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"Dammit Jim! I'm a doctor, not a physicist!" Top
^ zippogirl   *snort* Classic McCoy! *sigh* Such love!! All the 1 liners/classic lines that made their characters were in there. So freakin awesome. I was dying!! My mom and I kept going YES!! YES!! And hitting each other. LoL. Ahh my Jury Duty summons just came in the mail. How nice. I knew I had it next week though. I had rescheduled it to May 27th back in October so I've had it on my calendar since then, but it still sucks. LoL. I should probably bring it to work and tell them in case I'm stuck having to go all day. So for those of you who read this that aren't on my twitter, which is no one I believe, here's a pic of my new haircut. Got it yesterday (FINALLY!) and I love it!! It's such a relief. LoL. Got some new OSTs so here's the new list. Such lvoe for them all!! *sigh* My OST List (bold = newest) 24 24 Seasons 4 and 5 24 Redemption A Dog's Breakfast A Walk To Remember Angels & Demons Apollo 13 Armageddon (The Album) Armageddon (Score) Best of Stargate SG-1 Season 1 Back To Titanic Brother Bear The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian The Chronicles of Riddick Congo Coyote Ugly The Da Vinci Code The Day After Tomorrow Deep Impact Disney's Classic V.I Enterprise: Music From the Original Television Soundtrack Eragon Ever After Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars Firefly The Fifth Element Finding Nemo From The Earth To The Moon Gladiator Galdiator: More Music From The Motion Picture Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda: Original Television Soundtrack Halo 2 Halo 3 Hannah Montana     Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus Hannah Montana: The Movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Harry Potter and the Chamber of secrets Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Hidalgo High School Musical High School Musical 2 The Best of Highlander: The Series Highlander: Endgame Hook Independence Day Indiana Jones The Soundtracks Collection (5 discs)     Raiders of the Lost Ark     Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom     Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade     Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull     Interviews and More Music from Indiana Jones Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Indiana Jones Trilogy John Williams Greatest Hits: 1969-1999 (2 discs) Jurassic Park King Arthur Kingdom of Heaven Ladder 49 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life The Last of the Mohicans The Last Samurai The Lion King on Broadway The Little Mermaid: 2-Disc Special Edition The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - The Complete Recordings (4 discs) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - The Complete Recordings (4 discs) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - The Complete Recordings (4 discs) Memoirs of a Geisha Men In Black: The Album Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie Mission Impossible Mulan The Mummy The Mummy Returns Music from the Original Soundtrack Farscape National Treasure NCIS: The Official TV Soundtrack (2 discs) Night at the Museum Pearl Harbor The Perfect Storm The Phantom of the Opera Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Power Rangers Turbo The Prince of Egypt The Princess Bride The Princess Diaries: Royal Engagement Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Sahara Schindler's List Serenity Spiderman Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron Star Trek Star Trek: The Motion Picture (2 discs) Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Star Trek: Generations Star Trek: First Contact Star Trek: Insurrection Star Trek: Nemesis Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Ultimate Edition (2 discs) Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith Star Wars: The Corellian Edition Stargate Official Motion Picture Soundtrack Stargate SG-1 Stargate Atlantis Stargate: The Ark of Truth Stargate: Continuum Tarzan The Time Machine Titan A.E. Titanic Transformers (Score) The Tudors The Tudors: Season 2 Twilight (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Twilight (The Score) Twister The Ultimate Star Trek Wall-E War of the Worlds Wild Wild West The World Is Not Enough The X-Files: I Want To Believe The X-Files: The Album Those are the only 3 I can remember so I hope that's it. I'll have to go through the last list and check though. I need to start buying my photo op tix for Chicago. I want to get them all (duo's included), but I added them all up and about had a heart attack. So my plan is duo's first and individuals who are NOT in the duo's. Then as it gets closer to the con or at the con I'll get the individuals if I want them of the 4 that are in the duo ops. If I space it out it won't be one big massive blow to my bank account and heart. LoL. So I've been a chicken and haven't checked for my final grade yet. Well, that's not true, I checked on Sunday, but it wasn't posted yet. And I was afraid to check yesterday. Maybe I'll check now. Let's see. Hmm... well, it would help if I logged into Solar instead of Blackboard. Gee. *snort* *ahem* Yeah, that would be an F. Not unexpected, but I was hoping for at least a D with the lab and recitation. Oh well. Now I need to e-mail my advisor and see where she is with which classes I need to take at Housatonic or Norwalk. I've been trying to order these 2 pairs of shorts from American Eagle, but their website has been acting really weird. It won't keep things in my cart, won't take things out, won't let me pay. It's very weird. And this has been going on for a week, so I'm starting to think it may be my comp. I'm gonna go downstairs and trying logging into my acct and everything on my mom's comp and see what happens. I started my Tudors S.2 marathon on Sunday night, but didn't get any watched yesterday. I plan on watching at least 1 ep today before work, but I've got to vacuum the house and start a load of laundry first. So I should probably get going with that since it's almost 1. Ok, off to do all that. That is all. ---------------- Now playing: Hans Zimmer & Joshua Bell - Air via FoxyTunes      Source
 
backtrack Top
My new status is hardly a few weeks old. But, the honeymoon is already over. I don't know whether this is the fault of the arranged marriage system or the stupidity of the parties involved in it (for example, I), who don't know how to use it. In my case, we (I and that girl) thought that we spoke everything that is important before committing. And happily went ahead and made rest of the plans. But time (yes, yet again) has a different plan for me. A few days back, she found that my 'ego', which none of my friends complained about so far, will not allow her to get along well with me, in the long run. And, suddenly she also got obsessed with the numbers in my back account, which are not great (contrary to her expectations from a software engineer with 7 years of experience :-) ). That's due to my tenure at NCST/CDAC , with out which, I am just a nobody. I consider those years as the best part of my life and my association with NCST/CDAC as better than my association with IITB . But, she doesn't. Now the fun starts. This deep exploration started only when we both were committed after preliminary examination with a positive result (sorry to use too much jargon, but that's the way it is), and our parents have started planning other things. So, I thought (despite my IIT education :-) ), this is to understand each other well, so that we will not be strangers anymore by the big day. But, it turned out that she has different plans. The numbers in my bank account put her off. The so called 'ego' made her think . And after a day long thinking , she says, "let us call it off". I was not exactly startled to hear that, but, definitely not ready to hear something like that, at this stage. So, I tried my best to picture the future in the richest possible colors in my kitty, but, in vain. All the philosophy about life that I learnt from my readings of Jiddu Krishnamurthy , Feynman and a lot others didn't help. I could not convince her about what is important in life and what is not so important :-( And, there ends the saga. Only sad part of it is, all the excitement that I created among my friends through my "Apple of my eye" introduction, the hearty wishes that I received from them, the shock that my parents (I am sure, her parents as well) received out of it. I, personally, don't regret it. Why would anyone regret loving someone, that too such a chirpy little girl :-), even though for a short while. The bottom line is, I am single, yet again. Source
 
The Simpsons on TV Top
 So, all that money I had and was so pleased about? Yeah, it's spoken for.  Nearly all of it is going toward bills, which makes me feel good. There's one bill (my VISA card) which I can't access online, so I think I'm going to have to call them sometime. What sucks is that I've ignored that bill for nearly 6 months now. I am terrified of what the result may be, even if I do explain my situation. Still, my overall financial goals are basically to pay off ALL of my debts by the end of 2010, except for my student loans. I think if I do a second year of ESL, it will be entirely possible to have all my debts caught up. I signed up for an online TEFL course today as well. It cost $300, but I've checked it out and even asked my ESL recruitment agency about it. It's highly reputable and one of the few TEFL online courses that is accredited. I think it will not only make me a better teacher now, but will also really improve my future. Sometimes I feel so good about knowing what I want for my future, but I still get impatient. I still get antsy. I mean, for fuck's sake, I'm nearly 30 and I've never had a full-time job (ok, the bank teller thing was full-time, but it was a disaster). Impatience is a mistake I'm trying to rid myself of, and I do like to think I'm being pretty successful, but that does not mean it's easy. I know what I want, I know the career (or general career arena) I want. I know who I want to share my life with. But all things in due time. It's a matter of faith and hard work. And, well, having the courage to see it through. I'm still working on all three of those. Source
 
Sundance Visits Con Edison's "Nerve Center" Top
NYConvergence ORIGINAL From an email we received, NYConvergence has learned that tonight at 9 p.m. ET the show Eco Trip ,on the Sundance Channel, will be exploring how Con Edison supplies the City of New York with electricity while trying to be green friendly at the same time. In one point during the show, the host David de Rothschild visits the "nerve center" of Con Edison, where through a bank of computer terminals, the utility monitors all the electricity flowing in the city. You can see the clip of the nerve center here . Sundance Channel Previous: > Smart Meters To Benefit ConEd's NYC Customers > Con Edison Plans Major New York Power Upgrade Source
 
The Tiger Lillies - Crap | Powered by Last.fm Top
Мне тут надо было для евротура карточку оформить, чтобы денюжку туда положить. Так удобней, особенно в Европе. Выбрала самое благонадежное заведение - СберБанк. И с удивлением узнала, что иногда люди придумывают и делают замечательные вещи: оказывается, теперь можно сделать карточку Visa классик с благотворительной акцией фонда "Подари жизнь" . От каждого платежа и от доходов банка будет отчисляться 0,3% на всякие правда хорошие вещи. 3 рубля с каждой тысячи - практически ничего, но если представить, что это ставится на поток и с кучи людей идет по 3 рубля, то это уже помощь. И ничего не надо делать. Могу сказать про себя, что хоть и случаются у меня благородные порывы, но не всегда они облекаются в форму похода в банк, заполнения реквизитов и платежа. Лень, забывчивость. И огромная масса людей отсекается таким образом. А тут такая классная идея. Сам фонд "Подари жизнь" основан двумя замечательными людьми - Чулпан Хаматовой и Диной Корзун. Я даже совсем капельку знакома с некоторыми его участниками. Они правда очень хорошие. И большие молодцы. Тут - http://www.sbrf.ru/ru/person /bank _cards/visa_pg/visa_classic_pg/ - подробнее Сделала именно ее и вам как бы тут советую :) А вот, если интересно, разговор с Чулпан года 2 назад, вроде. Когда еще ничего этого не было. А вот стало, бывает же) Source
 
Divide & Conquer: Credit Card Co's Pit Customers Against Each Other Top
No slouches, them. The Congress is closing in on maybe slowing down a little of their ability to steal and they can't very well plead their case themselves because, well, everybody hates them. What to do, what to do? Not to worry. They've got a strategy , the kind of mean, stupid, obtuse strategy they specialize in, a strategy that's more of a, you know, scam : piss off their best customers and blame it on everybody else. Now Congress is moving to limit the penalties on riskier borrowers, who have become a prime source of billions of dollars in fee revenue for the industry. And to make up for lost income, the card companies are going after those people with sterling credit. bank s are expected to look at reviving annual fees, curtailing cash-back and other rewards programs and charging interest immediately on a purchase instead of allowing a grace period of weeks, according to bank officials and trade groups . "It will be a different business," said Edward L. Yingling, the chief executive of the American bank ers Association, which has been lobbying Congress for more lenient legislation on behalf of the nation's biggest True to form, their obscene profits being all that count, rather than ratchet down to something a little less, I don't know, Roman Empire-ish, they're going to ratchet up and squeeze even more people. I'm just guessing but I'm thinking this is going to backfire on them. Source
 
Mixed Experience History Month: Olivia Ward Bush Banks, poet & journalist Top
Olivia Ward Bush , born in 1869, was of African-American and Montaukett Native American descent. Olivia married Frank Bush in 1889; they had two daughters. As a working mother, Olivia still managed to find time to write. She published her first book of poetry, Original Poems , in 1899. It was met with a great review by poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. Olivia published her second poetry book, Driftwood , in 1916. Olivia's career spanned many decades and professions: she worked as a tribal historian for many years and also as a journalist writing for the Colored American magazine. In the 1920s, she created a salon for artists in Chicago called the Bush s School of Expression . In the 1930s, she returned to live in New York and counted among her friends central figures of the Harlem Renaissance including W.E.B. DuBois and Langston Hughes. Olivia was proud of her mixed heritage and celebrated her mixed-race background in her writing. Much of her work was unpublished in her lifetime because of the interracial themes. She died in 1944. More information: Original Poems by Olivia Ward Bush s. Source
 
The Mortgage Trap: It's Your Own Fault and the NYT "Economics Reporter" Says So Top
Almost every time I write about the mortgage scam and/or other predatory bank ing practices I get responses like this from their defenders: [W]hy are you carrying a balance on your credit card anyway? Stop using them to finance a life style you cannot afford and you won't have a problem with them. Lost your job and used your cards to prevent eviction? Perhaps you should have saved an emergency fund so you wouldn't have to BORROW SOMEONE ELSE'S MONEY. Or perhaps you should have rented/bought a smaller place so you could save money. 95% of America's problem with debt is because people refuse to live within their means. No one forced you to buy that SUV. No one forced you to vacation to Hawaii. No one forced you to spend all that money on your wedding. No one forced you to buy that toy for your kid. Stop spending, stop deluding yourself about what you can afford, and start saving so you can pay cash for the things you need. And this: Regardless of the interest rate it still does not stop the fact that people spend outside their means. Why should Congress regulate credit card companies when people will continue to do so?? If people spent what they could afford, it would not matter what the interest rate is because it will all be planned and accounted for. And so on. Digby linked today to a long story from an NYT economics reporter named Edmund Andrews about how even people who should have known better - like him - got hustled into a house he couldn't afford . She thinks he's being brave. I don't think she knows who he is. Mr Andrews is well-known around here. Regular readers have long since noticed that I follow the Business sections of the major papers, especially the WaPo and the NYT, and Mr Andrews has been on my radar for years as one of his paper's loudest and most mindless boosters, the kind of guy who was defending predatory lending as "democratic" and the privatization of SocSec as the ultimate extension of the American Dream. In short, he was ripe to be fooled. It doesn't surprise me a bit that he was. He asked for it. I suppose that for someone in the stratosphere of power Mr Andrews has always represented to admit that the people he made excuses for for so long were crooks may be considered brave. It's also possible to consider it from another angle: as a high-powered attempt to do what Mr Andrews spent his career doing - supporting the corporate spin on their scams and thefts. Here's the money quote: [I]n 2004, I joined millions of otherwise-sane Americans in what we now know was a catastrophic binge on overpriced real estate and reckless mortgages. Nobody duped or hypnotized me. Like so many others — borrowers, lenders and the Wall Street dealmakers behind them — I just thought I could beat the odds . (emphasis added) No, friends, there weren't any evil tricks. He walked in with his eyes wide open. Really? Here's what his lender, Bob Andrews, a loan officer at American Home Mortgage Corporation, responded when Andrews mentioned a few teensy, weensy problems with paying for his $half-million$ house: The only problem was money. Having separated from my wife of 21 years, who had physical custody of our sons, I was handing over $4,000 a month in alimony and child-support payments. That left me with take-home pay of $2,777, barely enough to make ends meet in a one-bedroom rental apartment. Patty had yet to even look for a job. At any other time in history, the idea of someone like me borrowing more than $400,000 would have seemed insane. *** What about my alimony and child-support obligations? No need to mention them . What would happen when they saw the automatic withholdings in my paycheck? No need to show them . If I wanted to buy a house, Bob figured, it was my job to decide whether I could afford it. His job was to make it happen. (emphasis added) And this did not raise any red flags for someone who had written articles about mortgage lending practices? Why should it have? What he wrote was that they were good for America and good for the bank s. He was part of the scam because he believed that idiotic crap and then told everybody else to believe it. Now he wants to may more hay from it, seeing as how this article is "adapted" from a book he has coming out next month whimsically titled Busted: Life Inside the Great Mortgage Meltdown . That's a powerful message plunked down into the culture just as the political structure is being hounded to write regulations preventing such predatory practices. "We don't need regulations. We need to be smarter consumers." What bank ing lobbyist could improve on that sentiment? IOW, it may look brave but under the surface it's the same old NYT horseshit: Get the bank ers off the hook. Frankly, I'm not so much impressed by his "bravery" as his chutzpah. Source
 
Racism Wrecked the Economy, Not Just Greed Top
The mortgage crisis has done more than just showcase the predatory lending practices, the corruption, and the runaway greed that are hallmarks of the Bush Era. It has also shown us the seamy underbelly of establishment racism . [T]he storm has fallen with a special ferocity on black and Latino homeowners, the analysis shows. Defaults occur three times as often in mostly minority census tracts as in mostly white ones. Eighty-five percent of the worst-hit neighborhoods — where the default rate is at least double the regional average — have a majority of black and Latino homeowners. And the hardest blows rain down on the backbone of minority neighborhoods: the black middle class. In New York City , for example, black households making more than $68,000 a year are almost five times as likely to hold high-interest subprime mortgages as are whites of similar — or even lower — incomes. This holds a special poignancy. Just four or five years ago, black homeownership was rising sharply, after decades in which discriminatory lending and zoning practices discouraged many blacks from buying. Now, as damage ripples outward, black families in foreclosure lose savings and credit, neighbors see the value of their homes decline, and renters are evicted. That pattern plays out across the nation. Predatory lenders targeted minorities - that was the whole point of No-Money-Down and derivatives - and didn't much care what would happen to them later because they knew we wouldn't care. And we didn't until the crisis began affecting the white middle class. Minorities were just cannon fodder to the bank ing industry. They saw a way to make quick $$$ and pass the toxicity on to somebody else, sure that we would blame the victims if they were black or brown. And we did. Some of us still are. It was reverse red-lining: instead of targeting minority groups in order to deny them services, the bank ers targeted minority groups in order to rip them off. They didn't have experience buying houses going back generations because we didn't let them buy houses until the last generation and not very damn many of them. They were newbies, fresh meat, and the bank s gobbled them up. That's racism, folks, if we're going to quit living in denial for once and skip all the pretty euphemisms so we can call things what they are. Racism has been driven a tad further underground thanks to the despised liberals and progressives who fought against it for so long but it's a long, long way from dead. That's just what the Right wants you to think so they can keep playing on it while denying it exists. Bob Herbert today catches a major professional sport dissing black players by ignoring them . I don't have room to list even a handful of the astonishing basketball feats pulled off by the world-class talent at those colleges and universities. But for some odd reason, despite the undisputed greatness of so many players and coaches, they have not been welcomed into the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. Players and coaches from black colleges who excelled in the National Basketball Association have made it to the hall (which is not run by the N.B.A.). But those blacks from earlier years who were denied a full opportunity to display their talents because of their color deserve recognition, as well. The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., opened its doors to the greatest players of the old Negro leagues. What's wrong with basketball? With very, very few exceptions, those doors at the Basketball Hall of Fame have remained closed. Hall officials, including the president of the board of directors, Mannie Jackson, who is black, have said that they would establish a commission to look at this issue, but nothing has happened yet. I lived 30 miles from Springfield for 20 years and visited it regularly. It is one of the most bigoted cities in one of the most bigoted and racist areas in Massachusetts. Not openly, but racist talk show hosts like Boston's Jay Severin are big out there, every black on the street is assumed to be a dope dealer or gang banger, and if you're white other white people feel perfectly comfortable about using the N word around you (if you don't look like one o' them Commie students from Northampton). There are large sections of Springfield that are still segregated - the sections closest to the mainly-white suburbs. West-Central Mass isn't exactly...friendly...to minorities. I'm thinking that's maybe one of the reasons. Mr Jackson is black and knows who and what he has to play to keep his exalted position. Nobody who doesn't and is a member of a minority, survives. Racism is, O'Reilly and Beck to the contrary notwithstanding, alive and well. In fact, it has just been used to bring the global economy to its knees. Yes, they were greedy and corrupt. The thing is, if they'd been greedy and corrupt to middle class whites whose families have been buying homes for 100 years, they never would have gotten away with it. They might not even have tried. Source
 
Doesn't Do Much Good to Cut Expenses When You've Got No Income Top
Has anyone else noticed that for all the trouble we're in we haven't had much in the way of revenue enhancement proposals? An extra 3% on the richest of us and that's about it. David Brooks is crowing about Obama "prowling around the White House prodding his staff to find budget cuts ." What budget cuts? Why, Medicare and SocSec of course. What else? Everyone is looking at the deficit and screaming about cuts. No one is looking at the deficits and screaming about the need to raise corporate taxes. President Obama did (if you can believe he was serious) make a strong pitch for closing some major loopholes in corporate tax law that would largely make offshore tax shelters pointless, and about time, too. But the BD/GOP Alliance seems to have buried that one under the compost heap in somebody's back yard, probably Barney Frank's. Given that history - recent history included (Clinton anyone?) - shows that the economy grows when corporate taxes and the minimum wage go up, why aren't both of those the center of the Admin's economic plan? Why are we still talking only in terms of tax cuts and program cuts and budget cuts? Why are we willing to strip seniors of their security to pay off crooked bank ers? Why are we still talking about the kind of tax policy that has failed - twice in the last 25 yrs - to create an economy that is good for all sectors of society, not just the rich? Or did I just answer my own question? Ronald Reagan isn't dead. He's running Obama's recovery team. Source
 
Senate Dumps On Credit Card Interest Cap Top
Just a little while ago our gallant Democrat Senate - and I quote - "easily" defeated Bernie Sanders' bill to put a 15% cap on credit card interest rates the same day that CBS did a segment on the bank s' sudden raising of already usurious rates on some of their best consumer customers with no warning of any kind. The reason was - partly - that the Sens have their own bill almost ready for passage. Despite complaints that bank s and credit card companies are gouging customers by charging outrageous interest rates, the Senate on Wednesday easily turned back an effort to cap interest rates at 15 percent. The effort by Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent, drew only 33 votes and needed 60, with a bipartisan group of 53 senators opposing it as the Senate pushed its credit card overhaul toward the finish line. See, the Big Senate bill don't have no stinkin interest rate caps. Uh-uh. That was just too much for our bank ster puppets to swallow. Or at least, that's what the Puppet Masters told them to say.... The bank ing industry, which had some heavy-weight representatives monitoring the vote off of the Senate floor, warned that an interest rate limit could cause a sour reaction in the financial markets. Yah gotta love them Sens. Making sure their friendly neighborhood bank ing lobbyist was right in the corridor outside the Senate Chamber so they could get fresh new talking points if they ran into trouble selling waverers. Not that there were any. No no. This was a no-brainer. I mean, the Boss was right out in the corridor, fer dawg's sake. See, the Old Market Rules say that when times is bad, interest rates go down because there's fewer people can pay em. But New Market Rules demand that profits stay way up even when incomes is way down, so they gots to have the ability - the right - to gouge consumers even deeper because, you know, us damn people just ain't borrowing as much on our cards as we used to. In fact, borrowing is waaaaay down . Consumer borrowing plunged in March at the fastest pace in 18 years as Americans put away their credit cards and hoarded cash amid the worst recession in decades. The Federal Reserve said Thursday that consumer borrowing dropped 5.2 percent in March, the biggest decline since an 8.1 percent fall in December 1990. In dollar terms, consumer borrowing plunged by $11.1 billion. That's the largest dollar amount on records dating to 1943, and more than three times the $3.5 billion drop that economists expected. The borrowing category that includes credit cards dropped 6.8 percent in March after a 12.1 percent plunge in February. The category that includes auto loans fell 4.2 percent after rising by 1.2 percent in February. (emphasis added) We ain't got no more money might be the probl;em what with wagezs bein flat for a quarter century and all the money flowing, you know, to the top 1% . Got it now? Old Rules : Borrowing goes down, interest rates go down to attract more borrowers. New Rules : Borrowing goes down, interest rates go  up to keep the same high profits rolling with fewer actual borrowers.  They used to call that a violation of economic law. Now it is the law. Mr. Sanders said the card companies and bank s were engaged in conduct that could get others hauled into court. He said one-third of all credit card holders are paying interest above 20 percent and as high as 41 percent. "When bank s are charging 30 percent interest rates, they are not making credit available," said Mr. Sanders, who noted credit unions are limited to 15 percent. "They are engaged in loan-sharking." Yup. That's what it's called except thanks to Joe Biden, our new Veep, it's legal and you can throw people in debtors' prison if they can't pay up. Oh wait. That's  next year. Source
 
Obama Has Faith Tinkerbell Will Get Better If We All Clap Hard Enough Top
Yesterday I wrote about the carefully-couched offer of the major health insurance industry reps to cut 1.5% of their costs. I suggested that it was hooey. President Obama, however, got up in front of cameras at almost the same moment I was dismissing their lies empty promises "proposal" and told the world their proposal was the key to health reform in the US , or words to that effect. Even for WaPo Beltway stenographer Ceci Connelly, this was a bit much. In his quest to transform American health care, President Obama appeared yesterday to put his faith in pledges from some of the interest groups that helped scuttle reform 15 years ago, but the industry's promises fell well short of the White House's expansive claims. Ther chance that anything these convicted liars say may actually happen are lower than the chance that your pet goldfish will write a best-selling novel but that hasn't stopped Obama from assuming it. He has "faith" - always a dangerous strategy with hungry sharks. What this actually seems to be is a concerted effort to convince everyone that the usual Kabuki actually has some substance this time, but of course it doesn't so all they've managed to do is put a sizable chunk of their credibility on a horse and send it galloping into the sunset. Which could be a good thing. Because the one thing we don't really need is extra credibility for the Obama Admin before  the next phase . On Tuesday, May 12, the trustees who oversee Social Security and Medicare will issue their annual report. I don't know what will be in the report. But I do know what the response will be. Conservatives, libertarians and center-right Democrats will take whatever the report says as evidence that there is an "entitlement crisis," which should require us not only to address spiraling healthcare costs (a genuine issue, affecting the private sector as well as Medicare and Medicaid) but also the alleged "crisis" of Social Security (an imaginary problem). The coalition of libertarian zealots, Jeffersonian conservatives, center-right Democrats and bank ers and brokers who would like to earn fees or commissions from the diversion of Social Security payroll taxes into IRAs recycles the same arguments against Social Security, rain or shine, boom or bust. They've been doing it for more than a quarter-century, ever since a couple of libertarians wrote up a guide for small-government conservatives on how to spread doubts about a popular, solvent and effective entitlement. These tried-and-true arguments will be dusted off and dragged through the media once again, after the latest Social Security Trustees' report is published. Lind is of course correct. That is what's coming, and the arguments will be the same because they're the only arguments the other side has. Lind's destruction of them is must-reading because thanks to Obama's naivete/corporate collusion (take your pick) it would seem that single-payer isn't just off the table, it's out the door and in the dumpster. The for-high-profit health insurance industry will be the controlling factor in the "reform" of our health care. They aren't going to be at the table. They are the table. The downside of Obama's open alliance with the Enemy is that alliance itself. One of the strongest arguments for cutting SocSec isn't covered by Lind. It's fairness . Obama has said repeatedly that when the economy is in freefall and the country is in trouble everybody has to sacrifice. Essentially this part of the Kabuki is to showcase the Great Sacrifice being made by the insurance industry. It's a set-up for the next sacrifice: ours. They're giving up so much, it's only "fair" that we give up something too. The appropriate answer for this comes from Lind even though he isn't framing it as a response to that particular argument. He's just pissed. [T]he huge expansion of the deficit and debt in the last year has had nothing to do with Social Security (without which not only retirees but the economy as a whole would have been much worse off). Indeed, thanks to the modest stimulus and the much larger bailouts, the contribution of Social Security to long-term deficits -- always pretty small -- has just gotten a lot smaller in relative terms. Anyone who says that the costs of the bailout mean we must now cut Social Security is literally saying that in order to bail out the bank ers who created this crisis we need to slash benefits for American retirees . (emphasis added) The ONLY way to get that past the victims of this scam is to convince them that it's playing fair for them to sacrifice, too, and both Obama and his minions have been lumping the two thing together for weeks now: " It's only fair if everybody has to make sacrifices. And by the way, Medicare and Social Security have to be brought under control." If we buy this BS, Obama will be able to do what Bush couldn't: kill SocSec. With Obama's link to the insurance corpo's clear and unambiguous, it's going to be a lot harder for him to make that argument without appearing to be little more than a insurance corpo foil/puppet. Anything that weakens his credibility playing that role has to be a good thing. Source
 
"We Didn't Do It, It Just...Happened" Top
This kind of shit always makes my blood pressure spike. As millions of people seek government aid, many for the first time, they are finding it dispensed American style: through a jumble of disconnected programs that reach some and reject others, often for reasons of geography or chance rather than differences in need. Mr Hulse, I watched this happen and it isn't "American style", it's "American conservative style". Conservatives of both parties took what was intended to be a complementary and synthesized series of programs and over time, particularly in the 80's, deliberately turned them into a mishmosh of competing, unco-ordinated agencies vying for the same shrinking pool of govt funding. They added acres of delimiting eligibility requirements, demanded more layers of bureaucracy designed to make sure nobody was "cheating" any of their requirements, and then set up contradictory instructions that no one, not even govt lawyers, could understand. There was nothing subtle about it and they weren't hiding it. Jamie Eastland, a conservative Southern Democrat at the time, was flat open about their intention and bragged that there was more than one way (work) to get people off welfare. You could trick them off. You could make the eligibility requirements so tough that only a small percentage could meet them. You could make the requirements so confusing that people who qualified would believe they didn't. You could order the relevant agencies to deny every application the first time, which would scare off a certain percentage of people who wouldn't apply a second time (the Reagan Administration did just that). There were 1000 tricks and conservatives found - and used - all of them. It was all designed to cheat poor people out of the help liberals offered and to make them distrust the govt at the same time. Their sleazy tactics worked so well that 30 years later, the NYT's Carl Hulse is able to write that - Health care, housing, food stamps and cash — each forms a separate bureaucratic world, and their dictates often collide. State differences make the patchwork more pronounced, and random foibles can intervene, like a computer debacle in Colorado that made it harder to get food stamps and Medicaid . The result is a hit-or-miss system of relief.... - as if that "result" was a function of American incompetence or some mystical, bureaucratic inevitability outside the scope of mere mortals to affect. There is nothing accidental about that result. The amendments and changes conservatives kept pushing, kept pushing, kept pushing, were designed to create just such a nightmare for anyone seeking help from their govt. Aid seekers often find the rules opaque and arbitrary. And officials often struggle to make policy through a system so complex and Balkanized. Across the country, hard luck is colliding with fine print. Workers who bank ed $2,000 in severance pay can get food stamps in South Carolina; their counterparts in North Carolina cannot. Oklahomans who earned $10,000 in six months can collect unemployment if they started work on the 15th of February, May, August or November — but not if they started two weeks later. *** When the recession cost Erika Nieves of Bridgeport, Conn., her job with a wrestling promoter, she did get unemployment benefits. But that caused her to lose a welfare-to-work grant and her child care subsidy. Now Ms. Nieves is months behind on her rent and is job hunting with a 2-year-old. "They took away my aid when I need it the most," she said. Exactly. That was the whole point. The first version of that rule was put in place during the Reagan Administration. If a woman on welfare wanted to go to college so she could get a job and get off welfare, she could get aid to pay for her tuition and books but she'd lose all her child-care assistance, her rent subsidy, home heating assistance during the winter, and maybe her food stamps. A dozen of my clients suddenly had to decide between going to school and feeding their kids. I probably don't have to tell you what they decided. They quit school. The work requirement is the same kind of scam - take a job, any job, no matter how shitty, or lose your assistance. Lose that job through no fault of your own and the assistance goes bye-bye anyhow. Fuck you very much. Signed, Your Government. They did the same thing at the state level with differing success depending on where it was. Hulse discusses the variation of state-controlled assistance and calls it "scattershot". Just 50 percent of people eligible for food stamps receive them in California, compared with 98 percent in Missouri. Nineteen percent of the unemployed get jobless benefits in South Dakota, compared with 67 percent in Idaho. Fifteen states rank among the top 10 in providing one form of aid and the bottom 10 in another. California ranks second in distributing cash welfare but last in food stamps. South Dakota, last in jobless benefits, is first in subsidized housing. In most cases I suspect these differences arose from the opposition. The conservatives are often up against oppo that's much more sophisticated than it was in Reagan's time and, locally at least, they don't get everything they want they way they do in the corporate-owned Congress. So whenever the opposition can mount a concerted campaign, the conservatives are forced to compromise something here and a little there and you wind up with this checkerboard effect. States' Rights, doncha know. But it would be nice if we'd stop pretending that "hard luck is colliding with fine print" as if somebody reached down from Mars and inserted the rules and regulations without us knowing it. We know who did it and it wasn't Martians. Source
 
The Simpsons on iTunes Top
 Spent the entire weekend sick.  I've been feeling a little better lately, but about 3 hours ago, I went on a short walk to visit the ATM and get some OJ. Strangely, during the walk, my coughing escalated and once I got home, I had a bit of a fever. So, I'm leaning more and more toward the severe allergy theory, rather than illness. And that sucks. I'm going to see how things go this week, then after payday (on Friday) if I'm still feeling like this, I will schedule a doctor's appointment with one of my Korean co-workers so I can find out what I can do to stop this annoying crap. Also, I've been thinking a lot about my post-Korea future (1-year contract expires in December). I know that my current allergy/illness will influence my decision. If I can't do anything to fix it, I certainly won't put up with it for a second year. Regarding my future, these are, as I see it, my options and what I think of them: 1. Stay here for a 2nd year. Now, odds are decent with this one, considering the KTs like my work and the students enjoy having me as a teacher. I'd likely ask for a small raise and some time before the start to head home for the holidays. Don't think that's impossible. But, like I said, given my current health issues and the possibility of going to another school or country could be reasons to pursue option 2. 2. Go to another country. There is a healthy list of places I would like to visit, including Italy, England, Ireland and Sweden. I know I could get ESL teaching jobs there, as well as Japan or other places. The appeal here is just to see another place. I mean, I really enjoy it here, but I wouldn't mind taking advantage of the opportunity to see other nations while it exists. 3. Go back to the States and get my (regular) teacher certification. While I will begin online classes for my TEFL certification after payday this month, I still have a strong desire to be a regular teacher of English and/or History. Those are subjects I really enjoy and I'd love to have the opportunity to settle into a steady job and lifestyle, rather than bouncing around for another year or more. I've moved quite a bit in my life...and with 30 (!!!) fast approaching, I am anxious to settle down. Granted, this is a nice change of pace after 11 years of living in the same small mid-Michigan city. But it's not what I want to do with my life forever. 4. Go back to the States and work as an ESL teacher or a related field. I know this is possible, as many foreigners in the US still don't speak English despite living there. I know there are ESL jobs in Boston, which is a big city I would be ok living in (being a Red Sox fan, having friends there and having visited in 2007). I could also get a job as an adviser at a college as well. And, of course, my MBA could allow me to teach a few courses to supplement things as well. Overall, I still have the same goal, which is to teach in some capacity while finding some financial stability (I dug myself quite a hole). Once I have some ground to stand on there, I know the rest of what I want. Most of you can probably guess exactly who I want to be with, so I don't need to expound on that one. But, the other stuff has to come first. Beyond those things, I've been thinking about home lately. Not in a homesick way, but sort of wistfully. Like I miss playing catch with my brother in the backyard. I miss certain foods (Taco Bell for starters). I miss my softball teammates. And I wonder what it'll be like coming back home to finally taste a burrito from TB, or what it will feel like to swing a bat again, to throw a curveball to Chris or to watch Tigers' games with my family on TV. I wonder what it will be like to see my friends and family. I do know that when I return to the States, I would like to also make pit-stops in Georgia and perhaps Boston and Pennsylvania to visit high-school friends (GA), college friends (Boston) and family (PA). That will depend on which option I ultimately choose, as well as what I bank account ends up looking like. At this point, I still am living dollar-to-dollar, but considering I came over here with less than $300 to my name, well, that's ok. So this month should be the first time I can actually save up in my account here and back home. That makes me pleased. Anyway, in a little while, I am going to call home and wish my mom a happy Mother's Day. Then I need to sleep. Good night and Happy Mom's Day! Source
 
Pigs in Space 21: When You've Got It, Flaunt It Top
Power, that is. How dumb do they think we are? How about so dumb we won't notice that GM turned GMAC into a bank right in the middle of the bank bail-out so it would eligible for "saving"? It looks as if one more bank needs a bailout. And, four months ago, this bank was not even a bank . The company is GMAC , the onetime finance arm of General Motors , which itself seems to be hurtling toward bank ruptcy. The results of bank stress tests disclosed Thursday showed that GMAC is in dire straits. Federal regulators determined that GMAC must raise a staggering $11.5 billion in capital, the equivalent of roughly half its current equity. G.M. is in no position to help. Uh-oh. And of course the usual argument applies, no matter how foolish it looks in retrospect. "GMAC is integral to G.M., and without a functioning GMAC, you don't have a functioning G.M.," said John A. Casesa, managing partner in the Casesa Shapiro Group and a longtime industry analyst. "To the extent that the government has an enormous amount of money at risk in G.M., it's essential to help GMAC to protect that investment." And so on. Who made this change at the oddest and most suspicious of times? Guess. In the heat of the credit market turmoil last fall, the Federal Reserve agreed to convert several non bank institutions, including American Express , into bank holding companies. And, in a controversial move, it also bestowed that status on GMAC, even though the company fell short of certain requirements. Days later, the Treasury Department injected $5 billion into GMAC and gave G.M. $1 billion to acquire additional equity in it as well. Yes, our old pal Ben Bernanke in concert with the late and unlamented Henry Paulson, showing that suave elitist favoritism we've all come to know and love. Ben's been at the center of the storm for awhile and his bank ing buddies have done pretty well. They're going to do better. After a less than convincing "stress test" ( Krugman says, "the regulators didn't have the resources to make a really careful assessment of the bank s' assets, and in any case they allowed the bank s to bargain over what the results would say. A rigorous audit it wasn't."), Bernanke &Co are currently trumpeting how much better the system is. Why, the bank s only need another $75B in bail-out bucks , according to them. After subjecting the nation's biggest bank s to the most public scrutiny in decades, federal regulators ordered 10 of them on Thursday to raise a total of $75 billion in extra capital and gave the rest a clean bill of health. The long-awaited results of the " stress tests " set off an immediate scramble by major institutions for more capital. By June 8, they must give regulators their plans for raising the money, and raise it by November. The verdict was far more upbeat than many in the industry had feared when the tests were first announced in February. And the bank s that came up short will have to raise much less than some analysts had expected as recently as a few days ago. Uh-huh. Well, I'm convinced. Although if GMAC alone needs more than a tenth of that total, you have to wonder just how accurate that conclusive number is. Meanwhile, over half a million people have been laid off . In April . And that was the best month out of the last 6 if you can believe the Labor Dept. So more than 3 million people have lost their jobs in the last 6 months while a couple of $Trillion$ has been funneled to Wall Street and we're all waiting for it to, you know, trickle down to us. Why do I feel like I've lived through all this before? Oh, yeah. Because I have. I was around for the Reagan/Bush recession in the 80's. Same philosophy. Same results. The rich got richer and we got screwed. I hate re-runs. Source
 
The Devil Is in the Details and the Details Are on the Table Top
So the gloves are off and Obama is about to square off against the Congress looking for cuts in the budget. $17B in cuts , to be exact. Guess what's at the top of the list? Of course. Medicare. White House budget director Peter Orszag said the president's plan for program cuts is just a start and that a lot more needs to be done to dig the government out of its fiscal hole, especially curbing the growth of the Medicare and Medicaid health care programs for the elderly and the poor . (emphasis added) Yes, by all means. Let's load down bank ers with $Billions$ and take it out of the hides of those useless bums, the old, the poor, and the children. They don't have $42M to pay lobbyists for buying Democrat votes. Fuck em. Source
 
Pigs in Congress: State Halts Foreclosures Congress Would Have Allowed Top
A few days after the Democrat Congress rejected bank ruptcy reform in reaction to $42M worth of lobbying by the financial industry , the state of South Carolina halted all foreclosures connected to Federal loan programs . South Carolina's highest court on Tuesday temporarily stopped thousands of pending foreclosure sales in the state to give homeowners more time to take advantage of a new federal program to help them refinance mortgages. The injunction -- which mortgage experts said appeared to be the nation's first court-ordered stop for an entire state -- prevents judges in South Carolina from finalizing foreclosure sales on properties guaranteed by Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae or any other mortgage company that has signed on to a federal assistance program. RealtyTrac Inc., a foreclosure listing firm, says the ruling could affect 5,000 South Carolina homes facing foreclosure. There is a profound disconnect here somewhere. On the one hand, the foreclosures are taking place because of Joe Biden's pro bank er bank ruptcy law re-write that won't allow judges the power to work out mortgage refinancing of endangered homes. On the other, the order comes at the request of the administration of which Joe Biden is the Veep. The ruling was in response to a request from a Columbia attorney representing Fannie Mae, who had argued that it was necessary to keep homeowners who might be eligible for federal assistance from being shut out of the process. ''Absent the injunction, mortgagors eligible for relief under the HMP program could be denied their right to participate because their property was sold at the foreclosure sale,'' Ronald Scott wrote in his three-page motion. ''This qualifies as irreparable injury for which the court should provide redress in the form of a temporary injunction.'' This isn't exactly a case of clashing rights but it is an example of the general schizophrenia that's afflicting a govt that is split between helping bank s and helping bank customers and hasn't yet figured out that those two goals aren't compatible. It's a split Dan Froomkin notes peaks in Obama himself . One day, he's a full-throated populist, calling for a wholesale rewriting of the economic rules that favor the wealthy. And the next day, he's committing hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars into bailing out the very people whose obscene appetite for mega-profits trashed the economy in the first place. Last week he let the bankruptcy&st=Search"> killed a proposal to let bank ruptcy judges modify troubled mortgages. This week he's vowing to close loopholes that multinational corporations are using to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. One day he's glad-handing corporate CEOs and Wall Street bigwigs; the next , labor leaders. First, he underreacted to the AIG bonus scandal. Then he tried to redirect the public's fury into outrage over the irresponsibility he's trying to redress with his hugely ambitious budget plan. So does Jane Hamsher discover that, hey, Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi really don't want credit card caps, which is why the bills never got to the floor of the House. Ergo, Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank didn't want interest rate limits capped. Nor do they want House members having to take an embarrassing vote on the matter. Small wonder -- I've been going through the campaign contribution and lobbying records, there's tens of millions flying around to keep it from happening. This is the way the agenda gets controlled by the bank s -- just enough gets done to make it seem like Congress did something, but the bank s actually get to dictate the terms of what that "something" is. Now on to the Senate, where nobody thinks the situation will get any better. Speaker Pelosi's office: (202) 225-4965 Barney Frank's office: (202) 225-5931 At FDL's Oxdown Gazette , masaccio explains that Congress has to listen to the bank s because they represent the community . Congress listens to bank ers because they are important in the local community. They support the Scouts, the high school band, theater groups, Habitat for Humanity, and all kinds of groups that make a community what it can be bank s free up their employees' time so they can participate in community activities themselves. My local bank calls on me to contribute to silent auctions and buy tickets to fund raisers. They put on events for the community, like speeches by the mayor and other officials. And it isn't just the community bank s that do this. The regional bank ers here operate the same way. Their contributions are larger, and tend to go to larger community groups, like the symphony and the opera and the art museum, but they support all kinds of outreach groups and charitable organizations, at all levels. This is a much better place because of our bank s. That kind of good will opens a lot of doors. The big boys don't make these arguments. Instead, they send the local bank s in to do the work. All they need is some kind of argument that has some resonance, and arguments are for sale too. (emphasis added) So everybody wants to help the economy and homeowners - the backbone of that economy - by saving homes and forestalling the hellish PR of mass evictions over here , but over there the bank s are claiming the community needs healthy bank s and if they don't get every penny they're owed by alsolutely everyone, never mind what tricks, strategems, lies and outright pickpocketing they've done along the way, they might have to be rescued or else close.... This what you call being on the horns of a dilemma, caught between a rock and a hard place. You might also call what the bank s are doing "extortion" or a "protection racket". Pity the poor politician who has to make his way through this minefield. Yeah, right. Like there's an actual decision being agonized over until it's finally made with the pol coming as close as he can to balancing one need against the other and it's just a co-incidence that the side with the $42M lobbyists always wins. Kabuki, man. Source
 
Anathema -- "A Dying Wish" Top
 Quick hits because it's almost 2 am here and I need to get up early on Wednesday to work at the kindergarten. *Had a solid day today...I was really very happy with things. I don't know if it's because I'm 100% healthy for the first time in nearly 3 weeks or what, but I was happy today. *I had several students today come up and ask if I was ok, since they either saw me sick on Friday, or missed having me because I went home early. That was very nice. *I finally feel good enough to resume regular exercise! Woo-hoo! * I have (roughly) $7 in my wallet here, and about $1 in my bank account. Thank God that Wednesday is payday. * The weather is great and I'd really like to go on a nature hike sometime in the next week or two. I need to find out where to go and how to get there. * Baseball has started again. It gives me so much more to do and makes me feel so happy. * I miss my drums. * No matter where I go, I will always prefer quiet evenings at home to going out. That hurts me sometimes, but I know it's who I am, so I don't fight it. I know it retards my friendship-making skills over here, but for myriad reasons, I am ok with that...maybe more on that next time. * I have something else I want to write about. Something fairly big. But I just don't have the time tonight. It's probably something that will work itself out with time, as most things are, but I still really want to get it out somewhere. Maybe to vent. Maybe to sort things out. I dunno. Source
 
What's happening ? Top
It is a long time since I logged my weekends. Last few weekends have been quite eventful and are worth a few lines. Last weekend, I visited Tirupathi, undeniably one of the (The ?) greatest temple towns in the world. My little darling had a long pending plan to climb the hill, and it is full filled now. We covered the 3550 steps and a few KM of road in 3 hours. A pretty decent time as per the standards, it seems (Regular long walks in Mumbai seem to have helped her quite a lot).  It was a regular trek for me and a pilgrimage for her. Win-win for all :-) Next day, I had a few hours at Tirupathi (down hill), as she caught an early train to Hyderabad. I visited Chandragiri fort, which is 15 KM from Tirupathi. The fort dates back to 1600s. I could attend the Light and Sound show at the fort by AP Tourism department. It was an interesting show (only Sound part of it, not much Light), with a back ground audio that explains the history of some powerful kingdoms of South India (particularly the Vijayanagara Kingdom). Chandragiri fort played an important role between 1500-1700. Hampi, which was used to be the epicenter of the great Vijayanagara Kingdom, and, one of the World Heritage sites now, was attacked and destroyed by some Muslim kings and Chandragiri has become the capital eventually. In 1700s Portuguese businessmen entered through Chennai port and struck a business deal with the then king, who is inefficient and bank rupt, and promised him a wealthy treasury. And, the rest is history This week (with 1st and 2nd being holidays) has very very extended weekend. Weekend started on Wednesday itself. I spent the last 4 days in Hyderabad. Watched a few movies and caught up with some friends. By the way, I have metamorphosed into an intellectual, of late. Whenever I visit my relatives places, they encourage the kids around to get some tuition from me, in subjects like Math, Physics etc., Luckily they are all very young and I can manage high school Math and Physics. And, I love teaching. So, I am also having good time with them. But, I will soon have a tough time, once they get into college :-) Apart from that, things are as usual. Marathon practice is going well. I ran 15 KM, 2 weeks back. I am supposed to do 18 KM this week, but I couldn't, as I was traveling. I will make it up, sometime this week. Source
 

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