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Did you fix the world yet? How is that shiny new Congress you got there? Working out?

None of you have actually asked. But again, feel free....

In France and Germany, the government counts every single person not working as unemployed. We do not. Our unemployment is at least 50 % understated and probably more. As soon as your unemployment insurance (which the Repubs would love to terminate) lapses, you are no longer counted.

In France you actually have unlimited unemployment benefits. Im not sure that's a real solution. After all it creates a great deal of stress on the retirement system. In either case structural unemployment is the base or optimal unemployment. In France that's a little under 11%. This means that if unemployment falls below that, it's inflationary.

Also, France has the highest productivity per worker hour of any country in the world followed by Belgium. Americans produce more gross because they work far longer hours.

By what measure? Please specify. And it's not far longer hours it's about 17% more hours

Second, oh yeah, being a dental tech at $18,000 per year with no benefits is a great strategy. I'm 60 years old so I don't have the same worries as others, but my plan B is certainly NOT to take a 90% pay cut.

I didn't know the economy was intended to guarantee your living standard. I'm sorry you got caught out but that's not really the fault of some exogenous event. Perhaps as an American retiree you should consider moving to Portugal where you could live comfortably with just Social Security.

See the point is, shaking your fist at heaven isn't a practical option. Simply ennacting a law that makes labor and products more expensive isn't really going to work. That's like a quota system and quota systems and trade barriers don't function well. For instance, a tarrif on Canadian lumber makes homebuilding more expensive. A tarrif on labor simply makes labor more expensive or decreases the demand for labor.

State Ownership of media is the solution.

In another article many of the posters there openly advocate a State Run media, exclusively. Maybe you can cash in on that and rename this esteemed place Vremya.com (that domain is actually available if you'd like to buy it and donate it back to Joan.)

You're talking to the wrong crowd here. They're world beaters at snark, insult, namecalling, bitchery and smugness. Blogito Ergo Sum.

Brazil uses sugar beets for ethanol. This has about 8 units of energy for every unit of energy spent creating it. The US uses corn which produces 1.7 units of energy per unit of energy input. But imagine if we sold the Brazilians on growing our sugar beets for us and they tore up a chunk of rain forest the size of Ireland. It might not end of being that green in the end.

That's almost the same thing as doing something.

Chris Hitchens, drunken ex rock throwing curmudgeon, former Communist and Marxist (yeah no one's died on their altar, right?) preaching about the absurdity of God to an audience who's too cool for school? What's the point?

MLB DOES have 10 day contracts. They're called personal services contracts. Roger Clemens had one last year.

The ome from Salon.com that says clearly white people are evil and you can't claim they are maligned in any way.

Cordially,

Human Resources

The British royal family has had its share of drunken coke fueled divorcing in public tabloid can we just keep those inbred assholes indoors permanently moments themselves.

Lady Di?

Chuck and Camilla?

Princess Anne?

Prince Harry in a Nazi Costume?

Philip's alcohol fueled rages against foreigners and Jews?

Fergie?

Which is unfair because Rowan Williams is just naturally a loathesome character. A gadfly, a propagandist, an attention whore, a piler-on for every hot cause of the day. Maybe that's what Chris Hitchens objects to. The fundamentally shallow and areligious public face of many of the more 'liberal' and progressive religious faces in the west today. It's not so much that they get the mob to go out and kill in their God's name (what does Chris Hitchens say about the Balkans?) it's that they annoint themselves moral arbiters while taking openly political positions.

A) more than a few people turned up to vote.

B) elections weren't decided by less than the statistical error.

This is what draws people into the conspiracy theories. And yet if the millions of voters ages 18-25 put down the bong and got their cheeto stained fat asses to the booth once in a while, things might be different. But you can't tax or legislate away apathy.

Waited out America's attention span. Deny deny deny deny stonewall. It works great. Without an aggressive Congress that wants to do more than simply embarrass and humiliate the administration, all this ultimately goes nowhere. Gozalez looks like the good dumb loyal water carrier he is. Congress gets to be on camera bristling with indignation and nothing changes.

At this point don't we know what we're getting with this guy? Is anyone genuinely shocked? Or are we just sort of irritated for the sake of the cameras? I mean it's George Bush for god's sake. What did you think would happen?