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nice avatar.

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Or execute.

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I don't see how UBS would have an insurable interest in the lives of random Texas school teachers.

And what life company would write the policies? How could UBS make money on this?

On the other hand, insurance companies are regulated by each state. So the Texas insurance commission (whatever the correct name is) would have to approve the pricing of these policies.

On a more practical note, instead of a pair of shoes UBS should have offered to give each teacher a Ford Pinto. With Firestone tires.

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So, some Wall Street speculator stands to profit from your early demise? What could possibly go wrong?

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Hey! I may be deeply involved here, but I'm not in it for the money.

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"Where the hell are we going to find an insurance company crazy enough to write life insurance policies on 90-year-old people?"

"I know just the place..."

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When I was getting my license renewed about a decade ago at the Sunnyvale, CA DMV one of those angry white women was yelling at a DMV employee, " I own you, I pay for you "

It was a black woman and she was laughing so hard the white woman looked like she was going to pop like a meat bubble of high pressure blood and bile.

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Getting to insert the fire hydrant sized butt plug.

FTFY.

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I am just waiting to hear of an orphan or juvenile detention organ harvesting racket.

They already have 60% of their juveniles in custody sexually assaulted. I'm sure a lot of Mark Foleyesque characters are sent emails of the fresh child meat directly by the facilities for a modest fee. Because hard working folk deserve a little child rape, its the Texas way.

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The deregulation of the financial markets which got really started during the Reagan area has made about 1 in 3 dollars of our GDP just paper like securitized debt holdings, insurance on said debt holdings or even stranger stuff.

People think Eve Online is the world's largest virtual economy, its not, it is the US.

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And the massive state cups to education will hasten those deaths! Sheer brilliance.

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