Aloha, Suz…! ;-)

Jane Hamsher keep up the progressive mantra ZED

aloha ct — quite the run of zeds lately dood :) how’s paradise?

The excuse is back: “We don’t have sixty votes!”

hey bb — how ya doing?

hey wigwam — i refuse to accept that from the majority….

*heh* Shitty wifi and all, eh…?! ;-)

It was absolutely gorgeous today… No vog and priceless views of Mauna Loa and Kea…! *g*

Hi Suzanne. I’m tired of listening to the whimpering that we need bipartisan support and we need sixty votes, and she’s a lousy candidate and such crap.

Today was a wonderful dicussion about a where the progressive are what they want and the possibiiities. A disscusion that has a broader group now and it is an encouraging dialogue. Now for Suzanne’s selection.

sweet dood…. cold and dreary here and my rain gauge has decided to quit recording. time for a new weather station i suppose… tis about 5 years old and has served me well.

its always some excuse with the d’s *sigh*

I feel like this song today and it’s all sides…

smooth talkin man dood — how ya been that guy?

‘evenin’, all-

I was offline for most of today..someone please tell me that the threads here today were somewhat more peaceable than yesterday? Please?

hey rond — waters at the lake have calmed somewhat — today wasn’t as vitriol filled as yesterday.

Busy – I am incredibly disheartened tonight. The hope and optimism of a year ago has been crushed by cynicism and greed.

Like I said down below, I think my voting days may be over. When you can’t tell the difference, what’s the point?

Good. I was hoping it was an isolated incident.

ya gotta still vote dood — otherwise nothing has a forking chance of changing. not voting is voting for the bad actors in my book.

Hey Suz!

hey newton — still raining down in the bay area?

Ya know, in ’08, I voted…and I thought there was a chance of something changing. Instead what did we get? George W. Bush with a tan.

That’s not what *I* voted for.

No sleep last night followed by 6am hot yoga for 1;5 hours followed bt suit uo for Public Comment on why the Xounty did not get their sewer permit app approved by coastal commission. Told the Supervisors they have lied about the Mega sewer and need to tell the truth. Fat chance but was heard on the local gov .
Are you enjoying the privacy of the storms? The air is so good to breathe.

Suze – the rain has been off and on, but it was torrential at times.

tis a marathon and not a sprint…. not voting sends the message that the status quo is good enough and i refuse to send that message.

no sleep cause of the storm? has been pretty much a wind storm up here — some rain but not bad at all. our oregon storms are hitting ca so we’ve not had the heavy rain.

Afraid not, but a couple of days is better than nothing.

Your guitarist friend was blown away skillful with composition, style and fingering producing what seemed to be orcestral sound. Bookmarked.

my local weather guy showed the sat pic and there are more storms lined up to hit ca this week. i have #3 forecast to arrive here tomorrow.

My day suckeeeeeeeed. The bank called and said they were not going to modify our home loan cause we hadn’t sent in the required paperwork. I found this rather odd since I called the bank six weeks in a row to see how things were going and was told I had all of my paperwork in each fucking time. I have talked to four people so far today. Two have told me it was the bank who didn’t get the appraisal done in the required time by the government. They are going to start the entire process over. This will be the third fucking time. And they wonder why only 3% of the people applying get through the maze of bullshit. I wish I had a j and a glass of wine. And a valium. And a massage with acupuncture. And a million dollars.

oh noz!!! (((mary)))

*edit* forking banksters – spitting

And I want to know what the hell we are all going do when Scott Browns hold office all across this country. But I guess there is a limit on the number of men who have been center folds.

too many of em would break the camera lens if they tried that pose

I am good with storms we have no power outages. The local politics keeps my cognition process going for solutions. Asked the Chair to put us on the agenda was called by the BOS secretary to set it but I told here it was me and my lawyer she said : Well that’s a different story. I would rather solve our differences that way than in the courts.

here’s what barney frank said (as quoted by rachel tonight) about what to do next

LOL. Great vid, thanks.
“I want my Rocky now”
I voted for him, but it turns out he’s working for someone else.
Now a rethug has Kennedy’s seat. Can Rocky Learn?

Crap, this is just so much bs, Mary.
We all need lawyers on retainer and lobbyists on our side (plus those other things you mentioned, plus a few I could mention)

hey crusher — thanks — i thought it was a pretty funny video and well done.

tomorrow is gonna be an interesting day for sure

hey margot — how’s ohio tonight?

Hey y’all.

Something I wish I’d thought to mention to BCT before he left. Older people do not metabolize meds well and it is not uncommon for some change in drug regimen, or even an established routine to begin causing some impairment of cognitive function which family and (unfortunately) even medical professionals mistake for the onset of dementia.

Probably only a slim chance of that being the case but if the change in his mom’s behavior coincided with some addition or modification to her meds I would definitely want to consider the possibility.

Suz, can I pimp again…? Mahalo…! ;-)

hey rat — ya might wanna also leave that info on lisa’s post — i think if bct were to look for updated info, he would look there

Sirota pretty much sums it up for me.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/its-not-mere-cynicism-or_b_429055.html

pimp away dood

Make that $10 million please. Look at it this way they do it again buys you more time until you start paying rent again. Just keep walking the dog and Tai Chi. Look at your glass as half full and use that energy to enjoy your life. We got your back. No more calls all emails on record so you have text proof or letters. Don’t get mad get even?

That was just the right video.

hey emerson — how ya doing tonight dood?

Sadly, voting sends the same message. Never before have I felt more completely, “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss…”

Pardon my manners! Enjoyed the video, thanks Suz.
Seems to be a lot of moisture in the air here, it’s not too cold.

I am pretty good at that. Thanks.

I agree – cynicism and alienation is what I feel. Nothing but. And I feel like the animals at the end of Animal Farm, looking at the pigs and the men and not being able distinguish one from the other…

glad ya liked it margot — not too cold is good :)

I can take care of the ‘j’ for ya…! Does that help…? ;-)

glad ya liked it raven333 — how ya doing tonight?

mmmmm.

Mary, it costs, but you might want to go with certified mail, return receipt requested, with future communications.

Usually that stuff goes to the top of the pile. They (rightfully) figure the sender is building a case.

Hi Suz

Feeling like nobody in politics has acted in my best interests in…well, ever.

hey sunny — how ya doing tonight?

i hear ya dood

ma friend

Thanks, I did. Hopefully he’ll find time to visit more often and I’ll have a chance to mention it in case he misses the comment.

(((Mary)))

I forgot to check my mega millions ticket tonight. If I won I’ll buy your house and sell it back to you for a dollar, okay?

G’night all.

hey don’t Bogart that Mary…

That about says how I feel. Humilated, pissed, and wondering where to go now. Things won’t get better with people like Brown in office. I just can’t tell how much better they would have been with Coakley in office. I know we have all talked about this for days/weeks/months/for fuckin evah. Has our political system come down to the Coakleys vs the Browns?

Where did all of the smart people go?

HAHAHA! Memories with that one. ;)

g’nite rat

Where did all of the smart people go?

smoking doobies everyone…

lotsa smart people here at the lake — and i think their voices are being heard. jane was wonderful on msnbc today

Man, remember when Columbian Gold was $35 an ounce? Now THAT were some good weed.

hahaha

Some say the Coakley embarassment will end up being a good thing. I admit I have no interest in words of politicians anymore. I evaluate them strictly on actions. We all felt that acid taste when Obama ignored FISA or when he named Murder Inc as his financial team and Rahm COS. It’s all about actions to me now.

Yeah, and if you got something REALLY good and had to raise the price to $40 people bitched to high heaven (sigh).

I should have said that didn’t include me, you and the rest of band. :)

Once I tried that stuff, everything else seemed like ditch weed. It was the equivalent of really good cognac or rum. I quit when I couldn’t get it any more.

hey that guy — did i hear that ca has a proposition that will legalize and tax it like alcohol?

I won’t tell ya what a lid cost at woodstock….

That was a long time ago. Way in the distance past. Fun, too.

yup.. moving along in sacto

Nite Rat.

Better Times Are Coming

when i was a juvenile delinquent a 4 finger lid was $10 for acapulco

*edit of course my juv record was sealed so none of that happened

I think it is proposed legislation.

$15, wasn’t it?

She rawked and Dylan, too…! ;-)

And that was when rent was $200 a month in SF. Hard to believe that anyone in living memory paid that in SF. For acapulco or rent.

cough cough…

Least that’s what Suz told me…

5

i paid $200/month for my 2bd flat on 8th ave in the 70′s….

Can the Better Business Bureau help? They helped me when we had switched insurance co and the new co wouldn’t pay our bill. I contacted them, sent paperwork in and soon my bill was paid. I have to admit, this was before GW and 25 yrs ago and I think gov agencies ran better then.

Heh, $15 will barely get ya a decent sized ‘j’ these days…!

the really good stuff was 15 and the regular good stuff was 10

things were cheaper but then my allowance was $1 week (but only cause i babysat my siblings — it had been $0.50 week)

Thanks man. The day I met him, he was 14, sitting on my Mom’s couch playing “Crazy Train” note-for-note. A friend of my younger brother’s, and I’m proud to call him a friend of mine.

whoa, weren’t you well-connected?

hey sunshine — how ya doing tonight?

How can anybody afford to smoke today? Where are kids getting the bucks? They can’t all be dealing.

I just checked my facebook page and a friend of mine is having the same problem with her modification.

Here is her story:

“I am sending a message from here because I can’t get to my regular email, since I broke my ankle and that computer is downstairs I have limited access to it. I also couldn’t get to your phone number. Any way, I thought you might have some suggestions.

Bank of A has been putting us off on the mortgage modification for months and months. It is just ridiculous. Everytime she calls (my daughter’s mort.) they just say it is being processed and check back in a week. Done that add nauseum since April of ’09. Last week they called requesting updated financial information. She gave them what they wanted and then they called back and said it couldn’t be done because the delinquent amount was too large. It fell over this mysterious limit in Sept. Of course they had all the same financial info. at that time, nothing had changed and they didn’t share this until now. My daughter said it wouldn’t be if you hadn’t kept putting it off. So it appears that they held on to the application, keeping it in limbo until it couldn’t be remedied and then let her know that. The only hope they offered was to try HUD to see if she might qualify for some vague program that deals with these problems. Arguing with them seems to be getting her nowhere. I was just wondering if you had any ideas or suggestions. It seems quite a scam. The lady (?) at B of A said “well, you just should have been saving each month so you could pay down the delinquent amount now” and “why don’t you just put it up for sale? and save yourself and your children the embarrassment of a foreclosure being published in the paper”. Of course Kristin said that is the least of our worries and where do you live ’cause selling it isn’t an option in California where we live.”

where there’s a will there’s always a way — some legal – some not.

google search boa and loan modifications.. i bet you are gonna find out there are a whole lotta folks getting fucked by boa

That’s what I remember. Amazing Jamaican or Columbian for $15/oz.

It’s funny how “We the People’s” voice is still stifled after passing referendum’s…!

thai stick brought back by vets…

that’s when I knew it was getting bad here. First there were far less cars in the grocery store parking lot. Then there was no distinctive smell wafting over the lot like there had been a year or so ago.

Fine thanks. Daytime temps well over 40 for the next few days :)

I’ve belatedly fallen into Tim Dorsey’s zany Florida based novels. Teh man is political and LOL funny. Current read Orange Crush involves a gubernatorial race — lobbyists galore.

now that we have wandered down the illegality of our younger years…

those times sure as hell had some good tunes – anyone have a quarter to toss in the jukebox?

i’ve not read any of those. good eh?

Hebert said today that the economic equality that was seeking in 1963 has still not materialized as young blacks have up to 50% unemployment. So who is surprised by large gang activities, Group defensive behavior is a way to defend oneself. Without a very strong job program the Dems are toast as it is always the economy stupid. Get people a check and they have options and less time to get in trouble.

It’s all about actions to me now.

Yup. He promised “change” and delivered “continuity.”

But now he has his excuse back: “I don’t have 60 votes.”

still has more of a majority in the senate than boosh did and that didn’t slow boosh and the r’s down. that ole 60 excuse don’t work no more

Suz Ben Lomad Market was just on the news..

Anything for you, Suzanne…

Into The Black

what about — that’s where i used to grocery shop?

thanks babe — oh yeah….

Yes, but Bush had Republican votes and they’re nine feet tall and have iron discipline. Ya can’t beat ‘em I tell you. You can’t.

Used to write my enlisted pal when he was stationed in Korea. He said they could get pillowcases of the best weed he ever had for $10. Said everybody is just plowing all their pay into weed and he wished he could get some of his buds to just save some of it.

Got out of the Army, started holding seminars on investments, strictly to vets in the Ft. Hood area. Loved it and grew the biz to more than he could handle. Made alot of money and made alot of other people a lot of money.

bush bluffed with a lotta swagger and bravado….

i really did expect the d’s to act like a party in power instead of a buncha spineless wusses

Judy there was talking about the Next one that will be hitting in an hour or so and everyone was getting ready stocking up..

The best band and their best song from that era…

Well you wanted someone to play the jukebox!

Linky to Jane’s vid anyone?

For all of Obama’s tough talk, he has certainly been a wuss, except in dealing with uppity leftists.

very likely — boulder creek got something like 3″ yesterday iirc — the most in santa cruz county. most i had up there in one day was almost 7″ but then we got a break from the rain. the problems start when it is continuous rain up there….

jane video in this post

Hey BB
Jane right here.

I believe that. I’m pretty much out of that world. I probably smoked three times in the last 35 years. I seem to prefer scotch. *g*

Janis

cry baby! oooooh baby

hi Suz

*heh* A blast from the past…! A certain irony there somewhere…! ;-)

Check this out. Some madman playing Joe Satriani’s “Surfing With The Alien” on an electric cello.

a little joe

hey ppd — how ya doing tonight?

ha!

just what is happening… the Big one tonight and them more by the weekend … We can thank Tuttle for directing that there Pineapple Express thingy right at us… Storms lined up all across the pacific.

holy moly dood

power outtages earlier, but everything’s back on line now… here anyway

when someone says ‘the big one’…. rain is not what i think of…

being powered is always a good thing

Hey, man…! Blame El Nino…! Not moi…! 8-P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTsvwBkVdKw Ozzy Crazy Train

yeah, protection and family for a lot of kids who have neither.

If it’s Joe Cocker you want, this is the best song!

Hel-lo!

We can see CT out there in the Pacific huffing and puffing those storms our way. Thanks, we need the water.

Suz abc7 says Ben Lomand has a 3 day total of 5.58 and they are looking at 3+ tommorow… Bet Bear Creek is more like a river than a Creek..

sweet… lotsa good music to chase the blues away…

hard to be grumpy when the foot is tapping and the head’s a bopping

*heh* Btw, I did mention this Golden Oldie to some SoCal denizens at the Beach Haus today…!

I about got shot…! ;-)

yup… sometimes more water in bear than in the river — i know the creek can handle 7″ in one day if downriver stays clear

I saw Joe Cocker and Leon Russell together in Memphis. Saw David Bowie there, too. Memphis had good music in the early 70′s.

Yeah, baby!!

25 foot waves in the morning — cowabunga, dude!

you got a twisted sense of humor dood — no wonder we get along

Here’s a quarter for the jukebox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9SRRblS4R0&feature=fvw

I know but this 3 AM shit comes in like a freight train out in da street….
and they, abc7, are calling it the Big one!!

mary mccurmin – you still here?

I know it isn’t a consolation, but apparentlly what’s happening to you is very, very common, and has been all along with these “programs.”
I think the banks don’t really want to modify, that’s part of it.

But, let me tell you a secret that may be part of it – many of the people hired to handle these things are people without much education or special knowledge, about mortgages and fnance. They are set up as typical call center ops, with training that is doubtless inadequate, at best “just enough,” without training in how to do anything but certain possibilities. And because it’s a huge operation, dox reallly do get lost.

But I wouldn’t be surprised if it weren’t true. Wish I could tell you how to get past it. I’ve read a few articles over the last year, and many say lawyers for homeowners can’t get past the obstacles any better.
You might want to try a search for some of these articles; some might mention who to contact at HUD or FHA, or whatever dept these mod programs are under.
Oh, and for your friend’s daughter’s question to the rep who hadn’t a clue about selling her CA house – at least some of BofA’s operation is right here in San Antonio. So, no, the rep had no clue. Besides, she was just saying what her script told her to say. Scripts have little relation to reality, in my humble experience.

i got a pic of the surf spraying above the spit — way kewl looking…. click on my name to see it

only ones buying that are the MSM. I just can’t even watch news anymore unless it’s Democracy Now.

that’s excellent advice tejan — how ya doing?

Saw it. Beautiful.
‘night, all. The best of all possible tomorrows to you all.

Me too…about that exact period of time, in fact.

Funny how they could get the “right” info from us when they were blowing that big housing bubble. I am going to take the bastards to court and see if they have all of the documentation they need to take my house. Like the deed or whatever it is that they must have to show they own it.

Neat picture! I’ve never seen anything quite like that.

g’nite rond

You know it…! ;-)

ThatGuy I just love this, love Joe Cocker.

when they say a high surf warning they mean it. not unusual to get big crashing waves along the oregon coast — that pic was taken right about high tide.

that guy always has great music to share…. is a pretty decent guitar player too

time to hit the hay … nite pups…

Mary, Suzanne – don’t know how good my advice was – I don’t really know a good way to get around this crap behavior.
Going to court is probably the only way — and you’re right, force them to show the court that they really own your property – turns out, there’s so much turnover from the originator of the loan to the current holder they may very well not have the documents. Sounds like you already know, many lenders end up just not being able to prove they hold the mortgage, and in that case, you should win.
It’ll take time, though.

Suze – I’m actually falling asleep right here – need to go to bed, but have been getting thrown off-line all night for unknown reasons, and just had to come by FDL for my fix before hitting the sack. Got a telephone interview in the a.m. for a temp assignment of a couple months – probably have to convnce them to hire me even tho’ I’m “overqualified.” Lot of that going around.
Hang in there, Mary. I wish I could do more than just rant with you.
BTW, has anyone heard from alias ofwestgate about her eviction? I’ve been wondering about her. Don’t know if she saw my suggestions from the other night.
Whoa – eyes closing for real. Hang in there,e verybody, from banks and storms and floods.

fingers and toes crossed for ya tejan — g’nite

g’nite nahant

oh shit.. i forgot to congrats the 100 again

That spit reminds me of watching the surf pounding Hilo’s breakwater…!

You can see my building in that pic…! ;-)

congrats margot

their mortgage department is in San Antonio. I was in contact with them when I was trying to re-fi last month.
The short story is I ended up paying off the mortgage. They still haven’t sent me the deed. I have the feeling they don’t know who exactly has it…

good nite tejanarusa!

congrats on the payoff dood

Maybe you should ask for you money back.

laughing — so easy to spot too

I am going to bed. Good night everyone.

g’nite senator mary

Well, I do have a written receipt of the cashiers check, so legally I’m covered. But my new “bank” would like to have it soon.

just a new bank, Suz. Long story-still have payments but the terms are permanent and fantastic.

ya would think that one bank would have some pull with the other to speed that kinda thing up… of course, that would, of course, presume there were competent folks at both banks

Yeah, and I briefly met a few of the people working that gig. Trust me, they are not sophisticated thinkers-ooutside-the-box. And the folks on the phone have no access to actual documents; they only know what’s on the screen. The dox, such as they are, are probably in another state.

If, of course, they are in the possession of BofA at all. Good luck getting your deed. Keep bugging them. ;)

It’s the first building to the left of the large white building on the end of the ‘peninsula’…!

still worthy of congrats dood — and dumping boa sounds like a smart move on your part

*putting on glasses* oh…. you on the ocean side?

Dang the zoom didn’t work…!

it zoomed in for me but a second click zoomed back out

well, this was privately financed by someone looking for a steady long-term income. I found out I have an over 800 credit rating and hadn’t missed a house payment in 20 years. And I know the lender well. Completely lucked out as they presented it to me.

a win win! a good thang dood

You betcha…! Our pool is a lanai right on the shoreline…! ;-)

Definitely put a smile on my face

le sigh
le envy

my neighbor in boulder creek played one of those electric basses — gonna send that to him

Banyan Drive is the loop that runs under all those Banyan trees that you see encircling the 9 hole golf course in the middle…! ;-)

I used to like working with World. They sold out to Wachovia, Wells Fargo, B of A. Had to get out of that world. Now strictly community banks and credit unions for me.

But yes, thank you! Just feel very lucky not to be at their mercy anymore.

good thing i don’t like golf and apartments. but dayam you must get some great color in the sky

i’m loving my credit union — they are so nice and so helpful. take care of stuff pronto too. now that i’ve been with them for over a year, i’m gonna go in and see about switching over my visa from boa to the credit union.

dang we played some fine tunes tonight…. everything from delbert to janis to the small faces…

love these late late night music threads.

*heh* not like I do from atop Mauna Kea…! *g*

I’m on it. Thank you! *g* It was clean-no fees.

true… do ya get sunrises or sunsets at home?

panama

I’ll bet a ton of people are switching over to CU’s these days. I was just unaware and bankwashed for years.

yup — i figure eventually enough folks are wising up and switching over that the MOTU ceo bastoids will realize they are losing customers.

or as they like to think of us sheep to be fleeced with fees etc

Sunrises over the ocean. Sunsets behind the mtn’s…! Well, I’ve got a long day ahead of me tomorrow… 5:30 wake up to catch a 7am flight to Oahu and then the flight back at 5 pm…! Getting my inner ear checked out at Rush’s favorite medical center… Queen’s Medical…! Aloha Oe…! *g*

g’nite ct — keep up posted

nice

only time i see sunrises is if i have been up all night. i don’t do mornings well

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

g’nite CT

swooooooon….. this is sweet emerson

Yhe banks are giant corporate oligarchies to big to fail and they hage complex and huge bureaucracies that may compete like the Enron structure. Left hand does not know what right hand is doing. paperwork lost in massive files.

creeque

can you believe that stage set-up? I don’t think Stills liked it much. LOL

Bundling mortgages for secutitization that may end up at other banks and hedge funds as the money was made on the trade fees/charges CDOs.

more like a dance show set….

fading fast folks… been a busy day. thanks for all the music. nice to end the day with good music memories :)

g’nite all

Outstanding! Haven’t heard that in decades. They were really fun.

Definitely BB.

nite suz

Thanks for the magic music for what ails me, Suz! G’nite.

A Marina a golf course a Lanai and a fresh water pool and a job on the mountain top, What a revesal of fortunes from ient in families back yard, How is this done?

Night Suz get some sleep