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And I also wanted Rob Johnson, JP Losman and Trent Edwards to be star NFL QBs, despite all the contrary evidence. I truly believed it at the time, so it must have been true.

It contains earth-shattering news rivaled only by the greatest reveal ever

Looks like Israel doesn't really try to buy everybody off.

It sounded like the trainers also didn't want the teachers to comply.

Thx. Yeah saw that the picture doesn't match the story. Shocking. I think the point of the exercise is to show what happens when you cower in an active shooter situation.

Did I get this right - they they got hurt by Nerf bullets? The same ones that hundreds of thousands of kids are pelting themselves on a daily basis?

Or that the super attorney Geragos had no case, and NFL settled for peanuts to make it go away.

As if the words change a 59 year reality. Israel was not handing over the Golan no matter what it is called.

Ironic that thanks to the nerd takeover of the world, Revenge of the Nerds will never be remade.

Settlement is for under $10 million, far less than other estimates.

You have a 50-year long history of one side owning it and a 20-year history of the other side owning it. Which one has been used exclusively on offense?

Hmm, how often does POTUS meet with a President on the home turf, while simultaneously SOS meets with PM on the away field?

This story caught my eye. If the Mueller report is nothing or will look worse for Dems, wouldn't blocking the report on procedural grounds be the best way to do it? Can the House requests for information and investigations be the blockers for the reports release? DoJ says that it won't release any information that may impede an active investigation, which the House moves can certainly qualify. if that were the case, then it's a brilliant gambit to prevent the release of a damning report, but still claim the high ground that it's the Trump admin that's holding back the report.

It's as if the Keating Five never existed, either

It's like a plot of a movie as written by Gator or EII

That's stupid. Why do you need to go to the bank office with a security detail to make an electronic transfer?

What door will he use?

Once again, you are 100% wrong. The darts represent the false attributions in his job as President. DR hasn't defended Trump the man, nor the various closed cases where he or his associates were found of wrongdoing. But keep trying.

For starters, that's exactly NOT what caused the liquidity crisis, but carry on. They weren't CDS securities, idiot. At least get the basics of the terminology right.

Four - IndyMac, and of course GMAC's mortgage subsidiaries. Oops lost another loan to Ditech. As always new regulations are enacted to prevent the prior crises, not to prevent the next crises. Regulators are usually 2 steps behind. The ones who truly understood it profited massively from the fallout. They weren't the ones who structured and sold the original issues. They would squarely be more on the stupid side than unethical.

Ever hear of the expression to give you enough rope to hang yourself? What happened between 2001 and 2006 is the closest thing to economic libertarianism as you will ever get in finance. The feeling was that the new financial products diversified the risks so far and wide that the only way that the system would collapse is for everyone to underestimate the interconnectedness of the money flows. NOBODY understood just how much exposure the "banks" still had to real estate even though everyone thought the banks sold off that exposure. Learn this stuff before you spout. You're the one proposing more socialist control.

Please don't ruin Joe's narrative. He's on a roll.

WTF are you talking about? There was nothing illegal in the creation of the financial instruments. You would have a valid argument that it was unethical and with very lax oversight by everybody, but it wasn't illegal. The illegal stuff was happening on the ground with false representations on mortgage documents. Now run along and round up the thousands of real estate agents and bogus mortgage brokers.

Explain how people who lost billions and were exiled from management and society were saved by the taxpayers? The people who created the financial crisis were EVERYONE who were involved in any real estate transaction between 2001 and 2006.

Do you even understand the words that your keyboard utters? Supporting a Fed backstop to a massive global liquidity crisis is tantamount to socialism? The Fed did its job as the lender of last resort. In the crisis it extended its lending authority to non-banks that were acting as banks. If Lehman Brothers, etc were "banks" in 2008, the massive crisis wouldn't have happened in the first place, and you'd have a real estate crash with a few banks going down. I can't even begin to list the number of your false prepositions, but here's a clue. It wasn't a true bailout of the banks, but a massive infusion of cash to keep the money flowing. In the meantime, entire banks were eliminated, equity was completely wiped out and the system was orderly restored because it was a temporary LIQUIDITY crisis!!! That's why the financial industry (including AIG) repaid every single penny of TARP, plus a tidy profit. The government didn't take over ownership of anyone, other than illegal takeover of AIG. How is that me advocating socialism? You may have noted that I disagreed with how AIG was handled in tossing aside private ownership rules or how Obama threw away bankruptcy laws to strong arm the automaker restructurings. But in your mind that makes me a socialist. Talk about gatorific logic. Another lazy answer. US also has very clear speeding, gun, and drug laws. How are those working out? In each one of those cases, the real world examples are clear indications that the laws that are on the books should be revisited because there's very little compliance with existing laws. Usually people with half a brain know that when there's zero compliance with the existing laws, there's a bigger problem than trying to enforce a zero tolerance policy. There are almost zero examples in human history where the natural laws of supply and demand have been superseded by man made laws. The trouble with your example is that sanctuary cities are also the places where labor laws are the toughest and it's almost impossible for large companies to hire illegals in the industries that you cite. The jobs are in fact filled largely by immigrants, but almost always they're not by the wall jumpers. Your Chicago example is quaint, but it will take much more than raising the landscapers' pay rate to get the inner city youth into the workforce. That's the point of comprehensive reform. Both need to be implemented. But it's a political pawn where Dems have the upper hang at the moment.