Or they can be trained to alert on whatever signal their handler wants to give them. Hell, their dogs, they want to please their handler.

I'd love to see you go toe-to-toe with Obama in almost anything. I would bet good money he would beat you like a rented mule.
I don't get the "Obama is incompetent" meme, he's been good for the country and it's a shame people can't accept it.

Give it 20 years and then we can compare him to St. Ronnie. I know which one I think will look better.

Population control occurs naturally until the local population density falls enough that a neighboring population moves in and displaces it, replacing it's values with it's own.

Yeah, I hate people who trot out their pet economic theories. Everything in Economics today is spherical cow. They can't get anything with real world inputs.

I have a 20 year old car that I drive daily. Door locks are going strong, but you can tell the electrical contacts are starting to fail. Tin whiskers might be more common on newer cars and might lead to earlier failure.
My biggest problem is that every rubber hose on the car has started to leak and necessitated replacement.

Good point. The majority of money in the system is rigidly divorced from responsibility. It's sold as a way to decrease risk, but it essentially gives free reign to sociopaths. Why is CEO considered to have more stake in a company then the guy who makes or designs the products?
Who is going to be more screwed if the company goes under? The guy who is banking afew million every year, or the guy who is living paycheck to paycheck and goes to jail if he misses a child support payment?

I think capitalism and government could both be improved by introducing some randomness into things. We should draw lots for some offices, like Athens did. I wonder if people would avoid congress like they avoid jury duty?
Could the worst incompetent do worse then the guys we have now?

damn it, grammer fail...

Only if your a real 'Murican.

Those of us who are real American's don't.

I come from people, not money. I had a solid middle class upbringing and I have 1/2 of white privilege.

I wish I could mod this up. Healthcare and choices are so severely constrained by our system that there is really no way for cost incentives to change much on the consumer side. I tried the high deductible plans and I just ended up spending the same or more in payments directly to the doctor. I'd rather let the insurance handle it and pay my co-pays.

Yeah, and if it's a hospital procedure, any "hospitalist" can look at your chart and send you a bill for their time.
When you deliver a baby, you can have your pediatrician come to the hospital and you will still get 2 to 3 bills from different pediatricians that checked your baby in the hospital.

I'm sure your problems are real to you, I'm gonna leave this here:
http://whitewhine.com/
https://www.google.com/search?...

refer to my link above...
basically, she listed off a ton of benefits the bill would have, indicating a deep understanding. She then complained that people wouldn't understand the bill's benefits until it was passed, using those infamous, poorly chosen words.

I'm going to leave this here for anyone who is curious about the real context of the quote you delight in repeating. It's not stupid when read in context.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/the...