We really are in trouble now

[Ian Gills]

And all because you guys were so afraid of the Commies and Big Government that you weren't man enough to regulate the banks.

No one knows who really owns their homes. Great. And challenges are being made on whether foreclosures are legal because the banks didn't keep the paperwork. Great. Which means foreclosed homes will just hang around ages because no one will buy them. Great.

This is the end. The best I might get out of it is a free house. But then it won't be worth very much if I do.

Imagine an America in which no one is paying their home loans.

What a mess.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yhZBgi5NOg

[Cookie]

Yeah, RE is a mess Ian, that I will agree on.

People are getting more crass about things too. More difficult to get along with in the RE industry or the banking industry. I suggest people to do business with family local business. My mortage is held by a smaller bank, that has been in business forever, and they are still growing in my area. I recommend people interested in buying property to do the same, because to be quite honest, smaller business just care more and will try harder across the board.

~~~~~

This morning something happened while trying to mail a letter which shows alot of people's mentalities these days. Talk about grumpy...

Scenario, I am heading into the post office to mail a letter to my son. I am standing in the line which I can never understand why it is long, at all times of the year, when they complain they are losing money. Whatever. I am standing in line. Patiently waiting my turn.

I hear the woman tell the woman in front of me, they have Bart Simpson stamps. Wow, that is the one I want I thought.

I get called over and I told this man, an older man, maybe a bit older than me, that I wanted a Bart Simpson stamp on this. I was greeted with such rudenss, that at first I thought he was kidding.

He said, " I am not selling you one, you buy one of these." And, shows me an array of ugly stamps. I said, " I don't want those, I want Bart." He quipped, " you aren't getting one."

I stood there looking for cameras like this is for some stupid show on tv... but, I didn't see any.

I said, " okay, this is funny, now, I want Bart." He said, " I already told you twice, and I am not telling you again."

I said, " WHAT?"

THINKING, he can't be speaking to me, I am looking behind me now.

There got to be his kid in the back of me, but, nope, just other customers.

I said, " I don't know what your problem is, but, I want to buy a stamp and I am going to buy Bart."

He flings back the letter and says, " NO BART."

I asked him, again, " and, why can't I buy Bart?" " AS I TOLD YOU, HE IS SOLD IN BOOKS, DO YOU WANT TO BUY A BOOK!"

I am shocked... and angry.

I said, " how much for a book of Bart's then?" "7.80!" he is shouting at me.

I said, " YOU DIDN'T SAY THAT" just give me 2 of that stamp there! it was some kind of painting.

He said, " IF I PUT 2 OF THAT ON THERE, IT WILL COST YOU 88 CENTS, YOUR LETTER IS 78 CENTS, DO YOU WANT ME TO SPLIT THE STAMP IN HALF!"

I threw a dollar down and said, " you suck, keep the change." And, started to walk away.

He then, yelled at me saying, " YOU ARE A VERY PLEASANT WOMAN!"

I turned around, I walked back to him, and I said, " MY HUSBAND'S NAME WAS TIM, ( HIS BADGE SAID TIM) AND, HE WOULD HAD NEVER TREATED A WOMAN OR ANYONE LIKE YOU!"... he said to this, " WHATEVER."

I stood there, and said, " I am going back to my office and I am reporting you." And, he said, " go ahead."

I turned and fronted all the other customers, about 15 of them, and said, " DON'T go to him, he is a rude man." And, I left.

Men... what is it with men?

[Redwood]

What do you expect when the foxes are guarding the hen house?

http://www.businessinsider.com/chris-dodds-loan-officer-says-senators-knew-they-were-getting-sweetheart-mortgages-2009-7

http://static.businessinsider.com/~~/f?id=6f7a6c79513a9c49fdf5c600

Funny thing the idiots in this state would have probably reelected him if he didn't decide not to run again.
If he did he probably would have been censured like his father was....
Apples don't fall far from the tree....

[Cookie]

Vote well.

[Redwood]

Vote well.

I'm afraid the choices we have for replacement are no better....

The Dems have tapped our present Attorney General Richard Blumenthal AKA "Lying Dick" to run for Dodd's seat...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI7Hu6LcuWI

And the Republican's have come up with former WWE CEO Linda McMohan AKA "Kick Em In THe Ballz"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0jKMh3r86A

Frankly when someone wants to spend over $20M of their own money to be elected to help us I'm a skeptic...:eek::rolleyes:

She talks of smaller government and lowering taxes, but when the state rolls out tax credits for film makers to boost jobs in the industry in Connecticut, she was grabbing up over 90% of the funds for her company. She followed that up with laying off 10% of her workforce and paying herself a $46M salary...

How do you "Vote Well" with those choices?:confused::mad:

[Ian Gills]

How do you "Vote Well" with those choices?

The penny FINALLY drops.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80r90A9vtCU&feature=related

[Hillbilly Man]

The penny FINALLY drops.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80r90A9vtCU&feature=related

Hot Dang Ian.
I dint no that dem royals were doin the inbred thing.

We got summa dem livin down the road a piece jes like dat without the fancy clothes.

[Terry]

Well, now I have to get the Bart Simpson stamps.

On the other note.
How do you pay yourself 46 million and then start laying off people.

And she wants to ruin, I mean run things?

And on the other note, I'm English too.


http://www.terrylove.com/images/terry/love_coat_of_arms.jpg

And some other things too. I think my family went with the best of all breeds.
A little of everything. Heinz 57

[Ian Gills]

Oh, I remember the Loves. They used to live down in Suffolk. Until Richard moved to Virginia in 1642.

He wasn't the brightest of plumbers.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_r1V7XgSqSEg/SQjpg3jHW_I/AAAAAAAAAO8/m0sNKB54JDY/s400/P1040067.JPG

Speaking of the 17th century:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mUn2c_PKho

[Cookie]

Vote for the one who dresses the best; he or she, will make the best impression with the other world leaders. :)

[Redwood]

Vote for the one who dresses the best; he or she, will make the best impression with the other world leaders. :)

I'm confused...
Would that be the geek in the 60's suit or, the middle aged woman in spandex tights up on the top rope?

[Cookie]

That's really funny. :)




I'm confused...
Would that be the geek in the 60's suit or, the middle aged woman in spandex tights up on the top rope?

[Redwood]

That's really funny. :)

No it's pathetic that the 2-parties are failing so bad at bringing good candidates forward to run for office.

[Cookie]

Well, I was not going to bring this up but I feel brave today. :) One of my goals in life was and still is, to be Mayor of the town in which I own camp property. Now, being that the population in that town is 692 people, it doesn't say much but, I just love this town. My husband said, I would make the coolest mayor being I own nice clothes.

... and shoes.

[Cookie]

Plus, I have this great idea for a new tax to be implemented. It is called the Man Speak TaX. If a man wants to speak he has to pay 250.00 a year first. Each year their will be an increase.

[Terry]

If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?




http://www.terrylove.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=11628&stc=1&d=1287965502

[Cookie]

Maybe not, but if he speaks in my neck of the woods and I am then Mayor, he stills pays. :)

[hj]

WHO goes to the post office to put a stamp on a letter? And don't you have satellite post offices which are not that busy? It doesn't sound like you were doing too much to defuse the situation.

[Cookie]

Actually, I am joking around with the Man Speak Tax, but in your case I will make an exception. First of all, it is my business why I go to the post office, secondly, the letter had to be weighed for I had pics enclosed of my grandson I had taken for him, thirdly, I certainly did try to diffuse the situation, but nothing no one could had said to him, would had made him not an asshole. I am of the old school, I believe in treating customers and people in general with kindness and respect. He did not.

I did call and report him, also. I really don't want to see anyone else, regardless of gender, being treated so unreasonably. I deserve an apology from him, to be honest.

And, a Bart Simpson stamp. :)

[Cookie]

Also, HJ, there are many people out of work who would treasure his job, and if someone like him, doesn't want it, ( actions speaking) then he should move on. Give it to someone who will appreciate it.

[ballvalve]

Bart Simpson on a stamp? If I was that guy I would toss them all in the trash. He did you a favor, since kids under the age of 21 have no business watching that sarcastic defamation of all things once sacred.

Why not get a Jane Austen or a Shakespeare stamp, or a Roy Rodgers next time? You would not be supporting Americas debased, deranged ideas for public art, and you might inspire that recipient to find something to READ rather than rot his brain on TV.

Tell us the post office so we can write in and thank that guy for trying to save you from our deeply disturbed system.

If you are of the old school, you would know better than to support a system that creates trash stamps.

Try Donald Duck, Chip and Dale, Yosemite, and author stamps. Even the three stooges would be a huge upgrade for your grandson from Bart derangement.

If you insist on buying garbage bart stamps, they should be priced at $7.80 each for a standard 44 cent version. The profits can go to Ian to redistribute to the blameless poor, and provide counceling for Americas future juvenile delinquents.

[Ian Gills]

Don't get me involved in this.

And I don't want the money. The Government does, to do its constitutional duty and provide entitlements to its citizens, like decent education, healthcare, a living wage and a pension.

But if you must insist on not having these things, because you live in the false hope that you too will be rich one day and can't stand the idea of having to give any of your new found wealth to people less fortunate than you, then go ahead. Dream on.

I'm not a witch.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXkpP8UPl-A

[Cookie]

I bet you never watched the Simpsons. They are funny! No worse than South Park, or even the 3 Stooges was, sometimes, you just got to laugh and not take things so seriously. I have collected stamps since I was a young girl with my dad. My dad fought in Anzio and lost his hearing when he came out, and was shell-shocked for years. It was something I could do with him. So, we bought plane stamps, any kinds etc. The selection was not like it is today. What we also used to do together was laugh... We would watch Ma and Pa Kettle, oh, he loved that Pa... and would laugh at him. I used to tell him what he was doing and saying. My dad would had loved the Simpsons. He had a great sense of humor and was a terrific man. Far and few in between today.


I don't understand why you condone rudeness and ill-treatment of a person and customer. What is that teaching the youth. People are so aggressive today, people need to laugh more; laughter is the best medicine. Not everything in life needs to be or should be educational. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy...

P.s. By the way, it wasn't for my grandson, lol, it was for my son. He is quite old enough ;)





Bart Simpson on a stamp? If I was that guy I would toss them all in the trash. He did you a favor, since kids under the age of 21 have no business watching that sarcastic defamation of all things once sacred.

Why not get a Jane Austen or a Shakespeare stamp, or a Roy Rodgers next time? You would not be supporting Americas debased, deranged ideas for public art, and you might inspire that recipient to find something to READ rather than rot his brain on TV.

Tell us the post office so we can write in and thank that guy for trying to save you from our deeply disturbed system.

If you are of the old school, you would know better than to support a system that creates trash stamps.

Try Donald Duck, Chip and Dale, Yosemite, and author stamps. Even the three stooges would be a huge upgrade for your grandson from Bart derangement.

If you insist on buying garbage bart stamps, they should be priced at $7.80 each for a standard 44 cent version. The profits can go to Ian to redistribute to the blameless poor, and provide counceling for Americas future juvenile delinquents.

[Terry]

I love watching the Simpson's. Some of their shows really get to what is happening without all the hypocrisy.
And there have been some very touching shows about Christianity too, they cover everything. The minister next door when they thought the city was being destroyed, and how he left the shelter so one more could fit in? That was a classic. It made the others realize how selfish they were acting, and one by one they joined the minister. Very touching. Oh.......and they all lived in the end.

So now I need some Bart Simpson stamps.

[asktom]

I got Bart Simpson stamps and the next letter I had to mail was a sympathy card. They work fine for my phone bill though.

[Cookie]

Phone bill is good... lol. Good choice in not the Sympathy... :) I hate my phone bill. Well, I talked to my son and he got the letter! I really didn't have much hope in that. I asked him, " is it normal looking? is their like spit on it? or ripped to pieces? is it messed up looking? Is their swear words written on it?" He asked why, I was asking those things, and he was laughing when I told him, it was all because of Bart Simpson.

This post office has a Stamp Nazi. :) ( seinfied...no stamp (soup) for you. I guess I didn't do it right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2lfZg-apSA

[jimbo]

If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?

No question about it! And anything the man says after the woman has had the last word....that starts a whole new argument.

[ballvalve]

Okay, so the Simpsons are the Mad magazine of the 60's I suppose. But at least a kid had to READ that, not be hypnotized on the tube. Some of the shows are genius and some are way off base...

Point being, You would never have seen Alfred E Newman on a USPS stamp, and I pray we never do. Our postal service is deeply disturbed to have stamps for a show that is CURRENT, at the very least.

Don't you guys think stamps should use themes that rise to a much higher cultural and personage level?

So shall we have South Park stamps? Saturday night live? Maybe a CNN,FOX and HLN stamps? A TOTO stamp? Flusholet? Perhaps with Oprah Winfrey testing it out? [that one I would buy]

The only reason they are doing this is to make a buck in their failing system.

And, they really are only sold in books of $7.80 or so each. Go to the USPS website it appears to be the only trash stamp for sale. They do have a nice "sunday funnies" book too.

Watch the news, maybe that Postal guy is getting ready to really go Postal.

[Cookie]

I got all kinds of stamps. :)

[Dunbar Plumbing]

What a mess.




Don't worry, the right people are prospering from all of this.

[Cookie]

Terry, I saw that episode and loved it.

[Cookie]

Don't worry, the right people are prospering from all of this.

Yes, quite a mess. But, vote well. :)

[Dunbar Plumbing]

It wasn't worth voting today. I knew which way the direction was headed.

[Ian Gills]

Remember. It's time to invite Government into your life and into your State.

God help us if the Republicans get hold of the Congress and Senate. It's at times like these that Americans NEED their Government, not a Government that can't make any decisions for the next two years.

As for the Tea Party, they're just a bunch of witches. Send 'em to England. That's what I say.

[ballvalve]

[QUOTE=Ian Gills;276641]Remember. It's time to invite Government into your life and into your State.

I would invite them to test our high pressure gas line infrastructure with torches.

Neither the witch government or the fake peoples government can govern anything.

[Gary Slusser]

No one knows who really owns their homes.
Anyone that paid off their mortgage owns 'their house' and should recall where they put the deed.

Anyone with an outstanding mortgage does not own 'the house' until they pay it off and receive the deed.

Now that's the way it used to be, but with all the "progressive" democrats running things today (especially in MD!), who knows. I guess a squatter can move in to any house where there are no people in it for whatever reason and claim it as theirs and progressives will agree with them. The old English King'er Queen wouldn't allow that; they would have simply ordered "off with their heads, that's my house!".

Ian, what's with the English students, and I guess foreigners too, rioting in the streets because their tuition is being raised? Why is merry ol'e England becoming such a conservative place, they were a deeply socialist country no? And France, wow, have you heard of what's going on in France with the garbage piled high'n no gasoline. How about China and no diesel fuel for the truckers? And you want US to be more like them...

[ballvalve]

You can change any one of those countrys names in your sentence in any variety of ways and still have the same result. This all happens in all countrys at random times.

[Ian Gills]

We riot because we have expectations from our Government, which are probably not being met. That's why we pay taxes.

Americans could use a riot or two to get their views across. Starting with the poor minorities. Trust me, you'd all sit up and listen.

France is France. They have always been crazy there. Just like the Irish.

France helped you gain Independence. Nuff said.

[ballvalve]

The French know how to eat and copulate well with a wonderful mix of passion and dark introspection.

The Irish eat poorly but copulate with great vigor quite frequently with high success rates.

English "cuisine" is an oxymoron. With all that focus on silverware and proper motions, I would guess the copulatory functions would be equally polite.

The American poor are so ignorant that when they riot they burn their own neighborhoods down. Then they usually riot because some dirtbag got smacked in his crack befuddled head with a cops baton. American rioters of late are a motley and confused group.

I think as long as they have enough money for the $129 satellite tv package and food stamps permit chips, hot dogs and chocolate as FOOD, American poor will stare aimlessly at a blaring screen and fall so far out of shape that the police can evict them with garden hoses.

6 or 8$ a gallon gas might get them to burn a few sofa's at the local Chevron. Then they'll get gas stamps and go back to South Park.

If you want to live like a God, move to the mountains in Slovakia - you can live a delightful mixture of France, Italy, Spain, and America in 1940...

[Gary Slusser]

France helped you gain Independence. Nuff said.
Yeah that was back when the socialists and communists didn't run France and we had statesmen like Ben Franklin. Now we have Hillbillary, Biden et al.

[ballvalve]

France wanted to beat the English, not caring a whit about the primate like Americans.

[Redwood]

Well, good news for the country...
As Senator from Connecticut we have Richard "Lying Dick" Blumenthal...
Yep another Liberal Democrat but a whole lot better than the alternative....

Politics has certainly degenerated, into a media frenzy and for now the Senate will not be a WWE cage match....
I had bad visions of Sarah Phailin teaming up with "Top Rope Linda" in 2012 for a run....
Scary Thought! But we are safe for now....

[asktom]

Its not politics, its marketing. The real thing.