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The public address system has been quiet for the last 48 hours. I have a feeling most officials are off bowing and crying at Roh's funeral. The halls here are quiet with most doors closed. Visions of infected zombie-swine flu mutations changing their hosts into snouted frothing filthy foreign english teachers behind the closed doors flicker through my head offering something amusing to pass the time. Reality is rather boring under quarantine.
We spent a few hours laying out in the sun, passing around magazines, laughing at picture perfect Christopher Walken impressions and cursing the construction workers jack hammering away not a hundred meters up from us. That's one thing that always amused and irritated me about Korea. There's no such thing as noise pollution laws, or if there are they're enforced about as well as red lights and monogamy around here, which is to say not at all. Last year we lived next to a construction site that operated seven days a week from 6am to 8pm with the sole intention of seeing how many people it could wake up. I still wake up early half the time, conditioned like Pavlov's dogs after a year of hearing excited construction workers chanting their morning pep rally at dawn and doing calisthenics for the days labors.
Swine flu may not have yet claimed my girlfriend or me, but boredom certainly has. I watched her stare at Rachel Ray on TV this morning, fascinated as that cute spunky cooking host demonstrated how to make meals that kids would like. Here's a girl who's idea of a good time involves horror movies (the grosser the better), World of Warcraft, backpacking around dirt poor countries, and Bret Easton Ellis books and she's actually fascinated with Rachel Ray.
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One Converstion To Have With An Atheist – With Answers
The atheism of today is a strange brew. Many of the more vocal proponents have a kind of eat their cake and have it too approach. They want to be nice atheists, champions of morality and meaning, while yet maintaining that we are nothing more than biological accidents in an otherwise unimaginably unlikely incident of space and time.
The view is paradoxical, to say the least. And it baffles me.
But it also frustrates me.
I can understand unbelief. It's a stance of the heart and mind, a set of convictions undergirding a worldview. While I firmly disagree with the tenets of atheism, I don't think proponents of the view should be illogical. They can draw consistent and clear conclusions from their core presuppositions. What frustrates me, however, is the tendency to hijack atheism with warm and fuzzies- warm and fuzzies that sound good, but fail to comport in a meaningful way with their viewpoint.
I must have something specific in mind here. And I do.
I was recently directed to an article by Greta Christina, a well known proponent of free-thought. The blog post is entitled, "9 Questions Not To Ask Atheists – With Answers." Here Christina succinctly details common questions that "make atheists feel second class- and make you look like a jerk."
Numbered among the 9 or so questions that irritate atheists is the issue of morality. The question succinctly stated goes like this:
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FMYiRC V1.30 will be the fourth official/stable release of Freemed-YiRC. For more information about what Freemed-YiRC is, please see About FMYiRC.
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So... in the rulebook it says that during combat with another player, each player uses a unit, or a tactic at a time.
"Mind control" is a tactic card, and "Battle Cry" is also a tactic card, but with minor change in description which says: "Play during combat".
my question is: may I play a tactic card that doesn't have the line "Play during combat" (like battle cry and summon lightning) during battle? the rules never mentioned anything against it. something is awfully wrong playing mind control during a battle, waaay over powered.
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Tie dying revisited. My first attempt at tie dying 20 years ago didn't go so well. So I thought I would have another go at it. The results this time around were much better. Forgot how much fun it was, especially the anticipation of seeing the design.
Thanks for posting these GR!! They came out grate!! You should make another batch and sell them at your upcoming show. Hope you and your friends have a blast!
i just took a stab at tye dye recently. but the dye i used didnt stick that well and just faded really fast. what brand of dye did you use?
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1. "Is the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq dead?": Questions, questions fill my head. From USA Today.
["There are unconfirmed reports that the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq has been killed, according to the Associated Press and other news organizations. "There is intelligence information. Some information, you know, needs confirmation, but this information is very strong," an Interior Ministry spokesman said, according to AFP."]
2. "A Series of Fortunate Events": The latest life report from House contributor Kenji Fujishima.
["This Saturday was my big thesis presentation day. Every year, the Livingston College Honors Program sponsors a day in which all the seniors must go up in front of a crowd of fellow honors students and faculty and present essentially a summary of the thesis they wrote this year. So, for 10 minutes, I had to basically speak about Jean-Luc Godard and Quentin Tarantino and summarize my thesis regarding them both, in which I basically tried to show, by delving not only into a comparative discussion of their respective films but also comparing personal backgrounds and the historical and social contexts in which their work was created and received. In other words: they're both interesting and important in their own ways. (That's certainly a rather different proposition from the one I initially started out with in undertaking this thesis project, one that I'd like to think has come from a lot of careful consideration.)"]
3. "Tommy Newsom, Saxophonist, Dies at 78": From The New York Times.
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Toto Wolff believes Mercedes are "a bit better" this season as their W04 is making better use of its Pirelli tyres.
Mercedes had a solid start to their campaign with Lewis Hamilton qualifying third before racing to fifth in the season-opening Australian GP.
However, his team-mate Nico Rosberg, who qualified sixth, did not reach the chequered flag.
"I think with Mercedes it is a bit better than it was last season," Wolff told Autosport.
"But it seems you have to work even more for the Sunday than the Saturday. P7 on the grid [in Australia] won the race, while P1 struggled and finished third.
"So maybe it is much more about making a compromise on Saturday to get the car right for Sunday."
The Mercedes motorsport boss added that the new Pirelli rubber, which is less durable than last season's, is already playing a major role in the outcome of grand prix weekends.
However, for Mercedes it appears to be working better as the team was able to run a longer first stint than many of their rivals on the supersoft tyres in Melbourne.
"Some teams seemed to have lost the plot completely," Wolff added.
"McLaren, Williams and Toro Rosso don't seem to manage the tyres at all; and then you have one of the Force Indias which does 80 percent a fantastic race and then drops out of any performance.
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Former Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. testified before Congress on Thursday about his role in persuading Bank of America to complete its acquisition of Merrill Lynch. Zachery Kouwe of The New York Times live-blogged the hearing on DealBook, with the most recent posts at the top.
2:56 p.m. | It's a Wrap: The hearing is adjourned. Maybe Mr. Paulson can still make that 4:45 flight.
2:51 p.m. | Bair and Cox Next?: In his closing remarks, Mr. Towns asks how Merrill's losses went from $9 billion to $20 billion in such a short amount of time late last year. Mr. Paulson says he simply doesn't know how Merrill's losses accelerated so quickly. "I saw and witnessed things I never had seen before," he says, referring to the state of the markets at the time.
Mr. Towns says the committee needs to hear from Christopher Cox, the former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Sheila Bair, the chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
2:50pm | Wrapping Up: In his closing statement, Mr. Issa talks about unanswered questions that remain, including whether Merrill would have been successful as a stand-alone company if it hadn't been acquired by Bank of America. He thanks Mr. Paulson for his services and asked that he continue to be a resource to the committee.
2:46 p.m. | A.I.G. and the TARP: Would the crisis at A.I.G. have been handled differently if the TARP were in place at the time? Mr. Paulson can't say for sure: He says it was important for A.I.G. to avoid filing for bankruptcy protection, but adds that he doesn't know the details of what the Fed is doing at A.I.G. now, so he can't specify what it would have done differently.
2:43 p.m. | More on Goldman: "We are trying to unscramble eggs that are incredibly rotten," says Diane E. Watson, Democrat from California, who wants Mr. Paulson to answer questions about the Obama administration's new financial regulations. Mr. Paulson says he will work with her office to answer some of the questions, but notes he does not have the staff that he used to.
The discussion turns back to Goldman: "I can't explain why what they are doing is working," Mr. Paulson says when asked why the Wall Street firm is doing so well. "I don't know what the source of the profits are, and I'm not in a position to speculate."
2:35 p.m. | A Goldman Conflict?: "Isn't it true that Goldman Sachs benefited from the A.I.G. bailout, and weren't you a part of that business, and shouldn't have you recused yourself from the process?" These questions are from Cliff Stearns, Republican of Florida.
"I left Goldman Sachs and sold my shares in Goldman Sachs," Mr. Paulson says, defending his role in the bailout process.
2:27 p.m. | The Lehman Exception, Revisited: Why do we have companies that are too big to fail? That question comes from William Lacy Clay, a Missouri Democrat, who also wonders why Lehman was allowed to fail and Goldman was bailed out.
Mr. Paulson reiterates that the TARP didn't exist at the time of the Lehman crisis, and so the investment bank couldn't be saved. "Once we had the TARP in place, we had other tools in the toolbox," he says. "A Fed loan to Lehman Brothers would not have prevented a bankruptcy."
Mr. Clay says his constituents are fuming about the bailout money they gave A.I.G. because it went directly to the people who created the problem. Mr. Paulson said he felt the same way at the time, but had to save the system.
2:24 p.m. | A Reason to Be Uncomfortable: Jeff Fortenberry, a Republican from Nebraska, asks whether the fact that 10 banks control most of the nation's capital is a systemic risk in itself. "That is something that makes me uncomfortable," Mr. Paulson says. He adds that new financial regulation is going to have to deal with the problem.
2:15 p.m. | Goldman and Warren Buffett: In a particularly contentious exchange, Marcy Kaptur, Democrat of Ohio, claims Mr. Paulson knew all along that there were problems in the financial system and orchestrated the TARP to be the biggest public bailout of the private sector in history.
"It looks like some very rich people are now profiting," Ms. Kaptur says, referring to the record-setting quarterly profits at Goldman Sachs. She compares the terms of the government's TARP investment in Goldman with the terms that Warren Buffett, the famous investor, got on his preferred stock investment in Goldman. Why did Mr. Buffett get a better deal than taxpayers?
Mr. Paulson's answer: At the time, Mr. Buffett's type of capital wasn't available. "You do not stop a financial panic by offering capital to banks at the only terms available in the middle of a crisis," he says.
2:10 p.m. | About the Lawyers: Mr. Paulson acknowledges that the lawyers he listened to at the Treasury Department about the MAC clause did not have experience in mergers and acquisitions.
2:05 p.m. | 'What a Regulator Should Do': Aaron Schock, Republican of Illinois, asks whether Mr. Paulson ever used the name of Timothy F. Geithner, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York at the time, to put additional pressure on Mr. Lewis. Mr. Paulson says he couldn't recall using Mr. Geithner's name.
Responding to a question about whether a threat would have been improper, Mr. Paulson says: "I take responsibility for what I said" and "I think it was what a regulator should do."
1:59 p.m. | Why the MAC Mattered: Once again, Mr. Paulson says that if Bank of America had invoked a MAC clause to escape the Merrill deal, it would not have been legally valid. But Gerry Connolly, Democrat of Virginia, asks why he cared about whether Mr. Lewis invoked the MAC in the first place.
"I normally wouldn't care," Mr. Paulson replies. But he says that in the BofA-Merrill situation, if the MAC had been invoked, it would have caused great damage to the financial system.
1:52 p.m. | Which Way Out?: Where is the exit strategy, and when will the government be out of the business of banking, asks Brian Bilbray, Republican of California. Mr. Paulson acknowledges that this is the crucial question, but says he can't predict when the economy will turn around. "I hope it's soon," he says.
1:47 p.m. | Goldman and A.I.G.: Mr. Paulson is asked about his time as the head of Goldman Sachs and whether last fall he asked Ed Liddy, a Goldman director at the time, to take over as A.I.G.'s chief executive.
Mr. Paulson says yes, he did, but adds that he did not have anything to do with the Fed's bailout of A.I.G. A major part of the rescue funds flowed through A.I.G. to big banks, and Goldman was the largest recipient.
1:38 p.m. | The Merrill Bonuses: "There's no question about your capacity to finish a deal," Patrick T. McHenry, Republican of North Carolina, tells Mr. Paulson, citing his prior position as chairman of Goldman Sachs.
Elijah E. Cummings, Democrat of Maryland, brings up the $3 billion in bonuses that were handed out at Merrill before its sale to Bank of America closed. He asks whether Mr. Paulson was aware of the bonuses at the time, and whether he thought it was fair that the taxpayers effectively paid for them.
Mr. Paulson says he wasn't aware of the Merrill bonuses until they had already been paid, and he declines to describe them as unethical. Nor would he opine on whether the bonuses should have been paid, saying "he wasn't there" and doesn't have all the facts in the situation.
1:30 p.m. | And We're Back: The hearing is back in session, and the pointed questions keep coming. Did Mr. Paulson systematically nationalize the banking system despite the consequences? That one is from Bill Foster, a Democrat of Illinois. Mr. Paulson says the government's actions were "not a nationalization of the banks" because its investment was in the form of preferred stock.
Asked whether shareholders of systemically important institutions should take a bullet for the sake of the rest of the financial system, Mr. Paulson says shareholders' interests were aligned with the rest of the financial system. He noted that the Delaware courts have never canceled a merger when the buyer invoked a MAC clause, as Bank of America considered doing with Merrill in December.
12:00 p.m. | Break Time: Mr. Towns adjourns the hearing until 1:30 p.m. Mr. Paulson asks his aides "what time this will end" because he's on a 4:45 p.m. flight. An aide to Mr. Paulson is overheard telling the former Treasury secretary that "Souder was awesome."
11:55 a.m. | Too Much Bailing?: "If they had read the document," members of Congress would have realized that the TARP gave the government wide latitude, says Mark E. Souder, a Republican from Indiana. He says lawmakers understood they had signed "a blank check" when they voted for the TARP, even though he believes Mr. Paulson "verbally misled" them.
He asks Mr. Paulson if he thinks the government has gone too far in its intervention in business since he left. "I don't think it is appropriate for me, five months out of the job," to answer the question.
11:48 a.m. | 'An Averted Calamity': In a bit of a digression, Jackie Speier, a California Democrat, asks whether Mr. Paulson uses e-mail. Mr. Paulson says he has never used e-mail and communicates by telephone.
And back to the topic at hand: "In many respects, I feel that the taxpayers bought Merrill Lynch for Bank of America," Ms. Speier says, mentioning the $45 billion in TARP funds that the bank received and Merrill's $50 billion purchase price.
Mr. Paulson's reply: "What the taxpayer got was an averted calamity."
11:43 a.m. | Defending the TARP: Michael Turner, Republican of Ohio, claims Mr. Paulson had "no science" backing up his decision to pressure Bank of America into completing the Merrill deal. He called the TARP, which he voted against, "a crock" and the "largest theft in American history."
"You were asking me to provide taxpayer money to bail out people who were defrauding my community," he says. In response, Mr. Paulson says he, like many others, didn't see the crisis coming but started working on a plan for financial crisis as soon as he began as Treasury secretary.
"Our approach was to buy those illiquid assets, but we needed to change gears," Mr. Paulson says. "The people I care about are the ones that you care about," he says, and they did not create the problem. "The big banks created the problem."
11:32 a.m. | Protecting Taxpayers: "No one was more protective of the American taxpayer than I was," Mr. Paulson says, in response to remarks from Peter Welch, a Democrat from Vermont.
11:28 a.m. | The Disclosure Question: Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican, expresses his concern about the lack of public disclosure, or disclosure to the S.E.C., about what was going on at Bank of America last December. "We were working with the regulators involved in putting the financial rescue package together," he says.
"It is not the Treasury secretary's job to get between a company and the S.E.C," Mr. Paulson replies. "That is something that is not my responsibility." He says there was a full and fair airing of the situation to the Financial Stability Oversight Board. Mr. Chaffetz, who wasn't a member of Congress at the time, calls the TARP a "disaster" that he would not have voted for.
11:20 a.m. | The Lehman Exception: Asking a question that many have posed in the last few months, Mike Quigley, an Illinois Democrat, wants to know why Lehman Brothers was denied a federal rescue and not Fannie Mae, the American International Group or Bear Stearns.
Mr. Paulson reiterates his position that he was unable to find a buyer for Lehman, even on an assisted basis. Bear Stearns had a buyer in JPMorgan Chase, and A.I.G. only faced a liquidity problem but had a well-capitalized subsidiary. "There was no power we could find to solve the liquidity and the capital problem" at Lehman, he says.
Mr. Quigley asks whether Mr. Paulson promised Mr. Lewis he could keep his job if he completed the deal. Mr. Paulson says he never made such a promise, adding that the decision was up to the board of Bank of America.
11:19 a.m. | No Backup Plan: What if Bank of America had decided not to go through with the Merrill deal? John L. Mica, Republican of Florida, inquires if the government had a backup plan. Mr. Paulson says he was not aware of such a plan and was focused on preparing a rescue package for the bank before it announced its quarterly earnings.
11:08 a.m. | More Claims of Deception: Another lawmaker, Stephen F. Lynch, claims that Mr. Paulson misled Congress about how TARP funds would be used.
Mr. Lynch, a Massachusetts Democrat, also asks about Mr. Paulson's conversation with Mr. Bernanke about removing Bank of America's board and management. In response, Mr. Paulson says he went over the broad outlines of the law allowing the Fed to remove management.
11:01 a.m. | Not Buying It: "I don't think anyone is buying what you're saying right now," Dan Burton, Republican of Indiana, tells Mr. Paulson. He's referring to Mr. Paulson's answer to a question about whether or not the Fed told him to threaten Bank of America's management if it tried to abandon the Merrill deal. In his answer, Mr. Paulson said he didn't remember whether anyone from the Fed explicitly told him to take that action.
10:54 a.m. | Fears of a New Depression: Regulators have failed to inform the American people about what the financial meltdown actually meant, says Paul E. Kanjorski, a Pennsylvania Democrat. He asks Mr. Paulson to take the time to describe exactly how dire the situation was last September.
At the time, Mr. Paulson says they had to be careful about how much they disclosed about the crisis, for fear of overly alarming the American people. He adds that the situation could have gotten so bad that we could have gone back to the Great Depression.
10:48 a.m. | Claims of Deception: Mr. Jordan says there was a "clear pattern of deception" by the federal government in administering the bailout funds and in the details about the merger. "You deceived the regulators," Mr. Jordan says, referring to Securities and Exchange Commission, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and others.
Mr. Jordan asks Mr. Paulson about the use of TARP funds and when he knew that he would change direction on the TARP, from a plan to buy illiquid assets to making direct capital injections into the banks.
"Congress knew they were giving us the flexibility" to change how the Fed used the TARP funds, Mr. Paulson replies. Subsequent events have proven that there are problems with buying illiquid assets, he says.
10:46 a.m. | Anything Illegal?: "I don't feel qualified to sit here and opine on whether or not there was an illegal action," Mr. Paulson says, adding that he hasn't seen evidence of any illegal action.
10:40 a.m. | Why the C.E.O. Stayed: Was Mr. Paulson aware of concerns at the Fed and Treasury that Mr. Lewis, BofA's chief executive, failed to conduct adequate due diligence on Merrill Lynch? Asked that question, Mr. Paulson says he had not heard concerns about possible violation of securities laws, but was aware that there were concerns about management.
"You have to ask yourself if this management is capable of running the firm" and if there is someone you know who can replace the existing management, Mr. Paulson says. "Running a large complex financial firm is not easy." He adds: "In terms of replacing the C.E.O., in this situation it was our judgment that it would not be appropriate."
10:36 a.m. | Special Privilege: Mr. Issa wants to know why Mr. Paulson said he couldn't provide complete answers to New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo as part of an investigation by Mr. Cuomo's office. Mr. Paulson replies that the Fed had invoked a special privilege preventing him from talking about certain things.
10:30 a.m. | How the Bailout Began: In response to a question from Mr. Towns about who first brought up the idea of the bailout of Bank of America, Mr. Paulson — who prefers to call it "a rescue" — says the idea "came out of discussions between the Fed and the bank."
10:25 a.m. | Time for Questions: Mr. Towns asks Mr. Paulson whether, when he was Treasury secretary, he told Mr. Lewis not to try to renegotiate the price of the Merrill Lynch deal. Mr. Paulson says he "wasn't that direct," but he indicated that invoking the Material Adverse Change clause in an attempt to back out would have shown a "colossal lack of judgment."
Why didn't you just fire Mr. Lewis, Mr. Towns asks. In his response, Mr. Paulson says Bank of America decided to live up to its contract and didn't invoke the MAC clause, and therefore he didn't deserve to be fired at that point.
10:19 a.m. | Interference or Aid?: Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, criticizes the government for its unprecedented interference in the United States economy. In his opening remarks, Mr. Paulson, as expected, defended his role in helping to stabilize the economy in an unprecedented time. The government's actions, Mr. Paulson said, saved the country from "great peril."
10:15 a.m. | Free Rides: Describing how Mr. Paulson and Mr. Bernanke bailed out Bank of America without replacing management, Mr. Kucinich says "the biggest, most powerful bankers essentially received a free ride from taxpayers."
10:10 a.m. | A 'Potentially Illegal Act': Taking issue with his colleague's Monday-morning quarterback remark, Dennis J. Kucinich, an Ohio Democrat, says the real issue is whether taxpayers should have aided the merger of Bank of America and Merrill. He says Mr. Paulson ignored warnings that the Bank of America deal with Merrill was a "potentially illegal act."
Mr. Kucinich presents e-mail messages from Fed staffers purported to show that the regulator believed Bank of America failed to conduct adequate due diligence on Merrill. "Lewis should have been aware of the losses earlier," one Fed staffer said in an e-mail message.
10:07 a.m | Monday-Morning Quarterbacks: Darrell Issa, a Republican from California, compares the financial crisis to a Soviet invasion, in which the government had to act quickly with the tools it had. Then a new metaphor: "In Washington," he says, "we are Monday-morning quarterbacks," who can ask what we should do on the gridiron next Sunday.
10:00 a.m. | Getting started: Edolphus Towns, who called the merger a "shotgun wedding" in the first hearing, now calls it a "marriage of convenience" in which the Fed got what it wanted and Bank of America got what it wanted.
"Ken Lewis appears to have manipulated this unaccountable system to his benefit," Mr. Towns, the New York Democrat who chairs the committee, says in his opening statement. "The problem is that while all this was going on, the American people, investors and Congress were kept in the dark."
One of the morning's big questions, he adds, is this: "Was Bank of America really forced to go through with the deal, or was this an old-fashioned Brooklyn shakedown?"
A Preview: Mr. Paulson is the third member of the Merrill deal trio to be called before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to explain what exactly happened in December when Bank of America balked at completing its acquisition of the securities firm. The bank's chief executive, Kenneth D. Lewis, and the Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, told somewhat different stories at separate hearings last month.
Mr. Paulson is ready to take an aggressive stance in this he-said/he-said dispute. That can be seen in his prepared testimony to the committee, which became public on Wednesday despite an embargo.
He said he sent Mr. Lewis a "strong message" not to abandon the Merrill takeover, indicating that such a move could cost Mr. Lewis and other bank executives their jobs.
Mr. Paulson said that the bank would have shown "a colossal lack of judgment" if it had scuttled the Merrill deal and that his remarks to Mr. Lewis were "appropriate."
His actions are sure to draw spirited questions during the hearing, since some lawmakers think Mr. Paulson went too far by threatening to oust Mr. Lewis.
Mr. Lewis testified on June 11 that Mr. Paulson and Mr. Bernanke had pressured him to complete the Merrill deal in December after Bank of America became aware of billions of dollars in additional losses at the securities firm.
For his part, Mr. Bernanke staunchly denied that he or anyone else at the Fed did anything improper in prodding the bank to complete its takeover of Merrill. At a testy hearing on June 25, the Fed chairman also denied that he had threatened to oust the bank's top management.
Lawmakers are also likely to raise further questions about whether Mr. Lewis was pressed not to disclose Merrill's huge losses to shareholders before they voted on the acquisition.
Like Mr. Bernanke, Mr. Paulson denies that charge. "I did not — nor to my knowledge did anyone at the Federal Reserve or the Treasury — tell Mr. Lewis not to disclose any information to the public markets, including Merrill Lynch losses, that Bank of America believed it was legally required to disclose," Mr. Paulson said in his statement.
And questions are likely to be raised about whether Mr. Lewis was trying to pressure the government to give Bank of America more bailout money by threatening to pull out of the Merrill deal.
I am horrified at the treatment Henry Paulson is getting. He served his country when he could have been making billions. He (far more than Bush Cheney) saved the US from a second great depression. He was tough on Lewis/BoA, but legitimately so. Paulson should be given the Congressional Medal of Honor instead of being hounded. Shame on everyone on that committee.
— BillMr. Paulson's reply: "What the taxpayer got was an averted calamity."
and we're supposed to be satisfied with that?
His friends at Goldman Sachs got rich and we got the bill.
NO ONE is being held accountable for the Republican Party's looting of the Treasury.
— vpI agree with commenter No. 1. Paulson, who had pledged to give way his vast fortune toward environmental causes, went into public service after being in the private sector for so long. He was handed a mess, he did the best he could, and working in tandem with Ben Bernanke in what way brought this economy from the brink of a collapse.
Do you tell a Doctor who has to do emergency open heart surgery not to leave scar tissue when he works? No. There's going to be controversies and things left over that we didn't like. But I certainly believe he got the job done.
The other choice was the complete and total collapse of the U.S. financial system, documented heavily by the Times, the Journal, the Government and numerous other officials.
He's having to defend something that didn't happen. It didn't happen because he was part of the group that stopped from happening.
— KenEveryone apparently wants the financial sector to be punished a little more and to have the depression prolonged.
Actually, for most folks, if we could just unlink
(1) the benefits of a financial sector recovery to the overall economy from
(2) any benefits to the bankers in the financial sector because of the putative recovery,
that would be great.
It gets to be like folks' perspective on healthcare reform: We want all the benefits of universal healthcare (as in for everyone other than illegal immigrants) including lower costs to us, but we don't want to pay for it.
— JHLHere's a story for you……when Congressman Kanjorski urged Mr. Paulson to tell, in detail, what the government feared if no stimulus were forthcoming, both Bloomberg and CNBC (the only outlets available to me via TV or XM radio that were covering the hearing) immediately broke away from the hearing to either air ads or other gibberish of no consequence. They came back after whatever Mr. Paulson said (or didn't – I'll never know) at Mr. Kanjorski's urging to inform the American public of the true dangers we faced – and may still face, in all likelihood.
Kind of smacks of "The truth? You can't handle the truth!" from the movie "A Few Good Men".
— BillWould some please investigate and report approximately how much Goldman Sachs profited, directly via the AIG $185 billion bailout, and indirectly through trades, hedges, etc. by Paulsen's actions, decisions?
— VictorGood Lord Bill what part of Privatize profits, socialize debt dont you understand.
— JPEven sadder, was the insistence of Merrill senior executives to demand substantial compensation for the sale. These guys run a historically conservative firm into the ground trying to cash in on quick profits, fail, get a government assisted merger/bailout, and then threaten the whole deal unless awarded millions in bonus compensation (Thain, CEO of Merrill demanded $40 million). Nice way to spend tax payer dollars..
— JeffWhat's up with the mainstream media acolytes who keep
aluding to the genius of Goldman Sachs?
What genius?
If it wasn't for their former CEO Hank Paulson bankrupting
their competition (Bear and Lehman) and then extorting
Congress behind closed doors under the threat of martial law,
they wouldn't even be in business today.
Does having your former CEO being able to choose who among
your competitors lives, or dies, make you a genius?
Does having your former CEO bail you out via the backdoor
of AIG, make you a genius?
Was former Goldman Chairman and NY Fed head Stephen Friedman a
genius, or just another front running, inside trader?
Since when does front running & shearing the sheep make one a genius?
Goldman is no more a genius than is the IRS.
One robs you blind under the protection of the law of the land,
and the other robs you blind while operating outside of it.
I agree with Bill and Ken and don't you just love congressmen who grandstand for their constituents back home? Talk about lining their pockets (with votes). What exactly about the TARP funds was a mistake?
This was a huge crisis of confidence that has been averted. The banks are now posting good profits and are holding on to the toxic assets (if it was more than a crisis of confidence and there was no underlying value to many of these assets, they would have sold them to the gov't) . As stated in the remarks above, we were facing a Great Depression – all of the banks are leveraged – they have more in loans than assets. Thank goodness Americans were not told the extreme severity of the problem – economic meltdown would have been self-fulfilling! Once the confidence in the system was shaken and had the gov't not taken action all of the countries like China that help support our credit markets would have been rightly demading higher returns (for the added risk they're taking with us) on their t-bills driving interest rates through the roof. Think about that – a huge business slowdown coupled with rates that prohibit lending – that's a vicious cycle. If we didn't raise the rates for them, they would not have continued to invest resulting in a total global economic meltdown. Right now it's because of lower rates that Americans are refinancing and that is helping the banks earn those big profits and helping them get back on their feet.
I don't like 10% unemployment nor the very tough economic climate but this is nothing compared to what would have happened without TARP. We were at the edge of the abyss. But don't take my word for it, search for Warren Buffet's and George Soros' comments about this mess. These are two men who know more than a little about the markets and the economy.
— robIf these rubes on capitol hill had a shred of integrity, they would acknowledge that they knew exactly what they were getting themselves into when they voted for TARP, and this nonsense and political theater serves no one as it sweeps under the public rug the simple facts of what we are currently dealing with.
It's disgusting that Paulson is being treated this way by these doltish fools.
— NewyorkpaulHis testimony is self serving… Paulson's an idiot.
— PeterWhat exactly about the TARP funds was a mistake? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Maybe here ….
Or maybe here …
or maybe this …
— skippyThe ironic thing is if Paulson did not do what he did that the same elected officials would be dragging Paulson in front of congress demanding to know why he didn't do anything.
Let's face it, the consequences of not doing what he did would have been fatal. And, he had to bend the rules a bit to get things done because the existing framework didn't provide the appropriate guidelines.
— seanA catastrophe was avoided…I agree with that. We would be in a much bigger mess, had the feds not intervened the way they did.
— Joseph…The Real Estate GuyToday the Mafia held a hearing on the origins of organized crime. John Gotti, the star witness, justified the actions of liars, henchmen, thugs, murderers, and his friends as being necessary for the preservation of social order. A bystander was overheard whispering "follow the money".
— TaxeeHello,
I just want to ask Mr. Paulson, why Merill Lynch was forced into BofA's lap?
They were not even operating in the same arena!
Why weren't they loaded onto Goldman Sachs, obviously they are very good at running the investment banking business. Was it because of competition rules?
By closing Bear Stearns, Lehmann, dumping Merill Lynch on BoA, they left the field open to Goldman Sachs. It looks like it all worked out very well for GS.
On the other hand it affected BofA. Drop in share prices, many BofA jobs were lost. And right now the consumer lending business is almost switched off, so when will they digest the Merill Lynch acquisition?
Sir, why didn't you offload Lehmann on JP Morgan? They were almost as big as Merill, systemically as important as Merill according to the same definition used for Merill.
Thank you.
— Prash_StockholmNow the fire has been put off and the politicians start questioning the firefighters why they used too much water.
Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke should be applauded for the swift and decisive actions they took to save the country and maybe the world from falling apart.
If the narrowminded congress takes any action to punish these brave men, next time around we won't have any heroes willing to risk their own skins for the common good.
Damn the territorial narrow-minded congress. They are the worst kind of politians and most corrupted branch of American democracy.
— zgscghSo half of these people don't even understand what a warrant is? Why don't we get a group of rhesus monkeys finish the hearing — b/c they are about as knowledgeable.
— jdmI admire the man. For a couple of year while Congress and the Bush Administration were in profound denial about the economy Mr. Paulson and Mr. Bernanke were preparing for the worst disaster since the Great Depression.
For years I have watched these two men as if they were pilots of a doomed airliner who struggled to fly their plane out of a highly populated region before an inevitable crash. Each extra day they kept the economy flying meant tens of billions dollars saved.
This criticism from Congress is like hearing that the passengers of the Landing on the Hudson were angry that they got wet and lost their luggage.
I am watching the hearing live on CNBC and once again I see unsophisticated Congressmen and woman grand standing for their constituents. Most are reading questions off of cards that some intern researched and wrote and they have no idea what they are asking about. These hearings are a waste of time and tax payer money.
— Sad Little IrirWe can do without Matt Taibbi's idiotic and ignorant rants please. Serious comments only.
— JohnPaulson made virtually all of his wealth from his Goldman–salary and stock–and got to sell the stock tax free (the fact he is giving much of it away to environmental causes is nice, but my guess is he and family will retain enough to fly first class for awhile). The AIG deal was structured so that specifically Goldman, along with several European Banks, got 100% on-the-dollar for their derivative bets–others got screwed. Goldman, takes TARP funds. Goldman gets much of the business left over from the destruction of Bear and Lehman. Goldman reports record profits and employees get a monster bonus for all their 'hard work'. Unemployment and mortgage failures continue to grow.
I don't care how much of a 'saint' Hank is for saving the american economy and keeping millions in their homes, the string of events just don't play out well. Also, as a shareholder of B of A, why weren't Reg D laws followed and relative financial events at B of A (regarding the Merrill Deal and Govt threats) not disclosed to me ? I guess different rules for different people. people have gone to jail for not following these securities law at other public companies–wonder how they feel sitting in jail seeing all of this?
last point: those congress geniuses should first disclose if they voted for the TARP program and if they subsequently had been raising serious questions about its execution (or lack of) BEFORE grilling Paulson.
— rbpaulson should get the congressional medal of honor??? more likely he should be prosecuted for treason. he took an oath to serve the people of america but instead threw billions of dollars of their money to his pals at goldman.
— Mark"Let's face it, the consequences of not doing what he did would have been fatal"
That's the typical defense, but is a HYPOTHETICAL. Nobody knows the consequences of not bailing out the banks, but we sure know the COST. The cost is REAL and that is what we have to deal with, in return we got a HYPOTHETICAL aversion of economic collapse. You cannot argue against hypotheticals, no matter how ridiculous they sound.
— JJIf completed, a transaction would be one of the biggest health care deals of the year. And it could reap a sizable profit for Bausch & Lomb's current owner, Warburg Pincus.
Unlike more than 88 percent of Fortune 500 companies, Exxon Mobil has no protections against bias based on sexual orientation in its official equal employment opportunity statement.
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A proposal for cleaning up lead contamination from small car-battery recyclers in poor countries.
Refining Canada's petroleum-soaked oil sands produces petroleum coke, and the question of what to do with it has found at least one answer in Detroit, where a large coke pile covers an entire city block.
A blistering heat wave in north and western India has caused widespread electricity cuts and led residents to protest and even attack power company officials and property.
The company is expected to complete its separation on June 28, with publishing assets in one company and most film and television units in another.
A new product, Twitter Amplify, will help brands match advertisements with Twitter commentary by viewers.
And not caring what Elton John says about any of it.
A federal judge's ruling could halt the resale of digital music as well as other digital good like e-books.
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GREENWOOD -- Blotting out memories of untimely spills in last year's slalom state championship meet, the girls of Greely and the boys of Falmouth sewed up Alpine state titles Wednesday afternoon at Mt. Abram.
"To be back on top feels wonderful," said Greely junior Elyse Dinan, who led a 3-4-6-11 finish for the Rangers, moments after teammate Jordan Ouellette zipped across the finish line to complete Greely's victory.
Falmouth, which won the Nordic title Tuesday, collected its fourth straight overall boys' state title and second since moving up to Class A last winter.
The Oxford Hills girls, fourth in Nordic, overcame a 17-point deficit to squeak past Falmouth and win their first overall title in 36 years.
Both Falmouth and eight-time defending overall champion Mt. Blue mustered only three slalom skiers, so each acquired a "ghost skier" that ballooned their scoring totals.
Even with taking a ghost skier in both giant slalom and slalom, the Falmouth girls nearly pulled off an improbable victory. The winning margin for Oxford Hills was two points, 308-310.
"It feels awesome," said Oxford Hills senior Colleen Stauder, who placed seventh in slalom. "It's been since what, 1977? I'm so excited to be a part of something like that. It is fabulous."
Individually, Biddeford sophomore Curtis Paradis successfully defended his slalom title, and Edward Little senior Allarie Lever capped an unbeaten season with a slalom title to go along the giant slalom crown she won Tuesday.
"Last year, I fell in all four runs," said Lever, who fulfilled a personal goal of winning a state title she set as a sixth grader. "I'm more experienced now and I'm putting it all together."
Falmouth's boys won the four-event overall competition with a score of 148 to 296 for runner-up Mt. Blue. Falmouth also won the Alpine title, 64-158 over Oxford Hills.
"We were able to ski clean this time around," said Falmouth's Alpine coach, Tip Kimball. "We were very careful."
Paradis, who placed second in Tuesday's giant slalom, rallied Wednesday after placing third in his first run of the morning to post the fastest second run for a combined time of 1 minute, 17.72 seconds - about a third of a second better than Falmouth freshman Devereux Thomas.
"I just put it all into the finish," Paradis said. "I really went after it on the bottom part (of the course)."
Thomas and teammate Joseph Lesniak (fourth) finished among the top five, with Thomas Lesniak 12th and Cooper Lycan 14th.
Alex Gowen, a Falmouth senior, took the top time into the second run but straddled a gate and had to hike up the headwall before completing the course. He wound up 23rd.
"We tried to ski well, but smart," Gowen said, "not attacking like crazy."
Falmouth's girls took a 188-205 lead into the final day of competition, but Oxford Hills had a much stronger performance in Tuesday's giant slalom, with 65 points to Falmouth's 127. Members of the Vikings' Nordic team crowded around Stauder after her finish, lending the type of support often absent from programs with completely separate cross-country and downhill teams.
"Rarely do you intertwine the teams," Stauder said, "so this is a cool opportunity for us."
Falmouth had fashioned a lead with its first Class A Nordic title, 61-79 over Portland, with Oxford Hills a distant fourth at 140.
Krysia Lesniak and Alex Shapiro finished 8-9 for Falmouth and Margaret Coster was 31st, but that was it. Falmouth opened the season with five girls, but one transfered to a ski academy over the holiday break and the other is in Colorado on a long-planned family skiing vacation.
Because 74 girls finished the course Wednesday, Falmouth was given a score of 74 for its absent fourth skier. Ditto for Mt. Blue and Leavitt.
Greely, meanwhile, amassed only 57 total points in the two Alpine events to easily outdistance Edward Little, which finished with 138. Oxford Hills (168) was third, followed by Fryeburg Academy (172) and 10 other schools.
Teal Otley (fourth), Jill Booth (sixth) and Ouellette (11th) capped Greely's performance a year after both Dinan and Otley fell, allowing Mt. Blue to take the Alpine crown.
The Falmouth boys fell in similar fashion to Mt. Blue last winter. That remains the team's only loss in three seasons.
With a pair of 32-point scores in slalom and giant slalom to go along with 42 each in freestyle and classical, Falmouth remained below 50 in all four events, something no other Class A school managed even once in the boys' competition.
"We were much more consistent with our finishes," said Falmouth freshman Thomas Lesniak. "It's nice that both teams won. It's a better feeling for us."


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Its mission is to explore the genetic variation associated with vitamin-responsive genes and to understand their influence on key metabolic pathways and processes. With this knowledge, VitaPath can develop genetic tests to identify individuals whose vitamin genetics put them at increased risk for serious medical conditions.
Facts & Stats
- Spina Bifida affects more than 3,000 births a year; it is the most common debilitating birth defect.
- Spina Bifida can be prevented if at-risk women are identified and begin folic acid therapy prior to conception.
- High dose folic acid is available only by prescription; it cannot be given to all women regardless of risk.
- VitaPath was founded in 2009.