Blub @ 97

Prince Erik still plans to conquer San Diego despite local opposition
http://www.signonsandiego.com/…..black.html

also, y’all catch the Sanchez fiasco? Retired general criticizes the war, and the rethugs automatically press the auto-swiftboat button.. they’re trying to tar him with Abu Ghraib now, after completely exonerating him for the same atrocities at the time, if I remember correctly.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITI…..index.html

These people really are special

they are still living bush’s ‘you are either with us or you are against us’ crap

Well, the numbers ‘against us (Bushies)’ is growing rather quickly.

Except for some moments of stress the public’s approval of Bush has dropped steadily from day one. There’s no safety net for him and he’s gonna go down hard in the history books.

With some luck he & his cohorts will suffer mightily, so America can raise it’s heads again and claim to be ashamed of our previous behavior.

If we let it go and don’t cleanse ourselves of Bushism, then we’ll be tarred forever.

We are trying to keep Blackwater The Murders out of Cali. Cristine Craft, a reporter on progressive radio, has a petition on her site. Last month her boss decided to cut her on air hours from three to one a day. Coinkiedink?

The bosses like that who are still in denial are having a very tough time with reporters and the public who are comfortable with Truth and Reality.

But, in the end this logjam will break loose and they’ll step aside to let progress happen. The Truth will out! … eventually.

we call it “market STABILIZATION“?

why is that?

i thought the conservative mantra
was “don’t reward BAD CHOICES“?!

why are we “stabilizing” these bad decisions,
and effectively de-stabilizing single moms, by
choosing to reimburse investments, instead?

folks — these are all resouce-allocation
issues — the war, the bail-out, abstinence-
only-failures, and the failure to provide
health-care for our children. . . why do
we allow these allocations?

how about PEOPLE-stabilizations,
rather than markets, eh?

and thanks — to teddy san fran, for
featuring my meager youtube efforts, called
the “nightly nolo” (which is really
not so nightly — nor was it, ever!),
at the top of this thread. . .

p e a c e

ps: kick blackwater out NOW!

yea right.

Let me try cinnamonape @ 199 again with the quotations and a couple of grammatical errors corrected

Who really cares about the “free market” and competition anymore? That’s just so pre-9/11, I guess.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200…..zRaACs0NUE

I think both Teddy and Franklin Rooseveldt would call this an example of corrupt collusion to stifle competition.

NEW YORK – Citigroup Inc. and other big banks are working on a plan to support the market for mortgage-backed securities and other investments by jointly creating a fund that would buy as much as $100 billion of the debt, according to published reports.The banks met three weeks ago at the Treasury Department, which is playing an advisory role, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed people familiar with the situation.

The fund is designed to prevent a sharp sell-off in assets such as mortgage-backed securities, which would send their prices crashing. That could force banks, brokerages and hedge funds with similar investments to significantly write down the value of their assets,

So (BooHoo) the banks would lose money because they decided to offer and/or purchase mortgages that were high risk…but when those assets lose value they don’t want to sell them off to…well…people that were more astute and didn’t speculate on these risky loans.

The old adage of the Hoover Republicans should be changed to “Whatever is good for Citibank (and Bank of America Corp. and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co, etc.) has to be good for America!”

And we wouldn’t want the Citigroup stockholders to suffer because of the horrid (and exploitative) decision-making by the Directors and CEO, would we!

So the Bush Administration (meeting held at the Department of Treasury) and these massive financial behemoths are colluding to prevent the sale of these assets at lower prices, preferring to keep properties vacant, by working together to avoid competing between one another and smaller competitors.

And HOW DARE WE want those people who lost their homes due to the inflated interest rates to be able to actually afford to get back into the market and purchase another place to live! Or to allow those people who “held off” obtaining a home for fear (quite correctly) that there would be a bust in the “housing bubble” or an increase in the interest rate. How dare we allow these CONSERVATIVE INVESTORS from buying a home from a bank compelled to sell it off at auction!

So let’s simply allow them to conspire and create a TRUST of the largest financial firms in the world so they won’t compete and don’t have to put their assets up for auction in a “buyers market”. That way they won’t lose money while, at the same time, evicting tenants that were offered Variable Rate Mortgages by unscrupulous agents of these self-same financial paragons!

ASMA (Adam Smith My A**).

My father once described the local farmers as cry-baby capitalists. “Give them a few good years, and they see themsselves as self-made men, risk takers, enterpreuners, and they decry government involvement in economic matters. But give them a couple of bad years, and they cry ‘we the people’ and demand government relief and subsidies.”

The they use HER credibility and 60 Minutes reputation to get Prince and ratings and so forth.. and then do an editing job to turn the piece into a pass for Blackwater. Itis all about money anyway… ad dollars and so forth. CBS is not going to be tarred as unpatriotic anti American and they are facing a lawsuit by Rather now so they may be lining up support from the MSM and the right who still wields a lot of power in the courts… Hey wink wink.. could you toss out that Lawsuit if we clean up Prince on tee vee?

Just a theory. Logan isn’t going to bite the hand that feeds her and she’s just a reported trying to make way in her own career. Careers are more important than truth. It’s the American way.

Who really cares about the “free market” and competition anymore? That’s just so pre-9/11, I guess.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200…..zRaACs0NUE

I think both Teddy and Franklin Rooseveldt would call this an example of corrupt collusion to stifle competition.

NEW YORK – Citigroup Inc. and other big banks are working on a plan to support the market for mortgage-backed securities and other investments by jointly creating a fund that would buy as much as $100 billion of the debt, according to published reports.The banks met three weeks ago at the Treasury Department, which is playing an advisory role, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed people familiar with the situation.

The fund is designed to prevent a sharp sell-off in assets such as mortgage-backed securities, which would send their prices crashing. That could force banks, brokerages and hedge funds with similar investments to significantly write down the value of their assets,

So (BooHoo) the banks would lose money because they decided to offer and/or purchase mortgages that were high risk…but when those assets lose value they don’t want to sell them off to…well…people that were more astute and didn’t speculate on these risky loans.

The old adage of the Hoover Republicans should be changed to “Whatever is good for Citibank (and Bank of America Corp. and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co, etc.) has to be good for America!”

And we wouldn’t want the Citigroup stockholders to suffer because of the horrid (and exploitative) decision-making by the Directors and CEO, would we!

So the Bush Administration (meeting held at the Department of Treasury) and these massive financial behemoths are colluding to prevent the sale of these assets at lower prices, preferring to keep properties vacant, by working together to avoid competing between one another and smaller competitors.

And HOW DARE WE want those people who lost their homes due to the inflated interest rates to be able to actually afford to get back into the market and purchase another place to live! Or to allow those people who “held off” obtaining a home for fear (quite correctly) that there would be a bust in the “housing bubble” or an increase in the interest rate. How dare we allow these CONSERVATIVE INVESTORS from buying a home from a bank compelled to sell it off at auction!

So let’s simply allow them to conspire and create a TRUST of the largest financial firms in the world so they won’t compete and don’t have to put their assets up for auction in a “buyers market”. That way they won’t lose money while, at the same time, evicting tenants that were offered Variable Rate Mortgages by unscrupulous agents of these self-same financial paragons!

ASMA (Adam Smith My A**).

Kathleen @ 189

CSpans Washington Journal
Monday, October 15
7am – Newspaper Articles & Viewer Calls
7:45am – Scott Horton, Human Rights First Private Military Contractors Project | Testimony
8:30am – Newspaper Articles & Phones

9am – Leon Aron, American Enterprise Institute, Russian Studies-Director
9:30am – Peter Hakim, Inter-American Dialogue, President

http://www.c-span.org/homepage…..iveDays=30

WJ, the heartbeat of America for better or for worse!

I am always shocked when Brian, Greta and other host on Washington Journal allow some callers to repeat a 9/11 Iraq connection.

A caller asked Brian Lamb about correcting outright lies. Brian did say that they are not there to filter people’s opinions and yet it was acceptable to correct proven falsehoods. I have never heard Greta ever correct anyone when they repeat the 9/11 Iraq falsehood

I think both Roosevelts would call this an example of corrupt collusion to stifle competition.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200…..zRaACs0NUE

NEW YORK – Citigroup Inc. and other big banks are working on a plan to support the market for mortgage-backed securities and other investments by jointly creating a fund that would buy as much as $100 billion of the debt, according to published reports.The banks met three weeks ago at the Treasury Department, which is playing an advisory role, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed people familiar with the situation.

The fund is designed to prevent a sharp sell-off in assets such as mortgage-backed securities, which would send their prices crashing. That could force banks, brokerages and hedge funds with similar investments to significantly write down the value of their assets,

So the banks would lose money because they decided to offer and/or purchase mortgages that were high risk…but when those assets lose value they don’t want to sell them off to…well…people that were more astute and didn’t speculate on these risky loans.

which, in turn, could further tighten credit markets and hurt the economy.

Whatever is good for Citibank (and Bank of America Corp. and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co, etc.) has to be good for America!

The plan would help Citigroup, which is set to report third-quarter earnings Monday. The bank said earlier this month that its third-quarter profit would likely be 60 percent less than a year ago because of losses of more than $3 billion from writing down securities backed by underperforming mortgages and loans tied to corporate buyouts.

And we wouldn’t want the Citigroup stockholders to suffer because of the bad decision-making by the Directors and CEO, would we!

So they are colluding to prevent the sale of these assets at lower prices, preferring to keep their properties vacant, by working together to avoid competing for them.

And we wouldn’t want those people who lost their homes due to the inflated interest rates to be able to actually afford to get back into the market and purchase another place to live, would we. Or to allow those people who “held off” to obtain a home from a bank that had to sell it off.

So lets allow them to conspire and create a TRUST of the largest financial firms in the world. That way they won’t lose money while evicting tenants that were offered Variable Rate Mortgages by unscrupulous agents of these self-same financial paragons!