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POPSSNL skit gets the facts they' rather hide. Kudos to SNL for the balance in parody of the best kind. That which doesn't have to change the reality in any fundamental way. Because it iis so on point. DLoad it for yourself right here: http://msunderestimated.com/SNLBailoutSkit.wmv Click to it here: http://patdollard.com/2008/10/it-is-here-the-banned-snl-skit-cannot-hide-from-louie/ http://patdollard.com/tags/video/ See the slightly moderated version after they remove references to the Golden West Mortgage folks who are BIG leftwing donors. Word is NBC is scouring the net to get the old one off. TOO LATE! http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/c-span-bailout/727521/
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POPSEdited SNL subprime video - no longer available I seldom ever watch SNL but came across this article on a skit - the video was pulled - edited and reposted - however it nows seems it was pulled again and is not available - guess people with power got their way.
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POPSShine "Light Of Scrutiny & Accountability” On The Nation’s Financial System Pelosi said,“We want to take our country in a new direction for the middle class.” Something else that should be looked into: Barney Frank’s relationship with a former Fannie executive named Herb Moses. Frank told reporters Friday that starting in January, Congress will “have a major role.” “We have to rewrite housing in America. … It would be highly irresponsible if we were to stop here,” he said. “Now we have to perform more serious reform.” Yet, she mentions nothing about the accountability of people like Sen. Chris Dodd, or Franklin Raines or Jamie Gorelick, the latter two having made millions off of Fannie while the organization itself was sliding into government conservatorship.
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POPSWhy Is Barney Franks Gay Lover/Fannie Mae Exec Not Germane? (HT: Ace) See also: The 12 ways the government contributed to the financial crisis. http://www.openmarket.org/2008/10/03/bash-the-bailout-government-is-not-the-answer/ Update: Also via Ace, Fox digs up the intriguing nugget that Barney "There Is No Crisis at Fannie and Freddie" Frank's partner is an executive at... wait for it..
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POPSMedia's Mum On Fannie Mae's "Love Connection" “Herb Moses, who helped develop many of Fannie Mae’s affordable housing and home improvement lending programs, has left the mortgage industry,”Darryl Hicks wrote for NMN. “Mr. Moses - whose last day was Feb. 13 - spent the past seven years at Fannie Mae, most recently as director of housing initiatives. Over the course of time, he played an instrumental role in developing the company’s Title One and 203(k) home improvement lending programs.” While Moses served at Fannie Mae and was Frank’s partner, Frank was actively working to support GSEs, according to several news outlets. In 1991, Frank and former Rep. Joe Kennedy, D-Mass., lobbied for Fannie to soften rules on multi-family home mortgages although those dwellings showed a default rate twice that of single-family homes, according to the Nov. 22, 1991, Boston Globe.
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POPSA Celestial Journey This is a "journey" throughout the cosmos, showing nebulae, galaxies, supernovas, stars and space clouds. The photos are provided by NASA . Acompaniying this video are the songs by Aeoliah : "Whispers Among The Stars" , "The Journey Home" and "Crystal Illumination" ; by Herb Ernst: "Celestial Ascent" and Deuter: "Waves Of Light" .
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POPS "Why have SMS rates doubled?" Congress to cell carriers..."I am concerned with whether this consolidation and increased market power by the major carriers has contributed to this doubling of text-messaging rates over the last three years," wroteKohl, who gave the carriers a month to justify their higher SMS rates. U.S. texters sent 2.5 billion SMS messages in June—each day, mind you, or 78 billion messages for the month. That's a staggering 160-percent increase over last year, the CTIA reports—as well as a lot of money for the carriers, who collectively raked in $14.8 billion in wireless data revenue in the first half of 2008.
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POPSIt's Simple People - They Charge More Because We'll Pay It
It always dumbfounds me how people can get so "up in arms" about issues like this. A company delivers a product or service and charges for it. If supply is decreased, or demand is increased, or both, they can raise prices for the product or service. It's the first law of market dynamics. In the case of texting, we consumers can't get enough of it (demand). Supply isn't really an issue in this case because texting uses so little network bandwidth they can offer unlimited texting plans. It's simple then - the wireless operators have raised prices because we'll pay for it - we have to have our texting. If we want them to lower prices, we can all stop texting as much and instead use a different form of communication. It's like gas prices - we reached a point where the price was too high so we started using less and voila, the prices came down. Granted there were other factors involved, but decreased demand was a huge reason for it. Stop texting as much and prices WILL com
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POPSBBC program Links Temporal lobe to Spituality
Now. I find this stuff fascinatin'! Well worth looking at the BBC videos! I'm not so sure about the text from LJ--kind of a dilletante, that one... Bein' an old Hippie who did a lot of psychedelic drugs (a long time ago--and I'm alive and well 'cuz I avoided Coke and other dumbass drugs) ...so the value of my "spiritual" experiences may be directly correlated with the types of "divine" chemicals i took like psylocibin, peyote, LSD and the good herb Pakalolo---or as the guy says in the last video--it may be God's way of giving us an antenna towards the Divine and doesn't make the experience any less real or important. Developing a Spiritual consciousness rather than the mundane, everyday patterns of thought is quite important, neh? I find that I can get some of the same results by meditating (if I do it with regularity and depth, losing the "I")...of course it's not as much fun without the colors and stuff but just as meaningful, if not more. But then I didn't use drugs as recreation b
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POPSThe Ten Oxherding Pictures - From The Manual of Zen Buddhism From The Manual of Zen Buddhism, D.T. Suzuki By Shubun (15th Century) a series of short poems and accompanying woodcuts that are intended to illustrate the stages of a Mahāyāna Buddhist practitioner's progression towards enlightenment, as well as his or her subsequent perfection of wisdom. The pictures first appeared in their present form, as drawn by the Chinese Chán (Zen) master Kuòān Shīyuǎn (廓庵師遠), in the 12th century, and may represent a Zen Buddhist interpretation of the ten stages experienced by a Bodhisattva as outlined in various Mahāyāna sūtras, most particularly the Avataṃsaka Sūtra.
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