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what's your source for that claim, h2? I read the post regularly, and haven't seen them "admit" any such thing.
lol-when confronted with facts h2's ignorance grows and his arguments grow even weaker. He does the same on the penny scams he pumps.
oh bs, h2. do you ever fact check? the insurgency was a sunni uprising, and only settled down after we bought them off.
Itaq is a fiction of the British mandate (about which you know nothing) after the collapse of Ottoman empire. It has never been a unified country, and it never will be. When we withdraw there will be a three way civil war, with the ultimate outcome being expulsion of the remaining Sunni and the partition of the country into Kurdish and Shia regions.
you are ignoring both history and current reality, paunch. nothing in lumb's criminal career suggests he would give you anything of value. he will gladly take your money, however.
i don't hate america, h2. that is typical wing-nut reaction to anybody who disagrees with them.
I do hate the government when they engage in illegal, open ended wars with no strategic goals, and when warmongering boobs like you describe the destruction of a country, and the death or displacement of millions of its citizens as "winning". It shows that you have utter contempt for the life of "those ones".
the bull, salty, comes from those making claims of wonderfulness in the face of massive evidence that this was never anything but a scam.
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Let’s say you were the chief risk officer of the former Bear Stearns Cos. in the two years preceding the bank’s collapse in March.
And let’s say, just for argument’s sake, that the postmortems revealed Bear to have had too much risk and too little management of it. The only way JPMorgan Chase & Co. would agree to acquire Bear was with a $29 billion sweetener from the Federal Reserve for some of the less-palatable assets.
Following the acquisition of Bear Stearns by JPMorgan, you would expect said chief risk officer to:
a) Retire quietly to his country home;
b) Open a "consulting" business, allowing him to deduct the costs of a home office at the country home;
c) Land a plum job offer from another Wall Street bank;
d) Land a job as a bank supervisor at the Federal Reserve.
If you picked a, b or c, you would be incorrect. The correct answer is d.
Michael Alix, chief risk officer at Bear Stearns from 2006 until its demise in March, was named senior vice president in the Bank Supervision Group of the New York Fed on Oct. 31.
It’s not unusual for Wall Street to reward its own, offering rogue traders -- the ones who escape criminal prosecution -- new jobs at different firms. But the Fed? At a time when its balance sheet is exploding with increasingly risky assets?
Fed Defies Transparency Aim in Refusal to Identify Bank Loans
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans from American taxpayers or the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral.
Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in September they would comply with congressional demands for transparency in a $700 billion bailout of the banking system. Two months later, as the Fed lends far more than that in separate rescue programs that didn't require approval by Congress, Americans have no idea where their money is going or what securities the banks are pledging in return.
(...)
Total Fed lending topped $2 trillion for the first time last week and has risen by 140 percent, or $1.172 trillion, in the seven weeks since Fed governors relaxed the collateral standards on Sept. 14. The difference includes a $788 billion increase in loans to banks through the Fed and $474 billion in other lending, mostly through the central bank's purchase of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bonds.
So, there you go:
* the $700 billion bailout;
* an additional $140 billion in tax breaks for banks;
* $150 billion for AIG, on much sweeter terms than they were paying for the earlier $85 billion bailout (with a whoopping 5% drop in the interest rate they have to pay, for instance);
* lest we forget, the $29 billion guarantee to JPMorgan for Bear Stearns assets (but that's almost small change now);
* and $1,200 billion new liabilities on the Fed's (ie ultimately the taxpayers') balance sheet, backed by mostly junk paper;
But maybe this explains things:
Gee, according to h2 this is what "winning" in Iraq looks like:
McClatchy reports political violence in Iraq on Sunday:
' Baghdad
- Around 10 am a roadside bomb targeted a police patrol in the Rubayee street in Zayuna neighborhood (east Baghdad). Six people were injured including two policemen.
Anbar
- Around 9 am a female suicide bomber targeted the emergency room of the Amiriat Al-Falluja hospital. One woman was killed and five other people were injured including three women, Falluja police said.
Diyala
- Around 9 am a bomb planted in garbage container detonated near the main market downtown Baquba. One sweeper was killed and five other civilians were injured.
- A roadside bomb detonated in Khalis market ( north of Baquba). Five people were killed and 8 others were wounded including the district commissioner of Khalis town, Uday Al-Khathran.
Kirkuk
- Gunmen riding in a Toyota pick up car kidnapped a policeman who was in his own car in Rashad town (southwest Kirkuk) on Saturday night, police said.
- Gunmen opened fire on an Iraqi check point in Askari neighborhood of Tuz Khurmatu (south of Kirkuk) around 5 am. Three soldiers were wounded.
Mosul
- a roadside bomb detonated in Intisar neighborhood (downtown Mosul city). Two people were injured.
- Gunmen killed a policeman in front of his house in Ghizlani neighborhood in downtown Mosul. - A suicide car bomber targeted a police patrol in Mansour neighborhood in Mosul city around 5:30 pm. Eleven people were injured including 6 policemen.
- A roadside bomb targeted an army patrol in Al-Zihour neighborhood in Mosul city. Three soldiers were killed and seven people were injured including four soldiers.'
ex-the reference was to Israel, where the concept is almost universally accepted.
no evidence of that, paunch. non-reporting, zero bid shells seldom prove to be great investments.
they are discussing 401-k's, ex, because they have been worthless vehicles for encouraging widespread savings. Some penny moron were even using them to "invest" in pump and dump scams.
really, ordinary. cite one example. did I make up the nevada sos site?
really, long horn how did obama want to do it? how does that differ from the WSJ editorial in any substantive way?
afraid to speak your mind H2?
Well, h2, since I mentioned three things in that post, your "that may not have been a bad idea" doesn't tell me much.
Nor does your equally vague "Post admits" claim.
you are simply making up numbers, tex
really, tex? Not according to the Nevada SOS:
HURASU RESOURCE CORPORATION CORPORATION
Business Entity Information
Status: Active File Date: 9/15/2008 8:14:23 AM
Type: Reserved Name Corp Number: E0579132008-5
Qualifying State: List of Officers Due:
Managed By: Expiration Date: 12/15/2008
Reservation Holder
Name: STEPHEN CRAIG LUMB Address1: 1901 60TH PLACE E.
Address 2: SUITE L6612 City: BRADENTON
State: FL Zip Code: 34203
JB-jimmy just spouts slogans. Reality testing is not necessary.
ge, benz, that's a claim right out of Nazi Germany, where the state promoted a huge aryan breeding program.
Given that the planet is grossly overpopulater, one could easity take the opposite point that the state has a compelling reason to limit population growth consistent with resource available.
Then there is that birth control thingee. Would your source outlaw it.
Looks like another undercapitalized wanna be trying to ride the biodiesel wave.
Been a bigot all your life, makes?
Texan-Harasu is not a gold mining company. It is not even a company. It is a name reservation.
And your point is, ex? Since that's the second time you posted that, you must think it has some profound meaning.
November 9, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist
Obama and the War on Brains
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Barack Obama’s election is a milestone in more than his pigmentation. The second most remarkable thing about his election is that American voters have just picked a president who is an open, out-of-the-closet, practicing intellectual.
Maybe, just maybe, the result will be a step away from the anti-intellectualism that has long been a strain in American life. Smart and educated leadership is no panacea, but we’ve seen recently that the converse — a White House that scorns expertise and shrugs at nuance — doesn’t get very far either.
We can’t solve our educational challenges when, according to polls, Americans are approximately as likely to believe in flying saucers as in evolution, and when one-fifth of Americans believe that the sun orbits the Earth.
Almost half of young Americans said in a 2006 poll that it was not necessary to know the locations of countries where important news was made. That must be a relief to Sarah Palin, who, according to Fox News, didn’t realize that Africa was a continent rather than a country.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/opinion/09kristof.html?em=&pagewanted=print
Now that's interesting, graj. I'll email harry tomorrow and see if he agrees with you.
How do you feed the dry algae to the burner in a continuous process?
You are making absurd claims.
The remaining retheothuglican base: rural, uneducated, bigoted, and ignorant:
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/obama-outperforms-kerry-among-virtually.html
Gee, h2, those real Virginians and real North Carolinians didn't exactly come through for the shrub side, did they?
Somehow, arnold, I don't see the average suburban family in the business of growing, harvesting, and processing algae for fuel.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/algae-biodiesel2.htm
whatever happened to africa anyway?
benz- 9/11 didn't cause anyhing. It was bush's disastrous policy reactions to it that did.
sylvester maybe we could start a sarah is so dumb (SISD) board.
simple, panther. look at ffgo, pyct, mlon, etc.
salty-you shouldn't have to use creativity. the entire point of the securities acts is full public disclosure, and that blvd avoids such disclosure like the plague tells you all you need to know: the company is a scam.
LOL, geaj, now the miracle engine runs on sunlight?
chambliss needs to be buried. his stench is polluting the state of georgia.
Informed Comment
Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion
Juan Cole is President of the Global Americana Institute
Sunday, November 09, 2008
Palin Attacks Provoked Assassination Plots on Obamas
Unnamed Secret Service field officers have revealed to the press that Sarah Palin's attacks on President-Elect Obama provoked numerous white supremecist assassination plots against him:
'The Republican vice presidential candidate attracted criticism for accusing Mr Obama of "palling around with terrorists", citing his association with the sixties radical William Ayers.
The attacks provoked a near lynch mob atmosphere at her rallies, with supporters yelling "terrorist" and "kill him" until the McCain campaign ordered her to tone down the rhetoric.
But it has now emerged that her demagogic tone may have unintentionally encouraged white supremacists to go even further.
The Secret Service warned the Obama family in mid October that they had seen a dramatic increase in the number of threats against the Democratic candidate, coinciding with Mrs Palin's attacks.'
McCain got all blustery when John Lewis accused his campaign of sowing the seeds of hate. But of course Lewis was perfectly right.
Anywone who knows the history of race relations in the United States knows that accusing a Black man of 'paling around with terrorists' is the prelude to a lynching.
McCain and Palin knew exactly what they were unleashing with that line, as did Neocon Randy Scheunemann.
It should be remembered that rightwing rhetoric in Israel lambasting Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin as a traitor was implicated in whipping up an Orthodox assassin to kill him, thus destroying the Oslo peace process.
Words have consequences, even ignorant disconnected words like those of Sarah Palin.
texan-the end is already here, and lumb once again won at the expense of his marks. what part of this never was a company don't you get?
really, colorado? Just what would those documented positives be?
sure, vianna. there is enormous promise in a shell.