Darren, I’m absolutely convinced that whatever world-wide economic catastrophes occurred would be pretty much over by now. Instead the world whipped out its credit card and charged these economic calamities for the future to deal with and deal with it at a more intense and serious level. Yup. And… El Gordo, My point exactly is that if that were the… Read more »
Darren
December 30, 2010 1:00 am
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – The mother of four raised a finger, pointing out abandoned and stripped concrete homes and counting how many families have fled the Western Hemisphere’s deadliest city on her street alone. “One, two, three, four, here, and two more back there on the next block,” said Laura Longoria. The 36-year-old ran a convenience store in her working-class… Read more »
Darren
December 29, 2010 10:54 pm
El Gordo;
If four businesses were set up as competitors one to another and one business goes under, I see it as a big pay day for at least one of the remaining three businesses who followed a better business model.
Darren
December 29, 2010 10:53 pm
#142;
Sorry to hear that.
Darren
December 29, 2010 10:51 pm
mharper #138;
There is no sense of medical urgency in Canada under socialized medicine.
#121 – My point exactly is that if that were the only issue (aircraft insurance) the government could have selectively guaranteed that sector of the business until replacement insurance was secured and the markets had settled down – with little or no cost to us, the taxpayer – unless you think the aircraft industry would have suddenly had a rash… Read more »
#121 Most people did not know and still don’t seem to understand that 90% of the commercial aircraft in the world were insured by AIG and if we had not infused them with cash, air travel around the world would have halted. Air travel was at a complete standstill following 9/11, but that did not stop people from getting done… Read more »
mharper42
December 29, 2010 9:52 pm
#139 Darren
Bob42 may be more tech savy
Say, wasn’t that Microsoft paperclip animated helper named Bob?
mharper42
December 29, 2010 9:49 pm
Oh, forgot to say, that woman died before her first scheduled treatment in Canada.
mharper42
December 29, 2010 9:47 pm
#138 socialized medicine Co-worker from Canada’s M-i-L was sick in Canada for several months before she was diagnosed with some drastic form of cancer. I was surprised that her grown children didn’t even try to get her to MD Anderson in Houston, one way or another, for immediate treatment, There is no sense of medical urgency in Canada, they just… Read more »
Simply put, the bailout of AIG et al should never have occurred. The beneficiaries of these funds were primarily foreign banks who bet wrong on their hedge funds and subprime mortgages which were AIG insured. Had the foreign banks been allowed to fail or suffer losses, their own governments would have been required to step up to the plate and… Read more »
Darren
December 29, 2010 9:41 pm
Bob42 may be more tech savy than ayone here has ever supposed: Microsoft calls its online-unifier “Bob.” “This award is made purely on the technical merits,” the FCC chairman remarks. The FCC is particularly enamored of the “back door” that Microsoft has built into Bob, making it easier for police to monitor communications in real time. The commission also applauds… Read more »
Darren
December 29, 2010 9:28 pm
The man, who is in his sixties, first visited a local clinic in Blekinge in southern Sweden in September 2009 for treatment of a urinary tract infection, the local Blekinge Läns Tidning (BLT) reported. When he returned in March 2010 complaining of foreskin irritation, the doctor on duty at the time diagnosed the problem as a simple case of inflammation.… Read more »
Darren
December 29, 2010 9:22 pm
texpat; I forgot about this: I am as angry and disgusted as anyone with what happened in the long run with the whole bailout scheme, particularly with the stimulus bill. At least TARP seems to have paid back the funds it borrowed from the American taxpayer, but Obama’s stimulus trillion is gone in the wind. The initial action to run… Read more »
Darren
December 29, 2010 9:16 pm
Texpat #121; Back when you were first making the aergument to bail out AIG I told you that if you could show me that bailing them out could help destroy Jihadists, I’d be 100% for it. That change of heart from me still stands. Suppose all the world’s airlines halted. Once AIG goes under would their assets not be bought… Read more »
mharper42
December 29, 2010 9:15 pm
#131 Lowboy666 [*]
No response about the cosmic egg? Just complaints about how you are addressed? I suggested Larry42 but you sneered at that. 😀
One of my “adopted” kids got some bad news yesterday. Two weeks after he was promoted to manager at the restaurant where he worked, the local franchise was sold, and the new management brought in their own people. He could stay on there only if he accepted a cut in both pay and hours. He told them to shove it,… Read more »
Darren
December 29, 2010 9:11 pm
a) do nothing and risk a calamitous worldwide financial meltdown that would have led into a severe depression; or b) implement a plan of bailouts and other financial activities that would prop the financial system up enough that it could make it the rest of the way on its own. And what possibilities are there to avoid option “a”? Can… Read more »
Texpat
December 29, 2010 8:06 pm
I think we should take up a collection so Adee can have her own computer.
Lawrence
December 29, 2010 8:00 pm
#125 iwharper69 – you’ve taken my screen name bastardization(first big word I learned from Hamous) to a new “Low”!
Adee, I grew up in south Alabama and we lived out in the country, every night we could see billions of stars, it has not changed a lot there today, even though more folks have moved to the country. When my Boy was small,…’bout 4-5 in the late 80’s we were at Granny’s house (my Bride’s Mother) and he said… Read more »
Adee
December 29, 2010 7:25 pm
Finally stopped raining about 6:30, and all that’s left are dripping trees casting drops below. Plastic rain gauge on the fence says 2.3″. Can’t see the data for the little weather station since spouse has that computer tied up with a project that can’t be interrupted. Our downpour is far behind what landed at mharper42’s home. Now to see how… Read more »
#126 I’m not so sure about that. WB, Tedtam, and others have come up with some pretty “interesting” stuff. But I reckon I do have my moments.
mharper42
December 29, 2010 6:53 pm
#124 Only Bob finds images like these…
mharper42
December 29, 2010 6:51 pm
#105 Low666 looks like a HUGE egg That “egg” is the projection view of data acquired by infrared telescopes looking out in all directions from the earth. They’re not saying the universe is shaped like an egg. You can’t get outside of the universe to take a picture of it or see what shape it is. The hazy blue “crack”… Read more »
MIL’s trailer out back just tripped a breaker, hope it was a fluke.
Ground Fault, I betcha’ happens a lot in the rain. 😉
Texpat
December 29, 2010 5:53 pm
#118 WB I made the point back in 2008 about AIG that the US government had no choice but to save them from collapse at the time. Most people did not know and still don’t seem to understand that 90% of the commercial aircraft in the world were insured by AIG and if we had not infused them with cash,… Read more »
Lawrence
December 29, 2010 5:44 pm
#118. If you’re interested, “Bailout Nation” by Barry Ritholtz is a pretty good read on the financial meltdown.
True principles do not change based on the information one has at the time. Running to government to rescue the public from its own shortfalls is not in harmony with conservatism. Sometimes, you’re faced with a no-win situation. In that case, the choices were a) do nothing and risk a calamitous worldwide financial meltdown that would have led into a… Read more »
gtotracker42
December 29, 2010 5:14 pm
Baylor vs Illinois on ESPN now.
mharper42
December 29, 2010 5:11 pm
I used binoculars on my rain gauge — I’d need waders to make it to the fence in person — and it’s at 3.8″. Most of that will flow away in White Oak Bayou because it came down in torrents.
The more things change, the more they remain the same. The same political parties which now agitate the United States have existed through all time.’ Precisely…. While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a stand; little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago. What is the reason? I say parties… Read more »
Texpat
December 29, 2010 5:08 pm
#107 GJT I agree the RNC should have an arm’s length approach in the primaries. However, you are never going to remove the influence certain elected politicians have regarding candidates. It may not be official or public, but that influence will always be there. Also, Jim DeMint, Tom Coburn and Michelle Bachman wielded quite a bit of influence in the… Read more »
All things in the heavens and on Earth were created by God.
Adee
December 29, 2010 4:58 pm
We have flowed over the 2″ level. The sky is a bit lighter to the NW, however it’s still dark in the SW and thunder is growling from that way. It’s 58 on the front porch now and never got past the low 60s today.
I can go to the grocery store tomorrow morning. We shall not starve tonight.
If we use even a fairly low (by galactic standards) average star count of 10 billion stars each, that picture would contain 10 million billion or 10 quadrillion stars.
And to think all that just “appeared” out of nothing. I’m glad science has been able to prove it.
/sarc
Darren
December 29, 2010 4:51 pm
wagon #76 I didn’t imply that the Republicans were doing the right thing (although a case could be made they did the best they could with the info they had at the time) What in the world does that mean? True principles do not change based on the information one has at the time. Running to government to rescue the… Read more »
GJT
December 29, 2010 4:50 pm
And obviously there’s a lot of positioning going on behind the scenes, my position is that we need to be aware of it and be a part of it. Especially the primary format.
GJT
December 29, 2010 4:46 pm
Texpat
The one group not in your list is who “they” are, elected Republicans in Washington and those in the RNC. They need to stay out of it.
Texpat
December 29, 2010 4:39 pm
GJT The reason it seems a a lot of groundwork has been laid before the first primary is because, in fact, it has. Every person who is seeking the 2012 nomination for Republican Part candidate has aleady been organizing and planning how to win. They do this as secretly as possible, not because they don’t want you or Lawrence to… Read more »
Lawrence
December 29, 2010 4:38 pm
#98. That looks like a HUGE egg with a crack down the middle. What’s on the outside of the egg?
I bet that non-believer bob420 can tell you!
GJT
December 29, 2010 4:38 pm
103
It’s a weenie waggin thing, you wouldn’t understand.
mharper42
December 29, 2010 4:36 pm
What is it with these guys that obsesses them with posting #100 ?
GJT
December 29, 2010 4:32 pm
MIL’s trailer out back just tripped a breaker, hope it was a fluke.
Darren, I’m absolutely convinced that whatever world-wide economic catastrophes occurred would be pretty much over by now. Instead the world whipped out its credit card and charged these economic calamities for the future to deal with and deal with it at a more intense and serious level. Yup. And… El Gordo, My point exactly is that if that were the… Read more »
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – The mother of four raised a finger, pointing out abandoned and stripped concrete homes and counting how many families have fled the Western Hemisphere’s deadliest city on her street alone. “One, two, three, four, here, and two more back there on the next block,” said Laura Longoria. The 36-year-old ran a convenience store in her working-class… Read more »
El Gordo;
If four businesses were set up as competitors one to another and one business goes under, I see it as a big pay day for at least one of the remaining three businesses who followed a better business model.
#142;
Sorry to hear that.
mharper #138;
I agree.
#121 – My point exactly is that if that were the only issue (aircraft insurance) the government could have selectively guaranteed that sector of the business until replacement insurance was secured and the markets had settled down – with little or no cost to us, the taxpayer – unless you think the aircraft industry would have suddenly had a rash… Read more »
#121 Most people did not know and still don’t seem to understand that 90% of the commercial aircraft in the world were insured by AIG and if we had not infused them with cash, air travel around the world would have halted. Air travel was at a complete standstill following 9/11, but that did not stop people from getting done… Read more »
#139 Darren
Say, wasn’t that Microsoft paperclip animated helper named Bob?
Oh, forgot to say, that woman died before her first scheduled treatment in Canada.
#138 socialized medicine Co-worker from Canada’s M-i-L was sick in Canada for several months before she was diagnosed with some drastic form of cancer. I was surprised that her grown children didn’t even try to get her to MD Anderson in Houston, one way or another, for immediate treatment, There is no sense of medical urgency in Canada, they just… Read more »
Simply put, the bailout of AIG et al should never have occurred. The beneficiaries of these funds were primarily foreign banks who bet wrong on their hedge funds and subprime mortgages which were AIG insured. Had the foreign banks been allowed to fail or suffer losses, their own governments would have been required to step up to the plate and… Read more »
Bob42 may be more tech savy than ayone here has ever supposed: Microsoft calls its online-unifier “Bob.” “This award is made purely on the technical merits,” the FCC chairman remarks. The FCC is particularly enamored of the “back door” that Microsoft has built into Bob, making it easier for police to monitor communications in real time. The commission also applauds… Read more »
The man, who is in his sixties, first visited a local clinic in Blekinge in southern Sweden in September 2009 for treatment of a urinary tract infection, the local Blekinge Läns Tidning (BLT) reported. When he returned in March 2010 complaining of foreskin irritation, the doctor on duty at the time diagnosed the problem as a simple case of inflammation.… Read more »
texpat; I forgot about this: I am as angry and disgusted as anyone with what happened in the long run with the whole bailout scheme, particularly with the stimulus bill. At least TARP seems to have paid back the funds it borrowed from the American taxpayer, but Obama’s stimulus trillion is gone in the wind. The initial action to run… Read more »
Texpat #121; Back when you were first making the aergument to bail out AIG I told you that if you could show me that bailing them out could help destroy Jihadists, I’d be 100% for it. That change of heart from me still stands. Suppose all the world’s airlines halted. Once AIG goes under would their assets not be bought… Read more »
#131 Lowboy666 [*]
No response about the cosmic egg? Just complaints about how you are addressed? I suggested Larry42 but you sneered at that. 😀
[*] A lowboy is the lower part of a highboy
One of my “adopted” kids got some bad news yesterday. Two weeks after he was promoted to manager at the restaurant where he worked, the local franchise was sold, and the new management brought in their own people. He could stay on there only if he accepted a cut in both pay and hours. He told them to shove it,… Read more »
a) do nothing and risk a calamitous worldwide financial meltdown that would have led into a severe depression; or b) implement a plan of bailouts and other financial activities that would prop the financial system up enough that it could make it the rest of the way on its own. And what possibilities are there to avoid option “a”? Can… Read more »
I think we should take up a collection so Adee can have her own computer.
#125 iwharper69 – you’ve taken my screen name bastardization(first big word I learned from Hamous) to a new “Low”!
Ooooops.
Adee, I grew up in south Alabama and we lived out in the country, every night we could see billions of stars, it has not changed a lot there today, even though more folks have moved to the country. When my Boy was small,…’bout 4-5 in the late 80’s we were at Granny’s house (my Bride’s Mother) and he said… Read more »
Finally stopped raining about 6:30, and all that’s left are dripping trees casting drops below. Plastic rain gauge on the fence says 2.3″. Can’t see the data for the little weather station since spouse has that computer tied up with a project that can’t be interrupted. Our downpour is far behind what landed at mharper42’s home. Now to see how… Read more »
#126 I’m not so sure about that. WB, Tedtam, and others have come up with some pretty “interesting” stuff. But I reckon I do have my moments.
#124 Only Bob finds images like these…
#105 Low666 looks like a HUGE egg That “egg” is the projection view of data acquired by infrared telescopes looking out in all directions from the earth. They’re not saying the universe is shaped like an egg. You can’t get outside of the universe to take a picture of it or see what shape it is. The hazy blue “crack”… Read more »
Hey kids! It’s Sociopath Barbie!.
mharper, you need one of one you can SEE 😉
Ground Fault, I betcha’ happens a lot in the rain. 😉
#118 WB I made the point back in 2008 about AIG that the US government had no choice but to save them from collapse at the time. Most people did not know and still don’t seem to understand that 90% of the commercial aircraft in the world were insured by AIG and if we had not infused them with cash,… Read more »
#118. If you’re interested, “Bailout Nation” by Barry Ritholtz is a pretty good read on the financial meltdown.
Health tips for the New Year, (from completely clueless people.)
True principles do not change based on the information one has at the time. Running to government to rescue the public from its own shortfalls is not in harmony with conservatism. Sometimes, you’re faced with a no-win situation. In that case, the choices were a) do nothing and risk a calamitous worldwide financial meltdown that would have led into a… Read more »
Baylor vs Illinois on ESPN now.
I used binoculars on my rain gauge — I’d need waders to make it to the fence in person — and it’s at 3.8″. Most of that will flow away in White Oak Bayou because it came down in torrents.
The more things change, the more they remain the same. The same political parties which now agitate the United States have existed through all time.’ Precisely…. While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a stand; little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago. What is the reason? I say parties… Read more »
#107 GJT I agree the RNC should have an arm’s length approach in the primaries. However, you are never going to remove the influence certain elected politicians have regarding candidates. It may not be official or public, but that influence will always be there. Also, Jim DeMint, Tom Coburn and Michelle Bachman wielded quite a bit of influence in the… Read more »
All things in the heavens and on Earth were created by God.
We have flowed over the 2″ level. The sky is a bit lighter to the NW, however it’s still dark in the SW and thunder is growling from that way. It’s 58 on the front porch now and never got past the low 60s today.
I can go to the grocery store tomorrow morning. We shall not starve tonight.
#105 no I can’t, and I don’t pretend to be able to.
I’m perfectly content in not knowing for sure. What does Scripture tell you about it?
And to think all that just “appeared” out of nothing. I’m glad science has been able to prove it.
/sarc
wagon #76 I didn’t imply that the Republicans were doing the right thing (although a case could be made they did the best they could with the info they had at the time) What in the world does that mean? True principles do not change based on the information one has at the time. Running to government to rescue the… Read more »
And obviously there’s a lot of positioning going on behind the scenes, my position is that we need to be aware of it and be a part of it. Especially the primary format.
Texpat
The one group not in your list is who “they” are, elected Republicans in Washington and those in the RNC. They need to stay out of it.
GJT The reason it seems a a lot of groundwork has been laid before the first primary is because, in fact, it has. Every person who is seeking the 2012 nomination for Republican Part candidate has aleady been organizing and planning how to win. They do this as secretly as possible, not because they don’t want you or Lawrence to… Read more »
#98. That looks like a HUGE egg with a crack down the middle. What’s on the outside of the egg?
I bet that non-believer bob420 can tell you!
103
It’s a weenie waggin thing, you wouldn’t understand.
What is it with these guys that obsesses them with posting #100 ?
MIL’s trailer out back just tripped a breaker, hope it was a fluke.
Dangit! hunnerd and uno.