Approaching a new low in CACB stock price.
I'm writing this early Friday afternoon, and it's at .65. Previous low was .61.
It'll be interesting if the aggressively grown bank survives regularly scheduled FDIC Friday bank gleanings, to see what the stock does next week. CACB is further proof to me that it's dangerous to try to maximize a bubble, though you look like a winner when it's happening.
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I've now had three different people comment on the "new electronic" smell of my MacBook. Is that like the "new car" smell, or....the "new book" smell?
This generation's nostalgia is going to be so different from my generation's nostalgia...
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I'm going to go all non-analytical here, and just knee-jerk some reactions.
I like the idea of a "spending freeze." I do it at the store all the time.
Drop the filibuster rules and let the Republicans filibuster for real. See how that plays out.
I'm thinking their total non-cooperation is going to come back and bite THEM in the ass.
KTVZ's rules about posting comments don't seem sufficient to me for them to have ratted out the posters.
UGB -- It doesn't seem to me that we NEED the room. And there is no reason we can't get more room WHEN we need it. (And probably wouldn't cost anymore than the frakken appeal...)
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O.K. I'm going to put this fairly bluntly. And even so, I know someone will disagree.
But coming in with the title of a book isn't 1/10th as useful as coming in with the author's name. As far as I know, and all I've ever seen, is that every bookstore and library in the world sorts their books by subject and then by author's last name.
Oh, you can often find the book by searching the title online (as long as it's accurate, which often it's not, and again it's easier to find an author if you misspell than a title...) into a data base, but it's an extra step, to be sure.
Just saying...
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My Bad.
I washed my car on Thursday.
Sorry about the snow.
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I almost didn't buy the MacBook because it doesn't have the version of Solitaire I like so much.
Vegas Style, three passes through with three card turns, costs 55.00 per game in funny money and you get 5.00 for each card stacked.
I buy very expensive internet browsers and solitaire players, basically.
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Juxtaposition #1.
From today's Bulletin, by way of the NYT's: BELIEVE IT OR NOT, EXISTING-HOME SALES ROSE IN 2009.
From the Bend Economy Bulletin Board as of January 29: January, 2010 Notices of default -- 402. (A record.)
Juxtapostion #2.
Headline in business section: U.S. ECONOMY SHOWS SIGNS OF MOMENTUM.
Right next to it: OREGON RANKS THIRD IN U.S. FOR 'UNDEREMPLOYMENT.'
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Let me get this straight, Bulletin.
Land-use laws are only useful when convenient, and should be disregarded when they keep the land-users from making money.
Well....if the law is convenient, it isn't necessary.
And it seems to me that environmental laws almost always get in the way of money-making, exploitation of natural resources. That's WHY we have them. I'm sure it's easier and more profitable to strip-mine, for instance, and not have to repair the damage.
In fact, show me an environmental law that wasn't necessitated by the common good versus short-term profiteering and exploitation.
Though your concern for the small farmer is heart-warming, Bulletin.
But your full-court press on behalf of destination resorts seems oddly out of time and place.
I'm writing this early Friday afternoon, and it's at .65. Previous low was .61.
It'll be interesting if the aggressively grown bank survives regularly scheduled FDIC Friday bank gleanings, to see what the stock does next week. CACB is further proof to me that it's dangerous to try to maximize a bubble, though you look like a winner when it's happening.
**********
I've now had three different people comment on the "new electronic" smell of my MacBook. Is that like the "new car" smell, or....the "new book" smell?
This generation's nostalgia is going to be so different from my generation's nostalgia...
**********
I'm going to go all non-analytical here, and just knee-jerk some reactions.
I like the idea of a "spending freeze." I do it at the store all the time.
Drop the filibuster rules and let the Republicans filibuster for real. See how that plays out.
I'm thinking their total non-cooperation is going to come back and bite THEM in the ass.
KTVZ's rules about posting comments don't seem sufficient to me for them to have ratted out the posters.
UGB -- It doesn't seem to me that we NEED the room. And there is no reason we can't get more room WHEN we need it. (And probably wouldn't cost anymore than the frakken appeal...)
**********
O.K. I'm going to put this fairly bluntly. And even so, I know someone will disagree.
But coming in with the title of a book isn't 1/10th as useful as coming in with the author's name. As far as I know, and all I've ever seen, is that every bookstore and library in the world sorts their books by subject and then by author's last name.
Oh, you can often find the book by searching the title online (as long as it's accurate, which often it's not, and again it's easier to find an author if you misspell than a title...) into a data base, but it's an extra step, to be sure.
Just saying...
**********
My Bad.
I washed my car on Thursday.
Sorry about the snow.
**********
I almost didn't buy the MacBook because it doesn't have the version of Solitaire I like so much.
Vegas Style, three passes through with three card turns, costs 55.00 per game in funny money and you get 5.00 for each card stacked.
I buy very expensive internet browsers and solitaire players, basically.
**********
Juxtaposition #1.
From today's Bulletin, by way of the NYT's: BELIEVE IT OR NOT, EXISTING-HOME SALES ROSE IN 2009.
From the Bend Economy Bulletin Board as of January 29: January, 2010 Notices of default -- 402. (A record.)
Juxtapostion #2.
Headline in business section: U.S. ECONOMY SHOWS SIGNS OF MOMENTUM.
Right next to it: OREGON RANKS THIRD IN U.S. FOR 'UNDEREMPLOYMENT.'
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Let me get this straight, Bulletin.
Land-use laws are only useful when convenient, and should be disregarded when they keep the land-users from making money.
Well....if the law is convenient, it isn't necessary.
And it seems to me that environmental laws almost always get in the way of money-making, exploitation of natural resources. That's WHY we have them. I'm sure it's easier and more profitable to strip-mine, for instance, and not have to repair the damage.
In fact, show me an environmental law that wasn't necessitated by the common good versus short-term profiteering and exploitation.
Though your concern for the small farmer is heart-warming, Bulletin.
But your full-court press on behalf of destination resorts seems oddly out of time and place.