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Michelle Obama Shows Off 'Limited' Handy Skills on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
People ^ | 9-24-11

Posted on 09/24/2011 5:40:34 PM PDT by STARWISE

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To: Pigsley
Next up on Reality TV:
Survivor Obamaville: Affirmative Action Surgeons Do Cardiac Surgery

41 posted on 09/24/2011 7:37:08 PM PDT by bvw
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To: Pigsley

The show REALLY typifies the liberal, affirmative action, and collegiate-Marxist mindset. Not just equality of outcome, the down-trodden must receive BETTER outcome.

Of course, reality is never denied or upset by all the propaganda and feel-good thinking. Reality keeps on crunching on, and we/you either best it by training, study, hard-work, getting-up-and-get-going-each-day, by actual struggles and real accomplishments, competition in a free market with an honorable justice system.


42 posted on 09/24/2011 7:44:29 PM PDT by bvw
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To: Hoodat

Excellent.


43 posted on 09/24/2011 7:44:40 PM PDT by Pigsley
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To: Pigsley

What birth certificate?


44 posted on 09/24/2011 8:18:42 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: gargoyle

Troll?


45 posted on 09/24/2011 8:43:28 PM PDT by celtic gal
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To: bvw; Pigsley
We've got that one beat here in Georgia. A Clayton County family got one of those Extreme Makeover homes. Not only were they given the new house, their mortgage was completely paid off. In addition, they were given $100,000 in cash to be set aside for their kids' college education.

They ended up taking out a $450,000 mortgage on the totally-paid-for house. They ended up blowing that cash along with the kids college money. By the time the house was foreclosed on, they were almost two years delinquent in paying the city for garbage pickup.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/16980412/detail.html
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/18813245/detail.html
http://www.ajc.com/search/content/metro/stories/2008/07/26/foreclose.html

46 posted on 09/24/2011 9:02:47 PM PDT by Hoodat (Because they do not change, Therefore they do not fear God. -Psalm 55:19-)
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To: Hoodat; bvw

There sure are some horror stories .. makes ya wonder
how they could really be better off from all this extreme
generosity, especially since they seem completely in the dark about handling their new situations.


47 posted on 09/24/2011 9:56:19 PM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: celtic gal
"Troll?"

No, Gargoyle. Just look at the pictures.

48 posted on 09/24/2011 10:13:10 PM PDT by redhead (Don't START with me...you know how I get.)
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To: celtic gal

Not you, obviously! I meant the Gargoyle in the pictures. LOLOL!


49 posted on 09/24/2011 10:13:59 PM PDT by redhead (Don't START with me...you know how I get.)
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To: Lizavetta

People do what they’re good at, they have no choice.
And she’s good at being low-class, undignified, and disrespectful. Why shouldn’t she play to her strengths?


50 posted on 09/24/2011 10:23:50 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: STARWISE

ABC promised that we were going to have a home and that we were going to be together.  And basically what happened was, we’re not in a home.  The thing is they keep airing our show almost like every other weekend and so that show, every time it gets aired, it makes money.  They‘re practically making money off of us, and it’s telling a story that’s not really true.  It’s telling a story that we‘re all in a house together, we‘re happy, we’re a loving family, we’re happier than we ever could be in our lives, but it’s really not true. 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8973501/ns/msnbc_tv-the_abrams_report/t/extreme-makeover-lawsuit/#.Tn7LYqN5mSM


51 posted on 09/24/2011 11:39:43 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: STARWISE

Looks like another person featured on ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is in danger of losing her home.

From the Orlando Sentinel, via Zillow Blog:

Sadie Holmes thought it was a blessing when ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition built her a 7,000-square-foot home and office for her charity in 2006.

Now she’s struggling to keep her nonprofit afloat, and she may end up losing the $400,000 home if she can’t pay a $29,000 county lien—placed on the property after months of code violations racked up....

“I’m grateful for this building,” Holmes said, “but it’s causing me too much stress and too much problems.”

http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/the-home-front/2008/10/07/another-extreme-makeover-home-in-trouble


52 posted on 09/24/2011 11:41:37 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl

Sheesh .. time to change that show’s format, totally.


53 posted on 09/24/2011 11:43:20 PM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: STARWISE

Left with more than $100,000 to pay off on their mortgage, and an increase in property taxes and utility bills, the Hassalls have decided that the stress of the home is more than they can take. Although some in the community are angry with the decision, most seem to be sympathetic to the Hassalls’ situation.

Background: Other “Extreme Makeover” homes go on the market

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/Americas/2009/June/With-Extreme-Makeover-Homes—Some-Get-Foreclosure-Instead-of-Happy-Ending.html

Eric Hebert put his “Extreme Makeover” house up for sale last year, saying that he couldn’t afford the maintenance on the home, according to the Associated Press. Hebert, of Sandpoint, Idaho, then took out a loan against the house. In February, the bank foreclosed on the house when Hebert became unable to make payments.

Victor Marrero moved into his “Extreme Makeover” home in August 2007, and then in May 2008, he put the New Jersey home on the market for nearly $500,000. According to MyCentralJersey.com, Marrero said the home “was too costly to maintain” and that the money he’d been given by the show was not enough to pay all of his debts. One day after he listed the property, however, Marrero removed the listing.

In Atlanta, one “Extreme Makeover” family has had nothing but financial trouble since moving into their new home. Milton and Patricia Harper received their home in January 2005. The family used the house as collateral for a $450,000 loan to start a construction business. When the business failed, the house went into foreclosure in July 2008, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.


54 posted on 09/24/2011 11:45:51 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: STARWISE

Extreme Fakeover: Home Perdition?
The article relates the experience of Dineh Georgia Yazzie and her family, who live at Piñon, Arizona, and their gift of a new house built by the “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” TV program that airs on ABC network, which is owned by the Walt Disney Company. The house was built in May 2007, and the program aired on 28 October 2007.

In the article, the author tells of a host of problems with the new house that began to show up even before the program aired, and the non-response of the show’s producers and the network, even though the house was under a one-year warranty.

When SENAA International contacted writer Cindy Yurth to ask about the present status of the house, her response was that ABC had done very little to repair the house; and the repairs still aren’t finished. 

After more than a year, Georgia and her family are still having a hard winter because of ABC, Disney, and Lock & Key Productions’ failure to respond to Georgia’s pleas for help. In fact ABC’s primary response was to send a representative to Georgia Yazzie’s house to get her to sign a release form that would release ABC and the show’s producers from any responsibility or obligation to honor the warranty. When she refused to sign the release, the ABC representative became abusive, saying that Georgia was ungrateful and talking to her as if the shoddy workmanship and ABC’s failure to honor its own warranty were her fault.

When SENAA asked Georgia Yazzie, in a phone conversation about the incident, she said that she understood his being upset, because he had come to her house to get her signature on the release form and was upset because he had to go back to the network empty handed.

http://www.senaahq.bravehost.com/ExtremeMakeover-HomeEdition/HelpTheYazzieFamily.htm


55 posted on 09/24/2011 11:50:28 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Rebelbase

Are those ‘window treatments’ (gay term for curtains) Ø is putting up?


56 posted on 09/24/2011 11:50:39 PM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: STARWISE

One of the more popular shows on television is once again receiving some harsh criticisms.  The ABC’s hit television show Extreme Makeover Home Edition is under fire for the recent rash of foreclosures that their homes have gone through.  In the show families in need apply for the Extreme Makeover crew to come to their town and build them a brand new home in an effort to increase the family’s quality of life. 

In recent months, with the slumping economy, up to six families that have appeared on the show have already found themselves unable to afford the higher property taxes, utility and maintenance bills.  Because of these higher costs associated with their new homes these families have been forced to foreclose on their new dream homes and this is what has drawn some harsh criticism from the general public.

http://www.loansafe.org/extreme-makeover-home-edition-foreclosures


57 posted on 09/24/2011 11:58:58 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Yaelle
The white multicolored dress is made out of Bounty paper towels.I hope it didn't cost much more than 4 rolls.

Now you have done it spilled coffee everywhere even on the wall.!

This may be Freeper post of the year too early to say!!!!

GREAT JOB!

58 posted on 09/25/2011 4:38:41 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin 2012)
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To: gargoyle

You need to get of crack. It does no one any good.
Now just back away, slowly, from the crack pipe.


59 posted on 09/25/2011 4:40:55 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin 2012)
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To: STARWISE
The "stupids" in power right now just done get it. There is no substitute for free market capitalism. No matter how they try and govermentalize the economy it never works.

The only stimulus that works is one that gets rid of govt.interference.

Free market capitalism remains the answer. They will get it a year from November when all the socialists are voted out.

60 posted on 09/25/2011 4:48:07 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin 2012)
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