A completely neat thing Occupy Wall Street is doing: buying up delinquent debt then writing it off.
It makes me wish I had a couple of hundred spare dollars to send them.
I'm just, uh, just feeling kinda... truthsome right now. And, uh... life's just too damn short for ifs and maybes.
Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
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.
Connie Neil - Nov 09, 2012 11:22:42 am PST #136 of 30001
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msbelle - Nov 09, 2012 11:29:48 am PST #137 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
interesting. I wonder how the people whose debt is purchased and forgiven find out.
I really like the idea of micro-loans to help people out of debt, but I think it should be tied to some financial education also. Ramsey or Orman courses or somesuch.
billytea - Nov 09, 2012 11:30:42 am PST #138 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I looked through that site of Romney's supporters and campaign workers mourning and I do feel sorry for them. I think they chose wrongly, but my heart goes out to them for being so sad and distraught. And I heard about the staff credit cards being cut off - that's just tacky. Also petty and mean; I'm assuming no one thought through what it was going to mean for people trying to get home afterwards - hope no one needed to take a plane home from the campaign - but it seems of a whole with the inability to think through what something means to people who don't have a lot of money to fall back on. Or even enough cash on hand for a cab ride.
I read that his staffers are getting paid through November, and the Romney campaign's first order of business is now helping them with their resumes. I'd like to think that credit card thing was just an isolated stuff-up.
(I also read that the Secret Service packed up Romney's detail immediately. He arrived to his HQ in a fifteen-car motorcade; he left in the back of a single car, driven by Tagg.
It is named ORCA? Like the whale?
I'm getting my pedant on. Technically, it's not a whale; it's the world's largest porpoise.
Connie Neil - Nov 09, 2012 11:40:05 am PST #139 of 30001
brillig
Big ass snow flakes silently falling down outside. It's very pretty and I don't have to drive anywhere. I think I'll light some candles and incense.
tommyrot - Nov 09, 2012 11:40:41 am PST #140 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
For those not sick of election discussion yet:
Mitt Romney's disastrous ground game and 7 other behind-the-scenes revelations - The Week
meara - Nov 09, 2012 11:41:51 am PST #141 of 30001
Or like the Seattle area transit cards. Of course, since they are ORCA cards as "one regional card for all" I always think of them in my head as "one card to rule them all", even if that would be OCRA instead.
Tom Scola - Nov 09, 2012 11:45:24 am PST #142 of 30001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
A look at Orca from a techie perspective: [link]
billytea - Nov 09, 2012 11:46:52 am PST #143 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
As long as we're sharing links, this is the one that sends me to my happy place: [link]
tommyrot - Nov 09, 2012 11:56:18 am PST #144 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
As long as we're sharing links, this is the one that sends me to my happy place: [link].
Me too.
§ ita § - Nov 09, 2012 12:52:44 pm PST #145 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And Obama won Hispanic voters by 44 percent -- 72 percent Obama to 28 percent Romney
Does anyone know what the Hispanic numbers were like in 2008?