As the world turns even crazier, I get fed up with:

1. politics
2. those poor financial institutions hurting because they made risky investments
3. those philanthropic congresspersons who keep handing taxpayer dollars to the folks mentioned in #2
4. anybody who calls me from an 800 number



I never answer the house phone, which is a portable and has a listed number. The only reasons I even have a house phone are:

1. the fax requires it
2. internet connection
3. I already own the damn phone anyway so it may as well be hooked up
4. it saves cash on outgoing calls and the battery lasts longer than my cell phone



Also, the house phone is bare minimum of the extras. I don't have voicemail, so they can't leave messages. Ha Ha.

I had called that "No Call Registry" but salepeople keep trying to call me. I believe the "No Call Registry" is collecting a lot of phone numbers for solicitors and penis enlargement salesmen. I think the whole thing is fraudulent. So I just never answer. If anyone knows me, they have my cell number.



Today our little newspaper had four solid pages in the classified section of foreclosures and sheriff's auctions. I noticed that most of the paper-holders were out of the area banks and even a few foreign ones. Those are certainly subprime loans sold by the original lenders through the big brokerage houses.

Merrill Lynch, Goldman, Lehman and the NYC brokers bought up the loans and repackaged them as securities for sale. The new buyers then got burned, and they are the ones holding the sales. The former homeowners, of course, don't count. They are only peons here. Kick them out and let's get back to making the really big bucks, right?

So who can they screw next? Hey! How about running up the price of crude oil so our Exxon-Mobil stock goes through the roof?