Wistfulness...

If you were to relive a day that happened, say, 10 days ago, would you know it?

Not like Groundhogs Day. Not reliving the same day, consecutively, over and over. Just one day, after a period of time, and just once. If it weren't a day where you had any special appointments or anything. Would you realize it?

Or would it seem like just another day?

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Assholes of the year awards begin now:

via pope_guilty: This little nugget of joy.

Esther Viti, who oversees the donation of public benches for a merchants' association in La Jolla, sent an e-mail to 45 other activists last week asking them to sit in three-hour shifts, no bathroom breaks allowed.

"After all, you MUST OCCUPY THAT BENCH continually for three hours to prevent that homeless person from sitting on that bench," the e-mail said.

Donors weren't happy that transients were sleeping on benches they had provided for the public, Viti said.

And, this happened in Madison a couple weeks ago:

Madison - A downtown church has lost its access to free parking because the businessman who owns the parking ramp doesn't want the church sheltering the homeless.

First United Methodist Church in Madison serves as an overflow shelter for the homeless, housing about 20 men per night during winter.

"As a church, our job is to feed the hungry, give comfort to the people that are out in the cold," said church member Bill White.

But Fred Mohs, the ramp owner, thinks efforts to help the homeless are destroying Madison's vitality.

"The fundamental problem is the homeless are bad neighbors as a group," Mohs told WISC-TV.

Mohs told church members they can no longer have free parking for their Sunday services unless they stop catering to the homeless.

"It's my way of making a point," Mohs said.

And finally:

Jimbo Wales (founder of Wikipedia) is a prick who spends the donated money on him and his friends... grr... (link goes to metafilter discussion of the issue)

Oh well...

So now, you recall my posts on the Term Auction Facility, whereby the Fed loans cash to banks (who are flat-ass broke), and they've done over 200b, IIRC, of these loans.

Well NOW the Fed is doing a coordinated deal with other Central Banks (primarily EU and London), with a thing called Term Securities Lending Facility. This is *another* way for them to pump out 200b dollars in loans, on top of the other loans from TAF. This one apparently takes debt from the banks as, what, collateral??? Isn't this the same as CDO (Collateralized Debt Obligation?) Isn't that *exactly* what got us into the subprime bullshit? I don't know what the deal is with this.

If any of the other financial dudes on my list (I only know of 2 who've been following this stuff fairly closely, at least 2 who read my LJ) have better knowledge on this, please let me know. I'm not sure what the deal is here, except, that it sucks.

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