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I still find it unbelievable that bin Laden escaped from Tora Bora when we knew he was there after 9/11. The US has the finest military in the world, bar-none! The best equipment. The best trained soldiers. The most advanced tracking capabilities. The Best - period! And this 6ft+ guy...

No problem. I was just thinking that if all the subprimes were handled the old-fashioned way where the lending bank held them, and they all defaulted, it doesn't sound like it would add up to the "X" Trillions number some keep throwing around. So even if a lot of subprime lending was...

You sound like you work or worked in the mortgage field, so I am curious if you did the math and added it up - If ALL the subprime lenders defaulted on their loans, how much would that total. Versus - the total liability of all the securitized CDO's, CMO's etc, etc. This would be the...

Well, the guy was CEO of the most profitable fin company on Wall St. Couldn't he have snapped his fingers and had the peons in some dept at GS do a PowerPoint presentation for him?

An attempt at plausible deniability? When you are running GS, there should be plenty of guys there you can call on to hep 'splain it to you. Unless you don't want to know. But then, whatever it was, it was good enough to want to be one of a group to petition Donaldson at the SEC to let...

Ninja is good for basic charting, but other than that I am hoping ver 7 is more for someone who wants to test ideas rather than learn C# and the ins-and-outs of Ninja-specifics. One thing I found strange is how Ninja marks it's bars. If I have a 5 min chart and a 30 min chart and I look at...

I believe everyone should be hoping that the GOP succeeds in becoming viable again. One party who ends up in permanent power is bad - arrogance and corruption is not exclusive to any 1 party. The problem the GOP has now is with the "viable" part. The party is pursuing the Limbaugh method...

Paulson started by forcing banks to take TARP money - even ones that didn't want it. Once gov't fingers were in the pie, did he really think they were going to let go so easily? Then all the others saw the freebies and came with their wheel barrels to D.C.

Maybe that was why no one AIG owed money to for their CDS' had to take any haircut on their payout at all, whereas non-AIG CDS's did.

Limbaugh is the leader of the Republican party now. He has accepted the mantle and the other party members defer to him, so he is it, de facto. But that means Limbaugh has a lot on the line in the 2010 election. If the GOP makes good gains he can crow and increase his base and expand his...

It is becoming very clear what the direction of the Republican party will be. The ones who have the most influence will lead it, and right now that is looking like those in the Limbaugh camp. So - is this good or bad for the GOP? I think the 2010 elections will decide. IF the GOP makes...

He didn't win it - it was in inside job. Who on the inside? Who made the most $ from the collapse and had access to helping make it happen?

She's on a listening tour too. http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/politics/44426367.html But might be better as a "screening" tour.

"The subprime is contained." is in there someplace too... But frankly, what's the guy going to say - "The sh!t's going to hit the fan everybody! Duck!!"????

There was a bit on the news yesterday where the reporter listed the companies benefiting most from the tax loophole of overseas profits (in places that aren't even countries) - and he listed the top ones as companies like CitiGroup and Morgan Stanley. This WSJ article leaves out the banks...

I gotta wonder about that whole fly-over Manhattan. $60K? For the Statue of Liberty in the background? Didn't the military ever hear of Photoshop? Could have saved, say... $2,000....?

I believe the 2nd WTC tower hit fell first because it's structure was compromised at a lower level than the 1st, making the load-bearing strain greater. That the structure pancaked down might not be so hard to believe given the support structure was external. As for why WTC7 fell without...

Agreed. Thx to NY and those like yourself. I am not as sharp as some have been but at least I have started to think differently.

As long as McConnell and Boehner are there to remind people of the Bush Republicans, the - Republican - Party - will - go - no - where. They are a history the GOP needs to discard. When McConnell said "good riddance" to Bush, he left out himself and Boehner. Accidentally I'm sure.

Homosexual behavior exhibited in other species (birds I think are one) sounds like it is rooted in biology - maybe the levels of hormones during gestation. One male bird trying to boff another male bird is displaying behavior it's wiring believes is "natural" to it without moral interpretation...