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I hear we again have debtor's prison in the USA. I hear that in some places, if you owe money, the creditor goes to court and when you fail to show gets a default judgment. Somewhere in there the judge puts you in jail and levies a fine...that is exactly what you owe. So you end up paying.... and the fine is turned over to the creditor. Maybe this needs a cite.

http://www.schr.org/poor
http://mostlywater.org/us_debtors_prisons

ah, here it is: http://www.larouchepac.com/node/15243

and it reference a newspaper article which is in turn referenced by many articles, but the *original* is simply not showing up in google. However, playing through the links, we get this,

http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/07/15/americas-new-debtor-prison-jail-time-being-given-to-those-who/

and this seems to directly quote the article and is in direct support of the larouche cite.

Sort of peculiar how the original article is not there and almost all the references to the article do not mention the turning over of the fines to the creditor. I think what is happening here is that the original is getting updated, has a new update date, and has dropped the really nasty parts of the original.

No, Goldline just tries to sell you collectible coins at 90% over their melt value. If you believe anything that Glenn Beck tells you, or buy into anything he's hawking, I've got a bridge to sell you.

For those crops where they don't they might as well be, they sue you into oblivion if you save your seed for later. Yes, because you sign a contract promising not to do that before you buy the seeds. They also sue you if you don't pay them - oh no!

They also sue if your non-GM crop is contaminated by another's GM crop. You did not sign a contract but you're sued anyway.

Falcon

Interesting how the farmers are not the ones against Monsanto.

Except there are many farmers who oppose Monsanto, or visa versa.

1. Monsanto versus Farmers.
2. Monsanto's Harvest of Fear
3. Haitian Farmers Fight Back Against Monsanto
4. Nelson Farm - A Fight Against A Giant -- Monsanto Sues North Dakota Farmer Over Biotech Crop Dispute
5. Goliath and David: Monsanto's Legal Battles against Farmers
6. Monsanto vs. US Farmers [pdf]
7. Oregon farmers caught up in Monsanto suit over engineered alfalfa
8. Agricultural Giant Battles Small Farmers
9. Could Monsanto Be Responsible for One Indian Farmer's Death Every Thirty Minutes?
10. Monsanto watch: Targeting American farmers with lawyers, fear and money
11. 1. Falcon

You might find http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/11/25/does-bing-offer-negative-cashback/?icid=sphere_newsaol_inpage_walletpop interesting with regard to Bing related "offers".

I'm know that the KFC recipe http://www.newsday.com/business/coca-cola-and-kfc-s-secret-formulas-are-safe-for-now-1.886055 and big mac Secret sauce http://www.walletpop.com/specials/closely-guarded-trade-secrets?icid=200100397x1210050216x1200602328# are trade secrets, not copyrights or patents. This technique means that they will never have their patents or copyrights expire on their items (haha, like copyrights really expire anymore...). They would also of course trademark the _name_ of these items. So it is not exactly that the recipes are copyrighted, just that they are secret and you aren't allowed to call something else by the same or similar name.

>I don't buy this as an excuse to not eat decent food. A 3-mile walk doesn't take more than about 45
>minutes. Include the return trip, and you're up to an hour and a half.

What good is walking when there are no sidewalks?

Well, most people do. And these days, that's all you need to throw someone in jail forever: The consent of the people.

Who are "most people"? Do you have a cite or statistics to back this up? I didn't think so.

The fact of the matter is (and I'm a centrist Democrat) that minority groups of various persuasions have squealed to the media about hate motivated crimes and laws have been put through by self-righteous cappuccino Dems while vilifying anybody who dares oppose it.

I'm from Cincinnati (yeah, we've got one hell of a past, check dangerous neighborhood listings and witness our #1 glory) and I've seen it happen: five white guys beat the shit out of a black guy and it's a hate crime. Five black guys beat the shit out of a white guy and it's just a "crime"... in fact it's business as usual. I work in the engineering field and I personally know three engineers (including a female) who have been assaulted while trying to get to data centers on off-hours calls. Hint: all the perps were black and all the victims were white.

You can bleat anecdote and I can show you trends.

There are just as many black racists here as there are white. I lost count of how many times I've been called cracker, honkey, casper, etc. Just for walking down the street. I've spoken to others, and yes, it's the norm. I'm a pretty big guy so nobody ever acts on it (and I'm a prior military CCW if they do), but for more "average" people you're pretty much screwed.

And remember, when you're getting your teeth kicked out in the gutter for being a stupid white motherfucker in "our" part of town during the night, it's not a hate crime. We just don't like you straight white folks.

Who was talking about $14/hour? The average is something like 25-33/hour.

I was talking about how widely debunked $70/hour is.

The median price of a house in Detroit is $7500. Floorplans vary, but they are larger than these apartments. Home prices are relative.

I'm sure people are happy to buy a nice place in Mumbai, so the market supports higher prices. No one wants to live in a corrupt one-party third-world conflict zone like Detroit.

the big wall street bailout (TARP #1) rewarded all the banks that were failing, too.

Warning, don't spit on your monitor. Banks charge to withdraw unemployment benefits.

Falcon