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When the current Supreme Court voted to weaken students' recognized first amendment rights, while strengthening recognized corporate free speech rights in a separate opinion released on the same day, it should have been clear to most people that the SCOTUS does not consider the Constitution to be the most important consideration when deliberating. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Or perhaps because they have. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

I think it had more to do with lower interest rates increasing demand for houses, and increased demand leading to higher market values (but only while the demand remains high) than it had to do with sellers raising prices because buyers are getting lower payments. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

It's pretty safe to say that for most everyone else, it was about voting *against* Bush, and not voting *for* Kerry. Ain't American politics grand? Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

It's not just the Republican Congressmen that lack a spine. Don't make it partisan. This is about an incompetent Executive branch and a cowardly Legislative Branch, not partisan politics. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

I was tested as a kid. I have no idea how I did. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Didn't you hear? Clinton got a blow job. (I bet W's jealous!) Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

I'd much rather see him actually attempt that carrier landing from his mission accomplished (I wonder how the troops think that's going) photo-op. Solo. At night. Drunk. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Let me guess. You're still trying to cash his $50 million dollar check so you can send him the change and the paper, right? Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

In life yes, but not in science. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

First, your link is completely irrelevant. The consumers who obtained fixed rate mortgages are not the ones in trouble. They may be living in houses that are mortgaged for more than they're currently worth, but so long as their housing budget doesn't decrease, they should be okay. They just don't have the option of selling their homes without losing money. That's a good thing in the big picture, because it helps keep supply down in a slow housing market. The people who took out ARMs that they didn't realize they couldn't afford from lenders who didn't care because they know the mortgages would be sold off prior to any problems are the consumers that are in trouble, the ones that are facing foreclosures and undermining the mortgage backed securities market. The 1990s were a period of great economic growth, and the technology market offered plenty of opportunity for innovation and improved efficiency. Unfortunately, we also saw tech stocks overvalued. Larger companies often paid too much to buy start-ups that were little more than partially developed ideas. There was a lot of speculation, and poor business decisions. The tech market was largely a new one, and it's future was unclear, without much history to analyze to make predictions. Mortgages, on the other hand, have been around for a long time. It is pretty well known how the housing markets reacts from different stimuli. There was much criticism to the continued lowering of the interest rates. The housing bubble was foreseen. Even Greenspan saw it. He even goes so far as to say the "political establishment" would not have found higher interest rates acceptable. (He also argues that raising the interest rates higher or faster would not have helped, that the housing bubble was inevitable, but many of his critics disagree.) Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Are you referring to the "compassionate conservative" who would not engage in nation building? W. misrepresented himself plenty in 2000. By 2004, he had already demonstrated total incompetence, so it's more difficult to understand how he got more than a dozen or so votes nation wide. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Actually, there is nothing in the Constitution forbidding those under eighteen from voting. It just makes it illegal to forbid someone who has reached the age of eighteen from voting on the basis of age. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

I disagree. One could, for example, listen to NPR's news and watch a couple dozen news programs and television and be reasonable informed. They may not be as informed as someone who reads four newspapers daily, but they would certainly be reasonably informed. Now, they may well have trouble reading the ballot, but that is a different issue. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Like the current Commander In Chief? I certainly agree that he is a spineless coward who is afraid to put it on the line to do what is right. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

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If it's not testable, it's not science. Period. No exceptions. That's the whole point of science; it is the practice of the scientific method. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

It might be worth noting that neither Nancy Reagan nor Hillary Clinton have made presidential decisions, unless you are talking about being class president, or something like that. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

I've never heard that about Jung. Do you have a source? Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

If there were any similarities between the two things, you might have a point. Unfortunately, there isn't. Bush and his administration were directly responsible for lowering the interest rates far beyond the point that the market would suggest they be. There was a lot of criticism for about those decisions at the time, that it would lead to problems. How exactly did the Clinton administration cause Enron to recognize unearned income? Was Slick Willy (insert blowjob joke here) supposed to personally audit every American company to make sure they followed GAAP? Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

I have to disagree here. The Fed kept lowering interest rates during Bush II's first term. This, in combination with some unethical practices on the part of some lenders and some unwise purchasing decisions on the part of home buyers contributed greatly to the current mortgage crisis. Bush certainly is not solely responsible, but he (alone or via his administration) played a significant role in creating the problem. In late 1995 I was paying under $2.00 per gallon in Hawaii, where gasoline was significantly more expensive than on the mainland, where it was about $1.20-$1.30. I certainly don't recall a $1.00 (or more) increase in price per gallon in a year's time during that time period. Gas prices may not have tripled in the past seven years, but they have doubled, or close to it. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Fairly steadily since troops began returning from tours. I always let them bring the subject up, so I know more vets than I've spoken with about the war. Many different things. Some have been combat arms, others have been REMFs. They have ranged fro EMs to E8s. I don't believe I've spoken to any officers on the topic. All over. It has been a fairly random sample of returning troops. It has been my experience with wartime vets in general that the REMFs are usually the most vocal supporters, and the troops that actually see combat are the ones that express the senselessness of it all. The vets from this war don't seem any different. Oftentimes those that brag the most about all the action they saw never actually saw any. I've known few combat vets from any war that are very willing to talk about combat, at least not when they're sober and not to non-combat vets or civilians. They want to put that shit behind them, not relive it. Out of respect, I refrain from asking. If they want to talk, they will. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

If you believe that, then you apparently misunderstood my original statement (or perhaps the follow-up). We are not mitigating the violence anywhere nearly as effectively as SH did. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

I would say at least half of the returning vets I've talked to have reiterated that things are not going well in Iraq. All of the multi-war vets I've talked to (in person) have reiterated that. Granted, it has only been a handful that fall into that category, but there certainly isn't universal, or anything resembling universal approval of the war or the way it is going by the soldiers returning from fighting in it. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!