Isn't that sowing your seed on the barren ground?
Ladies don't have seed, silly!
I like pancakes 'cause they're stackable. Ooo, and waffles 'cause you can put things in the little holes if you wanted to.
Buffy ,'Potential'
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.
Jesse - Sep 26, 2008 9:12:44 am PDT #742 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jessica - Sep 26, 2008 9:17:23 am PDT #743 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Gudanov - Sep 26, 2008 9:23:15 am PDT #744 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Monti you need to read this article. It ain't Bush's fault with the financial crisis it is the damn Democrats. This goes back to slick Willie. Don't you know the congress is DEMOCRAT..............
I think the crisis is bipartisan. There was democratic support of measures to help lower income people get mortgages. There was the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act which was largely a republican measure (though signed by Clinton) that removed the firewall between commercial banks and investment houses. There was also the Commodity Futures Modernization Act that helped make securities more opaque and probably directly set up the AIG failure. Again a largely republican measure signed by Clinton. Phil Gramm was behind that act as well. If you wanted to pin the blame on one person, Phil Gramm would be your man.
Of course a lot of the blame belongs in the private sector too. Probably most of it. But the Bush administration and republican congress did nothing about it for six years. The democratic congress did nothing about for two years.
juliana - Sep 26, 2008 9:27:29 am PDT #745 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
You just know all those thinly-veild-racist urban legends about black people naming their babies Fee-mah-lee or Placenta are being re-written about Alaskans.
Seen 'em. Also, innumerable jokes about sleddogs, moose, hunting, etc.
Calli - Sep 26, 2008 9:34:59 am PDT #746 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
As I understand it, the big government push to help lower income people get mortgages was in 1977, with the Community Reinvestment Act, which was modified under Clinton and weakened substantially under Bush II in 2004. The CRA didn't affect private mortgage companies, which offered about half the mortgages in the housing feeding frenzy, and made subprime loans at twice the rate of the CRA-affected institutions. Another third of the subprime lenders were regulated by the goverment, but had little CRA involvement.
So I'm laying this at the feed of greed, not government do-gooder efforts.
Kathy A - Sep 26, 2008 9:36:59 am PDT #747 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I've found a really interesting history of WaMu and what JP Morgan/Chase thinks will happen to the market--that last is the scary part.
Burrell - Sep 26, 2008 9:40:07 am PDT #748 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Ladies don't have seed, silly!
True dat, and that *might* explain the masturbation and the fisting, but anal sex? Are we also talking fisting here? Because I just assumed a penis was involved.
ALSO? I can't believe I am having this conversation. At all.
Kathy A - Sep 26, 2008 9:41:30 am PDT #749 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Brendam, if you're around, insent about tonight!
msbelle - Sep 26, 2008 9:54:26 am PDT #750 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Matt Damon on Palin: [link]
tommyrot - Sep 26, 2008 9:57:41 am PDT #751 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.
Matt Damon on Palin
Ewwwwww!!