Paid off the mortgage today on our place. For better or worse, it is now officially ours. I informed my husband that he was now $5,100 closer to retirement (this was the balance left on the mortgage). Said to hell with it and paid it off, figuring that from now on we could pay ourselves instead of other people, with the exception of the smaller ( Read more... )

I can't do it. I just can't help myself. For the last eight years, on whatever blog I've had, I can't refrain from complaining about BushCheneyCo. I'm sorry, but I still haven't gotten it out of my system. Big Harrumph indeed. And it appears that they're just passing the torch (an appropriate metephor) to John McCain.

So McCain is suspending his ( Read more... )