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Here's what she said. That goes beyond just saying they have a right to free speech and assembly. And who on Earth is saying they don't have a right to free speech and assembly? I would say they don't have a right to block bridges, dirty up a privately owned park, and then refuse to leave...

A possible explanation for this: Speedy neutrino mystery likely solved, relativity safe after all | DVICE On this thread, I predicted it would turn out to be a calculation error, equipment glitch, or experimental design error. If these guys turn out to be right, then it would be...

I see that as unlikely since I would have a plan in place. But supposing she decided to ignore that and found a seedy loan shark, I would say, "Why the hell did you do that? I taught you better than that! And we already had a plan in place! And why would you pick one with 18% interest?"...

Blocking alternative energy sources? Torturing and murdering people abroad? Squelching the free press with military and police? Sounds like conspiracy theories to me. Even those with some truth to them are distorted. For example: I remember that whole AIG thing. They don't mention that...

Sounds like a mish mash of half-baked conspiracy theories. Oh well. I least it provides interesting news for otherwise slow news days.

Except several specifics, like the name of the new program and what it did. To quote myself from that thread: The link that I put up in that thread: The part of the story I quoted in that thread: With these details, it's unreasonable to conclude that the Bush administration gave up on bin...

You're acting like the poor have no choice in the matter, but clearly they do. Just like you're leaving, the poor can leave too and go to another bank or stop using their debit card. However, I'm not so sure you'll find a better deal as the other banks are going to have to increase their fees...

Again, all these new fees can be traced back directly to laws passed by Congress. It's the law of unintended consequences. They're not just raising fees for the heck of it. If they were, all of their customers would just leave and go elsewhere. That doesn't happen because all the other banks...

Is that a bad thing?

Here are their 2010 quarterly earnings that I can gather from media reports: Q1- $3.2 billion Q2- $3.1 billion Q3- $3.1 billion Q4- -$1.2 billion Total: $8.4 billion It's about an order of magnitude below $76 billion.

Bank of America did not make $76 billion in profits last year. And if they did, I would say that's a good thing because that means they're doing an awesome job of assessing risk and directing capital to the most useful places. This fee is Congress' fault. They could easily do away with it...

Certainly. The level of taxation and spending is just one issue, but it's one of the biggest issues. Personally, I'm for the federal government seriously scaling back and returning more power to the states. Government services, like roads, bridges, schools, teachers, police, firemen, etc. are...

I can understand the well-meaning pleas for both sides to put away the politics and come together to do what's best for the country. However, that ignores the reality that there are two completely opposite visions of the world at play here. For example, one side believes that increasing taxes...

Didn't I already disprove that before? Why do you keep saying it?

Color me skeptical. If I had to bet, I would bet that this won't pan out and it will be attributable to some calculation error, equipment glitch, or experimental design error. However, I also recognize that if I had to bet, there's a good chance I'd lose money on this. After all, you never...

From reading this, my guess is that the guy who's print request got denied lawyered up and is suing the company or threatening to do so. For instance, if the requested print job was religious in nature, he could claim religious discrimination. Then, the company would fire your friend so they...

If that was the best part, then we're screwed. Georgia jobs program cited by Obama has big flaws | Reuters

Republicans forced them to sell a product for half of what it costs to make? I don't think so. Solyndra Investigation: Probe Into White House Role in Massive Energy Loan - ABC News All these "green jobs" subsidies are a waste of money. They're just subsidizing inefficiency, and that's no...

That's not true nowadays, at least if you look at money. Public-Employees Union Is Now Campaign's Big Spender - WSJ.com Not to mention the highly politicized sub rosa 363 of Chrysler that favored unions (unsecured creditors) over secured lenders. Or the destruction of the DC voucher...

Well, the unions, too.