http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMnSp4qEXNM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usvG-s_Ssb0

I found this interesting..

Maybe I've lost count......but these vids have been posted in probably 4 threads......and counting.

They're all guilty.....Libs & Conservatives alike, hung us, and future generations out to dry.

Peace.

Mf

Todd's gone fishing for a few days - you're wasting your time

Banker here.

Not necessarily a politicians fault. It was the excessive greed of a number of bankers in the large national banks who are at fault for deviating from sound lending practices.

It doesn't matter who is in office, greedy people will always find a way to screw with the economy. A little greed is good. Too much of it, very bad.

The consumers also helped the downfall by spending borrowed money. As someone that has been in the title and escrow business a long time, 2nd mortgages and lines of credit using a home's equity as a means for spending is somewhat new. I've had 4 files cross my desk today wherein the home owner's refi'd countless times over a 10 year period and then lost the home to foreclosure. One couple had owned the home for over 15 years but spent their way into the street with numerous lines of credit.
Yea, changes in banking rules helped lead the way to our current situation but they were responding to the demands of the consumer.

You can't fix stupid.

If given enough rope, most will hang themselves. It's just like booze and indians. They don't know when to quit

I'm sick of both partys and am convinced they are both owned by the big corporations and Wall street banks, but it would be hard to deny that the Republicans were aggressively pushing the deregulation that opened the door to all the financial shenanigans that created this mess. The Bush administration was actually stopping State regulators from enforcing state regulations that were in place to keep much of this mess from happening. I've been reading predictions of this disaster since 2003, but the authors of these articles were all belittled as chicken little doom an gloomers. Why wasn't the lesson of the Savings and Loan disaster of the Bush I administration learned?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/13/AR2008021302783.html

The lesson is the voters are too f'n stupid and easily distracted to hold anyone accountable..................for anything.

Just say "terror", "abortion", or "change", or "gay marriage" and virtually the entire voting bloc will spend their time bickering over those subjects, rather than demand that someone be held accountable for trillions of dollars being fleeced from them.

Ask them what's happening on American Idol or Dancing With The Stars and they'll tell you, though.

It's a sad case of getting what we deserve.

Dammit why don't you post more Dan? Screw the new job...

Wave a shiny object and the sheep get distracted.

I need to fish with Dan again some time. Sooner the better. He needs to bring his own rods though.

-Hey KK,are you saying what I think you are saying? The S&L scandal was a trial run for the mother of all scams that ended up with the tax payer on the hook for hundreds of billions of $ ?

Yeah, but I read somewhere recently that he makes his own yarn balls. That's something, anyway.

"It's just like booze and indians. They don't know when to quit"

Well, Kevin - Drunks can sober up and quit drinking but you'll still be an asshole.

I'm a member of the Blackfeet Nation, I'm not a drunk and none of my family are. Neither was the uncle I was named after that died in the landing at Palau so assholes like you could posted dumb ass [censored] on the internet in English and not Japanese.
Kiss my brown ass.

"The Mouth of a Perfectly Contented Man is Filled with Beer"



just sayin....

:Sedgar and romulous should be left out of a political conversation

what, and swampthing should?

ya i'll admit i shouldn't be involved with politics either. i only vote for who is going to be made fun of by john stewart the most.

I'm part Nez Perce and you can kiss my brown ass. And it's been proven that indians lack an ezime needed to process alcohol. That's why they dont' know when to quit. Argue it all you want, it doesn't change the facts.

And thats right, I am an asshole and don't forget it!

Like a walking billboard.

BooooYahhhh

KK,

If we all led our lives as you do, we could be so perfect. If it makes you feel more comfortable to label me as you choose, then sleep well and you should never be ashamed of anything you've done.

Ummm, wasn't this tread about the banking crisis? Dan S, your point has been proven right here on this tread.

Alcohol dehydrogenase: "The enzyme is contained in the lining of the stomach and in the liver. It catalyzes the oxidation of ethanol to acetaldehyde:

CH3CH2OH + NAD+ → CH3CHO + NADH + H+
This allows the consumption of alcoholic beverages, but its evolutionary purpose is probably the breakdown of alcohols naturally contained in foods or produced by bacteria in the digestive tract. "

Also affects people of southeast asia.

I don't know anything about the rest of your post though

Oh oh. Looks like Mikespike is claiming Native Americans haven't evolved yet.

Or we (whites) haven't evolved to NOT have the enzyme?

You can call me lots of things and I will readily agree with them, but racist is not one of them. KL was correct about the enzyme, but not much else, based on the reception he gets from this board.

I'll go with Jerry on this one - when we evolve as people, we won't need alcohol anymore. I'm sure we'll still need medical marijuana though!

Ahhh, which brings us to the topic of states rights vs the feds. Because the feds previously pursued a no tolerance policy for marijuana, they attempted to shut down the various legal cannabis dispensaries in California. Not having the success they wanted, the feds went after the landords of the buildings that housed the businesses. Sounds like the mob, leaning on friends and relatives to get you to do their bidding.

I'm sorry you and others do not have the choices you'd like, but that's America, brought to you by corporate interests.

On a side note, it seems there are many board members here in terrible, chronic pain!

you can come over anytime and partake in some "medical" marijuana.....no one would link anything to your husband.

or something like that anyway

They started much earlier than that with paraphernalia in, I believe, all states. Gob Shop, Dr Feelsgood, etc. Shut down for selling pipes.

smoke shops all over the place sell pipes. i doubt anybody got shut down for that.

Tommy Chong did time for making pipes/bongs.
More and more I think screw the government.

Kevin's OK in my book, he's got no problem speaking his mind. No matter how unpopular it may be. And if I ever was to hire a non bank guide, you'd be the one. Which is about 0%

Mf

You know it hits home when someone jumps out of their chair to fight back. I may not be liked by some here, and that's just fine. Iv'e always called it like I see it and will never change. I'd love to post all of the emails from people who totally support my stance on these issues. Many of you would be surprized. It's easy to hide behind a moniker and holy perception of what you want people to think you are. I hide nothing and take heat for some issues. Bring on the crap and i'll call it out. Too many double standards on the www. Bunch of Sunday christians. Something like.... do as I say not as I do.

I'm no saint, been busted for keeping too many fish, gutting hens, failing to wear a seatbelt, and M.I.P. Smoked dope , drank beer, whiskey, and even played wingman with a fat chick once. Does this make me a bad person? maybe so, but ive helped more people and have a larger network of great friends than all the ladies Wilt Chamberlin layed.
I'd help anyone with anything and give the shirt off my back in any situation. Those who have spent any time around me know this. Those that badmounth me have never met me.
If I was truley worried about making myself out to be this saint of human, I surely not post anything on any website that shows otherwise.
Call it like you see it or you are lying to yourself.

How do you know what I value and what I don't? You don't even know me. I don't know you and don't claim to know what you value. Give yourself a little credit for standing your ground even if you have no idea what ground you are standing for. I don't calim to know a dam thing about you, but I sure don't claim your an idiot. If I had some time to get to know you that might change. For now, I do enjoy reading your ramblings of someone you know very little about. It shows how far from reality you are.
Where do you recomend I take some courses in manners?

Better?

Like I was saying earlier.............



We're f'n doomed.