Much of what blacks perceive as racism is just the same mean behavior that we all face from our fellow human beings. The police are paid to arrest and harass us. The government is screwing the whole of the American people for their own personal glorification. Prosecutors go after every case with vigor and a desire to win regardless of innocence. The guy working at the gas station is a jerk and he gives dirty looks to everybody. People are filled with rage behind the wheel, and cut us off, and give us the finger. The government forms are designed to trip you up. The insurance company denies claims for anybody that they can deny. We all get overcharged by plumbers. Old people give dirty looks to everybody who plays loud music in their cars.

It is easy for blacks to see those things as racism directed at them, because they are not able to step into white shoes and see that the system is hard and mean to everybody.

Liberia has a line of silver bullion coins that all depict Harley Davidson motorcycles. For the low price of $40, you get $14 worth of silver. Minted and sold by the Franklin mint with a token payment sent back to Liberia.

Romney made the right move, and I suspect that his poll numbers will see a small spike for it. Meanwhile, he will receive criticism from the Mexico First crowd, like bebop-o above. And all I have to say to him is: "Go tell it to the vast numbers of unemployed and underpaid blacks in the District of Columbia." If those landscaping companies paid a fair wage, there would be no shortage of Americans to take the work. And if Illegals were not allowed to take these jobs, the employers would have to pay that fair wage instead of simply pocketing extra profits like they do right now.

It is a great way for the Clinton campaign to put "Obama" and "Muslim" in the same sentence all over the press. Then they get to take credit for "firing" that volunteer. What a sham!

It seems weird to me too that people in the more advanced economies seem to be trending away from modern and towards rustic. The symptoms are everywhere. 50's through 80's modern is sleek and new, and now since the early 90's the closest we have is "contemporary" which is a code word for lathe cut and factory created shabby chic.

My theory is that it has to do with how people perceive the future, vs. how they perceive the past. With the decline in spending power among the middle and lower classes, people are beginning to fear the future. At the same time, they are looking back to an earlier era when times were better.

"In America

I routinely see 4 year-olds wheeled about in strollers the size of Suburbans.

"Little Emperor" syndrome isn't exclusively Chinese." -Juliebird

In an article that is entirely unrelated the America, you somehow still find a way to criticize us. Ever wonder where people get the idea that you hate America?

Some posters here seem to be clinging to the long discredited idea that is no difference between men and women. In fact, there are vast biological differences. There are hormonal differences that affect brain development, and result in different behavioral and cognitive differences. Source: Scientific American May 2002:

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00018E9D-879D-1D06-8E49809EC588EEDF

Get over yourself.

The interviewee said it best herself.

The stimulus checks are being drawn on a credit line from China. If American consumers are paying off debt with the checks, that's great, but they will still have the same overall debt burden.