MOUSs

Tonight I got home after an unpleasant commute, had a pleasant supper, then went out and dealt with the rat that had wandered into our garage and met the fate of all small peanut-butter-attracted creatures. Mr. Rat had lived a full life, and had grown to quite a respectable size, but in spite of his lingering moisture, when I came across him he'd lost quite a bit of his former stature; he was just at that sweet spot of putrefacation that smells thick, smokey and almost sweet, and I would have swept him immediately into a sack, but he was defended by MOUSs.

I'd never experienced Maggots of Unusual Size before; the ones I've seen before topped out at about a centimeter, but these guys were the breadth of a quarter, WITH FEET. I haven't seen anything sucking away at a corpse like that since a month ago when the UAW rep from Chrysler was interviewed, it was that disgusting....

According to Maddie, I've now earned my Hubby Points(tm) for the remainder of the year.

Obama's Socialized Mortgage Program

The Fed is now buying Fannie & Freddie mortgages like it's going out of style so that the yields on the notes goes down (remember the inverse price/yield relationships of bonds) and the marketplace gets good mortgage refinance rates, currently in the 4.x range. If your mortgage is held by Fannie or Freddie and you want to refi, go ahead; we're borrowing it from the Chinese....

Details at Making Home Affordable.

Great Commercial Shows the Scale of the Thing

I mean, really, what more needs be said?