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You must be referring to 2030 when retirees will outnumber workers, 2/3 of the U.S. federal will go to Social Security/Medicare, and workers will pay more in taxes to support the poor and the rich.

*no wrong... unlike we mere mortals who make typos

Don't worry. Perfect spelling is no longer a requirement at the Department of Education.

http://wqad.com/2017/02/12/education-department-misspells-tweet-corrects-error-with-another-typo/

God forbid anyone make a fucking typo on twitter right? Fuck off you petty little bitch

*no wrong... unlike we mere mortals who make typos

Don't worry. Perfect spelling is no longer a requirement at the Department of Education.

http://wqad.com/2017/02/12/education-department-misspells-tweet-corrects-error-with-another-typo/

Where do you see irony?

Why in your words, ooloorie, if you can't see them, why don't you try sending your message to Donald Trump.

Go ahead. I dare you to promise to do it. I won't even ask you to document and authenticate it. Just promise to do it.

Trump and Republicans won the last election, didn't they?

Nope, the last election was...Tuesday. They lost. Unless you know of one since then, or maybe in the Pacific Time zone.

But really, do give your advice to Trump. Just make the promise to do it. I dare you.

Oh wait... they're mostly morons... and it's shiny...

You know that several studies have shown that Apple users are more educated than Android users, correct?

So no, it would seem to be the other way around from your claim: it's the Apple users who tend to be smarter, more educated, and more financially successful. That makes sense, because they can afford a more premium device.

If you look at the website of the World Food Prize org, you will find :-

The World Food Prize sincerely thanks the following sponsors for supporting its annual programs: ...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation DuPont Pioneer John Deere Foundation
The Mathile Institute for the Advancement of Human Nutrition Monsanto DuPont Pioneer
Ruan Transportation Management Systems Claudia and Paul Schickler....

So, Monsanto is one of the sponsors of WFP. A pretty important one too, as shown by this link which used to exist on the Monsanto website.

The World Food Prize Foundation on Friday accepted a $5 million contribution from Monsanto Company to ensure the continuation of the annual World Food Prize International Symposium -- now known as the "Borlaug Dialogue." The funds support a renewed fundraising campaign to transform the historic Des Moines Public Library building into a public museum to honor Dr. Norman Borlaug and the work of the World Food Prize Laureates.

When you look up the WFP website , you will find that "The World Food Prize is sponsored by businessman and philanthropist John Ruan and is located in Des Moines, Iowa."

Not in itself damning, until you realise that :-

Monsanto has more facilities in Iowa than in any other state in the country

Monsanto has made substantial investments in Iowa

Monsanto actively lobbies to change laws in Iowa

I think its fair to say that Monsanto has a lot of influence in Iowa.

I question the integrity of this "prize".

Where your logic falls down is that drug dealers have no monopoly; there's one on every street corner (at least, on the east side of town where the crackwhores are). The only place you can get your microsoft fix is microsoft.

I also posit that Ubantu is crack, and Vista is what law enforcement officials call a lookalike drug

-mcgrew

There was a brief report of Philadelphia machines being deployed with pre-existing votes for Kerry, but it was fundamentally wrong...

Meanwhile, Chicago was celebrating yesterday because for the first time since 1999 a whole day went by without anybody in the city getting shot.

Perhaps a public education program of sorts is in order, but unless there is some evidence that the wardrivers are actually using the unsecured access points to do harm--commit fraud, utter threats, steal identities, trash systems--this really doesn't seem to be something that needs to be a police priority.