The U.S. housing market is hurting, as you undoubtedly know. Home foreclosures are the highest since record-keeping began 35 years ago, as 1.69 percent of all outstanding mortgage loans have entered the foreclosure process. As of October, the median price of an American house fell more than $20,000 in 2007.

I asked a cow once what she thought of Ron Paul. She told me to moo-ve. I was surprised by the rude response. Looking down, however, I quickly realized that I was probably standing on her lunch. So, I moved off the patch of green grass. Then, I again asked Betsy what she thought of presidential candidate Ron Paul. Looking at me with those big brown eyes, her tail twitching, Betsy answered: "Ask the people in the house. I don't vote." 

Okay, that was a fair answer.  

People like those in the house do have an opinion about Ron Paul. Besides being generational family farmers, they are nearly fanatical about supporting Ron Paul for president. When asked why, speaking in unison, they say Paul has been attempting to protect the small farmers' rights in Congress. But protecting them from whom? 

(Special investigative report by Grünhaus Gaz, environmental correspondent.)

On December 4, 10,000 worldcrats and their coteries jetted into the Indonesian resort island of Bali to attend yet another in a long line of climate-change conferences.

It could have been worse, I guess.