Posted on 09/21/2008 4:57:31 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, September 21st, 2008
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson; Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.; Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, chair of the American Red Cross.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Paulson; New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Paulson; Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.; Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Paulson; Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn.; Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Douglas Holtz Eakin, adviser to John McCain; Austan Goolsbee, adviser to Barack Obama; former Rep. Rob Portman, R-Ohio.; Gene Sperling, former Clinton administration economic adviser; Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas.
The Interface is nice too, once you get familiar with it. The auto update features for programs works good, and the built in voice command stuff is great with a blue tooth headset.
I could go on, but I have had it since it was introduced, and other than the misunderstanding with the RAM needed to run all these services, I have not had any major issues except those where some applications were slow to rewrite their drivers, and some made mistakes in the first updates. I was never able to say it was the fault of VISTA. What it was, is more like MS hatred in the industry when they blamed VISTA for the crime of allowing their product to run on it. I found Norton to be one of the worst, with JAVA and all Sun products second, and there were many more, but most of that fight is all in the past now.
Not sure if this is worthwhile info- but given how little actual Senate work Obama has done all year- this struck me:
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSWAT00986220080729?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:48pm EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama agreed on Tuesday that Washington must restore confidence in mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Obama’s spokesman said.
During a telephone conversation that covered challenges facing the U.S. economy and financial markets, the Democratic senator from Illinois expressed to Paulson the need to use new housing legislation to protect homeowners and not bail out shareholders or managers, Obama’s Senate spokesman, Michael Ortiz, said in a statement.
“The two men agreed that Washington must restore confidence in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in a way that protects the taxpayer and our financial system, and that we must reform and modernize our regulatory structure to avoid these problems in the future and protect average Americans,” Ortiz said.
They also agreed to stay in contact as important economic events unfold in the months ahead,” he added.
A Treasury spokeswoman said earlier that Paulson would have no comment following the conversation.
(Reporting by David Lawder)
Well, I do use some external drives, and actually I know exactly what you are saying. I think it's a matter of drivers from the drive maker, but I have found that I can ignore the safe hardware thing, and just yank them. As long as you have the OS on the mother drive, my machines don't care. This aspect is more of a convenience feature for folks who are used to it on XP, and really don't seem to have any sort of affect on my stuff. MS is aware of it as I read, and likely will simplify it or not use it at all.
As I said, If I need to unplug, I just do it. I have not experienced any issues from doing that, and totally ignore the warnings and the popup.
Hey, where are you hailing from? I have a Dumas nearby.
Yes, I see you understand.
I only wish there were “one” quick fix, some pill or potion that would “cure” back pain. But, that simply is not the case. It takes time and patient attention to detail. And even with all that, all one can hope for, in most cases, is that back pain can be ‘managed’, not cured.
I wish you continued success with your spinal issues.
Schumer is such a schm**k. A while ago, he and Bloomie were pushing for a relaxation of the rules in Sarbanes/Oxley, on the grounds that NYC was becoming less competitive as a world financial center because of "excessive regulation."
It’s a keeper.
I’ll check it.
Norton say no more LOL
I can only hope that we survive the consequences of the imminent bailout vote. Following that, a posthaste perp walk including Dodd, Frank, Rangel, Gorelick, Johnson, Raines, Mudd, et al (albeit shallow schadenfreude) would relieve some of the tension.
I think they are right on this issue. As I understand it we are moving toward London becoming the major financial center, soon to be under Islamic management.
I must admit I have never had a problem with any USB item whether I have safely removed it or not under XP. I am not the most careful in this regard.
Knock it off!
First, the CRA did not force anyone to make dangerous loans. In fact, the original act specifies that it should “be consistent with the safe and sound operation of such institutions”.
The problem started in 1989 with Home Mortgage Disclosure Act. Banks were forced to collect racial data on mortgage applicants. Then came the 1995 Clinton modifications to the CRA.
There were never any monetary penalties if an institution did not comply with the CRA, it only affected applications for new facilities and preferable treatment on inter bank loans, even after Clinton’s 1999 revisions.
Private plaintiffs and the Justice Department brought suits against lending institutions. "Patterns of Discrimination" were charged.
See this.
Also, I can’t find that low income loans are the majority of the failures. Everything I see points points to middle and upper middle class foreclosures being the problem.
You'll have to explain how you come to the conclusion that middle and upper middle class foreclosures are the problem.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Don’t know if this is the one of not but it is pretty descriptive.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/redstate
scroll down to the sub head that reads
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