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1. #101
   On September 23rd, 2008 at 10:29 pm, CWinNY said:

   Chap,

   Good to see you commenting again. I haven’t seen anything from you for awhile. Some time back you asked what part of NY I was from. I’m not, I’m a transplanted cornhusker – currently living in upstate NY working for a large multinational engineering firm.

   This whole financial fiasco is why I run scared of today’s democrats. The laws of economics are as immutable as the laws of physics – they just take longer to manifest themselves.

   A couple things I have learned through the years:
   1. You can’t legislate prosperity
   2. You can’t legislate morality.

   The War on Poverty is as dismal a failure as the War on Drugs -but both coming at a high price to the taxpayers.

2. #102
   On September 23rd, 2008 at 10:33 pm, chapoutier said:

   Good to see you commenting again. I haven’t seen anything from you for awhile

   Vacation… where I had little access to internet or phone. It actually kinda stressed me out more than actually working, which is sad.

3. #103
   On September 23rd, 2008 at 10:35 pm, wayiwalk said:

   I don’t understand all of you – why aren’t you cheering the democrats?

   Why?

   It works like this.

   1) Democrats, who were a major cause of this whole financial mess by pumping up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and not allowing reform, really helped fuel the big housing construction binge in this country.

   2) The easy money resulted in the speculation and overbuilding of housing stock throughout the country.

   3) Now with the severe economic downturn, housing starts are at a significant low, with further declines expected.

   4) With such a downturn in construction, the illegal alien workforce formerly in construction is heading back to Mexico/Latin America.

   5) Illegal alien problem solved by the Democrat Party of the USA.

   Who says the democrat congress doesn’t accomplish anything?

4. #104
   On September 23rd, 2008 at 10:35 pm, chapoutier said:

   It may have been under “Bush’s watch,” but it was under Democrat guidance and oversight. See one Chairman of the Senate Banking Commission (Dodd the Fraud).

   Why doesn’t Dodd explain to us what he was doing all this time? I don’t recall any warnings from him.

   Dimsdale,

   All due respect because there is plenty of blame to go around, but this problem began wayyyyy before 2006.

5. #105
   On September 23rd, 2008 at 10:52 pm, DaveC said:

   On September 23rd, 2008 at 9:55 pm, chapoutier said:

   I’m sorry.. you lost me at bacon..

   

6. #106
   On September 23rd, 2008 at 11:12 pm, chapoutier said:

   I’m sorry.. you lost me at bacon..

   You didn’t miss much. Bottom line is that this problem has been percolating for several years now.

7. #107
   On September 24th, 2008 at 12:13 am, LC said:

   Hillarious:

   Obama’s campaign released a statement from Raines, who says he is not an Obama adviser. – Pete Yost, Associated Press Writer

   Why would Obama’s campaign release a statement from someone not official connected with the campaign?

   Strange indeed.

8. #108
   On September 24th, 2008 at 12:48 am, RabbidSquirrel said:

   Why would Obama’s campaign release a statement from someone not official connected with the campaign?

   Strange indeed.

   Another one bites the bus
   Another one bites the bus
   And another one gone, and another one gone
   Another one bites the bus
   Hey, He’s gonna get you too
   Another one bites the bus

9. #109
   On September 24th, 2008 at 1:05 am, DaveC said:

   On September 23rd, 2008 at 11:12 pm, chapoutier said:

   sorry.. I was going for a Homeresq type joke there..

   but I understood the pig analogy..

   easier to buy what you want from a numerous animals instead of getting the good and bad off of one..

   Thank you for that..

10. #110
    On September 24th, 2008 at 2:14 am, RabbidSquirrel said:

    On September 23rd, 2008 at 10:24 pm, genso said:

    Install a wireless scanner in those shredders.

    Hmmm, not bad….

    Anyone know where I can get a loan?

11. #111
    On September 24th, 2008 at 2:33 am, Terry_Jim said:

    SO… we’re…
    gonna bail out freddie and fannie,
    THEN
    arrest Jamie Gorelick, Franklin Raines, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd?

    Cart’s before the horse there, like giving amnesty immediatly, but promising a border fence later.

12. #112
    On September 24th, 2008 at 2:42 am, RetFireman said:

    *Pssst…F.B.I., start with the Obama Campaign and work your way over to Pelosi and Reed’s offices. It will save time.

13. #113
    On September 24th, 2008 at 4:35 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On September 23rd, 2008 at 10:24 pm, genso said:

    Install a wireless scanner in those shredders.

    Wow. I’d never thought of something like that before, but obviously someone else has…

    It wouldn’t surprise me at all if such things already exist and are being used for spying…

    What better way to get the most vital information than to electronically transmit images of the very documents deemed soo sensitive that they must be shredded?

    Shredding is presumably done in order to prevent those documents from being seen by others…

    Putting “bugs” in shredders is an absolutely brilliant idea.

    Has it been done before?
    Well, if your shredder gives off wireless transmissions….

14. #114
    On September 24th, 2008 at 6:12 am, carole said:

    watching bailout hearings yesterday, the idea that Chris Dodd was asking questions, and Paulson said taxpayer “on the hook” was surreal. Throw them all out.

15. #115
    On September 24th, 2008 at 7:19 am, mzk said:

    Interestingly, I have my money in a Ginnie Mae fund, and I didn’t lose much. Even got dividends. Must be the only housing investment that works. (The money is there to buy a house, actually.)

16. #116
    On September 24th, 2008 at 7:52 am, Little Ma said:

    Subprime crisis: See Jimmy Carter and the CRA.

17. #117
    On September 24th, 2008 at 8:12 am, DagneyT said:

    It’s about damned time!

18. #118
    On September 24th, 2008 at 11:13 am, RabbidSquirrel said:

    On September 24th, 2008 at 4:35 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Wow. I’d never thought of something like that before, but obviously someone else has…

    Absolutely! If you travel overseas on business ALWAYS expect that you are being assigned to a room reserved for foreigners and that that room is completely bugged. Expect that any niceties that are easily available for a business person to be suspect.

    I faxed something one time and the machine errored out. When I started troubleshooting the problem, I discovered that the machine was actually sending two copies in the background to other phone numbers.

19. #119
    On September 24th, 2008 at 11:17 am, RabbidSquirrel said:

    Well, if your shredder gives off wireless transmissions….

    Actually, wireless transmissions have technical issues of their own. (i.e. metal built into the walls of a building, microwave interference, etc) I would build memory ‘chips’ into the device itself and then download or transmit the shredded/scanned documents at a later date.

20. #120
    On September 24th, 2008 at 11:21 am, RabbidSquirrel said:

    Countermeasuere – flip your documents top and bottom so that a scanner cant see anything and insert fluff with what you are shredding

    RUN!!!!! ITS A TRAP!!!!!

21. #121
    On September 24th, 2008 at 6:14 pm, Bhishma said:

    Like 9/11 Commission report, this one may be closed as “Failure of intelligence”.. whatever that means.