14th September 2008

Fun ‘n games on a Sunday afternoon

posted in Economy, Livestock and Pets, OmegaDad, Politics |

Let’s see…

Nobody would buy Lehman, so it’s on a bankruptcy watch.

Bank of America, after turning down Lehman, is in talks to buy Merrill Lynch (my favorite new name:  “Lynch America”).

AIG–the insurer of all those humongous multi-level mortgage bond marketing schemes–is “looking for capital“.

Somebody named Bob Brinker apparently said something like “get all your money out of Washington Mutual”.

(Update:  A good quick round-up of the weekend’s financial shakeups.)

All the big news sites are still talking about Ike (which, thank heavens, wasn’t quite as bad as it could have been).  The financial stuff is only a sidebar, and only one of those items is being discussed.

So tell me, who’s the economy wonk on McCain’s team and on Obama’s team?  Whoever it is had better be prepared for a long, hard ride…

SiteMeter moved to a new system.  My problems with it…hmmm…1) It won’t “remember” me as logged in; 2) every time I try to load the stats in the new system using IE7, I get an endless “Loading Reports…” screen (though it works in Firefox); 3) hitting the “Refresh Stats” button sends me back to the home page, no longer logged in.  I’ve already sent through one help ticket and am contemplating sending in another, so I go to the SiteMeter website I have open, hit “Refresh Stats” just to see if anything happens, and I get a “404 not found” error.  So I go back to the SiteMeter homepage, and what do I see?

Whoops!

Aw, man, it must suck to be on the SiteMeter development team right now…Just like it must suck to be in that high-level group of financiers that was called into a weekend-long emergency meeting by Paulson.

OmegaDad’s four-ganger box for the regular light timer, the heating lamp thermostat, the ventilation fan thermostat, and Something Else is too small.  (This is in the Junior Coop.)  He is irritated.

The good news?  The “Alaska Women Reject Palin” protest in Big City was apparently very well attended.

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There are currently 9 responses to “Fun ‘n games on a Sunday afternoon”

  1. 1 On September 14th, 2008, noreen said:

    For the first time I am beginning to feel, and hope, that the tide is turning and Sarah Palin is being seen for what she is, and that she is not the candidate most women would vote for.

  2. 2 On September 14th, 2008, kris said:

    did you see the snl sketch with ‘palin’ and ‘hillary’? too funny. also, i read something somewhere that made a quip about palin shooting wolves from a plane….did she do that? if so, what a low life bitch.

  3. 3 On September 14th, 2008, GrannyJ said:

    Interesting piece about Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac in WaPo which suggests that the housing bubble was getting bigger even before the present occupant moved into the White House & started his expensive, stupid war. Sounds to me like both parties had their fingers in the pie for a long, long time. I suspect that it will be difficult for any new occupant to fix that kind of long-term blundering.

  4. 4 On September 15th, 2008, preTzel said:

    While I sit here with shingles and shivers I must say that all of this financial stuff makes my head hurt. Or is that the shingles and cellulitis? ;)

    It’s a tad scary to think about all these financial institutions being in trouble right now.

  5. 5 On September 15th, 2008, Miss Cellania said:

    I came over here to see if you went to the rally. I never got to even see the “new sitemeter” because it wouldn’t let me in at all! And the financial crisis is all over the news and over my head, but since I have no money it’s moot to me. All my assets are tied up in real estate, which is pretty much worthless now anyway.

  6. 6 On September 15th, 2008, Jean said:

    Hooray for the Alaskan Women Reject Palin.Always glad to hear from her home area. And to answer one of your commentators - yes, she could very well have shot wolves from a plane. She has fought tooth and nail to keep this going.Wolves pray pn wolves and that is a no-no in her books - moose are for the sports men and must be protected from the big bad wolves even though wolves help keep the moose healthy by killing the old, infirm and diseased. She also is suing the gov for putting the polar bear on the Endangered Species List. Makes oil leasing harder.

  7. 7 On September 15th, 2008, noreen said:

    I really wish the Dems would revive the old slogan, “it’s the economy, stupid,” although it is also the war, the general decline of our middle class, the arrogance of the ruling class,the environment, women’s rights, etc., etc.

  8. 8 On September 16th, 2008, PunditMom said:

    I am so worried about all this. How far a leap is it to the next Great Depression?

  9. 9 On September 16th, 2008, Janis said:

    CNN carried the story yesterday. Guess better late than never.

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