Suze Orman is neat

i bet you'd like to surmount her.

i cannot afford it

http://gawker.com/assets/resources/2007/02/suze_beaver.jpg

suze_beaver.jpg

er, lesbians are funny that way xp

I would like to see her duke it out with Suzan Powter.

http://www.molanderassoc.com/images/misc/susan.jpg http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/images/a/6171.jpg

OH NO FITE OH NO

(ps. sorry I misspelled your first name Ms. Powter, insanity stopped.)

i can't take it

i CAN'T TAKE IT

kristen wiig as suze is so so so so so great

omg SO GREAT

i may (or may not) have read a substantial chunk of suze's "young, fabulous, and broke" book at a barnes & noble recently

ya we totally own it but it can't compete with watching her flip out on people on air

I read most of it in 45 minutes at a Staples during my husband's job interview at the business next dore.

wtf how did I manage to misspell 'door'

Why Is Suze Orman Privileging the Penis?

Having read this headline a trillion times since last night, I cannot help but wonder how it is Suze Orman can think she is a virgin if she has been in an active sexual relationship ever. Hardly a newsflash I'd think Orman would need, but sex neither requires a penis nor penetration by one.

'Suze Orman Reveals She is the '55-year-old Virgin'.

Orman says she "has a relationship with life," so Solomon presses her, and Suze then reveals that her "life partner" is Kathy Travis and, "We're going on seven years. I have never been with a man in my whole life. I'm still a 55-year-old virgin."

It seems I'm going to be quoting Gloria Steinem a lot here (all to the good!), but one of my favorite things she ever said was about penetration, wondering why we give all the action and agency to men (or penetrators, I suppose) (think of all the harsh euphemisms used to describe sex -- hammer, lay, bang, tag, &c.) and why we do not instead consider it "envelopment." Why not, I wonder.

Anyhoo, Suze, what gives, hon?

:D

she was so excited last night to tell this guy that he could afford to go to iceland with his boyfriend for his 30th birthday.

In 1973, she moved with friends to Berkeley, California and lived for three months in a van on Hearst Avenue. She soon became a waitress at the Buttercup Bakery on College Avenue. In 1980, a longtime customer gave Orman a loan of $50,000 to help her fulfill her dream of opening her own restaurant. Orman invested the money at Merrill Lynch, but four months later was broke again, after she was swindled by her stockbroker.[8][9]

i love her

My mom said she's getting me her latest book cd thing for Xmas. Moms is finally getting over the election crazies.

recently on "can i afford it?" a guy called in to ask her if he could afford a hot dog cart, and her immediate response was something like "did you know, (caller), that one of my favorite things in the entire world is HOT DOGS??!?!!" and i kind of died a little

(she approved)

where are you ramzi?

i definitely heard her say HOT DOGS??!?!! and almost died too :D

Thanks to this thread I always think of you, Surmounter, when I think of Suze Orman.

susan powter does need her own thread while we're at it tho, if only because that video of her eating an organic pear needs to be posted somewhere

I'm too drunk and tired to give my comments

she was on oprah recently, and she told this woman that she could afford to get a divorce

"Orman has been propelled to fame not by her financial success, or because of any revolutionary insight about, say, index funds. Rather, she has figured out a way to channel an innate charisma and a televangelist’s intensity into an otherwise bland message of fiscal responsibility. She could recite the phone book with her broad, Midwestern accent, her repetitive rhetorical flourishes, her interjections of “Are you kidding?” and people would still sit up and listen. There’s as much Joan Rivers in her delivery as there is Deepak Chopra, and somehow, in Orman, neither part makes the other look ridiculous." -- nytimes

...One Wednesday in March, Orman showed up at the NBC studio in New York for an early-morning taping of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” the popular news roundup, and then made a quick stop at CBS, where she was shooting a spot for “CBS News Sunday Morning.”

“My goodness, Suze!” said a woman who happened to be entering the building at the same time as Orman. “It’s wonderful to meet you!” She explained that she had read all of Orman’s books and was heading to work as a travel agent for CBS.

“Good at what you do?” Orman asked.

“Excellent,” she answered.

“That’s my girl!” Orman said and waltzed onward.

With even the most casual encounters, Orman tends to get personal at warp speed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/magazine/17orman-t.html?_r=2&hpw

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Her strange digs at teachers in that article did not make me think very highly of her.

She has been reluctant to work on school curricula on personal finance, because she says students can’t learn empowerment from people who aren’t empowered, and teachers, she says, are too underpaid ever to have any real self-worth. She told me: “When you are somebody scared to death of your own life, how can you teach kids to be powerful? It’s not something in a book — it ain’t going to happen that way.” She once delivered pretty much the same message at an anniversary celebration of a private school — she seems to recall calling the school a “travesty” — and was all but escorted to the door when she was

Her father experienced a series of business reversals, she writes, but eventually he had two delis up and running successfully, and he stopped worrying: “For the first time ever, there was enough money — more than enough. My dad knew, too, that my mom would be taken care of after he was gone, and he was happy her brother would take over the family business.”

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Not long after that, she wrote, “my father died — in his eyes a lucky man.” The point of the story: Sometimes the worst misfortune paves the way for a better opportunity.

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Back in March, a few minutes before Orman was about to go live on “Morning Joe,” I mentioned to her that I had been struck by the story of her father’s perseverance. Did his entrepreneurialism, I asked, inspire her?

“My father killed himself,” she said by way of an answer. “On Father’s Day.”

I was startled by the apparent discrepancy with her more sanguine account of her father’s death in “The Nine Steps to Financial Freedom” but let her continue.

That day, she went on, when she was 30, her father insisted on getting out of his wheelchair and walking and walking even though he had a serious heart condition and the doctors had warned him against it. “He wouldn’t open the presents. He knew what he was doing,” she said. “He died a defeated man. He didn’t know who would take care of me and my mom.”

A few weeks later, I asked Orman about the seeming contradiction in facts, and she passed it off blithely, even likably. “Oh, who knows what I said in the book,” she replied. She added that she probably gave the story a happier ending in print to please her mother.

damn