No-contact (with reality) Lenders

(Savannah, GA Hair Studio, Spring 2007 - photo by me. To see more photos of Savannah, click here.)

A Former Nurse Finds Focus in a Knitting Business

Your new word of the day.
(I'm willing to bet you haven't heard this one before.)

To Do in Seattle : Northwest Flower and Garden Show
February 20-24, Weds - Sat 9AM to 9PM, Sun 9 AM to 6 PM
WA State Convention Center, 7th and Pike, Seattle, WA

Remember Flounder from the movie "Animal House"?
As Dean Wurmser famously told him,
"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life."
Fortunately for Flounder, it's apparently not an impediment
to getting a job with the FDA;
FDA evaluated wrong Chinese drug factory
Producer of heparin ingredient went uninspected because of name mix-up
(See sidebar at left for more about the Baxter Heparin recall.)

Your daily dose of Doom;
This is an amazing statistic. "...To stem the foreclosures,
the mortgage industry says, lenders need to reach people they call
"no-contact borrowers," those who have eluded or rebuffed them.
There are lots of them. From September 2005 to August 2007, 53 percent of the loans backed by Freddie Mac that went into foreclosure involved borrowers who could not be reached..."
And look at how long ago it started. The housing market
was just starting to peak then.
Breakdown of the social order, or just the proles (a.k.a. my peeps)
finally figuring out how to stick it to The Man after 30 years
of the rich reneging on their end of the social contract???
We've gone from presidential candidates blathering about
"The Ownership Society" to the "You've been owned" generation.
Kinda' funny, even if it doesn't... uh... exactly bode well for the banking system.
Then again, neither does borrowing $50 billion dollars from the Fed
in the span of a few weeks, in order to stay afloat. 
I guess that's a pretty amazing statistic, too.
 
Alright, enough Doom already. Stop scaring the nice people, Amy. 
Let's get back to the happy/useful stuff.

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