. . . I can't help piling on.

You're wrong. I carry a large balance, so that the money I would use to pay off the card can be more profitably employed in the stock market. -- pragma

You are so utterly full of shit. Between the interest you must pay on the carried balance (which is running much higher than historically averaged stock market returns) and the transaction fees and capital gains taxes you pay (assuming that you are actually making any profits), you're probably down 10-20% on your "unique" strategy of charging up Peter to buy Paul.

Did the Christers, aka Copulating Christians & Jucking Fesus Rreaks, forget that our Diest fathers designed the USA so there would always be a seperation(sp?) of church & state? -- larry278

If they conceded this, they know they'd have to shut up about it. The attitude is no different than the birthers or any of the crap they cling to, regardless of the facts.

PBS and NPR are the best sources for news and information. . . . But PBS and NPR are indeed national treasures that have been the target of conservatives over the years. -- Trainman

PBS and NPR were once the best source of unbiased news in the country, but that was about a decade ago. Mara Liasson and Juan Williams are both regulars on FOX, and not because they provide liberal balance. Their views rarely differ from those of anyone else working inside the Beltway. They've become just as establishment as the rest, if not completely right wing.

Bob Edwards was the last skeptical reporter for NPR, and he was forced out.

We need two more tax brackets - 40% for more than $1million a year, 50% for anything above that, and we need SS/Medicare taxes to apply to all income, not just the first X percent.

Action or inactions (showing a complete lack of conscience) by people like Blankfein are directly responsible for the state of the economy. If the government isn't going to punish people like them for how they gamed the system, then they need to at least be heavily taxed.

The kind of wealth they generate does not, contrary to what the Chicago School might content, "trickle down." There is no multiplier effect to wealth at that level because it is spent, for the most part, in a very narrow and rarefied stratum of the economy.

The multiplier effect of raising the salaries of 20 million households $10K would have more effect on the economy than bastards like Blankfein getting a bonus more than a few million.

. . . shitty reviewer she is.

. . . (somehow a diatribe about the New York Times' Michiko Kakutani's review of Toni Morrison's "Beloved" finds its way in there).

. . . neither has had much influence on college curriculum in the U.S. for about 20 years?

Again, you're efforts are wasted here Sorry but you're speaking to a generation suckled on Howard Zinn and raised in a haze of Noam Chomsky. America is evil. Period full stop. End. It should be wiped out. -- Zorkna

It's almost impossible to find any retail outlet selling anything you care to name that is not staffed, on the whole, by clueless wage slaves. The only three business I patronize on a regular basis where I know I will find knowledgeable sales people are independent book sellers, ski shops and bike shops. None of the national chains, be it Home Depot, Best Buy or the Gap seem to provide the least bit of training in even simple customer service: "I don't know the answer to that, but my co-worker might/I will find out right now."

Perhaps it's worse in a phone store since the products have a life cycle of about six months before all the current models are replaced. But then again, how often does one really need to replace his phone?

Only problem it seems is that very few people seem to be welcoming him.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009930887_beck24m.html

And then there was that kid "allegedly" born 3 monthe from today.. Some 2000 years ago... -- redhatter

The Catholic church moved Jesus' alleged birthday to around the solstice to help rope in the pagans. If he existed at all, Jesus was probably born in September.

I can't name a single example and neither can you. Try post-colonial kleptocracies ruled by despots.

Overpopulation was invented by liberals who wanted to explain why their pet third world socialist nations were ravaged by famines. It wasn't the socialism, of course, it was to many brown people! What India needed wasn't capitalist agriculture, but some good old fashioned liberal eugenics!

India's never been a socialist country. If it were, it would probably be in much better shape than it is today (other the fact that it was, like China and Japan, already overpopulated about 150 years ago).

Seriously, socialism failed because is it a manifest failure of a system, get over it. -- jmklein

You might want to let the Scandinavian countries and a good portion of the EU as well, all those countries with pretty much the same standard of living as we have here in the U.S., but with much better health care.

What a moroon.

. . . and high unemployment here and in Europe has almost nothing to do with advancements in technology. There just happens to be a shortage of American individuals and families able to make ends meet on $1.50 an hour.

shortage of workers not ture (sic)If there was a shortage of workers there would not be the rise in unemployment. Technology has eliminated many types jobs, so it's a good idea to cut down on the number of children born. Besides the increase in population causes more pollution. 0-2 children is GOOD idea.

-- bernbart