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ORIGINAL: brainiacsub

I don't know if it was so much the IQ plummeting as it was that I just didn't care as much. I could say any silly thing and hide behind the boobs. It was liberating. I know why the dumb blonde sings...

-Brittany Angelou

Seriously? Damn I gotta get me some huge boobs too. Bet they float well in deep water too

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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u

So now you're saying I need to get a cock pic ?......I'll be back,as soon as I find one.
where do they keep the cock pics....maybe PA would know?

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


Okay, this is good for a laugh. You can't address anything that I wrote so you resort to this petty personal attack accusing me of doing what you are doing. Read what you write - you demanded I watch your indoctrination video rather than writing out your own thoughts, and then accuse me of "regurgitating" far right talking points after I took time out of my busy day to watch a significant portion of your little propaganda festival and write out my personal critique of it.

You're making no sense, and you still haven't addressed the major point I raised -  where do you think the evil subprime securities originated?

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ORIGINAL: brainiacsub

No, I thought you were smart enough to judge the material on its merits. Looks like I was wrong.

You can either choose to educate yourself as to the real causes of the financial collapse, or you can keep listening to the right-wing partisan sound bites, regurgitate them here, and then wonder why no one takes you seriously...up to you.

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ORIGINAL: thornhappy

Check out Magnetar; they accounted for $40 billion of losses all by their lonesomes.  It was covered on This American Life this weekend, you can hear a free MP3 this evening.

"Bush & the Fed actually pushed Fannie and Freddie to raise more capital, guarantee bigger mortgages, and expand their portfolios in 2008."(Busted, Edmund L. Andrews)  Bush actually developed a no-money-down program, government sponsored program (American Dream Downpayment Fund).

The vast amount of bad loans were done by private companies, and the CDOs were made, bought, and sold by large banks and hedge funds.  And as noted in the Magnetar article, it was all legal.  There was practically no oversight by the SEC, regulation was relaxed over decades, and many of these idiots didn't understand their own products.

This American Life's done some great coverage on the mortgage meltdown, and it's nowhere near as simple as Frank, Sallie Mae, etc.

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ORIGINAL: brainiacsub

One of the things that I am learning the hard way about the CM political forums, is that there are a handfull of people who are so blinded by their political ideology that they no longer seek truth, answers or understanding concerning the complex problems facing this country. Instead, they need reasons to blame the other side and there is no productive discussion to be had with these people.

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ORIGINAL: brainiacsub

One of the things that I am learning the hard way about the CM political forums, is that there are a handfull of people who are so blinded by their political ideology that they no longer seek truth, answers or understanding concerning the complex problems facing this country. Instead, they need reasons to blame the other side and there is no productive discussion to be had with these people.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


So all the news accounts were wrong, Bush didn't push to have Fannie and Freddie regulated as everyone reported, and there's a novel on sale by a far left author named Edmund L. Andrews (who incidentally works for the far left New York Times) that sets the record straight.

I suppose his book comes with a goofy soundtrack CD, kind of like brainiacs' hilarious episode of Frontline.

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ORIGINAL: thornhappy

Check out Magnetar; they accounted for $40 billion of losses all by their lonesomes.  It was covered on This American Life this weekend, you can hear a free MP3 this evening.

"Bush & the Fed actually pushed Fannie and Freddie to raise more capital, guarantee bigger mortgages, and expand their portfolios in 2008."(Busted, Edmund L. Andrews)  Bush actually developed a no-money-down program, government sponsored program (American Dream Downpayment Fund).

The vast amount of bad loans were done by private companies, and the CDOs were made, bought, and sold by large banks and hedge funds.  And as noted in the Magnetar article, it was all legal.  There was practically no oversight by the SEC, regulation was relaxed over decades, and many of these idiots didn't understand their own products.

This American Life's done some great coverage on the mortgage meltdown, and it's nowhere near as simple as Frank, Sallie Mae, etc.