KOEB Meeting 12/01/08 Mom, Can't I Just Open My New President Now?? Edition

[Berry Cool]

:hi: The Aqua Teen Hunger Force has been assembled! Join us!

[SharonRB]

1. Hi, Berry

:hi:

[Patsy Stone]

2. January has never seemed so far away.

:hi:, all!

[SharonRB]

3. You're not kidding

:hi:

[Patsy Stone]

4. "It's not just for Georgia."

:scared:

[Berry Cool]

6. Keith unveils Obama's team, and all I can think is

"That's the waaaaay they becaaaaaame the Brady Buuuunch."

[Patsy Stone]

7. But his intro was right out of The Dating Game

"And heeeeeeere they are!" :)

:hi:

[Berry Cool]

18. Yeah, I thought "He should have some Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass music."

"Bachelorette #1...she's a short, blonde, spunky senator with a straying husband...let's all give a big welcome to Hillary Clinton!"

[bunny planet]

64. Everyday I ask, can it be January now.

I've never really liked January that much, too cold, but now, it seems like the perfect month.

[RavensChick]

5. Present and accounted for!!

:hi: , Berry! :hi: , everyone!

[Patsy Stone]

9. Hello, ma'am!

How are ya? :hi:

[RavensChick]

12. Pats!

I'm doing just fine! How are you?

[Patsy Stone]

16. Good, good. Thanks!

Congrats on yesterday's most decisive victory. :fistbump:

[Berry Cool]

24. Yeah, Pats has got to be much happier this season than last.

The Dolphins don't make you cry.

As for the Browns and the Lions, however... :cry:

[Patsy Stone]

56. They continue to please.

It's weird. :)

Yeah, sorry; even Keith made mention of the Browns not being too good this year. Hey, but at least you're not the Lions. (Sorry Sharon and GG!)

[SharonRB]

59. Doesn't bother me

I've never been a fan of pro football in general and the Lions in particular. Hubby can't wait to see them lose all their games for the first time!

[Berry Cool]

130. It could be even worse.

They could be the Cincinnati Bungles!

[Berry Cool]

131. Keith always makes mention of the Browns not being too good.

He was having a field day last night laughing about their quarterback problems. Said our latest, Dorsey, was the least known of the bandleading Dorsey brothers.

[RavensChick]

29. Thanks!

I was at my brother's house for dinner and I didn't see the score until after the Redskins lost to NY (my SIL is a serious Skins fan and she was obviously not happy). Now it's the Ravens turn to pound them into the ground next Sunday, LOL!

[Patsy Stone]

37. I am a Skins fan also,

and I was not happy. But at least I only saw the horror in highlights. I have no doubt you will beat 'em. They're not very good this year, but they're better than I thought they would be with a new coach. Just like the Dolphins!

[RavensChick]

43. Exactly!

I don't think it'll be a high scoring game, but the one match up I'm worried about is when we play Dallas on the 20th. That could be pretty ugly! :scared:

[Patsy Stone]

45. Well

If you ever need a friend to hate Dallas with, I'm your girl! :)

[RavensChick]

48. Thanks!

:pals:

[Patsy Stone]

8. That podium is not being kind to Hill

It makes her look three feet tall.

[SharonRB]

10. She needed a step to stand on to make her taller.

[Patsy Stone]

13. Don't we all...

If I could invent a portable invisible stand that made me eight inches taller, I'd be so happy -- and a millionaire.

[bunny planet]

69. You'd look like you were flying, not just taller.

Either way a cool invention, and yes, I'd imagine a lucrative one.

[Patsy Stone]

79. Hovering.

Silently hovering. :)

[bunny planet]

89. Awesome

Do we have a hovering smilie? After you invent that thing we should get one.

[RavensChick]

11. They forgot to put a step ladder

or a few Yellow Pages books for her to step up on!

:hi:

[WolverineDG]

14. Can Obama be sworn in yesterday?

:hi:

dg

[RavensChick]

19. I wish!

At least the holiday madness will make time go a little better (and faster)!

:hi:

[bunny planet]

15. Hello KOEB

Its so good to be here. Its been awhile.

[SharonRB]

17. BunBun!

Glad you're here. I know you're having a rough time.

[bunny planet]

23. I'm feeling a little better than earlier in the day.

It gets really bad late at night, like 2 am, when I was always up taking care of her.
Getting away the next couple of days will be wonderful, and warmer.

[SharonRB]

25. I so wish I could join you

:hug:

[bunny planet]

33. I wish I could do an I dream of Jeannie thing (or a Bewitched thing) and instantly

transport all of you there for a big KOEB party, now that would do my heart good.

[SharonRB]

36. That would be great

Or I wish you could all come here for the inauguration and we could have a big party!

[Patsy Stone]

53. It would have been so cool having you all here.

Dang.

[Berry Cool]

34. Poor Bun. We feel for you.

Even realizing what you don't have to do for them or worry about anymore because of them makes you ache.

[bunny planet]

39. I actually went out to the grocery store today and accidently drove right to

the Vet's office. I've only been there twice a week for the past 11 weeks so I guess its imprinted on my brain.

[bleever]

20. So sorry about your kitty, bunny.

That's always hard.

[bunny planet]

27. Thank you Bleev. She was a sweetheart.

I really miss her terribly.

[Patsy Stone]

22. Hi!

:hug:

[bunny planet]

28. Hey, 24 hours and counting Pats!!!!!!!!

[WolverineDG]

26. Bunny!!

:loveya: :hug:

dg

[bunny planet]

30. Hey Wolvie!!!

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:
You guys are the best with all your hugs. I feel better already.

[RavensChick]

32. Hi, Bunny!

I read your thread and I'm so sorry for your loss. I'm glad you're here with us.

:hug:

[bunny planet]

55. Thank you RavensChick, these kind words really mean a lot.

Dusty always watched Countdown with me.

:cry:

[RavensChick]

75. You're welcome, hon.

I know what's it like losing a family pet. I haven't had a pet in almost 25 years. We had two dogs (a German Shepherd and a terrier mix) and one night in 84 they ran out of our back yard and never came back. My parents got word that one of them was run over on the Beltway and the other one disappeared was never seen again. That was very hard for me to deal with.

[bunny planet]

82. That sounds awful. You never forget that sadness if you've loved a pet.

Its so unfair that they're life span is so much shorter than ours. I learned quite a bit about how I'd like to be if I ever become ill from my little animal. Her dignity and grace and patience under extreme stress of her condition was admirable and touching.

[RavensChick]

113. It was, but in time I managed to get through it.

Besides, I'm seriously thinking about adopting again. It's been a very long time, and since there's no man in my life right now a dog is the next best thing.

[ralps]

21. Hi BerryBush, Hi Everyone!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[RavensChick]

38. Hi, Ralps!!

Happy Cyber Monday to ya!

[ralps]

51. Hi RavensChick!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[SharonRB]

31. This Exxon Mobil commercial makes me nuts

All they talk about is finding more oil, not getting off of oil. At least the BP commercials sound like they're trying to change things.

[Berry Cool]

40. BlinkoTV seems to be on the blink tonight.

Keith keeps freezing up. One time he even went black. Very annoying. :-(

[Berry Cool]

42. Keith, Keith, it's not "Ask not for whom the ____ tolls"

It's "Send not to know for whom the ____ tolls"

"Ask not" is JFK.

[SeattleGirl]

35. Hi Berry! Howdy everyone!

Actually got home in time to watch most of Keef!

:hi:

[SharonRB]

41. Hi, SG

:hi:

[Berry Cool]

44. Hey there, SG.

:hi: How's it goin'?

[SeattleGirl]

49. Not bad, though I'm still recovering from my drive home yesterday.

Ugly traffic about 100 miles from home, so I went the rest of the way via backroads and two-lane blacktops!

[Patsy Stone]

70. Ewwww.

Sorry. But it's wonderful to see you here now! :hug:

[SeattleGirl]

81. My reaction was more like this:

"I'll be #$%^^&*^&%^%$##@@%&*!!!!!!! if I'm gonna crawl along for a hundred miles!"

I just wanted to get hone!

[RavensChick]

128. It's like that in DC every.single.day!

That's why I'm glad I take the train into town. I live very close to two major highways and the traffic I see every day makes me very thankful I'm not driving right now.

[SeattleGirl]

47. ShaSha!

Hope you had a good rest-of-the-weekend!

[SharonRB]

50. It was okay

I got lots of rest and only left the house on Saturday.

[SeattleGirl]

61. Sounds like you needed the rest.

I had a wonderful time with my family, especially on Saturday. Had another Thanksgiving dinner with them, and we watched the Civil War game (Oregon v Oregon State). Oregon Ducks won!! Woohooo!

[SharonRB]

65. That sounds great.

I'm sure it was a little rough on you, too, but at least you were all together.

:hug:

I definitely needed the rest. It was so hard getting up at my regular time today to go to work. I wish I could sleep until at least 9 or 10 everyday.

[SeattleGirl]

71. We definitely felt mom's absence, but it did help that we

were together.

:hug:

[RavensChick]

46. Hey, SG!

Glad to see ya!

[SeattleGirl]

52. RC!

Good to see you too!

[SharonRB]

54. Ahhhhhhh

This BP commercial is more like it. Wind, solar, biofuels. Now you're talkin'!

[Berry Cool]

68. Yeah, BP is better than some

but I still miss my Sohio stations I grew up with. :cry:

[GigiMommy]

57. Hi Everybody!!!

:hi: :bounce: Happy 4 days after Turkey Day!!!

[SharonRB]

58. Hi, Gigi

:hi:

[GigiMommy]

63. Hi Sharon!!

:hi:

[RavensChick]

62. Hi, Gigi!!!

Glad you can join us!
:hi:

[GigiMommy]

74. Hi RC!!!

:hi: :bounce: Glad to see ya! Happy Belated Thanksgiving!!

[WolverineDG]

60. True Story

I went to school with Naismith's grandson. :)

dg

[RavensChick]

66. Wow!

That must have been something! Was he cool, a nerd, or like his grandpa?

[WolverineDG]

95. He was a nice guy

played football more than basketball, IIRC. I don't recall him being on the basketball team, but he could have been. He lived a few doors down from my house too.

dg

[RavensChick]

119. That's good!

Gee that's a small world.

[GigiMommy]

67. YAY a Kids in the Hall shoutout!!!

[Berry Cool]

72. Love how they played the theme music.

[bunny planet]

73. Oh oh oh, please ask me what I was most unprepared for

and I'd say HAVING A MORON FOR A PRESIDENT. An immoral moron to boot.

[Botany]

77. Sorry about your cat

***************************

I just watched the Gibson Interview .... nothing is his fault.

God loath that man

[bunny planet]

84. I can't watch him at all.

I just want him behind bars. Will it ever happen? I'm afraid not.

[Botany]

88. I did ....

:puke: He made a joke about telling the Obama girls to keep their
feet off of a Lincoln Antique ... and it went down hill from there

[bunny planet]

91. I can't even look and laugh at all the zany photos from eight years of his devastating

reign that have been posted lately. I just keep thinking of all the people whose deaths he's been responsible for. He's really a monster.

[Botany]

97. And we have a lap dog press to thank in part for that too.

He went AWOL .... He was a Cokehead .... He did insider deals ....
He was / is a drunk ..... His ranch is joke .... he never won Florida ...

All the lies and all the crap ..... Gibson could have hung him up by his
balls after bush's Iraq quotes .... but no.

[bunny planet]

109. exactly why I don't ever watch Gibson.

He would've tried to make Palin look good too if she hadn't been such an unmitigated idiot.
Was the blivet wearing his flagpin for the interview though, that's the most important question.

[Botany]

123. If you are strong enough ......... 7 minutes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cel_B6bb2L4

[RavensChick]

78. We had to deal with that for 8 years!

[bunny planet]

76. The biggest threat to us (and everyone else) has always been from Pakistan, but they were never

included in the 'Axis of Evil', funny eh?

[Patsy Stone]

83. Saudi Arabia

seemed to have missed that list too. Hmmm...

[bunny planet]

85. Curiouser and curiouser.

[RavensChick]

90. I thought the same thing too.

Makes me wonder sometimes.

[Botany]

80. Just like 9/11 bush was warned

Per AP: Bush was warned about mortgage meltdown in 2006.Under pressure from banks halted regulation

AP IMPACT: They warned us, but US eased loan rules

By MATT APUZZO
Associated Press Writer


WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns on no-money-down, interest-only mortgages years before the economy collapsed, buckling to pressure from some of the same banks that have now failed. It ignored remarkably prescient warnings that foretold the financial meltdown, according to an Associated Press review of regulatory documents.

"Expect fallout, expect foreclosures, expect horror stories," California mortgage lender Paris Welch wrote to U.S. regulators in January 2006, about one year before the housing implosion cost her a job.

Bowing to aggressive lobbying - along with assurances from banks that the troubled mortgages were OK - regulators delayed action for nearly one year. By the time new rules were released late in 2006, the toughest of the proposed provisions were gone and the meltdown was under way.

...

In 2005, faced with ominous signs the housing market was in jeopardy, bank regulators proposed new guidelines for banks writing risky loans. Today, in the midst of the worst housing recession in a generation, the proposal reads like a list of what-ifs:

-Regulators told bankers exotic mortgages were often inappropriate for buyers with bad credit.

-Banks would have been required to increase efforts to verify that buyers actually had jobs and could afford houses.

-Regulators proposed a cap on risky mortgages so a string of defaults wouldn't be crippling.

-Banks that bundled and sold mortgages were told to be sure investors knew exactly what they were buying.

-Regulators urged banks to help buyers make responsible decisions and clearly advise them that interest rates might skyrocket and huge payments might be due sooner than expected.

Those proposals all were stripped from the final rules. None required congressional approval or the president's signature.



http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MELTDOWN_IGNORED...

[Berry Cool]

86. One thing * has sure been good at:

Ignoring warnings.

And Keith just delivered a mini-Special Comment about torture while they tested the Rockefeller Center tree lights behind him.

[RavensChick]

100. Oh, that's what that was!

I thought a transformer was blowing up or something. It did bring out his eyes, tho'.

:loveya:

[Patsy Stone]

87. If there had only been some actionable intelligence...

:mad:

:hi:

[Botany]

92. Palin STFU!

Go away .... and find a G while you are at it.

Talkin' doin' lyin'

I am at my Palin limit.

[WolverineDG]

103. Looks like she got the RNC credit card again

I wish she'd STFU as well.

GO AWAY!!!!!!!

dg

[GigiMommy]

105. Gosh, I'm SOOOOOOOOO tired of her.

:grr:

[RavensChick]

125. You're in good company!

Damn, can't we enjoy the holidays without seeing that broad? She's the biggest lampoon of the year!!!

:grr:

[ralps]

93. Today's worst person in the world is BillO The Clown!! for lying again!!!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo: :rofl:

[GigiMommy]

116. Hi Ralps!

:hi: :bounce: Love T.P. Kitty!

[RavensChick]

126. No surprise.

Now that it's the holidays it's just a matter of time before Billo starts another edition of his annual war on Christmas! What a tool!

[SharonRB]

94. Check out this ring Barack is buying for Michele

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1090653/Barack-Obama-buy-rare-20-000-gold-ring-wife-say-thanks-support.html

[Berry Cool]

96. Oh my, that's something.

Whatta guy.

And I am at my Palin limit too. When are we finally going to be able to stop hearing that VOICE?!?!??!? :grr:

[SharonRB]

98. Not yet, I guess

Here she comes.

[Botany]

106. Doesn't she have a job?

I used to laugh @ her but now :puke:

[Berry Cool]

102. Imagine...Sarah Palin selfish.

Amazing. :shrug:

[CBHagman]

129. And what horrible delivery, too.

And where does this airhead get off claiming the GOP is the party of fiscal responsibility? Has she seen the national credit card balance lately?

[GigiMommy]

99. WOW!!!

:wow:

[bunny planet]

101. It's beautiful, but a bit pricey symbolically for these times of cutting back no???

I think this will get spun, and not in a flattering way.

[SharonRB]

108. It's exquisite

but I'm afraid you're right. Michelle deserves it and Barack can afford it -- it's his own money, let him spend how he pleases.

[bunny planet]

115. I agree, just wish the press hadn't gotten wind of it.

They know everything about anything that's not really important, and blow it up into unsavory stories. The real news, however, they don't know from that.

[Patsy Stone]

120. He won't be able to buy anything

for eight years, now is the time! :)

[bunny planet]

121. True

I just hope the compromised press corps doesn't go on about this expenditure for the next 8 years. Let's face it, they are capable of it.

[SeattleGirl]

107. Wow, it's beautiful!

Lucky Michelle!

[GigiMommy]

118. Hi SG!!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[RavensChick]

122. Whoa!!!

That's some SERIOUS bling! Well, Michelle certainly deserves it.

[Patsy Stone]

104. And New Hampshire! And South Carolina!

YEEEAAAARRRGGGHH!

[Berry Cool]

110. Velma's back and a-flutterin' her eyelashes.

If I thought it'd do any good, I'd call my father and his wife and plead for them not to vote for Chambliss, but I know better. My father likes being in the South because he can use the N-word without having to pay a social price.

[SharonRB]

112. LOL

:rofl:

[Botany]

111. Velma

Palin's son is in Iraq because he had to go in the Army or go to jail

[Berry Cool]

117. I'm actually amused by old footage of Palin at "Victory in Ohio" rallies.

Makes me smile now. Nope, you didn't get us, sweetie.

Ooh, Margaret said "honeymoon." Mustn't let your desires show so nakedly, my dear!

[Patsy Stone]

114. Finally! Velma and Keith meet again!

She must be thrilled.

[Berry Cool]

124. You know what? If they gave George Snuffleuphagus a harmonica and told him

"fill for five minutes," I'd actually WATCH This Week.

[RavensChick]

127. But of course!

Every time he says her name I'm all but certain she gets real tingly, if you know what I mean!

:evilgrin: