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is projecting

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he was destroyd by my "ur a froggy" retort

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well dontlook at us

you know CIA has nothing to do with Chechens, they fight and don't live in million-dollar homes in France

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hosts an onager management class

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he got more angles than an octogon

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no I mean he will be murdered by the Mob and the corrupt cops will label it a suicide

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American elimination from FIFA 2010 you ass tongue

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should do his "chores"

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kewl can you put up a couple of refugees when KT and I have to flee?

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guess he'll shoot himself 20 times and then jump off a bridge

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Bush only passed one, and many of us bitched at the time.

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they can shut down and convert anyhow.

1.  It wasn't necessary to the economy.  Chapter 11 reorganization Bankruptcy would have had a ripple effect but not much worse than we are now--and the survivors would be purged of problems.  Much of the bailouts did NOT help SOLVE problems.  Especially with the banks--they just got political CYA from their "regulators" not to enforce the rules about valuation of assets.  These guys are largely BROKE, and someday will have to face it, and the longer they put it off the worse.  In fact Chrysler did a chapter 11 anyhow, only it was messy and hurt a lot of smaller firms unnecessarily.   Froma  national standpoint, a REDUCED car market--reduced to Hyundai, Toyota, Ford, Mercedes and Kia, and other guys who build here--with all their suppliers and dealers in REORGANIZATION bankruptcies--would not have been scorched earth alternative.

2.  It cost the govt needlessly.  The govt was not obliged to pay for Chrysler's pension or its debts.  It's obliged to keep people from starving and pay unemployment for a while...and to run courts...but if it just set up a special Chapter 11 industrial BK system it would have been cheaper and more wholesome to the economy.

3. It now sets a precedent.  You don't have to file a Chapter 11 alone, you CAN drag out the agony and rely on political muscle to drag teh US treasury in through political muscle.  I recall being taught the days of the robber barons were BAD, no?  Bad special interests?

Harmful, wasteful, and the new normal.  Triple threat.

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will march in the opening ceremonies in 2012 dressed as a hedgehog

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so it's accurate?? Amsterdam looks like a town full of teletubbies, only more gay?

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"equity is money in the long term"

that's what Greenspan thought when he touted home equity loans

and this country was built on the maxim " Never give a sucker an even break" .   The govt bailed Wall Street out beccause it was conned into thinking it could not afford to let wall street go bankrupt.  Is that every going to change?  what is going to change it?  you think wall street is ever going to say "Oh we can get the money, it' snot a problem...but...it would be wrong"?

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Yeah they are counting equity X(

and no we didn't bail them out 12 years ago.  We should never bail anybody out.  That's what Chapter 11 is for.  We're sure as hell gonna hear them scream for a bailout from now on, though.

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"WTF are FEDERAL crimes of "violence against women" that we're supposed to prosecute? I'm guessign none."
I'm not an expert in American law sorry, something that you could look into.

unless you gun down a federal agent, federal employee in performance of duty, or on fed property, it aint a federal crime usually

"Just about every administration helps Vets, Obama considered throwing them on private insurance so screw him, and with his plan to lose 2 wars a lot more widows are gonna need that free trip to Dover."
Ending wars causes more widows, odd correlation?


the "plan" is "Go get shot like heroes, it scares people into being pals"

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The "profit" comes when you include the ADDED EQUITY.  They gave us MORE STOCK in their company. Yay!

Aaaaand...when we have another recession within 12 years, WE GET TO BAIL THEM OUT AGAIN! YAY!

Adn the WTO considers it a subsidy and the EU is allowed to "correct" for it! Yay!!!

Regarding that cute list

WTF are FEDERAL crimes of "violence against women" that we're supposed to prosecute? I'm guessign none.
Helping gays doesn't impress me a bit.
Just about every administration helps Vets, Obama considered throwing them on private insurance so screw him, and with his plan to lose 2 wars a lot more widows are gonna need that free trip to Dover.

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http://graypilgrim2003.com/Cartoons/wpimages/4b52.jpg

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Bernanke is a con artist and needs to go.  I'm not one for being a good global partner, but if the USA is gonna piss off the human race it should not be decided by 15 bankers

btw http://www.comicallyincorrect.com/smashed%20sm.jpg  haha

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"Making a post that draws the correlation between A and B after you post B, which previously had no explained link to A, doesn't mean you were on topic with the original reference to B.  "

Right.  The topicality of post B exists positively by the correlation between B and the subject post, whether I make that post or not.
You bit off too much, because I was the 2nd person and the 3rd post in this thread.  I could have talked about Brie cheese and it would have been relevant had I shown that any Republican, or any observer of Republicans, quoted a Republican on, or demonstrated a hope that a Republican would take up, the subject of Brie cheese.

">audits would

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if anybody vowed to live life to the fullest then save these 60 seconds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRnGpr5D8nY

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http://www.theonion.com/video/biden-criticized-for-appearing-in-hennessy-ads,14392/

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Bernanke Faces Greater Scrutiny After Republican Election Gains
By Joshua Zumbrun - Nov 3, 2010 4:46 AM PT Tweet  (68)LinkedIn Share
Business ExchangeBuzz up!DiggPrint Email . Ben S. Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve. Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg


Play VideoNov. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Allen Sinai, chief global economist at Decision Economics, discusses the outlook for Federal Reserve monetary policy following yesterday's midterm elections. The Federal Reserve is expected to announce plans to resume large-scale purchases of securities in a bid to boost economic growth and employment, according to 53 of 56 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News last week. Sinai speaks from Boston with Betty Liu on Bloomberg Television's "In the Loop." (Source: Bloomberg)


Play VideoNov. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Former Federal Reserve Governor Randall Kroszner talks about the need for U.S. central bankers to keep deflationary expectations from taking root, and the effects of yesterday's midterm elections. Kroszner speaks with Sara Eisen in Chicago on Bloomberg Television's "In the Loop." (Source: Bloomberg)
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke may have to renew his battle to preserve the central bank

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you'll be baking a lot more now that the price of bread is going to be artificially inflated
the new Republican majority should oppose the Fed