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  1. Re:Steve Scalise did NOT speak to KKK group by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Blogger Who Revealed GOP Leader's KKK Ties Had Home Internet Lines Cut

    Yup, the site's owner definitely has a radical slant:
    http://americaswatchtower.com/...

  2. Re:The case was badly constructed by jamstar7 · · Score: 1 · on Supreme Court Disallows FISA Challenges

    Recently, the government came out with the revelation that the largest threat to national security is (wait for it!!!)...

    Veterans.

    Seriously, you need to provide a citation or reference for this. It sounds like it should be true but that is not enough.

    Right wing spin
    Centrist spin Left wing spin

    The original report was in 2009, penned by Arizona's own Janet Napolitano, a Democrat elected as governor in a state where the only way a Democrat can get in office is to look even more right-wing than Sarah 'Yukon Barbie' Palin.

  3. Holy Biased Article, Batman! by eldavojohn · · Score: 4, Informative · on Obama Will Nominate Elena Kagan To the Supreme Court

    Consensus to people like Barack Obama means to reverse your opinions and agree with him.

    Seriously? Well I guess that's what you get when you link to "America's Watchtower." Check out his About Me page for some clues.

    Here's Reuters for some less biased sanity.

  4. Re:Yea! by vbraga · · Score: 1 · on Government Approves First US Offshore Wind Farm

    Ted Kennedy.

    Take a look at this for background.

  5. Re:Dodgy statesmen by Technician · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Tax Dodge At Issue In Washington State

    I agree. Bush did too little to correct the lending practices that led up to the troubled asset relief program (TARP). So where did it originate?

    Roots of the Crisis
    The cause of this crisis is the overly relaxed lending from 2000 onwards. Bankers driven by bonus targets lent to families who could not afford the mortgages: today there are five million American homeowners delinquent or in foreclosure. This is no longer a sub-prime lending problem, but a lending problem as excess home inventories push down all home prices.

    http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/09/28/franks_fingerprints_are_all_over_the_financial_fiasco/t/

    So what is the root of the lending that created all the troubled assets?
    The first time was in 1922.
    See PDF from this page
    http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E01E7DA1339E133A25752C2A9639C946395D6CF
    and in 1929 the economy imploded.

    Again in 2000, followed by about 8-9 years.
    Here is the root again;
    http://americaswatchtower.com/2009/06/24/barney-frank-asks-fannie-mae-to-easy-up-on-loan-regulations-will-he-ever-learn/

    "The architect of the mortgage meltdown is once again asking Fanny Mae to ease up on their loan regulations. This is exactly what got us into this trouble in the first place. Even as the mortgage industry was in trouble Barney Frank denied that there was any problem with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Even as President Bush and John McCain were trying to warn of the impending crisis Barney Frank was in denial."

    The start is here;

    The roots of this crisis go back to the Carter administration. That was when government officials, egged on by left-wing activists, began accusing mortgage lenders of racism and "redlining" because urban blacks were being denied mortgages at a higher rate than suburban whites.

    http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/09/28/franks_fingerprints_are_all_over_the_financial_fiasco/

    So yes, Bush is at fault for not stopping it. He warned about it and left it to fall apart on it's own.