It sounds like his ACTUAL Presidency is going to be quite a letdown for some of you. What? No solar powered Unicorns? No slave free sentient tofu trees? Daaaaaammmmmnnn.

Try living somewhere less comfy where the definition of privation isn't a day without iPhone and gourmet pizza. Why do you think 'terrorism' in the west is so noteworthy? Because you feel entitled to be insulated from it. Because you're soft. Do you honestly believe atrocities, some of which are being committed by the very tyrants and dictators you cheer, every day, aren't being committed on miserable misfortunates the world over? Take Darfur for example. Darfur isn't about 'genocide' whatever that is, it's about how you feel about tossing that word around. But for the vast majority of people in the world who actually have to live amidst this anarchy, this attack or that one is no big thing in the long run. Did you know that more than 8000 people have been killed in drug violence in northern Mexico this year alone? Or that the LTTE in Sri Lanka have slaughtered nearly a hundred thousand people in their decades long so called civil war. Or that Algeria fought their own civil war against Islamists in the 1990's to the tune of 160,000 killed. Or that the ANC in South Africa, before they were 'legitimized' and came to represent the face of peace and reconciliation to the west, worked with the KGB to kill more than 14,000 anti communist Muslims in Zambia and a similar number in Mozambique back in the golden age of terrorism, the late 1970's?

And so called terrorists or freedom fighters or militants or activists or whatever Reuters, CNN and AP call them this month, know this. They didn't shoot up some god forsaken backwater cesspit. That's what the 40 year civil war in Sri Lanka that you don't give a shit about, is for. No, they shot up one of the more westernized places in India. It's like the Tsunami in Indonesia a few years back. What does everyone remember? All the Brits and Aussies on vacation. Who knew?

So shit yeah, you want to do something about terrorism? Then you'd be better served hoping for concerted attacks against yourselves, because attacks against anyone else don't mean shit.

You have three choices otherwise:

Outlive your healthcare

Outlive your money

Die early

I pick option 4. Keep working. If you think the generation of people who can afford to retire is mostly gone NOW, just you wait another 25 years. By then you'll all be working full time until you drop dead. The social security retirement age will be 80. The economy will be smashed up for a few years and to recover, our overlords will crush the middle class. So if you're 40 now, you will shortly have to support BOTH your parents AND your children.

You are all so screwed and it is hysterically funny how astonished the look on your faces will be when it finally hits you.

You're an idiot of you pay $35 for The Third Man. You can get the collecter's ed new for $27 w/ free shipping. Even that's pretty steep for a 50 year old movie.

That because torture is wrong our guys who do it should be tortured. Good to know your sense of justice is just this side of the Bronze Age. Awesome.

I thought television viewing with the exception of those shows officially sanctioned, was against 32-13b chapter X of the Salon Snooty Media Doctrine (S1997-01 rev 2007). I don't even have a computer to type this comment from. I hopped on someone else's when they went to the bathroom in Starbucks.

You should too.

For anyone who worked in financial services in the early 1990's or in IT 2001-2005 we've seen it all before. Mostly it amounts to people being fired a few years before planned retirement. And then they discover that their next egg aka the house they thought they earned 11 billion percent ROI on isn't worth that much. So they keep working a few extra years and cut back their plans. Kids go to public university vs that BA in Italian Art History from UV Bennington. You stop buying new SUV's every other year.

If you have 3/4ths of a brain and the willingness to do what it takes, there's generally a job out there for you. Not the perfect job or even a good job. But a job. Then when you get that job you can write a complaint to Cary Tennis about how much it sucks that you can't go flower picking in Thailand for 8 months this year.

Or did he realize that all his bills are paid forever?

and peddle ass. In hard times people still drink drug and screw.

Praised be Jesus who does not exist. Keep tippy tapping your outrage dudes and dudettes.

But I don't know what her malfunction is.

Just duke it out by bashing each other in the head with spittoons.

So who really cares.

Then Chris Matthews would have been forced to leave MSNBC. He would have nothing more to say and no more Freudian issues to work out on camera. So now that there's still a Clinton to 'bang' figuratively speaking, he'll stay on in his multimillion dollar job.

I would shop too. You can pack that stuff up and take it with you when you're evicted by the bank.

No one murdered your family specifically because they where a given race religion or nationality. For other people, it didn't work out that way. Already the ink stained tools at the Guardian et al have begun cranking out their obligatory screeds blaming the west, the US, Israel and Jews for this attack. Oooh it gives me the warm fuzzies. Yes it does.

And their control of all banks. Let's get rid of them or at the least outlaw money. Hey that worked for Robespierre and Pol Pot.