Bank Failures #19 and #20: Illinois and California
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Four down, eight thousand to go.
Right now hospitals essentially provide the financing themselves...if you haven't got insurance and can't afford the care you go to the emergency room where they can't turn you away. Then when they send you the bill you just send them whatever you think you can afford to pay; like $20 a month. The worst thing they can do is get a default judgment against you and maybe garnish your wages.
Disclaimer: not legal advice Smile
"This train's jus' gettin' rollin'"
~splat
Another billion dollar day. What's the DIF down to?
That is a lot of boob jobs.
Marco Island = Framework Island = Jekyll Island
La Coste = The Cost = The Cost
George Washington = Independence = Freedom
La Jolla = The land of holes = Down the rabbit hole we go
Gee, and I thought coastal San Diego (e.g., La Jolla) was resisting the downturn yet -- imagine the pain if there was REAL price discovery!
damn, damn damn. The BBQ is already full of
, how will there be room for more .... oh wait, 
That's F'ing it ... we don't need no stinking BBQ or fire we have raw reality!
Sheila you tease. Familyblogfamilyblogfamilyblogfamilyblog.
When La Jolla was $200m down and cratering what was the reason to keep them open for another $700 million?
ooh, big fish fry?
- NY Times
Yes indeed I said over 1 mo. ago that Bloomberg will be running as an independent in 2012 and at this point I'd vote for him because the Dems are spineless cowards and today's GOP has Barry Goldwater turning in his grave
Maybe some folks from back east needed to spend a few late Autumn weeks in La Jolla "going over the books". And then another few weeks. And, of course, some further study after that.
Rob Dawg wrote:
A lot of homeowners in La Jolla vote and contribute.
WRT San Diego:
Wait until the defense cutbacks. After we moth-ball a carrier or two, some of that housing will get cheap. It's coming, trust me.
I've always thought there's a sort of quaint charm and an endearing simplicity to a feudal society.
You're gonna love the next three decades, then! If you make it into the aristocracy you can even beat your serfs for no reason at all. Get rich or die tryin will become the new American motto, and they'll mean it literally.
Wow.. this could mean a load more of those insane crappy 'art galleries' ( think high-end junk store ) in La Jolla will be closing. For a while every time I was down there yet another one of those godawful places had opened up. There are a few MEGA wealthy who own a home there and quite a few 'mercedes-on-the-driveway-no-food-in-the-fridge' types.
~splat
Where Hubby is from they mean it literally now
Another 2 with no bank that would stand up at the altar for a shotgun marriage.
little over a billion in losses-
Totally OT - a toast to Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods of Portland, OR!
ResistanceIsFeudal wrote:
America, the new Dubai.I wonder if WhichisWorse has serfs?
Nuke wrote:
Don't count carriers, count electoral votes. Obama loses California and the Dems are executive office screwed for a generation. Cripes, Boxer could lose.
bearly wrote:
The sacred alter of
where passion is hidden, where light is hidden and dawn remains a mystery ...
Amen
YouTube - Papas da Lingua- Eu sei
Nuke wrote:
Losing MCAS Miramar or a slimdown of North Island could be really bad.
~splat
splat wrote:
They need to keep their beach bodies. Plus, blow curbs your appetite.
So they got to the weekly billion. $45 billion assessed for 3 years...
energyecon wrote:
Wife demands their oatmeal. I'm a store-band guy, myself, but yeah....
energyecon wrote:
WTF are you doing, making bread ... is that some weird metaphor for BFF?
splat wrote:
There are a few MEGA wealthy who own a home there and quite a few 'mercedes-on-the-driveway-no-food-in-the-fridge' types.
Appearance is everything. Leased-BMW hair-club-for-men borrowed-suit rented-beach-condo man meets leased-SUV boob-job facelift teeth-whitened recently-unemployed woman. She dreams of granite countertops, steel appliances, and retiring to travel the world someday. He dreams of... sex. Duh. It could be love.
Bloomberg is an egotist asshole.
justaskin wrote:
I like bar bands. And bartenderesses in V necks.
WRT carriers:
The issue is nuke manning. We are quickly approaching the point where we cannot maintain the fleet due to a shortage of nuke sailors. A combo of high attrition and a broken training pipeline.
Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods owner gives company to his workers | DailyTidings.com
splat wrote:
Other side of Los Angeles we are looking at serious strangeness wrt to Port Hueneme and Point Mugu under the Ridgecrest combined command. If we gonna get riffed better early than late.
Nuke wrote:
It's the years of glowing in the dark after you get out of the service that puts recruits off.
~splat
Great, so name a leading politician who is not a egotist asshole
Elvis wrote:
+100 points on both.
~splat
Nuke wrote:
The War College in Newport, RI is dangerously bereft of the homegrown commanders we will need and disturbingly full of sketchy allies of the moment.
Great stuff there! I buy from them and will support them more, because of this! Amazing great stuff!!! This is the way America can be!
energyecon wrote:
Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods owner gives company to his workers | DailyTidings.com
Private equity firms could start doing this after they've leveraged the company into oblivion, but the corpse is still intact... Great PR and when it fails you can blame the workers' lack of business acumen!
edit: OK, neat, touching story. But they will be obsolete in the New Order.
It's the years of glowing in the dark after you get out of the service that puts recruits off.
Haha. I got less exposure in a nuke sub underwater than all those beach bunnies lying in the sand. Probably had less fun, too. In reality, it's the promise of a 6 figure job in a power plant working less hours that draws people out.
km4 wrote:
Oh come on.. straight to the hard questions.. couldn't you start off with the easy ones
~splat
Favorite signs from a wasted youth in SoCal, working to get a BS at State....
"This is a Bong
Loading Zone"
and
"Thank You for Pot Smoking"
kcoop, can we get an icon from the poster that had the caption "the problem is obvious"?
edit: lol, nice edit - but I take the over on they make it...
km4 wrote:
He can fund it himself; that is a plus; I suppose!
Sounds like the seminaries. There's a pun in there somewhere, and it is a bad one.
bANK fAILURE wrote:
You can just say "youth in SoCal." No need to be redundant.
Nuke wrote:
Yeah, just kidding
The safety record of the US nuclear fleet is pretty impressive.
~splat
This was a fastball down the middle
Mayor Bloomberg’s private fortune — built around his media business, Bloomberg L.P. — fueled his improbable victory in the 2001 mayoral campaign and helped secure a close re-election last fall. His decision to relocate his money may fuel speculation about his political ambitions: he is considered a potential candidate in the presidential campaign of 2012. If he were to run, he would undoubtedly finance the campaign himself, at a staggering cost: his aides previously put the price tag at $1 billion.
Like I said above at this point I'd vote for him because the Dems are spineless cowards and today's GOP has Barry Goldwater turning in his grave
That's convenient thought termination, but Bloomberg is not a "leading politician", just an asshole.
1 currency now -yogi wrote:
Hardly a disqualification for public office.
pigged
"Rob Dawg
CPI is made up of deflation in the things you cannot afford and inflation in the things you need.
September 6, 2008, 9:35:52 AM PDT "
hah, i remember when you said that.... i had just found cr not too much earlier....
Bloomberg is too short to be Prez.
DCRogers wrote:
Actively seeking public office should serve as reason for disqualification from public office
~splat
Poor Santa Barbara has taken every front of this el niño on the nose...
So was Mel Brooks
YouTube - The French Revolution (from The History of The World Part 1)
SNAFU wrote:
Most people I know think it's a minus. That $100 million could have been used to keep St. Vincent's Hospital open, instead of flyers with that smug face on it. Instead, the nurses take a 10% cut.
Plus, if Bloomberg gets in, you won't get to vote to repeal the 22nd Amendment, it will just happen.
greenchutes wrote:
They naver should have made her a saint. Barbara was a hussy.
Awesome..a change for two Time Bandit quotes in one day...
"Napoleon: Alexander the Great, five feet exactly. Isn't that incredible? Alexander the Great, whose empire stretched from India to Hungary, one inch shorter than me."
~splat
km4 wrote:
Not so. Many people voted against him because of the money he spent. Some people voted for him DESPITE it.
They all have "Short Man Complex"...
And it does exist. Short Man complex, a bane of the ages.
Redacted by author
IMO, the Napoleon section in Time Bandits is still the funniest piece of surreal Terry Gilliam cinema.
~splat
I know Vonbek, I'm a bartender so I see it in action quite a lot.
That's a hard choice...Brazil is probably still my favorite...but the opening of Baron Munchausen, the torture organ scene...gets me every time.
1 currency now -yogi wrote:
That $100 million could have been used to keep St. Vincent's Hospital open, instead of flyers with that smug face on it
Money is speech, and should we limit speech? No, I say, let the money talk. Come on! Come on! Let the money talk.
Actively seeking public office should serve as reason for disqualification from public office Wink
~splat
Character flaw or psychological defect.
We just might get better government by lottery or draft of registered voters. It would, for sure, cut down on the shucksters and conmen and conwomen.
How many more people out there on the edge?
Daily Kos: Everything Sucks
greenchutes wrote:
We be lovin' it (Ventura just 20 miles east). This is only a mild El Niño. Gonna rain again tomorrow. Got the shallots, chives, red onions and cilantro in the ground today. Carrots, wax beans, squashes and grape tomatoes in the trays. Great to be back on storm track after all these years of exceptional dry.
The 30 Years that Destroyed the Future...
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w50/alix2304/charts%20II/largeextremeinequalitychart-1-1.jpg
So I've found a new(er) purpose in life.
Along with getting slumdogged in the markets, I'm chronicling the 'Down Fallen'.
Please feel free to drop a comment alerting me of the newly fallen down or just to call me a callous asshole ... it's all good.
Falling Down Score Card
That smug bastard can talk all he wants, but the more he spends the more I will e-mail friends in support of his opponent. If you think the web's social networks won't change elections, you probably still can't fathom why anyone would want a high speed digital computer at home.
later,
Now we know the reason for that rebuttal to the OneWest video - this one was definitely in the works before last week.
I think Daily Kos gets an undeserved bap rap from a lot of people.
dystopia
Imaginary society whose evil qualities are meant to serve as a moral or political warning. The term was coined in 1868 by the English philosopher John Stuart Mill, and is the opposite of a Utopia. George Orwell's 1984, published in 1949 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) are examples of novels about dystopias. Dystopias are common in science fiction and White House Fiction (WHF, not to be confused w/WTF).
People were shorter in Alex's time, I believe.
RD, this is biflation, baby. Only the prices of stocks and bonds aren't falling thanks to our "mystery buyer".
Biflation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"With Biflation on the one hand, the economy is fueled by an over-abundance of money injected into the economy by central banks. Since most essential commodity-based assets (food, energy, clothing, precious metals) remain in high demand, the price for them rises due to the increased volume of money chasing them. The increasing costs to purchase these essential assets is the price-inflationary arm of Biflation."
"With Biflation on the other hand, the economy is tempered by increasing unemployment and decreasing purchasing power. As a result, a greater amount of money is directed toward buying essential items and directed away from buying non-essential items. Debt-based assets (mega-houses, high-end automobiles, stocks and bonds) become less essential and increasingly fall into lower demand. As a result, the prices for them fall due to the decreased volume of money chasing them. The decreasing costs to purchase these non-essential assets is the price-deflationary arm of Biflation."
steelhead wrote:
They pretend it is pronounced "Daily Cause."
Many of us know it is pronounced "Daily Chaos."
There's your answer.
1 currency now -yogi wrote:
If you think the web's social networks won't change elections
Dr. Tim Leary talked about electronic democracy back in the 60's-70's. Equality, opportunity, voices of the masses heard, grassroots candidates. Instead, we got Diebold machines and elected Establishment lackeys and a Hollywood actor.
WooHoo! My wife had a CD in La Jolla Bank, because they had the best rates and she volunteered up the hill at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps. When we moved, the commute made the volunteer hours into work, so we shifted it to our credit union. That was the fanciest bank I've ever been in; no lines, you sit at the tellers positions, and you feel rich, rich, rich!
sdtfs wrote:
Ahhh, this was the feeling many had with no-doc loans! Oh, to be rich -- and unaccountable!
steelhead wrote:
Too much smug self righteousness, shills and
.
ghostfaceinvestah wrote:
Pffft. Liberal pap. Just because bi means twice as many opportunities for the prom doesn't mean it is a better world. We need inflation. Well, "we" no but the banks yes. Funny thing is I am convinced that the inflation we are about to experience will leave the banks with NPV "assets" running 40-70% of par.
So I walk over to see the Luge event and now four....woho...I am sure I bet on four.
karl the capo deninger was hot and dead center today
if anybody ever tries to pass the meme that santelli did about how greedy home buyers are all to blame for this crisis
point them at this..very cogent and clear and hard biting
Complex Loans Didn't Cause Crisis? Bull! - The Market Ticker
a snippet
"Who wrote loans without qualifying the borrower on the fully-indexed (that is, the highest rate the loan could reach) rather than (as they did) qualifying them on teaser rates that were known to have a short expiration date, sometimes as short as two years post-initiation?
That would be the banks, who created not a mortgage product but instead a product for asset-stripping the consumer, in that they wrote paper that they knew the consumer could not "pay as agreed" through the entire term.
The intent was to force the consumer to come back and get a new loan in a couple of years. This was insanely productive for the banks for two reasons: it gave them another set of fees they could strip off from the consumer, and in addition virtually the entire payment stream during those first two years on an amortized note is interest, with almost none of it principal.
That is, the intent of such a note was not a "mortgage" - an amortizing loan contemplated to be retired at maturity. The essence of these "loans" was in fact more akin to a typical commercial real-estate loan where amortization is not the prime purpose; these are typically written as interest-only balloons and refinanced, with the interest payments made from tenant leases. In this case the interest payment is made from the "home tenant's" employment cashflow. A Consumer Financial Protection Agency could and should bar the marketing of such loans as "mortgages" and instead demand they be called what they are - a complex financial transaction that effectively amounts to a lease!
The error of course in the bank's thinking was that home prices could never go down. In fact, their bet was that home prices would always appreciate fast enough to accommodate both the paid interest and the fee to refinance after two years. "
Comrade Kristina wrote:
Think I'll look for another story like Bob's Red Mill...but something tells me there is a whoooole lot more out there like Melody's diary...
ghostfaceinvestah wrote:
This seems like a cop-out term. The indifference curves and prices of each individual product are affected by median wages, money supply, and supply shocks. Financial instruments have other forces. If you are start down the bi-path, you end up with "multi"-flation to reflect what is happening to individual items.
energyecon wrote:
That may be the last act of goodwill in this century! doom:
More likely, you will see amazing goodwill fabrications from shots like Warren Buffett, ....
The hub was hogging (aka using) the computer, so I
am just now commenting on the Citi comments:
Way to go Citi
. . . .and besides, Citi must be destroyed.
I buy some Red Mill stuff & have to visit the health food store.
Will buy more!
and another week has passed without them rescheduling the foreclosure sale that
we agreed to.
Coming up on a year come March.
lawyerliz wrote:
Next time; insert a non-performance clause.
I went with two in the SEC, one in the Big12, Mountain West slipped in with a one, and a Pac10 FTW.
itsa hard four or itsa easy four, had odds on five(fever five)
Nuke wrote:
Plus the Village People. "YMCA" was pretty much the deal-ender for a lot of nuke sailors.
off to dinner..
ttyl
For you Falling Down Scorecard, what about the baby that got thrown off the bridge?
That's serious falling down.
rich wrote:
No, bridges falling down on babies... oh wait that is happening too.
Blobfish: Asian carp may make headlines, but fear the blobfish - latimes.com
YouTube - BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND
Mainstreet aint goin away, folks.
I fear the snakefish. It is another sign of the Apocalypse.
Nah, he's renting it out and keeping the rent and not paying
anything. Maybe HOA dues, not sure.
YouTube - Frank Zappa - Whippin' Post (live)
Close Your Mind and Repeat After Me
"Now close your mind and repeat after me, there can't be any inflation while the output gap in the U.S. is so large. Now open your mind and notice that the year over year increase in import prices was 11.5%!
Go ahead and close your mind again and repeat after me, inflation can't be a problem when unemployment rates are so high. Now open your mind once again and realize that the Producer Price Index was up 4.6% on an un-adjusted basis for the 12 months ended in January 2010.
Ok one more time turn off your brain and listen to the mantra of Ben Bernanke et al, who claim that slow growth will keep inflation in check. Now open it up and read that the annual growth rate in the CPI was 2.6%.
Keep in mind all the above data on inflation are derived from government numbers. So absent their hedonics and substitution practices, the numbers would be much higher."
As for vassalage comments one thread down.
Would never work.
Lords theoretically owe something to the vassals.
Generally, they can't kick them off the land. Hahahahahaha
someone will now say this shows moral hazard!
Elvis wrote:
I can just see some woman pulling up her top and saying "This is all I've got left from the housing bubble"
YouTube - Roll Me Away - Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band
Armageddon- The Album
I think she was in my bar Wednesday night...
I can just see some woman pulling up her top and saying "This is all I've got left from the housing bubble"
Depending on how many years ago the HELOC was you might want to avert your eyes.
some investor guy wrote:
pix please.
Has the snow melted nova?
No. Not yet.
nova wrote:
Writers are a gifted lot!
What happens if a
is cornered?
Daily Kos: Goldman Sachs Rep. Replaces Greece's Debt. # 1 Official - Its a Fellini Movie......
Comrade Kristina wrote:
Psychrolutes phrictus, Thanks!!! You made my night.
Hasn't melted here either, liz. The ice (and melted puddles in them) was so bad the city sent out an auto-announcement over the phone, (probably TV too, but never watch that,) that it was going to scrape ice from the travel lanes of all the city streets for 4 days. The streets were positively lunar for a while. Oh, and lo and behold, out 'hood wasn't last on the schedule... for a change.
sdtfs wrote:
Google Image Result for http://www.lugaluda.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/snakehead_fish.jpeg
What is your reaction to the snakehead?
That fish was posted before.
who could forget it?
An uglyfish thread.
Off to watch the Olympics.
I saw an owl next to I-66 today. A big one at that. It was the 2nd time I had seen it. In that 1 mile long strip of land between the sound wall and I-66 there is a deer, an owl, and a racoon living.
I'd really, really like to know which Connecticut Hedge Fund this was
N.Y. rabbi arrested in extortion case - latimes.com
In that 1 mile long strip of land between the sound wall and I-66 there is a deer, an owl, and a raccoon living.
They must have read your book.
SNAFU wrote:
They're cute when they're little, and they're illegal to keep in California. I'm told there are smaller species that would do well in an aquarium.
I like them, but I don't love them.
Financial innovation is so great we need to do whatever we can to preserve & cherish it. I would love to go to a Finance convention and meet the geniuses that invented all the wonderful products that were so helpful to America; HELOCs, refis, derivatives, swaps, Mutual funds and MBS.
Where would we be today without those vital products?
sdtfs wrote:
I have tasted them in spicey thai soup;not bad at all!
they grow quite big in Asia. In a fresh fish market in Singapore I saw one that was about 5kg'!
"Strange, beautiful grass of green, with your majestic silver seas. Your mysterious mountains, I wish to see closer. May I land my kinky machine?"
Audrey Hepburn was a luminous beauty back in the day.
FEATURE - China's "ant tribe" poses policy challenge for Beijing - Yahoo! India News
YouTube - Spaulding doody
Blackstone having some problems...I guess the hotel biz is
eat 
Federal prosecutors probing possible criminal activity by Hilton Hotels - latimes.com
I would love to go to a Finance convention and meet the geniuses that invented all the wonderful products that were so helpful to America; HELOCs, refis, derivatives, swaps, Mutual funds and MBS.
Would you volunteer to carry a lethal virus with you (in you) if we all chipped in and covered the hotel and transportation? And some sweeteners?
SNAFU wrote:
I heard that they sell pieces of the living fish, just starting from the tail and chopping forward. It might be alive for hours? That's one tough fish.
The article mentions Galleon, but makes no link except it's the same DA's office.
Sounds like a story with fuses leading in interesting directions.
C
Although your world wonders me,
With your majestic and superior cackling hen
Your people I do not understand,
So to you I shall put an end
And you'll
Never hear
Surf music again
That's what I thought as well C. What scares me is how the
reacts when the walls start to close in.
Nothing like pressure to produce now! Get us a brand and get it it now! You do want a bonsus don't you punk?
sdtfs wrote:
They are! Just like the asian climbing perch, also very tasty and highly valued:
Google Image Result for http://www.aqua-fish.net/imgs/fish1/climbing-perch-2.jpg
they can stay alive many many hours outside of water!
"In that 1 mile long strip of land between the sound wall and I-66 there is a deer, an owl, and a racoon living."
That will be my first stop when TSHTF. Beats squirrel anyway.
The La Jolla Bank
A name sounding so happy
New mood: not jolly
by Soylent Green is People
La Jolla is pronounced "La Hoya" FYI so this line doesn't really work well.
CK
Speaking of walls closing in
Jobless could soon lose their unemployment insurance - Feb. 19, 2010
When tyrants tremble, sick with fear,
And hear their death-knell ringing,
When friends rejoice both far and near,
How can I keep from singing?
ghostfaceinvestah wrote:
This was an interesting article, but I wonder where the import price increases are hitting?
The 2009 Japanese car that I bought last year has the same price for the 2010 model. The Japanese 50" plasma TV I just bought is down $200 from last year. I am not seeing it.
sdtfs wrote:
As my hostess told me in my one business trip to Beijing, "In China 'fresh' means 'alive'," then we threw the shrimp with the twitching antennae into the hot pot...good eats!
My 18 yr. old has started getting cc solicitations in the mail. The envelope received today read: Start building your credit score now (or something like that).
No one puts a gun to a head and demands them to take out a loan. But when you start hammering away at the young and enticing them to "build a credit score", that's predatory if you ask me. They know exactly what they are doing, and what the end result will be: a lifelong debtor at their mercy.
I blame the financial industry more than I blame the homeowners to this day. They created the environment, first beguiling borrowers, and then making credit a necessity. Kind of like drug pushers.
It is strange. That strip is maybe 40 ft wide. It is sandwiched between the sound barrier and I-66. Yet it supports these animals a few miles outside DC. I thing the SHTF for squirrels when the owl moved in.
....couldn't help but laugh.........the billboard in Minnesota with a picture of Bush II and the words, "Miss Me Yet?" - "How's That Hope & Change Working Out For Ya?"........
8 years later,
is 4x the 
, and I'm still personally undecided on the great in/de flation debate. Not much I can do except back up the truck on UNG under 9, a pathetic, creaky, corrupt vehicle if there ever was one.
Curling... who let the non-freakish people with normal bodies in?
Though it may seem inconsequential, there's a huge difference between a hot frying pan and a blazing inferno.
I was wondering, BSR, do you make cheese too?
energyecon wrote:
Yep, I used to check out a basement fish store in Oakland Chinatown to see all the different types of fish, turtles, and frogs they were selling.
greenchutes wrote:
Crossing my fingers for ya, but I'd buy SRS first...just sayin'
Bush was a liberal is sheep's clothing, and now everyone seems to be in the Palin camp....Humans are a funny animal, they refuse to see the set up..
Palin is not the answer....but a mere trainee.
CK - Dealbreaker is running the story, including the full text of the complaint. Intriguing. Moved real fast too.
What did the Otisville Inmate really know...?
C
Anonymous Bosch wrote:
yes, .....farmhouse chedder so far. It usually gets eaten faster than the Mrs can get it out of the house, though...
I would imagine the Obama campaign would love it if Palin were the Repub alternative.
Most people would vote for Obama thru default.
If the Repubs can't do better than Palin, then they don't deserve to be in office.
Not all hat strange, nova. Life will fill any void if allowed to. There's a dump near me that accepts building rubble for a fee. One morning my buddy and I were delivering a load of
debris from my backyard garden expansion, and we saw 4 red foxes out in plain sight. The deer too here in the city parks are so plentiful, they're a menace to motorists and are regularly culled by snipers.
hat=that
I was trying to wash away the week's pain with some
and 
and you need to mention SRS? That GGP charade should raise my blood pressure and kill my buzz, but I'm stronger than that...
Anonymous Bosch wrote:
You know there's an edit button for fixing those typos.
Edit: And you can even add stuff.
Cheddar's a favorite here too. Mrs.B brings home a huge block from the Amish market, and there's always a large depression in the middle of it after a couple of days from one or the other cats licking it.
UNG....? why? go down a little more and look at NGAS....cheap, but a prospect.
Have you noticed some major pizza chains have been offering $10 pizzas of any size and toppings? I have a banner ad here for Pappa Johns, and I know Pizza Hut is doing the same thing.
Makes me wonder how badly they must be hurting.
edit: Ooh, and now I just got a banner ad for Pizza Hut advertising 20% off your first online order.
Let the pizza wars begin.
Thanks, sdtfs. I'm new here, still learning my way around.
.........the billboard in Minnesota with a picture of Bush II...
not surprising, considering it's the home of Michelle Bachmann
Wow. The first time I voted on the BFF, and I got the number right.
Hub just home from another brain surgery...they took the cerebellar tumor out.
Never underestimate what life can throw at you. Right Pavel? (and all those others who are here because life is throwing things at them...).
No argument here.......So Ron Paul is still the choice candidate....but that's the booze talking at this stage. I guess.
Yah know what would help this systemic crisis ...do yah punk, huh>
Are yah listening Obama and Timmy, Ben.... Sheila.... huh, ate yah?????
Well, Yah take your Fed power and you change the FDIC bullshit manipulation related to guarantees of the safety of deposits in member banks, currently up to $250,000 per depositor per bank -- and yah fucking change that back to $100K.... yah dumbass bastards.
Instant fix in systemic failures -- because all the loot in shitty banks will fly into banks that are fucking run by people that know what the fuck they are doing!
Amen..... and how about a big F'ing
and a shot of 
Hub just home from another brain surgery...they took the cerebellar tumor out.
Wow.
I knew someone who had their hippocampus removed to stop seizure activity. And his memory stayed intact somehow.
I have the highest respect for brain surgeons. Wow.
AB,
True. Still it is a kind of magic to me.
Sheila Bair is losing $880 million on $3.6 billion of assets in La Jolla? 25% beyond the bank's equity?
Where the hell was the supervision when she was insuring this garbage in the first place?
Paul/Kucinich 2012 could be tempting even for this ultra-lefty
Wall Street II Trailer
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W.C. Varones wrote:
I have to think that somehow the bank insiders are looting the place before the posse shows up....
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Anonymous Bosch wrote:
we've had MilkShake only a couple years and the different things that we get from her milk and cream still fascinate me. The sweet butter is my fav in meal making.
I share your sense of wonderment whenever I do see some real wildlife around though, nova.
Doc Holiday wrote:
He drove 200 miles home from Tucson just fine. I call him the bionic man. He has had recurrent cancer now for about a year and is still beating the odds.
Where the hell was the supervision when she was insuring this garbage in the first place?
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We go through pounds of sweet butter for toffee making at Christmas.
I'd be interested in a hard cheddar that would survive UPS.
Prayers to you, prairiedog.
Anonymous Bosch wrote:
Thank you. It is a journey.
Anecdotal, but husband was driving today on I-95 here in NH. He was behind a road rage incident between a pickup truck and a semi. They were weaving back and forth, playing chicken. The other vehicles on the road were slowing down to keep away. Finally the 2 trucks went into their own lanes. Then the semi came over to the pickup's lane and ran it off the road. The pickup finally raced off. This was around noon.
High stress times or just a jerk on the road?
...e-mail me a note - remind me.....the Mrs says UPS works fine.......but she wonders like I do, why your cats have access to your cheeses....LOL......
Hmmm, were it just two pickups it would not alarm me. A semi driver acting like that? I don't want to see them start snapping...
....have a fine evening, All.....time to milk.......
prairiedog wrote:
That is amazing! I think the brain has amazing plasticity, which is bourne out from the fact that humans continue to evolve with greater intellect (and efficiency) although you'd never know that with TARP and all the latest bullshit in the systemic collapse!
High stress times or just a jerk on the road?
Both.
but she wonders like I do, why your cats have access to your cheeses.
We count ourselves lucky they let us have access to the cheeses. lol
The 3 kids are total omnivores, except for banana and peanut butter sandwiches.
I saw a patient get a 200# tumor removed from her ass.
What was his name?
ghostfaceinvestah (profile) wrote on Fri, 2/19/2010 - 7:31 pm
"Close Your Mind and Repeat After Me"
my head is starting to hurt. good night all....
Outsider I see this just about 2 sometime 3 days a week on RT3 in Mass.
One of my favorite examples of neurosurgeons is the one at Johns Hopkins, who jumped the Mexican border as an illegal alien and worked his way up to being one of the top neurosurgeons in the US.
Wow shill, I didn't realize it happens that frequently. It was the first time he had seen this happen, and he travels that route a few times a month.
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A heart thats full up like a landfill,
LOL!
a job that slowly kills you,
bruises that wont heal.
You look so tired-unhappy,
bring down the government,
they dont, they dont speak for us.
Ill take a quiet life,
a handshake of carbon monoxide
Outsider wrote:
I have a hard time believing this. Any pickup that couldn't drive circles around a rig is pathetic. Even skipping granny gear, it's usually at least seven shifts, double clutching all the way to get up to highway speeds. They're not built for drag racing. It's just stupid enough for a couple of buddies fooling around, or maybe the pickup driver flashing the semi driver. I had one guy bitch that he kept on hearing stories of women flashing their breasts at drivers, but all he got to see was a gay guy masturbating in the lane next to him.
This is the only way to solve this problem, without nationalizing the banking system!
Hmm run at CITI coming to a theater near you?
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Black Star Ranch wrote:
Cheney dead yet?
Which agency is the chartering authority and regulated La Jolla bank, you ignorant idiot?
I'll give you a hint: it was NOT the FDIC.
Now we know the reason for that rebuttal to the OneWest video was because it was full of $^!+.
You've got a crooked realtor making a video trying to convince people of black helicopter conspiracy theories so he can make money off stupid borrowers as a White Knight.
The video was so full of crap, Al Gore declared it a greenhouse gas hazard.
Rob Dawg:
Ask the OTS, La Jolla's regulator.