Dude, "oversight" is for wimpy over-regulating Democrats. This is a time for mavericks and bold action.
You always think harder is better. Maybe next time I patrol, I should carry bricks and use a stake made out of butter.
Buffy ,'The Killer In Me'
Natter 61*
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Trudy Booth - Sep 24, 2008 10:44:49 am PDT #338 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
amych - Sep 24, 2008 10:45:33 am PDT #339 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I keep thinking I want a 10-year moratorium on the whole "Main Street/Wall Street"* line, but the literal involvement of Wall Street is making that look pretty unlikely.
* not the issues, obvsly, just the rhetorical trope
(and just to be clear, I'm reacting to every pundit and speech and not-so-smart article on the current crisis, not anything that's been said here. Including, in spirit, by Hank Hill.)
Burrell - Sep 24, 2008 10:46:43 am PDT #340 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
It seems like it will pass, I'm just hoping there is sufficient oversight.
Given that the Republican starting bid is NONE, Treasurer should have more power than the President? Not likely.
In more trivial news, bad celebrity baby names made me laugh.
erikaj - Sep 24, 2008 10:48:34 am PDT #341 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
"The only Main Street left is in Disneyland. And just try to buy a gun there." --Hank Hill
Jesse - Sep 24, 2008 10:58:31 am PDT #342 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
This afternoon, I left my office on Wall Street (literally, but not figuratively) to go to a meeting at a large bank (that still exists!), across the street from the Waldorf Astoria, where many of the international big-wigs stay. There were many many cops and protesters and a lot of craziness. Oy.
megan walker - Sep 24, 2008 10:59:40 am PDT #343 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Rate change would be from 6.5% to 6%, and part of my trouble is I don't really have a good sense of where those numbers fall on the spectrum of typical rates. Do people get rates much lower than that?
If you have enough years paid, you could go to a 15 year fixed. You might be able to get an even better rate that way as well.
Dave Ramsey specifically mentioned this week that rates are dropping right now.* He only ever recommmends 15-year fixed and I'm pretty sure it was in the low 5s. It definitely wasn't close to 6%.
It seems like it will pass, I'm just hoping there is sufficient oversight.
Just listening to CNN, this bill (in its current incarnation) is dead in the water.
ETA: *for people that are financially stable and ready to buy houses.
tommyrot - Sep 24, 2008 10:59:52 am PDT #344 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
across the street from the Waldorf Astoria
Ooh. Can anybody, like, go in there and ask for a Waldorf salad?
Trudy Booth - Sep 24, 2008 11:02:32 am PDT #345 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Ooh. Can anybody, like, go in there and ask for a Waldorf salad?
Sure. It has about five restaurants. Most of them probably serve it.
Nora Deirdre - Sep 24, 2008 11:02:39 am PDT #346 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
I really want to re-fi into a 15 year fixed while the rates are dropping.
Kathy A - Sep 24, 2008 11:06:46 am PDT #347 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I stayed at the Waldorf-Astoria several years ago. My mom, sister, and sister's friend were in NYC for the weekend after Xmas, and sis and her friend had half-off coupons from the hotel chain [Hyatt? Hilton? one of the two] that owns the W-A, so instead of paying $400/night, we only paid $200. Nice rooms, but like a fancy restaurant, nothing comes free, not even the coffee (Mom was pissed to find a $5 charge on the bill for the coffee she made in the room that morning). The location cannot be beat, though--it was a perfect base for wandering Manhattan.