Heh. They'd be happy to have lunch with her but they don't want her anywhere near the White House. I share half of that opinion.
Jayne: Yeah, that was some pretty risky sittin' you did there. Wash: That's right, of course, 'cause they wouldn't arrest me if we got boarded, I'm just the pilot. I can always say I was flying the ship by accident.
'Serenity'
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.
Calli - Sep 25, 2008 3:54:05 pm PDT #623 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Tom Scola - Sep 25, 2008 4:13:49 pm PDT #624 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Whoah. The government just seized WaMu and sold it to J.P. Morgan. They usually wait until Friday evening to do that sort of thing.
juliana - Sep 25, 2008 4:41:55 pm PDT #625 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Patricia Unterman's occasional restaurant reviews
Which you can get at Eater SF and never have to worry about that rag again.
The government just seized WaMu and sold it to J.P. Morgan.
....
Huh.
P.M. Marc - Sep 25, 2008 4:44:44 pm PDT #626 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Everything I saw all day was expecting it or something like it to happen tonight.
Sigh. Have to get off my ass and get an account at FirstTech for my pin money. (My account has been with WaMu for 11 years, almost 12. Most of my paycheck goes into the joint credit union account, but there's still a wad of it that goes to WaMu.)
Jesse - Sep 25, 2008 4:48:03 pm PDT #627 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Whoah. The government just seized WaMu and sold it to J.P. Morgan. They usually wait until Friday evening to do that sort of thing.
Woah. I am more and more glad that the bank I met with yesterday was JPMorgan Chase.
brenda m - Sep 25, 2008 4:52:06 pm PDT #628 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Whoa.
Connie Neil - Sep 25, 2008 5:23:30 pm PDT #629 of 10001
brillig
I knew they'd pay for getting rid of the Rodeo Grannies.
Jesse - Sep 25, 2008 5:30:47 pm PDT #630 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Dag, you guys -- I'm watching the Daily Show from the other night, and this shit isn't even funny, it's so scary.
brenda m - Sep 25, 2008 5:32:58 pm PDT #631 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I guess now JP Morgan has all of my money.
This is all doubly weird because we have a lot of clients in this industry (none of the ones who've been making the big headlines thus far, for the most part) so I keep speculating about the various business implications of all this, beyond the general (and now personal) economy stuff.
tommyrot - Sep 25, 2008 5:33:29 pm PDT #632 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.
Damn. Does this mean we're screwed? Or really screwed?
China banks told to halt lending to US banks-SCMP
But... but... but how will we pay for our wars? And our tax cuts?
BEIJING, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Chinese regulators have told domestic banks to stop interbank lending to U.S. financial institutions to prevent possible losses during the financial crisis, the South China Morning Post reported on Thursday.
The Hong Kong newspaper cited unidentified industry sources as saying the instruction from the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) applied to interbank lending of all currencies to U.S. banks but not to banks from other countries.
"The decree appears to be Beijing's first attempt to erect defences against the deepening U.S. financial meltdown after the mainland's major lenders reported billions of U.S. dollars in exposure to the credit crisis," the SCMP said.
A spokesman for the CBRC had no immediate comment. (Reporting by Alan Wheatley and Langi Chiang; editing by Ken Wills)
It'd be funny if it were true. For everyone but us USA-ians, that is....