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If you care to listen to a smart person talk about this - Ric Edelman will be discussing this in just over an hour at 8:00 pm et. Here is the email I received: =============== SPECIAL ALERT: Ric Edelman to host one-hour special tonight on 630 WMAL-AM at 8:00 PM Congress Rejects Bailout Bill – What Does it Mean for You? =============== Tune in tonight to a special edition of The Ric Edelman Show on 630 WMAL-AM-Radio, Washington, D.C. as Ric explains what today's defeat of the financial markets' rescue bill and the plunging stock market mean to you. Ric will discuss the impact of today's vote on retirement funds, mortgage financing, personal and business loan availability, and bank stability. He’ll also be taking your calls. In the Washington D.C. area, tune to NewsTalk 630 WMAL-AM. Outside of Washington, listen to the streaming audio by going to: http://www.wmal.com/ or download the podcast later this week at http://www.ricedelman.com. Call in with your questions to 888-630-WMAL (888-630-9625). Ric will also share important "lessons" consumers should keep in mind during turbulent times, including: 1. When investing, assume the worst. Could you live with it? a. Don't buy investments you don't understand. b. Don't buy company stock in your retirement plan. c. Don’t accept company stock as compensation instead of cash. d. Don't buy a house you cannot afford. 2. Maintain diversification a. Do not buy individual securities. b. Never make big bets with your money. Putting it all in your home or all in the bank is as big a bet as putting it all in one stock. c. Build a portfolio based on your situation. 3. Have ample cash reserves a. Be sure the cash is safe. Use only Treasuries or funds of Treasuries, and stay under the FDIC limit. b. Never chase yield. 4. Be skeptical about what you read, see or hear. The media isn't smarter than you. 5. Don’t panic. Have faith in our nation, in our financial system and in history. Maintain a long-term focus, and remember that wealth is created during periods of uncertainty. If you follow the above, you have no need to panic.

I think he was referring to you....

what you're seeing is real. Believe it or not that little "last post" function puts more load on the server than anything else. With so many visiting the boards these days and with the increased weight of the new design - we have been showing significant load on game days. It all goes away if I disable that function. So, expect on game days for it to be this way. It is inconvenient, but it keeps everything else humming along.

for game day chatter - why not use the chat room? It seems silly to use the message board for real time chat.

under "options" drop down on the right hand side just above the 1st post in any thread - choose "Standard".

I'm going to change the header of the old skin, but leave it 100%. No biggie. Everyone has a choice, but I prefer this to be the default for now.

with the new ginormous monitors the full screen is actually more awkward. The fixed with is large enough to utilize enough screen real estate with/out have absurd paragraph widths. I mean, what other site has text extend for 1600 pixels across the monitor? Use the new skin for a week and you'll like it.

choose whatever you want. I just want this to be the default skin. I'll get around to updating the old one... someday.

Trust me, if they did their background check on me they would have been horrified enough to never make contact.

well, it is the same banner as the front page has had since the summer. However, I changed it so that all the members were using this skin. If you like the old one better, you can choose it in the drop down menu in the bottom left hand corner.

I haven't read the article yet, but I wanted to give a bug thank you to Judy for allowing me to chime in on the subject. What was supposed to be 5 minutes, turned into 35 minutes of me yapping about the subject. She took the time to go to Buffalo and speak with people in the community - this was not researched and written in a NYC coffee shop. I'll read it tomorrow, but for now I have some MySQL tuning to do, since game days have been shakey recently.

Obama went because the President called him and requested his presence. Obama stated that this was the worst fiscal crises since (well, I'm sure since Kerry, Gore, Clinton, etc... announcements in their campaign) since the depression. He then proceeded to prepare for a debate.

If I had that kind of liquidity.... Sadly, I don't. we stash our savings in another bank, but we do our checking there. However, I'm just wondering about the access of what we do have there in the meantime. I apologize for being an ignorant SOB, but I imagine retirement accounts are probably not at risk since they are just managing where the funds go - correct?

is this official? Wachovia is my bank and they handle our retirement accounts at work.

well, the submissions have to be approved obviously. We couldn't just let anyone post any link to the front page. IF the links weren't approaved then chances are they were already posted and you didn't see them.

http://www.twobillsdrive.com/beat/submit_news.php the link is right above the ads that are posted at the end of 1st day.

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It would be very helpful to also submit these articles via the front page, so that we can be as timely as possible. Thanks...

Mine uses magnets.

For example: http://www.bluetoad.com/publication/?i=3938 please tell me, from a reader's perspective, what do you think about such software vs. more conventional formats liek PDF or converting a magazine to html.

ya think?

I think once you are under 40 yards Kif, you might want to think about a different strategery....

No, it wasn't... we led 7-6 Timmah!

Again whatever... there is no reason to be drawn into a Josh Reed bashing debate today. He played well. Good for him. Good for BillsNation. If in your opinion, he has played up to the level of a 2nd round selection over the past 6 years, then that is your opinion. Others think differently. It doesn't really matter that people disagree.