Foreclosure activity up across most US metro areas - Yahoo! News

Image by Getty Images via @daylifeThis is something I've been talking about for years now. I have never been able to figure out why in the World people think they can buy a house and rent it out for 1000 plus a month. In average. Most people only make anywhere from 7 to 10 bucks an hour. This crash is only the beginning.
It's no wonder why all this greed for money has finally taken it's toll. Though I do feel sorry for those loosing homes through all this. I find it so sad that Credit, background checks and 20 million other laws determine whether or not you can have a place to live for your family.
With the jobs gone and more companies falling under no matter what the news says about it. Its gotten bad. If you rent out places. You might want to reconcider how much you charge for that rent.
I still remember when 2 and 3 bedrooms went for 400 a month. Today? 900 to 1500 for the same thing? And so many wonder why it crashed? We can't forget that the Jobs out there still don't pay any more than they did back then either.
This reason alone is just one of the reasons all this is happening today.
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LOS ANGELES – The foreclosure crisis is getting worse as high unemployment and lackluster job prospects force homeowners in an increasing number of U.S. metropolitan areas into dire financial straits.
In Seattle, Houston and Chicago, cities that were relatively insulated from foreclosures early on in the housing bust, a growing number of homeowners are falling behind on mortgage payments and finding themselves on the receiving end of foreclosure warnings. Others have already seen their homes repossessed by lenders.
All told, foreclosure activity jumped in 149 of the country's 206 largest metropolitan areas last year, foreclosure listing firm RealtyTrac Inc. said Thursday.
The firm tracks notices for defaults, scheduled home auctions and home repossessions — warnings that can lead up to a home eventually being lost to foreclosure.
Job loss, rather than time-bomb mortgages resetting to higher payments, has become the main driver behind rising foreclosures.

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Wrong to Exclude God from Classroom, Says U.K. Think Tank | Christianpost.com

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LONDON – A new report from London-based theology think tank Theos has criticized attempts to restrict the influence of religious beliefs on education.

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In this file photo, students in a fourth-grade class work Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010, at the Salmon Bay School in Seattle.

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In particular, he challenges the prevailing assumption that education should be based on human knowledge and rationality because they are objective and independent of the “clutter” of religious beliefs.
Professor Cooling warns that such a position only privileges secular worldviews and so-called “commonsense” values in the classroom.
“The problem with this position is its dependence on the particular humanist belief that religion is ‘clutter’ when it comes to knowledge. It is not therefore fair or inclusive to base public education on this approach because it unjustifiably privileges a secular view of knowledge,” he states.

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US aid group attacked in NW Pakistan; 6 dead

clipped from news.yahoo.com ISLAMABAD – Suspected militants armed with assault rifles and a homemade bomb attacked the offices of a U.S.-based Christian aid group helping earthquake survivors in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six Pakistani employees, police and the organization said. The assault prompted World Vision, a major international humanitarian group, to suspend its operations in Pakistan. Other aid organizations condemned the attack but said it would not lead them to curtail their own activities. Extremists have killed other foreign aid group employees in Pakistan and accused such organizations of working against Islam, greatly hampering efforts to raise living standards in the desperately poor region. Many groups have already scaled down operations in the northwest or pulled out altogether. "It was a brutal and senseless attack," said Dean Owen, World Vision spokesman in Seattle, Washington. "It was completely unexpected, unannounced and unprovoked."

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