If nothing else, please learn to read. The bailout was $175 billion with a 'B'. The bonuses were $165 million with an 'M'. That's 0.1%. Doesn't justify it, but let's not be fabricating nonsense.

Sort of. I bought a nice used one with blown engine and blown trans. 32 footer and nice but got it cheap, really cheap. I have 10 acres about 50 miles east of Portland, so I had it towed there, and it is now my weekend cottage. It is much cheaper than building a small cottage would cost. I already have a deep weell, I make my own electricity from small-scale hydro, and the septic field is going in now. In two weeks, I will have my cottage.

that Grassley receives more than $100,000 per year in agricultural subsidies

Is that some sort of crypto-fascist attempt at cuteness or something? Do you actually know that any trust-funders comment on Salon or is that just your crypto-fascist attempt at cuteness again? Are there any actual trust-funders out there? I am certainly affluent, but I earned it. No trust fund. Who are these trust-funders you right-wingers seem so worked up about?

I'm a guy and I fall into 5 of your categories.

Have you ever been to Europe? I live in France 5 months a year, and I guarantee you that their standard of living is considerably more than 60% of ours. In the SW of France, where I live, housing and other elements of cost of living are cheaper than in Portland, OR. Wages, on average, are pretty good, and the impact of economic downturn is less in France than in the U.S. Moreover, the French are not interested in a U.S. style economy and, especially, health care financing system.

There are actually quite a few of us pro-choice men. AND, I agree that I shouldn't have any say as to what you do with your body.

Nor I with you. LOL

To be blunt (and I rarely am), up yours.

I have visited 63 countries, and, for 5 months per year, I am a resident of one of those countries (france), but I am a U.S. citizen. I was born in Flint, MI and raised in Detroit. I have the right to advocate for anything I choose to make my country for the best. I had enough of the love it or leave it fascism during the Vietnam war.

I am quite aware of the problems of the french. They have terrible problems understanding and dealing with North African immigrants. There is anti-semitism here but not very much. France has the third largest Jewish community in the world. I am a Jew.

Just for the record, I do not live on Avenue Foch. I live in Pau in the SW of France. I make olive oil, produce apples, walnuts and organic produce, and I do my job as a technology exec at one of the giant banks. So much for your right-wing stereotypes.

Oh, please continue being a fascist troll. So far, it's still a free country. However, this is not Free Republic. You will be challenged on your fascist BS. Also, you need to stop fabricating nonsense. Facts are good, but fabricating nonsense won't get you anywhere.

You evaded my calling you out on taxes. You lied. Pure and simple. You said that Obama is nationalizing whole industries even though not a single company has been nationalized much less an industry. Plus, you don't know squat about socialism. I live in France 5 months per year, and, lo and behold, people are happy here. Everyone has health care, there are 240 mph trains, there is virtually no poverty, and there is complete personal freedom. Freedom of religion is much greater here. It's called democratic socialism. The French chose it. It wasn't imposed. I want it in the U.S.

I hate to break it to you, but SDS disbanded in 1968 when Obama was 4 years old.

As a proud resident of the Republic of Cascadia, my advice is to get DirecTV.

Separate from the other right-wing drivel in your post, no one in the U.S. pays 60% of their income in taxes. No one. I am a one percenter, and I live in a state with a 9% income tax. My total taxes - Federal, Soc Sec, Medicare and state were 48%. Just another right-wing lie.

Kaiser William II wasn't a particularly despotic ruler - for an emperor. There was considerable personal freedom, he was criticized in the press, he was not anti-semitic, his governmental bureaucracy was very efficient, etc. He was far less despotic than the Tsar or the Hapsburgs. He is also no more responsbile for WWI than the Tsar or the French or the Austrians or anyone else even though most American history books claim otherwise.

Your post regarding Hamas was spot on, but the comments on Hizbollah in the same post were totally wrong. There was no Hizbollah terrorism until at least 2000. Hizbollah was formed to combat Israeli invasion and occupation. The only Israelis inside Lebanon were invaders and occupiers, and any Lebanese, including Hizbollah, had an absolute right to kill them. The U.S. and Israel called those attacks terrorism but none of them were. In fact, there has been no terrorist attack against Israel inside Lebanon in the history of the planet.

SF is an incredible mix of all kinds of people - white, black, Asian, Latino. Also, Asians of many different countries, Latinos from many different countries. I lived there for 14 years, and it was a very interesting place to live. Ultimately, way too expensive, too crowded and too angry for me, but I did enjoy the diversity.

Yes, San Francisco is the least black major American city, but it is also the least white major American city. Moreover, in 1960, the black population of SF was almost 30% with a long tradition of black-owned homes and businesses. 60s urban renewal dispossessed most of the black community and forced people out to Oakland, Richmond and other places.