It happened in Church – October 19, 1962
Chapter Ninety – Settle up
It Started In Church – October 19, 1962
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WRITING: TEOTWAWKI fiction — It happened in Church – Chapter Ninety – Settle up
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
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FUN: I don’t want to go to school!
Tuesday, September 9, 2008What Management Has Taught Me About Life|
September 9th, 2008 by Michael Miles
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One morning, a gentleman knocks on his son’s door. “Jaime,” he says, “wake up!” Jaime answers, “I don’t want to get up, Papa.” The father shouts, “Get up, you have to go to school.” Jaime says, “I don’t want to go to school.” “Why not?” asks the father. “Three reasons,” says Jaime. “First, because it’s so dull; second, the kids tease me; and third, I hate school.” And the father says,”Well, I am going to give you three reasons why you must go to school. First, because it is your duty; second, because you are forty-five years old, and third, because you are the headmaster!”
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I liked the joke!
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LIBERTY: federal government has now become the nation’s mortgage lender
Monday, September 8, 2008http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080908/D932GH280.html
US government takes on big role in mortgage market
Sep 8, 7:08 AM (ET)
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER and ALAN ZIBEL
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Uncle Sam has just become the 800 pound gorilla in the U.S. mortgage market. The Bush administration’s announced Sunday it was seizing troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) in a bid to help reverse a prolonged housing and credit crisis.
But private analysts worried that it may not be enough to stabilize the slumping housing market given the glut of vacant homes for sale, rising foreclosures, rising unemployment and weak consumer confidence.
Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Economy.com predicted that 30-year mortgage rates, currently averaging 6.35 percent nationwide, could dip to close to 5.5 percent. That’s because investors will be more willing to buy the debt issued by Fannie and Freddie – and at lower rates – since the federal government is now explicitly standing behind that debt.
“Effectively, the federal government has now become the nation’s mortgage lender,” he said. “This takes a major financial threat off the table.”
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Another step towards socialism. What about all the big bonuses that were paid out to the bozo management? Can anyone in DC spell ‘moral hazard’? Aggh!
Taxpayers should be outraged. Where does the 200B$ come from? Yup, you sheeple.
We better demand that they get out of the mortgage business immediately.
Where are the legislators that created this “public private partnership”? Yeah, retired drawing big fat gooferment pensions. And we are left holding the bag!
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POLITICAL: “price controls”
Monday, September 8, 2008http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2008/09/real-economy.html
Sunday, September 07, 2008
The real economy
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Forget the stock market. I’m standing in the Stop&Shop and looking at the milk prices: $4.29 a gallon.
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Interesting. Perhaps now you might want to forgo the gooferment’s price supports and price controls on stuff. Remember WashingtonDC’s solution of energy forever by gasohol out of corn. (A political payoff to ADM and the Farm states.) Think that might have some relation to food prices skyrocketing? Feed prices go up with food prices. Cost of milk goes up. Gas and diesel go up so the price of things carried in trucks goes up.
I can’t wait for the gooferment’s solution to “save” us from these problems!
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POLITICAL: My impression of Ms. Palin’s speech
Sunday, September 7, 2008
What’s a woman have to do to please the liberal media?
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TECHNOLOGY: FACEBOOK flaw
Sunday, September 7, 2008Always thought birthdays were a great way to setup a granfalloon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granfalloon
You can’t find dotcomeraden! http://tinyurl.com/34n533 on Facebook who share your birthday. Only your Facebook Friends can do it for you. It’s like a “Robbie Burns” message. You know the gift to see ourselves as others see us. Facebook tells me that you share the day with others in my circle; it doesn’t tell you.
Here’s a gift you can give your Facebook Friends. A networking stretching weird one. They did NOT say that opportunity would be a fat old man with strange ideas!
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POLITICAL: Watch what people do; not what they say!
Saturday, September 6, 2008by on September 6, 2008
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This morning, Republicans tell me that a worker at Invesco Field in Denver saved thousands of unused flags from the Democratic National Convention that were headed for the garbage. Guerrilla campaigning. They will use these flags at their own event today in Colorado Springs with John McCain and Sarah Palin.
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Hoot! Talk about your gun, your bullet, and your foot. Actions speak louder than words.
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POLITICAL: Why Sarah Palin matters? Money!
Saturday, September 6, 2008http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists
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From The Times
September 5, 2008
Sarah Palin: it’s go west, towards the future of conservatism
Her thrilling convention speech showed that the Governor of Alaska is a force to reckoned with. But she might be more than that
Gerard Baker
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First of all she offers an opportunity for an ailing Republican party to reconnect with ordinary Americans. She’s conservative, but her conservatism is not that of the intolerant, uncomprehending white male sort that has so hurt the party in recent years. She is much closer to a model of the lives of ordinary Americans – working mother, plainspoken everywoman juggling home and office – than any Republican leader in memory.
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I correctly forecast her selection. As first among three women back on March 3rd, I hedged my bet. The R’s just HAD to pick a woman.
BUTT, and there is always a big but!
I missed an even bigger thing that she brought to the ticket, fund raising power!
Money!
The root of all evil is the mother’s milk of any political campaign!
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TECHNOLOGY: WPDC, Why don’t tags operate like categories?
Saturday, September 6, 2008WPDC is the free, and unequaled, wordpressdotcom (and did I mention free!!!)
Yeah, I know “beggars and choosers”, but …
It would be nice if on the creation screen tags, like categories, could “suggest” the most frequently used ones, or show a list of all current ones to choose from.
The free, and unequaled, wordpressdotcom is still my favorite; even if it doesn’t work the way I’d see it work.
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POLITICS: What Sarah P does to the election, IMHO!
Thursday, September 4, 2008I have no like for either set of candidates. Force is force. Whether its the R’s tell in me what to do or the D’s telling me what to do, I still object to getting told what to do.
That being said, I think the media is missing the real wild card that Sarah P is.
In the USA, half the people don’t vote. Don’t blame them because voting doesn’t change squat.
Half of that no-voting half are women. If Sarah can bring out 5% of that 25% of self disenfranchised women. The election is OVER!
Of the voting half of the USA, it usually breaks 25% D, 16%R, and 9% swing.
Remember the Hilary inspired backlash? It is a concern that may be as much as 4%. The media keeps saying of that 4% “where are they going to go”. They don’t have to go anywhere. They just don’t have to NOT come out to vote.
Soooo, it could be a razor thin election.
That’s what SarahP does to the election!
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Of course, I can root for every one to lose.
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