For example.

But then I remembered that I'm driving to Saint Etienne (rather grueling in the traffic and temperatures) to see Younger Daughter playing the bass at her music school's end-of-year concert. That sounds like an ordeal too but it's actually a hell of a lot of fun, I don't get to rock concerts much, and it makes me feel young... especially since most of the songs they play are old standards from my youth.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

So I'm looking at buying a house.  I looked at housing in the town that I'm going to be working in, and I came to the conclusion that I could pay three years of mortgage for what one year of rent would cost me. Luckily, housing can be had for dirt cheap where I'm going to be working.

The place I'm looking at is $10,000.  Mind you this is a standing house in decent condition. I was sort of confused, because the realtor said some something about   a cash deal.

So I went in to try to get a loan at my bank. Turns out that most US banks won't do a home mortgage for less than $30,000.  Which is what the cash deal that the realtor mentioned was about.  It strikes me as some sort of crazy that there are homeless people and people-less homes, but the two can't be brought together banks aren't willing to write loans.

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg

The two central banks do not anticipate that this agreement, which has been concluded as a precautionary measure, will need to be called upon," the Swiss National Bank said.

About 50 percent of all home mortgage loans in Poland were in francs, according to official data from late last year.

The Polish government has also issued bonds denominated in Swiss francs, raising foreign demand for francs.

Somebody call a doctor, the folks at CNN must be having a heart attack after they goofed and declared Obamacare was dead.

The red-faced cable channel had to quickly post a correction, but it was too late. The social media cat, so to speak, was out of the bag and the embarrassing error was whipping around the web. As the nation now knows, the U.S. Supreme Court actually upheld the constitutionality of Obamacare today.

After the briefing, we were directed along a corridor to a winding staircase that led down though the tower and eventually delivered us into a big, circular hall. Ranged across one side were the tellers' positions. Light entered the room through high, broad windows let into the massively thick walls of the former jail.

At the bottom of a flight of stairs at the entrance was an ATM. In Latin, the opening screen announced it was available for a cash withdrawal - a "deductio ex pecunia".

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At one point during his presentation, he clapped his hand to his mouth after saying nuns could not open accounts "because they have taken vows of chastity". Looking just like a choirboy heard using rude words in the vestry, he said: "I meant 'poverty'."