Here's an article from the depths of the past, from August of 1982 which was right around the time that the bull market began to take off....
The Fed is trying to plug the leaks with a cut in interest rates and massive cash injections to some banks - but the rest of the world doesn't look...
I was looking at the Presidential Order of Succession in the context of what would happen if there was an impeachment and removal from office of both...
This thread is definitely worth revisiting and reviving, both for a review of what worst-case scenarios have not (yet) come to pass, as well as for...
No, of course not. It is a specious claim. There's been no terrorist attacks on U.S. soil since 9/11 for four basic reasons: 1. Takes time to...
Why conspiracy theories? People would rather believe in a high-level conspiracy than to accept the plain fact that our governments are incompetent...
I'm not knowledgable enough to know the absolute accuracy of the wiki article. According to a BBC site...
Well, you could start with the Wikipedia entry on Jainism - that's a good summary. The word "soul" is a loaded one, especially in trying to...
Those who commit atrocities should be hunted down, captured and brought to justice. Probably killed since the perpetrators would not likely wish to...
A separate thread on what constitutes acceptable risk and the illogic of human response to it is probably necessary, but what the hell......
I'd like to revive a quadrennial idea - why not a coalition candidacy? My suugestion: Ron Paul as the nominal president, with Dennis Kucinich as VP....
There's no difference. Dead is dead, and everything else is just spectacle. This bridge collapse will result in the deaths of twenty or thirty or...
I agree with you (!). Reminds me of a point I made some years ago that 9-11 was equivalent to three weeks' worth of death toll on U.S. roads, but...
According to http://www.bts.gov/publications/state_transportation_statistics/state_transportation_statistics_2006/html/table_01_07.html, there were...
I demolish your position: Consider the phenotypic transitional areas that lie in between what you allege to be strongholds of "black" and "white"....
Probably not, if the shit hits the fan and the White House declares martial law. They'll cut off public access to the internet (or at least to...
Sometimes justice is not served by death. In Bush's case I'd like to see a life sentence of living in a trailer and working 40 hours a week as a...
Okay, hang on a minute. I don't envision a huge nuke vaporizing all of D.C.. I imagine that it is not difficult to build an extremely low-yield...
Perhaps we'd get lucky and have another George Washington, a man who could easily have been President For Life, but who turned it down. If you can...
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