god michael douglas no sense of humor wtf hate that guy
― ////////YAY\\\\\\\\ (ice crӕm), Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Congressional negotiators reach agreement in principle on bailout terms
― gabbneb, Thursday, 25 September 2008 18:03 (fifteen years ago) link
thanks to john mccain
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 25 September 2008 18:04 (fifteen years ago) link
i knew he could do it
― max is ever so fed up with all these cheeky display names!! (max), Thursday, 25 September 2008 18:15 (fifteen years ago) link
New agreement actually looks sane-ish on the face of it. Don't know enough to be sure of anything other than that Barney Frank is on point and hilarious:
House Financial Services chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said the agreement should calm the markets, and noted, "Some of us have been invited to the White House to try and break a deadlock, and I'm glad that well be able to go and tell them that there isn't that much of a deadlock to break." He paused and added, "But I'm always glad to get to go to the White House."
I would totally vote for Barney Frank right now. Frank/Dodd 16!
― rogermexico., Thursday, 25 September 2008 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link
barney frank has always ruled
― gabbneb, Thursday, 25 September 2008 19:27 (fifteen years ago) link
2003, the ruler speaketh:
"These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis," said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. "The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing."
― Dandy Don Weiner, Thursday, 25 September 2008 20:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Probably more true than not in 2003.
― Aimless, Thursday, 25 September 2008 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Barney also a big non-fighter for transsexual civil rights, the gay press says.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 25 September 2008 20:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Puts him in a broad company along with 99.7% of politicians. Not a big transsexual vote out there to court.
― Aimless, Thursday, 25 September 2008 20:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Right, and who are the big fighters for transsexual civil rights in the House of Representatives again?
― Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Thursday, 25 September 2008 20:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Er yeah, what Aimless said. But don't expect that to stop Dr. Morbius from looking for reasons to completely write off every politician ever in office or even with chance of being elected.
― Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Thursday, 25 September 2008 20:30 (fifteen years ago) link
guys this thread is about the economy
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 25 September 2008 20:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Dr. Morbius is entitled to see the world through the lens of whatever seems right and good to him. I would love to know what fighting he has done recently for transsexual rights, though.
xp to tbot
oh, yeah. er. the economics of transsexual surgery should be looked at more closely.
― Aimless, Thursday, 25 September 2008 20:35 (fifteen years ago) link
there was a bill that had the "transgendered" part of the LGBT rights stripped right out, Hurting. People who are not me wrote about it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sara-whitman/barney-frank-bails-on-the_b_66604.html
You may now return to the Official Thread Topic as per the ILX norm.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 25 September 2008 20:38 (fifteen years ago) link
― caek, Thursday, 25 September 2008 20:42 (fifteen years ago) link
4/10.
Frank was part of the deck chair re-arrangement committee in 2003.
― Dandy Don Weiner, Thursday, 25 September 2008 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I think his callboy brought the deck chairs, in fact.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 25 September 2008 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link
But who paid for them?
― Aimless, Thursday, 25 September 2008 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link
So I noticed at Monday night's Mets game that the years-old ad on Shea Stadium's left-field fence -- "AIG: THE STRENGTH TO BE THERE"
now says
"AIG AIG"
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 25 September 2008 20:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Conservative crackup: O'Reilly flips out in populist attack (on behalf of Wall St, of course) against Rush/ideological wingnuts en passant to blaming Democratic Congress - represented by "disgusting" Barney Frank - for Wall St meltdown
hey, maybe this is where morbs gets his coverage
― gabbneb, Thursday, 25 September 2008 21:45 (fifteen years ago) link
wau
― sleep, Thursday, 25 September 2008 23:34 (fifteen years ago) link
no..more like WAMU...as in WTF W/ JP MORGAN CHASE BUYING WAMU
wamu is a big west coast bank. and i don't think jp morgan chase is. how inconvenient is this going to be?
― Vichitravirya_XI, Friday, 26 September 2008 00:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Wamu has gone national in recent years
― gabbneb, Friday, 26 September 2008 00:08 (fifteen years ago) link
yes but not my point: what is going to happen to all the wamus over here in california...do they just magically turn into jp morgan chase? i dont recall seeing any of thosehere
― Vichitravirya_XI, Friday, 26 September 2008 00:12 (fifteen years ago) link
why did i ever leave BoA oh right...the customer "service" and uncontrollable egregious urge to slap fees on everything, thats why. "woohoo"
― Vichitravirya_XI, Friday, 26 September 2008 00:13 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't see what the problem is
― gabbneb, Friday, 26 September 2008 00:13 (fifteen years ago) link
listen, let me mourn for and show anger/frustration at my dead bank in my own way, kthxbye
― Vichitravirya_XI, Friday, 26 September 2008 00:18 (fifteen years ago) link
i know someone who just changed to citi from wamu this week. what are you other wamuers doing - nothing?
― Vichitravirya_XI, Friday, 26 September 2008 00:20 (fifteen years ago) link
i didn't realize that Chase had no West Coast presence
― gabbneb, Friday, 26 September 2008 00:40 (fifteen years ago) link
the acquisition kinda makes sense for them, it would seem
― gabbneb, Friday, 26 September 2008 00:41 (fifteen years ago) link
ive had chase for awhile. i kind of hate them
― deej, Friday, 26 September 2008 01:01 (fifteen years ago) link
All other WAMUers are doing nothing.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 26 September 2008 01:04 (fifteen years ago) link
wells fargo, yo
― the valves of houston (gbx), Friday, 26 September 2008 01:06 (fifteen years ago) link
"wamu is a big west coast bank. and i don't think jp morgan chase is. how inconvenient is this going to be?"
very inconvenient for me since wamu's credit card company is my own company's main client and pays my paycheck.
― akm, Friday, 26 September 2008 01:11 (fifteen years ago) link
http://sinfest.net/comikaze/comics/2008-09-25.gif
― Office Cat is Eating the Monitor Again (kingfish), Friday, 26 September 2008 01:42 (fifteen years ago) link
What do you get when you subtract M(oney) from WaMu?
WAUhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/washington_mutual_future
― Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Friday, 26 September 2008 02:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm getting that "Maybe I should withdraw ALL my savings from ny bank" feeling. I'm ignorant? Dunno. Tell me otherwise.
― Capitaine Jay Vee, Friday, 26 September 2008 03:19 (fifteen years ago) link
from MY bank
your savings should be insured by the FDIC up to $100,000
― gabbneb, Friday, 26 September 2008 03:24 (fifteen years ago) link
economic crisis comes crashing into gabbneb's living room
― gabbneb, Friday, 26 September 2008 03:25 (fifteen years ago) link
jesus christ these people they're quoting
HOW DARE ECONOMICS HAPPEN TO ME
― 12HOOS2012 (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 26 September 2008 03:33 (fifteen years ago) link
NYC supermarket prices are SCARY. Glad I can do my grocery shopping at the local Indian groceries (Jersey City) where prices are still sane for fresh produce and the like. Fuck a D'Agostino's.
― Capitaine Jay Vee, Friday, 26 September 2008 03:34 (fifteen years ago) link
MASS EXODUS
― TOMBOT, Friday, 26 September 2008 03:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I hope not
― Capitaine Jay Vee, Friday, 26 September 2008 03:44 (fifteen years ago) link
you've never been to new york, right?
― gabbneb, Friday, 26 September 2008 03:44 (fifteen years ago) link
we don't stand in line, we stand ON the damn line
― gabbneb, Friday, 26 September 2008 03:56 (fifteen years ago) link
paulson on bended knee:
“I didn’t know you were Catholic,” Ms. Pelosi said, a wry reference to Mr. Paulson’s kneeling, according to someone who observed the exchange. She went on: “It’s not me blowing this up, it’s the Republicans.”
Mr. Paulson sighed. “I know. I know.”
best economic meltdown ever.
― tipsy mothra, Friday, 26 September 2008 05:52 (fifteen years ago) link
hahaa
i would normally say that just sounds too absurd & theatrical to be true, but if the sky's remnants really do need to fatefully finish falling before Bush II is over, then i guess it makes sense that the american treasury secretary has to get on his knees to plead for the alleged survival of the country's economic system.
it kind of seems appropriate
― Vichitravirya_XI, Friday, 26 September 2008 09:30 (fifteen years ago) link