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Fugly, imho. $1200. The monitor is worth $300, which means you're paying Dell $900 to glue a sheet of acrylic to the front of a regular monitor. I think I'll pass.

LOL... you are joking, right? When the new recession is confirmed in the next six months, Bush will be first President to have two recessions under his watch.

Experience is overrated as a qualification for President. Who was one of the least experienced Presidents of all time? Abraham Lincoln. He served two years in the House as a Representative, and four terms as a state legislator before that. That's it. His performance as President needs no...

The founding fathers were largely Universalists and Deists -- they believed in a single God and rejected the Trinity. The historical record is strong and clear that many of the Founding Fathers were not Christian. See "Our Godless Constitution" http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050221/allen...

Romney's "religion of secularism" is absurd on its face. What he's doing is redefining secularism so he can recast it as Godless and evil. Secularism is pro-religion, not anti-religion! Many people don't get this. It is the only framework which allows multiple religions to coexist peacefully...

... are not the Huckleberrians equally as disdainful of the atheists?

I think I've made a good case that conservative Christians are a white group with their own agenda.

The rich can pay 40% of all tax revenue and still underpay. Yesterday Warren Buffett said that he is astounded that he is only asked to pay 17% of his income and capital gains. I'm upper middle class and I pay a higher percentage than that. There's no reason why Warren and the other top-earners...

It's obvious the evangelicals hate Mormons when they call it a "cult." Polls of evangelicals say many would never vote for a Mormon candidate even if the candidate supports the same positions the voter wants. When you reject someone solely due to creed, that's bigotry. It's the same thing...

I have very little respect for Huckabee and evangelical Christians after what they did to Mitt Romney and the Mormon faith. I'm not Mormon, but even so the prejudiced and mean-spirited attacks on Romney offended me. To attack a candidate for his faith is just sick. Romney has good conservative...

Warren Buffett would argue with that, no? Risk arbitrage is a directional bet too. It's a bet that the financing will come through and that the Feds won't block the deal. The direction of the bet is towards deal completion.

Study some economic history and you'll see that the free market is a poor performer. Unregulated free markets always whip themselves into a speculative frenzy followed by an inevitable crash. Free market economies often suffer debilitating depressions. Paulson was saying that the subprime...

Sure is bearish around here. The sky is falling! banks are failing! homes are foreclosing! the dollar is declining! It's the end of the world as we know it. The Great Depression II is just around the corner, right? I'm still bullish on America. Here's something for all those E.T. cynics out...

I can't believe the heartless cold attitudes on E.T. Posters that advocate no minimum wage, no healthcare system, no Soc Security, little or no government -- just free market anarchy with a dog-eat-dog mentality. Grandma can't afford an operation? Too bad, it's her own damn fault for not...

I'll go against the crowd and be moderately bullish. The subprime mess has been mostly priced into the financials; the rate cuts and the Abu Dhabi-Citi deal show that there is federal and international interest in preventing a market collapse. Interest rates are falling and it's making stocks...

NY Times has a falling-dollar-is-good article out today: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/business/02view.html Makes good points, the best of which is that the positive GDP contribution of increased exports is offsetting the negative GDP of the real estate decline.

Argentina? They devalued their peso several years ago and went through some pain, but have recovered and have one of the better economies in S America. They are on track for GDP growth of +8% this year.

Thanks for posting this. It's such a relief from the constant "sky is falling" nonsense from the Ron Paul Gold Standard crowd. The whole "dollar collapsing American economy collapsing" garbage is really overdone. RSI (Ron Paul dollar bears) = 0 I think I'll take the other side of the...

Careful, U.S. inventory of nat gas is at historically high levels Source: http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/natural_gas/ngs/ngs.html

Ron Paul will never gain traction in the race. His positions are not mainstream: - Supports legalization of drugs - Wants to close VA hospitals - Wants to let people opt out of Soc Sec - Wants to withdraw from NATO - Wants to eliminate FDA Wow... getting close to the tinfoil hat zone!