The government does not own the banks yet. The statement that all banks will turn to the govt for capital is ridiculous. Bank of America will not, for example, take public funds to shore up its capital positions. Others have also stated that they will raise capital privately. This entire article is speculative BS that does not comport with relaity.

Yeah, sure. I work for a giant bank. I make quite a bit more than civil service salary. If you cut the CEO of my company to civil service salaries (about $137,000 max), then I get cut by 50-60% or more. Kiss my butt.

Nucleur option

Just for the record, I make a lot more than $137,000. I make things work and I fix things when they're broken. Big things. Like email down in the entire bank. Or, all banking centers (branches) down. That's what I do. I earn my salary. I have 200 employees. I have 38 years of experience.

I have been on call for more than 20 years 7X24X365. If you think I make too much money, fine, but, if you are successful at forcing a reduction in my income, then I'll just retire, live 6 months in Portland and 6 months in the SW of France. My company will lose my knowledge and experience. I will still be fine.

But, my younger peers aren't willing to work the hours that I do, they don't accept responsibility for some problems that they know about and they aren't willing to address mentoring issues.

BTW, I live in the SE in a 1908 bungalow of 1400 sq ft. Not exactly a mcmansion. I also have a 1200 Sq ft cottage in the town of Pau in SW France. Yes, I live very well, but I am not the problem.

Ah, so much BS, so little time.

First, I guess you didn't get the email, but there hasn't been a 'far left' in the U.S. in almost 40 years. All that ended at Kent State when we realized (the far left, the left, liberals, and many moderates opposed to the war) that the government would kill us for protesting. What we have today are liberals and the somewhat left. That's it. All the rest is just extreme right wing fabrication.

Oh, we still have some RCP whackjobs, black shirt anarchists, violent eco freaks and other fringe groups, but they are outnumbered at least 1000 to 1 by neo-Nazis, skinheads, Christian Reconstructionists, Birchers, etc. You know, your guys.

Pregnancy crisis center may or may not do the things you claim, but they all lie, distort and present false information to women in crisis. There is not a single one that does anything but oppose abortion. They do nothing to help these women. Once the child is born, they get dumped.

Churches are not nearly as good at doing good works as you claim. Many of them oppose the very things that could reduce the number of abortions - comprehensive, accurate sex ed and inexpensive, widely available contraception. These same churches ebdlessly demonize these women for having sexuality outside the church's beliefs. A very small portion of chucrh resources goes to anything other than running the church itself.

Whatever Kennedy may or may not have done, and, other than failure to report, there is no useful evidence of any kind. He may have done exactly what you say, but wishing death and suffering for someone is truly evil. My wife died of cancer just 18 months ago - it was horrible. Since then, I have had two bouts with different forms of cancer and have had the associated surgery, chemo and radiation. I couldn't wish this on anyone. You definitely need some kind of transplant.

My wife was diagnosed with Stage 4+ ovarian cancer in 2005. One oncologist said 6 months with palliative treatment only. The second oncologist said that that might be correct, but he believed that aggressive chemo might very well give her 1-2 years of remission. My wife opted for aggressive chemo and got 18 months of full remission. Those 18 months turned out to be the best 18 months of my life. She died in December 2007.

In 2008, I was diagnosed with two different kinds of cancer, and I had chemo for each one. Horrible stuff, but I am now cancer free and feeling great. Radiation wasn't fun either but it was nothing like chemo. Nausea, vomiting, weakness, nasty Neulasta injections, almost as nasty aranesp injections, etc. Horrible, but it worked.

Final note: men get breast cancer, and it kills. Pay attention

I live in France part of the year, and the highest estimate I've seen is 7-8% of French population is Muslim and some of that is not North African

My father first read 'Johnny Got his Gun' in mid-1942 during flight training in Pensacola. It set him on a path toward pacifism even as he flew supply missions in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France and Germany. He gave me his original copy for my 12th birthday. It started me on the same path. It is one of the most powerful anti-war statements ever made. The movie is quite good but do read the book first if you can. BTW, if you are into anti-war movies, try out 'Oh What a Lovely War' a musical version of WWI.

If you think that the U.S. or anyone else acquired any moral high ground in WWI, you know absolutely nothing about WWI.

This statement 'Many other nations have been convinced to give up nuclear weapons or weapons programs' isn't really true. Only one nation has actually developed nucleur weapons and then given them up - that was apartheid South Africa. To my knowledge, only one country halted nucleur development plans and that was Brazil. What others?

Canada, Japan and Germany, all of which could be nucleur in a very short time, don't want nucleur weapons. What other countries and what constitutes 'many'?