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I was diving at Lake Pleasant here in AZ back in June and everything was going fine until I heard a very loud explosion from my dive buddy’s gear at 85 feet . There were bubbles everywhere like we were inside a champagne bottle and that second stage hose was flailing hard. The noise was intense as the compressed air rushed out. I held out my yellow safe second stage and he grabbed it like a snake strike. His eyes were huge behind the mask and panic was setting in fast. As he put my safe second in his mouth I noticed he spit out his own regulator and it sank to the bottom just below us. I was further stunned when he took off for the surface and had me at hose stretch pulling me at full speed by my yellow hose. As we came through 60 feet our computers were screaming like sirens to slow down and I was doing everything I possibly could to slow us down. We ascended from 85 to the surface on our second dive with 6 minutes left NDL after going to 125 feet over the rail out to the sunken speed boat. We were fortunate to not get nitrogen bubbling out of solution , air embolism , or just sick. I looked at him rather angry and asked WTF was that all about?? Turns out he had installed a swivel connector to reduce hose pull jaw fatigue on his Apeks regulator and FORGOT to tighten it with a wrench. I have found a new dive buddy:) For me it’s hop n pops on Saturday and Lake Pleasant Sunday for some scuba fun. Careful out there lol.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24073032/ I have a couple of pals up in Hafnarfjordur , a suburb of RVK. I have also jumped at Blondos and Sandskeidi Landbanki is frozen and no one can withdraw any currency. Britain served the small country with a law that is aimed at terrorists. Wow ! I mean , the Vikings were brutal. But this is 2008. They mention that there is a lot of worry and anger at a small number of people that are (were) EXTREMELY wealthy. A national collapse....possible. Argentina , Russia....it's happened before. The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

I like their new product line. I am personally trying to make up my mind on HHR or Malibu. The Malibu was aimed at being the Camry killer. Engineers went all out. Tested it and love it. Gone are the generic looking interiors that in my opinion hurt them. A friend had an 80's Vette and I swear the gauge cluster looked like the one in the Cavalier. The interior was falling apart. They are taking a HUGE gamble on the Volt. Fuel prices will stay high and just keep going higher. They are on the right track. I want to see more CNG , though ...Just my thoughts. Maybe I should start a Poll. Malibu or HHR? ....Then again , the new Camaro...............WOW The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

Shit , this might start another "Cod War" The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

"I think attempts to link Obama to Ayers are going to backfire big time." Amen , Bro!!!! More SMEAR. Worthless SMEAR ! The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

I'm not gonna TAKE IT ANY MORE !!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dib2-HBsF08 The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

190 TOP Economists OPPOSE BAILOUT. These are their statements. 1) Its fairness. The plan is a subsidy to investors at taxpayers’ expense. Investors who took risks to earn profits must also bear the losses. Not every business failure carries systemic risk. The government can ensure a well-functioning financial industry, able to make new loans to creditworthy borrowers, without bailing out particular investors and institutions whose choices proved unwise. 2) Its ambiguity. Neither the mission of the new agency nor its oversight are clear. If taxpayers are to buy illiquid and opaque assets from troubled sellers, the terms, occasions, and methods of such purchases must be crystal clear ahead of time and carefully monitored afterwards. 3) Its long-term effects. If the plan is enacted, its effects will be with us for a generation. For all their recent troubles, America's dynamic and innovative private capital markets have brought the nation unparalleled prosperity. Fundamentally weakening those markets in order to calm short-run disruptions is desperately short-sighted. For these reasons we ask Congress not to rush, to hold appropriate hearings, and to carefully consider the right course of action, and to wisely determine the future of the financial industry and the U.S. economy for years to come. Their Identity http://tinyurl.com/econ190no Damn right. NO BAILOUT. Then we SWEEP THE HILL !! The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

Here is a neat little chart. Pretty freakin scary , actually. A great comparison to another point in history. I agree with Charles Smith at Oftwominds.com...here is a person that predicted Fannie and Freddie would fail back in 2006 and people thought he was nuts. The wheels will come off soon. They are already wobbling pretty fucking hard. Sweep the HILL ! http://www.oftwominds.com/blogsept08/crash9-08.html The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

SWEEP THE HILL..... Toss THEM ALL OUT !!! http://tinyurl.com/tossemout The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

"Banks don't really have huge vaults full of money. In general they have enough to cover contingencies and that's it." Yep. Want to watch a great video? "GOOGLE" Money as Debt. It's very good....funny , too. The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

Congratulations ! That's a nice mix. HIDE YOUR SHOES! Here's my troublemaker.... The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

I do believe a nation can rid itself of it's political corruption without having to rebuild from ashes. Is it not that we have a thing called........ a VOTE The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

And this picture is a good start to how events should begin to unfold. The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

GREED And now we pay the price. Nuff said. At least I was able to crash land my PD today. :-) We need MORE than a "change" , we need a big fucking broom on the HILL !! The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

Oh , and I am waiting for someone to throw in their .02 on Obama. That should be pretty good. The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

I overlooked the fact it was VETO PROOF. My fault. Still , it was pushed through. DEM or REP. Who cares. They all suck. We need to go DC with a BIG sweeper. I am afraid McCain is just so deeply rooted in the good old boy network. It just seems like who ever comes up the pike is another fraudster looking to fuck me over. Bank of America will be extremely powerful after they bail out many more. Shit , they will probably buy WAMU soon. I wish I had a link on tiny url , but I don't. This is a little long winded , Came from the Huffington Post. Enjoy. And let's toss 'em ALL out. Don't let them tell you this economic meltdown is a complicated mess. It's not. Our national financial crisis is readily understood by anyone who has seen greed and hypocrisy. But we are now witnessing them on a profound, monumental scale. Conservative Republicans always want the government to stay out of business and avoid regulation as long as they are making lots of money. When their greed, however, gets them into a fix, they are the first to cry out for rules and laws and taxpayer money to bail out their businesses. Obviously, Republicans are socialists. The Bush administration has decided to socialize the debt of the big Wall Street Firms. Taxpayers didn't get to enjoy any of the big money profits on the phony financial instruments like derivatives or bundled sub-prime paper, but we get the privilege of paying for their debt and failures. Let's just consider the money. The public bailout of insurance giant (becoming a dwarf) AIG is estimated at $85 billion. According to one report, that's more than the Bush administration spent on Aid to Families with Dependent Children during his entire time in office. That amount of money would also pay for health care for every man, woman, and child in America for at least six months. How did we get here? That's pretty easy to answer, too. His name is Phil Gramm. A few days after the Supreme Court made George W. Bush president in 2000, Gramm stuck something called the Commodity Futures Modernization Act into the budget bill. Nobody knew that the Texas senator was slipping America a 262 page poison pill. The Gramm Guts America Act was designed to keep regulators from controlling new financial tools described as credit "swaps." These are instruments like sub-prime mortgages bundled up and sold as securities. Under the Gramm law, neither the SEC nor the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) were able to examine financial institutions like hedge funds or investment banks to guarantee they had the assets necessary to cover losses they were guaranteeing. This isn't small beer we are talking about here. The market for these fancy financial instruments they don't expect us little people to understand is estimated at $60 trillion annually, which amounts to almost four times the entire US stock market. And Senator Phil Gramm wanted it completely unregulated. So did Alan Greenspan, who supported the legislation and is now running around to the talk shows jabbering about the horror of it all. Before the highly paid lobbyists were done slinging their gold card guts about the halls of congress, every one from hedge funds to banks were playing with fire for fun and profit. Gramm didn't just make a fairy tale world for Wall Street, though. He included in his bill a provision that prevented the regulation of energy trading markets, which led us to the Enron collapse. There was no collapse of the house of Gramm, however, because his wife Wendy, who once headed up the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, took a job on the Enron board that provided almost $2 million to their household kitty. And why not? Wendy got a CFTC rule passed that kept the federal government from regulating energy futures contracts at Enron. If John McCain gets elected and chooses Phil Gramm as his Treasury Secretary, which many politico types see as likely, they will be able to talk about the good old days when Gramm was in congress and McCain was in the senate and they were in the midst of the Savings and Loan crisis. The S and L scandal, which may look precious when compared to our present cascade of problems, isn't hard to understand, either. But it is impossible to take John McCain seriously on our current financial Armageddon since he was dabbling in the historic collapse of 747 S&Ls that occurred during Ronald Reagan's era. In the early 80s under the Republican president, congress deregulated the savings and loan industry in much the same way that Gramm made sure there were no laws hindering our current financial malefactors on Wall Street. S&Ls simply lobbied until they had less regulation and then began making rampant, unsound investments. The guy who was going the wildest with financial freedom was Charles Keating, who headed up Lincoln Savings and Loan of California. Because the S&L industry had managed to get congress to increase FDIC insurance from $40,000 to $100,000 on deposits, the irresponsible investing of people like Keating began to put taxpayer insurance funds at great risk of loss. Keating placed money in junk bonds and questionable real estate projects and because so many other S&Ls started acting the same way the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB) began to push for a regulation that limited these dangerous speculative "direct" investments to 10% of an S&L's assets. And Keating didn't like it; he called on a private economist named Alan Greenspan, who promptly produced a study saying that there was no danger in "direct" investments. But that didn't convince the FHLBB and as further scrutiny showed Lincoln Savings and Loan was making even more historically bad investment decisions, a federal investigation was launched. So Keating called his home state senator John McCain. McCain and four other US senators (known to history as the Keating Five) met with Edwin Gray, then chairman of the FHLBB. McCain had been hesitant to attend but had reportedly been called a "wimp" behind his back by Keating. The message to the FHLBB and Gray from the Keating Five was to lay off Lincoln and cool the investigation. Gray and the FHLBB did not relent but Lincoln stayed in business until 1989 when it collapsed with the rest of the S&L industry. The life savings of more than 20,000 elderly investors disappeared with the failure of Lincoln. Keating went to prison for five years. Charles Keating was John McCain's pal. They met in 1981 and Keating dumped $112,000 in the McCain campaign bank accounts between '82 and '87. A year before McCain met with the FHLBB regulators, his wife Cindy and her father, according to newspaper reports at the time, invested about $360,000 in one of Keating's shopping centers. The Arizona Republic reported McCain and his wife and their babysitter took nine trips on Keating's private jet to the Bahamas to stay at the S&L liar's decadent Cat Cay resort. The senator didn't pay Keating back for the plane rides until years later when he was under investigation. McCain wasn't found guilty of anything but bad judgment, which is an historic understatement. Republicans, who led deregulation of the S&L industry, delayed the bailout until after the 1988 election to make sure George H. W. won the White House. The cost to taxpayers for helping these 747 bad actors in the S&L industry was finally estimated at $1.4 trillion. If the bailout had begun in 1986 instead of after the presidential election, the cost would have been contained at $20 billion. And now the Republicans who engineered our present crisis and got us into the S&L debacle of the 80s are before us saying the markets need regulation. No, actually, they don't need regulation. Why don't you Republican capitalists who believe in the free markets get out of the damned way and let them work and allow these various financial nuthouses be crushed by the weight of their own stupidity? When it is all over, we'll have sane and sober people create laws to make sure it doesn't happen again, assuming we survive this chaos. Also, while you are handing out our tax money to idiots on Wall Street, save a little of the long green for the unemployed auto and construction workers and all of the other people who have lost their jobs because you were too stupid to notice what Phil Gramm was doing and you were convinced everything was going to be just fine because the markets work. These, then, are the people -- the Republicans -- who want to run our government for four more years. John McCain isn't just one of them. He rides their jets. He takes their campaign donations. He makes them his campaign advisors. And he tells us to trust him. He must think we are a nation of village idiots. The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

You threw me on the GRILL QUADE ! Got me. Ready for McCain ? The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

I love my Country. I have watched this mess unfold since 2005. Obama , McCain. Nah. I want an Indipendent. Ron Paul. That's a good start. ! The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

On November 12, 1999, Bill Clinton signed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act which repealed provisions that prohibit a bank holding company from owning other financial companies. God damn DUDE. That is exactly what the heart of the whole crisis is all about WAKE UP !! The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

See , not copied and pasted. An honest error and off by 11 days. The G.L.B Act felled the Firewall and opened the whole mess. Clinton was in CHARGE! He signed the BILL. Phil Gramm..... that's for another thread The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

Ha ha ha I believe we will arrive at the point very soon when people will see that this main stream political scene we have had will fail. I was watching FOX and CNN tonight. WOW . We need help. ! Maybe you can get that for us Mr. US ARMY SIR ! The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

Or are you way upsidedown on your "mortgage" The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

"DUDE" can't you post something fucking intelligent?? The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

Spare me the Phil Gramm lecture. If I am PRESIDENT , I have the ultimate power. ...VETO The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

No wonder I grind my teeth on the way up. I'm fucking PISSED !@!! Here is a little scrapbook I kept . Reps , Dems , hope you got your reserves :-) The crisis is now unfolding. They are socializing the whole banking mess. Here is how it all played out in a nutshell . And may we pray it does not get much worse. These are SCARY times. 1 Nov , 1999 , William Jefferson Clinton signs into law the repeal of the Glass Steagall act of 1933 , a law written shortly after the Great Depression. This was the shot heard around the world and started the crisis. The DOT COM bubble POPS in April , 2000 and we are sent straight into a recession. Millions loose their life savings. 2001 - Alan Greenspan lowers interest rates to historical lows. Banks stop being banks and Wall Street no longer regulated by Glass Steagall creates incredible investment vehicles. Mortgage backed securities , Structured Investment Vehicles (SIVs') , Collateralized Mortgage Obligations , so a few are named. 2002 - Mortgage lending companies pop up like Mushrooms and a frenzy in lending begins. People flock to the Real Estate profession. 2002 - 2003 - Home builders respond by constructing a record number of homes in the greatest sprawl in history. Homes are bought and sold before they are even built !! Anyone can qualify. Home value appreciation goes off the chart. 2002 Alan Greenspan says that now is a great time to get into adjustable rate mortgages . Millions buy homes in that fashion. Those loans are packaged into fancy SIV's and other Wall Street managed chopped , diced , sliced , fancy investment structures that confuse investors around the world. They are backed by American homes , so they buy them. 2004- PRESENT - Adjustable Rate Mortgages reset to higher rates by the millions. Banks are not getting their money back as people walk away from the new unaffordable mortgage. As of 2008 , MILLIONS of ARM's are waiting to reset soon. The crisis has just begun. 2008 - Thrift and investment banks , large insurance companies and small financial institutions fail in droves. 2008- Government begins bailout putting a burden on tax paying workers close to a TRILLION DOLLARS in one of the largest social programs of all time. Wall Street is now officially allowed to Capitalize their gains and Socialize their losses. Yet 40 million people are still without health care and wonder how they will pay for that MRI at the hospital. There is a political revolution brewing in this country. YEAH ! As I have stated before, when the dust settles,(this largely government-induced financial and economic implosion, which I think will rival the Depression, will be a black mark on the nightmare that is the Bush legacy for an eternity. But , don’t forget Clinton. He could have changed history with one single veto. We don't need a "CHANGE" in Washington. We NEED a "REVOLUTION" ! The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.