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POPSAnother Bailout – GMAC To Get More Money GMAC says they want to prepare itself to repay the U.S. Government. Is taking more tax payer funds a necessary step before repaying the Government? I don’t know what kind of math GMAC is using to come up with an idiotic statement like that, but if it is the same math they use to balance the books at their retail bank (Ally Bank) then I would run as fast as I could away from that one. The mortgage-related write-downs to be announced as early as this week will affect assets held by ResCap and Ally Bank, GMAC’s online bank. Ally Bank was created after the company received approval in late 2008 to convert to a bank holding company and qualify for government money under TARP. The arrangement left the Federal Reserve with regulatory authority over the parent. From the Ally Bank web site: Who we are We are Ally Bank, built on the foundation of GMAC Financial Services. And with that experience we’ve learned that these times demand change .....
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POPSHot Air: Welcome to the Obama Administration’s “New Transparency” I’m sure it is … for analysts and Fannie and Freddie workers, but I’m not sure taxpayers should share that optimism. The report states the U.S. Treasury will receive preferred stock paying 10% dividends and warrants to acquire nearly 80% of the common shares in Fannie and Freddie. However, the Treasury has already loaned $60 billion to Fannie and $51 billion to Freddie. At this point, it’s hard to believe more money is the answer. Maybe the New York Times was right: Democrats plan to talk about deficit reduction in 2010 but not do anything about it for now. Or as President Obama puts it: “Mr. Obama calls it “a false choice” to pit spending to spur the economy against reducing the deficit. His advisers say the president, and American voters, favor both " spending to create jobs in the short term, and commitment to spending discipline and deficit reduction over the long term.”
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POPSLSU Tigers vs Penn State Nittany Lions - Capital One Bowl Preview The Fighting Tigers of Louisiana State University hope to get their tenth win of the season when they take on the Nittany Lions of Penn State University in the Capital One Bowl New Year's day. Les Miles hopes to improve his record in bowl games to 5-0 since taking over as Tigers head coach. In order to do so, he'll have to defeat on of the all-time greatest coaches in NCAA football history, and do so with an injury-riddled squad that is down to it's fourth running back on the depth chart. The top three Tigers running backs (Charles Scott, Richard Murphey and Keiland Williams) are all out for the season with various injuries. Penn State is hoping to improve upon the Big 10's record in major bowl games, including blowout losses by Ohio State in back-to-back BCS Championship games against Florida and LSU.
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POPSOutsourcing Data Processing Services: A Wise Tactical Decision Data processing services is important part of IT industry. Data processing services help companies to create organized information system which helps you business to be ahead of the competitors. Outsourcing data processing will be useful to gain more profit and to improve productivity.
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POPSCap and Tax Fraud What is good for Europe is good for America. This type of fraud is coming our way compliments of our congress.
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POPS401k Annuity Options are Increasing More employers are offer 401k annuity plans for their employees because annuities secure their retirement money with much less risk than the traditional products that have shown great losses recently.
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POPSFight On! Leaves Him No Choice But To Win in Afghanistan Well, for starters because it’s considered Dem accompli … not least by the GOP. There’s an element of cold harsh reality in that. This is an electorate that remained largely asleep and disinterested when lawmakers, taking their cue from the 70-30 vote against a ballot measure to phase out the income tax, raised taxes. I would have thought the GOP would be more interested in kicking off the 2010 election season with a good showing, if not a win, in bluest Mass. Those are sheep guts that all the soothsayers would want a look at.
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POPS Command and Control “This is something the party has wanted since Franklin Roosevelt.” In this view, losses are just the price of doing something great and historic. (The strategist also noted that it’s easy for Waxman and Pelosi to say that, since they come from safely liberal districts.) “At the White House, the picture is slightly different,” he continued. “Their view is, ‘We’re all in on this, totally committed, and we don’t have to run for re-election next year. There will never be a better time to do it than now.’” But no one should be feeling at all secure about the wreckers’ current desperate floundering; they will never, ever give up on this. If they fail this time, the statist Undead will be back to try again later " York’s Democrat Socialist source does let slip a certain other home truth here: At that point " Republicans will love this " he compared congressional Democrats with robbers who have passed the point of no return in deciding to hold up a bank.
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POPSWhat metaphors to you live by? I am working on a presentation on dealing with grief and loss. One of the metaphors used to mange this core issue is "a journey." No one grieves in the same way at the same speed or arrives at the same end destination (if there is one). This is why "a journey" is so useful when understanding our losses. What metaphors do you use to manage the losses in life? What general metaphors do you live by? Comment or tweet us a reply @thirstyfishinfo
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POPSFour steps to working through grief and loss The holidays bring up a lot of loss in our lives. This is especially true when we have "unresolved" losses that have not fully healed. Feeling the hurt again is not pathological. Staying stuck in it is and may require professional help in finding a path of acceptance and recovery. Here are four basic steps to helping you find your way on that path. The time and duration for the journey is different for everyone. Share your stories of healing from grief and loss. Click on the comment link to tell us about where you are on the path!
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POPS Sarah Rocks on Conan's Reading Duo With William Shatner Earlier this year, I linked to a Palin-friendly interview Andrew Breitbart did on Neil Cavuto. In it, he set Gov. Palin a challenge: Cavuto: "What should she do?" Breitbart: "I think she just continues being Sarah Palin and I think that she needs to go out there and show that she has a fight in her because this is like Rocky Two: Can this person come back from a drubbing?" After the launch of her mega-bestselling autobiography, her whirlwind book tour, her knock 'em dead appearance at the Gridiron dinner, and her awesome head to head with William Shatner on the Tonight Show, I think we can safely say the answer to that question is 'yes'. Or rather: hell yeah! And when I mean connected, I really mean connected. Not just showing a likable personality - funny, smart, willing to have a laugh at her own expense - but connecting at a more basic level; the level which defines what really makes people American. http://bit.ly/8GtMHe
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POPSJury Says: Bayer GM Rice Contaminated Rice Crops in Neighboring Louisiana Fields Bayer in cooperation with LSU researchers receiving funding from Bayer, found guilty of damaging neighboring fields. Bayer was researching a crop modified to resist a Bayer pesticide similar to how Monsanto has used GM methods to make Round Up ready corn. Illustrates the probvlem is not just GM - the problem is the nexus of cross interests between Bayer, or Monsanto with the FDA and with university "scientists" whose labs depend upon industry funding support, as well as FDA support, and US Congress members who write in supports for these methods and companies into a variety of laws and regulations, as well as international aid regulations.
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POPSThe Moral Hazard of a One-Party System It's the shared agendas of the two major parties (so-called) that are so perilous... not the simplistic left-right arguments which feed the media maw... And keep so many arguing about which is the "good" cop and which the " bad."
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POPSOutsourced Sales - For Better Profts Are you into small business? If so outsourcing your sales staff will be a profitable option. In general these outsourced companies will make leads and they also close sales for your company. These companies are highly experised in market research and sales and they will catch your target market and they will do the sales for your product or service in a capable method.
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POPSFrom champions to nowhere The thrashing in Nagpur was just the latest in a series of embarrassing losses in T20 cricket for the Indian team in recent times.
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POPSEPA Formally Declares CO2 a Dangerous Pollutant major findings and conclusions from recent assessments of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change .” The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis study of the economic effects of carbon dioxide regulations found cumulative gross domestic product (GDP) losses of $7 trillion by 2029 single-year GDP losses exceeding $600 billion in some years, energy cost increases of 30 percent or more, and annual job losses exceeding 800,000 for several years. Hit particularly hard is manufacturing, which will see job losses in some industries that exceed 50 percent. And George Will writes that any emissions reduction target, whether they come from the EPA, cap and trade, or a Copenhagen treaty are simply unattainable: “Barack Obama, understanding the histrionics required in climate-change debates, promises that U.S. emissions in 2050 will be 83 percent below 2005 levels.
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POPS Limo Libs Take A Hit Barney didn’t do so bad, though. Not so good at managing other people’s money, but a shrewd investor where his own bottom line is concerned. Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of Congress’ financial services committee, which oversaw the banking crisis, suffered relatively minimal losses as his net worth went from an estimated $1.3 million to $972,000, the study found. “The fact is it depends on where people had their money. In my case, I have been most heavily invested in assets that didn’t suffer major losses,” Frank said. “Members of Congress are full participants in the economy - for the good and the bad.” Here’s the net worth of the Massachusetts delegation. Boston Herald . http://bit.ly/70Lwaz Question: How do career public servants, who have presided over decades of mounting deficits and repeated financial debacles, rack up this kind of wealth? I know, there’s golddigging here, legacy there, stints in white-shoe law offices .......
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