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you're absolutely right, CDSs were unregulated when they were created and the banks fought hard (and won) to keep them that way. Question: did you happen to read Fool's Gold by Gillian Tett? It's a pretty good history on the meltdown.

from your link

the WH says no

well, he certainly has little or no national security experience on his resume, so no argument from me. My point was a single source with zero detail and confirmation (yet) wasn't worth getting excited about and the report about missing intelligence briefings was debunked.

I'm not saying this is false information, but there's no other source that I can find about the 48 hour warning; every site references the Independent, and that consists of a single sentence with no details. Maybe wait and see if there's any confirmation or further info... umm no

let's say that "chatter" on the intelligence front indicated that militants were planning something to avenge the death of Abu Yahya al-Libi. The NSA, CIA, and National Security Advisor can't get the attention of the president to take action in a written brief? Pretty big leap of faith. More likely they didn't know or didn't read the signs. Blame our national security team for having their head up their ass, but saying that face-to-face meetings would have made a difference is pure conjecture on your part.

except that there's no longer daily in-person briefings verified by the Press Secretary

ya, for sure, but how is that circumventing the rules? every time a rookie gets a serious injury and the team IRs him at the cutdown?

Rookie speedster Jeff Demps goes to IR and can't be recalled

Top Stories, is the headline "Bills Release 21 Players"?

BillsDaily home page

I think they'll keep 4 QBs till they figure out the backup situation and then go back to their rankings on hagan, martin, rose, etc. to get the depth at WR. Or they got some waiver wire prospects.

wow! why didn't we do that?

Seems like TG has misinterrepted the contract from the get go.. Here's his ESPN column in 2011

here's a factly statement: 2011 Receiving: Stevie Johnson - 76 rec, 1004 yds, 7 tds Receiving: Percy Harvin - 87 rec, 967 yds, 6 tds

it's also really slowwwwwww, orders of magnitude slower than the BuffNews, and it won't respond until almost all of the images and ads are loaded

great tip poo! On my ipad (safari), I clicked a D&C link off TBD, and I got the expected message, hope you've enjoyed your complimentary access, blah, blah, blah. Then googled the article, and it says I have 1 more free view. Repeating the process a couple more times with different articles gives me the same, 1 more free view. I'll take it!

looks like bbb has it right, but you were correct about Nix...

ok, thx bbb

umm, maybe it's me, but I can't find any mention of Nix and Lee Evans on the Press Coverage blog. TG posts about FredEx, starts a poll (and talks about the results), but nothing about Nix. Where does the GM say no?

lol, ok, thought u were serious

BillsMagic is right, NFL teams almost never gameplan for preseason; it's all about evaluating personnel

from CBS Sports and

We have no idea if Nelson was talking about Evans. He could have been standing next to (at some point) the position group leader of the offensive line, the running backs, or just about anyone else and heard a comment whispered like that.