Yet More Bullet Point Thoughts

More thoughts in bullet point format. Are you ready?

• Am I the only person thinking that it normally takes a long time before "road work" projects are started after the work has been approved? Design. Public comments. Environmental evaluation. Surveying. Permits... Letting the contract. So, by the time the road projects start, it may be "too late".
• File this one under the NSS category!
  
  More than half of troubled borrowers face losing their homes even six months after lenders have eased their monthly payments, one regulator said, a discouraging sign for reversing a tide of foreclosures.
  
  "The results, I confess, were somewhat surprising," said John Dugan, the Comptroller of the Currency, who oversaw the study and spoke on a panel with fellow regulators.

  Sheila Bair, the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, said that aid efforts to borrowers were falling short while another regulator said Washington may be wasting money on foreclosure prevention.
  
  Have you ever loaned money to someone who just doesn't pay people back? When you do, do you REALLY expect to get paid back? If you do, you are a sucka.

• Just a reminder.
• The Real Housewives of Atlanta was really different from The Real Housewives of Orange County. The former seemed to be about a culture of conspicuous consumption while the latter seemed to be about people living in their culture of having money. With that in mind, this didn't come as a surprise but I hope this is not as is being reported and assumed. Even so, she really has no class.
• I'm bored with politics, but this is just straight up gangsta. Dollar Bill Jeffer$on has NOTHING on this dude!