I have a very rational hatred of Thomas Edison, why is your wife's hatred of him irrational unlike mine?

But would they have advanced like the USA did? Would they have had the most expensive college educations? Spend more per capita on medical rate? Would they have achieved massive obesity rates? High heart disease rates and diabetes rates? We're number one! We're number one!

Sounds like the market at work. Good all-around I think to finally start properly accounting for "externalities". Maybe we can start working on environmental degradation next...

There are minimum speeds required on highways which is partly why bikes and pedestrians are often not allowed on them. The idiot doing 5 on the highway might be very at fault on this one with much less on the person driving at a nominal highway speed.

Yeah, add obesity to her list of problems, way to help her out.

You forgot to check the "Post Anonymously" checkbox.

Animal Farm was propaganda designed to make you think exactly that. Why do you think it was deemed a "classic" and required reading for the smart kids? I'll tell you why, so they could all think alike and line up when more kool-aid was offered.

I guess someone should start filing FOIA forms at all police departments, or at least for the major ones.

It has been proven in studies that they behave like jack-booted thugs because they look like jack-booted thugs. It isn't the way people react to them, it is the way they are costumed that makes them behave according to their image. Try it for yourself, dress up in a similar style, check if you don't also start to behave like an authoritarian prick.

We should be privy to the data shouldn't we?

Your client's defense could be that his operation is so fantastic that there is no way at all that any molecules escaped the confining vessel and none were outside of the vessel either because you run a clean operation with well trained packing staff in a clean room environment. You present pictures of your clean room and documentation of your IS0-2000 drug packing process to show that given your level of preparation there was no way the dog would have found anything at all. Therefore the dog signaled on cue and the arrest is invalid.

The Mafia provides protection too...

224 houses on 52 acres sounds like sprawling suburbs. Housing density is way too low and the amount of homes won't even make a ding, he should plunk down like 2,500 houses or condos or townhomes so that they price out closer to what a family can afford. What will soon happen is that the house will be sold at closer to their market value of $1 million dollars each and George Lucas will net a tidy profit and decide to become a real estate tycoon.

Yes, but I think in this case it was just plain stupidity. Possibly criminally stupid stupidity. The board is also to blame for abdicating their responsibility to get information from independent sources not just from the "board packet".

Really? They paid? I though we the taxpayers paid when they were handed bailouts.
Your last two sentences contradict your first four, make up your mind. yo.