Right... this is the latest in a very long history: http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-deputy-trial-20140529-story.html

I'll be so glad to be out of LA in a couple of weeks.

I agree. Daily they scan the skies. I live in LA. We call them ghetto birds.

He will still be a snitch. Inside. Or outside. Someday, somewhere someone might just come calling.

Capitalism.

More info here: https://www.adbusters.org/

Let's have everyone from the Joint Chiefs down examine morals from a human rights perspective. War is immoral from the git go.

Excellent recommendation. Also a good life manual. Keep life simple.

I made a loan or two through Kiva and then one day it dawned on me that all this sort of microfinance does is enslave unsuspecting people to debt slavery.

Kiva was charging 18% interest then. Capitalism is much like some evangelical religions.... it needs to spread. Often times like a virus instead of a force for good.

Funny..my Yahoo account is a spam dump too.

I find it comical that when I empty my spam folder an advertisement pops up in the window. Sad

Internet connectivity is about ease of accessing information. Google, Yahoo, JStor etc are about monetizing the access to that information.

See: Arron Swartz

Well... I tend to think George W Bush was both. Stupid and evil. Yet he was *someone I could have a beer with* personality.

Your argument has merit. Just read the book "Whats the Matter With Kansas" by Thomas Frank.

The more people like Rand Paul show they do not understand BTC the more likely BTC will be a success. :)

If ten people can sit around a table and decide what to pay me, I should be able to have 10 people sit around a table and decide what I will work for.

You know corporations rig the game. Do you still see unions in a bad light now?

anything OVER 9000 is probably out of control :)

Votes do not.

Welcome to the new world order. The age of enlightenment seems to be over.

And have to ride the bus it's kind of hard to get those extra hours in the rich people do.