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I'm not sure if medicine is always rationed, but I suspect that in the US it's rationed to a varying degree for the great majority of people, even when you have private health insurance. I've known of plenty of cases where insurance companies will not pay for more expensive treatment options until you first try a more conservative and inexpensive approach. Even when the more advanced treatment is clearly indicated. You can find plenty of cases of US insurance carriers who won't cover cyberknife treatments, as they judge the cyberknife to be experimental. Experimental doesn't necessarily mean it's not effective, but that they have not determined that it's more effective than existing treatments that cost less. Not an unreasonable position, if they're making an honest effort to evaluate the available data. It's difficult to determine how often these sorts of determinations are made with the best interest of the patient as opposed to financial interest of company executives and owners. Also, sometimes advanced treatments have a better short term outcome for many patients, but long term studies don't show a significant increase in longevity. Long term studies may have clearly indicated cyberknife is the most effective treatment for some conditions, but if that's not the case, should an insurance company burden all it's participants with higher premiums for marginally better outcomes? This article, for instance, discusses the issues related to treating prostrate cancer with the cyberknife. How much more per month are most people willing to pay for health insurance so that some people can live two or three months longer or have fewer side effects? $50? $100?

They will use this to justify metered broadband, with caps and overage fees. They're already trialing it in Beaumont TX now.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060202618.html

Doug

...100MB up and a 100 MB down...

Whoa! Those are some steep caps dude! Maybe you skiped something, like per second?

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Caps, NO CAPS! (... watched Independence Day again) No compromise is acceptable here!

If the companies in question had built out their infrastructures with the additional taxes and fees legislatures allotted them (Why have U.S. customers paid an estimated $200 billion in higher services rates and tax breaks for fiber-optic networks they never received?) for that specific purpose, we would not be having this exchange today, nor would there be a need for the farce that are bandwidth caps or per message charges on text messaging and the other BS we are told by companies in order to gouge us for more money. They do us no favors and provide even poorer service!

If I had been referring to caps I would agree with you...rather I want the bandwidth I have paid for (ie. no throttling). My bandwidth should allow for 100 Mbps / 100 Mbps synchronous communications via fiber (doubt any other media will allow for it) as they have had in Japan since pre 2000 thanks to Japanese government intervention. We should have had this in 1996, however are (US) legislative leaders have let us down yet again. Both Republicans and Democrats are guilty (Even pre-Clinton, as far back as 1991, the Bell companies made very promising statements about their commitment to fiber-optic networks.) of sabatoging our children's futures.

Now in Japan, since they wisely built out their fiber infrastructure years ago, are starting to offer 1GB / 1GB (for less than $55 per month) synchronous bandwidth to customers homes.

Here in America, we have been sold (and continue to be sold) down the river by are leaders, politicians, our ISPs, the telcos and others. (United States could add $500 billion annually to its GDP)

• Overall, using a 20-year analysis of major revenues and expenses, we found that once deregulation laws went through, the Bells became a cash machine. - why didn't they spend some of this money updating their infrastructure?
• Phone companies were once regulated....Profits were ... 11-13% ⦠Under alternative regulation (i.e., deregulation),...Profits â¦jumped to 30%, more than double the original. ⦠also received massive tax write-offs on the promise they would build fiber-optic networks...
• The phone companies argued for deregulation in part because they said it would allow them to use the extra profits to construct new services, including fiber-optic lines. In fact, however, such capital expenditures dropped from 24% of Bellsâ(TM) total expenses in the early 1980s to just 14% of expenses in 2004. ...high speed networks could have been built.
• The primary difference today between the United States and other countries is that instead of diverting funds away from upgrade commitments, ⦠other countries made sure the money went into ground wiring and other upgrades. The U.S. lacked the regulatory will for enforcing the agreements, and ⦠(were not) held accountable.
• About all fiber deployments over the last few years by telcos...

It depends on what definition of "terrorist" you use.

The Maryland State Police classified 53 nonviolent activists as terrorists and entered their names and personal information into state and federal databases that track terrorism suspects, the state police chief acknowledged yesterday.

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Secret Service protection is now limited to 10 years after leaving office. Clinton has done pretty well on the speaking circuit, over $30 million in the first 4 years out of office http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2007/clinton-speeches/ Everyone involved seems to make out pretty well if they so choose.

If if the result of the aggregate of our individual decisions is ecological disaster what then? Was it really worth it so some smug self centered yuppie could park their Lincoln Navigator next to the Hosta moncrop lining the driveway of their mini-mansion?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/24/AR2008122402174_pf.html

"In Wednesday's voting, Hamas claimed 76 of the 132 parliamentary seats,"

From here

And

"Final results show that Hamas won the election, with 74 seats to the ruling-Fatah's 45, providing Hamas with the majority of the 132 available seats and the ability to form a majority government on their own.

Of the Electoral Lists, Hamas received 44.45% and Fatah 41.43%[1] and of the Electoral Districts, Hamas party candidates received 41.73% and Fatah party candidates received 36.96%"

From here

Are we even sure that Global Climate Change is something that we need to stop?

Yes.

If this is all part of a cycle (all signs point to yes)

Liar. Reports of "decreasing" temperature, at the tail end of the hottest decade ever, do not imply that the fluctuations in average temperature during the past decade are merely cyclical, natural variations. They are certainly not. Although annual mean temperatures do naturally oscillate just as surely as daily weather fluctuates noticeably in most locations [not so much around the poles and the most barren deserts, but mostly...], if you check the data on noaa.gov and other sites that compare recent years and decades to the average over the past 150 years, instead of cherry-picking comparisons only against 1998 and others among the top-10 hottest years, you'll see quickly and unarguably that more recent oscillations are about a progressively higher median. That is because of the greenhouse effect and it is proven.

CO2 insulates by inhibiting infrared radiation. Infrared wavelength photons correspond to the quantity of energy-per-atom responsible for the atomic oscillation known commonly as "heat." Industrial-scale petroleum and coal combustion have dramatically increased the atmospheric concentration of CO2. Q.E.D.: CO2 pollution is directly responsible for global warming ... unless you can explain where the additional heat goes when it is not radiated, because of CO2.

Are cars and mankind contributing to the change in climate? Yes.

Great detective work. Wanna cookie?

Has the earth been going through a similar climate change every few thousand years for as long as we can tell? Also yes.

Liar-liar-pants on fire! I thought that Exxon-Mobil fired all you shills. Are you working pro bono now or being paid under the table?

>You may as well ask why the ISS doesn't have a lock on the airlock door.

I hate this attitude. I hate how people dismiss basic security because for some reason, to them, its impossible that something used in one setting couldnt be used in a different setting or in a different way. Dont be naive.

How about more examples?

Anti-virus for a PDA?!?! Yes.

Anti-pirate weaponry on a cruise ship!?! Yes.

Antivirus on the space shuttle?!?! Yes.

Armed guards in churches?!? Yes

Bomb sniffer dogs at daycare??!? Yes.

Bulletproof armor for dogs!??! Yes.

Just ask this guy. (But what does he know, he only got results like info on Zarqawi's location, not revenge.)

Seems like every few months you hear yet another story about something bad happening because people are replying to or otherwise using a 'noreply' email address. Here's a clue - if you ever send emails to anyone from a 'noreply' address (or some other similar account name), you better make damn sure your servers are configured to not do something bad or stupid when unobservant users actually do reply to it.

I will give them credit for this: *at least* it was noreply at their own domain. Too often, when you hear about this sort of thing, it's because a company did something like sending an email with a return address of 'noreply@donotreply.com' or something like that (where the domain is not their domain, and is a string which could potentially be registered by someone). I remember reading (ok, just found the story again) about a guy who had registered the domain 'donotreply.com' for yucks, and started getting all sorts of stuff like replies from Capital One bank customers, when Capital One sent some emails with the donotreply.com as the domain. (Sadly, the website www.donotreply.com where the guy used to blog about all the emails seems to be down now; wonder what happened to it - probably sunk by a lawsuit, or maybe the guy finally got bored of spending his free time reading thousands of emails).

I said "_the_ millions" which means the infected millions. I would have left out the "the", if I meant something different. I put it there for a reason.

If I were talking about uninfected+infected users a different phrase would be more appropriate.

A user who is prone to infection is different from a user who isn't. A user prone to infection is just as likely to be infected whether they ran Windows or Ubuntu.

The number of infected windows computers may even rival the number of Desktop Linux computers worldwide :) [1].

Macs have 10% market share and they ARE getting the same shit, just not so often _yet_:

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/11/mac_trojan
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/06/new_trojan_leverages_unpatched.html

If they hit 20-30% share, things will start to heat up for OSX, since with a 3:1 or 2:1 ratio - not targeting OSX becomes a significant missed "opportunity" - your botnets would not grow as fast if you just targeted Windows.

Lastly, you said the registry was bad because stuff could be hidden there.

But to most "windows class" users there would be little difference between "hiding stuff" in the registry or /etc. Most of them won't even know that either exist in the first place!

Whereas you'd have just as much luck hiding stuff in the registry from the experts as you would in /etc or wherever.

So I don't see this "hiding" thing as a problem.

If you suspect your system is compromised, the safe thing to do is reinstall and update from a trusted source, then restore data and documents from backups.

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=47DDCFA9-645D-4495-9EDA-92CDE33E99A9&displaylang=en
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e0f27260-58da-40db-8785-689cf6a05c73&displaylang=en

A lot of windows machines don't run windows update and so don't run that tool. Some of them because they have an invalid license.

COPPA: The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act

This law is not the same COPPA that outlaws digitally morphed images designed to look like children having sex. Rather, it is a much less controversial bill that has to do with protecting children's privacy from online marketers. The law has not been challenged. Highlights: Penalties are imposed for collecting personal data on children under 13 years old without receiving written parental consent.

Interesting.

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COPA, CIPA, COPPA, etc.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A39748-2002May31?language=printer http://www.raphkoster.com/2008/07/23/child-online-protection-act-overturned/

Why did Sony/BMG really pay money?

E P.S.Sony/BMG when you send me your cute litle notes, do it on letterhead with a real signature. Automated PGP sigs have no validity.

I guess we should give terrorists a nice cell and good food and hope they feel guilty enough about trying to blow up people that they tell us their secrets, e.g., what is planned for the future?

Yes, we should. And do you know why? BECAUSE IT FUCKING WORKS. That is, unless you think that you, as a /. commenter, have more experience in the field than an actual interrogator. Although, given that you are a /. commenter, if you did believe that I shouldn't be a bit surprised.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/01/AR2008120102792.html

to attempting to managing a restaurant:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/08/AR2008060801765.html?hpid=topnews

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/01/AR2008120102792.html

to attempting to managing a restaurant:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/08/AR2008060801765.html?hpid=topnews

The Hoover Dam was first proposed, by Hoover, granted, in 1922. His predecessor as President, Calvin Coolidge, signed the bill authorizing it in 1928; it was never a depression recovery project per se, the money had already been allocated before there was a Depression.

Contra Amity "You're all a bunch of whiners" Shlaes, who's work has been effectively discredited by anyone who cared to think about it for five minutes.

...and now you're just gonna hafta sleep in that bed you made for yourselves.

Welcome to the 21st Century - party on, dudes!!!

That'd be Member of Parliament to all those not familiar with parliamentary nomenclature. So the Home Secretary siccing the police to raid an opposition party member's offices might be vaguely analogous to the Bush Administration abusing its official powers to bully US Attorneys into resigning for not kowtowing to the party line. I.e., a power freak seeing how far they can stretch their authority and get away with it.

Cheers,

Smacking the side of the computer also can work to get things running, but that doesn't mean it's actually a useful tool. Here, go educate yourself. (But what does he know, he's just the guy who got someone to give up Zarqawi's location...)

As if Oil for Food, Commission on Human Rights and United Nations Office for Project Services weren't already proof enough that any money given to the U.N. is money wasted !

What about latency and reliability? I'm happy with 3.6 Mbit/s, or even lower, if I get a reliable connection with low latency. Rock solid 512 kbit/s with 20 ms latency would be preferable to anything available in the mobile market right now.

I will be happy when I get 100 MB / 100 MB bi-directional access to the internet for around $50 per month. Heck the Japanese have had this level since 2003 and now in 2008 they are migrating up to 1GB / 1Gb for less than $55.00 per month. How far behind do we have to fall anyway?

As for

Who cares about bandwidth?

I do!

I still want the same speed upstream as I am getting downstream. Enough excuses already time to honor your promises to the United States government and U.S. consumers. (Note: While some of the telcos that promised no longer exist, I would suggest that the homes and area that they serviced does still exist. The business that acquired their area, should also acquire responsibility to build out that area per the promises that the telco that was bought made. I would suggest that they bought both the assets and the liabilities. I believe this liability, a public trust if you will, should be passed on as it is attached to our tax dollars, fees-still-being-charged every month and government funding and therefore should not be ignored because the business was purchased and/or acquired....my .02 cents)

As of 2008, no US customers have the 45 Mbps bidirectional service to our homes and you guys promised to have 86 million customers receiving 45 Mbps by 2006. And certainly not for the expected cost of .50 cents per 1 Mbps of bi-directional bandwidth.

And do NOT state that you are providing high speed access to consumers based on the FCC definition of high speed internet, 200Kbps - try to run videos at that speed, high speed my behind....

Also about bandwidth, I want to be able to consume the total amount of bandwidth that I am (and have been) actually paying for. It's not my fault that the telcos and internet providers have taken money from consumers and the U.S. government (estimated at over $200 billion since early 1990s in the form of tax breaks; increases service fees and outright government funding) and used it for buying up companies rather than building out their infrastructures. ( Funny how similar the telcos reaction to receiving money was to the current financial companies and banks that received the buy in / bail out money by the government recently).

I am concerned that the wireless providers will play the same sleight of hand with or without the FCC for wireless internet that they have been playing with hard wired access. Surprised they are not asking for tax breaks, money or a bail out as well!

Now for a question to those of you who say reduce the latency and than work on speed, because I honestly do NOT know the answer. Here is the question:

If you had 100MB / 100MB (bi-directional) at how high a latency (how slow could it get) until you were as slow as what the average American high speed internet user gets today? (Assume an average bandwidth of 8.8 Mbps downstream (I do not get that either, but it is the average listed in the articl

Like the NSA with Vista and SELinux?

The current bailouts would be impossible with gold coins.

It would have been hard for the Federal Reserve to make money out of thin air -- which got us into this mess in the first place.

Instead of government bailouts, we need the market to right itself. That cannot happen when the government throws money out troubled companies and industries that would fail or contract without intervention.

Just like the Great Depression, government is making a problem worse. Only this time, we don't produce many goods to sell to other countries. Uh oh!

The ISP's have sat fat and lazy for too long just selling you a "faster pipe" as the last mile of cable got faster.

True. One thing that bugs me is the lack of support for multicast. This has the potential to significantly and cheaply improve network efficiency with almost no change in network hardware at all and yet, with a few honorable exceptions, ISP's have been too slack to consistently implement it.

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Windows and closed source software. The US intelligence agencies back door to every network connected country and business on earth.

BitTorrent is believed to be harboring weapons of mass destruction. These weapons are believed to be capable of destroying all of the internet tubes.

Maybe that's why the government has has deployed 4,700 troops domestically, ramping to 20,000 over three years, trained to respond to "weapons of mass destruction attacks".

Think that will be enough?

This phenomenon is not a mystery and it's surprising none of the naturalists interviewed knew what was going on, which I learned on a nature hike in the Catskills recently. The oak trees send out a hormone that allows a coordinated survival mechanism where they all withhold acorn production at the same time, and they do this in order to control the squirrel population. This has been documented in a study in Pennsylvania where students ground up a huge amount of oak leaves from an area that had no acorn production and dispersed the leaves in another area where then the following year the trees did not produce acorns. It's usually the following year where there is a huge bumper crop of acorns way beyond what the now diminished population of squirrels could not possibly consume.

The merger was approved on July 25th, 2008. Four months ago, not "a little over a year ago." They announced their intention to merge in February of 2007. The long period between these two events probably created a lot of new unexpected problems for the two companies.

In the third quarter their subscription rates and revenue were up 17% and 16% respectively over last year. I haven't seen any evidence that they're losing subscribers at an increasing rate.

Satellite radio is built into many new cars, which is where most people listen to the radio. It's also extremely popular with truckers. The iPhone thing is a nice alternative for technically inclined people, but it seems unlikely to me that the average person is going to bother with it.

Full disclosure: I am a satellite radio subscriber, and I am somewhat satisfied with the service but not sure how much longer I will keep my subscription.

Sources:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/07/25/ST2008072503697.html
http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/sirius-xm-radio-inc-losses.html

If you read the article, you will see why we can't stop this waste of money. Oh, and also why it's more profitable not to grow food and still collect government handouts.

A recent report by the Washington Post reports that over $49 Million in farm subsidies has gone to people who make more than cut off $2.5 Million per year. I've never been a fan of subsidies to begin with, I bet you can imagine how I feel when anyone making millions a year gets a check for free money

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See for example: http://loudounextra.washingtonpost.com/news/2007/may/21/suburbs-locked-high-tech-lure/

Snuggles up quite closely to former lobbyists, though:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/14/AR2008111403922_pf.html

Anyway, the fact that you, thuggishly like so many Obama supporters on the internet, defend the man with threats of some nature; he disagrees with you over Obama, so you think he should be silenced with the Troll tag.

Love of Obama has become a sort of religion for many (not all, but many) Obama supporters. Obama is beyond criticism. Depending on when someone criticized Obama you'd instantly be pelted with candidate-centric mudslinging even if you did not express a preference for any candidate. For example, When criticizing Obama online, I was instantly deluged with attacks on (due to his internet popularity) Ron Paul, then later Hillary Clinton, and then finally McCain and THEN Palin, Palin, Palin. Obviously some politicians are better than others, some much better than others, and yes, Obama is much better than others. But he is both human and a politician, and Obama has been playing the same game as most mainstream politicians so far. No one is above criticism and politicians most of all should be treated skeptically.

But skepticism towards Barack? Unthinkable, for many of his followers.

"We have too long taken the view that what we would term to be minor crimes are not important," Holder said, referring to current attitudes toward marijuana use and other offenses such as panhandling.

When he was a U.S. Attorney in D.C., he seemed to spend a lot of effort attempting to impose massive penalties for low-level marijuana possession. Because, you know, people possessing small quantities of marijuana are really a big problem, and overcrowded prisons aren't. I wonder if Holder thinks Obama, as an admitted drug user, ought to be a convicted felon instead of in the White House? Or is it only a crime if you get caught? Basically either Holder is wrong here, and possession of marijuana should not automatically ruin someone's life with felony charges, or Obama is unfit to be president. Either way, I don't see how the two can be reasonably paired.

Pressured to Take More Risk, Fannie Reached Tipping Point

How HUD Mortgage Policy Fed The Crisis

I doubt the Chinese journalist now sitting in prison because Yahoo ratted him out to the government would view Jerry as a nice guy.

Joe the (non-licensed)Plummer is the one that first contacted the media, by his choice.

Nonsense. Obama showed up for a photo op outside Joe the Plumber's house. Bad luck for Obama that Joe just happened to be a Republican, and the media doesn't like Republicans. Oh no, an unlicensed plumber. Why does a plumber need to be licensed to be a plumber anyway? (answer: to raise tax revenue). Completely irrelevant, shooting the messenger.

But I guess in your "only Fox News is biased" world, a citizen asking a candidate a question about his tax program (which the media never bothered asking) should be the focus of ad hominem attacks - rather than the media turning to Obama and asking, "yeah, what about that?"

But of course, the media is so far in the tank for Obama, that they defended him and became his advocates.

And liberals like you see no problem with that, because liberals don't believe in fairness - they believe in winning and advancing their agenda at all costs, even if it means politicizing the media, education, the courts, anything. By any means necessary.

Umm, in this one instance maybe, but don't get too excited.

I wonder if the current rape epidemic in eastern Congo is an example of such an "evil meme". Why can it exist? Surely that behaviour is not sustainable..

You haven't seen how the US handles casualties of war, have you?

Eye patches and canes, maybe a dog for officers. You can't make an omelet without breaking legs.

As for civilians, well. . .

Because law enforcement need to keep themselves to very high standards if they want to be credible.

There's lots of ways an unscrupulous cop can catch criminals, if he believe that the ends justify the means.

Just off the top, when government agents pretend to be red cross workers so that they can sneak in and kill the captors and rescue the hostages, did they do anything wrong?

Well, they did save those hostages. But what about the next group of hostages? What about defiling the red cross, so that when actual red cross try to come in to do humanitarian work, they get gunned down as if they were agents?

What if you are a Washington employer looking for talent but word gets out that you are just another FBI front?

If we did not have entrenched monopolies acting like a telecom industry, there would have been some fall-out from them allowing agents to illegally and unethically capture all data through their pipes.

Just another example of lousy priorities by our esteemed law enforcement officials, all while they viciously protect their budgets no matter if they have to confiscate your property for whatever reason they can come up with to break even.

We do not have enough protection from these local para-military forces and their deeply ingrained conflicts of interest. What if crime actually goes down?!? Will they lay off police or will they figure out a new class of people to persecute to make up for the budget shortfall?

People shit on the school system, saying things like "throwing money at the problem doesn't help" but nobody ever holds the police to performance standards. Look, the worse cops perform, the more money we offer them.

There is zero accountability, laughable oversight, coupled by constant examples of incompetence and corruption at all levels...it's a sacred cow that nobody dares to consider touching...until they are the ones with their door kicked in and their dog shot down in front of them.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073003299_pf.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/978249/posts
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2007/04/police_shoot_dog_during_backya.html

The Navy has even admitted that active sonar is harmful and results in deaths of marine mammals, but like with the EPA, investigations with facts harmful to the administration's opinions are erased.

I suggest you check out this Washington Post document in which he said he would strengthen the system and also agreed to do it if his opponent did. Which McCain did.

Besides, an agreement to work out public financing?? What agreement, either you do or you don't. There was nothing to 'work out'. Just do it. Did he think public financing is good for everyone, or just for everyone else? Is this what we have to look forward to for the next 4 years as he rules??

Just today I was reading how McCain's campaign is going to have to spend millions because accepting public financing means an automatic audit. Meanwhile. Obama is unlikely to undergo any scrutiny because of the millions in anonymous, sub-$200 donations and the unlikelihood they would audit a sitting president.

His failure to live with public financing has now killed that option. No candidate in the future will ever agree to it. The benefits of not accepting public financing have now been forever proven.

Obama was just another politician buying an election. And since we can't even verify the funds, since they refuse to release the information, we can't even say if it truly was a grass roots effort.

Smart moves on their part for sure, but it's not the "i" that's going to get them into trouble.

Then you have the US offer gardasil to girls for free, and parents refuse to give it because it's a "License to have sex".

It's not as bad as some think, but it is bad, and sometimes you have to wonder about the people when they refuse free immunisations.

Apparently you're new here. I've heard somewhere that 10% of people in America believe that we didn't land on the moon, so is it a surprise that people think immunizations are a bad thing?

Probably the same crowd that has been pushing abstinence only education as a solution for teen pregnancy.

Trust me. You wouldn't be terribly comfortable if AIG imploded. No one would be.

And that is the essence of the problem, is it not? How can a a political establishment so obsessed with "national security" let a market of an estimated $60 trillion dollars (almost 5 times our national GDP) go completely unregulated? It's absurd...

No terrorist in Guantanamo (or Afghanistan, for that matter) could ever do this much damage to the country, and yet none of those responsible will ever be executed, waterboarded, or undergo "extraordinary rendition." Funny how that works, huh? While we were all arguing over Dick Cheney's ticking time bomb hypothetical scenarios, the nation's economy was being set up for the largest act of sabotage and fraud in human history, and not a single person has yet to be arrested for it.

I'd be surprised if even a single CEO or government official ever gets convicted over this. And even if they do, we won't see a cent of their ill-gotten gains. Take a look at Kenneth Lay, mastermind of the Enron fraud. The man just so happened to conveniently die after his conviction but before his sentencing. The result? His conviction was wiped from the records and none of his or his wife's assets were seized.

Justice. Does the word even have a place in our society any more?

-Grym

Of course, the Washington Post is so invested in corporate Republican politics that it is undermining Obama with this story, now that Obama is going to be in charge. The WP could have run this analysis any time during the campaign season, and changed its ways, if they were indeed showing bias. But instead, they're just lying now, because their favoritism of McCain didn't quite work.

Um, the Post endorsed Obama for President. It doesn't exactly make sense to favor the opposing candidate, does it? If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit.

That's not what he said to the Midwest Democracy Institute.

Other groups have sorted it out that he sort of lied too. All I can say is that it look like we are in for another 4 years of splitting legal hairs and advantageous loopholes. Is it really a win when the people think something opposite from what you do? Technically, it is but is it really a mandate from the public?

That's not what he said to the Midwest Democracy Institute.

Other groups have sorted it out that he sort of lied too. All I can say is that it look like we are in for another 4 years of splitting legal hairs and advantageous loopholes. Is it really a win when the people think something opposite from what you do? Technically, it is but is it really a mandate from the public?

We know more about Palan's daughter's sex life then we know about Obama and his past.

Yeah, you're right, it's not like he wrote a book where he admitted to drug use as a young man or anything.

And I think the bit about Palin's daughter has little or nothing to do with Palin's daughter, but more the incredible epic failure of abstinence only education. Being a religious wackjob shouldn't automatically ensure you have a shot at the presidency in this country, but we were founded by religious intolerance; you know, it's only okay if it's what you believe ....