As far as I can tell from my small dining room window that looks into a courtyard and has a small slice of sky available for analyzing, it is not sunny today. (My dining room window has almost the only vantage point for weather analytics, as my street-facing bedroom and living room windows are shrouded under scaffolding that's been up for at least a year already, and my kitchen window looks mostly into the building across the courtyard. It's a good thing that my childhood was spent living in darkness - Husband freaks out at the lack of good natural and artificial lighting whenever we visit my parents - preparing me for City life.) I wanted it to be sunny today so that I could really enjoy my visit to the UN Sculpture Garden, where a bull elephant statue with a 2 foot long penis resides.
Also not improving my mood was the research I just did for an article about single women, subprime lending, and mortgage foreclosures that I posted on BlogHer. It should be obvious that women are going to get especially fucked up the ass by the mortgage default crisis, but I haven't seen much about it. However, there is ample evidence that single women, along with non-white and low income people, were railroaded into subprime loans. Yeah, you can buy your dream in America, but it's temporary and will cost you everything in the long run. Bah.
I need to eat ice cream and/or cookies today.
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I was thinking the same thing, that is I should eat ice cream and cookies today.
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Thank you! I was just discussing this with someone this week. We all hear about how the minority/low-income have been used for subprime but I personally know of two single mothers who were offered a subprime loan as the ONLY option for their home mortgage. Thankfully both of them when elsewhere and looked for better offer. For every repossesed house in my moderately priced neighborhood, I hope that a corporate banker is getting ass-raped.
ReplyDeleteI want to point out that we had neither ice cream nor cookies, though I watched you enjoy some key lime pie.
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