” For Not Having a Firm Stand on the Property Tax Cap.

Palin said she has declined requests by Tax Cap Yes to speak in favor of the initiative. Yet, she said, she doesn’t object to her name’s continuing to be listed on the group’s Web site among 10 current or former government officials — half from Mat-Su — in support of the initiative. Palin acknowledged that she was sounding quite the politician. ‘I am so sorry I’m such a weasel,’ she said.”
[Anchorage Daily News, 10/8/00]

That was the tease. Now go read the post.

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Inside Scoop: Mary Jo Kilroy Wins OH-15

by Cliff Schecter

Awesome news. No link as of yet. I got it from two very solid sources. Mary Jo will be another progressive champion in the House. Excellent news.

UPDATE: Oh, in my haste I forgot to put the margin. 2,311 votes. Or outside the margin of a recount by 700 votes or so. Have fun finding another patsy in two years Boehner...

ChicagObama keeps his Hyde Park home

By GottaLaff

Getty

Roots:

The Obama family will keep their home in Chicago's Hyde Park when they move to Washington in January, the president-elect told someone in a local deli.

A news camera caught Barack Obama saying in Manny's Deli on Friday afternoon the real estate market makes it a bad idea to sell the $1.6 million home where he lives with his wife Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia.

"We're keeping our house," Mr. Obama told a woman in the deli in a comment caught by the CBS-2 camera and posted online in a "Web extra."

He grinned, adding, "We're staying in there for awhile. Now's not the time to sell."

Good thinking.