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It's the reality of the world we live in. The kids know that the small inconvenience of going through a metal detector is worth the effort to protect them from the occasional nut case.

My kids go to a school where everyone has to go through a metal detector. It's a lot more effective than signs that say "gun free zone."

In California hybrids are exempt. http://www.dmv.ca.gov/vr/smogfaq.htm

The real estate market's definitely changed in our neighborhood. The past few years houses sat on the market 6-18 months and the price dropped several times before finally selling. In the past couple of months, two houses in our neighborhood had multiple offers and sold in less than a week...

Nice wheels. Glad to hear you're enjoying it. My wife is currently driving a Chevy volt and now wants to get a Ford Fusion as soon as the lease on the Volt is over (about 15 more months). She says she wants the "plug-in" Fusion Hybrid, which supposedly gives it about 20 miles range under...

Using the ES (S&P mini) futures contract as an example: ES futures contract value assumed for this example = 1400. A good short-term ES futures trader can make an average of $30-50 profit (before expenses) per-contract per-trade over the long run. Commissions plus other expenses...

Is a fish a vegetable? And what about turkeys? Help me understand this. I think I may have misinformed my children.

I went on this diet for a couple of months. I felt tired and hungry all the time. I was falling asleep at two o'clock in the afternoon then waking up and eating like a horse. I gained 10 pounds in 8 weeks. On the Esselstyn diet, even if you don't live longer it will definitely seem longer...

Last year there were about 10,000 gun murders in the US. About 60% of those involved criminal-on-criminal death (i.e., were gang or drug related), or were law enforcement shootings. Of the remaining 4,000 non-suicide gun deaths, about half the victims were shot by strangers. That means that...

Not all population increases are good population increases. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304537904577277242682364690.html "From the mid-1980s to 2005, California's population grew by 10 million, while Medicaid recipients soared by seven million; tax filers paying income...

A major part of the drop in labor force participation is something that nobody's talking about: http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2012/10/05/mort-zuckerman-why-the-country-is-unhappy-under-obama?page=2 If you are on disability, you are not considered to be in the labor force either...

Read these two studies. They have all the data. http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_71.htm#.UMliB0Q-MfE...

California's been losing high-tech and and high-wage jobs for over a decade. The data's in this article...

Romney was a lousy candidate with a campaign run by a bunch of incompetent amateurs. All the other stuff is irrelevant.

California's had among the highest per-capita taxes in country for decades. http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/10/23/new-york-has-highest-state-and-local-tax-burden-in-us Despite these high taxes California has the 47th ranked public k-12 schools and 45th ranked roads and bridges...

Obama Campaign Backers and Bundlers Rewarded With Green Grants and Loans Where did green-energy money go? Straight to campaign donors. http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/11/13/how-obama-s-alternative-energy-programs-became-green-graft.html In March 2011, for example, the GAO...

Most of the politicians in California see the taxpayers as their personal ATM machines. They don't care what anything costs as long at it will buy them votes in the next election.

A couple of years ago we went to Australia to visit my wife's family. Since we were on that side of the planet we decided to also spend a few days in Singapore. What an amazing place. I'd like to go back again.

That's just the tip of the iceberg. ------------------------------------------------- "If you are on disability, you are not considered to be in the labor force either. As of April, we have added 5.5 million people to the disability rolls since the beginning of 2009, several million above...

Medicare/Medicaid patients are the first to get locked out. Who will be next? A SURVEY OF AMERICA’S PHYSICIANS: PRACTICE PATTERNS AND PERSPECTIVES -- Over 26 percent of physicians have closed their practices to Medicaid patients. -- Over 52 percent of physicians have limited the...