Craig Fugate, FEMA Nominee, Blocked By David Vitter

Ditto that. Rethuglicans remind me of the old plastic toy-dog for the cars that bobbed its head up and down when the car was moving. In their case, their head is bobbing left to right and that's all they're capable of. Neutered and impotent, the current GOP.
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Going to Jail to Fight Genocide

Right on. I'm sure the good Rabi will have a few words to say about that - NOT! I'm shocked there aren't more responses to your post. Normally, the paid AIPAC-counter-posters get in a tizzy over factual posts like yours.
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New Transformers 2 Trailer: Megan Fox In Daisy Dukes And Shia At Princeton (VIDEO)

While we're on this subject of sexism, who are the consumers of women's magazines (you know the ones where the cover highlights "do this to cause that in his pants", etc., etc.). Every single one of those magazines, IMO, cheapen women by focusing so much on what women should do to please men. From advice columns, advertisement, to the review of makeup, clothes and even horoscopes that are focused like a laser beam on the day-to-day insecurities of young and impressionable women.

Yes, guys love beautiful bare nekkid ladies - no doubt there, we're all guilty as charged! However, the ladies can't claim immunity from sexism either so long as they continue to consume the over hyped commercialism of sexuality in the shimmering pages of Cosmo and Marie Claire!

I'm not suggesting y'all start reading Popular Mechanics and start wearing dungarees, but change must come by and for the ladies in the MSM!
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Kelly McGillis: I'm A Lesbian

Don't close the book on this one yet. Mimi was adamant that Tom couldn't deliver the goods in the sack, apparently shot blanks with Nicole and if you pay close attention to his daughter you'll notice that she has an uncanny resemblance to Tom's cousin William Mapathor (he's also an actor, you can catch him on Lost's old episodes - compare the daughter and his eyes). I'd venture a very good guess that Katie was basted with cousin William's mojo!

Tom is a draw and a cash cow for the "Church". They've turned him into an institution - his shortcomings and image are guarded like State Secrets (they successfully brow-beat Sumner Redstone after the MI-III movie fiasco).
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Old Japanese Maps On Google Earth Unveil Secrets

You're not off-base at all with the Indian tangent or the allusion to the ancient caste system in Persia. As a matter of fact, I was thinking along the same line and find it interesting how these two great cultures have dealt with similar issues like this in recent times.

The Japanese intelligentsia, however, has been woefully quiet over the decades when it comes to the stunningly brutal practices of the past - including the subject matter and especially the Sino-Japanese wars. I often wonder that maybe the vector of brutality was re-pointed into this post-war industrial revolution to conquer all with the Yen, rather than the tip of Samurai's sword.
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Citi Could Need $10 Billion In New Capital

To answer your question about the accuracy of the data or the reporting, I have one word - Lies!

The fact remains, absent requisite regulation in the recent past, we've had nothing more than Casino Capitalism and cooked-up books that defy every valuation method.

FASB, the self-proclaimed vanguard of the financial industry, has repeatedly skewed the "standards" to prop-up the values of dying, if not already dead, companies. Check out the latest scam (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601091&sid=awSxPMGzDW38&refer=india)

This is simply frightening - the ability to change rules like the "mark-to-market" to gin-up profit as you please. He//, I've got some used undies I'd like to sell at hundred bucks a piece!

FASB's, in collusion with the shylocks at ABA is what gave the American Homeowners the gift of shaft (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/30/banks-beat-howeowners-for_n_193902.html).

Where are the pitchfork marches!
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Stress Tests: The Same Clever Financial Engineering That Led To The Crisis In The First Place?

This "stress test" is like someone smelling a fart to figure out if the patient has a serious colon cancer! What a joke. This wool that they're trying to pull on everyone's eyes is eerily similar to Bush telling the entire nation that Iraq had WMD. The fact remains, as Marinade and Carolb allude to earlier in the post, that the; development and implementation of a fair, regulated and transparent financial system is what's needed - but instead, we're being sold yet another bogus bill of goods.

The patient is facing imminent demise, and the shaman is blowing smoke up his a$$ to cure the ill.
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