Cutting the ‘2 Big 2 Fail’ down 2 size
In the discussion about banks that are “too big to fail,” I think you start with two observations:
1.) In general, competition and the discipline of failure are better, smarter regulators than government bureaucrats. That doesn’t mean government regulation is unnecessary; it does mean that regulators should be empowered to do only what the market cannot or will not do.
2.) Banks that are “too big to fail” are largely immune to the discipline of failure and to the rigors of competition.
That in turn leaves you with two basic solutions: You can greatly expand the gov’t regulation applied to the “2 Big 2 Fail,” or you can reduce and limit the size of those institutions and by doing so reintroduce the spectre of failure to the system.
There’s a move afoot in Congress to take the second approach, and I hope they have the guts to carry it out.
From the Los Angeles Times:
Angered by bailouts that have kept corporate titans such as American International Group Inc. afloat, members of a key House committee last week voted to give the government vast new power to downsize private companies, something that happens now only in the most egregious antitrust cases.
Instead of helping cushion the fall of Wall Street powerhouses through government aid or variations on traditional bankruptcy, there is growing momentum in Congress to cut those firms down to size before they start teetering to limit the damage if they do collapse.
“The era of the big bank is over,” said Simon Johnson, an MIT professor and former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund.
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josef nix
November 24th, 2009
5:52 pm
AmVet–
Why did you think of me? Well, Amnesty Interntational is one of those organizations on our support list!
Pogo
November 24th, 2009
5:55 pm
AmVet, I saw Ten Years After live three times and loved it. Alvin Lee is one of the better ax masters and he was definitely under-rated. His performance at Woodstock was great (though it was probably fueled by a few stimulants of some kind but hey, who cares?). I think what he was saying when he said, “tax the rich, feed the poor, till there are no, rich no more” he was rebelling about the legendary high tax rates in England. He also said, “tell me where is sanity?”. He certainly thrived off of the money he was making under capitalism and he deserved to be payed well because he was an excellent entertainer. He was not some kind of marxist poet, just a person trying to make sense of the madness. Not much has changed I guess.
A
November 24th, 2009
5:58 pm
Well there ya go!
Great karma, huh?
It just seemed like the kind of thing you would like.
A
November 24th, 2009
6:00 pm
No doubt Pogo, I agree with that analysis.
I too saw him once – in a tiny little place in Lakeland, Florida.
And yeah, it’s funny how in some ways that song resonates as clearly today as it did 38 years ago…
josef nix
November 24th, 2009
6:00 pm
AmVet–
Have you seen the bumper sticker: “my karma just ran over your dogma?”
RW-(the original)
November 24th, 2009
6:10 pm
So Obama has made his Afghanistan decision and we only have to wait a week to find out what it is. Funny how trillion dollar spending bills can go from intro to signature in less time.
Kamchak
November 24th, 2009
6:12 pm
josef
Shoes to kick your dogma.
Common Sense
November 24th, 2009
6:12 pm
Mike:
Sorry …….. my mistake @ 5:15. Wasn’t directed at you as I think we are in agreement on that one.
josef nix
November 24th, 2009
6:14 pm
RW– I’m waiting, but not with bated breath…
K’Chak–You’re good!
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November 24th, 2009
6:18 pm
Brazil, Japan, China, Russia and Israel are all countries with their own national interests that do not necessarily comport with those of the United States. All have come to see Obama as a diffident, dithering, doubting dilettante who can be dissed with impunity. And none of these nations is going to sacrifice what it considers critical to win a smile from Barack Obama.-RCP
Don’t forget Iran!
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josef nix
November 24th, 2009
6:21 pm
“Brazil, Japan, China, Russia and Israel are all countries with their own national interests that do not necessarily comport with those of the United States…”
And once again there’s little ole Israel right up there with the big boys…that’s one bad a** little feller…
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November 24th, 2009
6:23 pm
Now we’re talking-
This is an enormous case of organized scientific fraud, but it is not just scientific fraud. It is also a criminal act. Suborned by billions of taxpayer dollars devoted to climate research, dozens of prominent scientists have established a criminal racket in which they seek government money-Phil Jones has raked in a total of £13.7 million in grants from the British government-which they then use to falsify data and defraud the taxpayers. It’s the most insidious kind of fraud: a fraud in which the culprits are lauded as public heroes. Judging from this cache of e-mails, they even manage to tell themselves that their manipulation of the data is intended to protect a bigger truth and prevent it from being “confused” by inconvenient facts and uncontrolled criticism.-RCP
Prosecute. To the fullest extent of the law.
RW-(the original)
November 24th, 2009
6:26 pm
josef,
The rumor is that he plans to start sending 34,000 more troops in June of next year, but he has some kind of built in triggers to pull out if we aren’t successful in a very short window. Since the strategy is supposed to be counter insurgency and that relies on the population believing you stand with them it’s pretty much doomed to failure when they know we’re short timers. If that’s really his plan then he needs to get our troops the hell out of there right now.
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November 24th, 2009
6:28 pm
The gap between Obama’s approval rating among Democrats and among Republicans is nearly 70 percentage points — a higher partisan divide than either Bill Clinton or George W. Bush experienced. Obama’s agenda and actions this year, and some mistakes, have solidified this divide.
Like it or not, if Sarah Palin decides to seek our nation’s highest office, she has a shot. The probability of her success depends on her ability, and that of President Obama, to admit and learn from their mistakes as we head into 2012. -Washington Post
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Old Retired English Professor
November 24th, 2009
6:29 pm
You might well ask why Paulsen bailed out Morgan Stanley but not Lehman Brothers. It’s more than just doing a favor for a former employer.
Here’s a hint: Lehman Brothers was run by Democratic executives.
josef nix
November 24th, 2009
6:31 pm
RW–
It’s pretty hard to determine who the insurgents are…
RW-(the original)
November 24th, 2009
6:36 pm
josef,
The villagers know and that’s why they have to believe we’re with them for the long term for this strategy to work.
josef nix
November 24th, 2009
6:39 pm
RW– They know, all right, and they know who’s list they’ll be on when we turn tail and run if they sign on…
Common Sense
November 24th, 2009
6:47 pm
Ooo Rah!
Headline: “Marines in Afghanistan Not Waiting for Obama’s Strategy”
That headline won’t sit well with private Obama !!!
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Afghanistan/afghan-town-us-marines-crossroads/story?id=9152057
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November 24th, 2009
6:58 pm
Corp- So what made you decide to return?
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 24th, 2009
6:58 pm
Off Topic:
There’s a show tonight on National Geographic Channel tonight called “America Before Columbus”. I’ve seen part of it before and the part I saw was fairly interesting.
josef nix
November 24th, 2009
7:04 pm
Hillbilly–
Wha’cha mean America before Columbus? I didn’t read nuthin’ ’bout that in no textbook…
samuel
November 24th, 2009
7:11 pm
Mike@5:09, I think that AmVet’s post @ 5:26 gives you some idea of what corporate subsidies cost taxpayers every year. I’m not a businessman, so I wouldn’t know.
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 24th, 2009
7:13 pm
Josef
There were people here but of course they didn’t know they were here. They had to be discovered before they realized they were here.
And on a similar subject, I’ve always been amazed at Thomas Jefferson and Lewis and Clark and the Expedition. These men were educated and quite intelligent but it never dawned on them that the various tribes they met might have their own views on things and their own self-interest at heart. In hindsight that’s a pretty naive view. I think maybe that’s why the French seemed to get along better with the Indians; they viewed them as trading partners whereas the Spanish viewed them as people to be conquered and the English viewed them as people in the way of westward expansion.
Of course the various tribes didn’t always see eye to eye either. I guess the moral of the story is people can always find a way to justify abusing other people. Been going on since Cain and Abel.
RW-(the original)
November 24th, 2009
7:19 pm
Publog Service Announcement.
That NatGeo show Hillbilly D is talking about comes on from 8 to 10 then repeats from 11 to 1:00
josef nix
November 24th, 2009
7:30 pm
Hillbilly– One of the untold stories of American history is that of the South and the development of the Mixed Blood cultural milieu. Unlike the rest of the country, the Southeast from day one had a distinct character with intermarriage between the Indigenous people and the European and African elements. You will note that among the posters here there is a much higher awareness of Indian issues among the Southern posters and many, if not most, acknowledge with pride their Indian ancestry, fully aware of which side and which great-grandma or grandpa it was, though the textbook version has the red blood disappear completely with the Removals…and it was those areas with a French colonial past that the mixed bloods reached the highest levels of acceptance and got the best “deals” during Removals…
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 24th, 2009
7:45 pm
You will note that among the posters here there is a much higher awareness of Indian issues among the Southern posters and many, if not most, acknowledge with pride their Indian ancestry
This is true and I’m of the opinion you should be proud of what you are, no matter your heritage. I’ve never found any direct ancestory in my line, going back many generations, but some of their siblings did marry into the Cherokee line. My ancestors did work along side them, trade with them, and were friends with them. The story here is that in the 1820’s-30’s around here, when there was funeral, it would be attended by about a 50/50 mix of settlers and Cherokees.
Many of the Cherokees used to come back here and visit for several weeks from Oklahoma as late as the early 1900’s. I heard a story (can’t remember the family name) of a young boy sitting by the fire with his family one night. He heard someone hollering outside in a strange tongue. He didn’t know what was going on and suddenly his Dad jumped up and started hollering back in the same tongue. His Dad opened the door and it was a group of Cherokees that he had known before the removal, coming back to visit.
We could probably write a volume of textbooks abouut what isn’t in textbooks. Since it’s coming up we could start with Thanksgiving and proceed on to what I view as the myth of our “Puritan” heritage. Don’t know about you but none of my ancestors were Puritans, even though the first ones got here in 1610 and the last ones were here by the mid 1700’s. All were here before the Revolution but none were Puritans or even lived near any.
josef nix
November 24th, 2009
8:03 pm
Hillbilly–
If you want a whale of a read on the interaction between the Cherokee and the whites, go look into Sam Houston’s story…he lived as a young man among them, spoke the language fluently, often dressed in Cherokee style, married a Cherokee woman and when President of the Texas Republic, addressed Congress in Cherokee and during Removals, conducted treaties with the Cherokee and Choctaw people to bring them to Texas and a considerable number took him up on it…
Under the terms of Article 14 of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, one third of the citizens of the Choctaw Nation chose to remain in Mississippi and become citizens of the United States. The current governor of Mississippi, Haley Barbour, is a descendent of Greenwood Leflore, who negotiated the treaty on behalf of the Choctaw. It is of note that those Choctaw who stayed made up some 30% of the “white” population of Mississippi in the next census…
At the time of the Dawes Roll, only 20% of those allowed to enroll as citizens of the Five Civilized Tribes were considered “pure bloods.”
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 24th, 2009
8:10 pm
I’m off to watch TV. Correct me if I’m wrong but weren’t Sequoyah, Stand Watie, Buck Watie and others of some mixed heritage?
josef nix
November 24th, 2009
8:18 pm
Hillbilly–all were of Mixed Blood..like you, I have no Indian blood in my direct line, but I’m by no means the first generation to marry one! One branch of the Nix family intermarried with the Cherokee and were deported during Removal. On the Dawes Roll, there are some 20 of them registered and two have Cherokee given names and there among them is Robert E. Lee Nix, enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation! In another line, an intermarried couple chose to go to Oklahoma and five of them served under Watie in the Wah-uh. They and their descendents were not allowed to register under the Dawes Roll…
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November 24th, 2009
8:20 pm
I can’t believe the NFL week 12 picks went into the spamcan.
Now you’ll never know.
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November 24th, 2009
8:21 pm
I need to get the picks out early since I will be in ChiTown the rest of the week-
Giants over Broncos.
Falcons over Bucs, GFY (good for you) dirty birds.
Texans over the Colts (yep, I said it.)
Vikings over the Bears by a ton.
Patriots at the Saints, hmmmmmm.
I’ll get back to you on that one.
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November 24th, 2009
8:22 pm
I figured it out, spammie doesn’t like an arrow like the one I had pointed at the Texans/ Colts.
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November 24th, 2009
8:24 pm
Ooops, I forgot the Steelers over the Ravens.
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November 24th, 2009
8:27 pm
Hell with it, the Patriots.
Bud Wiser
November 24th, 2009
8:44 pm
Step 1: fire Timothy Geithner. That idiot couldn’t manage money from a kid’s lemonade stand.
Step 2: forget all this health care crapola fiasco for now and concentrate on a way to get small businesses to hire people; tax cuts and incentives for small businesses might be a good place to start.
Step 3: a way to test out the “too large to fail” concept would be to let one fail and see what happens; my guess is that everything would pretty much go along and competitiors would fill in the holes. Taking over an industry to be managed by govt is INSANE, they cannot even run their own shop, much less a real economic business for profit.
Step 4: try reading some of this crap you pass as bills into law before suddenly starting to enact them, and only then find out how it is really working.
That’s it.
Everyone have an enjoyable Thanksgiving holiday, I know I am.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
November 24th, 2009
8:47 pm
Well, I see they held that state supper and it was attended by a bunch of librul Democrats and the Hollywood Commies. Nary a redneck on the list. Anyway, everybody’s raving about the Lantern Jaw and her cream colored evening dress and all that junk.
Just wait till Sarah gets elected in 2012. That state supper will have the biggest bunch of rednecks in Washington since Andrew Jackson was elected and they tore up the White House lawn and half the furniture.
Anyhow, they don’t have long to keep us out. Just three more years. Have a good night everybody.
Oh, almost forgot. Tell mike it wasn’t me that wrote that stuff about him watching Glenn Beck and smelling his You Know Whats and all that stuff. But it was pretty funny.
Common Sense
November 24th, 2009
9:12 pm
Headline U.K. : “Bob Ainsworth, the British Defence Secretary, has blamed Barack Obama and the United States for the decline in British public support for the war in Afghanistan.”
Private Obama strikes again ………………
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/6646179/Bob-Ainsworth-criticises-Barack-Obama-over-Afghanistan.html
Midori
November 24th, 2009
9:19 pm
Common Sense,
you act as if that’s a bad thing.
Common Sense
November 24th, 2009
9:35 pm
Midori:
When our liberal British friends think Obama is screwed up ……… you figure it out.
And the polls are going down, down, down ……………..
Common Sense
November 24th, 2009
9:37 pm
UNBELIEVABLE ………………….
Why anyone would even want to serve today is beyond me ……….. under these politically correct regulations, half the Marines in Nam would have gone to jail. You didn’t have to shoot that Viet Cong ………. he was running away …….. boo hoo hoo ……………
“Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorist”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576646,00.html?test=latestnews
Midori
November 24th, 2009
9:40 pm
When our liberal British friends think Obama is screwed up ……… you figure it out.
what’s to figure out?
And the polls are going down, down, down ……………..
ha!! he can afford to shed 30 or so points, and still beat out his “predecessor”
Kamchak
November 24th, 2009
9:41 pm
Headline U.K. : “Bob Ainsworth, the British Defence Secretary, has blamed Barack Obama and the United States for the decline in British public support for the war in Afghanistan.”
Private Obama strikes again ………………
In the words of Paul Harvey–here’s “the rest of the sto-ry.”
Mr Ainsworth said he is confident that once Mr Obama confirms his new strategy, allies will follow and British public opinion will shift back in favour of the mission.
“I hope and believe that we are about to get an announcement from the USA on troop numbers and I think that that will be followed by contributions from many other Nato allies and so we will be able to show that we are going forward in this campaign to an extent that we have not been able to in recent months with those issues still hanging,” he said.
Mr Ainsworth was appointed defence secretary earlier this year, his first Cabinet post.
A former factory worker and union official, he has faced questions about whether he has the stature or political clout to oversee the Armed Forces at a time of war.
In August, he told The Daily Telegraph he was less intellectually accomplished than the commanders who answer to him and suggested that his critics are motivated by class prejudice.
A report earlier this week suggested that Mr Brown is considering removing Mr Ainsworth and replacing him with Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary.
Common Sense
November 24th, 2009
9:41 pm
GOOD READ (Libs. – don’t read this. You’ll have nightmares tonight and I don’t want to be responsible !!)
New York Post
November 24, 2009
Pg. 27
Afraid To Kill
‘Fighting’ terror with wishful thinking
By Ralph Peters
It’s not true that the only good terrorist is a dead terrorist. Even dead terrorists aren’t good. But at least they’re dead. And that helps. But political correctness has possessed Washington. It’s so bad that even Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who’s done a great job in many other respects, parrots the cliché that “we can’t kill our way out of this.”
Well, folks, there’s no other way out of this all-or-nothing struggle with fanatics. Three thousand years of history teach that there’s no alternative – none – to killing fanatics in large numbers when your enemies are ablaze with religious zeal.
What Gates and countless others really mean is that we’re unwilling to kill our way out of this assault on our civilization. So the terrorists keep on killing us.
We tell ourselves that one more charm offensive, one more inept aid program, one more surge of troops who aren’t allowed to fight will persuade terrorists on a murderous mission from their god to lay down their arms and run for alderman.
We refuse to see the world through terrorist eyes. Instead, we superimpose liberal-arts-faculty values on bloodthirsty zealots, asking what we’ve done to make them so angry.
The result? We grant captured terrorists more rights and better treatment than nonviolent offenders in a US county jail. We cater to them at the gentrified prison at Guantanamo (yet the global media insist that Gitmo’s just a big torture chamber).
We tell ourselves we’ll impress our enemies with our humanitarianism. But how many Gitmo prisoners have turned pacifist or expressed regrets? If you were convinced that you were doing God’s will, would you be budged by a captor who gives you priority health care, a religiously correct diet, special worship privileges and free legal counsel? Allah has made his enemies weak . . .
The laws of war provide for the battlefield execution of illegal combatants – those who refuse to wear uniforms or identifying insignia or who commit atrocities. Instead, we give them flu shots before American citizens can get them.
When a madcap ideologue such as Attorney General Eric Holder tells Congress we mustn’t be afraid to try terrorists in our judicial system, he gets it exactly wrong. The terrorists believe we’re afraid to kill them. And they’re right.
So we’ll get the upcoming propaganda bonanza of the trial of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his terrorist barbershop quartet. And we’ll squander hundreds of millions of dollars on special security precautions in Manhattan. The inevitable outcome? We’ll make heroes of the terrorists throughout the Muslim world.
Meanwhile, down in Texas, terrorist assassin Maj. Nidal Hasan’s lawyer is already making a mockery of our judicial system. Hasan will become a terrorist icon, too.
And even if Hasan, KSM and the boys are all convicted of multiple counts of premeditated murder, they won’t be executed for many years to come – if ever.
How does this deter fanatical enemies? Our insistence on treating terrorism as shoplifting that got a little out of hand does not protect Americans.
Terrified of the new global reality, Washington refuses to accept that we’re no longer dealing with the political terrorists of the 20th century – some of whom could, indeed, be won over or bought off. We’re now dealing with religious madmen hungry for an apocalypse. And our government and the media scramble to deny that Islam has anything to do with it. The poor terrorists just have grievances.
If Khalid Sheik Mohammed has a heart attack during his trial, he’ll get better health care than most Post readers. Paralyzed from the waist down, Maj. Hasan will get priority on rehab treatment over our vets from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Bring terrorists to Manhattan? They should never have made it to Gitmo.
Common Sense
November 24th, 2009
9:44 pm
Kamchak:
Doesn’t change his original statement or the fact that U.S. soldiers have died unnecessarily while Obama dawdles …………….
Midori
November 24th, 2009
9:44 pm
Common Sense – don’t read this:
thanks Kamchak — shoulda known Make No Sense was holding out on me
Common Sense
November 24th, 2009
9:46 pm
Midori:
You fit the old saying ……… “You can lead a thristy horse to water but you can’t make it drink.”
Hang tough …………. but don’t whine down the road.
Kamchak
November 24th, 2009
9:49 pm
Midori
Just goes to prove Robert A. Heinlein’s quote–”Good sense is never common.”
BTW–it is being postulated the Common Sense is le petit caporal.
Common Sense
November 24th, 2009
9:49 pm
Midori:
See my 9:44 Soldiers die while the President dawdles.
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November 24th, 2009
9:54 pm
Corporal- If I would have caught Ahmed Hashim Abed, he would have had a lot more than just a bloody lip. The dude likes to hang people from bridges and that is where I would have started.
No matter what Obozo felt about it.
Nine & Five on Charlie
November 24th, 2009
9:57 pm
Terrorists should never leave the battlefield. End of story.
josef nix
November 24th, 2009
9:57 pm
K’chack
“BTW–it is being postulated the Common Sense is le petit caporal.”
Donc, sois sage!
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November 24th, 2009
9:58 pm
Upchuck- You left out some of the story too-
Senior British Government sources have become increasingly frustrated with Mr Obama’s “dithering” on Afghanistan, the Daily Telegraph disclosed earlier this month, with several former British defence chiefs echoing the concerns.
Our little party animal can’t be bothered with such trifle.
It’s only American soldiers that are dying, whoop de doo, right, liberals?
Midori
November 24th, 2009
10:03 pm
Kamchak – that’s a “private” joke!!
I think he’s upset with me now.
As I recall, Corporal used to get all out of shape over my comments too.
Hmmmmmmmmm………….
josef nix
November 24th, 2009
10:03 pm
“It’s only American soldiers that are dying, whoop de doo, right, liberals?”
That is not true. There have been Canadian, French, German, Brits…among others.
getalife
November 24th, 2009
10:04 pm
Looks like a 10 year war to me so enjoy it you warmongers.
Then he will leave like w and there will be peace.
Just not in Afghanistan, Iraq, or other ongoing conflicts.
Kamchak
November 24th, 2009
10:04 pm
Upchuck- You left out some of the story too-
As did you—
Attempting to play down Mr Ainsworth’s remarks, No 10 and the Ministry of Defence last night made a statement backing Mr Obama’s deliberations.
It stated: “It is right that Nato partners have taken the time to review next steps in the campaign. These are hugely important issues that rightly need careful and detailed consideration.”
In an article in this newspaper today Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, claims that the reason public opinion is switching against the war in Afghanistan is because of the lies told in the run up to the Iraq war.
Mr Clegg also calls for a new approach to Afghanistan from the US. He writes: “We now need a complete change of strategy, which we still hope President Obama will announce next week.”
Midori
November 24th, 2009
10:06 pm
LOL!!!
Andy – meet Paul Harvey!!
Common Sense
November 24th, 2009
10:09 pm
Hey, did Obama bow or kowtow to the Prime Minister of India, or kiss his feet or anything?
I didn’t get a chance to watch the news tonight.
Common Sense
November 24th, 2009
10:12 pm
Hey, I thought that was supposed to be a black tie event. What’s the Prime Minister doing wearing a Detroit Lions blue towel ?
josef nix
November 24th, 2009
10:13 pm
“Hey, did Obama bow or kowtow to the Prime Minister of India, or kiss his feet or anything? ”
I hear he offered him a job organizing the workers at the call center in Bangalore…
Common Sense
November 24th, 2009
10:15 pm
josef:
LOL !!!
josef nix
November 24th, 2009
10:15 pm
BTW–
Prime Minister Singh is a Sikh–they’re not towel heads…incidentall Gov. Jindal was a guest…
Common Sense
November 24th, 2009
10:15 pm
“We are being going to the White House now to being eating now !”
getalife
November 24th, 2009
10:16 pm
The Brits starting an Iraq War inquiry into those lies but their people had enough with losing their troops.
josef nix
November 24th, 2009
10:17 pm
Question–was PM Singh allowed in with the dagger?
Common Sense
November 24th, 2009
10:19 pm
Yes, and Gov. Jindal is a Christian ……… good but a little unusual among those from Inja !
josef nix
November 24th, 2009
10:22 pm
Common Sense–
Not really, there are about 25 million Indian Christians and their history goes back to the earliest days of Christianity.
Common Sense
November 24th, 2009
10:22 pm
josef nix:
Why not ……….. his Indian security guards would have been armed also.
Hilbilly Deluxe
November 24th, 2009
10:23 pm
I hear he offered him a job organizing the workers at the call center in Bangalore…
Once when I called the call center the guy told me his name was Randy but when I got my customer service survey it said his name was Aranuva. He was a nice enough guy but he couldn’t fix my problem. I had to spell everything I said to him but I often have to do that when talking to p eople up north on the phone too.
Common Sense
November 24th, 2009
10:26 pm
Well Mr. Nix:
Like I said, with the population of India being about 1.2 Billion (1,000 million makes a billion) then that 25 million is pretty small isn’t it ?
josef nix
November 24th, 2009
10:27 pm
common sense–
The Indian Christians officially, and historically, trace their genesis to the Apostle, St. Bartholmew, but there is a tradition that the Christ travelled to India during the “missing years” of his life, going to preach to the Malabar Jews.
josef nix
November 24th, 2009
10:29 pm
Common Sense–it’s between 2-3% of the total and is a highly placed community. That’s about the percentage of Jews and Muslims in the US
Common Sense
November 24th, 2009
10:31 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8iUJ2yD27k&feature=related
Common Sense
November 24th, 2009
10:32 pm
Mr. nix:
Like I said, 2-3% is pretty small. Juice it up any way you want. By the way, I wish it were much highter.
josef nix
November 24th, 2009
10:33 pm
Common Sense–
We had the question of the kirpan come up at my school a few years back when the zero tolerance rule was put into place…the father chose not to make “a federal case” of the matter. Canada recently ruled that students could wear it…
Common Sense
November 24th, 2009
10:35 pm
small: /smɔl/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [smawl] Show IPA adjective, -er, -est, adverb, -er, -est, noun
…………….. of low numerical value; denoted by a low number.
josef nix
November 24th, 2009
10:36 pm
Hillbilly–
Didn’t catch the program, but Unmentionable gave it 3 feathers!
Common Sense
November 24th, 2009
10:37 pm
josef nix:
Well then, if a Sikh’s son get to wear his India Toothpick then my son gets to wear his Roy Rogers six shooter.
josef nix
November 24th, 2009
10:38 pm
CS
Small does not preclude significant…
josef nix
November 24th, 2009
10:39 pm
CS
Is it a part of his religion?
Hilbilly Deluxe
November 24th, 2009
10:41 pm
Josef
I enjoyed it. In my view it as informative without a particular axe to grind. They did good at giving a balanced view I thought.
Not that it matters but when I say “small”, I pronouce it sm-all not sm-awl. No “w” in it for me.
Hilbilly Deluxe
November 24th, 2009
10:41 pm
*was informative
Common Sense
November 24th, 2009
10:43 pm
josef nix:
You bet. The NRA. Like my friend to went to an ROTC high school in the 60’s. The drilled with M-1’s everyday. Oh, the horror !!!
And we used to play “numblypeg” with our pocket knives at recess. The teacher would come by and say “careful boys, you stick one in your foot” !
Now our schools have become full blown zero tolerance institutions of political correctness where even a picture of a gun gets you suspended.
God help us.
Common Sense
November 24th, 2009
10:44 pm
P.S.
“Small does not preclude significant…”
mutually exclusive ………………
Common Sense
November 24th, 2009
10:44 pm
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Common Sense
November 24th, 2009
10:52 pm
O.K. guys …………… lights out ……… tomorrow then !
josef nix
November 24th, 2009
10:52 pm
Common Sense–
The policy is sometimes absolutely r-word. A high school student, whose mother was a vice-principal, was suspended for bringing in her collection of African knives and we are not allowed to have a knife to cut the birthday cakes!
Hillbilly–
Unmentionable was of the same opinion…he said he did get a chuckle over the “gift” of syphilis!
And my sma-ul does have the sound, which, incidentally is the combination of the “dark” and “light” L. Polish is the only other language I know of that has the dark L…
Hilbilly Deluxe
November 24th, 2009
10:58 pm
So how DO y’all divvy up the birthday cake without a knife?
josef nix
November 24th, 2009
11:00 pm
Hillbilly–
A “pie server!” It’s NOT a knife, therefore NOT a weapon! Go figure!
josef nix
November 24th, 2009
11:03 pm
D*ck Cheney…
RW-(the original)
November 24th, 2009
11:08 pm
D*ck Cheney…
josef,
Are you testing that theory of how to flush Bosch out of the weeds?
josef nix
November 24th, 2009
11:09 pm
RW–
Yep!
RW-(the original)
November 24th, 2009
11:11 pm
Then you’ll probably have to yell it out a bit. Bosch is likely well in his cups by now.
josef nix
November 24th, 2009
11:15 pm
RW–
D*CK CHENEY!
Sounds like the tourists are back…need to be social for a bit…hope they’re tired!
josef nix
November 24th, 2009
11:16 pm
RW–
leaving it to you to get top of the page…
RW-(the original)
November 24th, 2009
11:19 pm
That’s
RW-(the original)
November 24th, 2009
11:19 pm
quite
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 24th, 2009
11:19 pm
A “pie server!” It’s NOT a knife, therefore NOT a weapon! Go figure!
And I was picturing y’all sawing it in pieces with dental floss.
RW-(the original)
November 24th, 2009
11:19 pm
a