Arkenor wins an ARM
Ruth |
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12.08.07 - 8:37 pm | #
Neither a borrower or a lender pee.
Kbacon |
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12.08.07 - 8:37 pm | #
Wow, looks like there'll be drastic price cuts in organically-grown vegetables, what with all this free manure in the Big Sh*tpile to sell off...
RepubAnon |
12.08.07 - 8:38 pm | #
Well, no shit.
Don't over-borrow.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
12.08.07 - 8:38 pm | #
Headline of the day, over at FARK....
Ann Coulter turns 46, her vagina turns 0
Reality |
12.08.07 - 8:38 pm | #
does this mean it's a good time to refinance?
whiskey girl |
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12.08.07 - 8:38 pm | #
As a Spanish person I know what the Muslims did to my Homeland.
A skit at a local Christian youth group meeting had teenage boys taking off some of their clothes, wearing adult diapers, bibs and bonnets and being spoon-fed by girls as they sat in their laps.
Some say it's just crazy, goofy teenage fun. But others, including one boy's mother and the Mt. Lebanon School District, aren't comfortable with it.
The skit took place during the Nov. 29 meeting of the Mt. Lebanon Young Life club, a nondenominational Christian youth group directed by youth minister O.J. Wandrisco.
Laurie Metz, whose 14-year-old son was one of the boys who took part in the skit, said she found it inappropriate, demeaning and sexually perverse.
Mr. Wandrisco and a national spokesman for Young Life say the skits are all in fun and meant to be used as "icebreakers" at the youth group meetings.
"The skits are designed for one reason and one reason only -- for kids to have fun. It's not a dirty joke. The skits are to break down the walls and let them have fun," Mr. Wandrisco said.
Southern Beale |
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12.08.07 - 8:43 pm | #
From an ESPN wankfest:
With its media-fueled millennial cachet as a universal American symbol of celebrity, sustained superlative achievement and gridiron gallantry, the Heisman is now equal parts Oscar, Nobel Prize, Lombardi and Congressional Medal of Honor cast into one transcendent, iconic -- not to mention heavy -- 25-pound hunk of bronze.
That graph is 25 pounds of stupid.
Kbacon |
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12.08.07 - 8:43 pm | #
As I understand it, Paulson's plan prevents borrowers who are one payment behind from participating. So, his "plan" doesn't help any of these folks at all.
Slothrop |
12.08.07 - 8:44 pm | #
turns 0
I interpreted that to mean it hasn't been born yet; ie, she doesn't have one; ie, she's a man...
whiskey girl |
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12.08.07 - 8:44 pm | #
It's news like this that tempts me to kill my contractor.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint |
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12.08.07 - 8:45 pm | #
As I understand it, Paulson's plan prevents borrowers who are one payment behind from participating. So, his "plan" doesn't help any of these folks at all.
AS I read it, the plan prevents a whole BUNCH of people from participating. The eligibility criteria is so narrow that to call it a mere gesture is an understatement.
Southern Beale |
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12.08.07 - 8:45 pm | #
A skit at a local Christian youth group meeting had teenage boys taking off some of their clothes, wearing adult diapers, bibs and bonnets and being spoon-fed by girls as they sat in their laps.
The Vitter Guild.
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.08.07 - 8:45 pm | #
I interpreted that to mean it hasn't been born yet; ie, she doesn't have one; ie, she's a man...
Oh, thanks. That makes sense.
Seriously, I'm dense when it comes to these things.
Southern Beale |
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12.08.07 - 8:46 pm | #
Why would anyone other than Kreskin get an ARM?
Kbacon |
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12.08.07 - 8:46 pm | #
Analysts at Credit Suisse Group estimate more than 30 percent of borrowers with subprime adjustable-rate mortgages are behind on their payments before their loans reset higher and 775,000 homes with $143 billion of mortgage debt will go into foreclosure through the middle of 2009
And no one is helping them, right. They don't qualify for the program just announced because it's more important to point the finger of judgement at the 'deadbeats' than to help the economy.
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12.08.07 - 8:47 pm | #
Laurie Metz, whose 14-year-old son was one of the boys who took part in the skit, said she found it inappropriate, demeaning and sexually perverse.
Paddington Bear will be arrested by police and interrogated over his immigration status, it emerged today.
Southern Beale |
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12.08.07 - 8:48 pm | #
Hard to believe, but I can't find the lyrics to "Euphoria" anywhere on the internets.
How did it go again?
Ma's out there, switchin' in the kitchen, and Pa's in the living room, grousin' and a-bitchin'
And I'm out here, ringing the gong for Euphoria!
Euphoria, when your mind starts reeling and a rockin'
(something, something,something, I can't remember)
Floatin' around on a belladonna cloud, singing Euphoria!
Karin |
12.08.07 - 8:48 pm | #
didn't Bill Maher hit it? Is it artificial? We want to know.
1Watt, Hermit |
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12.08.07 - 8:49 pm | #
I just learned over at Digby's that the Kaplan test prep corporation is owned by the Washington Post.
Southern Beale |
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12.08.07 - 8:50 pm | #
A skit at a local Christian youth group meeting had teenage boys taking off some of their clothes, wearing adult diapers, bibs and bonnets and being spoon-fed by girls as they sat in their laps.
Boys State
Kbacon |
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12.08.07 - 8:50 pm | #
Paddington Bear will be arrested by police and interrogated over his immigration status, it emerged today.
Southern Beale
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOES!
I have an autographed copy of Paddington Bear - Autographed by Paddington Station itself!
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GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholiast |
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12.08.07 - 8:50 pm | #
paying on time is for wussies
blank |
12.08.07 - 8:50 pm | #
future Boys Staters - do they still have that?
Kbacon |
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12.08.07 - 8:50 pm | #
when you realize dems=reps, it all makes sense.
gary in fl |
12.08.07 - 8:51 pm | #
Yes, alas, it does. And as a hypothyroid, Type 2 diabetic, the simple act of eating is sometimes beyond me. I try, very, very hard - I get two or even three mouthfulls - and I just don't give a damn after that. It'll get better. It's always connected to unhappiness and sadness - thus, this festive time of the year.
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GWPDA
Fortunately for me, my medical issue is not "ongoing" in the same way, but I got out of the habit of eating (for about a year), and now I find that I occassionally forget to eat for a day or so. And when I do remember, I[m not paticularly hungry.
Can I suggest going to your nearest dim sum place and getting an order of har gow (minced shrimp). When I was ill those and steamed rice were among the few things that were even remotely appetizing.
JR, kerosene and a match |
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12.08.07 - 8:51 pm | #
The narrative frame for the housing crash should be the "Bush-Greenspan housing crash."
P O'Neill |
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12.08.07 - 8:52 pm | #
when you realize dems=reps, it all makes sense.
gary in fl
Gary One-Note
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.08.07 - 8:52 pm | #
I just learned over at Digby's that the Kaplan test prep corporation is owned by the Washington Post.
Southern Beale
I learnt about that a month ago at the LA Times.
Apparently it is the only thing that is keeping the WAPO in business.
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GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholiast |
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12.08.07 - 8:53 pm | #
I have an autographed copy of Paddington Bear - Autographed by Paddington Station itself!
Well, my Paddington Bear is autographed by Elephant and Circus.
I'm listening to the theme of the show Webster right now.
How's that for a Saturday night?
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12.08.07 - 8:54 pm | #
"The skits are designed for one reason and one reason only -- for kids to have fun. It's not a dirty joke. The skits are to break down the walls and let them have fun," Mr. Wandrisco said.
Southern Beale
i esp liked the part about the girls eating jelly beans covered in chocolate pudding out of the diapers.
oh the yuks they must have had.
nona |
12.08.07 - 8:54 pm | #
i esp liked the part about the girls eating jelly beans covered in chocolate pudding out of the diapers.
oh the yuks they must have had.
nona |
Sick people.
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.08.07 - 8:54 pm | #
Can I suggest going to your nearest dim sum place and getting an order of har gow (minced shrimp). When I was ill those and steamed rice were among the few things that were even remotely appetizing.
I don't have a chronic health problem (none that I'm aware of, at least), but for me the food I fall back on when I'm unwell is raisin bran.
No idea why that is.
Larry Kudlow |
12.08.07 - 8:55 pm | #
The narrative frame for the housing crash should be the "Bush-Greenspan housing crash."
Can I suggest going to your nearest dim sum place and getting an order of har gow (minced shrimp). When I was ill those and steamed rice were among the few things that were even remotely appetizing.
JR, kerosene and a match
You know my plan!
I am fortunate to live just up the street from Chen Wok, and now scheme to take all my meals from them, from now until well after the first of the year. Little bits of lovely bitty goodies..... I intend to start this within the next two-three weeks.
I've got some bread to eat tonight. I'll be fine. Thanks. Ur kind.
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GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholiast |
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12.08.07 - 8:56 pm | #
"Analysts at Credit Suisse Group estimate more than 30 percent of borrowers with subprime adjustable-rate mortgages are behind on their payments before their loans reset"
oh boy. the big shitpile is gonna hit the fan.
jdw |
12.08.07 - 8:56 pm | #
the diaper thing? NOTHING tops The Purity Ball. Holy fuck on a hammock
Kbacon |
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12.08.07 - 8:56 pm | #
Apparently it is the only thing that is keeping the WAPO in business.
And makes all of their coverage of No Child Left Behind suspect, too ....
Southern Beale |
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12.08.07 - 8:56 pm | #
You know, I'm sorry, but if the worst thing those teens ever do is some jelly beans in chocolate pudding, they will have gotten out of their teen years far easier than i did.
We're losing a war against camel-drivers
We're in hock to the Chinese up to our ears
The planet is dying
A certified mad man has his finer on the nuclear bullet.
Hell, I'd like to eat some chocolate covered jelly beans.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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12.08.07 - 8:58 pm | #
Apparently it is the only thing that is keeping the WAPO in business.
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GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholiast
yep, and the post has been forced to acknowledge that change:
Post Now an 'Education and Media' Company
By Frank Ahrens
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, December 6, 2007; D01
Donald E. Graham rebranded The Washington Post Co. as an "education and media company" at a meeting with Wall Street analysts and shareholders yesterday, reflecting the rise of Kaplan Inc. within the company and the the decline of its flagship newspaper.
Kaplan, which The Post Co. purchased in 1984, now accounts for 50 cents of every dollar of company revenue, by far the top earner, according to the third-quarter earnings report released last month.
..."In the past 10 years, there has been quite a dramatic change in the composition of our company," Graham, the Post Co. chairman, said in an interview yesterday. "Most people who care about the company know that, but I wanted to make it clear."
Graham said he was waiting until Kaplan passed the 50 percent threshold to make the change. The newspaper division, primarily The Post, accounts for 21 cents of every dollar.
``It'll be the biggest housing recession we've known,'' said Allen Sinai, chief global economist at New York-based Decision Economics Inc. ``Even if we figure this part of it out, we are not through it.''
Erm, is this guy just saying "within my career memory" or is he including the slight downturn of 1929 in this?
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
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12.08.07 - 8:58 pm | #
Troll still blathering to himself downstairs.
Southern Beale |
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12.08.07 - 8:59 pm | #
(something, something,something, I can't remember)
your inside forces keep a-squealin' and a-squawkin'
Sarah Deere |
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12.08.07 - 8:59 pm | #
Little bits of lovely bitty goodies..... I intend to start this within the next two-three weeks.
If you can find a vietnamese/korean/chinese grocery, they often have dumplings in the frozen section. I nuke 'em under a wet paper towel, and they are pretty yummy for insta-food.
JR, kerosene and a match |
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12.08.07 - 8:59 pm | #
Troll still blathering to himself downstairs.
Southern Beale
What a freak.
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.08.07 - 8:59 pm | #
Forgot to mention this earlier, but when I visited my girlfriend in MI over Thanksgiving weekend, as I was leaving, her next door neighbor was moving in, because her house just got foreclosed on.
Karin |
12.08.07 - 9:00 pm | #
All right, I'm off. Novels to read, food to not eat, doggie to pet.
That's Mongo the Magnificent to you, bub!
JR, kerosene and a match |
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12.08.07 - 9:00 pm | #
Cripes, this is Nashville. Dim sum? Nevahearduvit.
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I had some decent aloo gobi in Nashville. Not quite the same thing, but still....
Phila, Pizen Sarpint |
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12.08.07 - 9:00 pm | #
Can I suggest going to your nearest dim sum place and getting an order of har gow (minced shrimp)
If I asked for dim sum in Harrisonburg, the nice people would turn down the lights.
bill |
12.08.07 - 9:00 pm | #
NOTHING tops The Purity Ball. Holy fuck on a hammock
Kbacon
no shit. the chicago tribune did a big story on that recently and i went back a couple of days later to look at the comments -- that were overwhelmingly appalled -- and they had been disappeared...lol
nona |
12.08.07 - 9:01 pm | #
Dim sum? Nevahearduvit.
Southern Beale
"Dim Sum" is contonese for "leftovers".
JR, kerosene and a match |
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12.08.07 - 9:01 pm | #
Not an expert, but 1929 wasn't so much a housing recession, was it? Although plenty of people lost the farm. Wasn't it more of a jobs recession?
Karin |
12.08.07 - 9:02 pm | #
Cripes, this is Nashville. Dim sum? Nevahearduvit.
Southern Beale
...well, it is one of Bush's nicknames...
Oh. You said sum!
...nevermind...
Jack K., the Grumpy Forester |
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12.08.07 - 9:02 pm | #
I know I posted this already, but not all of you were here.
A little seasonal music, geek style
It's beginning to look a lot like fish-men
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"The skits are designed for one reason and one reason only -- for kids to have fun. It's not a dirty joke. The skits are to break down the walls and let them have fun," Mr. Wandrisco said.
Contrast this to teh boyz putting their wee-wees into teh girlz ho-has. NOT fun. DO NOT do. EVAH.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
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12.08.07 - 9:02 pm | #
The cynical concept of Zero Sum Gain becomes interesting to me, when applied to civilization.
MP |
12.08.07 - 9:02 pm | #
"Dim Sum" is contonese for "leftovers"
As opposed to Dim Son, who currently occupies the White House.
If I asked for dim sum in Harrisonburg, the nice people would turn down the lights.
bill
You can get chinese food in every town and village and crossroads in Canada. I swear, you are driving through buttfuck nowhere, there's a gas station, a stop sign, and a chinese restaurant.
JR, kerosene and a match |
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12.08.07 - 9:03 pm | #
You know good chinese restaurant where food get cooked on top of table?
liam |
12.08.07 - 9:03 pm | #
If you can find a vietnamese/korean/chinese grocery, they often have dumplings in the frozen section.
And Trader's Joes has lovely frozen dumplings.
Karin |
12.08.07 - 9:03 pm | #
...2009?
Worse than BCCI, worse than the S&L "scandal", worse than...
There is not a Trader Joe's in the entire state of Tennessee.
My God, what a backwater.
Southern Beale |
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12.08.07 - 9:04 pm | #
What do people here think of Oprah's cleavage? Too much, too little, or just right?
jack |
12.08.07 - 9:04 pm | #
Hecate, how about some Stoli to go with those chocolate covered jelly beans?
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
12.08.07 - 9:05 pm | #
Have you ever dined at a place called an 'eatery'?
liam |
12.08.07 - 9:06 pm | #
Seriously, a friend of mine's uncle lived in Nowheresville. We were driving past, so we stopped in, and the uncle wasn't hime. So we started looking for dinner. The first place we find is the inevitable Chinese restaurant,... and his uncle is there.
No Canadian ever need go without Lo Mein.
JR, kerosene and a match |
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12.08.07 - 9:06 pm | #
Hecate, how about some Stoli to go with those chocolate covered jelly beans?
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
We had chicken and steak kabobs tonight with some burgandy wine
Darryl Pearce |
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12.08.07 - 9:06 pm | #
I had some decent aloo gobi in Nashville. Not quite the same thing, but still....
Oh, we can do Indian. The best Indian food I've ever put in my mouth is right up the street from me.
Chinese? Not so much.
Can't find good pizza here or good Chinese. Can you believe it?
Southern Beale |
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12.08.07 - 9:06 pm | #
Grandmere, may I have the Stoli *without* the jelly beans...?
Sarah Deere |
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12.08.07 - 9:06 pm | #
your inside forces keep a-squealin' and a-squawkin'
Sarah Deere
If anyone sees euphronius, tell him he's got gmail. No urgency.
Noe, I gotta go drink my plastic and show my SO a good time.
G'night, flittermice.
JR, kerosene and a match |
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12.08.07 - 9:10 pm | #
Farley's Eatery & Pub is a restaurant in downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania, and is considered a staple of Scrantonian culinary culture. Farley's promotes itself as having the "the best steak and seafood in downtown Scranton." Recently, it has garnered fame from being mentioned on The Office.
Actor Jason Miller died at the pub on May 13, 2001 from a major heart attack.
liam |
12.08.07 - 9:10 pm | #
Gotta sign off, battery is abotu to die. Later kidddos.
Southern Beale |
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12.08.07 - 9:10 pm | #
Well, let me post my cat scale photos... brb
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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12.08.07 - 9:10 pm | #
Grandmere, Stoli in a short glass, a couple of pieces of crushed ice, thanks. Maybe w/a twist.
Sarah Deere |
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12.08.07 - 9:11 pm | #
Today, I'm feeling more close to normal.
Sallyh
Good news!
You'll be back to your old self before you know it.
SteveNS |
12.08.07 - 9:12 pm | #
Thanks Karin --
BTW -- if you want to email me & don't still have my address, you can always click Homepage & use the hot link:
Vocations/Summer Program
to contact me
Vicki --
I asked below (but you had probably already moved to the clean sheets) --when you gonna come for another visit?
Prior Aelred |
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12.08.07 - 9:12 pm | #
Steve, I'm sure part of it was quitting smoking and being ill as well. I'm more or less a chemical disaster at the moment, but it does seem to be improving.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
12.08.07 - 9:14 pm | #
Today, I'm feeling more close to normal.
This is a v. good thing. I sure hope Maddie loves pizza, as her future husband considers it almost a religious experience.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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12.08.07 - 9:14 pm | #
I do like that roller skate girl
Joe |
12.08.07 - 9:14 pm | #
Prior, I'll get that book in the mail to Br. Cuthbert this week, for sure. It's got lovely illustrations.
Karin |
12.08.07 - 9:14 pm | #
Actor Jason Miller died at the pub on May 13, 2001 from a major heart attack.
liam
Married to Jackie Gleason's daughter, Linda.
Son is actor Jason Patric.
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.08.07 - 9:15 pm | #
Steve, I'm sure part of it was quitting smoking and being ill as well. I'm more or less a chemical disaster at the moment, but it does seem to be improving.
Glad to hear it! So, how goes the quitting? You think you're over the nicotine hump yet?
SteveNS |
12.08.07 - 9:15 pm | #
Megatron seems to have melted down. Weep not, comrades.
Speedy |
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12.08.07 - 9:15 pm | #
Steve, it's been 16 days. I'm not interested in it. The most bothersome thing I have left hanging on is a constantly upset stomach. Haven't found a way to combat that successfully yet.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
12.08.07 - 9:16 pm | #
Is their a style of jazz known as 60's airport lounge jazz?
huff |
12.08.07 - 9:16 pm | #
KBacon, of course you don't. You send me out for Skittles.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
12.08.07 - 9:17 pm | #
My failed attempt at scaling kittehs.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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12.08.07 - 9:17 pm | #
The most bothersome thing I have left hanging on is a constantly upset stomach. Haven't found a way to combat that successfully yet.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
I wonder why that is?
Sarah Deere |
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12.08.07 - 9:17 pm | #
Hecate, Maddy, too, worships at the altar of cheese, crust and tomato sauce.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
12.08.07 - 9:18 pm | #
I object to the name of Megatron being used in such a way. He was evil, indeed, but he was a worthy opponent!
Arkenor |
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12.08.07 - 9:18 pm | #
Jas. K. Polk's US attack on Mexico was so uncalled for. Even Congressman Lincoln from Illinois called bullshit on that invasion.
MP |
12.08.07 - 9:18 pm | #
Electoral vote measure fails to make June ballot.
Hey, that is NOT good news for the Republicans.
(brain expodes)
Karin |
12.08.07 - 9:18 pm | #
The most bothersome thing I have left hanging on is a constantly upset stomach. Haven't found a way to combat that successfully yet.
Sallyh
My gut's been giving me a bit of grief this week.
So, every day I'm having a cup of yogurt with active bacterial cultures to see if it gets things in order.
SteveNS |
12.08.07 - 9:18 pm | #
under the muslims in spain, we jews were tolerated as dhimmis (second class citizens). Jews taught at university and translated the classics
after the reconquista, philip and isabella
murdered lots of jews outright
forced the rest to convert to catholocism or be killed or forced out of the country
massacred many of the remaining jews who had converted to catholocism
Steve, one of the nastier aspects right now is that everything tastes horrible. It's all wrong. Eating's not fun right now.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
12.08.07 - 9:19 pm | #
Sallyh: Jeffraham, there are no such things as failed attempts at kittehs.
But what I was trying to do is give therealhellkitty an idea how large L.E. was getting. I failed, at that.
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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12.08.07 - 9:20 pm | #
Karin --
Excellent
Terry C --
Any clarity on the computer problem? (Sorry I am unable to help on this -- there are geeks here who can help -- maybe not at the moment)
Sallyh --
The motto of my generation was "Better living through chemistry" -- sadly, there is also a possible downside!
Prior Aelred |
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12.08.07 - 9:24 pm | #
"not having to pay your mortgage gives you more time for Bible Study"-Larry Kudlow
jr |
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