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Believers get emotional and self-rightous because they need confirmation, measured by number of converts, of thier fantasies. Non-believers get emotional because they are sick of fantasies influencing the social, political and economical decision making process in our lives. In short...

That's O.K: somebody has to be on the tail of the bell-curve.

Since 90% of all people on earth believe in god (defined as a creator of the earth and implying an afterlife) then logic will tell you that there is no correlation between belief and IQ. Admittedly, I'm sure that the 10% of atheists are within the top levels of IQ and education but there are...

As a 54 year old atheist, I can tell you through my experiences that there is no correlation between IQ and a belief in God, Jesus or other superstitions. I have known very many intelligent AND educated people who beleive in a supreme being. It puzzles me to be sure but, as the great...

Relax!!! Don't give up and get over this loss. I know exactly how you feel as I felt like putting a hole in the wall myself today: and I had followed my rules! You have to develop a system. You can do it.

Buchanan didn't hit shit on that stupid post. Of course the majority of crime victims are going to be white: that's 60%+ of the population. Also, why would any criminal hit on black people when the overwhelming odds are that they are poor. Pretty stupid to rob a poor person. In his last...

There in one thing that you can bet on: the people buying Merrils CDO's at $.22 on the dollar will make a killing!!! No matter how bad it gets, 78% of those mortgages are NOT going to go bad. Meanwhile, the rest of us, through mutual funds, 401K, etc., are taking the loss. It's the...

The vast majority of 70 year old men did not serve 5 years in a war-prison and are not serving as president of the US. Oh yeah; he's already survived a bout of cancer, too.

I think you guys that are worried about Obama getting elected can stop worrying for several reasons: 1. A black man is not going to get elected in America. The Republicans, whose strength from religious freaks and working class whites is based solely on racism, will soon begin their racist...

I get so sick about hearing about "9/11" when we are guilty of 5-10 such atrocities every year. Since 1950 we (the USA) have killed over 5,000,000 people on this planet with military action. If you add in the number of regimes that we have illegally and immorally destabilized the number gets...

Right on!!!

The Republican control of our gov't since the 1970's has NOT resulted in Socialism: it has resulted in Facism.

Thanks for the links, ETer's.

Maybe somebody can answer a couple questions regarding FDIC insurance on bank accounts. 1. Are bank accounts held by an LLC or S Corp insured in the same manner as personal accounts? 2. If you open multiple accounts (personal) in the same bank and put $100K in each account: are you...

Excellent observation, Land.

"Socialism reduces productivity and wealth. This means less to spend on hospitals, schools, food, and the production inefficiency increases the cost of living. The reduced medical & health standards alone have killed more people than died in the Holocaust." I'm not sure where the idea that...

If Socialism benefits the largest number of people (and it does), if Socialism reduces the effects and exposure of life's meanness such as hunger and sickness (and it does), and if Socialism reduces disparity in the distribution of wealth (and it does), then it is the best form of gov't. It...

I'm not even going to respond to the stupid analogy between people spending money on beer and the taxation of income: I'll just advise the poster to NOT use this argument in any economics class (when you're old enough to attend one). As to a Flat Tax: why would you think the IRS would be...

As a tax-paying American I hope the IRS is successful in their pursuit. It's total bullshit that the wealthiest citizens who get the most preferential tax breaks in the first place to ALSO resort to stealing/lying to avoid paying their fair share is doubly insulting. If I believed in...

THAT is the $64,000...er..I mean.. $64,000,000 (inflation) question, Cutten. I've asked myself that very question many times when I try to catch the top (or bottom) of a move. Solve that problem and a man can be rich, rich, rich.