Comments on: Late Late Nite – Hello NSA http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/23/hello-nsa/ Firedoglake weblog Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:44:27 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: 4jkb4ia http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/23/hello-nsa/#comment-1222135 4jkb4ia Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:07:22 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/23/hello-nsa/#comment-1222135 <p>I hope you guys will bear with me, but we have Israelis in both the men’s and women’s doubles finals. I am very proud. I have just learned that both Erlich and Ram are from South America originally. You had to suspect they did not get it from the Israeli sports program *g* </p> <p>Sania Mirza of India is a Muslim, but I can’t think of any Arabs at this level. I don’t actually know why. Most of the Arabic countries are involved in Davis Cup.</p> I hope you guys will bear with me, but we have Israelis in both the men’s and women’s doubles finals. I am very proud. I have just learned that both Erlich and Ram are from South America originally. You had to suspect they did not get it from the Israeli sports program *g*

Sania Mirza of India is a Muslim, but I can’t think of any Arabs at this level. I don’t actually know why. Most of the Arabic countries are involved in Davis Cup.

]]> By: 4jkb4ia http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/23/hello-nsa/#comment-1222095 4jkb4ia Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:34:18 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/23/hello-nsa/#comment-1222095 <p>MLK said something very early about “the glory of American democracy is the right to protest for right”.</p> MLK said something very early about “the glory of American democracy is the right to protest for right”.

]]> By: 4jkb4ia http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/23/hello-nsa/#comment-1222093 4jkb4ia Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:31:46 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/23/hello-nsa/#comment-1222093 <p>WHOA! Tsonga over Nadal in straight sets! (I just got up) The young man is officially playing out of his mind.<br /> It is going to be a nerve-racking day today. I have to marshal the rational arguments from where I put them.</p> WHOA! Tsonga over Nadal in straight sets! (I just got up) The young man is officially playing out of his mind.
It is going to be a nerve-racking day today. I have to marshal the rational arguments from where I put them.

]]> By: bigbrother http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/23/hello-nsa/#comment-1222070 bigbrother Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:43:23 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/23/hello-nsa/#comment-1222070 <p>So Prostratedragon I strongly suspect your defense of Bernanke puts you in the neocon rethug camp. While reserve requirement may or may not be relevant it is a shell game. Not respectable business for sure. Also remember the the creative financial instruments when Enron and some telcos had to restate their bottom lines occurred after the company executives dumped massive quantities of stocks before they dropped. I guess you could say that kind of coggling sneak thieves and con artist like Bush gets me pissed off.<br /> Trillions were lost hitting pension funds hard and other retirement accounts in company funds. Retirees have been hammered since Silverdao and Keating American savings and Bolski the guy that did in Orange county and others with junk bonds.<br /> There is no goddam defense for the three decages of unhamperd strealing of peoples hard work,<br /> If you so and sos want to obfuscate these activities you are complicit. Do not screw with me I have been watching for those decades and more. Thr real estate industry is as crooked as a corkscrew.</p> <p>Who got hurt…old folks who could not recover. That was the Bush Family Silverado and the defunct resolution trust left the taxpayerts without loopholes holding the bill… the Cheney family…his campaign supporter Ken Lay the star of scam that laid waste to one of the biggest hottest industry leaders, their stockholders, employees and the scamsters that followed Lay’s lead.<br /> Laissez faire economics…caveat emptor with no bankruptcy relief protects the criminals. Yellow is not a color becoming color.</p> So Prostratedragon I strongly suspect your defense of Bernanke puts you in the neocon rethug camp. While reserve requirement may or may not be relevant it is a shell game. Not respectable business for sure. Also remember the the creative financial instruments when Enron and some telcos had to restate their bottom lines occurred after the company executives dumped massive quantities of stocks before they dropped. I guess you could say that kind of coggling sneak thieves and con artist like Bush gets me pissed off.
Trillions were lost hitting pension funds hard and other retirement accounts in company funds. Retirees have been hammered since Silverdao and Keating American savings and Bolski the guy that did in Orange county and others with junk bonds.
There is no goddam defense for the three decages of unhamperd strealing of peoples hard work,
If you so and sos want to obfuscate these activities you are complicit. Do not screw with me I have been watching for those decades and more. Thr real estate industry is as crooked as a corkscrew.

Who got hurt…old folks who could not recover. That was the Bush Family Silverado and the defunct resolution trust left the taxpayerts without loopholes holding the bill… the Cheney family…his campaign supporter Ken Lay the star of scam that laid waste to one of the biggest hottest industry leaders, their stockholders, employees and the scamsters that followed Lay’s lead.
Laissez faire economics…caveat emptor with no bankruptcy relief protects the criminals. Yellow is not a color becoming color.

]]> By: bigbrother http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/23/hello-nsa/#comment-1222061 bigbrother Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:18:50 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/23/hello-nsa/#comment-1222061 <p>Interesting…so why the mad scramble for capital infusion at the IBs? The desparate search for capital.</p> <p>The kicker for me was the creation of securities based on mortgages…. that were upside down…no value… when that paper is called your f*cked. Remember the French bank that closed their doors rather than pay up the CDOs?</p> Interesting…so why the mad scramble for capital infusion at the IBs? The desparate search for capital.

The kicker for me was the creation of securities based on mortgages…. that were upside down…no value… when that paper is called your f*cked. Remember the French bank that closed their doors rather than pay up the CDOs?

]]> By: prostratedragon http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/23/hello-nsa/#comment-1222060 prostratedragon Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:07:48 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/23/hello-nsa/#comment-1222060 <p>But the involvement of investment banks in the mortgage market, to the great extent that they are now, <i>is</i> something new. It’s not particularly a thing to be proud of not to have known about it, but Bernanke is far from alone. I would expect that behind the scenes a big activity at the Fed these days is taking apart the various research and reportig functions of the agency.</p> <p>Furthermore, the IBs are precisely the less-regulated part of banking (one reason so much activity has migrated there, you may count on it); their reserve positions are <i>not</i>monitored by the Fed or any other government agency that I’m aware of.</p> But the involvement of investment banks in the mortgage market, to the great extent that they are now, is something new. It’s not particularly a thing to be proud of not to have known about it, but Bernanke is far from alone. I would expect that behind the scenes a big activity at the Fed these days is taking apart the various research and reportig functions of the agency.

Furthermore, the IBs are precisely the less-regulated part of banking (one reason so much activity has migrated there, you may count on it); their reserve positions are notmonitored by the Fed or any other government agency that I’m aware of.

]]> By: bigbrother http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/23/hello-nsa/#comment-1222058 bigbrother Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:56:15 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/23/hello-nsa/#comment-1222058 <p>The economy was tanking in the beginning of the Bush administration or somewher abouts.<br /> The sub prime housing bubble kept the construction industry booming…that was the bush economy at home.<br /> The war was keeping them in the White house. The war was easy to get in hard to get out…to many fingers in the pie looting our/their treasury.</p> The economy was tanking in the beginning of the Bush administration or somewher abouts.
The sub prime housing bubble kept the construction industry booming…that was the bush economy at home.
The war was keeping them in the White house. The war was easy to get in hard to get out…to many fingers in the pie looting our/their treasury.

]]> By: selise http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/23/hello-nsa/#comment-1222056 selise Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:55:30 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/23/hello-nsa/#comment-1222056 <p>i’m with you and paul on that.</p> <p>but on trade, stiglitz is my hero.</p> i’m with you and paul on that.

but on trade, stiglitz is my hero.

]]> By: wigwam http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/23/hello-nsa/#comment-1222055 wigwam Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:52:53 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/23/hello-nsa/#comment-1222055 <p>Hi Selise: Paul Krugman is my hero: Mandatory, single-payer healthcare.</p> Hi Selise: Paul Krugman is my hero: Mandatory, single-payer healthcare.

]]> By: selise http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/23/hello-nsa/#comment-1222054 selise Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:41:54 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/23/hello-nsa/#comment-1222054 <p>holy crap, look at the time. i better try again to sleep before it’s time to start calling (and watching c-span) tomorrow.</p> holy crap, look at the time. i better try again to sleep before it’s time to start calling (and watching c-span) tomorrow.

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