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I'm not crazy!! (well at least about this)

I am sitting here not touching my desk or the lamp and I swear they are moving back and forth ever so gently. They just stopped, and I tried to make them move in a similar manner by moving my chair, or shaking my feet , or whatever, and I can't. Weird.

Winning the lawsuit is a CIVIL matter, and juries are what they are. It has nothing to do with the CRIME she committed by being in this country illegally. Deport her as required under the laws of the United States, and if she can find someone here to keep her anchor baby, then the baby can stay. The baby is a citizen, not the mother. Being the mother of a citizen, particularly when that mother is demonstrably and admittedly guilty of a crime, does not make you eligible for citizenship. Why is that so hard to understand?

This is the best site I've found so far: My Fox Hurricane They have the latest runs of the spaghetti models and more maps than you can shake a stick at. Right now the spaghetti models have it tracking further east. Most have it missing the mainland completely now. My fingers are crossed for you HHS.

Every update of the track has it going further to the East. It is now expected to make landfall at about the SC/NC border, and will be well offshore as it passes by FL and GA. Looks like no significant rain for us.

I'm glad it hasn't. More people need to be exposed to the reality of what is really going on in our economy as we speak, and like it or not, right now it is the political economy that is controlling Main Street and our wallets. Unfortunately it has in sections devolved, but it is still principally an economic discussion.

Exports will always move inverse to the strength of a particular currency (Germany moved from 5th to 3rd in the world strictly on the basis of the devalued Euro), but this is an offsetting effect of the generally bad results of devaluation. No economist would recommend devaluation as a means to economic security. Germany imports almost exactly as much as she exports, totally offsetting any export benefit. Also of note is that Germany, while a large im/ex partner of the Euro Zone, has much of her commerce outside the Zone. The US is her second largest market, the UK is her fourth, and China

SP: Germany is not looking at trade modifications, which will continue, and I don't think that trade agreements included in the original EU treaties will be modified. They work quite well, as you correctly state. What Germany is looking at is CURRENCY stability. Were she to return to the D-mark, and leave the Euro (remember that Britain is in the EU but does not use the Euro), she would insure that her fiat currency would not be debased by the debt of others. Germany was one of the strongest supporters of the Euro, and was instrumental in the agreement's inclusion of debt limits for al

The Chicago Fed National Index did not drop below the trend base of -.7, as some feared it might. This is good news only in the sense that it indicates that we might not be entering a new recession, but we still have slowing "growth" below trend......Woopee. In geopolitical news, it looks like Gadhafi may be out very shortly. This is dropping the price of Brent Crude, which should help the stock market today. Also possibly on the table this week will be Germany's "Sophie's Choice". Merkel must decide between economic stability for Germany, or continuing to be the EU's Cash Cow, a tre

Actually, Bush and Congress misused TARP. It was not used to purchase toxic assets, but to buy stock in failing companies to supplement the fiscal stimulus. The liquidity that actually saved the financial industry was all injected by Bernanke in the first 4 months of the crisis. Every dime spent since then has been flushed down the drain in the spirit of "do something even if it is wrong".

Defeating Homelessness Jeff Goldinger has an LA homeless project that boasts an 89% success rate getting it's participants to become self supporting citizens. The key may be quite simple: Accountability. Backsliding is never rewarded. Every able bodied person is assigned a task, similar to a job, and are rewarded for completing that task. As tasks are completed satisfactorily, rewards are given out. The longer the dedication to the program and the more difficult the task, the greater the reward, until the participant gets a $3000 bank account, help with medical and dental problems,

I wanted Emma Peel.

Gosh, as a kid maybe Roy Rogers, Sky King, and the Bob Cummings Show. Of course Ed Sullivan and Dobie Gillis. Later I guess it would be The Man from Uncle, The Twilight Zone, Rowan and Martin, The Smothers Brothers, Mash, and Happy Days.

In Philly, they are calling them "flash ROBS"

I opened my first business in 1969, started my second in 1974, and my third in 1989. I graduated college in 1980. The only time I started anew without an economic cloud over our collective heads was when I started my current business in 1996. I also made it through the 2001 recession with no problem. The difference is not the recession as much as it is the slow pace of recovery.

A little perspective on exactly where we are in this "recovery" vs. every other recovery. Worst Jobs Recovery Ever Bummer of a Recovery "Employment is now 5.0% below what it was at the start of the recession, 38 months ago. This compares to an average rise in employment of 3.7% over the same period in prior post-WWII recessions." "Real GDP has risen 0.8% over the 13 quarters since the recession began, compared to an average increase of 9.9% in past recoveries. From the beginning of the recession to April 2011, real personal income has grown just .9

Do you know the difference between federal Regulators and the Department of Justice?

NO' your assertion is the one that is convoluted. As of right now, I am 100% correct. There IS EVIDENCE that S&P is under DOJ investigation, and there is NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER that Moody's is. So when you get evidence that Moody's is under DOJ Investigation, let us know mkay? I can also say that Obama is not under DOJ investigation right now, should I retract that because it is "unverified"? Do you ever read what you right?

Wasn't Summer 2010 announced as "recovery summer"?

Those of you who may be eligible for USAA should really look into them. The rest should consider a credit union. Seriously folks, the power is in your hands. You can bitch about Wells, Nationsbank, Suntrust, et.al, or you can move your money to someone who actually offers customer service. I will say that unless LGEFCU has changed in the last five years, I would not recommend them. We dropped them for both low return and poor customer service a few years back when they started allowing anyone to apply.

I moved all of my accounts from Wachovia the day before Wells took over. Everyone has that ability. If you don't like the way a bank conducts business, there is another one right across the street. What Dodd Frank did was set government price controls on one aspect of the banking business. Those retail banks that rely upon merchant fees for profit simply shifted the cost directly to the consumer. Dodd/ Frank is not what it was supposed to be. It is regulation for regulation's sake that raises the cost of compliance with hundreds of pages of government micromanagement. That cost wil

Yes, You can thank Dick Durbin (D), Chris Dodd (D) and Barney Frank (D).

There were no economic indicators scheduled for release today. That should count as good news I guess.

South Carolina has announced that they will cover a local male construction worker's breast cancer treatments under Medicaid even though Federal guidelines prohibit it. They are daring the Federal Government to reject his claim on the basis of sex. In the meantime, the state has guaranteed payment for his treatment under the guidelines for a female Medicaid patient. It is unclear why the law was written to exclude men. The CMMS claims that there is a conflict between two laws that prevents them from paying such a claim. "They told us after consulting with their lawyers we couldn't cover

Quite honestly, if you have no assets for someone to go after, it is to your benefit to carry liability that will only cover an average loss. Perhaps 50/100/50 instead of the required 25/50/25. It is unlikely that you will be sued for "pain and suffering", as a "turnip", if you have insurance that covers the injured parties actual material loss, and there are a lot of cars on the roads worth over $25k. In certain cases, a judgement against you can conceivably be taken out of your paycheck, so "turnip" is a relative term. You should also carry comprehensive and collision on any car 8 years o