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Someone went over Niagra Fall in one of these and survived but the ride probably was not as rough as this one. Trust no one, including the ferris wheel operator, or people coming towards you in a car. Their head is probably down looking at their cell.

The National Guard was called out to Kent State for the reasons I mentioned. Not because 'some students needed killin' IAGO you are right. That was the reason but what was the motivation for the students to take over the building. Taking over a building meant, you simply stayed there after class was over and many profs participated. Yes some bottles were thrown but they called in troops to shoot students. Neil Young was so frigin enraged about this he wrote the song. Why did the students do it, because they had balls to go up against a corrupt gov't that were needlessly killing our young men and women in a war that made no sense whatsoever. Try thowing gasoline or take over a building today during a protest and You'll get 30 years. You basically not allowed to protest.

I'm told the movie is good and I plan to see it. The interviewer kept pressing him on his views about any link to violence films causing violence. Quenten was in in right to not answer the qustion. The interviewer should have moved on. True, he was probably pretty sick and tired about being asked about violent films in light of recent events. Often, directors and actors are not so good about selling movies but are often tied to contracts where they have to do the roadshows to gain the financing.

All people should be able to buy guns if they meet the rules of ATF and state laws. The majority of violent crime is in major metro by people carrying illegally obtained handguns. If government wants to reduce violent crime across the board, then they might focus on clubs, neighborhoods of major metro areas, not someone living in suburbia with a gun that's hardly used in violent crime. One DC resident said its hard to go clubbing without a gun as everyone else in the club has a gun. And we all know what happens when people are drinking and everyone has a gun... Cure black on black crime, and latino on latino crime and you'll continue to reduce violent crime as its been greatly reduced from 20 years ago.

Words written in our founding papers were not pulled out of thin air. They were put there from real life experiences the reason we have the right to bare arms and form militias. Lancaster CO PA home of some of the finest built muskets ever. Works of art.

Although he attributes violent crime rate to major metropolitan areas, he doesn't go deep enough to say its due to the type of people who live there, idiots using illegal handguns. Yet they want to collect white mans AR living in the suburbs when death by AR is only 3% of total deaths. Yes violent crime is an inner city problem. Surprising the focus is not on collecting illegal handguns in the cities but rather restricting the rights of responsible gun owners.

Just saw that. They reported it would not be in the publics best interest to bust him. If we turn hi cap mags into art work or sculpture near DC would we get busted? Just wondering about free speech.

There's been about 6,000 pilots handed tickets for breaking control zones. There are 17 federal agencies that deal with private pilots breaking flying through restricted zone. There is a glider club next to Camp David. Since 911 the club has been cut back but fortunately they have a waiver and must abide by certain flight rules they didn't have abide by before 911. The construct of restricted zones after 911 was an employment bonaza for federal agencies staffing to deal with pilots. It's an industry totally constructed by the gov't and in some cases designed to snare pilots. See fly through area between Baltimore and WAshington. Best to steer clear as you'd only be helping that gov't worker if you make a mistake. Btw: Military jets intercepted a Bonaza carrying a doc and his family back from Bahama off NC and one jet ran into them and downed the doc. All dead. Stupid military for their actions as the doc was on IFR and talking to ATC another case of Federal agencies not talking to each other. This was in the 70's.

Everyone who owns a car ought to just stop driving for a couple of weeks to let every know who's boss.

OH I got it, any disturbance you create that breaks peace, means you are guilty of BREECH OF PEACE. I never heard of this law. FOLKS, government intrusion is gaining momentum and if WE don't shut this BS down its only going to get worse. For Crips sakes he's a glider pilot! And they handcuff him and threw him in a cell. This makes me puke what we've become. It's going to end up, LEO vs Citizens

There is not one office building in DC that you could just walk in and get on an elevator. If our schools are under threat of attack why are there not buzzers and attendants at the doors? This is NOT ABOUT GUNS OR VIDEO GAMES ITS ABOUT ACCESS TO GROUPS OF PEOPLE.

No more than kids dying in swimming pools, traffic accidents, etc. I am for ensuring if some has been determined to be a risk to themselves or others that they cannot pass the background check to purchase a firearm. I am open to ideas that will prevent these shootings. So far I haven't heard any ideas that would. Do you have any? I don't oppose scientific research. Scientific research is great. Derek V OPENING YOUR MOUTH MIGHT HELP. The attendant at the front door of the local elementary school said in a meeting in front of school officials just yesterday near me: "Can we put a lock on the front door near where I sit. Right now any person can walk right in. We need a vestibule and a buzzer. I don't feel safe sitting here." One person upon hearing the person say that said: "Now that's a good idea." As if no one had ever thought to lock the door. No one ever mentioned it. State the concern, develope a plan, and put the plan into action. This is not rocket science. Our schools are under attack and getting rid of everyones guns is the LAST SOLUTION.

You've not achieved diddly. You answered junk was not rated AAA when it was, which is unbelievable. I like those terms: "Written Down" What does that mean?: writing down the debt to a lesser value than what it was before the write down. More financial wizardry. OK today the debts a billion. Tomorrow lets make it 500 million. That should do it. OH, the idea of of buying and selling debt is one of our problems the reason the Araba way of finance is much better. And the reason Arab banks didn't fail. Every piece of paper is tied to a tangable asset where as Wall Streets way every piece or paper is tied to another piece of paper that you might not be sure any value. Gold is no longer a standard, some guy's paper is the standard. ON THIS END NOTE, and since I'm a really good guy who doesn't have to continually state as you do, that I'm a sane person, I'm going to give you something. It should cap off exactly your world. --------------------------------------------------------- Genuine Authorized Certificate ONE BILLION BONDS Par value. $1.00 each Made payable to Weekender for being such a sane informative person, and very engaging with all his banking expertise. Signed by issuer: OHCHUTE ___________________________________________ Mr. Sanity, Just print it out along with all your words as all will grow in value over time. BTW its insured, and you'll have no problem selling it to one of your banking buddies. Just let me know if you want me to send over the BOND INSURANCE COVERAGE document. OH and BTW, the Bonds are rated AAA. IF you need the rating certificate, let me know. I have that one here too I can send you which will help you sell my generous gift for a profit. And OH btw way, Steel Workers Union is ripe to be sold bonds. Give them a call. Hank over there will buy the billion from you for 1.2b so hey time to party. You're a funny banker. Have a great day.

After I said I'd refrain from using "front end paper" in describing mortgages, now you are using "front end paper in refering to mortgages. Although I think this will take more effort than I have time for I'll sum it for you. Finally. It doesn't take a lot of decision makers to make a financial crisis. At Enron, only two people went to jail and that involved billions. Mizolo and his crew at Countrywide handled billions too for which there was a class action suit waged againt Countrywide and there is a criminal fraud case pending against him individually for his crimes. If you think for a second countrywide wasn't talking to others he exchanged money and papers with, you are pretty misguided. You answered no to the question that JUNK was NOT rated AAA. I don't know how you could say that as it's been reported pretty heavily that papers were given bogus ratings in order to make the investments saleable. And everyone along the chain of the SCAM were incentivized to do things they would not normally do: false ratings, generating bogus mortgages to fuel the Mortgage Backed Securities, insuring securities they knew were bogus etc. The only people that didn't know anything were the people with money who were taken advantage of by these scumbags. I gather Lehman was selected as the fall guy as they had most of the paper and they knew they were holding the bag so conveniently they went out of biz and many headed to Brazil to cool off. Probably back in biz under a different name. Speaking of a phony world, imaginary concepts and instruments, the financail industry reeks of such instruments as its so easy to create a penny piece of paper and call it an instrument or security. Whereas creating a John Deer tractor or build a house take effort, the press, now the computer, can churns billions of papers into billions of instruments with one push of a button. And the idea you suggest these guys, as few as they may be, don't talk to each other as they hand each other money. You've got to be kidding. President Bush was in Cayman a few months ago to meet with Hedge Fund managers most of whom do FUND TO FUND money transfers and you claim they don't talk to each other. You are stating the same things bankers stated during learning about the crisis. We didn't know about it. Or the investments were too complicated to either understan them. Balon. People knew what they were doing. So tell us what happened to all the toxic debt created by all your bogus papers. What did the banks do with that or in their fantasy world of imginary concepts? Did they just push the ERASE button and recaluculate their balance sheets to get rid of the debt as we've not heard about toxic debt for a long time now and I suspect your financial buddies are happy the public has forgotten THOSE PAPERS, what ever you might call them now THAT THOSE PAPERS HAVE DISAPPEARED. I guess the toxic debt evaporated into nothing. Gone in your phoney financial world that OWNS THIS COUNTRY with all their financial wizzardry. Here's a one of your kind who says he didn't know what was happening. The crisis just happened. We can't explain it. Sure.... http://consumerist.com/2010/05/07/countrywide-settles-class-action-suit-for-624-million/

It is curious your attention to detail, and words used to talk about the same item. OK since you disagree with the use of "front end paper" I'll retract the use of front-end-paper and stick with Mortgages instead. Although the question for you is still tabled, I believe a discussion about financial terms is necessary. I find it particualar interesting that the FINANCIAL INDUSTRY is the only INDUSTRY that can label its own papers. They can call their papers JUNK and that's OK. But somehow according to you if I use FRONT END PAPER, as a means to describe mortgages, FRONT END PAPER that CountryWIDE was printing at such a fast rate their printing pressess melted, to aid the mortgage back security guys efforts, that's not OK. In using the term FRONT END PAPER, I was being polite in my description of labeling papers used to start the scam. I was considering using: DOG CRAP, which is what those papers amounted to in discussing your glorious papers. Now answer the question or we shall surely see what is dog crap and what is a plate of your finest food. As I'm not dishing any canine fare.

Thanks so much for taking the time to post these quotes.

Spoken like a banker, now that the banker chooses to actually discusss the matter. Witholding information is just as culpable as lying. The guy who orginated the mortgage and loan knowing that mortgagee couldn't pay and then selling the note to someone else without letting them know the mortgage was bogus is in my opinion fraud. There was much withhold of info, not only bank to bank but internally with employees who were kept in the dark purposely. I have always been discussing finance. you were the one discussing something that only exist in your head. made up products sold by fictional characters was the thesis of your rants. its humorous how now you try to act as though im the one getting on board with the topic. The rest of your post is just your normal nonsense and merits no response from someone who actually understands the topic. another failed attempt to summarize a situation you have no knowledge on nor the ability to understand, from what i gathered by your use of fictitious terms and characters. I'm still trying to figure out "front end paper" and "adverts". That is complete gibberish. if you have friends in the justice dept they have done a horrible job of explaining their job to you. I'm guessing these friends are a fantasy that only exist in the same imaginary world "adverts" push "front end paper". Hopefully you spent some time googling real terms so at a minimum you can pretend better to understand the topic. I was wrong, you don't want to discuss the matter. You are not reading or understanding. Front end paper= the mortgages that were pooled into mortgage back securities. Also, Kallend posted similar information about the the rating of securities. Why do you resort to BS when discussing the matter? You started off by attacking my spelling, avoiding the issue. Now you're coming up with much BS to do the same. Your words don't give you much creditability. I too am discussing finance and if "mortgages" or front end paper "terms" to a broad scheme that resulted in our financial collapse is unknown to you then, there's not much sense discussion the matter with you. But being the kind person I am, I'll give you one last change to help yourself out from under how horrible you are looking right now with YOUR TYPING. Lets see if you can handle one aspect. Since you are in banking, can you please tell us if it was OK S&P rated junk AAA when they knew it was junk? That is if you believe that to be true. And should you fail to answer the question and avoid answering it via circuitous language, will most definitely show you are trolling. We curiously await your response. The queston is isolated from prose to help you answer the question: Was OK S&P rated junk AAA when they knew it was junk?

I can't remember the name of the AZ artist who wss a friend of Georgia Okeef who said she ended thinking a long time ago and since she doesn't think she is free. Now deseased her art sells in the hundreds of thousands. She hadn't read a paper or watched TV for 40 years so her mind was free and uncluttered. I saw her speak in video and she told the interviewer why clutter the mind. So if my mind is free I'm I truely free eventhough I might not be free. I could sit here and be any where I've been before as I have a memory. What is freedom?

Spoken like a banker, now that the banker chooses to actually discusss the matter. Witholding information is just as culpable as lying. The guy who orginated the mortgage and loan knowing that mortgagee couldn't pay and then selling the note to someone else without letting them know the mortgage was bogus is in my opinion fraud. There was much withhold of info, not only bank to bank but internally with employees who were kept in the dark purposely.

The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair

Bernie did not run a bank. he was not guilty of bank fraud. he was a money manager. That's what I've been saying all along. Bernie ran a Ponzi, but Bernie was outside the Bankster Industry. Hence he got caught. I suspect Bernie is sorry he wasn't in banking as if he were he might have enjoyed the benefits of a Ponzie AS ALL THE OTHER BANKERS ENJOYED without repercussions. All the worlds banks were participants in a huge ponzi that failed the reason the banking crisis and NOT ONE PERSON WENT TO JAIL. It's a double standard.

Your post makes no sense to me. I'm sorry, perhaps you know something i do not. I suppose its possible you know more about banking than me. if i had to guess, based on your fictional term, "front end paper" i'm not the one who is lacking knowledge on what happened to this country. I am at a huge disadvantage in this discussion because i am saddled with the burden of knowledge on the topic. you on the other hand, can make up terms and theories and expect me to make a coherent response to them. its just not possible. i only respond to people like you for the edification of other readers. so they see how clueless people like you are in finance and do not repeat your comments. i dont want them to feel as embarrassed as you should be right now Well we got through the English discussion with much success. About terms. If you view the financial crisis started during the ending years of Bush's term in its entiretly, front end paper were the mortgages. I suppose you could label the adverts selling mortgages the front end but adverts are not financial instruments. I already defined the term. If you have trouble understanding what a mortgage is, then there's little I can do about that. Now about bankers and your attempt to only respond to me so that no one will take any misconceptions away with what I've written, combined with your words where you seemlingly alude to the fact you haven't a clue what a mortgage is, clearly demonstrates you attempt is a failure. You've offer nothing in your understanding of the financial crisis. And there was a crisis. Surely a banker would know what happened. If I don't have it right then fess up! I've only written things most have read about anyway and have reserved writing things about what my friends who work for Justice and have been investigating and prosecuting banking and financial crimes for years. Quite an eye opener banker crimes. Crimes in the sense that if they did those acts outside of their country club set of rules, they'd go to jail. Madoff as an example. Exec at BOA, JP untouched.

Since NRA supports many campaigns, I doubt seriously NRA will face much push back. It's all about money, campaign finance. I'm waiting to see any word from BIDEN/ NRA meeting today.

Weekender, there are sales guys at Standard and Poor. They sell a service right? Now the sales guys at S&P might not have been the ones applying the bogus ratings, but S&P employees fraudulently gave high ratings to paper that was junk, so that sales guys at banks could sell paper based on the attractiveness of the rating. By you saying you don't know what the front end paper is, in the giant banking scheme that involved bogus mortgage paper being pulled into mortgage back securities and were insured of default tells me you really don't have a clue what happened to this country. And you work in banking? It was a ponzi scheme predicated on fake loans, pooled, sold and then insured against failure. It failed when buyers left and Lehman was stuck with the bag of worthless paper. AND THE BANKERS< YOU, DIDN"T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE BUSINESS YOU WERE IN. So tell me all about commissions earned off of selling investments. Here bankie, buy this lot of AAA paper for 1 billion. And OH, it's insured never to fail and you'll earn 10%APR.... Funny how AIG and Lehman we're the ones left with the trash. And even those guys got there commission checks.

If the guns are taken, so goes the nation. There is no study that indicates that violent movies or games result in gun violence. Beer could be the cause of most gun violence.