Doppel's Dementia

Credit card companies like Chase and Captial One can just bite me. I was carrying a balance on two different cards at decent, single-digit fixed interest rates (which is what I agreed to when I signed up for the cards) and in the last two weeks I’ve gotten two letters saying “Oops, the economy is bad so we’re changing your fixed rate to a variable prime plus 10.5%”. That makes the rate almost 15% for now and it can only go up from there since the prime rate is bottomed out.

That is so fucked up, why should I have to pay for the fact that they extended credit to fools who can’t pay them back now? I am going to have to refuse the changes which means they close my account and I get the privilege of paying off the balances at the interest rate that I initially agreed to. Now I have to hope that at least my Visa through the credit union doesn’t send me the same letter.

Hey Mr. President, how about some bailout money for us regular Joes?

My old friend SicPreFix linked to this site, I was amazed at how one-sided the world vote was. Anyone in the world could cast a vote for McCain or Obama. While not scientific or random it’s still very interesting.

I’m glad that Obama has apparently won the electoral college but sad that he seems to have barely squeeked by in the popular vote, I wanted him to get at least 55% there.

More importantly (and more upsetting to me) is that Proposition 8 in California is ahead right now by a decent margin (although the polls only closed a little over an hour ago). If that damn thing passes it will add an amendment to the state constitution that bans gay marriage. I figured surely Californians are enlightened enough to vote it down and by a decent margin but I’m quite pissed that it’s ahead at all.

Another disturbing result is that proposition in Colorado that has about 75% of the vote to create a law that says life begins at conception. That means that all laws for living people apply from the moment of conception including the right to not be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process. Short version: it effectively bans all abortions. From what I read on CNN that would mean even a fetus conceived as part of a rape would have to be carried to full term by the mother and that sucks.