Yeah, The Ptolemy's made any European Monarch's gene pool look down right diverse!

Or, at the least animal feed, so the price at the grocery store isn't as bad, and farmers/ranchers are not as pinched as before.

That's why you see "Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK)" working on gettign rid of the corn/ethanol requirement. The requirement is raising the cost of corn so much that it is becoming cost prohibitive for ranchers to use corn to feed their cattle.

That's the thing with Microsoft. Since anyone can make compatible hardware, you go from Cheap plastic crap that lasts a day to good quality stuff that will last a life time. You have a range, so you have to pay attention to the brand.

Yeah i could never quiet adapt to a track ball.

I think many people confuse Atheist, Agnostics, and Nontheists.

Is the New York based Satan Temple part of the Church of Satan, or a different sect of satanism?

Very true. while it is refreshing to see how the Pope behaves, it means very little if his flock does not follow suit.

Would Gandhi have done this? Martin Luther King?

They wouldn't have lead a bloody and long armed revolution against the English Crown. Should George Washington not have done that? Gandhi & MLK are great men, but their way isn't the end all be all. It's one tactic in a bag of tactics.

Modern term, since no true "free market" has ever or will ever exist.

was useless. Way to take a couple minutes to tell me almost nothing more then you did in the title!

No, the Bush "cronies" were good. They new back in the early 90's that invading Iraq was a fool errand. Same with Afghanistan. But look at Halliburton's profits since we engaged in "state building" over there.

Same reason why slave owners gave up slavery for workers - you don't have to take care of them. Communist leaders "gave up" communism by transferring public entities to themselves as private businesses making them instant billionaires with no legal obligation for the workers/people anymore.

semantics. The umbrella is useless if no one will use it.

None. He only had to make 1 prediction per decade.

For most it is grinding WoW or grind the couch watching reality TV.