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http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=...&id=7827069 RIP.

Juneau Mooseknuckles.

Quick question. The extension of unemployment benefits: Does this cover only people whose benfits expired this past week or does it include people whose benefits expire in Jan,Feb,Mar etc?

As a parent of a 5 year old with diabetes, his on field accomplishments pale in comparison to everything he has done off the field for people everywhere living with diabetes. And knowing everything I know now about this disease, what he accomplished while playing makes him a HOFer, period. RIP Ronnie.

OOPS!! http://www.rollcall.com/news/-201012-1.html

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 30, 2010 -> 10:05 AM) Today's reports... Home prices for 3Q dropped 2%, after 4 straight quarterly gains including 4.6% the previous quarter. This was somewhat expected with the drop-off of gov't incentives, but still not great. Not a big worry point just yet with all the other recent positive data, but something to watch. Consumer confidence jumped to a 5 month high of 54.1, up from 49.9 in October. Expectations were for a rise to 52. Markets rebounding on the report. Jobless benefits will expire at midnight tonight for about 1-2 million people, barring Congressional action. Black Friday weekend foot traffic was up from last year, but spending about flat. A neutral reading of consumer confidence is 90-120. So very weak. Would not get excited until it reaches 120.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 19, 2010 -> 12:53 PM) It kind of is right. He's usually the smartest guy in the room, but he acts like he knows that, so he comes off as aloof and not connected to the reality of most Americans. Its the flip side of the problem with Bush, who felt much more like the everyday person, and therefore could connect with Americans better. Why does everyone assume Obama is smart? Because he talks well. Bush was assumed to be an idiot because he couldn't speak without stumbling. Bush's grades were avg or above at Yale and Harvard. And he was a better student than Gore. But we do not know what Obama's grades were yet we assume he is a genius. Why is that? And don't tell me because not just any person can get into Harvard...

When asked why President Obama comes across as aloof to many Americans, Biden replied: “I think what it is, is he’s so brilliant. He is an intellectual.” LMAO!! Yeah that's it, Joe... http://www.gq.com/news-politics/politics/2...?printable=true

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 17, 2010 -> 12:07 PM) Link Tranposing Palin for TEA PARTY. My bad...

http://abovethelaw.com/2010/11/lawsuit-of-...lled-their-son/ WTF? A rusty shiv is too kind for this asshole....

QUOTE (Paint it Black @ Nov 17, 2010 -> 10:17 AM) Moderate success? lol wut. The 4 candidates she gave the most support (O'Donnell, Angel, Fiorina, and Miller) all took what should have been a lock and lost. Hell Miller was in her own state! She never endorsed Angle. And I am not so sure she endored Fiorina either. She was however a big backer of Buck, Rubio and Johnson. How did BO do?

f***ing hilarious...and pathetic...

What if the person forgets to mark the oval spelling not withstanding?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Nov 11, 2010 -> 08:24 AM) There's no way a billionaire should be paying the same in SS deductions as someone at $106,500. That's insane. They're proposing getting rid of the deductions for mortgages and health insurance (I think) but it feels to me like the majority of burden is still on the middle class. Of course, the rich will seize on this indexing/means testing as a way to make it about populism, "stealing" or redistributing from the upper class and give to the poor...but we won't even have much of a middle class left in 10-20 years the way things are going right now. Let's face it, SS is funded for 20-30 years and there's currently a $2.5 trillion surplus in that area...if they wouldn't keep borrowing from it. So basically, we're all being told we'll have to work until we're 69 or take reduced benefits because 1) Bush's tax cuts that weren't offset by any spending decreases or cost controls, 2) the unfunded Medicare prescription plan that was written by the pharmaceutical industry AND 3) two wars that are making us less safe and costing thousands of lives...we pull back our troops from AFGH, that's $300,000,000 right there. But you know they'll seize on this silly earmarks issue, when the GOP to this day won't give them up. I don't think DeMint will get 24 votes to move it forward on the agenda. See that everyone. GW's fault. Not the baby boomers soon to retire and the lack of workers to fill their place. GW. LMFAO!

We now have strategic defaults occurring in the mortgage mkt by individuals, correct. What happens when the muni bond mkt starts to price in the strategic defaults ALREADY occurring by towns all over the country. Risk is high comparable to the return on some of this debt.

And possibly the biggest most egregious gift of all given to GM was the ability to write off $47 billion in future profits against past losses. This usually does not happen to this extent with a post bankrupt company. But then again bond holders usually are not f***ed the way the gov't f***ed these bond holders either.

If I had to pick a bank to short, BAC would be numero uno. I think we see an 8 handle before a 15 handle.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 9, 2010 -> 08:47 AM) Which is basically what I just said. You are saying profits are meaningless to the health of a bank, and that is just not true. What I think you mean is, a bank can make a profit and still be unhealthy. Do you not see the difference I am getting at here? Profits are good, they help banks, but that does not mean profitability = health. A lot of the 3rd qtr earnings were dure to lower loan cost provisions. I do not believe banks have even started to address the CRE loans on their sheets. If they did, you would see foreclosures up the yin yang and we just do not see it. Home equity loans are an albatross on the banks balance sheets too. And they own the majority of them, unlike mortgages.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 8, 2010 -> 07:41 AM) The answer to this is clearly a $40 billion invisible, non-functioning fence. Seriously guys...what do you think the answer there is? If everyone coming across that border was doing so legally, then the couple hundred people you really, really want to catch would be the ones who stand out, by doing so through other means. That's a problem created because we want to pretend that enforcement-only is a realistic policy. Gatling Guns every 20 feet.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 7, 2010 -> 01:08 PM) Having lived in California during that...let me just say...good luck with that! California; you have to be really, really stupid to emulate our politics. Gavin Newsom after election victory : "We're nothing but a mirror of our consistent thoughts. You tend to manifest what you focus on. If you look around for what's wrong, you'll find it. But as all we know up here in San Francisco, when you focus on what's right, you see it all around you. . . . There is absolutely nothing wrong with California that can't be fixed by what's right with California. . . . If you're from another state, you'd love to have the problems of California." Huh?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 7, 2010 -> 08:28 PM) We're already paying $3.10-$3.20 in Chicago, I don't think $3.50 is going to be chaos. It means dollar issues and/or economic growth increasing. Since hyperinflation doesn't seem to be a near term risk (might be in the longer term though), I'd say overall, $3.50 gas means good things. And it means more business for Indiana gas stations from "Cook County taxes are not high enough but that's o.k. because I buy my gas in Indiana William Beavers".....

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Nov 6, 2010 -> 11:23 AM) Well those numbers only go through 2005, but even if NY, CA and IL for 1 year received more money than they gave out, it doesnt change the fact for the previous 20 years they gave more than they received. Furthermore, the largest states are going to get the most money. But that is not what the argument was. It was what states receive more money than they give to the federal govt. Who will foot the bill? My guess is the same states that have historically had to pay for the other states: CA, NY and IL In 2005 CA, NY and IL donated to other states (in millions): 19,000 from IL, 47,000 from CA and 24,000 from NY. So you think IL,CA NY are going to pay for their own debts? LMAO!!!!! The gov't portion of the BAB's is multiple billions. And that is for just the past, what 18 months at most. So I beg to differ with who will turn out the big losers here.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Nov 5, 2010 -> 11:36 AM) Yep Democrats give away other peoples money. There are no Democrats that pay taxes, there are no Democrats in the highest tax bracket. I know you werent joking, but I am truly saddened that you can believe something that is so unbelievably false. Im pretty sure on this board I ran some numbers and showed that Democratic states pay a larger percentage of taxes than Republican states, and thus Democrats end up giving away their money to pay for Republicans. http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/22685.html For example, in 2005 the Democratic state of Illinois paid more taxes to the Federal Govt than it received (99,776 >80,778). Other states that paid more than they received, California, NY. Now lets look at some Republican states, South Carolina received more than it paid, TN received more than it paid, VA received more than it paid, Mississippi received more than it paid. It seems to me that there is absolutely no facts to support the idea that Democrat's give other peoples money away, when the facts show that Republican's are the ones who receive more govt hand outs than they pay for. Kind of a peculiar fact. NV is the only "Republican" state who actually pays more to the govt than they receive, yet its the Democrats who are "getting a free ride". Gimme a break. I actually would find it hilarious if they got rid of most federal taxes, because half of those Republican states would lose tens of millions of dollars in funds that come from Democrat states. What states received the most stimulus money to keep public employees employed? What states are going to get bailed out by the Feds for pension give aways? What states have received the largest subsidies from Build America Bonds? I can assure you TN, MS,and VA, will not show up on the top 5 maybe even top ten. CA, IL, NY, NJ are broke. Who do you think is going to end up footing the bill?

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Nov 3, 2010 -> 09:13 PM) I would wager that a cost of 2 million dollars a day is probably closer to the cost than 200 million dollars a day. It's not like the Presidential security team is a per hour job. But if the actual figure of 3000 people is correct, the cost of operating the planes alone, which I would think has to be close to 15 or so, would be at least 8-10 million dollars, no?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 3, 2010 -> 04:11 PM) 200-500 is more the scale I was assuming here. So now the question shifts a bit... why do they need 10 times as many for India? This angle isn't Obama versus Bush, its UK vs India. Did Bush take a lot more people to India than he did other places too? I really don't know, and I am not sure why it would be that way. I heard a blurb yesterday that a bunch of business people will be on the trip so as to be present when India announces a boatload of contracts for a variety of items. These contracts,for all intents and purposes, are already signed save for the p.r., pictures and other b.s. If so the businesses should be reimbursing for some portion of the trip..FWIW..