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• Q2 jumps by 67 percent year over year • Buyers done in by ‘creative mortgages’ according to figures released Monday by Foreclosures.com, a Central Valley-based real estate investment advisory firm and publisher of foreclosure property information. "Year over year at the end of the second quarter of 2006, foreclosure activity in California has increased more than 67 percent," says Alexis McGee, president of Fair Oaks-based ForeclosureS.com. The once hot housing markets in Las Vegas and Phoenix are cooling off rapidly and defaults there are on the rise as well, she says. "Both Las Vegas and Phoenix were impacted by...

Perhaps it's time to recolonize the Middle East. If we get our NATO allies and Russia together with us on the same page and invade the entire Muslim Middle East and re-establish European run colonial governments, we could save a lot of money on oil and put an end to government sponsored terrorism. Together, this alliance would have 90% of the world's military might. Without the mother's milk of oil revenue, it will be far more difficult fot terrorists to obtain the financing for nuclear weapon development or purchase. Russia could administer Iran, France could administer Syria, Britain could administer...

This is the text of an email I received today. Wouldn't it be fun to string this guy out for a while,then hang him out to dry ? Ideas welcome ! Dear Friend, I am Dr.Daniel Nando presently i am practising with a private hospital here in Ivory Coast W/Africa,And you don?t worry because I got your contact through a chamber of commerce and will like to explain to you about a transaction which I hope you can assist which will benefit both of us. I have a patient, a Sierra Leonia woman who was on admission for some weeks...