Recent content by IcarusByNight

In all due respect, I disagree. What our recent culture has bred is a class of wealthy citizens who have a general aversion to paying taxes at any rate, however meager. They want to utilize the benefits their fellow citizens pay for through taxes, they just feel that they themselves are above...

Your thesis that the game is rigged is correct. However, when there comes a time that the big toy has been broken, the rules of the game change. Because politicians, reporters, regulators, found religion? Not so much. The game changes because the success of the game is to remain below the...

"The documents were discovered by Zilkha’s ex-wife, who copied the hard drive of their shared computer as part of the divorce, her attorney, Mark Sherman, said in an interview. It couldn’t be determined whether investigators have verified the records, or whether the documents played a role...

Blue: You haven't a clue about what is about to unfold. What started as a relatively minor incident that one person chose to take issue about, has spread like cancer and not just the naked shorts. If it suits you to believe that there's no merit to these claims - I'd love to be in your shoes...

I'm glad I'm not there for him to take his frsutrations out on! [/B] That makes two of us

SAC say something about VW? I think not. They don't do that kind of thing. Goldman just received 2 billion in bailout money. Lobbyists for hedge funds are pressing hard for their share of the giveaway. Let's see which hedge funds get the largest piece of the pie. That's the only information that...

According to Save The Children, kids can survive on $28.00 a month. What's with the twenty grand? Anyway, if you have kids and the marriage ends in divorce, what good are the kids to you? Child support, visitations that ruin your free time, having to talk to the woman who divorced you all the...

As a former intimate of the biggest player, this move has been a goal of the big boys for a very long time, 27 years. Going global reduces the exposure of any consequence our country's regulatory system can or will impose. Why should this acquisition come as a surprise? There are plans in...

Gee, I hate to break it to you Sheriff Andy, but Aunt Bee is having a meltdown; she doesn't know if she's coming or going. If the health insurance provider decides to approve her prescription for Prozac, she may stop baking her bunny slippers any day now. Did you know Opie died in the war in...

Well, do tell then, who would be responsible for the pervasive sexualization of children and the existential malaise that plagues our youth? The number of kids who drink, and many to excess, has increased. The percentage of kids who take drugs has also increased, at same time the age of their...

The 'me' generation produced Paris. The self-absorbed narcissistic generation of adults who lack the integrity to make any sort of sacrifice on behalf of the greater good, has birthed this child that is so desperate for attention, who has made a fine art of cultivating negative press. It...

Eminent domain - my bad. I'm sorry, but it's not correct that Bloomberg has limited the focus of eminent domain to impoverished neighborhoods. As an example: Harlem. As new colonists have pushed through old boundaries, namely 96th street, in search of more affordable housing, the culture of...

I might be incorrect here, but I think what the poster was alluding to is that Bloomberg has been a big proponent of imminent domain here in New York. Bloomberg seems to lack sensitivity when it comes to the consideration of preservation versus the interests if real estate developers. He has...