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To: Joe NYC who wrote (416867)	9/12/2008 7:23:32 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1585682

Do you guys ever feel anything for any living creatures? I love animals, they are delicious. And to show my true love for living creatures, I am going to start a colony of bed bugs in my apartment. Good. I imagine you looking a bit like a bed bug. Do you have red eyes?

To: Joe NYC who wrote (416867)	9/12/2008 7:37:51 PM
From: tejek	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1585682

Two High-Ranking McCain Campaign Officials Lobbied For Companies At Center of Sex-For-Oil Scandal tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com

To: Joe NYC who wrote (416867)	9/12/2008 7:42:07 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1585682

I love animals, they are delicious. And to show my true love for living creatures, I am going to start a colony of bed bugs in my apartment. ROTFLMAO.

To: Joe NYC who wrote (416867)	9/15/2008 5:16:42 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1585682

A comment about the failures of various banks, investment banks etc. that I fear may be true --- ---- They have a saying in the military; "Failure breeds supervision". Thanks to these clowns running their company in the ground, we look forward to new rounds of regulation that will do nothing but make us all poorer. Posted by John \| September 15, 2008 9:55 AM meganmcardle.theatlantic.com

To: Joe NYC who wrote (416867)	9/16/2008 5:27:47 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1585682

New York, New York 16 Sep 2008 04:18 pm This crisis is the first time that I fully realized, emotionally, that I am no longer a New Yorker. The city of my birth is in crisis, and I am far away, surrounded by people whose company can't go out of business. But my father was down this weekend, and over breakfast this morning he pointed out that New York City may be in big trouble. The anchor of New York's financial community is the independent investment banks that are all headquartered there. If their corporate center of gravity starts shifting towards Charlotte and London, will other firms begin to question whether it makes sense to pay $50 per square foot just for the privilege of being in Manhattan? That would crush New York's renaissance like a bug. All of New York's rebound has been paid for by the taxes on the financial industry--a few hundred thousand people in the industry pay the lion's share of the taxes for the entire city. Take them away, and the city will rapidly lurch back towards bankruptcy. Of course, that's not the sort of thing that happens overnight. But the City and State of New York are remarkably business-unfriendly places; they usually end up ranked at the very bottom of the league tables in terms of the ease of doing business there. That isn't just taxes, though that's part of it, but the massive, overgrown regulatory apparatus that can be perilous and expensive to negotiate. New York can afford to have things like a gold-plated Medicaid program, laws that tilt negotiations overwhelming in favor of public service unions during negotiations, and an outrageously expensive workman's comp system. The financial system just throws off so much money--and it's very good at dealing with regulators. If the Golden Goose goes away, downstate may start looking like upstate. Western New York is trapped in a downward economic spiral where the affluent leave, and the needy, who are now a higher percentage of the electorate, vote themselves even more programs, the burden of which chases out still more affluent people, and the businesses that employ them. meganmcardle.theatlantic.com