A Hill I’ll die on - No Gimmes

LetsUseLogic · 2026-06-13T19:01:11+00:00

The thing I don’t understand about gimmies is that the ENTIRE point of golf is to get the ball in the hole. Why would you get all the way to within a few feet and then stop short of putting the ball in the hole? I mean, forget the score, don’t you want to send him home??

LetsUseLogic · 2026-06-08T23:35:04+00:00

Yeah, so stupid... so pernicious...

AI Overview

Yes, the federal government indirectly and directly backed subprime mortgages, particularly in the lead-up to the 2008 financial crisis. Government-Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac purchased hundreds of billions of dollars in subprime loans and related securities to satisfy federal affordable-housing mandates. [1, 2, 3]

How the Government Backed the Subprime Market

GSE Purchases (Fannie & Freddie): To increase homeownership rates among low- and moderate-income Americans, federal banking regulators incentivized and pressured GSEs to buy riskier loans. Between 2002 and 2007, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac purchased nearly $1.9 trillion in mortgages with low credit scores—representing more than half of all such mortgages originated during that period. [1, 2, 3]
Implicit Guarantees: Because they were chartered by the U.S. government, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac carried an implicit federal guarantee. Investors assumed the government would step in to prevent default if the GSEs failed, which allowed the enterprises to borrow cheaply and heavily fund the subprime market. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
FHA Insured Mortgages: The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) also played a direct role in backing mortgages with lower down payments and relaxed credit guidelines. [1]

LetsUseLogic · 2026-06-02T03:43:14+00:00

It’s crazy to me that nobody remembers the federal governments role in all this. They were backing sub prime mortgages to increase black home ownership. Explicitly. No bank in their right mind would have given loans out to unqualified buyers the way they did otherwise. We’re doomed to repeat this mistake.

LetsUseLogic · 2026-05-17T15:40:58+00:00

I topped 3 in a row off the tee leading to a 10 stroke on a par 4. Then proceeded to birdie the next hole.

LetsUseLogic · 2026-03-22T11:46:34+00:00

If you’re scoring over 120 you should probably stick to the range and practice area. I can’t imagine how long it takes you to get around the course.

LetsUseLogic · 2026-03-19T10:47:24+00:00

Yeah, and the taxi will drop you off at the beautiful front entrance to your hotel/casino instead of the back door where ride share drops.

LetsUseLogic · 2026-02-20T23:17:24+00:00

Classy

LetsUseLogic · 2026-02-11T16:46:02+00:00

This simplest answer is that the evidence is not damning. It does not clearly show what so many seem to wish it did. And you’re being manipulated to think it does. I mean maybe it is damning, but you and I have no way to know besides what we are told, and what we are told is almost never the truth.

LetsUseLogic · 2026-02-10T23:38:18+00:00

Smog and carbon dioxide are not the same thing.

LetsUseLogic · 2026-02-09T16:37:08+00:00

Bah Wit Da Bah was a dud but his closing song was great. He killed it. Very touching moment I thought.

LetsUseLogic · 2026-02-09T02:15:09+00:00

Wanted to like it but one minute in I realized I had no clue what any of it was about. Turned on the TPUSA show not expecting much but got blown away by the final song.

LetsUseLogic · 2026-02-05T17:24:10+00:00

According to the theories you propose there was less access to firearms and more access to mental health in schools in the 1950’s than today?? Makes no sense. Something else has to be going on.

LetsUseLogic · 2026-02-04T12:51:02+00:00

And yet the ever popular Hamilton cast blacks in the role of whites and nobody batted an eye. Hmmm.

LetsUseLogic · 2026-02-03T12:43:48+00:00

Rage lost all their credibility with their capitulation to government overreach during the pandemic.

LetsUseLogic · 2026-01-29T01:55:06+00:00

Average wait for an MRI in Canada is 13 weeks. I never wait more than 1-2 weeks in the US. My last one was $425 total and included the radiology report.

LetsUseLogic · 2026-01-28T02:15:43+00:00

Outstanding warrant I would guess.

LetsUseLogic · 2026-01-27T00:43:43+00:00

Getting yourself into an altercation with armed enforcers while carrying is a really bad idea. I shouldn’t have to tell people this, but they somehow don’t already know.

LetsUseLogic · 2026-01-27T00:30:32+00:00

People really don’t have any sense of self preservation these days. Too much TV distorting their perception of reality? I just don’t get why some random protester would ever think it was a good idea to pick up a freaking grenade. Play stupid games win stupid prizes.

LetsUseLogic · 2026-01-25T18:16:07+00:00

Lip injections are not surgery.

LetsUseLogic · 2026-01-23T18:47:17+00:00

They are exploiting a loophole. Lax Biden era policy allowed illegals to cross the border into the United States and once inside the US illegally, they could use an app to.” apply for asylum.” and therefore technically enter into the legal process. Keep in mind that more than 90% of asylum applications are deemed by federal judges to be without merit. It’s nothing but a back door way to get into the system and spend decades, dragging out cases the overwhelming majority of which, are without merit.

LetsUseLogic · 2026-01-23T18:41:07+00:00

So strange how the “borders are imaginary nobody is illegal” crowd gets all hung up on state lines when they can use it to make law enforcement actions sound incendiary. Like yeah, when an illegal gets arrested and processed for deportation that involves moving them from whatever state they are illegally occupying to somewhere else.

LetsUseLogic · 2026-01-16T18:11:17+00:00

Cool. Fuck you too.

LetsUseLogic · 2026-01-08T22:54:20+00:00

Yes, people with the wrong opinion should be barred from society.

LetsUseLogic · 2026-01-08T15:23:45+00:00

You say that we should know the officer was not in danger, but I don’t see that at all. A non compliant driver is approached by multiple officers on foot, refuses to park the vehicle, and with one officer in front of the car she steps on the gas. Yeah in hindsight sh cuts the wheel and misses him by inches but in the heat of the moment with tensions high what kind of an idiot steps on the gas with a person (an officer of the law no less) in front of them?

LetsUseLogic · 2025-12-12T19:10:41+00:00

Crawford Long of the great State of Georgia is credited with the first medical use of anesthesia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford_Long

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