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So you Millennials think the world has given you a raw deal? ER November 25, 2025 5:27 pm (Off-Topic)

This is not a drill. NOT a drill. General Quarters, General Quarters. All hands man your battle stations. ER November 24, 2025 4:58 pm (CurrentEvents)

Xi called Trump RobVG November 24, 2025 10:26 am (CurrentEvents)

I thought this was fake news when I first saw it online BuckGalaxy November 23, 2025 10:13 pm (Space/Science)

And the worms ate into his brain BuckGalaxy November 23, 2025 7:37 pm (CurrentEvents)

Cracks propagate podrock November 22, 2025 8:54 pm (CurrentEvents)

Debunking simulation theory with more simulation theory RobVG November 20, 2025 3:09 pm (Space/Science)

SR72 RobVG November 20, 2025 1:00 pm (Off-Topic)

Carmakers want to build robot armies BuckGalaxy November 18, 2025 5:50 pm (Flame)

Just going to put this out there... BuckGalaxy November 16, 2025 10:46 pm (GeekSpeak)

Moonage Daydream BuckGalaxy November 16, 2025 2:48 pm (Space/Science)

FU Chrome BuckGalaxy November 16, 2025 11:57 am (GeekSpeak)

College education bubble by TB July 25, 2011 9:24 pm

No this is what happens when they become profitable enterprises and marketed to the middle class. I went to college in ... by ER 2011-07-26 06:17:28
- Sorry, but "for profit" colleges (not to be confused with private ones) enroll about eight percent of the students in ... by TB 2011-07-26 07:42:52
  - Yeah, who are "they"? The academic socialist media intellectual conspiracy? They are the ones who are losing jobs and tenure. ... by ER 2011-07-26 08:54:24

A little further down the road we're on... by TB July 25, 2011 8:22 pm

One symptom of tyranny... by TB July 25, 2011 11:34 am

See if you need glasses... by TB July 24, 2011 9:28 pm

Until August 1914 by TB July 24, 2011 8:59 pm

Oh sure, post-Edwardian Britain was such a Libertarian paradise! That is, unless you were an industrial worker in the massive ... by ER 2011-07-25 04:43:57
- You make some very good points, particularly on colonialism and the British class system. I don't concede that either colonialism or ... by TB 2011-07-25 09:37:04
  - It's all relative, Tom, which is my point. In spite of my harangue, the English peasant always had it ... by ER 2011-07-25 10:22:37
    - Absence of all-pervasive state control does not automatically lead to freedom, but it is a prerequisite. I use "the state" as ... by TB 2011-07-25 10:55:08
      - You and I must have completely different views of the social universe. I have never felt threatened by the ... by ER 2011-07-25 11:33:50
        
        That's actually surreal. Is this what happens to your head when you work for even a local government? ... by TB 2011-07-25 13:21:34
        
        I spent most of my life working for private industry: Mom and pop shops, giant corporations, but also the ... by ER 2011-07-25 14:01:36
        
        A Soviet science guy might not have been the best example. They were on the upper tiers in those ... by TB 2011-07-25 16:09:26
        
        Not to worry, TB. China and Russia will carry the torch for free enterprise (ta-dah!). Just think, they're ... by ER 2011-07-25 16:28:28
        
        The sad part is that you think China and Russia are "free enterprise" just because they contain rich businessmen. by TB 2011-07-25 18:48:30
        
        Tom, they are rich businessmen, they get to decide what capitalism is, not two unemployed old geezers in North America ... by ER 2011-07-25 19:34:40
        
        A great series of posts, ER! Thanks. by mcfly 2011-07-26 04:51:04
        
        Thanks, super fly! It's reassuring to know someone is reading these posts who might actually benefit from them. by ER 2011-07-26 05:18:13
        
        The Soviet Union had rich people running businesses. A lot of them managed to hang on to those government-sanctioned ... by TB 2011-07-25 20:51:22
        
        Oh, quelle surprise! Rich, powerful industrial managers and financiers take advantage of a vacuum in political power and seize ... by ER 2011-07-26 05:16:08

Michael Moore in Norway by TB July 24, 2011 2:56 pm

American castles for sale by TB July 24, 2011 9:51 am

Yeah...I simply can not make up my mind which one to buy. I would buy two but they are all in ... by Jody 2011-08-01 05:20:32
I am a fairly content guy and I don't covet or begrudge anybody's stuff but I must admit that those ... by FrankC 2011-07-25 00:59:58
- agreed Frank...but I still would have to be near a Super Wal Mart. by Jody 2011-08-01 05:21:49
- I don't know about money buying happiness, but I've been across a wide range of incomes over my life and ... by TB 2011-07-25 09:42:25
  - "Why do millionaires put mansions on a beach, prey to any serious storm or tsunami?" Because they get cut-rate flood insurance ... by ER 2011-07-25 19:58:57
    - They build where they wish because they can. About 60 years ago, my ex son in law's parents were building ... by FrankC 2011-07-29 14:31:35
    - Yeah, that's exactly the kind of government subsidy that screws things up. After decades of construction based on it ... by TB 2011-07-25 20:53:28
      - You're right. But only poor capitalists denounce government subsidies to the rich. Prosperous capitalists, real ones, lobby for them ferociously ... by ER 2011-07-26 09:10:28
        
        What's funniest about your worldview is if it was actually consistent with reality, over 90 percent of everyone in the ... by TB 2011-07-26 09:23:18
        
        You don't need to be rich to want a break on your flood insurance. Even the welfare queens who ... by ER 2011-07-26 10:38:38
        
        A large part of the economic history of this country is governments saying, "you know, if we subsidize X, we'll ... by TB 2011-07-26 11:01:05
        
        Right, TB. Private companies con or bribe the government into spending tax money to lavish on projects for private ... by ER 2011-07-26 14:01:54
        
        "Right, TB. Private companies con or bribe the government into spending tax money to lavish on projects for private profit ... by TB 2011-07-26 14:27:45
        
        You are self righteously defending yourself from a charge I never made. In fact, I even remarked that we were ... by ER 2011-07-26 15:51:41
        
        “Right, TB. Private companies con or bribe the government into spending tax money to lavish on projects for private profit ... by TB 2011-07-26 16:17:03
        
        Read the statement again. Carefully. I actually agree that you have pointed out the existence of crony capitalism, twice ... by ER 2011-07-26 16:33:30
        
        ER, you have the soul of an artist. I actually mean that as a compliment. When do your articles come ... by TB 2011-07-26 16:50:19
        
        Soul of an artist, eh? Well I can scratch, belch and fart like a real man if have to. ... by ER 2011-07-26 18:26:47
        
        yep. Your way or the highway. by ER 2011-07-26 14:33:21
        
        As a response, that didn't even make sense. by TB 2011-07-26 14:40:30
By the way, I checked out the link on tech millionaire houses. Get a load of Zuckerberg's "mansion." by TB 2011-07-24 11:21:58
Who wouldn't? by VelociraptorBlade 2011-07-24 11:03:53

I got yer budget deal right here... by TB July 24, 2011 9:42 am

By the way, did everyone see my "Revenues and Tax Rates" post? by TB 2011-07-24 09:47:38
- I'm curious...do you see your own posts as "the end of the discussion" as often as you seem to suggest? by mcfly 2011-07-24 21:39:27
  - "End of the discussion?" Are you kidding? It's all I can do to keep an actual discussion going around ... by TB 2011-07-25 09:38:19
    - Nah, I'm probably just not reading you right. by mcfly 2011-07-25 10:47:53

Another good mark for Perry by TB July 24, 2011 9:16 am

A social conservative who's willing to accept gay marriage? One way or the other, he's lying. by mcfly 2011-07-24 20:47:15
- The point was very clearly explained about the role of personal belief and the proper limitations of the Federal government. Or ... by TB 2011-07-24 20:54:22
  - Federal law never mandates or forbids personal beliefs. Think about it. But conservatives are not shy about using law to mandate ... by mcfly 2011-07-24 21:15:50
    - "Beliefs" and "choices" are not the same thing. Liberals have had considerably more success in inflicting their ideas on us than ... by TB 2011-07-25 08:58:01
      - I don't beleive I said they *were* the same thing, in fact quite the opposite. Seriously, what was the last great ... by mcfly 2011-07-25 10:32:00
        
        That was a question I'd like to see answered. Specifics, please. Try and keep it out of the Middle Ages. ... by TB 2011-07-25 11:13:39
        
        Here by mcfly 2011-07-26 10:57:48
        
        Well, in the context of politics I was thinking primarily of examples in the United States and the West during ... by TB 2011-07-26 11:12:07
        
        I have to listen to everyone telling me how the Republicans are going to destroy us all and usher in ... by mcfly 2011-07-26 12:03:04
        
        I chalk it up to the Left having to construct imaginary demons to justify their own ideology and power grabs. ... by TB 2011-07-26 12:11:06
        
        TB, we've covered it SO many times. Which party threatens to take control of women's reproductive rights? Which party threatens ... by mcfly 2011-07-26 12:22:14
        
        Stay on the road. I can find nutballs all through politics who "threaten" one thing or another. Which ... by TB 2011-07-26 14:39:06
        
        I don't like where your road goes. Hell, neither of these should ever have been a Federal issue in the first ... by mcfly 2011-07-26 19:23:25

Got any Neanderthal DNA? by Eri July 23, 2011 11:41 pm

I wonder what your husband thinks of that... or his military employers. I can see the bioweapons now. Silliness aside, ... by VelociraptorBlade 2011-07-23 23:53:05
- I was joking about my ex; however, he physically did have some characteristics that might have been a bit of ... by Eri 2011-07-24 05:41:39

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