They’re actually all playing their part in a vast conspiracy whereby the space aliens and the upper heads of government and big business are working together to turn the rest of the human species into a giant ant colony in order to serve them.

Okay, so maybe I’m exagerating to the point of fantasy; nevertheless, there is a lot of truth to what I’m saying here….Perhaps I’m right about everything except for the space aliens….

On the bright side, I don’t think that Obama or Biden are cyborgs. I don’t think that they are part of the global conspiracy. I do think that Obama and Biden are real human beings who care about us real human beings, and that they might start to undo the damage that Bush, Jr. has done to our U.S. Constitution, our civil liberties, and the soul of our great nation.

IANAD, however, and it’s impossible to diagnose anything via a video anyway.

Sorry I didn’t Spell Check. The mnemonic should read: ““To Zanzibar by motor car”

Peace,
JK

Notice that the left side of his mouth also droops.

His surgical scars reflect the substantial resection of the left side of his face esp. in front of the left ear where the facial nerve splits into branches. The standard mnemonic for remembering the facial nerve’s motor branches (going to muscles) from that point is “To Zanzibar bay motor car”. The main branches are temporal (forehead and eyelid), zygomatic (area lateral to the eye), bucchal, Marginal mandibular, and cervical.

This is most likely a consequence of injury to the nerve from his surgery while obtaining wide margins when removing his melanoma. Removal of melanoma tumors demands taking a significant amount of normal surrounding tissue to ensure that removal is complete.

It could also be from scar contraction which occurs over time, or much less likely tumor, causing a facial nerve palsy.

Peace, JK

Notice that the left side of his mouth also droops.

His surgical scars reflect the substantial resection of the left side of his face esp. in front of the left ear where the facial nerve splits into branches. The standard mnemonic for remembering the facial nerve’s motor branches (going to muscles) from that point is “To Zanzibar bay motor car”. The main branches are temporal (forehead and eyelid), zygomatic (area lateral to the eye), bucchal, Marginal mandibular, and cervical.

This is most likely a consequence of injury to the nerve from his surgery while obtaining wide margins when removing his melanoma. Removal of melanoma tumors demands taking a significant amount of normal surrounding tissue to ensure that removal is complete.

It could also be from scar contraction which occurs over time, or much less likely tumor, causing a facial nerve palsy.

Peace, JK

False.

For starters

Well, not having laws that discriminate against gays for no reason, for starters.

But the lenders are guilty of something – being really shitty businessmen. We didn’t experience a real estate bubble because suddenly poor people decided to get McMansions, no matter how much you guys try to push that line. It was mortgage companies, banks, and brokers giving out these loans to people like candy and promoting the idea that those low interest rates would last forever (especially on ARMs). Then the idiot banks packaged up these risky loans with each other and started trading them back and forth as if the piper would never come home for payment.

In other words alcoholics were given free refills then handed the keys to the car and all the cops were given the night off.

Frank, you have a habit of derailing threads like this one, then when people shoot your arguments full of holes, you play the victim. It’s why I’ve banned you in the past and why many wish you would stop being an ass. As I keep having to say, it isn’t your wrongheaded politics that produces these annoyances.

Mr WTF seems to think that this is the fault of the lenders.

The question is , “Did they break any laws?” No

Were they acting in accordance with the government’s plan? Yes

Has the government’s plan been effective? No

So Zython is right about exactly one thing (I think it’s the first time, in my memory) : We are asking the ones who “broke” it to “fix” it.

Which is a very interesting point : You all are asking the most liberal Senator in the Senate to change things.

AND

As I have been asking for days, “Change WHAT things to WHAT things?”

Not the ones who broke it, that’s for sure.

You wouldn’t trust a PETA member to run a buchery, so why would you trust a Republican to run the government?

AND, what is the reality of the situation? That Clinton / Cuomo didn’t put pressure on lenders to give mortgages to low income wage earners?

Here’s a study showing a few things about CRA loans.

CRA loans constituted only 23% of all loans and 9.2% of high-cost loans.
CRA loans were twice as likely to be retained in the originating bank’s portfolio than loans made by other institutions.
CRA loans were less likely to be foreclosed upon than other loans.

But don’t let that stop you. Can’t let those feral darkies be homeowner, now can we?

Mr Strowbridge — the Canadian – seeks to inform me that the vast majority of Americans believe that this financial fiasco is the Republicans’ fault, as if knowing what other people believe affects what I know to be true; as if they will never know the truth.
He further believes that “what I (Mr Strowbridge) believe” is what “most people believe”, as if either of those is relevant, or even true.

Translation: “That can’t be true. If it were, I’d be an idiot.”

He’s wouldn’t be the first President to be propped up and wheeled around in ways designed to hide physical disability (FDR and Woodrow Wilson come to mind). But when you consider who would be a the controls in place of a fully capable McCain or an Alaskan ex-Governor with a brain in her head, this gets a little scary: it would be, of course, the same neocon team that has been running the country into the ground for two terms: Rove, Cheney, Feith, et al.

We really can’t afford these arrogant, greedy nitwits any longer. In fact, we couldn’t afford them from the get-go, as the current melt-down amply demonstrates. So my question is: are the majority of modern American voters too plain stupid for democracy? If so, what a terrible failing, and what a pity that would be!

Time will tell.

He’s had cancer and surgery for it multiple times.
He’s 70 years old.
He takes medicine for high blood pressure and to lower his cholesterol.
He has a family history of heart disease.

This is all public knowledge. What worries me is that he won’t release his medical history. What else is there to hide?