Funny Man of the Week:

In his online essay last month, Southern Baptist Seminary President Albert Mohler tells Christians they should not practice yoga. (Orlando Sentinel)

He said that yoga is a practice of an Eastern religion and would "...threaten to transform their own spriritual lives …"

WAIT! Isn't that a good thing, preacher?

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It looks like promegranate juice is going up in price. It is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and "A new study published in Integrative Cancer Therapies suggests drinking pomegranate juice may help prevent breast cancer from spreading to other organs." (Foodconsumer.org)

I drink a lot of it but not for that reason. I think it tastes great.

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Twenty-two percent of Americans have arthritis of some kind. Once again I am in a minority.

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Man Who Had No Mortgage Faced Foreclosure Anyway:
October 07, 2010, 9:18 PM EDT
By Ann Woolner

Oct. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Jason Grodensky paid cash for a South Florida home last December. With no mortgage and full ownership, he had no fear of foreclosure.

And yet, Bank of America foreclosed on the house seven months later, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel. The court-ordered foreclosure took place July 15.

Grodensky tried for months to get answers from the lawyers and lenders involved. He got nowhere until he contacted the newspaper which started poking around. Now, Bank of America says it will straighten out the mess at its own cost, the Sun Sentinel reports.

Banks that are suspending foreclosures in much of the country call mistakes in paperwork mere technical errors. This implies that the foreclosures, or most of them, were otherwise on solid legal ground and that any mistakes were the unintended result of trying to handle too many cases in too little time.

No harm. No foul, right?

Not true. A great deal of harm has been inflicted, and not just on the rare homeowner wrongly judged to be delinquent.

What’s happened over the past few years is that the very system of keeping track of who owns what property in the U.S. has been undermined by banks too busy to bother with doing it correctly.

This bad record-keeping became an enormous problem for banks when the housing market collapsed and borrowers defaulted. Missing the proper paperwork, foreclosure mills turned out documents misidentifying mortgage holders and containing multiple errors and omissions.

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There is a story on the news that US contractors in Pakistan and Afghanistan hired Taliban insurgents as convoy security guards. I don't think the Army or the Marines would have. The use of private contractors has got to end!

Better yet, the damn war in Afghanistan, now over ten years old, should end.