tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post1696177517199735446..comments2024-03-28T06:32:24.557-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: The Wealth Destroying Housing Debacle Worsens.Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-57708121810364280312009-03-13T01:10:00.000-04:002009-03-13T01:10:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-47070971417953537052009-03-12T22:45:00.000-04:002009-03-12T22:45:00.000-04:00TARP in full swing:http://drop.io/tarp_visualizati...TARP in full swing:<BR/><BR/>http://drop.io/tarp_visualization/asset/tarp-visualization-pdfAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11132252460964519368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-45048412041993475242009-03-12T22:17:00.000-04:002009-03-12T22:17:00.000-04:00Is Madoff not only protecting the relatives and th...Is Madoff not only protecting the relatives and the money, but maybe some folks in the government too?<BR/>==<BR/><BR/>It's much worse than that, Bob. What he's protecting is the intimate connection between organized crime and various governments. Although in my opinion, the "government" is one big syndicate of organized crime in and of itself.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11132252460964519368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-76299596109502774182009-03-12T21:45:00.000-04:002009-03-12T21:45:00.000-04:00Secret Message Found In Lincoln's Pocket Watch<A HREF="http://jonathanturley.org/2009/03/11/time-will-tell-secret-civil-war-message-found-in-abraham-lincolns-pocket-watch/" REL="nofollow">Secret Message Found In Lincoln's Pocket Watch</A>Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-76221453400347379132009-03-12T21:41:00.000-04:002009-03-12T21:41:00.000-04:00Gideon Levy / Everyone agrees: War in Gaza was a f...<I><B>Gideon Levy / Everyone agrees: War in Gaza was a failure</B> <BR/> <BR/><A HREF="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1070476.html" REL="nofollow">By Gideon Levy</A> @ Haaretz <BR/> <BR/>Tags: IDF, hamas, gaza, israel news <BR/><BR/>Suddenly we're all in consensus: The recent war in Gaza was a failure. The bon ton now is to list its flaws. Flip-floppers say its "achievements" were squandered; leftists say the war "should never have started" and rightists will say the war "should have lasted longer." But on this they all agree: It was a blunder. <BR/><BR/>Because we consider the war to have been almost cost-free, with just 13 Israeli dead, it will be the first in 36 years without a Commission of Inquiry formed in its wake. <BR/><BR/>Of course, the war's blunder was just as serious as its predecessors, but because we did more killing than being killed, because we caused more damage than we sustained, there's nothing deemed worthy of investigation. <BR/> <BR/>It was all in vain: no progress made, no goal achieved, nothing. Deterrence wasn't reestablished, arms smuggling into Gaza was not stopped, Hamas was not weakened and abducted Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit was not freed. On these facts we all agree. <BR/><BR/>Moreover, we paid a huge price: Hamas is stronger, the hurt Palestinian people are even more hateful toward us, and Israel is viewed as a pariah in world public opinion, with rioting on a basketball court in Ankara where an Israeli team played and the banning of spectators from Israel's Davis Cup tennis encounter with Sweden in Malmo, as the last of the rogue states <BR/></I>desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-69016945627572469032009-03-12T21:30:00.000-04:002009-03-12T21:30:00.000-04:00Steele 'choice' gaffe sparks GOP revoltBy BEN SMIT...<I><B>Steele 'choice' gaffe sparks GOP revolt</B></I><BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19956.html" REL="nofollow">By BEN SMITH </A><BR/><BR/><I>Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele’s series of gaffes turned into something more serious Thursday, as leaders of a pillar of the GOP—the anti-abortion movement—shifted into open revolt over comments in an interview with the men’s magazine GQ. <BR/><BR/>Steele called abortion an “individual choice” and opposed a constitutional ban on abortion in the Feb. 24 interview, which appeared online Wednesday night. He echoed the language of the abortion rights movement and appeared to contradict his own heated assertions during his campaign for chairman that he is a committed soldier in the anti-abortion movement. <BR/></I>desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-5615455669565432692009-03-12T21:00:00.000-04:002009-03-12T21:00:00.000-04:00Your grammar is from south of the tracks, mat.==It...Your grammar is from south of the tracks, mat.<BR/>==<BR/><BR/><BR/>It's not about grammar, it's about truth:<BR/><BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKy4OU4641EAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11132252460964519368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-60156241754435702562009-03-12T20:45:00.000-04:002009-03-12T20:45:00.000-04:00Why did Madoff plead guilty? Why did the judge acc...Why did Madoff plead guilty? Why did the judge accept the plea? The judge could have forced a trial and some discovery, I think. Why didn't Madoff hold out for a little something of a deal in exchange for some information? What's going on here? Is Madoff not only protecting the relatives and the money, but maybe some folks in the government too?<BR/><BR/>We need a good conspiracy theorist around this joint.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-23432584049469767652009-03-12T20:37:00.000-04:002009-03-12T20:37:00.000-04:00Bubba Clinton Said It's OK To Monkey Around With '...<A HREF="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91521" REL="nofollow">Bubba Clinton Said It's OK To Monkey Around With 'Unfertilized Embryos'</A><BR/><BR/>If an embryo is unfertilized, what's a fertilized embryo?<BR/><BR/>Maybe a clone or something like that. Maybe a hybrid. Maybe a genetically modified cloned hybrid?Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-4991333204267430682009-03-12T20:32:00.000-04:002009-03-12T20:32:00.000-04:00We first need to learn you good manners.The pot ca...<EM>We first need to learn you good manners.</EM><BR/><BR/>The pot calls the kettle black.<BR/><BR/>Your grammar is from south of the tracks, mat.<BR/><BR/>Where are the batteries?linearthinkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05201292791445921817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-45158362602099969522009-03-12T20:28:00.000-04:002009-03-12T20:28:00.000-04:00It's nuts. Sheriff Joe gets investigated. Didn't h...It's nuts. Sheriff Joe gets investigated. Didn't he get some help from Homeland Security? Then Zero says there's a war on the southern border, but he's not sending troops. Sheriff Joe gets investigated for doing his job. I thought a little while ago he seemed in line to be second in command in some federal position? Everything's at cross purposes. Nothing makes sense.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-90039556630018505762009-03-12T20:15:00.000-04:002009-03-12T20:15:00.000-04:00Just don't use salt water.Just don't use salt water.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-51112097894261111512009-03-12T20:13:00.000-04:002009-03-12T20:13:00.000-04:00We're in luck. bob has found the answer. Read all ...We're in luck. bob has found the answer. Read all about it <A HREF="http://www.75news.com/" REL="nofollow">Here</A>Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-16257173352897758732009-03-12T20:10:00.000-04:002009-03-12T20:10:00.000-04:00http://ukhousebubble.blogspot.com/2009/03/mandelso...http://ukhousebubble.blogspot.com/2009/03/mandelson-its-not-our-fault.html<BR/>==<BR/><BR/>And I hope someone will think of something special for this creep.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11132252460964519368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-59638104862813568912009-03-12T20:05:00.000-04:002009-03-12T20:05:00.000-04:00...just need to 'migrate' away from what could be ...<EM>...just need to 'migrate' away from what could be limited supplies of oil, over the next 20 years to other fuels that are compatable with the current fleet of 250 million vehicles in the US.<BR/><BR/>The US seems to be moving in that direction, if we are going to subsidize an energy production cycle it should be a non-food grain ethanol source.</EM><BR/><BR/><BR/>dr has nailed it.<BR/><BR/>Corn belongs in beefsteak, tortillas and bootleg likker...not your gas tank.linearthinkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05201292791445921817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-18233703146049651082009-03-12T20:00:00.000-04:002009-03-12T20:00:00.000-04:00When will bad bankers go to jail?http://articles.m...<B>When will bad bankers go to jail?</B><BR/><BR/>http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/CompanyFocus/when-will-bad-bankers-go-to-jail.aspx<BR/><BR/>http://snipurl.com/dp3np<BR/>==<BR/><BR/>My question is, when the will our "bad bankers" and their politicians be lynched at first sighting. And I don't think that the scenario is that far off.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11132252460964519368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-12289291602661066782009-03-12T19:46:00.000-04:002009-03-12T19:46:00.000-04:00We still need your batteries, mat.==We first need ...We still need your batteries, mat.<BR/>==<BR/><BR/>We first need to learn you good manners. Can we say please, please. And now, practice it in Mandarin.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11132252460964519368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-81875065789210364272009-03-12T19:42:00.000-04:002009-03-12T19:42:00.000-04:0045 percent of world's wealth destroyed: Blackstone...<B>45 percent of world's wealth destroyed: Blackstone CEO</B><BR/>Tue Mar 10, 2009 3:42pm EDT<BR/>By Megan Davies and Walden Siew<BR/><BR/>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Private equity company Blackstone Group LP (BX.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) CEO Stephen Schwarzman said on Tuesday that up to 45 percent of the world's wealth has been destroyed by the global credit crisis.<BR/><BR/>"Between 40 and 45 percent of the world's wealth has been destroyed in little less than a year and a half," Schwarzman told an audience at the Japan Society. "This is absolutely unprecedented in our lifetime.<BR/>.<BR/>.<BR/>==<BR/><BR/>Hmm,..<BR/>I wonder how close my guesstimate of $100 trillion in damages is.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11132252460964519368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-2344616283728476412009-03-12T19:39:00.000-04:002009-03-12T19:39:00.000-04:00The most efficient and productive of the solar app...<EM>The most efficient and productive of the solar applications is not economicly viable.<BR/><BR/>The model that they want to replicate around the whirled is not economicly sustainable.</EM><BR/><BR/>We still need your batteries, mat.linearthinkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05201292791445921817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-38149921660018005232009-03-12T19:35:00.000-04:002009-03-12T19:35:00.000-04:00Chairman Ben S. BernankeAt the Council on Foreign ...<B><A HREF="http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/bernanke20090310a.htm" REL="nofollow">Chairman Ben S. Bernanke<BR/>At the Council on Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C.<BR/>March 10, 2009</A><BR/><BR/>Financial Reform to Address Systemic Risk<BR/><BR/>The world is suffering through the worst financial crisis since the 1930s, a crisis that has precipitated a sharp downturn in the global economy. Its fundamental causes remain in dispute. In my view, however, it is impossible to understand this crisis without reference to the global imbalances in trade and capital flows that began in the latter half of the 1990s. In the simplest terms, these imbalances reflected a chronic lack of saving relative to investment in the United States and some other industrial countries, combined with an extraordinary increase in saving relative to investment in many emerging market nations. </B><BR/><BR/>Essentially, Bernanke says we need to rescue the banks and shore up our regulatory and credit systems.<BR/><BR/>Say good-bye to the growth model.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-9262859056204273582009-03-12T19:29:00.000-04:002009-03-12T19:29:00.000-04:00At the court hearing, Yusuf Acar, the acting chief...<I>At the court hearing, Yusuf Acar, the acting chief security officer in the city's technology office, was ordered held without bond pending a hearing Tuesday. Prosecutors said $70,000 in cash was found during a search of Acar's Washington home and that he posed a serious flight risk.</I><BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Source-Obama-official-on-apf-14623083.html" REL="nofollow">'Cold Cash' Yusuf</A>Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-34539693830330640192009-03-12T19:20:00.000-04:002009-03-12T19:20:00.000-04:00That's because conservatives are just vicarious fu...That's because conservatives are just vicarious fuckers, Mat, not real fuckers.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-8653651419581812672009-03-12T19:17:00.001-04:002009-03-12T19:17:00.001-04:00Long time ago my daughter asks, daddy, can I have ...Long time ago my daughter asks, daddy, can I have some 'life insurance' too? I want some of that.<BR/><BR/>Honey, you're the beneficiary.<BR/><BR/>What's that daddy. <BR/><BR/>:)<BR/><BR/>Which reminds me of a story my doctor told me.<BR/><BR/>Said he told his daughter she'd have her period.<BR/><BR/>She did, then had another one.<BR/><BR/>daddy, what's happening, I already had my period.<BR/><BR/>:)Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-33540151073845308392009-03-12T19:17:00.000-04:002009-03-12T19:17:00.000-04:00Via ABC News:http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Busi...Via ABC News:<BR/><BR/>http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Business/Story?id=6977202&page=1<BR/>==<BR/><BR/>Har!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11132252460964519368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-63420137856016238382009-03-12T19:15:00.000-04:002009-03-12T19:15:00.000-04:00Figure 9, on page 11 of the Obama Budget for Layme...<A HREF="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/the_obama_rosetta_stone.html" REL="nofollow">Figure 9, on page 11</A> of the Obama Budget for Laymen, that is the next Laffer Curve, which indicates to the New Democrats just where the country went wrong.<BR/><BR/>Get that trendline going in the opposite direction, that's the plan, amigos. Using the intrusive power of government to do it.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.com