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This falls under 'you gotta be shitting me' Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee may have trouble keeping the promise she made at Michael Jackson's public memorial for a U.S. House resolution that "forever" honours the late pop star. Jackson Lee, a Texas Democrat, took the stage Tuesday at...

Full time, no doubt. Yes dipshit, it takes 10 years total to get a PhD in engineering, not that I should expect someone like you with your GED to understand that.

Perhaps that was what YOU did, but I've never known a Ph.D. student who partied all of the time, earned less than 10K a year for years while a student, all to live off the federal dole. I wasn't atlking about the strudents, I was talking about the professors. WTF are you talking about anyway?

It's hard to take a guy named testicle seriously.

I've taught at the university level for twenty years, and have NEVER seen or heard anything like that. that doesn't make it false. I was a undergrad/grad student for over 10 years. I think liberal arts degrees, outside math, are worthless. Lib arts professors live in an insulated...

is your ying yang in ur anus?

remember that 4% of 0 is still 0

yeah but... I just don't want to scrub Jack Hershey's back, nor do I want him giving me a bath

better post sooner rather than later or it is off to shit chat

If people want to take better care of themselves, they make their health a priority and become pro-active with their health care, including going to a cardiologist and getting a "stress-test" on a treadmill. The test is 80% conclusive for blockages. and then you can clean out with then...

You lost me at Oprah. Jordan and Woods are good at sports. Other than that, what makes them so special? Oprah can eat an entire cake by herself, with a side of fried chicken: http://coverawards.com/2009/06/24/news_oprah_winfrey_national_enquirer_31797/

Coors and Molson are the best of the above, I get both but slightly prefer coors. I used to drink all kinds of beer, but there's nothing like an icy cold coors on a hot day. Molson is better on a cold day. Pabst is undrinkable, Labatts doesn't go down well. There newbs, that's all the...

Ratings and Li's algorithm are most likely connected. Ratings people sort of shrugged and went along because I don't think many people understood the damn thing.

There has been a noticeable abuse of terms and numbers lately. A smaller rate of decrease is now as good as an increase, and the use of percentages is decieving because percentages don't commute. In other words a 30% drop followed by a 30% gain does not get you back to the starting point, but...

"Beware folks, the same type of thinking that gave us the CRA garbage is now in power full force. Obama is setting up mortgage crisis x 10 with his leftist/multiculturist/tear-down-mean-white-america agenda." Is pretty weak, not to say kind of ignorant. After all, I don't see anything "tear...

The problem with the CRA defenses is that while I agree that you cannot find evidence in the later stages of the bubble, it's influence is all over the beginnings. Examine any bubble, the ending stages will not look like the beginning stages. It is only later that the frothy vultures take over...

Given the giant US housing boom and bust, this thought experiment would have several obvious and inevitable outcomes from CRA forced lending: 1) Home sales in CRA communities would have led the national home market higher, with sales gains (as a percentage) increasing even more than the...

Wave, The problem is that there are no causual models, all economics is basically done like this. Certainly correlation is not casuality, however that precludes assigning any cause to this. We are left with legal type explanations and not logical. The key question, which can never really...

Exacerbating factors in subprime, also necessary...mostly 1. greenspan's easy money 2. Glass-steagall (unknown influence, well all are unknown quantitatively) 3. David Li's algorithm However CRA predates them all, fannie and freddie encouraged securitization before Li and Steagall...

I don't know, I guess people just don't want to read too carefully. One cannot 'prove' something like this since economics is not the empirical science it claims to be, the challenge itself is bogus. The fact it would be like a courtroom trial shows this, and who the hell wants to go through...