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Since Obama was selected President, the market's done what ?
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 8:19 AM
STORYMARK
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 8:31 AM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 8:36 AM
RIVERLOVE
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 8:38 AM
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 9:27 AM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 9:53 AM
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 10:14 AM
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:02 PM
AURAPTOR
America loves a winner!
Quote:Originally posted by SignyM: So c'mon Rappy, come up with ONE example where "the government" forced a bank to make a bad loan. One single, real example. I dare ya. --------------------------------- Let's party like its 1929.
Quote: THE seeds of todays financial meltdown lie in the Community Reinvestment Act - a law passed in 1977 and made riskier by unwise amendments and regulatory rulings in later decades. CRA was meant to encourage banks to make loans to high-risk borrowers, often minorities living in unstable neighborhoods. That has provided an opening to radical groups like ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) to abuse the law by forcing banks to make hundreds of millions of dollars in subprime loans to often uncreditworthy poor and minority customers. Any bank that wants to expand or merge with another has to show it has complied with CRA - and approval can be held up by complaints filed by groups like ACORN. In fact, intimidation tactics, public charges of racism and threats to use CRA to block business expansion have enabled ACORN to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in loans and contributions from Americas financial institutions . The Woods Fund report makes it clear Obama was fully aware of the intimidation tactics used by ACORNs Madeline Talbott in her pioneering efforts to force banks to suspend their usual credit standards. Yet he supported Talbott in every conceivable way. He trained her personal staff and other aspiring ACORN leaders, he consulted with her extensively, and he arranged a major boost in foundation funding for her efforts. And, as the leader of another charity, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Obama channeled more funding Talbotts way - ostensibly for education projects but surely supportive of ACORNs overall efforts.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:03 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SignyM: Well, I noticed that Rappy never DID give me his definition of a "depression", and for the life of me I can't imagine why not: it was the easiest question I've ever asked him, or likely ever will! --------------------------------- Let's party like its 1929.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:12 PM
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:17 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SignyM: I get the feeling you're here either to proselytize or to fight, but nothing else.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:29 PM
Quote:This item seeks to dump much of the blame for America's current economic woes on Barack Obama by claiming that as a young lawyer, Obama filed a lawsuit requiring financial institutions to lend money to "poor people" and "others who could not show proof that they could pay the money back." Although there is a (very) vague element of fact underneath this politicking, the piece quoted above is woefully wrong in all its particulars. The 1994 case of Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank Fed. Sav. Bank had nothing to do with requiring lenders to do business with people "who could not show proof that they could pay the money back." The case was a class-action lawsuit against Citibank Federal Savings on behalf of a black Chicago woman, Selma Buycks-Roberson, who claimed she was unfairly denied a mortgage based on her race. The lawsuit sought to end the practice of redlining, a discriminatory practice by which banks, insurance companies, and other business institutions refuse or limit loans, mortgages, insurance, etc., based solely on the geographic area in which the applicant lives (a practice that commonly excludes minorities in inner-city neighborhoods, regardless of their income or ability to pay). Specifically, the lawsuit charged that Citibank "rejected loan applications of minority applicants while approving loan applications filed by white applicants with similar financial characteristics and credit histories."
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:33 PM
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:42 PM
RUE
I have a vote and I'm not afraid to use it!
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:47 PM
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:51 PM
Quote:Of coruse they're not going to admit that
Quote:Originally posted by rue: Rap The case couldn't be won on somebody's say-so. They had to get actual company documentation to prove their case. Really, now you're just being a silly goose. *************************************************************** Silence is consent.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 1:07 PM
Quote:Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been able to buy bundles of home mortgages, or mortgage-backed securities, in massive quantities without real-world considerations of financial risk, because they could count on the federal government to bail them out if things went south.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 1:51 PM
SWISH
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Of coruse they're not going to admit that, but that's actually what did happen.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 2:09 PM
CHRISISALL
Quote:Originally posted by swish: Chrisisall - is Auraptor really your alter-ego, created to make it easy for us liberal types to win debates so easily? Because this chump is a... well, it's just hard to believe anyone's alleged brain actually functions like this.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 2:47 PM
Quote:Originally posted by swish: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Of coruse they're not going to admit that, but that's actually what did happen.Cites, please? God, you make this easy. It's like you're a liberal posing as a conservative just to make conservatives look like idiots. Chrisisall - is Auraptor really your alter-ego, created to make it easy for us liberal types to win debates so easily? Because this chump is a... well, it's just hard to believe anyone's alleged brain actually functions like this.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 3:29 PM
GINOBIFFARONI
Quote:Originally posted by Storymark: Quote:Originally posted by swish: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Of coruse they're not going to admit that, but that's actually what did happen.Cites, please? God, you make this easy. It's like you're a liberal posing as a conservative just to make conservatives look like idiots. Chrisisall - is Auraptor really your alter-ego, created to make it easy for us liberal types to win debates so easily? Because this chump is a... well, it's just hard to believe anyone's alleged brain actually functions like this. That's a waste of time. This is Rappy SOP, deny cited information from widely accepted sources, then make a contrary claim without evidence (or occationally, some editorial from a far-right site, see above), claim it as fact, then call the other person a liar or moron for not making their case. You're right, though - he's so far off the charts, he comes off as parody. "I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 3:45 PM
Quote:Originally posted by GinoBiffaroni: Quote:Originally posted by Storymark: You're right, though - he's so far off the charts, he comes off as parody. That is because Rappy is really Stephen Colbert
Quote:Originally posted by Storymark: You're right, though - he's so far off the charts, he comes off as parody.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 4:47 PM
FREMDFIRMA
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 4:53 PM
BIGDAMNNOBODY
Quote:Originally posted by Fremdfirma: Yanno, I miss Hero already. He's on vacation out west, I hope he's havin a good time.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 5:27 PM
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 8:00 PM
JEWELSTAITEFAN
Thursday, November 27, 2008 12:29 AM
Quote:Originally posted by rue: In 2006 the Democrats got a slim majority in the House and broke even with repubicans in the Senate. But let's assume for a moment the Democrats had some actual power in Congress starting 2006. Did you even look at the DOW chart ? Go ahead. Look at it. Tell me what it did in 2006. Then come back and tell me how wrong, wrong, wrong you were to attribute anything good to the Democrats in 2006 ...
Thursday, November 27, 2008 6:48 AM
Thursday, November 27, 2008 7:01 AM
Thursday, November 27, 2008 5:29 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Attachment : Obama's recent appointments and remarks have shown , at least for now, that he's not planning to govern from the far, far left, but is showing signs of moving to the centre. Cautiously optimistic It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager " They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
Thursday, November 27, 2008 8:20 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Attachment : Obama's recent appointments and remarks have shown , at least for now, that he's not planning to govern from the far, far left, but is showing signs of moving to the centre. Cautiously optimistic
Friday, November 28, 2008 6:38 AM
DARKJESTER
Quote:Hillary and Daschle and Janet Napolitano are not far left???? Near the center?? Sometimes you convince me you are delusional.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 12:08 AM
Quote:Originally posted by DarkJester: Now THAT is rich! Rap is nothing if not consistently conservative.
Monday, December 1, 2008 11:32 AM
WHOZIT
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 11:08 PM
JAYNEZTOWN
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 4:46 AM
DREAMTROVE
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:14 AM
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:20 AM
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:32 AM
Quote:Originally posted by rue: Rap I just had to ask about this: "Since Obama was selected President, the market's done what ?" Do you not believe an election took place that Obama won by a wide margin ?
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:33 AM
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:35 AM
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 10:39 AM
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 10:45 AM
Quote:Originally posted by rue: Oh, BTW, since Obama was sworn in the DOW's gone up about 180 pints. *************************************************************** Silence is consent.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 10:46 AM
Quote:Originally posted by rue: "There's been a regime change, and a coup perpitrated by the main stream media." Assuming what you say is true for the sake of argument, did the MSM install dubya ? *************************************************************** Silence is consent.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 11:30 AM
Quote: Oh, BTW, since Obama was sworn in the DOW's gone up about 180 pints.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 10:48 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote:Originally posted by rue: Oh, BTW, since Obama was sworn in the DOW's gone up about 180 pints.
Quote:Originally posted by rue: Oh, BTW, since Obama was sworn in the DOW's gone up about 180 pints.
Quote: Actually, it went down 332 pts. Today it's come back almost to where it was, +279.72 It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager " They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
Thursday, January 22, 2009 2:43 AM
Quote:Originally posted by jewelstaitefan: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote:Originally posted by rue: Oh, BTW, since Obama was sworn in the DOW's gone up about 180 pints. Delusional much? Quote: Actually, it went down 332 pts. Today it's come back almost to where it was, +279.72 It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager " They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
Thursday, January 22, 2009 5:09 AM
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