Comments on: Smoke screening http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/09/19/smoke-screening/ Same old blog, brand new place Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:14:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Democrats adding "bail out" irresponsible homeowners to financial bill. - Page 3 - US Message Board http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/09/19/smoke-screening/comment-page-1/#comment-85204 Democrats adding "bail out" irresponsible homeowners to financial bill. - Page 3 - US Message Board Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:15:20 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/09/19/smoke-screening/#comment-85204 [...] Bush the inherent problems with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were pointed out, over and over again: Doc Searls Weblog Smoke screening [...] [...] Bush the inherent problems with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were pointed out, over and over again: Doc Searls Weblog Smoke screening [...]

]]> By: glenn http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/09/19/smoke-screening/comment-page-1/#comment-85169 glenn Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:42:12 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/09/19/smoke-screening/#comment-85169 When we failed to act in 1973 during the first Arab oil embargo and set in motion the process of becoming dependent on others for our energy needs we pretty much defined the path we are on now. Doesn't help that the folks we are dependent on don't like us much. Glad I'm old and don't have grandchildren. When we failed to act in 1973 during the first Arab oil embargo and set in motion the process of becoming dependent on others for our energy needs we pretty much defined the path we are on now. Doesn’t help that the folks we are dependent on don’t like us much. Glad I’m old and don’t have grandchildren.

]]> By: David Taht http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/09/19/smoke-screening/comment-page-1/#comment-84460 David Taht Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:24:27 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/09/19/smoke-screening/#comment-84460 OK, you hit me twice over. I still smoke, but still argue that pipe smoke is vastly to be preferred to those little death and addiction devices called cigs. Too bad tobacco pipes are a dying institution. Reading the news down here in South America is genuinely frightening. My neighbor, a fellow expat, Kelly Ann Thomas, is in <a href="http://www.picassodreams.com/picasso_dreams/2008/09/is-your-bank-tr.html" rel="nofollow">knock down drag out fight with her bank</a> to try and get her trust fund to safety. The dialog between her and her bank is surreal. The emails that she has posted from her frustrated conversation with her bankers - seem eerily like similar ones from the depressions of the 1800s. I wonder how many others in the line of fire are finding success in getting into safe havens? OK, you hit me twice over. I still smoke, but still argue that pipe smoke is vastly to be preferred to those little death and addiction devices called cigs. Too bad tobacco pipes are a dying institution.

Reading the news down here in South America is genuinely frightening.

My neighbor, a fellow expat, Kelly Ann Thomas, is in knock down drag out fight with her bank to try and get her trust fund to safety. The dialog between her and her bank is surreal. The emails that she has posted from her frustrated conversation with her bankers – seem eerily like similar ones from the depressions of the 1800s.

I wonder how many others in the line of fire are finding success in getting into safe havens?

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