Hey...there are a *lot* of apples on this tree...I don't know why I even responded the way i did...I'm working that out now...
I guess I wanted to say that, no matter what our *government* may say, or how they may cave or give in....well....like the French....I will resist....sometimes I see that happening here....where I though it never could...the one place in the world where it never could...I truly hope I am not alone.....
Couldn't agree more. I know these guys *want* to be president but...deliberately endangering American soldiers *just* to win: horrifying. I despise him even more now, and will do everything in my power to educate everyone I know *not* to vote for him....hell, do a write-in of Mickey Mouse before you vote for NoBama!
Actually, the very fact that he demanded they wait, in light of the statements he has made *many* times about how he is "going to bring the troops home A.S.A.P" is telling of the kind of man he is...
Every day we lose American lives in that hellish place. He wants to *prolong* it so *he* can be the one to bring them home (Providing he wins the election: which he won't) and he can be the "hero"!!
Barak Hussein NoBama...a true American Politician!
Freddie and Fannie were democratically controlled entities from the beginning. 100% the fault of democrats. And Pelosi has the GALL to stand up there and say "Don't look at us: it's not OUR fault"!!!! What a blatant liar and fraud!
A snippet of a conversation with a mortgage lender:
"I have been in the lending industry for many, many years and the fact that you're right, government has been the problem. In the late nineties, Fannie was given charge because the administration at the time wanted to expand home ownership to everyone, and I acquired assets for large banks, and we did not do what's called conforming or Fannie Mae type product. But Fannie Mae was extending its portfolio and creeping into areas that we had traditionally bought. We had higher yields, higher risk, and were acquiring that. And all of a sudden Fannie Mae was creeping into it, and it became a word in the industry, Fannie Mae Creep. And those portfolios expanded. And the only way that the private groups and their securities could make any money was to expand the risk of their criteria given the yield. And not to try and make it too technical, the key is with the expanding portfolio characteristics of Fannie, the private groups having to expand theirs, it created a very unrealistic and unsustainable demand, thus values went through the roof unrealistically. Now they're coming back down to where they should have in the first place."
"Money was cheap, the yield spread that the guys on the street with the rating agencies could show was worthwhile. But as soon as the yield curve flattened, when the Fed raised rates, then it became uninteresting for the private securitizers, I mean the Fannie's and Freddie's had all the ability to securitize what they want because of the government backing. The other guys found it not worthwhile to do any more because the yield curve had gone flat. At that point, appreciation did not drop, it simply stopped. But everyone was so highly leveraged in their homes that then they could not refinance, and then the snowball started coming back downhill."
"And while all this is going on, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are doling out campaign contributions out the wazoo to who? Democrats. At the top of the list, Christopher Dodd. Number two on the list, Barack Hussein Obama. I mean, this thing has been a little playground for Democrats in Congress for the express purpose of doling out money to their friends, fellow politicians, interest groups, and so forth. It got to the point where being involved in the mortgage industry was a side light to the real purpose of all this. "
Once the Glass-Steagall act was nullified: the whole industry was doomed to go down the toilet....
So thats all it takes to prove something to you? A hacked up youtube video? Snippets of interviews taken out of context and assembled by God knows who, for God knows what purpose, other then to smear?
Thats right: it is an accepted tactic, taught to us in SERE school. Tell them anything you think they will buy, to buy time. To have a chance to let time sensitive intel expire to the point it is useless for the enemy...McPain played it *exactly* the way he should have.
As far as civilians: every *civilian* was an enemy or potential enemy in that war. Even so, its called "collateral damage" and its an accepted part of war....
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RE: you could've heard a pin drop
LOL....Irish blood.....or Whiskey?I'm hoping whiskey.....