Heh! Getting through the next 3 weeks
I'm a vision of hotliness, and how weird is that? Mystical comas. You know, if you can stand the horror of a higher power hijacking your mind and body so that it can give birth to itself, I really recommend 'em.
Cordelia ,'You're Welcome'
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.
lisah - Oct 15, 2008 10:45:42 am PDT #4693 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
DavidS - Oct 15, 2008 10:56:51 am PDT #4694 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Heh! Getting through the next 3 weeks
"GodDAMN that woman for ruining the chignon!"
tommyrot - Oct 15, 2008 11:06:12 am PDT #4695 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.
Apparently, Mr. Dow was feeling kinda' down today, and decided to go cliffdiving....
Hayden - Oct 15, 2008 11:08:19 am PDT #4696 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Matt Taibbi taking The National Review's Byron York to school. Hey, it made me happy since I've heard quite a few of my co-workers talking about how the financial collapse was caused by poor people who couldn't pay their mortgages.
Steph L. - Oct 15, 2008 11:09:39 am PDT #4697 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Getting through the next 3 weeks
Man, I love Emily Flake.
t edit For instance: Who the banking crisis is good for.
flea - Oct 15, 2008 11:20:48 am PDT #4698 of 10001
information libertarian
Yowza, Corwood, that was painful.
In point of fact, all of the people I personally know who are worried about paying their mortgages could fairly be described as rich. Certainly above the median income.
msbelle - Oct 15, 2008 11:22:52 am PDT #4699 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Emily - if you are still looking: [link]
Burrell - Oct 15, 2008 11:24:26 am PDT #4700 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Thanks Corwood.
M.T.: Oh, come on. Tell me you're not ashamed to put this gigantic international financial Krakatoa at the feet of a bunch of poor black people who missed their mortgage payments. The CDS market, this market for credit default swaps that was created in 2000 by Phil Gramm's Commodities Future Modernization Act, this is now a $62 trillion market, up from $900 billion in 2000. That's like five times the size of the holdings in the NYSE. And it's all speculation by Wall Street traders. It's a classic bubble/Ponzi scheme. The effort of people like you to pin this whole thing on minorities, when in fact this whole thing has been caused by greedy traders dealing in unregulated markets, is despicable.
That's a brutal bitch slap. With stats!
(Although I feel I must admit I'd never heard of credit-default swaps until about a week ago when I heard them explained on MarketPlace.)
Gudanov - Oct 15, 2008 11:25:45 am PDT #4701 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Matt Taibbi taking The National Review's Byron York to school. Hey, it made me happy since I've heard quite a few of my co-workers talking about how the financial collapse was caused by poor people who couldn't pay their mortgages.
I don't know what your co-workers are talking about. It isn't the fault of the person who took the loan if the risk was not assessed correctly, then hidden in financial instruments, and traded by over leveraged financial companies. It's like going broke playing the slot machines and saying it's the fault of the slot machines for not paying out enough.
Hayden - Oct 15, 2008 11:28:01 am PDT #4702 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
That's a brutal bitch slap. With stats!
That's exactly what I love about it. These National Review and Fox News guys have been repeating this horseshit over and over so frequently that my right-wing spam-forwarding cousin has already sent me three separate emails detailing how the Ds are responsible because they tried to ensure that disadvantaged people could own their own homes. Despicable is right.