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If you need any help with that one Dave send me a PM. These modern contraptions are a bit tricky for old folk, aren't they? LOL
I guess that those options were not covered in 'Making the Varsity 101'!
doesn't take much to get trolls attention... Keep coming back! Where is Sgt Mikey these day's?
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The entire financial system is bankrupt. They should put the system into bankruptcy protection. No the bail out will not work. And they're trying to scare people into going along with the bailout. But how do you bail out $200-$400 trillion in derivatives?
I think you're right, Terry. The free market system is disintegrating and we might all go with it.
What a circus the bailout summit turned out to be and so much for the authority of Bush and McCain. It's going to be a fiesty debate, if McCain shows up.
Now Bush is bringing a combat brigade back from Iraq to 'support of civilian authority'.
McCain will be there, the theater of the absurd is now in full swing..... "All go (down) with it?" Hey Mark our monetary system is based on "promisary notes" an idea if you will. We're going anyhere. America's primary power is being able to PRODUCE anything. Not to mention, produce ideas AND leadership.... So of course a bailout will work... and I suspect every foreign Head-of-State AND banking system understands that, and will toe the appropriate line.
In the unlikely event it doesn't work, there are rumblings and some advocating: 'flip off the world - retreat to protectionism (the unspoken FEAR and the 1200 pound albatross sitting on the couch) much the same it did during and after the Great Depression.' Buy some popcorn, watch the UN and member nations try to uphold and repair a world economy what sport...
Some chess match, eh? Who has the next move...
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looking a lot like JFKLancer these day's...
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Obama-bush Try To Ram Through Criminal Paulson Bailout To Preempt
Popular Opposition
Sept. 25 (LPAC)--The Soros-run Obama team of Felix Rohatyn
favorites, Senator Christopher Dodd and his sidekick BarneyFrank,
aware of the massive opposition to the Paulson bailout, are
attempting to ram through the biggest swindle in history in
collusion with the Bush Administration before that opposition can
fully express itself. Thus, immediately after George W. Bush's
national address last night, both Dodd and Frank announced that
an agreement had already been reached in principle.
This was, however, not the case. On Wednesday night, a
spokesman for Republican House leader Boehner said in an e-mail
that there "will not be a final deal as a result" of the meeting
which was scheduled for Thursday morning at 10 a.m. of the
members of Frank's Financial Services Committee and those of
their Senate counterparts in Dodd's Senate Banking Committee. As
he entered the meeting, Rep. Spencer Bachus, the top Republican
on the Financial Services commmittee, said lawmakers were not
close to a deal.
Later in the day, the Democratic leadership insisted that a
deal had been struck. However, even Frank was forced to admit
that he did not know how many House Republicans would vote for
it.
There were also signs that the conservative-leaning House
Republican Caucus was not on board. Both of Congress's Republican
leaders, Rep. John Boehner and Sen. Mitch McConnell, issued
statements saying there was not yet an agreement.
Noticeably absent at the Thursday morning meeting was Sen.
Richard Shelby of Alabama, the ranking Republican on the Senate
Banking Committee, who has said he opposes the idea of bailing
out Wall Street. He was replaced in negotiations with Dodd and
Frank by Senator Bennett, the number two GOP senator on the
Banking Committee.
During the 10 a.m. meeting, Barack Obama was reportedly on
the phone with Dodd, directly participating in the negotiations
in support of the Dodd-Frank-Paulson swindle.
After the White House meeting between Bush, Obama and McCain
in the afternoon, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher
Dodd said that an alternative Republican plan was being floated
that threatened to set back the negotiations.
Also, Senator Shelby, who did not attend the Dodd-Frank
committee negotiations, was reportedly citing a letter from more
than 150 U.S. economists, including three Nobel Prize winners,
which urges Congress to hold off from passing the plan until it
can be studied more closely.
Thanks, Terry.
What is the source of this article?
Christopher Dodd got a sweetheart house mortgage by simply calling Countrywide's President, whom he had never met.
I am pretty sure that Dodd was also the largest recipient of campaing contributions from Fanny, from Freddie and from Washington Mutual.
Barney Frank stated just a few years ago that Fannie and Freddie were financially sound.
Check out the following youtube link:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/09/...ffed.html#links
And didn't Soros make part of his enormous fortune by shorting the US dollar in foreign currency exchange trading?
Who wants his advice?
And now Warren Buffett warns us of cataclysmic econmic consequences if the bailout is not passed, but he just bought $5 Billion in Goldman Sachs stock last week, so it's not exactly like he doesn't have a hefty stake in the success of financial institutions.
So, the real questions are:
1. Should the government act, as proposed, in a largely socialist manner?
2. Will the proposed bailout even work?
3. What will happen if the government does nothing (i.e. will the sky fall)?
4. How much of the loans are recoverable (I suspect that the loans are not all toxic)?
5. Whom can we trust for advice (I heard on Mark Levin last night that over 100 economics profs from prestigious universities all over the country have written letters to Congress telling them that the bailout was a terrible idea)?
6. What are the collateral consequences of a bailout (on the US economy for many years, on the dollar, etc.)?
This whole mess is kind of like reality television.
Mark Levin? Talk about *toxic*. The guy belongs in an institution, one with posey belts. Wait, wait, I can't find one of those institutions, apparently Ronald Ray-gun Reagan closed all of them while Governor of California
100+ Economics Professors, pssst? The Univ. of California system (alone) has a couple hundred economics professors who don't agree with Mark Levin's diatribe(s)..... I caught his program while driving last night. GOP foaming at the mouth comes to mind....
Sooner or later John McCain (who recently screwed over David Letterman) and Sweet Sarah Palin are going to have to deal with the IRAQ-Afghanistan war, and the Economy of the United States of America...
After the recent Katy Curic television interview with Ms. Palin, Joe Biden has to be thinking; "Baked Alaska". No wonder the GOP are keeping her from the press.
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Anyway, no matter: these guys arguing the point on McAdams' site forgot about Jack being in Oswald's way entirely.
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If the Z-film is "altered," why didn't the all-knowing reconstructionist at least turn him around so he wasn't looking to the east?[...]
Let's not go there, or we will have David Healey stomping all over us.
thats Healy, Mr. Carroll. Btw, when folks are told of Brennan's 'physical' position at the corner of Elm and Huston (in the Zapruder film), most can't find him -- so, he's non-starter subject matter when it comes to possible Z-film alteration. Looking away from the TSBD does not do Brennan's credibility any good
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This is getting really dumb. You claimed LBJ cut "JFK's NASA program" but the fact is NASA's budget was higher for every year of LBJ's presidency than it was in any year of JFK's. NASA budget didn't fall back to 1963 levels till 1971. They had 2x (or more) more in 1965, 66 and 67 than they did in 1963 You changed your claim to say the growth of it's budget reversed when LBJ was president. That is true but there is no basis for your assumption it would have continued to grow or leveled off at a level above what it did had JFK remained in office. The former is extremely unlikely it budget doubled every year or two. By the late 60's they were well on there way to accomplishing there goal of landing in the moon before 1970.
This last post of yours is beyond belief. Clearly the thinking you display demonstrates why you dont understand the current financial /economic collapse. By limiting your argument to which year had a higher budget, 1963 versus 1964 to 1967 you come up with the wrong answer. Think this through Aunt Bertie, if they cut the budget it is not simply an
accounting issue. The declining rate of investment is indicative of the shut down of the space program, which was the point of my first comment regarding LBJ. If you cut out and eliminate 80,000 jobs from NASA for example, if you cut out Research and Development, then there goes new and improved designs, less demand for steel, less demand for nuclear energy, plus all of the infrastrucure required for space exploration. Then the budget for NASA will "REFLECT" that shutdown. That's the issue not whether 1967 NASA budget was greater than 1963.
That's what you're seeing when you see the sudden reversal in investment You're seeing the shutdown of JFK's space program. Who cares if 1967's budget was greater in terms of total dollars than 1963? The point to be made and understood is that a reversal in policy is underway and as a result they are dismantling the space program. Which is then "reflected" in the declining rate of investment i.e. budget. And that was my point.
Using your earlier argument regarding the budget for the space program you could make the case that todays financial collapse isnt really happening. After all the Dow is still higher than it was in 1997! What you should do Len is post a graph of the growth of the Dow Jones, then find each year end value from say 1994 to the present. You can show us all how the system isnt in a state of collapse because todays close at 10,883 is actually higher than the closing value on September 24, 1997! See you can prove that cant you? Especially using "bizzaro" logic.
You're nuttier than a fruit cake.
PS- Why would JFK assume the political leadership for the space program if all he intended to do was send a man to the moon and return him to earth? Why would he invest all those resources? He never intended to shut down the space program. What he intended was to create a science driver program for the exploration of space, which in turn would improve the quality of life for every human being on this planet for years and years to come. Had he not been assassinated we would have had a manned Mars mission sometime during the 1980's. And the spin offs into the economy froma program like this would have guaranteed us all a much higher standard of living.
Your method of thinking is atrocious. That's why you are always wrong. It's your method. It's the same mental disease Bertrand Russell spent his life spreading through out the culture. In fact there isnt much difference between Bertrand Russell and satanic punker GG Allin. They are both born of the same mother.
to quote a famous Catholic priest, who shall remain nameless: "... and how does any of THIS stack up against "ETERNITY?"
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What does everyone think about Joe Biden?
He is the person who would be a heartbeat away from the Presidency in an Obama Administration.
There have been 137 posts and 3649 views on the Sarah Palin thread, but no comments on Biden whatsoever.
As I recall, he was vetted and recommended by Caroline Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg, Jim Johnson (for a little while, at least), and Eric Holder, but I don't recall seeing much about everyone's views on Biden since Obama picked him.
Was the vetting process adequate, has he helped the ticket, has he hurt it, does he have baggage, does he enhance Obama's chances on picking up certain "purple" states, what foreign policy decisions has he made in the past, ect.?
fortunately Dem's don't have an unknown (laughing stock) and a xxxx running as VEEP... the only concern about Biden, belongs to *Sweet Sarah Palin*... and she'll (as well as some of our foreign friends) know who Sen. Joe is soon enough!
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By SARA KUGLER, Associated Press Writer 22 minutes ago
NEW YORK - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who has not held a press conference in nearly four weeks of campaigning, on Tuesday banned reporters from her first meetings with world leaders, allowing access only to photographers and a television crew.
CNN, which was providing the television coverage for news organizations, decided to pull its TV crew, effectively denying Palin the high visibility she had sought.
Palin planned to meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe in New York on Tuesday as the United Nations General Assembly convenes this week. She also was expected to meet with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
Those sessions and meetings scheduled for Wednesday are part of the Republican campaign's effort to give Palin experience in foreign affairs. She has never met a foreign head of state and first traveled outside North America just last year.
The campaign told the TV producer, print and wire reporters in the press pool that follows the Alaska governor that they would not be admitted with the photographers and camera crew taken in to photograph the meetings. At least two news organizations, including The Associated Press, objected and were told that the decision was not subject to discussion.
Palin has been criticized for avoiding taking questions from reporters or submitting to one-on-one interviews. She has had just two major interviews since Republican presidential candidate John McCain chose her as his running mate on Aug. 29.
On Wednesday, McCain and Palin were expected to meet jointly with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko. Palin was then to meet separately with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080923/ap_on_...r/palin_leaders
Ha ha ha ha ha. Can't wait to watch CNN tonight. What a joke.
CNN, they pulled their *worldwide* camera? ROTFLMFAO... Perhaps this Saturday night SNL will have a skit or two? I hope Mr. Mom-Palin doesn't tell Sweet Sarah to breakout in pigdin Eskimo at UN introductions... frankly, this is farcical comedy.... McCain needs distraction, ANY distraction for as long as possible - till Nov 4th....
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David,
Sorry, but I don't understand. Why aren't they a reliable source?
LBJ was a great supporter of the US manned space programme, but he also wanted his 'Great Society' to succeed and there was of course Vietnam. He reduced funding, but still ensured that the lunar landing programme had the money to succeed. The major portion - research and development - had already been done. Still, his (and Nixon's) cuts caused a massive change. The last three lunar landing flights were canceled. A planned lunar base was canceled. The Mars programme was pushed to "long term goals". The orbital laboratory plans were scaled down. The shuttle nearly was canceled itself; instead it needed DoD funding and had to be radically redesigned to meet DoD and budgetary requirements.
simple history Evan, NASA (the creation of; my interest in this thread) did not appear out of thin air. Its predecessor, NACA, was created in 1915 (some of NACA's facilities are still in existence and used by NASA today). NASA was NOT the brilliant stroke of genius of any one president. NASA became a necessity (space race), albeit, a mother of modern invention -- the final off-shoot of NACA. So why go to Wikipedia for the who, what, when, where and why info? Why not the source?
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you are gfoing to lose for the THIRD presidential election cycle....thats gonn leave a mark.
I guess you missed the latest polls, including those of ‘likely voters’, which indicate that Obama is a ahead by 3 - 5 points and show him him winning the Electoral College by a narrow margin. It’s not really possible to say who will win at this point but this election like the last 2 should be very close.
Oh no, I follow the polls quite closely as well as the internals and the generally large dim oversampling. If the anointed one is only even or at best 1 to 3 ahead at this point in time he is done. Why? He can't seal the deal. His empty suit is wearing quite thin. And lets not forget the Bradley effect. Nope. In reality things are looking quite bleak for zerOBAMA. And we get to see him OFF the teleprompter on Friday...
strange, you sound exactly like Rush Limpdi*k Limbaugh, the only guy I know who made use of Bill Clintons used cigars, old Rush smoked them AND inhaled.
Can you GOPer's ever get original? Does it always take a Dem to show you out of the maze? Unless of course when you're busy pillaging the free markets and creating worthless derivatives along the way... then spreading them worldwide.... oh-wee, you've been a busy lot!
Yeah, thats right, the Friday Night debate.... Angry John's high-point (and probable exit) -- Obama treads where no man can (except Sweet Sarah of course and perhaps Mr. Mom Palin) **FOREIGN POLICY** LMFAO. Keep the faith son, keep the faith... Maybe McCain can find a war between now and Friday to wage? Sic Sweet Sarah on some unsuspecting 3rd world nation -- Can she see any from her front porch? LMAO!
(US foreign policy: with Angry John McCain hiding behind Sweet Sarah's skirt -- what a picture political cartoonist of yore would/could have had with this election -- I miss those guys)
The US Presidential race is coming down to two subjects of importance: racism, and the HAVES and HAVE-NOTS. Right where you, and I knew it would.... The Christian radical right-wing, isn't always forthcoming when it comes to biblical principles, eh?
So, the absolute last arrow the GOP has in its quivver: Who gets out the most voters, simple as that! What you don't know, is burying the GOP....
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TOM PURVIS WRITES:
The best photo which I have seen was that in Lattimer's book.
And not unlike other items of the photograph, one can truly only seculate that it is in fact a rope.
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/shaneyf1.htm
Mr. EISENBERG. Now, I would like to draw your attention for a moment to this sling on Exhibit 139, and I would like to state for the record that this sling is not thought to be actually a rifle sling, but some type of homemade sling, that is, the firearms expert has so does this sling appear in either Commission Exhibits 133A or 133B?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. It is my opinion that it does not. Commission Exhibit 133A has such a small portion of the sling showing that it--you cannot establish that it is or is not the same sling that is presently on the, however, Commission Exhibit 133B does show the sling, since it shows the bottom of the rifle, and I find it to be different from the sling that is presently on the rifle. It has the appearance of being a piece of rope that is tied at both ends, rather than a leather sling, and it is my opinion that it is a different sling than is presently on the rifle.
Mr. EISENBERG. Just again a homemade simulated sling, is that it?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. It has that appearance, yes.
Mr. EISENBERG. You testified that you have a much smaller view of the sling, or what passes for a sling, on 133A than on 133B. Is the sling or simulated sling on 133A, that portion of it which is visible, consistent with the sling on 133B?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. Yes; it is entirely consistent....
END OF TRANSCRIPT
TOM PERVUS CONCLUDES: "Truthfully, nothing can be factually determined in regards to the sling."
BUT TOM, HERE'S A PHOTO OF WHAT I ASKED FOR (THANKS LEE)
AND WHILE IT LOOKS ENTIRELY CONSISTANT TO MR. SHANEYFELT, IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THE US ARMY AIR CORP PISTOL STRAP TO ME.
IT APPEARS TO BE THINNER, AND WITHOUT THE WIDER SHOULDER SLEVE, AND WITH SOME APPARENTLY ADJUSTABLE METAL HOOKS.
WHAT IS THIS "HOMEMADE SIMULATED SLING" AS EISENBERG CALLS IT?
WHERE DID IT COME FROM?
WHERE DID IT GO?
IF YOU CAN ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS, AND WHERE THE US ARMY AIR CORPS PISTOL STRAP CAME FROM, I'LL WAGER THAT YOU WILL IDENTIFY THE SOURCE OF THE AMMUNITION USED IN THE ASSASSINATION AS WELL.
"Truthfully, nothing can be factually determined in regards to the sling." - TP
BK
http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk...Vol16_0268b.htm
Exhibit 139 is the Carcano and sling as entered into evidence.
http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk...Vol16_0268b.htm
133 A-B are the backyard photo's which show LHO holding a Model 91/38 Carcano Short Rifle with what appears to be a rope sling.
This is what the discussion between Eisenberg & Shaneyfelt is about.
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IF YOU CAN ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS, AND WHERE THE US ARMY AIR CORPS PISTOL STRAP CAME FROM, I'LL WAGER THAT YOU WILL IDENTIFY THE SOURCE OF THE AMMUNITION USED IN THE ASSASSINATION AS WELL.
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Actually! Were I able to fatually answer those questions, then it would serve to indicate that I was a "co-conspirator" associate of LHO!
your second link is same as the first
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He [LBJ] also moved to make major budget cuts to JFK's NASA program.
NASA was actually founded during the Eisenhower Administration. I doubt Johnson push to cut it budget funding went up when he was president. Though it peaked in 1966 it was still a lot higher in 1968 than it was 1963 if the information linked below is correct. In anycase it is highly unlikely the US would have made it to the moon 1969 if funding had not be raised above 1963 levels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_budget#A...et.2C_1958-2008
probably better to go to a reliable source..... NASA is an off-shoot of NACA created in 1915 (see the link below). "29 July 1958 President Eisenhower signed into law P.L. 85-568, the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958" Where's Lampoon-Lamson when you need him?
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The great bailout plan:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtm...npaulson122.xml
Financial Crisis: US calls on world to save banking system
By Yvette Essen
Last Updated: 12:04am BST 22/09/2008
The US government last night urged other countries to follow its model of bailing out stricken banks after Treasury secretary Hank Paulson unveiled an unprecedented $700bn (£380bn) rescue plan to prevent a collapse of the financial system.
President Bush with US Treasury secretary Hank Paulson, who has announced plans to buy up 'toxic' debts
The proposal would allow the Treasury to buy up "toxic" mortgage-related debts from financial institutions, including US arms of foreign banks, to try to stem the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
With Congress set to vote this week on the emergency legislation, Mr Paulson took to the airwaves, warning that the massive bailout was the only way to avoid catastrophe and that other countries must take similar measure.
"We have a global financial system and we are talking very aggressively with other countries around the world and encouraging them to do similar things and I believe a number of them will," Mr Paulson said.
Dealers doubt market surge will be sustained
More on banking
However, Prime Minister Gordon Brown looks unlikely to follow suit, with a Treasury spokesman saying: "We're not working toward implementing a US-style resolution regime. But the Prime Minister and the Chancellor [Alistair Darling] have made clear that we will take whatever action is necessary in the interest of financial stability."
Mr Paulson and Fed chairman Ben Bernanke have taken the drastic measures in an attempt to stem dramatic losses caused on Wall Street by the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers and demise of AIG, once the world's largest insurer.
advertisementUnder the US Treasury's bailout proposals, the US government's debt limit would rise to $11.315 trillion from $10.615 trillion. This would fund the acquisition of up to $700bn home and commercial mortgages and related assets from US-based banks and other institutions over the next two years.
A factsheet released by the US Treasury department said in consultation with the Fed, it will have the authority to purchase other assets, "as deemed necessary to effectively stabilise financial markets".
It added the price of these purchases will be set "through market mechanisms where possible, such as reverse auctions". However, market analysts predict it will be able to buy these assets at a "significant discount" to provide US taxpayers who are expected to fund the scheme with the chance of getting a return on the assets in the longer term. A vote on the legislation to enact the scheme could be held as early as today.
Tim Harris, senior portfolio manager at JP Morgan Asset Management, said the bailout cannot afford to fail. "I think it will work - I cannot contemplate what will happen if it does not work," he said. However, Mr Harris added the sudden "flood of liquidity" increases the chances of "a thumping great recession" as the financial system is no longer paralysed.
"The risks move from the financial sector to the retail and service sectors," he explained. "If anything, last week has increased recession risk. Policymakers and politicians have thrown the book to saving the financial system and damn the consequences."
Jeremy Batstone-Carr, equity strategist at Charles Stanley, cautiously welcomed the US Treasury's intervention. "Whilst wholehearted applauding the package, we need to look at the fine print of the publicly-funded lifeboat," he said. "We could see more volatility as the details emerge."
In France, finance minister Christine Lagarde warned: "We have a whole series of obstacles to overcome and difficulties to face." Traders predicted the dollar would come under pressure as Washington raises borrowings. David Woo, London-based global head of foreign exchange strategy at Barclays, said: "The downdraft on the dollar from the hit to the balance sheet of the US government will dwarf the short-term gains from solving the banking crisis."
Liberal Democrat's Treasury spokesman Vince Cable said the Government would be right not to follow the US. "This was a desperate throw by the US authorities to stop what was virtually the meltdown of western capitalism."
http://courant.com/news/nationworld/hc-fin...rtsep22,0,738...
Paulson And Bailout: Conflicts Of Interest?
By KEVIN G. HALL
McClatchy Newspapers
September 22, 2008
WASHINGTON —
Making the rounds on the Sunday morning talk shows, Treasury
Secretary Henry Paulson repeatedly said today's financial problems
were long in the making. He should know. He was part of the Gold Rush
that has brought the global financial system to the brink of collapse.
Paulson presided over one of the most profitable runs on Wall Street
as chairman and chief executive officer of investment banking titan
Goldman Sachs & Co. from 1999 until President Bush nominated him on
May 30, 2006, to take over the Treasury Department.
Back then, Bush saw Paulson's Wall Street experience as a plus.
"Hank will follow in the footsteps of Alexander Hamilton and other
distinguished Treasury secretaries who used their talents and wisdom
to strengthen our financial markets and expand the reach of the
American Dream," Bush said at the time. (emphasis mine)
But with Paulson now seeking virtually unfettered authority to
administer the largest bailout of the financial industry in U.S.
history, many are wondering whether Paulson also doesn't come with
enormous potential conflicts of interest.
That was one reason Democrats on Sunday expressed reluctance to
approve the administration's draft legislation that would leave to
Paulson virtually all authority over the proposed $700 billion
bailout. The legislation would allow him to decide which securities to
buy, from whom to buy them, and which outside companies and people to
hire to help him do so.
"If we grant the Treasury broad authority to address the immediate
crisis, we must insist on independent accountability and oversight,"
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barrack Obama said. "Given the
breach of trust we have seen and the magnitude of the taxpayer money
involved, there can be no blank check."
In recent days, there have been few outward expressions of distrust of
Paulson in particular. In fact, many said his long reign on Wall
Street make him uniquely qualified to deal with today's problems.
"Hank is the right guy," New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who made
his millions providing information to Wall Street traders, told NBC's
Meet the Press. "If I had to have one person at the helm today I would
pick Hank Paulson."
But the conflicts are also visible. Paulson has surrounded himself
with former Goldman executives as he tries to navigate the domino-like
collapse of several parts of the global financial market.
And others have gone off to lead companies that could be among those
that receive a bailout.
In late July, Paulson tapped Ken Wilson, one of Goldman's most senior
executives, to join him as an adviser on what to do about problems in
the U.S. and global banking sector.
Paulson's former assistant secretary, Robert Steel, left in July to
become head of Wachovia, the bank based in Charlotte, N.C., that has
hundreds of millions of troubled mortgage loans on its books.
At a minimum, there's irony in Paulson being in charge of so large a
bailout.
In the last annual report at Goldman that Paulson signed off on in
November 2005, a year in which he received $38 million in
compensation, investors were clearly told that the federal government
wouldn't be there to save them from bad investments.
During Paulson's tenure, Goldman was not as big a player in issuing
mortgage bonds as two other investment banks that have gone under this
year, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers.
But the 2005 annual report shows that Goldman was still a significant
player.
Its trading division, which included the mortgage bonds and complex
financial instruments called derivatives, reported pre-tax earnings of
more than $6.2 billion, up sharply from $3.5 billion in 2003.
The report also shows that Goldman benefited greatly from the wave
that is now being deemed a wave of excess.
Goldman's pre-tax earnings rose from $4.4 billion in 2003 to almost
$8.3 billion in 2005.
Similarly, its investment banking division had pre-tax earnings leap
from $207 million to $413 million.
Paulson's personal fortunes also zoomed in those years.
In 2002, Paulson received $12.1 million in compensation, including a
$6.3 million bonus — an improvement over the previous three years when
Wall Street accounting scandals unsettled investment banks, including
a $1.5 billion settlement Goldman and other banks paid for issuing
overly bullish research reports that promoted deals the banks
themselves were involved in.
Published reports said Paulson received $30 million in compensation
and salary in 2003.
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Link to a Pioneer Press article on Palin that, yes, includes me (the spot I secured was next to the barrier for the media risers, where there was something to lean on during the three hours of standing).
http://www.twincities.com/ci_10516647?IADI....twincities.com
perhaps NOW you're ready for the big picture... a bit of reality...
Ah yes..the BIG picture...that the hockey mom scares the living crap out of you and just might be BETTER qualified than zerOBAMA. Thats reality davie.
read the BIG picture article toots, THEN give it your best shot.... if the above is the best the new-found Socialist-GOPer's can do, well, what can one say? Give it your best laying-on-of hands go. Btw, How does it feel being a Repub-lo-crat socialist these days...? Stay on point toots, if you can.
I've read the big picture dave and zerOBAMA can't close the deal. Why? Becuause America is seeing beyond the lofty speaches and seeing the man behind hte curtain and finding....nothing. zerOBAMa is nothing but fluff and thats why ytou are runing scared dave. I can understand it, you are gfoing to lose for the THIRD presidential election cycle....thats gonn leave a mark. So if this is the best you can do....
Oh and last I looked the Congress who creates legislation, is DIMOCRATE controlled. Try and keep up..if you can.
be nice son..... without the bailout, you're headed for Mexico.... is there anything the GOP can't screw up? The last moron the GOP party put forth needed the US Supreme Court to save to his fraudulent election...
A trillion dollar+ unnecessary war, IRAQ. All based on WMD lies. Piss poor showing in a war that requires leadership, troops and funding, Afghanistan. Where OMB and his boys are hiding... An oil industry out of control. And now at first blush, a trillion dollar + bailout of US financial markets (I suspect on a worldwide basis, a 5 trillion dollar scenario and that might be conservative, we'll stay away for the moment, specific derivatives. Then of course we have the US housing crises (a problem of de-rugulation) now in truest GOP fashion, a remake of the Keating Five Savings and Loan scandal (another GOP screw up and bailout that John McCain found himself up to his eye in).
We have a staunch GOP de-regulator, the likes of Ronald Reagan (who didn't know his ass from a hole in the ground, either) who is now for regulation? None other than John 'read-my-lips' McCain (talk about flip-flopping)...
I really miss newspaper political cartoonists, they'd have a field day with Ms. Shoot'em Up Sarah Palin AND Mr. Mom, Todd Palin. Not to mention, Super-Duper Flipper John 'I'm a POW' McCain...
So spare us, we're way ahead of you.... the *only* reason this race is close, is RACISM. If you had the nads you'd admit that..... Btw, Ms. Sarah doesn't know she's under the GOP bus, yet. With Todd Palin driving the bus, you should be ashamed..... GREED, the patchwork of GOP'ism, everywhere....
Catalog photo business, and dry goods photography drying up too, eh?
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Link to a Pioneer Press article on Palin that, yes, includes me (the spot I secured was next to the barrier for the media risers, where there was something to lean on during the three hours of standing).
http://www.twincities.com/ci_10516647?IADI....twincities.com
perhaps NOW you're ready for the big picture... a bit of reality...
Ah yes..the BIG picture...that the hockey mom scares the living crap out of you and just might be BETTER qualified than zerOBAMA. Thats reality davie.
read the BIG picture article toots, THEN give it your best shot.... if the above is the best the new-found Socialist-GOPer's can do, well, what can one say? Give it your best laying-on-of hands go. Btw, How does it feel being a Repub-lo-crat socialist these days...? Stay on point toots, if you can.
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Link to a Pioneer Press article on Palin that, yes, includes me (the spot I secured was next to the barrier for the media risers, where there was something to lean on during the three hours of standing).
http://www.twincities.com/ci_10516647?IADI....twincities.com
perhaps NOW you're ready for the big picture... a bit of reality... Say, did your press agent clear the above article for publication? Geeez! LMAO!
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The Warren Commission talked in circles about the Carcano, and unfortunately it fooled a lot of people. But the truth is, based upon the records the WC used, LHO ordered, and Klein's Sporting Goods shipped, a model 91/24 Carcano. This rifle had a shortened barrel which removed the majority of its progressive-twist rifling, rendering the rifling ineffective, and thus the 91/24 was an inaccurate weapon. However, the rifle recovered in the TSBD was a model 91/38, for which there is NO paper trail of LHO ordering or receiving [from Klein's or anywhere else], and which was designed as a short-barreled rifle and was a HIGHLY accurate weapon.
The fraud, the lie, the scam, is that the WC passed off the 91/24 that Oswald ordered, Kleins shipped, and Oswald received, as the same 91/38 that was recovered in the TSBD.
As far as I can determine, the 91/24 either was never recovered by authorities, or if it was recovered, its recovery was covered up.
In modern guns, confusing the 91/24 and the 91/38 would be similar to confusing a Maverick Model 88 pump shotgun equipped with the 18-inch cylinder-bore barrel and the same Maverick Model 88 pump with a 24" rifled [slug] barrel...except there would only be one Maverick with any particular serial number, which is definitely not the case with a Carcano.
So...Gil...without getting into the sling/sling swivel issue, it can certainly be proved that the Depository Carcano wasn't the rifle that can be proved to have been received by Oswald. Whether the recovered rifle was Oswald's or not cannot be determined by the evidence we have available...so I tend to believe it wasn't Oswalds, as THERE IS NO CREDIBLE EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER that LHO ever possessed the 91/38.
Nice recap, Mark -- This above information is worthy of television and certainly would spark interest in competent television producers concerned with accuracy regarding the JFK's assassination. Matters certainly equal to, or superior to, any HBO/Tom Hanks-Vince Bugliosi production could come up with. Which I'm sure will be the same old rehash of WCR crappola.
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Hey Denis,
It's "suit," not "suite," and "you're," not "your."
("Sweet!!!!!!" ( LOL) --Thomas) P.S. If it's any consolation, at least I read your posts (sometimes).
Mr. Graves, it's a little sad trawling the ED forum looking for spelling mistakes and grammatical errors. Ever thought of taking up a hobby or an interest? Have you considered researching the JFK assassination for instance? P.S. Thanks for reading my posts (sometimes). I really must try to reciprocate.
some might say the same for your research abilities, the Zapruder film comes to mind -- so enjoy son, ENJOY!
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It will be interesting to see what genius plan Henry Paulsen and his colleagues come up with to rid the US financial system of its 'toxic debt' problem.
http://www.reuters.com/article/wtMostRead/...l=0&sp=true
My spies tell me they plan to bury it deep underground somewhere near New Mexico.
better than Yucca Mountain, Nevada.... we don't want it!
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I'd like to hear the Democrats invoke the memory of Huey Long, and demand that the wealthiest people in our society be forced to share with their less fortunate brothers and sisters. I'd like to hear the Republicans, or someone on the religious right, bring up the biblical tradition of the Year of Jubilee. It's been well over 2000 years now, and I think we're just a bit overdue for the next Jubilee. Funny how they think every word in the Bible is to be taken as the literal truth, but this part always seems to slip by them.
Thomas Edison once said that "If the American people understood how our banking system works, there would be a revolution tomorrow." Words of wisdom.
Excellent comment.... both the above...
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It seems that Bush has come under tremendous pressure from the electorate when he decided to nationalize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It was thought that this action would destroy the Republicans in the November elections. This was why Bush refused to bail out Lehman Brothers, the fourth-largest investment bank in the US. However, the new policy did not last too long and today the US Federal Reserve has announced an $85bn (£48bn) rescue package for AIG, the country's biggest insurance company, to save it from bankruptcy. AIG will get an $85bn loan, in return for an 80% public stake in the firm.
Bush had no option but to do this. If he hadn't there would have been totally meltdown on the markets. The reason is that AIG insures deals and investments across the globe. Were the company to fail, many banks and investment funds in the US and around the world would lose their insurance cover at a time when defaults on payments are likely to rise. If AIG went, so would other leading banks in the US.
How do you think these events will influence the American elections? Although deregulation continued under Clinton after it was started by Reagan, it is Bush who fully developed this policy. I believe McCain was also a great supporter of deregulation. What has Obama been saying about it over the last few years?
A few "leading" banks in the UK, too.... McCain will have his plate full tomorrow, according to an aide it seems John McCain invented the Blackberry, fancy that.... (perhaps that little gem will distract the press long enough while the economic meltdown presses forward. Palin's popularity dropped 10% during the past few days.... It's rumored as Governor she cut the Alaskan State Special Olympics budget by 50% (not bad for the person who said she'll be the advocate for Special Needs Children, eh?)
and the beat goes on...... You simply can't make this stuff up... one wonders why they have to lie? Because they can, I guess!
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Tom,
You dismiss Gauthier's relevance by saying he was a tinker-toy specialist. You are right about his being a tinker-toy specialist. Which is the point. This was how the FBI re-enacted crime scenes in 1963. Your assertion that the early surveys accurately depicted the location for the head shot, and had placed it out in front of James Altgens' position, is without merit. The FBI never spoke to Altgens until months after the shooting, and then only at the request of the WC. The SS never spoke to him. Even if he said there were two head shots--which he most certainly did not--he never told it to them.
As far as the Connnallys, they both implied the head shot at 313 was the last shot. For the FBI and the mainstream press, that was game, point, match. Connally says Kennedy was hit before him, and that he was hit by the second, and that the third hit Kennedy in the head. Okie-doke. He's the President's buddy. And a national hero. They ignored the statements of everyone else after that.
For a long time, I thought you were right, and believed that the surveys demonstrated that the FBI and SS thought there'd been a shot after the head shot. But then I checked the paper trail at maryferrell, and found memo after memo stating that Connally was hit by the second shot and that the last shot was the head shot at frame 313. I agree this makes little sense. Unless the FBI and SS were total incompetents unconcerned with establishing Kennedy's actual position OR deliberately stretching out the shooting scenario for some dishonest purpose.
Are you assuming a more than three shot scenario? Perhaps its simply the 3rd and final shot occurred further west on Elm Street, 12-15 feet in front of Altgens as in his testimony? As for Z-313 current location? Well, if the Z-film was altered, that's a non-starter.
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The theory just isn't true. While the FBI and SS created widely diverging shooting scenarios, in which the final shot was measured at a point after Kennedy's position at frame 313, they both believed the head shot at frame 313 was the final shot. So why did they incorrectly measure the distance for this shot? Good question. I'm beginning to suspect they were just lazy, and that they marked the head shot location at a point next to where the wreaths were placed in Dealey, at a point opposite the steps, without actually establishing this location via the Zapruder and Nix films. An alternative or complimentary explanation is that they incorrectly thought Zapruder was standing by the steps, and not the Arcade.
during the two (2) SS/FBI re-enactments frame blowups from the Zapruder film were ustilized to establish shot/limo placement! As well as the surveyor plat! They were not "lazy".... Your last sentence above Pat, is a real stretch! Unless your aware of another film capturing the assassination from the north side of Elm Street?
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sure you have sympathy... not!
Ya gotta invoke sympathy for your position, Christopher. You're simply taking pot shots at Biden and that's fine, be upfront, admit it! You have company, I'm sure there are more than a few GOP-Palin groupies here...