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For a small business owner, adding in a house and other assets, it can add up quickly. If the intent was to avoid building aristocratic elites, then set it at an appropriate level, whereby family businesses are not ruined.

If you are not going into the city for La Nova, then go for Nino's. Its about 10 min from the stadium and outstanding.

How much were they?

Horsey is funny!

Only issue with that is if China and the Middle East do precipate a run on the dollar and meltdown the US financial system, then both also meltdown their own economies. China buys US debt, but we buy China's goods en masse. No US economy, no market for Chinese goods. Same with Middle Eastern oil. Too much interdependency there. Russia, different story, I think. I am not well versed in Russia's stake in US debt, other than as a store of value or to simply bruise the US when it is convenient for Russia. I also don't know how codependent the US and Russia are. Anyway, it would take a long time to recover from that meltdown, but we would recover. We would have to re-engineeer our own economy in the process, however.

Take the tax-free muni return and be happy?

Oh, I agree that its too soon to break them up right now, but as more of a longer term solution. I think the bolded part begins to come true come 4th quarter and into 2009.

I couldn't disagree with this more... Here's the opposing viewpoint from David John of the Heritage Foundation. I happen to agree with him. http://www.nypost.com/seven/07152008/posto...m_up_119904.htm I would go the other way....break em up. Too much concentrated risk...spread it out and diversify the risk.

Josh Hamilton is one of the best natural talents to play baseball that I have ever seen. Reily said tonight that the sound the ball makes off Hamilton's bat is the same as Bo Jackson. Michael Young of the Rangers (an all star himself), said that he had only played with one guy whose swing was as good as Hamilton's swing...Arod. This is guy is legit, in that park down in Texas, you could really be looking at a true triple crown candidate once he gets a little more experience (remember, this guys has only played 183 big league games, just over one full season).

Best argument I heard against drilling, was that when the Middle East and South America was all tapped out and irrelevant, then we would start to drill our own...being one of the few countries that had any left.

My pessimistic side (that is usually more realistic) tells me the Fed plans to hyperinflate us out of the housing crisis. Bernanke's helicopter drops of cash from his college professor days come home to roost. EDIT: This is the best site I have found for trying to recreate M3 data. Of course, they are missing the Eurodollars piece, which was historically a small component of M3. Now...who knows? Recreated M3

Have you tried speaking with the neigbor?

Assuming, of course, that Rodgers is not the next RJ or even worse, Todd Collins. We, as Bills fans, know how difficult it is to get great QB play when looking for the next one. Hell, since Kelly retired, I would have taken competant, don't f___ it up QB play. But no, for the most part we have not even had that. So, it has now been a dozen years since Kelly retired and we have had oh.....14 different QBs. Play for the present and the now when you have great QB play...the if-come and the future may not be what you expect.

Don't ever rely on the "official" government numbers...stats are far too easy to manipulate. Take a look at the monthly employment numbers and reasearch the entirely fictitious birth/death rate used to fluff those numbers. As far as the Fed, they lost all credibility when they stopped reporting the M3 number.

They may be young, but tell me, is going with Rodgers over Favre in 2008 a step back for the team? I think so.

Exactly correct. The question is who gives you the best chance to win in 2008, especially with a veteran team that played in the NFC title game.

That really is a lot to swallow.

I think we COULD, not necessarily WILL, end up in a global financial meltdown. The signs are there and we need something to relieve the pressure. My guess is that the US Govt is doing everything it can to turn on all spigots of oil (Iraq, pressuring the Saudis, domestic drilling etc.) That will relieve the price pressure on the US consumer who accounts for 2/3 of GDP, enabling GDP to grow. Growing GDP gives the Fed wiggle room to increase interest rates, thereby choking off inflation and saving the dollar. This will also expedite the drop in oil prices. If we can head off the inflation monster, we could just miss this storm. Of course, now FNM and FRE are virtually insolvent, the gov't can't nationalize them (say goodbye dollar) nor can FNM or FRE stop issuing mortgages (think housing is bad now, FNM and FRE mortgages are the only ones getting done). I think one solution could be if the gov't provides a backstop to any failing loans to FNM or FRE...it could work. That way the gov't doesn't have to guarantee the whole friggin pie, just the bad pieces.

GB should think...hmmmm....who gives us a better chance to win football games in 2008-09 season, Rodgers or Favre? Seems to me the decision is pretty easy...Favre!

I love American Express Membership Rewards. You can redeem the points for flights on several airlines (including JetBlue) and hotels. You can also redeem the points for concert tickets, sports tickets etc. Its really a great service. Also, the levels are pretty easily attainable.

If anyone buys that Stroud is 310, there a certain bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to talk to you about...

All that hate's gonna burn you up, kid.

There is always someone sick of a girl's sh*t, no matter how hot she is. Is she a B word...no clue, never met her. She's still friends with Billy Joel and they divorced b/c he was banging every Christie look-alike on tour. This Cook sounds like a real winner...I don't know much about her other 2 marriages.

Considering CHCC didn't even make the top 25 rankings per US News...

We've got the Reich one baby! Uh-huh!