Naomi in the pool

MTV Cribs post crash style

Un-Broke: The Seth Green Cribs Edition - watch more funny videos

And this is the mentality that got us into this mess, but I think it sums up the American Dream quite nicely: 2007 MTV Edition:

Pontiac Eczema - Buick Pedophile - Oldsmobil Piece of Crap

So where did the $20 000 000 go, we gave (bi)GM(ess) 6 months ago?

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BiG Mess
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Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Economic Crisis

Ron Paul's Da man

The Irony

Records show Geithner (Treasure Secretary of the US) and his wife, Carole Sonnenfeld Geithner, paid $1.602 million for the home in 2004.

A few weeks after the asking price was dropped to $1.575 million, the home was rented for $7,500 a month on May 21, said the agents, Scott Stiefvater of Stiefvater Real Estate and Debbie Meiliken of Keller Williams Realty New York.

LINK

Oh man, I hope he will be foreclosed on his house. That would be the coolest thing ever. The loan balance on the home is about 1.1 million.

PS: Don't forget the property taxes on that property of $27 000 ...

Naomi Cheerleading

Virtual Wealth

It's a bear market rally. I was going to say I don't think S&P 500 will see new highs. But I have to quickly temper that by saying against the dollar because the S&P 500 could triple from here if they print enough money and the value of the US dollar collapses, then S&P could go to 50,000, Dow Jones can go to 100,000.

Which is one reason why I am not shorting stocks right now. Because there is a possibility of this sort of a thing. There is a possibility that stocks could go through unheard of levels, but would be in worthless currency.
Jim Rogers

Sounding very much like Marc Faber, also an advocate of farming, who recently said he's 100%(!) sure that the US will experience Zimbabwe-like hyperinflation.

LINK

Valkyrie

One of the best movies of the year: Valkyrie.
I was always intrigued by the 1944 July 20th Stauffenberg plot to kill Hitler. It was THE best prepared plot from the 15 assassination attemps on Hitler.
These were BRAVE men.

2 trailers:




Here is a documentary about Valkyrie: (part 1/5, the rest of the episodes are on youtube)

Great Songs

Some more pictures

Our offer was accepted

That was the easy part lol, now we have to make the financing work... and with tight credit and because we have only been here for 2 years... that will not be an easy journey.

We made another offer

We made a full price offer for this property in Chandler on 1.4 acre (5600 m2). Home is 350 m2, 4 car garage, pool and spa(in the courtyard are covered by the wooden and a metal construction).

Bucket List

We will be going to Belgium this summer, on our bucket list:
Not in order of priority
1. Watch an episode of FC de Kampioenen (it has to be a rerun)
2. Visit Rome (It)
3. Visit Goes (Nl)
4. Visit Versailles (Fr)
5. Eat mussels at least once a week
6. Eat in a 3* Michelin restaurant (Hof Van cleve or Comme chez soi)
7. Visit the NOXX discotheque
8. Visit Dinant

No Intelligent Design after all ...

Scientists Unveil Missing Link In Evolution

Please disregard the 15 second commercial




Scientists have unveiled a 47-million-year-old fossilised skeleton of a monkey hailed as the missing link in human evolution.

Sir David Attenborough said Darwin "would have been thrilled" to have seen the fossil - and says it tells us who we are and where we came from.

"This little creature is going to show us our connection with the rest of the mammals. This is the one that connects us directly with them. Now people can say 'okay we are primates, show us the link'. The link they would have said up to now is missing - well it's no longer missing."

Worst Planner in the world

I must be the worst planner in the world. Apparently Naomi finished school June 9th ...

Coming soon to a country near you

Visiting Belgium

We are definitely planning on visiting Belgium, but we have passport problems for me. My Belgian passport just expired and I have to get a new one, and that has to go through the consulate in Los Angeles.

This short sale, foreclosure thing is getting out of control

Morality? euhm
LINK

The most stupid sport EVER

X-arm

Waterboarding

Torture Queen Rice

What about that

"Boss"napping

Right on

Post Housing Bubble

SuperStar of Britain's got talent

I wasn't able to embed the video so here is the link to watch the performance of Susan Boyle

Lisa's Birthday

Britain's got talent

The BEST

and...
the WORST

One down

Acting CFO of Freddie Mac commits suicide

VIENNA, Va. -- The acting chief financial officer of Freddie Mac, David Kellermann, has apparently committed suicide, Fairfax County Police tell WTOP.

One down, a lot more to go. LINK, nice house...

Piss away that money

WASHINGTON – The top 10 recipients of the government’s $700 billion financial bailout spent about $9.5 million on federal lobbying during the first three months of the year.

The biggest spender was bailed-out automaker General Motors Corp., which devoted $2.8 million to lobbying in the first quarter of 2009. It has received $13.4 billion in government loans and could get $5 billion more, according to a government report released Tuesday.

that my tax money is being used to lobby for GM is beyond comprehension

Easter Egg party pics

Real Estate Web interface

I will be creating a facebook account in the next few days. When I saw that Belgian politicians are using facebook to gain voters, I thought I should at least keep up with the boring politicians. My internet interface would then be complete: website - blog - facebook ... until something else comes up...

They can pop up the banks with an endless stream of dollars, yens and euros

however, when the economy halts, who is going to save the countries that created the currencies. Who?

Best movie we've seen since Lord of the Rings

and we watch about 4 movies a week.
"Tell no one"

Why we fight

Price Airplane Tickets: the lowest I've seen

6/1 - 6/30: Phx-Bru: $875 per person

6/1 - 6/30: Phx-Amsterdam: $759 per person


6/1 - 6/30: Phx-Londen : $794 per person

The banks and the car companies receive an eternal flow of money. meanwhile in the real world:

things are starting to fall apart... LINK

Mass layoff tracker update MARCH

Date - Company - Total Laid Off - Industry

3/24/2009 Cummins 1,427 Capital Goods
3/22/2009 Freeport-McMoRan 2,800 Materials
3/19/2009 Lam Research 375 Semiconductors
3/17/2009 Caterpillar 27,378 Capital Goods
3/17/2009 Corning 200 Technology
3/17/2009 Weyerhaeuser 739 Materials
3/16/2009 TRW Automotive Holdings 417 Consumer Durables
3/13/2009 Baker Hughes 3,000 Oil & Gas
3/13/2009 PPG Industries 2,500 Chemicals
3/13/2009 Sunoco 750 Oil & Gas
3/11/2009 AMR 323 Transportation
3/10/2009 Lowe's 82 Retailing
3/10/2009 Principal Financial 60 Financials
3/10/2009 United Technologies 11,600 Conglomerates
3/6/2009 Deere & Co. 987 Capital Goods
3/4/2009 Northrop Grumman 750 Aerospace
3/4/2009 Dover 180 Conglomerates
3/4/2009 General Dynamics 1,379 Aerospace
3/3/2009 U.S. Steel 6,705 Materials
3/3/2009 FirstEnergy 335 Utilities

8 more weeks of school

2 more months and then we're done with school.
Kids have a 10 week break, teachers will have a 8 week break and have 2 weeks in August for training, room preparation and so on.
Teachers here don't get any money during the summer,luckily they pay us enough to save some dough to weather the summer time.

Busy

The last few weeks I have been working hard to get my real estate "thing" going.
I have a blog, a website and am posting some advertising on several websites.
I will not post a direct link to my r-e website or blog, because I don't want them to be interconnected.
However, typ my full name, first name first into Google and the 2nd link that pops up should be my website, the 4th is my blog. The first and third link about the pedophile with my name can be disregarded :-)