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Ya think sellers are checking ID if you look under the age 35 and want to place a bet, like the smoking nazis? Auto wagering machines "We hope parents are monitoring their children". Whoa, just like cigarette machines. Do you think a seller would lose his job if he sold a ticket to a...

I'll pick one. 14) In the United States, the average federal worker now earns 60% as much as the average worker in the private sector. The Fed and state workers/pay are wiping out the middle class. Meanwhile, globalization is the manure du jour.

On December 10, 1893 at 11AM, the Muslim call to prayer (adhan), called five times a day throughout the world wherever praying Muslims are found, could be heard three stories above New York City’s famed Union Square. This was the same call, which, by the appointment of the Prophet Muhammad...

Maybe we could informally look at cities with the lowest unemployment rates and correlate the tax rate of those cities. Economists may be barking up the wrong tree with this simple idea. Unemployment stats are consistent? Ie cenus workers as the most recent number distortion. Taxes...

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If it's any consolation, those who believe in solar and wind energy will die with a hard on.

Well Dr I hope we get some clarification. Hopefully once we get through the "seven' dirty words I do want to bring up foreign language. May I curse in Latin?

Do you think that she may just be pulling a fast one to tie up a listing? Almost makes you wish she never said that, you just don't know. Why couldn't a realtor have buyers on the back burner. They could, right location, right price, buyers in no hurry not too motivated. If you think...

The Fair Isaac corporation has hundreds of millions of data points that prove their formula correct ---------- I'm curious as to what of few of them are. I wonder where employement fits in, 9job security, might not). I'd like to see price of oil (or energy) and how that relates to ability to...

How about this? Sure can't be parking a 45k pick up truck in front of a 125k house. Just won't look right. OR Parking 2 vehicles worth 100k in front of a 200k house. Too ghetto. So on the flip side house price can't match wages they match auto prices. just yakking though.

Take a chance, confront a liberal. ---------------- The token liberal(s) in our family retired to FL and tar balls are washing up on his beach front property. My work is done.:D

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We had a grade school teacher named Miss Prussy, She always said it is easy to remember. It's pussy with an "R'. We always called her Miss Crunt.

'I recommend sneaking up behind him and kicking between the legs. That way you assure a solid nut punt'. 'I'm sure that happens all the time, so he's probably wearing a cap'. 'Try to film it if you can'. 'I would also settle for a water balloon to his temple. That would probably ruin...

This was one of my favorite quotes back in my younger days. I interpreted it to mean, "your darkest hour" was when you decide to scam somebody or plan a robbery or sitting around with a bunch of fellow drunks how how to beat the system. Well, these plans and schemes weren't going to be a path...

I wonder what this means for us taxpayers? Reminds me. Somewhere, a school system slashed their budget, the gov, said oh la la, return the savings to the property owners. The BOE said there isn't any money to return.

What happens when "growth" means more "bean counters" (burocreats) and less productive work? ------------------ Good point. Suppose "growth" is more lawyers, scientists, media and lobbyists to gain control of some portion of the economy, ie climate change or any environmental issues...

Going back a few years there wasn't any Hamm's beer in NY. I brought some back in a cardboard suitcase from Chicago. The suit case held exactly 30 cans perfectly. When the suitcase went through the scanner it looked like 30 canisters of tnt.

From the comments section {:>) Does the Federal Reserve have a disclaimer? How about a tagline: Frontrunning planet Earth since 1913 ----------------------------------------------- Ben Bernanke's Federal Reserve announced Tuesday that it made a record profit of $46.1 billion last...

In any and every economy, the larger the “marginal propensity to consume” the greater the “velocity of money”. The “velocity of money” is how many times each dollar is spent, over a given period of time. Obviously, economies with high MPC's and a...