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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_Futures_Modernization_Act_of_2000 This bill was introduced by the Republicans, passed both houses but never debated and signed by the lame-duck president Bill Clinton.

You mean this type of riot?

No, she is running in 2012 for president; already distancing herself from McCain. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/sarahpalin/3242610/Republicans-considering--Sarah-Palin-2012-presidential-campaign.html

The Republicans spent more money on Palin's hair in September 2008 than what Joe the Plumber made the whole year in 2006, and Joe the Plumber gave more interviews! The hypocricy in the Republican rhetoric is mind boggling.

Thanks for the url. IB can say good bye to a lot of accounts if they get involved in CDS and mix it's futures and credit-swaps business. CME is at risk as well.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10172008/transcript4.html Election Protection, a non-partisan coalition, offers another online resource for voter education and protection through an informational Web site and an election hot-line (1-866-OUR-VOTE). They also offer a useful voting-checklist...

When a problem becomes intractable enough, the governments can just step in and cancel all the CDS contracts... what are the legal recourse for those holding the contracts? No sane jury will stand by them.

Most Americans actually pay more payroll taxes than federal income taxes. http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=230 <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3z_UrOKtjHk&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen"...

Well, at least McCain didn't say "My fellow Prisoners", Prisoners Of W. - see Colbert

Numbers of firms barred, expelled or individuals suspended has gone down of the years. http://www.finra.org/Newsroom/Statistics/index.htm

Why is this thread under 'Wall St. News' ? Is there anything new and factual that can be added to factcheck ? http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html The original photo is about 4x this resolution: http://www.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/birth_certificate_2.jpg

Extending credit to poor people didn't sink the ship. It was the high ratio of debt taken by investment banks due to misguided deregulation and cheap credit.

US govt can control the equity and financials in the US. How do you propose the US take control of the 90% of the world oil production that is controlled by cartels and other govt? If the US can solve the energy problem internally and be energy independent, that will go a long way towards...

A firm getting paid is different from personal payments. "On Biden’s nine accounts, the firm took in $470,000 in that period, according to the reports." In any case Hunter Biden has quit the lobbyist part of his firm...

Wright is a little paranoid, but he and others came from an era where minority civil rights were nearly non existent and the US govt had experimented on 399 poor and illiterate African American sharecroppers... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Study_of_Untreated_Syphilis_in_the_Negro_Male...

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/71tc1/mccain_federal_housing_enterprise_regulatory/

The terrorist attacks killed 2,973 victims in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. American Casualties of Iraq and Afghanistan not counting contractors and civilians (American, Iraqi or other nationality). Dead: 4,710 Wounded: 32,799 Injured: 10,685 Ill: 29,881 Received Treatment...

This should not be about believing in the bible or whether you are a Christian, but rather about political figures who would wrap themselves around the flag or their religion - all for the sake of political, ideological and personal gains. There are many examples of this with G W Bush, but more...