For A laugh During this Time of Adjustment

WHEN INSULTS HAD CLASS....

A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die
on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."

That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your
policies or your mistress."

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries
with great pleasure." Clarence Darrow

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader
to the dictionary." - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
- Oscar Wilde

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play;
bring a friend... if you have one." - George Bernard Shaw to
Winston Churchill
In response Winston Churchill replied, ."Cannot possibly attend
first night, will attend second... if there is one."

"I've just learned of his illness... Let's hope it's nothing
trivial." - Irvin S. Cobb

"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." - Paul
Keating

"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded
easily." - Charles, Count Talleyrand

"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any
address on it?" - Mark Twain

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." -
Mae West

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for
support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music." - Billy Wilder

"I have had a perfectly wonderful evening - but this wasn't
it." - Groucho Marx

Mortgage Thoughts

The answer to the following info would be 'Duh'!

I don't know if this falls under the category of late-breaking news, and there are plenty in the industry who will disagree, but "The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) concurs with a finding by the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) that excessively tight mortgage lending standards are hampering a housing and economic recovery. 'The Federal Reserve's report to Congress confirms what we have been saying for some time: That extraordinarily tight credit conditions are preventing creditworthy borrowers from obtaining home loans and this is harming the housing market and the broader economy,' said NAHB Chairman Bob Nielsen, a home builder from Reno, Nevada." Nielsen feels that the lack of credit extends to housing construction loans as well, which is crippling the housing industry and preventing construction of new homes in markets that need and want them.

Also, this in for all of you procrastinators!

The IRS said that taxpayers will have until April 17 to file their 2011 returns, thanks to two quirks of the calendar this year: April 15 falls on a Sunday, and the following day is Emancipation Day, which is observed in the District of Columbia. By federal law, District of Columbia holidays affect tax deadlines the same way federal holidays do, giving taxpayers an extra day - thank you District of Columbia.