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I figured I'd patent the real estate yard sign with the little St. Joseph molded right into the bottom of the post so that every time you put up a yard sign you stuck that little guy headfirst right into the ground.
I cant tell if this is new news or what?
U.S. Tosses Lifeline to Lenders Using Home Loan Banks (Update1) - Bloomberg.com
"Countrywide Financial Corp., Washington Mutual Inc., Hudson City Bancorp Inc. and hundreds of other lenders borrowed a record $163 billion from the 12 Federal Home Loan Banks in August and September as interest rates on asset-backed commercial paper rose as high as 5.6 percent. The government-sponsored companies were able to make loans at about 4.9 percent, saving the private banks about $1 billion in annual interest.
To meet the sudden demand, the institutions sold $143 billion of short-term debt in August and September, according to the FHLBs' Office of Finance. The sales pushed outstanding debt up 21 percent to a record $1.15 trillion, an amount that may become a burden to U.S. taxpayers because almost half comes due before 2009."
Let's get retarded in here...Let's get retarded in here...Let's get retarded in here...whoa whoa whoa....
Okay: I say, 'Uncle' (or should it be, 'Aunt' or 'Maternal'?). Please translate the headline, Tanta.
I'm a Vatican II Catholic (i.e., no Latin training whatsoever), and my kids find me a slow learner as they attempt to spoonfeed me bits from their Latin classes.
""Why not go for the works? So if we're worth $2.5 million, you get it all," said Mr. Husick, 55, a former Wachovia mortgage broker who would like to continue working after he and his wife move to Arizona."
Sez the former Wachovia mortgage broker who'll give you everything he owns after he dies -- if you buy his house today.
It's just a prejudice based on personal experience with a Wachovia loan broker; but whenever I see the name Wachovia, I think "EVIL." And this guy confirms the prejudice.
I'm a Vatican II Catholic
Which means you might as well be a Jewish Buddhist.
"Ora pro nobis peccatoribus" means "pray for us poor sinners."
For you Jewish Buddhists, that's from the Ave Maria ("Hail Mary").
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Shares of Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. (SWHC) fell 37%
Tuesday after the gun maker said its fiscal second-quarter results may be
hit by softness in the hunting market.
"Among these
factors were softness in the market for hunting rifles and shotguns, driven
by lower than expected consumer demand, a buildup of pre-season retail
inventories, and unseasonably warm autumn weather, which decreased retail
traffic and compressed the fall hunting season."
If Joe6pak can't afford a new gun, then you know the consumer is hurting. I think this is a real interesting data point.
...nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.
[...Now, and in the hour of our death, amen.]
Hoy Mary mother of all gimmicks!
Poor St. Joseph must be rolling over in his grave...
I really don't understand how all these strange practices attached themselves to Catholicism. Then again, I have a Jesus action figure (with wheels in th base for smooth gliding action), so probably shouldn't talk.
Aw, that hurts, T-!
A Jewish Buddhist made a conscious decision to toss a fine religion for an interesting set of beliefs. Being raised a Vatican II Catholic is a function of my parent's decisions, not mine, a bit of a difference.
Thank you for the translation, T- and R-.
I've never understood why St. Joseph is a savior of real estate deals - After all, wasn't he the one who's child was born in a MANGER not a McMansion ?
I know, I know, it wasn't his child.
-K
I've never understood why St. Joseph is a savior of real estate deals
The idea is that St. Joseph has particular sympathy for unsuccessful relocators.
Mr. Husick is too clever for his own good. Lotta gangsta's would be happy to advance the payoff date for a small token of appreciation.
MOM, I thought of titling the post "Yet Another Reason To Shoot A Mortgage Broker," but I thought it would be tasteless.
So I settled on blasphemy instead.
"Yet Another Reason To Shoot A Mortgage Broker,"
Reason? Reason? We don' need no stinkin' reason! We shoot 'em on principle and stack up in the basement over next to the lawyers.
Tanta, I just proved I don't have your good taste. . . . (NOTE SPACES) The old couple sounds nice enough, but perhaps a little too innocent for their own safety.
The St. Joe thing has always given me the chills. It adds up to "anything but prayer and good works" and saving.
She figured, "Well, could it hurt?"
Yes, but can she get it for me wholesale?
Is that an anti-semitic remark? I'm calling the JDL.
Bob Dobbs - It's just a prejudice based on personal experience with a Wachovia loan broker; but whenever I see the name Wachovia, I think "EVIL." And this guy confirms the prejudice.
He'd sooner Wachovia as give ya the time a day.
404 Error, No such article | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
Sort of OT but at the end, they mention a number of homes are in foreclosure around the guys neighborhood.
And you know things are really going mainstream when the morning shock jock talks about the mortgage problems facing the nation!
"I know, I know, it wasn't his child."
lol!
re: smith & wesson comment
I find it interesting the S&W blames sales problems on a decline in the market for hunting firearms, as they really don't make all that many of them; their primary products being pistols and revolvers.
Price cuts got my home in the Chicago-area sold last month.
Started at $360k back in May, cut down to $320k by August. Got a contract for $313k, closed 3 weeks ago.
Getting closer to $360k would have been nice, but still got a nice price appreciation selling for $313k, after owning the house for 4 years.
No, we're not renting, we found another home we liked in the same town, but in a much better neighborhood. $435k, 22% down, in a neighborhood filled with $800k+ homes. We just need to get the garage replaced next year.
Needless to say, I'm very aware how lucky we were to have things work out relatively well.
Further evidence that buying a house is akin to making a deal with the devil.
"Which means you might as well be a Jewish Buddhist"
At least he's not an anti-Semitic Roman Catholic.
Buried that statue in the backyard of the parent's house. House sold in three weeks, clean cash offer. Told my parent that I recommended the techique to a non-Catholic-parent was mortified. Sheesh, didn't realize it was non-ecumenical.
I find it interesting the S&W blames sales problems on a decline in the market for hunting firearms
They meant hunting Iraqi civilians, but blackwater, their biggest customer, has been blacklisted.
BTW, why do the names of so many US companies start with black? Blackstone, blackrock, blackwater,....
A bit snipey today, Joshua? I think Tanta's comment was more anti-Vatican II than anti-Semitic. If anything it was closer to anti-Buddhist.
Joshua, "you might as well be a Jewish Buddhist" in this context was a joke about the difference between pre- and post-Vatican II Catholics. The joke works just as well if you say "you might as well be a Lutheran Wiccan." The "Jewish Buddhist" part arose out of the article in question.
If you are not aware of the doctrinal differences, real or imagined, between and among different Catholics depending on whether they can remember celebrating Mass in Latin or not, then you may not see the humor in this comment. It is a species of old-fart humor (back in my childhood, we had to learn the Mass in Latin and walk to school in the snow uphill both ways!).
Troll Bro,
At least the black companies' names are less disturbing than Cerberus Capital, the company that owns Chrysler and is named after the dog that guards the river Stix.
back in my childhood, we had to learn the Mass in Latin and walk to school in the snow uphill both ways!
You got to walk? You mean you didn't have to crawl wearing only sackcloth? Cripes, you might as well be Lutheran. 12 Hail Mary's and scuff up those patent leather Mary Janes before some sees you.
WSJ: One site, Good Fortune Online, recently added another kit with a statue of St. Jude -- known as the patron saint of hopeless causes -- "to help those with a difficult property to sell," the site says.
Good thinking.
MOM, I thought of titling the post "Yet Another Reason To Shoot A Mortgage Broker," but I thought it would be tasteless.
So I settled on blasphemy instead.
Tanta | Homepage | 10.30.07 - 12:07 pm | #
LMAO over here
The only kind of desparation that matters is desprate enough to lower prices.
Perhaps Joshua was referring instead to Nostra Aetate? A Catholic rejecting this Vatican II product would naturally be suspect in regards to anti-Semitism.
I heard that if you bury your real estate agent head first near the for sale sign, you'll automatically get a 6 percent discount. I'm not sure if this works or is only superstition. Can't hurt right?
Wait Robert, you got to CRAWL to school? Well, we had to drag ourselves to school with just our tongues across a bed of fiery coals uphill in the snow in both directions. Yep, that was the way it was back then.
As for the rest of this, the practice of burying statues of saints instead of just lowering the price shows just how clueless most people are and how attached they have become to their house's "value."
Wait Robert, you got to CRAWL to school
Well, yes. Of course. In those days, in New England, those ostentatious shows of faith were considered just too ummm... evangelical.
Seriously, I am only being so snarky because the thread brought back memories. Honest to God, I would take a sled to school sometimes. I'd stand it up in a snowbank at the edge of the school grounds where it would be safe all day and get halfway home sliding. Literally over the river and through the woods.
As a reward I expect to be charged with devising exquisite instruments of confession in the jihad of cleansing the mortgage industry. Scattering the moneylenders from the temple if you will.
Perhaps Joshua was referring instead to Nostra Aetate?
Why would you assume that?
Vatican II took 3 years and four sessions. One of its quite well-known results was Sacrosanctum Concilium, which among other things began the de-Latinization of the liturgy.
Don't you think that in context of the above exchange, both jg and I were probably using "pre- or post-Vatican II" as shorthand for "whether I recite the Ave in Latin or English" or something like that?
Look, perhaps non-Catholics think that Nostra Aetate was the only thing that happened at Vatican II. I wouldn't know.
In any case, remind me never again to make Catholic in-jokes here, because while I don't particularly care whether some drive-by dweeb wants to accuse me of anti-Semitism on such ludicrous grounds, I don't want these comment threads to degenerate into that kind of pointlessness.
Hey, I tanslated the Latin as, "keep your nose out of other people's pecs", which judging by the tone of the thread is good advice.
remind me never again to make Catholic in-jokes here - Tanta
Follow your own path my dear. Make "Cafeteria Catholic" jokes, "a Catholic a Bhudist and an atheist walk into a bar" jokes, heck I've got more tired golfer walking on water jokes than you've got blue/black moth eaten wool plaid skirts.
Turn around, face the parish tell us the good word.
Did they ever try to tackle the role of the saints in Vatican II? After more than a decade of Catholic education I never quite figured out how they fit.
Guess the quality of post V2 catholic education has gone down hill or that the priests didn't rap my knuckles hard enough.
Did they ever try to tackle the role of the saints in Vatican II?
Not as far as I know. I believe that dogma on the veneration of saints got squared away in the Council of Trent (16th century) and hasn't changed much since.
I remain shocked that no one has yet brought up the fact that "Holy mackerel" is considered by many people to be an anti-Catholic slur.
This was a funny post and a witty set of comments. The image in the article of St. Josephs "flying off the shelves" cracked me up, and Tanta, you are incredibly clever.
holy fucking mackerel
Tanta: I certainly didn't find your Catholic inside joke indicative of potential anti-Semitism. It's just that much of non-Catholic pop exposure to the concept of anti-Vatican II Catholics comes in the persons of Mel Gibson and Daddy Gibson.
Just saying; I'll shut up now.