This crisis is different - a once or twice a century event deeply rooted in fears of insolvency of major financial institutions," Greenspan wrote, adding, "Regulation, the alleged effective solution to today's crisis, has never been able to eliminate history's crises."

Used to be in my principal residence I had to have it augered about once a year because it was clay pipe and the pipes were unlevel and had roots coming in the cracks

Just passing along info in the hopes of helping get to the root of these bugs.

Interesting TIME article about root cause of the US financial crisis .... not sure I agree but put a different spin on what I've read and believed before:"There is no doubt that the pressure on the U.S. financial system [that led to the financial crisis] came from abroad," says Caballero, who is the head of MIT's economics department.

The initial post in this thread made me think I was reading an excerpt of Glenn Beck speaking from his soap box...

You know my theory - that modern liberalism has heavy roots to the eugenics movement of the early 20th century.

We do tend to have pantry's and lot's of extra soap and toilet paper as we discussed.

You have to see how old the oak tree is and if it is at full maturity and height.As the tree grows and the roots get bigger and it searches for more water it can wreak havoc on a driveway.I have seen trees totally bust up a driveway and the whole section has to be replaced.1,000 sounds really cheap compared to the estimates I have seen.Is the driveway long and flat or hilly and windy??

I do think it is interesting the blowback he has gotten this year because he was certainly more overtly religious in college than he has been in the NFL, and fewer people rooted against him then.

Any number of things could be causing it - tree roots uplifting part of the foundation, frost heave affecting foundations of different depths, differential settlement, etc.