Guess that happens when you’re naked!

Thanks for bopping over from the Alt.

I LOVE Austin. It is the one oasis in the entire land of Texas if you ask me. Keep up the good work!

Do they still have that swimming place where everybody went topless?

Sounds like you work in a bank. There is so much blame to go around with this debacle it is not even funny. I actually feel a tad sorry for Jim Cramer. He’s guilty but so are a zillion other people. He got humiliated so bad he’ll probably never recover.

Jon Stewart’s real last name is Lebowitz? So many TV performers change their names, kind of sad really. John Wayne was named Marion. I guess it would be hard to be a tough guy if your name was Marion.

Honestly, I am kidding here with this silly post. I do not mean to imply Jon Stewart is an oracle. But I do think he is doing a better job than most journalists in this country.

I saw your post on Alternet and had to bop on over to your blog. Right on! Better than right on.

Enjoyed your writing and your site. I’ll be back.

I’m a Grammy and member of D.A.R. for real but I’m also an Austinite (texas) and our motto here is “Keep Austin Weird”.

Keep writing Granny Crabby!

-Grammy Linda in Austin

John Stewart–very funny guy. But what’s with changing his name? So he wants his audience to think he’s Scottish? What’s wrong with John Lebowitz? And his brother being a Wall Streeter–John had to know what was coming down the pike if he has any kind of relationship with him.

Who to trust? Certainly not politicians of any stripe. And not comedians. John’s funny, but forget about Cramer–if John wasn’t laying on zingers about the fantastical loans being offered to people who didn’t make enough to pay the mortgage, much less real estate taxes and property upkeep–he’s no oracle to bank on.

Even a dim bulb in the financial industry knew the housing bubble was about to burst from the 110%/no-money-down-no-income-verification loans were being touted by Fannie and Freddie and forced on banks. We shook our heads when Barney Frank and Maxine Waters were claiming all’s well with Fannie Mae blah-blah, under the “masterful guidance of Franklin Raines and Barney Frank: blah-blah. We all knew–but not congress? And now these same muck-ups are in charge of an industry they schemed into ruin?

Dems and Repubs failed the People.

It’s good ‘ol common sense, a dose of logic and reason that’ll see you through.