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   wndrwrthg said, 11 months ago

   ” And all through the house
   not a creature was stirring
   because of some louse”.

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   Margueritem said, 11 months ago

   wndrwrthg says:

   ” And all through the house
   not a creature was stirring
   because of some louse”.

   A perfect, if sad, bit of poetry for the end of 2008.

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   iowaweav said, 11 months ago

   Looks as if the boogy man trumps Santa this year.

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   attyush said, 11 months ago

   Santa, quick…get moving. There are other houses where kids are waiting.

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   jaydubya58 said, 11 months ago

   Must be in California- all the houses are identical, same height, too close together and the trees haven’t been watered for a while (recent rain notwithstanding). Seasonal salutations to all and to all a divine ‘09.

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   Horsehead1 said, 11 months ago

   Head to Wall Street Santa-they are open for business but have they been naughty or nice?

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   cacolley7811 said, 11 months ago

   wndrwrthg, very fitting.

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   Wildmustang1262 said, 11 months ago

   Ho, Ho, Ho! Merry Christmas!
   Oh baahh huummmbuug!

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   grazer said, 11 months ago

   Corporate greed has made the Grinch look rather angelic.

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    jimeguess said, 11 months ago

    Corporations, my toot! It is BIG GOVERNMENT who owns Fannie & Freddie that created this mess! All the foreclosures were caused by Fannie $ Freddie.

    Get the facts right …

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    grazer said, 11 months ago

    jimeguess says: “Corporations, my toot! It is BIG GOVERNMENT who owns Fannie & Freddie that created this mess! All the foreclosures were caused by Fannie $ Freddie.

    Get the facts right …”

    Point well taken. But in case you’ve never noticed, politicians and big business are in bed together. We get screwed either way, dude.

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    RelaxDude said, 11 months ago

    Last I checked, We the People (at least technically, post USA Patriot Act, etc.) ARE the government. If we don’t demand accountability, we have no one to blame but ourselves. Also, to state that the FMs caused ALL foreclosures is hyperbole, at best.

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    chuck09 said, 11 months ago

    Plenty of corporate blame to go around, corporations including Fannie & Freddie that were de-regulated under a conservative held Senate, House, Whitehouse and Supreme Court…actually we are to blame for re-electing the same so and so’s again and again…present election excepted…

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    powers2be said, 11 months ago

    Merry Christmas Comrade Wiley. Of course congress is working on making my wish illegal. I would also like to with a Merry Christmas to Comarde Barney Frank who started this sub-prime mess with Comrade Dodd and Comrade Waters. That would be Chris and Maxine to you. Maybe someday you will wake up and get this right. You need to draw santa sleigh on top of Congress with a sign out front saying bought and paid for. The best Government campaign contributions can buy. Using the term best lightly.

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    Wiley said, 11 months ago

    Fannie Mae is a stock-holder owned corporation.

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    LameRandomName said, 11 months ago

    So which is more depressing… A jerk of a comic writer who can’t stop being an ideologue for ONE FRAKING DAY out of the year…?

    Or a bunch of whiny knuckleheads who took out mortgages that they couldn’t pay off and then sought to blame the Wall Street Greed-heads who “FORCED” them to do something stupid.

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    LameRandomName said, 11 months ago

    And Wiley….

    Thank you for telling us that Fannie & Freddie are stockholder owned corporations.

    Frak you for NOT telling us that the Federal National Mortgage Assn and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp are publicly traded mortgage finance companies created and backed by the federal government.

    I also notice that you didn’t mention anything about the CRA, or Community Reinvestment Act. Created by Carter, probably with the best of intentions and supercharged by Clinton, probably with the basest of intentions.

    Anyone who DOESN’T know what I’m talking about is invited to spend some time with Google.

    I am INTENTIONALLY not posting links, because people who post links tend to do so in order to guide people to what they WANT people to see.

    I prefer that people do their own personal research, without the influence of those who have ulterior motives.

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    Wiley said, 11 months ago

    You’re welcome.

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    Bender_Sastre said, 11 months ago

    Mr Wiley, this was in poor taste. To Everyone Else, I’d join in your political debate, but it’s Christmas; good day to you.

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    Wiley said, 11 months ago

    How was it “in bad taste”?

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    LameRandomName said, 11 months ago

    I suspect that if you were capable of understanding why your comic today was in bad taste; you wouldn’t have drawn it in the first place.

    I’m not even Christian and I found it profoundly offensive. You have 364 other days of the year to stand on a soapbox and spout off about your political viewpoints, you didn’t need to piss all over the one day of the year that dang near the entire nation (Xtian or not) sees as a day to at LEAST refrain from acting like a jerk.

    Step out of the echo chamber you have been living in Wiley, it’s starting to rot your mind.

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    Furbitor said, 11 months ago

    Wiley, you hit the mark very accurately. I had to sign up to make this comment but I couldn’t resist just so I can apologize for Lamerandomname’s recent posts. Please overlook his dripping sarcasm. A am sure as he is republican he (and his side) has taken a terrible beating these last few years.. and trying to shift the weight of countless families homeless has nothing to do with those who gamble money… er, sorry.. INVEST in housing to politics is just sad….

    and no. the comic isnt offensive. Thousands of homeless families are.

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    LameRandomName said, 11 months ago

    First… don’t apologize for me furbitor. I don’t have anything to apologize FOR.
    Second, I hope you got a dictionary for Christmas, so you can look up the word sarcasm. You’ll find that it doesn’t mean what you think it does.
    Now, I’d like to respond to the rest of your post, but honestly…
    I can’t for the life of me figure out what you’re trying to say. It’s like you took 8 different ideas, ran them through a meat grinder and then just slapped a few of the jumbled words together and hit “post”.
    As far as those homeless families, that makes for a nice tug on the heart strings, but perhaps you would do better to explain why anyone should feel sorry for people who bought houses they couldn’t afford and are now losing them to foreclosure.
    Naturally, I feel sorry for people who had life changing problems happen to them and can no longer afford the homes that were WITHIN their means when they bought them. No argument there.
    But this housing meltdown was caused by people who bought homes that couldn’t afford. Period.
    And as long as you want to toss around the political stuff, it was Democrats like Barney Frank, Chris Dodd & Maxine Waters who fought every effort to regulate Fannie and Freddie TOOTH & NAIL.
    So spare me the political nonsense. This isn’t Dumb-O-Craptic Underground, and you can’t silence the truth just by tombstoning someone who doesn’t buy the lie.

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    danielsangeo said, 11 months ago

    Nice try, LameRandomName.

    The housing meltdown was NOT caused by people buying houses they couldn’t afford.

    It was caused by LENDERS LOANING MONEY to people that couldn’t afford to buy the house.

    As for Democrats being to blame, you might want to be careful where you lay blame. Dodd and Waters DID fight tooth and nail to not regulate Fannie and Freddie… but not in the way you wanted them to.

    They fought tooth and nail to ensure that those industries were not regulated by PRIVATE CORPORATIONS not answerable to the government.

    I find it hilarious when conservatives blame Democrats for being against regulation when that is one of their main party platforms.

    And, finally, to the person who thought the comic was in bad taste, remember this:

    What the comic is saying is a million times more distasteful than someone posting a comic about it…

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    boyhowdy said, 11 months ago

    Plenty of blame to go around, though I do feel the majority of it lies with frank, dodd, et al…..there were lenders with no morals, but anyone who signs a mortgage document without understanding the terms is a moron.

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    zev.farkas said, 9 months ago

    Sorry to intrude on the political discussion, but could someone please tell me what the fourth sign says? Looks like the newspapers aren’t the only ones that scrimp on comic size…

    Thanks!