UPDATE: Is Delaware Housing Really not affordable?

UPDATE IV: Apparently throwing out the Delawareliberal website has some pull in this state!  Wooohoooo.  I got a call back from Jeanine Kliemo herself. 

To her knowledge their were NO exclusions.  The data is from the county board of Realtors. 

She is quoted with saying, “I have no reason to believe that there was any exclusions, but it is their data”

Thanks Mrs. Kliemo! 

Their you have it people, it appears all housing prices were used for this study, which will certainly skew the numbers and make it look like housing is not affordable for those lower-income families seeking residence in Delaware.  You have to love statistics.  Why on earth they would roll out this huge study whining about home prices yet include homes with values in the multi-million dollar range is beyond me and disingenuous. 

This article is bullshit.  The study is using misleading numbers to boot.  I have a liberal heart that bleeds for a lot of people, but I draw the line here…
Affordable housing sought
Report shows many Delawareans unable to pay for a place to live

The march was timed with the release of a report by the Delaware Housing Coalition that found only 36 percent of Delawareans earn the $60,000 required to afford the state’s typical home price of $228,000.

I have a question about this study they did:

 1. did they exclude the top 1% homes that no one in God’s green earth could afford?  For Example, Beach homes on the water, Greenville, WestOver Hills.  (updated information indicates it was not)

2. Did they forget that we have a City by the Name of Wilmington?

3. They didn’t say they want safe and affordable did they?

 More than 100 affordable housing advocates marched to Legislative Hall on Wednesday in an effort to draw attention — and money — to the shortage of economical housing in the state.

Save Ferris!

We haven't heard enough about Mr. Wharton these days....anyone have a scoop?   Would hate to see this one go away quietly. 

Jesus Christ!

Holy shit people!  (no pun intended) I’m panting here.  I can barely catch my breath while you are reading this I saw a sign. I am not shitting you I saw a sign.  Ok, so let me set the stage for you.  There I was driving over to my brother’s pizza and pasta joint.  (haha away, yes, I’m Italian and my brother owns a pizza joint, I’m offended and as well as being hot and Italian I for one am against all stereotypes) 

 So here we were puttering along Rt 49 in NJ headed towards Salem and I’m driving away talking to my wife about the days non events when BAM  I see a sign.  I didn’t know what to do.  I told my wife we have to get a picture of it.  This thing was erie.  We didn’t get the picture unfortunately for you. 

But, you see this whole sign business started yesterday when we were at the beach.  Yes the beach ,not the shore for all you non delaware rejects!  The beach, the thing with sand that around the world is known by the word BEACH, try telling someone in Mexico you are going to the sure.  They will look at you like you are missing something.  I don’t go to the sure, people I go to the beach.  When I ask my daughter if she wants pizza she doesn’t say “beach” she says, “sure”. 

 Right, right,  back to the story, (i’m still breathing heavy, I ran to my laptop to share this with you!)  So there we were at the beach getting ready to spend my dad’s hard earned money on a beach house that I rightly deserve.  I look at as my payment for being called retarded, asked if I was stupid the first 10 years of my life and the countless spankings I recieved for spilling milk, beating up my sister and just being a stupid retard most of my life.  My dad is a very nice guy, but I paid quite a price during my childhood and a beach house is little reward for the abuse I took.  Being the big man that I am I am willing to look past all those sins for some serious vacation property. 

So my dad, getting ready to spend his money as a way to repay his bad debts as a father, is plopping down countless thousands of dollars he loses the deal right then and there before mine eyes.  Not seconds before was finished and make the final signature, litterally seconds before he was done I figured it was safe to call my brother and tell him the glorious news.  I was calling my brother and telling him Vinny, you aren’t going to believe this dad is literally signing the papers right now to buy a house!  “No shit?”, “No shit”!  It was a glorious occasion to be shared with all my family.  I was getting a beach house!  WE, we were getting a beach house.  OHHHHH how wonderful this was, is, will be!

Who else thinks the war is lost

So we all know now that Harry Reid said the war is lost right? If you didn’t (GET OFF MY FUCKING PLANET) or read this and then join this disucssion

REID: This war is lost, and that the surge is not accomplishing anything, as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday.

then he said this seconds later…

 ” My conscience is clear, because I believe the war, at this stage, can only be won diplomatically, politically, and economically.”

But hey, more of that liberal media bias at work, I’m sure you heard that. So as the blurb made the rounds and the War mongers clawed onto that remark I used the magic tubes to see who else thinks the war is lost, besides like 60% of the country it was hard to find credible people to back Harry up.   

Go figure I found something….

“I don’t think that you can kill the insurgency,” said W. Andrew Terrill, professor at the Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute, the top expert on Iraq there. “If you are a Muslim and the community is under occupation by a non-Islamic power, it becomes a religious requirement to resist that occupation,” Terrill explained. “Most Iraqis consider us occupiers, not liberators.”

Retired Gen. William Odom, former head of the National Security Agency, told me: “Bush hasn’t found the WMD. Al-Qaida, it’s worse — he’s lost on that front. That he’s going to achieve a democracy there? That goal is lost, too. It’s lost.” He added: “Right now, the course we’re on, we’re achieving [Osama] bin Laden’s ends.”