US Financial Crisis

[Possum Trot]

Oh please, 2/3 of Democrats voted FOR the rescue package. It failed because of Republicans who hold right-wing "free market" religious views.
GG

You gotta love that free market religion

The republicans voted this down but I don't think it's dead.

 

[rumpleforeskiin]

Frank should be tossed out of the Senate for putting his party over the welfare of the country...

Before Frank can be tossed out of the Senate, he'd first need to be elected to the Senate.

As for putting his own welfare ahead of the country's, John McCain wins that award hands down for his series of stunts over the past month, from the selection of the church lady to his riding in on a white horse last week to sit on his hands and say nothing.

 

[General Gonad]

As for putting his own welfare ahead of the country's, John McCain wins that award hands down for his series of stunts over the past month, from the selection of the church lady to his riding in on a white horse last week to sit on his hands and say nothing.

OMG, I agree with Reggie!

GG

 

[beautydigger]

Before Frank can be tossed out of the Senate, he'd first need to be elected to the Senate.

For once you are right, miracles do happen. Because I am not a Barney Frank lover like you and Korbie, I forgot he is in the House.

 

[Ben Dover]

When it comes to the Wall Street meltdown, Rep. Barney Frank is considered the engineer of the financial train wreck, a bostonherald.com instant poll shows.

Frank should be tossed out of the Senate for putting his party over the welfare of the country......
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/2008/view.bg?articleid=1122387&srvc=2008campaign&position=2

Everyone knows that the Boston Herald is one Elvis story and two alien abductions away from being full fledged tabloid piece of trash.

I would consider any poll they conduct to be close to worthless.

Knowing that their readers consider Barney Frank "the engineer of the financial train wreck" pretty much guarantees that this is in fact not the case.

BD

 

[eastender]

Contact Clubs

Lilly,

I agree with you that prostitution is the oldest line of work, and come boom or bust, escorts will have work.

But you are forgetting something. The economy is dynamic, not static. In a downturn, the supply of escorts goes up and the demand for escorts goes down. Less tourism, less money, more escorts, means a lot more competition, so rates will fall if things get bad.

The last rate increase was when oil prices skyrocketed and drivers had to pay more for gas. Yesterday oil prices had a record plunge as traders bet that a global economic recession is on its way.

Times are tough for everyone out there, including agencies and indies. How do I know? A few escorts that were next to impossible to book told me business has slowed down a lot.

I spoke to one indy yesterday that refuses to bring down her rates to reflect market rates. I told her that it may work initially but she will eventually hurt her business if she is not realistic in her pricing. It's her body, her call, but I gave her my opinion.



Hot dogs stands and titty bars will boom in a recession.

GG

P.S. If it's a Depression, I would buy shares in beer and Vaseline companies.

GG

Your are correct. The early 1980's when interest rates were well over 20% coincided with the era that spawned the contact SCs. A compromise of sorts between the traditional burlesque style SCs and the working girls. More expensive than a non-contact dance in a traditional burlesque type SC but less expensive then full service from an SW or the bar girls.

 

[beautydigger]

Everyone knows that the Boston Herald is one Elvis story and two alien abductions away from being full fledged tabloid piece of trash.

I would consider any poll they conduct to be close to worthless.

Knowing that their readers consider Barney Frank "the engineer of the financial train wreck" pretty much guarantees that this is in fact not the case.

BD

Wow, your really bending over for Barney.

 

[EagerBeaver]

Wow, your really bending over for Barney.

If you bend over too far you might feel a cock in your ass. This from Barney Frank's Wikipedia bio:

"In 1990, the House voted to reprimand Frank when it was revealed that Steve Gobie, a male escort whom Frank had befriended after hiring him through a personal advertisement, claimed to have conducted an escort service from Frank's apartment when he was not at home. Frank had dismissed Gobie earlier that year and reported the incident to the House Ethics Committee after learning of Gobie's activities. After an investigation, the House Ethics Committee found no evidence that Frank had known of or been involved in the alleged illegal activity. Regarding Gobie's more scandalous claims the report by the Ethics Committee concluded, "In numerous instances where an assertion made by Mr. Gobie (either publicly or during his Committee deposition) was investigated for accuracy, the assertion was contradicted by third-party sworn testimony or other evidence of Mr. Gobie himself."

The New York Times reported on July 20, 1990 that the House Ethics Committee recommended "that Representative Barney Frank receive a formal reprimand from the House for his relationship with a male prostitute." Attempts to expel or censure Frank, led by Republican member Larry Craig (who himself was later embroiled in his own homosexual scandal) failed. Rather, the House voted 408-18 to reprimand him. This condemnation was not reflected in Frank's district, where he won re-election in 1990 with 66 percent of the vote, and has won by larger margins ever since."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Frank

 

[General Gonad]

If you bend over too far you might feel a cock in your ass.

LMAO!

GG

 

[korbel]

If you bend over too far you might feel a cock in your ass. This from Barney Frank's Wikipedia bio:

"In 1990, the House voted to reprimand Frank when it was revealed that Steve Gobie, a male escort whom Frank had befriended after hiring him through a personal advertisement, claimed to have conducted an escort service from Frank's apartment when he was not at home. Frank had dismissed Gobie earlier that year and reported the incident to the House Ethics Committee after learning of Gobie's activities. After an investigation, the House Ethics Committee found no evidence that Frank had known of or been involved in the alleged illegal activity. Regarding Gobie's more scandalous claims the report by the Ethics Committee concluded, "In numerous instances where an assertion made by Mr. Gobie (either publicly or during his Committee deposition) was investigated for accuracy, the assertion was contradicted by third-party sworn testimony or other evidence of Mr. Gobie himself."

The New York Times reported on July 20, 1990 that the House Ethics Committee recommended "that Representative Barney Frank receive a formal reprimand from the House for his relationship with a male prostitute." Attempts to expel or censure Frank, led by Republican member Larry Craig (who himself was later embroiled in his own homosexual scandal) failed. Rather, the House voted 408-18 to reprimand him. This condemnation was not reflected in Frank's district, where he won re-election in 1990 with 66 percent of the vote, and has won by larger margins ever since."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Frank

Well,

Hey, so all true. Now how is this possibly relevant to the current issues at hand????? Geeez, talk about cheap, lowlife lawyer tactics. Thanks for the perfect example on how to inject irrelevant facts to poison an issue. Did you go to the Karl Rove University of debate? You know very well if you did this in court the judge would have your "out of order" ass.

scurrilous,

Korbel

 

[EagerBeaver]

Korbel,

All I did was post a quote from a wikipedia entry and a link to the entire biography of Barney Frank. I gave no opinions on him other than his sexual orientation which he has admitted. So I have no idea what you are talking about. Your response is idiotic. If you have an issue with his wikipedia entry take it up with them (or provide your own data).

 

[Ben Dover]

Wow, your really bending over for Barney.

I thought he`d be more likely to prefer the ``receiving end`` but I defer to your expertise in this arena... Anyways, now we really know how you think!

Based on some of your posts one could then draw the paralell that you`d love nothing more than to provide Grampa John (McCain) with some intense rimming (gotta keep that nose brown) followed by a high energy, viagra supported, sloppy wet TCWS. But we digress... We should do better to stay on topic here.... and I`m making myself sick.

All I really said about Barney Frank is that he`s not personally responsible for the entire financial crisis -- and that your rag, the Herald, is a piece of crap. This can`t come down to blaming one person (even Bush). So many were greedy and stupid, complacent etc...

BD

 

[beautydigger]

All I really said about Barney Frank is that he's not personally responsible for the entire financial crisis -- and that your rag, the Herald, is a piece of crap.

BD

I have no idea what bias the Hearold has. I thought Boston was the San Fran of the east coast. Are you telling me the Hearold is right bias?

 

[korbel]

All I really said about Barney Frank is that he's not personally responsible for the entire financial crisis -- and that your rag, the Herald, is a piece of crap. This can't come down to blaming one person (even Bush). So many were greedy and stupid, complacent etc...

BD

Well BD,

It isn't quite a "piece of crap", the sports section is great. But it is very heavily slanted toward Republicans and the political cartoon of Barney Frank today was slanted beyond reason, and scurrilous.

awful,

Korbel

 

[Ben Dover]

I have no idea what bias the Hearold has. I thought Boston was the San Fran of the east coast. Are you telling me the Hearold is right bias?

Who said anything about bias? Are we hearing voices again?

It isn't quite a "piece of crap", the sports section is great.

I should have been a little more specific. I do not care for this newspaper overall and specifically find the polictical journalism and editorials when I have read them to be crappy. The sports section is actually much better than average... I'll give you that.

BD

 

[korbel]

I have no idea what bias the Hearold has. I thought Boston was the San Fran of the east coast. Are you telling me the Hearold is right bias?

Hell BTYDGR,

I see you are using references without knowing who they are. The Herald is very typically conservative and to the Right, while The Boston Globe tends to be more liberal or to the left. It doesn't mean either is in the extreme on either side, but the Herald is often harshly to the Right. Did you really think Massachusetts was one monolithic liberal entity in every possible way. How do you think that carpetbagger Republican Romney got elected governor? And he left the state in greater debt than when he arrived.

Really,

Korbel

 

[korbel]

Hello all,

For those like Beautydigger who like to accuse CNN of being the "Communist News Network" and that their views are incredibly biased to liberals the show has been nothing of the sort. Lou Dobbs and Jack Cafferty have been absolutely railing against the passage of the "bail out" bill all afternoon long. Not very liberal.

Cheers,

Korbel

 

[beautydigger]

Hello all,

For those like Beautydigger who like to accuse CNN of being the "Communist News Network" and that their views are incredibly biased to liberals the show has been nothing of the sort. Lou Dobbs and Jack Cafferty have been absolutely railing against the passage of the "bail out" bill all afternoon long. Not very liberal.

Cheers,

Korbel

Now that the media has been exposed for being in the tank for Nobama, CNN has no choice but to try and be “fair and balanced” or suffer the same fate as MSNBS.

 

[korbel]

Now that the media has been exposed for being in the tank for Nobama, CNN has no choice but to try and be “fair and balanced” or suffer the same fate as MSNBS.

Hello BTYDGR,

It's too bad you tend to see every entity in one camp or another. Lou Dobbs of CNN is unflinchingly Conservative. But he does not put his head in the sand and babble Conservative dogma like Rush Limbaugh despite the facts. Sure Palin has gotten tremendous attention because she is an unknown who suddenly caused a huge stir in the country, while Biden is extremely well known and nothing new at all. Now a nationally unkown phenomena like Palin is naturally a lightning rod for examination and criticism because of the post she is running for. Why shouldn't there be severe scrutiny to examine an unknown to see if she is qualified for that post. It's her task to prove herself. If she has done poorly it's not the media's fault for publishing what she says. The fact that she can't even keep up in interviews where there is no opposition to fluster her should have people worried and should be amply reported. It's not "Liberal bias" to cover what she says, especially since everyone wants to know if she is capable. What's that tired old adage: "if you can't handle the heat get out of the kitchen".
Joe Biden has been scrutinized for many years by the national media for many years, and while running for President. Now it's her turn. She will just have to live with it, and it doesn't mean the "Liberla media" is being unfair, or that the are biased necessarily.

Cheers,

Korbel

 

[beautydigger]

Hello BTYDGR,

It's too bad you tend to see every entity in one camp or another. Lou Dobbs of CNN is unflinchingly Conservative.

Korbel

Wrong, Lou is an independent.