Arron, no, this isnt a post about a scarve for your cat. But it's defiantly interesting. I probably read 5 or 6 posts on any given page here, I suggest you do the same.
The only ones making baseless assumptions here are you guys. You clearly do not understand the difference between what you refer to as "the missing link" and a transitional species.
No one is proposing that this is the "missing link" between apes and humans, that has already been found. This is what basically amounts to the apes "missing link".
As far as scientists jumping of the deep end and asserting something as fact with no proof to back up their conclusions..... scientists don't do that, they leave that to religion.
They leave out the CRA requirements in these videos because the CRA provisions were never an issue. The CRA requirements have been the same for years and the only people screaming "CRA's!, CRA's!" are people with a political agenda.
The credit freeze did not happen because the banks were lending under the CRA provisions. The problem as these videos have so aptly pointed out was that you had banks giving $300,000 loans to anyone with a 680+ FICO score without even bothering to see if they had a job first. The government did not make them do this. The standards were dropped in the fight for investor dollars. If company A started to offer a NINA loan, Company B had better follow suit or else they would lose out on millions/billions of dollars. It was free market economics 101, and with no one there to regulate lending standards the banks dug themselves deeper with every loan.
People that want to blame the CRA either have no grasp over the economic reality of the situation or they have no problem deluding themselves to promote a political agenda.
Look at the biggest housing busts in the nation, its not the Detroit or Compton markets that are bleeding the banks dry. Its Las Vegas, Long Beach, New York, Oakland, Miami.... these are not redlined areas. There are entire neighborhoods in these city's filled with foreclosed $500,000 homes. And if you are still in denial look at the foreclosure statistics for redlined districts, low income home loans have only seen a slight uptick in the rates of foreclosures. Compare those foreclosure numbers with the half a million dollar homes in the suburbs... its gets real easy to see where the problem lies.
Sorry to break it to your conservatives. The total cost of Bush's inauguration in 05' is as follows.
When the costs incurred by the federal government and the District of Columbia are factored in, the total cost of Bush's 2005 inauguration was reportedly around $157 million, as Media Matters for America senior fellow Eric Boehlert noted. http://mediamatters.org/items/200901180003
Also, the total out of pocket costs for Obama's inauguration was only $45 million. Not $80 million or whatever that idiot said.
Yeah, I would have to 4th this one... The father of a 2yr old myself, neither my wife or I would ever dream of letting our daughter get anywhere near that railing. WTH were they thinking?
Seriously, WTF? The cat was not hurt, the cat was not in danger of being hurt. Like other posters have mentioned already, that was not outer space but simply one of those "vomit comet" airplanes. They are padded, the cat was fine. Get a grip people, if you want to know what animal cruelty really is, go find that video of the Marine throwing the puppy off a cliff.
Wow, people really need to lighten up about this animal cruelty thing. That is a cat in a zero gravity environment, this is not cock-fighting, this is not shooting cats with pellet guns, this is not even as bad as the squirrel catapult video... Seriously, unless it was your cat they were playing with just keep your mouth shut and re-arrange your priorities.
What is wrong with you people...? Its a great video. If it was a person being unknowingly slung out into the yard at high speed, I doubt anyone would complain.
The only ones making baseless assumptions here are you guys. You clearly do not understand the difference between what you refer to as "the missing link" and a transitional species.
No one is proposing that this is the "missing link" between apes and humans, that has already been found.
This is what basically amounts to the apes "missing link".
As far as scientists jumping of the deep end and asserting something as fact with no proof to back up their conclusions..... scientists don't do that, they leave that to religion.
The credit freeze did not happen because the banks were lending under the CRA provisions. The problem as these videos have so aptly pointed out was that you had banks giving $300,000 loans to anyone with a 680+ FICO score without even bothering to see if they had a job first. The government did not make them do this. The standards were dropped in the fight for investor dollars. If company A started to offer a NINA loan, Company B had better follow suit or else they would lose out on millions/billions of dollars. It was free market economics 101, and with no one there to regulate lending standards the banks dug themselves deeper with every loan.
People that want to blame the CRA either have no grasp over the economic reality of the situation or they have no problem deluding themselves to promote a political agenda.
Look at the biggest housing busts in the nation, its not the Detroit or Compton markets that are bleeding the banks dry. Its Las Vegas, Long Beach, New York, Oakland, Miami.... these are not redlined areas. There are entire neighborhoods in these city's filled with foreclosed $500,000 homes. And if you are still in denial look at the foreclosure statistics for redlined districts, low income home loans have only seen a slight uptick in the rates of foreclosures. Compare those foreclosure numbers with the half a million dollar homes in the suburbs... its gets real easy to see where the problem lies.
I present to you the Zombie Ant!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCeyW9m0SXA
When the costs incurred by the federal government and the District of Columbia are factored in, the total cost of Bush's 2005 inauguration was reportedly around $157 million, as Media Matters for America senior fellow Eric Boehlert noted.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200901180003
Also, the total out of pocket costs for Obama's inauguration was only $45 million. Not $80 million or whatever that idiot said.
So yeah, the conservatives lose again. Losers
The father of a 2yr old myself, neither my wife or I would ever dream of letting our daughter get anywhere near that railing. WTH were they thinking?
Get a grip people, if you want to know what animal cruelty really is, go find that video of the Marine throwing the puppy off a cliff.
Seriously, unless it was your cat they were playing with just keep your mouth shut and re-arrange your priorities.
If it was a person being unknowingly slung out into the yard at high speed, I doubt anyone would complain.