Good morning world!
I heard on the Happy News this morning that men are helping out around the house more these days. Not much more, but more than the 0% from days past. The report said that women spend 52 minutes a day doing housework while men do 16 minutes a day, and women do 70% of the laundry, too.
Another advantage to downsizing to a much smaller place....there's less to clean. I make up the bed 'cause I'm the last one up. K does 90% of the cooking, while I do 90% of the clean up. The laundry is pretty much 50-50. A housekeeper every other week for a few hours does the heavy lifting. We could do it ourselves, but after all these years Geneva is like family. She stays.
How about at your casa?
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Let's see....first there were the Castelano's, the Gambino's, and the Bonanno's, and now we have the USB's, the RBS's, the Citi's, the JPMorganChase's and a bunch more, too. The list of mafia outfits grows every day. HSBC just paid a $1.9B fine for money laundering. (They helped Iran and the Mexican drug cartels.) A dozen other banks are ratting on each other over their interest-rate-rigging scandal in the UK. (Their defense....the others were more guilty than they were.)
Now there are a combined TRILLION dollars in claims pending against BofA, JPMorganChase, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, and others over their fraudulent mortgage securities businesses. The banks will probably settle for something like $400B. (Does this mean they'll get away with the other $600B? How is that fair?)
The only thing missing from this organized crime drama is some executive "whacking" in broad daylight while they're eating their spaghetti dinners. (Personally I'd classify that as "justifiable homicide".)
First we had "too big to fail". Now we have "too big to indict". It seems the Feds are offering plea bargains to the banks rather than indicting their ivory tower Dons because they're afraid a guilty verdict in court would scare away investors and the banks would go belly-up. Then us taxpayers would get stuck with the clean up.
The message here....if you're gonna commit a crime, make it a BIG ONE!
Now, unless you're a banker....have a nice day. :)
S
