Forum: Issues Around the World

Astonishing, breathtaking, sad, depressing, inspiring, all in one photo. One by one. I stared at each photo for minutes. http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2009/06/05/the-65th-anniversary-of-d-day-on-the-normandy-beaches/

http://www.salon.com/news/healthcare_reform/index.html?story=/news/feature/2010/03/19/healthcare_facts_slideshow Salon tries to do a non-partisan evaluation of the bill. Here's a summary but to to see more detail you need to go here and see it for yourselves. 1) For people with...

Love the thinking outside the box here, actually, all it is is just investigative writing. With many advocate consumers all too happy beating on a non-American car company, something needs to be detailed, or focused on. Mainly how are these "malfunctions" happening and to whom? The Los Angeles...

Um.....duh?In other news, numerous speeding tickets increase insurance rates.......

https://www.economistsubscriptions.com/ecom922/global/ I know people don't like to pay for their content these days but sometimes it's worth it. I think The Economist is one of those cases. I think most people here are familiar so I won't expound upon details too much but you can use the link to...

YAY for Obama and Democratic Congress!!!! Holy shit, what an embarrassment, what a huff of hot air. The guy is a sham, I am finally convinced he has no backbone and neither do the Congress Democrats (who are, last time I checked, majority). But of course, I knew that. It's nice for MSM to finally...

That is WHILE the system is put in place), bigger impact is that it will save $1.2 *trillion* the next ten years after installed. I know I am quoting a biased source, but I tend to look beyond the messenger at times when CBO is the one being used here. However, I am also including the source....

Does Google/YouTube have a chance at http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2007-03-13T134244Z_01_WEN5351_RTRIDST_0_TECH-VIACOM-YOUTUBE-COL.XML?

Even as the Euro has its crisis, the Canadian dollar, aka the loonie, is approaching parity with the US dollar, something that had seemed unreachable a decade ago. I suggest we let the loonie approach parity, and then form a common currency, known as the dollar. This will cement the bonds...

That's pretty bad and I don't blame them. But what if others follow suit? Would Medicaid be even useful?

I am sure there will be many people cheering this. I am not one of those people. Serving time doesn't include: A broken nose, fractured ribs, and cuts to the head and face Read more: Journal: Madoff Was Assaulted in Prison -- Daily Intel...

Probably best depiction of the story made in to film/cartoon yet. <object width="873" height="525"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9POCgSRVvf0&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&hd=1&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param...

If there is anything you should worry about as far as politics/economy, this would be it folks. This is the big unraveling of what we've been doing and I can't even blame the recent Recession on this. This is the way we have been living, living for today, tomorrow? God will figure it out for us. ...

Read the CSM piece here: http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/0318/IKEA-Sweden-and-the-inheritance-tax-lessons-for-the-US I've always been in favor of the permanent repeal (or at least drastically reduce the rate) of the death tax. The example in Sweden is the perfect...

And to think, I was beginning to like him for integrity. Nothing but a sellout. Anyone who supports keeping insurance companies' hands in the cookie jar is an asshole and not just a sellout.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Second_Bill_of_Rights&oldid=349615522 Anyone heard of this? Roosevelt's remedy was to create an "economic bill of rights" which would guarantee: A job with a living wage Freedom from unfair competition and monopolies A home Medical care

There's talk that Justice John Paul Stevens, 90 in April, will retire at the end of this session of the Court. He's only hired one clerk for next term, and that is a typical indicator. He's said he will announce his plans later this term. Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Nine, has a long article...

This story really really makes me sad. I would never call the "hunter" that did this a hunter like the ones I know. The FIRST core principle of ANY ethical hunter is complete and total respect for nature. That is what me and my house understand. This man was full of the love of money. I hope he...

Once upon a time, on an acreage far, far away lived a kind and benevolent man named Morgue. Sharing the acreage (laughingly called Lee's Last Resort (LLR)) with Morgue were his beautiful wife, Lee, and a large population of birds. LLR was covered in oak trees, which made good nesting grounds...

Now the plan that's the topic here is the initial bailout, one that Bush started and Obama finished. But all of this was under the plan of Geithner, probably the most hated guy out there for absolutely no reason. Hell, he is the enemy of all things unreasonable: As Geithner struggles to market...

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/reconciliation-to-be-used-for-health-bill-reid-2010-03-11?siteid=rss&rss=1 Senate Democrats are planning to use the legislative process known as reconciliation to finish an overhaul of the U.S. health-care system, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told his...

They do it by cheating, of course... To maximize its advantage, Beijing is exploiting a fundamental difference between two major international bodies: the World Trade Organization, which wields strict, enforceable penalties for countries that impede trade, and the International Monetary Fund,...

That's what some are saying. “By making loans to local companies, local governments could produce thousands of jobs and drive up the value of local enterprises. And by funding commercial and residential construction, they could drive up the price of land. Those results were important to...

Some guy was walking or jogging along the beach at Hilton Head when a single-engine airplane on its way from Orlando to Norfolk made an emergency landing on the beach and struck and killed him. Apparently oil was leaking onto the windshield, obscuring the pilot's view.

No pictures, yet. Just saying that my daughter and her boyfriend are traveling on Friday to London and then straight on to Moscow. From there they fly with Aeroflot :shake: to Krasnoyarsk. They are traveling with a Russian friend of theirs and wlll be staying at his parent's place in Krasnoyarsk...

At least these days... Now you know why. But I love how the rage is still against Wall Street, even from the said government workers. "We want more! We want to be rich for doing little!" Yes, I am stereotyping.

Is this really the right plane for everyone? Is it really what we need? We discussed the F-22 a while back. Now comes John McCain, who voted to kill the F-22, and he's whining about cost overruns and production rate issues with the F-35. He's right to complain about the overruns. In...

Is anyone else watching this show? So far, I like it. Good, quick humor and a little different then the standard sitcom.

Or the case of blond hair/blue eyed female terrorist. This one was even American. Not sure if you all heard about a few Jihadis planning to kill the cartoonist in Sweden who drew the Mohammed in the cartoon. The suburban Philadelphia woman, Colleen R. LaRose, is accused in the indictment...

I thought there was a thread on this but can't find it. As you might have heard, a lesbian couple wanted to go to their prom. School said not just no, but canceled the entire thing. Like, you know, punish everyone for the "sins" of few. ...

The answer surprised me: Singer: Yes, all this doesn't mean we're not seeing all sorts of new stressers. In the beginning we feared that drones may make the operators not really care about what they're doing. But the opposite has turned out to be true. They may almost care too much. We're...

In a 10-5 party line vote Texas conservatives won a battle to revise history. The revisions include adding to the curriculum sections on the conservative resurgence of the 1980s, studying the violent philosophy of the black panthers, and the removal of Thomas Jefferson as an influence on...

I'll let you read for yourself. It won't take long to get to the point. Really, this signifies the end of America; our government is now officially inept even at screwing us over. I mean, really! What is the point of the whole thing, then? Nothing. All that political capital...

Mark Williams-Thomas is an ex-British cop who specialized in major crimes, including murders and pedophile investigations. Recently in the UK, a 17-year-old girl was raped and murdered by a man she first met through Facebook. Williams-Thomas wasn't surprised. Read more Just serving as a...

For a long time. An appellate court has upheld references to God on U.S. currency and in the Pledge of Allegiance, rejecting arguments they violate the constitutional separation of church and state. "The Pledge of Allegiance serves to unite our vast nation through the proud recitation...

One side: "Starbucks is a special target because it's from the hippie West Coast, and a lot of dedicated consumers who pay $4 for coffee have expectations that Starbucks would ban guns. And here they aren't," said John Bruce, a political science professor at the University of Mississippi who...

Pretty nifty interactive chart of NPR's toxic asset that they bought and followed its value over time. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124578382 A bit simplistic but works to get the point across.